skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Butterfly effect only has meaning in a closed system simulation context, where we can find a small difference in initial condition which triggers major changes in later simulation. When talking about real life, it is meaningless, because we can not "rerun" life to check the result after minor change.
Working on it as we speak! I'm currently running the tests and hope to have a 1.0.2 hotfix ready by lunch.

EDIT: The 1.0.2 hotfix is now available with the token generation fix as well as 2 other enhancements.
My 2 cents:

- Tech predictions tend to be incremental. Back then things were made of levers and pulleys, so all the tech predictions are solutions to problems using this particular hammer. In our time, it's an app. Would anyone pre 1950 have predicted that just about everything is going to be turned into numbers? Even our mechanical stuff like servos and combustion engines are controlled by calculating machines. At the same time, you tend to think you're at a fundamental level, wherever you are: who here doesn't think that information science (algorithms, Shannon limits, calculability) are fundamental advances that will continue to be relevant forever? Well, 100 years ago people also thought they'd figured it out and that we were just about to finish physics. Then quantum and relativity came about and turned everything over. (Heck, the Romans thought they'd figured it out.)

- A rather major revolution during the last 100 years is in materials. This changes what just about everything is made of, what can be made, and what it costs to make. Also strangely unappreciated.

- Aesthetics are hard to predict. People in the pics are wearing similar clothes and living in similar style houses to the illustrators. Ultimately economics and social memes open up various kinds of aesthetics, but it's still very hard to say what people will think is nice. Look at flat UI. We can have skeumorphic, but for some reason we stopped that.

- Similarly, moral opinions change. Our view of execution has changed. Homophobia is now wrong. Premarital sex is easier to get. There's a whole load of atheists out in the open. Seahorse racing is considered animal cruelty.

- Economics has changed enormously. Both the theory and the demographics. Keynes was years from writing the Consequences of the Peace. Friedman was not born yet. Most people don't have servants. Automation did happen with washing machines and dishwashers. Still waiting for a thing that folds and stacks clothes.
The CEO of the world's biggest company by market cap. was revealed gay by accident on TV and nothing happened.
Mega vendors scramble to control Internet of Things
Looks great! Could you please share what stack this is built on?
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Ghostery

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Boomerang for Gmail

Google Docs offline

Google Sheets

Google Translate

Murdoch Block

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> "Ghosts? Do you believe ghosts in 2015?", no really, what do we know about ghosts not existing, in 2015 that we don't know in 1900?

https://xkcd.com/1235/
> But, as an Eastern European I'm of course biased. I grew up in the economy-controlled '80s when we were experiencing toilet paper shortages, among other things (question for the anti-free market people: how do you centralize the production of things like toilet paper? How do you decide how much toilet paper to make, in the absence of a free market?)

As Eastern Germany (where I grew up) was not experiencing toilet paper shortages in the '80s, I'd say the main source of the problem wasn't the planned economy per se, but other contributing factors.

Amartya Sen makes a strong case for authoritarianism being the culprit, as there are numerous examples of famines and shortages in market-regulated, but authoritarian economies (like the 1943 Bengal famine, where millions of people died).
iodine will detect if the server is directly reachable and in that case send full frames in both directions, just like this application or a normal vpn.
Looking for ideas for a startup eh?
Show HN: Lightgallery – Lightbox gallery with Facebook comments
Amazon EC2 is currently made up of 454,400 servers [2012]
No, they're prefect robots, always rational, and always taking care about the humanity and never themselves.
Haven't looked in details.
I just want to find out if existing chat application are efficient
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Of course, that will not redirect properly to the board afterwards, but I was able to register a board with that address.
Worse, the calculator is starting to show its age. "Perpendicular lines don't look perpendicular because the window is a rectangle," one Texas-based math teacher told Mic.

...what? If this isn't a misquote, I'm wondering whether it was really a math teacher they talked to.
Can anyone suggest a viable alternative for the TI graphing calculator? A mobile app would be great, but the ones I tried from the app store were pretty awful.

So far the best affordable alternative I've tried is... a TI calculator emulator. Which requires a ROM dumped from a TI calculator.

I quickly tried out the Desmos webapp suggested in the article, but it's rather basic and while it might work for a high school student, it's not a serious tool for scientific and engineering work that the TI can be. It does pretty plots but that's about it (I generally use gnuplot for that, and it has more useful tools than Desmos has, albeit a bit difficult to use and discover).

Back in my high school days, I was pretty bad ass with the TI-85 graphing calculator, to the point that I felt like cheating because I could easily use it to solve and verify most exercises and exams. I could have learned a whole lot more maths had I not had such a powerful calculator. And it wasn't even one of the fancy symbolic calculators that high school kids these days have.

The last time I put my TI through its paces was in university orbital mechanics class where I used it to do initial orbit determination of an asteroid based on three observations. That wouldn't have been possible without a powerful calculator, with variables in memory and such.

These days my calculator has fallen into disuse because I need it so irregularly that I don't have a good reason to carry it around. But it would be great to have something as powerful in my pocket at all times.
I love this.

I'm a bit surprised that there isn't currently a Linux distro that focuses on curses/ncurses apps. And if anyone is looking for the gap in the curses market there's no word processors. (Plenty of text editors though.)
Our field is in desperate need of greater gender balance. Seems like a plus to me.
Obligatory xkcd

https://xkcd.com/768/
Nonsense, the entire era of Industrial Revolution happened during authoritarian governments. Not to mention the economic success of Hong Kong or Chile.

PS. Yes, there was huge shortage of toilet paper in Poland during 80's. Huge! My family was standing in the queues for 2-3h to get it.
Our immune system is also full of somatic hyper-mutated cells.
Great! Make sure it's long enough: at least 16 bytes (32 hex characters) if you want to keep compatibility with current tokens, 32 bytes (64 hex characters) ideally.
The health implications aren't as bad with herbivores
The worst part of working at Texas Instruments is people assuming that you have something to do with the "calculators".
I think a lot of the mutations can be attributed to infidelities of single cell sequecing. The amplification of DNA that has to be done has a tendency to incorparate errors. If you start with a single copy of DNA then an copy error early in amplification will look like a mutation.
The neuron data is compared to non-single cell sequencing of heart cells.
This CI supports only windows though, so best way is to use Travis and Appveyor together for covering all platforms
Yeah, that is certainly incorrect. Not only are perpendicular lines perpendicular regardless of the display aspect ratio (edit: as long as you set the projection axes correctly), you can adjust the displayed range in the TI.

And the pixels in the display are square shaped (unlike e.g. Commodore 64 in some modes), so there's no distortion from that either.
> No, Piketty showed that inequality is getting worse in the West.

Yes, I know. I was alluding to the following sentence: "Until this new Asian labour is wholly absorbed and its wages rise to Western levels, U.S. and European unskilled wages will remain depressed and the share of profits in value added will rise." - The author here talks about inequality in the West.
Ill do a quick check when i can (no internet at home atm just moved apartment haha), top of my head for an arma 3 it was around 10 us for a 64 player(again approx info and probably 6 months old at that).

A web interface would take a lot of hastle out id imagine, especially if game specific instances and prebuilt modules are available in a semi plug and olay manner.
The must be talking about curved lines that intersect at a perpendicular angle. I think that might make sense.
The article talks about the burden of regulation, but fails to recognise that the reason all that regulation exists is because people would happily sell vitamin C as a cure for cancer or lemon juice as a cure for HIV/AIDs if the regulation didn't exist.

The fact that an abusive idiot manages to find and exploit a loophole is a failure of that person's ethics and morals, not of regulation.

EDIT

> Underlying it all — but seldom asked — was whether the gigantic costs of regulatory approval are really a necessary evil. Libertarian-minded critics were especially inclined to question whether hugely expensive studies and paperwork should really be required in the case of grandfathered or “generally recognized as safe” drugs, many of which have been familiar to the medical profession for decades or even centuries, allowing for a collective sense to emerge of their safety and effectiveness. But the view that progressives tended to champion — which prevailed — was that older compounds and those used for rare diseases should be held to no less stringent a standard than any other, and should either be withdrawn from the market or have their safety and effectiveness proved at someone’s expense.

A bunch of now generics were introduced when studies were just not very good. There are good reasons to want to see evidence of safety and efficacy.
Perspective is a funny thing. I'm trying to work out the timing, but my buddy and I were running a UUCP network in Manitoba, Canada round about 1988. UUNet had just connected to the internet backbone and we chatted with them briefly about connecting up with them. They said as long as we paid for a T1 from Toronto, they would let us work with them. I'm pretty sure this was before AlterNet, so it would have had to have been prior to 1990. IIRC, the cost to us would have been about $30K per month and we considered the option of starting up a commercial ISP. In the end we decided not to, but at the time I was absolutely convinced we could have made it a viable business.

When Al Gore hit my radar, I thought he was completely irrelevant. In retrospect, I'm sure that's not true because some of the legislation that he pushed through paved the way for commercial traffic. But believe me, it was coming whether he did anything or not.

He may have accelerated the process slightly, but probably not too much. His major contribution may actually have been to maintain US dominance of the internet for a couple more decades. Canada was already gearing up for it and I remember friends setting up fledgling ISPs in about 1993 (right when CANARIE had finished being set up).

Personally, I don't have any real thoughts about Al Gore one way or another. I can see he was very influential, but from my perspective he was mostly just riding the wave as opposed to creating it.
hp-48gx emulator?
There is a screenshot on product hunt page.

http://www.producthunt.com/tech/tinychat

Actually we have made some different design, we don't want it to get copied before we launch.

And trust me from the sign up for pre launch, I can tell you people are Interested.
Easily transfer WhatsApp chat history from Android to Android
2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine: William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu [pdf]
There are some situations in which this might work, but many other where it wouldn't. The asteroid would have to be small enough that the bomb could fragment it sufficiently, we'd also have to be able to hit it early enough and fragment it enough that most of the fragments would miss the earth. If the asteroid was above the fragmentation capability of the warhead, or if it was detected late enough that the fragments would mostly still hit the earth then it wouldn't help.

Bear in mind that if most of the fragments still hit earth, the net energy delivery would still be about the same. This could actually be worse for the planet as a whole than a single hit. Finally, whether such a bomb could be effective would also depend on the structure of the asteroid or comet. This is due to the bugsplat effect, army slang for the fact that when a bomb hits a building or vehicle, the energy seems to be expended very asymmetrically. If you crush a bug with your boot, one part of the exoskeleton will weaken before the others and the insides get sprayed out in that direction. Similarly, if a bomb hits a vehicle often the majority of the explosive effect tends to get directed primarily in one direction. There are cases of people close to one side of a vehicle surviving unharmed, while people much further away in other directions get incinerated or hit by fragments. Similarly if the internal structure of the asteroid is asymmetrical, you could end up with material on one side of the asteroid (perhaps made up of already loose boulder material and dust) being thoroughly fragmented while larger more dense parts of it on the other surviving. Instead of many similarly sized fragments, you might well end up with a large percentage of the object remaining intact and all you did was scrub off looser material.
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Actually now that I think about it, two straight lines, one at 45° and one at 135° would display this problem assuming that the display is not displaying the lines at the correct aspect ratio.
A network-based approach to evaluate the performance of football teams [pdf]
I know a bar where a similar phenomena can be observed.
Excel or other Spreadsheet.
Looks quite nice generally! Especially the line graph with the shadow is something I haven't seen before.

Sidenote: Would be cool if there were alternatives to the Photoshop and Sketch packages. On linux, both are not great to use.
My first thought was Basho's logo, since they both have something sticking out of the top left of the character's head.
It has less features :)

The success of services like WeTransfer or Dropbox is that it is dead simple to use. It does one thing (sharing files) and makes this as easy as possible.

Seafile seems to be easy enough, yet still has a multitude of features compared to YouTransfer. OwnCloud simply has a whole different goal. It's not about sharing files, it is about organising your entire cloud presence (with e-mail, calendar, foto's, etc).

With YouTransfer, you can have the same ease-of-use but on your own terms. It runs on your own servers, with your own (secure) storage. You are in full control.

Given that it is also published as an NPM package, YouTransfer can be modified to suit your specific needs. This makes it interesting for companies to rebrand it and use it as their file-sharing system.
> I'm a bit surprised that there isn't currently a Linux distro that focuses on curses/ncurses apps.

Is there a need for one? You can use all distributions without a graphical UI.

> And if anyone is looking for the gap in the curses market there's no word processors

Yeah, I've been wondering about that. People (including not-so-casual writers like GRRM) still swoon about programs like Wordstar, but it seems all Linux terminal users are content with using vim/emacs/nano/… with TeX (or lately Markdown).
Because you can't text questions for outside help or use a general problem solving app on a graphing calculator. These are safe for exams.
Why does the headline say "written in Rust" when the linked page says it's written in Python 3 (and the repository is full of Python and no Rust)?
Of course, you'll have to use whatever the third-party API uses, which includes Gravatar, but don't use it for anything under your control.

Replace with:

- BLAKE2 if you need a fast cryptographic hash function (e.g. for hashing file contents)

- SHA512 (or SHA256, or SHA-3) if you want a standard cryptographic hash function that is available in your programming language libraries

(Speaking of Gravatar, their use of md5(email) or even more secure hash function won't help protect email addresses against dedicated attackers, as it's easy to iterate over billions of them in seconds, just like in the stories about password cracking you hear, but it works as a simple anti-spam measure.)
A fully transparent solar cell that could make every window a power source
We tried a lot of names , but this name TinyChat fits us best.

True, existing Tinychat is bad . And Names get confused.

But we still love the domain http://tiny.chat
I've never found much use for calculators. The first time through my college science and engineering classes, useful calculators didn't exist (we all used slide rules). Now, I've almost always got a laptop with me when I have work to do so the python REPL is just a few keystrokes away, and for tallying a sum of a few numbers my phone apps work great.
Clearly you haven't worked on an old buggy codebase. Sure that function has a bug, but the rest of the codebase has adapted to it and worked around it. If the function suddenly doesn't have a bug, dozens of other functions will fail in new and strange ways.

The brain would work in a very similar way. If a neuron has a mutation that effects it's function, surrounding neurons would adapt to that.
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I've opted for the 16 bits version right now as it fits better in the UI. There will be an additional issue to deal with improving the bitrate as well as making a suitable UI for it.

EDIT: I'm using `crypto.randomBytes(16).toString('hex')` to be precise
Why the term 'sharing economy' needs to die
Cross-platform 3D mapping SDK (with open source app)
As a comment on the site, I accidentally scrolled "past" the end of the story (e.g. hit some arbitrary marker whilst still reading and scrolling) and was presented by a full screen popup advert saying "Since you enjoyed reading this....".

That's a new one on me, and super annoying.
> My main focus has switched to reimplement this project in Rust as it allows me to realize my vision of a secure password manager which is not possible with Python.

The "reimplement" links to the Rust repository in question.
https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37
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I hope you meant 16 bytes :-) If so, it's fine.

Edit: yep, 16 bytes.
Is there any decent framework that combines the models used by these technologies all into one? It seems a bit unwieldy to have to juggle between React, Redux, and Relay, while also throwing GraphQL into the mix.
> Nonsense, the entire era of Industrial Revolution happened during authoritarian governments.

And whole generations lived in misery during that period. I thought that's exactly what we were talking about?

> Not to mention the economic success of Hong Kong or Chile.

I don't know about Hong Kong, but in Chile the Chicago school free market era under Pinochet ended in the collapse of the economy in 1982.
PyPy: Memory and warmup improvements
I don't understand how some people still stick to the idea of efficient markets and speak against government intervention.

I would say ideology, motivated reasoning and dichotomous thinking, inter alia.
Thanks for a great suggestion
https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/2
so how is this superior/different from other task management system like teamwork, asana, trello, etc, etc...?
Eww ewww ewww! I never realized it was this bad. You have a funny idea of "worked". This seems like pure evil oppression. Long live freedom of speech. That being said we have a similar thing in the west, like clearance that you need for some government jobs(checks your connections to enemy states, drug use, general untrustworthy behavior). Fortunately, such government jobs isn't too big part of the economy. Ideally we'll keep it that way.
In 1993 I bought an HP48 for high school trig and calc. The TI-81 was pretty pathetic, and I think it didn't do calculus. The other HP user in my school didn't know the difference and probably didn't care - her engineer dad bought her a 48. Neither of us had any problems keeping up. While our textbooks didn't feature the TI, the instructors did, with a special version that was usable with an overhead projector.

I still have my HP48 on my desk and use it every day. I wonder how many of the other kids even care about the devices they had in high school.
Hi Legoblocks.
I replied to garrensmith who also wanted to know this.
You can read my reply there https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10330518
So I'm guessing that your participation on HN means one of your most hated companies is ycombinator since
HN as an ad for it
I think its possible with perpendicular lines that arent axis-aligned. An m=1 line on a 4:3 aspect ratio will look like an m=0.75 line.
Everybody says that this is because of their country niceties to the American school board association or whatever it is called.

If that's the reason, why is it used in the rest of the world?i had to get one too for high school in Denmark.
Can you give a link to where you get that information from?

All the places I read are talking about Linux and Windows containers on a Windows machine, but not windows containers on linux machine.
You might want to read about "statistical arbitrage", it's basically what you are describing, and it has been around for more than twenty years.
I think by default it plots from -10 to 10 on both axis. So if you plot y=x and y=-x together they will not look perpendicular on the rectangular screen. You can of course adjust the axes, but if I remember right it's not obvious how to make them match the screen. Graphing tools on a computer or smartphone probably have better default settings.
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But smoking is increasing in countries where the health effects aren't as well known, and decreasing in countries where they are.

Also, smoking companies spent a very long time making sure that the now widely-known health effects weren't so widely known. Lies and confusion. Some of it still happens, especially in '3rd world' countries.
Why not just ban advertising altogether?

Sounds extreme perhaps, but think about it... Isn't advertising all about trying to convince you to buy something you don't need? If you needed it (or even just wanted it), you wouldn't need advertising, you'd seek it out on your own.
Not at all what I'm looking for. There's no nice mobile spreadsheet software and if I have a laptop with me, I'd much rather use something like Mathematica or Maxima or Octave or Python+SciPy or Gnuplot depending on the task at hand.

Excel doesn't do symbolic computation and it's rather clumsy for dealing with mathematical expressions rather than arrays of numbers. Although I must admit that I'm not very good with Excel, perhaps it would be useful to spend some time with it (or the LibreOffice equivalent).

For some basic tasks, I can get along with Wolfram Alpha mobile app (it does plots and symbolic integration/differentiation), but it's not very good for long calculations where I need to store results from previous calculations.