skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have to agree on this one. It's a prettier Craigslist with a payment transfer mechanism. In my experience as both a guest and a host, AirBnB does basically nothing after the reservation is booked.
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I had a very similar experience with Advantage 2. 1 week to be mostly usable, and 1 month for the keyboard to disappear from my mind and melt into the flow.
To be honest I doubt it will make that much difference. Driving here is a pain in the arse. You don't get much speed up between traffic lights unless you are on one of the big streets like Diagonal or Arago.

Still, I look forward to seeing how it goes.
Is Bitcoin Ready for the Next Global Financial Crisis?
The fact that it underpins so much of our daily life, implying that subsidizing them helps in ensuring those functions still remain intact.
You are on the edge of overweight, and you don't realize it because of all the fat people around you.
On that note, i seem to recall a netbook that came and went that had a tiny trackpad up near one hinge of the screen, and the two mouse buttons up near the other.

Edit: Ah, found it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudBook
Well, you might want to consider what besides science might be going on there. And no, I don't know that there is or what it might be.

I do know of severaal very large "science" projects with a significant military role or side mission.

The US and Soviet manned space programmes, particularly Apollo and the Space Shuttle (though the USAF customer of the latter ultimately pursued alternate options).

Much nuclear and high-energy research, including related supercomputing facilities, have direct nuclear weapons relations.

Radio astronomy got a huge kick froma desire to monitor opposing superpower activities. The US National Radio Quiet Are in West Virginia and Aricebo dish both had roles in detecting Soviet nuclear tests, through radio signatures bounced off the Moon.

The US Interstate system was sold on defence implications. Oracle Corporation grew out of the CIA's Project Oracle.

And of course there was a little resilient networking project SRI and UCLA were working on some years ago.
On the other hand, we haven't directly observed the universe for a long enough time (billions of years) to say it's not changing, so we simply don't know. We don't even know if the universe is homogeneous.

For example, all we know about distant stars is complete conjecture and approximation based on testing various ideas to see which one fits. We simply don't know if "gravity" is exactly the same for all of them. Small variations of G would still light them up.
I can understand the sentiment of the parent post but I disagree.

The recent UberXPostgres articles are an insight into the engineering challenges that go into solving these business problems at scale.

The projects probably started as some hacky glue programmed Frankenstein but their current iterations solve considerably difficult and expensive problems that I don't think is trivial for new entrants to come in and instantly replicate.

So engineering and capital requirements aside, there's the matter of network effects and customer adoption to tackle. It'd be a very hard sell to convince users to stop using AirBnB or Uber - the inventory may be volatile, but it's deep and expansive.

Any country I go to, I will first think AirBnB or Uber as I will be confident without even checking that they'll have coverage. Much like how I don't even bother looking anywhere else for products other than Amazon - they'll probably have what I'm looking for, it'll either be the cheapest or close to the cheapest product and the delivery experience will be dependable. We at HN consider ourselves being more acquired than most but are probably still prone to appreciating convenience over optimisation now and then.

Current consumer trends suggest though that our behaviour is in the minority and so "first-mover"* advantage is king.

*(AirBnB and Uber almost certainly were not the first in their respective spaces, just like the iPad wasn't the first ever tablet)
So, basically, you're a creationist or a believer in intelligent design or whatever they're called these days... :)
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I'm not arguing with your feeling. It's very valid. But, I've lived in the Northeast my whole life. If you live here long enough, you learn to discern between different types of cold. 20F with moisture in the air is awful, especially if there's a wind pushing it. The chill gets through the layers no matter how you dress. I think people from outside the region associate this type of cold with the whole Winter. It's not that way all the time.

20F with dry air and no wind is GORGEOUS. You can easily spend the day outside and, if you keep moving, wear only a long sleeve tee-shirt and long pants. (People who live here know enough to keep a sweatshirt or coat nearby for sundown.) Some of my most memorable outdoor experiences come in this type of weather where we'll be active by day and sit by a backyard fire at night.

The larger issues in the Northeast are the lack of sunlight and municipalities often don't handle the clean up of snow and ice well. My experience is that northern New England knows how to handle clean up, but southern New England is a deathtrap for walking and driving due to untreated ice and snow piled to the sides of already narrow roads.

A few years ago I travelled to Anaheim for a conference in Winter/early Spring. For the heck of it I took a short vacation in LA after the conference. For 3 days I walked around Silver Lake, Los Feliz, and Echo Park. My energy levels soared. I can understand why people like living in that climate. I'd love to experience living in it sometime.
I'm not sure that they're unwilling at all. String theory, etc, is radically different and perhaps so radically different that its not even pursuing.

If you have any ideas for easy, novel physics experiments, please dive in. But after 100 years of lots and lots and lots of people playing around, most of what people can imagine has been done. If there's going to be something new, it's going to be radically different, most likely, with entirely new areas of physics, not some refinement of existing theory.

If "physics" were a newly discovered continent, there's a good chance that we've discovered most of what's on the surface.

There's still exploration, I think. I'm not a physicist by any means, but it seems that things like condensed matter physics are plowing ahead in new areas, away from the "surface of the continent," if you will allow me to continue the metaphor.

But if you're starting with the physics that you learn as an undergrad taking engineering and what you get from newspapers, those branches seem pretty well capped off for the foreseeable future. Better to go to new areas that still have millions of discoveries waiting, like biology or other complex systems.
Also my fav. The nightmare scenario would be when particle physicist discover that we are living in a computer simulation built by AIs, and they realise that instead of building the LHC they should have studied quantum computing architectures and the docker repo on GitHub.

The most entertaining "simulation theory" (among Elon Musk's, Nick Bostrom's, etc) is Stephen Wolfram's one, who argues that "we could be the videogame (WoW of the future) of a teenager AI"...

https://youtu.be/giuVfY-I-p4?t=17m16s
Has anyone come across something similar using Python?
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Everything humans do are for humans. What's your point? Transportation doesn't equal car, but more car space equals less pedestrian space.
I use a Wacom for some tasks, but I find it even worse than a mouse if you are switching back and forth a lot. For drag and drop I recommend the Contour Design Rollermouse Red. The downside is it doesn't pair well with a deep keyboard, as it wants to replace any wrist rest.
The URL without an anchor further down the page: http://www.draketo.de/proj/py2guile/
There are more energetic particles hitting the atmosphere, so that's not a nightmare that ever really made sense.
> I wouldn't mind if the state was collecting the money. Prison is a punishment and you shouldn't be able to just chit chat all day.

If there's one thing we don't need, it's a fiscal incentive for the government to jail people.

Prison is meant to be a punishment for crimes and (depending on who you ask) an opportunity for rehabilitation. Without the latter you're going to have way more of the former.

I'm not saying that inmates should have 24/7 free phone calls, free video calls, etc but price gouging a captive (no pun intended) audience isn't right either.
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A new podcast series by @botchagalupe, with Mark Burgess, author of Promise Theory.
Personally I love the idea of a car free city. (No idea how that might work). I am pretty sure a lot of the negativity of city living comes from the constant noise of traffic and horns.
No modifier keys necessary for the directional arrows, if you mean the ones that move the cursor? They're under your pointer and middle finger on each side. Having return key (and backspace, space, and mod keys) always directly under your strongest fingers ends up feeling really natural and efficient, in my experience.
I'm surprised the judge issued a warrant for this, in light of the Constitutional issues involved here -- but unfortunately I'm not aware of any way to sanction a judge for doing so; the only remedy for a defective warrant is suppression of evidence obtained from it.

Unfortunately, Constitutional protections are only a defense to libel, so the prima facie case can still be made, and the warrant could technically still issue.

Sigh. The law sucks sometimes.
I have pimped out my work setup at my own expense and I think it is well worth it. I know many people at work who have brand new BMW's or shiny pickup trucks who use their vehicles for 20 minutes a day on their commute and yet pay $400/month for the privilege! I bought a 30" monitor, an advantage 2, a RAT 5 gaming mouse, and a Geek Desk for a grand total of $2k and I use the setup 8 hours a week day. Also, a 2001 Camry that I paid cash for. Why not invest in the environment that you'll spend your most productive adult years in?
"It has left them without guidance, lost in a thicket of rapidly multiplying models" I can't help but think if JavaScript fatigue.
When you have a crystal, a regular lattice of atoms, then you often describe it in a continuous approximation. So you interpolate for example the displacement of each atom from its resting position by a displacement field. When you then quantize the atoms, then you will also quantize the displacement, and you end up with a quantum field theory of phonons.

The nice thing about looking at such systems is, that we have experimental access at all scales, so we can study the breakdown of a quantum field theory in detail. The unfortunate thing is, that there may or may not be an analogy between a condensed matter system and fundamental physics, that is just as much conjecture as is naturalness.
Yes, in my opinion the magazine sizing they show in the picture is close to the limit most people would want. Cutting the sideways size doesn't give enough portability benefit to justify losing so much screen space. The manufacturers have got it right in the direction they have been going, to increase battery life, decrease the size of the bezel, decrease weight and thickness, and also improve robustness and waterproofing, so that it is no more of a hassle to carry around than a magazine, and so that you could read it like a magazine (or a tablet).

We're not too far away from that. The Macbook, the Surface and the Chromebook Flip are all in the 0.9-1kg range, now it's incremental progress to reduce weight to 500-600g, improve fanless performance, and meet all the other goals above. We'll probably also see commodity pricing of fanless processors through ARM competition with Core-M, so that the prices of these devices end up closer to the Chromebook Flip than the Surface.
In Chile they have "collectivos" which are basically taxis that go on set routes, more like buses, and charges are closer to bus fares.
I do understand what you're saying, in that overt eye-catching and curiosity tweaking headlines that are intentionally misleading are bad and certainly clickbait.

In this instance, however, I think it's more of a question of there being a big question as to "what is the nightmare scenario"; each part of the article is relevant to this question, explaining the state of the particle physics and the build up towards the apparent disappointment with the results from the LHC research.

Nightmare scenario is being fairly specific here; it's not really in the same field as "See what happens next" or "You won't believe what happens" in my mind since those have no substance or real connection to their content. This article headline is very attention grabbing, since we're not sure what the LHC Nightmare Scenario is. However, the article substantiates the title. It provides the author's reasons specifically why the current status of LHC research is in a nightmare scenario.

The title is provocative, yes, but I feel that conflating provocative with "Clickbait" is disingenuous. Some of the most famous headlines in history have arguably been clickbait by that metric, yet they're not held to the same scrutiny.
The "nightmare" seems to be that the LHC only confirms the standard model without giving clues on how to extend physics further. I've got a hunch that a future breakthrough may come from AI, that combining general relativity and quantum mechanics is a bit much for unaided human brains and deep mind style computer systems may do better at spin-2 stuff in odd numbers of dimensions than us lot.
This isn't a news article. It's the electronic equivalent of some person's diary. If you want something more formal, you'll probably be better served by skimming arXiv or subscribing to Nature.
Dynamical systems (and by extension classical mechanics) is far from a completely understood field - especially nonlinear dynamics.
A Faraday cage is not a jammer. As the article points out:

> Faraday cages are different from electronic jamming devices, which work by actively blasting out an electromagnetic signal that stops someone from receiving radio waves.

> Those jamming devices are illegal, but Faraday cages don't break the law, seeing as they passively filter out phone signals - although you can imagine that blocking all phone reception at the pub isn't something that would go down particularly well.

The article also points out, "You most likely have a type of Faraday cage in your house right now in the form of your microwave. That metal mesh you can see in between the glass in the door is there to stop microwaves from escaping."

Any metal container acts as a Faraday cage, including metal vessel hulls. Obviously these are not all banned by the law you pointed out, which only applies to a wireless telegraphy station, or wireless telegraphy apparatus.
> Do you buy your Nikes from the same place every time?

This is precisely the point most are overlooking when they disagree with your point.
Yes, there is much more history to this fiasco than just this.
It would not be too far from having two 4:3 monitors side-by-side, which is generally pretty nice configuration. For example if it were 1440x600 (which would make sense), then you'd have two 720x600 windows. Not exactly SVGA from olden 4:3 days, but pretty close. You could have for example two 90x50 character terminal windows with that relatively comfortably.
What? I'm not allowed to wear my tinfoil hat?
i avoid most news also, meant to make me feel bad or angry to support someone else's gain.

also with time, it should be common practice to highlight the tldnr parts.

i could t help but think though, i thought the nightmare scenario for the LHC was to create a singularity and suck us all into a black hole ^_^
One strategy to fight this is to offer rewards programs and/or credit cards with special perks. Retailers you've pointed out in other comments do this -- Amazon has a credit card[1]. Target has one that gives you 5% off purchases at Target. Also airlines and hotels do points/miles and credit. Without them, people would only choose the best price every time.

Does AirBnB have enough regulars to make those rewards programs worth it? Do travel-weekly business people use AirBnB? If not, it's like being given the buy-10-get-one-free sandwich card at the deli you go to once a year.

[1] - Edit: And prime!
Driving here, its difficult to get above that speed already. Its a dense city.
Donation does not immediately imply corruption (on either side of the political spectrum). Especially one as small as this one.

It does bring moral questions, and it is worthwhile to think about limiting the power of "donations" in politics, but people can hold an opinion that we dislike even before receiving a donation. The question is whether they will change their opinion when confronted with data.
UEFI needs to support God's compiler Binaries. God's compiler does not generate elf.

Multicore starts in real mode. You might as well learn how to do real-to-long anyway.
Where do you get your data for botnet compromised IPs?
pfsense is very simple to setup and supports openvpn and ipsec.
To sum up how I feel:

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

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"The San Bernardino litigation was necessary, but in my view, it was also counterproductive," Comey said during his 20-minute speech. "It was necessary because we had to get into that phone. It was counterproductive because it made it very hard to have a complex conversation."

No.. you pushed for the conversation right after the terrorist shooting hoping the public would be scared enough to cave.
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I was expecting a large scale coolant leak of helium flooding the work areas, a quench.
That's an interesting take, in reality the people who care are poor and don't have the resources to make their voices heard.
After you try the Kinesis Advantage, the Microsoft Natural feels like a joke. The length of your fingers is distributed like a parabola and the Kinesis design is the parabola that fits over your fingers to minimize the travel distance of _all_ your fingers. Conversely, the Microsoft Natural keyboard is actually a parabola that goes _away_ from your finger to actually _increase_ the travel distance needed for your ring, pinky, and index fingers.
You're right that condensed matter (or other sections of physics outside high energy) is not a likely place to find new fundamental physical theories. The commenters are instead arguing that there is a lot of space for new discovery within our existing fundamental theories. That doesn't mean this work isn't exciting or valuable; this kind of work includes things like quantum computing (most of which falls within condensed matter).

If understanding the ground rules meant you understood everything that can arise within them, math would be boring by definition since we generally choose our ground rules in mathematics. So we're still finding interesting and unexpected things in other areas, including fundamental rules that are non-obvious features of existing theories (theoretical quantum information work finds new things here all the time). So for people in high energy that like finding new fundamental facts about the universe, this is a good place to go. Some methods developed by string theory and other unification theories are actually already used in condensed matter!
I think this was meant to be ironic.
I think you guys missed my point. In pointing out one individual, I was pointing to the organization as a whole. Github supports this kind over-sensitive social-activism. Example A: dragnet language-police script. Example B: hiring controversial, social-activists.
"Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God." - The two chief teachings of the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent
I always considered it to be if the LHC made a new super-stable state of matter and everything falls into a new ground state. Yikes!
Why raise horses when you can race cars?

Because we can.
> While definitely a concurrency bug, I'm surprised that this would happen frequently enough to create numerous bug reports unless there is also an undesired compiler optimization that's removing the "guard" in Thread 1.

Sometimes there's some external factor that causes two threads executing on two different CPU cores to be in lockstep. I've seen a case that had over 50% chance of happening, even though the chances should have been less than 1 per million.

For example logging can cause unintended synchronization. Also kernel device drivers can cause surprising synchronization. And probably a lot of other non-obvious things.
This feels a bit myopic to me. I rely on my phone to do all sorts of things that I need to get notifications for, even when I'm socializing.

I totally understand the desire to avoid having cell phones out during a social event, but I'm not sure it's the venue's responsibility to enforce social convention -- especially in a way that could impair critical services...
I plugged in a few IPs from stopforumspam.com and they all had the same "risk level" as my own IP: 1.
A nice variety of approaches. Any plans for implementing others, e.g., Smith-Waterman and mutual info. similarities?
Primary source: http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/terrebonne-sheriff-raids-hou...
That's a totally different argument.
Here you go:
https://github.com/JWarmenhoven/ISLR-python

R is a popular language for doing any form of stats/ learning theory work for research/ academia. Productionwise not as popular.
More cars on fewer, wider streets, while those same cars are not required to go through the narrower streets.

I don't think there's any simple answer for what the overall effect will be. It will probably vary a lot from place to place.
> Isn't there some basic question in physics that simply can't be answered, similarly to how axioms in math simply can't be proved.

See above. My comment was in response to ansible's reply to themgt. themgt was asking why the universe looks the way it does, and ansible responded with the anthropic principle. The problem with ansible's line of thinking is that the anthropic principle tells me a great deal about me (why I can exist and observe), but not much about the universe, which was themgt's question.

In response to your broader objection that there are some basic questions in physics that can't be answered, let me point out that the entire project of physics is to seek material causes for the structure of the universe. So if nature is all that exists, and the universe itself only has material causes, what are those causes? The entire field of cosmology dedicated to answering exactly this question, and many believe it's capable of doing so.

As far as Leibniz's famous question "why is there something rather than nothing?" is concerned: admittedly this is a metaphysical question, not a physical question. Still, I think we owe it to ourselves to answer this question too, and not simply dismiss it out of hand.

> I'm no physicist, but I simply cannot imagine candidate answers to such questions.

Even if this is true, it tells us something about you but not about the universe. By analogy, somehow my body "knew" to put my liver in my torso, not in my neck. I cannot begin to imagine what physical processes led to the proper placement of my liver, but we certainly shouldn't take this to mean there are no reasons.

Moreover, we shouldn't sell ourselves short in these matters. Undoubtedly, given enough study I could discover what others have said about organ placement during embryonic development and have a fairly robust understanding of the best of our knowledge regarding the topic. The same is true of cosmology and philosophy.