skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>“The best thing about the theory is that it can be tested or checked within the next 10 years or so,” Ringwald says. “You can always invent new theories, but if they can only be tested in 100 years, or never, then this is not real science but meta-science.”

Is that a dig at climate research?

Also, I don't see why kugelblitz* are not invoked more often in these theories about the early universe. You could go

EM-radiation-only universe
--fluctuation above density threshold-->
EM-radiation + BH universe
--pair production with BH as momentum sinks-->
EM-radiation + BH + matter + antimatter universe

I do not claim to really know what I am talking about, just a vague sketch.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_%28astrophysics%29

Edit:
I forgot to add, where does all the antimatter go? Clearly some small proportion of matter/anitmatter generated will get incorporated into the BH soon after creation, but what is the probability of this happening in exactly equal proportions at all times? I don't know what is supposed to determine the direction and momentum of these newly created particles, but if it is "random" then that would be essentially zero.

So from that you get a tiny imbalance and annihilation will take care of the rest.
There was a pretty good essay in the German computer magazine c't sometime in the early 2000nds, were the author argued that a computer is a meta-medium, that is a computer can emulate almost arbitrary types of media. A computer can work as a TV or as a game console or as a textual medium.

From this point of view, it is no longer the case that there is an inherent selection algorithm that is generated by what works well in the medium, for example a game show just would not work as a news paper article, but that one can decide which advantages and disadvantages a computer has. And so it is more or less the first time, that one can decide which selection algorithm is the relevant one.
It's fantastic that it's true. DNSSEC is a terrible idea that will harm the Internet.

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
Of course someone would come into the comments and try to rationalize why this doesn't apply to him, and why he's a special snowflake who can do no wrong.
Well you're in good company. I was in that crowd too and honestly I feel much more optimistic about the future of Win10 then I ever have about Desktop Linux.
Either/or. Just care enough to be good at anything at all. Additionally, be good at something that doesn't involve work skills. Work isn't everything.
It happens - though it is hard for me to imagine. Mine is pretty active - I think in words, and can get into an inner monologue that is basically narrating what I do.

But my spouse doesn't have that - it seems to be a foreign concept to him. I think some folks think more in pictures or sounds and other such things.
I wonder if there will be an announcement indicating integration into twitter? Or if this is just a straight-out cut in an effort to reach profitability?
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Another lesson on brands being platform agnostic, big Vine, Twitter, Facebook, $whatever numbers count for nowt.
Government surveillance programs are destroying privacy. Get your own house in order first before we'll trust you to regulate the internet.
It would be a huge shame if the same fate befell Periscope which I find hugely intriguing - just the ability to look at some arbitrary place in the world.
Maybe that's why there is so much more fiber deployment in Sweden than in the U.S.? The fact that people are willing to pay the infrastructure costs up front? No carrier would be able to get a franchise under those terms in the U.S.

What do carriers in Sweden do with people who can't afford to pay the up front fee?

EDIT: Looking at Stokab, it looks like they don't require an up-front payment. But Stokab built its network over two decades, starting out in the core city and expanding based on market demand: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/sites/digital-age.... That model is illegal in almost every city in the U.S. Any carrier must agree to wire up a whole city on a very short timeline, even areas where there isn't sufficient market demand. Verizon was given less than 8 years to wire up all of New York City.
Most hotels in the US are owned by a small number of huge companies. Check out a few slides into https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/casnu/marriott-organizatio...

I travel quite a bit for work, and I've stayed at 30+ hotels over the last 2 years. All of them, with the exception of a couple independents in NYC, were owned by Marriott or IHG.
"while a parody targets and mimics the original work to make its point, a satire uses the work to criticize something else, and therefore requires justification for the very act of borrowing" http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/intellectu...

Clearly, this mod is making fun of the Nexus phone. Which then breaks the connection between Sony and the Videos. You don't have any rights to uses of a fair use derivative work.
This sounds like a variation of the Dead Sea Effect - when things get bad, the staff with the best job prospects are the first to leave (http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...).
Can this can handle coverage at high volume events? I want to see a demo of this!
Quantum Randomness (2014)
I cringed at the words "Firefox left it in the dust" (in comparison to Chrome for the Oort WebGL Benchmark). The actual scores were:

Firefox: 10,000
Chrome: 9,940

Hyperbole much?
Unfortunately in the US the tax system means perks can be substantially advantageous to both the employer and the employee. Otherwise I too would prefer salary over perks.
I assumed they were making a reference to Adblock Plus selling ads through their new marketplace and decided to express that in the most dishonest and self-serving way possible.
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Qualcomm buying AMD would be awful, they are a 100% closed vendor, and wont even supply spec sheets/chip details if you arn't a $1mil+ a year customer.

They completely ruined Atheros wifi chips for instance. Pre-buyout they had the best featureset, and even open source firmware. Now they have a massive closed firmware driverlike-blob and you can't even set your MAC address. Pathetic.
The key word is "redundancy".
Merlin Mann: Do you charge money to do things?
Has a democratic version been tried that fluctuates between duopole and multipole party systems?
Sweden, Finland and Norway do it: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-06-18-salarie...

That's clearly one of the more disaster prone areas of the world.
Note that it works best to have that install script create symbolic links for the git hooks rather than copy, so that they can be updated without having to rerun the install script.
I think already-rich casino magnates don't get involved in totally unrelated serious crime like importing drugs.

I'm fully aware that the casinos used to be shoulder to shoulder with the mob, and have done plenty of shady things. I guess I just meant that it would be stupid to diversify so riskily - in movie terms, it'd be like a hacker starting a sideline in gun running.
comScore reports just under 5m uniques for Vine.co last month. It may be down on the height of its popularity but 5m unique users is a decent mass of people to monetise. Seems an odd thing to kill and not at least try to sell.
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You don't need to be an asshole.
Vine's primary differentiating factor was 6 second looping videos. While the Twitter platform certainly supports video, it doesn't have the kind of automatic, looping, addictive format that Vine was good for.
Where by "relying on" you mean "impacted by outages and little else", since we systemically do not validate DNSSEC and any attack that DNSSEC "prevents" can simply be aimed at a different part of the communications infrastructure.

Also, obviously, people who "rely on" 8.8.8.8 doing DNSSEC lookups are in fact relying on a single bit in an unencrypted DNS response packet that vouches for the validation that the server did. Nothing 8.8.8.8 can do will protect the link between the user's stub resolver and Google's DNS server.
Brad with the CoinTent team here. Glad you believe in the general idea of what we're doing!

I understand the concern around the tracking of browsing history, as that's obviously one of the main drivers of ad blockers in the first place!

We definitely need to make sure we deliver on transparency around what data is tracked, how it is stored, and how it is used. We will be releasing this in more detail on our site when we launch.

One key point for you to be aware of is that we do offer the ability to turn off tracking of browsing history. In that case, we'll give you the option to support sites automatically based on sites everyone else spends time with.
And no escape key anymore.
How anonymous can a service be that sends messages through a central server and uses your phone's GPS to know where you are at all times? You're only anonymous to each other, but the server in the middle knows all.

When I saw the headline, I thought this used some sort of ad-hoc Wifi network with MAC spoofing and couldn't figure out how they got 1km of range.
I can't help it, but I find it amusing to see Twitter and vision in the same sentence. I think the lack of vision is Twitter's biggest problem right now, and not having a dedicated CEO doesn't help.
Absolutely - I wouldn't for a minute assume casino organizations are clean, especially abroad where they might feel safer from domestic prosecution. I just don't think diversifying into unrelated and personally-criminal activities would make much sense.
I simply disagree. I don't believe there is systemic racism or systemic discrimination. If you provide evidence that there is systemic discrimination I would love to see it. Mostly all I've seen is people blaming "the system" for all their failings in life when in reality, no one gives a fuck about what they look like or what their skin color is. This is just like BLM. I am absolutely opposed to racism. I just don't think it exists to the extent that BLM activists think it does. The FBI and numerous other reputable organizations release information about crime and discrimination each year, and absolutely none of it provides evidence in favor of "systemic inequality" against minorities. In fact, it has always done the opposite. It has always shown that minorities commit overwhelmingly more violent crime against non-minorities than the other way around.

But that's beside the point. The point I'm trying to make is this: no one cares that you're trans. And no one cares that I'm bi. We all have the same rights. We don't need to be granted more "civil rights" because we fall into some group. Blaming the system is simply not valid unless you can provide evidence.
I guess I can post my own, although there's not that many projects on there: http://iheanyi.com

Also feel free to peep my old one: http://iheanyi.github.io. I didn't like this one because it was too image heavy, but I did like the layout of case studies better in this iteration than in my new one.

And I guess another old iteration I was using when I was looking in college: http://old.iheanyi.com. Yeah, I know. I re-design my website a lot.
Twitter Shutting Down Vine
Salary does not necesarily map to skill. It is usually defined in terms of your last salary, that is usually disclosed as a part of your background check.

Then, offers for H-1B workers are available online. Some other information is on glassdoor.
The situation I describe above applies to plenty of software engineers in the Bay Area. I have a few friends that are struggling to cope with the ridiculously high rents, while trying to balance and find a safe area to raise a family. It has nothing to do with "figuring your life out first" as you so condescendingly wrote. It's the realities of living in areas like the Bay Area. Not everyone is a millionaire with a house and a great job and great boss.
At one mega-corp I worked at we had job levels (say 20-35 or so) each with a corresponding salary range.

All they'd do was promote you to the next level and give you a salary in the next range.
That might warrant it's own submission. They say the mobile app is shutting down, was that the most significant part or was it the web side?

I thought it should have been a good service to monetize.

Edit: was already submitted - discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12806409
Game of Thrones season 7
Important News about Vine – Medium
> So build for the question "What do I want people to see if they scroll through my site without clicking on anything?"

The home page of the first site could literally fit all of its quickly parseable informational content with no scrolling required and without being too dense (on a desktop - minimal scrolling would be needed on mobile).

Does anyone really enjoy looking at seemingly-random large background images while trying to pick out the isolated islands of text as they scroll - complete with shifting brightness/contrast? I used to think not, but it's becoming so prevalent I begin to think I'm in the minority.

Pictures convey a lot of information, but (IMO) people don't want a lot of information when first visiting a place - they want an overview that they can digest quickly, and they want to be able to drill deeper for more details. Images.

Pictures also take a lot more time to process - it was three passes through the site you linked before I realized that the pictures were actually showing (through pictures of devices...) examples of her work - I was there for information, but didn't realize some of that information was png-encoded.

Some of her work looks quite good - but if I weren't paying extra attention for purposes of writing this, I would have never seen it.
I don't forgive you.

I don't forgive you for putting ads on my Start Menu. Or on my lock screen. I don't forgive you for taking away my choice on when I want to update my computer. I don't forgive you for firing your QA team and then using the public as your beta testers. For taking away features in Windows Pro that could force people to upgrade to Enterprise. For us having to pay for support on top of buying your software. For not allowing home users to turn off Telemetry. For all of the product confusion and terrible naming conventions. I won't even go into past practices...

I don't get how years of screwing everybody over can suddenly be turned around with some marketing saying "we <3 linux" and open sourcing a few projects out of desperation. They only <3 Linux because they have to. It's going to take a long time for me to regain their trust.
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HP doesn't have anything comparable to an rMBP. Their 15" laptops are either low-end, or x360 convertibles. Also they have tiny batteries (under 60 watt-hours in 15" models).

The XPS15 is the closest rMBP competitor, but even that has a smaller battery, and much worse battery life with high-DPI screen (only moderately worse battery life with 1080p screen).

The closest competitor to the rMBP is the T560. It's more than half a pound heavier with extended battery, has only a 1080p screen, and only a dual-core rather than quad-core processor.
> Dubbed SMASH, the model is based on the standard model of particle physics, but has a few bits tacked on.

That sounds very familiar... https://xkcd.com/793/
I never knew Vine was part of Twitter, I guess that explains the horrible UX of the web version.
When NXP was spun out of Philips in 2006, everybody around the businesses were a tad grumpy about it. Philips got paid a lot for NXP by the private equity folks who took it out, who wrote it down as a loss on NXP's balance sheet.

So NXP started its independent life deeply in the red numbers. Doesn't seem nice, does it? People were wondering whether the thing was just gonna be chopped up, sold on, and half the people fired.

Instead, however, people had to be much more scrappy than before. The new bosses weren't tech geeks but money sharks. Don't do things that don't have a clear path to profit. Don't waste time. Don't tolerate people wasting their time. Of course, this seems entirely obvious to all of HN, but anyone reading this familiar with Philips culture knows that things aren't always that way. Philips and NXP had (have) plenty of people who were rightfully referred to as furniture. They were there for decades, same desk same chair, and nobody really know what exactly they were doing. Somebody, somewhere, just kept paying the salary.

NXP's new need to get back into the black numbers was truly transformative for the company. Sure, it's still a bigcorp with all the quirks you'd expect, but they came a long way.

I'd not have predicted a Freescale-level purchase 10 years ago, and I definitely would not have predicted a $38B valuation. That's more than Philips' current market cap ($26B) and NXP was spun out because it was a loss leader that they couldn't turn around.

Well done, folks! As a fellow Eindhovener, I can't help but be a bit proud. Too bad you didn't buy Qualcomm instead but you can't have it all I guess!
That's an extremely subjective, irrational perspective, isn't it?
I believe the theory is that the inner voice is delayed or diminished, not removed entirely. It's been some time since I watched it but I assume he's using hyperbole or generalizing for the audience. This is a talk for parents to understand their kids.

In his papers and books he argues that the inner voice is essentially broken because it's either incapable of helping regulate behavior and/or doesn't manifest itself during the decision making process. Executive function and its various components are impaired, delayed or not working together the way they should.
If you have any questions about the project, you can ask me, I'm the developer of this thing.
Like many of before me, I'll share my own website (currently in redesign, so I'll provide links via internet archive) - built in Nanoc3, hosted on github pages:

Main page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150801213611/http://lukaszkups...

Experience page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150826004819/http://lukaszkups...

About page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150826004912/http://lukaszkups...

Contact page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150826004918/http://lukaszkups...

Blog page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150826004935/http://lukaszkups...

I will release new design next week, based on brand-new static site generator ;)
It is all about choices. As long as you know that alternatives exist, all is fine. But for many people, there only is the Windows world. Or OSX. This is how i don't want it to be for my children.

See...

I have been using Linux since 1999, exclusively since 2001, this includes home and also business. Yes, there are lots of win specific software, but you know, wine got so much better over the years, if really needed i can use VM and as last resort, even reboot to win7.

As my kids been growing up, we have played many games on Linux (WOT Blitz, WarThunder, Minecraft... some natively, some via steam, some via wine steam... playonlinux has been interesting too, and not only for games... and i have been amazed that all this has been possible. This all on a mid range laptop randomly purchased, with full hardware support, touchscreen, sleeping/resuming... you name it.

And my kids are proud to use Linux, knowing there are many people contributing, rather then promoting large company, who, besides other bad stuff, has been known for making fake police reports on stolen software in this country.

So this is a good story, good experience. Certainly possible on any platform, but sometimes good platforms are tainted by bad companies.
For me personally, it's more the threat of hostility to come that's unsettling.

Apple has gutted formerly excellent programs meant for professionals. I believe the photography and videography fields had controversies. But I'll speak to what I use personally.

Apple had an excellent word processor, Pages. It could be used for print publishing. Then in 2013 they rewrote Pages to sync is with iOS.

In doing so they removed most of the features professional writers needed. Many authors, such as myself, were left stranded.

The old program still runs, but eventually an OS X update will break it.

Increasingly Apple has turned away from its professional user base, and caters to mass needs. This is shortsighted, as the pro users tend to be evangelists, and also the ones that create software. Every developer apple loses to Microsoft hurts its ecosystem.

But, all that said, I find OS X is generally still great. I'm just....uneasy in a way I never was before. And I'm glad Microsoft is now a viable alternative. I never thought I would say that, and that says something about Apple.
dupe : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12806324
+1 for https://acko.net/ It excels at presenting the subject matter.
And those updates don't usually hold the computer hostage for half an hour while you're trying to turn it off.
UX Tips: Effective Writing for Your UI
You say irresponsible ad networks are fucking it up for the rest of them. Name a responsible ad network? One that doesn't put me at substantial risk of malware and tracking.

I literally know of none, and having worked at some I know that you can't stay in business if you spend the kind of money necessary to solve the malware problems. And the tracking data/access is either your secondary or, sometimes, primary revenue source.
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I would agree. For me, the most important thing to know is that there are biases that could be impacting me and to always leave room for a) a competing viewpoint can be sincerely held and possibly correct over the viewpoint I am convinced of, and b) to always ask myself if there is a self interested reason I want the belief I hold to be true.

Many biases cannot be overcome even with knowing about them... but accepting that it's possible I'm wrong and that the crazy guy on the other side is both sincere in his competing belief and possibly correct, allows me to evolve and learn and ultimately get along with more people.

I have some strongly held beliefs and opinions...But I try to keep my mind open and without considering cognitive biases, you are going to be more close minded than you should be in most cases.
Although I get your point, Windows has more powerfull configuration options than you might think as a user. E.g.Windows defender can be permanently disabled through administrative templates for your computer.
Like i said. In the physical sciences, you can't do it.

Math is not a physical science -- and you can get stunning breakthroughs without anything except a quiet room, a pad of paper, a pencil, and a trash can. (old joke: /s/math/philosophy and remove the trash can!)

This is not true if you're a microbiologist.
Project Quantum is an opportunity to ship some of the Servo components in Firefox and gain millions of users, real-world tests of the technology, and hopefully dramatically expand our contributor base. As we mention in a post to the Servo mailing list (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.servo/3b... ), Servo has a lot coming in 2017 unrelated to Project Quantum or Firefox.
Yeah, it's always the public at large, or companies that need to be "transparent", but when it comes to the government it's "do as I say, not as I do".
Servo has always been and still is a research project. It was never intended to go into production as a fully-fledged Mozilla product. Quantum is the initiative to bring a lot of those technologies into Gecko.