skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biggest Missouri Tornado 2014 | FULL VIDEO 12 May 2014 
A Supercell Thunderstorm formed near Kansas City, MO and moved east producing EF2 tornado near Orrick, MO and then another brief EF0 tornado near Lexington, MO. As the Lexington, MO tornado was lifting, I could still see it going back up into the storm while the old meso was dying. A new meso rapidly developed a put down a brief, not fully condensed brief tornado just West of Waverly, MO and as far as I know caused no real damage. Coming footage of this storm as it gets goes east towards Marshall,MO coming. This brief tornado was my 7th tornado of all time, first one in Missouri and my 2nd daytime one ROFL.
This Week in Rust (May 11)
Spotify Silences Vulfpeck's Silent 'Sleepify' Album
I'm not one to hate on redesigns - I can't think of the last redesign that I didn't like but if this ships, or anything close to this ships I can categorically say that I will stop using the gmail web interface.

The information density in the current design is just what I want from an email client: http://cl.ly/image/0S2q0X0X3D3F
"artistic thinker", what is that suppose to even mean?

That said, I'll bit, I'd love to know about more of the inner workings of the match. How many possible outcomes are there? How does the scoring working, are they questions weighted evenly? Are the jobs preset for a specific match, or are they dynamically selected based on the questions? How were the jobs profiled to meet the aforementioned criteria? What is psychological basis for the questions and their formations... give me the dets yo.
The fact that relatively high intelligence has arisen from many architectures multiple times on this planet bodes well for the frequency of intelligent life on exoplanets.

Even today, there are still biologists who assert the formation of intelligent life is tightly coupled to our specific brand of brain and should hence be considered a huge accident. Yet we see the formation of minds in a lot of places, and they can be almost arbitrarily far removed from the human brain.

The octopus is a great example for a radically different neurological substrate. Given enough time and a little bit of luck, some funghi too might evolve a mind of their own as Fuligo Septica already shows some capacity for problem-solving behavior.

The argument that human-like intelligence is again another unlikely step discards the myriad of social animals with advanced problem solving capabilities, some of which are even tool users, and some of which have actual languages and cultures. A lot of these have come onto the stage very independently from us, having sprung from far removed genetics - and yet they have enough in common with us that should make us recognize the frequency of species with minds might indeed be high wherever life takes hold.
Doesn't matter. You don't have to be always original all the time. It's a really useful project, bookmarked.
I don't treat RSS like that, sometimes I'm too busy and don't check my RSS feeds and when I do I won't "catch up". I use email subscription to websites that I want to read every post.
Looks interesting. Do they have any plan on supporting the central role?
As Google Analytics is "self reporting" (i.e. your browser tells the GA servers what it's doing) you can avoid reporting or erroneously report whatever you'd like.
It'd likely be easier for you just to block Google Analytics though if that is of concern to you.

In the unlikely event that fake activity became a problem, Google's well equipped to deal with it. They have a great deal of tech and brains in place to detect fake ad click activity, which is vaguely related.
I will be happy when people stop referring to intelligence as a binary state. My dog is intelligent, mice are intelligent, nematodes are intelligent. The ability to interact with and adapt to the environment is present in all of these creatures. The degree to which something is intelligent is something we need a much richer vocabulary for. I am sad to say it but this is most clearly put in comic form (http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2867#comic)
How to handle the challenges of remote teams
I think less code usually means less complexity. But less lines doesn't really correlate to less code.
I would love to know how it would be so easy to leak this information. Can you think of any possible circumstances where this could be done and not leaked? Are there such great safeguards in place where this is not possible? Or is it entirely possible?
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Zahi, Would be interesting in building a scheduling web-based application? Please email me at samdhaliwal@outlook.com

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I've read multiple biographies of John Rockefeller and Standard Oil engaged in a variety of anticompetitive practices such as operating at a loss when competitors emerged, or withholding lubricant shipments to railroads during rate negotiations. That's just what I can remember off the top of my head.

That Standard Oil succeeded just through scale is a complete fabrication.
It sounds like the altitude existence assumption caused cascading errors which in turn exhausted the system memory.
I was hoping this was a simplified Makefile format.
They should patent the algorithm using their own generator.
There are many reasons to believe that predator/prey dynamics will never be turned into lovey-dovey halcyon days. Something in nature underelies the drive and instinct to prey on the weak--it's not a human issue. Its also prevalent in cannabalistic primates, and more obviously in every (true) carnivore. The cat playing with the mouse, the great white shark tossing a seal, the aligator and the serpent. There are many deeper relationships that are not simple "mis-understandings"--the food chain doesn't work that way. The architecture of Nature's species--nutrition and health-- is logically at odds with the entire scenario. Would the parasite and the host ever have a "healthy" relationship?
i hate to be "that guy", but please don't fck with my native scrolling.
What a remarkable example of the principle of charity you've given us with this comment. You could have reacted to that as a troll, but instead responded with something beautiful. I admire that very much.

My condolences. A week is nothing after so deep a loss, so I hope you're ok.
Excellent comments and links!
I'm surprised at how rough the audience was for the presentation. I wonder where those emotions came from.
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I hear you. How to indicate to the user that we don't think there are any good matches for their query is something we debate and experiment with in search quality at Google.

FYI, the + prefix operator was deprecated a few years ago. There was always an equivalent way to express it, by putting "each" "word" "in" "quotes". I know that's more keypresses than the + sign, but when maintaining a system as gigantic and complex as the Google search engine, everything is tradeoffs, and that's one that we decided to make.
Measuring the impact of Google Analytics (2013)
I wish he would have taken Apple's lead on having a big launch with a product that ships in a couple weeks rather than a dribble of presentations with a shipping: ??? slide.

If pCell works, getting press won't matter. If you can destroy the markets for mobile data + home internet you won't have to fight Stanford undergrads in some anonymous lecture hall. So, I am sorta skeptical.
> I've always wondered whether Google ever digs into communications in a situation where they're trying to decide whether to acquire a company.

Go upstream to the Snowden 'allegations' and apply that idea to Lockheed Martin. They can get every government contract they want or whatever war they want because they know what their rivals bids are (because they built the NSA). Plus they run all of the computer security in D.C. and there is no way that any communication in 'elected government' misses their eyes.
Yeah, let's hardcode a maximum altitude somewhere deep in the code and be completely surprised when, a couple of years in the future, newer, higher-flying planes/shuttles disappear from the system.
How Google money is helping turn the political right against strong copyrights
I held the arrow down, the moment the poké ball went open and stopped pushing it before the pokéball was closed again (so yeah, just a tiny window)
OK, now raise the global standard of living to that of the US and Western Europe. Feel free to reduce the earths population by 1/4 since a coming decline (in half a century or so) is claimed.

Now, take most of the water out of the aquifers and deplete most of the easily accessible minerals and oil. Drop a bunch of them in the ocean if you want. Kill off a large number of fish.

See the problem? Even at current population levels, with rising living standards and diminishing resources it is unsustainable.
What makes octopodes more correct? All the dictionaries cited preferred octopuses.
z/x is a poor choice for control keys, especially for german speaking countries (we have QWERTZ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Germany.svg, not QWERTY)
I wonder how rested you would feel in a lucid dream versus a 'normal' one.

You'd think accessing the decision making functions of the brain would give you a worse rest overall.
Fenced code blocks do come through as expected — complete with syntax highlighting. Well done!

One suggestion though: I expect my code blocks to not wrap — they’re in <pre> tags, after all. The stylesheet should have them rendered either with horizontal scrolling, or with overflow.

Compare e.g. http://gist.io/11118629 with http://www.mkdown.com/11118629
Is it a really tiny screen for anyone else? I'd love an option to increase size (in a fancy block-graphic style like minecraft)
in this case some gif or icon would be even better! imho.
We added it because it's far from clear that the statement in the title is true.
from what i remember of the last time i did turn on my old 2st generation GB (2 years ago or so) the speed is pretty much correct
Because facebook only has my pictures if I choose to post them there. This is easy to avoid. Facebook only has my browsing habits if I choose to allow content from their servers while viewing non-facebook content. This is also avoidable, albeit less easily. Avoiding sending email to gmail users is far more difficult. Avoiding receiving email from gmail users is even more difficult. Additionally, the cost (at least measured subjectively in terms of inconvenience) of avoiding all contact with gmail users is far greater than the cost of avoiding facebook.

So, to answer your question more directly, facebook doesn't "get a pass". Facebook simply doesn't get used.
He doesn't sound so stupid to me, especially relative to his age. How smart and wise were you as a teenager? (Not sure how old he is in that video, but he looks something like 18)?
We should raise concerns about Facebook like buttons too. Its impossible to see a site without like button and it sends all our browsing info back to facebook.
Have you reported the problem? Found a way to replicate it consistently?

I'm asking because a lot of people forget about the participation part of F/OSS. You don't have to be a killer dev to make a piece of software better. Sometimes you only need to donate a few minutes/an hour of your time.
I think this is better http://bl.ocks.org/
I can't argue with most of this.
"Some companies have valid reasons not to start prototyping with postgres, it's just yours isn't one of them" - anon

I've found that to be true time and time again. With other systems it's easy to quickly paint yourself into a corner, with postgres it's fairly straightforward to move to another system, e.g. cassandra/mongo/couch/etc (that's IF you actually ever need to move from postgres)
The mechanics and actual composition of the eye are completely different, contrary to what the diagram may suggest. The text even points this out with multiple uses of "unlike."
Here's what the factorial function on Church numerals ends up looking like if you expand it out:

((λ (f) ((λ (g) (g g)) (λ (h) (λ (x) ((f (h h)) x)))))
(λ (f)
(λ (n)
(if ((λ (p a b) (p a b)) ((λ (n) (n (λ (x) (λ (x y) y)) (λ (x y) x))) n) t nil)
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x)))) (λ (f x) x))
((λ (m n) (m ((λ (m n) (λ (f x) (m f (n f x)))) n) (λ (f x) x)))
n (f ((λ (n) (λ (f x) (n (λ (g h) (h (g f))) (λ (u) x) (λ (u) u)))) n)))))))

Note the use of the Y combinator to implement recursion :-)

Here it is in action computing the factorial of 6:

? (((λ (f) ((λ (g) (g g)) (λ (h) (λ (x) ((f (h h)) x)))))
(λ (f)
(λ (n)
(if ((λ (p a b) (p a b)) ((λ (n) (n (λ (x) (λ (x y) y)) (λ (x y) x))) n) t nil)
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x)))) (λ (f x) x))
((λ (m n) (m ((λ (m n) (λ (f x) (m f (n f x)))) n) (λ (f x) x)))
n (f ((λ (n) (λ (f x) (n (λ (g h) (h (g f))) (λ (u) x) (λ (u) u)))) n)))))))
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x))))
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x))))
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x))))
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x))))
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x))))
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x))))
(λ (f x) x))))))))
#<COMPILED-LEXICAL-CLOSURE #x30200105130F>
? (funcall * '1+ 0)
720
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This is standard in satellites, heavy is expensive so all power circuits switch in xxx MHz range to save weight on coils/transformers.
It's a common adjective formation. Octopoda -> octopodan, compare to Mollusca -> molluscan.
Reminds me of the Firefox addon, TrackMeNot, that does this. I stopped using it at some point over the years when it was causing some problem, but it was interesting.
Not just fonts, logo design as well. This becomes more relevant now we can have SVG (vector) art as well.
So many downvotes, isuppose i'll have to explain myself :

Apps for the ipad frequently run into memory warning exception, even when running on their own. One reason is the use of multiple layers of images to build a screen ( background, multiple panes on top, etc) which take a huge amount of memory even before you've loaded any data.

Now, i suppose that the cydia hack didn't add a virtual memory manager to ios. It simply lets you see application in background.
Now that means even more pressure on the memory, thus my question.
Running twitter and mail isn't a problem of course, since they probably don't take half the ram. But "big" apps, like safari ? I doubt it.
Press Control then use your scrollwheel. It's a web element. The default size is pixel perfect.
"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English (up to fifty words used in correct context) [even higher since Sagan died] no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."

~ Carl Sagan
Why taxi drivers are goingto war with Uber
From Hacker to Venture Capitalist with Jason Schultz
The context:

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

"ILLIAC I was built at the University of Illinois based on the same design as the ORDVAC. It was the first von Neumann architecture computer built and owned by an American university. It was put into service on September 22, 1952.

ILLIAC I was built with 2,800 vacuum tubes and weighed about 5 tons. By 1956 it had gained more computing power than all computers in Bell Labs combined. Data was represented in 40-bit words, of which 1024 could be stored in the main memory, and 12800 on drum memory."

The interesting information from the manual is that the computer had 40-bits fixied-point arithmetic, directly calculating only numbers between -1 and +1. If was certainly very demanding programming it.

Another interesting detail: the puritans still didn't influence the name of the number system, they write about "sexadecimal" coding, and interestingly use "0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 K S N J F L." Why "K S N J F L"? I don't know.

And a really fascinating detail: it was not only punched tapes and stuff: it had a 256x256 pixels CRT as an output device too. Sample on pg. 12-9
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It doesn't rely on anything. It's a correct optimization that does not change any behavior at all. It only speeds things up.
An introduction to AWS VPC Peering (with a small tutorial)
Analyzing Forged SSL Certificates in the Wild
How to listen to our future citizens
That was interesting - is it known if he is dead or has just gone silent? Seems he worked on something new after that.
I'm really not sure what's going on there.

There's no explanation of it -- only a captcha and a brief notice about how to keep from having to enter the captcha again.

I entered it three times, only to be presented with the same page.
None of your companies are old enough to use Oracle ?
Or you could attack someone's wordlist and have them flagged as a terrorist/pedophile...
What I find bad is this:

"particularly for fresh installs of Firefox, where we don’t yet have any recommendations to make from your history"

Does this mean they are going to be scraping people's history to find 'suggestions'? If so, time for me to move to pale moon.
And please don't fck with my back shortcut.
Yes, and you use email subscriptions that way because email clients are bad at being feed readers: they effectively force you to "catch up" whenever you open them.

My point was that, with these changes, Google are making Gmail good at being a feed-reader--adding features to interact with subscription emails the way you currently interact with RSS feed items.

If your email client is good at being a feed reader, it will be sensible to use email subscriptions for things you currently use RSS feeds for.
Show HN: Eventhandler, a game where you play by triggering browser events (2012)
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The webpage is pretty useless, if you do not know what "cjdns" is. There should be at least a link with more explanation. So far, this is not "for regular people".
It's true that only autotrophs have the luxury of a guilt-free existence.

But if and when our deeper existential problems have been solved, we can imagine constructing robotic simulacra to give those predators satisfying prey to chase.

A deeper quandary might end up being: once we have done it for ourselves, are we obliged to cure death for other creatures, too?
Yes. The scrolling hack is very dissapointing. I only got through the first section before scrolling problems rendered the page unreadable on my phone.
secong gen 802.11ac will do this too, MU-MIMO will use beam forming to send up to 4 streams to up to four clients simultanously.

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001739/ch04.htm...
We've heard news about google and microsoft spying on user's email. Nothing happened. That's not that different.
I use the whois command utility which is available by default on any Mac. If you're using Linux it is usually installed by default, but not always.

To install it on Ubuntu:

apt-get install whois

or on CentOS:

yum -y install jwhois

On Windows you can download it from here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897435.asp...

To use it, simply type on the command prompt:

whois domainname.com

I find this approach much faster and easier than using a website that essentially does the same thing. Not to mention that there were rumours a few years ago that some of those websites are capturing what you're searching for and register the most interesting domain names hoping they will sell them back to you.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Liviu
Hoa\Console, advanced console APIs: readline, autocompleters, cursor, tput…
How about Valve's VOGL?

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/vogl
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An ode to 17 databases in 33 minutes
Or just use DuckDuckGo ...
Coffee is your friend. Lack of sleep is probably messing with your emotional status (too high, too low). Besides, you are doing it right. Don't jump off the plane until you finish the Parachute. Good luck and let HN now when your baby is ready to be ripped apart in pieces here.
Mainly because design by massive committee doesn't work. It gets you supremely useless things like HTML5 canvas.
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glslDevil is a GLSL debugger http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/glsldevil/
Does Google,Apple,Microsoft,Amazon,etc. officially follow HN?
Does the people from Google,Apple,Microsoft,Amazon,Yahoo,etc. read and react to the hacker news?
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The venerable technology of print media has caused many such waves in the past.

The history of slavery provides many examples of how literature was kindling for huge changes in popular opinion that eventually ended slavery in the western world.

And literature is of course a mental bridge between people distant in time and space. More efficient bridges will be invented in the future, and they will become effective across species, too.
Not quite sure I agree with that. I think the argument is that Facebook has pictures of me as long as any one of my friends has a picture of me, and has posted it on their own Facebook.

Similar to the problem with Google having access to a large percentage of emails, Facebook will have pictures of me regardless of whether I choose to personally have a Facebook account or not. Assuming that I do have a Facebook, with a network of friends, they can also tag me in their pictures (and therefore available to Facebook) even if my own privacy settings are turned all the way up.
> The ability to interact with and adapt to the environment is present in all of these creatures.

Not a very useful definition as it is a basic property of all living creatures, and some non-living ones.

I think it's clear that when we talk about intelligence we mean intelligence of the kind that involves neurons and very-short-feedback-loop problem solving (seconds, not years, like DNA). Of course every animal has that.

Some feel that only the ability to do abstract problem solving qualifies as intelligence. Still, humans are not unique in that. Second, I'm pretty sure every cluster of neurons can do that, most just don't have any use for it (humans, and other species, use it for social bonding).
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Looks to be a rigorous exposition of an argument I saw to resolve Loschmidt's paradox (why there can be an arrow I time in a time symmetric universe). The argument is that formation of memories (whether in a brain or tape recorder or whatever) is necessarily an increasing entropy process, so all memories will be of lower entropy states.

IOW, it's not that "entropy increases futureward, we remember pastward, what a coincidence!" Rather, "if this were not an increasing entropy direction, we could not have memories of it."

First saw the point in Drescher's Good and Real.
> “Only intelligent animals play—animals like crows and chimps, dogs and humans.”

Err, I'm barely knowledgeable in this field (so maybe someone can point out something that I'm missing), but I have to nitpick that this strikes me as poor reasoning. Off the top of my head, juvenile squirrels are known to play[1], along with many other species which we would consider less intelligent than cephalopods or even dogs. This just seems like an odd assertion to come from an expert biologist.

[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.06.024

Really interesting article, though.
Agreed. I'm surprised no one seems to notice how non-native scrolling in Atom is.
Can you explain like I'm a physics major why HVDC becomes more efficient than AC over ~1000km? A scale analysis would be great - where does the distance D come into the equation?

I get why AC is better than DC on ~100km, but I don't understand how it changes again at larger scales.