skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Staring eyes 'deter' Newcastle University bike thieves [1]

Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting [2]

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22270052

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1686213/
The author makes an interesting point, if the hypothesis of multiverse is unprovable (due to lack of observations of the other universes), then it is exactly as sound as a the hypothesis of a creator who chose our universe parameters.
Do you mean like client libraries for other languages than javascript? If so, what frameworks/languages do you have in mind?
I still don't understand why Chinooks weren't in the air toward Fukushima within 30 minutes of the tsunami with some generators sling-loaded under them (and refueling, etc.). Either from the JSDF or US Military.
Until mid 2012, WhatsApp didn't even have any encryption: https://www.demworks.org/blog/2013/05/instant-messaging-smar...

So yes, clearly security is just not a priority for that product.
Thanks for doing this, I'm going to use this page a lot, I think. But have you thought about open sourcing some, if not all of the code? With the source code out on for instance github, a lot of people could help you out wherever you feel your own skills come to short.
Because of Greenpeace's history (the death of an anti-nuclear testing activist and the destruction of one of their ships at the hands of French special forces in 1985 [1]), and their current anti-nuclear stance [2], I don't think they would back that position.

They would back the position that wind turbines are safer than coal, so you're not wrong that they might be biased to imply coal is more dangerous than it is.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior

[2] http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/nuclear...
Razborov and Rudich’s natural proofs argument (about P vs NP)
Right, this is one of the great things about the IntelliJ platform products - the IDE actually parses the program and creates an AST. This allows support for all the magic like refactorings and so forth, including rename. Basically I implement symbol resolution and rename mostly just magically works. Unfortunately due to macros in Clojure symbol resolution is far from trivial.
I guess for most users good UX or a service they want to use trumps security most of the time.
Idle runs a few times a YEAR?!

We do idle runs once a week (fully automated by the generator controller), and we do planned power cutovers a couple times a year, where the generator and ATS actually get tested by pulling commercial power. The planned cutovers are human overseen, due to the infrequency and the stakes.

If you're seriously only doing idle runs a couple times a year, I'd look into whether you can change that. I don't believe it's good for mechanical equipment to sit idle that long, and with diesel fuel, you want to turn over the fuel some for anti-fungal reasons. (Natural gas doesn't have this second problem, of course.)
This is a well known cultural quirk. Never ask a yes no question. The answer will always be yes. Yes is more polite. If the answer is unknown then yes is always the correct answer.
> AIG bailout alone would've bought 6-7 ITERs.

I agree with your other points. But the AIG bailout not only saved filthy rich bankers, but saved the entire world economy.

Private pensions would have been wiped out, who own 95% of the stockmarket. The pensions were chasing gains and were quite happy while the returns were fat. The government cannot afford its own pension promises anyway and would have been wiped out.

Big science projects are paid in installments over many years. If the financial system collapses, for sure the big projects will be mothballed immediately.
Quick fix, yes. What happens with those security companies once the crime goes down though? Just like private prisons in US, I'd be worried these guys will make crime to keep the paycheck going.
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Go to White Noise and pick Pink Noise as a preset.
Yeh, and a PHP one would be very nice. Also more demo apps would be helpful. Love the product and can not wait to build with it.
Interesting. Do you have a reasoned argument not to use Twitter, or are you opposed on some other grounds? I follow feeds on twitter that provide me value, and it's a great resource, so I'd be interested to hear an opposing view.
i am terribly afraid that if this "works", they created a great incentive for the city council / government (whoever is responsible in your jurisdiction) to cut corners at the PD.

s/ libertarian dystopia here we come /s
There are already several messaging applications that are much better than WhatsApp (Line or WeChat, to name a few without including the Big G), but people keep sticking to WhatsApp due to the network effect (it's what your friends have).

It's rather sad, given that with practically any other application (Line, WeChat, GTalk, Skype) you can talk via phone, tablet or PC, and with WhatsApp I have to message my friends with a tiny phone screen while my wonderful desktop keyboard and dual monitors sit there laughing at me.
The developer can obviously trust themselves and the user has trusted that particular developer (and the app store approval process) as they can already use the phone features allowed to that app.

If you use Flurry/Crashlytics/... then that is an additional entity (of many people) that both the developer and the user are trusting.
Notice also that they plotted exactly 6 bars.

Choosing the start point is also a way to magnify perceived growth-- perhaps the growth was much stronger before that and is actually levelling off? Of course, if they had drawn 8 bars I could have said the same, so I'm not accusing them of anything; I'm simply pointing out the possibility.
The key word (that is admittedly missed from the title) is "blindly": 'blindly applying "agile shock therapy" or introducing Kanban will only suck you further into the abyss'.

Which is a bit of truism: do anything blindly and your chances of succeeding are based entirely on luck.

Depending on the specific circumstances Kanban, or any other agile methodology, may or may not be part of the solution to the so called "death spiral".
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wow, thank you! I think I'll be visiting this site often when in need for precise brain tuning support
The US now has a notion of "tactical" nuclear weapons.

Some reading:

http://www.fas.org/_docs/Non_Strategic_Nuclear_Weapons.pdf

God help us all.
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If I may be frank: you're completely missing the point. You're the one adding masculine connotations to a usage that is well-established, well-documented, and connotationless. When someone uses "he" that way, it isn't masculine. That's my entire point, which the rest of the thread seems to have grasped. There's plenty of evidence for it.

I know "he" isn't the most common usage, but it is still acceptable (and is probably more common than you realize). I don't think it needs to be the common usage, and I have no problems with the other techniques for a gender neutral English pronoun. There's no offense, and no implied masculinity.

Why would I want to use this idiom? Because to my ears, and in my brain, the other usages don't feel right. They seem awkward and contrived, and break the flow of writing. It just bugs me - just like "he" seems to bug you. However, I don't go around telling people who use "they" or "he/she" that they should be using "he" - it's their choice, since it's their writing. I'd appreciate it if you'd grant the same courtesy.

Stated another, simpler, way: the same word can have different meanings depending on context. (The word "tie" means both a large, square, wooden pole used in railroad tracks and a decorative piece of men's formal attire). This is one example of that. "He" has two meanings: one masculine, one neuter. This is an example of the neuter usage, and doesn't have a masculine connotation.

It's important to realize that language isn't a fixed thing, that different people will use it differently, and that's okay. Different dialects exist, and that's okay. Different styles seem fluid or awkward to different writers, and that's okay. Chill out, it's not hurting anybody, and an overreaction like this isn't helping "women in programming" or "non-discrimination in language" or any other cause that you want to champion. I'm not stereotyping women, I'm not claiming the superiority of men, I'm not describing things in offensive or discriminatory terms. I'm using a pronoun. That's it. Sometimes a pronoun is just a pronoun.

You're not going to be able to fix every little thing that you consider sexist, because people are human. I absolutely advocate improving the situation, but I acknowledge that it will never be perfect. Perhaps your effort would be better spent arguing against actual sexism instead of leaping at every little thing that just might be discriminatory even when it's clearly not.
> Even with tons of resources and a free reign to do things no normal citizen is allowed to do, they simply don't have incentives to put these abilities to best use and certainly won't suffer when their failings are exposed.

It's because of that free reign that they have no incentive to best use. It's the same kind of secrecy and result that gives us what they do in their day to day work. No one's watching them, so they can be lazy and "collect all the things." No one's watching them, so they can be fast and loose with construction contracts and the Constitution.

The reason we have oversight of anything, whether it's military activity, spying, software quality or homework is because our inclination is to be lazy, and that gets worse with more resources.

We all benefit from oversight, even the watchers. Even the unwatched watchers.
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Also massive confirmation bias for people who blog. Who knows what non-blogger-makers are like.

The novelty of doing something that appears to be 'new' can blind you to the fact that people have been doing it for millions of years. The only difference is that you now can blog.
Pink noise can be found under White Noise (because all myNoise noise generators are spectrally-tunable, there is no reason to have different color noise generators: the white noise generator can be shaped to any imaginable color, and a pink noise preset is already provided for you).
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I just got my first app approved on the AppStore (that's quite a good feeling!)

The learning curve was tough but googling during hours solved almost all of the issue I got during the development! For the curious I come from the PHP side. I never tried to build "software", so objective-c and the concept was totally new for me.

I got inspired by a post I saw here on HN too, a guy who made one for the London tube in 2 weeks I think, but I can't seemm to find the link. Anyway, thanks to him! :)

Feedback are over welcome!
It would have to be more than $82 though (how much?) because they would have to pay for the citizens in others hoods whose income is less or non-existent.
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Also fun: loads of real field recordings on http://freesound.org

Use the geotag browser and listen to the wilderness of your choice! http://freesound.org/browse/geotags/
I've been using PHPstorm for a few weeks now. It's Webstorm with PHP support and I think it rocks. By far my favorite IDE so far.
It's one of only a few words that I keep misspelling over and over again. But why post a comment dedicated solely to proper spelling of "lose" and wondering why so many people misspell it? What's the point?

If anything, you could submit a PR or just say "hey, there is a typo".

(Fixed now.)
Matter of fact, while I'm still officially employed by that company (part time casual) I haven't worked for them this year at all, having been focusing on the final year of my Uni degree. And the images are at work. So I won't be able to access it for at least a month and a half. I believe the number of classes would now be in excess of 2,500. Certain things have been going on in the past few years which have led to significant growth in both the development team and the number of classes!

The language used is an in-house language, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and one that has aged surprisingly well (with comparatively few modifications to the language since then), though there are now better options available.
perhaps a combination of birds and ocean waves, or frogs, or yes, big birds :) ... It'll be a little puzzle, but +1 for more nature sounds! .. and perhaps one of my favourites: tibetan gongs!
I did a lot of work on that. But I found out most of the parser kinda ignore the complex stuff and are very sloppy about the white-space. So I am working on my own parser.

That turns out to be quite a challenge

For example Mango fails with any combination of bold and italic
Are you sure you're not thinking of JET[1]? ITER's not scheduled to be operational until 2020 AFAICR.

Incidentally when I went to see JET (it's up the road from me, not that far from Oxford) the scale of the thing was enormous. They mentioned that they'd had been able to sustain plasma for 600 seconds. I've got some pictures up[2] on flickr.

[1] - http://www.i15.p.lodz.pl/strony/EIC/ne/future_2_1.html

[2] - http://www.flickr.com/photos/z3r0kl3w/sets/72157623979315835...
Let me think about it... Not sure about all the implications of releasing this as open source, in particular the investment in... time. I wish I had 48 hours in a day.
I'm just pointing out the inherent contradictions in claiming that black markets are evil.
That's been around since 1953 (less than a decade after the first atomic detonation in '45). [1]

And we've maintained a limited number of low-yield warheads that would fall under that designation. [2] (as an example)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_artillery

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb
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Don't know why but I find the babble noise really creepy. http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/babbleNoiseGenerator.php
This got me thinking. If you keep running into people "bad" at a job, there's usually something else in the play. If you found a restaurant has very rude waiters, but manage to keep open for quite a while, it usually means it have really good food or really cheap price. Same goes here. The "badness" of the "Indian programmers" is only a indication of their other "goodness", including cheap, responsive and maybe on schedule.
You can always identify your customers though your application without any external library or effort. The point is that (your analytics provider) can track you through all the apps using the library. This is a significant difference, IMHO.
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I'd write down several simple features that the web application will need to do.

Then put them into Trello.

Then prioritise which ones are the most valuable to the business.

Then try and code those first.

Perhaps at this point, try and break that 1st task down into 3 or 4 subtasks.

Write a checklist of every little detail that the pages should have.

As you do even the smallest of things, tick of that element in the checklist.

Ask questions to those that your working for.

Make suggestions for improvement if you notice them, but understand that their maybe genuine business / user reasons for some oddities you'll find.
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Almost exact... but one audio file + EQ won't be able to achieve the same result ... Have a listen to the Wind noise and you'll understand why.
> Is this a Colombian company?

Is this the same as "The .cc site must be from the Cocos Islands" kind of non-questions?
Dollar being the global reserve currency is the real linchpin to everything, but right now US Government seems ready to undermine that with their squabbles over healthcare. I mean, the upcoming default wouldn't destroy the dollar, but it would somewhat reduce the role of dollar reserves and treasury bonds in global markets.
I had similar thoughts reading this. However, American standards are far higher than our own, and they have a lower tolerance for crime: in Johannesburg we've had robberies outside Gautrain stations, where people have been shot, and there hasn't been an enormous amount of outrage.

I have a friend who just got back from San Francisco (not Oakland, admittedly), and I specifically asked him about bums and filth in SF, because I've seen that mentioned previously on HN. He said that he saw a few bums, but as soon as they jay-walked the cops were all over them, courteously, but firmly, pulling them back onto the sidewalk; and asking them to move on when they were loitering. He was astonished -contrast this with cities like Johannesburg where bums, beggars and vagrants occupy intersections with impunity.

I don't want to belittle the Oakland problem, but I do think some perspective is required, and it's a bit of a stretch to say that conditions are approaching those in South Africa.
Really neat idea, and seems well built this far.

However, I feel like it needs a bit more until I try it out. Right now it would be a compromise between saving some hours in a few areas, and use those hours to learn Userapp and integrate it.

Anyhow, hope it moves along well – will check back on the progress in a few months and see if it have improved with more features, demos and examples.
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...I realize I kind of sound like a dick there. Good on you for the internship and all, but if you think of it as work you're gonna burn yourself out.

Ah who am I kidding you're not gonna listen to any of this, lol. You'll figure it out on your own, I guess, and then take a 4 year break from programming, partying and doing a lot of drugs. And then come back to it after realizing that you liked programming the whole time.

..or you'll just burn out. Or you might get hit by a truck or something.
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Calm down. It's going to be all right.

What you're experiencing right now is a pretty common thing among programmers. Everything seems straightforward from a high-level overview, but when you get down to the details, they can seem overwhelming.

The lucky thing is, although it seems never-ending now, it isn't. Eventually you'll learn enough about the API or subsystem or problem domain that you're looking at to make a little progress. You'll write a line or two of code, or maybe an entire subprogram, and you'll retain what you've learned. When you move on to the next small programming task, it'll take less research, because you'll remember what you learned earlier.

Eventually, you will learn most of what you need to know about the APIs you're using. You may not necessarily remember every single function argument or command option, but you'll know the rough outline of what you can do, and you'll know where to go to look up the details when you need them.

As you progress, you'll be able to move your emphasis from reading documentation to coding and debugging and refactoring and all those other fun things. There will always be new subsystems, new libraries, new APIs to get used to, so your job will always involve a little of this sort of thing. What seems insurmountable to you now will eventually seem quite normal.

Don't worry. Nobody else was born knowing all the details. If you can just keep going until it starts to get easier, you'll do fine.
Same here. There are so much nice tools and shortcut to make your life easy! A very good return of investment for me.
Why author thinks that UK Paypal account would not get frozen, if someone would complain?

Also I have serious doubts UK court would just accept ruling of German court. In software law UK is closer to US.
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No drugs are bad because they're addictive and have negative health effects.
This really reminds me of Virtual Light:

"But Rydell was always glad to have him on shift, because he was as determinedly nonviolent a rentacop as you were likely to find. And he probably wasn't even crazy. Both of which were definite pluses for Rydell. As Hernandez was fond of pointing out, SoCal had stricter regulations for who could or couldn't be a hairdresser.
Like Rydell, a lot of IntenSecure's response people were former police officers of some kind, some were even ex-LAPD, and if the company's rules about not carrying personal weapons on duty were any indication, his co-workers were expected to turn up packing all manner of hardware. There were metal detectors on the staff-room doors and Hernandez usually had a drawer full of push-daggers, nunchuks, stunguns, knucks, boot-knives, and whatever else the detectors had picked up. Like Friday morning at a South Miami high school."

-- Virtual Light, Willam Gibson, 1993

It's sometimes hard to tell if Gibson's fiction is moving closer to reality with each series, or if the progress of time takes reality closer to his fiction...
NSA eagerness to intercept personal emails of Brazilian president and EU citizens shows that noone cares about comfortable diplomatic positions, they'd just do it anyways.
PHP is actually next on the list, but I can't say when it will be ready, but shouldn't take long. I think I have some ideas for another demo app in mind, I guess we have too see when I get the time to actually put it together. Thank you for your appreciation, we will not make you disappointed! :)
Also make sure you someone from the business who'se interested in the project. Make them interested if needs be i.e. find out what pain points they experienced with the old app, and have a think about what you can do together to improve that area of functionality.

Together write a regular report to the rest of the business about what's happening, and give a fortnightly update.
I'm thinking of switching over to PHPStorm from Netbeans for my PHP programming. Any reason I should not? How is the SVN integration and are you able to cmd+click a function name to jump to it (PHP and JS)? How is the XDebug support?
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I actually did not know that it is possible to bookmark javascript code...
I use http://simplynoise.com to put my daughter to sleep. It's much easier when the noise is playing. I also use http://rainymood.com to isolate myself from the environment when I'm working.
This is truly one of the best noise websites I've come across, especially for cabin noise with that deep rumble that helps me focus. Seriously, thank you for creating this! This has had way more thought put in to it than anything I've come across to date.
In Android one can simply calibrate those sensors by placing the device on a level surface. Surely this is possible in Ios too?
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I was actually wondering the same thing.

I took the general GREs back in 2008 but I'm just over the arbitrary 5 year cutoff that the ETS imposes on score validity.
I'm leaning towards a calibration issue.

Apple could release an app for calibrating the sensors and offer to help you at an Apple Store.

Anyone familiar with Windows Phone or Android know if their sensor software offers calibration?
>insert hypothetical hack proof perfect RFID cryptocard into a cavity of the coin and solder it up except for a small hole for RF to pass thru?

Then, hypothetically, why not have the "coin" be the cryptocard in the first place? and forgo this whole lump of metal thing. Probably because it's not robust in the long term. What happens when the RFID cryptocard, eventually, fails?

I like the moon dust idea though :)
1 million people is meaningless.

7 billion people is everyone: yourself, your parents, your son/daughter, all your friends, your president, etc.