skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the biggest hurdle will be containing the thorium so that a head-on collision between two cars at 100mph each doesn't leak radioactive material all over the road.

I can't comment on the difficulty of building a nuclear engine weighing 227kg (I assume he means 250kW), but I would have thought the space industry would be the first to utilise such a breakthrough, and I'm not aware of the widespread adoption of those engines over solar panels.

If these challenges are met then such an engine could be a viable alternative to the batteries in electric cars.
Flickr has had and continues to have plenty of problems over arbitrarily deleting accounts.
If you want to share your data over the internet you kinda need to send it out at one time or another. This traffic can always be intercepted and stored for later use.

What is your point exactly?
You're assuming he's only taking one exposure per scene. It's easy to take that many photos in only a few days, let alone a week. Hell, I can take 300 shots of my infant son playing around in about 15 minutes.
Also, anything that failing to do will cause problems should be automated. If failure to roll your logs could cause hard drive space to fill crashing your server, it is a strong candidate for automation.

I do agree that any code that gets written should be decided based on business needs and not some sense of alphageekdom.
I half agree. I have found offices, real offices, to be much more productive than both cubicles and open layouts.

For me personally, cubicles and open layouts are both equally distracting, but I prefer open layouts simply because I hate sitting in a box.

I'd much rater have a real office, but for me cubicles are in now way quieter or less distracting then an open setup.

I wonder what kind of cubicles the people have, to whom the open setup is that much worse? Maybe some kind of sound insulated luxury cubicle?
Flickr will close your account over a single photo not having the appropriate safety level setting and plenty of photographers take it seriously.
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Probably not. At least it couldn't be a "private beta" then.
Does anyone remember the article that showed researchers were more productive when they had more lines-of-sight in their work space? Something about being able to easy interact with people and exchange ideas, since they would often come into visual contact with people.

Perhaps this all depends on what you're working on.
I'm all for finding ways to avoid locking and using immutable objects is one way to help, but this:

Remove the mutation part and now you have a version history,
allowing conflict resolution.

is a little too "hand-wavy" for my tastes. Conflict resolution is not an easier problem than resource contention.
Depends on what I'm working on. A tough problem that could take me a full day to complete? On those days, I miss my office-with-a-door. A relatively simple debugging task that requires input and verification from my coworkers? It's so much faster to just look up and say, "Hey John, can you glance at this?" without having to walk through a hallway into someone else's office.
lol actually iPad is released in 2010 ? isn't it ?
I see now that the details state that "It is possible through an algorithm for a computer to process a photo or video and produce a modified image, possibly improved."

So the use of "possibly improved" makes me happy. I suppose the naming of the algorithm with 'beautify' helps to describe what it typically would be used for.
Isn't it currently google+ for recent history automagically archived in picasaweb for nostalgia
But don't they need to grow to justify that valuation? A mailing list is a depreciating asset. You can milk it year after year, but the number of subscribers who buy a Groupon will decrease.
Try getting some Sennheisers, and playing http://www.simplynoise.com/ - after awhile, you're no longer aware of the noise, but you can't hear anything else, either.
Agree - the colorization did it for me as well. Very nice.
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Exactly. I am also surprised that Google hasn't done more testing on the names. Perhaps they have some A/Bs going on this that I haven't seen, but they certainly need it.
A 250MW engine could power a city and its suburbs.

"Keep that foot on the gas, we need lights downtown for another couple of hours"
Chinese authorities find 22 fake Apple stores
My web address is on the card too, but a significant number of people prefer to use the QR code instead of typing in the address. Less chance for error, it's often faster, and they don't have to think hard while they do it.

Couldn't a website provide links to all those things?

Of course it does - the QR code goes to the web site, without risk of mis-typing it, and without having to look at the keyboard.

Without having to pull a camera out of your pocket?
... I'd rather just tap it in or write it down.

So you'd rather pull something out of your pocket to tap it in, or write it down, but not pull something out of your pocket to scan a QR code?

Additionally, most people can also talk while they scan a QR code, but most can't talk while they type in a web address.

In short, for many people it's more convenient, and I'm making use of that.
Seems more like there is a bubble of people calling out other bubbles.
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I guess being a realist earns you downvotes these days?

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F
I call it "psychic elbow room" - read it somewhere, not sure where, or I'd attribute.
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Even on the Internet, where speech is highly disconnected from the speaker, we still see plenty of groupthink, ad hominems, and pre-judgment taking place. If we can't accomplish it here, then it certainly can't take place in the real world on a consistent basis.

That said, there's too much benefit to these 'irrational' heuristics to discard them.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment, Jacob. That's definitely a great way to look at it.. At the very least you'll also see how many Groupon's it takes to cover and then better understand what that % repeat number needs to be. Like you, I would assume the number is positive, but I don't think it will ever be negative as margins will continue to deteriorate (gross margins from Groupon's perspective, that is).
Fair point, maybe I should have been clearer (and an edit will be forthcoming). My point is that with a version history it’s possible to let the content originator know there is a conflict and allow them to choose which version they wish to go with. This can be as simple as diplaying an icon to show there has been a conflict and giving the choice to keep or revert, showing the other users changes, like most wikis. Or much more complex like in a version control system.

My point is more the negative here, you can’t do conflict resolution if you write over the previous state.

Sorry if it was hand wavy, was just a quick Friday afternoon blog :-)
I also have that problem, inability to concentrate on non-intrinsically-interesting mental activities combined with huge emotional/energy drain when I force myself to.

I'm curious how normal it is for humans to be able to concentrate on non-intrinsically-interesting mental work, though. I can believe that there's a range of skill in it, but can't seem to find data on the range. From what I can tell in academia, very few people actually have the level of concentration considered "normal" or "expected" without either taking some variety of medication, or mustering exceptionally draining bouts of force-yourself-to-concentrate. There are a few exceptionally-good-at-concentrating people, but I suspect they're actually the abnormal cases, representing the top 10% of some bell curve.

It'd be interesting to see data, anyway. For example, I'd be interested to know what the average +/- 1 or 2 stddevs is among the population on a test of ability to concentrate on non-intrinsically-interesting mental work (if that can somehow be measured). Similarly, for diagnosis myself, I'd be more interested in a percentile number than anything; rather than just saying that I suffer from poor concentration on non-intrinsically-interesting tasks, I'd like to know how poor my concentration is relative to the median. Does "poor" just mean that I can't match what the top 10% of the population does? Or does it mean I'm in the bottom 10%?
Yeah that's an interesting choice of wording. I think unrestricted storage would have been more accurate. Unlimited does grab your attention though.
Leveraging Java and C++ for Hybrid Games
Source article is much better: http://wardsauto.com/ar/thorium_power_car_110811/
As a child of 8 years old, I was given 120MG of Ritalin per day. I rarely slept the first 2 years. If I did it was around 6am for an hour or so. Then I had to take my morning dose for school. They also wanted me to take a pill to sleep, which felt so horrible I cannot even explain it. I was a zombie in the morning if I took it, then onto the morning ritalin dose. I would just do pushups in my room until 3am some nights just to get the energy out.

Yes, I did well in school while I was on it. Yes, I stayed out of trouble when I was on it. But I was not myself. I felt as if I were on drugs. I did not learn "how to learn" or "how to get things done" without being on drugs. When I finally kicked the habit in college, I was a mess. I couldn't do anything that took more than 30 seconds of concentration. I had to learn how to live life without drugs. For a condition I may or may not have had. It took me to more years to finish my last semester of college because I could not function. Years later I’ve relearned what I should have learned as a child – how to discipline myself and get things done.

The DSM IV/V has a very loose definition of this "DISORDER". The genetic basis I don't doubt, because at one time in our evolution it was a selective adaptation that made us better at hunting, preventing accidents, and trying new things. Now, because our society resides in cubicles, desks, and institutions, it's a "DISORDER" that needs to be medicated.

Just be good parents and give your child an environment where his or her differences can thrive. Find some open space and let them loose for several hours a day. Homeschool them with creative and intriguing lessons tailored just to them. Do whatever you can to allow their abilities become advantages rather than brand it a disorder and ruin their self-esteem by sending them to the nurse twice a day to be force-fed a pill they don’t need.

Don't just give them a pill. That's lazy and detrimental to them in the long run.

The over-prescription of these drugs is epidemic and I can't stand by and watch comments say :

"Each year a parent doesn't take actions is a year lost for a child" to convince people to medicate children for what used to be a genetic advantage (and still is given the right environment).

Each year a parent doesn't take actions to provide the right environment for their child's natural ability to thrive (rather than be told to have a disorder) is a year lost for that child.
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If we're getting into a debate of whether medications can have other effects than intended, I cannot argue that.

ADHD and ADD should be treated in completely different ways. People diagnosed with ADHD have a much higher chance of psychotic symptoms than those who are only of the inattentive type. Then there is the old saying, "if you've seen one child with ADHD, you've seen one child with ADHD."

In my experience, and for many others, it has provided a world untold, halted depression, increased motivation and enjoyment in life. Stimulants aren't perfect, but we're throwing the baby out with the bath water when we ignore their usefulness.
So it is bonjour + postscript?
Fair enough. I'm on your side about keeping a version history and using immutable data (for some things). Its just that my biggest question when I was reading (as it is any time someone discusses concurrency) is: how does he handle updates to the "same" data? Because, ultimately, you will have state somewhere in your system.
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An incubator bubble isn't a scary bubble.

Bubbles are scary when they fill one criteria - investment in the bottom of the pyramid is feeding the top, making the whole thing look more profitable than it is.

For example, in the tech bubble, the new companies were buying Sun servers, Oracle databases, and Yahoo! ads. This made Sun, Oracle, and Yahoo very profitable, which encouraged more tech investment. But that snake can't eat itself forever, and when investment slowed it all went bust.

Likewise, housing bubbles affect (effect?) so much of the economy they can't help but feed off themselves.

And in a classic Ponzi scheme, the mechanism is the same - the bottom feeds the top, so people think that there are outsize gains to be made. Those gains evaporate once new entrants slow.

Now, there's some new startups like Heroku who are "selling picks in a gold rush". But there's plenty of others like Groupon and AirBnB who are selling to the wider economy. The successful internet start-ups don't usually feed off new entrants, so I don't think a really scary bubble can form.

That said, if a bunch of random airheads (who are these 60+ new incubators? top tier VC? bottom tier VC? government? universities? there will be winners and losers here) think they can attract the same talent as Paul Graham, and vet business and technology plans as successfully, they may stand to lose their shirts.
Try the concept of recursion. Then move on to fractal images. That might grab her attention. (I don't know -- maybe reverse the order of introduction I suggested?)

Don't bury her in the details. Look for the concepts you already share -- albeit in different media.

P.S. Maybe she'd find something like Edward Tufte's work interesting/appealing.
I think that's true to some extent, but at least with a tweet the user is also commenting/providing some context for their audience. One of the issues with +1 is that it's not always clear to users how the +1 will be interpreted.
Mono: A cure for Microsoft monotheism
I wonder if this has anything to do with the Incubator Incubator http://incubatorincubator.com/
Thanks for the link. I was searching PadMapper site for the story.
great stuff, guys!
I'm not sure I understand what this does. What is "content auditing"? It says "sign up and we'll tell you what content auditing is" - you might lose people there.

Also, maybe show an example of the results - I put in my domain and it showed the first 10 links with a status code - but I'm assuming this is more than just wget!
We are software nerds people. It is supposed to be cool to se how others solve problems. It is as simple as that.
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I imagine the vast vast majority of Firefox users don't know how to change the default search engine, and probably wouldn't care to do so even if they did. Sure there will be a few thousand angry people shouting on forums and mailing lists and threatening boycotts, but the other 90+% of the Firefox user base will be totally unaware of this. Firefox is not a geeky niche product anymore, but the default browser of huge and growing number of normal internet users.
I've seen the opposite more often: people who set no boundaries for their children have out-of-control kids. Instead of it being bad parenting, it must be ADHD. Quick, medicate him so I don't have to put up with him. At least in the pediatrics office my wife works in, they are trying to stop that.

Btw, I don't mean to imply ADHD doesn't exist or is only a result of bad parenting. It does and it isn't.
How to "Virtually" Ground a Teenager
Great news, congrats!
Android steals 20% of tablet market from iPad over past year
Another great point - churn is their biggest concern. They need to continue to keep the product relevant somehow so people who do actually read and buy continue to come back, or figure out a way to convert more inactive subscribers somehow. They just started a loyalty program that could bear fruit, but only time will tell.
I don't see lock-in issues as a concern. It's an open spec, if it becomes popular enough then even if other browsers don't want to support it developers can make plugins for those browsers (some of the papers even mention this, I believe). In any case, if websites require you to use NaCl it is only stupid unless they are doing something that otherwise wouldn't be feasible e.g. running a performance hungry emulator. It's clear to me that Google has no intentions to leverage this for lock-in.

If other browsers are forced to add NaCl support: of course I doubt they will have the same security, performance and compliance that Chrome does -- but who are we kidding, it's highly unlikely that all browsers will ever be equal in those ways.
Ask HN: Leaving post acquisition?
My cofounder and I recently sold our small startup after grinding it out for a couple years. Given we were a small player in our market, it amounted to an HR hire. I wound up with basic salary, benefits and some options (which are unvested.)

I'm also just sort of burnt out on the idea and ready to make a change. I was freelancing and making considerably more money prior to starting the company and I'm considering this once again.

My cofounder has no idea I'm considering this. I don't want to cause a panic by disclosing I'm thinking of leaving but I'm wondering if others have been in a similar situation and how they handled it.

Am I crazy? What's the right amount of notice? Is it best to tell my cofounder now even though I don't have anything lined up?
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> "I knew PayPal couldn't be trusted, but I used them anyway, and they shafted me, just like I thought they would!"

He only froze my money because he loves me, he won't do it again, I promise!
Google+ Updates Real Name Policy
What you're experiencing now is called the honeymoon period. You can go Google for what people on r/drugs have written about their experiences with this, or you can just wait to find out on your own.

edit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/excne/advice_needed_h...
120mg as a kid, damn thats a lot.

I took 90 mg as an adult and that was the absolute maximum allowed (in Iceland).

It did me a lot of good but thankfully I am off them now and doing pretty well, meditation is a great substitute.
> I'm not seeing the love from the other side but I might be reading the situation wrong.

Mozilla is a big proponent of WebM.
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How is this different from Polkast ? (polkast.com)
For an auto engine it is beyond hopeless (economics, safety). This particular case is a crackpot/scammer with no substance at all.

Very small nuclear-powered engines are possible. There were several launched on space satellites by the US and USSR, i.e.

http://www.etec.energy.gov/history/Major-Operations/SNAP-Ove...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954

SNAP weighed under 430 kg for the entire power system (note this is a real fission reactor, not a radioisotope heat source like many space probes). These use highly-enriched uranium (weapons grade) to get very small cores.

Nuclear reactors have been proposed for interplanetary probes, such as the (recently cancelled) Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, which would have used a nuclear reactor powering an ion thruster. It's completely viable.

http://nssdcftp.gsfc.nasa.gov/miscellaneous/jupiter/JIMO_Bac...
With current trends, in some years Google will need Mozilla as much as it needs Opera.
ADHD is a real problem, but the rate at which it's diagnosed, and the rate that kids are just thrown Ritalin and other drugs is alarming. A child's brain is a very plastic environment that is still developing. The impact it can have on the brain is not as predictable as a developed adult.

It would be foolish not to try more sensible approaches like diet/exercise/parenting FIRST, and if those have no impact, then consider alternatives. However, this is not how parents of today approach problems. They want the quick fix: give my child a pill/shot/instant gratification, so I can get back to my job.

Also, this article is from Sept 2010.. not exactly news is it?
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A man named Jack Houston Harris family. This character is played by Wilson, who was not even convincing as himself, when he sold his mobile phone on TV.
by the Intelligence Service and leads to a cottage, where he is confronted by the Cabinet Secretary (Langton) and Lord (Fox).
The advantage is that you can seamlessly move between LAN and WAN, and your sync speed will seamlessly move with you.
I hate to say this, but this isn't saying, "HOW you deliver your idea" is being judged. YOU are being judged.

As in... how prestigious your school and prior work was; how you speak and what it says about your intelligence; what social class you're in based on clothes, grooming, material possessions, where you vacation, who your friends are; how you look; how you speak.

I absolutely detest this idea because I feel like it lets too many inferior ideas dressed in the right packaging get investment and get built (see Startup.com documentary for a prime example of this), depriving the world of better solutions.

But the more I'm around the world of investors, entrepreneurs, and B2B buyers, the more I realize it's reality and it's not going away, so you're best bet is to adapt to it without selling your soul.
I think you are describing SmugMug at the end there.
There is a space between 'Google' and '+1' in his title.
See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2875797

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2875883

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2876232

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2876722

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2877086
Work for Pie: A Github/HN/SO Metascore for Developers
Sounds like another "just-around-the-corner-invest-now!" alternative fuel company.

* A lot of wordy rhetoric about "clean" and "green" power, not technical references.

* 200kg engines that generate hundreds of MW of power

* Claims prototypes are coming "very soon" (2014)

* Typical "lone inventor through sheer genius discovers new untapped, almost unlimited source of energy"

* Picture of Obama on the site ("Look govt. is investing in this too, so should you, get ahead of the game!").

<sarcasm> Not bad. I bet some will buy in. There is a profit to be made off of pedalling "just-around-the-corner" amazing energy breakthrough deals. But in this case first order of business should be finding a better website designer. If they are peddaling this for "investors" they need more flash, some animations, maybe some fake graphs.</sarcasm>
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> WHY

From my experience in the UK it's the only option for accepting payment that doesn't have the serious admin and financial outlay of getting set up with a proper merchant account. Perhaps in this case going with EventBrite from the beginning would have made more sense but that's only an easy call to make in hindsight.

Edit: You seem to have changed your comment. Consider this a reply to the underlying message of your sarcasm.
120MG of Ritalin? Sounds absurd.
> The desktop is not dead dammit

Did anyone claim it was?