skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowhere does he claim that sleep deprivation is a recommended treatment. Simply that it has been found to boost depressive moods.
Have you by any chance seen the Futurama episode "A Big Piece Of Garbage"?

A few points:

Onkalo is in Finland, and the storage facility is ONLY for waste from Finnish nuclear plants. It also isn't complete as far as I'm aware. I see that Sweden are also building the same style of storage facility in Östhammar, but I don't see any similar construction going on in the USA, France, UK, Japan etc. It may be happening, but there definitely isn't a lot of press about it. This leads me to agree with the grand-parent's point about honesty. Surely, if this form of storage is actually a solution, everyone would be doing it and advertising loudly that they were.

Secondly, the KBS-3 standard's final step involves storing the waste for 100,000 years! And, according to the Wikipedia article on it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBS-3, linked from the article you provided the URL for) there were some questions raised about the copper capsules used as one of the storage layers, and the fact that the Finnish company building the Onkalo facility (Posiva, owned by the 2 main players in Finnish nuclear plants) seems to be being duplicitous in the way these questions are being dealt with. From the article "independent research conducted in Finland has supported the results of Szakálos's group. However, in public, Posiva dismissed the independent research in Sweden and Finland, referring to its own safety studies."

So, to quote the grandparent comment, "As long as the pro-nuclear crowd circumvents addressing those concerns ... I'll be on the anti-nuclear side."
I'm actually looking into this a little right now since I happen to work for a media monitoring company. I can tell you there is a definite correlation between them, but haven't been able to determine if it's a leading or lagging indicator.
As someone who starting in January, I would disagree with this.

The most HN relevant things that are awesome about EVE are how open the devs are with data. The developers have released their databases (Items, ships, stations, etc) which I have made some extremely handy apps with. The market is a ton of fun to play with an also has pretty easy to use APIs (Eve-Central). A lot of the files can be read extremely easily, and there is apparently talk of making market orders updateable via API in the future (This could mean full or partial automated trading).

With my ~4 month old character I've explored low-sec, played in worm holes, gotten into PvP fia FW, etc. There isn't much I haven't been able to do and I currently have more ISK (~2B) than I can really lose with the ships that I'm currently flying.
Having this setup really helped when my card was skimmed. I received a call from my bank asking if I had anything to do with attempting to purchase some very expensive train tickets in Sweden. They tried to make a large purchase, and when the card was rejected they tried to make a smaller one - but still over the small amount I had in the account.
i could be mistaken, but i'm pretty sure we do all kinds of horrific tests on mice, specifically for our own benefit.
It's interesting that they use a chip reader internally, but

> you still run into the problem that a) ATM design inherently involves pushing the card into something

Makes that moot. Interesting about the card readers that wiggle the card in, I think I've seen one or two of those. I wonder how hard that is to defeat with a more intelligent skimmer (wheel to measure how fast the card is moving to compensate?).
And? Even with his family and party's influence over the popular media, he's not entitled to control over his "legacy".
http://www.google.com/trends/

Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, has been talking about using Google Trends this way for a while: http://www.frbsf.org/economics/conferences/1103/Varian-part_...
I actually have Logstalgia running with my primary server for Minotar, and at 4,000 requests per second this is normally what it looks like. Awesome program!
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Depends on what you're using it for. If I'm just joining part of a crowd-sourced asteroid detection group (which would require some hardware other than what they put up), I don't need access to it 24/7, if I can batch up some photos I can collect them in batches, etc. I wouldn't use one of these for internet access or something, I've got much better options for that already.
Perfect information is impossible, and the information held by an elected body is infinitely less perfect. There is no way they can take into account the subjective values of each person better than the people themselves, so it will always tend to be a majority forcing its preferences on a minority.

I make it no secret that I object to this. I think it is unethical and I certainly agree that I won't persuade you on that point. However to some degree I think you do see a problem with it, which is why you try to downplay the costs by pointing out that it is "only" 50p or "only" 5 minutes. If forcing your risk tolerance on others is indeed ethical, this psychological hedging wouldn't be necessary.
> near absolute-zero temps

Although space is cold, due to the vacuum the biggest issue is getting heat away from the devices. That's why the main part of EVA suits is liquid cooling.

> radiation of space without being using radiation hardened silicon

They are only in low earth orbit, so the magnetic field of the earth would provide pretty good protection.
Google search terms could also predict a completely random time series. You just have to pick the right search terms.

If you look at enough words the chances, that some of them have predictive value approaches 100%.
God says...

before the one, even unto Dan.

12:31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the
lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the
fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and
he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the
calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the
high places which he had made.

12:33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the
fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had
devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of
Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of
the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

----

God says...
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1. Space debris certainly doesn't have to be small to be dangerous. Objects about 1cm in cross section can be tracked from the ground, and these are in a known orbit, so are probably okay.

2. I heard somewhere that the batteries needed to be replaced but not much else did, don't have a reliable source for that though
A search on Google didn't pull much up for me on which banks offer this. Do you know which banks off hand?
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You use Google Trends:
http://www.google.com/trends/

What's interesting is that I had this exact idea with precious metals. The frequency of the terms searched (like gold or buy gold) matches the gold spot market index impressively closely.
I don't necessarily disagree, but (unfortunately?) there is a well-known result that aesthetics affect perceived usability [1]. Clearly, making your site look better does nothing for the underlying usability, but the perception of usability is arguably just as important. I believe Apple has demonstrated this with each iteration of OS X: aesthetic concerns always seem to trump usability concerns (example include the Dock and the behavior of green window button) but the OS is more popular than ever.

Of course, you're still left with the question of whether choosing a flat design improves or detracts from the aesthetics of site. Here we're venturing into the realm of the subjective, but I'd venture to say that, given the current trends, it hardly seems like the worst thing you could do.

[1] http://www.sigchi.org/chi97/proceedings/paper/nt.htm
Agreeing with the other reply here, and I'll expand on it a bit. When I just did a big redesign of my company's website, I spent probably far too much time playing with the color palette to get it "just so". I'm not a pro designer btw, but I wanted to get this as right as possible as early as possible so I had a good, well, palette :) to work with.

Agreed that one of the discoveries I made is that HSB feel like the more "technical" way to design a color palette, and it felt more right from an engineering perspective. You define your colors as pure hues -- that's a top-level decision ("I want my colors for this project to be black, gray, yellow and white"). Those are your base H values. Saturation and Brightness are then your derivatives on the base colors -- lighter in some places, darker in others.

This is all self-taught, so my color theory could be way off here, but I also found that you can generate fairly pleasing schemes through regular intervals along the spectrum. Pick a hue, for example, and then look at variations in saturation in steps of 10, 20, 30, etc. It's not an exact harmonic scale (or is it?) but that was enough to give me a good base.

Check out the app "Spectrum" if you have a Mac -- I played with a bunch if similar apps and really loved this one the most -- still use it all the time for color exploring:

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43784/spectrum
It's not your app. It's Ubers app, installed on your phone.

How do you know Uber hasn't screwed with your app? And how does the driver know that you are not screwing him with a tampered app?

It's not only you and the driver that need mutual trust either, the tax administration also has to trust the app.
Yes, I started doing this as soon as I got a debit card after two of my friends were beat up to surrender their pin numbers. One of my friends was held for 7 hours in a tunnel by a thug while his pal was busy taking as much cash as possible and when the limit was reached he started buying expensive, easy to sell goods.
He lost all of his money.
I learned my lesson from his very traumatic experience.
At WWDC, the souvenir jacket is really cool. :) Most of the worth is not in the sessions, IMO, especially since post-session Q&A was done away with. Now you might as well just watch the video. But there's hallway networking, and access to Apple engineers in the labs (I'll bet the iCloud/Core Data folk will be particularly "popular" this year). Is it worth the nearly $3000 I'll have to pull out of my own pocket? This year I decided it wasn't. YMMV, and for over 5000 people it obviously does.
The two sites experienced different levels of ground acceleration and inundation (with the newer one experiencing less of both). If you want to insist that the design made a difference, you should probably do more than just wave your hands.

The fact that Dai-ni only almost lost backup power was probably a major boon. If they had lost active cooling, things probably would have been just as tenuous as they were at Dai-ichi.
Thanks Shane -- quite a neat idea!

In the very immediate term, we are also tracking the recruiter's activity and engaging them 1-1 on community rules.
If pg has a problem with the term 'Engineer' then he's got a problem with its meaning (which stems from 'problem solving' essentially). I'd rather be called an engineer (an ingenious person) than a 'hacker' (whatever this means).
I agree with your points, but I set out to mention just one logical error, and Argumentum ad populum seemed most apt as a single example.

The argument that only a minority of misinformed people hold a particular view is a negative version of Argument ad populum. Apart from that, I agree with your analysis.
This used to be standard practice for internet banking here in Germany, but not for cash withdrawals or debit card use.

I seriously doubt this method is ever used for that, as it would massively increase the risk when your card gets stolen (along with the PIN list you'd have to keep on hand). Additionally, I don't think it would work with international payment/withdrawal networks like Maestro.
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This looks awesome. I've been itching to try out some ideas I have after having gone through Bishop's book, but I've been hesitant to write the algorithms from scratch. Now I'll have to decide between learning matlab or a library such as this.
Being depressed made me sleep less, which in turns made me feel even less powerless and my depression got even worse... at least in my personal experience
This might help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository

It is anything but a solved problem. And of course none of this talks about decommissioning reactors and what to do with the low level nuclear waste that is the decommissioned reactor.
If it were called the Apple Hackers' Conference you'd be complaining that Apple was trying to be hip.

It's been called "Developers'" conference for as long as I can remember (which is at least as long as there's been a Mac), Apple's in-house magazine for people developing/hacking/programming/whatever was called "develop" until the idea of a magazine was moot. Apple called "programs" "applications" starting with the Mac and stuck to it. It's just a word -- get over it.
"Because there probably hasn't ever been a person who consumed a particular batch of refined nutrients for nearly every meal"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gorske
Having your own mapping/sensor satellite would be interesting. You'd need a polar orbit to get really complete coverage, but more likely most of what you'd be interested in is in the lower latitudes and some orbit that is inclined from the equator some amount is all you'd need.

[edit] Here's a catalog of satellite orbits courtesy of NASA: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OrbitsCatalog/
Actually an Engineer should be reserved for those who actually have an Engineering degree.

It is a professional designation akin to a Doctor, Lawyer etc.
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Sorry ... I meant in Stockholm. There the market is free (as few swedes here comment) with no artificial barriers on entry like medallions. There are rules but they are for everybody. So if Uber cannot make their model work they should not operate there and not whine for exceptions. So they should just find ways to make money or seize to operate there. They could bring efficiency - cheaper, quality - faster response time etc or better cars or something.
> [Natural gas] has already reduced U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions to their lowest levels since Newt Gingrich’s heyday.

That's true if you just look at CO2, but if you take methane leakage into account things aren't so pretty. Several studies have claimed that the overall greenhouse effect of fracked methane is as bad as coal's.

The gas companies dispute that, saying the data is poor. They're right about that, and the reason is that those same companies refuse to install monitoring equipment.
So good, exactly what I need for my little hobby project. Thanks for sharing!
Could part of the problem be that adding an "engineer" to a title is also used as a pseudo-euphemism for low ranked workers? e.g. maintenance engineer = janitor
WWDC has never been about freebies that I can remember. I was just explaining to a colleague that WWDC was never really a marketing exercise (beyond the keynote). (Obviously it IS a marketing exercise, but it's classy enough not to seem like one.) It was devs talking to devs honestly and -- post Steve security aside -- openly.

(I attended for years and the only freebie I ever got was an iSight camera. I'm told I won a raffle for a (transparent) Newton but I wasn't there and so they drew a different winner. No, I haven't gotten over that.)
It's totally a thing, the latest in an incredibly long line of the latest thing.

Zeldman wrote this in 1999 and it's still true today:

"The web used to look like a phone book. Now much of it looks like a design portfolio. In fact, it looks like the design portfolio of 20 well-known designers, whose style gets copied again and again by young designers who consider themselves disciples. Distinctions between graphic design and communication design are lost on these designers. As is the distinction between true style, which evolves from the nature of the project, and derivative pastiche, which is grafted onto many projects like a third arm."

http://www.adobe.com/motiondesign/content/en/Dialog_Box/Styl...
I think the question to ask is why are the professors who tackle writing these books going through such distribution chains?

It is not the monetary incentive. My friends who have contributed chapters to books generally see essentially zero return from royalties when the books are printed/sold.

Academics are more concerned about getting their name out (i.e. prestige). The business a professor runs is his/her name and they must market and position this well so that they get the funding and grants and the agencies recognize their name. There is nothing limiting professors currently from assembling notes into a textbook using free tools like LaTeX and putting their book on the web. Some currently do this (thank goodness!). However, putting a point on a CV that you uploaded a PDF file to your personal website versus being published by a well-known publishing firm makes a big difference.

That would be the problem to tackle: assuring authors that their time will be worthwhile. The fact that a book gets through the process to be published is seen as a mark or seal of quality, whether this is in any way true or not.
Words have different meaning to different people. The Feminism label carries a political context that Egalitarianism label does not and not every Egalitarian is automatically a feminist as you claim.
Uber was built from the ground up to make money.

Everything else is PR.
> In the article, it states that our core has temperatures comprable to that of the sun. However, the sun is 93 million miles away while our core seems to only be approximately 4000 miles deep.

I was thinking you were about to ask why in the universe are we not able to measure the temperature of earth core that's only 4000 miles away from us and yet we claim to know the temperature of something that 93 million miles away... :)
That's great! I see you're not a physics major, so I apologize if I came out as aggressive.

In general you want to keep 1 or 2 digits in the s.d. and align the precision of the mean accordingly.
Does anyone know if there's a good ML library written in C# or F#
Sorry to hear the Q&A is gone. Have the feedback sessions gone too?
People show empathy for tortured robots
This is one of the things that you know instinctively and you can relate immediately when somebody puts it out in a formal way.

Myself and a friend of mine suffer from depression and we both feel much better when we are somewhat tired late in the night.

Anecdotal evidence was there, so we both used to get things done just before sleep.
Brain cancer rates have risen by a quarter over the past three decades
Me too, but I'm a bit confused by:

authenticated with a superuser

So is this primarily for editing your own site? I'm looking for something where users can edit their own data.
I can't be the only person who utilizes Uber/Sidecar/etc and shuns deregulationism, can I?

The problem in many of these situations is the nebulous definition of "taxi", "towncar", and other conveyances, along with the protectionistic (for self-preservation) industry. If the definitions had anything to do with consumer safety/protection, I'd be opposing Uber as well.

Are there any cities in the US and abroad who have handled the Uber problem by updating their regulations in a more harmonious manner? I'm aware of those who have tried to ban Uber's loopholes outright, but I'm curious how any may have integrated these services while eliminating perceived exploitative aspects of their business model.
I agree, I have to watch my sleep patterns because when I don't get enough sleep, it's much easier for depression to kick in.
The ____ is broken headline is broken.
> why don't ATMs in Europe use chip and pin yet?

Most if not all of them do. But the cards still have the mag stripe to be compatible with ATMs all over the world that don't - and those are where the cloned cards are then used.
Ah I get it. Thanks. I barely touch these stuff... hence not aware of it. Thanks for the insight.
I would say a century of study of this specific topic is "starting somewhere". Now, while I believe Zombie Feynman would go far, far more hungry in a group of nutritionists than he would in a group of string theorists, it doesn't mean that there isn't a lot more knowledge than what is contained in a single, undergrad text book (witness the lack of sulfur) that espouses thinking to has begun to be significantly altered by new science in the last decade. To completely ignore that isn't "starting somewhere", it's blindfolding yourself, spinning a few times, and stumbling off.

I'm all for experiments with n=1 in nutrition (I do it all the time), but call it what it is. Don't pretend that, even if it works for six months or a year on you, that you really have any info that is relevant to the rest of the world. Increasing his n with others is a good start, but it will still take 50 years or more to know if this stuff is poison or panacea.
Agreed as well. Nothing makes the day WORSE than not enough sleep; and it never feels like enough.

Edit: And, as is the style of the day, we've had links on HN/SA and others that not enough sleep hampers cognition, weight control, and stress (which are all triggers/symptoms for depression in many people). So, you need to sleep more, and less, simultaneously?
Some of the most prominent researchers in the US believe that 40-60% of Americans suffer from hypothyroid, possibly in combination with syndrome x. Both of which cruelly cause weight gain AND reduce energy/ability to exercise. That percentage would have to include "most obese people" -- heck, most people, period!

The thing with these 2 issues (hypo/syndrome x) is they are both a cause and a symptom. You can't tell who did what to themselves tabula rasa, or what was done to them (as you point out) by genetics, by childhood, by an environment laden with adrenogenic/estrogenic chemicals, etc. A parent's poor diet changes the expression of genes which can have effects on their children; the additives in food today can have toxic consequences and the food is engineered to be addictive. Sure, personal responsibility. But most people aren't smart enough, or educated enough, or well-positioned enough to fight all the odds against them. And doctors, in my experience, are worse than useless.
The only time you should ever use your PIN number is when it's absolutely required to complete a transaction. That means at ATMs, getting cash back at a retail store, or purchasing certain items like money orders or prepaid credit cards. NEVER use your PIN outside of these transactions. It increases your risk significantly.
You should ALWAYS put the hand over the other one while you type the PIN number. At least your PIN typing is not going to be recorded. It's something.
Same here. This article is utter nonsense. I've battled depression for years (successfully) and one of my top rules is 'get enough sleep'.