skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> does this make the fuel last longer

Yes. Heat is generated by fission of fissile material such as uranium. Fuel rods have X amount of fissile material in them. Higher power -> faster depletion of the fissile material.

> what are fuel costs as a percentage of total operational costs?

Around 30%, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute. This compares with 80% for coal, natural gas, and oil.[2]

> My impression is it doesn't make sense to operate a nuclear reactor at less than full power

I would think that'd be true of almost any machinery, but that's almost a tautology: You design your machinery for an optimized balance of performance versus wear-and-tear, then try to operate at (what you call) "full power" as much as you can, so as to reap maximum value from your investment.

In any event, the original comment was that excess power is inevitably generated by nuclear plants (at least during some time periods) and therefore must be dumped somehow. That's not the case; nuclear plants can be throttled up and down as needed.

[2] http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/nuclear_statistics/cost...
It means that the judge is an idiot. The guy didn't have any nexus -- but my guess is that it was primarily american tv shows that were shared.
I don't have exact numbers on this, but it seems like a lot of the early stage research happens in very small teams at universities and biotech companies.

Then large companies like Bayer acquire the research and spend millions on getting it through FDA process.

I know advancements are being made in automation for various research activities and I'm sure there will continue being a lot of advancements there. (The need for automation is fully recognized at the industry level)
Why would we want to sustain the current model again? What's to say that whatever new model crops up in its place won't be better?

I can't really think of any industry that had their business model collapse that didn't come out of it better than they had been.

Individual players, technologies and processes may disappear, but it's not like demand will, and so long as there is demand, there is a potential market.
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Git releases RSS feed
There is too much money involved it that.
Rockstar Consortium receives green light from Department of Justice
Agreed. It can sometimes be a side effect of small companies, or young developers living the startup lifestyle. Not saying its bad or the root of the problem, just an observation.

More so, I think it comes more with modern languages that don't force you to manage memory anymore. When you don't need to alloc/free everything you're using, it is easy to get lazy. Factor in never generation who've never worked outside a managed memory language. There are minute details about retaining references, having multiple copies of the same data, or other leaks (file descriptors?).
Mental disease drugs are only a part of industry. The drugs for physical problems are still marketed heavily too.
He's not advocating giving drugs to anyone, what he advocates is letting the at risk group decide whether or not they want to roll the dice with their own lives. You advocate forbidding this to happen. In other words you're hoping that: (people who suffer + nothing happens) > (people who improve). If you're wrong, then preventing the release of the drug is literally killing people.
This is like watching a once great sports team play in a rusty, deserted stadium. This hurts so much because Yahoo helped make the a web a beautiful, free place where humans could create and communicate. They once understood that but are now reduced to mugging full pockets in back alleys. Pretty clear the company is being run by stooges and fee chasing lawyers now and is sinking fast.
Isn't regulation the government using forces to collect taxes which it then uses to use force to have inspections?

My problem with libertarianism is that it always turns into a lot of hand waving from the libertarian. They start off saying that government force is a great evil, then I bring up something like pollution and suddenly the argument is much more nuanced, "well of course we'd have to use force". Exactly, of course you have to use force.

Once we admit this, what does libertarianism mean? How is it different from what we have today?
There are a lot of points in this (some of which seem bogus), but just to focus on one:

"Higher education itself has polarized" -- relative growth in competitive, very competitive, and most highly competitive colleges AND in community colleges, but not in the less and noncompetitive 4-year colleges.

This seems like something to be celebrated and encouraged, not reviled. I really don't see any reason for any but the top 100 universities (maybe less) to exist as residential institutions, focused primarily on research; the community college system, plus the Internet, should be sufficient for the vast majority.

High quality community colleges (and not forgoing income by going to school instead of working for 4 years) would go a long way to reducing the income gap, especially combined with decent public education and free Internet resources.

Pell Grants cover 62% of the cost of community college, and there are usually state funds on top of that. There are very good reasons to not cover 100% of the cost of education with "free money" -- bringing it down in cost to the point where the poor can afford it at some acceptable sacrifice should be the goal. Lowering the actual cost of delivering community college classes makes more sense than trying to use federal money to subsidize inefficient producers, too.

The big problem with community colleges is branding and prestige. A lot of people could get just as good an education in the community college format, but as long as employers view a 4 year BA in communications from some relatively worthless college or university as superior to the community college degree, it will be a problem. Some kind of independent credentialing system (vendor certs in tech are one example -- a self-taught CCIE is probably a better pick to build and admin a Cisco network than a guy with a BA in IT from U of Phoenix), merit based candidate evaluation (which in some cases runs up against antidiscrimination laws...), and a move away from hiring as employees to hiring contractors or buying services from small firms.

I wish there were a way for the super-rich to earn as much prestige by endowing basic technical courses at thousands of community colleges as by building yet another stadium at a mediocre large university.
Microsoft Develops a Faster Touchscreen With Only One Millisecond of Lag
What exactly is WebKit?
Transform Your iPhone Into a Microscope: Just Add Water
just let them roll to their destination!
But don't miss Mencius Moldbug's rebuttal of Hanson's Futarchy:

http://bit.ly/7gFYD
Absolutely disgusting, shame on the US
Have you had any luck with this? I'm running into the same issue.
By whom, and why not? I like it. It's explicit. Self-documenting.
I don't blame Twitter, per se. But you've got to admit that the service loses a bit of social utility if it acts more like a documentation resource for the government than an anonymous communication service.

I mean, if you're going to make a stand, you'd figure doing it against a subpoena for what are essentially traffic violations would be a nice place to start.
Yes it is an exit, technically.
This wouldn't be a great experience because in addition to accelerometers, and gyros you can't really emulate MultiTouch with a pointer: one finger down would need to involve a click (to distinguish between movement and swiping), and the other gestures would need some indication of where (and how big) the "hand" is relative to the screen.
A new 3D view of DNA
It makes me feel old. As soon as I saw the headline I knew what the story was going to be. Another fresh wave of young faces learning about memory...I just wish they'd stay off the lawn.
OS-X Lion a step backwards: Dual Screen just a symptom...
Ask HN: Google spike of direct traffic
over the past 2 weeks we've seen a very high spike in direct traffic to our site.

i've attached pictures below:

http://i40.tinypic.com/1zv3jn4.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/15qogop.jpg

we basically jumped from 5000 a day to 15000 a day with most of the increase being targetted towards only 2 of our pages with high bounce rates and small "avg time on site".

any one else experience this? i look at the logs and the traffic is not from one IP. the top 30 big hitters are all different IP and subnets.

any google experts willing to shed some light on this?

Thanks!
A case in which building your hammer to build your desk does actually add value.
LOL, the UK is a US colony now.

I can hear History rolling on the floor with laughter.
You can limit (by device) which phones/tablets can download your app from Google Play. If the developer doesn't take the time to consider the requirements of his/her app and limit its availability accordingly, they deserve the poor ratings.

Yes, customers should also be aware of what their phone is capable of, but the developer has some responsibility here.
> Man:woman, bull:cow. If I state this analogy to my wife, am I "comparing" her to a cow?

Some women might actually take offense at that, but I'd say no. But throwing Hitler into the analogy really does change its flavor, doesn't it? We're not talking about bulls and cows here. The analogy

your position:my position::Satan:Jesus

is a little bit more in line with the inflammatory one you actually used above. And in a case like that, I think reading an analogy as a comparison is both inevitable and exactly what you intended.

> It's not wrong about Hitler. It's not wrong about patents, either.

That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it. But it has nothing to do with whether people should follow groupthink without the capacity to determine whether it's right or wrong.

> I'm quite confident that you have never, ever once told any of your "inventors" the following: yes, I can get this patent issued. But I don't feel it's genuinely novel or non-obvious, so you'll have to find another advocate.

I've told inventors that I thought a particular application would be a challenge to get allowed. I've told inventors that in light of the prior art, they won't get a patent that's broad enough to be worth anything. And yes, on more than one occasion, I've told an inventor that I didn't believe he could get a patent on his idea. (Just a nitpick here, but I've never told an inventor I could get something patented. Nothing is assured, and sometimes you get an examiner that simply will not allow a case.)

> And if they did - you wouldn't want to know, would you? Since you're a patent lawyer, you probably know the term mens rea.

I certainly wouldn't stick my head in the sand to avoid knowing how they use their patents. And there's no issue with mens rea here, since patent trolls aren't doing anything illegal.

> You also know perfectly well that the controlling legal authorities do not have the power to identify and bar "software patents," "business method patents," etc. Legally there are no software patents in Europe, for instance, but the patent bar is not to be stopped. Same with the Supremes in Parker v. Flook.

Indeed, this would have to come from Congress. But it could certainly happen.

> Therefore, the only practical reform of this system is to destroy it entirely.

Aaaand here's where you go off the deep end. Is there a single industrialized country that has no patent system whatsoever? That's a serious question... I don't know of one.
That's really interesting. I suspect your system allows quite a bit more flexibility.
No, shame on the UK. All they had to do is say "No". (Well, shame on the US as well).
Ask HN: Examples of beautiful mathematics?
I was amazed to learn the fundamental theorem of calculus, both for its intrinsic abstract elegance, and the fact that it applies to the motion of objects in the real world.

What other concepts in mathematics are similarly beautiful and remarkable? Perhaps more advanced mathematical concepts, or perhaps intriguing ways of looking at the basics?
Ours is Queen - We Are the Champions. This is how we know it's been a good day:

https://img.skitch.com/20120313-c4cbt33txej9m4nstkguycp45i.p...
Google Updates - Important or Not [Infographic]
The problem with Open Source: unfinished Alpha's
Let it finish. It has some thinking to do, maybe crypto checksums? Maybe just a really inefficient corner case on an algorithm. There's nothing wrong with letting your CPU work. if running at 100% makes your machine flakey, it is broken.

If your foreground performance is being impacted too severely (and I haven't seen this from installd, I just noticed and researched installd while removing Mac Keeper (malware) from my wife's laptop) then reboot. It's extreme, but it has the best chance of getting your processes shut down cleanly as opposed to a kill where you could nail a process in the middle of a state that really does not want to persist. Programmers are a lazy sort. They won't consider the effect of termination at each point in their program. You are hunting for bugs using your live system as bait if you kill a program.
Cantor's Diagonal Argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantors_diagonal_argument It's simple and it reveals the surprising result that, to put it crudely, 'some infinities are bigger than others'.
Seriously? I don't see how SQL could be made more simple. There are like what... a dozen keywords?
Public health wise, the US could achieve similar effects by ending corn subsidies and reduce obesity across the country.
To be fair, they said they wanted to be more like a startup :)
I would propose more people just become familiar with irony punctuation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation#Irony_mark), because these linguistic inflections have a bigger impacted when they're realized AFTER reading the point, not DURING.

Obviously everyone will understand how to do it on an English-keyboard¡
Well there are very good efforts to make this situation better like Konira (RSpec like Python DSL) and Lettuce (BDD but you can also use it for unit tests). But nobody really pays attention to it (well maybe just Yipit and me). And its authors are really cool and active, you can even tweet with them about problems you have, I even had conversations about testing theory (and nomenclature) with them.
Show HN: Chat while you browse HN
Looks like no preregistration for past attendees like previous years:

https://plus.google.com/111395306401981598462/posts/Ty3M5UDd...

Ruben Orduz - +Google Developers No pre-registration for past attendees? Also confirmation about no test for registration would be much appreciated.

Google Developers - Just to confirm, registration will be first come, first served on March 27th. We spent a lot of time thinking about this and decided that first come, first served is the fastest and fairest way to give everyone interested a chance to attend.
Please be careful, I watched a BBC show with the name "Dangerous Knowledge" with mathematicians who got mad because they were thinking too much. Here it is:

http://youtu.be/2Jb2IOyswTo
So what do you do in HTML and CSS?
That won't always be the case as more and more people around the world come online. If the US continues on a SOPA/ACTA/PIPA path I could see some internet companies blocking them in the same way that a lot of companies don't do business in China.
What about crowd-funding?

Kickstarter already funded over $1m entertainment projects. So did the Louis CK experiment. These are far and far away from the mainstream popularity that buying movie tickets have. Don't you think that it's reasonable that web organized crowd-funding could finance even big blockbuster movies as these websites get more popular?

Imagine if popular celebrity directors with huge cult-followers like Tarantino would post a project on Kickstarter, then properly advertise it. I'd imagine a huge movie could be funded that way.
Star Wars: It’s A Conspiracy
3D-nanoprinting speed record set by Vienna University
Occupying Wall Street Legally
The idea behind a smart grid is usually some form of the local utility company taking money off your electric bill if your appliances are smart about not using energy at times of peak load. Nothing about the concept means the government has to be involved.
Yeah, I just noticed that as well. Once something goes live you have the right to change it, but I would leave an update on why.
You spend some time telling each other how you are selling/marketing your product/service and come up with new ways
> This would be akin to having airport security send anyone who sets off the metal scanner to a maximum security prison without right of appeal.

Not so loud, TSA will hear you.
Heh. Never underestimate the power of a station wagon full of flywheels hurtling down the highway?
Sweet. Something similar has been on my ideas list for a little while now. Glad someone is doing it, because it needs to be done, and the idea never excited me to action.
The Patent System is so broken, you can get sued for anything
I dont know if it's more scary that you can basically predict someone's SAT score by knowing their family income, or that you can predict their family income by knowing their SAT score.
Do you really have problem #1 with just 3 people?

I was always impressed with the feature set on fogbugz, but never had a real need to use it:

http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/features/project-management....

My timekeeping needs were satisfied by toggle: https://www.toggl.com/

But it sounds like you need/want a lot more than that. I've encountered quite a few freelancers that like freshbooks.
HN's pro-Google bias.
When talking about "exits", it might also be useful to keep in mind the amount of money you could've made while working a regular in the same period of time.

Of course I'll be the first to admit that working on your own projects is much more fulfilling and interesting, but it does have opportunity costs just like everything else.
I always assumed the 12-24 month-rule only applied to "content"-sites like a blog or a forum, but Dan built a unique service that cannot be copied with the same effort as a techblog or a bulletin board
So we should be able to copy mobile apps for free too? What about piracy of luxury goods, that's ok too right because hey they're just copying?
We are developers. Not free tech support.
I doubt that. The vast majority of non-US websites has very little to lose from blocking US traffic. And I'm not talking minor sites either.
This is completely out of hand now. The US is now a country where you are guilty until proven innocent.

It is disgusting to see domain seizures with no concrete basis of doing so. This kid is being extradited to the US because his website provided links to TV shows?

"Copyright infringers" are treated with less dignity and respect than mass murderers and rapists.
Apart from the general ridiculousness of the US extraditing copyright infringers but not pedophiles:

Do the Brits really not have any outrage over this? If the PRC successfully extradited an American for some real or imagined digital crime (say, building and hosting the website of a designated terrorist organization), we'd be in an uproar.

At least, I hope we would...
Court sucks, period. Even if you are the plaintiff.

I live in Indiana, where I believe the limit for small claims is 5000$. It costs 135$ to file with the court. Then you are given a date 1-4 months out on a random non-Friday weekday. And you are at the mercy purely of the judge. The last case I was in (medical bills owed), the judge read a spy novel.

The court systems aren't made for any sort of speed or cost. And there's that possibility that you'll lose. Maybe that judge didn't get to smoke his favorite cigar...
I wish they'd take a small number of tickets (10? 100?) and auction them off, with the surplus over retail price going to charity.

In general I think all sold out/exclusive events should do this kind of thing; it raises hype, makes the people who get a ticket for normal price feel like they got a deal, and helps the charity. Anyone willing to spend e.g. $10k of their own or a company's money to attend is likely to have some value at the event as well (investor? lawyer?).

You don't want to do this for all the tickets, or even a large number of tickets, because having all 5k people be from Fortune 500 companies willing to spend $5k/ticket makes it a lot less interesting than an event with mostly independent developers, but 100 out of 5000 isn't going to change things much, either.
Definitely - although it's also worthwhile to take into account the fact that you own what you produce when you work for yourself. So while after working for someone else for 6 months I would only have cash to show for it, after working for myself (very part time) for 6 months I had the option to turn what I produced into immediate cash, or do anything else with it that I wanted.

But I definitely agree that it's something to consider.
Why Zombie Yahoo must be stopped
Aren't you simply reinforcing his point, though? There's a deep and fundamentally unsolvable conflict between the need to nurture the existing good versus throwing it away for what may turn out to be a failure. That companies fail attempting risky projects is not an indictment of risk-taking: Taking risk is the only way to succeed in the long term. At the same time, risk is, well, risky.

Also, you cannot look at a single company in isolation. The barbarians at Borland may have been bearded and fearsome, but that didn't mean that there weren't any other barbarians around, hacking away at other companies at the same time. There's just no fool-proof path to success. There's plenty of fool-proof ways of failing, though, and to stop taking risks and attempting to innovate has to be one.

I don't think it's really all that useful to try to learn lessons from individual mistakes made by companies in the past. They made their mistakes because they attempted things they hadn't tried in the past. With hindsight, they probably shouldn't have. Hindsight is the one thing I can guarantee you'll never have access to before you set out on a project.
Further proof, as if we needed any more, that the current extradition treaty is a total mess. There's been some publicity recently around it, which might mean that one day this gets fixed so this doesn't get inflicted on more people in the future, but that's cold comfort to this poor bloke.

The concept of extraditing someone to face trial in another country with a possibility of jail for 10 years simply for running a website that links to copyrighted content is just sick. I would have to think pretty hard to come up with a crime less damaging than copyright infringement, and destroying a young person's life over that is a terrible thing.
Yes, but it's a poor way to fix it. A high price just means that corporate people looking to get some free goodies will be more likely to attend than hackers who have to pay the $900 out of their own pockets.

This will be the first time I won't even bother to register. Too much money.
The kid made $230,000 by helping users view copyrighted material they did not pay for. That sounds pretty jail worthy to me. It is however strange that he's being extradited and I generally oppose individuals "being made an example of". I'd much prefer he go through the UK system than the US.
General Assembly: Start Making - Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship
Why do you have to give it away? Does a web-based tool like Jira not count as a way of solving problems for people and making money at the same time?

I don't agree that all web-based businesses are media companies. It's possible to do real work and solve problems on the web and have nothing to do with "media" or advertising or social anything.