skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do agree with you, though as a brief tangent (as if this horse wasn't beat badly enough here in HN during the past almost 30 months...), my personal concern is both political and ethical, and I suspect this same concern applies to many of us who see dragnet surveillance as a problem.

The political aspect is that whatever data there is about an individual can be used against them, selectively, for say political purposes. This is a gross violation of transparency and the principles of a democratic society.

The ethical aspect is that I am being spied upon because of what I am not -- because I am not a US citizen. The talk about whether US constitution protects US citizens from dragnet mass surveillance (and thus whether NSA spying is unconstitutional) outright disgusts me (although I do understand the relevance for US citizens, of course). Telling one to "not use US internet services" is like telling one to opt out from the Internet. It's a "tough cookies" argument with very limited practical applicability.

Collecting information about me to make money out of me by selling me stuff? Honestly, in comparison, that doesn't feel that bad at all. Luckily, browser add-ons like Ghostery and various adblockers mitigate this to an extent.
So in my layman's understanding of this, instead of a normal physics engine, which simulates particle movement in small timesteps, this treats the whole system as more of statistical problem? How does machine learning factor into this?
It's easy to avoid ads and prevent ad tracking. Avoiding NSA surveillance is nontrivial. Maybe impossible.
The bigger question is - Why is an app like "Get Followers on Twitter" on the App Store at all?
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Google Photos is awesome for lazy people like me. Everything auto-uploads. I can publish or not. I can edit or not. Convenient, free, and useful.
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I get your point and I'd genuinely apologize to every architect graduate (in the construction space) who feels insulted by that.

Even if my day-to-day follows the "software architect" definition, I would gladly replace it with something closer to the technical field if it wasn't polluted by the majority of people mislabeling themselves. Which is more or less the point of the post.
Apparently "+Google Photos" is just the nickname of the "Google Photos" account on "Google+". The name of the service is "Google Photos", not "+Google Photos".
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You implicitly agree to citizenship by not renouncing. And in any case, the NSA may (supposedly) surveil non-citizens with fewer restrictions.
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Well, for one, the riskless rate of return could raise above zero, and you might have to factor in the amount of risk your ad buy represents. If you advertise in order to grow your user base, but that userbase is neutral or net negative, when funding costs go up, your gamble that you can shift customers from neutral to profitable is less viable.

But imagine a secondary structure of ad buys: you buy mobile ads promoting your app, which monetizes itself through ads. If the ad market falls, you've effectively bought ads high and sold them low.
I wish my hangovers were this productive.
It might not be a bubble, but there's an oversupply of advertising space. TV, radio and print ads have traditionally been expensive due to the limited supply. You can only have so many ads in an hour of television programming.

Now we have a hundred TV channels, a massive amount of online content, all attempting to attract ads buyers. As a result the price has gone down. The oversupply also opens up the marked for targeted ads and companies that works as brokers. They need to get paid to, so they skim of a few percent, leaving even less to the sells of the ad space.

In the end I don't think that selling advertising space is sustainable for all but the very biggest content providers. The rest will have to have to start finding alternative sources of revenue, or simple charge for they content. I also believe this will leave us with better and more diverse content.
There's a good book on the subject, "The theory that would not die", which covers the history and sheds some light on the people (Fisher, Laplace, Bayes, Pearson) behind the names.

Reviewed: http://www.ams.org/notices/201205/rtx120500657p.pdf
The problem with this article is that it says (in an entertaining way) that the numbers don't add up, without showing or linking to any math.
Url changed from http://qz.com/546832/stanford-researchers-show-were-sending-..., which points to this.
I've tried that but for me a REPL for calculating occupies an annoying middle ground: not as efficient as a calculator for quick calculations and not as powerful as say MathCAD for exploratory work. IPython's a step in the right direction.
I use the Amazon Cloud drive for backups of originals - it's $59.99 a year for "unlimited" storage. Here I backup my RAW images and camera phone images.

Once I've edited photos and want to publish (using Lightroom) I publish to flickr.

This works nicely and I'm glad I have steered clear of any of Google's or Apple's offerings - frankly I don't trust them.
I think the theory the article puts forward is that the cost of advertising has been bid up by venture-backed advertising companies.

If this is true, all advertising companies will suffer; a drop in the price of advertising probably won't sink the big players, sure, but it will probably cause them to cut some of their fat.
What I cannot figure out is why Amazon is not able to tell what I purchased on their own website... Why don't they have a "things people only purchase once" flag to avoid trying to sell me the same watch or pair of shoes twice in the same week?
Not to hijack the thread, but would you mind posting a link to the LHC slide deck you mentioned?
I wouldn't worry about naming conflicts per se, just unfortunate or misleading ones (e.g. company names).

I think "bpm" is a clever name for a faster npm client because "beats per minute" is a speed measurement and thus associated with something going really fast.

IED on the other hand has the association of people dying or being crippled by terrorists.
This is the original link: http://opiateforthemass.es/articles/james-bond-film-ratings/

The books were better than the films anyway!
Here's a similar concept for more general secrets (although could be used with pictures) that might be easier for the HN community to "get": Core Secret
https://appsto.re/us/MVFMP.i , http://cryptorobots.com/coresecret/documentation.en.html.
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The latest Bond film is actually pretty interesting. And at risk of plugging my own writing, anyone interested in actual film analysis could do worse than check out this essay on the Skyfall, which nailed the major themes in Spectre two years in advance:

"The hostility of authoritarian political systems to individual autonomy (democratic government in aggregate) is thus one of the ongoing themes of the film...."

https://popupchinese.com/skyfall.html

The short version of Spectre is that Mendes is doing the same thing he did in Skyfall, casting M16 as the villain of the film and using literary motifs and allegorical doubling (i.e. villains reflecting aspects of Bond himself) to suggest that it is the security state itself that the real villain in the film. The interesting thing is the way he engineers a happy ending by transforming the "license to kill" into a "licence not to kill", essentially changing Bond from the agent of death he is shown to be at the beginning of the film into a pro-democratic figure who abandons violence and in doing so gets the girl and what she thematically represents.
> Do you even need to ask your recipient what carrier they're using or do you just punch in their number and text away? Does it work regardless of what brand of mobile phone they have? Does it work even if their phone is temporarily disconnected from the network?

WeChat has all of those features, but I don't think anyone would regard it as other than proprietary...
Good to hear, I reckon I could quite happily use ied for all the installing stuff if it's going to produce the same tree as npm, but perhaps not support all of the crazy corner cases.
I might be wrong but I don't think any kind of treasure has ever been located within a pyramid.
They still play good with the other few large email services. But with every year using google apps for business is becoming more and more obvious choice from economical POV. In fact I've myself recommended quite a few companies to "just use Google apps".

I guess it just takes time too switch phases.
I don't budget time, but I have always had personal projects going and they are always teaching me something. I start projects that are just out of my reach, that I clearly do not have the knowledge to complete yet and chip away at them bit by bit, learning until I can implement my vision.
In that case, why spend your break with your work colleagues?
That's technically true, but irrelevant, at least in the context of what Carson said. Carson's comment was that the pyramids were built by Joseph to store grain. This is significant because Joseph prophesied seven years of famine and urged the Egyptians to store grain against it (Ge41). So anything built "by Joseph to store grain" would have to hold a lot of grain.
I assume we're talking about Cut in Finder, because it works elsewhere. This has been one of my OSX bugbears for ages now, but I always assumed there was a technical/ideological reason for disallowing Cut/Paste of a file. Now you're telling me I can do it, I just need to learn another shortcut, and remember that it only applies in this situation?! What on earth could possibly be the rationale behind that?

Keyboard support in OSX is truly appalling. Window management with the keyboard is also a pain, and even tabbing through controls - even with the stupidly-off-by-default setting - sometimes fails. The reason this annoys me so much is that OSX on Mac hardware is almost a dream setup apart from these flaws, but these flaws are significant enough that, after 4 happy years, I'm actually considering switching back to Windows.
I see Google Contributor as an answer to this. It would be especially compelling if GC offered site owners a way to make GC users _never_ see ads and / or perhaps had a way to nudge users into being GC users. GC is so close to fully realized micropayments for content, and that seems to be what we need to escape the advertising swamp.
I've been using Tomato-USB on Asus hardware for several years now... the current Asus firmwares aren't bad though the early ones were pretty horrible. I actually prefer Tomato and similar options, I used openwrt for my home office (routerstation pro) for a few years as well. Being able to run third party software is essential for security updates given that the manufacturers rarely offer more than 1-2 updates and almost never after the first year of a product introduction.

Tomato, dd-wrt, openwrt and the like allow me to control my hardware and use it for the life of the hardware, not the year of updates the mfg gives.
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What about Twitter? Actually it's only a bit of ad revenue and a huge chunk of investor money keeping it afloat.
So what's the alternative? Doesn't data dirtied by a write() experience the same or similar messy flushing behavior?
This regulatory problem exists regardless of which position you choose in this question. It could even be a bad idea if you want low income inhabitants to stay in a specific area.
Next year it is Alphabet photos.
> With Google Photos you can store unlimited high quality photos

High quality does not mean the full original quality, right? This is then as before.

At the moment, there are three web interfaces to access your photos:

https://picasaweb.google.com/

https://plus.google.com/photos/yourphotos

https://photos.google.com/

I would switch to the latest version but the other interfaces still have their advantages too.

E.g. the old Picasa interface provides the best overview of all my albums (I have a lot: 1619), esp when I want to search an older one (they go back to 2004). Also, it has somehow the most compact view with the most details at the same time, like all meta information (sharing, tagged people, GPS, exif, ...). For videos though, the Picasa webinterface is somewhat broken. Also tagging people didn't quite work correctly.

The Google+ interface has the nicest way to tag people. And I think the photo editor is only available here?

The new Photos interface looks like the most modern one, but otherwise seems to have the least amount of features. Tagging people doesn't really work here. The photo editor is much stripped down compared to Google+. Also, it doesn't really show much meta information (no GPS? almost no exif, etc...).
I'm confused here -- the argument is that a ratchet which is clearly going to trigger in the IPO is better for employees and other shareholders than a down round? Assuming the odds of IPO are 100%, and if we could assume the down round would be at the same price as the effective price due to ratchet, is there a difference?

I guess there might be other provisions in earlier rounds of equity which would be triggered by a down round vs ratchet in IPO, but is this mainly a distinction of optics?
You're right, Google Photos is a separate app. Google Photos is one of my favorite apps. Great UI and great functionality.
All these problems have been solved in XMPP years ago, and there are some clients fully supporting the mobile experience and usage of multiple clients.

On the Desktop, Swift and Gajim come to my mind, on Android Conversations is getting really awesome (and yaxim, which I am the author of, supports the basic multi-client/mobile use case you are interested in).

That said, the XMPP protocol is not perfect, and it is lacking some important elements for a 2010+ mobile chat developer, but considering that it was initially developed in 1999, that mobile chat is only one of its many use cases, and that there are extensions covering all you have asked for, the critique is not appropriate.

[0] http://swift.im/swift.html

[1] http://gajim.org/

[2] http://conversations.im/

[3] https://yaxim.org/
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Then the attacker could just block the update servers.
Yes, "+" is the Google Plus equivalent to Twitter's "@". So "+Google Photos" is analogous to "@GooglePhotos" on Twitter.
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RSS/Atom luckily is not dead. Barely anyone uses it because most people don't know it exists and/or what it does.

However, there's barely a blog out there that doesn't support feeds and I heavily use them in Thunderbird without a problem.
Especially Microsoft, if they've learned anything in the last 5 - 10 years it's the cost of letting OEMs be the interface between your product and your customers.
This is similar to a system by Enercon using new batteries, one of the largest wind turbine builders. They have more details and pictures in their magazine "windblat" http://www.enercon.de/fileadmin/Redakteur/Medien-Portal/wind...

Which is an interesting read for those following electricity production technology.
Yes, things like those “open spaces” are exactly what I like to see! Very nice. I also remember the tables they had at a CCCC I once was at, with lots of people from a project sitting and working at tables, with large signs on each table so you could simply walk up to a table and talk to the people there about their project.
I really enjoyed the interface of GoogleTalk, especially on Windows: http://www.snapfiles.com/screenfiles/GoogleTalk.gif

It was very minimalistic compared to MSN Messenger, sadly Google did seem to favor the web version of it, and it received no updates.
It's not just apps. The server side seems to have been rebuilt independent of Google+. Like OP, I'm wondering why Google didn't just find a way to give people outside of G+ direct access to the features inside it, which were already pretty good.

Google spends a lot of energy on supposedly optimizing UI when the biggest improvement to usability would be to avoid inconsistent and frequently changing interfaces.
Please do not use the titles of HN submissions to editorialize. The way to say what you think is important about an article is to add a comment to the thread, on a level playing field with other users.
...and, particularly crucially if you want to work with numbers, it also hides overflow and floating point exception behaviour. Plenty of processors support trapping arithmetic which signals on overflow and underflow, but this is practically unusable in C.
You've got it all wrong! They were never against open source firmware -- they were against open source firmware such as DD-WRT. It's, um, too open. ;)
TLS is not strictly mandatory in HTTP/2 (see h2c) but even if it was this list solves another problem - when user types e.g. Google.com in their browser the initial connection is made via HTTP. Preload list says "if this domain is typed in address bar go straight to HTTPS, if that's not possible stop the connection".
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Unfortunately it is not true. XEP-0280 [0] (Message Carbons; since 2010) forwards your conversation to all your online clients, and XEP-0313 [1] (Message Archive Management; since 2012, but only recently implemented) allows a client to "catch up" with the history when it goes online.

[0] http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0280.html

[1] http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html
I keep using sometimes my old Casio FX-85MS . I only need to change the power cell one time in all this years since I bought like 12 years ago
Looks like you didn't read the article. Its whole point is that much of that gravy train is financed by investors right now, and when investors bolt (as they do when things go sour), the whole rickety pyramid will collapse.
The main goal of mechanics is finding solutions for important variables of interest, from which every other dynamical variable can be easily computed. In fluid mechanics, the main objective for a given problem is finding a velocity field (once you have this, you're done). Since the NS equations are non-linear partial differential equations, finding exact solutions is impossible in most cases. Some notable non-trivial exceptions exist [1]. Navier-Stokes is extremely successful in describing flows in many real physical situations. It is believed, but has not been experimentally confirmed, that Navier-Stokes successfully describes turbulent flow. Most physical theories have a fairly well known domain in which they are applicable and not applicable (Newtonian physics breaks down at velocities near the speed of light). Currently, we don't even know if solutions to NS always exist, never mind make physical sense [2]. With this in mind, we have to acknowledge the uncertainty of the correctness of NS in describing an arbitrary flow. It is backed by well-grounded theory (parts of the equations can be derived from conservation laws) and works under many different conditions. This comment landed up longer than I expected, but my main point is that the question can we "reliably simulate fluid behavior" for an arbitrary fluid - is largely up in the air [3].

However, we should restrict our attention to flows that we very strongly believe are correctly described by NS. From the original paper:

>> The main problem of our method is the same as the weakness of all machine learning approaches; the learning methods are not capable to extrapolate the model far outside the data observed during training.

The training data are existing numerical simulations of specific fluid flows. The learning algorithm learned fluid flow dynamics from simulations. This is extremely impressive. It also achieves a significant speed up in simulation time - which is also very impressive. However, as the authors say, it does not generalise well. So, in short the answer to your first question is probably "sometimes yes, but in general not really".

edit: I should add that the simulations in the paper are decidedly based on Navier-Stokes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagen%E2%80%93Poiseuille_flow_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_existenc...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence
You have to pay to opt out of citizenship. Name any other club that you have to pay over 1000 USD to not be a part of.
s/Customer/Citizen/ and you've hit on a large portion of the problem with representative democracy.
Not true, XMPP does have that feature and there are multiple clients which implement this. It works amazingly well. It's not an extension, but part of the standard.

Example:

http://conversations.im/
This has become a serious bit of confusion, also now google seems to index any photos and videos inside of google drive into photos. Which is not the behavior you would want. I wish they just went back to only picasa, its really been the only good photo management situation
Wonky and confusing as fuck.
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I think one can absorb a more nimble conversational flow simply by listening to intelligent, articulate people, like on podcasts.

My favorite "talk radio" broadcaster, John Batchelor, is particularly articulate and well-read. Listen how his content just flows effortlessly:
Podcasts:
https://audioboom.com/channel/johnbatchelor
Previous podcasts (he changed hosts recently):
http://johnbatchelorshow.com/podcasts

You can learn from how his guests converse as well.

As for losing self-consciousness and gaining confidence in "finding the right word" on the fly, that takes practice. Think of a topic you are confident in, record yourself giving a mock monologue on the subject, then go back and listen to yourself and see what you want to change.

And don't fear making a mistake or being at a loss for words; it's part of the art of conversation. Few truly master it, but all can become effective at delivery.
Thank you for your interest!

We are aware that proper security and authentication are core problems to solve for the idea to scale. However, it is also an open (research) question how to do this properly.

Currently we have per-webstrate access right, which means that if you give someone permission to write in one of your webstrates they can do anything with it, e.g. empty its body. It could be interesting if it would be possible to specify what operations you would permit from someone to a webstrate, e.g. "you can only add to this particular unordered list, and the added element must have following form".

Good ideas are welcome.
Nice try, anonymous Google employee.
The number of answers there are to that question is phenomenal. Here's one I just thought up:

You stop going between A and B (home and work) for 6 months. You're now either unemployed or working from home; the latter can probably be inferred by any changes in shopping habits. Sell that information to recruiters and they'll know how hard to gouge you in your desperation for a new job.
The point is that "Be Civil" covers a lot more things than those which are explicitly stated.
Whatever it is acquired for. ;)
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Hangovers were around a long time before the movie.
or just Photos+ or I dunno