skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you addressed most of my points, but I feel I need to respond to what you've thrown out here.

Only 1-3% of a fuel rod's mass is fissile, and containment failure doesn't aerosolize a kiloton of fuel rods. Almost all the material stays at the site. While the smallest possible bomb is about 20kg of fissile material, actual bombs are an order of magnitude bigger. In addition, bombs cause neutron activation in the environment and create a mushroom cloud that lifts fallout into the stratosphere. The immediate effects are much worse and much more widespread.

You can say scary things like, "tripled the radioactive cesium in the Pacific", but Fukushima leaked around 9kg of cesium radioisotopes. Outside of the immediate area, there's no risk to marine or human life. From http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341070/:

We address risks to public health and marine biota by showing that though Cs isotopes are elevated 10–1,000× over prior levels in waters off Japan, radiation risks due to these radionuclides are below those generally considered harmful to marine animals and human consumers, and even below those from naturally occurring radionuclides.

Instead of spreading FUD, look at the statistics. Again, from http://squid314.livejournal.com/292620.html:

A useful measure of power plant capacity is the "terawatt", equal to one trillion watts. Coal kills 2500 times as many people per terawatt as nuclear. In fact, nuclear power has the lowest fatality per terawatt of any form of power in existence. Rooftop solar power has a per terawatt death rate ten times worse than nuclear power because of - I kid you not - people falling off roofs when installing the panel. Hydroelectric power has a worse fatality rate because of dams bursting and flooding people. Even wind power has a worse fatality per terawatt rate - seventy three people have died in windmill related accidents.

You responded with the economics of solar power instead of addressing my points about safety, but as far as I can tell, you're incorrect on that. By every measure I could find, solar was over twice the cost of nuclear. It would break the chart if it was shown on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cost_of_energy_sources. While nuclear power has decreased recently, the reason is political ass-covering, not economics. And it's not solar that's picking up the slack. Fossil fuels are the winners: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_energy_consumption.s...

There are two reasons for this: 1. Fossil fuels are cheap, mostly because their cost to the environment and public health aren't priced in. 2. They are reliable base-band sources of power. Coal works no matter how cloudy it gets or how calm the wind is. Without reliable, predictable generation, wind and solar require expensive (and sometimes dangerous) energy storage systems. At best, they can only supplement base-band sources.
I didn't see anything in the article about being ok to assault someone.

Also, I think she is pointing out problems with clothing norms.
This account is used by the author of "The Temple Operanting System"[0], who's schizophrenic.

The first and the last two sections of his post are similar to his usual writings (the fourth one comes out of a Markov chain). The second and third ones are unusual, but it's probably gibberish too.

[0] http://www.templeos.org/ IMO both a work of art and a technical achievement. See my sibling comment for a review.
Looks like the fun has moved to http://dogepound.l8.lv/

Who wants to make some money before the prices get too high ;)
"The other hand" is a far better scenario. Odds are you'll see it at some point if this sort of thing interests you, far better that than to find it this way.
Cellphone Wallet
Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature
Myths about Macbook's performance
The author of this wrote THE MARTIAN. I recommend it:

http://smile.amazon.com/Martian-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B00EMXBDM...
Xamarin allows you to use Visual Studio and .NET/Mono to target Android and other platforms. [1]

dot42 focuses on Android exclusively and targets dex/dalvik instead of the Mono runtime. [2]

[1] http://xamarin.com/
[2] https://www.dot42.com
? Then why is your account username "throwaway092834".
Do you think an alternative launcher for Android that featured a similar approach to live tiles would capture that advantage? As opposed to all the Newton/Palm style launchers out there.
Overhyped Products That Completely Flopped In The Past 20 Years (2011)
I am just going to go over Upstart and systemd

systemd: dependency based init system. A service is written by declaring which services need to be started for that service to start. It is also a syslog like program (journal) and a cgroups writer (cgroups are a cointainment feature of the linux kernel). It also features socket activated and bus activated services, where the init system watches for a socket or dbus bus to be accessed, and then starts the job then. It is criticized for being too invasive and too tied to linux kernel features (like cgroups).

Upstart: an event based init system. Jobs start and stop on a certain event (or events). These events can be socket events, dbus events, udev events (network-device-added, removed, changed, etc.) or job events ($JOB-started, stopped, starting, stopping). There are also other events, but those are the basics. It suffers in two areas: socket activation is limited to one tcp or unix socket (no UDP, no tcp6, no DGRAM), and it unreliably stops services. The former is a simple problem that would not be too much work to fix (the developers of Upstart did not want to use socket activation, so they decided to stop efforts on developing it), and the latter is a fundamental code problem. Upstart uses ptrace to track daemons, while systemd uses pidfiles and cgroups. Because Upstart does not use cgroups, it can not kill all of a services children (just that service), and so zombie services might be problematic.
systemd is also sysv and LSB init script compatible.
really great idea!
Just use NoScript, no more newsletter shenanigans.
It's not possible to know, for sure, if the orders are lawful or sane (since we are talking about MAD, chances are they aren't sane, although they may be legal). That's why humans were designed into the system - they have to judge and face the consequences of their judgement.

It's evident that the original purpose of placing "moral processors" in the loop was lost after the fact.
If meth were a liquid market with dealers lining up on every single street corner in the city to sell (and probably stocking it in grocery and convenience stores besides), then yeah, his stopping wouldn't really change the situation. His monetary loss from stopping sales will far outweigh whatever infinitesimal decrease there will be in the convenience of finding an addictive game on the iTunes app store.
I wouldn't have been quite so aware of the title as I read if you hadn't pointed this out :-)
I would have liked it to be titled "Theory of Everything"
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-flappy-bird sign the petition to save Flappy Bird
actually I just put in 0.01 BTC, got back 0.015, put that back in again, and now I have 0.0225. I dare not try again, quite pleased with my USD$7 profit. There is definately something much scammier about it. The # of transactions doesn't increment, and with 150% payout it will die much quicker.
systemd breaks LXC and lmctfy. systemd is not event based (matter of taste, I guess, but I prefer Upstart's model).
That's alright... you wrote it anyway.
Actually yes: a casino run by a cult of effective altruists would probably do more for the world than most charities.
make that 500%... the original 79mBTC got refunded to it 2 hours later...
When RedHat decides to switch to DEB
Lottie Dexter should quit – and take the Year of Code board with her
I think I will stick with cryonics. Thanks, anyway...
Well I'm glad I wrote it.
Just For The Health Of It A parody – where laughter truly is medicine
Michael Wolfe gives some ideas here: http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-find-non-technical-job-opportu...
Make sure you fully understand how the system is intended to work. Its all well and good knowing the stack, but equally important is knowing what you're meant to develop or fix. Also make sure you know the processes.
Unlike that sentence structure :)
such a great attitude for losing USD $700
This will invite a lot of controversy for sure.

And it seems a lot of people haven't even read the whole thing and turned away in disgust after the first couple of paragraphs.

A lot of people fail to realize how hidden assumptions, stereotypes and beliefs affect their judgement.

Let's discount those who are openly misogynistic and are consciously aware of it. She calls some of those people "creeps". Let's assume they formed their wrong opinions and positions and are unwilling to change.

I think the article references a very large group of people who will consciously never admit even to themselves at being discriminatory, not liking women, not respecting, holding them to a different standard. This is most people in general, in a jury room, most bosses, most families and so on. It is probably very very hard to not be in this category. These attitudes and modes of thinking are baked in early in the childhood, they are reinforced by media, society and so on. One would have to grow up in a country that actively discourages it and has been doing it for a long time. Our society is not like that yet.

She is saying how these people will mean well but because of their existing and unconscious stereotypes they will make decisions. That lower salary or jury verdict will probably not come from a creep but from well meaning people.

It could take decades more before that is eradicated completely. In the meantime she offers a practical advice -- what one can do today, working in a broken society so to speak.

Anyway that is who I understand her point.

However another way to look at it, could it be this hidden brainwashing also affected her and maybe she has been brought up to believe that women should dress modestly or society will judge them? Maybe she is unconsciously promoting these stereotypes without realizing it, too. Kind of like talking about suicides even with a message of hope and encouragement, or just publishing a news item about has an effect of triggering suicides.
> The reality is that since the social norm is that men are supposed to ask and women are supposed to say "yes" or "no", it is a social norm that willing women typically signal invitation to pursuit passively, primarily by dressing provocatively, getting all dolled up (in terms of hair and makeup), and being warm and friendly. Please don't pretend you didn't know this.

I think a bigger reason why people wear "attractive" clothes is because their peers judge them. e.g. women getting dolled-up even when they're not looking for a man.
You're conflating two acts: he has produced a game, and being addicted to games ruins some people's lives. But if he withdraws his game, their lives don't suddenly get un-ruined. They just switch to some other game.

Basically, you're suggesting that an equilibrium of (1 person-hour stolen by addiction : 1 person-hour of ad impressions given to charity) should be replaced with (1 person-hour stolen by addiction [just to some other game] : 0 person-hours of ad impressions given to charity). Note that there is no "0 person-hours stolen by addiction" option.
I'm sure Stephen Heymann and his ilk are working on a theory of how wget, curl, and some spiders are "burglarious tools."
by that logic the loto is immoral theft also, seems more like consenting individuals engaging in gambling.
Ask HN: What is the purpose of http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html?
If I block www.apple.com then I am prevented from accessing my home LAN?

Try this at home.

Reroute www.apple.com to a httpd on a RFC1916 address.

Make sure your iPhone resolves www.apple.com to the RFC1916 address where your httpd is listening.

Disable WiFi on your iPhone. Then enable it.

I was presented with a Log On HTML page as if I was a guest or at a public hostpot.

I was not be able to stay connected.

When I created the requisite /library/test/success.html page in the httpd's root folder, I was successful.

Why does the iPhone need to access www.apple.com in order to fucntion on a home LAN, that may or may not be connected to the Internet?
On testing rake files
RSpec support for testing Rake tasks
The Egg (short Sci-fi story) would have been perfectly adequate.
Philisophy of sexism?
You're totally right. Starting this summer, I'll get a strong tan and a tramp stamp, wear skinny jeans, a shirt with two, nay three popped collars, uggs and aviators and drive a Segway on the highway.

Let people stare at me, call me a douchebag and maybe occasionally punch me - because you know what, it's totally cool to completely disregard societal norms because of my gender.
> And his passion is in game dev, not an oddly specific passion for riding only the Flappy Bird app to success.

I think people here were assuming that his passion was entrepreneurship through game-dev. Because, you know, HN, entrepreneurs, etc. (But also because he did both things in order to ship this game, so it's just as probable he liked doing both of them. He could have given the game away for free, if he thought entrepreneurship was a hassle or something.)
I graduated with a degree in Business and looked for startup jobs a few years back. It is difficult because:

1) Startups generally don't hire "business" people. You'd have to have a very specific role like marketing or customer service or community management.

2) Following #1, startups won't hire you unless you have experience in those fields (or hard skills). Startups don't have the resources to train you, and will never let a complete noobie have reign over any of their program.

Unfortunately your skill set as you described it above falls short, because pretty much everyone says they have passion, and you lack hard skills.

My suggestion: starting gaining experience through your own small projects. Identify which field of work you specifically want to work in. Build a product or service, ship it, try to get it blog coverage or press, run a Facebook/Adword campaign and optimize it. Build a mailing list. Build a FB fan page following. You need to build a body of evidence you can show startups come hiring time. "These are the things I've done, and this is what I can do for you."

People (bloggers) always write about how startups should hire generalists, but in my opinion, it doesn't happen because startups are far more attracted to specialists whom they can shoehorn into generalist roles. Its less risky for them because that specialist has demonstrated depth of skill and competence, vs a generalist who shows less depth, but broader range.

Best of luck
> I note you failed to actually illustrate species with stable numbers.

In that case, you have no idea what stable numbers means -- it means a species whose long-term average remains the same. Or do you think species are like dormant bank accounts, with constant balances to the penny?

> What the logistic function has to do with anything, I don't know.

If you don't understand the evolutionary role of the Logistic Function, and since you didn't bother to read the article on that topic I linked, there's no point in this conversation.

> And most certainly the human population curve looks nothing like the logistic function.

Absolutely false. Do you really want to advertise your ignorance this way?

Here are some articles that demonstrate the relation between the human population and the logistic function:

http://www.neds-projekt.de/Sabine_Hoehler_-_Growth_Curve1.pd...

http://www.cs.xu.edu/math/math120/01f/logistic.pdf

http://monkeysuncle.stanford.edu/?p=933

http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/how-populat...

http://arts.bev.net/roperldavid/worldpop.htm

http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/rhayes/courses/Other/Logistic%...

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2981868?uid=3739728&ui...

Just a short sample of the technical articles that, if you would only read them, might alleviate your ignorance.

Have a nice day.
Bookmarking this! Thanks
And "The Last Answer", which ironically ends with a question while "The Last Question" ends with an answer.

And a bunch of others that aren't quite similar except that they're short, provocative scifi. Here's my list of favorites:

* Ted Chiang - Understand - http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm

* Ted Chiang - Exhalation - http://www.nightshadebooks.com/Downloads/Exhalation%20-%20Te...

* Ted Chiang - Hell Is the Absence of God - http://www.ibooksonline.com/88/Text/hell.html

* Sam Hughes - Ed stories - http://qntm.org/ed

* Isaac Asimov - The Last Answer - http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/

* Aaron Diaz - Hob series - http://dresdencodak.com/2007/02/08/pom/

* Greg Egan - Closer - http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer

* Marc Stiegler - The Gentle Seduction - http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
That is huge though. I felt I was spending way too much time watching this and hoped it was getting to a close, while I around message 250 out of 700. (Of part 1 it seems?!)
So you actually have 0.01938 more than you started with, 0.01938 of someone elses coins who didn't get them back and you feel that he skimmed you?
I'm very impressed with the number of products and services supported so far. It has everything from bookmarks to location history. It even lets you choose the format for some products, and Drive in particular has some nice options. I'm glad to see Google opening this tool up.
This is pretty rad. I especially love the scanlines on VECTRO. I saw there was supposed to be an animation on it, but it was commented out so I forked it a little and started tinkering. Here's my attempt at CRT nostalgia:

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/lnCch
Everybody as an internal thermometer on how comfortable they are with success.

If you're too low ("I know I can do better than this!"), you work until you reach your temperature.

If you're too high, you self sabotage yourself until you are back to your level.

Case in point, removing your multi million dollar game from circulation.
Mt Gox is Down
i dont get it. nothing but "deskrove We're building cool things."
Link baiting at its best.
https://www.google.com/search?q=virtual+antenna+array

Or, for those who want the production grade stuff:

http://www.vla.nrao.edu/

"The Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna is 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. The data from the antennas is combined electronically to give the resolution of an antenna 36km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter. For more information, see our overview of the VLA, and the configuration schedule."

So, yes, with multiple IP-connected software-defined radios, you could provide the required signal strength without a Deep Space Network antenna.
Easy prediction: they'll disable imap access within a year.
He really did:

https://blockchain.info/address/1HbNxRhrv5Jocr7Q9ZqbbqCwuNNy...

So far, no such honor has been extended from the OP:

https://blockchain.info/address/1JEGu8qiaKbLgheAWCjRkeZNyEqh...

This is one of the beauties of Bitcoin - complete transaction transparency.
Cool, makes sense to me. I'm working on a handful of things right now. Most are in the ether, but should be coding them out in the next couple of weeks. From there I will follow your advice.

As for the generalists v. specialists thing, again makes perfect sense. Telling folks "pay me I am smart, nice, and learn quickly" is a lot less quantifiable than "I got XX users in YY months, let me do that for you."

Much appreciated
> Not to mention the fact that studies show that there is no correlation between what a woman is wearing and her likelihood of being sexually assaulted.

Could you link these studies, for the public interest?
How I Hacked My Husband's Programming Addiction
To be fair he is also the Ubuntu developer and upstart maintainer on the committee
I wish this sort of behavior, by any government, would draw immediate, global, and severe economic sanctions. Repression is repression, whether online or off. I feel like most of the governments around the world are intentionally refraining from considering rights to fully or properly translate to the online sphere, so they can all first figure out in which ways they want to restrict or abuse their own domestic populations.
Yeah, endless debate. Welcome to Debian decision-making. :-)
The Gentle Seduction is a similar short story in regards to singularity that The Egg reminded me of
http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
But then people will realize that there is value in trading on Gox as a platform

What value is this, exactly? You seem to be assuming that having fixed this problem the platform will never break down again, ever.
I can't think of anything simultaneously sober, mature, and attention-catching. I just wanted to help prevent anyone who looked at the comments first to dismiss the article on its title alone.
> It doesn't cost $70 per day to go 125 miles in a city. Otherwise my car with 59000 miles would have already costed me $33K in all expenses. It hasn't.

But remember to factor in depreciation and wear and tear on the car, in addition to all the gas and repair costs. If you're driving an old Toyota Yaris it'll be much less than 56 cents per mile. If it's a brand-new Mercedes S-Class you've financed, it's probably going to be more.
On HN, we want to hack the way our systems work. We want to see through the obscurity and complexities advanced systems have brought along and find the most elegant and quickest way to challenge and control them. Why can we not look at hacking religion? Why can we not hack philosophy?
I like this story, but more than that I like the fact that it has reached page 1 on HN. I think many people here are not looking for self-realisation in the form of a startup that brings them big bucks, but hey - self-realisation.
I reckon your kind, single posting to HN from a "design engineer in the nuclear business"... who thinks the events leading to a partial nuclear meltdown at a LWR like TMI reflect a kind of engineering triumph and the kind of statistical confidence (that Feynman calls out) that would lead engineers to conclude that LWRs could never suffer a nuclear meltdown....instead of the requested posting of a link to a consensus statement about the impossibility of a major nuclear reactor accident by all nuclear engineers....is better than nothing.

Just kidding with you some. But I think we're done here. Have a nice day.
Interesting, I've been using Firefox sync since it was released on Iceweasel (Debian Firefox) and had absolutely 0 problems.
Why would they do that? It seems like disabling IMAP would drive away huge numbers of users and give their competition more advantage.
I never really understood why anyone would want to use GMail but NOT use the web interface. I mean, it's cool that they offer it, but I don't recall it working especially well.
Might be acceptable for an individual project where you can make statements about the sizes that will be used ahead of time, but for a general purpose library your statement is absolutely false. The issue is that your size requirement can overflow size_t, malloc gets passed a smaller value than you really intended, then if you try to use what you think you allocated (remember, it succeeded with a smaller size), it's a derefence outside the bounds of the allocation. Changing the size or type of the length variable won't solve that. This is a common and well known vulnerability pattern - it is disappointing to see folks so dismissive of it.
Whoa, that's even better than I thought it would be. Thanks.
And alienate millions of iPhone users that use Gmail but for one reason or another don't know about or haven't downloaded the Gmail app? Lol