skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a random remote I just picked up, I see buttons labeled: Menu, Top Menu, Configure, Category, Setup, Option, two Enter buttons, two Mute buttons, several banks of numeric entry 0-9, two channel changers, two volume changers, three different power buttons, two mutes, and four ways to change inputs.

I would much rather do this:

"Computer, show me some God damned teevee."

"Yes, boss."

I think it's likely we'll get decent voice-and-intent recognition before the remote control makers are brought, well, under control. Right now your average remote is like flying a fapping 747.

[I'm aware of the Apple remote. It seems cool, but I haven't used one.]
As someone who finds your "20+ tabs" cute (I've got an order of magnitude more per device), this is something I've always wanted. I did look into existing solutions, with Weave being the most attractive I found, but none really worked for me (the biggest problem with Weave was, unsurprisingly, browser dependency; I use multiple browsers on the same computer, let alone across devices).

It would be important to do this well. Speed and security are essential for this to be worthwhile. However, as far as the idea goes, I'm definitely game.
Its not a paint job. They do a poor job letting you know what features are the awesome ones. It pretty much makes the android launcher extremely user friendly. Try it out. Uninstalling apps, hiding stuff in app drawer. Folders that are more useful than standard stuff. Great performance compared to other launchers.

Its a skin as much as ADW is a skin, except its better than ADW. Their contact/dialer app is amazing, startup time is damn good compared to good dialer apps like dialer one (except dialer one does not integrate well with htc's missed call notif). Weekly updates with usually good stability improvements.
Do you operate a fridge?
Yes but is it like saying wolves are safer than dogs because statistically your are less likely to be harmed by a wolf than a dog? It ignores the fact that if you do run afoul of a wolf, you are done.
The history is not 'extremely short'. Nuclear has been in operation for decades.

If fact, history inflates the risk by bringing into consideration known weaknesses of earlier reactor designs.
Well the MS Office division is pretty profitable...
The ease with which one can "pierce the veil" varies dramatically from state to state. Another reason to be careful about your choice of location for corporate headquarters, employment, "significant contacts," and so forth.

In the meantime, how about IRS code that allows an inventor who owns his invention personally to take capital gains treatment on the sale of that invention contrasted with ownership by an LLC (even single person LLC) or other entity which subjects the owner at sale to normal income taxes at (usually) a much greater rate? I can imagine many convincing reasons for the entity to own the code. But why do that unless you have to? I would tend to want to own the code personally. More flexibility.
That's a strange question, why do you want to know? I'm thirty, fwiw.
I would bet $100 neither of you have any way to know. :)
Informative feedback. Thanks guys!
The plant is built like that so spent fuel can be lifted out of the reactor and placed directly in the pool using one crane. A more secure spent-fuel pool would have required more elaborate fuel handling, thus a more expensive design.

Also, when these plants were built I don't think they anticipated the spent-fuel pools would become long-term storage. There was the assumption that centralized nuclear waste disposal sites would be built and the pools would only store waste until it was safe to transfer.
Well maybe it was my mistake to generalize (and say "much"). And by develop, I meant develop, test, support, and maintain over a wide range of phones and capabilities. These issues may be more or less pronounced based on what the app does and the size of the user base.
In The Muslim World This Is ‘Americans Killing Muslims’ again – Michael Scheuer
Do you always eat only the finest meals, freshly prepared, with only the highest-quality meats and produce?

Sometimes an In-n-Out burger can be "wonderful".

I, too, enjoyed Chaos. Regardless of its inaccuracies -- wherever they are -- it presents the topic very well, introducing it without being dry or unreadable. It held my attention throughout the book, and I still remember specific parts of it. I wouldn't mind reading it again, either.

Books, like business, can have different markets and do different things well. I think what Gleick lacks in writing a textbook, he makes up for in approachability.
Why did Steve Jobs start tablets business?
CANDU reactors are safe, in fact they have a hard time getting anything to happen on a good day. If something went wrong the worst that would happen is the reactor would stop working.
> The Reliant Robin, while obviously a horrible design, does not roll over every time you drive one a half mile

But it is absolutely hilarious when it does.
This post is my view point for iPad. Let's discuss.
So, how is nuclear fuel transported from wherever is it manufactured to the reactor? Why cant that process be implemented to transfer the fuel out of the reactor?
The best coverage I found of the whole disaster: http://www.twitter.com/freepmike
If you are not meeting your goals, it could indicate they are unrealistic or not clear. Most of the tasks you do might be mundane, but they are necessary. The satisfaction from completing a list of tasks will drive you.

I have a method, which I find it extremely effective:

- At end of day, spend 30-45 minutes reviewing it, following up with people, and planning next day (already have a list of tasks saved). If I feel I need to improve in some areas (for example, presenting), I will create tasks from it (research presentation classes, book presentation class etc.)

- Each morning, spend 30-45 minutes entering tasks into my calendar so I know what I need to achieve for the day. Each task has a time period assigned to it. Make sure tasks don't overlap - pad the time

- Check emails every 45 minutes or so. Delete, defer, delegate or action (loosely based on David Allen's GTD)

- For new projects, break down into small parts and turn these into tasks. Some tasks might seem trivial, but that's okay

- Set-up two monitors. One has a task app open, so if something comes up (let's say by email), I can create a task out of it. Inbox is always visible. On my other monitor I have everything I need for the task at hand. If you don't need your browser open to complete the task, close it

- Reward myself for completing all tasks for the day

Other tips:

- Read about how people become great at something - focusing on the task itself is paramount. If you fail, gather feedback, make adjustments and do it again and again and again and again

- Burnout is very real. A particular industry might have a culture of late nights and 60-hour weeks, but humans are not designed for this. Burnout kills relationships. Stick to a reasonable work day and devote time to other activities, for example playing sport in a social setting, and most importantly spending time with those you care about

- Create a personal skills document, where you list out what you want to learn about/become skilled at. You can then create tasks and set a clear path for success. That way, you can let the goal drive your search for information instead of aimless browsing driving your goals
From their application:

"Each member must have a moderately full [LinkedIn] profile with a minimum of 2 recommendations and 50 connections."

Is this a thing now?
Localscope tells you what’s close by.
Are you just being snarky, or do you actually have a problem with it?

Besides, it doesn't seem like they are even curating; rather, they are attempting to prod their sheep in a direction they believe will benefit the whole project.
Although this statement isn't very contributive to the topic at hand, Ratatat is awesome. Seventeen Years and the songs from LP4 are their best stuff.

It is actually really good music to do work to, the kind of music that's best listened to when you need to focus and are just kind of tired.
Strongly disagree. All of the identity issues aside, ensuring deliverability is another key issue. Some email providers can be very aggressive when it comes to marking emails from new services as spam. Getting a user to pick a confirmation email out of their spam folder and click "Not Spam" is the most important action that user can do as part of the signup process, otherwise you will never reach that person's inbox again.
Thanks! I'm not still good at writing.

>That seems pretty ambitious for a blog post though.

Good point. Actually, that's exactly what I want to do here.
Ice Cream = Google TV + Honeycomb + Gingerbread
Keepass is terrible. Too many bugs and it used to crash on me constantly.

1password is much better. It's $40, but worth every penny.
The Nature of a Bubble?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/04/dispatch-from-detroit-charlie-sheen-kicks-off-his-tour.html
- Unsubscribe from all the feeds except that are very very important for you. So you have at the max 20-25 feeds to read.

- Follow only those people who's tweets are very important. Don't follow people who have a habit of tweeting very 15 mins.

- Deactivate your facebook account.

- Go to any social site only when you are going to bed. Don't spend more than 30 mins there.

I have actually deactivated my facebook account.

There's too much info on the web, there's no point in reading / listening to all that if you can't apply or digest. If something is very important, you will eventually get to know about it from somewhere.

You don't always have to be the first one to know about it.

When tired, don't try to relax by visiting blogs, twitter, facebook, youtube.
Instead go out for 10 - 15 mins and get fresh air, make coffee.

It helps me alot. Might work for you.
I have been thru the same phase your are going thru :)
My contact said after a barrage of complaints from his customers, softlayer restored his service.
Jawaad, as you know, I live in Tokyo too. I haven't had to stop drinking the water because it's never gotten higher than water I've already consumed elsewhere in my travels. Even when they said it wasn't safe for children, I was drinking it because the levels weren't very high at all. I filled some containers with tap water to have on hand if the situation got worse but so far it hasn't. If you're having trouble finding foods like milk or natto it's mostly due to disruptions in the supply chain and food processing or packaging plants up north that were taken out by the tsunami.

I've been drinking the tap water and I would eat the spinach grown in fukushima as well. It makes me very sad that farmers who are struggling to get by and have perfectly fine food to sell are not able to sell it.

I can understand people being afraid of the uncertainty of the situation. I think that is somewhat rational: the situation could get worse. You might not trust TEPCO or the government to properly handle the situation. Those are risks that need to be addressed and maybe the answer is that nuclear power isn't the way to go. That decision should be made based on hard data of real threats, costs and unknowns.

I think though, that to date, nobody outside of a very small radius (mostly TEPCO workers) have ever been in danger of receiving dangerous levels of radiation. People confuse cautionary recommendations with actual threats. On the other hand, people are dying due to lack of supplies and medication from the tsunami. Farmers and fishermen are losing their livelihood because of fear of radiated food.

BTW, Here's the link to the water supply/rain water radiation levels I use:

http://atmc.jp/water/
Totally agree. I couldn't believe that TC decided to put the comments system (the only reason visit TC) in a walled garden that is Facebook. I myself have all FB widgets blocked at my proxy so it took me a while to realize why there were no comments when I clicked through.

Delegating the primary form of participation on your site to an outside firm strikes me as a bad idea. Maybe Facebook is paying TC to use their system?
>Nobody is advocating that we build more 4 decade old reactors.

the real political and economical power is with the current nuclear industry which doesn't have other designs. Any permit to build if given in the next 10 years would result in a new old nuclear plant. Like any powerful established industry they protect their position with heavy regulations and wouldn't let any innovative outsiders in.
Maybe only on environmentally friendly cars?

*edit.. don't mean to be a dick, I just don't think this fact helps their case much. I watched the episode, and it irritated me quite a bit even though I think Top Gear is normally pretty fun.
Safer than wind and solar? I don't think so. Those stats that we saw a while ago that people die from solar too because they fall off the roof are pretty ridiculous. 10 years from now all new homes will come with solar panels pre-installed, so people won't have to set them up themselves. Plus, you could always hire someone else to do it for you.

In my country we're building giant wind turbines that will generate twice as much energy as our nuclear plant.

I'm not saying we should ban nuclear power forever, but it shouldn't become the main source of energy either, at least not until we're researched it enough to be 100x safer than it is today, and when it will deliver 100x more energy than solar and wind can, through actual fusion or whatever. Until then, I don't see why we should blindly keep building them when there are perfectly viable clean energy alternatives out there already, or just slightly behind, and just need a little push capital wise to become more advanced.
If you're making the argument that we more closely scrutinize 40 year old designs, you'll find no resistance here.

But the problem is that using Fukushima as an argument against nuclear, is like using a car crash as an argument against transportation.
I've never heard of KeePass before. I use Password Safe, which is very effective and has been around for almost a decade as open source.

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
Just checked out your web site Matt. Great product. Great accomplishment. Would love to have you in our network.

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? Additionally I say something challenging about Project Skyway and you ask me to join your network? Thanks but you're better served by guys like Rob Weber and Justin Kaufenberg. They made it. I'm just in the process of.

we chose not to entertain any device companies like yours because we do not have the expertise, network or resources to benefit these types of companies at this point.

This is the part I just don't get. MN has more expertise in MedDev (Medtronic, Guidant, Mayo, United Health Care, etc) and hardware (Compellent, Xiotech, Cray, IBM, etc) than anything else. I guess I would add advertising to that list (Fallon, Olsen, Brew).

If you don't fell for the spell of the coasts, that is, and continue to enjoy what MN has to offer to our entrepreneurial community.

I'm staying. See above for the reason.

In the end Cem you've made a bet with your own money. We'll see how it plays out.
I'm having flashbacks to the days when people sued the DNS blacklists, or threatened them, called them Nazis, etc.

I'm not commenting on whether these services (like SiteAdvisor and the DNSBLs) are good or bad, and in what contexts. I'm just saying these arguments have been made before. And, I believe the real good guys (as much as anybody is a good guy) are the ones who want people to have the right to design their own Internet experience and possibly have help from third parties in doing so. Companies have no right to make people browse their sites, even if they've made it to the top of the googleranks by hook or crook; those users are not theirs by rights. The user owns their own eyes and time. If there is something a user might find objectionable on the site, whether it be spyware or pictures of cats, the user has a right to turn around and go elsewhere when those things appear on your site. If they want to install a tool that warns them when they're about to see a lolcat or be exposed to spyware, they should have that right and the tool vendor is definitely not in the wrong for trying to provide that service (even if they make mistakes now and then).
I'm curious if you liked Lorenz's book more (The Essence of Chaos).

As someone woefully unqualified to critique either, I'd be interested in the opinion of someone closer to the subject matter.
How Slavery Really Ended in America
I have gone on record and said that I support Nuclear power. I think it is necessary.

However, to simplify further, I think that Nuclear power supports hand wave deep issues of trust that develop because of the way these issues are treated.

I don't imply that there are any easy answers to power. Solar, wind, etc.. are not mature enough (to the best of my understanding). Coal releases more radiation (but not in catastrophic all-at-once scenarious)

Eat your dog food. Spend real money doing so. Otherwise, frankly, it's internet posing.
Putting the fuel storage pool on the fifth floor of the reactor does seem questionable, especially given the violence of the explosion at reactor 3.

Another "unknown bug" exposed by these events will probably motivate mitigating the risk of hydrogen explosions from hydrogen generated in a partial meltdown. As you can see in the second picture in this link,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2399676

the force of the explosion crushed the concrete structure of the adjacent reactor building, and launched enough material into the air that it created holes 60 feet in diameter in the roof of the turbine building when it came down. This was not anticipated; if it were the reactors would have been constructed further apart.

The spent fuel rods must be actively cooled for many months after they are removed from the reactor due to heat-generating radioactive daughter products. Since the pools holding them have either boiled away due to the absence of active cooling or drained into the basement due to damage, it is likely these rods overheated. Japanese authorities have mentioned the possibility of "re-criticality", which would be a bad thing, especially in a fuel pond with no containment whatsoever.

There will probably be many lessons gained from these events that will be used to reduce risks in other operating reactors and future designs.
It is odd that you have conflated seriousness with access to capital.
Doesn't burning nuclear waste just turn it into a gas or a pile of ash with the same radioactive elements? Burning is a chemical reaction, so the actual nuclei of the atoms shouldn't be changed at all.
I wonder if the ubiquity of SiteAdvisor (due to various freebie installation offers) results in McAfee being perceived as an unwanted service rather than as a necessary service.
Every design was once a modern design. Nuclear power is inherently unsafe. That's why we're having this discussion.
Periodic Table of the (HTML5) Elements
Not really. The problem is the binary format itself - Linux, *BSD, and pretty much every Unix but AIX these days uses ELF, but OSX uses MachO. The two aren't compatible.

The easiest way to do this reliably would probably involve writing your own mini-linker load the Mach-O binaries in Linux from the JVM, bypassing dlopen() and friends.
which demos are you looking at?
I think you're seriously overestimating the current potential for solar photovoltaics and wind.
I meant, given an application, there's a good chance that it won't run on run on all the Android phones.
The warnings have been worded by their legal department to avoid litigation.
A similar "blacklist" by Google (safe browsing) exists and they define what language you should use if you use their blacklist to warn users (see End-user visible warnings @ http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/developers_guide.ht...).
An excerpt: These guidelines help protect both you and Google from misunderstandings by making clear that the page is not known with 100% certainty to be a phishing site or a distributor of malware, and that the warnings merely identify possible risk.
It actually is "a thing" now...or at least it is for us (Project Skyway).

We definitely questioned ourselves as to why we might want to include something like this. In the end, we feel it is a proxy for one's dedication to develop one's network. Certainly it is not the only measure by which one could reasonably judge someone's ability to have become involved in a community and it may not even be the right one, but social networking is a valuable asset and is a tool upon which many of us rely as part of an overall strategy to forward our business' goals.

Plus, because we don't have a crystal ball into which we can peer to ascertain the kinds of networks and organizations our founders have chosen to become involved with, this gives us some information that we might otherwise not be able to get. In the end though, this is just one small piece of a bigger puzzle that we are trying to construct which will ultimately tell us a lot about the people that we will be working with and giving money to.

Project Skyway is about the people, more than just the idea, because people run companies; people succeed or fail; and people are the most valuable asset (or the greatest liability) in any early stage company. We are looking for kick-ass PEOPLE with kick-ass ideas because without one, the other doesn't matter.
Mac App Store improvements
Number of casualties from nuclear plant accidents: a few thousands.

Number of casualties from coal mining accidents this past century [2]: 100,000.

That's accidents in coal mines alone, not even counting lung diseases and similar.

The fact that it takes a 9.0 tsunami after forty years of complete absence of nuclear accidents to bring this to the front page should be indication enough that nuclear is not just safer than most of the other energy production techniques, it's also the one that has the highest energy rendering.

Any Green voter who's done their homework should be voting for more energy to be generated by nuclear plants, not less.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining
Holy mackerel! It's been a while since the 2nd Ed!
My point is they were either wrong or lying. Both possibilities are pretty worrying.
When ever I see this I realize its not really helpful. Sure all the facts are true but as I've said before you can't argue with people who are scared.

In other news a hole developed in a SWA 737 jet flying to Sacremento and did an emergency descent from 32000 to 12000 feet. Will it cause people to stop flying? Some, perhaps, but for the most part no.

When you read that someone on the freeway died driving a '72 Buick that only had lap belts and no air bags you say "gee, its great we have them now, we've just had fewer highway deaths than have ever been recorded since 1949.

The same is certainly true with nuclear power plants, if we were rational we would say, "fine" lets relicense "older" reactors on the provision they are dismantled and replaced. Have we learned a lot about building reactors? Sure, could we get rid of the older ones faster if we built new safe ones more quickly? Absolutely. But we have to either learn not to be afraid (respectful yes, afraid no) of nuclear power and radiation. Perhaps we should learn about it in school, perhaps we should provide low cost detectors for folks.

I think its part of growing up as a species.
It's called WebMD.com.