skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a great place for me to add my wild and crazy crack pot 99.99% likely to be total nonsense theory to the cacophony of other similar theories... which would make a great plot device for a movie none the less. I'll give you the cliff notes version

When handing over from one ATC to another, MH370 adopted the identity of another plane in the area, and the other plane switched off it's transponders (let's call this other plane AB123). Leading to a scenario where the whole world is looking for a plane in the sea when it's actually airborne, but just happens to look like another plane on radar, and they landed it at some backwater airport (AB123's destination) that's under terrorist control (for example, how big a team would you need to take over Port Blair Airport on the Andaman islands? I'm guessing not very many, and no would be any wiser if you ran it as normal)

But why do this? Because whoever stole this plane needs to be able to fly MH370 into someones airspace unnoticed to do something bad, and flight AB123 is scheduled to fly into that airspace sometime soon, but if flight AB123 had been hijacked, or had gone missing, it would raise alarms. But to the outside world, flight ABC123 is fine, it's MH370 that everyone is worried about... but flight AB123 is MH370.

So where is AB123? I don't know. Maybe thats the plane the oil rig worker saw crash, or maybe they figured out some other way to hide it. Perhaps both planes flew to AB123's destination, but with one flying directly above the other so that it looks like one plane on radar (I don't know how Radar works but this would work for a movie) Also, AB123 might not be a passenger jet, it could be a cargo plane, or some other kind of plane that doesn't come with a bunch of passengers that people would miss.

Anyhoot, that's my crazy theory and even I don't believe it, but a small part of me hope's it's right because the people on Flight MH370 could still be alive.

At the very least, I think this is a good plot for a movie.
I'm not familiar with the original design. Can someone post a before/after picture here?
Where's the Nasa.gov link? TFA doesn't provide one, Google isn't seeing it. Anyone?
I think this is the first time I've seen a new generic tld in the wild. Took me by surprise!
radiation underwater is much, much less harmful, because water is much more dense than air.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
Thank God for bootstrap and bootstrap kits. I've got no skills in design and all, but still can make acceptable UIs for my servers by hammering bootstrap all over the place.
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pretty sweet that this is done in less than 300 loc of python! https://github.com/tito/2048
You have to include the original copyright notice. However, because of the Github templates, a lot of people don't fill in the copyright details. So in those cases derivatives are free to not attribute.
There are tons of systems I did not mention, the field is quite large. Just start with the references I gave and continue down the rabbit hole :-)

I am quite aware of KScript and KSWorld, in fact one of the authors shares an office with me, though we are both not in that often. These are highly experimental systems, so they didn't quite fit into my narrative.
Holy circular reasoning, Batman! The premise of your theorem, that there is such a total order, is equivalent to the existence of such a numbering function. You're saying "A must be true because B is true", where B is just an identical version of A, disingenuously obfuscated by a thin veneer of mathematics!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense

This all ignoring the fact any such "total order" is going to be highly variable through time (today's top engineer is tomorrow's dementia patient is yesterday's toddler)!
find an animal to eat the fungi, then collect all the dead fungi predators, and place them deep in a mountain where we put nuclear waste?
Coincidentally, the one person I knew who made the list lasted for around 400 days. Interestingly enough, another person I knew, who was just short of the list, lasted for 7 years before turning himself in.
Now that the original d-pad patent has expired, a controller without a good d-pad is a non-started IMHO. Analog controls are great, and this new design looks cool, but for certain uses, a nintendo style d-pad has basically proven to be the best 8-direction digital interface ever conceived...and it's amazing how much the experience suffers when it's just a little bit off.
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It can be seen in this article.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/steam-controller-impre...
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They've got pictures of the original design still up on the controller's webpage: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamController/
Electric current is very different than magnetic fields.
Cheating in this case has to do with an education system that has lost touch with its purpose of sharing valuable knowledge. Students will cheat if they do not find value or meaning in learning the material. The pressure should be on the educators bring purpose back into the system and into the minds of students.

I've been through mind-numbing classes focused on memorization of meaningless trivia, as have all students, and I personally feel fewer moral qualms about cheating in that kind of class than a class where I am able to make the personal connection between the material and its value to me.
the first one i saw was vim.sexy
This is such a silly comment.

If people can't show their opinions of things, whats the point of even having HN. I didn't realise that everyone had to love everything posted on this site.
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There are many `ssh` clients for popular mobile platforms, and keyboard accessories that can attach to them.
I suspect wealthy countries release a much smaller proportion of total data. I would wager there are exabytes of phone calls and satellite imagery, heck, raw census data is probably pretty elaborate (though not on the same scale). what fraction of that data do we actually have access to? i'd guess it's a pretty small number.
Thanks. I haven't been following this closely enough to have an idea of the (presumed) flight path and thought the land travelled over was Indonesia, which seems to be not so dense on that western island.
Looks like they want their controller to be fully symmetric so it could be reprogrammed for left-handed users without making compromises.
There's a lot of vague-tweeting and theatrical "showing support" for both sides. Which is fine, and expected, when beefs like this go down, I suppose.

Not knowing any of the parties involved, I just can't pretend to know more about this than what is publicly visible, which is essentially nothing.
"communication in an abstraction-dense format that isn't based on words"

Animated GIFs, perhaps. :)
The problem with studies about the future is that they tend to too easily reconfirm the ideological beliefs of the writers. For example, the Romans didn't collapse because of environmental reasons. This makes them a tough jigsaw piece to squeeze into a deep environmentalist collapse puzzle. This is probably why Jared Diamond ignores them and instead focuses on small tribes in the arctic and easter island.

The only collapse theorist that I know of who's developed a collapse theory that avoids ideology is Joseph Taintor. Probably because he is not an economist but a professor of archeology.
There's a small picture to the right of the article text near the top of the article that shows how it used to look.
Since the Dolphin team puts playability above accuracy, the emulator can keep moving the goalposts towards perfect emulation, while still remembering that an unplayable emulator does nothing to preserve the source material.

Compare this to the MAME situation, where most early 3d arcade games are completely unplayable, and will remain like this for the foreseeable future, because the way computers are going, there is no way in hell we'll be able to emulate those old, custom graphics cards with full accuracy and full speed using only general purpose CPUs.
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Note that you can't use hola for anything except the browsers it supports. (As far as I know.) So it's good if you want privacy only in the browser.
This is not nearly as good as Designmodo's Flat UI. Seems that people are just going to keep making Flat design kits because they are easy.
Looks good but doesn't give you fine control over when to vertically stack columns at xsmall, small, medium and large.
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I've accidentally run into Andrew at various points in my career, he's a very smart and capable guy, I always come away having learned a lot from him. He already knows basically everyone in the London startup scene, so I'd wager that anyone who has a burger with him will have more to gain from an hour of his time than the other way around.
You forgot the infamous arsenic paper, and the microbe fossils in meteorites from Mars paper.
Sorry for being overly sarcastic, but you could just as well pay people to ride bikes around town and hope that stimulates industry. Still there would be no effect on nature around Chernobyl power plant.
NASA is an acronym, yet most British publications stylize it as a word - Nasa.
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So, instead of just complaining, why not write a comparison here in this thread, and then we can give you the upvotes you think you deserve?

(and then we'll all be better off too!)
It's not quite as "on-off switch", but: http://www.tinc-vpn.org/
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Your body only picks up the signal if it's the right size to be an antenna at that frequency. Otherwise, you'll get just as much energy absorbed into your body as a wifi radio does from an FM station - not immeasurably small, but negligible. And don't forget, that the car is tuned to the power transmitter and absorbs most of the field strength. Since they're right next to each other in your garage, there won't be as much power leaking out.

Edit: Your sources are terrible. Source 1: wikipedia? quote "[T]here is no consistent evidence to date that WiFi and WLANs adversely affect the health of the general population." Source 2: wikipedia again? Lots of stuff in here, but not a single reproduced effect on health. Source 3: "WHO will conduct a formal risk assessment of all studied health outcomes from radiofrequency fields exposure by 2012." No results on that page. Source 4: a small writeup in the Telegraph with no link to the actual study. " metabolism in the brain region closest to the antenna... was 7 per cent higher when the mobile was switched on." Cool, a result! No word on whether it was ever repeated, oh well. Source 5: a nice list of anecdotes.
To your question: I censor myself on HN because I don't believe Hacker News, which is often used by children and is a place that seems to wish to be more welcoming to women and racial minorities, is the right place to have an environment where swearing or using racially inflammatory language is okay.

Especially when readers don't know my relationship to the subject matter, or my relationship to the individual I'm addressing.

To your point about relevance, I'm going to point out to you that zero people are actually advocating banning a word. They're saying "hey let's stop calling girls who express leadership skills "bossy" because that has negative consequences". To which I think the average person would probably be open to. They are advocating not using a word in the wrong context. Call kids bossy when they're being brats, sure, but when someone, particularly girls are being leaders and doing the same things that boys are complimented for, don't call them bossy.

#WhenSomeonesBeingALeaderDontCallThemBossy is a pretty long hashtag and a terrible way to quickly market your campaign. #banbossy is memorable, gets to the point, and can encourage a conversation.
What about "accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Elsevier journal, Ecological Economics"?
Isn't the device using a magnetic field to induce an electric current in nearby objects?
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They throw around the word 'analog' a lot, but I'm not seeing how that applies here. Typically, buttons are a digital affair. Do these buttons have continuous states, like a trigger? The article never explains this.
If you are already using one-way dataflow constraints, you weren't exactly the target audience for my writeup, which was trying to introduce this body of work to devs who may only be familiar with the pale imitations. I am a bit surprised that you are careful to avoid cycles, even the one-way solvers I mention handle those.

I also think that the one-way solvers are the most immediately useful. On the other hand, the linguistic support needed for a pluggable one-way solver seems very similar to that needed for other solvers, and yes, they can be quite useful in more general circumstances. After all there is a whole field and several companies that do this sort of thing commercially.
Tesla's idea, while cool, depends on a common ground (possibly just the earth itself) between the transmitter and the receiver. It's not the same tech.
Yeah, those mathematicians have crazy ideas.
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Yup, grey413 pointed that out but thanks for reiterating. I was only looking at the cost when I made my comment since graphite stood out to me as being overly expensive.
While I agree completely that it's a bit outdated(sorry, potentially putting words in your mouth) and has the potential to be pernicious(see the parent of this thread), the easily skippable part is what makes it ok with me.

I found the subscription notice to be incredibly unoffensive given the reputation of the source as well as the high quality of the article.
Squatting is not a problem: you just cannot use a registered brand name w/out permission. Period. Now, let's look at it the other way around: using the new TLDs I tried to register iloveto.run but my registrar explained that I now need additional paperwork in order to first register the brand name (or prove that I already own it) and then request ICANN for the domain registration (not granted that I will get it even then). Who has the money and time for this bs process? Big corp. So I presume that Nike, Adidas et al will fight (legally) each other to register every imaginable combination of words plus .run?

Fuck it, squatting or not we need to decentralize the DNS. It will be like the gold rush: who ever gets there first deserves it.
I hated Chemistry. I still do. I loved Math and Physics, also Geography. So, there was no way I was going to pass my 10+2 (last school year) without cheating and I am lucky that I somehow managed to cheat. I wish I could have cheated better so that the meagre Chemistry score couldn't bring my total % to around 75. Anyway, bygone is bygone.

The matters were made worse by the uninterested, unintuitive and unqualified teachers (no exception), outdated and idiotic curricula, arcane books written in an ad-hoc manner, uninteresting tests. Everything was showing just one solution - rote, which I am pathologically allergic too (though sometimes I wish I had just done it like everybody else and this what I told my younger brother).

The result is I didn't study Math, didn't study Physics either and certainly didn't study Geography. I took up Computer Science - just because it has the jobs. All along knowing fully well that you end up being a clerk or a daily wage worker (or a teacher which has a similar pay; professorship is rare) in this country if you try to follow your passion in studies and study anything other than a course that gives you a professional degree. Another path was to have rich parents who can send you to The Fancy University of UK/USA/West to study psychology/political science/geography and what not. This was certainly not under my control. Well, that's my reason.
A lot of that is because OS X OpenGL drivers are just not good. If you look at https://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilit... the support is currently stuck at OpenGL 4.1, with virtually no recent extensions supported (things like ARB_buffer_storage which give a great boost to applications like Dolphin are unsupported, for example).
The article doesn't even mention frequency. Maybe it's just a static field.

All in all, the article leaves way to many technical questions unanswered, making it very hard to figure out whether or not there can be health impact. That being said, an MRI scanner also uses strong magnetic fields and there are tons of safety measures for that, but the fields are (as far as I can imagine) an order of magnitude stronger than what is used here.
Excellent science. Of course, in retrospect, makes complete sense. Radiation is used to sterilize food, so it's not surprising that it is doing the same thing to the forest.
They seem to do that when its pronounced versus spelled I've noticed.

aka:

NASA = Nasa
BBC = b b c

I could be wrong though so whatever.
In the months after Chernobyl, mushrooms e.g. in the Tirol and in Eastern Europe were measured concentrating fallout up to 400x.

I'm not surprised that slower growing vegetation is showing an uptick.
Or maybe, the passengers didn't yet know anything was wrong. They were only a small fraction into a very long overnight flight.
I do actually, for windows 8. But I don't think they give you a disk image, making it a pain to install.
The problem with it being an effective way to exchange money but not a meaningful store of value is that the former depends upon the latter. I'm curious as to whether there are any altcoins that solve this problem by, say, pinning the value to USD (or a basket of currencies) and allowing for a continually increasing monetary supply.
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Is capitalism compatible with human survival? You can't have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources.

>Report for the UN into the activities of the world's 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/feb/18/worlds-to...

It's true that massive regulation to account for all the externalities of the market is vital, but with 200 species a day going extinct already, and serious crises on the horizon, it should have happened a long time ago.
I had a quick look at simple grid, which seems basic enough - just a single CSS file.
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"and increasingly unequal wealth distribution". I don't know about this. If anything we have more wealth available to commoners today compared to centuries ago. Just look at how things were a 1000 or 2000 years ago, most everyone was poor, with the wealth held by kings a lords.
If there were a series of altcoins pinned to existing fiat currencies, it might have the strange consequence of allowing decentralized, unregulated forex. The altcoins might exert an influence on the values of their respective currencies. It'd be interesting to say the least.
It usually means pressure-sensitive buttons. For example, a car driving game might use them to give the player more control over throttle and braking.
What makes a controller right handed?
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> Dr. Hall, CTO WiTriCity:
> "We just don't think about it anymore: I'm going to drive my car home and I'm never going to have to go to the gas station and I'm never going to have to plug it in.

Count me as a wireless electricity skeptic, in general. But this claim is astounding to me.

I believe that if you placed a properly resonant circuit into an MRI device, for example, you could charge a decent sized battery (but probably not a vehicle propulsion battery) at a reasonable rate.

But it would be horribly inefficient and your car (and everything else in your garage) shouldn't be made of ferrous metal.

Cell phone batteries on little charger pads, sure. Maybe even via ambient EM, though I'm not convinced you could get regulatory approval above a certain emissions level (which, critically, has an inverse-square relationship to available current delivery capacity at the device).

But the article also talks about lighting and televisions, and cars. WiTricity has investors to fluff, clearly, but is this not absolute crazy talk?
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Is capitalism compatible with human survival? You can't have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources.

Maybe that's why people are trying to commercialize space/exploration?
I think Buffett is attacking a straw man here. I don't think anybody is really arguing that BTC itself, as it exists as the balances of addresses on the blockchain, has intrinsic value. Just like fiat currency it has none. The payment technology, and the applications it enables, do have intrinsic value, however. He admits as much in this interview. He seems to recognize the distinction between a payment network and the currency itself.

That means as a first mover in this space, however, that BTC is likely to go up in value with adoption, and probably reach a peak and will either remain a widely used currency or be supplanted by a currency with more attractive monetary policy. That's what a lot of early adopters of BTC are speculating.

If there was a way for a casual investor to invest in the cryptocurrency space without investing in specifically BTC, I absolutely would sell my BTC and buy into it But to date there aren't any publically traded BTC companies, AFAIK (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
I believe he is right and wrong. I see potential huge collapses in the future due to [1] and many people who don't believe in CryptoCurrencies and only invest for their portfolios will see huge loses. I can imagine some crashes taking years to recover.

However in the long term I see CryptoCurrency as the future and a viable store of value. I think Buffett is right to warn investors not to invest. Only invest if you understand and believe in these technologies.

I sort of cringe with family and friends getting too deep into it because of the historic rate of return.

I'm the sort of person that will hold their coins even if we go to $0.

[1] - A major Government feeling threatened in several years due to a handful of CryptoCurrencies really screwing them over. (See Zerocoin for tax haven, Bitcoin for smashing into value of USD, Ethereum for immortal web servers) declaring that all these currencies and the systems running on top of them (file sharing servers, child porn, unbreakable messaging, etc..) are now illegal.

I think the only reason they will prevail is that the countries that continue to embrace these technologies will benefit from them and become stronger. Eventually the countries that banned them may have to unban them to remain relevant.
This is obviously sensationalist bullshit. The Guardian writer, Nafeez Ahmed, has produced a string of highly exaggerated articles in the past[1]. Very surprised that the Guardian publishes this crap but it seems that highly politicized subjects like climate change and income inequality have different standards.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/profile/nafeez-ahmed
The windows 8.1 installer you can download from the MS store can create an ISO image which the bootcamp assistant can work with
Also the timescale for everything I just wrote is around 5 - 30 years in the future.
The Russians must be gutted they went to all that effort and the world is still pissed about the "Ukranian Problem"
Buffet is most definitely not a person who could simply miss the point of Bitcoin. I'm sure he understands it. Therefore, his statement must have an agenda. Maybe it's a non-obvious agenda, because he's not known to be involved in anything that Bitcoin may directly influence and hurt. But there must be a reason why he says something he most likely doesn't believe himself.