skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> "The problem is, Dawkins preaches to the converted. Only atheists and creationists listen to him, and neither are likely to change their minds."

This is very true. Over the last year I've been swayed towards atheism but people like Dawkins turn me off. Despite his protests that he isn't arrogant and people just mistake his confidence for it he is a smug, arrogant git. He's right about a lot of things but it seems he and a lot of 'famous' atheists just trade in religious fanaticism for science fanaticism. His fanaticism drives me away from atheism the same way that fundamental Christian fanaticism drives me away from religion.
a family friend, the aerodynamicist Chester Kyle, was mentioned in this article. He was a lecturer at Long Beach State (I think) and did practical wind-tunnel testing with my father (an engineer and manufacturer) on bicycle shapes for many years.

He pushed the edges of conventional design, and participated in the human powered vehicle races quite a bit.

That's fantastic; I never thought I would hear about him on here.
How about adding support for a seafile server?
Starter's Guide to Build Mobile Web Apps Using Ratchet Framework
This would certainly fool me. Another reason for 2 step authentication... which could also be cheated from you with this trick by the way.
Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell Out of Verizon and AT&T
The euphemism known as an IRS audit would interfere in his life if an exchange into or out of USD took place. Anyone can attribute value to anything. That doesn't make it valuable. Taxation here would require provable gains or losses, as with USD. The transactions of people exchanging only in [bitcoins, metal, coffee beans, rocks, fancy/worthless paper], not in USD, do not imply that any taxable "gains" or "losses" occurred. If it implied this, there would equally be a lot of losses claimed.
Colliding password protected MS office 97-2003 documents
> Another reason is that YC is the gold standard, and having that endorsement opens all kinds of doors.

Yes it does, but it actually should not. By becoming an endorsement YC loses a bit of its effectiveness and the eventual rate of success will probably decline measurably.

Ideally investors would properly investigate the companies they intend to invest in rather than to just use YC as a way to increase their probability of scoring a hit. That's just another variation on the 'dumb money' theme and the field as a whole will lose from such inefficient allocation.

It will put fewer wood behind more arrows. Even though YC companies are probably already over-valued it would be more efficient if VC capital would concentrate on those companies the VCs actually believe will succeed rather than to see these blanket investments in anything that moves that has been backed by YC.

It even matters to the founders.

As long as there is a glut of capital chasing these companies a number of companies that did not go through YC will likely be passed up on simply because they don't have the stamp of approval that YC offers.

This is a gap that might be large enough for a smart VC to exploit. Ignore the YC stamp of approval, treat all applications equally and invest in a couple of dark horses that did not make it to YC for various reasons (geography, timing, bad fit), but to have their application roughly around the same time as YC has theirs.

That way they can use the YC 'vetted' companies as the benchmark against which they can evaluate their batch of 'dark horses' substantially increasing the hit rate of the latter without having to compete with all the other investors in the YC batch.
Barnes–Hut simulation: Algorithm for performing an n-body simulation
Because of the annotations?
NemCV is not designed to be visually pleasing, it is designed by companies to be scanned and understand each candidate in 2 seconds. But I do agree, the Creddle CV is probably nicer for candidates, so it is a totally different market than NemCV
I doubt it. I won't repost my other comment which addresses this [1] but in my opinion people like Dawkins are fanatics. And science/atheist fanatics are no better than religious fanatics. Religious fanatics drive me away from religion but Dawkins fanaticism drives me away from atheism.

I think it's calm, rational argument that has swayed me most away from religion. Just a simple thought experiment:

1. You think religions like scientology are crazy.
2. You believe in a man who was born of a virgin, died, rose from the dead, and who hundreds of millions of people eat and drink every weekend.
3. How can you call them crazy when you believe that?

Even still it's hard for me to get off the fence but simple arguments like that, which aren't arrogant and totally patronising, but lay out the facts in an honest way, are what convince people.

I think the problem with a more aggressive approach is arrogance. Most religious people probably accept they could be wrong - their belief is based on faith. But aggressive atheists argue that religious people are wrong and stupid when from a religious persons perspective the atheist has no proof they are wrong. Evolution is real and correct but isn't proof their is no God. Atheists say it's not up to them to prove their is no God, it's up to religious people to prove their is. But if you're calling someone out as wrong they will think you need to prove it. Because there is and never will be a way to disprove the existence of a God I don't think this approach works. You have to present the facts in a way that is honest but in a way that the other person hasn't thought about before.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8289140
I would love a mechanism that would reimburse me for sharing my WiFi with others.
Yes you are right. The effect would be pretty trivial. I was wrong. Thats what I get for trying to be a know it all. :)
I switched back to Dropbox Pro. Reasons:

- Dropbox is the only major service provider with native support for Linux, so they are the only ones that value me as a customer. I've got machines running Ubuntu Linux, OS X, Windows, Android, iOS and Windows Phone (freaking yes). Dropbox is the only one with native integration for all of them.

- Dropbox is the only one that doesn't treat this service as a complementary to another product. Google for example has been guilty of releasing cheap services, then killing them or raising their price. I'm tired of that.
Don't click - it's a book download page (via email).
Man, I wish they had made him shave that goatee.
With batches that large the positive effects of the 'classes' model will vanish, it will also require a much more efficient way of processing the applications and that will lead to (percentage wise) more rejections of good applicants.

YC is as good as they are because they really work hard on processing those applications and even though it is software assisted it is still to a very large extent handwork.
https://www.divvywifi.com/

Be warned though, I entered my address in their system and they ended up physically spamming me with pamphlets to share with my neighbors.
> In short, everything that has happened in Europe since 2009 or so has demonstrated that sharing a currency without sharing a government is very dangerous.

The above, I think, is the interesting content in this article. Whatever Scotland ends up doing, the larger questions of how the world of the future ought to be organized are important ones, and the above principle looks like one that is worthy of some thought.
Does anyone know why wind tunnel use costs $500 an hour? Electricity bill?
Would it be sufficient to add a Disqus widget to the article? If so, why couldn't reddit or HN repost entire articles? Perhaps The Information has licensed their content to Genius, in exchange for visibility and branded commenters.

In-place annotations are part of ongoing work at W3C (http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/), and will allow bring-your-own-annotation servers. Genius.com wants to "annotate the web", making the site a possible future HN substitute. Does Genius.com plan to license guest posts, until such time as content providers enable 3rd-party annotations?
In a straight up military conflict the world ends. People are idiots though, so I guess that will happen at some point.
It bugs me that the test is run with the vertical wheel supports in place. It's conceivable that they alter airflow in a way that affects how it goes over the cyclists legs.

But maybe I don't fully understand the experimental setup. I'm basing my comments on what I see in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZnrE17Jg3I
Fortunately, hopefully most enterprises moved to SP3 years ago. MS officially dropped XP SP2 support in mid 2010, and while MS does do Custom Support for older service packs, of course I hope no one is relying on it now. I think Custom Support for WinXP SP3 is IE8 only after the first year BTW.
The surveillance society is a step forward
Yes, this leads to philosophical questions about the relative compounding of labor, creativity, capital and future-constraining financial instruments.
Same here and I went a step further; I use two browsers. The websites where I need to login are in a different browser in a different workspace, so tab-nabbing by random websites can never fool me.
*Bukhara is in modern-day Uzbekistan
Related: Facebook's Haystack: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919
The software they used (shorthand.com) says it's in private beta - I'm sure they'd appreciate feedback. Otherwise on a laptop it was fantastic.
It indeed seems super fast; when you toy with the rotation parameter in the first example the result is instantaneous.

It'd be interesting to know who uses this.
Firstly, GPUs haven't followed More.

Secondly, multiple sha1 ASIC exists.

Thirdly, WebGL has made it trivial to gain vast GPU resources. 20,000 viewers for two hours can be bought for $20.

Fourthly, I don't care.
It seems more likely that some rich person already have duplicated some "key" discoveries and is happily reaping the benefits of knowing what does work, without making much noise of it.
Transform Mobile Development from Traditional to Agile
It seems like a drive for unending novelty would cause people to want to gather evidence that contradicts well-established studies. That's by definition novel, and would probably result in good press.
All dates get shifted one month back when rendered on the résumé. I see that you use some Angular filter called 'utc' to format them, but do you store them in UTC too? Impressive work regardless :)
Now? Nuclear World War has been a possibility for 60 years now. And 60 years ago the US was actually fighting China.
Tesla chief says self-driving cars just around corner
Senkaku islands is never undisputed. It is brought into spotlight mainly because the relationship between two countries went very bad in recent years due to Japanese PMs' frequent visits to Shinto shrine despite the constant protests from China and South Korea.
Reddit now supports HTTPS (and how)
I am a Hacker
It might be obvious to American readers, but I had not idea that University of Waterloo mentioned here was in Canada, and not in Belgium.
Of course, women rule!! ;)

Every morning on the underground, I notice that are mostly women that are playing mobile games!
Do the Germans have a word for that sensation of joy you feel when an Apple pundit realises that Apple is about to release a new device that flatly contradicts opinions they've been posting for the last few years?

(For those who don't read Gruber, the opinion in question is that big phones are stupid and so are the people who buy them).
Evernote + Trello have been a good solution for me. Now I'm thinking of switching to a FOSS self-hosted solution like https://github.com/Laverna/laverna
U2 playing at Apple's keynote today
Your Competitors Are Clueless
Just think about Falkland Islands.
> Startups have started building low-bandwidth wireless networks for connected devices that cost only a fraction of the subscription fees for LTE networks.

Too bad they didn't name these startups.
The scale of the Solar System would require you to visualize the bodies as much larger than their true size in order to see everything on one screen. If the Sun is 1 pixel, all other bodies are way smaller than a pixel, and Neptune is 3000 pixels away. And of course, you'd probably want to speed up the simulation speed.
>In particular, the idea that Snowden could trade information on foreign intelligence operations for asylum is puzzling.

Has he done that? I thought a condition of his asylum in Russia was precisely that he not leak anything further.
No, most password managers (1Password, for example) will only fill in the passwords if the domain matches.

Truth be told, I don't think this hack would work on anyone who is sophisticated enough to use a password manager though. Who enters login info without inspecting the URL?
I was very surprised when I found this out. It makes sense though - just like in any negotiation, you don't start with what you're willing to settle for, you start with what you want.

In general, there are always two sides to the coin. Where from an American perspective you see Chinese aggression outwards, if you flip the arrows on the map around, you might notice that from a Chinese perspective, the US is aggressively boxing China in.
I've been looking a great way to get into network stack programming in javascript, this looks perfect.
It's basically useless. Any decent attacker should be able to proxy your info through, retrieve your image, and show it to you in the expected time frame.
> If there's a serious story somewhere about results not getting replicated when they should in many fields of science, I'd like to hear about it.

Actually, there is! It's been referred to as "the decline effect", and it's fascinating.

The New Yorker published an article about it a few years ago (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/13/the-truth-wears...). It has resurfaced in popularity a couple of times. It was written by disgraced journalist Jonah Lehrer, but later independent investigation failed to find any fault with the article he wrote (http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2012/11/05/jonah-lehrer-nat... -- worth reading because it includes statements from scientists on Lehrer's article).

So far, my favorite explanation is the direct, obvious one, which is that we're sometimes -- perhaps more often than we'd expect -- falling victim to statistics. Given the very large number of experiments and studies being conducted everywhere, and the selection for positive results, statistical anomalies are being accidentally selected for and then not being extensively enough re-evaluated much later.

The article discusses that as a possible explanation, but the journalist does his job, igniting reader interest, by suggesting the effect somehow "defies the laws of statistics". I favor the simpler explanation, which is that our meat brains simply underestimate the vast number of ways in which statistics would like to bugger us.

Some of the things that both you and the parent commenter mention are discussed in the article. For example:

> Jennions, similarly, argues that the decline effect is largely a product of publication bias, or the tendency of scientists and scientific journals to prefer positive data over null results, which is what happens when no effect is found.

and

> Richard Palmer, a biologist at the University of Alberta, who has studied the problems surrounding fluctuating asymmetry, suspects that an equally significant issue is the selective reporting of results—the data that scientists choose to document in the first place.

(aside: I'm not one of HN's vocal "science is junk" members. I love science, or, at least, I like to admire its butt (http://explosm.net/comics/3557/). I don't believe there's something fundamentally wrong with the scientific method. But, I do think more emphasis needs to be placed on repeatability of experimental results over longer periods of time, and I hope that this will become more of a trend as the world economy continues to grow.)
Do people really use resumes ? For interviews, I just bring an ipad with my LinkedIn profile...
Ask HN: Is freelancer huge in China? where to find Chinese freelancer?
I am curious as I need to hire someone who is well versed in China market and its social media.

I tried odesk, but it seems like there are not many Chinese freelancers on odesk.

Thanks.
They are claiming "it contradicts previous results", but certainly the savings must depend on the athlete's pre-shave hirsuteness. Unless they controlled for that, the previous results could have just been because of a relatively smooth group of subjects.
Opportunities and challenges for data processing in the Internet of Things
It's pretty sweet I got this to happen http://i.imgur.com/Sk4Rznu.png
But that's kind of the whole point of asm.js - it defines a subset of Javascript that is far more optimizable than the full Javascript specification. Do you feel that there are still parts of the asm.js spec that are holding optimisations back? If so, I would be interested to hear your thoughts as to what the problems are.
Flip, C++ framework for real time collaborative applications
The comparison of Shen and Haskell caught my eye since Shen was mentioned in HN a few days ago, and I was looking into it. Since I've used Scheme and a port of Shen runs under Chibi Scheme, I wondered what error would show up in Scheme. If I manage to get Shen working (under Chibi) it will be even more interesting to see what it does.

Translating, the original problem was:

(if (null? xs) (cdr xs) xs)

So:

(define (mytl xs) (if (null? xs) (cdr xs) xs))

And:

(mytl '())
Error: (cdr) bad argument type: ()

It appears (mytl) emits a type error in this instance.

This is obviously a run-time error, and without specific effort I don't think it would be known at compile-time in the Scheme implementations I'm familiar with.

Since the Scheme expression appears to embody the semantics of the original problem, I'm inclined to think it shows an underlying difference in the handling of the null list between CL and Scheme implementation I used.

If I'm completely wrong, and I can't rule out that possibility, I hope someone will point in the right direction.
Yes, in Ontario Canada. It's home of BlackBerry (the smartphones company) and a hotbed for startups. Google has an office downtown in downtown Waterloo.
Or a district in Liverpool, a train station in London or a song by Abba.
Not sure about that either, but trying to blame Home Depot for fundamental flaws of the system isn't productive either. You should blame the card design for allowing this, not the people that accept cards.
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...

Everything We Know Is Wrong http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f9r4k
That's quite a win of the deceptive marketing. Since 2006 I don't pay attention to the CPU (apart from ISA extensions present, but I do SIMD development), the important components of a laptop being display, battery and keyboard. And SSD, as of latest.
And what does this say?
Are you using the stock Android browser? I found it presented well on Firefox for Android. And I didn't have trouble with the videos playing automatically, something which I also hate.
Its a very common phenomenon in science that a finding is published in a glamour journal e.g. Nature/Science and then if not immediately controversial e.g. acid bath stem cells, it becomes very difficult to publish something contradictory.

Journal referees will set the bar for such findings very very high...and you are quite likely to be refereed by the original author or their friends.

I know this to my cost having gone to extraordinary lengths to publish something slightly contradictory in a far lower impact journal than the work deserved.
... Japan’s diplomats say their country “discovered” the islands in 1884.

... They are recorded in “Voyage with a Tail Wind”, published in 1403, a portolano recounting a journey from Fujian province to Ryukyu, the old name for the Okinawa chain of islands. By the following century, in “A Record of an Imperial Envoy’s Visit to the Ryukyu Kingdom”, Chinese names were given to all the islets in the Diaoyu group. Japanese diplomats do not bring it up, but the great Japanese military scholar, Shihei Hayashi, followed convention in giving the islands their Chinese names in his map of 1785, “A General Outline of Three Countries” (see map). He also coloured them in the same pink as China.

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas/21568696-behind-row-...
Yeah!, its worth if you are Social junkie! :) Hootsuite is one of the greatest tools that helps you to manage your social accounts into one account and easy to use!
This is very fascinating stuff! And it's also familiar from GWAS where there's a fantastic number of statistical tests.

However, it's all examples of things being replicated in the sense of (1) being tested again, and being "not replicated" in the sense of (2) being tested again and being found to not repeat as initial reports.

I think the article's complaint was about (1), though I find this (2) far more interesting and will pursue these threads, thanks!
> 20,000 viewers for two hours can be bought for $20

Is that pricing from a botnet or a company like crowdprocess.com?
Probably true that C++ has always been relevant. But not necessarily in the minds of web developers - they would not have considered writing C++ for generating a webpage.

I didn't have a clue about Emscripten; looks really really useful so that I don't have to think too much about writing in other languages and can write EVERYTHING in C++. That'd be great.
I'm the guy behind this - I just woke up so I'm a bit late to the party :)

It's really good to see a decent discussion here...

For me, it's about getting the right tool for the job. I'm mainly a C programmer, but if I want to manipulate a bunch of files I probably won't use C, I'll use Bash.

In the same way there are (a lot of) times when what you actually want to do with hardware is quite simple, but you'd end up writing a whole bunch of C code to accomplish it - and that's where Espruino will not only be faster, but a lot more fun :)

Someone also mentioned power consumption/events and I thought I'd give you some figures. When Espruino sleeps between events (which is does automatically) it draws ~50uA. Even with explicit power management calls, pretty much all Arduino boards draw at least 5mA (so 100 times more), and without explicit calls it'll be 20-30mA. Raspberry Pi is anywhere from 100-500mA, so over 2000 times more power.
Or hosting your own... Take a look at http://twister.net.co - it has potential for scalable decentralized peer-to-peer microblogging.
Because someone will pay $500 per hour.
Not necessarily true. Not even probably true. The nuclear-armed USA has invaded a number of smaller and weaker countries over the past decades. China has also attacked several neighbors, though in a less balls-out manner. Armageddon did not ensue.

The scariest scenario in Asia right now is: China attacks Japan (e.g. invades the Senkakus, or even accidentally kills some Japanese soldier in one of China's frequent reckless acts of attempted intimidation, like flying dangerously close), the Japan retaliates, the China escalates, then USA intervenes, and somehow USA and China end up in direct armed conflict.

But even there, China and USA have directly fought each other in a war (Korean war) and nobody pulled out their nukes (though China didn't have them yet iirc). The USSR and USA were always invading somebody or other. The nuclear Armageddon scenario is probably a lot less likely than feared--whereas I think the possibility of a nevertheless-vey-bad war in Asia is broadly underestimated.
I'm happy it's Gravity Simulation Week on HackerNews right now!

BTW, here's another HTML5 BH simulator:
https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/sameera/demos/BNtree/
Are the demo pages accessible on your side? I can't at the moment. I sent a notice to the author.
Show HN: ZenCard – transaction linked loyalty and rewards
Syntax highlight for diffs on GitHub