skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The waste produced by a nuclear power plant is orders of magnitude less than what a coal power plant produces. Even if we only look at radioactive waste - coal power plants produce more of it, only instead of being stored in a special underground site it is dispersed into the atmosphere giving us cancer.

So yes, nuclear waste is a serious issue, but let's not forget that the alternatives have major environmental costs as well.

(not from the US)
I love fountain pens and highly encourage everyone to try them (with a good notebook helps). First, ballpoint pens are wasteful — 1.6 billion pens a year are thrown away[1]. Fountain pens are reusable, ink is comparatively cheap and lasts forever, and finding your ink is a fun and personal experience (I really like the "bulletproof" Noodler's inks which are waterproof, bleach proof, etc.). Fountain pens last forever — which is why folks still hunt around for 40+ year old used ones.

Second, it really does make writing fun. I hated writing — my handwriting is messy, it's slow, and it's not as easy as typing. As the article argues, a good fountain pen makes it much, and in my experience much more enjoyable.

Third, it doesn't need to be expensive. Get a Lamy Safari (EF), a Lamy converter and a bottle of Noodlers ink. I also love my Faber Castell Loom[2] (it's the smoothest pen I own), and I carry around a Kaweco Al-Sport[3] everywhere (it's the perfect pocket pen).

[1] http://www.epa.gov/superfund/students/clas_act/haz-ed/ff06.p...
[2] http://www.gouletpens.com/faber-castell-loom-metallic-orange...
[3] http://www.jetpens.com/Kaweco-AL-Sport-Fountain-Pen-Fine-Nib...
I took a calligraphy workshop, and since I'm a lefty, I ended up having to hold the paper with the top edge to my right and write vertically down the page. That way, the letters came out looking correct and I didn't smudge the paper.
Which is ironic to me because the US is less pro-nuclear than numerous EU countries.
Adjusted and combined your examples to a gif. The one with the red square is the Hack font.

http://i.imgur.com/8SqL6mT.gif

Aside from '_', 'i', '0', many of the changes are so minuscule that it feels more like a change for the sake of change. Some however are nice, like the parenthesis placement, cleaner 'r'.

One thing I really don't like is the change to a serif-style comma. They've probably argued that it improves readability, and prefer that over typeface consistency.

They should emphasize more the previous work they are using, otherwise they might come across as ... hacks.

I'll probably stick with inconsolata though. But good job, nonetheless.
Torque does taper off, but power does not. It rises smoothly to peak power at ~80-90% of max RPM, then declines modestly.
I tried at least 60 times and eventually stopped 15 years ago.

The secret for me was not to "give up smoking" because then you are psychologically giving something away for nothing in return - your subconscious mind does not like that. So don't try to give up smoking. Just stop smoking temporarily.

So each time the urge came up to smoke I said I would defer the decision for a few minutes and make the decision about having a cigarette a little bit later. So I never stopped forever I just "stopped for a short while". So far the decision to have a cigarette has been deferred for about 15 years.

I also made the decision to smoke a tangible choice between all the good things I would get from not smoking, and the things I would get from smoking. "I choose to be healthy and have clear lungs and not die young, instead of choosing to have this cigarette". As opposed to "I'm going to deprive myself of a cigarette that I really want, for nothing good in return."
Austin, TX mayor announces city as first test site for fully driverless cars
I quit smoking after trying and failing several times over a two year period by following a simple rule: if the urge to smoke even flickered into my mind for a split second, I had to smoke a cigarette. Initially I went from smoking 1/2 pack up to 3-4 packs/day. Within a short period of time (2-3 weeks or so), the smell of cigarette smoke made me want to puke. I got very good at controlling my thoughts regarding smoking and controlling my impulses. I was totally off smoking within a month and never went back.

I'm not sure that is a good technique but it did work for me.

edit: inspired by this episode of he-man, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnmMyqffSQU
As Christopher Alexander explains in his books: we forgot how important it is to build for humans. I think that's the core of the problem.

But sometimes it's difficult to see what this means. Building roads for cars isn't bad because it's helping humans to travel. But when car roads overtake the pleasure of being outside something went wrong.
How does atomic waste contaminate the land with radiation? Isn't it shielded?
FQXi (39 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10130203

Nature (1 comment) (same link as this one):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135260

Scientific American (0 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10139598

Ars Technica (0 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141658

Forbes (0 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10129946
Alps, France.
Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Koh Phanghan, Thailand.
Bergen, Norway.
Lofoten islands, Norway.
Pyrenees, France.
Jura, France.
Lago maggiore, Italy.
North of North California, USA.
Oregon, USA.
All Pacific northwest, USA.
Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Blue ridge, Georgia (?), USA.
Area between Czech and Slovakia.
Parks West of Zagreb, Croatia.
Mountains, coast and parks in Serbia.
Luckily some disciplines have a journal of negative results :-)

Eg. http://www.jnr-eeb.org/index.php/jnr
I find using the thumb for the first digit much better, since it's the one switching each time when counting up or down. I use this for counting down reps on one hand and sets on the other during exercise.
Cars are strangely enough one of the only energy usages we have right now that is not dependent on base load power. Inherently they must carry the energy they need with them, and therefore can store it from any time of day. So it'd be fine to supply them entirely with intermittent, variable sources like wind and solar, given sufficient total wattage.
Compared to tobacco, vaping is healthier ... without the cancer

While that is certainly possible, I'd rather wait for some longer term research before making such claims.
Discussions about cursive writing on the Internet confused me quite a bit until I noticed that there seems to be a pretty large difference between what I learned in Germany and what people in the US learned.

What children learn in Germany for at least a few decades now looks like the following: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Vereinfachte_Ausgangssch...

From what I understand, the cursive script that was taught in US schools was much more complicated with lots of little flourishes. The simplified cursive script seems a lot more practical to me, and I wonder if that is a factor in the the decline of cursive writing. The negative reactions to cursive writing I've read on the internet from people in the US seemed a lot stronger than anything I've ever heard from Germans.
Acupuncture helped me quit after 8 years of smoking and several unsuccessful attempts w/ nicotine gum or patches. It was probably an elaborate placebo, but I've been smoke free for 7 years.
>'acting black' yes that would be racist, because that's speaking of the individual.

This criteria is nonsense. If you have an asian guy committing a crime and you say he's acting black because he didn't get enough white privilege, both of those components are racist. His crime and his relative privilege level have nothing to do with his skin color.
The Paris cycling infrastructure is freaking non-efficient. And dangerous. Pedestrian and cycling zone are way too mixed, accidents between the two are very easy. Now, pedestrians hate cyclists and cyclists hate pedestrians. You cannot cycle freely becahse the cycles paths are a kind of bigger pedestrian path.The only place where you could use the bike in an efficient way are bus paths (also including taxis). It's interesting but not really secure as busses are very disrespectful with bicycles.

The political action is a fail in the case of Paris, because they did it only to say let's see, we did something for you, but they didn't reply understood the things that are explained in this video. They don't want to take the risk of loosing pro-cars electors and it is a pity.
Nuclear is pretty clean if the waste is dealt with properly and stored safely, until we figure out how to use it.

My understanding is that the radiation problem in Germany is since Chernobyl...

I don't think people's viewpoint on this issue has anything to do with nationality.
Cogito, Ergo Summer
I miss writing with fountain pens, and use gel rollerballs exclusively now (cheap, waterproof, I don't cry if I lose it, and the office has boxes of them). I like them well enough, and my writing is more legible ... but I really miss the experience of writing w/ a fountain pen. The feel is very different.

If you're curious, one of the cheaper ($3-$4) disposable fountain pens (I think it was Pilot?) were a great introduction. When I first used one (on nice paper that didn't suck up all the ink into ugliness), it was amazing, even though I know there are better ones out there.
I found this article more helpful
http://googler700.blogspot.com.tr/2015/08/self-seo-training....
This right here made me stop as well. I used to keep a box in plain view. That facilitated the thought of "It's right here, I can smoke any time I want. I'll just not smoke right now, maybe later if I still feel like it, the box is going nowhere."
18 is conspicuously missing, is anyone (everyone?) incapable of extending both their thumb and their ring finger? Or extending their ring finger alone, without using their thumb to hold down the middle finger?
The Soft Logic of Soft Targets
This is a good setup, I had similar years ago to deal with screen.

One general word of warning with ssh-agent: Only use -A to forward it to another host that you completely trust, as anyone with root on that machine will be able to use your private keys.
Add fields to the evidence that could correspond to the fields in police information systems.
Ask HN: How are you checking password strength on the client?
You also have to remember that from the beginning they knew they will also need * and # or some kind of extra keys for programming and admin tasks. With touch tone phones came many other innovations in the phone industry. So with 5x2 layout you would actually have to make it 6x2 or 5x2 +2 on the bottom. In both cases it would look and function poorly.

Also, remember that they had a lot of left over molds for rotary phone designs, and they probably intended to retrofit pay phones with rotary dials to touch tone. 3x4 layout fits a lot better into a circle than 5x2 or 6x2.
List of Nanacast High Ticket Digital Affiliate Program Offers
A neuroscientist who believes addiction is not a disease
The peer-to-peer scaling, matching and pricing fallacy
For what it is worth, the lowercase cursive characters I learned in American public primary school around ~2002 were very similar or possibly identical to the lowercase characters in your image. However, the uppercase characters did have some more complexity.
> What I don't understand is how the vast majority of the Linux community is not just allowing, but encouraging, systemd to continue to grow without bound.

Red Hat revenue FY2015: $1.79 billion

They can allocate developers to systemd far, far beyond the capability for any other Linux organisation or group who might be developing an alternative approach.

Basically steamrollering systemd into the GNU / Linux environment.
There must be ways this is already covered. I'd be surprised if the president does not already have some level of protection from a mortar being fired where he is due to speak. There must be some kind of mobile in-air intercept method for smaller objects.

Perhaps mini missiles or those gattling guns they have on navy ships. The SS must be able to afford a few vans with these mounted around a perimeter. I just googled mortar defence and they are working on lasers that can stop these in air too.

Source: I know nothing.
+1 vote for e-cigarettes. After 22 years of smoking and lots of tries to quit i switched to e-cigarettes. After 2 weeks smoked only e-cigarettes switched to Nicotine gum. 3 days later quit gum. It was 3 years ago and i am not smoker since then.
Pakistan's Northern areas:

https://www.google.com.pk/search?q=pakistan+northern+areas+t...

This might help you to plan tour:

http://pakistantourntravel.com/northern-pakistan-tour/
GM : Chevy Volt, Chevy Spark, upcoming Bolt

Fiat-Chrysler: upcoming Town and Country PHEV

Ford: C-Max, Fusion PHEVs.

What am I missing here?
This certainly was a rant :)

You do bring up a very good point which is the difficulty that biologists and CS people have talking to each other. As someone with feet in both camps I see all the time both sides talking past each other and completely missing the basic assumptions each side make about the same data. Biologists generate the wrong data because they don’t know what the CS people need and the CS people don’t know what to ask the biologists to generate. It does make a lot of low hanging fruit available if you can understand both fields.
The solution to the refueling speed issue is so obvious to me that I think I'm probably missing something about the economics of it.

All they have to do is swap out the whole battery pack, you wouldn't really own your car's pack. It'd be like propane tanks where you exchange your empty tank for a new one. The whole car would have to be manufactured around this idea to make it easy to lift out the battery pack, probably with some kind of forklift.
What I wonder about is why they didn't choose the calculator layout, or, conversely, why don't calculators use phone dial layout. In both cases speed and accuracy are very important. So, why the difference.
Just the usual "omg we need someone for angular/jboss2.34/.net4.3/... We don't care about compilers, logic, theory bla.

Because development in the industry is becoming as superficial as tinder in dating. Just riding the current hype train.

So we could just throw all our background knowledge out of the window and just teach placing buttons and form fields in angular hybrid apps, right?

I also find the trend of everyone having to do side projects on github pretty weird. No one of my professional friends in other fields would do something like that. Because you might think that what you do professionally is worth more than your hobby stuff. Personally, after a typical work day, in the evening my back and my eyes hurt and I also want to enjoy family, dog, nature or just sleep. I do read a lot of technical stuff or watch coursera or udacity. But even more t-rexing?
I switched to vaping in May and haven't had a cigarette since. In fact, cigarette smoke disgusts me now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/electronic_cigarette was a lot of help.
DNA is far too messy to ever be “solved”. Evolution just doesn’t work that way. It has created a codebook where 95% of the signal consists of doodles and jokes.
EZ Platform and a Graph Database?
Simple length checkers and regular expressions. Only do it as a convenience, and perform all validation on the server as if no checks were performed on the client, as they might not have been.
Did you look for any similar software before you started building? Did you find anything?
I loved them. I seem to recall them not being waterproof, though.

For paper, try the bamboo-based paper from Staples. :)
>In the UK obesity in boys is around 16%, in the Netherlands it's around 1.6%.

Not to detract much from your larger point, but this is much more likely due to diet than cycling. If the UK is picking up eating habits similar to the US, the ~200 calories a day you might burn from a leisurely bike commute (can't be vigorous enough to cause sweating) isn't going to be enough to offset the big caloric imbalances that lead to obesity.
Nuclear waste is orders of magnitude less in volume but orders of magnitude more dangerous, to the point we have to plan to keep it out of reach for literally millenia.
There will be a gas engine, but not powering the wheel, they're saying the 3 Series will be converted to an "electric drivetrain": the ICE only does electricity generation, transmission is electrical and only electric engines power the wheels (aka diesel-electric or "series" hybrid)
Thanks for sharing the link to Nabokov's reply. Sometimes the context behind literary rivalries is as educational as the subject matter itself. I think Wilson wasn't far from truth when he said that Nabokov likes to suffer himself, linguistically, and made others suffer as well. I remember gaining distinct caustic feelings after reading Nabokov for more than 10 pages per day. His prose can be poisonous.
Thanks!

You are right, it is a fantastic way to learn the fundamentals of emulation. It's not too large to be overwhelming and not so small that it's trivial. It's the perfect size for your first emulation project.
Tahoe and its cousin Escalade hybrid are interesting, but it seems both are discontinued. Hopefully, Chevy and Caddy are taking the lessons from Voltec and are applying in these categories.
I came here to ask this same question.

On my right hand, I can move my ring finger as independently as any other, but on my left hand, I cannot extend it fully by itself. I can extend it if I simultaneously extend the adjacent pinky, but not alone.
The muscle which extends the ring finger (at the MP joint at the base of the finger) also extends the middle finger.

It’s basically impossible (for me at least) to simultaneously flex the middle finger at that joint while extending the ring finger, unless I relax the relevant muscles and use some other force (e.g. my other hand) to hold my middle finger down or my ring finger up.

More generally, there are lots of shared muscles between the last three fingers and especially between middle and ring fingers, so moving them with some degree of independence takes training and isn’t ever perfect. The index finger and thumb are much more independent and flexible.

You can flex the middle joint on the middle finger while mostly extending the ring finger, to sort of make a passable #18 by the scheme in the wiki article. Overall though that binary counting method isn’t all that well aligned with comfortable finger motions. A better one could probably be developed, but it might be a bit more complex.

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2005-05/1117326759.An.r...
Krabi, Thailand. Avoid Phuket or Ao Nang, Krabi town is a bit off to the side but extremely peaceful and rural and tons of nature and unguided exploration to be had nearby.

Also outer Taiwan, Jeju Island (S.Korea), Okinawa, Fukuoka (Japan).

Parts of south India might be tempting, but the quality of internet can be very frustrating and can offset the quality of the nature.

source: all places I've passed through or by as a nomad in the last 2 years.
can't watch any of them without signing up or you work in the ivory tower. pity, it would have been nice to use as an instructional aid. and no way i'd shut my lab for 2 weeks - if you're interested send your own damn post-doc for visit...
Damn, that first line is so obvious why it's needed. I feel like the rest of the app doesn't matter at that point, so I dunno how to factor it in :P.

Good job anyways. :)
The p-value test isn't a model, it's a measure of the significance of an effect in data against random noise.
Because coal power releases more radiation than nuclear power, and those energy sources are what americans know best. Nuclear is the lesser of two evils, and less ubiquitous. It's somewhat of a false dichotomy.
It's because the U.S. is so hesitant to do nuclear that its inhabitants are so pro-nuclear. The U.S. isn't having to deal with nuclear's faults.
Well, that would mean they've signed two contracts which they can't fulfill simultaneously, but it wouldn't make the original posts a copyright violation, only the subsequent redistributing that Medium might do.
Well said.

I often wonder how a new product has many competitors within weeks of launch. Can't just be that everybody thought of it at once.

The hive mind will explain this away as coincidence but could there be something more sinister going on.

Investors are cavalier about this "trust us with your idea" rhetoric but the truth is that you, as the pig in the bacon & egg breakfast, have no recourse.

They may have liked your idea but not the team. They may have underperforming companies in need of a pivot.

The fact that cap tables get passed around from so called confidential meetings should scream play your cards close to your chest.

What else are they sharing?

Principles often crumble under self interest.
U.S. behind in exploration of Arctic
Tesla have started doing this, but I do not recall the details.
Embarressingly enough- "the easy way", e- cigs, declaring it to myself four months ahead of time & lastly doing it on the first day of a two week vacation.
A Financial Early-Warning System
Never been in SF, but lived in Switzerland. Everyone cycles there, even in the Alps centric cities.
Because it's the lowest common denominator and most "portable" platform out there. It also allows client-to-client communication without an intermediary server.
I'll second this recommendation. the metropolitans are great pens.
FWIW, I quit after something in the 15-20 years range, by mostly saying "I will quit".

But: I did give myself some "escape hatches", i.e. I decided I'd still have a few cigarettes in the case of wedding and bachelor parties, of which I had a couple coming up in the following six months.
I knew those would be really hard spots to go through, so I just made them into goals, "I will go this three months without a smoke, then when we go party hard and I'll have as much as I want".

By the time you get to the third or fourth time, you have lost the habit enough that it doesn't matter anymore.

£DIT: but honestly, I believe most of the clichéd advise is probably correct, and that you can effectively quit only if you want to quit. Most people who try don't really want to.
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Germany started their nuclear power phase-out in 2002, well before Fukushima. In 2010 the Merkel government decided to extend the lifetime of the existing power plants by 8 to 14 years, which was heavily criticized at that time. The only thing the Fukushima 2011 incident resulted in was that the phase out was accelerated but it would have occurred nonetheless.

> if the waste is dealt with properly and stored safely

At least in Germany, nobody figured out yet how to store the waste properly for a long-time. Remember, that the country is densely populated. For example, take a look at the Asse II mine.
+1 to the mental attitude and intermittent fasting, has got me to quit fasting.
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