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As far as I know the damage to the containment was very limited in Fukushima

Right. Except water from the ocean was going in and out through the few tiny holes, and maybe that was the main problem.

See, uranium doesn't fly away when the reactor is open, but of course, if irradiated water goes right back in the ocean, there's dissemination on a bigger scale than Chernobyl.

« 9/11 did happen »

A huge scale terrorist attack like this is statistically
less likely than an earthquake in Japan.
I like that a lot more.
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I'm not advocating requiring bundler (that would be stupid). I'm just saying that they seem to go hand in hand, bundler could be a "feature" to RubyGems, kind of like how Capybara "absorbed" Steak, since it was a natural extension/feature.
To build a flyback first stage would avoid making any hard part. The problem is that it would increase operations costs.

Check the expected costs. It is hard to get mega-projects like that working. The traditional solution is to build a little, test it -- and then build more.

Compare the cost for the whole project with the cost for SpaceX. Or one of the classics -- an air tanked system with a few jet engines.

Point is, you can get lower launch costs -- and with less development danger.
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So this guy takes open source projects and puts them onto the android market to sell for profit? This isn't an ethical thing to do.

Good thing Google kicked him out of the market.
This isn't a very controversial theory:

http://lwn.net/Articles/259196/

http://lwn.net/Articles/301135/
Good article I can attest that we have done most of the points on the list in growing our startup (http://infostripe.com) we were not aware of 99designs and might check them out.

I would also suggest submissions. Look for indexes, review sites and bloggers in your area and submit your MVP.

Also don't give up on the first try when contacting busy people. Don't slip through the cracks.
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You people have lost touch and keep experimenting live with people's businesses and jobs.

Not sure who's out of touch here. Is Google really experimenting with people's businesses and jobs, or are they experimenting with their own service on which people have, perhaps foolishly, bet their businesses and jobs?

If their changes are pissing off one segment of their users it may be because they are trying to please another, more profitable, segment of their users.
>I think both are a major insult to originality and craft that comes with quality design work - the exploitation of the latter, crowdsourced design work, just makes me flat out nauseous.

The cup I am drinking from would properly also have been considered a major insult to some craftperson a couple centuries ago, but I am perfectly happy paying less in return for something that just works.

As for 99 designs, can we please stop this exploitation bullshit? These people choose to offer their service there.

What most people (not necessarily you) mean when they talk about the exploitation of the designers is that they press down the price - to which all I can say is, welcome to capitalism.
That's fair and that's not my intent. Honesty is a fickle friend. :)

I'll give it a quick update.
Machines and CPU time are cheap...at least compared to the price of hiring additional programmers to maintain the mess of assembly code you just wrote.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn this isn't _technically_ true (as Matt Cutts says), but that something like it is indeed a signal in the search algorithm which in at least some cases produces the behaviour described.

I'd be very cautious advising clients to have links to their websites sent out in large, obviously spammy email campaigns.

Matt's quite likely being 100% honest when he says the domain sending the mail doesn't get penalised in search.

I wonder if he'd be quite as quick to explain whether the domains in links inside spam received by gmail are fed back into the search algorithm (or, if gmail doesn't feed that directly, whether the search team use honeypot gmail accounts to find it out themselves...)
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If you really are going to argue that Europe is a low energy society, sure... :-)
You could have easily walked away from this comment.

Sure, it might not be 100% optimized...but does it matter, really ? He showed initiative, gumption, and creativity.

If I were looking for a front-end engineer and AirBnB doesn't want him, I would definitely hire him.

Also, adding that you are available for work, does NOT help your case.

Just makes the sign on your back even bigger. The sign that reads "I'm THAT guy".
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N.b. you asked for an answer, not a good one. ;)
The problem here is that you can't really statically check your stuff.

With either and match completeness turned on, the compiler will force you to handle the error case, you have to "ignore" it very explicitly by doing nothing in its handling.
Can't compare India to former Soviet countries- the Soviet countries had a much better infrastructure/educational/standard of living base.

In some former Soviet countries (Moldova for example), the standard of living has declined since the 80s, India on the other hand, seems to be improving.
Which is about 20%.
That seems like a horrible solution - now we have to wait until all companies update their proxies to support websockets.
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I think it's Google Maps. Android version is far more useful to average user and people using it for navigation will really suck down data (there are quality nav apps on ios but they cost a lot while Google Maps is stock on everything).

Anecdotally, I turned on Google Maps for like 10 min in Iceland and ate a $100 roaming fee.
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Are you trolling or something? The article mentions neither USSR nor India.

And FYI, the disintegration of USSR was due to economic crisis because of Socialism. India abandoned Socialism soon after the collapse of Soviet Russia and embraced American capitalism and the Indian economy is booming now.
>The thing to remember is most of the entrepreneurs claim to want a meritocracy

Do they really? I think most people here are fine with pg weighing down on what he thinks is inappropriate.

I have no idea what it is that got blocked or killed here so won't comment on that but I don't think many people on HN are under the delusion that this is a free market community of any sort.
The printing press was nevertheless relatively expensive. Few could afford a printing press. It made copyright law actually enforceable. I agree however that censorship was harder: after 5000 copies of something was already printed, it was extremely difficult to prevent its distribution. And the more printing presses around, the harder it became.

About the internet, I think you're only half-right. You're right in the sense that here we're talking on HN, and we're censored by pg (=> no spam, no troll). When you publish on blogger, people can see a nice button on which they can click if they think your blog might displease Google. Most e-mail is hosted by few, big providers, many of which are actually spying on you for advertisement purposes.

The backbones, on the other hands, are still relatively neutral. If you have an ISP that won't spy on you, and let you run a server, you can still safely publish whatever you want. There are still ways to publish anonymously, should you really need it. Wikileaks still isn't down.

Sure, the internet isn't as free as it should be. By far. But it is already free enough to teach people how to constructively participate in public debates (write clearly, choose relevant arguments and change their damn minds). Now if the world is walking on its head, and we have a critical mas of constructive debaters, then I think a revolution is unavoidable (I hope it won't be too bloody this time).

So here is my main point: (1) the world is walking on its head, (2) we currently haven't reached that critical mass yet, and (3) our numbers are growing. I therefore predict that if the internet doesn't turn into Google/Disney TV in the next 20 years, there will be a global revolution. We essentially need our "internet children" to turn adult.

Note that I assume that constructive debate is enough. This is because we are already seeing some significant changes: we now see at political rallies some low militant publicly contradicting their leaders. With arguments. Or some random citizen that can debate with their mayor in frond of a small crowd. From the point of view of our leaders, this is very weird. Only their buddies from the other side used to dare argue, let alone be capable of not deflating themselves at the first counter-argument!
The example images show that this algorithm produces much better results than hq4x.
I think part of the knee-jerk reaction here is that 2 weeks is a short amount of time relying on external forces specifically from the client - that they can work as efficiently as you.

I do recommend that you outline hours... for example: $5000 is equal to 100 hours or less claimed with in one calendar month.

Clearly defines your scope of billing and prevents both parties from *dragging this thing on&on
The last 2 pages of the paper has 3 comparisons with hq2x. It seems like the new algorithm does appear to be better than hq2x by being smoother and simpler.
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Watch the picture at Geekosystem. They provide a couple of comparisons between this new algorithm and hq4x.
Do they run their own CDNs now? Otherwise why would they have major issues hosting images? Scaling Twitter timelines was a way different problem.
Jamesbritt - [i]Not sure who's out of touch here. Is Google really experimenting with people's businesses and jobs, or are they experimenting with their own service on which people have, perhaps foolishly, bet their businesses and jobs?

If their changes are pissing off one segment of their users it may be because they are trying to please another, more profitable, segment of their users.[/i]

Fine, all Google has to say is "we will use arbitrary ways of ranking and will support more those that $upport us with adwords" not spew nonsense.

P.S. With 70% market share Google is a monopoly and totally different rules apply.
Yes, it is probably more unlikely than a big earthquake followed by a tsunami.

How many terrorist attacks of that scale have been successfully conducted ?

Over the last twenty years, only one.

During the same period, there has been a dozen of large-scale earthquakes.

And as I said, you're fare more likely to die from a car accident than from any big disaster you see on television.
> I think he misunderstands the importance of putting out the source code for his emulators right away

The GPL does not require this.

The GPLv2 says this:

a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,

(choice c is only available for non-commercial releases).

Note (b): you do not have to provide the source code on a public server, nor do you have to do so immediately. The requirements are:

1. A notice that source code is available for three years upon request

2. That requests for source code be honored at cost

If nobody ever requests your source, you're still compliant with the GPLv2 if you never release it.

edit: and note that, for a commercial product, you only have to honor customer requests.
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if you dig through the various 4chan archives, youll see people actually found her home and went to verify its her. Legion really is everywhere.
No, that's inaccurate. Bear in mind there's a difference between criminal behaviour, and, well, morally corrupt behaviour.

There are also broadly speaking two kinds of politicians. Those in countries where the quickest way to riches are to be part of the government, and those where it's easier to make really big money outside the government. In the former people are attracted to politics strictly for the money, whereas in the latter there are other desires (like fame, power and so on). The ones in it for the money are more likely to see government money as their own money and accumulate as much of that as possible.

The real problem with corruption though is not politicians. It's the civil service. While polititians set policy, and create laws, it is the civil service that we interact with every day. Corrupt cops, customs & border officials, judges, and so on have a far more devastating effect on every-day life than some minister or senator that buries a million here or a million there.

I'm not arguing for corrupt politicians - of course that's bad - they set the tone, and ultimately have the power to condone or condemn bribes and other considerations in the civil service. And of course politicians steal more in absolute terms, to the point where infrastructure is compromised - but the real "daily" damage is done when each transaction comes with an "informal tax".

Now if you want to talk moral behavior - then I agree there is definitely room for improvement. The whole concept of campaign funding means that elected officials are bought and paid for by those with the cash to spend.
> Wow, I got a totally unexpected feeling of joy of getting immediate, concise results from a flight search instead of the usual drag of navigating through 3 - 4 screens and getting long waits, pestered with ads, special offers, etc.

Had you never tried hipmunk before this?
This index is about transparency, corruption, and accountability. India is transparent, but corrupt. China lacks transparency, but bribery is rare.

In India, you have to pay small (or large) bribes to get anything done. You are faced with a bureaucracy which wants to trip you up with red tape, to force you to pay more bribes. This is not conductive to small business.

China really falls apart when it comes to bigger businesses. State owned enterprises get preferential treatment for all kinds of things, especially funding. And bigger businesses have to follow regulations more carefully.
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When developing web apps the best testing that works for me is a combination of unit and integration testing. Leaning mostly on the integration side.

Thing is, in most of what I do every day, what I care about is the end result. It doesn't matter so much to me that calling a specific function with a specific set of parameters produces a specific result, what I'm more interested in is sending a signal into the application and getting an expected output somewhere down the line.

Of course when I'm working on something more algorithmical, unit tests are preferred and tend to produce much better results. But this kind of work is unfortunately quite rare.
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Let me be clear here since on the Internet people are not always able to discern what you are saying.

My comment is made in 100% good faith, and is in no way intended to put down or detract from Loren. I'm a web developer, and I'm passionate about it. I enjoy talking to other web developers and trading knowledge. My intention here is only to share some knowledge.

>Sure, it might not be 100% optimized...but does it matter, really ?

I believe it does.

This isn't a case where "You could have tweaked this for 2% more foo"...this is a case of multiple lapses in standard and basic best practices.

I'm not prepared to extrapolate this one failure into a generalization about Loren or anything, I think this in no way speaks about his ability except to say that he doesn't always follow best practices. That's something he maybe needs to work on, and there's nothing wrong with that. We all need to work on something.

The whole idea here is to really shine...this is supposed to be a bid for the attention of a possible employer...and that is not the time to skip some really really basic steps. t's like if you were applying for a job as an automotive painter, and you didn't sand the body first. Or if you applied for a job as an editor with a resume riddled with spelling errors. That's fine if you're working on a personal project, but it's not up to professional par.

Even disregarding that, I would feel inclined to point it out, just as I would hope someone would inform me of ways I can improve my work.

> He showed initiative, gumption, and creativity.

Sure, and I applaud it wholeheartedly. However, we're talking about an engineering position here...If I was hiring a front-end engineer and they didn't follow the simplest, first-day, default, standard practice stuff...that would be a couple points off.

>Also, adding that you are available for work, does NOT help your case.

That was said mostly tounge in cheek. The point was not "hey you should hire me instead of this guy, I'm way better"

That's the whole point; this stuff is so basic I don't expect anyone would be impressed by it.

The idea is I imagine some Airbnbers (or maybe others) will read this thread at some point, and since we're all asking for jobs on HN I thought I'd make a playful remark about it. If that playful remark gets me a lead on a job, so much the better.

Just as someone may see his initiative and graphical ability and want to hire him... so may they see my devotion to sharing knowledge, having open and frank discussions about web development, and following best practices and want to hire me.
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I made a quick gist showing jquery's source getting converted to cs then back to js

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Simple, on-line payments - like PayPal - but without a central agency that charges fees and can freeze your funds with no recourse.

It's like cash, but over the internet.

There are problems. Not everyone accepts it, and there might come a day when no one accepts it.
Matt once told me that if I did a bad thing on my site there wasn't a penalty, I just didn't get as many points as I could. Semantics. When he says "there is no correlation between Email and search" I will maybe believe him. Maybe.

Maybe you are too young to remember the Matt Cutts "use no follow on internal links" debacle where he said that was a good idea.

I read the response from Google as Matt's annoyed a minion said something they shouldn't have, and Google's caught with their pants down on what is a pretty scary thought. "Google Reads Your Email And Does Scary S___ With It"
I know for a fact that Gmail has implemented some (overly aggressive, and really far-reaching) "spam" triggers over the last few months. Many of them have been scaled way back over the past few weeks but the crux of the new Gmail "spam" filters centered around what Jake is explaining here: Non-engagement.

This is troubling in it's own right because of the possibility of exploitation for nefarious purposes to hurt someone else's site. I did not know about the possibility of search results being affected by the same overly-aggressive spam filters. This may not be the case, but if this is true, it is troubling.

The notion that email engagement is a good indicator of a site's sender reputation or a site's search reputation is problematic. This can be gamed so easily. I could set up 5,000 fake email addresses at gmail, subscribe to my competitor's email newsletter, and then never ever open any email for the next 6 months. Presumably, this would get them blacklisted in Gmail and (possibly) blacklisted and dropped from organic search results as well.

Cue the black market for non-engaging gmail accounts in 3...2...1...
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Nice, we had a 2 year old range stop working in our condo...it wouldn't heat. So since we were upgrading appliances one at a time that was obviously next (it sucked anyways). So I traced the problem back to the control board...$500+ online, so I ripped into it, found the burned solder connection (admittedly very simple fix, but still a very simple circuit otherwise), resoldered the connection and now we have a working stove to sell/trade/donate. Total cost: 2 hrs and less than a penny worth of solder.

BTW, I am jealous of the stereo microscope and hot air rework station...those are on my list for my shop (Just got a Rigol oscope to hack a few months back)...Sometimes, I miss working in production and having access to all that..although I have better handtools now.
Abhorrent or not, its the cost of entry. Dont forget that you will also need to spend $99 for the developers license and if you decide to incorporate, its going to cost the filing/organizational/franchise fees as well.

But all of these expenses pale in comparison with the cost of your time if you can otherwise making over $50 an hour(think $100+k a year)

With a Hackintosh its imperative that you have hardware that is pretty specific, if you expect just any hardware to work flawlessly youre in for a bag of hurt. Thats why most Hackintosh guides provide you a list of "supported" motherboards, videocards, etc. Anything outside of this list and you will face difficulties with sound, wireless network, u name it
I think its not really about the law - most startups don't even realize it exists. Its much more about the culture. Investors in the Valley have had phenomenal success for some time directly investing in start-ups and firms are willing to take a bet that they will invest in the next big thing. NYC firms aren't as accessible, and even the big events (Disrupt) tend to be Valley based. Also NYC has a talent issue (although I think this is changing), for a very long-time NYC start-ups had to compete with banks to get tech talent and there isn't a huge pool of schools feeding into the city. Finally NYC is expensive, so its harder to get a "garage" to work from and 2K a month is tough to live on.

That said a lot of these issues are being resolved, and I see both founders and investors making a very big dent this time around particularly with mobile start-ups.
I have no idea - given it's very new, it's likely to only support Rails 3.

You may want to have a look at this for Rails 2.3 (not tested by myself):

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Twitter's "block" and "report as spam" choices for unwanted followers seem an obvious thing to copy here...
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Any source that China is more conducive to small businesses than India?