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> the anti-nuke movement is the only force keeping it from happening.

You say that as though the engineers are willing to sign off on any old half-baked plan. Maybe things are different in Japan, but around here, you have to get engineers to approve things personally and there are serious consequences for someone who signs off on something unsafe.
Not when you call it 'processor architectures'. Apple is a bit smarter than that when it comes to marketing. It won't be the MacBook Air with Sandy Bridge. It will be the MacBook Air S with 'more magic' inside.

The 'S' is for Speed. :)
Five GE MK I reactors lost all forms of cooling for a period of many hours to days. Some had fresh fuel and were operating right up until the time they lost power. They began emitting high levels of radiation and the outer buildings were exploding. Cesium and Iodine were detected externally.

Most of this basic information was very well established and confirmed by multiple sources. Those of us who knew this was a huge disaster unfolding were not "right by accident".
It seems strange to think that if it were specifically for the anniversary that it would be happening 2-3 days AFTER said anniversary (Saturday night and Sunday instead of thursday). Also, Sunday seems like a strange day for a new product launch.
First habitable exoplanet?
There's nothing on this page but an announcement for a presentation that's happened in the past. Did I miss a video link somewhere?
Fun to read and interesting, I don't read this as an article, It appears more to me a nice story telling than an useful advice.

Personally I can't feel really productive using multiple monitors, I always forget one of them and focus on just one.

This maybe related about your work, if you are multitasking you may find it useful, however I don't naturally program that way I force myself to focus and this is very difficult with two monitors.
Banshee, F-Spot & Tomboy are for me the biggest players in the open-source Mono world.
We should break even from the proprietary products, plus the consulting and support services.

That being said, we want to grow, we want to market, we want to expand, and for that we will be raising VC funds.
Yes, the "invent a cool codec / protocol, live on the royalties" business model would be difficult without patents.

However, there are a lot of very smart people who invent formats and don't patent them. For instance the JPEG format is clever in a very similar way to the MP3 format. In this instance the format was created by companies with an interest in a great format for their devices - cameras for example.

MP3 (well, a lossy music codec of some kind) could have been created by a similar group trying to make music players interoperable. It might have even been created by open-source advocates. Think Ogg-Vorbis, for instance.

I don't think that we'd live in a world with less cool formats if patents were abolished (yay!). If a format is required to solve a problem, it will be created. Open protocols without patents should be encouraged.
Saying "lessons learned" and "no surprise there" about the same thing does not work.
My only wish: Groklaw had been around for the Micrsoft monopoly trial, the one litigated by David Boies in front of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. I say this because it's pretty obvious in retrospect that the mainstream media of the time did a pitiful job covering that trial. And who knows, that trial might have turned out differently, as the SCO v. Novell trial(s) surely did, in the presence of Groklaw.
Wow, is this a troll/joke post? This is why developers look at marketers with such disdain...
Maybe they will, eventually -- but there's something to be said for getting they can release, then working on making it faster and more elegant underneath. Hadoop works, right now, which is a major point in its favor.
Don't you mean 'Turbo?'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
Just wanted to plug the FSF's documentary "Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system" -- actually watched it this past Friday. It's only half an hour long:

http://patentabsurdity.com/
I was one of those picked and am really pissed. This is so screwed up! Does your employer ask you to pay the extra monthly salary back when they made a mistake in their system? "NO!". They should have made the exception to re-draw "randomly(!)" among the non winners and give them another chance. But do not take away what you promised because of your inaptitude!
Typically when someone offers to buy something that is not for sale, they will suggest a starting price for the negotiation. This gives you a slight advantage as you have something they want and you're forcing them to take an opening position.
I guess the whole point of the article is, that is a myth. Interviews don't work.

Anyway, companies that have the time and resources are turning to this more - the summer internship program at microsoft is actually a 3-month interview, where the intern works on real code and gets a real review.
Well, it's asking more, but not necessary a lot, especially in term of the thorough job this particular author did in the remainder of the article.

Running through elements in a list is obviously common, but that's not what was done here, he was checking for a particular validation that just so happens to have been easy in Clojure and messy in Java.

Here's an example that I think is a little more realistic, but not so complicated that it requires a lot of work. It doesn't use anything outside of the standard SDK, and yet it illustrates some i/o, data structures, error handling and return values, and useful logging, all in a pretty small amount of code that you could definitely see in a real project:

https://gist.github.com/975368

This is clearly not Java at it's best, the finally block shows how some basic scoping can get verbose, and the nested try/catch isn't great, but it's tough to improve it without refactoring some of the messy bits out, which would really only help with organization, not verbosity.

26 lines. I expect Clojure or most other languages to do it in fewer lines, but I'd be surprised if they can do it in half and still account for the requirements. My overall point here is that you could probably read a file into a list in some languages in a couple of lines, but when you start adding some reality in, they pack on some pounds.

If someone wants to prove me wrong, please do, you might have a convert :)
This doesn't seem very practical to me. How is Facebook meant to decide whether (a) one fb user is a parent of another fb user, and (b) that the 2nd fb user is under 18?
Ask HN: Who is going to Startup lessons learned?
I am going to start up lessons learned on Monday May 23rd. I was wondering if other HNers are going, and anything else that will be going on.
http://www.sllconf.com/

There is also an ignite event the preceding saturday. http://igniteleanstartup.eventbrite.com/
I really hate to piss on Diaspora parade but people are kind of fed up with new social networks, they don't want to change again and again. I believe FB is the final draw as far as generic social networking goes, besides, FB is too embedded around the web.

FB has more than 500M users, if privacy and data is what drives Diaspora, for most web users that's almost useless since FB already "owns it". Maybe geeks use it, but I don't see it gaining anything relevant compared to Facebook or Twitter.
Ask HN: Is anyone using Gigwalk?
I'm in Vancouver, Canada so cannot use it. If you are using it, and even if you're not, I would like to hear your comments about it. Why? Because I had just started to generate Angel interest for the identical idea when it launched and now must adapt to the fact that there is already one player in the market.
You are not alone. I wish I had enough karma to downvote.
Great to see you here.

Any plans to have a 'Team' section for Xamarin? I'd love to know who jumped on board, tbh.
In other words, you are paying for the brand, not the product.
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you americans seem to be under attack by the oligarchs, if you havent noticed yet
http://www.betanews.com/joewilco...
I would recommend this piece for those who wish to see the problems that a small innovative company can have even with patent protection. Without such protection they would have been left with nothing - copied wilfully by Microsoft and competitively dominated, all their investments down the rain. At least this way they prevailed in the courts and will have some recompense for the damage done to their innovative business.
How would this have any jurisdiction over social networking sites outside of California? If not, then it seems this will just push them out of the state.
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I think that both the industry and the anti-nuke forces are keeping nuclear from advancing.

When people like the founder of Greenpeace are pro nuclear, the only people anti-nuclear are radically anti-nuclear. They do not give a damn about old versus new tech.

The nuclear industry just wants to save money by pushing the old tech.

Together they create the false dichotomy of either old or nothing.

I wish we had an anti-nuclear movement which distinguished between old and dangerous and what we could have with new tech. Even if they were against both, if they were at least much more against the old an dangerous, that would be great.

But the current ani-nuclear forces are not that rational.
The patent number starting with a D indicates a design patent.
Does anyone here do two offices with projectors and video cameras at one end, to make one big virtual office, as an always-on thing?

If so, what's it like? How well does it work?
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There are bigger concerns than ground water contamination.

This blog has info translated from Japanese,

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/05/asahi-shinbun-core-meltdo...
I made my own service with a free Google App Engine instance, using this script as a base → https://github.com/danawoodman/python-uptime-monitor mainly to use the SMS gateway api from my provider.

Simple enough, write the views and use the cron service from GAE, for myself 2secods it's more than efficient.

I will never hit any cost on GAE just monitoring 12 servers every 2 seconds.

You will get more capabilities, writing your own uptime script and personally I will add: it's more fun :-)
It sounded to me as if you believed this was typical for a rails site. Maybe I read it wrong, but it isn't typical for a rails app that I've ever done.
Why oh why would Apple build an actual tv when they can just build a box that plugs in to EVERY tv and puts iOS on them??

I don't understand why everyone thinks Apple are going to build a tv, it's a ridiculous idea.
Should they own this idea for the next decade or so? Probably not, but how about the next 12-24 months? At least long enough so that they get a head start against competitors who didn't get there first.

This is probably about as long as it would take for a competitor to write the necessary code and do the necessary testing anyway, so it seems that the reward of being first to market with good code is enough compensation for the risk involved.

If we really want to fight software patents of obvious ideas, or permutations of obvious ideas, perhaps somebody should write a tool that simply combine every obvious idea in software into some greater system, then documents it all thus creating prior art that stops all of these so called bad patents...and then patent the "prior art permuter". In other words, if the ideas are obvious, a piece of software that does this should be buildable. I call this the "obviousness of software patents theorem".

I was thinking about a similar system, wherein hardware and software components are treated like building blocks. You throw some (or all) known blocks into a bag, and randomly draw n blocks and come up with a way they can be used together. You then start applying random domains to the same building blocks (e.g. security, gaming, manufacturing, automobiles) to prove that moving an existing invention to a new domain should be obvious.
Lawmakers have no need for practicality and common sense.
Wrong. While one of the products Trulia offers is a subscription service for realtors, Trulia is independent and committed to providing the most accurate information to consumers (I'm YC founder from '06, and a am now a product lead at Trulia)
sounds pretty web 3.0 to me.
My point was that sloppy thinking about the pro-nuclear crowd doesn't automatically make the anti-nuclear crowd correct (or 'right') because there is plenty of sloppy thinking to go around on the issue.
If not checked correctly, the abuse that could be created with this could really become a problem.
Not that I support this in any way, but I can't quite comprehend the technical ignorance in legal circles that has lead them to distinguish between streaming and downloading in the first place.
I graduated from CMU yesterday:

I'd say skip the job fairs: In four years, I never considered attending one because they are mostly perceived as boring among your likely target demographic.

Some companies come and give talks about their infrastructure or technology -- these were always what got me excited and interested. I also really enjoyed a few of the competitions and challenges (like Facebook's and Yahoo's).

Just being on campus and doing events which give students a taste of the excitement of creating something would probably generate much more interest than you're seeing now.

I already knew I wanted to work at a startup a year ago, so I had to actively ignore the constant recruiting from the big names while putting effort into chasing down leads with startups. Had I not already known what I wanted (from past internships), it would have been much easier to just sit back and take the pitches which came my way.

Bottom line: come woo us with talks about the cool stuff you do. Send your engineers along too to talk shop with us. Run hack sessions and showcase the winning apps. Show us how much more fun we'd have doing things your way, as opposed to Microsoft's, and you'll have the students you want lining up to apply.
With all due respect, they don't seem to be the most experienced engineers to solve the problem. Opening up to a larger community who is ready and willing to help would only be beneficial.
Is it just me, or has there been a flurry of internet-related legislation of late. With the PSN hack still fresh on their minds I wonder how much more legislation is yet to come. Between this, COICA and PROTECT IP, things are starting to look bleak.

Are there similar precedents when other disruptive technologies started eating into traditional markets (maybe the introduction of tapes or CDs, or the telegraph and radio)?
cperciva is the creator of the Tarsnap backup service. So yes, he is very much a software developer. For future reference since you're new here, I suggest clicking on the username above a post to investigate a person's identity.
True. Although funding or enterprise adoption from somebody like IBM would say a lot. Right now it is not clear whether Mono is a viable enterprise platform for customers that value cross-platform deployments. At least that's the perception I get.
Or why not have voicemail emailed to you?
I agree with you. Video chat as it exists seems to require the full attention of both parties. Like you say, one becomes "tied to the screen". It seems video might be more used if one wasn't tied to the screen.

How can this be done? As Keith writes at Singularity Hub "[…] all too often when making a phone call, I hope the person doesn't even answer so that I can leave a voice message with the pertinent information and get on with my day. With today's video chat, it usually isn't even possible to leave a video message." Why is this not possible?

I think that there are three main formats of conversations (based on speed):

1. Realtime + Continuous (face-to-face AFK interaction, phone calls)
2. Realtime + Intersperced (Instant Messaging [AIM/Jabber], SMS)
3. Not realtime (letters via USPS, typical use of email, posts to blogs)

What is notable is that with video, options exist only for types one and two:

1. Video chat (as implemented by Skype and GTalk/Gmail)
2. [doesn't appear to exist]
3. Video blogging (posting a video to YouTube, emailing your friend the link)

I think people (including Skype) have assumed that realtime video should follow the format of telephone calls - continuous and streaming. This certainly has its place. But what might be more useful would be video IM. In an IM client such as Skype, have a button to record a short message perhaps limited to a total of 30 seconds, just as Twitter limits updates to 140 characters. Send the video and let the recipient watch the video as they are able. Then, the second party can take their time to think of something to say, fix their hair, etc. and respond by recording a short response.

Approaching video this way would remove the initiating parties worry that they are interrupting anything - the recipient only watches their video when they are able and can choose when to respond. It also removes the worry that video means a 'long serious conversation' - instead it can be simply short amusing anecdotes or quick flirtatious quips - what would previously have been expressed through texting/SMS. It lowers the stress of both parties who no longer have to be on-point for an extended period. And it frees both, no longer "tied to the screen".
Second Life uses Mono extensively. I'm not sure if it's in their runtime engine but it is used in their scripting engine.
In a nutshell: We don't know our neighbors, yet we spend our time reading news about countries we'll never even visit.
For some reason I can't create the account, but I love the idea - especially levelling up. That's what makes most good training programmes (like CrossFit, which I'm into) successful + peer pressure, which I'm sure you'll provide. Just hope I'll be able to use it one day :)

Marcin
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Did you see http://linkfindr.com ?
They already sell displays. Integrating ATV hardware into a display is not a big step.
I really don't think many people are lending those kinds of statements a lot of credibility any more.

GE/NRC documents also describe all these multiple layers of containment as an impenetrable defense-in-depth strategy.

Well, it turns out that the outer concrete building is mostly just environmental. The roof blows off and panels blow out. The pressure vessel has an assortment of through-holes for pipes and can't actually be trusted to hold in the temperatures and pressures seen by an actual meltdown. The concrete containment has an achilles' heel in this flimsy toroidial suppression pool.

When it came down to it, none of it was able to hold up to the temperatures and pressures and hydrogen explosions seen in this actual meltdown. Many of us were led to believe that inserting the control rods would immediately "stop the reaction" and prevent a meltdown from occurring.

These reactors melted down, all layers of containment were breached, radioactive materials were released into the environment, rendering a 20km radius uninhabitable for the forseeable future. And this is with the control rods in.

So sorry if people don't simply accept your word that such-and-such "completely contains the nuclear fuel, even during a period of full meltdown". I don't think you really know.
Is there any place to actually see Diaspora in action?

Marcin / linkfindr.com
Predictability of hackers' opposition to software patents doesn't render that opposition inconsequential or irrelevant (unlike a vampire fan's opinion of vampires).
This applies to any AMI, Ubuntu or not.

Ubuntu shouldn't be used for web servers to begin with. You should be using a distribution with a long and thorough stable release cycle with minimal packages, such as Debian.
Easy vs. probable or how to make money with software
Really? You gotta be pretty damn tight to deal with that nightmare I imagine.

I'd be more inclined to guess it sees more use in shops that are .Net but want to use something like a memcached or redis server and want to write small utilities on that server in a language they know.

Pure speculation though.
2c: I never worried about migration-- GAE is so much simpler than other systems, unless you went crazy with the datastore, most issues are a few hours to port. In addition, TyphoonAE has a reasonable reputation and is very active.

That all said, porting scaled-up apps is never fun-- the above only applies to smaller apps.
Ask HN: Why are there some really old stories on the ask page?
Back in the late nineties I worked for a gay dating site, and when we had discussions on how to handle minors and their parents, we always sided with the (gay) kids, preserving their right to keep secrets from their parents.

I doubt anyone involved in this bill even considered that perspective, but in this age of diminishing privacy rights, I shouldn't be surprised that children have even less rights than adults. :-/
Do people really need government assistance to take care of their own kids?
And while they're at it, they can set the value of pi to 3.
I'd be just as interested in their email actives. Does that mean another bill is passed to force ISPs to give me access? This is a joke.

The free market already created a solution for this, and as a parent, you have all the power needed. put monitoring software on the pc and get the passwords from the child. No new micro managing laws needed.

States should focus on figuring out how to pay their bills, not creating business stifling laws that already have solutions in place.
It doesn't. And it would.
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librato has an amazing product and continues to have a great blog. I love how they dig into the root cause (linking to the typo in the patch that introduced the bug) and also have easy graphs to take in the impact.
I am confused by this. If attachmate let go of Mono developers clearly it felt the product has not been profitable and won't be any time soon.

What investor with a sound mind would feel otherwise? Novell had already dumped millions in to it and look where they ended up.
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...and that's why I'm a bit of a socialist ;) Textbook free market theories make a lot of idealistic assumptions that just aren't true in the real world. The best product doesn't always win, particularly when your competitor sees easier routes to gaining an advantage than the slow, expensive work of improving its own product via investment in its own R&D.
Yes, it's totally iterative. And it's hard: I even find it hard after 10 years of this, it still takes me a while to keep removing stuff.
For a better article, read this: http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/Fair+trade+coffee/4...

I'd link to the study, but it is behind a paywall.
Hmm, I think California lawmakers flunked constitutional law..

As I understand it that is no US Constitutional distinction between rights of parents or rights of children..ie when you are born in the US you have full rights under the constitution despite not being able to enter contracts a non-minor. That would mean that a parent getting private access to a private other FB member account of a child would fall under the right be to be secure form search and seizure ..among other constitutional issues
We are considering enabling BitCoin in countries where Internet is now owned by the government in same way as US, Russia, and China mainly. FIrst off: Sweden and Netherlands in such case - a safe card.
I'd wager that pretty much EVERYONE applies to Apple, Amazon and Google, because they're known to have the best people/work/benefits. This would make it _harder_ to pick out the best and brightest, not easier.
Novell had already dumped millions in to it

How do you know that?
oh, also, you'll probably find this helpful: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Miami-FL-startup-scene-like...
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While not an option for everyone, serving static content from a different domain is another way to avoid this bug.
The tone is defeatist, I wouldn't expect the project to survive another year.