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>> Fukushima was an unsafe design

> Fukushima was a standard design.

The design was unsafe. The company knew this. In fact it had been known for 35 years. It was not unfixably unsafe, and in fact 5 of the 10 reactors had been upgraded. These 5 shut down properly during the Tsunami and survived without problems.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023048879045763955...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-general-electric-knew...

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/16/fukushima-reactor-flaws-...

The main design flaw was that the vital emergency cooling equipment was sited in an unprotected building outside the protected reactor. This is especially troubling if you site your reactor on a Tsunami-ridden coast. It's less of a problem in the middle of Germany, where there are no Tsunamis. Or to put it another way: if you have a Tsunami reaching the middle of Germany, a meltdown at these powerplants is going to be among the least of your problems.
This article doesn't have a lot of information but my first instinct is to ask: if children are dying like flies and you are a reporter then the best way to confirm this to the British govt, to MI6 and to everyone would be to report on it.

My second thought was: I wonder in the future how many people in positions of wealth/power will come out as having worked for GCHQ/MI6 given this seems to be a growth "industry" in the UK.
I was diagnosed with a low grade diffused tumour about a year and a half ago after having a seizure at 26. I understand the difficulty of having to grok through all that terse information. That said, I found http://astrocytomaoptions.com/ by Stephen Western to be a helpful portal of information.

All the best to you and your family.
The problem is that even if you understand those concepts well, you're not necessarily able to apply them after most programs. If your startup is in the business of crating new algorithms to solve various problems, that's one thing, but what most want is someone who knows what existing algorithm should be used to solve a problem in the best (or at least an acceptable) way, and do so in a manner that's both expandable and maintainable. Ideally, they're looking for a craftsman, not a scientist. These roles can occasionally be found in the same person, but it's extremely rare in my experience.
Can we ever really know another person?
Suck was one of my favorite websites of that time! Thanks for the reminder. Too bad it didn't last.
Our friend patio11 wrote a bit about it here:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/
Without something like Homebrew you don't get any current Unix tools (OSX shell is way out of date) or anyway to systematically update them. This is a big benefit that far outweighs any perceived benefit dropping bundles into /Applications. And you get some attempt at installation of dependencies.
Excellent pen. My daily "driver" are the Uniball Jetstreams, a ball-point that writes like a gel rollerball. Amazing little pen, considering its $7.
1960s design, things have improved.

Of course, it is hard to demonstrate improvements, especially when nuclear power is so demonized.
Spiritual+Conspiracy:+Peace+And+Love
Neural qubits: Quantum cognition based on synaptic nuclear spins
Dropbox is down
I just found my "suck.com" tee shirt, the one with the stylized fish holding a gun. I'm afraid to wear it in public, because I imagine people will associate me with some crap amateur porn website.
I would suggest either using this: https://github.com/yhat/ggplot

or this : https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/pulse
Given spotlight is getting more and more broken, I'd say give "locate" a try.
Absolutely. This is what I posted on the other copy of this article:

The problem is that even if you understand those concepts well, you're not necessarily able to apply them after most programs. If your startup is in the business of crating new algorithms to solve various problems, that's one thing, but what most want is someone who knows what existing algorithm should be used to solve a problem in the best (or at least an acceptable) way, and do so in a manner that's both expandable and maintainable. Ideally, they're looking for a craftsman, not a scientist. These roles can occasionally be found in the same person, but it's extremely rare in my experience.
Why patchouli of all things?
> If you were to take every single car on the road today and replace it with an electric car overnight there would be massive, massive blackouts, everywhere.

Not quite true. It's estimated[0] that up to 75% of light-duty vehicles (the kind regular people drive) could be converted to electric without requiring major grid upgrades. The one major assumption is that most people would be charging their vehicles at off-peak hours (overnight) which is already the case[1].

[0] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518066/could-electric-c...

[1] http://www.powermag.com/impact-of-electric-vehicle-charging-...
The hills of San Francisco are comparable to The Netherlands' highest 'mountain' ;) You'll have to go to the most southern tip of Limburg to get something that might resemble SF, except SF's hills are steeper.
Army officials ask NY public for help finding lost missile
Conference papers aren't much use here, really.

I'm no expert, but in your shoes I would be looking for the most experienced panel I can find, hopefully with neuro specialists preferably (e.g. a neuro-radiologist, neuro-oncologist, etc. as specialists). If there is a teaching hospital with a good reputation in your area they may be more current on techniques than a purely clinical one (but this isn't hard and fast). Don't ever be afraid to ask questions, and keep at it until get a clear explanation of the panels reasoning behind their suggestions.

Best luck to you and your relative.
But MB did exactly that recently with the introduction of the CLA.
Wired: Huge Lego Bricks for Building Real Stuff Like Desks and Furniture
say -v cellos "Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo"

:)
Thanks for combining these images. The red square was really clever for peripheral vision identification of the image.

I agree with a lot of what you said here. Weirdly, they went sans-serif with the 'i' and serif with the comma. I'm personally a fan of commas, semicolons, and quotations having the same visual flavor and the Hack changes went farther from that.
> When coal has a major incident, though, it still produces the same pollutants as if it's working correctly.

Yeah. No.

"Coal mining accidents resulted in 5,938 immediate deaths in 2005, and 4746 immediate deaths in 2006 in China alone according to the World Wildlife Fund"

So each year more deaths from coal accidents alone than the entire predicted, somewhat speculative and hard to ever prove death toll from Chernobyl over the next 20 or so years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities
I use: open vnc://myServer.local

It will open up the screen sharing app and connect for you :)
So no "representative" part in representative democracy. Might as well just call it an elected doctatorship, as thats what its closer to.
I agree with TFA that p-hacking is a bigger problem.

Low p-value <=> null hypothesis is unlikely.

Choose a shitty null hypothesis ("aliens did it!", "everything is Gaussian", etc) and you trivially get low p. Peer review checks this to some extent (you won't get away with "aliens did it") but there's a large gray area of null hypotheses shitty enough to give low p but not shitty enough to be rejected by peer review. Choosing the hypothesis after-the-fact is the most common strategy because it's undetectable except by repeating the experiment, which is hard.
The "charging infra problem" is a hoax. The "fuel" comes out of ordinary electric sockets. People have them in their own garages, no less. Even the old EV1 from the 90's got a 75% charge in only 15 minutes.
True, to a point. Geography should affect planning, but we haven't done a particularly good job of that in many cases.
There is also a real danger of a sunk cost fallacy being applied to the later (existing infrastructure), for example.
It uses the same underlying API. I use it too. It’s only on–off, though, so you have to remember to turn it off.
> Build hydro-pump-storage plants, and you fixed the storage issues.

You do realize that the largest ever energy-generation accident was a dam failure? 171000 people killed in 1975 when a dam in China failed. And overall, hydroelectric facilities claim 94% of the fatalities of energy-production accidents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities
A patient's lingering polio virus complicates its eradication
How so? From my perspective, it looks like the DC appeals court in particular is a slave to the "intelligence committee", and patent lawyers.

That is, it's compromised in some way, and therefore rules in favor of Deep State type things all the time.
Agree. Though until people never mess up their computers, we'll always need root. All super user interactions should be logged and audited, always. Not just "this was logged..." Which most people know means no one will ever look at it. But if everyone knew that was backed up with a call as to why that interaction happened with no associated case, etc.
I gone through his previous blog post and found the changing Server: header field. Why have to waste time for rebuilding nginx from source for that? Why not just insert 'server_tokens off' in your nginx.conf?
The drone wasn't carrying a loaded gun - that was seized from the two men.
I've been keeping journals for all my personal projects for quite some time now because I find it useful to "get context" when I go back to a particular project after some time. So something like this certainly piques my interest.

My journal is usually a journal.md at the root of the project, like so: [1]. It has a very simple format: datetime stamp, text. Sometimes I use bullets and indented text, but its usually prose or code.

Do you want to consider pulling journal updates directly from people's github as a feature? Of course, my kind of journal is a little too detailed - intended for me to pick up when I get back, but maybe a publicjournal.md which would be the author's ready-for-public-consumption version of the journal?

[1]https://github.com/vinodkd/halo/blob/master/journal.md
With a Porsche Macan S (which has terrible gas mileage) I can see a noticeable difference whereby in cold weather temperature (doesn't auto idle much) vs. warm weather I see about 2 mpg difference in city driving. Haven't done any specific calculations but that is what I have been seeing.
Back in the day you'd "telnet" into your friend's "Sun workstation" and cat an "aiff" to the "/dev/audio". How times have changed! :-)
I would expect a more detailed breakdown of the individual parameters. The type, name, is it a pointer to type, etc. should all be in separate fields
The Difficulty of Taking a Bite Out of Food Waste
Aw, that's terrible. Sorry about your relative.

> Another question would be, how to find the best specialists in my Area for this kind of cancer?

I used to work in finance helping analysts evaluate biotech stocks, and one of my responsibilities was identifying thought leaders in the field and setting up consultations with them.

On metafilter someone asked a question "Let's say you wanted to find the very best ovarian cancer specialist in the US. How would you go about doing that?", and I answered[0] with the kinds of things I would do for my job. It might be helpful for you.

[0] http://ask.metafilter.com/267385/How-to-find-the-best-doctor...
This is a really neat idea... when paired with the Express middleware and Babel, you could have a pretty clean ES6 app with modern browser features and still have it work on older browsers.
This was posted last year and did very well on HN [1]. I remember because it is literally the thing that got me interested in using the command-line as a power user...I'm embarrassed to say I hadn't really understood piping, but curling texts from Gutenberg into `say` was a fun introduction. Now I constantly use open, pbpaste, and pbcopy... learning about screencapture was also extremely helpful for my blogging and tutorial writing, as I've written a few wrappers around it to customize and optimize its output, including auto-uploading it and creating a snippet I can quickly paste into a blog post.

Great list!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7747982
In all likelihood, they like people who fart. However, that doesn't necessarily mean they'd like to be greeted that way.
I've used gcc-xml (apparently has been superseded by another tool now) when I've needed this sort of thing in the past. It has the advantage of being a real C parser rather than a jumble of regexes.
This isn't a direct answer to your questions but I hate this disease with a passion and any discussions about mainstream research avenues that ignore other less well-accepted forms of treatment get my emotions in a whirl. (My sister died of brain cancer.)

Please consider researching the benefits of marijuana in your efforts to help your relative. It provides tremendous relief for pain and nausea and cannabinoid treatment causes cancer cells to commit suicide. [1]

My thoughts are with you and your family.

[1] http://valme.io/c/diseases/cancer/52qqs/enough-of-this-nonse...
Secrecy is an inherent factor in F1 - no team wants to give away valuable data to their rivals.

If you're interested in the technical side of the sport, there are many journalists providing very detailed analysis. Craig Scarborough, Matt Somers, Steven de Groote and Ted Kravitz spring to mind, but there are plenty of others.
I just love those idle minutes in the tube when no one can get ahold of me for once.
Oh absolutely, I think there's also definitely a sense of disdain for the US in the Netherlands for many of the reasons you mention. (democrats being much further right than even the VVD, healthcare had been a joke for decades, substantial debt as a condition for getting a college education, public schools being sub-par, media like Fox News are a joke etc). My point wasn't in saying that the Netherlands is like it, but rather that compared to say France or Germany or Italy or many European countries, we've drawn a lot from the US. The vast majority of all popular movies, music, television shows and books are from the US. Not to mention consumer culture.

And while we're pretty good at standing our ground, we tend to flirt with a lot of American concepts. For example mandatory sentences, a staple of the American justice system, has been numerously put forward by some Dutch politicians, despite fierce resistance from judges and attorneys. Private schools, honours programmes, the removal of study finance during a slow rise of private funding by scholarships. In healthcare we've seen a very slow but noticeable trend to drop fundamental aspects of healthcare from mandatory collective basic insurance towards 'additional' insurance packages, from 'de pill' (not insured for 21 and older) to the majority of dental work. Some years ago we flirted with flexible pricing in dental work, fortunately when it turned out to be a disaster the government didn't double down but sensibly shut it down. And in the rest of society we saw a period of deregulation (since the crisis the trend partially reversed) and privatisation.

You can find these influences all over Europe of course, but the degree of pervasiveness of American influence in say France or Germany isn't quite as large. France has Hollywood, sure, but mixed with French cinema, and often dubbed.

Let's not forget for example that France actually has specific anti-foreign policies. It's not often discussed but France has had screen quotas for decades, i.e. cinemas aren't allowed to show foreign movies for substantial parts of the year. 40% of TV must be exclusively French and another 20% European, leaving American influence a minority. Stuff like that is intentional, to have France remain French, in the Netherlands it's contrary to our international diplomatic and business model which is to be an open economy, which is susceptible to influences from abroad, and naturally in particular from the world's hegemony. In France it's called cultural exceptionalism, mostly practiced in cinema and literature. As a proxy of its success in sustaining a vibrant French cinema industry you could point to a study (pretty old now) in the late 90s about the number of cinema festivals France held compared to other European countries here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/timeline/13255a67e...

But I do agree with you we've been able to do things a 'Dutch way' quite well, and sensible Dutch policy is pretty much the only source of nationalism or pride for the country I have. (I'm normally not much of a chauvinist)
Internationalization and Localization in Your React Native App
> Detectives are still baffled as to how the maths genius and expert cryptographer died.

Geniuses, the lot of them. If someone is folded into a bag it stands to reason that he died by being murdered, it's not as if the body would have entered that bag by its lonesome and then padlocked it shut from the inside (they actually claimed that's what happened...).

The question is not 'how he died', the question is who killed him.
Then why have it lock at all? You must never have access to critical things like a bank account, source code, internal documentation of business ongoings. So basically if you have no sensitive information, by all means!
And I hope that I would get fired for a little rare, light-hearted humor as I wouldn't want to work there anyways. Chill out, winston.
I don't think anyone claims any computer systems are 100% safe. However, I think they will be much safer than human drivers. I, for one, will take the one in a million chance of a computer error over the probability of encountering a drunk/fatigued/distracted driver any day
The title of this thread is "First South Americans Were Australian Aborigines", just making sure we are all aware that this sub conversation concerns a different population at a different time. Might as well throw in some Vikings ;)

Super interesting point about evidence of Polynesian travel in New Zealand. Now if there were some of that evidence with regard to South America, we'd be all clear. But there isn't as far as I know, which raises even more questions about the sweet potato conjecture.

With regard to the glacial maximum, nobody is claiming the oceans were plains to roam around. But a sea level 100 lower may uncover some new islands and make island hopping a whole lot easier. For example, Baral Guyot is a barely submerged island https://earthref.org/SC/SMNT-257S-0866W/ along the Sala y Gomez ridge and Nazca Ridge.

Obviously there is no archeological confirmation of the conjecture I made, but that leaves both conjectures in the same uncomfortable spot.

Edit: Here's some actual research on sweet potato: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/01/22/169980441/how.... I hereby retire my glacial travel counter theory :)

This places the sweet potato travel around 1000 AD, which matches pretty well our conversation, but it's definitely not evidence for "first americans".
This is a really great example of why not to use random CDN's just because it is convenient. Currently they are just serving internal server errors.
Agreed. The simpler solutions are cheaper and easier to maintain. There are just too many points of failure on a system such as this.
I've begun doing that too and second integration with git. I wonder though, why don't you embed your journal within the git log? Relevant commits of mine accompany a journal entry that goes after the empty line in the commit message, it makes for easy and contextual reading--these entries tend to be paragraph-sized though.
Though, wouldn't it be better if all software on Mac used the native package manner? Obviously in an ideal world...
An asteroid miner.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9587627
I'm so proud of my previous work, put to such a good use.
Over consumption of food is one of the worst problems facing America. It's about time we held the obese responsive for their actions.

Obesity, like other addictions, is a behavioral problem.
I'd submit it's really not possible to digest the ton of information you've found with any confidence that you can pick the "right" path for your relative. After all, such large masses of information is why doctors specialize -- even they can't digest such quantities unless they spend large parts of their professional life living the information.

A better bet is to find an expert who has digested all that information, and use him or her as your guide. If you are not confident in the knowledge base carried in the brain of your relative's current doctor, you can find out the people in the world who know the most about GBM by looking here:

http://expertscape.com/ex/glioblastoma

Disclosure: my cousin developed Expertscape.
I wouldn't go so far to call them secrets, as in my personal experience gurus tend not to keep secrets; they're just neat hacks that not many people know about nowadays.
Show HN: Real-Time On-Demand Market for Local Services
Italian firm Eni makes huge gas discovery off Egyptian coast
I would definitely join the 16 gang
DaSpec: awesome markdown executable specifications
Hidden tear offline – open source ransomware works without internet connection
Likewise - British here and fountain pens were compulsory - first and only thing I wrote with until I left school. Everything had to be handwritten, typing, pencil or ballpoint got you a fail. Regardless of the fact that I learned "joined up writing" from day zero, my handwriting still looks like a spider had an accident with an inkwell. Weirdly, identical to my uncle's.

Since, I barely write - I type everything.

Edit: also, this wasn't long ago. Finished school in 2001.
What an awesome contest. After 5 minutes of reading, you can dive right into it! And it's fun too. I'm still thinking about a good way to hide the malicious code though.
Suggestion noted! I put this together today so there is definitely room for improvement.
The original EV1 had a 16.5kWh battery, so to get a 75% charge in 15 minutes it would have to pull about 50kW. If by "ordinary electric socket" you mean a NEMA 5-15 or 5-20 i.e. standard American 120V socket, it would have to pull about 420 amps. Since the wiring and sockets are only rated for 15 or 20 amps respectively, this would pretty much instantaneously start a raging fire if you somehow managed to pull that much current without tripping the breaker. Even at 240V, you'd have to pull over 200 amps, which is beyond what most houses are provisioned for, beyond what any 240V plug is rated for, and far beyond what the actual charger could handle.

The actual "high speed" charger for the EV1 was 6.6kW, so a 75% charge would take a little under two hours. On a normal NEMA 5-15 socket, a 75% charge would take about ten hours.

To charge at 50kW you'd need DC fast charging technology, which wasn't available until a decade later.
Especially if such reflector units could be mass produced and designed such that their mooring+maintenance requirements are absolutely minimal.
Well the way for a reactor to "demonstrate an improvement" over Fukushima would be to withstand the same kind of earthquake + tsunami that Fukushima didn't.

It doesn't make sense to say it's hard to demonstrate improvements when it's not even under our control.

But demonizing nuclear power has nothing to do with it.
Sure I have. And so did everyone else in my group. If you can't trust the people who you work with... In the middle of the day someone will notice someone else using your computer. If no one does then the camera overhead will.
Yes, just because you can make a website that people view does not mean you deserve money for that, the days where eyes on screens == $$$ are rapidly ending.
EVs are great for "idling." Energy use by accessories is negligible compared to the capacity of the traction battery. Even climate control can be pretty reasonable. A Tesla can sit with the radio on and the air conditioner running and lose just a couple of miles of range per hour.