skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most digital physics proposals seem to be unfalsifiable, but there are exceptions.

For example, statistical Physics tells us that a system can be full of complex, random fluctuations, but it can still be 'stable' if those fluctuations cancel each other out. Boltzmann hypothesised that we could just be a random fluctuation in some otherwise stable system (perhaps a vast cloud of gas). This hypothesis is falsifiable, since large fluctuations are far less likely than small fluctuations. It's very unlikely that the room I'm in, including me, is a fluctuation in a gas cloud, but the anthropic principle says that I wouldn't notice all those small fluctuations which don't produce me. If I am a fluctuation then I can predict that it's incredibly likely that the fluctuation is limited to this room, as anything larger would be far less likely. However, when I step outside I find a whole city, which falsifies the hypothesis. Likewise we can observe a whole planet, solar system, galaxy, local group, cosmic web, etc. which goes exactly against the predictions of the fluctuation hypothesis.

However, from a digital physics perspective we can get the opposite result. Let's hypothesise that we're running on a giant Turing Machine and our program is a random fluctuation on its tape; ie. a random series of bit flips on an otherwise empty tape. Since small fluctuations are vastly more likely than large fluctuations, we would expect to be part of a small program rather than a large one. Again, the anthropic principle says that I'll never observe tiny programs that don't produce me, but what can I say about tiny programs which do produce me? Well, randomness and asymmetry is hard to produce using a computer program: it must be encoded as part of the program, since it can't be produced spontaneously. Hence I would predict small programs to have less randomness and asymmetry than large programs, so I would predict a symmetric and uniform Universe, which is largely what we see.

One falsifiable prediction of such a digital physics theory is that quantum phenomena are actually pseudorandom, ie. deterministic and predictable, since the only way to encode unpredictable values in a program is to write them out bit-for-bit in the source. A pseudorandom number generator would require far fewer bits, and hence is more likely; also, a smaller pseudorandom number generator is more likely than a large one. If we find that quantum phenomena cannot be predicted by any short program, we can falsify this hypothesis.
Looks great! One curious thing I'd be interested to see is the sum of the values of all the apps and how it compares with Apple's estimates.
> Is there something better?

Not using the internet is better :P
Both are great ideas, thanks!
We need support for it in something like Monodevelop / Netbeans / Eclipse. A lot of the benefit I experience from strict(er) typing comes from the real-time help an IDE gives me - without a Windows/VS licence, I hardly feel compelled by Typescript at all.
I'm aware of consistency levels. But in general HBase performs much better out of the box when compared to tweaking Cassandra to be be more consistent. In other words, if I wanted consistency badly and at scale, I would go with HBase.
There is also Imbox https://github.com/martinrusev/imbox, which is a Python library for reading all kinds of IMAP mailboxes, not just Gmail
Boost.Foreach and Compiler Bugs
It's at 6605, after nine hours (according to the time indicator between your username and "| link | parent | flag"; you forgot to say in what timezone you're in).

One of them is mine, and I only went there because of your comment to be honest.

Edit: you said "19:25" and "nine hours ago" was 2013-08-07 09:03:45 UTC, so you're at EDT? (incidently, everytimezone.com is pretty cool)
Speaking of fly, does anyone want to sponsor me? I'd like to make a family friendly counterpart to http://dont-fuck-with-the-b.org/ to occasionally 'blog' (= post links I saw elsewhere) about bee colony collapse disorder, which I haven't gotten around to in years now, but will do soon; I feel that owning b.org would be just the thing to kick my motivation over the threshold. I think it also really meshes with the stated goal of strengthening the trust in .org domains, so please kindly consider my offer of you paying lots of money for me to have b.org. Thanks! ^^
Babel, the Python Internationalization Library
KiTTY -  an extended Putty client
Or better, make it push to a Facebook Fanpage daily.
Shanghai Attractions: The Bund
The Bund gives the view of old Shanghai with various types buildings for your Shanghai travel. The bund is also a must-see attraction in Shanghai.
Also worth noting: "New feature in toolbox: Network Monitor".

The lack of it was the last thing that was keeping me using Firebug.
To be fair I don't know of any passwords my wife can't know about. But I know that's barely an argument :-)
Case studies? Step by step tutorial on buying and selling things of diverse quantities, types and origins?

Or maybe pitfalls and common scams and how to avoid them?
If you like them. Art is not a good investment.
Preparing for Changes in Pension Legislation
Create a 3D image through a single lens, without moving the camera
Thanks a lot for the feedback -- we're still experimenting with the homepage.

Until a few weeks ago we were invite-only, and now we're going to test a few approaches and see what makes more sense to keep content quality high (that's why we require all users to be Facebook-authenticated) and at the same time make users happy.

Thanks again.
Don't worry, we still have the Web 2.1 version:

http://cheese.blartwendo.com/web21-demo.html

;)
More like a factor of 10.
SmartOS and Vagrant
Dulwich, pure Python Git implementation
I wonder if this is the right way to rebrand. will it really make the new design stick in peoples' heads, or will it just make us all forget which is the new logo?

(not that I object to getting rid of the old one, time has not been kind to that font!)
"just learn to eat a healthy and balanced diet".

Can anyone recommend an authoritative compendium of what that is please? Preferably linking to multi-year statistically significant studies that take into account the obvious externalities ( local weather, amount of exercise, genetics, time of eating etc). I don't really want to make nutrition research another time-consuming hobby, but I don't want to unnecessarily kill myself faster either.
> empathy and seek first to understand, then be understood (can't remember where I read this one)

Could be from Stephen Covey (habit nr. 5) as one other mentioned. It could also be in the Prayer of Francis of Assisi,

[...]
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.

or in How to Win Friends and Influence People from Dale Carnegie with principles like:

Become genuinely interested in other people.
Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
Talk in terms of the other person's interest.
Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely.
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Agree with this entirely.

The annoying thing about all these eBooks is that the effort would be better spent improving the manual pages for the existing product rather than yanking a few dollars out of some people for some "special treatment".
Things have changed since 2010.
Here is some code to create your own _ebooks twitter account: https://github.com/mispy/twitter_ebooks
I use byobu pretty heavily and love it. Even if you don't venture too far into the scripts etc it's incredibly handy to fire up on a server and have multiple panes whilst working.
Neither do most of these ebooks. They are usually poorly rehashed manpages stuffed full of errors.

At least the manpages are openly reviewed.
Interesting thought experiment, but I think the case can be made that the software industry has already dealt with this.

1. Matlab and other expensive per-seat licenses are indeed shared, and there are license managers available

2. Other SAAS services are priced cheaply enough that it's not worth sharing vs. having it private

3. SAAS services are often customized enough to the individual that the utility of sharing them isn't that high

4. People already do share logins all the time within businesses and there are now services (like Meldium) that are set up to productize this

So actually it's an interesting thought experiment, but perhaps cuts in the opposite direction.
This is for the same reason browsers have stopped showing unicode characters in address bars: it is possible to create a sequence of characters that looks so like another host name that a naive user could be fooled into thinking they are looking at something entirely different, and this was used by many a phishing scam for a while.

If a malicious poster had manufactured a unicode string that looked like microsoft.com and posted a link here, the fact that the hostname is presented in its source form would reveal the duplicity.
Why would you travel in a car that essentially had a big "something dodgy" flag on it? What is the advantage of a number plate that is not in the DMV database (apart from avoiding tickets?)

Or is the implication that traffic cams routinely track and report the location of every number plate - and access is so widespread that its bound to be leaked to the criminals?
Interestingly this is still related to information: the fundamental thing which cannot travel faster than light is information, for example if I trace a circle in the sky with a laser pointer then the "dot" (when it eventually hits something) will be moving around a vast circle at far faster than light speed, but it cannot send information between the points on the circle so that's fine. Similarly, the effect of measurement ("collapsing the wavefunction") is just a propagation of information from inside the system to outside the system. Actually, it's an increase in the size of the system: first we have an atom that does or does not decay, then we have an atom that does decay and is detected or does not decay and is not detected. Then we have all that along with a vial of poison which is or is not broken. Then we have all that along with a cat that is alive or dead. Then we have a human who sees a living or dead cat. Then we have a paper which reports either a living or dead cat. Then we have a news report about the cat living or dying. And so on. Schroedinger's cat is always in an alive/dead superposition, but at some point that superposition expands (due to information flow) to include an Earth which is in a superposition of knowing it lived or died.
Metadata is in the eye of the beholder
"Riccio said there is no existing dominant market incumbent, although there are competitors like Foursquare, Kekanto and Apontador."

Well, geez, no crap Sherlock. There will be one dominant incumbent once someone reaches that position (even though 4sq looks like it's ahead of the competition). Kekanto was selling themselves as the "Yelp of Brazil" as well.

When reading about Brazilian startups I can smell the naivety from a distance. Somethings may be lost in translation as well (their english is good, but not that good). But it's ok, foreign investors are also naive (in some aspects and better at others)

That being said, all the best. Their tone on the website still feels too formal in some phrases and informal in others, getting the right tone and rhythm takes some time
Zeal, an offline API doc browser for Linux & Windows (like Dash on OS X)
It also does analysis, similar to Google Now, that tells you how long it will take to get home from where you are now.
Yahoo's gone and slapped a hideous Yahoo nav bar across the top of Meyer's new fanfared Flickr design.

If she can't even keep her own flagship redesign fixed, she can't change their culture of asphyxiating products people actually loved.
works well with webstorm/phpstorm but i agree , useless without realtime help in a IDE.

Sometimes the compiler issues an error it is really hard to get what's wrong without visual clues , unless one likes to count lines and columns and switch between command line / text editor all the time.

Does the TS compiler even work with Syntastic(vim) by the way ?

I like TS , i use modules , classes and short hand functions declarations , but not the type system which doesnt make sense to me. It doesnt make sense with javascript and force back devs in all these java EE like patterns.
Having problems here. I get a notification on iOS but when I go there it says "No new login requests"

And seems we're not the only ones:
https://twitter.com/search?q=No%20new%20login%20requests&src...
Discussion re an "exchange programme" for Dash docsets: https://github.com/jkozera/zeal/issues/1
Marelle: logic-based devops with Prolog
a bit scary to see exactly how often and when i was where with my gf... nice to see they added a microphone privacy setting.

Anyway imho it's close to a perfect surveillance system.
So,the Google response is - "a) You're stupid and don't understand. b) If a techie had access to your PC for half an hour he can get your passwords anyway, so letting an amateur get it in 5 seconds is OK, c) We're Google. We don't do evil. And you're stupid.
I find the railway network in the US simply deplorable. In most of Europe, people complain if they miss an hourly connection, and we have night trains on most days to most large cities.
There's also a discussion[1] at Codeplex on some TypeScript compatible alternatives to async/await.

[1] http://typescript.codeplex.com/discussions/397594
The <center> tag has been deprecated for 13 years.
I was in the same position for literally years regarding static vs dynamic. I've concluded that C gets it spot on i.e. it's mostly static with associated guarantees but you can use a void* if you need it.
The Anti-Apple
"no one wants to physically plug a smartcard into a phone"

SIM cards come to mind.
Twitter bot to have your own _ebooks
Atleast they will show you the data, unlike phone companies who hold all this data anyway.

Once you have a phone device with an active signal you are tracked, and that's just not being paranoid either.
Are you being serious or is this supposed to be a joke?
> Being good at engineering doesn't in any way qualify you for being good at managing product.

You must be talking about the Google style engineering.
Last I heard (it's been about a year since I looked into numbers), Power/PPC chips appeared to be outselling x86 chips by a substantial margin with the caveat that it's hard to come by numbers from the "smaller" x86 vendors (like Via) that might very well be selling larger numbers than expected of the low end alternatives but at much lower prices and margins and so fly under the radar.

x86 is likely something like the 4th or 5th largest chip architecture by volume shipped today. Last estimate I've seen was in the 360 million range per year, maybe as high as 400 million.

That's after ARM, likely to ship 3 billion this year, MIPS and PPC probably in the 500+ million range each unless there's been massive unexpected changes over the last year.

X86 gets all the attention because it's on desktops and in laptops and because Intel is disproportionally important because their revenue is several times that of any other CPU manufacturer because nobody else ships nearly as many high end chips (e.g this puts Intel at 7 times Qualcomm, at second place, in revenue from CPU/MPU's last year: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20130521205843_Inte... )

And for the surprise contender, it is unclear where the 6502 architecture falls: It ships in "hundreds of millions" a year according to Western Design Centre). Note that this might very well largely be in the form of licenses for embedding the cores in custom ASICs or in FPGAs, so whether you'd want to count that is another matter (as an example, some Amiga's had keyboards with an embedded 6502 core + PROM and a tiny amount of RAM). It's possible that some of the other extremely low end 8-bit CPU cores that are still being used as micro-controllers might also ship volumes like that.

I've seen no indication that Sparc is anywhere in the running
But how much of the collected data do they show you? IMO services like this should be opt-in, rather than opt-out.
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Very cool - I am sure a lot of people will get good use out of it. Rather surprised nothing like this already existed.
Wow, this is an amazing find.

I can understand that Apple/govt would love this information. But anyone has guesses on why this would be a public facing feature?
it's currently ios7 beta, i really hope they do it opt-in in the future.
Never thought I'd be recommending the excellent band "Godspeed You! Black Emperor" in such a context. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_You!_Black_Emperor
transparency for privacy (+1 for apple)
Introduction to the PuDB Python Debugging Tool
If you want to build transparent context-aware services, your system will need to create this information. Nothing new to do with the iPhone, since Telcos already have had this information for ages (and could use them anonymously) - it's good at least that in this system you see how the data is being analysed and associated with Work/Home, etc... and not that it is hidden in the background.
If you click on the new logo, you actually get explanations and interesting video.
http://www.yahoo.com/dailylogo
Why do our European leaders even plan RFID in licenceplates? With this in the default 'ON' position on all smartphones they can already keep an eye on everybody.
http://www.autoblog.nl/images/wp2013/tweet-2.jpg
You can't seriously believe that "Tap-n-Zoom" provides a better browsing experience from a ~4" screen than that provided be a well designed responsive site ... can you?

I present the HN front page as a prime example. Every time I load it from my phone I groan at the prospect of dragging a small viewport all around the content area in order to read the full titles/comments of submissions. A responsive design with a simple list interface would easily solve this problem.

Furthermore - from what I remember of UX modules at University the whole point of good responsive design is that it presents the same content to the user as they would expect from a desktop interface. You can't cite an example of someone not following a practice as a reason to not to follow that practice.

At the end of the day - this article was about designing websites for small businesses who are looking for customers. These people are not involved with the content you present to them straight away and are, by definition, "browsing". As such you can expect anything less than a seamless, "quick" experience to harm their eyeball conversion rates.

TL;DR - Nope.
"Freedom" and "the marketplace" are concrete things, not big ideological abstractions?
>Actually that's what they did, since residential usage like AirBNB is generally against zoning in these areas.

you're missing my point that property rights and laws(zoning) change with (in response, forced by) technological development and innovation.

>And you're focused on the selfish aspects of property rights without considering the benefits towards the commons they can confer

again, my point was that specific property rights have their time when they are actually helping advancing the civilization, yet they are meaningless before their time and delay progress after.

As AirBNB helps more fully utilize buildings, it seems it is a plus for civilization and the laws/zoning preventing effective use of resources start to become obstacles in the way of progress.
This is a bit comical. Brin, Zuckerberg, and Page don't have the "experience" that JWZ does? I think your statement can only hold if you define "veteran" on the basis of sheer age. I think JWZ would be the first to tell you that he has less experience with different "technical and business environments" than Larry Page, who has run Google Search, Mail, Maps, Android, Chrome, etc. since founding the company 15 years ago...
As far as I'm aware, the longest deprecated HTML elements are XMP, LISTING and PLAINTEXT: first deprecated in the IIIR HTML draft (Jun '93).
Winpdb - A Platform Independent Python Debugger
Nice conspiracy theory!

Earlier one: 1979

USSR Invades Afghanistan, Margaret Thatcher elected as the Prime minister in UK, Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran
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The security advantage of this over SMS would appear to be that SMS could be intercepted. Err... okay...

The practicality advantages are that it can sign you in with a single button press, and that it works places that have wifi but not mobile reception (while SMS works places with phone reception but no wifi/data).
If they didn't vet, people wouldn't use the service.

And the government demonstrably does not do a better job of vetting than private individuals. Some examples: has lower quality employees, it makes it impossible to "discriminate" on many different dimensions, and it certainly does not have a Canada-styled skilled immigration policy.
Have to say Justin - your' doing an excellent impression of that Don Mattrick chap at M$. In case your memory is as bad as your ability to listen to what your products users are telling you; Don was the chap who when prompted on the new xbox DRM answered

"if people want to play a games console thats not connected to the internet we already have a product for them - it's called the xbox360"

Worth noting that he no longer works for M$.
Depends if you count by revenue, or by units.

In shipped units, MIPS is quite likely either second after ARM, or third after ARM and PPC.

MIPS was estimating an expected 500 million units for last year, I believe - I don't know if they met it. PPC has been estimated in the same ballpark.

Unless Via's x86 sales are far higher than expected, x86 is likely below 400 million units shipped a year.
Four years ago I led a project like this. In this slideset you can see on page 4 what we wanted to build and on page 5 whate we would need:
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/slides/vodafone-pye.pdf
I second that, Cloudflare is the way to go - extremely reliable.
Probably the single worst conclusion someone can arrive at regarding typing.
OK thank you. Actually, the Suggested Edits interface is quite good. Maybe one could also comment on the edit they have just made ala git.

A good stack to have :). What are you using for server routing and the `package.js` compilation?
The high end POWER chips from IBM makes up a miniscule fraction of the overall Power/PPC market in terms of units. PPC sells in comparable unit numbers to MIPS, but mostly from architecture licensees like Freescale.
Don't use a stroller. Instead use a baby carrier. Your wife will be hands free, can take the public transport more easily.

The baby will love it as she/he will hear the sound of the mom's heartbeat. Can easily fall asleep. You can keep
your baby close, and I guess closeness is really important for every parent.
And it's safer and more affordable.
As another poster said, it will analyse your locations and predict your 'home to work' time, or between offices, so you can account for travel time (see OSX Mavericks calendar improvements).

I'm sure they will also use it some other ways too, but the gist is that it actually benefits end-user features and isn't just for dragnet data collection.
It is nothing new.
In previous iOS, this data was not presented to users at all.

Android does this too.

At least you can turn this off in iOS 7 beta 5.
"the device web user interface"

Why on earth does a scanner have a web interface
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Just a kid who wants to live his dreams
Not exactly sure how the valuations are calculated but they don't seem too accurate. I looked at my own apps and some that should have appeared didn't, others that shouldn't have appeared did.