skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Normal particles can see the influence of gravity only particles, but gravity only particles in free fall can not.

This is a surprisingly interesting question. Can a dark particle 'feel' gravity? Most physicists think that any local experiment in a freely falling lab is independent of the velocity and position of the lab in spacetime (the strong equivalence principle). Here local means confined to the lab, but also small compared to variations in the gravitational field. However, you can setup nonlocal gravitational observatories in a number of ways that preserve the equivalence principle:

1) If the DM critters have a way to do non-local measurements, like measuring tidal forces, then they could measure gravity gradients over time. If they can communicate, they can set up gravity gradient sensors in freefall around stars and infer both the spatial distribution and time evolution of gravitational masses.

2) If the DM critters have clocks, they can measure the gravitational redshift around stars and discover stars. This should work even in a freely falling lab.

3) The DM critters could see gravitational waves passing their freely falling lab and infer changes in gravitational fields. This assumes gravitational waves exist (not a bad assumption).
Good switches have always been expensive, possibly because they have a lot of small moving metal parts.

Pots are made with lower mechanical tolerances and are easier to build, so they're usually cheaper.
How much venture capital did Apple raise before going public in 1980?
"In the United States alone, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma estimates there are over 200 fraudulent groups claiming to be Cherokee."

The author doesn't go into great detail, but it the estimate is probably correct given the statistics of the situation. The tribes have the tribal roll with the ancestry. You can do further reading on the genetic testing and people's beliefs about their ancestry.
It's satire.
"Being part Cherokee in Oklahoma is like being a Cubs fan in Chicago." --Sarah Vowell
I can hear the complaints already: "Ouch! Dropbox Sync just kicked in and lagged my AR while I was eating dinner. Now I've got hot ramen all over me... fml."
If pocket is "spyware", I'm not sure Firefox Sync is going to be considered all that much better.
Facebook's New Name Policy Changes Are Progress, Not Perfection
I took that as his implication. In my experience there is also selection bias.
EFF Asks Supreme Court to Apply First Amendment to Speech About Celebrities
But the first photo with a recognizable face was: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664436/
but if everyone believes it is wrong and don't follow it (or part of it), they can't jail/fine everybody...
i work at https://www.abine.com/index.html and we've been doing tracking blocking for 5 years in Firefox (and other browsers). We have a stub for GA - and other common problematically-coded javascript - but it's definitely more than 1 in 1k. implementations that track video plays and many more things are badly co-dependent.
There are lessons from the defeat of the Comcast/TWC merger, which was also viewed as inevitable, http://www.wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/comca..., "… while lobbying and popular opinion don’t relieve the DoJ and FCC of the need to have substance, the intense unpopularity of the deal and the unexpected resistance it keeps encountering at the local and state level certainly don’t help … the widespread discontent provides more evidence to the agencies that these companies already have market power, and that the merger will only make things worse … this looks a heck of a lot less like the quixotic campaign and hopeless last stand many people thought it would be a year ago."

TPP opposition has been higher than expected, http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/stopTPP, "… the dozen trade-watching stalwarts at Public Citizen divided into five teams and went after the Brobdingnagians of global corporate power … it's important to spread the story of the progressive coalition's successful confrontation with the Global Goliath. Its methods and achievements give us a new template for organizing (and winning) future populist challenges to the corporate order. And the breadth, depth, and intensity of this effort show what it will take to forge a real populist movement--multifaceted and with the long-term capacity to pursue our country's deep democratic principles. We can get there if we build on what we learn--and keep pushing."
I'm more on your side on a personal side, but think if Word 2k3 to 2k7 was an automatic update? All the support requests coming in.

The real solution is to do incremental changes in most cases. Though this is a bit troublesome for the whole "I control the code on my machine" thing. In which case you could rip out the updater
Spanner maxes out at ~10 transaction (batches)/second in that paper. By comparison, a standard PostgresSQL installation (on littleish iron) is capable of 50k TPS depending on the benchmark you're running.

In the Spanner design the maximum throughput is governed by the accuracy of GPS and atomic clocks and, ultimately, the speed of light. You can only make 7 round-trips per second between a data center in New York and on in Singapore unless you're willing to bore a hole through the center of the earth.

Order is expensive and, more fundamentally, coordination is expensive. At the center of traditional OLTP workloads is a promise given by the system to the developers that their transactions will happen in some order.

Peter Bailis and Joe Hellerstein are two prominent academics working on addressing this problem, and at the core of their research is giving up pieces of this promise.
And four years later at $400/bitcoin, that's still true.
at this time I would still say thats an accurate statement.
This appears to be PR. They have a reputation as a "black company." For the uninitiated, that means slave-like conditions: unpaid overtime, no weekends, and your supervisor might beat you... literally.

It sounds nice, though.
Sounds like it comes from the same world as pet (one physical server, one job, carefully watched and maintained by admins) and cattle (containers/VMs/cloud where you can go for 1 to 1 million in a matter of seconds) servers.
> There's no standard frame of reference with respect to which you can move

But a Doppler shift from the Earth's motion would create a dipolar pattern in the CMB wavelengths. I mean there is an obvious dipole in the CMB due to the solar system's motion (http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March05/Scott/Scott2.html). I just wondered if we're neglecting the motion of some local cluster.
being in the business of privacy and tracker blocking, I reject somewhat this notion that a "Bigger badder list" is the only sophisticated way to get privacy. Unlike A/V where the most dangerous viruses are the lesser knowns, in trackers, the biggest most prevalent are the must privacy-violating. do "privacy conscious" sophisticated HN readers think otherwise?
YouTube Red Alternative for iPhone
> You want to start with something very simple—as little surface area as possible—and launch it sooner than you’d think

Honest question: does this model apply when your product can't at any point be, for lack of a better word, half-baked?

Say you're making a security product or working on control code for rocket thrusters.
Spectrogram of [equation] by Aphex Twin
Santander InnoVentures, Onevest launch global blockchain challenge
There is, mixergy.com
Why is this not available in standard mode (vs private mode)?
"Most really big companies start with something fundamentally new" urr that's not even remotely true. Stopped reading at this point.
Actually, dark matter could make photons. Anti-dark-matter, if it exists, could annihilate and produce photons and radiation.

http://www.space.com/9302-dark-matter-stars-solve-cosmic-mys...
Maybe.

But at least the information on the Screen page is the god's honest truth...

This site, however, is a load of pure propaganda.

> With Guile you can create applications and games for the desktop, the Web, the command-line, and more.

You can create applications on the web with Lisp? Really?!?

And tell me about all of those wonderful command-line games!

But then there is always the "more". Whatever the hell that is.

Holy shit, the world has just gone completely insane.
Where did I state that "they" must all be poor and in adequate schools?

I agree there is a diversity problem, and my proposed solution is to increase investment in education in disadvantaged areas. And somehow I'm vilified as a closet, biased racist. It's hilarious.

It's responses like this that make any discussion on increasing diversity completely impossible and futile.
> So you don't care that all of humanity is living objectively better now vs. the rest of history. You just care that some people are filthy rich and you don't like them one bit.

Sort of, yes. But my issue with this is not that the obscenely wealthy have so much more per se - I guess there is a moral argument to make there, but I'm not the one to make since it doesn't bother me too much either. I'm mostly with you on that: speaking in strictly material terms we shouldn't mind too much if a small group of people are much much better off than everyone else, provided that everyone is still looked after and the situation is improving.

And, if you're some trickle-down theorist or whatever, you might even say that some people have to be obscenely rich for there to be any progress. I don't agree with that at all, but it's another argument you hear.

Anyway, outsized wealth inequality like this need not be just a problem in a material sense though. It's also a problem in a political sense. Wealth and power are pretty highly correlated, but democracy functions best when power is more diffuse. So a concentration of wealth interferes with healthy politics and governance, and that's why I don't like the massive disparity in wealth we see know, and why I think it's very dangerous.
I don't worry about stuff like this too much, or stuff about the UK wanting to do stupid stuff like ban all encryption. I believe the internet is going to become more private and more anonymous as time goes on. Eventually everyone will be using the equivalent of VPNs on machines/browsers that don't give out any identifying information unless a user extremely explicitly tells it to. Or perhaps something similar to Freenet will become much more popular. We're already seeing hardware (like the iPhone) coming encrypted from the manufacturer with seemingly no way for any government agency to decrypt it forcefully. Ad blockers and tracking blockers are more popular than ever. Firefox just today released an update to help prevent trackers.

It's just a matter of time - ISPs and governments and corporations will lose the ability to track their users outside of their specific platform, and many of the platforms we use today will be replaced with P2P alternatives that make tracking impossible and aren't "owned" by anyone. I am sure the governments of the world will be livid.
> The way it was explained to me by a consultant was to qualify there had to be technological risk of failure (i.e. it is unknown whether or not it is possible to do task X via software).

Ok...

> However the first few companies using deep learning to do facial recognition from photos (eg. facebook automatic tagging)... well they would have faced technological risk. It wasn't known at the outset that deep learning would produce sufficient quality matches to be useful.

This is a wildly different standard. It certainly was known at the outset that facial recognition from photographs is possible to do in software, because people do it all the time. They just didn't know how.
I didn't mean to imply intention to mislead on your part. I'm sorry for that.
Man Eats Uranium, Drinks and Swims in Reactor Water, Ignites Plutonium (2012)
what about YC Research?
GitHub user 4148 just starred 129k repositories and still counting
What's the real difference between an "native HTML5 app", and an "app" that's just a website loaded in an embedded webview, which also takes advantage of HTML5 features to continue to work when you're offline?

You'd expect the latter to change whenever they update the server—so why not the former?
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God damn it. That guy needs to learn to spell out certain key points, when writing an article. Maybe he'll consider bouncing his material off an editor from time to time.

I’ve long ceased questioning students about the specifics
of their claims. Their imagined genealogies may simply be
a product of family lore, or, as is occasionally the
case, a genuine connection to a Cherokee family and
community.

... help explain why the Cherokees occupy a prominent place
in our collective historical consciousness.

... why so many Americans hope to find a Cherokee in their family tree.

He doesn't come right out and say it, for whatever reason, but the thrust of the article is that such claims are dubious, tall tales.

He needs to add at least one sentence clarifying that he believes most, if not all such claims to be full of shit, and pants-on-head silly, or just plain college student shenanigans.

His article would further benefit from a line or three stating plainly that:

1. The Cherokee possess the most popular of all Native American tribal names. People who are lying tend to craft their lies around well-known popular things, especially when a well-known thing might be THE ONLY thing they can remember in a subject area.

2. The Cherokee nation possesses a sympathetic tale as part of the fabric of their historical background. This benefits liars, because it's more difficult to accuse lies upon a person courting sympathy. You better be sure of your accusation, or you'll seem to be a villain amongst the liar's audience.

3. The Cherokee actually DO have a REAL diaspora of actual credible descendents, larger in size than most other nations. This contributes to a knock-on effect that ties into reason number one, there are more actual Cherokees floating around, thus they are more well-known, and thus remain the go-to Indian name for people who might craft lies to embellish their heritage in casual conversation.

These are the main points I'm gathering from the author's article, although he kind of couches his words in oblique assumptions about the reader.

Maybe he's worried about catching heat over proposing these sorts of ideas.
Part of China is closing capacity too: 2 million tons, more than the entire US capacity. It's just that another part of China is still adding capacity, because

"Inside China, the growth of new smelter capacity has been in the northwest, often based on captive, low-cost coal deposits for power generation and utilizing the latest smelter technology that, combined with large economies of scale, has made these Chinese smelters some of the lowest cost of production in the world."

https://agmetalminer.com/2015/08/28/china-to-close-millions-...
Whether or not that is true, that is some of the worst sentiment to be spreading. If you feel strongly, call you congressman, organize a group, do something. Posting that no one can do anything doesn't help anyone.
>in his article around 2013[0] he defines them

Aileen is a woman.
Tim Berners-Lee didn't bootstrap the web, there was a bunch of money from educational institutions and the goverment and the like.

Maybe it's not VCs, but you can't bootstrap everything. Or maybe you can, but it will probably take a lot longer.
The clone-stamped buildings look totally surreal to me. I know why they do it and it makes sense, but the overwhelming majority of Western cities, which grow organically over many decades/centuries, never end up with repeated buildings like that, so it's very jarring to see.
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Doing something because it provides a higher "return" is exactly the sort of utilitarian thinking this article is arguing against.

You should really try to see this from a non-monetary, non-utilitarian perspective.
This sounds like an abuse of the flagging system. Shouldn't users who repeatedly use their flags on legitimate stories like this eventually lose their ability to flag?
Abiti da Sposa Corti con prezzi economici online di OkMi
You may want to investigate better shoes. I stand for hours at a time at work, and have no trouble with this at all when I wear my running shoes. Other shoes: not so much.
It looks like regional brands in Europe are a feta accompli.
I've been thinking about this lately.

Why doesn't Google or Facebook just pack up one day and go to... say, Detroit? Buy a shitload of property there, and tell all their workers that in the course of the next 5 years they want to have presence in two places: this new place in Detroit, and the old place in the Valley. Whoever wants to stay in the valley can stay... and whoever wants to move to Detroit can come move to Detroit. Same pay.

It would win a lot of good will... and it makes sense. The engineers making $150k will actually live what living on $150k is supposed to feel like. It'll jumpstart the hell out of Detroit... etc. etc. Not necessarily Detroit (I just chose to say Detroit because property there is so much down the shit that you can buy a sizable portion of the city for a good few million).
> Only YC companies are allowed to post jobs on HN.

That's factually incorrect. Only YC companies are allowed to post job ads at any time and as separate threads. But once per month any company can post job ads on HN, the 'who is hiring' threads on the first of the month.
One reason to use a polling model instead of interrupts is that storage on non-volatile memory is much more predictable than a hard disk.
If you really just took the time and effort to make that graphic in reply to my post... I just feel... honored... thank you :)
Yikes! I thought NYC was bad.

...and yeah, I was thinking more in terms of national averages, not specific metropolitan areas.
Trade Up- Bigger and Better Goes Mobile
A Sense of Self for Unix Processes (1996) [pdf]
Oh, that's kinda neat!

What's the stack for it?
You can still sell a black box voting machine, but that doesn't mean that the government has to buy it.
TkS*LIDE – Snobol4 IDE
Every time. Cobb's dream land from Inception always reminds me of these buildings.
The Secret Pentagon Push for Lethal Cyber Weapons
I had assumed they'd all failed, but don't remember seeing any discussion of it from sama. Was there ever a public post (other than this playbook) that announced the failure of that experiment, and any take-aways beyond the obvious?
Website snapshot from October 13th:

http://web.archive.org/web/20151013161308/http://www.gnu.org...
I know a lot of people that are tired of UI changes constantly coming down the pipe in SaaS. But when it's the only game in town, there's not a whole lot you can do about it. There's also a lot of fatigue around release notes that are just "bug fixes and performance improvements." I'll refer you to the massive comment thread about Twitter changing stars to hearts, a change which obviously reached a breaking point for a lot of people.

It may work great for you. For a lot of us, it's tiring. It's not as if all these updates end up being bug-free.
I'm a founder of Mozilla and defined its mission with other founders. That mission never included anything about marriage. You're full of beans.

Your "basically demoting" story is a new one. What's your source on that?
No, you don't understand. What you're asking doesn't make sense, but I'll admit it's not obvious when you've never done 'real' double entry accounting. What you need to enter are the 'real facts', it's only at balance time that you can make a 'net worth' in one currency, depending on a given exchange rate.
These aren't necessarily HTML5 apps. React Native, for instance, is just a framework that lets you drive your app from JavaScript (native views, no HTML) instead of compiled code.
Q: Say you find a bug in a component, do you need to edit both .js and .ios.js files to fix it?
Yes? Not the same code base.
No? Quasi the same code base.

IMO same code base is just that, no ambiguities. In this example it would be the same js, html and css that run inside a different container (browser, nw, node or webview)
Spotlight is pretty awesome imo. I had problems on previous versions, but that was specific to a corrupt PDF. Stuff like spotlight comments enhances it further. I search something like 25k docs in various formats on my Mac in seconds.

Windows is far worse. They don't have a native PDF search facility (at least on Windows 7) and its sloooow.

iOS, I agree. It's gotten better, but the app search thing is bizarre -- especially since it works so well on Mac.
China also has a 15% export tax to discourage export of primary aluminum:

"The Chinese government, which relies heavily on imported bauxite, has long applied export taxes on primary aluminum as part of a broader strategy to discourage exports of energy-intensive products and emphasize sustainable, quality growth"
http://www.aluminum.org/news/aluminum-association-concerned-...

While it can be worked around by exporting semi-finished products instead, it must be doing something. Otherwise the US Aluminum Association won't be so concerned about its removal.
oh the only copy and pasted code is	$('#video1')[0].contentWindow.postMessage('{"event":"command","func":"' + 'stopVideo' + '","args":""}', '*'); which is a command to tell a youtube iFrame to stop playing the video. Also generally I mix vanilla JS and jQuery a lot since I read that vanilla JS is faster, but when it comes to finding a certain element in a div I use jQuery.
Another great piece of content made completely unreadable by Bloomberg.

Ever since Joshua Topolsky joined Bloomberg, this novelty-over-form style is everywhere.
Did the offices at Bloomberg suffer from an electromagnetic pulse explosion? The 5¼ floppies were safe in an underground bunker?

:-)
Postmates Welcomes Sosh
Yes, powerlessness is self-fulfilling. If we believe we can effect decentralized change, we will succeed at some scale, at least within our immediate social circles. History is full of stories with small beginnings, outside of institutions that were subject to regulatory capture. At a minimum, we can create new business models that have not yet been forbidden, and undermine the economics of the desperate companies that have resorted to shameless manipulation of law and enforcement.
I developed a superior Hamiltonian Cycle Problem solver
It is superior compared to the ones available in the market (e.g. Mathematica) by testing against difficult instances. (Though, not all graphs are solvable... yet)

How do I get the attention of Apple / Google / Microsoft et. al to sell the algorithm to them?
No, which is why I still use it for small subbudgets that only I neex to work on :) And look, it's a fine tool for that, but you still need real accounting experience to use it according to gaap. The way the manual describes, and how many convenience functions are structured, isn't.
The problem with incremental updates is it's easy to convince yourself they're all beneficial. Most people won't leave your service or app if a new change is slightly annoying. Without attrition, you may not realize the change was essentially negative. Over time these build up and you end up with people that are essentially begrudgingly using your stuff. You can probably grind out a business that way, but it gets hard to upsell or introduce a new product that way. Death by a thousand cuts and all that.
There are still BBS's around. You just need to look. There are some BBS art on sixteencolors and some of the art packs have addresses for some BBS systems.
Not saying it was a brilliant article, but I got all three points without having to read it multiple times, and I thought it was quite clear. I liked that he didn't spoon feed the reader with predigested conclusions.
At this moment, you are probably right... but in 5 years, who the hell knows? In 10 years, I would be surprised if it weren't starting to happen like crazy. I was mainly just projecting a little into the future.
Isn't a big side effect of laws like these that tools such as encryption and P2P can be classified as designed to violate IP, and banned?