skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if there are thousands of different such "surprising-to find-particles" to possibly detect, is it actually surprising to observe one of them?

It is hard to correctly identify what exactly particles from those possible thousands are observed in given data. The are two main problems: the properties of those not yet observed particles are not well known (because it is computationally hard to predict them from the standard model) and because the number of useful events is much much smaller than the number of events that correspond to already known events.

> So do elementary particles decay or not?

I don't see a contradiction here: the first generation of elementary particles does not decay (or has not been observed to decay yet), Higgs boson is not from then because the author of the answer are talking about the first generation of fermions and Higgs boson is not one of them.
I said everyone
I expect to publish the posts starting in mid-May. My twitter handle is pressron
The quote is from a UK report
This is one of those interesting cases where RISC-V could eat their (and maybe ARM's) lunch on implementations like this. The wide vector instructions (i.e. not the packed SIMD, but the -V extension) are width-independent, so you could just make the vector machine narrower on the little core, and switch it to low-frequency in-order.
I was kind of hoping for a revamped 12" MacBook but looks like we didn't get one.

I wonder if this bump is already the usual spring revamp or if something else will come in April
I was disappointed with the MBP 2016 announcement especially because I was looking to replace my 2008 Macbook and was eager to buy, but then I thought about it and the disappointment was only related to the pricing and the touch bar. The touch bar annoyed me both in theory and in actual use for about 30 mins at the Apple store.

The one without touchbar has a worse processor but the benchmarks show the difference is not significant, it's also a more efficient processor, combined with a bigger battery and my dislike of the touch bar it became a no-brainer so I ordered one configured with 16 GB recently and I receive it next week. I am so excited, I'm changing from 2008 tech to 2016, the display is amazing, I have never had a retina display before. Happy to hear you think its the best laptop you have ever used. I upgraded my old Macbook several types from 2 GB to 4 GB to 8 GB , HDD to SDD, battery, but clearly no models allow that anymore so I had no choice in that respect.
Hey calm down! I waited for your reply for but you were late.
They also dropped the iPad mini 2, which is a nice step towards simplifying the lineup a bit. It's still overly complicated, but it's been ridiculous for years now, and this is moving in the right direction.
AirPlay, AirPrint are still in use. The Air name for Macbook and iPad lines was all about thinness. When introduced, these products had thicker predecessors. It's irrelevant now for iPad, as everything is pretty much the same thickness across all models. For Macbook Air, it is no longer the thinnest product in the line-up. However, Apple can't quite get rid of it just yet - not until they offer a sub $999 Macbook.
Yep. I was hired at a major hedge fund. Disclosed my interest in various companies ahead of time. Got to the hedge fund. Was told that I had to dissolve the interest. Quit job. Everyone pissed.

I had other reasons to quit which had nothing to do with the job itself (I loved it), but that was a major one. I get paid more, per hour, from my businesses than any job I've had so far.
Here are some of the demos

http://suvozit.com

http://girish.world

http://rime.blog
If you mean you use credit cards for buying stuff online, then no: that is not what we do here. I'm not sure about all of the EU, but at least in NL the majority of online transactions use payments directly with your normal checking account at your bank using a system called iDeal (see https://www.ideal.nl/en/ ).
Thanks for your honest answer. Yes that actually helps me :)

What kind of startup was it? And how long were you in the role of a co-founder? ;)
I have both RealFlight and PhoenixRC. For heli training Phoenix feels better to me. Also, you can use your real RC transmitter to run the simulator, in my case I run JR transmitters. The down side is that you can't (shouldn't) run a real transmitter while flying in an airliner. Yes, when plugged into Phoenix the TX circuitry turns off, but I wouldn't want to answer those questions so I use RealFlight and their dummy transmitter for that purpose.

There's something uniquely geeky about flying in a flight simulator while flying on a real plane. Like I said, good conversation starter.
> I call it minimalistic just because the UI is not cluttered by numerous panels and menus.

And yet it does just that with all the buttons and UI items that visually blend in each other.

Constrast to the Finder:

- View > As Columns (this is a legacy from NeXT Step that I still love 17 years after first seeing it, and use it daily).

- View > Hide Sidebar

- View > Hide Status bar

There: you have a minimalist and fast view of the FS, with zero UI clutter, and 100% browseable with the keyboard.
Horses for courses I think. I've had every iPhone in white so far and I'm buying the red model next, which I wouldn't do if it had a red front.
We have fixed it. When the CDN delivers the new version(typically within one hour), you should be able to download with Firefox/IceCat without issue.
It succeeded at its primary task, and the Higgs was a big part of it. Its still doing its job, so give it time. Finding nothing can often be just as important as finding something unexpected.
Depends on what VMs and what other software you're running, no? You could comfortably fit a LAMP VM in what an Electron app like Slack uses...
It is hard to see Apple keeping the mini around for much longer. I assume they are simply running down stock and will remove it soon, before end of the year.
I was trying to speak against the very error you seem to be making, i. e. the idea that IP rights have either only good or only bad effects. They're always trying to strike a balance between conflicting goals.

Would any books be written without copyright? Yes, of course – although the laws go back to the 17th century, so it's hard to argue that there ever was a golden time of freedom, considering the printing press was newish at the time and the collective creative output has, even per-capita or GDP-adjusted, increased by about a dozen orders of magnitude.

The two mechanisms which I consider "basically sound" is that (a) financial incentives generally work to stimulate creative output. It's not the only motive driving the useful arts, but you'll have a really hard time showing that it's a net-negative, considering that limitless evidence for the efficacy of financial incentives.

The other mechanism is (b) that the restrictions on distribution created by IP laws diminish the actual usefulness of creative output, which includes the number of people having access to it as one factor.

Both mechanisms are obvious, yet they work in opposite directions. The total benefit of IP is (simplified) <works created, i. e (a)> * <people reached, i. e. (b)>.

There are some examples for how to avoid this conundrum, such as 'fair use', or the government (or interested groups/individuals) buying IP rights and donating to the public domain. I also believe quite firmly that copyright terms of death+70 years are far beyond the point where they create enough benefits in (a) to offset the losses in (b). The situation for patents is a bit more murky.
I'm sure this is all idealistic crap, but I'd still love to see someone try it; I'd like to see a well grounded company include "even if it is related to <company>'s own existing and prospective products". A nice competitive taunt "Go ahead, try and compete with us, we dare you." Code is already covered by copyright, so it's not like anyone could take the repository and start a GitHub with it. Even if they could, not many people are going to trust the new fork because it's future is not backed by the same team and community (unless the existing team and community has become toxic, but, ideally, having this threat in place could prevent that from happening in the first place). Code is only part of GitHub's success, recreating the other parts isn't going to happen easily. No single person could know all the ins-and-outs of every important role in the company.
Do you enjoy writing?

Reading your comments, there is often an enthusiasm for telling people about your background and where you grew up. Those are things that can be written just for the writer.

I don't know whether or not English is your first language, but there's no reason not to write in another language...maybe there are great technical blogs in فارسی, I wouldn't know, I pretty much only know one language and that not very well.

On the other hand, if you don't like to write, that's ok too. It's not worth suffering over.

Good luck.
New York State has the second highest debt of any state - something like $300 Bn. Muni-bonds may be tax free, but they aren't risk free, so that could be an influencing factor. It's also possible that New York is heavily bureaucratic and subject to extensive lobbying, especially by NBC and, by extension, Comcast, which would much rather extend gradually into the rural areas than compete with local government.

The economic reason that internet hasn't spread to every rural household is because there isn't enough demand (in terms of money, not general interest) to pull suppliers out there. If we're going to assume that privacy has value, then allowing providers to have access to consumers' privacy would increase the demand and could help reduce the burden on municipalities or companies to extend broadband. But if we're going to begin every discussion with privacy being protected by default, then costs are going to be higher since the customer will be forced to absorb the costs.
> I don't think they deserve special praise for it, rather companies that don't do this deserve criticism.

Just like you don't train a dog with punishment but with rewards, it seems like a good idea to reward companies for doing the right thing. Plus, criticism is empirically proven to have mostly zero impact on businesses, so why not try the other way?
I don't disagree with the lesson, but does it always apply? When Jobs came back Apple was in a different place than it is today.

To your second point, I completely agree. Regardless of the need to focus, causing confusion to consumers doesn't seem the right thing to do.
IBM has decided to co-locate its US marketing department
Also there was reason why Steve Jobs was against all tablet sizes except one. At the time Apple was going after revolutionizing the education market and the 9.7" iPad1/2 fit the bill for that purpose exactly. Then came the iPad mini whose sole purpose was to increase business bottom-line… and then a few more models based on other focuses or potential uses. Meh.

Moral of story: Do not destroy the initial momentum and the sense of denting the world. "To be a part of revolutionary change" is an important feeling to keep in tech industry.

---
Edits:

Wish I could impress upon them about the urgency to kill all models except the iPad Air (9"). Anything else will only kill/subdue the category and lead the focus away from the initial promise that the tablets held -- i.e. disrupt education.
-You're quite possibly right - I cannot recall having heard cell phones go off while at cruise, but during approaches it happens if not all the time, then at least every once in a while when I fly somewhere. (Me being a good boy, I've never tried to satisfy my curiosity by keeping the phone on during flights. :))

There's enough radio transparent openings in an aircraft fuselage for it to be a reasonably inefficient faraday cage - say, windows, for instance. (Or are those portholes on an aircraft, too?)
Would like to see them have a person juggle
Unless the people you know are somehow representative of the userbase as a whole, this doesn't really mean anything.
Employment is dead, contract is the way of the future.

Do you really want to buy into a feudalistic legacy organizational model knowing that the odds of rising up in the pyramid are approximately zero? And they're going to downsize with no loyalty if needed to bump the stock price later on. Like a decapitated chicken the company will strut around a bit randomly canceling or creating projects so you have no control over your future other than maybe running away to another feudal manor and some have non-competes to try and enforce that kind of slavery. So they're worth nothing to you as an employer unless you want to LARP that you're a feudal peasant in 1300 and you're worth nothing to them as they'll fire you or steal from you in a blink of an eye if they can make a nickel off it.

Meanwhile a competitor smart enough to hire you as a consultant will crush them in the market purely for organizational superiority reasons. Companies that hire contractors are inherently more modern and superior and more likely to succeed.

The future, being unevenly distributed, some folks still think employment is alive, but one effect of post-industrialism or service economy or infinite benefit prices is employment is good and dead. In a dying business model, the employer needs employees a lot more than employees need the employer.
Patents are out of control, and they’re hurting innovation
Education of a Programmer
It's because their naming conventions have gone out the window.

When it was iPhone 4, 4S, 5, 5S you knew where on the product timeline your phone was. Now it's iPad Air, Air 2, 9.7 Pro, 9.7, 12.9 Pro, mini 4. It's all over the place.
It's so terribly unfortunate that "finding a life path" is so dependent on getting a job
Not just the look. My first SE was white and silver, because the black/gray 64GB model wasn't in stock and I desperately needed to replace a 4s that'd aged very badly. Since I don't buy phones as fashion statements, I shrugged and got the white/silver model instead; I hadn't had a phone with a white face before, but couldn't imagine it would make any meaningful difference.

Not many months later, I went back and spent another $500 on a black/gray replacement. Turns out the white face throws back a lot of light when you use it in full summer sun! Enough so that, even at its brightest setting, black text on a white background, or vice versa, was barely legible, and anything less contrasty than that was unusable. A phone with a black face doesn't have this problem.
Gay men are more likely to be shorter: http://blog.timesunion.com/kristi/2010/03/03/shorter-men-mor...
Lesbians are more likely to be obese: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2014/09/0...

Whether you like it or not, both of those will be factors in influencing who gets put into leadership positions.
Business Benefits of Side Projects: Teamdeck Case Study
We've all heard this, but it's important to practice it:

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
A Highcharts Library for Polymer 1.0, create charts with one line of html
I think most advice to "learn C" really aims to get you to learn how things work closer to the metal. What actually becomes of your code and data, broadly speaking, once your high-level language's interpreter or compiler have had their way with them.

So things like:

- viewing primitive objects, structs and arrays as blobs of bytes arranged between address X and address Y

- a pointer as an address of that blob. Understanding what it means to copy that blob vs. to pass around the pointer: calling by value/reference not in terms of the semantic effect, but in terms of what happens underneath.

- the stack and how it's typically used, esp. in recursion. Local vars vs. heap-allocated vars. How control flow leaves its trace on the stack. How arguments are passed and return values are returned.

- complex data objects viewed as blobs of memory pointing to each other vs. pointers. Concept of "owning" such a blob and how ownership is passed. Understanding how your language's runtime keeps track of the blobs if you don't have to, and what are common pitfalls.

- clear understanding of the difference between int8, int32, int64. Strings as null-terminated or counted arrays. Bitops.

"Learn C" is just a useful way to force you to internalize all of the above, because you can't properly "learn C" without doing that. But it's the above that helps you back in your favorite language. That, and perhaps the fact that C gives you a feeling what it's like when you can look at a line of source code and understand immediately what happens in the machine (broadly) when executing it. No hidden effects. C++ doesn't have that (constructors you don't know about when looking at the line, exceptions etc.) That "local clarity" isn't the most important thing in the world, but if you feel and appreciate it, perhaps you'll strive for local clarity back in your favorite language, too.
As someone who spent a lot of time delivering fertilizer and seed in rural Kenya, you're really wrong about this Sam.

Even the best regional roads in Africa are two lane roads. Unlike the US, cars have highly variable top speeds though, which means nearly constant passing. Cars will drive in the wrong lane for significant periods of time and hastily merge back. But there are large number of buses that are heavily incentive to go quickly at any cost, so they will often off road and suddenly pass on the left. I've seen a two lane road with 5 lanes of traffic on it.

That's the best case scenario. A large chunk of the country is only accessible via rough road spurs. If you're trying to deliver, say hypothetically, 10 tons of fertilizer and seed on the back of a truck, it means you're going 10mph instead of 45mph.

My family worries about me getting murdered in Kenya or the government suddenly melting down, but really traffic is what they should be worried about. And this is Kenya, which is one of the most developed countries in E. Africa. There's a real need for some more roads.
you also get GPS, which works regardless of cell connectivity, handy for Maps :)
Expanded safeguards for advertisers
That is odd. On the footer there should be the link showing up to report any bugg
534 job applications over an eight month period seems like a lot. I don't even know if I can reasonably say that there are ~500 companies in my city who a) have a position open for what I do and b) I'd want to work for. And this guy in particular seems motivated where I would've been surprised if he would consider working at a company he was only somewhat interested in.

That aside, I have a sense based on personal experience that going to meetups related to your industry may provide a worthwhile parallel route to sendin job applications. The tech industry (I realize the author is in HR) is especially wonderful in this, as you can have a variety of consistent meetups ranging from programming languages, to AI, to civic and government engagement, to technical book clubs. Sure, you still need to have a skillset, but connecting with other people can increase the chance of serendipity.
Yes, but these experiments serve at least three purposes.

One, to verify the Model (after all, if its predictions fail in some part it will have to be revised).

Another, to verify the characteristics of the predicted particles (there might be some differences from the prediction that are important, but not hypothesis-breaking).

Finally, however unlikely and yet most excitingly (to me at least), to open new avenues of questioning and hypothesis up by really throwing into question some things.
As far as I know they are still called windows. And yes, you'll be able to connect when close to the ground in many cases. The metal body will greatly attenuate signals, but won't block them completely, especially if you're near a window. The lower and slower you are, the more an airborne cell phone will look and act like a normal ground-bound one, so the less of a problem it'll cause for the network.
I have respect for the guy, the consistent determination spread over long term is something to admire.

That said this model would work terribly badly for me - I couldn't care less about performance in school, it was binary - doing/not doing it. It didn't seem to work wonders for him either. Real experience which companies look for (for very good reasons) can only be earned after school. Yet I have better employment than >90% of my class. Life is to be lived and enjoyed and this goal-oriented approach seems to go in opposite direction. But that's purely me.

Sidenote - working now in Geneva, Switzerland, I am unimpressed when somebody highlights that they work for UN. The org does some good work but it is extremely ineffective in spending money (I would expect less than 10% of cash coming in is spent on actual help/material to needy) and bureaucratic beyond belief. Plenty of people from all around the world make their lifelong careers on just being UN bureaucrats, having high Swiss wages, free accommodation in Geneva worth up to 10,000 USD/month etc. Red cross is better in this, and MSF (doctors without borders) tops even that. Now those guys and girls deserve some proper respect.
You and I have had very different experiences with this. I've lost offers over simply questioning those clauses.
Code Smells
Show HN: Add method parameters to Java stack traces, written in Rust
My iPad mini I use for watching videos and video tutorials and reading PDF documents and of course surfing the web . I play games on it but it's definetly not a toy for me.

I don't like working on laptops and mobile devices , I am more than happy working on an iMac with a gorgeous 27 monitor , a real keyboard , mouse and Wacom.
I'll take a look at the "500 lines or less" book.
How many minutes until we see new service painting old iPhones to red?
I have a feeling that sales of glitter nail polish are going to go up a bit[1].

This is a good time to make sure that you have full-disk encryption enabled, and to brush up on what few rights remain yours at a US border.

1: http://lifehacker.com/use-glitter-nail-polish-to-make-your-l...
Increasing HPC Utilization with Meta-Queues
That's not been my observation. People assume that if you have a lot of money, you must be good at something, not that you are inherently good.
People are pretty accurate at judging 'gay faces': https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/somethin...

I'm sure voices are similar. I expect an AI would be able to distinguish without too many problems.
Yes. Exactly the situation.
another device to test...
Not an app but I found this awesome: http://drawabox.com/
I ordered my first ever MBP last week (it should arrive this Friday) but I'm really worried about these palm rejection issues I've been hearing about. Is the touch pad ok even though you disabled tap to click? It just seems very unergonomical to select text, drag, etc, but maybe force touch makes it better?

I've always had issues with the palm rejection on my current computer (ASUS/Ubuntu), and only managed to live with it by disabling the touch pad and using an external mouse. If the palm rejection turns out to be a problem on the new MBP I'll return it. No way I'm paying that much for a computer I can't properly use to write code.

Not sure what other computer I should buy in that case though, if I want something running MacOS. I really, really want the MBP to be a great computer.