skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me try to summarize the paper, which I only slightly understand. They take a 2-D grid with a magnetic domain at each point, sort of like a hard drive. It starts out with random N/S orientations. Each domain "wants" to match up with its neighbors. As domains flip, they will start to match up more and more. Eventually you have a phase transition where you suddenly go from mostly-random to mostly-aligned, kind of like water freezing. This is a standard physics model called an Ising model.

They look at the "information flow" between neighboring domains. This is sort of how much influence a domain has on its neighbors, with an incomprehensible transfer entropy measure. At the beginning, when everything is random, there's not much correlation. At the end, when everything is aligned, there's no information flow since neighbors are already aligned. The peak influence is right in the middle when domains are snapping into alignment with each other. The paper measures this information flow via simulations of the grid and finds the peak information flow is in the disordered phase shortly before the phase transition to order. This seems like a reasonable conclusion.

They then conjecture that this information flow peak isn't just for the specific Ising model they investigate but may happen in general for financial crises, epileptic seizures, and other complex models, so if you can measure information flow you can tell when the phase transition will happen. I don't see anything in the paper that actually supports the conjecture, but it makes for nice headlines. (I don't want to get into credentialism, but it makes me a bit suspicious that the authors aren't statistical physicists (who usually do Ising model stuff), but work in a center for consciousness science, civil engineering, and other random departments.)

Apologies to anyone who actually understands Ising models, because I've probably totally mangled the explanation, but I figured since nobody else had posted a summary it might be useful.
The bog standard way of getting animal adoptions is to take a bunch of kittens/puppies to a public place, and let people hold/play with them. And it works, because generally, puppies and kittens like socialization, and people are more likely to adopt an animal if they see one.

Though, normally it's free, and the animals aren't delivered by a taxi service.
In Finland, you can validate your identity with your banking authentication. It's a service all the banks provide.
Am I the only one that sees this forum as a honeypot to suck useful posts into a location that apple can curate and prune away anything they deem likely to be detrimental?

I understand that they have a support offering they want people to buy, but it seems to me that creating official forums that never get official responses and removing posts that espouse actions that, while not beneficial to Apple, are legal and to help customers, Apple are holding paid for usefulness of their devices ransom.

That may seem like a fairly uncharitable view, but their actions in this instance don't seem particularly charitable either.
That is a good point, bitcoins would be worthless if no one had been willing to spend them. It makes me wonder if buying those pizzas was a hard decision, or if it was just an impulse buy.
> If you don't download warez you don't need an antivirus.

That works most of the time, but it's not the only attack vector around: browser exploits (e.g. via ads), malevolous attachments sent by known contacts, direct attacks over networks and so on.

In any case, it only takes once if you lower your guard; I'd run at least a lightweight one if I were you.
If you read about the technical implementation of the AV software that's been analyzed, you might not think it's that dangerous after all:

http://www.cso.com.au/article/441070/google_security_researc...
My understanding is that dumpster diving to get opened food is fairly uncommon. More often it is getting sealed food that was thrown out because it has expired, has damaged packaging, or in some other way is less desirable. So the food that you would eat from a dumpster isn't exposed and probably doesn't smell like a restaurant waste dumpster would.
Should Apple Buy Tesla?
"...textbook example of a frivolous lawsuit" - Yelp

Agreed.

But let's just say, they win. Would this force sites like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to go the YouTube route and pay the really popular ones?

--well anyone can make money on YouTube, but unless your popular, your not going to make anything significant--

People already do this with sponsored tweets and pics, but it's not Twitter that's actually paying them.

I wonder why YouTube decided it's a good idea (obviously it was/is).
A Firefox reset is a maintenance operation, they don't mean restarting FF.
Ask HN: How would you monetize jQuery? Coffeescript? GHC?
If you were developing a new language/library/tool that you wanted to release as open source, and that has no real business being SAAS, how would you try to make a living off of it, or at least support the time you spend? Plain old donate button? Crowdfunding for additional feature development? Restrictive license for commercial use? I'd like to hear about some success stories for such projects, the relationship of the strategy to the type of project, and the results of testing various strategies in the field.
Wow, thanks! I didn't know about that. I'll try it!
For years I've thought this was the ultimate troll headline. And now someone actually wrote it.
i remember how crazy it was at pycon 2013 when you all announced that you were open-sourcing docker... i'm so glad its working out! wish you all continued success.
Looks really interesting! Just wanted to let you know that if you decline the permission request when signing in for the first time, you get the 500 error.
> iDevices are already losing in terms of market share and revenue

Citation needed.
Adobe hack hits 38 million passwords and Photoshop source code
Really looking forward to it. Maybe it makes me sound superficial but that might be what finally makes me switch back from Chrome - the compactness of the Chrome UI is great. Firefox on OSX is really in need of a boost.
Since TypeScript is somewhat tracking ES6 proposals it looks like Microsoft will be quick to include it once the spec is finalized.
Corruption is correlated to genetic relatedness (inbreeding/consanguinity)[1].

I've seen a hypothesis that the introduction of Christianity in North/Western Europe changed mating patterns and reduced consanguinity, thereby enabling the rule of law that European society was known for developing in the early modern period[2]. A caveat - while I find the hypothesis intriguing, I'm not sure how well this hypothesis explains other areas of the world that have developed low-corruption society, and I don't know the consanguinity of India.

[1] http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/consanguinity-corru...

[2]http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/start-here/
Ugh, why do people do that to begin with? :( I've had Web Audio for a while since I'm on the Aurora channel, and there's so many demos that refuse to work for no reason.

I try to do my part by submitting pull requests that fix it, when possible, but most of those pull requests have been sitting ignored for months.

Clearly more people need to be educated that user-agent sniffing = bad.
I wasn't sure what the product was. From the homepage I can see above the fold that it's "The human touch of your everyday sales. Inch is here to help you make and live more everyday." from that I'm still not sure what it is. Something for people in sales and some kind of productivity tool?

Scrolling down the page I get to see "Inch plays your tune. Inch completes your current workflow in the most natural, seamless and productive way. It is triggered by the way you work and gives back and asks for information right when you need it.". So generic, that still doesn't tell me what the product is or does.

Further down the page I can see that it links in with CRMs. So maybe some kind of productivity tool that's for sales people and links in with CRMs.

As a user by now I'd have given up as I still don't know what this thing is.

Scolling back to the top I clicked "About" to learn about the product. First I see some pictures of the team, definitely not something that's very important or warrants being the first item in the top level menu. Still nothing on this page tells me what the product is or what it does.

The "How it works" does give me some more info about what the app does. Pretty sure it is for sales people and it's not for me.

I'm not a marketing expert, just trying to give a narrative of how I experienced the site. I think you need some kind of clear message about what your product is and what the USP is so that users can (in the few valuable seconds that you have their attention) find out what you do and why it's so great.
This is why single-payer is the only way to go. There has to be some panel of disinterested experts evaluating the cost/benefit of a given treatment for a given illness, backed up by the buying power of something really huge. Yes, that's "death panels" to you Tea Party members following along at home.

Of course that wouldn't prevent any doctor and patient from doing whatever they wanted, at their own expense.
I know you think you're being smart, or cute, or whatever, but this is completely off topic and irrelevant to the conversation at hand.
There is no such thing as a graphics card in a modern mobile device. It's all on the SoC, hence the name, 'System on a Chip'
I didn't start that subreddit actually, just became a mod a few months ago. Reddit is easy for these types of things because so many coders are already using it to browse other subreddits. I'd prefer it be its own site entirely but this is working well for now so no need to mess with a good thing.
I have a HTPC running Windows 7 that has Microsoft Security Essentials installed (mostly to stop it from bugging me). My audio/video editing machine is a Mac without any antivirus software installed. And my development machine is running Ubuntu LTS without any antivirus. What's awkward is I don't even know which option to upvote.
America is corrupt TO THE CORE. Unlike India however, the corruption does not take place in front of you.

A belief in anything else is irrational.
You have an almost 1 megabyte image on the homepage (the octopus). On my internet the image alone took about 4 seconds to load. You should consider optimizing it
Motorola will build phoneblocks for real :-)
I used to volunteer at an animal shelter:

One of the big things they stressed, at least for the dogs, was how important it was to play with the them. Expose them to people, scratch their ears through the grate on their kennel, pay attention to them, etc. etc.

The reasoning being that dogs who are used to humans, and are affectionate towards them, are more likely to get adopted.

If this was for dogs, it would be a HUGE benefit to them. Getting them out around people is almost always a good thing for them.
For more context pieter's original pull request is here: https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/579
The Power of Satan: how belief in “pure evil” shapes thinking
Not sure ad-avoiders should be always seen as content-killers. I think this is a bit more complex than that. A good read: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/is-ad...
Motorola launches Project Ara to modularize phone hardware
The problem is that if you actually look at how this AV software works (and at how many AV companies behave), there are clear reasons not to trust them.

For example: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophailv2.pdf

The problem of malware is systemic, and can't be solved by adding complex, poorly-constructed add-on software.
Introducing Riak 2.0: Data Types, Strong Consistency, Full-Text Search
Hong Kong, today one of the least corrupt places, was a few decades ago one of the MOST corrupt. What changed? They set up an independent commission to investigate and prosecute corruption and made it independent of most of government. Things were dicey for a while, but eventually corruption all but disappeared in daily life. The United States has as one of its founding principles that powers must be separated, so here if you do take a bribe, there are multiple independent agencies that can come after you, and most importantly, send you to jail and take away your ill-gotten wealth. This simply doesn't exist with equivalent force in India.

Oh, btw, please spare me the bs about Anglo-Saxon moral superiority. The history of India and indeed the world is replete with so many broken Anglo-Saxon promises that this is simply a joke. There's a reason it's called "perfidious Albion".
Ha.

I've been an affiliate marketeer for quite some time now, doing FB ads and I can tell you, FB ads DO work: both for the affiliate and the advertiser.

Last month I generated around 50K rev in comisions (around 60% profit) and the advertiser even increased my payout because the leads are converting to paying users.

Of course this is not always the case, but in general they do work and quite good I might say.
This submission has a few comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6626108

These submissions don't:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632587

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632326

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629177

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628933

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628068

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632584
How does this compare with extempore? More specifically xtlang which seems to have similar goals.
http://extempore.moso.com.au
What the...?

This is a reputable company offering the service, not some sketchy back-of-the-alley vendor. It could be a wonderful service for people that cannot keep pets in their rental apartments for instance, or people that live with someone allergic to cat fur preventing them from owning a cat, or plain and simple people with really busy lives that wished they could own a pet but know they'd be unable to care for it properly.

Personally I've wanted countless times to keep a cat for the long-term, it simply wasn't possible because I knew I'd end up neglecting it, especially considering that kittens require so much attention.

What's the harm in this? Instead of sitting in a shelter all day long, the animals are socialized well, they get to experience varied new environments and maybe even end up being adopted by the customer.

Have you considered that this could also be great for old, retired and lonely persons, like someone's grandma that lives all by herself and barely gets any visitors?
I wonder what would happen if, during the trial, they used testimony such as "And, if I had been tortured and brutalized, and had my family's lives been threatened to gain my compliance, I would not be at liberty to disclose such information."
Such as the San Francisco Bay, where this currently is?

Also, the Japanese Earthquake killed a guy in California:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42024659/ns/

It doesn't need to be a close earthquake to kill people.
I tried all sorts of schedules, time blocking, pomodoro, late, early, long hours, short hours, seven days a week, five days a week, etc.

Seven years in, I ended up here: working each day, working ONLY when I feel motivated, studying quite a bit, and not worrying about the hours. I instead focus on deliverables, being happy/healthy, etc. Oddly enough, I end up getting more done than when I forced 10/12 hour days of solid work. When I would force 70+ hour weeks, for years at a time, it was terribly draining. When I only work when I want, I actually still end up working roughly 60 hours (I like it, it is fun). However, each day seems like a vacation. Want to do some open source? Do it. Want to goof off for a while? Do it. Want to get some work done? Do it.

Works for me at least. I'll do the same routine when I am "retired". :)
> For any job that you're likely to get in your 20s, NYC finance jobs pay worse, have far longer hours, and are much more high-pressure.

If you're working in the front office then your pay is going to be a multiple of a startup job. And it's going to be significantly higher then any established company in the area (Amazon, Facebook, Google). A good rule of thumb is your base will be similar what established companies pay and your bonus is all gravy.

Pressure and hours vary by firm. It's hard to generalize.
> what's the actual detection rate for viruses and malware?

It's a surprizingly hard to answer that. The set of virus change every day, and is always unknown.

> most of AV detection is still based around hash matching.

Things are not that clear cut here either. The most usefull matching is hash based. Anti-virus also use other algos, they are just less reliable.
Mind if I e-mail you too? My company is considering using deis for deployment in the near future.
Let's bet on that. I can put 1 BTC that the price by the end of the year will be greater than $266. If it's below $14 I'll pay you 19 BTC or more (equivalent of $266 at the current prices).
Is Google building a floating data center in Portland Maine?
Why We Must Keep Track of Errors in Electronic Medical Records
There are 2 paths a populist government can follow, left and right. Both governments persecute outsiders to the benefit of insiders. Both realise that taxation isn't a viable strategy.

In the leftist case, the outsiders are the rich and the insiders are "99%", they use deficit spending to remain in power. In the rightist case, the outsiders are wealthy foreigners and the insiders are their own citizens, they use expansion and conquest to remain in power.

Fiat currency enables leftist policies, hard money encourages rightist.
Dart doesn't really need "frameworks" in the way that JavaScript does. The core libraries are very rich:

* dart:async give you Futures (Promises in JS, no need for Q) and Streams
* dart:core and dart:collections give you real data structures like List, Map, Set, Queue, LinkedList, LinkedHashMap, etc. Much more comprehensive than underscore.js
* dart:html is much improved over JS's DOM, and have most of jQuery's functionality (see ElementList).
* New and upcoming standards like Shadow DOM, custom elements and template binding let you declaratively define your HTML template in HTML with data-binding, which is the foundation of frameworks like Ember, Angular, Knockout, etc.
* Polymer is a JS and Dart library for helping you write custom elements.

Also, the package system in Dart, pub, is very similar to npm and encourages smaller, focused packages rather than sprawling frameworks.

Check it out, it's a very nice language and environment. But I'm on the Dart team, so I'm obviously biased.
I agree 100%, a simple "ID checked" flag would be OK. Where I think the DPA fits into it is that without the DPA, a lot more people would store those details just because. With the DPA in place I'm a lot more comfortable sharing information like that, knowing that either they just store a flag, or if they store more than that I am protected.
In the US small town police are often a source of corruption. I have several acquaintances who've been pulled over in small towns while traveling interstate and been asked for donations not to get issued tickets (for nonexistent violations)just so that they wouldn't have to come back to take care of it. (And to be fair, this is much more common near the southern border. So it's a little more complex and unusual.)
Can someone shed some light on the rationale and usefulness of the inline "iframe" and "srcdoc" attributes? I read the description, I understand how they work, but I'm not sure what they are good for.
Perhaps you were in NYC at the wrong time?

2006-13.

To be fair, my sample size on startup quality is about N = 15, so I'm sure I missed some good ones. And there are a lot of high-quality engineers (and people in general) in NYC. The engineers I met at Google NYC were a great crowd, for one example, and there are a lot of good people in finance.

I think NYC would be a great tech hub if the city could solve the cost-of-living problem, which would expand the pool of possible startups and help real technologists (as opposed to well-connected turds) get more play. Until then, the smart money's on places like Austin for the 2020s.
Sorry to be dense, I know what WebGL is, but what's VAO?
You are running a business, sooner or later your bottom line will be affected. What you should so is inform the Scholarship account holders that $19.99 will be deducted from their total earning of one year. This way it will be a win-win scenario. They get a free account upfront and they pay you later. You are still getting paid in the end!
Windows Azure has the features you listed, although I'm not sure about #4. I too wanted a PaaS cloud, not an IaaS, and I found Azure to be the best option for my needs. I would have prefered a European company for legal reasons but there's no good one yet.
Technically - Creation, management, communication, networking. Smartly.

Ecosystem - more and more people every day are integrating with their tools, building business around Docker, or extending support of existing business to Docker.
Test runner for Python, inspired by Machine.Specifications (C#)
The Most Expensive Range Rover Ever
Plink - Collaborative music game using the Web Audio API
Why children should learn to code, even if they don't have a future in IT
I answered no for Windows, Linux and other (Android). (Yes, I assume "Linux" == "GNU/Linux".)
I gave some of my thoughts on the topic here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17989306/what-does-docker...
My First Job: I Bought Illegal Cigarettes for City Police
Microsoft partners with Corona Labs to support Windows apps
That's not even in the problem - if the doctor disagrees with the prescribed treatment plan, they have enough leeway to prescribe some other solution, that they believe to be better.

The advantage of single-payer, is that he will not have a profit motive to do so. And monopoly bargaining power on the side of the public.
I upvoted the article because it raises some important points about how people respond to incentives in the current health-care financing system in the United States, with a prediction of expected results under the Affordable Care Act as the act is implemented. The kind of comments I'd be delighted to hear from other HN participants is comments about what can be done about this.

On my part, I was just doing some Web searches for patient guides about how to select treatments and when to get second opinions. Regardless of how health care is paid for, patients sometimes need guidance about how to choose physicians, and how to choose treatments. (I know this for sure because my family lived in Taiwan for almost three years under Taiwan's single-payer national health insurance system, and we still had to decide which doctor to visit--we had choice in that matter--and whether or not to follow the doctor's treatment recommendation, which we sometimes followed and sometimes did not.) I'll keep looking for a user-friendly guide like that online, and if someone else commenting here can link to one, I'll be very grateful for that.
The only form elements missing from Firefox (according to http://caniuse.com/forms) are the date/time, number and colour input types. IE only partially supports the number input type, and doesn't support the rest.

It's hard to believe you have to tell users to use IE over Firefox because of that difference.
Is there any good real-time AV available? For any kind of system?
Linux has it though, through GStreamer (but you need to set media.gstreamer.enabled to true in about:config).

Is there any way to set a preference for free formats by the way? I.e. if the page specified several sources for the audio or video tags, but puts MP4 first let's say, is there way to override that and say "always prefer WebM if present" or something like that?