skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using Git with triangular workflows; tips, tricks, and more
My attempt to shine some light into triangular workflows using Git. The basics, how to utilize the upstream branch, and the tracking branch.
Plex app for iPhone + an Apple TV is definitely the best solution here (especially since I am outside the US and cant get any of this stuff)
There's a PDF button, which leads to http://journals.aps.org/pre/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.052102

EDIT: Actually, it appears that my university access may be providing the link. However, cing's link, though slightly different presumably due to being pre-journal formatting, is the same paper.
I would guess, very few people have any experience with it, let alone know its quirks and good reasons to use it.

I wouldn't build my MVP on obscure technologies just because they're hip or promise something useful when you have 1M users...
Results as chart: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=7729603
+1 for that request; specifically (even a simple variation on the current one) where the type was a fixed-width font.
The independent nervous system in an octopus' arm (which continues to operate after an arm has been severed) reminded me of the independent nervous system in the human gut:

"The enteric nervous system has been described as a 'second brain' for several reasons. The enteric nervous system can operate autonomously. It normally communicates with the central nervous system (CNS) through the parasympathetic (e.g., via the vagus nerve) and sympathetic (e.g., via the prevertebral ganglia) nervous systems. However, vertebrate studies show that when the vagus nerve is severed, the enteric nervous system continues to function."[1]

It's remarkable how two nervous systems that evolved separately share this kind of similarity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system#Complex...
The Polarized Court
I much prefer mkdown's styling, but I think the initial fade-in is unnecessary.
Total war is real time tactical plus turn based strategy,not really RTS.
Well, not just kind of obvious why, but kind of obvious it's not a bug in Java! If you're dealing with quantities that don't fit in a 32-bit twos complement integer, you need to use a larger datatype.
Court rules Oracle can own APIs, Google loses copyright appeal
No thanks, I prefer open source for my open source printer, and esp. dislike the idea of relying on the cloud to make the software work.
5 THINGS I’VE LEARNED GROWING UP WITH A TIGER MUM
Whenever I see something that claims to overcome a long tested theory like Shannon's law, it always makes me very suspicious. The explanations I have seen so far are long on claims and short on proof and remind me very much of "perpetual motion machines". So far nothing I have seen shows how they are "side stepping" Shannon. I smell a rat.
That website allows people to create profiles for other people _without their consent_, then allows the person's attractiveness, friendliness, goodness to be publicly rated/smeared.

And you wanted all that data to be displayed when a person's name is searched for?

And when the people at DDG decided not to pull in your plugin you're calling it censorship?

I have no words
I don't see any legal reason why you couldn't do something like this today. There are already WiFI routers that do beamforming and this just seems like an application of beam forming where your antennas are much further apart.
I doubt they regret that decision.

>they were working on Starcraft 2

If they were then SC2 did great for the company.

1M copies were sold in the first 24hours and around 3M in the first month itself.

The expansion Heart of the Swarm sold 1.1M in the first 2days of launch.

Dota2 on the other hand is free-to-play, of course there are items to purchase in game but since it isn't required to buy to play most play the game without buying anything.
why is that nice? Isn't that like saying, "it's nice because it works on an EGA monitor"? javascript is a much as part of "the web" as html.
Just wait til you find out what's on The Learning Channel.
Have a hug back. I really liked this reader: worked well; logical interface; looked nice.

There appears to be a fork on Github https://github.com/jphpsf/gregarius
Reminds me of a similar tactic I implemented while coding a Pinterest spam bot during my old blackhat freelance days. Had to make it browse randomly, click on pins, repin with random comments like "Wow, this looks great|interesting|fun!", even click through to the actual sites. Then, repins/likes/shares seemed totally legitimate.
My day as a robot
Teach Yourself Beginning Community in 24 Months
I wish I could find the part written by J.E. Robertson. I took several graduate level courses from him as an undergraduate in the mid '60s. He became the world expert on division. He found that if you recoded to the redundant base -1, 0, 1 then number encodings could be found that had lots of zeros which he could optimize over and speed the division up. There were other sequential configurations he did special things with as well. You wouldn't believe the amount of theory he deduced from studying the redundant encoding problem and its application. The result was SRT division. He was the R and I can't remember who S and T were.

SRT division was implemented in the Illiac II.
Nodejitsu CEO, open source guru and cretor of npm discusses new Node.js npm
Approximately 35-40% of the shows History runs (by show, not by air time) are fairly straight history. Another 10-15% are historical dramatizations or are arguably straight science rather than history (for example, "The Universe").

The Nazi aliens and such pay the bills that keep the serious stuff on the air (although "Pawn Stars" gets a lot of viewers, yet actually includes a lot of serious history content, so there is hope for making money without resorting to aliens or ghosts). Use your TV schedule and DVR to skip the silly money making stuff.
>In some jurisdictions - yes, that absolutely happens.

Which?
When I was doing this exercise with a friend on Understudy, he found solutions to multiplication and exponentiation too. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the exponentiation. Passing a number to another number?!

(define (multiply number1 number2)
(lambda (f)
(number1 (lambda (x) ((number2 f) x)))))

(define (exponentiate base exponent)
(exponent base))
> Our in-depth psychological assessment shows that you might like a career as a cheese taster, scuba diver or professional TV show watcher.

Nicely done! :-)
Compare http://db-engines.com/en/ranking
What about light.mkdown.com/abc123 ?
But i can see some sites like visualead and unitag are doing good business. Even VCs are funding them. How come they are doing well?
Apart from graphics, attack animation, environmental changes and various effects. Dota2 is no different from Dota 1 per se.

All the changes that you see right now in dota2 are now map updates for dota1 ( yes the crazy 6.80 update which essentially changes a lot of gameplay was a (map) update in dota 1 too )

For example, The orb effect had always been that way. 'Orb effect does not stack' Do you remember that on items in dota1? It used to explicitly say that in the item description in dota1. In dota2 they explain it a bit better.
If they could support "track changes" like MSWord, I know a publisher that would die for this.
If not QR codes then whats trending? I have seen even NFC tags have limitations as they require you to tap. On the other side QR codes can be scanned from far away.
The idea that octopi evolved their intelligence due to increased mobility after losing their ancestral shell is consistent with findings about the human brain, which are that brains are used for movement.

I highly recommend Daniel Wolpert's talk about this idea:

https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_wolpert_the_real_reason_for...
Microsoft exists due to intellectual monopoly (copyright) granted by government. Copyright wouldn't exist in free market because it conflicts with property rights.
Oh man. I worked through SICP when I was just starting to program. Little did I know that no other book would be so full of gems and enlightenment like this[0]. Some of the stuff stopped me dead and caused me to daze off for several minutes.

What's amazing is that I feel like I didn't fully "get" a large portion of the book. I could work through it again in a few years and learn something from every page.

[0]Other books come close, but the impact of this book will stay with me forever.
Source?

My experience with low-latency programming suggests that often the biggest cost is memory management -- garbage collection. In some cases, the GC compacter may even be limited by CPU, although usually its the collection pauses themselves which hurt the most.
Okay I'll be straight with you this is about the game genre.

If you play or played a FPS game, you can literally watch any FPS game no matter how complicated the cast is, sooner or later you would get it.

In case of Dota2 or rather any game of that genre, you need to have played any MOBA ( Multiplayer online battle arena ) game.

Any Dota2 player can watch a League of Legends game, they are not the same but similar as the basic of a MOBA game are clear to that dota2 player. They just need to watch and understand the Heroes and their spells. Rest gameplay mechanics, inventory items etc are comparatively easy to follow.
This looks like it'd work for fixed broadband installations (say, for people in rural Montana or Ontario), but I'm less convinced it'd work well for cell phones because the tower would need to predict your movements in advance of you actually moving there in order for it to know where to build the constructive interference.
Perhaps helps to explain the mega price-tags being placed on platforms like Whatsapp. If future generations are expected to rely less on email, and more on messaging platforms, then owning the dominant network in that space gives you a competitive angle to take-on Google.
SnapChat: Saying It Doesn't Make It So
This doesn't violate the Shannon capacity theorem: Different channels, like MIMO channels, have different capacities.

pCell is basically a proprietary version of network MIMO. (Though maybe still valuable if it can get to market faster).
I've always wondered whether Google ever digs into communications in a situation where they're trying to decide whether to acquire a company. It seems like reading a company's email would be a reliable source of information about whether they're on a genuine trajectory or whether e.g. they're having trouble with their investors. I've never looked into whether it'd be illegal for them to do so. Surely in the EU it would be illegal, because privacy protection seems to be a serious concern there, but I don't know about the US.

If you use Google Talk, every conversation you've ever had will be recorded and indexed and tied back to you. If you use gmail, same deal. Even your drafts of unsent emails will be. If you use AIM, same deal: every conversation you've ever had on it will certainly be logged somewhere and tied back to you. Yada yada, same deal for almost every chat program, because almost every chat program has no clientside encryption. If it does, it's not very popular, or it's hard enough to use to where people will think you're paranoid if you ask them to go out of their way to "download this chat program that lets us talk without anyone logging it."

I think the endgame here is to watch what you say. It's safest to assume every text conversation is public. How many of us have said something in text to our families or friends that we'd be extremely uncomfortable saying publicly? It's a little unsettling.

Then again, hopefully when the TextSecure people ship their browser-based chat program things will improve somewhat, because you'll be able to talk to someone else without the conversation being duly noted. (There will probably still be metadata that ties you to the fact that you're talking to someone, but at least the content will be protected.) Hopefully it will be easy to use... I wonder if they need any help in that capacity.
>Then again, the tournament scene is still in its nascent stages. Once the production quality goes up some more, there may be a brief intro for each hero selected that describes to the audience what the hero can do and what its items usually are and what they do.

It might happen that way, in one single game the teams go through 20 heroes of which 5 are banned by both sides and 5 are picked by both sides.
Valid points. I'm open to being convinced JS is a viable target; but the lack of compilers for mainstream lanfguages make me question if it's up to the job. There seem to be many attempts to bring, for example, C# to JS; yet they're all abandoned, incomplete or full of edge cases.

Is targeting JS more trouble than it's worth? Is it a good long-term solution?
If you don't like it, write your own. It's that simple.
Planetary Annihilation did some amazing numbers on Kickstarter.
Same with Google Analytics.

GA is the standard analytics for a huge % of websites - so even if a website doesn't use GA for tracking traffic, Google still has the referral data. And things like Google Adsense (i'm pretty sure that sends back the referral data too, for tracking click fraud).

There is no way really to avoid Google knowing a lot about you/your website anymore.
The U.S. market for straight ringback tones was really hampered by lack of competent marketing, poor (and as josh2600 said: annoyingly over-complicated, Telecom-mentality driven) implementation, and a complete lack of inter-carrier cooperation in the VAS space. Too bad - like Indonesia, it's quite huge in Latin America and many other parts of the world.

Ring Plus is still working with that technology - but now does a lot with reverse ringback tones; rbts based on what you want/prefer to hear, not what the person you're calling wants you to hear. It's now a mobile phone MVNO in the U.S using reverse RBTs to deliver a Spotify/Rdio/Pandora-style radio feed that goes towards subsidizing or eliminating your phone bill.
I'm sad to see that the "hash" goodie just identifies the type of the hash. It'd sure be nice if some web-crawler index or another would hash the documents it crawled before throwing them away--then you could search arbitrary web-resources by hash, the same way you can currently search images by image-fingerprint. (And such a feature, in "I Feel Lucky" mode, would effectively turn the entire web into a DHT.)
This is totally false.
I like the idea of information that is public (eg. a blog, as opposed to your activity in your favorite webapp) being easily cached.

You might appreciate your ISP's web proxy cache if you live in New Zealand, for example.

It would be nice if everything magically worked in this case, but I don't think we're really there yet. And I'll admit there's a downside - SSL also buys you data integrity (eg. was the blog post modified in transit?) and you don't get that here.

Still, I'm not convinced about SSL-by-default for general public information websites (with an obvious exception for sensitive health or political sites, etc).

I also don't buy the "protect your readers' privacy" angle. To me, that's "provide your readers an illusion of privacy", since they still have to trust $random_website to not leak the logs they are able to gather. Readers who want identity privacy should use Tor or similar, and not be misled by https-everywhere.
The whole point of D3D12 and Mantle is to decrease driver overhead, improve multi-threading support, and increase the number of per-frame draw calls that can be made. Those are all CPU performance improvements so I think it's safe to say that CPU speed is quite important or else AMD and Microsoft wouldn't be going through the trouble.
I don't know about its weekly hero rotation ( sucks ) but you are right its more at a casual crowd. Also one of the things they are proud about is the amount of time per game is not variable as in other MOBA games, rather short 15mins game is what it takes for one game.
As a newcomer to the tarsnap family (started using a month ago)- I completely agree - I use Dropbox, Super Duper, Arq, Crashplan for various types of backup scenarios - but the tools that I use to snapshot my ultra critical (all Customer content - code, scripts, visio diagrams, network configs, site/RF surveys) 677 MB "customers" folder is tarsnap. It really is as simple as:

tarsnap -cf customers-2014.05.12 ~/Dropbox/Customers

Wait for 15 seconds (if there haven't been many changed files) - and I have a snapshot of my files.

Even more tremendously wonderful - I deposited $20.00 a month ago, and I currently have a remaining balance of $19.826571509446676694.

I.E. Tarsnap charges me 0.173428490553323306/month to backup/snapshot all of the content I've created in the previous 2 1/2 years.

(Note - Tarsnap users so many sigifnicant digits, that OS X calc, Excel, and Python all gave me three different answers for 20-19.826571509446676694.

Calc: 0.17342849055332
Python: 0.17342849055332366
Excel: 0.173428490553398

I had to check by hand, and use the Python "decimal" module to get the "correct" answer of 0.173428490553323306.
Ask HN: Just lost sensitive data to this. Compliance, lawyers...what next?
Patent to Human-Readable Text Converter
I disagree, crappy API design wastes an enormous amount of developer time and effort. OpenGL is full of legacy cruft and has lots of room for improvement, streamlining, and simplification(same with d3d12 for that matter). There is a lot of needless complexity, hoop jumping, and wheel reinventing when it comes to 3d graphics programming(not to mention, countless common "gotchas" and tricks of the trade that are not as well documented and easy to learn as they could be.
Why LinkedIn can kick some serious behind
The receiver can determine the "Direction Of Arrival" of a received signal which it uses for beam forming (this is how it typically done, don't know anything about pCell).
> In the new draft, Mr. Wheeler is sticking to the same basic approach but will include language that would make clear that the FCC will scrutinize the deals to make sure that the broadband providers don't unfairly put nonpaying companies' content at a disadvantage

Granted this is a non-quote from a source, so maybe that's the muddle. But muddled it is. If Comcast/Verizon are allowed to demand that some companies pay, then they're paying for... what? More bandwidth than companies who don't pay. It seems like the weasel word here is "unfair".

Look, Comcast/Verizon are already getting paid by consumers to deliver whatever data their consumers request. It's not as if Netflix is pushing the stuff unsolicited, like spam. So, how about Comcast/Verizon just do what the fsck they're already being paid to do?
I took a class that explained light field photography, but I thought understanding the concepts through static diagrams was difficult. I made a little Mac app that simulates a 2D scene of light sources, lenses, and light-field sensors. The sensors shows their captured output in a graph.

The source is at https://github.com/bridger/optic-workbench

A bit of explanation (and a link to the pre-built binary) is at http://www.bridgermaxwell.com/index.php/blog/optic-workbench....

(Sorry it is only for Macs. I would love to redo it in Javascript someday, once I know Javascript.)
JS is much like salt for flavoring--the less required the better.

If everything worked in elinks we'd live in a perfect world.
That's the way we perceive things. But the article mentions many times that we probably have no idea what is the consciousness level of the Octopus, since it has more neurons in its arms than in its central brain.
I host this and have been involved off and on for the last few years. If you want to contribute the dev team is very approachable (often a problem) and willing to help out where needed. The codebase is rather pleasant as well.
It's not about rarity of the disease. The problem with those percentages is that they're commercial bragging. The 99.9% accuracy is indeed very poor accuracy in case where there is 99.999% chance that one doesn't have a disease at all. It's just measuring the length of a bacteria with carpenter's tape ruler - the tool is too poor.
It really boils down to money. When the call connects, somebody gets charged. Perhaps both of you do -- you lose a minute on your cellphone bill, and the school gets charged a minute for the phone call.

Putting the school notice in the RBT space eliminates this charge and essentially makes the entire transaction "free."

Lots of big companies use this for the first step in their automated attendants. Since DTMF (phone number signals) are transmitted during the ringback tone (but voice is not), they can put the first step of their attendant in the RBT space. This saves them the money if you never get any further, or decide to hang up soon after.
Each tower supports more voice channels, and given than voice has higher priority than data and most people use mobile phones for calling, then each tower does support more subscribers. In Cambodia, prices have been dropping - 3.5GB on 3.75/4G networks costs $5/month. The competition between mobile companies is intense, and Cambodia seems to be leading
when displaying Go lang code it's look weird ( https://db.tt/O4Jbuqzv ). not all code wrap in code tag. mkdown.com/41ec9725ebee05370e58

btw, i love that sintax highlighting. good job!
One day we will use computers to bridge the human mental and social worlds with those of even quite alien creatures like the pacific octopus.

That will be the dawning of an age of widespread empathy with our animals brethren, along with a wave of horror and shame at our previous treatment of them.

Long before that, though, we'll enjoy immersive VR recordings from the viewpoint of other creatures. I wouldn't be surprised if Jim Cameron was involved in bringing such things to a wide audience.

But even with today's technology this recording from an eagle's PoV is a great example of how mesmerizing the alien worlds of our animal relatives can be: http://youtu.be/G3QrhdfLCO8
Dropbox is returning a 509 status code on the file, but I can't wait to take a look at this. My interest in this specific machine comes from its important place in the history of computer music with Lejaren Hiller's Illiac Suite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0njBFLQSk8
http://ems.music.uiuc.edu/history/illiac.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiac_Suite
I think if you're really concerned about the Feds snooping on email, you need to use end-to-end encryption. Any large ISP or portal is going to be a juicy target, and since the majority of people don't want to run their own email servers, the only recourse is not to depend on trusting the servers. Even if you managed to convince everyone to leave G-Mail, they'd still congeal back into another 2-3 big services that the NSA can target.
I read the whole paper, but I still don't get exactly why this relation exists. They described some properties of "memory systems", and then said that a memory system must "remember more than one thing", and for some reason knowing the future as well as the past corresponds to "only knowing one thing", which means that anything that knows the future isn't a memory, because it only knows one thing.

Can someone please explain the whole thing with "knowing multiple things" and robustness to perturbations in the system?
Right, I'm not disagreeing with you. Google can certainly find out what you've actually searched for, which makes this tool useless. But that wasn't my point. This is not a website that you go to and tells you that if you click this one big red button, it'll trick Google into thinking you've searched for things you didn't actually care about. This is a python script. People who are capable of using this tool are tech savvy people who know what Google does to track you and what ways are efficient or not to stop them from doing so. And those people are probably not naive enough to think that using this tool alone would help your privacy. But just in case they are, the author left that note I quoted in my previous comment.
a photo where nothing is in focus. great.

lytro needs a different name than photography because it's something else.