skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about ( sometimes multiple ) lifetime sentences without release? Sure they try to rehab* the inmate but not to the point of releasing them.back out to the public. Granted this is just one scenario..
The scenario at hand is the particles colliding into a black hole, not spontaneous conversion of the equipment.

A black hole with the mass of a big chunk of equipment would be enormously deadly. Ten megatons per pound, assuming it evaporates. Most of the planet collapsing into it if it doesn't.
You meant the Barcelona government, not Barcelona, the city.
I've been on vacation for a while (can't escape HN) and this discussion strikes me as uptight, granular, and overall a waste of time. Read the article however you want and get on with life.
Building a Faraday cage specifically to block phone signals is a very different act compared to building a Faraday cage. It's the "to block phone signals" bit that makes it illegal.
Uber has considerably harder engineering challenges than Airbnb. Airbnb is a pretty Craigslist. Uber has to manage millions of trips in real time 24/7
Are we going back to programming in Forth now?
Blake Krikorian has died at 48
Torrentz Gone, KAT Down, Are Torrent Giants Doomed to Fall?
The OP made a side-comment about 'idea of naturalness' being a philosophical tenet. That's a problem because science claims to be philosophically neutral, which is impossible.

Science looks for a system which can exist without supernatural intervention, but the creation of time/space/matter doesn't fit within those constraints.

Admittedly that is a philosophical or even theological take, but at least it's honest.
Can you give me an example where Hillary Clinton has recused herself from a political process due to a conflict of interest with one of her donors? If not, isn't that worrying? Shouldn't the appearance of impropriety be enough?
See, homo economicuses don't care whether cultures or languages die; you can see this in the above "translation is not economically feasible .." sermons. While that may indeed be true, the thing though is that with such deep linguistic apartheid, the market and purchasing power in India will essentially be limited to the colonial class - with a mass of underlings bearing the currency and its inflationary forces.

Once the regime inflates itself out of existence for the sake of all those suckling on taxes, revolution comes and all the nuts the squirrel accumulates now will flee him. Like Mao's murdering mobs, that can bring great destruction.

The horizon of the homo economicus, I fear, is not quite as far ahead as some of us, nor is the French revolution as far behind.
I haven't played Pokemon Go, but it's fine for apps to use their own custom theme. What's not fine is to use one OS's theme on another OS, like an Android app on WP.

I see where you're coming from when you say that nice UX is not the most important thing, but a poor UX comes in the way of usability. The conventions users are used to no longer work, which comes in the way of using the app for its intended purpose. UI that doesn't fit might also cause users to pause and reorient themselves, again distracting them from their goal.

For example, wall switches in India are on when pressed downward, as opposed to upward in the US. Either works, but if the switches are different from room to room in your house, it's confusing.
This, I think, is why it's so frustrating when occupations which have historically been fairly flexible and creative start to gain a lot of process and become more formulaic.
>Some of us enjoy reading and writing like this. [...] Background and personal touch are often entertaining.

Here's my guess on why the article's slow build up irrated many readers: It was the apocalyptic armageddon title and then the first sentence the reader sees is, "I finished high school in 1995."

If the title is bombastic or provocative, your readers are going to want the Inverted Pyramid[1].

Had the author titled it something more toned down like, "Coming to grips with LHC's lack of new particle discoveries" ... the immediate juxtaposition of "I finished high school in 1995" wouldn't have been such a letdown. The phrase "coming to grips" sets up the reader to sit back and relax for a "timeline".

Put another way, if the writer puts a promising title but buries the reader with personal details, it is often seen as a self-indulgent style of writing that does not respect the readers' time.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid
The 2nd and 3rd exposes what's the article about: that there are no new physics to discover from LHC. The 8th paragraph only confirms what the title means. Frequently, the paragraph beginnings are not meaningful. It is better to skim the end of the paragraphs too.

I don't mind this kind of writing for this length of article. I like it in fact. It took me much less to read it than to write this comment.
You could have cut out your first 9 paragraphs and got straight to the point.
There's some pretty cool references here [1] from a former TA of mine.

[1] http://fpgacpu.ca/stack/index.html
It would be also great if they could somehow split the keyboard into two pieces for better ergonomics.
On the subject of debuggers and tracers
I think the experiments in the different field highlight this. Particle physics experiments keep getting bigger and more expensive (LHC, Kamiokande, etc). For condensed matter, you can give an undergrad liquid helium for experiments with superconductors, which will show QFT phenomena like quasi-particles. Even looking at symmetry breaking in condensed matter doesn't require (comparatively) huge experimental setups.

I don't think it's a stretch to say that if more people are actively experimenting and thinking about problems in a field, the more likely new results are going to be found. (That's not to say particle physics experiments aren't useful.)
Thanks, and largely agreed.

What Reddit does offer, and woeprks fairly well, is moderation tools and teams sufficient to scale out pretty well.

A bigger problem is that conversation sinply doesn't scale well, something old-timers have been realising for a while. I've got a Dave Winer quote somewhere to tthat effect, and was rereading Shiky's "A Group is its Own Worst Enemy" which suggest what I'm increasingly concluding: with the right people, from 2-3 through maybe 50-100 people can actually discuss something. More than that and it's broadcast or a large number of comingled side conversations.

I'm coming to appreciate Wordpress and blogging platforms' capabilities, and sheer size. There's a ton of blogged content out there, it's mostly that finding and commenting on it is challenging.

Another element that's lacking is filtering tools, for which I think randomness and/or community ought play a larger role -- filtering content up through smaller groups.

Also both implicit measures and known trusted quality "roots" (vetters / editors).

I'm coming to appreciate Wordp
The companies and people that run the prisons and the prison phone systems are both very happy with a system where a) people spend a lot of time in jail and go back frequently and b) spend a lot of money on hyper-expensive phone calls since both of those things earn them very significant money.

The question should probably be: Why should any sane person in the prison industry be for it?
Well, in principle physicists would be more than happy to explore radically different theories. But the thing is, physicists tend to worry if a effect is observable. So a alternative theory needs to be compatible with all experiments that have been done until today, and second it needs to predict an effect that is observable within current experimental ability. (Or an effect that is close.) There is today just not something radically different aviable, which passes these two tests.
Isn't this passive rather than active illegal jamming? I presume there is no automatic right on the part of mobile phone companies to expose people worried (justly or not) to EM radiation and possible health effects. Thus if they wish to protect themselves why should they not be free to do so?
Just think of the cost of such professional police forces for every state and county, including training, equipment etc.
Hi all.

I made this today because it's something I've wanted for a while.

If I've got a bit of spare time, I often end up wasting it in the same few ways.

And yet, whenever I'm busy there are loads of small things I'd love to do a bit more. Build something new, do a drawing, practice a bit more German, watch one of many films, work out, play a board game, play the guitar for 10 minutes, do a bit of cleaning...

These all get forgotten quickly, and don't fit neatly into any of the task-planners I've played with. I just wanted something really simple, so here it is.

Say things you'd like to do, and then it'll pick from them randomly. I want to extend this to be smarter, but randomly actually works fairly well.

I've added some monetisation through amazon associates links, which are hand chosen for things I really do recommend.

All your data stays on your machine using localstorage, I'm not receiving your task list and there's no signup, it's just a few static pages. Though I have added google analytics I've tried to turn off cookies and ip address recording, so it's mostly a hitcounter for me to watch through the day.

I've used bulma (http://bulma.io/) as a css 'framework', which has been nice, though I haven't got the task list looking nice on a mobile yet.

Feedback, complaints, showers of praise, disinterested sighs, I'm really interested in anything you've got :)
> A large part of Apple's success is that they've made it so easy to buy.

Applicable to their hardware products only. When it comes to digital goods... they won't let me purchase anything off the iTunes marketplace without first installing their desktop client, which doesn't even exist for my OS. I wonder what motivates this disparity.
Since you seem like a sensible person, I'll tell you what I have to deliver.

This world exists according to a singular, fundamental principle which is that a thing that comes into existence once makes results on the basis of what is inside of itself from the past, and makes itself exist continuously by repeating its activities endlessly. A thing's very activities become the cause through which it makes itself come into being in the future.

So, seeing the world from this principle, we can find two or three laws: The law of cause and effect, and the law of existing by changing through activities (repetition). Rather than coming up with theory and finding evidence, we can take any sample from the entire world and verify this theory as their method of operation.

(If you're wondering about the question of infinitely regressing this statement to the origin of the world, I can say that the same explanation applies. The world itself also repeats (ends and begins again) periodically and also displays the entire process of evolution according to the law of cause and effect.)

When people really understand this principle and see things in the world on the principle, they come to realize the fundamental problem in physics is gravity. People don't really understand what general relativity means. It's sort of like how most people don't know that Schrödinger was joking when he talked about not knowing if the cat would be alive or dead. That's why physics has gone on a massive detour over the last 100 years. Unless physicists solve the problem of gravity, humanity won't be able to recognize the cause of and survive through the collapse of the Earth's ecosystem. Things are more serious than people realize - even after all these years. It sounds fantastical to people who haven't confirmed, but what I point out here is undeniable after confirmation of facts. So, from one perspective, it's as if physicists don't have the willpower or courage to admit the reality of the situation today, which is what fundamentally prevents them from pursuing the way to confirm about gravity - it would result in them confronting today's reality. Realistically, it's a hard burden for anyone to bear. That's one of the reasons why a person who says what I say here is rarely welcomed.
Collaborate: Do Twice the Work in Half the Time
Interesting. From what I understand, lifetime resolution is pretty deterministic...mallocs always happen at the beginning of a lifetime and frees always happen at the end of the lifetime. Would it be possible during the Mir stage to perform analysis and optimization to modify lifetimes? (ie. Array preallocations, chunked frees, etc.)
Is research a fertile hunting ground for narcissists?
I had no idea UEFI booted directly into long mode... I feel like a moron who hasn't kept up with the times, but admittedly I'm not super into kernel dev. Can I just ignore segmentation entirely? It has always been my least favorite part of programming on x86
Show HN: Extend your AWS IAM switching roles by Chrome extension
Tabby's star is dimming at an incredible rate
Yes, Louis X abolished slavery in mainland France. That did not apply to the French colonies. If the Bible lead him to believe that slavery was wrong for French Christians, why didn't he also conclude it was wrong for non-French heathens?

There is a huge amount of material on this subject. The things I have mentioned are not an extreme revisionist interpretation of what happened.

I am not interested in transferring this discussion to another location.

Best of wishes,
My rights aren't really up for a talk. Encrypted speech is still speech, that really should be the end of the talk.
Anyone know if the firmware allows you to program keys to emulate a mouse? I use this often with tmk_keyboard https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard firmware and found it to be just good enough to never use a mouse and keep the keyboard on your lap which is much better for my shoulders.
I would be interested in knowing how does constraining state complexity in AI get handled when designing games that must meet certain framerate and performance reqs- especially in FPS games? Are there instances where decisions are forced because of the need for an agent to undertake an action? And what heuristics are used? This is definitely part of chess/ board game playing AIs with time restrictions.

Has any work been done in trying to model AI as a deep learning problem, getting testers to play against one another and running feature extractors on their behaviors (a la deep mind) and training NN models on this data?
>No, it will not be trivial. It can be easy to use, but not trivial. Whenever you hit GUI, all the mechanics (i.e. internals) suddenly becomes complex. What the heck are "OSA dictionaries", what data is inside them, what remembers them and how does changing them from outside of the original process work?

It seems that you insist that it can't be trivial, but you're not familiar with OSA and how e.g. Cocoa handles scriptable GUI apps.

OSA is Apple's scripting architecture for Cocoa, and with "dictionaries" (e.g. XML definition files) you can expose to a scriptability layer (accessible from AppleScript, Javascript, Python and all kinds of apps) any class or element in your app, quite simply. You don't have to change the internals of your Classes even.

This is not available in all GUI frameworks, but what I'm getting at is that this is not some inherent limitation of writing GUI apps, it's a limitation of current frameworks and the lack of thought it was given to this.

> But that stops when you need long-running session scriptability [...]

> Command line tools rarely are long-running things you need to interact with.

All kinds of deamons and servers are command line too, not just things like ls and grep. And these you want to interact with over their long-running lives. Same goes for tools with heavy initial startup time (e.g. a statistics tool that needs to load some data set, etc).

It's due to a lack of foresight/coordination (and "worse is better" mentality) that we don't have a unified scripting method for short term cli-tools, long-running cli apps, and GUI apps (and if we had ones, it could easily be extended to Cloud apps for the ultimate in automating and pipelining!).

>How so? Suddenly one doesn't need to understand what the current working directory is? How to work with files then? Of course it is necessary to know those concepts.

You can know those concepts at the GUI level (including abstractly). No need to know "cp", "rm", "ls -la" and other such text-based interactions with them. In fact there are computers that don't have these at all (most smartphones, the iPad, etc), and tons of Windows and OS X users never care for them anyway.

>But then they need to learn much about their IDE, which is as large area as basic proficiency with command line

Yes, but that knowledge is specific to their task (which is to learn programming).

"cp" and "ls -lah" and "rm" are not -- they already know another way to perform those tasks.
I imagine adding the feature of a one click javascript disable would cost a lot of money to mozilla. I wonder how much? That is a very honest question.
Can anyone explain why Airbnb's iOS app is 158mb? That's the same size as Pokemon Go.
Hint: the Constitution is intended to make your life as a cop difficult. If you have a problem with this, I'm sure the FSB are hiring.
>This is an assumption that is not necessarily true. In the short term, there are plenty of examples of places where it is not true.

Any example?

Because cycles (and I could have said "iteration") is what got us from bone tools to spaceships...

>The examples you give below are examples where the cycles have worked; there are examples where it has not.

That doesn't mean much. Even if a process (e.g. iteration) doesn't always achieve the desire result, it can still be the only way to achieve those results.

E.g. asking a person out. It might not always work, but it's still the only way to go on a date with them.
Niantic CEO explains takedown of third-party Pokemon Go apps
MSFT strategy is to develop a lightweight, cross-platform .NET runtime that can be hosted on Linux/Windows on Azure - that's where their ROI lies and where their .NET Core investments are focused. Their mobile/cloud approach is about using Xamarin to develop iOS/Android Apps that connect to backend Services hosted on Azure. Although they won't mind if you use Swift or Java to develop native iOS Apps or deploy on Linux - just as long as you host your backend Services on Azure.

There's very little incentive for them to invest in making a cross-platform Desktop UI, most x-plat UI's suck and requires significant resources and offer little return given the most popular UI's are either Web/Mobile - which they've already got covered.

I'd expect the most likely UI for .NET Core is to host a .NET Core runtime with a cross-platform web-based shell using something like Electron or CEF.
hue­hue­hue­hue­hue is a wonderful name for a kernel
Subway has a new logo for the first time in 15 years
Totally agree, the game in its entirety is incredibly well made.
No, but contact the support ( http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/support/technical-support/contac... ) they are wonderful.
Bitfinex Interim Update
There are quite a few 50+ year old retailers. Quite a few 100+ years old.

As for Urban Outfitters, their net sales are more than triple what they were ten years ago. They don't see 30% year-on-year growth anymore, but they haven't seen a decline.
You still need a GDT, but most of the values are ignored in long mode. There is still limited support in the form of changing the FS/GS segment bases, which is useful for the SYSCALL/SYSRET instructions.
Downvotes prove my point. ;) People who told the truth to awaken humanity were always treated terribly. Anyone who is able to claim differently has never studied the most fundamental and important aspects of human history and can be confirmed to be a person who isn't actually able to understand the very truth.
I share the same sentiments.

Decent production values, run-of-the-mill plot and uneven acting. What bothered me the most was the lack of a theme. There simply was no vision behind the whole show; the creators wanted to cater to (or cash-in on) 80s nostalgia but forgot to actually tell something about that era or ourselves in the process.

Unfortunately I think this is what the future of television will be: craftfully made harmless industrial fare.
The beta just landed this week, August 2nd 2016, with the Windows 10 Anniversary update. Some older computers aren't offered the update immediately, but you can download the update or a full ISO for a clean install which contains the update.

Installation went off without a hitch and the essentials all work perfectly (things like sed, grep, awk, wget, curl, etc.) as did installing some basic packages like git and sqlite with apt-get.

It hasn't crashed on me yet, but I've only used it very lightly to test those few things that I mentioned. I'm going to withhold judgement until it's out of beta but so far it looks stellar.
Maybe this is new, but the TECK has terrible build quality IME. I have been using two (home and work) and both have accrued keys that don't work properly---some don't respond reliably, or at all, and some double-press. These are both Cherry browns. Firmware tweaks haven't helped.
AMD’s RX 470 GPU debuts with excellent performance for under $200
My second favorite more serious candidate is R. B. Laughlin's (Nobel price in physics and controversial guy) ideas of emergence.

https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0302028
Hadoop Dynamic Overcommit Outlined by Yahoo
Even better, by acting irrationaly it exposes itself to abuse by those who know how to manipulate those labels.

Some neighbor doesn't like how you cut the grass -- calls the tip line telling them he saw you build bombs in your basement. Your house is raided, yet no one will be punished because they can claim "But I was thinking of our country and safety".
I am the first person to chafe at discursive writing about things I'm trying to learn or be informed, but to be fair this one isn't completely aggravating to me. Seems more like setting the stage than something like a Pioneer Woman Cooks recipe where an extended anecdote leads to a banal segue. "And that's when I noticed that both my niece and her puppy liked sweets, so I decided to go home that day and make these sugar cookies..."
Hackers Could Break into Your Monitor to Spy on You and Manipulate Your Pixels
This is Amazon’s first ‘Prime Air’ plane
That's fine, but just sell what you're peddling and put your thesis at the top. A thesis including plenty of personal touch is just fine.

If you're going to have a title like 'LHC nightmare scenario" tell me precisely what it is -- briefly -- in the first paragraph and then introduce me to the fact that we're going to follow your maturing into a physicist and how that went along with the development and end with a good bang of expanding on that nightmare scenario.

Don't lure me in with a grabby title and then ignore it until the end. Make an interesting title, sell the title and the rest of the article in the first paragraph, and then get to the content.

I enjoy reading about the lives of scientists, just let me know that that's what I'll be reading.
It sure looks like a digital logic simulator, but I don't really see any game elements/mechanics in there?
> If there's one thing we don't need, it's a fiscal incentive for the government to jail people.

This, public or private, the root of the problem is that private companies and unions financially benefit from a larger prison population and both have money and political power to lobby effectively.

Remove the financial incentive that has bad effects and you get a better system.
I wonder if this will impact offerings like Pepperdata and Cloudera's cluster utilization tools.
What's worse is that a potentially interesting HN comment thread about physics was derailed by your nit picky comment about article structure.

Now the rest of the comments on this thread are mostly banal arguments about writing style instead of the LHC.