skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly this has already been done in the U.S. kinda. Back when I was working on Indian Point Units 2 & 3 I found a paper about Unit 1 where - about 30 years ago - they mixed in some of the fuel bundles with Thorium to see how well the neutron flux would turn it into Uranium and possibly breed more fuel. It was really fascinating but, although they had some success, there was really no need for it in the U.S. because Uranium is not in short supply and as this article points out, solid fuel reactors kind of dismiss all the advantages of thorium.
Perhaps for those of an older generation (if not more generally), it's not primarily that IE is IE -- it's that Microsoft is Microsoft.

We're always wondering when the rug is (once again) going to be pulled out from under us.
I was prepared to be annoyed that something like this appeared on the front page, but this is a very thorough list of the best Photoshop templates out there for mobile.

teehan+lax always have the best iOS templates (they are included in the 40 free UI PSDs list):
http://www.teehanlax.com/downloads/
Nothing is, that's the problem.
Might not even need energy, require information only.
I'd rather take Lua as "The new Basic", since it has a syntax closer to Basic, and it's a simpler language.
I didn't realize there were people who still didn't know that.

Python is a language for people who don't program, and want to call themselves programmers but don't actually want to be a programmer.
No, weapons kill free people. Please look at how many innocent people die in your so called war for your own freedom.
And then look where the Enterprise was deployed. Vietnam.. Iraq... yes.. the ship protected your home from the other side of the planet... how?
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Money making will be a problem of the future..not thinking about that now..just thinking about growing and expanding now!

I am not planning to make ChilledLime a payed service.. so all functions will be free.

To answer your question:

Yahoo answers, Quora and EE are all about questions and answers.
ChilledLime is all about questions and opinions.

On, for example, Quora...you can't ask questions where you ask for the people's verdicts and viewpoints!

For better understanding:

An example question on Quora: "What are some funny things to do if you find your friend left their account logged into Facebook on your computer?"

An example question on ChilledLime: "What is the best hyper-local hotel discovery app on iPhone?"
Editorial: "How piracy changed my life"
If he's not a suspect and has nothing to fear, why are they so desperate to find him?
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My father served on the Enterprise in the 60's as part of the around the world tour. At that time the island was completely different as well as the air wing complement. We have this giant photo in our house of the old square island and an A-5 vigilante taking off. It's amazing to consider the the Enterprise has been reworked and refitted so many times over a long career.
Before considering Kindles or "Prime" Amazon is barely profitable. It loses money on both of these new businesses, and it has the sword of Damocles (sales tax) ready to drop on it at any moment.
That sounds like a good idea. The only issue would be that I'd have to get/set up Tasker/Locale with a wifi geofence, since I rarely bother connecting to my home wifi (instead of using 4G).
And the overhead is extremely minimal which allows you to collect data in production while an application is running (without restarting).
I can't stress how much I agree with the last point. Probably the single hardest CS course I took in college was an upper-level seminar on compiler design, in which we built a simple compiler (for Appel's Tiger language) over the course of a semester. I've never poured more hours in to doing harder, more frustrating work in my entire life... and I've found that I haven't looked at code the same way since. I've found that you can get a similar experience by really, really groking C, but it still doesn't hold a candle to really getting to the innards of the machine.
I recently applied for National Account Manager. I never received an automated response stating my application went through. I use vpenajr@gmail.com as my email address. I checked the status, it says, "submitted." It was strange not to get the automatic response email.
And you clicked on it :)
Rat study sparks GM furore
A story needs to submerge the reader in the story and emotions in the life of the protagonist; it needs to flow to grab the reader and good grammar is also a must. This is an example of a story not flowing (plus some grammar mistakes):

We delivered to Shlomo. He couldn’t believe how fast we did it. He couldn’t believe we also did the GIA certificates the way we did. He paid us in cash — $35,000. I took, $17,500. He gave us more work.
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Maybe they think of them like the UK after WW 1, a former world power that paid a terrible price in the previous war and is now somewhat hamstrung by that history.

The anti-trust action took a lot out them.
Good to hear there's a HN meetup in Toronto! Any idea why it's set up as a private group? All the other HN meetup groups I checked on this page are public.
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This comes up a lot in stories about fugitives. Depending on the jurisdiction, it may not be possible to label someone a "suspect" absent either smoking gun evidence or a formal interview. Take stories about the legal status of people implicated in crimes with a grain of salt, at least until you're sure of the technical meanings of the terms being used in that jurisdiction are.
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Contact mattabar @ the above website if interested. Thx.
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We're hiring:

* Python developers for both web application as well as backend services development.

* Experienced Javascript developers for complex frontend applications.

We're a small (~6 devs) but pretty competent team working on interesting problems. We got a complex system of several applications and services, which share their data mainly through Postgres (totalling ~2TB data at the moment, growing every day by a few GB).

If you're looking for a nice place to work in the center of Berlin, friendly colleagues and a fun environment, without overtime or weekend work, write to jobs@adspert.de.
Even prior to that in the 1960s the US invented Molten Salt Thorium nuclear reactors at Oak Ridge.

They were shelved not because of the abundant supply of Uranium, but rather because they could not be used to make weapons.

http://energyfromthorium.com/history.html
I pretty much only work with static pages for documentation, but besides github repos even docs/help is done with a cms or knowledge base app behind it.
I did some due diligence on static site generators at the beginning of the year, first writing down my desired attributes:

* Actively maintained

* Supports Markdown

* Written in Python

* Flexible templating system

* Supports RSS/Atom feeds

* Supports syntax highlighting

* Track history (been around for at least a year)

The above list seemed like a good place to start, and after going through all the various candidates, the one that met all my criteria was Pelican. I liked the project and its author enough to eventually join the team as a committer. Check it out at: http://getpelican.com/

Cactus looks interesting, but I prefer having a wider range of deployment targets (instead of just S3). I also prefer the Jinja templates that Pelican uses instead of Cactus' Django templates. Just my two cents, of course. All of the various static site generators bring something interesting to the table — the more the merrier!
Netflix -- Los Gatos, CA

Looking for a couple of SREs to fill out our team. The job is a combination of architecture, coding and evangelism of best practices. Our team writes monitoring and alerting tools, runs reliability exercises and also act as call leaders for outages.

Skills required: Ability to code. We use mostly Python, so experience there is a plus. Good communication, calm under pressure and the ability to quick grasp how all the pieces of a large complex system fit together.

Check out our github page (https://gitub.com/netflix) for some examples of the type of stuff our team and our sister teams write.

Mail talent@netflix.com if you're interested and mention that you saw the post on Hacker News.

Netflix is also hiring for a lot of our teams. Check out our jobs page (http://jobs.netflix.com/jobs.html) for the list.
one thing to consider is to send all of your logs over the UDP syslog service to a collector like splunk or another server that just listens on UDP and writes them to disk. will save you the trouble of hooking up an external disk to the raspberry pi device and start you down the path of centralization and management.
So for every 7 Macs out there, there is one Windows 8 pc? Am I reading that right?
Ran off to Europe (the fucking morons at SFPD didn't correctly register a State block on international travel or passport issuance, and only confiscated the old ones; Kip just went to the passport agency and got new ones!)

I think Italy, and presumably since it's not that serious a crime, there's been no serious attempt at extradition.

They are good until around 2020 on the current passports (unless they get lost, heh) -- presumably they can make enough money and otherwise build enough identity to either remain resident in Europe indefinitely, or get an alternate passport for travel.
State of Tech #86
Until September 2008, Amazon actually had a post-order price-match guarantee, where they'd refund the difference between what you paid and the new price, if the item dropped in price within 30 days after you ordered it. Seems they're taking full advantage of the pricing flexibility they gained by dropping the guarantee.
I can understand not wanting inheritance or subtyping, but then I think the language needs at least first class functions. Extension methods would be great. Perhaps you could have typeclasses like in Haskell?
I wonder where those 40 million copies went (no hate here, just interested whether OEMs (or users) buy such incredible volumes in advance).
Windows 8 hasn't been out on the market for more than a few months. Why is that surprising?
So far, but by this time next year that ratio will be very different.
I was glad to discover do pad based on your comments. Thanks!
It's odd that Microsoft's name does not come in the discussion that talks about technology giants. Google, Apple all are competing with Microsoft tooth and nail. Amazon and facebook maybe less so. Not mentioning it makes me question if its the bias or lack of knowledge on the part of the author.
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i'm hiring for two "research engineer" positions, think "software engineer who loves solving science problems and dealing with shifting requirements". C, C++, Python. algorithms, malware analysis familiarity, automation, etc. US citizens, clearance and/or clearable. no relo assistance.

i'm also seeking an IT person: sysadmin, devops role. clearance needed, experience in working with secured equipment (e.g. in a secure facility) strongly desired.
Anywhere

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SSC Group LLC is hiring a developer with Rails experience.

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Michael Clarke Duncan, the American well-known actor dies
On September the 3rd, the world got the news of the death of one of their best actors with a sorrowful heart. Michael Clarke Duncan (December 10, 1957- September 3, 2012) the Oscar-nominated star of the Green Mile, best known for his breakout role as John Coffey. He died after nearly two months of treatment [...]
Oh, our plan is to launch poker in the UK!" Um.. ok, and compete with 10000 other companies that had a decade head start and know all about the online poker business. Good luck with that.

I think your reasoning is perfectly logical and yet, it sounds similar to all the VCs who turned down google back in the day because hey all these other guys had been doing search for years so how can you compete with em? You may argue that Google actually had a plan to compete with them to which I'd ask you in how much depth you have researched Zynga's poker plans before reaching the conclusions in your post.
Your distortion field is so concentrated! You realize the Mac OSX has been out for quite some time, while Windows 8 has barely a few months in the market, right?

I think it's time you clean out your fanboy lense.
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Monetate helps internet marketers make their site more relevant. We turn data in action on our clients' sites by doing real-time data analysis and DOM modification to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers.

What we're looking for:

* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out how they work, then build software to solve our users' problems

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We're looking for people not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional backgrounds.

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We've hired great people from HN in the past.

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LaunchBar at http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html
Yep, he lives in Florence: https://plus.google.com/110811825461544096333/posts
I think the idea is that each player gets their own revenue stream and clicks on it until it gets bigger. You can share your "earnings results" with friends and trade rare revenue stream features, and there's a kind of limited PvP setup where you can pit your revenue stream against another player's and click a bunch of times and one of your revenue streams gets bigger.
Agreed. This is a simple case of doing good preparation. Gamification has zero to do with it. Sadly, he spent the entire article talking about the wrong thing, because gamification is his SEO soapbox. "Must make square peg fit in round hole."
Nice story, but I was hoping this was about actually becoming a pirate. Arrr.
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To help us iterate and continue momentum, we practice continuous deployment to the extent possible, which presents some unique challenges with native Objective-C / Cocoa apps. On our backend servers, we ship twenty times a day – Apple makes things more complex but it's a spectrum we're interested in improving.

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Our office is in Union Square, Manhattan. If you don’t live in New York City, we’ll pay to fix that.

Shoot an email to jobs@canv.as with your resume, portfolio, and github if you have one.
Agreed. In the categories of words I'd rather not see in a such an email, but for completely different reasons, I nominate "reinvent". It needs to be taken out the back, shot and served as the main course to a VC dinner.
Any groups in Columbus, OH?
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We publish news and intelligence for business professionals in a variety of industries. All our content is optimized to look good on mobile devices. Check out http://www.educationdive.com or http://www.utilitydive.com to get a feel for what we're doing.

We are seeking to hire a full-time Online Marketing Manager as well as a Marketing Intern, Python Development Intern, and Web Design Intern. More details here http://www.industrydive.com/jobs/ or send me an email.

Bonus for HN readers: It's not yet posted anywhere, but we are also seeking to hire a full-time Writer/Editor who can contribute content and help oversee freelancers. At the risk of sounding crass, it's probably a great fit for a recently laid off Living Social writer.

Email is in my profile.
Hey You should build a Minimum Viable Beta Program. Here's how.
Top 5 Dream Career Opportunities for Sports Fans
To me, it's a story about getting old. Has anyone you worked with died?
Maybe that is only in the US. I can remember being refunded within the last year, here in the UK, under that policy.
Do any of these static site generators support A/B testing (probably via some JS)?

That's the real thing that I see missing in a lot of CMS's. If I could setup A/B tests right in markdown and easily post the results somewhere(A bit tricksy, yes), that would simplify operations hugely for a great many people.
Good point on the "trust for 30 days" thing. I generally use IMAP and only login to the web panel for administrative/settings purposes, and thus never check the 'verify this machine for XXX days' box. Google should indeed require PIN for changing any account settings, if you have 2fa enabled.
Dear ITU, please don’t bill Internet use like phone calls
Author here. I haven't looked too much at Pelican, but Cactus was built for designers (eg. be simple). The goal was to get them from nothing to a fully hosted site on s3 in under a minute.
Thanks for that link. It didn't occur to me that the reactors would have to be ripped out through the flight deck.

Still, I would have loved to have toured her as a museum ship.
Thanks. Indeed, we're a different company, and still going strong independently :-)
Not interested in taking sides, but it seems like OS X seems to migrate users on major version upgrades much faster than Windows.

Actually, every OS I can think of seems to have faster upticks in major versions than Windows. I can think of lots of reasons why that may be though.
"almost no one seems to care about gmail's html rendering"

Addressing that specifically, a couple years ago when Gmail's HTML rendering was even worse than it is now, the Email Standards Project started this http://www.email-standards.org/blog/entry/getting-some-gmail... to try to embarrass Google into improving the rendering. It sorta worked.
The Most Famous Inventor You've Never Heard Of Has 3300 Patents To His Name
My only reaction is, WTF?

First, terribly edited. The paragraph in the middle starting "My room in Astoria had one foam mattress in it..." apparently should come after the very first paragraph.

Second, there is no point to the entire article. It's an interesting anecdote if you knew Altucher and he was just sharing a story over dinner, but as a TechCrunch home page article??

Third, it's a random collection of nonsense. What does renting a hotel room for a year for 37k in cash have to do with anything? He says "Shlomo" always hated him, but the story he gave before does not jibe with this at all - in fact, he makes it seem he loved him before. Then he reveals that he lost the guy a million bucks, at which point they no longer spoke - but that presumably he hated him before that, too.

And the conclusion? Don't get me started. I don't even know what to think: I thought of the girl who worked in his office who had the huge scar down one side of her face. I thought of how I loved her and wanted to lick her scar and be the only one to tell her how beautiful she was. Shlomo’s dead. I am still alive.

Again, WTF? It comes across like the ramblings of a madman. I would honestly not be surprised to learn the author has some form of mental illness.
my surprise (and the way I took hexasquids) was that widows 8 had already reached 1/7 of the amount of users of osx.
P2P Lending & Education: Quest To Solve The Student Debt Crisis
Think Black Friday and Cyber Monday... presents that won't be opened till December 24/25.
Windows 8 shines on a touch screen laptop. I was in the market for one over the black Friday and not many were available at a decent price. If that picture changes then I am sure the adoption will accelerate.
...and it was still worthwhile.

Cool hack, interesting results, relevant to many peoples' businesses. Nice work.