skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
Well, having a good bash at that particular problem. Not sure if Russell and Whitehead actually succeeded.

"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid."

I've always liked that quote.
I made a little (free) Android App a couple of years ago that does something similar: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.amimetic.de...
I love how exactly this mistake is covered in detail in the first week of Dan Boneh's crypto course:

https://class.coursera.org/crypto-008/class

The Russians made the same mistake in WWII, but Whatsapp shows the relevance today.
I don't see a note on that page. What did it say?
So true ... the fact that she can laugh at herself is a very useful skill but what I'm interested in is how the mob mentality allows someone to go from "Fridge Raider" (which I thought was funny ... and I'm no toothpick myself) to "That heifer should be put down". There's not a shred of humor in that, nor is there even a shred of humanity in it.
That's an amazin feature!

I didn't notice it at first either. May be its explanation could be more visible, or it could be made more obvious...
Facebook Building Major Artificial Intelligence System
>fridge raider. That was good

I can hear the whoooosh as that article went straight over your head. I think you need to take a step back and do a little introspection. Also that type of comment does not belong here on HN News.
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It is mostly number of documents and their size. Single schema.

There are no indexes, so whenever client wants to find something in synchronized collection, it'll have to scan through all documents. With 10k documents it was locking up DOM (it was very noticable).

If documents are large, client won't be able to connect to the server with any of the polling transports - initial synchronization time exceeds 30 seconds and SockJS will drop connection. This is partially solvable by having reverse-caching proxy (i.e. nginx) forcibly compress all polling SockJS responses.
Become a dealer or reseller and learn the business. Solar panels will be like almost any other product i.e there's a market, a margin etc.
While leading the user to think they are more secure than they are is definitely a bad thing, you are right there. If we are honest about the level of security offered (a message to the effect that "this will only deter opportunistic viewers, for full security please use a proper encryption method" - or how ever you'd word that for the man-on-the-street)then user will either find an alternative or decide it is worth while (or decide they don't care).

One thing that makes this "security" better than no security at all is that the reader has to purposefully takes steps to read the content so they can't try use any sort of "I saw that information accidentally" defence if called to task about knowing something they shouldn't (or passing that information on to someone else).
Why did I get reminded of this - http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/kanye-fo...
Actually, Gödel proved that no such foundation exists.
...and all those impaired people and people with old and slow devices are finally locked out of our new shiny "sane" web.

The web isn't just one visual presentation layer, its a multitude of presentation layers for all kind of people and that demands some compromise.
Nobel Prize in Physics 2013
NSA using Browser Cookies to track Tor Users
It still requires manual labor. We used to have external usb drives per computer, with a script in udev that started rsync as soon as you plug in a usb drive with a certain id. So essentially, plug in a usb drive to take backups. Plug it out when it says it's done. But even that was too much to remember to do.

We've moved to doing nightly rsyncs. Laptops rtc_wake at 4am, but of course suspend again before the backup starts if they're not plugged in. Backups are done over the local network from the "home server" to a big encrypted btrfs usb drive (so we get snapshots). And keep the offsite copy freshly rotated by visiting my parents :)

But we still some times forget to plug in the laptop at night.
2 kg cocaine = 2000 grams x 100$/gram = 200,000$

500 grams heroin x 200$/gram = 100,000$

100 grams meth x 200$/gram = 20,000$

320,000$ revenue in 5 months is not bad, considering that dealers of hard drugs at least double up on their investment. I can also think of vendors on SR that were moving a lot more weight than this, just based on their public feedback. Plus keep in mind that some of the largest vendors were not publicly listed.

Over 1 1/2 years ago, the vendor tony76 made off with over 100,000$ in a single week in one of the largest SR scams.
Branding takes quite a bit of work (and may be demographic/psychological profiling of the target audience). At best, randomly redirecting incorrectly typed domains to charitable org's websites just achieve nothing, or at worst, confuse the viewer, and associate "error" with charity.

But buying SEO juice with unused domains the same way spammers do is probably a better idea - then a google search is going to turn up the correct sites.
Francois Englert & Peter W. Higgs awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
Theoretical prediction of Higgs boson almost 50 years ago (proven to be true just last year) won the Nobel Prize for physics.
My problem with WYSIWYG editors is that I have never, ever seen one that does not end up adding messy markup that sooner or later becomes a liability when you want to switch to another tool, or find yourself in a situation where you want to hand-edit the document.

This is motivated by multiple blog platform changes etc. that all have left me doing messy filtering of exported data to be able to import it properly when moving my sites.

That's the appeal of Markdown for me. I'd rather add some custom filters to let me use some additional stuff in my own Markdown (which works ok since my additional markup worst case is just treated as plain text, and I can easily enough commit the code to turn it into "vanilla" markdown in the same repository as the content) than get tied into yet another format that messes with my content.

I only use WYSIWYG editors of any kind for content I expect to throw away now. E.g. reports at work that will have a lifespan of days to month is fine. Articles I want to keep an archive of for years to come, not so much.
Nice work. My original idea was to have it randomly generate a calendar which would designate games to certain days in an attempt to force myself to play some of my unplayed games (currently 138/269 games), but this was just a fun little thing I did when drunk and got bored of the idea. :D
Gizmodo has a more detailed article with some tests from last week:
http://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5s-motion-sensors-are-totally-...
Good point. Mobs beating suspected crooks up is frowned upon by the educated middle class (Rule of Law and all that), less so by the poor (which these security guards probably were), and who are more exposed to police ineptitude.

(Not that it makes it right, of course)
I have noticed the same. Then I remembered the internet makes my day feel like running with a parachute.

Sure, I could just get up and go make lunch when I'm hungry. But I could also just refresh HN first. I think it takes a second, it actually takes 10 minutes. Especially if I reply to something.

Sure I could just get home from exercise and start working. But I can also check out imgur and twitter first. I feel liek it takes 5 minutes, but it's actually half an hour.

I have all this leisure time that I am being leisurely, but it doesn't feel leisurely. It feels like a rush to quickly pack more stuff in between work.
Prepaid mobile Internet is the most expensive in the US
How To Become A Successful Android App Developer?
SVG has `symbol` and `use` for reusing stuff: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/struct.html#SymbolElement
A cursory glance at KYC reveals nothing barring a POA for banking. I might be wrong, but I'd give it a shot if I were in the same situation.
Your reply is downright silly and it seems youre someone who really doesn't travel much or know many people who do.
Not every place outside the USA is automatically a totalitarian, xenophobic shithole where foreigners are so rare that they get stared at on the streets and followed by secret police.

I happen to be from Croatia and currently live in a less then touristy part of central America and guess what? While us western white folks aren't exactly saturating the local landscape, there are more than enough travelers/students/business people from the US and other Anglo countries here long term for us not really get considered that big of a deal.

Same rules apply to many other places I've been. There's lots of travel happening in the world these days and foreigners in developing countries are hardly a big wonder.

Ulbricht could have easily moved to a dozen different countries in central america, south america or eastern europe and southeast asia and comfortably stayed anonymous in any of them.
There are many definitions of "work on". Perhaps the first 5 years was just a couple of people spending a couple of hours a week keeping up with the latest state of the art since they knew that eventually they'd probably be replacing some bill in the next decade or so.
Genuine question - what is the stated accuracy of the gyros?

Surely that's more important than what people choose (potentially ill advisedly?) to use them for?
That's kinda weird that you say that ... suppose God would visit. He comes down, shows beyond a doubt that he created us, that he takes care of stuff, heaven and hell, the works ... Then what would we do ? Well, we'd write something down of course. Like the New Testament, for example. We'd use a bit more modern stuff, probably involving cameras, but that'd be pretty much it. Suppose he convinced you completely ... then life continues, you marry, you have kids, they grow up ...

And then one day one of your kids (or anybody who wasn't there in general) would say :

"Intelligent design requires another proof of the origin of a creator. Or a proof the design changed at some point. Or a visit by the guy."

And you wouldn't have the slightest shred of a chance of convincing them (by your standard).

Furthermore I would say that early cosmology theories pretty blatantly point to the idea that the design changed at some point. That very statement made me think of inflation, which does sort of look like it might be a deity saying "whoops, let's just quickly change this for a while". Or at least, that's about as good an explanation for what happened as any other we have (suddenly the speed of light changed by a couple dozen orders of magnitude for a few milliseconds up to a few seconds, and then slowed down again. Without that change, the universe would not have formed). It is also known that the laws of nature today are not identical to the ones in force 10 billion years ago. So there were massive changes in the laws of nature early on, then subtler changes later.

(Also a pet peeve of mine : please stop using the word "multiverse" or "universes" it's a contradiction in itself. The whole point of having a word like "universe" is that it's everything, and that means only one. If there were multiple "universe" there would still be only one. Given the size of the visible universe, the chances are pretty fucking huge that it is in fact bigger than we will ever know, assuming Einstein is right, and that of course also means that the big bang theory is a load of crock, even when "corrected" by inflation. We just don't have anything better (yet ?))

It is known that the universe is not zero-sum, and that this is normal (which means that there is in fact no natural law of conservation of energy+matter either. We already knew that conservation of matter was flawed, since nuclear power, and that conservation of energy is also not happening. Now, thanks to the LHC we know it's possible to violate conservation of matter + energy too). We currently do not know of any law of conservation that is valid "in the large", no matter how solid they appear to be on our little blue ball down here.
I bought PhpStorm on their End of the world sale. Best spent money in my life.
> Syrian "rebels" using an iPad to aim mortars

Photo: http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52385f79eab8eafb56d...
I agree with you 100%. I just also think that to claim "oh, I just wrote this software, I can't get in trouble for anything" doesn't take into account either the technological illiteracy of most of the justice system, nor the current environment of what can qualify on the evening news as being a win for the War on Terror.
And if you try this, you will usually get light segments in places where triangles forming some shape meet (due to antialiasing and overall hackery).
I agree with you. IMHO bubble level on a phone is more of a gimmick than a useful thing. Ok to establish approximate value, but noone should be using is as a precision tool. Even for hanging pictures if you want it done properly.
Nope, it actually is funny. The subject herself thought so - seems like that part of the article went straight over your head.

I do not think it makes the world better when you obsessively avoid saying anything that might possibly offend someone, let alone try to police everyone else.
Advertising and the End of Instagram's Sincerity
Welcome to Visual Studio with Resharper :)

It can transform for loops into linq statements (and vice versa) quite easily
Also checkout www.hnalerts.com by @robfitz

It will sms/email you when a link of your website either has been submitted to HN or reaches the frontpage.
Kire, everything works flawlessly. There is the cmd+click and better - there is framework integration witch makes the code analysis even more powerful. XDebug support works without configuration.
Depending what the bend radius and elasticity is, it could be hugely valuable. It makes it possible to have a display that is larger than your pocket.

It would also be very valuable for "smartwatches", like Pebble, or other fashion tech like Nike "Fuel Band".
It works in other situations too. If someone makes a racist or sexist joke, ask them to explain, because you don't get it.
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clustering is putting similar things near similar things. Tree edit distance is quite a natural measure of distance for tree like things like programs.

You can't avoid some warping when putting high dimensional manifolds on a low dimensional one. You can see a lot of their data does cluster properly but their are some long range red arcs (in the embedding space) which are side effects of warping (they are near in data space).

You can see a cluster of green which is clearly of interest ... why did so many students get the wrong answer in the same way?

I see lots of value in that picture.
I admire her strong character. Most people on that situation would stay still and regret about their selves, but she actually did something about it. That's great.

Other thing I got from the article is the reminder that I am doing it well in not uploading pictures to Facebook anymore.
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>>I have all this leisure time that I am being leisurely, but it doesn't feel leisurely.

This happens to me too.

I wonder its because we are using the same tools for work and leisure. I would describe leisure as going out and playing a sport, or playing a musical instrument, or <add non computer hobby here>.

I am now thinking we are confused between leisure and procrastination.
Apparently most commentators were expecting it. I wonder if there was a possibility that also the CERN team could be awarded the prize?
Power outage maps for all 50 states plus as many other countries as I can find
Financing Investment In A World Without Maturity Transformation
According to users in the thread about this on macrumors, the error isn't linear, and if you calibrate it, you still get inaccurate readings once it's off-level.

> The issue is that it cannot be calibrated out. I've tried,
> it can't be done. You can zero it in one orientation but then
> the error is doubled in the opposite orientation.
Symbolics Lisp Machine demo Jan 2013
The problem you've run into is most likely a result of the "FATCA" provisions (Foreign Account Tax Compliance) in the HIRE Act 2010 - a US law - rather than EU money laundering regulations directly.

The result is that any non-US financial entity that don't want to incur the wrath of the US government is required to report information about their US customers to the IRS.

See this PDF for HMRC guidance for the UK regarding this: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/drafts/uk-us-fatca-guidance-notes.pdf

As a result, smaller US customers are particularly undesirable for non-US banks these days.
CloudFlare And Open Source Software: A Two-Way Street
+1 Would love to see this with PHP soon guys.
Great news for Lund and Sweden!
I think at most 3 people can be named for each nobel price.
If you are a good programmer than you usually have constant demand and many opportunities. Really good ones aren't working in web shops unless they are busy working their way up and out.

90% of anything is crap
The point is that governments have this type of money. In spades. Pretending we're not properly prioritizing one type of research or another is a farce - if you can convince anyone to invest in nuclear fission reactors, whether they do that won't really be affected by how much fusion research is happening. That's not why we don't have nuclear fission right now, but shutting down nuclear fusion might just ensure we never get either.
"Instagram’s plan from the beginning has been to exploit that conceptual slippage between content and advertising in a powerful new way, because it is the social network with the greatest claim to a foundation of genuine emotion. Instagram has become what it is because people care about it and what they put on it in a way that isn’t true of Twitter or Facebook—and which is precisely why Facebook bought it."

Interesting statement, because while a picture is worth a thousands words, it's usually some lame brain comment in text that get's people the most worked up. For some reason text has this power. I can't remember the last time I got pissed off at a photograph. I'm sure naked pictures of your wife would constitute a scenario where you were to get pissed off.

Regardless, ads were a comin'. Will be interesting to see if it plays out differently than other networks. If you already follow American Airlines in your feed, why would AA pay extra to advertise to you?
"There is never ever going to be a period of time in the human history, there was none in the past, nor will there be in the future where we shall attain peaceful uniform equality among humans"

This is simply not true. Hunter-gatherer societies are typically egalitarian, and our species has subsisted by hunting and gathering for the vast majority of its existence.
(this comment got a bit long. tl;dr, the internet is full of insensitive pricks that don't get confronted with their own behaviour)

A large percentage of the internet populace is running on autopilot: browse hundreds of random images a day for quick fixes of entertainment, and post the odd impulsive, thoughtless and, most importantly, internet-badassity-enhancing comment.

It's much more common to be scathing and hurtful on the internet, simply because there is less of, or none of, a 'society filter' out there. If one were to stand on a soapbox in public and make the kind of remarks people make unashamedly and unfilteredly on the internet, they wouldn't be standing there for long and would in all likelihood get called out on their behavior.

Not (directly) so on the internet. I can identify two major reasons for that: One, peer groups. Internet douchebags is a major internet peer group, who will e-high-five each other for remarks outlined in the article. Two: Nobody cares. Scathing remarks are made by anonymous people all over the internet, so a lot of people have been desensitised or simply feel powerless, on behalf of not actually knowing the person making the remarks.

The difference for that last point lies in community. A lot of these image sharing sites have a loosely-tied, unloyal random userbase, where most commenters will not or never know or recognise each other from other 'threads'. This in contrast to, say, HN, where people can gain fame and notoriety over time. In the latter category, where comments and the overall mood is much less random and much more focussed at a certain audience, scathing and offensive and plain dumb comments (which is about 99% of youtube comments, for example) will not only be (anonymously, disconnecedly) downvoted, but outright confronted, countered, and the people behind them approached and have their unwanted behaviour pointed out to them.

[faux-psychologist]Freud assigned people's behavior as a result of the id, ego, and super-ego; on the internet, shielded by anonymity and a high abstraction and reduction of communication to quickly typed, short messages, the super-ego has little power in the big, anonymous communities; there is little to no society that tells people "No, this behavior is unwanted". This in turn dulls the ego (one's rational mind, conscience, etc), allowing the id (the impulsive mind that screams LOL FAT PEOPLE KILL UR SELF LOL) to write a similar blurb onto the internet. Communities like HN have a much stronger super-ego, and unwanted behavior is put down. When the poster approached the commenters, she acted as the super-ego, and the commenters suddenly snapped out of their autopilot, impulsive state of mind, having their conscience suddenly kick in when they realised there was a living person with real feelings behind the 2D image of a random woman dressing up as a character with a different physique.[/faux-psychologist]
It's actually pretty common: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet
Anyone with more insight know if this was overdue, but finally awarded after confirmation last year at CERN, or if it was pushed forward while last year's work was fresh in people's minds?
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We use the level in our camera app. Tilt a photo 2.7 degrees and you end up with quite a crooked photo.
The European Union won it before. So I think organizations are fine.
The "accredited investor" thing has to end.

There are ETFs today that anybody can buy that will only give complete information to "accredited investors". That doesn't protect consumers.
Well the update says it were the DNS-Servers, that got "hacked" not the WhatsApp-Servers. Not that this makes me like this thing any better, but I thought the correct info should be put into the discussion. ;-)
The issue is that while many requests are very fast to serve from cache, they can get blocked if your limited number of workers get caught handling long ones.

If an admin is using a rarely used and inefficient page, or a few too many people are uploading lots of images at once. I have 400 real estate agents, and if they happen to all want to edit their listings at the same time then the customers get frozen out. Varnish would help here.
This is great. I especially like the cabin noise. I work on ships and for the first week or so after I get home I need some background noise to help me sleep. This one sounds quite close to what one might hear on a ship.
Organizations can't be awarded the science prizes.
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I was just listening to the news, and apparently over 3000 people were more or less involved with the work at CERN. I don't think the physics prize has ever been awarded to an institution like the peace prize has been in the past, and I think the Academy simply chose not to break tradition.
They say that professor Higgs is shy and not at all comfortable with the attention and almost as hard to find as his particle.
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In many cases, it's more efficient to have the computers tell the humans what to move.