skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the BSM-SG perspective it's very clear what it is:

http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Structures-Matter-Supergravitati...

2.9.6.B Fine structure constant as embedded feature of the twisted prisms

12.A.5.3. Hypothesis of embedded fine structure constant in the lower level structures of matter organization

It gets derived later to:
α_c = 2 ⁄ [ ( n^2 + 2/2 )^1⁄2 + n ] = 7.29735194 × 10–3

where n =137 results in a very accurate value of α.
It is important to understand that the fine matter constant has it's origin in a geometrical organization of the prisms. A very low level building block of matter in the BSM-SG model.
It is 1/6th the size of a neutrino (neutral or positive flavor) - those 2 neutrinos are composed of 6 prisms of either large or small prisms an rectangular geometry j but the prisms is itself a very large structure compared with the ultimate building blocks, the fundamental particles.

The prism itself is quite complex in it's internal structure but there is a very logical explanation for its existence. On the first level of organization or you could see it as the first crystallized structure is the Primary Tetrahedron. You basically take a bunch of Fundamental Particles - just very, very small balls, and create a tetrahedron with same length sides out of it.

Very simplified explanation:
This tetrahedron has a very complex vibrational mode - like every layer of our physical world. You end up basically with 2 overlaying vibrational modes, where you need n cycles of the small cycle to result in one cycle of the larger one. Alpha is the Energy relation of those cycles. Through alpha, you end up with 2 Energies in the prims, CP and TP.

Alpha is very fascinating feature as it is basically the driving force of most of the complex behavior of nature, it is everywhere in the BSM-SG model.

Funny side-node: In the BSM model, the cosmological redshift is not of Doppler kind (also no space expansion) and you can find the fine matter constant in the periodicity of the red-shift.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift_quantization

Please note, that you have to do a proper Doppler correction in the BSM model if you measure galaxies. It also explains the Lyman-Alpha-Forest phenomena very well.

From the standard model perspective: I have no clue what it could be, like most constants.
>It's one reporter's take on current events.

Where "one reporter" was once Secretary of Labor.
This is huge. As someone who is involved in the digital nomad community here in Chiang Mai, Thailand - getting incorporation and processing set up for a lot of people here is very difficult.

Although places like Thailand are a great place for independent bootstrapping and there’s a solid network of entrepreneurs - one of the biggest hurdles is incorporation, banking and acquiring. This is taken for granted when you’re living in a first world country - but for the new location independent entrepreneur who is building their startup from cafes or coworking spaces in Chiang Mai to Ho Chi Minh or Medellin, getting a corporation, processing and a bank account structured is often a huge problem.
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The problem is services and non-ABI/non-library APIs. The way I suspect that this is set up is that there is precisely one KDE widget displayer service at any given time, running as part of the desktop environment and presenting an IPC interface that widgets talk to to get themselves added to the widget display area that the window manager maintains. You can link statically to the KDE widget client libraries all you want; if the KDE widget server decides to change the language it speaks, your widgets are hosed unless you included a not-a-widget mode that makes it a normal window. Seeing as how widgets tend to have special build systems (or, worse, the widget server is actually an interpreter for a declaration-heavy widget definition language that's not strictly plaintext), I don't think I've ever seen a widget with a non-widget mode supported.

"Breaking userspace" probably is a misnomer, if only because userspace has a precise technical definition. This is more like changing an interpreted language without maintaining backwards compatibility (python3, anybody?) or changing a json API.
That's only true in a naive implementation. In fact, in a naive implementation, it's probably worse than that because there can be loops among epsilon transitions. Consider, for example, `(a{star}){star}`. (HN markup prevents use of a kleene star usefully. Sorry.)

In a "real" implementation, when computing the next set of states to visit for some position in the input, you explicitly avoid re-visiting states you've already seen for that position in the input. Cox talks about this quite a bit in his articles.

The guarantee of the NFA algorithm as presented by Cox is that each NFA state is visited at most once for each position in the input.
I've used zoom.us quite a bit and was family impressed. There's also appear.in which is not as good, but doesn't have all the restrictions the free zoom.us tier has.
The rise of outsiders likely has been helped by the rise in inequality not so much between whites and non whites but between poor and the non poor combined with the tonedeafness of major candidates who tend to lump poor whites with "rich white men" and an emphasis on men.

White police officers are the devil and by extension poor whites are the devil [but we see that non white officers engage in similar behavior] The notion that all Hispanics have Mexican ancestry and all want to be addressed in Spanish or that all blacks identify with Sharpton politics.

People call Trump a populist and at times racist, they have said the same thing of Sanders not so much for what he says but because of who follows his candidacy [the demographics].

It looks like there are people who are rebelling against some of the divisiveness of identify politics and misguidedly people are labeling these people pejoratively as being a certain kind of people [racists, misogynists, xenophobes, uneducated, poor, etc.] when most likely they are simply rebelling against traditional politics where they have been simply useful but not tended to.

For establishment candidates it'll be tough to balance efforts to underscore minorities in a major way without excluding or at the expense of browbeating majorities because unfortunately they are assuming a zero sum game even while saying otherwise.
Hey there, @con from SlimFAQ speaking: We've build SlimFAQ out of our own pain: we wanted a simple, searchable FAQ that can be managed by our support team for SlimWiki (i.e. it's super simple to use, even for not so tech-savy people).

Unfortunately we didn't find what we looked for - so we build what we wanted. And since we are big fans (and customers) of Intercom, we made sure to integrate it where we saw fit. If you don't know Intercom yet, you should definitely check it out! (Right after you gave SlimFAQ a try :) )
I doubt ads is the main source of revenue. They do sell DIDs, VOIP calls to landline phones and mobiles (with insane rates) so ads (only in few countries) doesn't account for much.

M$ bought lots of companies before, that eventually came to EOL even though they were doing pretty well before M$ bought them, it's not particularly about the skype (even though we see it gets worse over the time).
> I think rather than concluding that we must be more than physical, a
> more reasonable conclusion is that there's something that we don't
> yet understand about the physical world, i.e. how matter in the
> physical world can give rise to subjective experience.

What you're fumbling towards here is called the "hard problem of
consciousness"[1]. Essentially some believe that there's some secret
sauce in the brain that gives rise to consciousness, while others
believe that there's no such "hard" problem and that "consciousness"
is just what we call a bunch of simpler brain systems working in
unison.

My opinion is a layman that's read quite a bit about this is that
there's no "hard" problem, and the only thing that separates us from
"lower" animals is just that we're running a slightly more
sophisticated version of the same physical brain processes, which we
like to call consciousness.

There's no reason to believe that we're anything than the cumulative
behavior of our brain matter, or that we're somehow "special" in the
animal kingdom in another sense than e.g. wolves are more special &
sophisticated than mice.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
And that conversion is expensive. If I could have back the currency conversion margins PayPal has charged my businesses throughout my life, I'd easily be able to live for a year on that money.

Well, 50 weeks, if it were sent to my PayPal account in US dollars :)
Watch the Next Generation Atlas Robot Get Bullied by a Mean Human
Ultimately, I think one fundamental "problem" with nuclear power is the worst case scenario at the plant level.

Big picture wise, I'm sure it is statistically be safer than fossil fuels (counting the problems of fossil fuel pollution and the environmental problems / lives lost due to the extraction process). But looking at the power plant itself, and focusing on the worst case, the only other form of power I can think of with the potential to create a Chernobyl type disaster is hydro (as dam failures can create pretty widespread destruction and kill hundreds of thousands -- see the Banqiao Dam disaster). Coal / oil / gas plants that explode kill people too, but generally only within the plant boundaries.

Even a hydro disaster won't necessarily make 1000 square miles of land uninhabitable for 200-300 years, ala Chernobyl. The only comparable thing I can think of in the energy realm that comes close to that is coal mine fires (ala Centralia PA), and that's at the extraction level, not the plant level.

I'm actually struggling with your assertion that nuclear power has killed more people than solar... peer reviewed estimates of Chernobyl vary between 4,000 and 25,000, is there a solar disaster on that scale that I'm not aware of?
We had thousands of astrology and magic practicioners. It didn't make
astrology or magic true in any way.

You know what makes modern physics true? Falsifiability and verifiability. You
build a theory, make predictions, develop an experiment, and then conduct the
experiment, multiple times. Climatology stops after the first two.

Granted, astronomy and cosmology operate in similar way to climatology, but we
don't establish world-scale policies based on astronomy.
Why should I want to incorporate in the US, if I'm European SaaS startup?
If it's more convenient for you to setup everything locally, good news: we also have a beta going in Brazil! You can sign up for an invite at https://stripe.com/global#br and we'll send one as soon as we can.
This is great. While I am not in need of incorporating any business, I do have to say that the UI design on Stripe's site is beautiful.
Why, it is Microsoft. Rudimentary Linux support is mere PR actions, be it for Skype or .Net or whatever.

Their strategy, obviously, is still platform lock-in.
It returns the lowest n bits of the CPU's time stamp counter. x86-64 only.
Do you do this for every job you apply to?
Watch Google torture an 80kg, 5'9“ robot for science
It's better when things get cheaper, which is the opposite of growth.
Some people have convinced themselves that climate change is not a problem. That's not based on scientific facts, but on superstitious beliefs ("it's a conspiracy", "we didn't do it", "there's nothing we can do about it anyway").

Study after study has showed that superstition cannot be overcome with facts. The more facts you present, the more they get stuck to their incorrect beliefs. It's depressing.

The only solution is to do what Elon Musk is doing: ignore the idiots and pursue what you believe is right.
At Least 29 People Still Don’t Know Who Won the Super Bowl
IMO the original title is linkbait, even if not intended as such.
Once you define "satisfaction" it makes more sense.
It's unnatural, I tell you. Caused by the liberal media and their leftist propaganda!

Goose pride is where it's at.
I also tried ceph and gluster before settling on moosefs a couple years ago -- gluster was slow for filesystem operations on a lot of files and it would get into a state where some files weren't replicated properly with seemingly no problems with the network for physical servers.

Ceph at that time was unstable -- once I had a couple boxes kernel panic in testing, I jumped off that boat immediately.

Moosefs is pragmatic -- written in pretty tight C, performant, and the web UI for seeing the state of the cluster and how files are replicating is very nice. We have a small cluster with maybe a dozen nodes running for almost 2 years now with no hiccups...
the article is more about pair bonding than just sex.
The ui is broken - if you click getting started, you receive a blank page :(
> All that crap should be in official plugins so you add pocket only if you want it etc.

They are working on making Pocket a (built-in) add-on. Apparently it's harder than it sounds, but there is some progress going on:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215694

Edit: Apparently that bug is fixed and Pocket is a "system addon" in Firefox 46+

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/3ba655f6bc67
Why the European Union Will Benefit from a Brexit
While I really like the idea—a one stop-shop company creator I am a bit unsure if Stripe will achieve the same quality level like dedicated registries which do this for several years.

Points I am missing/not seeing:

- Can I decide about the administration location (eg also Delaware or does it have to be my actual location)?

- Can I get some virtual office with address, mail forwarding, etc, sometimes offered by registry?

- Is Stripe a full state approved registry or do they use 3rd party registries? What are the ongoing costs (there can be significant differences)?

- How many people are in customer support?

- Is Stripe stated as the registrant in the Delaware corp database?

The only advantage I've seen is that Stripe is opening the bank account for you and it seems you do not have to visit the States but other than that I am not sure if going all-in with one entity (Stripe) is a bit too risky.

And if looking at dedicated registries there 3-5x more information on their websites—this is not a clear indicator for quality of service but since this is not Stripe's core competency it's something I'd be a bit cautious. But still something Atlas can catch-up.
Arguably, the Jacksonian era was the "second American revolution," and the Confederate rebellion the third, retrograde and thankfully failed one.

I think today's political climate is more similar to the 1930s, when widespread disaffection led to adherence to all sorts of populist movements and figures, from the Grange to the Wobblies, Huey Long (Trump's closest antecedent) to Father Coughlin (whose modern echo is perhaps Ted Cruz), and into dangerous fringe groups like the Klan and the Bund.

What is concerning now is that the centrifugal tendencies are accelerating in our government, leading to self-sustaining structural dysfunctions that will prompt further contempt for the government and lead to a greater desire for a "man on horseback" figure to set things right. Trump, I fear, is just the beginning.
Whenever I read anything, it's as if I'm actually have a conversation. Every single word is spoken in my head with the real tone and intonation that I would expect if somebody were telling me a story in a coffee shop.

I've always assumed that this is because I'm a very audible learner. When I'm paying attention to somebody who is talking, I tend to have a hard time focussing on anything else. For example, I'll miss turns driving if my wife is talking to me in the car unless I'm just actively ignoring her. As a result, she knows if we're following directions not to talk to me about anything because if I don't miss the turn, I wasn't listening to her. :-)

The side effect of this is that I don't read particularly quickly. I can if I make myself but it's like the voice in my head becomes the Micro Machine guy. I read at about the speed I'd expect somebody to talk.

I tend to write the same way. If it doesn't "sound right" I have to keep editing the sentence.
I wish you could incorporate an S corp for side projects. C corps need boards and stuff - a bit much for my hobby projects. But, event for hobby projects, if I expect to make income (at some point) I usually set up an LLC and maybe even start a bank account. And I also use Stripe to collect payments.
Exactly. I can't help but feel that this is just modern day projection for political purposes.
Yeah, the 2 main issues with the VIN are as you say, the targeted vehicle in your presence, or enumerating all vehicles as they're sequential. Not great either way.
History. MS past is plenty reason to avoid skype.
I was stupid and read article on ecology and this.

EDIT was:

ecology -> economics
From what I remember, it might have to do with the fact that they had to refactor the whole thing to not rely on P2P, which was its original model, since the rise of smartphones and unstable mobile networking? I think it now runs similarly to Hangouts - out of datacenters.
Jeremy is actually a HN user, soon enough he will be summoned. Kudos to you sir if you are reading this!
Do you struggle to imagine that people born deaf can read at all?
Allegedly it's good at Staying Alive...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11163632
Misconfigured CORS, Stealing User Data From The Alexa 1m
Google App Engine isn't killed. It's still alive and new features are being added. What are you talking about?
I want to add a UK-specific viewpoint for anyone with a British business who's wondering if a US entity is a necessity for dealing with US corporations.

I run a service-oriented business with 10 employees in the UK and most of our income is from US-based corporations. Externally we work entirely in USD. Once we determined our tax and legal positions, we've not encountered any problems with payments, wires, forms (W-8BENI is accepted in place of W-9s), or taxes, and our customer roster is a couple hundred tech companies - ranging from F500s with arcane vendor account requirements, through to mid range companies, startups, and small ISVs.

Trade between the UK and US is common and, depending on what you are trading, has a low amount of friction due to the UK's relatively open nature and low level of bureaucracy on matters of banking, international trade and taxation.

(If you sell physical items, need to take on US-based staff, start a US office, are a low margin business that couldn't take exposure to exchange rates or cross-border tax volatility, or need to appeal to US investors, disregard the above and get a US entity! :-))
They will make you incorporate your business in the US just after you are accepted.
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Sure ... but hopefully not in a studio apartment (as per OP).

It's a real stretch to say 50k is a livable salary in most of the bay area.
Japan's Negative Interest Rates Are Driving Up Sales of Safes
I've given up on the NSA not reading my stuff. The NSA collects pretty much anything they can get their hands on. It's a losing battle. If there's something I don't want the NSA to know about, I use Tails.
That is exactly what I was thinking. Though I am not sure how Stripe will be able to focus on both these schlep problems considering their work isn't finished yet (expanding to all countries).
I propose you're getting overly philosophical.

We live in a hyper-financialized economy. That means everything relies on (cheap) debt. A lot of debt repayment plans relied on "everything is awesome" as economic prediction, as a justification for the initial investment. What happens to all those financial plans when growth predictions impact reality like a bug hitting a windshield? That might be a little problem.

Top to bottom, from the worlds largest alternative oil source projects down to housing bubble mortgages and high credit card balances. Oh no fears the predictions show high growth into perpetuity that'll take care of everything eventually. Until it doesn't. Whoops.

There is also the ongoing implication of lie to me once shame on you, lie to me twice (or five times in this example) shame on me. So you can make deals based on lies about the future one time, two times, three times. But its getting to the point that future predictions are now assumed to be lies, and that has major effects on current deal making. Whats the effect on your commission today for selling a loan balance based on now-2% vs a couple years ago selling a much higher loan balance based on now+3%? Can you even sell loans now? Can a hyperfinancialized economy survive a debt market freeze up? A lot of players won't. Get the printing presses fired up for the inevitable bailouts...
Scott will be pleased to know he's entered another circle of nerdvana.
Does anyone else start to think of Blinky[1] when the guy starts pushing around the robot?

[1] http://youtu.be/P0lKDy6E918
Only when I want to, which isn't often because it slows me down. Sometimes it's fun to listen to the dialogue, though.
> Michael Markesbery, CEO and co-founder of Oros, tells Tech in Asia the jackets utilize Aerogel, a material used by NASA in their spacesuits. It helps with insulation and allows the apparel to be warm, thin, and lightweight. Aerogel is considered to be the most effective thermal conductor on the planet as it is 90 percent air. Oro’s jackets are, on average, only 3mm thick but give the same warmth as a 40mm Goose Down equivalent.

I don't think you know what "thermal conductor" means. I also love the claim that the gloves are self-heating without any need for a battery. Do little fires get started in them that you have to feed with wood pellets? Or do they just use those rust-heat-pouches?
good job!
this might still be relevant: http://www.jtoy.net/2009/09/11/events-idea.html
I think a lot of full time workers can still be wage slaves.

Maybe a living wage is a better benchmark. The minimum required to "thrive" with a normal list of opportunities/choices that people can be expected to encounter. E.g., car required if not living in high-density urban environment, raising children, having pets, buying simple furniture, healthy food, internet access, life and house/rental insurance etc. It's all about access to thriving, not access to luxury, and in each place and circumstance that access is different, but living wages can be indexed to all these factors. The more factors included to counter the various axes of oppression the better.

For example, in Canada we have the Canadian Centre for Policy alternatives which publishes living wage data/indexes every year for a number of cities.

A few years back I helped cofound a programming and design worker co-op with a handful of other people and we discussed using such an index to determine salaries for members in different cities. E.g. if the Montreal team gets 4x the local living wage, then the Vancouver team also gets 4x their local living wage, even if the absolute amount appears higher.
More and more companies are just publishing their repos for Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL/CentOS/Fedora/SuSE, which are built automatically from same source. If you have a problem with that, hire a developer.
Thanks for letting us know it was dead. I haven't realised it for the part few years of daily usage.
> if the slow authentication is inherent from running the algorithm on the chip, rather than a having been slowed down artificially

There is no known cryptographic algorithm that provides inherently increasing times. The slowdown is entirely artificial, and it is believed that an update could remove it.
Wonder why they chose the UK "health lottery" - quite a small lottery, vs the UK National Lottery ?
> So if you pay 20% in the UK, you will have to pay an additional 15% (35%-20%) in US tax.

To me, this makes sense. Is this different to what other countries do? Although the corporate tax does seem rather high...