skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if stating the true facts as reported by the Nuclear Energy Agency is "disingenuous".

On 17 May, analyses performed by TEPCO indicate that significant fuel melting occurred in the unit 1 reactor core with relocation of molten fuel to the lower portion of the reactor vessel. Further, the high-temperature molten fuel (greater than 2 800°C) appears to have caused small leaks in the lower head of the reactor pressure vessel....

On 7 June 2011, the Government of Japan releases a report prepared by the Government Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters for the IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety (20-24 June 2011, Vienna, Austria). This report includes analyses of the damage to the cores at units 1 to 3. The analyses show that unit 1 has suffered extensive fuel melting and that the reactor pressure vessel has been breached.

http://www.oecd-nea.org/news/2011/NEWS-04.html

Multiple additional reports, totalling about 50: http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/search.html?q=fukushima+meltdow...

Or:

1. Introduction
The triple core meltdown at Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant on
March 11, 2011 is the worst nuclear catastrophe after Chernobyl in
1986. The substantial losses of this accident have aroused in the
public opinion an old age debate: Is nuclear power safe?

Safety Science
April 2014, Vol.64:90–98, doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2013.11.017
How Fukushima Dai-ichi core meltdown changed the probability of nuclear accidents?
Lina Escobar RangelFrançois Lévêque

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925753513...

Or:

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
Volume 49, 2012 - Issue 1

"Analyses of core melt and re-melt in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors
Fukushima NPP Accident Related"

Fumiya Tanabe
Page 18-36 | Received 11 Aug 2011, Accepted 16 Sep 2011, Published online: 24 Jan 2012

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18811248.2011.636537

Abstract:

Analyses are performed of the first core melt behavior of the Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 reactors of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on 11–15 March 2011 as well as the re-melt (melt again) behavior in another chaotic period of 19–31 March 2011. Analyses are based on a measured data investigation and a simple model calculation.I

Keywords: core melt, re-melt, severe core damage, Fukushima, nuclear reactors, energy balance, zirconium steam reaction, hydrogen generation, core materials inventory, core water level

A Google Scholar search turns up over 9,000 similar results:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=10&q=fukushima+core...

Please do not spread disinformation.
Welcome to the world of call centers, they were the most crushing 3 years of my existence before I finally managed to get a lucky break and land a software development job. Thankfully, all the ones I worked at also had CSAT metrics I was judged by, I may not have gotten my "bonus" (really, I just had reduced pay instead, let's be honest) but always getting high CSAT scores allowed me to have higher handle times without having the managerial fist brought down on me. It's mind-bending to think that there are places where CSAT isn't even a thing and you are measured purely on your handle time, especially for what by all means counts as a civil servant even if the job is outsourced to a third-party contractor.
続く is 14 strokes, so Japanese beats English!

I could go on ... and "go on" is only 6 strokes.
That's not the problem. What you're talking about already works.

There's numerous things that can go wrong, here's two common ones:

1) The page you are going back to is a login prompt, which immediately redirects you, overwriting your "forward" state.

2) Javascript. Everything can happen. Everything will happen. Your worst nightmares will come true.
I watch sport because I enjoy watching sports, not because my guy wins
i worked as a contractor in both britain and states and really didn't have to put up with as much shit as employees had to. toptal is cool for digital nomads or folks from low COL countries. remoteok.io is your best friend in a remote job job search
I used to wonder about why some people get so into sports just by watching but then I read about "mirror neurons" in the brain. When one human watches another succeed, fail, jump for joy, cower in terror, etc, the mirror neurons in the brain give the person watching part of that sensation too. I suspect that some people have much stronger mirror neurons which would have the effect that when their favorite team scores a touchdown, they actually feel as though they had participated in the victory. One hypothesis is that mirror neurons developed as a way to help create social bonds through empathy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
The Theory of Concatenative Combinators (2007)
There is also this (unfortunately discontinued) competition series, with a lot more tiny programs to examine and maybe even challenge yourself against:

http://www.hugi.scene.org/compo/compoold.htm
I have had absolutely no training in how sickness benefits work. I don’t know what happens when I send a claim to be processed, so I can’t answer any questions about what will happen next or when somebody will get a payment.

How about you take responsibility and actually learn what your customers want you to know and call you to find out? How can you advise your customers on things you do not know? Frankly, this work environment sounds like hell but I am not sure if it's purely a managerial problem.
Global Brain
Little danger, I guess. The eradication program introduces no new evolutionary pressure on worms' lavae living in water. Those filtered out or killed in their hosts are removed from the gene pool anyway.

On the other hand, we may discover more such preexisting hosts, as dogs. A parasitic relationship that evolved over a much longer period than a few mere decades and evolving from a much larger population than the few individuals thought to remain in the wild.
Because answering these questions would lead to more questions and would raise his handle time, he would be docked on his review scores for going off script. Having worked in call centers for 3 years not long ago I'm kind of surprised there exists a place this scripted that isn't India, but if you want to keep your job you play by the rules.
Despite the well-known schoolboy doggerel (Latin is a language / As dead as dead can be. / First it killed the Romans / And now it's killing me!), there has always been a live community of Latin speakers, via the church. At no point was there a 'with the death of' at which the last speaker passed away.

As for English, it's jolly nice if one happens to have the world's lingua franca as one's native tongue, but surely we could wish for something better than English as the world's language? If nothing else the orthography could be both simpler and clearer.
Any other answers they gave would 1) take time and 2) be off script. Both of which would lead to trouble.
Had to look the acronym up:

CSAT = Customer Satisfaction from 0% to 100% or completely dissatisfied to completely satisfied.[0]

I do not envy that job at all. Congratulations on the new job.

[0] http://www.impactlearning.com/resources/metrics/customer-ser...
Whatever Happened to the Secondary Selection in X-Windows?
It's not inaccurate; you can't stream the Olympics from NBC online without having a cable subscription. Of my friend cohort (late 20s), we are all interested in the Olympics, but none of us have cable, so we can't watch it except at bars or the occasional after-work group. I'd love to follow the events, but I can't open a stream as easily as I can a YouTube stream—what's with that?! NBC has been given access to the public airwaves in the US and that should come with a responsibility to show content openly, but they're not. I looked to buy a USB TV turner, but there don't appear to be any that receive US broadcasts that work on OSX (at least for under $100, which was my arbitrarily-chosen budget for watching the Olympics).
It's not Windows but MS-DOS, which allows for pure binary executables (COM format) that are nothing but instructions. Thus even a single-byte file is executable (C3, RET - i.e. exit immediately.)

AFAIK Linux has a higher minimum size, as the ELF header alone has to be at least 45 bytes:

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...
I once visited Lubbock, Texas, home of Texas Tech, a big football school. And there, the stadium just towered above the rest of town. The good burghers of Lubbock didn't build themselves a sports arena. They built a damn cathedral.
There are many ways to sort. Typically sorted first by radical, then by number of strokes.

There's more than one ordering of the radicals, and choices to be made when characters have the same radical and the same number of strokes

Paper dictionaries are very thumbable though, the current radical is usually highlighted in a way that makes it easy to flick through and find what you need
I thought that the Date API was closely copied from Java? I do agree it is nasty to use.

Tim's ideas are just dangerous - they ruin compatibility for questionable gains. Why not just invent his own standard and call it something else, rather then trying to bust what we have already.
I Botched a Perl 6 Release
OK so not a unicorn. Maybe they can find a few people I guess?
I thought he was just using that as an example to see what the risk of collision was - not actually suggesting that they be used.
Tokyo's population is also projected to go into decline by 2020, at which point all of Japan's prefectures and major cities will be declining.

http://www.newgeography.com/content/005042-peak-people-japan
> The standout thesis of the book is that from a birds-eye-view perspective (what the state sees), cities that were designed to meet the local needs of people look chaotic

That sounds exactly like big gov't promoters, and trying to solving things at the federal level.
That's, like, your opinion, man. I care about the Olympics and all of the obscure sports, because I want to see humans doing amazing things with their bodies and pushing the limits of what is possible. I also buy into the narrative of it being an excuse for nations to come together. I also like that many of the events focus on individual success. The Olympics have the only sporting events I ever watch apart from tennis championships.

I do agree that the NBC coverage is awful. Their commentary could be much more subdued and intelligent. Fortunately it is possible to mute the inane audio.
I would love to see such a report for VR text rendering.
> to pander to users who are apparently too stupid to notice that the focus is somewhere other than the text field they're entering into

I think you've just insulted a lot of people. I've run into the backspace behaviour multiple times and never on purpose. Here's a few reasons why it can happen, apart from stupidly mashing my keyboard, which I assure you, doesn't happen very often:

- touchpad not registering a click on the text field

- element reloading due to weird js and losing focus

- tab switching properly between the first 4 fields, but then focusing some random button instead of the 5th input

- broken custom JS elements which don't quite understand focus and editing

- general keypress hijacking which doesn't do what you want

I don't look at the keyboard as I type and I don't always look at the screen either. I expect the text actions (input and editing) to work on text. If I have to think about which possible, implicit mode I'm operating in, it's a bad design. Or are you saying that before every keypress you visually verify where your cursor is, is it blinking, is the right window focused, are there multiple cursors with fake focus, etc?
Am I crazy? Am I the only one? I'm absolutely serious about the following ...

I'd love to have a full size T. Rex skull in the middle of my Living Room. Of course I couldn't afford to buy a real one, so it would have to be a reproduction. But it would be totally awesome as a graphic reminder of our planet's amazing history. (And besides, we spend much of our time in the Family Room, not the Living Room; it's not like it would really interfere with anything.)

My wife didn't think it was such a good idea when I suggested it while we were visiting the dinosaur exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.
Or two strokes and a dot in cursive. A principle that also applies in Chinese and Japanese
That sounds like UberPool. I'd be interested to see whether larger, less nimble vehicles would make it better or worse. It doesn't seem obvious either way.
How much is the percentage of the people who is living in the city and makes that amount of income?
We do seem to be talking past each other. Against better judgement, I'll try once more.

Dave Aitel can be the world's foremost expert on developing zero days with no peer in sight, but that doesn't automatically make him (or any expert) trustworthy. One of the great things about our government (when it functions correctly) is that we don't have to trust any one person in our government too much. We have things like transparency, checks and balances, competing interests and so on that help force everyone to be at least somewhat honest and responsible. The arguments that we should just shut up and trust the FBI and the NSA go counter to that. The EFF may not be expert in exploits, but even school children in the US understand basics about government corruption and the need for checks and balances.

I do think I understand Dave's argument. Oversight and transparency applied to US agencies with regards to exploits will not also be uniformly applied to non-US agencies and their use of exploits. Why does that matter even matter? Well, nobody seems to be coming out and saying as much but Dave and others strongly imply that we are in the middle of a secret all-out no-holds-barred high-stakes computer security war with other countries right now. Burdening the FBI and NSA with any kind of transparency or oversight requirements will put us at a disadvantage in that war and Bad Things will happen if we lose.

If that's really the case, then it sounds like we need Geneva Conventions for cyber war, something that protects all the worlds citizens from the land mines and mustard gasses of state sponsored computer hacking. Before that could ever happen we'd need to first admit we are in the middle of a cyber war, and nobody seems to want to do that.
> Wouldn't that have at least been a real effort and protected them from being charged with fraud?

They were charged with securities fraud, not plain old every day fraud. My guess would be that just their "conservative scenario" of "you get all your money back" would be enough to put them into securities fraud territory. Having read a fair number of securities documents, that claim really leapt off the page at me. Usually offering documents have an extensive list of risks and stay far far away from promising your money back.

That said, I'm not a lawyer, and this was a prosecution under Colorado state securities laws (I'm much more familiar with federal). I would be interested in an expert answer to that question from someone who's familiar with the case law and the typical approach taken by prosecutors in similar cases.
> Some roommates spilit at 50%.

Seems reputable.
One could write a com loader for Linux pretty easily.
Nominal democracy and nominal communism didn't exist in the same country because they were each belief systems of different empires. The ideas themselves are certainly compatible, both being just different takes on collectivism.
How about we educate politicians?
How did they expect to build the web portal, if no one on the operating team had any knowledge of how to do so?
> The key is skipping complex grammar

I personally tend to think about languages a lot in terms of grammar. The reason might be that in German (my native language) grammar plays a much larger role (four cases and lots of rules for declination and conjugation) than in English (also in Russian grammar plays a very central role, as far as I know).

As I have often written on Hacker News when learning German I would strongly recommend to get the grammar by heart (yes, it is complex and ugly), until you don't have to think about it anymore (if necessary by rote memorization) since

> trying to think in the target language

for German means thinking in the German grammar. Any approach that tries to skip grammar at the beginning will soon confuse learners, because for example verbs are typically associated with some class of object (either based on a case or a preposition) and if you use it wrong often the meaning can change. For example :

auf etwas warten (to wait for something) has to be used with an accusative, so

"Ich warte auf den Zug" (I'm waiting for the train) is correct

If you use a dative instead, this is also yields a correct sentence, but with a completely different meaning

"Ich warte auf dem Zug" means you are on the top of the train and waiting, since "auf" followed by dative is a local adverbial.

So learn the grammar correctly from the beginning.
In my experience, it is more typical to use percent change or relative change in the physical sciences and this is how I was taught. Just to be clear, if you have values t1 and t2, the relative change is (t1-t2)/t1. There is a 1 to 1 correspondence with what you described which is t2/t1.

I think teej explained it well. If I say "the new value is +20% or -20%", it is immediately obvious those have the same magnitude and opposite direction. But, for some people, when I say "the new value is 120% or 80% of the old value", it is not immediately obvious that they have the same magnitude. It requires a small extra step for the reader to realize that this means the same amount of relative change.
E.g. where? I'm curious
Does it mean support for h264 Hi10P profile too?
"Conrad and Axani have taken the detector down into the Boston subway, using the changes in the muon count to calculate the depth of the train tunnels."

The main point, though, is to expose younger students to undergraduate-level physics concepts cheaply and easily.
This seems quite relevant to the work that Orbital Insight is doing.
On some websites. If they rely on loading special display state based on the anchor in the link, your previous state may be lost.
The Gold-Medal Journey of America's Most Elite High-School Mathematicians
This has nothing to do with looking down on sports themselves, but the institutions that manage them. The article mentions the Olympics practice of costing host cities huge amounts of money and other problems. There are also football stadium that get very unfair subsidies. Taxpayers subsidize high school and college athletics and the benefits may not be worth it. There are now serious concerns about serious brain damage being caused by some sports.

The article also mentions youth athletics which is the worst. Parents are overly harsh on their kids. The events are overly competitive when it's just 9 year olds playing what should be for fun. The games aren't designed very well for small uncoordinated kids, and many kids get excluded.

So there are many things to criticize sports over. The main point the article was making was not that sports suck. Just that they aren't allowed to be criticized in our society. Suggest that you should change youth sports, or that the football team doesn't need a brand new million dollar stadium, and people will give you a funny look and ignore you.
This feels very heavy and not as useful as other models such as Markov Decision Processes. Can someone enlighten me where this would be more convenient to reason with than an MDP?
Smarter commute with a dumber phone
I saw it when it was live but only noticed it was flagged because of http://hckrnews.com. It's really the only way to browse at this point. So many flagged or dead stories (some that even have value) I never would have seen otherwise.
1980 was 36 years ago, far far away from he 20 years GP mentioned. You should do your math before varying to contradict someone and ending up confirming what they said...
that's a simple solution yes, but also a verbose one. the primary appeal of json as a data exchange format is that it maps to ubiquitous types like objects/hashmaps, arrays, strings and numbers. if you need to hint the decoder or manually perform conversions it loses a lot of appeal as a user
It's a great educational project for a physics class, from what I can tell. The article (http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01196) is nicely detailed and accessible to undergraduates. Good introduction to instrument design and construction, especially if (as the author suggests) the students are asked to write their own analysis software for it.

As far as applications go, the article offers a few ideas:

1. Measure the relative depths of subway stations across the city, using the measured
muon rates.

2. Test relativistic time dilation on the cosmic ray flux by measuring the flux at various elevations, such as in an airplane or on a mountain, compared to sea level.

3. Investigate correlations between the atmospheric temperature/pressure/humidity and the count rate.

4. Investigate seasonal variations in muon rates.

5. Using multiple detectors, measure the angular muon rate by looking at the coincidence rate.

6. Lower the gain of the circuit to look at high-energy stopping muon events. Investigate whether or not one can see the Michel electron from the muon decay.

Tempted to build one, but I don't immediately understand how it discriminates between muons and other forms of ionizing radiation that an ordinary Geiger counter will pick up.
Real images of nature
war spending rarely steps in the way of space spending. liberals hate the space program the most. they would much rather spend the money on healtcare and education. war as it turns out, has a lot of interest in space spending.
A list of Free Software network services and web apps that can be hosted locally
I just got out of my degree and have the exact same problem. I was thinking in getting a full-time RoR + react job because that's what many startups are using. However, I don't know the exact reasons they use it besides the large community. It's hard to make a framework choice without knowing what are the parameters to be considered when you have zero experience.
I'm baffled with the number of people who can't see that placing delete a character and delete everything on the same key is crazy.
Could you leave your room freely? AFAIK that's the only disadvantage of love hotels compared to hotels.
If you need an easy to write, debug, and operate RPC tech for building networked components with minimal dependencies/effort, writing Go servers with RESP (iirc, REdis Serialization Protocol) is surely the way to go. I've built several of these things (although, with a custom RESP parser), and, from my experience, the ROI is pretty high -- it's up there with bash scripts for getting stuff done.
Yes, saving input won't be possible. But generally, applications that accept user input and cannot save it for some reason ask for confirmation to lose it, so users won't lose it accidentally. Take a text editor for example, you can open it and close it and it won't bother you, but if you write a few words and try to close it, it will ask you whether you are ok losing the data. This is what users expect nowadays. Chrome team somehow doesn't understand/recognize that and instead of fixing the problem in a generally accepted way, tries to rearrange the interface to have fewer accidents, breaking UIs too much in the process and pissing off a lot of users. And that's bad.
Saying that "all" of NASA's research is being made available is a stretch given it's known they work on a lot of classified projects with the military, intelligence, etc.:

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB509/
3 months is actually 13 weeks, which is why I referred to it as more.
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