skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That whole thinking - that states are well defined, and can be only either one or the other - that's the classic world approximation, it's not reality. You firmly believe in it because your crucial early years, when you were crawling on the floor at your parents' house, were spent in a classic-world-approximation universe. That's why it's so hard for you (and pretty much everyone else) to let go of it.

The quantum phenomena are the more fundamental reality. This classic universe that you think you understand is just an epiphenomenon. Just foam floating on the ocean.

The fundamental reality of the electron is the wave function. States, and everything else, emerge from it. It's not a corpuscle. It's not a wave. It does not behave like ping-pong balls, or like waves in a pond, although it shares a few characteristics. Fundamentally, it's something different. The only way to know that entirely different thing is via the mathematics of quantum mechanics - and whatever intuition you can derive from it after you do the math.

There is no equivalent for that stuff at the human scale of things.
Google often-times makes severe algorithm changes. There is an SEO company called MOZ that keeps track of these. If you see right around the same time that ProtonMail suffered a disruption of rankings they were in the middle of a huge update (https://moz.com/google-algorithm-change). This was May 10th of this year.

I am referencing the official ProtonMail blog post (https://protonmail.com/blog/search-risk-google/) linked by another commenter in this thread.

I also want to say I'm not a Google employee and have no vested interest in the authenticity in their algorithm.

It is very fishy that according to PM they contacted a Google rep via twitter and got a "we fixed something" response from them.

As an SEO person, my opinion is this:

As an encrypted email service ProtonMail probably gets a lot of foreign and otherwise "undesirable" (or deplorable ;) ) links in the eyes of Google. Google lately has been doing a lot of algorithmic changes to actively sift these types of links out of consideration when ranking sites or dampening them severely.

My guess is that Google was basically penalizing PM for the links they were getting without notifying them via Webmaster Tools. Whether or not there was a manual penalty involved that they weren't notified about also adds a little bit of shadiness. Maybe Google thought PM was trying to game the algorithm or at the very least many of the links they were getting were of a spammy nature and they ran a penalty on them.

The redirect from them changing a domain in the past can also compound issues with Google. Sometimes they consider redirects spammy depending on what kind of redirect is in place.

Without more info it does seem weird that they would "fix" something not only without warning them in the first place but not explaining it afterwards? Most web admins have to use what's called a "disavow" list to remove the penalized links but apparently their rep seemed to do this for them. Probably due to the anti-trusty viral nature of the complaint?

I don't know what SERP tracker PM is using for these stats. Barring there were no errors in that system, they can trace the lack of rankings to a lack of organic traffic, and they were given no reasoning to the penalty or what was going on...

They may want to hire a lawyer and start an anti-trust suit on Google. This is very fishy without any official information from Google.
What Hilary and I -and Ricardo- got wrong about trade; and Trump got dead right
I'd be curious to know why they wouldn't hold up—did your professor give a reason or mention any particular cases that led him/her to reach this conclusion?

In my experience (lawyer in Palo Alto for 7 years), parties can agree by contract to do or not do many many things. Even provisions that limit legal recourse, like the much-decried mandatory arbitration clauses [1] have held up all the way to the US Supreme Court. I would be very interested to know what legal basis there would be to invalidate a license agreement that says: you can have access to this content but only if you promise not to tell other people about it.

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/business/dealbook/arbitrat...
I have been wondering if running smaller trains through smaller tunnels might be a more cost-effective way of implementing mass transit, at least in some cases. Clearly the tunneling technology exists. I'm still looking for information about the cost-per-mile, though.
madengr is right, the Atari ones have been available since 2004. They've put out a new version of it every other year or so. This year is their 7th version of the Atari Flashback. https://www.amazon.com/Atari-Flashback-7-Classic-Game-Consol...

There's ones for Intellivision (https://www.amazon.com/IntelliVision-AtGames-Flashback-Class... ) and Colecovision ( https://www.amazon.com/ColecoVision-AtGames-Flashback-Classi... ) too, but those have only been available for the last few years.
The problem is who uses it.

A packet manager is installed by the user of the system. It's protecting against attackers elsewhere on the internet tricking the user into installing malware. The "secure boot" is installed by the manufacturer before selling the computer. It's "protecting" the computer against running the software that the user wants. One of them gives users more control over what programs they run, the other gives them less.
http://www.howtogeek.com/257655/remote-desktop-roundup-teamv...
> I mean, how many would they have made? 2,000?

I'm imagining at least an order of magnitude more ballpark-judging by $60 price point and tooling costs for enclosure molds alone.
Your link doesn't work (HN ate the last period up). Here's a working link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R...
Apparently the whole media is peddling BS. Who are we going to believe, the transition committee or our own lying eyes?
+security
where do you put your purse, backpack, etc. while you can't see what's going on around you.
What is an 83(b) Election
>> We interview a ton of Americans as well, but there just aren't enough strong candidates to fill the positions.

Access to jobs is a bedrock social justice issue in America.

If your company didn't have access to foreign H1-B guest workers, you would have two primary options: 1.) hire and train American workers, or 2.) recruit more aggressively by paying even higher wages. A wild guess on my part says that your company would hire the weaker candidates and train them.

I'm all for the first option, but the second option is okay too.
Thanks. Interesting to read.

Its so rare to engage in a level discussion with a SJW. My experience is mostly reading stuff on Medium. Then there are the protests at college campuses on YouTube. But its easy to get trapped in a filter bubble on YouTube. You click on one video and then you are endlessly served recommendations.

It comes across as very naive a lot of the time, and its hard to find a video from a knowledgeable spokesperson. What I am always looking for is something where someone acknowledges the arguments against what they are doing and logically refutes them - but I don't think I have ever read anything like that. I think its because people believe they are morally justified and therefore criticism is invalid. It is not about utilitarianism, but that there is a duty to act regardless of the consequences or side effects. I think it is an interesting phenomenon and a very dangerous ideology. Safe spaces probably the most dangerous - where it becomes okay to never have your ideas challenged. I only wish this Trump backlash can bring them back to the table of reason, and allow themselves to be challenged.

> the reason that the conversations that they are having on twitter and reddit aren't more nuanced/allowing for "but"s etc. is that you are fighting an uphill battle with that kind of stuff on the internet.

Yes I can see how it would be.
From a position of total legal ignorance, I don't see a meaningful distinction. In both scenarios, you're recording an account of someone else's performance with enough fidelity for someone to know what's happening in the game. In the linked case, the issue seemed to be the the recorded content had no copyright, so I don't get why that's relevant? Very interested in a more detailed answer though :)
I'm not talking about Yahoo or Outlook.
How do you beat the "tyranny of the reply"?

Automatic karma deductions for 3rd tier replies?
Detachment + quoting after the 2nd tier?
Positioning based on the cumulative karma of the whole tree?
Automatic collapse of higher tiers (a la reddit...)
Super-powered collapse buttons, for when people get tired mid-tree

I wish something were done, but I bet it will be an addon, not HN, first.
Don't forget the Pokemon Go Plus which is still out of stock. https://smile.amazon.com/Nintendo-Bluetooth-Bracelet-Not-Mac...
Professor Who Called Trump’s Win Predicts Trump Will Be Impeached
It's a historical fact that "primitivesuave" wrote down the sequence of letters "Why was this downvoted? I found it to be a pretty interesting perspective...", but if I published it, I'd still be violating your copyright.

What's the difference between that and a chess game (which takes significantly more intellectual effort than a messageboard comment)
I like how it is concise and still seems to get the important points across. Well done.
You couldn't be more right. I seem to recall people being really grumpy about Majora's Mask for being "weird" and not very Zelda-y, and now it frequently appears in "best game ever" lists.
Because it is more efficient to do so. Either those crops require more labor, different climate, or are lower yielding, etc. than what we grow locally. If it paid more to grow those crops, we would grow them.
Go buy a batch and get on eBay.
I remember something similar to this on digg. The results wasn't great. "Power users"
Gregg Popovich Uncensored: Discusses Donald Trump’s Victory
What a coincident; I was just wondering when will Proton popup on HN to share my experience.

I must say I don't think they even have customer support. I emailed them and opened tickets multitude times with serious questions (looking into moving entire enterprise with 100+ email addresses) but I guess I was neither their type of client nor they simply don't have customer support at all!

This issue turned me off and against them entirely; sorry.
It wouldn't be doing any image processing during the solving phase. In fact, it's probably not doing any full stop, and just tracks the state of the cube (which starts in a known state) via dead reckoning.
Source on VirtualBox being faster? Couple of benchmarks I've seen put VirtualBox at considerably slower[1] and Fusion slightly to considerably faster than Parallels.

1- https://www.tekrevue.com/2015-vm-benchmarks-parallels-11-vs-...
I recall my friends doing this for the Wii back in the day. They put in reservations at GameStop and checked daily at various stores. I'd imagine it's the same way. You just have to get lucky sometimes.
Except the moves in a chess game are deliberately chosen in a process involving nothing but intellect and creativity.

Scoring goals in a soccer match is something the players try to influence but it's ultimately outside of their control. I think publishing goals in soccer are more akin to publishing vague information like "Black lost his bishop on turn 4" but not the specific sequence of moves.
'I made this comment very long only because I have not had the leisure to make it shorter.'
When dealing with the conservative, liberal divide I don't think right or wrong are the correct way to look at things. I myself have shifted from liberal to conservative. I don't think patting my self on the back saying I'm correct and congratulating everyone who agrees with me is productive. I want a better society for myself, my family and for everyone else. My view on the way to get there has changed, that doesn't make me better or worse than someone that wants to try a different way.
Newsblur has per-feed filtering configuration.
Wow very smart! How do businesses not think of these things?

I even got an impression from their nes classic page like they were saying "meh, we are not really sure if we sell this why do you want it"
> Why not make it more expensive if there is such a demand

Is demand really high enough to support a higher price? Nintendo is infamous for putting out a short supply.

I don't understand why Amazon can't just take preorders for the next batch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Ass%27n_v.....

> The district court held that Motorola and STATS did not infringe NBA's copyright because only facts from the broadcasts, not the broadcasts themselves were transmitted. The Second Circuit Court agreed with the district court's argument that the "[d]efendants provide purely factual information which any patron of an NBA game could acquire from the arena without any involvement from the director, cameramen, or others who contribute to the originality of the broadcast" [939 F. Supp. at 1094].
Thanks for posting, this looks great and I'll probably use it.
It's an advertorial for Infineon.
Well, I hope you're not a Judge then, eh? ;-) (You're supposed to recuse yourself in a situation like that, you know.)

Even if he was trying to impugn human nature and not Mexicans, he's still saying that race trumps Justice (in the person of the Judge.) That's not the values I want my President to treat as normal, because it effectively promotes racialism.

Certainly his election has already emboldened racists to make physical and verbal attacks across the country. Do I care if he's really racist or not?
Sorry--couldn't be interrupted by SIGINT? That's arguably the point of signals. Does the runtime just queue signals rather than respond in the signal handler itself?
Broadcasters have rights to the content they create surrounding an event and by contractual agreement share those with relevant league in return for access to their facilities. Not to the factual events themselves. Nothing prevents an uncontracted source from reporting on the score at any time.
Thanks -- I edited my link to Feist from an hour ago to have the extra period, too.
Orchestrate.io shutting down, deleting user data
Well, my trepidation proved correct. We signed up for Orchestrate.io's free tier for a bot project last month, and were impressed with how easy and quick it was to use their tools to integrate with our Slackbot project. However in the back of my mind, I knew Orchestrate wasn't one of the popular NoSQL systems that people talk about, and I wondered if they would stick around for the longer term.

This morning, I received the following in my Inbox:

"Effective December 15, 2016, the Orchestrate NoSQL Database product (“Orchestrate”) will be retired. On this date, existing free and paid accounts will be deactivated. The Orchestrate product will be fully supported until that date and you will continue to have access to any applicable Content in order to remove and/or backup any applicable Content prior to deactivation.After December 15, you will no longer have access to any Content or the Orchestrate NoSQL Database product.For assistance with this transition, you can contact CenturyLink Cloud support by opening a ticket via help@ctl.io. If you have any other questions, or would like additional information, please email help@ctl.io or reach out to your account manager.

Regards, CenturyLink Cloud"

I'd appreciate feedback from anyone else who uses Orchestrate who can give me pointers to a good alternative, who has a good Node library that integrates will with Slack's botkit.
Creating a basic sphere that falls down on the plane
What's the dialect of C that the kernel is written in? You need the GNU compiler, but would that be considered a dialect?
If they sell the hot item then they make only the margins for that one item. If they "sell out" of the hot item, then parents either buy an alternative (you can't just get your kid nothing for Christmas), or they buy the accessories for the hot item with a promise to get the hot item once it becomes available again. Then after Christmas, they actually get the hot item, because the kid still wants it (and their one friend who has it is really cool).

It spreads demand out over time and over their product line. Similar strategy as how airlines advertise cheap fares to get you to fly on them, but then offer upgrades, early-bird check-in, more leg-room, additional checked bags, alcohol on the plane, etc. to make money once they have your business.
And oh yes, since scouting tends to be a family thing where if one son is enrolled in Boy Scouts, the other sons will be too, that means any supposed causal effect of Boy Scouts would fall under 'shared environment' estimates from family & twin designs, which measure the influence of all variables influencing entire families such as parenting choices. And shared environment estimates for anxiety and mental health disorders in general are almost always small. So... if taken at face value, the choice of Boy Scouting or not could explain most or all of a family's influence on anxiety! This seems highly improbable, to say the least.
They are feeding in lat/long coordinates to the shader, and then doing the map projection there. Effectively they want lots of precision, but also the ability to represent coordinates anywhere in the world, in their shader. The alternative is to precompute the projection before putting it into the shader.
It's not my book. I'm just citing sources because I was very incredulous when I heard this is common practice.

It only works if you have THE hottest toy of the season - something like a product from Star Wars for instance - you create intense demand for the product but limit availability. Simultaneously you provide alternative, inferior substitute product(s) in the same franchise that's less desirable.

The parent HAS to get their child something for Christmas. The child is primed to want the desirable product. The parent drives over town looking for it. Exhausted settles on the substitute product with the promise the child will get the 'real' product after Christmas. The parent spends $50 on the substitute product before Christmas and $70 on the desirable product after Christmas. This nets the toy company $120 so they come out ahead rather than just making $70 had they stocked a large inventory of the desirable product.

Again. It reads like a conspiracy theory. I was surprised to find out it wasn't.
Sex as an Algorithm: The Theory of Evolution Under the Lens of Computation
just curious which host do you use for the proxy? im on linode fremont and its extremely slow
I usually just implement a `try_option` macro, which works well enough. I just wish it were a built-in thing in the language, as I don't like having to implement it for every new project, but I really don't want to include an external crate just for one macro.
Other than developing exploits for the FBI not really, there is a reason why this is centralized now P2P (Kazaa, eDonkey etc.) was hard enough to track especially once cheap VPN's became popular (since even a non no-log VPN would usually prevent the police from doing anything as it would be detected as a foreign IP which is out of their jurisdiction, at best they could forward that to interpol which usually didn't do anything).

Financially you can always donate to international NGOs and local organizations that battle and assist the victims of CP but overall I don't think they have much actual impact other than the feel good factor, I doubt they have the reach for it, maybe Mexico, but Thailand et. al highly unlikely.

These days it seems that anti-CP operations are pretty much centralized on TOR and a few other networks, P2P and Usenet used to be the spot for that but over the past 10 years everything moved to either private internet sites that domain hop frequently or TOR and similar networks.

Encryption, VPN's and other privacy tools make the job of tracking people down en mass without any exploits nearly impossible, even 10 years ago besides the usual rehashed crap that one could find with a few search terms on P2P file sharing apps everything was already encrypted.

CP users were pretty much encrypting everything way before anyone else, on P2P/Usenet they were running PGP rings and they would exchange keys via side channels and share their content encrypted so only people that were in the ring could decrypt it (this was in effect running your own private site over P2P or a specific newsgroup).

Back then the best LEOs could do is try to get into the PGP rings and lure some of their members to meet in person or reveal their identity (no one even thought of using malware to track them down, that tradecraft wasn't there, nor would it have been admissible most likely) via other means.

Today this type of well effectively state level intelligence agency operations is pretty much the only way of combating CP at any reasonable scale, and even this scale is likely quite underwhelming when compared to the amount of content produced and traded each year. But AFIAK probably the only LEO worldwide that does this is the FBI, local police departments don't have the resources, Interpol and Europol are mostly a joke, and most countries have considerable constraints on active network exploitation by law enforcement.
How do these competitions declare a winner? Snippets like "it only took 4 seconds" suggest they use the total exploit running time as the only criteria?
So I could still go to a concert and publish the notes, pitches and timings of the sounds I heard because those are just facts not fixed to a medium like the chess moves here?
>And speaking as a White Male, the idea that the deck is stacked against us

So you speak for the experience of all white males now? You know what it's like to grow up in Appalachia? Did you lose a factory job in Michigan? Did you have any experience coal mining in Pennsylvania until you couldn't? Have you farmed in the middle of Kansas? If not then don't try to speak for the people who have. This kind of rhetoric from the left is a very good reason why Trump is the President-Elect right now. If your side figures that out sometime in the next four years, you might have a chance next time.
ProtonMail focus on security and paid services, free tier is almost useless. Gmail is free service that make money on pushing adds and selling your privacy but provide excellent service. There is no conflict of interest.

SEO it is hard to say. They want to compete on "email" and "secure email" keywords it is not going be easy.