skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> since we're not sure what the LHC Nightmare Scenario is.

I disagree. I believe that the intended audience of this article, people familiar with what the LHC has been up to, what it's goals were, who are keeping up with current events, like knowing that the diphoton bump has vanished, would immediately recognize what the article would be about. I did at least. It seems completely unfair to say "This article doesn't cater to HN" and then accuse the author of engaging in sensationalistic clickbait, especially when HN doesn't trust submitters to provide more context in headlines.

This lack of context is because, it appears, most HN readers are more familiar with the actual clickbait headlines from media outlets proclaiming "Mini Blackholes may destroy the earth!", "Strangelets could destroy the earth!", "The LHC will start the Zombie Apocalypse!", than the actual concerns of scientists. Again, this seems monstrously unfair that actual clickbait has set the conversation, and people who actually are talking about the actual 'nightmare scenario' are now accused of clickbait.

Not all nightmares are about monsters chasing you. A lot of them are showing up to class in your underwear, or trying to find that report that you know should be on the table. I would not be surprised that several physicists have in fact had actual nightmares of this exact scenario.
But things are possibly even more elegant at the quantum level... Depending on which explanation of the measurement problem is right, most of physics might be expressed by the schroedinger equation alone. All the high-level classical rules are just emergent properties of very small-scale physics, which could be very elegant. Notice that I say "could"; independently, relativity and QM (under unitary theories like multiverse, einselection, etc.) are very elegant, but it's not clear how complete they are or how they fit together.

Now, for the long-term survival of intelligent life, I hope you're right and we figure out how to hack the VM :)
Have you forgotten about export grade cryptography?
Two reddit discussion that might be able to answer some questions we have here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/4waozn/new_paper...

https://www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852/comments/4w7qfi/ben_mont...

They also contain links to the resulting paper itself
It can happen anywhere there's fiat currency and long supply lines.
I think sometimes users think developers are trying to make them angry.

"It's not that the users were trying to make me angry; it's that they were ignorant of how to make the app do what they want."

Actually, I think the ignorance is on the developers part.

Users don't care about what some developers may perceive as a sexy UI. Honestly, most don't really even want to "learn" the UI. They just want to get stuff done without having to think about it.

We as developers need to get better about developing software that doesn't require a manual. That doesn't require a user to learn how to use something that in their minds should really be so easy.

Example: don't force a particular credit card entry format such as multiple entry fields, doesn't allow spaces or requires use of dashes, etc. Same thing with date formats. Make your software smart enough to handle as many use cases as possible. If they do something incorrectly, make the UI guide them through the error in an easy to understand way.

We as developers are used to reading through complicated documentation, tutorials, etc. That doesn't mean we should subject our customers to that same pain. Unless your software is at the Salesforce scale, the aim should be to develop it in a way that doesn't require a manual or require your users to dig through a bunch of tutorial pages just to get started.
Huh. Well, if stories are to be believed, it's STILL better than BIOS.
I've never seen an Uber/Lyft vehicle I could stand in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
Agreed. Great story too, for an FPS. Shame the sequels were rather lackluster.
Yep, I'm living in Barquisimeto and between me and my wife we are making around $160 per month. We are scraping by.

Plus we've got a 3 month old baby, who luckily is exclusively breastfeeding, because baby formula is practically non-existent.

We had to pool about $60 to buy a sack of sugar in the black market and divide it among a bunch of family members.

Things are starting to look a lot more grim as time passes by and you realize that the government doesn't have the will to fix things and they are not going to go peacefully either. The outcome here is most likely going to be a violent one.
Show HN: Phoenix 2.3 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
This is the premise of the Mill architecture; though I haven't heard from them for a while now.
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Vapor 0.16 released with all new documentation
There is a difference in how they sell it but I was saying, not very well, that they have more information about individuals than anyone ever has.
> users saying something doesn't work, only for us to point out something simple that they forgot to do, or the instructions they totally didn't read, and then the error magically goes away

If that's how your software works, you're doing it wrong. It means there was little to no design planning. The error should tell the user/developer what to do to avoid the error thus avoiding an angry email in the first place.
Neat. Do you know if anything smaller works?
> If someone believes anything I do is illegal I have no problem when they have a warrant

If the FBI gets a warrant, you're going to decrypt all your data for them? That's an atypical position.
Don't you find it strange that I'd rely on twitter?
India a socialist republic? I'm not sure where you're getting that from. Sure, there's tons of subsidies for the poor, but that's necessary in a country as large and poor as India.

Re: language. There's plenty of strong linguistic identity in the south, East and West of India. The north has a weaker cultural identity, but the rest take great pride in their language and culture.
"I've never understood the desire for beauty in a theory of everything."

It comes from the history of physics. A few equations define classical dynamics. Maxwell's four equations describe electromagnetism. A few short equations define quantum electrodynamics. High-energy physicists have been looking for something equally terse. It just isn't happening.
Airbnb is not the shoe. The apt is the shoe and airbnb is Footlocker. Have you looked at footlockers stock lately?
There wouldn't be any observed lensing because you have to be the right distance between the lens and the source for that to be observed. (For objects of comparable mass, the lens has to be roughly halfway in between the source and the observer) But if there were a black hole accreting matter from the host star, there would be an accretion disk which would be visible in X-ray.

A black hole is also too small to explain the drop in brightness. That would require something planet-sized, but a black hole is only about the size of a city.
Sounds like it could have been https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s_Boots (I played the Commodore 64 version).
Most of what Gallium does is polish the distro for Chromebooks. everything Just Works without tweaking or otherwise. Getting a chromebook touchpad to work under Xubuntu requires a kernel patch and a recompile (2 years later, and the drivers haven't been merged upstream yet), as well as fixing the power button and other keyboard settings. I've personally applied all his changes from his github repositories on my fleet of Gentoo-running chromebooks, and it was pretty substantial.

but if you don't have a Chromebook, you won't see the same need for GalliumOS. just use Xubuntu (unless you like the branding).
I have never taken this quote to mean that "personal liberty and government force were mutually opposed", per se.

Instead, it's meaning seems clear to me as such: don't trade short-term security/safety in exchange for a long-term decrease in liberty.

That seems to align with both the original meaning and the modern usage (despite NPR's reporting, which perhaps presents a false dichotomy).
Retributive justice isn't for the the criminals, it's to deter other crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retributive_justice#Principles

Personally, I think we've gone too far down the 'retributive' route without corresponding investments in rehabilitation, but a lot of Americans prefer to lock the door and throw away the key.
Quite right. There's a point where it's not really harder, just more expensive. And when it's other people's money...
I look at this a little differently. If a user is able to make a mistake, I've failed (this is too broad, but you get the idea).

If you take an honest look at your application, and step away from it, it's usually easy to see how they misinterpreted something, etc. I think empathy is an important skill in developing software. It's not right to expect someone to change how they think about a task, because you've written the software to work in that way.

Good software and UX is hard. Modeling problems in a way a computer and a user can understand is hard. Browsing http://ux.stackexchange.com/ and reading some of "The Design of Everyday Things" opened my eyes to how bad things are - and how much better they can be.

Also, if you haven't you should watch some talks by Bret Victor or Alan Kay.
Well whatever it is, we probably have 1000+ years to save ourselves right? If whatever caused it comes at us at 50% light speed, which sounds unlikely given how fast that already is, we'd still have 700 years.

I'm pretty sure that if human's resources were suddenly all turned towards getting the hell out of here, we could certainly pull it off for a good part of the population in a few hundred years. Whether we'd eventually survive, after decades or centuries in space (before we manage to find and arrive at a new planet, if any), is something I'm less certain about, but I'd still estimate the odds to be fairly okay, especially with 1000+ years to prepare.
1) Lobbying. Uber has it easier because politicians are more apt to use their service since it's convenient, but a politician is frequently charging his or her stay to the taxpayer so who cares what a nice hotel costs. They may not be as strong an advocate for Airbnb so they'll need to be bought.

2) Buying up competition. Look at what HomeAway did before their IPO.
what is clickbait, is the comment section where people only read the headline, and think of black hole as the nightmare scenario.
Just read through the blogpost, must be one of the rare ones, as the commenter above me as well explained so eloquently this is nightmare scenario, there is no new guidance and particle physicists are not going in other directions they still waiting to see some sort of super symmetry or some kind of evidence of string theory, the field is lacking new ideas.
classy late downvote/reply/moving goalposts combo. Post was at +2 before your reply.

either way, you're proving the inconsistency. ATI drivers for windows suck, but you don't blame windows. NVidia drivers suck in Linux (to the point that Linus Torvalds says "Fuck you NVidia", creating news headlines), and you blame Linux.
I know Huawei and ZTE pay the very first employees they hired when they first setup offices here in Venezuela in USD and they are all paid in accounts in the US.

It used to be pretty easy to open an account in Panama or the US from Venezuela, don't know if that has changed. The thing is getting the funds for the initial deposit.
Does SSL access to hacker news protect your identity in Iran? And do you think encrypted messages with telegram with 2 factor auth protects people? I think not, since they just have to get the messages of the people you chat with, the weaker link is the other side.
Even the New York Times now has clickbait. Sad.
At first I felt sad. Thinking of how Curiosity feels all alone in Mars. Slowly moving towards its objective day after day. However, Curiosity is not alone. Many people are rooting for her. Singing happy birthday and celebrating achievements. It has shown that machines carry the hearts of their creators. That makes me feel happy. Continue onwards Curiosity. Here is to another wonderful year of adventure and discovery!
> simply because there is absolutely no ambiguity between a
> function named LIST and a variable named LIST.

To a machine, correct. To a human, this is not always the case.

> But then you can't access p:foo anymore. That's why
> "Anytime you use a shadowed symbol, qualify it with a
> namespace" is a strange thing to say under the CL notion
> of shadowing symbols, because by definition the symbol
> that was shadowed is uninterned and not accessible
> anymore, except if you manage to keep a reference to it
> or store a value that was bound to it in some namespace.

Of course the machine knows what you mean. I never denied this. But when you're in a massive file fixing a 15 year old bug this information becomes less clear and you're going to appreciate a fully-qualified name.

If you have two namespaces providing the same symbol, qualify which one you mean. This is true in just about any language. The meaning of the code is painfully obvious to the human who has to maintain it. Even if you can keep track of it without any issues, assume the maintainer is totally inept and can't. Names are important, take the time to get them right.

EDIT:

Also adding I was using the term `shadowing` somewhat sloppily. Names are important enough that anytime one is being used in more than one way we should take great precaution.
Really? The stuff I've seen about Mill is that they are doing a VLIW machine, which is a very different concept.
I can't even make my car go that slow without tapping the break. We have kids that play in the streets in my community, most people go the speed limit 20mph and we have no problems. Just saying 6mph is really really slow.
A triangle shaped corner label view for iOS written in Swift
Its disappointing to me how little empathy there is in this profession for the people that use the things we make.
If you’re an alleged drug dealer, don’t use “asshole209” as a password
If alcohol prohibition was reinstated it would probably save about 88,000[0] lives a year in the US. Between 1995 and 2014, 3503[1] US Citizens worldwide were killed by terrorism. If congress wants to save lives it could be done in a much less constitutionally suspect way. This is why I suspect that saving lives is not the true reasoning.

[0]http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

[1]https://www.start.umd.edu/pubs/START_AmericanTerrorismDeaths...
Obsolete Tech That Just Won't Die
The entire world today works efficiently because of encryption. The more encrypted things are, the easier and safer it is for us to communicate remotely. Encryption IS safety. Take it away and we're back to having to communicate important information in person, or risk our own security and safety.

Also, no matter what the government does to prevent the general public from encrypting stuff, aren't big-time criminals going to encrypt their communications anyway? So we're not solving any problems by having this discussion, are we?
To be clear, that quote regarding liberty and safety has been taken completely out of context. Benjamin Franklin was not saying what you think he was saying.

Please read the articles listed below.

For the record: I'm am a privacy advocate, but I really dislike people using and abusing history for personal political ends.

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous...

https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said

Edit: Looks like rayneir beat me to the punch
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You haven't provided much beyond pointing and sputtering at something completely normal, so I'll assume without evidence that you want us to join you in laughing at someone who is so clueless as to use the word "historicity". It is the standard term for this; compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_King_Arthur , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Muhammad , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Iliad , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus .
I don't even understand why they care so much if they can't solve a case due to lack of access to electronic data. Just move on to the next case. Are they getting paid on commission based on how many cases are solved? If anyone asks why a specific case wasn't solved just point to the encryption and move on
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235789, which was posted earlier. We'll leave the original title on that one since it's satire.
Afaik, the Java virtual machine is also heavily stack-based.
I often read that gold is superior to fiat currency, but how would any kind of currency or precious commodity make a difference in this case, since demand is outstripping supply of finite tangible goods.
The difference being that tripadvisor and Yelp own the reviews. They own the underlying core value. The value of Airbnb is the real estate which they do not own or control. Sure reviews help, but that's like saying only Amazon can sell something because they have reviews. Not to discount your point entirely, I still think there's value to reviews that validate hosts, but it's not he core value.
I'm Ryan, one of three devs that built FraudGuard.io. Honestly we have a lot more work to do specifically in spam. With that being said, spam is the least requested collector so far by our users. Just to share in beta we asked some of our heavy users and about 90% of our users preferred our focus was on honeypot collection, spam was less than 2%.

So heres how it works now. We do not rely on external sources at this time. The reason why, because our traffic is so high that no external source at least that we've found will serve our users traffic.

For example stopforumspam.com limits API requests to 20,000 per day. I haven't checked our stats today but during our beta (which ended yesterday) we served more than 20,000 API requests per hour. So even with huge cache durations set its very hard to rely on outside sources so instead we run all our own spam collectors, using our own domains, etc.
I remember having a similar "tool" when I was a kid (I'm pretty sure it was on MS-DOS, and I suspect it wasn't actually a game but I'm not completely sure, this was a long time ago). Had many kinds of gates, 8-leds, blinkers. I still remember the thrill of building an adder out of simpler gates, only knowing that I wanted something that could "add".
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> Essentially, if a hacker can get you to visit a malicious website or click on a phishing link, they can then

do any goddamn thing they want.
The Mandelbrot set is very complex, but is generated by an absurdly simple rule. There are many instances in math and physics where complex behavior is an emergent property of simple rules.

You're also confusing understanding with logical omniscience and omnipotence. I know all the rules of chess, but I do not know every fact those rules entail, and I do not know how to win every chess game. Even if I did know those things, certain moves are impossible even though I know everything about chess.
I didn't miss the point. I just think some blocks might benefit more from the different arrangement. It's a trade off.
> Downvotes prove my point.

"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

Yeah, maybe you're getting downvoted because the sheeple here can't cope with the audacity of your message. But maybe, just maybe, you're getting downvoted for making grandiose claims with nothing to back them up.
Ya, I'm the idiot that went to Chipotle in the middle of a launch. Haha
I'm a little confused as to whom specifically you're responding to.

I'm not sure where the idea of "this article doesn't cater to HN" and the following accusation comes from in relation to the thread that was being discussed.

I do agree with you that it's unfair to call it clickbait, that there's a large difference between a provocative headline and a clickbait headline. Personally I'm not familiar enough with the going-ons of the LHC to really comment intelligently on the research, so I have and will hold off on that.
Kakao has some of the best stickers.

The best part is, most are animated. And really well.

You can see some of them here.. about a minute into the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVpM8lUlMH4

There are constantly new sets coming out, and they are very cheap too. Most of them $2.
The most powerful camera in deep space just sent 1,000 more pics back to Earth
Aesthetics in science is shorthand for simplicity. Most agree that simpler theories have a higher prior probability (I.e. Occam's Razor).
That was last year when the crisis could still be attributed to incompetence, mismanagement. The situation has changed considerably since then.

I'm going to call it now: the Venezuela crisis is not incompetence after all. It's the first steps of a highly competent plan to do what several other communist governments did last century: bring about the death of a large percentage of the country's population.

I don't lightly advocate military intervention. I think it's almost always the wrong thing to do. But I'm advocating it now. The communist government of Venezuela needs to be taken down hard and fast, before this turns into full-blown genocide.
Ebay, Electronic Arts, Google, Microsoft, many financial institutions.
Yeah, I include criminals in the power side too. In Italy Servia or Russia for example, the Mafia is part of the power structure.

In some places of Africa it is already very dangerous to communicate digitally because of digital surveillance tools developed by Israel,French or German companies.
That's a very bold assumption.
The Bible has many admonishments about being kind to prisoners.
https://www.openbible.info/topics/prisoners
HTTP/2: Faster and better than HTTP 1.1, but is it more secure?