skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about that. The Germans had the same head start on Russia that they had on the US, but when the Russians came into the fighting in 1941 they were already fielding the T-34 tank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34), which outclassed any German panzer in a one-to-one engagement and may have been the finest tank in the world. The best US industry could turn out in 1941 was the abysmal M3 Lee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_Lee), which would go on to get absolutely chewed to pieces by the Germans in the North African campaign. Even the next American attempt, the iconic M4 Sherman, which was the US' standard medium tank by 1944, was unimpressive compared to contemporary Russian and German designs.

The big lesson of WW2, though, was that in modern all-out warfare the quality of individual tanks didn't really matter. What mattered was the quantity those tanks could be turned out in. The Germans, stung by the unexpected quality of Russian tanks, had turned their efforts toward building absolute monsters like the Tiger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_I) and Panther (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_tank). Those tanks individually outclassed any Allied tank of the era, even the Russians'. But they were so complicated to build that the Germans could only turn out a few thousand of them, which was peanuts compared to the swarms of T-34s and Shermans the Allies were cranking out. The tactical doctrine in 1944 was that it would take five Shermans, acting together, to knock out a single Tiger; but US industry turned out 12,000+ Shermans that year, while German industry would only turn out around 1,000 Tigers, so five-to-one numerical superiority wasn't hard to put together. No matter how fearsome the German tanks became, they eventually got stung to death by swarms of less impressive enemies.
It doesn't have to be enforced algorIthmically. It can just use a client-side spellchecking library that makes spelling errors very visible. When it detects > $THRESHOLD errors, then it shows a warning saying, "Your post will be partially hidden if you don't fix your spelling/grammar errors." Then, on the client-side, it changes the opacity to something like 0.5 for posts with > $THRESHOLD spelling/grammar errors.
I have the same issue, in both Chrome and Firefox, using the nvidia binary driver.

The engine lights do look pretty though.
My first thought on this is what the hell is Dish thinking?

According to the news story on this I heard on NPR, those networks get the vast majority of their revenue from ads. Advertisers aren't stupid--if a significant number of people start using automatic ad skipping the advertisers will stop advertising or the price of advertising will have to come way down.

Note that this is significantly different from non-automatic ad skipping. I use the "skip 30" button all the time when I'm watching programs on my Comcast DVR, but with that I see a few seconds of the start of the first ad and end of the last ad in an ad block, and I see glimpses of some of the intervening ads.

That gives advertisers a chance to catch my eye--and there are several ads that have done so and I have actually went and watched them.

So, given that these networks will be very very very opposed to this, I would expect that they would not renew their contracts with Dish. DirectTV could then tout that they carry these networks, and Dish would be forced to drop the automatic skipping or lose customers.

Then I noticed that the networks suing are regular broadcast networks as opposed to cable networks. That leads to my second thought--does Dish even have a contract with these networks?

My recollection of how it worked when I had DirectTV was that they did have channels for the feeds from the major broadcast networks--but those were only available to subscribers who lived in an area where that network was not available via a local broadcast affiliate of the network. I believe that DirectTV was legally not allowed to offer the direct feeds to anyone who could get that network locally. You had to get it via your local channels (which DirectTV could carry).

If that's still the case for satellite providers, then I wonder if these networks actually have any negotiating leverage over Dish? They can threaten to pull their direct feeds--but most Dish customers won't get those anyway and Dish may be willing to piss those customers off in order to offer the ad skipping to the rest of their customers.

Presumably, the local affiliates of those networks in each area that Dish is carrying might also object to the commercial skipping, but perhaps for them the fees they get from Dish to allow Dish to carry them might be enough to make up for the lost local ad revenue.
Eh, when an older rich guy moves to a poor country there's never much doubt about his reasons (unless he's genuinely running from the law). Another example

http://www.hulu.com/watch/314835/billionaire
I wonder if it was harder on the American or the European soldiers. Going home to a land where nobody knows what you've been through.. My grandfather fought in WW2 and he talked about it all the time. But I feel like he got over it, psychologically. Everyone here did it together.. I think.
Do you actually live in the USA? I do, and it's not that bad. It takes quite a bit to get shot by police if you're not armed. I can't remember when they used actual bullets on a crowd.
I agree, but I would replace anarchy with chaos.

Anarchy != chaos
Related: the @RealTimeWWII project (https://twitter.com/#!/RealTimeWWII/) is an ambitious, and very compelling re-telling of the war. You really feel the tension, especially with the Dunkirk evacuation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation) just starting.

Personally, I don't think I could handle multiple daily updates for the next six years, but it's fun to check in with now and again.
"Probably not much" to answer your real question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--_RGM4Abv8

The US government has done the test, granted an F4 isn't a passenger jet but it probably has similar kinetic energy to a smaller passenger plane as it was going rather fast.
We have no idea whether the nvidia driver is hacky or not, but it does actually work quite well, whereas nouveau is (or was the last time I checked) still known to have features/cards that aren't supported.
Not sure if bug in WebGL
or if spaceships in Eve Online have cloaking devices that make everything except their exhaust invisible.
I like it - but I'd do both. No matter how nice the service gty.im would offer, there would be people out there who wouldn't want to link to the Getty servers, who would just choose to copy/paste anyways, or who would get stopped by the signup and clickthough requirements.

Maybe make gty.im a value-added free service - users could use the comp shots free for X users/month (where X is enough to cover only small/local sites), and then the next tier (X to 3X, say) would be hosted off gty.im, either for free or for a nominal fee. It'd provide analytics, a better-quality image, and would indirectly act as a sales funnel for moving up to a full Getty contract - and even if it didn't, it would start the relationship between Getty and small/independent publishers who have never thought about image rights.
I'll see your anecdote and raise you another one:

A friend's downstairs neighbour regularly complained of 'electromagnetic hypersensitivity'; it got to the point where the building manager asked that my friend stop using wifi entirely. My friend switched her network to 'hidden'. The symptoms disappeared.

Of course, we shouldn't draw conclusions from anecdotal evidence. Perhaps the neighbour was only sensitive to broadcast packets containing SSIDs?
Wireless and graphics still cause major heartburn on a lot of devices. For example, laptops with hybrid graphics (dual, switchable cards) still don't work properly after multiple versions of bumblebee/ironhide. Just last week, I spent all night trying various ways to install a wireless adapter. The adapter came with drivers for OS versions as recent as Windows8 and as old as Windows Me, but the linux version only had kernel 2.4. I got it working finally using ndiswrapper. After that I performed an upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 and that killed it.

Ofcourse, all of the above was really just manufacturers not open sourcing or updating their drivers. But I think the linux ecosystem is direly in need of more device manufacturers taking it seriously for it to gain wider adoption. Canonical is doing a great job but we are not there yet.
The comparison is to German nuclear power plants. Obviously. Duh.
This is a deceptive headline. The solar plants produced that much power during a few hours. The article is light on details (and makes a few basic errors) but at a bare minimum we can know that the average amount of power over an entire day was far less for these solar plants than these peak power figures, probably about 1/5th as much. Whereas nuclear plants keep producing all day long.

This is great propaganda for the solar power industry but it does little to change the fact that solar power doesn't produce power when it's needed and storing energy is extremely expensive. This is not an indication that solar power is ready for prime time, to serve as base load power generation, it's just an indication that if you build enough PV panels you can get a lot of power for a few hours on a sunny day, which is something we've always known.
I don't disagree with your comment, but Amazon do have trouble shipping items across countries, if I go to Amazon.com right now, 8/15 of their "recommended" items for me are being marked as "We are not able to ship this item to your default shipping address." This selection is even narrower with a country-specific Amazon, e.g. Amazon Japan only ships books and movie DVDs internationally but nothing else.
They state that there will be "code that activates automatically according to criteria you specify (e.g. SOPA returns)". I'd hope that includes the ability to activate only depending on the country of origin as well.

Sadly for me, American law has a large impact in Australia even though we're half a world away. The Australian government tend to justify a number of stupid laws and decisions with "but America's doing it and we're their friends". As such I'd personally elect to still trigger on American issues as they're still felt (although delayed) in Australia.
Concentration on solar is a media myth - maybe because, next to wind mills, photovoltaics is the most visible generator, and unlike wind mills (quite expensive, lots of space needed), pretty much every house owner could invest a relatively modest amount to put PV on their roof.

IMHO the success story isn't solar, it's lots of tools (PV, wind, water, burning waste, storage) building an energy market with many participants where for nuclear, a few large corporations can control it all.

That's what's happening in Germany, and the Big Four definitely don't like that. It's not all roses, but I prefer the situation now over the several decades of subsidies + no liability for an industry club of 4.
If you think that's expensive, go try to find a similar image on iStock.
It makes more sense to use an svg based solution for almost all of these examples also.
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Okay, a few problems with these numbers:

Estimates of Chernobyl's costs have been exacerbated by a number of factors, not the least of which was a number of ridiculous things that were done to cover up the mess.

The $150 billion Katrina estimate is ignoring a number of factors including things like... loss of life, which you know, tends to impact the costs of things.

Just the Federal government has spent >$100 billion and nobody in the area even tries to pretend that they've restored it to its previous state or undone the economic harm. Insurance companies, as you said, have paid $41 billion, so there you're at $141 billion and you've barely scratched the surface as compared to the things factored in to that $235 and $257 billion figures.

But let's cast all that aside. Let's assume the cost is 2-3x Katrina. The incident rate is obviously not that high (there's a reason basically all nuclear plant failures trace back to a design from the 60's), but I'm sure you can plug that in.

There is a pretty handy Wikipedia page with details for Nuclear Plant disasters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents...

Now, I haven't done the math for how many aggregate plant-years of operation we've had, but let's say your average plant has been in operation for 10 years (which is definitely low-balling it in the US, but the mere fact we run these old nuclear power plants is exactly why they are so much more likely to have problems). That's 4360 plant-years. The Wikipedia page has 20+ incidents listed, but that includes a lot of cases that are tiny compared to the disasters you are thinking in terms of (and of course, ironically, anyone who is insuring these things will tell you that those smaller incidents are the primary drivers of the costs in an insurance policy). I count 5 cases throughout history with costs >$1 billion. That works out to a very exaggerated rate of one incident every 972 plant-years.

So, with all those "tie your hand behind your back" factors, a premium of $50 million/year would cover costs very well and leave the insurer rolling profit margins that'll probably create a congressional investigation. That's a lot of money, but compared to the economic output of a power plant, isn't prohibitive.

Realistically though, newer reactor designs, particularly post-3 mile island, have a much lower incident rate than their predecessors and much better mechanisms for containing damage. If insurers were driving the design of plants, it'd probably be even lower (or costs would drop). Most insurers would probably also adjust their premiums based on the age of plants, which at some point would make it more cost effective to build a new one than to keep operating an old one. They'd also reduce costs by establishing rules that would limit their liability in circumstances where the failure was due to some other party not managing their responsibilities.

I'm curious what the real numbers are, but you can see that even being grossly unfair, insurance costs for disasters are not going to make nuclear plants economically non-viable.
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Regarding R for BigData, do you think R is going to continue to be a stable of the analytical toolset as data sizes continues to grow?

I use R to prototype machine learning techniques on a small set of data, or visualize some summary statistics. But if I want to run K-Means Clustering or Support Vector Machine algorithms on 1,000,000,000 rows of data, I've found that running R on Hadoop is tricky. There are some libraries out there ( for example, RHadoop https://github.com/RevolutionAnalytics/RHadoop/wiki/rmr ) but they require writing your algorithm in such a manner that algorithms must be adapted to run within map() and reduce() functions. My understanding is that the built-in functions that make R so useful will often not adapt well to a mapreduce algorithm.

From what I've seen, once an algorithm is prototyped in something like R/Matlab, if the data size warrants it, it's best to re-write the algorithm in Java MapReduce or use Apache Mahout.
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To be fair, let's take a look at the 2008 data [1]

US EU-27
CO2 emission ~5.46·10^9 t ~4.18·10^9 t
population ~304·10^6 ~498·10^6
emission per capita ~180 t ~83.9 t

I do not see the US catching up any time soon...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...
Why do you say generous?
And yet they forgot to add a favicon :)

I fail to understand why registration is required. The action (putting script in website code) is to be done by users.
> And the real question is: What happens when some confused individuals somehow manage to smuggle nail-clippers onto passenger planes and then fly them into multiple reactors, in densely populated areas, at the same time?

It's worth noting that the US military has at times very deliberately attacked nuclear facilities with armaments much more deadly than nail-clippers or a passenger plane that you might obtain from them. The damages are not the stuff of legend.
There's also some variants that do work, or at least could work in theory, which turn out to simply be highly inefficient photon drives. For instance, one recurring one that seems to get reinvented every few years is one where you put two electromagnets some distance from each other, and use the speed of light delay and some moderately clever polarity flipping to make it so the magnets always attract or repel each other in one direction, providing thrust. There's no reason why this won't work... except that also shoots huge amounts of defocused radio waves out the back, which is where the equal & opposite momentum is "coming from", and it's wildly less efficient in every conceivable way than simply shooting a conventional laser in the opposite of the direction you want to thrust. (And there's some other caveats too when you really get down to the engineering task of trying to flip the polarity of really powerful magnets at the necessary rate of speed. But it is conceivable that using real physics, you might be able to build something with this principle that could generate vanishing fractions of a Newton without necessarily blowing up....)

Based on the link you provide, and guessing what the QM equivalent of the differential sail (this thing, I think: [1]) would be, it seems to me this could fall into either class, something that simply won't work or something that will turn out to be another variant of inefficient electromagnetic radiation drive, once the full set of interactions is taken into account. (It's pretty easy to miss some of the more subtle ways of creating electromagnetic waves.)

[1]: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/differential_sai...
This is great!

Would be cool to have maybe 3 rounds vs the same opponent and a chat window, so the competition can heat up a little.

Also, I hope passwords aren't being stored in clear text :)
As I've stated before; solar and windpower are inadequate to provide for the power requirements of the western world. Oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear will be required if we want to maintain our current standard of living, nevermind the requirements imposed by developing countries.

Now you may be fine with cutting your energy requirements in half; bully for you. But don't be surprised if this isn't a popular idea for the rest of the world.
The blog post links to http://www.cs.brown.edu/~ambell/data.html, which in turn links to http://www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto-patents-pair.html as the source of the data. That page doesn't give a particular date range.

The dataset also does have applications from prior to 2000, it just has (relatively) fewer.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4017843
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Thank you. The final figures for Chernobyl and Fukushima will no doubt be higher. Not to mention the cost of people dying of cancer. Nevertheless, let's just take these figures for now.

They work out at well over a billion per commissioned plant.
It is hardly a low risk, is it?
Yeah. I wish pmarca would have stayed in the game. I got a lot out of his short stint a few years back.
It does. We use it in insurance more and more.

It is not a great general purpose language. I use it to create automated reports and analyses. It's got every statistical test under the sun in the libraries, and the graphs are very flexible, provided you are willing to tweak a lot.
You made a false statement. Simple as that.
I thought along similar lines, but with some special texture that made monitors emit some kind of wifi-jamming RF :)
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Don't worry. As Germany reduces its use of nuclear power, it'll just import more nuclear generated electricity from France.
"I'm In Like With You is a brand-new site that is best described as an online flirting site, or if you don't mind the term, a "Web 2.0 dating site". Think eBay + dating + Web 2.0 + social networks. "

funny to see omgpop's old description.
Wow... this is definitely one of the coolest things I've seen on HN in my short time here.
You know what makes me happy? Germany's Solar Power. Germany's Political system. I personally believe this country is on the best path possible over all other countries even being an American my self. They are by far the most advanced politically than any other country I know, and that helps them advance it other areas of the country.

I applaud them!
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probably has similar kinetic energy to a smaller passenger plane

The most widely used passenger plane is the Boeing 737.

F4 Phantom empty weight: 29,500 lbs

Boeing 737 empty weight: 62,000 lbs

The average operating weight difference is probably quite a bit larger. You know, fuel, baggage, passengers.

You may want to review those videos from 9/11 to see what a passenger plane does to a building. You may also want to listen to the narrative of your video: The wall in your video is a specially hardened wall. Your reactors are not equipped with such walls because that would be cost prohibitive. And even these hardened walls are unlikely to withstand a passenger plane (ever wondered why the US government selected such a small plane for your video?).
...you might think that. Most people type terms into google images and don't realize that the images they find aren't free.
I don't see the flow of your argument. I would have called her a seventeen year old girl that is legally allowed to have sex. We normally associate adulthood with voting age.
The analysis in that Economist opinion piece is rather poor, and reads more like an industry booster piece than a review of current knowledge about the process and impacts of fracking.

A study was released late last year by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) [1] which found that a switch to natural gas would increase warming over the next few decades, as outlined in NCAR's report [2].

It acknowledges something the shale gas industry studiously avoids in calculating figures for its green credentials pitches: fugitive emissions. A significant amount of methane leakage occurs in the fracking process and piping of gases.

When you add in the input-intensive activity of multiple well constructions, fracking, pipeline construction, and fugitive emissions the 'green' story of shale gas doesn't add up.

The dismissal of fracking-triggered earthquakes is also odd, considering a US company (Cuadrilla) was forced to stop fracking in the UK after two seismic events occurred [3], a recent report by the UK was focused on mitigating fracking-related seismic events [4], and Cuadrilla released a report [5] which concluded "it is highly probable" hydraulic fracking triggered a number of tremors.

When you factor in the unavoidable well contamination of underground aquifers (as pressure differences inevitably lead to aquifer water filling the fracked area over time) the shale gas 'bonanza' seems anything but.

[1] http://www.springerlink.com/content/b430681263425q64/?MUD=MP

[2] https://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/5292/switching-coal-nat...

[3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/01/blackpool-earthquak...

[4] http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/pn12_047/pn12_047...

[5] http://www.cuadrillaresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02...
I agree... hitting spacebar after game over would be nice. I find that once I hit the okay button and play again then when I hit the first down (or up) arrow afterwards that it slightly moves my screen.

All space bars and arrows while playing the game should fix that.
Sure aren't :) Crypto node module FTW. And I should definitely add those components to make it more competitive thanks for the suggestion!