skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, what part of complex dynamics did you not understand?

It doesn't matter how slowly things change. It doesn't matter how big the inputs are. Complex dynamics teaches us that scale does not matter; very small inputs can and do end up being more important than very large inputs.

I'll say it again: scale does not matter.

No, they cannot tell if a season is going bad well ahead of time. It is a fallacy to think that they can. They can tell that a season is going bad exactly at the moment the season starts to go bad.

Why is it that every time I raise the issue of the unknowable future of chaotic systems that people down-vote me? Is it so hard for you to accept? Check the math and the science: it is sound. I am sorry you do not like it, but the mathematics of chaos is not some fringe idea. It underlies everything. I'm astonished that so few people have noticed this.
still wondering if today you can build a cheap airplane that just burns less fuel...
This should be called "WebGL Water Surface" moving the ball under the water or hitting the ball against the wall has no affects on the water.
Syrian girl stoned to death for using Facebook account – daily.bhaskar.com
The article has almost no information at all. The title contains about as much information as the rest of the article.
Can someone please fix the title? It's a battery factory. Tesla plans to build a "giga battery factory" with one or more of its battery partners in a three-year timeframe.
The idea is that there's a mostly random high frequency medium amplitude component (weather), a somewhat predictable medium frequency high amplitude component (seasons), and a low frequency low amplitude component (climate).

So if you observe for long enough, the higher frequency parts mostly average out to zero and you can get an idea of the low frequency component. Even without being able to predict the other components.

(See also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform )
I live in California and was hoping to lobby my municipal government to bargain for better service when our cable franchise came up for renewal.

What I learned was that this bargaining power had been transferred to the state level in 1996. When I talked to those who'd been in charge of the process previously, they claimed the state CPUC served as a rubber stamp.

http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/Telco/Information+for+providing+s...

If you live in California, the CPUC is, theoretically, the organization you want to lobby. When I tried to get a roadmap for broadband expansion in my area, I did not have much luck.
Yup - I lived in NYC and Chicago from 2000 - 2006 - and as far as I can remember, I didn't see much usage of SMS at that time.
So are polar vortex dips now going to become a regular thing?

Because I could see rock salt becoming a valuable commodity (ironically returning us to roman times?)

What is all that salt and brine doing to wildlife and water tables?
What sort of yoga exercises work for your eyes?
Funnily enough the viennese people are considered grumpy and often rude compared to the rest of austria :)

but still, the city is awesome!

martin, living in vienna
There is a whole sticky topic on reddit with translation links, just in case someone is looking.
Microsoft saw Apple's ecosystem of inter-operating devices and the simple transition between using mobile and desktop devices and thought, 'We'd like some of that'. Windows 8 seemed to be about two things, making life easier for MS and pushing desktop/laptop users into familiarity with their mobile OS.
I think that depends. ArchLinux packages are almost just bash scripts. People can request fixes. I am sure when you first started programming you weren't an expert and that same logic applies to making packages. Multiple distributions you may be right.

I suppose it is fair enough that you would want to install third party packages from source but with most package managers I would guess you could download the package and look at how it is built or at least what files it contains. Using packages can make cleaning up a bad package easier.
I see now. Yeah I am not sure about that one myself.
Criteo acquires Tedemis for €21 Million in its first acquisition post-IPO
the good thing about vienna (or maybe austria) is that it's the biggests city in austria.

if something interesting is going on in austria, most often it's happening in vienna. (culturally, jobwise, universitywise,...).
so austria is very centered around vienna in my experience.
Yes, it's a good idea to be wary. As with most regulations, you'll get by with it as long as nothing goes wrong. The problem is that there are a lot of things that can go wrong.

A few years ago, I read about a case involving a friendly fellow (private pilot) who received a call from his neighbor in the night about a sick relative. The two were friends, so the pilot offered to take the neighbor by plane to save time. The neighbor asked if he could pay to help offset the expenses, and the pilot said that the only thing legal would be to share fuel expenses (split 50/50). At this point everything seemed fine. However, the neighbor wasn't accustomed to the high cost of fuel in aviation and decided to check if the cost was reasonably calculated. Since he didn't want to appear accusatory, he called someone he thought would know, and this happened to be the FAA.

The FAA saw this as him asking about the cost of the flight, involved themselves, and ruled that this flight did not meet the "Common Purpose" criteria, and it ultimately ended in an enforcement action.

Here is a link to an FAA letter on the subject of ride boards. Unfortunately, it doesn't bring a lot of concrete clarity, but it definitely makes it clear that there it would be easy to cross the line with these:

http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20956
Infosec startup Ionic Security raises $25.5M from Google, Kleiner
The exchange rate chosen in the comp kills the euro and CHF zones while benefiting £. I have been living in the UK, France and Germany - no chance that the UK pays less per MB than the 2 others who have among the best providers and networks in the world.

On the core of the issue: xDSL is favorable to homogeneously, densely populated areas. Fiber has a CAPEX that home usage can't monetize.

On a similar infrastructure depleted continent, Africa, one telco generation (wired voice/internet) was skipped and they have now a top 3G network. Way to go?
I'm very sad to hear this. When I was more active in the Ruby community I'd bump into Jim regularly at conferences. He was such a charismatic, smart and above all - a very nice guy.
Report Finds People Don't Trust Mobile Security
to repeat what Dasmoth calls out - BT Infinity is just fibre laid by Openreach it is available to any operator (Sky etc), BT have just a great job of branding it like you can't get fibre on other providers - except you can.

http://www.sky.com/shop/broadband-talk/fibre-optic/
https://sales.talktalk.co.uk/product/fibre
http://www.plus.net/home-broadband/package-guides/fibre-opti...
I'd trust a layperson as much as a scientist. Which is to say, not at all.

Global Warming seems to be a political distraction, driven by some businesses looking to get special favors (carbon trading).

Let's just ignore the problems we face now, like pollution and resource depletion, dubious food quality, inhumane factory farming...
The grocery checkout is a related to car culture. In America you shop for the month since you can fit it all in the trunk. Items are sold in bigger boxes, and you get beer by the 18 pack. When I was in Japan I shopped every day, just getting what I could carry in one hand on the train. One Sapporo and some rice makes for short checkout.
Ah, I'm getting linked to an article Nice Laundry, not duck duck go.
Redirecting to this page - http://www.fastcodesign.com/3026431/this-company-wants-to-ma...
Yeah, I mean what else would they release next?

"Windows 8 Turbo - Championship Edition"?
There are lots of workarounds. My preferred workaround isn't especially good, but it keeps me sane since I also hate having giant relative paths. https://gist.github.com/jdc0589/9115898

Usage is as follows:

var pRequire("./projectRequire")(rootPathOfYourProject);
var MyModule = pRequire("~/lib/foo/bar/myModule");

It doesn't really buy you anything over `require("nameOfYourPackage/path/to/module")`, but I like the consistent "~" prefix across projects using the same scheme.

Moving things to their own NPM package is a great solution when its something re-usable that logically makes sense to exist on it's own, but that isn't the case most of the time.
>plans to release Windows 9

No way! Who knows, maybe they'll even release Windows 10 after that.
> Shouldn't packaging be left to each distributor's experts?

My take is that any package is better than no package. At least then there's something for a sysadmin, distributor, or other ops person to work with, and it shows that you actively want your software to be packaged.

You're the expert on your program and what it needs to work, knowing what the dependencies are, etc - inject that knowledge into the spec/port file and then whatever upstream packager will have even more to work from.

> I can make my own rudimentary package that would be woefully inadequate for general use but that is perfectly sufficient for my needs.

Why not make that and share it? Having the rudiments around as a starting point to fix and improve is almost always better than having nothing.

Think of making packages as a collaboration, rather than something that someone else has to do for you.
The prophecy seems to fulfill itself: "every other version of windows is bad".

I think people at Microsoft need more time to create a truly well-thought user experience. Maybe they should ditch their current release cycle and focus on:

a) better updates for current windows versions

b) take twice the time to realease a new windows version
Women in IT: A Google Hangout
Debian packaging has a long history of being insanely hard to get right. That was certainly true in debhelper v5 and v6 times - if you wanted to package ANY software, you needed to copy-paste from an existing debian/rules and then tweak all the dh_* calls until you got a working build. It was possible to get the packaging into a "working condition" by sheer stubbornness. (Trying to learn Debian packaging from scratch was like trying to learn auto* from scratch.)

With debhelper v9, and it's lovely sequencer things are a lot easier. The once-so-arcane debian/rules is now only a few lines, and as long as you set DH_VERBOSE=1, you can see exactly which internal helper gets called at any point of the packaging run. If you need to override a step, simply define "override_dh_auto_FOO" target and that's it.

There's less boilerplate, and thus the packaging will be quite a bit easier to adapt to official Debian standards. So it will be (hopefully) less work for an official NM/DD to adapt your simple rules and get the package into a shape where it could be uploaded to experimental or unstable.

Back in my previous life I actually wrote two or three instruction sets for random developers on how to get their software into a working debian package. And then, when the customer project manager wanted to try his hand at coding too, I came up with a bunch of reductionist scripts and templates that allowed to automatically generate a sensible debian/* hierarchy. (That effort was later taken over by developers more capable than me - and made into a proper QtCreator plugin. That thing has supported "easy debian package" system for a couple of years now...)

I still can't produce packages that would pass the extremely high bar Debian sets for their packaging standards, but I sure can put together a packaging that works and is relatively easy to polish.
Python can help with this problem.
Covered California Enrollees Complain About Limited Doctor Choices Nearby
Glad to see real numbers and specifics about the audit being used in the post.
So, I passed by Vienna kayaking down the Danube. We liked the “Neu Donau”, basically an unused arm of the Danube with super ultra clean water. People go there swimming, surfing or just for a walk, it’s super cool. We didn’t really like the city center, way to posh for us. But then again, we were coming to Vienna on a kayak from the woods, that might have skewed our vision of the city.

But overall, if you can, go visit Austria, it’s a small gem. They have this tradition of doing naked sun baths everywhere, but you do get used to that after a while.

By the way, I lived in Munich. It’s an amazing city. Lakes, mountains, rivers, you name it. And German people are super nice, people stereotype them way too much. I am looking forward to go back to Germany soon. I am really not a big fan of Dutch/Nordic speaking countries.
Another big problem with windows is ... what is that process running? They can't even document for users trying to tweak things what processes are and whether they're important.
Microsoft should adopt bash and provide man pages.
"If the birds and the caterpillars and the apple trees could know the future of chaotic systems, it would imply that we live in a deterministic universe where birds and caterpillars and apple trees could not exist. QED."

Wut?
Most of the people I know read only the titles on HN... It's pretty sad.
By the way, once we've established confidence in the code directly included in the project, we're hoping to also arrange audits for some of the popular crypto libraries involved such as SJCL.
But if your app has the goal of letting people communicate with their friends, I think it absolutely makes sense to target as many platforms as possible.

Not every app or startup is a messaging one and has the same goal of connecting people no matter what platform.
I think michaelt was being ironic.
As a quacking/ducking web developer, results often are more relevant than with google these days. If I'm not happy with what I find through duckduckgo I just add a quick !g and skim the google results - best of both worlds.
In Brazil, sometimes a SMS message takes hours to arrive. My bank sometimes send a validation code by SMS, but I can't use it because it expires before arriving.
Can you write a more crappy article? Holy shit. Why are people so surprised about Mircosoft's 3 year Windows release cycle that has existed since the 1990s???
not for me?
Why More Americans Are Renouncing U.S. Citizenship
Because Putin is evil. He supports an authoritarian regime set by organized crime that kidnaps, tortures and kills people.
I didn't say I personally enjoy making money more than coding/building cool stuff. I just said it was ok if some people do. And yes, when you call something "vulgar and utterly clueless", you're definitely making moral judgments.

> consideration for your position

You have enough consideration to feel like posting a comment about how much you feel about it.
PostgreSQL security update (9.3.3, 9.2.7 and more) released
As a tyrolean visiting vienna frequently it's always strange to see the grumpy/rude people compared to tyrol.
I've been a happy DDG user for about 3 years now. I initially started not because of privacy, but because I think the home page and search results are much cleaner and more minimalist. And I've told myself that if Google ever produces a search result that I couldn't find just as easily with DuckDuckGo then I will switch back. So far that hasn't happened.

Now I use DuckDuckGo as my home page and it's my only search engine. And the search results just keep getting better and better.
Well, they continue to add users (albeit more slowly), and the world population is increasing, so I don't see any evidence that they won't add any new users. They actually don't even have 20% penetration of "everyone" by monthly active users, and I'd argue Facebook is on its way to being as ubiquitous as email.
""Putin is evil" cliché" ? That's not a cliché at all.
If you're saying that Ukraine == Middle East then you could say that USSR == Middle East. That's not true at all.

Russia is crushing nearby countries. Georgia with South Ossetia in 2008. Moldova with Transnistria in 1992. Chechnya.

Now they are crushing Ukrainian people for not loving their pro-Russian president.
+40 iOS Developers and Experts to Follow on Twitter
I shouldn't have said "assist drivers" because I took it to mean full auto-pilot like an airplane. The car could drive itself from point A to point B in the most efficient way possible without human intervention, while the licensed human driver remained ultimately responsible for safe operation. I wonder if activities like texting or reading a book while piloting a car will become legal in this case.
Ask HN: What are the most important metrics for holacratic teams?
I’m part of a small consultancy (with our own products), and we're looking to share the most important metrics to the whole team.

We are more or less holacratic, so this has the goal of giving people the right info, so that we can make the best decisions.

What metrics do you use?
And why?
A ridiculous measure, because it depends upon the definition of "correct", which is an arbitrary reduction of continuous data to a single axis, and because the scoring is conducted by those who have a vested interest in the outcome, and that's just for starters.

How about applying some statistics, like the probability that a correct forecast (whatever that is) could be accounted for by chance, given the population of forecasts and conditions in which it takes place? P-values have their limitations, but that's no reason to discard them entirely.
I have no idea what's going on. First time I viewed the link, it took me to nice laundry (after skipping the ad). The second time I viewed the link, it took me to the correct article. :/
That one billion number is not static. And it has a lot of room to grow.
"Chaotic system" does not mean what you think it means.
I feel the same way when I hear "global warming is real, this is the hottest summer I can remember" from the other side of the argument.
It is still the case. It's called Local Loop Unbundling (LLU). LLU accompanied common carrier deregulation in the late nineties. The rules have changed a bit over the years (favoring ILECs) and at's a little more difficult for a CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) to get up and running today than it was in, say, 2000, but the rules are still in place.

LLU has been somewhat successful in increasing competition in larger metro areas, though not so much in smaller rural areas There's still significant start-up cost associated with starting a CLEC, and LLU only gives CLECs access to the CO and local loop infrastructure. As an example, a few years back, I was living in San Jose and my internet/telephone was provided by a CLEC at about 1/2 the cost of the ILEC (verizon) who owned the lines.

I've long thought that LLU applied to cable could provide the same sort of benefit. Since the "local loop" in most cases was subsidized (much like the ILEC situation), then the loss associated with LLU is minimal. It allows for increased competition, without forcing it, and gives the opportunity for increased consumer pressure to (because of additional competition) increase speeds/lower costs.
Both the iPhone and recent Android phones support group SMS. The package is actually sent as an MMS containing the message and list of recipients, that allows you to "reply to all" via SMS.
Amplified by the fact that news reporting gets much more mileage out of the 20-year-old college sophomore building a multimillion dollar business on a laptop in his dorm room than they do out of the 38-year-old who leaves the BigCo he has been working at for the past 15 years to build a multimillion dollar product to scratch a market itch the BigCos ignore (the classic Innovators Dilemma scenario).
This would have been key information in your original statement for sure.
It was likely orchestrated by Facebook PR. One way it often works is to have the reporters work closely with a company's PR people to prepare the article, then have it embargoed until the date of the announcement. This is the case for many similar events, including product launches.
This is half of why I much prefer .NET's namespacing. The other half is not having to declare every single thing a file full of code exports for use.
What has to do a climate scientist with "some businesses looking to get special favors (carbon trading)"

Are you saying that they are part of a conspiracy?
> Shouldn't packaging be left to each distributor's experts?

I get where you're coming from - there's some apps that want to redefine how packaging or your OS works - but I think it's easier for software devs to learn things like the FHS and packaging than it is for distro maintainers to judge whether an arbitrary piece of software works on not.

+1 making your own packages though. More people should do that - if you're smart enough to compile from source, you can easily make an RPM or Dpkg.
Maybe I'm just a bit slow, but what's going on with the 50/50 "guessing score" reasoning? Surely, you should half the wrong answers as well, rather than just subtracting it from the right answers?!?
I wouldn't actually call USA an etalon of democracy today.
The bump was just a representation of what is sure to be a momentary[relatively] state change in the finite state paranoia machine of a few nearly self-aware 'puter users.

The less self-aware majority still have nothing to hide, and the other side is using Google via proxy.
Very probably next release will be called "Windows 8.1 Update 1".
Now that's the company Facebook should have bought.... Not Whatsapp....
Duck duck is barely usable ... but they don't spy on you.
The !g and !b commands make it my first choice. If the results aren't getting what you want, try the search on google or bing. IF you don't mind Sergy Brin or Bill Gates tracking you.

I still think there's room for a search engine that supports boolean(ish?) operations like AND, OR , NOT and NEAR. Providing links directly to the source and not a redirect to the search engine company would be a really good thing.

A cookie-less search engine would be double plus good.
s/submittion/submission/
rough day for me, spelling-wise!
The value of WhatsApp is that it is a real social network. Its data is much more valuable than the Facebook friends network, because your contact list have the people you really know and communicate. The greatest threat to FB isn't the SMS features, but that it is a better social network than FB itself.
Actually many of these images are being planted by venezuelan intelligence services to discredit the protests. We have no need to post fake protest images, we have plenty of violent images, no need to make them up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqmzfwqczZw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxbdzBYjAug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw9sAxy-fQY
> and you get beer by the 18 pack.

I really don't mean to come off as snobbish, but, what kind of beer is worth drinking that comes in 18 packs? I'm not sure I've ever seen anything but cans of alcoholic water in that configuration.
Chaos theory does not mean that literally anything can happen. Weather changes are still bounded by energy inputs and outputs. It can't rain if the humidity in the air is too low. The jetstream isn't just going to reverse course anytime soon, although it is shifting slowly. It's physically impossible to have snow if the weather is too warm - complex dynamics can't change that. I'm not saying a forecast will never be wrong, but not every case is an edge case. With good data and a useful model, you can be right most of the time.
Jeff Casimir summed up the situation well:

>If you want to honor @jimweirich, treat everyone like they're your best friend, smart, and fascinating. That's how he lived.

https://twitter.com/j3/status/436514758833876992
If surveillance are users' concerns, I don't understand how some users believe DDG is "exempt" from US legislators, untouchable by warrants and NSA tapping... Will DDG respect user's privacy yes, but to default to DDG for "surveillance fears" just says so much about who uses it.