skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
/Not a physicist in any way but;

The approach seems to be we observe a lot of behaviour, then build up models to explain that behaviour. If particles need to be made up to balance an equation then they get made up.

You project that model into some scenario to say "If this model is right, the following ... will happen" and observe. If you're right then work goes on for further evaluate "What about this scenario" and finally a big machine gets built to directly work out, from all that's prior, if a particle that needs X,Y,Z properties really does exist is should be seen in the measurements that are supposed create it.

So to answer your question; Both?

E.g You could take the model, put it in a computer. Simulate what the LHC does and look at that graph of kind of particles it makes. Then you build the LHC, actually smash some things together. Same graph?
My current work setup is a Macbook Pro on the left, with two vertical 1920x1080 monitors center and right. I'm a web developer, and it's very nice for pretty much everything.
They're not perfect but similar to what NN-based machine translators output; it's not completely consistent.

E.g.

"girl in pink dress is jumping in air."

vs

"black and white dog jumps over bar."
Using Auth0 and the Belgian eID card to secure your Cloud/AngularJS applications
Introducing the dot Post
Wasn't that law implemented to create more jobs, rather than for safety?
UKUSA capabilities ARE far in excess of others. They are the only global adversary that happens to control DNS and the whole certificate stuff. Furthermore, all popular consumer operating systems (Windows, Mac OS X, Android and iOS) are created by American companies who can receive secret orders with gag clauses at any time to introduce custom functionality or vulnerabilities which are only meant for UKUSA use. Additionally, apps are increasingly installed from app stores, which are once again subject to American law. This means that any undesirable app created outside the UKUSA jurisdiction (e.g. Telegram or Threema) could be tampered with at the source. No other nations have ANY of these capabilities.
Thanks for this. I have to say that it is rather short sighted for Facebook to be using this data to cut the legs off their advertisers. This sort of activity is really going to poison their platform.
Old news...
The EU rejected banning them in 2000 despite more than a decade of campaigning by parents of three children who died in the 80's from choking on parts of the toys [1]

No further action appears to have been taken by the EU since, and I've not found any mentions of further deaths since either.

Note that none of these three kids "did not see it". The toys in Kinder eggs are contained within large yellow containers, and none of the kids choked on the container, they choked on parts of the toy that they had taken out of the container.

The kids in question were 3 and 4 years old. 3 and 4 year olds regularly play with small toys, and most know better by then. If the child doesn't know better by 3-4 than to put tiny plastic toys in their mouth, then it's frankly the parents responsibility to supervise them better - they'll come into constant contact with small objects they can choke on in all kinds of places.

[1] http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Parents+hit+out+at+EU+over+tin...
And you have just described the plot of an anime named Psycho-Pass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass)!
There was a campaign by a couple of parents, that culminated with the rejection of a ban back in 2000.
Let's Play NSA - the Hackers Open-Sourcing Top Secret Spy Tools
Ask HN: What to do with a very fast Internet connection
I recently got this 200mb symmetric connection and I was wondering what could be the best uses for it. Any advice?

PS: I'm in Spain and this connection is costing me about 40€ with free phone calls.
Detekt – Free tool that scans for surveillance spyware
From one of the articles linked in in the HN comments [0]:

> The particles, known as the Xi_b'- and Xi_b-, were predicted to exist by the quark model but had never been seen before. A related particle, the Xi_b0, was found by the CMS experiment at CERN in 2012. The LHCb collaboration submitted a paper reporting the finding to Physical Review Letters.*

0: http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2014/11/lhcb-observes-...

* some of the formatting of the particle names got borked by the HN comment system limitations--I tried using <sup> tags but they don't appear to work. The correct spelling/representation of the particle names can be found in [0]
Are those your own domains?
More information:

Amndesty International: https://www.amnesty.org/en/news/new-tool-spy-victims-detect-...

Resist Surveillance: https://resistsurveillance.org
PayPal app now available for Pebble
The UK doesn't have rabies either.
persistent undo seems pretty cool!

enable with :set undofile in .vimrc

NB: if you want to specify a dir for it, you need to create it yourself, or it silently won't work. eg mkdir ~/.vim/undodir, then in .vimrc :set undodir=~/.vim/undodir

I also love the idea of undotree, with branches etc, but found it too confusing in practice. Could the UI be more git-like, I wonder?
It's relatively feasible today with (UI|NS)BezierPath and CAShapeLayer. It's not perfect in every situation, as CAShapeLayer is optimised for performance, but in the vast majority of cases it's worked well for me. Especially when paired with tools like PaintCode.

The tools are there by Apple, but I don't think the hardware until fairly recently could really justify the performance hit - instead choosing file size over performance. These days though, in the majority of cases, the performance hit is negligible (especially when compared to dev/design time of generating @3x assets years/months later)
How One Man Went From Homeless to CEO
I fear greatly for the false positives that will inevitably happen, and the mass oppression of society that could result from the natural instinct to avoid them. When every action even slightly against the norms of society at the time can be acted upon and countered, the chilling effect on freedom could be immense.

You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. -George Orwell, 1984.
Captcha's largely fight the lowest common denominator, my making those who don't care enough (or have the knowledge) to work around them when they can just go elsewhere, so that you can invest your human resources fighting the more sophisticated attackers that actually target you.

They are reasonably successful because spammers have enough other targets that not many see it as worth the extra effort (and clock cycles) to break them, not because most of them are particularly hard to beat any more.
A while back I flashed my Nexus 5 with a CyanogenMod 11 build. I didn't install the GApps package afterward.

One thing you will notice immediately is that the battery life lasts much much longer. With casual surfing, watching video clips, playing casual games and Wifi always on, the battery lasts for almost 24 hours. It looks as if this is what the original Nexus 5 should be. All those background Google services and "frameworks" constantly calling back home will drain the battery to the death pretty fast. That's also valid for some other apps. Not having Facebook app installed will increase the battery life too.

Sure you have no Google Play store installed but you can always use one of those (safe) apk downloaders like Raccoon[1] or such to login to Play store and download your previous apps. As for other Google services (Maps, YouTube, Translate, GMail, etc.), I can always visit their sites in incognito mode. You will actually realize you really don't need all those individual apps to use these services. They all work good enough in a browser window.

[1]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2772436
I disagree with running RVM in a docker container. The point of RVM is to manage multiple versions of ruby and a container is only meant to have a single responsibility so running multiple versions of ruby is not advised.

I think you're better off installing the required version with Ruby Install [1] rather than adding the complexity of a version manager.

[1] - https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install#readme
Ask HN: Where to host HD product videos (for embedding)?
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Yeah I read this long ago. May be the same statement was saved in subconscious mind.
It’s pretty amazing to browse code repos that go back over 25 years. Does anyone know which version control system they (BSD) used back then? SCCS?
Security is hard for even the guru, Schneier
A CA isn't really necessary for GPL code as such, but changing license without one is a massive pain, so you essentially commit to GPL and its restrictions forever if you don't have have one. This has caused problems for other projects (I think KDE is an example).

Obviously this also means we can't move from MIT now either, but it wouldn't really make sense to, since you can't practically add restrictions to already published code. (Strictly speaking I think you could still use LT under the GPL if you wanted).
Gaining root privileges with it, like Tesla did. Duh.
Veeqo (Seedrs) an online inventory and order management software for retailers
Agreed. I've entered via SFO, SJC, ATL, JFK, LGA, MIA, HOU, and DFW and it's only CBP at the customs & immigration check... then onward to baggage rescan & TSA security checkpoint.
> If there's truly no gender neutral way of saying something, then I'd imagine that people always use one gender for generic cases, and as such it's not exclusionary.

But it is almost always male, even in languages that have the concept of neuter. Defaults matter.
Dark Hearts: A Horror Series for iOS That Adds New Details Every Time You Watch
Yeah. Bah at you all day long.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-07-27/
You're right, it's not.
California Lemon Lawyers firm
Information is power and in our case it is also protection. In order to protect yourself you should be informed and ready for dealers’ “dirty” play.

Before starting lemon law case, you should be able to prove that your car is a lemon. You should be capable of proving that your vehicle has a substantial and dangerous defect(s), and it remained despite your attempts to repair the vehicle. In other words, you need to save your car maintenance records as evidence. But those records should be done in a proper way.
See http://calemonlawinfo.com/consumer-protection-starts-with-information/
The 'transparent' and 'wireframe' toggles should work the other way round (at least it's contraintuitive to me -- it shows 'off' when it's on). And one combination doesn't work (transparent + no wireframes falls back to non-transparent + no wireframes).
As with many of Vim's questionable but ultimately effective
interface decisions, I have found 'chronological undo' to
alleviate all my undo-tree-related pains: Step through the undo tree sequentially with 'g+' and 'g-' until you've found what you're looking for.
Show HN: JPEG Stripper removes metadata from photos
Indeed, ECT is highly misunderstood, mainly because it was misused in the 70s and the name "electro-shock therapy" as it's usually called sounds scary. It's frequently misrepresented by Hollywood too.

I know someone who had this treatment for extremely severe depression and it worked remarkably well. Short-term memory loss is a common side effect, but it doesn't last.
I am a mobile developer based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Job pays me CHF 85k per year.
Mozilla Firefox Makes Yahoo Its New Default for Search, Replacing Google
I have exim set up to accept all mail to my domain that starts with a particular prefix. So I sign up to websites as myprefix-sitename@mydomain.com.

Setting it up was a bit of a fiddle because I suck at exim, but it's no ongoing hassle.
That sounds awesome. Also much less tangible than the Rift, obviously. But with that kind of funding, obviously some smart people believe they've got real potential. Colour me excited.
Who claims that releasing software under non-copyleft licenses like MIT and BSD is non-free?
Eww. Stop saying 'gorgeous'. That goes for 'bespoke' and 'beautiful' as well when it comes to desicribing your design and UI.

Seriously, it's 2015 in a couple of months.
Absolutely! Even worse, you may get different results than the expected method (FSA compilation) would yield. Observe:

Javascript, executed in the console of a recent Chrome:

> 'ab'.match(/a|ab/)
["a"]

BSD Grep:

> egrep 'a|ab' <<< ab
ab
Given that the statement is very short, I'd expect that cutting out features is the point Brad puts more weight on.

For example, Neovim has plans to remove ex:

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/1089

Exotic is also a matter of definition, there are still applications in use on those oses, and supporting them is a service to those that have to work in them. Not everyone is building apps for Heroku deployment nowadays.
An Alan Turing Expert Answers Your “The Imitation Game” Questions
As an enterprise dev mgr who has been thinking about prototyping an app to do exactly this (well, actually the opposite -- to guide warehouse staff in the kitting process for manufacturing), I'm curious: where have you seen indications of Glass evolving toward the enterprise? I haven't seen it anywhere, but Google has tons of AR competition in the industrial space already, many of which are FAR more capable than Glass, which is 1) fragile, 2) feature-limited, 3) low res crappy display, 4) not at all intended to work autonomously.
Sorry for being blunt, but this is an MBA-style slideshow with a lot of talk about abstract phases and very little substance. I feel that even for hardware entrepreneurs starting out in the same space this lecture has close to zero takeaways.
Hilarious Hide and Seek with Hugo(the Dog)
The actual bill was quite bad and should not have been passed.

For a decent write up: http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2014/nov/19/how-usa...
Where else did you imagine their money coming from?
Show HN: Malware repository framework used to manage your personal malware zoo
Of course I can... within my niche anyway! I'll provide some extreme examples to help show you what I mean.

Example 1) A good games developer can easily create a game in a week that would take the average developer months. The average dev has never even developed a game before.

Example 2) Have you ever worked on a large codebase (500,000+ loc)? Fixing a defect in a codebase that kind of size is not something you can easily google. A person who has experience with large enterprise systems knows the kinds of typical architectures they have and if trying to find the source of a bug knows how to heuristically carve up the solution and perform a kind of log n search. A developer without this kind of experience has to look at almost the entire search space.

Example 3) A developer medical domain knowledge can quickly determine if the requirements for a new bit of medical software actually make sense and are a reasonable approach to the problem. A great developer without this domain experience is going to have many more false starts.

Of course in the real world the disparities between individual developers are not that apparent because we work as teams and help each other out. E.g. In the enterprise example a more senior member will usually help you narrow down the search space even if just with a simple "oh for that kind of problem you need to check for x in the audit tables" or a "go talk to Steve about that as he is an expert in that subsystem"
The premise in the g'parent comment is "If most such stars are still within the Galactic groups ...". This assumption is reasonable given the hypothesis expressed in the article: "Bock suspects that a lot of these renegade stars could have come from relatively lightweight galaxies, which can lose hold of their stars more easily than more massive galaxies."

Our Local Group has a diameter of ~10 megalight-years . Andromeda is 2.54 MLy away.

Thus, given the premise, and assuming that our own cluster is "typical", it's unlikely that a renegade star is all that much further from a galaxy like ours or Andromeda than we are from Andromeda.
See also:

UK: It's illegal to sell washed eggs

US: It's illegal to sell unwashed Eggs

Spoiler: In the UK, we keep eggs outside the fridge, and with the natural protection on the eggs (Removed when washed), they tend to keep for weeks. In the US, they tend to keep eggs in the fridge.
Also a lot to do with how the chickens are kept. If you're not allowed to wash eggs (UK), it's more likely the chickens will be kept in sanitary, good conditions.

OTOH, It's cheaper for the producer to keep chickens in worse conditions, wash the eggs removing the protection and make consumers keep eggs in the fridge!
Tips for Designers: From a Developer for Android
allowing someone else to manipulate, shape, and mold my mind, without me having a choice over it [...] duped into thinking a certain way because someone else thinks it better for me

I remember a time when there was always somebody telling me what was good for me, making me write essays about things that didn't seem relevant, etc.; It lasted for years, and yes, it has shaped my mind.
I guess Bram's point of view is that you could refactor the codebase without removing support, i.e. instead of a 400 line function with ten ifdefs, a 20 line one for the "sane" platforms and extra per-platform shims overriding it.

I am with the neovim guys on this, but you can refactor without removing features (in fact, the original meaning of "refactoring" was in fact "code improvements with no functionality changes")
>What trhway is saying is that any really big, dense clusters of particles in the tube would probably have roughly the same characteristics as the whole tube they were a part of. The particles rotating around the center of a large, dense cluster of particles in the tube would tend to resemble the rest of the tube statistically, so they would tend to roll in the same direction as the tube itself, meaning the axes of rotation of these big chunks would tend to be parallel with each other and parallel to the centerline of the tube.

yep. Just to add that as those chunks has already clumped close together they are forced to rotate much faster to preserve their share of angular momentum - thus we see rotating quasars on the background of seemingly (in our observation timescale) static filament.
Let's start with the man himself: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point..... He would call it "open", but not "free".

The point is that the free software movement views things from the end-users perspective: the user is entitled to see and use the source of every binary blob they get delivered and use. That's an important point of the GPL. FOSS is all about freedom for users.

MIT allows the _developer_, who is not necessary the user, to modify the source, build a binary blob and deliver that to users without ever letting them see the source. The freedom from the users perspective is 0, except those that the developer gives them in their terms of service. MIT is all about freedom for developers.

Which one is the "free" your CLA aims for?

The ambiguity problem with using the term "free" is a well-known issue.
Tinder Client for iOS [Hack]
This story was on top of HN a few moments ago and then seemed to drop like a stone while gaining points: currently at 22nd position with 325 points and 10 hours old, whereas these stories are above it (all as old or older and with less points):

pos id points hours

6 8632209 292 15

9 8633707 129 10

12 8633683 204 14

13 8632405 139 14

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18 8633286 58 12

20 8632043 161 16

21 8632018 141 16

What's happening?
I recently spent an afternoon trying to get a webapp to accept drag and drop emails from outlook. I didn't manage. I am considering making a native app to interact.
GWT 2.7.0 Released
Actually OCaml does support recursive types. Recursion through objects and polymorphic variants is always supported, and full recursive types can be turned on with the `rectypes` command-line option.
Same for New Jersey. I was informed somewhere along the line that it was originally for safety and never got repealed. Now it seems to have morphed into a jobs "plan".
Intereting idea. I must admit I found the cinematography great, but the interviews themselves not so engaging.

I think your interviews would benefit from something like Errol Morris' 'Interatron' (1). Basically, this allows you to make eye contact with the interview subject while they look directly to camera. This creates a far more intimate connection between audience and subject. There are even simpler systems out there where you don't need a teleprompter (2).

Also, a bit of sound post would add another 10 percent to your production value.

On the other hand, I actually really like how you've used no music. Let's the wisdom speak for itself.

(1) http://vimeo.com/80076226

(2) http://www.eyedirect.tv/
This seems like the future for Google Glass -- those articles a few days back about how the program is waning / losing steam seem to overlook Magic Leap, which feels more like Google doubling down.
On the other hand, Lollipop gave new life to my 2012 Nexus 4. Battery lasts longer on tether, the animations ease load times.

There won't be any more major Android releases for the Nexus 4, but now I think it would last nicely until the next Nexus/ iPhone S appears, which is likely to be a year from now.
undotree only becomes usable once you install https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim

It's a lifesaver after that.
Turns out this was exactly what happened - they applied a buggy patch to all data centers at once by mistake.
Queues have two advantages:

- You can plan for average utilization not peak utilization,

- You can move lower priority work out of the latency sensitive / rapid response code path

So no, they don't magically increase total capacity, but they are a useful tool for managing system performance.
Four essential rules for customer emails
How a Superchilled Telescope Will Look Back at the Dawn of the Universe
This whole thread is food for thought definitely. I'll open an issue on the github page to get some feedback. I think if Some(null) doesn't become None then it should throw an exception instead rather than wrap null. I'm explicitly trying to control the number of possible outcomes, passing null back shouldn't be valid at all imo.

So perhaps the conversion logic should be:

x = Some(x)
null = None
Some(x) = Some(x)
None = None
Some(null) = Exception
Some(None) = Exception
Some(Nullable null) = Exception
Some(Nullable x) = Some(x)
If you've already bought into Amazon's AWS ecosystem, S3 and Cloudfront (and maybe Route53) can do that well and easily.
The phone companies store the records for at least some period of time already, why make unnecessary copies?
Thank you very much for answering and for sharing the document. I am currently working on my first platformer so I am eager to read everything I can find about making good platformers.
agl is one of a handful of people who are moving the needle on HTTPS usage, pretty much through sheer force of will. So of all the people you could pick on, you made a really lousy choice.
Rule #8: Use Retina images whenever possible and your audience includes people with rMBP computers!
They've been used so much in ways that they shouldn't have been over the last year or two that they're starting to lose their meaning.
Show HN: We've made a cool iPhone case, what do you think?
A CSS Triangle Generator
I believe it would be a good start, and EFF too doesn't agree with you:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/eff-statement-senate-a...

"We continue to urge the Senate to do so and only support amendments that will make it stronger."
Defeat shoulder surfers -- just use n spaces and m spaces to spell your password in morse code, appearing as all spaces.
Use 2 factor auth with ssh via Yubikey or TOTP and it doesn't matter if they try to brute force you