skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the "tens of thousands of years" is grossly overstated, at least if you apply the metric that after 600 years it'll be no more radioactive than the ore from which it was mined.

http://www.ccnr.org/hlw_graph.html#gr

EDIT: Some have penalized me under the notion that hga's "apples and oranges" comment was a retort (despite the fact that the chart also has concentrated uranium near the bottom). It is not. HGA is apparently unaware that uranium tailings are effectively worse than uranium ore, containing 85%+ or the original radioactivity of the ore, but concentrated and exposed. If you had the choice between holding a handful of uranium ore or uranium tailings, you'd do better to choose the former.

There are a lot of grossly misleading claims from the pro-nuclear lobby, one of which is that if you only count the product of fission (and not the actinides), and you compare it against post-processed yellow-cake, it's all the same.

In no universe is it equivalent to naturally existing uranium after 600 years.

every coal plant in the world is pumping out a lot of nasty stuff, they're inherently dirty

But despite the ridiculous lead-in to the linked article (no, the common notions of nuclear power does not come from the Simpsons), everyone knows that coal is dirty. Most areas are phasing it out (here in Ontario we have effectively eliminated coal power, from it comprising 25% of our power not too many years ago). Is nuclear power the best alternative? That's dubious, not only because of "exceptional" events that yield enormous ecological damage, the waste product that we just push to future generations, and economics that seldom make sense over the life of the project.
A friend here in miami does this sort of, his target market is nyc. http://serviceful.com/ check it out. not sure if he is on HN his name is juan chaparro.
I would like the same service for jobs I might enjoy.
It was probably the other way around - I'd guess they pushed Mir forward because they didn't want to release an early version of Mir in a LTS release.

X will be with the Linux community for the foreseeable future anyhow since there are plenty of distros that insist on using outdated^Wstable versions of applications.
Do you mean to imply that a microwave cannot boil water, or brings it to a different kind of boiling?
Github for databases. I've been brainstorming occasionally about this idea... :)
A not so anti-men take by a Female Entrepreneur
>> Certificates bind a public key and an identity (commonly a DNS name) together.

>

> So, if "DNSSEC secures DNS," as you say, why do we need certificates at all?

Yes and no. Note that a cert binds an identity, not just a DNS name (but
that is what is needed for web servers).

DNSSEC doesn't work without resolvers checking for the DNS keys, and
it's not immediately clear (to me at least) if the various higher level
clients can transparently detect if a DNS name is secure or not (similar
to how a web browser can't tell if it's accessing a resource over a
secure IP based VPN and can therefore safely transmit credentials via
plain auth).

For trust to work, there needs to be integration of the chain of trust
all the way from the user to the server. TLS/SSL already provides this
-- and with delegation the infrastructure is in place for owners to
manage trust for their own domain (and it is already possible, but
typically expensive).

In it's barest form DNSSEC only makes DNS secure, which prevents DNS
spoofing. If you also place a cert (could be self-signed) in DNS, then
you have a "full" solution to securing communications. You would be able
to download the cert without DNSSEC, but unless the chain of trust of
the cert could be verified some other way, you wouldn't be able to use
that cert for secure communications.

It is true that current CAs bind a cert to a domain name, but it's not
really the domain name part that is interesting, it's the entity
identifed by that name. So your browser can say, I don't care where this
authenticated (and encrypted) data stream is comming from, I just care
that it is backed by example.com (that is backed by example-ca.com) --
and if the user thinks that Example corp. owns the example.com domain,
one can then infer that the browser is really talking to a web site set
up by Example corp -- regardless of which IPs and DNS records are
involved.

Keep in mind that the same CA infrastructure allows a user to indenify
to a server as user@example.org -- from any ip or doman name -- just
as securely, via mutal trust in "Example CA". I think it's somewhat
unfortunate that DNS is so tightly integrated into the user interfaces
for the web -- asserting things about IP adresses and DNS names isn't
really all that interesting -- it's asserting things about entities that
is interesting.

While I'm no fan of the current CA system, I'm not convinced DNSSEC is
securing the right things at the right protocol level(s).
Slideshow mirror: http://imgur.com/a/eus5K
Why do software projects fail?
The Evolution of Marketplaces
Also unrelated

What happens in small tourist towns when all of the available property gets bought by outsiders wanting to 'Airbnb'?

Let's face it, 'Airbnb' isn't about letting out the spare room or the flat whilst one is away for some pocket money (whilst helping some weary traveller out). Airbnb is about buying places specifically for rental.

So, what happens?

The few real 'Bed and Breakfast' hotels have a hard time of it and local people (not on big city wages or the money for a deposit) get pushed even further down the housing ladder.

So, even if the culture is not messed up in the hip Mac-book Air stuffed office of AirBnb, the culture could be messed up in some far off town.
https://gist.github.com/daeken/11123897 I pulled it out of an OCR'd PDF that someone linked from the forums.
Bzzzt: Apples and Oranges, I'm talking about the original ore, that chart uses ore tailings, which are certainly not benign (I grew up in an area where mass quantities of lead and zinc were mined until the end of WWII), but they're very much not the same thing. Especially if the refining process also seperates some of the nastier things you'll find along with the uranium.

Find some references with the ore and perhaps we can have a discussion.

'"exceptional" events that yield enormous ecological damage'

Which would total Chernobyl, which I've already pointed out a direction of some of its many problems.
They obviously didn't read the article, just the title.
Does enabling revocation checking make me less safe?
"Coal-fired plants emit more radiation in their immediate environment than their nuclear equivalents".

There.

I once tried to find other facts that could support this dumb-ass title, and I was unable to. Coal mining produces a tiny tiny amount of radioactive contamination, and the amount of radiation in fly ash seems to dwarf the amount of radioactive stuff we lose in the nature because of accidents and nuclear waste storage and that kind of stuff.

Even if you state that premise as "coal power has some radioactive waste issues", it's still a lie.
Japan Company To Give Maglev Tech To US For Free
Yes. The HN guidelines call for changing the titles when they are linkbait or misleading, and this one is both.

All: what is a better title? I'll take a crack at it, but please suggest improvements.
The cynical reason startups should grant employees more equity
Hands On With Facebook Nearby Friends
It also depends on your tax bracket. Mortgage interest and property taxes are tax deductible. So if you belong to a high income (dual income for eg) bracket and the math might favor buying vs renting based on how long you plan to live in that house.
Yes, but unfortunately, a lot of the "serious" studies reported in newspapers every day seem to follow the same formula: find an accidental correlation between two causally unrelated variables and say you've found an amazing new result.
That's really the jist of what they bring to the table anyways. I share the same sentiment.
Thanks for the link to that. "Free drift trickery", indeed.
That's great advice. I've been to the AriBnB offices a few times (before their most recent move) and I definitely noticed a distinct culture. Most of my cultural experience from AirBnB was though their tech talks. You get speak with engineers, other team members and you get food from their amazing executive chef. Even though their engineering team was relatively small, they created a great resource for engineers to meet and talk tech. It was something that I tried to create at the company I worked for at the time, but it was a totally different culture.
> The Chernobyl RBMK design is criminal

Indeed - it was considered so poor that the European Union required closure of RBMK-type reactors as a precondition for EU membership.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Safety-and-Security/Safety...
I like Merlin Mann's take on this. Basically, charge a lot to paying customers, and give a lot of content away for free so that those who can't afford it can still benefit.

It's obviously a nice situation to be in.

For most all of my speaking, consulting, and advisory work, yes: I do charge a fee, plus expenses. And, candidly, I charge kind of a lot.

Being compensated for my speaking, consulting, and professional writing work is how I’m able to feed and clothe my family as well as fund my lavish, meth-driven, West Coast lifestyle of fast cars, fancy English butlers, and the jet packs that will not be available to normal people like you for years.

It’s also how I’m able to give away almost everything I’ve ever written or said for free. Hundreds of thousands of words and dozens of days of audio and video can only be treated that liberally if there are other ways that the freight gets paid. I don’t apologize or defend this; I just realize it’s not as obvious to everyone as it is to me.

As for how I decide what to charge and to whom or for what? It’s not particularly complicated. I charge a lot to do things I’m great at for people who know it’s a bargain. And, that’s it. Only way to fly. I don’t “dicker” and I never “sell.”

I learned a long time ago to only work for or with people with whom you have mutual admiration and respect—and who already think you’re valuable and great at what you do. In my experience, the folks who expect you to make a case for your own value make for terrible clients. They may be good negotiators and nice people, but working for them is a gut-wrenching travesty. And I don’t do travesties.

With all that said, I do a fair amount of (private, unpublicized, non-ribbon-based) work with non-profits and other deserving groups. And, no, I normally do not charge for this work. So, If you’re working for a good cause or represent an organization that’s trying to do something you know I care a lot about, please ask me. No promises, but I’ll do what I can with what I have.

So, yep. “Expensive” or “Free.” It’s a fee schedule that works.

http://www.merlinmann.com/faqs/hiring-merlin/do-you-charge-m...
The two things that were new this time:

* The 3-engine deorbit burn worked; previously it was screwed up by uncontrolled roll preventing the engines from getting fuel

* The 1-engine landing burn, previously separately demonstrated by the Grasshopper and F9R test vehicles, worked for a rocket coming down from orbit

The remaining items:

* 3-engine burn to take the rocket back to the Cape from downrange

* Making everything safe enough to dare landing at the Cape, without killing anyone or destroying all the expensive ground equipment that's nearby.
While there are a lot of opportunities in those companies where you work on amazing projects that can accrue to you amazing experience, there are also a lot of areas in those companies where the amount of value you are accruing to your experience is less than other opportunities available to you. This is an experience opportunity cost.
Anyone know if they had video recording on the first stage? That'd be fun to watch.
Is there a way to view the DAG of concepts itself?
I’m Single, Therefore I Tinder
Awesome! I just added some short-term 100-dollar TODOs.

(1) The product needs a basic F.A.Q. (What, exactly, happens to my card information? You don't put a hold on the funds, right? Do you know your shit with respect to securing your servers?)

(2) Take my email. Send me a confirmation. Remind me the day before. And then email me the conclusion.
An extremely useful rule is to give the discount, but hedge your risk with a limit on the hours for "undefined time". Agree on X hours for meetings, more meetings, presentations, discussions, whatever, and stick to it.
This will force the client to use your time wisely, and pay you more if substantial more time is required.
And on the seventh day the rc release rose again
> "The 3-engine deorbit burn worked; previously it was screwed up by uncontrolled roll preventing the engines from getting fuel"

My impression was that with the CASSIOPE attempt, the 3-engine burn was successful but the following 1-engine burn was cut short by the roll.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASSIOPE#Post-mission_launch_ve...
I think Waze gets its data from other users, but in the uk we have https://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/ which will tell you the cheapest online grocery shopping company to go with for your selected 'trolly' (basket). (it compares tesco, sainsbury's, asda etc)
How I see it, these two services are for pretty different use cases. Basic idea behind Pixomize is to have a common album with your friends or other people and you fill the album together.
Ubuntu recently decided to phase out its homegrown upstart init system in favor of systemd, which is backed by all other major Linux distros.

Right now Ubuntu is trying to go against the grain again, this time with Mir. I think the most likely scenario is that Ubuntu will eventually drop it too and switch to Wayland. Ubuntu is big, but not big enough to break compatibility with everyone else in such a major way.

Thus it is good that they did not put Mir in a LTS release. It is a dead-end technology if you ask me.
That describes startup companies in general. It's about taking over a market that is run by small companies and driving them out of business by using Wall Street money to generate efficiencies of scale.
15 years on my own and after having this discussion with clients nearly every single time we begin a relationship, I have learned to embrace rather than fear the situation.

Often times this is a pattern, the person on the other end feels like they need to get a win in some form and the easiest and most obvious to them is always pricing.

Find out why they are asking this question, find out what they really want - 8 out of 10 times for me, it is just them asking because it would be dumb not to ask. Explain your rates, be open and honest about them. If they feel like your rates are too high for them then be willing to negotiate.

It is incredibly important that you negotiate, so many other people I talk to simply balk and let their rates come down some. This is insanity, it is surrender not negotiating. I always, always ask for something in return if I am giving up something and do my best to make sure what I get in return is more valuable than the money discount they are asking for. Often time I use this as a segue with a customer to discuss retainer billing models. Most people balk at it but if it is part of a give and take over the rate they will embrace it. Give me the choice of a project with pre-paid hours at 150/hr vs NET 30 at 165 and I am choosing the 150 all day long.

Another point, if you relax your rate - sunset the change. 'I am willing to do this project at $150/hr but only for this project - future work we do together will revert to the $165/hr rate'. Put it in writing.
The question is at what point a service has to accept local laws. Like when a country bans "sexual images" or certain pictures of "prophets" or criticism of its political leaders, does Twitter, or for that matter any other service - esp. Google, has to bow to that law.
Make Graphene In Your Kitchen With Soap and A Blender
This (Metacademy) was just posted today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7617683

Excited to see where it goes!
This was the argument of the Turkish government all the time. Why accept requests from Germany, France, UK, USA but not Turkey?
I experimented with something along these lines by attempting to build a threaded layout between sites based on outbound links, hoping that (for blog posts and articles) this would tend to generate a nice set of references back to original sources, etc.

The result (http://precis.gopagoda.com/url/https://news.ycombinator.com/...) still doesn't entirely work right, partly because my implementation is still pretty poor and because I could see how flawed the premise was after I actually tried it - if you try it you'll find a lot of 'threads' wind up at spam links or twitter and facebook inside of a couple of levels.

Still, I think this is a problem worth solving. Good luck with it.
Extraordinary accusation requiring extraordinary evidence. Everything I've seen of airbnb suggests it's exactly what you claim it isn't.

Note: The existence of a minority of people gaming the system does not equate to what you claimed.
NetBSD 6.1.4 and 6.0.5 released
The big problem I see is how do you pick the accountability partner?

It needs to be someone who you would trust with an arbitrary amount of money because as soon as there's an ounce of distrust then the entire idea falls apart.

I'm not going to put up $250 if I think there's even a 0.0000001% chance the accountability partner will improperly log that I didn't do it.
This is going to sound like empty language-war rhetoric, but: PHP might be the worst mainstream language in which to implement crypto. A crappy type system is one thing, but an unpredictable type system is much worse.
Wonder how easy it is to install on a MacBook Air? My current one runs 12.04 perfectly - but I'm not sure I want to risk an update.

More importantly - does it still have wobbly-windows? :-)
xss sp
Like any whistle-blowing.It's illegal so no one should whistle-blow and any corruption should stay hidden.
Is it just me, or does this game strongly appear to be a roguelike that was written three years or so prior to Rogue?

Update: Also, I'm no longer familiar with any BASIC dialect, and I've never been familiar with any that ran on a PDP-11, but am I mistaken in thinking these two lines

00210 FILE #1="DNG1"
00220 FILE #2="DNG2",#3="DNG3",#4="DNG4",#5="DNG5",#6="DNG6"

reference other files, which judging by their names might contain dungeon definitions required for the game to work?

If so, I have to think this is going to be a short contest with a most disappointing result.
It's neat, but I'd be worried about market size. This is a problem that not a lot of people have. Sorry, but for most people, it's not a big deal to call a plumber, and the vast, vast majority of people (at least in the US) clean their own homes.

EDITing my comment to be more constructive:

There could be money in a cloud- or app-based Personal Assistant, but you would really have to focus razor sharp on your target market. Rich people already have PAs and middle class people's time is not scarce enough to justify paying to get chores scheduled. You'd have to zero in on upper-middle folks like doctors and lawyers who aren't particularly rich, but tend to not have time to manage their lives. I still say it's a small market, but if you hit them and your price is right, it might work.
MetaLib, Federated Search Tool Of U.S. Government Databases Adds New Sources
If this goes ahead, Assembly (a yc alumni company) would be a great place to track the projects: www.assemblymade.com
No, I don't work for them. Yes, I know them and they're very cool.
Been clicking around for 20 minutes. This is like TV Tropes for knowledge.
on the desktop
So a pox on those who seek to reduce costs through scale and redundancies?

It appears there is a lack of short-stay housing supply. AirBnB facilitates that market. Short-stay property owners should seek to spread their operating costs across multiple properties. This will drive out mom-and-pop operations - that is good business. The added wealth from leaner short-stay operations should make up for the temporary displacement.

The displacement is a process our political process has to manage. But spitting on markets for eroding the incumbent's edge is an old game for tired societies.
He's condemning "low-quality spammy for-SEO" guest blogging.

Googlebot doesn't magically know when you're guest blogging or gaming it. All it can do is pattern-match against heuristics that you can avoid.
Wow, I had no idea this[0] was a real thing. This actually makes me more nervous than Kinect webcam thing which is just small piece of duct tape away from getting resolved.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/smart-tv-from-lg-pho...
I'd imagine at the point that the options become "comply with the law" or "deny access to that locality".
In a way it seems no different from the Big Box stores putting the Mom and Pop shops out of business, except in this case we have middlemen agents in between (apartment owners) who are taking a cut and taking up risk.
Metacademy ( http://www.metacademy.org/ ) is exactly what you described. The website gives a concept map and each concept has links to free educational resources. Here's the concept map for SVD: http://www.metacademy.org/graphs/concepts/singular_value_dec...

You can read a bit about the ideas behind Metacademy here: http://hunch.net/?p=2714
Unless YC goes out on a limb here and starts pushing to make it a condition for getting face-time with YC companies on demo day.

IANAL, I would expect it's collusion if the startups get together and start agreeing to terms they will accept collectively. But if instead YC, a single entity, uses entrance into its demo day event, as a bargaining chip that can change the conversation around term sheets for the entire industry.

i.e. make this rule: Every investor YC allows into demo day may only offer term sheets that does not require the size of the option pool to be raised until after closing the financing. Instead the size of the equity pool will be negotiated after funding closes and will be based on the amount of dilution both the founders and employees and the VCs think okay with relative to the benefit they receive from a larger pool.

Individual YC companies would still be free to engage with investors outside and after the demo day event and take the less favorable terms where the option pool is negotiated ahead of time.
I think the level of density/concentration is an issue hardly ever discussed. But at the end of the day concentration is the only thing that counts. If you can successfully lower the radioactive concentration below the natural radiation, things are actually pretty safe. If you store nuclear waste in a salt deposit, usually a lot of ground water gets into the deposit. (Asse II is an extreme case) It gets contaminated and the question is: is the water much more radioactive than the water elsewhere? If not, it is actually relatively safe to live in proximity and do farming. According to this article it might be even safer than doing farming near a coal plant.

Actually another thing hardly ever discussed outside of Physics courses is the difference between solid radioactive objects and radioactive gas. The latter is actually a much more dangerous than the former. Not only because solid objects are easier to handle. The lungs are much more sensitive to radioactivity. Moreover gas particles can land on food, thus also getting directly into the body. Once "harmless" radioactive particles are inside the body, they radiate from within...

In Southern Germany there are areas with a lot of mountains. There people often have the radioactive gas Radon in problematic concentrations in the cellars. It is emitted by stones and when breathed cancerous and one of the top reasons for lung cancer. (Besides smoking)
Yes! It involves you reporting all the sites you visit to a CA!
13.10 is fine here, but I haven't tried 14.04 yet.
Well...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2012/10/10/chocolate...

http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/12/can-eating-chocolate-h...