skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applaud what DDG is doing. I've been using it as my default search engine for roughly 2 years. Yes, there are some areas for improvement, especially when it comes to complex technical queries. But for the majority of everyday things, DDG is excellent, and returns less advertisement bloat within its results than Google/Bing.

Plus ducks are my favorite animal, so launching DDG as I begin the work day is a joy!
I don't understand your analogy at all, but it seems to me that an object's light cone at a given time is necessarily smaller than the universe (in volume of spacetime). Also, you could control the size of the cone by controlling the duration of the simulation.
As a Russian, it is spot on (well, except for "Did you know that bribes are illegal in America" bit)
> I mean exactly the same.

Unless a unique UI is a selling point of your app is that really desirable? After all, Android and iOS user interfaces have (somewhat) different conventions.
In other words, you don't want money, but you are forced to deal with it.
Hey Mike,

We don't ever write anything to your profile. As explained in the link below, this is a standard GitHub permission.

PS your SSH keys are 100% public:
https://api.github.com/users/mikexstudios/keys

Mike

Short answer: https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200178961-Why-d...

Long answer: https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-Authe...
See NASA scientist, "the father of climate change," James Hansen's 2009 book entitled Storms of My Grandchildren. He's highly critical of models, though notes that they may be useful in certain specific scenarios. What he focuses more on is the geological record because models can only be as accurate as the information that goes into them.

I want to keep this brief, but I also want to quickly note that the cap and trade for greenhouse gases is business as usual for energy producers. Don't believe a word of it; the short story is that it worked poorly in preventing acid rain and won't work for combating climate change. We need a fee and dividend system that doesn't come back to us in tax breaks. I should note that Hansen comes across as very credible and apolitical; I don't trust anyone else when it comes to climate science.

His most recent work is available here:

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/publications.shtml
Well, things are at a stalemate now. Yanukovych cannot step down. He will literally be murdered if he does. His only protection is being the president. On the other hand while he remains in power the people will be protesting.

I think a likely course will be a "least of all evils" scenario. Yanukovych will make concessions to the opposition leaders who will then try to mollify the crowds. The EU treaty will be put back on the table and things will be dragged out for the long haul.
You are taking an extreme stance on the topic. There's room for modeling and forecasting even in highly complex dynamical systems, the models are getting better with advances in applied statistics research. They are not perfect, but they are not completely useless either.

For example, here's an article I just found on modeling stochastic nonlinear dynamics in ecological/oceanographic applications:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.1717.pdf

As for caterpillars predicting climate patterns, I agree with you that it's unlikely, unless there are some simple environmental indicators the caterpillars learnt/evolved to take into account but we humans haven't paid attention to yet. This doesn't mean the changes are unknowable.
The conceptualist // empiricists seems to apply heavily to me as well, in my entrepreneurial career. Despite thinking I have good business concepts down, I've learned far more through practice than I have through books. For me, I have to apply something to truly learn it.
No need to be deliberately obtuse--there are many people in industry and government who stand to benefit from carbon trading. There are also many scientists who research climate change. The two groups do not have to be intimately connected for them to benefit from each other.

Were all the loan originators at Countrywide part of a conspiracy to sell bad loans, or were they just "following the money"? Why would grant-seeking scientists be immune to the same incentives?
We will be conducting ongoing audits and also would like to conduct an audit (hopefully at least partially crowd-funded)on SJCL by itself. Thanks for this valuable feedback!
The fact that something like this is necessary just goes to show you how much of a failure SQL is compared to what it was supposed to be.

Remember the promise of a "declarative language" where you just had to tell it what you want, and it took care of the details?
Also, it used to be part of a much larger country, wasn't it (Austria+Hungary)? I've been there only many years ago, but somehow I had the impression of a slightly multicultural air about it.
The first link to the source is actually all about tipping, which I'm surprised didn't make it onto the list. While American style tipping is odd to me as a European, it just feels even odder the longer I live in Japan (where there is literally no tipping, I couldn't even tip if I wanted to). Quite hard to explain this whole concept to Japanese (that were never in the US) sometimes.

EDIT: So is the third link. Well not entirely, but the first half.
That scroll is obnoxious. You shouldn't suddenly jar the text position out from under the reader's eyes.
I switched over to DuckDuckGo as my default search provider, for about half a year. It was alright for a while... but eventually I would search for things on both DDG and Google and realized how much I was missing... Sadly I've moved back to Google since then.

Another issue that kept coming up for me, was their lack of keyboard controls on search result pages. Although, this isn't really as relevant to most users I would speculate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
So what, are the protesters just a bunch of violence loving psychos who are out there for fun? In how many circumstances do citizens take to the streets when the government is doing something perfectly justified? I know of no such accounts in history.

Also, please justify Putin's actions. I'd love to hear why he is the good guy in all this.
MonoTouch (= Xamarin.iOS) has nothing to do with Cordova.
Sorry, but any good programmer will know the conventional data structures and algorithms, regardless of whether they write programs in Erlang, C or some other language.
Like many typical Austrians/Viennese I've got a love/hate relationship with Austria/Vienna.

On the one hand it's very gemütlich (cosy/comfy -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemütlichkeit) to live here but on the other hand it can be quite boring as even very young people often act like they are already retired.
I believe there aren't many places in the world where you enjoy as much actual freedom as you do in Austria but people mostly don't make much use of it, good luck with getting people engaged in anything interesting (maybe life here is already too comfortable).

Not having the cultural "baggage" of having gotten pampered your whole life, Vienna could very well be the ideal place to be as you might be able to actually enjoy its benefits.

You should definitely come and visit, there is tons of stuff to see - it's somewhat of a cultural Disney Land with an amazing history. While doing so you could dip your toes into what it would mean to live here, there are quite some Americans around who really like it and have been living here for many years.
Looking for Apple App Developers in Greensboro NC area
Hey,

I'm a non-technical person looking for someone local (27410) to look at the code of my iPad App. Our current dev is on a steep learning curve, and the App is getting slower and less responsive. I think it has something to do with needing to be transferred to core data...but tbh, that could be rubbish speak :/

If you're local and interested in helping, please reply.
Is there a privacy policy or ToS? I don't see one on the site.
Regarding #5:
>That caught me by surprise. Both options “roughly the same” and “depends on the data” got about 25% — the guessing probably.

I don't think it was guessing so much as reasoning that fetching 100 rows (and filtering by value) instead of 10 rows doesn't have significant real-world impact unless the row data is particularly large. I'll admit I didn't think of the out-of-index lookup, but my main thought was 100/1000000 vs 10/1000000 isn't a big deal unless the DB is running on an abacus.
4, 6 and 12-packs are just as inconvenient if you're hopping on the subway to head home. Even if they aren't as bulky, they can still be plenty heavy if you can't grab a seat or if the floor is too nasty to put stuff on.

Plenty of good session beers are coming in 12 packs these days too.
People don't seem to like the Win-8 UI, though.
Hmm. If you were at a peaceful rally and the police started shooting rubber bullets at you, how would you feel?
Wikipedia edits, bots vs. humans
Anatomy of a Phish
Citation needed. As far as I know the protesters never fired a single gun.
Sure. Ukrainian Security Service hired criminals and led criminals out of jail, gave them weapons and so they went shooting at the protesters.
World news (i.e. US, UK and some other state sponsored news services) are still behind Yanukovich, so I wouldn't trust how they are spinning the events.
I use either DDG or https://startpage.com/ . I still have to go to Google about once or twice month though...
When I was in Chicago, I'd buy Goose Island (locally-brewed, hardly alcohol water) in boxes of 12.
ArXiv paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0412
The only reason I still use Google over DuckDuckGo is the keyword suggestions as I'm typing. I find that to be very useful when I'm searching for something but not quite sure how to phrase it. I would for sure switch over if DDG added that!
How does DDG work? Do they have their own algorithm to rank the web pages? What makes their algorithm better?
> More likely, as you say, it's just confirmation bias. It'd be surprising if the relevant patterns were simple enough for caterpillar and tree biology to pick up on but too complex for our climatologists and meteorologists to spot in decades of PhD students looking for theses. It's not impossible, though.

Right. Most caterpillars and trees I know have only had their PhDs for 5 years or so.
"Prenuptial agreements" can cover 'future assets' in Finland, if agreed upon. Actually, there's a term called 'antenuptial agreement' which can cover future assets.
Petition to Split California Into Six States Gets Green Light
Could you guys add the Webpage Icons[1]?

[1] - https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AppleA...
seems fake.
Ask HN: How do you make your MacBook Pro battery last longer?
As I explained in a short blog post(1) I'm looking for ways to improve my MacBook Pro (Retina)'s battery life. Do you guys have any tricks? I am missing something obvious here?

(1) http://yagizerkan.tumblr.com/post/77282438878/macbook-pro-battery-drain
Chris Gonzales on how he writes and publishes to the web
It looks great, I'd love to try it, but I am not comfortable with how many permissions it requires on my Github account.
an entity's light cone is still likely to be quite large, especially if your simulated universe is old.

And the light cone (more precisely, the past light cone) keeps getting larger, so in fact the "amount of universe" that needs to be simulated increases without bound as time goes on.
Hyperbole without any quote or reference..
The more I travel, the more convinced I am that the American experiment with car oriented cities was a disaster that will take untold billions of dollars to rectify. It's affected everything from public safety (e.g. police can no longer walk a patrol), to loss of community (people don't really shop in the same place they live), lost productivity (stuck in traffic), and on and on and on.

I'm very encouraged by recent, walkable focused, mixed-use development around mass transit stops in the DC area. If they're successful, they could quickly pay back the tax dollars spent getting the transit built, and lead to a model for development in the U.S. In other words, they're building more classic European style city centers, but as all new construction, and even better, informed by the mistakes and success of the last few decades.

I'm not sure it would ever get rid of the suburb (there's too many reasons to not want to raise your children in the city), but there's innovation there too. Many newer suburbs are being built with walkability in mind, usually with a small commercial core with groceries, a coffee shop, laundry and a few restaurants, many have mass transit shuttle stops and commuter lots nearby and with telecommuting becoming more common, there's less of a need to make the daily drive. I live in a suburb like this and have at least a dozen restaurants (from fast food to high end), two coffee shops, laundry, a gym, a Tae Kwon Do school, a bike shop, 2 ice cream parlors, a grocery, a movie theater a couple salons, a music shop, a medical practice, dentist, chiropractor, orthodontist, optometrist, liquor store, a bank and more within a short, comfortable 5-10 minute walk from my house. I'm also surrounded by green space and parks, schools and swimming pools are walkable and we're planning on building out space for a public library and other amenities soon. I telecommute most days and if I have to go to work I take the bus into the city. Other than my weekly client site visits I pretty much don't drive my car. In my region, this development model accounts for easily 40-50% of the new developments.

European cities aren't without problems (awkward living accommodations in old buildings, lack of handicapped or elderly accessibility, etc.), but remind us that before the auto lobby took over and screwed up urban design, cities could be built to high density, very livable, very human scale and that doing so makes wonderful places to live and work.
The data keiretsu
With greater permissions, comes greater responsibility
People from Western Ukraine in Kiev and police are shooting at each other. How is that Putin's and Kremlin's fault?

You say you don't know Ukrainian opposition. They are from West of Ukraine. West of Ukraine is notorious for their hatred of Jews and Russians. Hating Jews is not fashionable these days, but there is an open season on Russians. People from West of Ukraine love killing Russians, they don't miss any opportunity, like conflict in Chechnya, where Ukrainians took an active part fighting alongside with Chechens against Russia. West of Ukraine considers East of Ukraine as (1) cattle, (2) slaves and (3) just like Russians but worse. To no surprise, West of Ukraine didn't hesitate to pick up arms and start shooting. They are very passionate bunch. Just watch what will happen when they win (and they will). Central Ukraine will be a blood bath where people will be shot dead for just speaking Russian.
Optimising every aspect of your life like that has rapidly diminishing returns. Before too long you end up like that one guy writing blogs about your bespoke fucking japanese spoons or whatever it was.

Pick a few things and maximise those. Presumably the guy buying the 18 pack of beer chose something else.
All About Bootstrapping Your Startup
No, there are different kinds of marriages. One can have an agreement that past and future assets are not divided. If you don't like it, don't get such an agreement.

>If the concept of sharing your life with another person sounds weird - just don't do it.

Sharing your life with another person doesn't imply sharing property.
Secure Email Document Transmission: The Top Three Stumbling Blocks
Great request, will certainly look into it. We'll also have an iOS app out soon.
How could you possibly not mean to come off as snobbish? There is no other way to interpret your comment other than snobbery.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, necessarily, but at least be honest with us (and yourself).

EDIT: What's wrong about it is classism, though. Not everybody can afford premium microbrews.
WhatsApp issued takedown against alternative clients a week before acquisition
They all look very iOS-like.

Does it support Android UI style?
If someone guessed incorrectly, they still didn't know the answer.
Now FB has another layer of data about our phone contacts..
That was going to be my original question until I actually used my reading skills.
Your artcile is interesting, but in my opinion, it is still early to say if there is a valuation bubble around startups acquisitions. $16B sounds a lot to me.
Also, business that scale without monetize are exceptions. Here in Brazil, Investors hold them money until you show them some clients. If you raise money in early stages you have to sell give in a lot of share. But I agree with you that it can open some minds.
Risk and Poverty
Synergies in Viber - Rakuten deal seems better as there is a minimal overlap of user base especially in terms of geography.
"This has nothing to do with religion!!!"
...in...3...2...1...
http://ancientstandard.com/2010/12/17/how-greenland-got-its-...

Greenland was not named Greenland for being green. The most common etymology is that the name was a marketing ploy to convince settlers to come to a hostile and bitterly cold land.
She let her 3yr old son go to playschool in a superhero costume everyday
lol at the pic with the server setup
Bitcoin security model: trust by computation
There is no such thing as "right" when it comes to the subjective world of taste (whether food or beer). There are only snobs that claim there is a "right" and everybody else who enjoys what they like regardless of the snobs.
Honestly even after traveling to America several times I don't understand why this practice is still going on. It's just annoying for everyone (the employee, and the client) and a cause for embarrassment. In Europe we tip people when we get extra good service from them,, so that tipping feels special. That's the way it should be.
I reached out to Gabriel a few times while living in the Southeast PA region for entrepreneurial related questions. He always got back to me within a day or so...incredibly helpful and nice. I switched to DDG a while back, and while it took a little bit to get used to the changes, I use it for 80% of my searches now. The only way they will improve is by us using them more and more often. You can complain about how they aren't as good as Google, but that doesn't help them improve. Getting involved in the DDG community and setting them as your main search engine does.
More likely they would say "head", as in "two head of cattle". In all my childhood days on the farm, I don't think I ever heard the word "beefs", much less "beeves". Usage of the latter would likely get you a look as if you had come from back east.
Any idea if GitHub will ever alter the way that works so you can avoid it giving you write access. I was all ready to give Gitter a go until I saw the permissions that would be granted. Sure you're trust worthy but us IT types can be paranoid ;-)
Do you have any information to add? Do you have an argument to make? Can you say why it seems fake? Your initial comment does not add much.
don't forget the location data.

you might see 'last seen on 14:29 at the local deli' on Whatsapp from now on!
Code Reviews and Bad Habits
I have lots of respect for the founder. One of his blog posts motivated me to buy my own rack + datacenter class equipment. So much fun!!
Ben Shneiderman toured my laboratory a couple of months back. He actually took the time to sit down and use and discuss some of the UI stuff I was developing as part of my PhD research.

I'm sure he doesn't remember it, but those 15 minutes were extremely beneficial to me. He's a super humble, brilliant scientist and designer. I have the utmost respect for him.
I would call that extra layer of data peanuts in an ocean...
I also tried to use duckduckgoog some time. The biggest difference is speed. And this is also my main concern with duckduckgo. I'm faster with Google and auto suggestion and the loading of search result is also faster.
Living conditions? The midwest has been and is still being hit with one of the worst winters in a few decades.

Also I hear that "land is cheap elsewhere" argument all the time. You're right; if I was 82 and wanted to settle down I'd buy a ranch somewhere in the palm desert for 100k, but I'm not. I'm young and I want to work. I'll live in my shitty apartment in SF long before I whither away on some plot of land in the midwest any day.

Yes there are cheap houses in swamplands; probably a dollar an acre. But then what? Cool I have cheap house totally removed from all the action.

However, if that's your thing then do it.
I was just looking up that link! :)
My travel agent once gave me a guide for visiting the US. I wish I had saved it. It was a combination of decent advice, keen cultural insight, and utterly whacked-out ravings. (Relatedly, this is broadly true of much writing about Japan in the US.)

The thing which sticks with me most is, in a note about US tipping culture (an utterly foreign concept in Japan), the line "Many Americans may require a calculator to determine what 20% of $18 is. It is unwise to offer to assist."
I hope that they dont force me to use a fb login in whatsapp now!!
That'll really suck.
Hmm... that might explain why it crashes constantly for me.
"It's impossible to simulate a universe of our current resolution, because it would take more matter than the original universe."

The story is quite clear on this:

"a countable infinity of TEEO 9.9.1 ultra-medium-density selectably-foaming non-elasticised quantum waveform frequency rate range collapse selectors and the single tormented tau neutrino caught in the middle of it all"

That is, the entire simulation is being run on a single tormented tachyon.

As for this not being possible in the real world, well, sure. In the real world all evidence points towards there being limits on the computational capacity of the real universe. In their universe, by construction, they do in fact have access to countably infinite amounts of computation, at which point this is potentially possible. Physics in the story are obviously, by construction, not the same as the ones in the real world. This is, shall we say, a well-established literary move in the field of science fiction. Very, very, very... well established.
Kiss my SaaS
You don't need to shop everyday in Japan. That's retarded. I live in Japan and only shop once a week (and I don't eat out every single night). It's not that hard to get organized and have a shopping list with you.
You probably already know this, but that was snobbish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWBV7yKWhWE
They certainly like their dogs and gelato more any other city I've been to.
Is there some "sociopath" cron demon on HN that downvotes posts based on being "too popular" or "responded too quickly"?

Edit: it appears to be a "karma balancer" that docks points in a thread if it measures participation as unbalanced. That'd be my guess.
Ah yes, the Wal-Mart model.
IFR rated pilot here that's been flying for ~ 10 years. I agree with you 100% on the risks being largely under the pilots control.

However I also believe that there's something about aviation that attracts the type of people who are uniquely unsuited for it. Daredevils, non-detail minded, and just plain incompetent.

When you read the NTSB reports and such it's just not pretty.

Pilot after pilot runs out of fuel or manages to run a perfectly good airplane into the ground / side of a mountain because they weren't observant.

I'm not sure what the solution is though. We've had 30 years of the FAA and all the associations preaching safety to no effect. More regulation won't help either since all the main accident factors are already against some regulation or another.
Yup. Full list of included packages here: https://www.pythonanywhere.com/batteries_included/#a_python3...
That only works if you buy no fresh groceries/fruits/veggies or other perishables. I guess Americans love living on processed food then.
hmm competitor? Does Sprint call one of its MVOs Virgin a competitor?