skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily so.

Consider a loss-less encoding represented by A: it can be encoded in a lossy-manner in two different ways, one would produce B, the other would produce C.

Without know what A was, there's no way to link B to C.

Consider also that different versions of the same movie could different (hard-coded) subtitles, extra/deleted scenes, different resolutions, etc.

If you consider all the different permutations of the movie and then consider that each one can be encoded in many different ways (lossy encoding), you'll see that there's no single number that can be said to represent the movie.
Pirated Android app uses shame as tool
Sunspider Results Don't Mean What You Think They Do (iPhone 4 vs Android)
it is nuclear "burning". The point is to have designs which produce less dangerous waste [ideally the chain of nuclear reactions should end with non-radioactive elements, yet the reality is far from ideal] or use the existing waste to produce energy from it - the "waste" of existing reactors is still extremely potent nuclear fuel as the existing, very primitive and dating back to Manhattan Project, designs are just skimming the top, easiest, portion of energy.

My favorite is mixed design - nuclear fusion core which itself may be even a bit net energy negative (and thus much more realistic in the near future) and which main purpose is to generate neutrons to burn pretty much anything "heavy" and cheap. Turn the power to the core off - the thing just stops.
Stopping reactors is not the problem, those in Fukushima did stop properly as the earthquake struck. The problem is dealing with the decay heat aftewards.
Android passes BlackBerry in the US
I was kind of floored by the figure cited in the article of 6000 deaths per year in china from mining alone.
Earth's gravity map
This is true and I would hope that a real dissident group would be using hidden services.

That being said, I'm 93.2% sure that the USG already has ways to compromise hidden services. Why else would they allow Tor to be exported?
youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d...
How-To Ask a Question on Facebook with the Questions Feature
> nuke power is the safest power we've come up with (among power sources that actually have produced a significant fraction of the power we use)

This is crucial, and is why blanket statements like "nuclear power is safe" are dangerous. There is an absolutely essential qualifier required on the end of any assertion about nuclear safety, and I'm glad to see that you put it in parentheses here. Nuclear power is the best...at scale. It's completely rational to recognize that for what it is.

I will be the first to praise the virtues of renewable energy. Solar, wind, tidal, and so on are all far better implementations to solve the problem of producing electricity. All of them, however, have a crippling fault that prevents them from reaching the potential of economics and supply that nuclear can. Importantly, that doesn't doom them -- that just means more investment and thinking is required before they can reach their potential.

Hell, renewable energy is the energy sector's Python 3. We'll get there someday, you can use it now, and it's a fabulous nirvana of harmony. Today, however, it's just a little rough around the edges, and a challenge to work with because the full support of the ecosystem isn't there. So, for now, we advise Python 2: let's split some atoms.

Watching HN's reaction to Fukushima has aggravated me at times, and made me cheer at others; it's naïveté to exclaim that nuclear power is completely safe, but a roughly equal helping of naïveté to claim that there are superior alternatives at this moment.

(Edited for brevity.)
The real thought here, I think, is that adoption drives hardware improvement -- only if you're selling a hojillion chips can you make them cheap, good, and profitable. From this perspective, what you'd want to say is that large market share advantages are extremely defensible and can let you crush the little guys (which apple was through the 90's). But how do you get there in the first place?

The analogy between android/iOS and windows/mac I think has to be well-taken, but most discussions (including this one) leave out the most important difference. Windows got to sell a hojillion units by being the best at selling to business. You buy multi-thousand-dollar machines for all your employees because you expect productivity increases; you don't worry too hard about whether they like the machines or not. The decision maker buys on specs and price if it's not just a salesforce versus salesforce game (a likely win for the open platform because there are more players behind it).

The current generation of mobile, however, is a consumer phenomenon. Businesses aren't buying modern smartphones for their employees -- they're hooking the employees' phones into their networks. Adoption is not driven by purchasing managers but by consumers and therefore by user experience, consumer marketing, branding, etc. in addition to specs and price. This puts the open platform with the worse user experience for the average user at a big disadvantage, particularly if the price differential isn't that large in absolute dollars, which it isn't by comparison with the computers of the 90's (the gap between comparably-specced PC's and mac's being enough to buy multiple smartphones).

I don't know that it makes sense to think of any platform being as strong a winner as windows was; the very presence in the market of a company eager to use an operating system as a loss leader means that android will probably never shrink as small as apple did. However, Apple's advantages in design and branding play to the challenges of the mobile market in a way that they simply didn't for PCs. To this, add the scale advantage Apple currently enjoys (as monopsony buyer of flash memory and LCD's) that locks in big profits that competitors can't touch and it seems quite clear which way the playing field is tilted.

tl;dr: windows won by owning the business market; mobile plays to apple's strengths in a way PC's never have.
I'd be interested in any recommendations you have for books about chaos/non-linear systems. I read Chaos in high school and it was a starting point for me to later explore fractals, IFSs, and attractors. My math skills were never good enough to study dynamic systems in college, but I still enjoyed learning about it at some level.

Since I've read several of Shannon's papers and other mathematical treatments of information theory (e.g. Kullback), I suspect this book will not shed additional technical light for me. However I can't deny that Gleick's writing has an inspirational quality to it that is engaging, as long as you are not reading it as a scientific treatment. I also read Genius and I understand why Gleick is considered almost along the lines of nonfiction fanfic.
Like Oil.
SproutCore, as its homepage states, is meant for "desktop-class web applications," not sprucing up static content. Progressive enhancement is meaningless for this. If you don't have javascript, the web app simply won't run. Accessibility is still an important consideration, but that is a distinct concept.

Principles are important, but principles divorced from context is dogma.
Is Multiple-Column Online Text Better? It Depends
It's not too late to change its name.
"My company is specifically listed as an example of a company you're not interested in on your website FAQ and you just checked out our website?"

Many people are working together to build Project Skyway. Although I approved our FAQ, I didn't make the connection when I saw your company name.

MN might have more expertise in MedDev or hardware or advertising. I don't. As you stated I am betting my own money. Naturally I put it where I know the most. I would invest in real estate in FL before I invest in a med company. And how much do you think I know about investing in real estate in FL?
SiteAdvisor is a browser plug-in so it's user opt-in. I can empathize with you but unfortunately the Internet is full of users that are not security-savvy and thus they have to rely on a trusted entity, e.g., McAfee to make security decisions for them.
Unfortunately, perverse incentives can creep in like what you experience; McAfee slow to aid your cause.
I'm developing 'visible security', a 'product' that provides information to a user for her to judge the risks of visiting a site, e.g., number of 3rd party components/APIs a site relies on, etc. and selectively control what she wishes to retrieve from a site.
For your particular case, 'visible security' can help in 2 ways: (1) a user has control to not download that particular component but yet view your site as per normal, and (2) even if McAfee flags your site as bad, with 'visible security' being vendor-neutral, other more responsive vendors or a ton of registered Internet user may flag your site as good thus sending a strong signal that McAfee may just be over-cautious, etc., thus liberating sites from the mercy of a single security vendor that has a large user base.
Same industry for me, but in the trading area. It was standard for pretty much all firms that we were escorted off the premises immediately. I was touched that they let me stay for half-an-hour to say goodbye to people ;). Like you, it was done professionally and friendlily.
Rebecca Black - a fine example of viral marketing
Well I for one am not interested in 90% of submissions here but like you I have to live with the voting system here to take care of this... and I simply don't read what I'm not interested in. Since GitHub does not notify me satisfactorily about new releases -- "watching" projects gives me a huge noisy stream about all their various activities so a new release gets lost in that stream -- and since twitter.com/nodejs is unfortunately not maintained, YC HN is an outstanding way to get notified about new NodeJS, jQuery etc. releases.
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I agree. When I sign up for a service the confirmation email is generally already in my inbox by the time I switch tabs to gmail. Then the confirmation link takes me back to the site and logs me in, no hard work involved.

Also, I've never registered for a service and decided not to immediately check my email to activate my account when I'm prompted to. I can't recall a single time when I've come across a confirmation link while casually checking my email.
The problem with Chernobyl was that it was an outdated design that should have been decommissioned.
The problem with Fukushima was that it was an outdated design that should have been decommissioned.
Does Mr Brown want to wait another 5 years to use the same excuse for Washington's Columbia Generating Station?
OK yea so I'm flagging this one. Am I wrong?
You can subscribe to RSS feed also

http://rss.searchyc.com/Who+is+hiring
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/go-thataway-google-ma...
Don't forget that IBM's Watson is bound to enter this exact market.
Interesting. I'm now experimenting with "H&J" on some pages of mine that have fairly long, side-by-side columns of text. I haven't decided yet whether I'll stick with it. It's a bit disconcerting, albeit not at all surprising, that Hyphenator.js sometimes yields three or more hyphenated lines in succession. I'll probably run my pages by some friends and ask whether they find them more readable with or without "H&J" - unscientific but maybe good enough for my purposes.
Ballmer: Had To Make Windows The Center Of Microsoft's Tablet Strategy
>collectively, as a society (or separately, as a bunch of disparate societies), we just might not be mature enough in our thinking to strike the right balance of precaution and preparedness to handle nuclear power as safely as it should be handled.

This was precisely my point. Why the fark CANT we come together over the singularly most important resource modern and future civilization needs, energy.

We humans are really lacking in the high-level critical thought area. For example, we have yet to formalize a civilizations hierarchy of needs. Much like the individual hierarchy of needs set forth by Maslow, all levels of biology have one.

Taking a look at civilizations then, what would be the hierarchy of needs that require nurture, protection, support etc...

I have come up with the following first attempt:

Progress

Organization

Wellbeing

Energy

Resources

Sustenance

First: a civilization needs sustainable methods of feeding itself which is not a net drain on the planet. (potentially combined with Resources)

Second: they need to be able to access, extract/harvest and refine appropriate Resources.

Third: they need to be able to produce and support the energy consumption requirements they have in a similar sustainable manner.

Fourth: They need to be able to provide for the wellbeing of the civilization through both proper physical protections as well as appropriate health care services that are not, themselves, a diseased burden on the energy, resources, or sustenance of the civilization.

Fifth: Proper methods, models and modes of organization are required -- organization of people and the modes by which they communicate and manage the other needs.

Finally: the civilization needs to progress. Review, refine, reinvent.

The problem is that with the Kardashev Scale, there is a fundamental failure to address something akin to a civilizations hierarchy of needs which must be addressed if there is any hope of evolving along this scale.

Using nuclear power as a way to awaken people to this might work.

The problem is that we are completely consumed with individual greed which manifests in the very fabric of our society to such a degree that we cannot even fix the current systems of resource/political/energy control to build consensus around a plan to evolve as a whole.

We are far to in the weeds on every single level of such a hierarchy, pulled with distractions, disinfo and FUD to make real progress.

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BTW check out these pics of the reactor... I am amazed that it is as good as it is given the state of the reactor buildings. Given the fact that the spent fuel storage were in the TOPS of these structures which we now see lay in practically rubble, leads me to believe that we really do not have any clue where this really will head as we don't have concrete evidence (the outside public, not those really dealing with this) that the materials haven't simply just spilled all over the place.

http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm
I think this might be a carefully orchestrated leak to counter the rumors about iPhone 5 not shipping until the Fall. There are massive speculations about a larger screen, LTE support, and now 8MP camera.

Apple really knows how to keep their customers in suspense. I admire their products, but their marketing tactics annoy me.
The worst possible Hello World program
Several years ago my site was red flagged by SiteAdvisor because I linked to Plimus, who I used as a payment processor at the time. According to my site's review on siteadvisor.com, other "bad sites" linked to Plimus, and therefore my site also must be bad. A lot of small software companies use and link to Plimus, and it turned out those bad sites were companies that sold PC monitoring software. I think it's unethical for companies to install monitoring software on employee computers, but that's a very tenuous relationship to flag my site as bad. I wrote to SiteAdvisor and finally got the status changed about 3 weeks later. I was left with a very bad opinion of SiteAdvisor because of its guilty until proven innocent nature. The legal saying "It is far better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man is wrongfully convicted" obviously didn't play into their business ethics.
> "Which is it, Craigslist is full of spam and a terrible place to browse; or Craigslist lets ads get flagged off too easily and it's a terrible place to sell? Only one of those is possible."

No, both are possible, and in fact both are true.

Look at apartment listings - in any major city full of spam, obviously posting far more frequently than is allowed. I've tried flaggin these posts - but it looks like the flag threshold is proportionate to the category's traffic level. Which is to say, for something like apts/housing, very high. Makes sense on paper until you realize there aren't enough dedicated users policing to actually make the flags a working feature on these categories. So yes, shitty experience for browsers, chock full of spam.

Turn around, look at smaller categories where the flag threshold seems to become very low (say, anything outside the realm of selling/renting physical goods), and it becomes a terrible place to sell. Perfectly innocuous posts are flagged off for inexplicable reasons (believe me, I've sat through the flag-help posts and seen plenty of these), and incredibly common for competing advertisers to use the flag feature offensively against similar postings. So yes, too easy to flag and terrible place to sell.

You can insist all you like, and pretend that anyone who gets posts flagged is obviously doing something wrong - you'd be right there with the rest of flag-help after all, but that doesn't change the fact that the flag system is routinely abused and seriously compromises the credibility of CL. It's simultaneously too strict to filter to spam, and too lenient that it generates mass numbers of false positives. It's an utter failure of an abuse-detection scheme.

Craigslist is ripe for being disrupted - it's already happened in some categories, and there is a lot of ache in the market for the others. For me it's been relatively little loss - I've been using the craigslist-disruptor-equivalent to gigs/creative and it works great, much better than CL.
Fair enough. I was just a bit surprised by the effusive comments on this thread when my experience was quite the opposite.

For my money, I've much more enjoyed the writings of Martin Gardner, or Bill Bryson.
Roxer | easy way to create a website
If you are looking for a quick and easy way to create a website, Roxer is an ideal choice. They have a unique lock/unlock function while prevents any accidental editing that might hamper the website and its content. They have impressive text editing features, that enable you to change fonts, colors as well as texts.
It's a gender-neutral pronoun. (Great concept in theory but looks stupid and won't catch on, IMHO.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronouns
And if it gets voted up at HN, it's usually a TechCrunch story.
for a corp with no assets, i would've refused to pay and not bothered with the annual reports. after a number of years that stuff just goes off the books.

you might get some nasty letters. yawn.
Email addresses may be unique at one point of time, but assuming that they are unique identifiers for people is problematic because they can legitimately change hands. For instance, my work email address is <firstname>@<company>. I'm not the first <firstname> at <company> - the other one left before I joined, but two months after I took over the email address I'm still clearing up the accounts with services that made an identity assumption over email addresses.
I do think sproutcore could use a facelift.
First Look: Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 1
You can also put dots at arbitrary places in your gmail username i.e. jhonsmith@gmail com, jhonsmith@gmail com and jhon.s.m.i.t.h@gmail.com is the same email address.
Why are you arguing points I didn't contest?

I have started, built and successfully exited from a couple of different companies, so I know it can be done.

Given this, how many angel investments in MN web/mobile/social/etc startups have you made?
I'm looking at http://demo.sproutcore.com/ (not sure about OP).

In Chrome 10, I can't get greenhouse to load any of the projects. In the family tree demo, clicking Add for Male, Female, or Pet doesn't seem to do anything. Trying to open outline hangs the demo page (and I can't then load anything else in the demos page without refreshing the page). Sorting by clicking on column headers in the table_view demo doesn't seem to work (maybe that's not meant to?).

Hope that helps!
I agree. I can imagine this website breeding communities of hypochondriacs.
hmmm, the entire article excludes the words 'weapons' and 'waste'.
all nuclear reactors produce long lived radioactive wastes which are left for humanity to manage well beyond the forseeable future. Here in Australia, we've come up with a state-of-the-art answer to our own burden of nuclear waste (arising from 30 years of experimentation and research reactors) - we're building a road out to a remote desert location, building a shed and dumping the unwanted problem on the tribal lands of a disempowered, de-funded indigenous community. Real reassuring, huh?

As for weapons, although the old cold-war powers continue to slowly reduce the huge numbers of conventional nuclear weapons they hold, they're also building new ones. And at the same time as the total number of nuclear warheads in the world is slowly decreasing, the total number of actors holding those weapons is greater than ever, with the proliferation of nuclear materials and technologies spreading despite all rhetoric and pantomime surrounding the NPT. As Former US Vice President Al Gore said in 2006: "For eight years in the White House, every weapons-proliferation problem we dealt with was connected to a civilian reactor program. And if we ever got to the point where we wanted to use nuclear reactors to back out a lot of coal ... then we'd have to put them in so many places we'd run that proliferation risk right off the reasonability scale."

finally, to the question of renewables :
I totally reject the repeated assertions that renewables can't provide scalable or baseload power. Here in sunny Australia, we're following the lead of nations like Spain and building a few large grid connected solar-thermal and solar-hybrid plants, that compare well with the capacities of old fossil and hydro plants. Already, large remote communities in my part of the country are powered entirely by solar concentrator arrays.

So I say, stick your nuclear power reactors where the sun doesn't shine.
That's strange. In the latest Chrome, some of those soft hyphens fail to show up but it still splits the word, e.g. "abomina<br>tion". Other hyphenations appear just fine. Works fine in Safari.
I wrote my own piece on iPhone vs Android using the Mac vs Windows analogy three years ago. It's dated pretty well except for two points. The first being that there was no Android Market at the time, the other that there was no iPad or Android tablets on the horizon at that time.
http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2008/04/mobile-pla...
> "You probably just used a hit counter or external images or some other commonly-abused or community-hated posting trope."

Your insistence on the purity of flaggers is puzzling, but is in line with what all of flag-help believes. There is never the assumption that the post was flagged wrongly, and instead the assumption that that poster must have done something against the TOU. Except this assumption seems to be wrong more than it is right (based on the couple of hours I spent digging through flag-help postings anyhow).

In my case it seems that there are a contingent of users who are allergic to any unpaid gigs, and will flag just about any ad in the unpaid category. This is despite the fact that CL specifically has an unpaid category, and the posts I saw pass through were not TOU-violating in any way. Flag-help's best response for me was that, hey, that's the way it is, just live with it. This seems to put the kibosh on any assumptions that all flags are legitimate (or even most flags are legitimate). The funny thing is, during the short time that my posts stayed up, I got an incredible number of contacts expressing interest... so clearly I'm not advertising something unwanted to a brick wall.