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In November of 1999, I decided to write my own blogging engine (back then though, I was thinking more of an online journal than a blog). At the start, I had grandiose features, and in the mean time, I kept the journal/blog private (first post in December---http://boston.conman.org/1999/12/04.1) only a few people knew of its existence) as I worked on the code base.

Nearly two years later, in October of 2001, when I wrote what I felt was a great post (http://boston.conman.org/2001/10/23.1) that I said "to hell with this, this goes live!" and bam! Whatever I had at that point went "live".

So, for me, I released the program despite all the shortcomings because I wanted it released. Since October 2001, it's gone through three (four maybe?) major revisions and while it's closer to what I envisioned, I still have some work to do on it.

As an aside, certain features I envisioned, but never got around to implementing, turned out to be The Wrong Thing To Do. Also, one feature that took the longest to implement (and for the most part, hasn't changed at all in twelve years) rarely gets used in the manner I expected it to (it's used, but it has way more flexibility than I've ever used and there are still some corner cases not handled properly even today).
Excellent news, if it pans out. Here are the reactors they're working on:

Hyperion: A 25 Megawatt-electric (MWe) lead-bismuth-cooled fast reactor. Operates at a high temperature, which makes it potentially useful as a source of industrial process heat, e.g. the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonia. Has a nice negative temperature coefficient of reactivity: if it gets too hot, the reaction slows down.

Westinghouse SMR: Essentially a much-scaled-down version of Westinghouse's AP1000. Pretty conventional. At 200 MWe, it's the largest of the three.

NuScale: Another conservative pressurized light water reactor. Uses shortened versions of standard fuel rods, so the fuel supply chain should be pretty simple. Smaller than the Westinghouse SMR, at 45 MWe.

All three are small enough that they can be manufactured at factories and shipped out by boat, rail, or a particularly big truck. Their pressure vessels are light enough that they don't need to wait in line for heavy forgings from the handful of companies capable of making pressure vessels for the gigawatt behemoths. I hope that the NRC doesn't kill them.
I really wonder why Chrome (one of the most used browsers in the world) is not mentioned in the list of supported browsers.

Opera, a browser virtually nobody uses, on the other hand, is. Since Safari is supported, there's a fair chance Chrome is as well.
You may find this hard to believe but, there are places that exist that are not America.

We like to call this "The rest of the world".
It's nice and there are many friendly people.

Now let's take an example of a place in the rest of the world:

Perth, Australia.

What's the flight time of a packet from Perth to Mountain View? 300ms -400ms? Taken each way that's almost a second.

Hyperbole? not at all.

You may now continue living in total oblivion to the world around you.

Also you say they've hidden the extra content. The same extra content which was just more ads. You're actually making the contention that google was cleverly hiding all the ads from you?

No it wasn't. It was cleverly pushing real results below the fold where they will stop distracting users from the ads.

see this: http://www.seobook.com/excuse-me-where-did-googles-organic-s...

This is only heading in one direction - "Pay up for adwords or you're on page two, buddy".
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There should be more mingling this time, because we're expanding to a full day. Half the day is breaks between presentations.
Good presentation (among other things).
"In the past 30 years have you heard of any medical innovation or drugs coming from anywhere other than the US?"

Of course there is plenty of good medical stuff coming from many countries other than the USA. The market for medical care world wide is way larger outside the USA too. Finally, much medical research is multi national and collaborative.
Thanks for the correction on Vietnam - I double checked and wasn't able to find another instance of mangling, but since you said "for example", I imagine there are others I missed.
> "Next time you decide to #include <linus/stdflame.h>"

... give me a break.
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is this the same with foreign languages as well? Noone really wants to know the rules of a grammar. They just want to impress others, understand anime or foreign tv shows, or curse in another language
Haha. Clearly you didn't read it.
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But you don't need an account. Most of the features that require one are FB oriented anyway.
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Not for me either, likely intentional to prevent people from printing where they could otherwise sell posters or something? Shame though, it'd be great to see some full-size HQ versions.
In order to have access to an MRI scan you need to have a machine that's geographically close. If the nearest machine is 100 miles away the bar on what will justify a scan goes way up compared to if a machine is an elevator ride away. Buying more machines costs more money.
Increased demand drives costs up, not down.
I had a book of his Star Wars illustrations as a kid, too. It was great to see the variants of recognizable vehicles/structures/characters/etc that didn't make it into the final movies... an early lesson about all the little creative choices that sum up to an iconic final product.

Sorry to see he's passed. Glad he lived a full creative life. Encouraged that his Star Wars work was done in his 40s.
SaaSy.com, which is all-inclusive, avoids most of the development work and it mostly GUI based as opposed to API, in case that's of interest to you.
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Worked on this for the past few weeks and decided that its now good enough for a release. Alot of features still need to be added, but I just want to see if the site will gain traction.

The idea is this: Online advertising in its current form is too complicated for the normal user. BiteAds aims to simplify the process to just sharing links on Twitter/Facebook/HN. Advertisers can start advertising their sites just by adding a button similar to Facebook's Like button or Twitter's Tweet button.
You do know that your Google searches don't go to Mountain View, right? Google has datacenters all over the world. I think you know better, and I'd love to see some actual numbers from you.
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FWIW, its roughly $100 or even less in India.

Granted, the quality of medical care varies by a lot in India, but there are places and doctors in India who are so good, that if I am sick, all I want to do is take a flight back home...

The lack of health insurance in general in India ( now, it is being sold to a growing section of the population ) has meant that prices are comparitively lower ( though, they are really rising these days ).
Whatev. So one search result (or even 100) are better on Google. Bing could be better at other things. The problem is no one uses Bing, so it's hard to know.
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Show HN: Experience EDM events online
We're a couple of students at Stanford bringing EDM events online!

We'd love feedback and suggestions for where we could take this. Here's our very minimal first website with bootleg videos:

www.pluntz.com
One obviously has to be trained to use the MRI machine, and that person is local. But the interpretation is even now not done on site.

Low bandwidth costs mean that it can be done halfway around the world.
"The Art of Return of the Jedi" was one of my favourite Star Wars related purchases, as were several other collections of sci-fi art. Always liked SF art's power to inspire.

Two of Ralph McQuarrie's more dramatic compositions:

http://www.podracer.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/star-wars/ralph...

http://www.cornellbooksellers.com/blog/uploads/mcquarrie.jpg
... and it costs 200 USD in India.
Off the top of my head...

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I agree that much of the general public is insulated from price, however a few personal observations: (Note: I worked for 8 years for a state insurance company and my wife has been a nurse practitioner for 12 years)

People don't "shop" for healthcare the same way they shop for televisions or other consumer products. In fact the overwhelming majority tend not to all. Either someone like me at their insurance company picks a primary care physician for them, or they pick one from a list based on simple factors like someplace convenient, seems like it's a good part of town, etc. Unless the doctor is so unbelievably terrible, it's extremely unlikely they will switch. My wife, who is frustrated by many aspects of our healthcare system, attributes much of this to the complete and utter lack of medical literacy possessed by the general population. The average person simply has no idea how modern medicine works on any substantial level, so they have little to no basis for making an informed decision about their care or provider. When you are sick, even with something routine and non life-threatening, you don't think "Hmm I could go see the doctor today because I feel awful, but I think I'll price shop for a day or two beforehand." Even people with strong financial incentive, i.e., people with limited means, don't do this. If a child or loved one is involved you're even less likely to start thinking about dollars over medicine.

I do agree that most patients have no accurate understanding of the real cost of their care, and that more education in that department certainly can't hurt, but no matter how you slice it, that cost is simply much higher than it is in other developed societies, and that is a serious problem that needs to be addressed.

Edit: Something I wanted add: I know in a community like HN, many will be of the sentiment that if you fail to educate yourself about a product or service, you borderline deserve the consequences. I agree with this in most respects. However, taken to it's logical conclusion, that would require me to become an expert on everything under the sun. I have no idea how the plumbing in my home works, or how to do anything but routine maintenance on my car. It's not that I lack the interest to learn about these things, it's simply that there aren't enough hours in the day to plausibly accomplish this. When faced with the need of a professional expert, I have to use a little common sense mixed in with any superficial knowledge I do have, and trust that there is a system in place that prevents me from being totally screwed price wise.
Yes. I totally agree. I would certainly love to support multiple distinct personas. There is an open question of how to do that while mitigating the damage potential. There are also cases where multiple personas might usefully be linked. For example, when commenting on programming issues you might want to link your persona to your stackoverflow identity or your HN account. Honestly, the biggest mistake I could make would be to assume I know what the community wants before we have a community. I think it's probably wise to err on the side of less friction and more prismatic identity and deal with restricting multiple signups if/when we need to. For now I plan to enforce uniqueness for outside identities (only one pseudonym per Twitter account) but also allow a basic reCAPTCHA username/password signup. If someone wants to contribute code to manage multiple personas within one account that would be fabulous, but annotation functionality feels more priority for me. If you think there's still a fundamental misunderstanding please continue, but I totally agree with your comment and don't think there's anything about it that's incompatible with my current vision.
So France and Germany have some non-price rationing mechanism. Whatever mechanism they have, it causes them to half less than half as many MRI's (per capita) than the US.

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/fulltext/811...
Now can you bring it to Europe, too ? :-)

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Teddy Ruxpin. That was mine.

My parents got it for me (an expensive gift!) When I found out it didn't actually talk, but instead had a cassette tape with "conversations" pre-loaded onto its back, I never picked it up again.

Though I was really young, I still remember the disappointment and anger it caused me. "But the commercials...they said it talked!"

I do think we could use some of our tech genius to make better toys that delight and transform kids. What sort of programming would a real sorting hat require? And wouldn't that be way more fun than Yet Another Social Network? Food for thought.
I think the term you're looking for is "a la carte." Nickel and dime sounds terrible.

Anyway, I'm personally a fan of subscription based services but monthly, not annually. People seem to forget annual subscriptions (except for domain names) and these spikes in the budget often have people canceling. If possible or if it makes sense, go the monthly subscription route. In a way, it reminds them to take full advantage of it (so it lets them make it relevant) and you'll have a more stable income as a result.

The "buying credits" idea is also a good one. It becomes a pain if they have to pull out their cards too often though.
The way I've always thought about it is as the application of game mechanics to the problem of sustaining a community that links to quality content and produces quality discussion.

Karma - particularly on Hacker news - is not useless - it's a concrete measure of the value you have added to the community. It's not a perfect measure - but I think it's pretty good.

I'll very often follow through on looking up users with high Karma - finding out who they are if they declare it - subscribing to their blogs and things like that.
would be glad to if i were able to edit it. my apologies :|
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Great question. I think the big thing is that you have to get exposed to different things. If you don't have your own itch that could be scratched for profit, then you need to find somebody else's. Some of the posters mentioned learning about different domains and niches; to me that's the key. If you are a problem solver with an entrepreneurial streak, you will find itches that need to get scratched just from talking to people about what they do.

The key is: how do you get exposed to new domains? I'm sure most business managers/owners could name 3 or 4 things they wish they could make better. However starting that conversation with them is difficult.

My wife does some direct sales stuff (Pampered Chef, Lia Sophia) and the key concept with their sales training is: get on the damn phone! Make 3 calls a night, that's it and your business will grow.

Idea generation is the same thing. Just think if you could have 3 conversations a day (heck, even 1 conversation a day) with people about what they do during the day. I bet you'd have multiple actionable ideas in a week.

It sounds easy and trivial, but it isn't. I know this works but I haven't done it yet. I'm not brave enough, charismatic enough, too big of a p*y to just start up conversations with people, at least so far... But I think if you go to the core of most business startups, that didn't start with a guy/girl solving her own problem, you'll find that most of them started by putting themselves out there.
One gift that did deliver: Talkboy.

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

Nice post Jimbo.
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Personally, I just want to be able to accurately picture what happened. If I later find out that some character in a story has a different appearance from what I imagined, there's a weird adjustment.
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Tcl API as a replacement for glib?
This page lists all functions present in the Tcl 8.5 API:

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclLib/contents.htm

Might this be a replacement for Glib? Cross-platform unicode handling, threading, filesystem operations, virtual filesystems, hash tables, lists, channels, event-loop, regular expressions, networking, process handling, etc. As bonus you get an optional cross-platform embeddable interpreter and a portable GUI add-on (Tk).

Suddenly, I want to use this for my next project, whatever it will be.
This is because no one is quite sure what it should cost. Literally. The hospital will try and charge whatever wild number they can get away with, and the insurance company will negotiate it down to whatever they feel they're willing to pay.

My wife is a nurse and has seen this play out multiple times with patients and their families. Just to give you an idea of how disconnected the price is from logical factors, consider this - If the hospital bills the insurance company they might charge $1000 for the scan. If they bill you directly, (always after you've had the procedure of course), you will be charge much much more, say $3000.

Why? Because it's next to impossible for you as an individual impossible to negotiate the price before hand. (How would you know what a fair price is? And are you really go to say no to a procedure that might be critical for your health?)
A weird adjustment because their race influences how you see people? Dude, that’s racist.

It happens to me, too, but I at least know that it’s racist.
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My notes, with typos:

http://jrydberg.me/post/18620457405/crash-burn-2012-the-ops-...
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A fact I find distressing is that the poster is largely correct. Somewhere around 70% of biomedical R&D is done in the US, the utter dominance of the US in this market is not controversial. Most of the rest is done in Asia. The biomedical R&D done in Europe is rapidly approaching a rounding error. I, for one, do not like the fact that the entire world is dependent on the biomedical R&D of US companies. Yet that is the current state of affairs. And the private companies in the US spend money on this research that dwarfs what all but a few countries spend.

I wish more people would acknowledge this reality. I like biomedical technology advancement. Most of it is developed in the US because it is the one of the few countries that can absorb the cost of the R&D. If the US stops doing it, who is going to pick it up? There is ample evidence that the answer is "a little bit in Asia and nowhere else". That should be frightening to people. Biomedical R&D is important.

Ignore for the moment that the US healthcare system is a wreck. The fact remains that the majority of biomedical advances come out of the US because it is the only country where people absorb the R&D cost. If Europe was pulling its weight with biomedical R&D it would be one thing but in practice it is producing so little in that regard that it is kind of shameful. If we eliminate US biomedical R&D by eliminating their ability to recover costs, who picks up the slack? There are no easy answers.
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Well sure, corporations can be recognized by the state. That doesn't mean they require the state.

Of course they require the state. They are an invention of government.
Facebook required their music partners to eliminate their non-Facebook authentication systems for new users to be promoted in the Facebook ecosystem. It's not really up to the services themselves. Spotify had to do the same thing.
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Always accuse the seller of having bad ethics, and turn it into a moral dilemma for them so you can take advantage.

Always threaten their reputation.

Always avoid using sexist analogies.
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"You never know who could be lurking on ping". Classic. This should also apply to FaceTime, Messages, phone calls and text messaging right?
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This is off-topic, sorry, but if you change the youtube link from /watch?v=CODE to /v/CODE you usually get a working full-window player without an age verification prompt. You lose the often insightful comments of the youtube community, though, so it's not all roses.
I hope we do it, AND, I hope we closely regulate them. Nuclear power is dirty. So is coal, oil, clear-cutting forests, and turning corn into fuel.

Not a big fan of the collapse thing, so little nuke plants seem to be the lesser evil.

Whatever happened to the talk about "pebble beds" -- little fuel pellets in ceramic marbles that can't pack close enough to go critical?
Is it a crazy idea to set up an account in the U.S. on behalf of non-U.S. sites and take payments via Stripe, with the caveat that the exchange rate might not be exact when you transfer funds a few days later? I can't imagine the many ways this could be found illegal and shut down, but with a small margin it could be profitable.
Can someone explain the problem he is trying to solve with this piece of code ? I don't understand.
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Funny thing, the tech used by Microsoft Surface utilises (pixel sense http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Surface-2-0-PixelSe...) the screen pixels as the cameras to capture the environmental data. Now, if you could combine that with the latest 3D tech they are pushing these days, the glasses free type, you could make a directional cloaking device with very little of the problems seen in the video.
I am not married to the license. I noticed several complaints, so I am going to reconsider it. :)

So did any of them actually make specific complaints (e.g. "I can't link this to with my already-developed proprietary project because your code is GPL. LGPL would work great."), or is it just the usual whiners who complain about anything GPL?
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Could not agree more.

Node.js is the new fad riding on JavaScript wave. I still don't understand what it brings, when comparing it with more sound alternatives.
>Good code reviews seem to me to provide most of the upside of pair programming with none of the downside.

Your suspicions are accurate. I can't find it right now, but I remember reading a thorough study on software and the bugs eliminated by various processes. It was code reviews (multiple variations of them, in fact) that stood head and shoulders above the rest in preventing bugs from reaching production.