skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's reverse the logic. Instead of talking about how much radioactive material we're pulling from the ocean, how much could we put in?

Am I mistaken in saying that we could put back in every bit of radioactive material we'd use until 5000AD and only double the natural background radiation amount?

I know the math isn't exact -- it's not a symmetry -- but on a rough-order-of-magnitude basis, is that a reasonable conclusion?
Basically a Mint meets Ducksboard for my life, or even better, a universal life platform that services can hook into.

I'm working on that and looking for TestFlight Beta testers. http://makeperfect.me
Please mention the price somewhere. Having to click the "Get the book" button, then waiting 5 seconds, then having Paypal finally tell me the price is a turn off for me.
It's achievable today, and was even more easily achievable 5 years ago.
Hey, check out the site we're working on: www.criticrania.com. We're doing exactly what you mention. You'll need to sign up to see these features, but it's something we're working hard towards perfecting.
I feel someone should mention this here: Less than a month from now Martin Odersky himself will begin teaching a free online course "Functional Programming Principles in Scala".

https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
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Wait, are you implying that nobody actually thinks VC funding round press releases are newsworthy?

Because that's obviously not true based on the fact that they get posted and upvoted regularly.

Yeah nobody might be out there going "Geez I'd love to see more stories about VC funding.", but people are reprinting them and upvoting them. And that's the behavior I was saying should stop.
For US or Canadian companies, you are correct. Happily in Europe we treat adults like, well, adults, and it's pretty common for non-1% people to angel invest in early stage companies. Foreign investors are welcome too - and I don't think even the SEC can stop you investing your money overseas.
Best bet is to write something awesome with it, and mention by the way that it's written in Scala
In English this means that if you're using the standard "share a single password for the wifi network" mode that all consumers understand, you're fine. If you're in an enterprisey environment where you use your own wifi password that is the same as your login password elsewhere, you're in trouble.
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But then how do you differentiate between the people who believe in the magic healing power of $FOOD_DU_JOUR and someone who's based on science? That's the difference between a dietician and a nutritionist.

A Fitness Trainer is not a good analogy either, because you can't stay in business long as a fitness trainer if you have no idea of the basics of fitness or anatomy. E.g. a fitness trainer who said that you breath through your feet, so you should wear sandals when running knows as much about biology as a nutritionist who thinks chlorophyll can oxygenate your blood. However the magic super food nutritionist had a prime time TV show! High ranking, popular nutritionists can believe things that are nonsense, what hope do you have about a local nutritionist?
>"too many liberal arts degrees and too few agribusiness BAs"

This is a silly meme. If you look at government data on college degrees (which only goes up to 2004 as far as I can tell), humanities aren't over-represented at all, but account for between 8 and 12 percent of Bachelor degrees awarded[1]. That's History, English, Philosophy, etc. combined[2].

It would be more accurate to say that more people in business should focus on agribusiness instead of finance, or that social science majors should switch to agribusiness[2].

And the percentage of humanity degrees awarded is lower than it was forty years ago, and has been trending down for most of that forty years[3].

Finally, it's rather odd that the author would write that, considering he has both an undergraduate degree and graduate degree in the classics, of all things[4].

[1] http://archive102009.humanitiesindicators.org/content/hrcoIm...

[2] http://archive102009.humanitiesindicators.org/content/hrcoIm...

[3] http://archive102009.humanitiesindicators.org/content/hrcoIm...

[4]http://www.victorhanson.com/Author/index.html
I think the point of the article is the way that popular media tries to define manhood is detrimental to people of both genders in all stages of life.

I agree with that basic statement. However, I disagree with some of the conclusions the author draws in the second half of the article. Some are wrong (not all female teachers who have sex with students get a slap on the wrist: http://www.wnd.com/2011/06/39783/) or illogically formed (I don't see how his last two points follow logically).

Also, remember, before 40 Year Old Virgin came Never Been Kissed. The things that the author says don't only apply to men.
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the comments here are unsurprising, I guess it's just an outrageous notion to suggest that eating meat may expose us to at least some aspects of what the animal was fed all its life (which may just as well mean an insufficient level of necessary nutrients, as much as it may mean exposure to negative substances).

Here's a PDF from the Union of Concerned Scientists, just regarding the potential dietary advantages of grass fed beef: http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/food_and_environment/... The concept of "we're affected by what the cow eats" isn't novel. Eating meat that was raised on candy or fruit loops is revolting.
Can you confirm whether you can definitely exercise the sell? Also, what is the length of the term of vesting? Taking that into consideration; do you see this company around at that time?
Scientists’ Failures: What researchers believe about communication is wrong.
"would you like to change..."
That to me seems wrong"

You're getting offended because a portal asked you a question? Really?
That still doesn't "prove" causation, as there are innumerable demographics that are either impossible to match or nobody thinks to match. And FWIW, the paper does say that "factors other than father’s age do not seem to contribute substantially to the mutation rate diversity in our data".
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40% of U.S. food wasted
Pandora does something similar. They only have "like" and "dislike" rating. If you like a song they look at other users who liked that song and try to find more songs/bands from the people with your taste. And the other way around for dislike i guess.

It works exceptionally well. You just listen to the stream of incoming songs, you never pick songs yourself. After a good song you click like, after a mediocre song you keep listening, during a bad song you click skip. After a few days you will only get good songs! (with a few exceptions of course) It's like magic, i can't even count how many new bands i found through pandora without any effort.

Too bad it doesn't work outside US anymore. :(
Author here. Thanks for the support everyone! Seems like there is an interest in such a thing, so I'll better start hacking on this again.

There are two parts to this. First, pure learning and fun - even if it goes nowhere. Second, "Extensible" is the keyword here. The goal is to find the right balance between backwards compatibility (Emacs Lisp) and forward extensibility (Clojure / JVM), so I'm not interested in writing a new text editor from scratch.

I did consider Kickstarter (currently self funded), but felt I needed something running first.
5000AD estimate is complete bullshit. Our energy consumption doubles every ~20 years (15 to 35 by various sources).

In only 10 doublings (200 years) our energy consumption will increase 1,000 times.

After 20 doublings (400 years), it will increase 1,000,000 times.

I expect by then we will be using mostly fusion and/or the energy of the Sun (and/or some new energy source).
Probably makes sense, but you'd have hard time to pull this one off given the state of modern-day press and other media.

Suppose scientists calculate seawater contains, on average, N parts per million of Uranium and aim at inceasing it to just N+1 (assuming N >> 1).

Armchair `ecologists' -- think Greenpeace -- would go thermonuclear on you -- and mass media would give those `ecologists' much more print space and air time than to the scientists. Public opinion would be skewed from the get-go.
I was just about to ask the same question. I hadn't heard of Thorium-based nuclear power until now, so I just read a summary of it on Wikipedia [1]. It seems like a promising technology for further research, so I'm wondering what the source is for the "Thorium? Not again" reactions.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
How does this compare with Diaspora?
Sounds almost too good to be true. Looking forward to being able to download some software.
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I'm featured in the book as well (BatteryBar). I can say that the interview in the book is exactly as I submitted it, so the author didn't take any liberties in editing the content. I assume that the other interviews are also exactly what the product owners wanted to put out there.
AT&T Defends FaceTime Over 3G Decision, Says It Isn’t Violating Net Neutrality
Guardian, Facebook and Twitter are pretty much enterprise to me.
Agile

A play in 3 sprints

Characters

A: rockstar developer

B: developer

C: intern

===== Sprint 1 ======

A: To a certain extent

B: agile tries to narrow

A: the scope of a sprint

A: in order to ship more rapidly

B: For people that have a grander vision

B: of what they want to build

===== Curtains, ship iteration 1 =====

===== Sprint 2 ======

A: this may seem narrowing

A: To be constantly reminded of the MVP.

A: If the product you're creating is a commercial thing

B: or just something that will thrive

A: based on its adoption in the marketplace

B: feature creep can be damaging

===== Curtains, ship iteration 2 =====

===== Sprint 3 ======

A: and it's helpful to have someone to keep you focused

A: on making that next shippable version

B: That's inevitably going to piss some people off

C: who are bubbling with ideas

A: and want to implement them all.

C: As a produce manager with an active imagination

A: I've been in that situation

B: and I'm slowly recovering

Chorus: :)

===== Curtains, ship iteration 3, move on to the next project =====
Previously discussed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4404167
The article isn't very specific on the specific vectors at work here, but from what the scientists did, it sounds like those butterflies were very close indeed and literally ate radioactive materials. So it may not be relevant to local parents unless their kids eat a lot of dirt right outside power plants.
It's $25 for now, probably will be switched to normal price of $34. I found it immediately.
Diaspora is mentioned in the article in the "What about the federated social web?" section. Apparently it is more decentralised than Diaspora. Although I can't see what that means at the moment as implementation details are fairly sparse.
You mean Clojure is unsuitable for writing quick scripts that get things done with the minimum of fuss?

The Perl one-liners that actually resemble line-noise get far more done than any of the examples given above. Perl one-liners that do the same as the above examples are actually quite legible.
Once you get pregnant, though, you are labeled with the condition AMA - Advanced Maternal Age. This comes with more tests and precautions.
They've got a github repo they're working out of it looks like:

https://github.com/tent/tent.io
Well, in my defense I did say it was a "budding friendship".

However, I literally have never had a positive experience discussing religion or politics, except with people with whom I already agree.

I have a personal rule to never do so, and I've even attempted to apply that to the Internet and failed on several occasions. Yet, I regret having tried in each case.
Code it simple stupid
Weird that the purchase link is not built with Gumroad, it's featured in the book and seems perfect for this kind of a sale.
The title is provocative (it's a numbered list, and a rant!) but the author would have been better served with "Seven Ways to Make Agile Better", for no other reason than taking a positive slant. Agile can be built on, its not necessary to tear it down to the foundations first. The article wasn't helpful or illuminating and full of strawmen -- the author is attacking their own definitions of Agile.

Full disclosure, I'm well in to my forties. I can pass for thirtysomething (a reference probably only fortysomethings will get) and once was mistaken for latetwentysomething by someone who was bad at guessing ages, good at flattery, or some of both. But please read the following with full consideration of the biases of age, from which youth is wonderfully immune.

Agile is essentially about shortening feedback cycles. The problem with waterfall was that work products were reviewed when 'complete', when change costs were high and commitments large. Decompose the work products into smaller chunks (backlog items and tasks) and review more frequently -- Sprints (every N weeks), standups (daily), pair programming (realtime). Every work product in a waterfall cycle, not just code, can be decomposed into smaller tasks -- design documents etc. can be constructed iteratively and incrementally, in parallel or sequentially (the latter meaning you can overlay Agile on top of waterfall) with tight and layered feedback cycles.

There are many artifacts, but dwelling on their structure and nature without reference to their essential role leads to superficial criticisms.

When something is broken in Agile always return to the fundamental question of how well the feedback cycle is working and how to fix it. Sprint reviews not providing value? Are they being used for feedback or have they become demo days? Has the standup become a daily status report?
I wanted to try this, but it doesn't autofollow you so that kind of breaks the whole "send a DM to yfd" interface.
Pay by name would be terrible for me, I have a very French name, and no Starbucks barista around here speaks enough French which means I have to spend quite a while spelling out my name for them. I've taken to just telling them my name is "G".

Now pay by NFC...
I had a chance to look it over. It's a straight forward Q&A format and which packs a lot of responses from startup founders into a single document. If that sounds appealing to you then I'd recommend checking it out.
Aside from there being a surprising amount of tech running behind the scenes (Shopify, Heroku, Stripe, Pusher, MixPanel, Vimeo and others) this is the latest step in my attempt to demonstrate how photographers can make a good living from creative photography.

Yes, photography has been commodified in the era of Instagram and cheap D-SLRs, but it's frustrating to see people that put real effort into taking great photos complain about DRM and royalties instead of adapting by learning to hustle.
Diaspora* is a federated open source social network. It does not have a protocol specification or an API for app support/integration. Diaspora* is not intended to be run as one server/user, but by clustering users on pods with pod administrators, etc.
And in any case, 3000 years is still finite. There will come a time, if we don't go extinct or experience the rapture, when nuclear fuel will run out, and we'll have to use renewables anyway. Fortunately, the sun puts out a rather large amount of power, and even 200 years is a pretty good amount of time for figuring out how to capture it better.
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I wouldn't use it, but I think that getting the domain name and setting up a demo site like that is great idea.

Good execution.

Kudos.
Why is it that every new protocol seems to want to piggy back on HTTP? It seems to me that maintaining state would be a useful feature for a social protocol.

Another issue is that this assumes that the web will be the client of choice in the future... with mobile apps being as big as they are in the social space, this seems a bit shortsighted.

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea behind having a "social server", but I don't necessarily think that starting with HTTP is the way to go.

I don't have any particular argument with using JSON for data transfer though... I think that is probably a good choice. Also using SSL for all connections is probably a good call too.
That's probably more accurate.

And sure, some of the conclusions are true without actually following from the arguments. At least he has examples to illustrate his points.

These ideas might not have 100% coverage in our culture, but the rate is definitely high enough that, even if you never go out of your way to look for them, you will run into them often.

eta: about your examples: I think it's been getting worse lately.
And it turns out that radiation from coal plants is a problem - some claim it is more radioactive that nuclear waste! http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is...
Not as a slight against you personally (I'm talking statistically, and you may mean something else), but whenever such articles pop up, I always expect a businessman to chime in about how only a superhumanly talented or lucky team can do such things. It mirrors my real-life observations of businessmen "innoculating" their subordinates against such dangerous ideas when they come up. (Implying that they and their underlings are inferior.)

(This isn't unique to corporations. Even progressive nonprofits seem to dislike working with outspoken, truly horizontal organizations where self-management is the norm. Because they ironically have bosses and other trappings of corporate hierarchy. Their employees often observe that the new boss is like the old.)

37signals have taken pains to explain that, of course, any company has to think for themselves and not ape some blogpost they read.
If you keep that extrapolation up, you are going to get an argument for starting construction on a Dyson sphere. That may be the correct goal, but we really are in no position yet to reason about the necessity or practicality of such energy expenditure.
Get access to a 50% off coupon if they share it on twitter or facebook. keep it simple. wokred for groupon
or even better 100 people to share your page get a free t-shirt.
Great idea until the study on frozen sperm comes out.
I think a better title for this would be "Why Jason Fried gave his company a month-long hackathon", because that's basically what he did.
I would rather corn not be purchased to be made into corn syrup, then crammed into candy on such a scale that there is enough waste to feed livestock. Can we work on that?
Square is also a way to make payments https://squareup.com/pay-with-square

Which I think makes it more of a competitor to Google wallet. However I think it only works with merchants that use square to accept payments so...
Some great insight, and a good read. I especially enjoyed the Pokemon Red referencing.
I will pay for it as soon as the epub/mobi version come out so I can read it on my kindle, I despise pdf's for reading books.
that's definitely fair. i guess we could have said it's more the initial hook of instagram that we're open sourcing :)
A site to propose informal gatherings. The problem with MeetUp and EventBrite is that it requires someone to do the research on what everyone likes and send out proposals. If a proposal fails they're back to step one.

I'd like a site where a circle of friends can add events, meetings and such they are planning to attend. The site shows everyone in the circle when everyone's available and what they're doing.
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In trying to serve everyone, all the time, we're preparing our products to be eaten by a fickle crowd.
real food is compostable, allowing it to contribute right back to the food production system.

I'm not sure if this applies to stale Fruit Loops though. I certainly don't want them anywhere near my food supply.
I was just about to say the same.
Reflection only works with the iPhone 4S, before you get too excited here.
Those two sentences need some more exposition to connect.
> I'm working on that

I sincerely never would have guessed that from your landing page.
America ought to think about that question deeply. Corn fed ground beef in the supermarket is $3-4 per pound while grass raised ground beef is $7-$9 per pound. We (Americans) are making ourselves very sick with degenerative diseases (cancer, heart, alzeimer's, dementia, arthritis) at rates orders of magnitude larger than our ancestors. I believe the race to make cheap food (corn feed beef in this example) is causing health suffering on the backend (degenerative disease)
first 100 people to share get a free shirt.
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/20034/what-practi...
Reading the API docs, it seems that every user needs their own URI to be uniquely identified. I wonder how this will work with the average user, just IP address? What about users with shared internet?
I was about to say this was an expression of unhealthy narcissism, then I noticed that this is a thinly veiled ad for a product.
They describe it as a 'protocol' on top of HTTP; I don't think that assumes much about the 'client of choice'. Most apps I've worked with already use HTTP and JSON anyway.
We'll have a reference server implementation and a couple of sample apps up in the next 1-2 weeks for those who want to self host and a hosted version within a month for those who aren't so inclined.
The article on safety this article links to is a year older than the article itself (though same author). It doesn't seem responsible to me to leave out a year of analysis of the effect of Fukushima, and I don't think it's been a particularly positive year. In some ways if Fukushima was a result of human error (as that report indicates), then that's positive: it's resolvable. But if we scaled nuclear power up to 10x what it currently is I would worry about more human error, and introducing nuclear power to places that have even more problems with reliability, or cultural problems with creating reliable systems. A nuclear power plant in Nigeria? I'm sure there are very reliable people who could staff and monitor the plant, and that those people could be attracted to the jobs, but I don't trust the political infrastructure of the nation to ensure that all actually happens. That no one uses shoddy concrete, or pushes problems under the table instead of resolving them and opening oneself up to blame, or manipulates risk assessment to protect their personally acquired power in the working of the plant.
> It's not that someone will be the common ancestor, it's that everyone¹ will be a common ancestor of all humanity.

Yes, that's actually stated very pointedly in the article.