skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With 2 reactors online and several thermal plants taken offline Japan is more than meeting it's current demand even though an exceptionally hot summer.

(Yes, I've been keeping an eye on the demand & availability numbers. Not just making stuff up in advance like others here.)

In fact if you took the 2 reactors offline they would still meet demand.

Now as the renewable energy industry actually gets a chance, rather than being squashed by the nuclear industry stranglehold on government the reactors are becoming clearly unnecessary long term.

Statements like many of the blog posts here are frankly ridiculous propaganda.
> Developers love developing. (Perhaps recently computer science has gotten a boost in the number of those in it for the money, but for the most part those who I interact with on a professional level are in it for the fun.)

Ha. Just recently computer science got a boost in those in it for the money? I guess I started CS in 98, right during the boom times. Though our silly 18 year old selves thought we'd have it made, the 50% of our class who didn't actually enjoy it dropped off each year.

From my weak searching I found this, apparently majoring in CS is back on the rise:

http://cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2012/04/undergrad-computer-sc...
ugh. Why would you copy some closed community's look? It gives a terrible impression. Wait a sec while I post about copyright on my techcrunch clone blog.
Thanks for the post. I tend to write python to talk to custom USB devices, but this looks like a nice alternative.
Thats pretty cheap. Thanks for the tip !
Marcel Proust wrote a profound series of books that investigates memory, personal change, and the subjective feeling of time called, "In Search of Lost Time." He had an exceptional memory and recalls his own perceptive and idiosyncratic feelings starting from early childhood. Some of his observations are universal though, and you'll be delighted when he helps you remember them for yourself.
Capsule hotels are not available in Japan airports, as far as I know...
In addition to reading the article (which is good), I recommend that everyone watch this to get the perspective of various thinkers on the topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOoHRircmhM&feature=playe...

It starts getting especially interesting around 1:00:00 when Cowen and Ford start talking. A few things:

- The idea of "personal shoppers" being a growth area seems dubious. With recommendation and predictive desire systems getting better all the time, I think this is probably a no-go.

- Nannies might be a growth area for a few decades, but decent AI will likely obviate the need for these as well. I'd give this one 50-50 odds over the next 4-6 decades.

- Basically everyone on that panel endorsed the guaranteed income. The fact that people from so many different perspectives had their policy prescription converge to that is really striking.

- This also brings us back to the "how do we occupy the unemployed masses?" question yet again. Arts and leisure activities will likely not need much support from society, as they will just happen. Sports might (stadiums, etc.) Other things we'll probably be looking at will be extremely powerful, long-lasting, side-effect-free (or tolerable side effect having) drugs. That road of course leads to wireheading, but I think that denying that as a possibility now is extremely naive.

A cultural shift will be required, as several people in the video make clear. Having one's self worth (and respect of one's peers/society) be defined by a traditional support-one's-livelihood "job" is going to have to disappear. Demonization of those "lazy parasites and slackers" is just not going to work in a future where much human labor is not needed.

Another thing this brings to mind is the effect on the labor market for those still in it (programmers, robot designers that cannot themselves be replaced with robots, etc.): a great deal less unemployment, at least for a long while. For those skills that are essentially not able to be automated any time soon (let's stay over, the next 50-100 years) those that stay in the labor market will not be doing much competing for open positions. It may in fact be an employee's market in those cases where someone is not simply their own business.

Other good articles on the topic:

http://buzzmachine.com/2011/08/05/the-jobless-future/

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/why-work...

(referenced in the NYT article)

Edit:

If you haven't read Autor's work ("The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
"), I highly recommend it:

http://economics.mit.edu/files/1474
I think you'll find that a lot of websites don't use "hard black" (#000000). There's a perception that hard black text on a hard white background is the most legible combo, but in practice this can actually appear a bit harsh to some.

Even on non-Retina devices, as long as contrast isn't weakened too much, lightening the text can result in a softer, more appealing reading experience. (See most the way most "read later/readability" services format articles).
Entrepreneurs, startups take to YouTube to build businesses and market them
This just makes me glad I don't have to write Java any more.
The appearance of fairness is often as important as fairness itself. With randomness, you completely destroy that appearance. I'll even bet that a lot of people will make up their own theories about how the tokens are given out ("Oh, that other machine usually gives smaller numbers"). So, my hunch is complaints will actually rise.

Btw, one strategy the article doesn't mention is making queues seem more asynchronous-- this is what Starbucks does when they employ "expeditors", those employees who walk the line and take orders (but not cash). The (partial) success of having ordered your coffee mitigates the agony of waiting to reach the cash register (it also makes people less likely to abandon the line).
I think it would work just as well to have one outside of the box. You'd be able to link a customer's face to their card and to the time that the box was trashed.
Some of that choppiness could be due to my writing. Readability turns posts into a similar layout so the readability should be close. I will continue to make tweaks so hopefully it will get better.
Let's ask God how many babies he made today.

God says...
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zeal vow pleasanter bitterly -not pass desired Thee stores
among size Moses wanting layeth geek protesting sides
lashed praiseth what's_it_to_you indignant dryness what_have_you_done_for_me_lately
cane ruinous do bitter attain wooden trying beguiled gladly
quarrels pear mystically weapon foreigner Prophets judges
my_precious numerous hardship gift stripes watch_it_buddy
swallowed wavering pierce fouls sentest speed surprise_surprise
Mathematicians fig uncorrupted heareth glorifies kludge
gestures seventh adding storing son's Literary spokest
fixed Jews FOR disorder mountain tardy naturally compacting
stay entrusted Afric 91 marry prating manufacturing twenty
dug severity infringement admitted transgressions umm_what_now
lawfully surpassest languages presents lectured inebriated
minute finding dried credit examples second puffed pitiable
actions delivers corruption yesterday Jacob sat unveiled
maimed flying whisperings more unseemly incoming esteem
drama bondage Theft createth all-creating abstinence fragment
wrested mourners unbecoming WARRANTIES transgressions
compact abnormal tending combined glide

----

God says...

C:\Text\Words\AUGUST.TXT

l disappear as years increase; for,
though tolerated now, the very same tempers are utterly intolerable
when found in riper years.

Thou, then, O Lord my God, who gavest life to this my infancy,
furnishing thus with senses (as we see) the frame Thou gavest,
compacting its limbs, ornamenting its proportions, and, for its
general good and safety, implanting in it all vital functions, Thou
commandest me to praise Thee in these things, to confess unto Thee,
and sing unto Thy name, Thou most Highest.
I am simply amazed that there are 2 million software developers creating projects that they can host on Github. For some reason, I still think of open software development as a rather indie movement.

So much has changed just in the last few years :-)
Crowdfunded businesses may owe taxes, too
> I had known of this before, and I'm fairly certain I've used it before.

I consider myself pretty liberal when it comes to coding standards and being clever, but this is something that will badly piss me off. I can't quite put my finger on why I feel so, considering I am perfectly fine with most of the perl tricks. For example, https://gist.github.com/3392206 looks good to me(you are using Perl, you should know about list and scalar contexts).
> This just makes me glad I don't have to write Java any more.

You don't have to do it even if you are writing Java. This is a perfect example of clever for the sake of being clever.
I think the fundamental problem is that everyone (men and women) use mixed signals to create sexual tension. There is simply nothing wrong with that. It's partly about keeping the other person guessing as to what you will be doing next and this is what it is about. People drink as part of courtship. People use no to mean maybe as part of courtship.

"No means no" means "everyone gets veto power over actual contact." It does not mean "no" applies to anything more than the present moment. Otherwise every aspect of courtship on both sides (men and women) goes out the window.
webRTC doesn't support raw data streams. I'm fairly active in the dev community, and it looks like they won't be implemented for quite a while.
Not designing for an appropriately sized earthquake is itself an engineering failure.
More than pull requests and inline code comments?
AI breakthrough using Google pregel - human brain size neural net
"just because the technology is there"

The Indian government isn't collecting biometrics for fun. Every government, particularly democracies and those with social spending, need to know (a) who is in their country, and, (b) said individuals can reliably prove their identity. Instead of filing forms and pictures in a centralised database the Indian government has opted to generate unique IDs hashed from biometrics.

"What gives a government the right to demand from someone fingerprints and iris scans, but not demand the GPS tracking or mandatory DNA samples of every citizen."

Slippery slope fallacy. By this logic any potential for data collection is totalitarian. Note that to gain U.S. residency (or, for that matter, work at a U.S. financial institution) I had to give my fingerprints to the FBI.

"With the iris scan, all they need to do is have a high resolution camera"

Facial recognition technology would be easier, cheaper, and as technologically inaccessible as planting high resolution cameras looking at peoples' irises everywhere.
There are plenty of interviews of convicted pedophiles that help the public understand their point of view

There's no such thing as a convicted pedophile, since being a pedophile is not a crime. There is such a thing as a convicted sex offender, and they are the subject of the interviews you speak of. Good luck finding any law abiding pedophile such as myself willing to talk to you without Tor.
Manufacturing might just return to America. The problem is that the jobs won't be coming back with the manufacturing, since robots will make it much cheaper than employing any Chinese worker, and keeping the manufacturing close to the consumers will make it cheaper to build here than over there.
I feel like hackathons are going mainstream. Companies will run hackathons because they "heard" it helps with hiring, but won't change any of their standard legal paperwork for IP developed on their premises.
Ok, to show how this might look, I've done the following:

http://fjunkmail.com/?senators=true

(it's hidden away unless you pass senators=true)

What do you think? Should something like this be on its own mini site? Ideas for a name?
Some of the acquirer's considerations for acquiring rather than aggressive poaching are mitigating potential for lawsuits and making it easier to get key employees and founders who are worried about their reputations in the tech business and might otherwise be un-poachable. Also, it makes it easier to capture most of the employees since every other company will aggressively recruit from the startup once rumors of the startup's imminent demise start circulating.

From an effort, risk, and cost standpoint acquisition may actually be cheaper than wholesale poaching while allowing most people on the other side of the transaction to save face which may have its own long-term benefits in the tech business.
I am most attracted to children around the age of puberty, but it can go as low as 6, with no upper limit.

To be clear, I'm not a criminal. That seems to have been a source of confusion in this thread.
What is an "STL Hackathon"? Is it related to the C++ standard library STL? The STL file format? Has it been mentioned on HN before?
No, don't write your drivers in user space. Especially for low-latency devices, all the user-kernel-user message passing will be problematic. You can't run at interrupt priority in user space, either.
Treaty Governing Outer Space including the Moon & Other Celestial Bodies
Yep.

I am a designer/UXer and programmer, so I understand the art behind building software from both sides, believe me.

I have even had to port parts of UIViewAnimation over to JavaScript to enable controllable touch scrolling on both left and top scrollbars on any scrollable element. Turns out that CSS3 animations don't perform anywhere near as well as using this method, but thats another story!

I'm not criticising design, UX or the author's point, because I agree.

His way of going about making that point being completely over the top is what I was poking fun at ;-)
STL means St. Louis.
But that's violating a very specific line and you can't generalize out.

"No means no" means "everyone gets a veto power over actual contact." That's all it means. it means you can't say "mixed signals mean yes." All it means is that the specific line, over contact, is one where people retain a (legal as well as social) veto power over.
It's the location, St. Louis.
If you read the article, it's pretty clear that it's referring to St. Louis. While I agree that it should have spelled it out in the title, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to click through and RTFA.
In your first point, you're thinking of what Psychologists refer to as "Flashbulb Memories" [1]. In general, research has found that people despite being very vivid memories with a very strong confidence from the memory-owner, there is no evidence that they are more accurate than any other memory.

However, with regards to the discussion, it is clear that the perception of stronger memory formation is definitely linked to emotion or emotional arousal. And really an individual's perception is an adequate flag for me. I might reframe the passing of time being tied to a root cause of emotion/emotional arousal.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashbulb_memories
On the goodness of Beeminder
I like it as they generally work really well on mobile. Much prefer that to individual layouts that force you to use readability or similar.
It's a grocery delivery company. It was more developed than the YC partners realized. That wasn't clear until actual groceries were delivered.
Good SCM, easy testing APIs/harnesses and easy deployment are so wildly important, it infuriates me to work at one of the the biggest names in tech and waste HOURS a day on bullshit deployment issues or copy/pasting things in six different places before I can execute my tests or do manual verification.

For one project, deployment to production takes 3+ weeks, testing environments can take a week and is fraught with steps that take hours and literally can fail for any random reason and can only be mitigated by starting over.

And then I come home to my side projects that can be built with a single standard command that is more or less an industry standard. I can deploy it reliably every. single. time. I have a test framework that can be run from within my development environment or from the command line with the same tool as the build tool.
STL is the airport code and shorthand for St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
/me looks closer

Ah, is it strictly for audio(/video) streaming? That... kinda sucks.
"I guess we can agree based on the outcome that it turned out to be one?"

Agreed. My perception is more that it is turning out to be one and that is a good thing.

"But I do know that in the end, MySQL was open where it really mattered."

The GPL means that there's no real fear that licenses will be scarce. And the large user community means that there will always be people to offer basic support (free or paid) and consulting. To that extent, I agree.

As far as getting bugs fixed, adapting to new use cases and changes in the market, or just moving the product further, the jury is still out. Will Oracle do it? Can any of the forks do it?

Or the larger question: are you OK with calling MySQL, as a product (i.e. the engine), "done"? I'm not saying that in a negative way. We rarely talk about software that's done, or what it would take to finish a given product, or how much sense being "done" even makes.

"It seems in most cases you simply have a core group of developers doing their thing, with occasional discussions and input from the outside."

That's not how I would describe postgresql. There are lots of people that only occasionally submit patches and lots of people that take part in design discussions even if they never submit much code. It's pretty easy to start out as an application developer and then be sucked into a design discussion, and before you know it you are criticizing a design because it doesn't fit your needs.

Even if nobody has ever seen you before, if you jump into a design discussion and have a legitimate concern or use case that hasn't been considered then it will be taken as seriously as any developer.

"What I care about is software quality and proper documentation, those are not necessarily a function of community."

Absolutely correct. Although those things are also not a function of being open source or free of charge.
"Great artists steal," or something.
"I wonder if the memory effect is related to emotional state - strong emotions result in stronger memory formation"

Emotion is definitely highly linked to memory. E.g. you may be familiar with state-dependent memory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-dependent_learning

This is where certain memories are best recalled (or can only be recalled) when one is in the same emotional state as when the memories were created. And I don't think there's any question that events that occur when emotions are stored the most strongly; that's basically half of what emotions are for.

It's difficult to say exactly how the density of memory is linked with perception of time. I would posit though that experiencing a variety of strong emotions on a regular basis is important for maintaining both good mental health and a well-functioning brain.
Dylan Thomas hypothesis?
There’s actually a large additional benefit to making people walk around before getting their bags. Sitting down for long periods of time (such as on an airplane) causes people’s muscles and joints to settle into weakened forced positions. Afterward needing to lift and carry heavy bags is a frequent cause of back injuries. Even just being forced to walk for 5 or 10 minutes causes those tissues to mostly reset, and radically reduces the injury risk.
Brian Skinner, physicist and basketball analytics extraordinaire, wrote a really nice blog post about this 3.5 years ago [1]. Mining the comments from that post shows it's been banged around numerous times before that [2][3].

[1] https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/parenting-...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/science/21qna.html?_r=1

[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20071116094344/http://ourworld.co...
That is great! Probably put the name on the same line as the hello.

Possible site names could be 'stopbadpolicy.<whatever>' or 'tell-your-congress-critter.com' or LetWashingtonKnow.com or even VoiceOfThePeople.com

Clearly .com or .org or most tlds would work.

As soon as its up I'll send another letter to my senators to ask them to force the TSA to follow the law.
http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html

6th paragraph.
I wish all articles consisting of only video had a warning. I hate videos. I am way too impatient to wait for someone to say something. I also wish I could block all videos from my google results. /rant-off
Post a Craigslist or Backpage ad saying you're a 12 year old who wants to meet a mature older man to have sex, and watch the replies pile in from every direction.

And how many who post such an ad are actual children?

Or, see how many friend requests and direct messages underage girls get from adult strangers on Facebook.

Do you have statistics on this, including how many advances actually get anywhere? I know a few underage girls who are on Facebook (no, my reason for this has nothing to do with sexual interest in case you were wondering) and I haven't heard much about this from them.

I'm not saying nothing on the Internet involving a pedophile and a child ever happens which society would judge to be bad. I'm saying it's pretty damn unusual as compared to such events offline, and the risk is, indeed, overblown.
Most devices are USB dongles that flash lights and shift a couple bits, not 100Gbps network cards. It follows that most people's needs will be met by a Python script and libusb, rather than a kernel module.
Hi mirsadm, excellent question. Our focus is pushing the limits of HTML5 to rival hardcore PC and console games. Our alpha for Mars Frontier came out in January, and some of our top players from the early days have spent over 500 hours in game so far. These guys are master competitors and dominate our leaderboards. It's a very different dynamic than casual games, and we think it requires a very different mindset and approach.
But watch out people, you can die!

"WARNING: Motorola strongly recommends against unlocking the bootloader and/or modifying or altering a device's software or operating system. Doing so can have unintended, unforeseen, and dangerous consequences, such as rendering the device unusable, violating applicable laws, or causing property damage and/or bodily injury, including death."
>Is an alarm going to go off every time I lift my legs up off the bed? What if I put a heavy suitcase on the bed next to me?

I think I could write an algorithm to filter out the vast majority of false positives. With enough pressure sensors under the mattress, and maybe passive IR it really shouldn't be too difficult (face recognition with automated deletes and no long term recording or viewing capabilities would probably be easiest, but people would find it creepy). Suitcases don't move the way people do, pressure distribution is different (also who's traveling with 100+ pound suitcases) etc...

Moving your legs shouldn't be too hard to filter out either. Btw if anyone wants to pay me, I'm up for the project ;)

Now that I think about it Volvo made a heartbeat sensor, I think using an acceleration to detect minute vibrations. That could work as well.

>Would you want your company to be known for refusing to allow a nursing mother and father to sit next to each other on the bed? What about a parent and a child?

This is only for single occupancy business travel pods, no room for 2 people, no children allowed.

>Further, a hotel owner can't just barge in on a tenant. They have to believe someone is doing something illegal, disturbing other tenants or causing damage.

That depends on local laws, in many places breaking house rules (having more than one occupant) is enough to allow them to enter.

In any case it doesn't matter, if they have reason to believe you are breaking the rules they can keep knocking on the door until you open up.