skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider a system that is slightly perturbed from its resting place. If it returns to its previous resting place it's a (damped) harmonic oscillator (or an infinite collection of them = a free field). If it doesn't, and it looks different than before, then it underwent a phase transition described by Landau-Ginzburg theory.

Obviously this is not exhaustive. But it gets you further than you naively think it should. Let's look at the harmonic oscillator, why is the thing probably a harmonic oscillator? Well the potential is typically an analytic function, and we are near a resting point, so the linear order in the Taylor expansion vanishes and the potential is approximately V(x) ~ x^2. Harmonic oscillator.

Say you want to look at a quantum field theory. Well actually defining one is hard. The only case where we know how to is for a free field theory. And a free field theory is actually a collection of harmonic oscillators.

Now interacting QFT, which underlies all of observed matter, is built by gluing together harmonic oscillators in a clever way. You know Feynman diagrams? The lines in a Feynman diagram represent the particle behaving as if it was made up of independent harmonic oscillators (free field). At the vertices we just bump the harmonic oscillators around a bit. So standard QFT is a very clever shuffling around of harmonic oscillators (lots of group representation theory organises the shuffling, and several Nobel prizes worth of physics are contained in the details).

Obviously there is plenty of physics that does not fit into either of these paradigms (GR, non-linear dynamical systems, atomic and molecular physics). But they both are utterly fundamental and enormously powerful tools in two very prominent branches in physics: High energy and condensed matter.
Sure, but my point is if a security guard comes up to you and tells you to leave, saying no is not resisting arrest, but apparently if that security guard happens to be an off-duty cop then it is resisting arrest, and that seems wrong.
There is no Web interface; you really do have to use the app.
Yup, the problem is that Berkeley's dev work is funded by public money, which means they can't vacate their "ownership", because it's the public's.
Not to derail the conversation but this whole discussion on "productization" reminded me of the plot line of a Black Mirror episode. When I originally watched it I found it mostly absurd but now in the context of this thread it makes a whole lot of sense.

Here is the episode I am referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back_(Black_Mirror)
Bellingcat vs. Fancy Bear: how hackers tried to halt the MH17 investigation
+1 works here also
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/campaign-zero-debunks-po...

>Among this larger statistical breakdown of police violence, Campaign Zero also discovered that there is no direct correlation between police violence and violence that occurs within a given community.
I second this.Gmail is something that I use regularly on iOS and the interface is so ancient compared to gmail on Android.
This is true for a lot of applications except maybe google photos.
Amazon chose to boot WikiLeaks immediately after a US senator expressed displeasure with WL's original high-profile tranche of leaks.
I am not surprised. And I don't like it. And, I understand why it makes sense.
Below is a sloppy, incomplete, and unedited archive of authoritarian madness. While some of the websites are dubious, most events can be verified as having occurred (regardless of the perspective or source) and many of the websites are sufficiently credible. The much larger remainder of this list is not yet vetted and is omitted. I expect very few will take the time to look, but for those who do, it may thereafter become evident that something is terribly wrong. Again, there are a few random or unrelated links included, which will be removed when time or interest permits.

https://justpaste.it/yzu0
I was very surprised to see Android lacking support for CalDav out-of-the-box. Seemed like an obvious feature for a calendar app, yet no provider. So while it might not be much; there are CardDav/CalDav-adapters on f-droid.org, they are free software and work very good in my experience. It integrates so it allows you to use the stock calendar app.

In the end, though, I think the idea with phones like these is that they work "best" if you use the services that the manufacturer supplies, be it Apple or Google. If you use Gmail, Google Drive, Google everything, it's got a lot to offer.
To be honest, they're basically interchangeable. Most parsing libraries will handle both, and it's entirely down to preference.
That doesn't follow logically, because we're meant to trust:

* That whoever this is hasn't left out information that doesn't fit the narrative they're selling

* Hasn't edited the information to suit their narrative

* Hasn't included wholly false information

This matters even more if we believe it's Russia, because falsified leaks are part of Russia's M.O.
One could just as easily say "I have no doubt that you love traveling the speed limit through your neighborhood, but if your neighbors felt the same way, they wouldn't need to be coerced into it by enforcement and design." Even when I drive safely, there are costs borne by others when I drive--if nothing else, I make the street less pleasant and useful for my neighbors and their children and I make transportation more dangerous/stressful for cyclists and pedestrians.

Second, this is a bizarre way to use the word "coercion." It isn't like our existing infrastructure is some neutral ideal and I prefer "car-unfriendly" designs--spending $1.1 billion to add lanes to the 405 freeway in LA isn't a gift from god, it's a government subsidy for a particular behavior. Living in Orange County without a car, getting around involved walking or biking along busy, unpleasant multilane arterials with 45+mph speed limits (quieter streets were inevitably cul de sacs that spit you right back out into the meat grinder). I didn't think "hm, I find driving pleasant, so I will drive." I decided that driving would be dramatically less likely to result in my sudden death than riding--on streets like that.

People in Amsterdam choose to bike because they feel it's better than the alternatives. People in LA choose to drive for the exact same reason. If you think the difference is the amount of "coercion" they face, then you need to be able to explain why my current neighbors are being "coerced" while my former neighbors in OC are not.
Anyone can carry firearms, and anyone can arrest people, depending of course on your state laws. That doesn't mean you won't be sued/charged if the defendant gets hurt in the process.
I believe the announcement of the Black Hole discovery came after the nominations for the Nobel had closed.
The Pixel Factory by Steven Wittens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NkjLWAkYZ8

For those how likes computer graphics (or want to learn), this is a gold piece.
> WebOS was pretty tacky though an interesting OS design - actually implemented better by LG on their SmartTVs.

I've got to stop you there. WebOS was far ahead of its time, and especially considered in the context of a small startup going against established players, was brilliant.

It offered in some ways better and more intuitive usability than iOS, along with a great app development ecosystem and philosophy.

Palm's WebOS devices were a pleasure to use, in a time when that was a very rare thing for a mobile device.
It is entirely possible that the Russians were behind some or all of the hacks. However, we don't have sufficient evidence to prove that.

For one, Cloudstrike was referring to DC Leaks, not Guccifer 2.0 (nor Wikileaks).

Further, it is very, very rare for intelligence services to release private documents to affect an election in another country. It is far more common to use that intelligence to affect diplomatic relations between leaders (i.e. to get policy outcomes), not to affect the populace of a country.

Finally, I'd argue that just because the Russians hacked into one or more servers does not mean that an American didn't leak the documents. It is possible (though I will admit less likely) that both occurred: the Russians hacked the DCCC, but a lone FBI agent leaked documents to e.g. Wikileaks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12639259
It's already quite "real" in many countries around the world where using strong crypto in the wrong way can get you imprisoned or killed.
Stop saying yes to everything
In that case, rent a dedicated server from Hetzner or OVH, it’s online in 120 seconds, and still 5 times cheaper than AWS.
Let's put aside the politics for a moment.

Is it really that easy to compromise a server, or is a high profile high value target really handling security so poorly?

It makes me wonder if one of my machines were actively being attacked if the intruder would be able to break in.
The thing you quoted doesn't assign blame. It simple says you can't trust that corporations will/can protect your privacy.
Risky Business: When Governments Do Not Attribute State-Sponsored Cyberattacks
False negatives are always possible, however in a quick search I couldn't find any papers on the rates.
tt-rss is very good software, but never make the mistake of going anywhere near the community.
Which makes me wonder what's the business case behind it.

I bet Americans don't care much if blue is available in other countries or not, for the rest of the world is a tiny "because fuck you, that's why".

I'm happy now that the prices are too high, otherwise I might be giving them my money :-)
/I assume the thread is dead so..

Complaining on a form inherently lowers it's quality. As a rule Down-vote, Flag, or say nothing don't clutter up HN with posts that make for poor reading.

And yes, mass downvoting both sides of a thread is often better than getting in the middle of a heated debate.
> Was the role more biased to front end development?

These were Rails positions, which in my experience almost always equates to the same skillset expectations as a front-end engineer.
I've had a iPhone for three years and have been a MacBook owner for over ten years. I can't remember thr last time I used iTunes. It's just an app which some people use. It's hardly pivotal...
Because they're very far from welcome in those countries (Turkey especially).
> During the Roman period, the Asian continent was by far the wealthiest, most advanced, most culturally diverse place on earth.

'The Asian continent' is not a nation, and as a bonus, it also includes Rome. How much does it include Rome? Well, the last thousand-odd years of Rome's run were basically in Asia (who we call the Byzantines, they called themselves Romans).

It's also weird to proclaim 'cultural diversity' as a symbol of power in that period, when it was those who could spread their core culture that were the most powerful. Weirdly, the article later expounds on the cultural homogeneity of the Chinese as their strength. So Rome is weak because of lack of cultural diversity, and China is strong because of lack of cultural diversity?

Ultimately the article doesn't even discuss what it suggests in the title - it expounds upon those wonderous exotic peoples, and then sadly shakes its head on how two travelers must have felt dying in the 'backwater' of the Roman empire (of course, we'll neatly ignore that they were also found in a Roman backwater to begin with - Britannia wasn't exactly paved with marble). No real discussion on the meeting of the cultures.

China's historical culture and power is often overlooked by us westerners, sure, but the article is too much "gosh, those exotics!" for me.
How is "there is evidence of legal violations" substantively different from "there is evidence that Clinton and/or subordinates may have broken the law?" Now we're back to whether actual guilt is ascertained by a prosecutor or by a court.

Ah, good. So maybe she wouldn't be charged if she were a normal person. She'd just lose her job and her security clearance, which totally doesn't affect her candidacy for POTUS.

Anyways, someone actually was charged and sentenced for equivalent actions:

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/sacramento/news...

Regarding his plainly stating that they broke the law:

"a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities."

...

"There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation"

Pretty direct, no?
Also see PlantUML, which also has experimental code generation tech.
In-Depth on Udacity’s Self-Driving Car Curriculum
I use configuration management tools to set up multiple nearly identical Linux servers with nearly identical configurations. It's totally repeatable. Look into Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack.
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Therapeutic Refactoring by Katrina Owen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4dlF0kcThQ
I think that a lot of people, such as yourself, are being very dishonest when analyzing the police data because they're analyzing it against total population numbers while ignoring the correlations to crime demographics. Such as the Guardian numbers you cited.

I think applying statistics to societal issues is a right pain in the ass to get right, and even more of a pain to explain concisely without accidentally becoming misleading.

It's not dishonest to get something wrong, when that something is unfeasible or perhaps even impossible to get right.
IoT security is a distraction, we need to make basic networking secure first
The convention is usually to serve the SPA via a CDN regardless of server side authentication and then have client-side routing prohibit users from rendering authenticated pages. This assumes data is authenticated/authorized within a server side api and no privileged information is in client-side code (it never should).

In angular this is usually achieved by watching for state/route change events and deducing whether or not a route should be redirected or allowed to progress based on the status of the currentUser.

It sounds a little hairy but in my experience there are ample resources detailing the process and realistically it's about ~30 LOC.
A Modern Editor Built in Rust [video]
Well maybe they could contact an attorney through an online chat system that does leak conversations and surprisingly posts those private conversations about shady things govt wants to their website front page. What a bummer. Some lawyer needs to create www.gagorderattorney.com
It is absolutely relevant, since you're criticising his stack. Even if it wasn't, you could still reply, but for some reason you won't. Hmm...
I believe that blue light is generally fine (Outside of trying to fall asleep) - UV light is what damages your eyes.
Not the only solution technically, put up grounded metal wall panels or wire mesh on the walls. Mounting tape/nail them on the walls if you live in an apartment.

https://www.google.com/search?q=metal+wall+panels&source=lnm...
The more interesting thing is that it also happens to rich and affluent white people. Here's one example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor...

So the state police have went over the heads of the local PD to raid the local mayor's residence. Raid went about as well as they usually do - no-knock, shoot the dogs, handcuff everyone inside, turn the place upside down, leave without any apology.

And here's what the sheriff who ran the raid had to say afterwards: "We've apologized for the incident, but we will never apologize for taking drugs off our streets. Quite frankly, we'd do it again. Tonight."

The one good bit that came out of this story was that the mayor, being in a position to influence other people, rammed through a law that required the state to collect statistics on SWAT raids (like, what laws SWAT is used to enforce, how many raids are no-knock, how many shots are fired etc), and publish it regularly. Police unions have pushed back on that big time, but it passed anyway. The results were entirely unsurprising - SWAT is mostly used to enforce drug laws, many raids are over simple possession charges, and there's a disturbing number of no-knock warrants.
I would - only because of the investment required. Over the past few years, Apple's been very involved in its iOS ecosystem, while investing comparatively little in its Mac lineup.

Dumping Intel chips would take a ton of effort and resources, in an area where Apple isn't interested in making an effort or investing resources.
Non-profit is not the opposite of corporation. In fact, most non-profits are corporations.

The message is obviously to control your own security to the maximum extent practicable. Esau didn't assign fault in their comment. You might disagree with their assertion, but your comment is attacking a straw man, rather than the claim posted.
4GB RAM
Are other flagship nougat phones shipping before oct 21?
"The headlines says Google's first "real threat" to iPhone, not that this is an iPhone "killer". Let's not be hyperbolic."

I'd argue, based on Bloomberg's form, that "real threat" is verging on hyperbolic.
Importing the Hacker News Interest Graph in Neo4j
Im not surprised. Apple products used to just work, now they... Just update. I have two colleagues who are 100% non technical, they are planning to ditch their iPhone 6's for android devices. They are sick of the price gouging, itunes lock-in and storage problems.
Having moved I android 10 months ago, as a 7/8 year iPhone user, I couldn't be happier.
It seems as though many of your historical posts are similarly angry "source-your-claims" posts. Here is an article entitled "Short-term fasting induces profound neuronal autophagy": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20534972/
If Google ever releases a new Nexus 7, that will be the only device with a chance to replace my N6. I couldn't even go down to a 6P size.
Why is GCP (just like AWS and Azure) still 5 times more expensive than comparable dedicated cloud services from competitors?

I can get this https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40 in a few hours, with more performance than anything you offer for even 5 times the price. Same at most other dedicated hosters.

Do you even ever intend to be price competitive?
Uh, no?

The two broad categories are high Latin and low Latin. Put another way, classical Latin and vulgar Latin. Low Latin was the vernacular and already used by most by 270 AD, including poets, who greatly influenced the formation and unification of the new Latin language. The "Latin" that is generally studied at university these days comes from a mediaeval Latin that is a simplification of this old, vernacular form.

Actually, during the period of classical Latin, the vulgar form already existed and broke off into at least a dozen dialects, some of which include old forms of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and, of course Latin, of which there were many versions. It was a fight between the two, but nobody really used classical Latin in everyday speech. These days, there are I want to say probably a dozen dialects in Italy. But Italian is a simplification of Roman Latin with minor influences by other Romance languages and even less influences by other world languages such as Arabic.

My basic conclusion to what you say is, there is no way you can understand classical Latin if you speak modern Italian.
File listing:

tree | xclip -i -sel clip

http://pastebin.com/C34b8V8e
$18/mo seems pretty steep for such a service, but this is a pretty cool idea.
The FBI director was quoted as saying "no reasonable prosecutor would bring this case". She clearly broke the law (It is not legal to handle state department business via private channels, end of sentence), just no judge would commit political suicide to bring her to justice.
Yes. It is a literal description of autophagy.
> I've never owned a phone with more than 2GB of RAM and I'm not sure what I'm missing out on.

It's Linux under the hood which will always make use of more memory, but our phones are slowly migrating towards service platforms. When my phone is fully kitted out playing Ingress with friends I'm running Slack, Glympse, Zello, team-specific app(s), Ingress and maps. I want the device snappily switching between and/or giving cycles to all those apps as needed without being forced to save state off to my flash storage which is a wasting asset.

I would imagine VR apps will be even more hungry with the large and complex objects and interactions modeled and displayed.

On EIS yup if that replaces OIS I'm fine with it. The assistant may be really cool but it won't remain a google-exclusive for long and it doesn't justify a (in my mind) $200-$300 premium for the phone.

I'll probably pick up the pixel XL when the sales start but as someone who has been an Android acolyte since my developer's edition G1 came in the mail this is not a compelling upgrade for me from the Nexus 6, particularly at this price.
Unfortunately if we follow that logic we would be out believing in the content of things like the Panama Papers, the Snowden Documents or the DNC hacks.

In this world of state disinformation programmes (US, Russia and others) we need these leaks AND we need journalists and civilians to take them seriously; looking to establish second sources to corroborate information.
Ask HN: Request for feedback
Hello, Hacker News!

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I developed an interest in software during high school but <insert life story here> delayed my arrival to the software/web dev world until after college. Therefore, like many people in this field, I don't have a CS background (self-taught). I've built a bit of experience and worked on some meaty projects in the past several years. I am currently employed at a large corporation, I work on a small team, with people that value my contributions and I am paid well. My life is decent. However, as more and more years have passed since I've joined the industry, work has become less interesting and finding ways to learn concepts that I find useful in the long run (shiny new framework excluded) has also become more difficult. Over the years, I've managed to build an extensive curriculum of information I would like to assimilate. I managed to go through part of this curriculum while working full time, but this takes a toll on my health and takes away from the time I spend with the people I care about and it's also rather slow. Moreover, it's not directly applicable to the day to day work I do as a web developer and it's not very clear when I'll be able to make a switch to a position where I can leverage these skills.

Fortunately, I managed to save enough money and devise a plan to sustain myself for a couple of years. I am about to embark on a journey to acquire some much-desired knowledge and try to better define the next steps of my career. I understand this is a rather vague story and question, but if you can identify in any way, if you've been through something similar before, or if you just have some speculative feedback, I would love to hear it. Thank you!
My killer feature for the iPhone is seamless upgrades. Until Android has this (Play Services don't count), it's not going to be a real threat IMO.

Vertical integration FTW.
Do you seriously think that it is better elsewhere? I think that the NSA and the FBI are out of control...