skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one in this thread has suggested that coal is safer. What I pointed out are the mistakes of the rabid defenders. They should pause, and think more carefully about the things they say. They'll do nuclear power much more good that way.
Fairwinds: Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History

"That (contaminated) water is seeping into the ground table, and there will be contamination on that site for a long time to come. It could also move inland. This is ground water, it doesn't have to move out into the ocean. It is clearly moving into the north"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CAeixB19d4

I don't believe that TEPCO is actively monitoring plutonium and uranium, which is heavy and more likely to seep into ground water than to be blown into the air. I hope that people in Tokyo do have some independent monitoring stations setup. Anybody know any links?
Quora is a great website to read. I participate a lot on it too, depending on whether I have project deadlines or finals coming up.

I also impulsively refresh Google News sometimes...
Twitter, Quora, and Reddit.
Slashdot and Hacker Newwwwwever mind.

Also enjoy StackExchange reading material.
Doesn't that support the OPs point ? The reason MSFT issues dividends, like any steward of shareholder capital, is because they realize that their shareholders can generate higher returns on that cash than they can.

Given that MSFT is a tech company, and we have seen many major tech companies started and grown to almost MSFT's size in the last decade, it does support the OPs point that clearly Ballmer missed a few things.

MSFT missed search. Great. They missed the music play, great. They missed the phone play. Great. Now they missed social media. How many things do they have to miss before someone says Ballmer has to go.

It is precisely because they are a 'high-tech' company AND paying dividends that validates the OPs original point...in my humble opinion.

Edit: That being said, them paying dividends will affect the stock price for sure. But, he was just using the stock price as a proxy for Ballmer's performance.
Like I said, everything was open. You can't keep a secret at Facebook. Facebook isn't run like Apple--very different.
HN comments are usually so earnest, that I turn my sarcasm meter off here. It goes back on as soon as I leave. ;)
I haven't used a managed host in years, but back then I was really disappointed with what I got for the money. Do they ensure that the site is on the latest patched ruby, mysql, etc?
The real question: Bin Laden's courier...Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, AOL, Lotus Notes, or Thunderbird?
It's not mathematically correct: both all statements of ZFC and the provable have the same cardinality: there's no sense to "half of statements" in ZFC.
Hacker news is very useful to all us.
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What subreddits do you follow?
GigaOm , TechCruch for me
Code is always singular, it's never correct to say codes when referring to a programmers work.
Define significant. How can they estimate them now when we still don't know how bad it is? What we do know is that it's been consistently worse than the official line, until they eventually admit otherwise, then it gets worse again.

The rabid defenders on HN have a worse track record than the Japanese officials.
I am not a python guy but I have been looking over the book and the chapters on forth and lisp are both awesome!
I think the OP is right, but you are misunderstanding. Jobs understands his business, but what products does Apple put out there for businesses? Microsoft has Exchange, Active Directory, .NET/C#/MVC, MSSql, plus many more products aimed at the enterprise. Apple makes consumer products and does it will. The iPhone/pad/pod, AppleTV, laptops, and desktops. They tried the server market with XServer, but that was discontinued this year.

I want to mention again .NET and C#. C# has become a cornerstone of the enterprise world, much like Java. You could say that Apple has XCode and Obj-c, but that doesn't really compete against .NET, except for desktop apps. But the focus of XCode lately has been iOS and .NET has been web apps. Of course this is a broad generalization.

Back to business needs. Microsoft is great at products for the businesses, and great at selling them to the businesses. They are also great at other things too, like XBox. I have had a feeling for a couple years now that there are departments with great product managers that put the product above the politics of a large corporation and upper management that shield the workers from the politics. Those departments end up with great products, like the XBox, Office (though I have heard Office just has the clout of being a big money maker to get whatever they want), Visual Studio/.NET/etc, Windows, and possibly IE (or at least the the current IE team). But reading about what happened with purchasing Danger to take on the iPhone stinks of to many people trying to tell Danger team what to do.

About the only place where Microsoft and Apple true stand toe to toe is the OS. Windows 7 looks great (I have only used it sparingly being a Mac/Linux guy) and OSX is great. I guess you could say the browser is another place. Both IE9 and Safari are good, but really, I think Firefox and Chrome have them beat.

How Microsoft can use this to their advantage is for someone else to figure out. Maybe splitting up would be good, or maybe they just need to say to hell with completing against Apple when in comes to consumer gadgets.
I don't regret working up the ladder at BigCo. I'm ready for something different now, that's all, and I wanted to share my tips for folks going down that path. Please don't interpret the fact that I'm not currently working at BigCo anymore as evidence that I think there's something fundamentally wrong with being an employee at a large or medium company.
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Link for the lazy: http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
Something that I've played with that is obviously inspired by HyperCard is RunRev.com's LiveCode: http://runrev.com/home/
By the way, it's actually only 4.7%, not 10%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta...
Here is a related paper.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
20%? That's a lot closer to Chernobyl, radiation-wise, than I expected. Why haven't the effects been anywhere near as bad, given that the released radioactivities are of the same order of magnitude?
This article is too business-centric. MS is sinking slowly because the world is moving to better things than Windows. It's sort of like selling bicycles, when motorbikes are becoming increasingly available.
In order of priority:

1. gmail. I still have a manageable amount of email, and I enjoy my inbox. My best conversations happen on it. I leave my inbox empty every night.

2. hacker news

3. arc forum and, recently, factor archives

4. google reader. I subscribe to 150 low-volume feeds that I want to read every last thing on. They generate about 25 articles a day.

5a. I intermittently read every single comment on HN for periods of time using http://hackerstream.com (disclosure: I built this with a friend)

5b. I intermittently scan high-volume feeds on http://readwarp.com (disclosure: my site)

My reading's gotten streamlined since I separated high-volume and low-volume sources in my mind (I even wrote a rant about this epiphany: http://akkartik.name/blog/2009-05-19-21-30-46-soc). High volume sources are all in 5 above, and as new ones come up I'll build specialized tools for them.
Is any specific subject you follow in Quora ?
Yeah I was a bit of a jerk. Just too many bad memories and I let my emotions get the best of me. Perl 5 just requires a level of patience and dedication that's just beyond me.

It probably would have been a bit more lighthearted if I replaced Python with Perl 6 in my previous post.
...but they're not a fair basis of comparison in terms of stock value. How have Oracle and SAP done?

Let's compare with a whole platoon of major tech companies that were big a decade ago:

ADBE: +73.40%
HPQ: +47.36%
IBM: +48.65%
MSFT: -27.03%
ORCL: +109.06%
SAP: +70.15%
YHOO: +70.57%

You'll note that MSFT sticks out like a sore thumb.

In their defense, MSFT also has been paying dividends, which some of the comparison companies have not. When a company pays a dividend, the stock price theoretically should fall by almost exactly the dividend paid. As http://ycharts.com/companies/MSFT/dividend_yield shows, they had a particularly big payment in 2005. When I put those dividends back in to MSFT, their stock has been utterly flat over a decade. This makes them a lot better than they otherwise appear, but their poor performance still sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the tech industry.
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I live across the street from a Trader Joe's and prior to that lived near the headquarters of the highly regarded Wegman's grocery store chain that has been named one of the ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ by Fortune magazine for something insane like 14 consecutive years.

The contrast between the two is STARK. Trader Joe's wins hands down.

Both stores built up a great consumer brand, known for their service, but how they did it mattered.

I had close friends at Wegman's who literally hated going to work because customers walk all over the employees. Whereas at TJ's, you feel like the employees are actually your helpful friends--people you'd never take advantage of but can always count on. Big difference.
Good point. I do that for self posts as you say to focus on the comments. But for jobs I don't need to. I'll also make links work. I did some pretty aggressive code reuse when I first implemented jobs...
Does anyone have an ideas for practical applications for distributed haskell? It seems like a this would thrive in an application that combines multiple concurrency models.
You seem to have missed the way that so many stories about horrific things happening in other countries are supposed to make Americans feel superior.

Just spend some time listening to NPR. Constant propaganda telling the listener to respect our government, its institutions, its parties, etc. Why does anyone take American political parties seriously? There is a lot of energy spent propagandizing us about their greatness.

Why should any American care about any foreign prison when rape is used as an unofficial form of punishment in US prisons?

The only purpose of this sort of story is to feed Americans' appetite for feelings of superiority and to allow us to ignore the horrific conditions facing American prisoners.

So unless you think that conditions for North Koreans would be improved by American bombs, I suggest you spend your energy worrying about problems that you can actually make an impact on, such as US prisons, and stop being self-righteous about problems in other countries.
Anyone else is in for StackOverflow ??
Also, it doesn't have to be the CEO with the vision. The CEO can, in the scenario, find and back up someone else with the vision.
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The routing mesh is less discriminating than you might think. There is no "global queue".
TechMeme, StackOverflow, Quora, and Twitter. As for "old media" online, I like The Economist, WSJ, and Financial Times.
Worse Than China? U.S. Government Wants To Censor Search Engines And Browsers
Hacker News, Techmeme, Slashdot, Twitter, Reddit/r/funny (so much fun, check it out).

I tried to follow Quora but couldn't figure out the UI (I'll try again after 5/23 because I'm very pressured by school right now).

I do check out GigaOM, very good content. Also Engadget sometimes and iPhoneDownloadBlog.com.

I stopped reading TechCrunch & Mashable.
For those who are interested in business news, I just relaunched http://forlue.com: HN for Business News.
Famously QWEST refused to cooperate with the NSA's warrantless wiretapping efforts a few years ago, and claimed that they lost large government contracts as a result. See http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Qwest-Punished-For-Wireta... for verification.
That is seriously impressive. WebGL's future looks very bright, indeed.
Ah. Thanks for the correction. The information I had must have been dated, looking here[1] it does appear that my information was old (probably from the 2003-2007 timeframe). I could have also been misremembering, and in fact the original data was probably comparing income tax to dividends tax. Good thing I am not an accountant!

It does seem that recent changes have again adjusted the tax rate. In fact, based on more information[2], it seems long term capital gains tax is in fact lower (while short term is the same as dividend tax).

[1]: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dividend_tax#...

[2]: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Capital_gains...

(updated for formatting)
It looks nice. I can easily see how useful it is. Seeing the sample page was much more informative to me than your landing page though. I would try to integrate the two and show off more of your product on the front page.

Why do you require the Mac app? You should offer both read+write access on the web, with the client app just being an optional bonus. Eliminating that requirement would solve a huge chunk of your marketing problems and open the tool up to many more users.

Nice name change, by the way. :P
Here are few off the beaten path:

http://minimalissimo.com

http://trendir.com

http://archdaily.com

http://typophile.com/forum

Very inspirational, really helps with getting stuff into a shippable state :)
This could use a more descriptive title than "Amazing WebGL Demo", such as "Interactive WebGL music video"
I read your response as "I disagree with you, so your 'tone' is unacceptable."

I'm glad someone is pointing out how polarizing this topic is. I'm glad someone is pointing out that people are shouting each other.

People speculate and they opine and they rant. That the highest voted post provides a third point of view ("Let's recall that we've already discussed this numerous times") is a relief.

Also, if you want to attack a viewpoint, don't attack its tone, attack its argument.
This is not much more than a poorly titled straw man argument. The argument is not that fraud caused the collapse, but that fraud was discovered during and after the collapse, and that fraud should be prosecuted. Ultimately it doesn't matter if the cause of the collapse was legal or not, though it is hard to ignore the fact that it was (at least) exacerbated by fraud.

A more accurate title might be: "Wall Street caused the crash (though not necessarily by illegal means) and was shown, in the process, to have committed numerous acts of fraud which should be prosecuted."
Radioactive material entering the water table causes huge explosions? And nuclear material in the water table falls out of the atmosphere[1]? Bullshit. Are you even paying attention to the claims you're making?

[1] Fallout specifically refers to radioactive dust created by an explosion which then falls out of the atmosphere, contaminating the ground - it's radioactive dust, not a radioactive solution.
there's something odd going about the chin of the guy on the right
Old media WSJ and nytimes...
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Your information is seriously out of date. The PATRIOT act takes precedence, and it famously authorized gag orders where the people under surveillance cannot be told that their information was requested by law enforcement.
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We'd appreciate any feedback and questions. You can find the site at http://www.advicefile.com .
MSFT was the overpriced darling of the Dotcom era. Ballmer inherited an insane valuation. Meanwhile, in the last ten years, net income has gone from under 8 billion to over 18 billion. This is not a failure and will eventually be reflected in the stick price.

Source -- http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/inside_ms.mspx
I'd like to see Steve Jobs take over. It'd be his next great adventure. He can directly reach the other half of userland.
Hell, I'd put facebook ahead of telco. Telcos have the bureaucracy that begets incompetence and therefore inaction; facebook ranks whose profiles I visit most so it can optimize my search results and minifeeds.
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Assuming there's legitimate reasoning behind them, and not just "I don't like it", could someone explain to me why this comment got so many downvotes?
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I used to be on reddit constantly but after I found hacker news I am losing interest in reddit and now actually get work done.
Steve Sailer: thought criminal and smartest pundit you've never heard of.
http://isteve.blogspot.com

La Griffe Du Lion: rarely posts but highly interesting.
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I highly recommend checking out the Technology page for a 3D model view, demos, and source.
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what products does Apple put out there for businesses

That's the beauty of it - they don't have to target businesses, because businesses buy their shit anyway.

doesn't really compete against .NET

Apple doesn't have to compete against .NET - Microsoft shot itself in the foot years ago by not building a Unix and by not taking advantage of the open-source ecosystem.

You may say what you want about .NET, but go to any software or web-related conference, and you'll see more than half the room filled with Apple computers.

Apple doesn't compete with .NET because it doesn't have to.
I keep trying to get more active in math.stackexchange.
Buying back stock increases earnings per share, not the stock price.
Is adcenter a failure? I have no idea what their data looks like, but I do know that bids have gotten quite competitive (much more Google like) since the Yahoo partnership.
thanks teja
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I believe one strike against AMEX is their higher merchant fees, as compared to the other card vendors.

I recall when I was young that sears started discover card, and it wasn't terribly long from the first time I heard of it to the first time I saw logos on windows and people accepting it.

At the time discover had no annual fees, and 'cash back' which I recall both being novel at the time (I was young though, so I don't recall too specifically). I think consumer demand helped push the vendor market, as well as Sears itself.
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Simple example. A company had a market cap of $25. They have $5 in cash and decide to pay out a $5 dividend. The company now has $0 in cash and is now worth $20.
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My point regarding pings was that tiny advantages in speed, if leveraged across enough people, become large advantages in speed, and if a single person provides a tiny bit of value to many people, then that adds up to a lot of total value produced by one person and therefore a big paycheck for that one person.

The telescope information is valuable to fruit sellers and fruit consumers alike. If Bill is very hungry today, but Joe is not, then Bill is rightly willing to pay a higher price for fruit.

Let's say that the loss of one ship raises the fruit price from $1 to $10. Bill wants to eat today and so he is saving his last $10 for when the fruit arrives.

As the ship crosses the ocean, the closer it gets to shore, the less risk there is in Bill spending his other $9. He wants to buy beer but is unwilling due to the risk of not being able to afford fruit.

To Bill, there is clear value in knowing how far along the ship has gone. The sooner he knows the better. Since knowing the ship is coming frees up his $9, this information also provides value to the brewer who will be able to sell his beer sooner. If the brewer sells his beer sooner, the brewer will be able to buy himself new shoes sooner, and so on. The 5 minutes of foreknowledge results more economic activity, and higher wealth in general. Bill gets his beer sooner, making him happier sooner. This has value. Mr. Guinness the Brewmaster gets his shoes sooner, easing his ankles sooner, and this is worth something. Every little bit of foreknowledge helps.

All arbitrage follows this same model. Whether the arbitrage profits are collected by one person or many is not relevant. There is utility in prices that accurately reflect supply and demand. The sooner prices reflect reality, the better.

If there are going to be fewer oranges available, the price should be higher to ensure an efficient distribution - a distribution to those who most value the oranges.

Galileo made prices 5 minutes more accurate, and while that is unsexy, it saved 5 minutes of inefficient trading. In aggregate, those 5 minutes end up being worth a lot.

Those minutes provide some level of utility equal to or greater than Galileo's profit. If Bill did not get at least $10 worth of utility from his oranges, he would not buy them, and Galileo would not receive Bill's money. These are voluntary transactions after all. Bill can always starve until tomorrow, or boil his shoes, or go forage for berries.

Fast information is worth something in itself.
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Tech bubble or not, judging companies based on how much finding they raise alone is bad. Put profitably first and you shall survive any disaster. I don't think we are in a bubble because people who invest usually consider profitably over potential to flip to the next sucker. Investors I've spoken with seem to be wanting in for the long haul.
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What I find fascinating about the whole Facebook story is how many lawsuits are connected to it. Zuck vs Winklevii, Winklevii vs Chang, Zuck vs Aaron Greenspan, Zuck vs Paul Ceglia. The Facebook story is the gift that keep on giving... lawsuits, that is. Just when you think things have settled down, there's another interesting twist and another person who alleges he's been defrauded.
Just say it first and then worry about how to say it more elegantly. I know it's hard to resist the urge to make it perfect the first time, but I guess that's required skill in many situations anyway.
I don't think an alphabetical sort is appropriate in this context, since it wouldn't make sense to consider reading them in that order. I personally would put Bringhurst's book at the very top.
This addresses the wrong question. As soon as you start using encryption, you also start using passwords and secret keys. The US government can detect encrypted messages and find those passwords and keys pretty easily.

Better to send scattered, seemingly innocuous plaintext messages, if the insidious information is coded well enough to look like normal conversation.

If you encrypt all your email, they just have to log every piece of encrypted mail they see and wait until they find the key to open all of them. If you do it the smart way, they have to hunt for each individual message, and you win the "security arms race".
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