skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone is going to lose my stuff, I want it to be me

Tragically, the modal user has no backups and is more likely to lose their stuff than the cloud providers, at least in the medium term. This and the security issue lead to what Schneier calls the "feudal system": pick a provider, trust them with everything, hope for the best.
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Microsoft, despite what is going on, is functionally dead on its feet in the consumer space.

They have no plays in the key future markets of identity/social, app data/behavior, web content consumption or advertising, online retail or media distribution.

They sell windows licenses and enterprise services

And with that they have a lot of great stuff, but strategically they have nothing at all in the consumer space other than Xbox. Hololens, the Surface, some car-plane-phone thing or more MSR vision videos are not going to swoop in and change the game. They have no foundation to build on in the consumer market, and seem to act like they don't even notice.
A bootstrapped ClojureScript REPL now exists for Android. Replicator: http://tahmid.me/posts/2015-07-15-bootstrapped-cljs-repl-for...
How does such a site generate money ?
>Then on top of that, to me, one of the great structural pieces is we don't have with Windows is this problem of Mac OS/iOS. I'm not in some quest to say let me try and replicate Mac OS and iOS or iOS and Mac OS. We don't have the Chrome versus Android.

I love the direction Microsoft is going. I almost feel like this is a new company totally different from the Microsoft of the past. But I seriously disagree with this we are Windows mantra. Having two different operating systems one for desktop another for mobile is a no brainier. To date my favorite Windows is still 7. Frankly I don't see the point of WinRT in the desktop.

I think Windows Phone will never be able to compete with Android/iOS. But a good restart would be to make Windows Phone less restrictive (side loading) and to make the SDK compatible with Windows 7.
Maybe a combination? I wonder if the privatisation of utilities might come back to bite countries (further) in that it removes an angle to solving these problems.

Perhaps the risk of a living wage (influx of freeloaders for one thing) is reduced if the provision is more in terms of basic rights like power for heating, cooling and cooking, water for drinking, washing and cleaning, and communication (base-level internet/wi-fi). Ideally extend it to basic food rights.

I would like to see far more done to reduce costs of sourcing/cooking healthy food as a base-level option for people. Might be achieved through density (compactus-style growing sleeves), layering (underground growing), robotics, automated transport (self-driving trucks), etc.
The Perfect Scientific Crime?
I love this and show it to everyone I know. They've updated the graphics since I last saw it so I get to show everyone all over again.

Almost everybody is surprised when they learn how close to earth the ISS' orbit actually is. They look at me funny, well, some do, the barbarians, when I point out that it is in LOW-Earth Orbit after all and the pictures and video of Earth shot from the ISS vs. photos of Earth from the moon show that the station orbits very close to Earth indeed. Some people have no sense of awe and wonder... :/
That's why: block chains.
Apple Watch, Not Dead Yet
just letting you know that i chose not to sign up as there wasn't any pre-signup information that gave a hint as to what was to come ... didn't want to provide an email address and password before i had more of an idea
> Its tied to collections, not specifically to List

Actually, it transcends collections in general. As others have noted, the term "flatMap" is the concatenation of "flatten" and "map." There are other containers which support flatMap and satisfy the Monad laws[1]. An example of one in Scala is the Future[2] type. It's flatMap is described as:

Creates a new future by applying a function
to the successful result of this future, and
returns the result of the function as the new
future.

Conceptually, this behaves similarly to how a flatMap for a collection type behaves. Due to the nature of the Monad laws[1], this similarity is to be expected.

1 - http://eed3si9n.com/learning-scalaz/Monad+laws.html

2 - http://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.11.7/#scala.concurrent.Futur...
I was interested in coding from a young age but was a terrible student. I barely scraped through high school and never completed any tertiary education. By 22 I was unhappily working as a pizza store assistant manager.

I then took a pay cut to get a job as a tech support guy at a tiny local internet provider. Over the next couple of years the company merged with a bunch of other small ISPs and I found myself given more responsibility. Not liking all the paperwork this involved I wrote some web based tools in perl to make my life easier. This was noticed, as was the fact that I was cheaper than a "real" programmer, and when they wanted to expand the dev team I was given the job. Now, after more than a dozen years and quite a few different organizations I'm a team lead on a pretty large and successful system.

I guess the point of the story is to build stuff, especially stuff useful to you right now, and don't be afraid to take risks.
Sure. Roissy is incendiary. So is Roosh.

I do find them a bit toxic because of the negativity. It's a phase many guys go through when they break the social conditioning of the feminine imperative.

Rollo Tomassi is far more gentle, for those who haven't heard of him (www.therationalmale.com)
I don't think that @unethical_ban is talking about downvoting the comments, but downvoting the submission itself. There is no "downvote" option for submissions, only upvote and flag.
I cannot speak to the mathematical errors, but I recommend you take most of what Motl says with a grain of salt. He is well known in the physics and mathematics community for a variety of interesting statements, including my personal favorite: "Discrete math is just a disorganized mess of random statements." http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1720
Which is interesting, because I have yet to see a construction of continuous mathematics that didn't start with something discrete.
Given the brief text, I'm not clear on how t' Hooft's idea is different than orthodox GR:

> Prof. Gerardus 't Hooft had brought up something interesting in his 2008 paper "A locally finite model for gravity" that "... absence of matter now no longer guarantees local flatness..." meaning that accelerations can be present in spacetime without the presence of mass. Wow! Isn't this a precursor to propulsion physics, or the ability to modify spacetime without the use of mass?

I don't know about the speculations, but the basic question of curvature in the absence of mass is totally orthodox general relativity.

It's a very widespread folk myth, even with physicists, that absence of matter means asymptotically flat spacetime, but it's not absolutely true.

I had thought John Baez discussed this on sci.physics ages ago, but after I couldn't find that, this is the first formal reference I dug up to support that:

"Relativity And Geometry"
by Roberto Torretti, 1983

Page 199: Chapter 6, Gravitational Geometry

> First several new non-flat matter-free solutions of the field equations have been discovered, which show that an empty universe built in accordance with General Relativity can be a very lively place, the interplay of pure gravitational energy being enough to produce some remarkable phenomena if a handful of test particles is supplied.[31]

[footnote [31] on page 334 discusses "Friedmann's equation", with a limit tending to 0 in the case of interest]

Maybe the point is that the orthodox stuff is usually concerning an empty universe solution? I had thought there were non-empty universe solutions that behaved this way as well, but I might be misremembering.
It’s Alive New Horizons Has Survived Its Date with Pluto
Using ‘The Hunger Games’ to Encourage Healthier Choices
oh no, I was talking about comments. And the parent is right, it comes along once you have enough karma.
You could have experimenters wearing gas mask. You could do the testing over the phone or similar. You could have experimenters that don't know the true nature of the experiment (professor telling PhD to go into this room and do this test procedure without telling why).
I think the lesson here isn't that iCloud is unreliable, but that any data storage is unreliable. Syncing isn't backup so you still need a backup.
so basically copy the competition?
I think this type of formula assumes a uniform list of links? Whereas I'd expect a discontinuity at the end of the front page. I wonder what it would look like if it took that into account, maybe the q term could incorporate the page number somehow.
As a physics grad student, the phenomenon I've seen is people simply avoiding focusing on string theory in favor of greener (but still in physics) pastures. I suspect most of the working string theorists who had a stable job to begin with are tenured and will keep doing what they are. Personally I'm not sure how to feel about all of it; although the contribution of string theory to physics can most certainly be argued, mathematics has definitely benefited from its development.
What Returns Should I Expect from Trading?
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9889152
That system sounds convoluted. Here in Brazil, everyone who holds stock has an individual account at the stock exchange (BM&FBOVESPA), managed indirectly through your broker. It's always clear who owns what, since every transfer goes through its systems.
> There is a pretty straight line

I strongly disagree, and that gives very little credit to the various brilliant people involved in the various stages of the history. Everything seems obvious in retrospect.

But it doesn't change the timeline very significantly, so it's a side issue.
As the other comments say, just call yourself a Devops person. It is for companies who want to automate sysadmin stuff in coordination with newer technologies like docker.
> Should somebody tell him?

Bolden says he still considers Pluto a planet. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11739763/Pluto...
> the last time we investigated REPL-logging, it was too verbose to be convenient.

We were still logging it, it just went to a separate file (if you still have it, check out nrepl.log in your project directory).

The log also went to Splunk, so you'd have to go to a lot of trouble to cover up your tracks.
The probe was launched before Pluto was re-classified as a dwarf planet. Either way, this is an immense achievement in both will and engineering.
> ... what about flatmapping and optional/maybe value?

The same concepts apply. With an option type, flatMap can be defined in Scala Option[1] types as:

flatMap[B](f: (A) ⇒ Option[B]): Option[B]

For the empty option situation (None in Scala), the result is a None. For the populated case (Some in Scala), the result is what f produces when given the value contained in the original Option[A] type. Of course, f is free to produce a None for its result should it so desire.

What makes Monads neat IMHO is that so long as the container type adheres to the Monad laws[2], then the developer can fully rely on the behaviour conforming to a common set of expectations.

1 - http://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.11.7/#scala.Option

2 - http://eed3si9n.com/learning-scalaz/Monad+laws.html
I believe the Airing thing is expected to use these things:

http://www.murata-ps.com/emena/2012-05-22.html

I was also skeptical of the Airing claim, although after reading about the Murata piezo blower things, they're amazing, whether Airing is able to make a CPAP out of them or not.

Frankly, as an old, fat, CPAP using guy, I'd rather eat mouldy cheese than use a nasal pillow CPAP device. Plus, the Airing thing would have to be strapped to my face anyway; at my Rx pressure it'd blow out of my nose within an hour. The hose on my traditional BiPap turbine machine doesn't bother me at all.

I'd be delighted to have a smaller BiPap machine made out of these Murata things, if it meant a less bulky power supply and a smaller base unit.
iCloud is a disaster. I can't even remember the things it does to address books, calendars and notes. I am trying to block the memory of having to explain to my MD wife why almost her entire calendar, address book and notes EVAPORATED when she decided she did not want her phone to connect to iCloud. In this case 100% of her data had been entered through the phone. However, iCloud somehow decided anything that lived on iCloud and had been updated in any way from any machine had to be deleted iCloud AND the phone once she turned off iCloud.

I think iCloud is quite revealing of Apple's incompetence as well as the contempt they have for the very users they claim to love. The fact that they think this is OK and normal is, in my opinion, quite disturbing. The same applies to changes made to OSX over the last few years. Incomprehensible, arrogant and full of contempt for users.
Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or the Reality
Oh boy. I also think that string theories (in their current state) are wrong and possibly a dead end, but I feel uneasy reading this. Besides the harmless typos [0] in the article and his questionable academic affiliation (iSETI [1], which does not pass the straight face test), his referenced publication [2] is published in a questionable journal [3] and begins with an abstract that jumps around from topic to topic while "introducing" new terminology such as "kenos" and tau, a "change in time dilation over a specific height."

[0] E.g., "Noble Prize"

[1] http://www.iseti.us/

[2] http://www.scirp.org/Journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=3...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Research_Publishing
Yep, fantastic way to prove to a suicidal person that life is worth living and having independent opinions for (I'm the OP, FWIW) /s
Domain Privacy at Risk at the OECD in a Devious Move to Bypass ICANN
Do they actually pronounce it as "vee-ay-tee" instead of just "vat?"
That actually sounds like almost exactly the same system.
> Lee Smolin (author of The Trouble With Physics[1]) lamented that your career in physics is essentially dead unless you went into string theory, and pursuing quantum gravity could lead to conflict with pro-string peers.

Famously, yes. But although that may have been true to a first approximation, it ignores the fact that alternatives have never been completely taboo.

The primary one in recent decades was Loop Quantum Gravity, and the related Spin Foams that my friend John Baez worked on for many years.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_quantum_gravity

LQG hasn't won the day, I'm just mentioning that it was an alternative to String Theory that didn't ruin careers.
NASA, head for Pluto
Forget about the wasteland planets, head for one with water, well ice. Making that a goal would be amazing. Can you imagine telling you grand-kids you spent 10 years traveling to Pluto, spent 5 years colonizing it and another 10 returning to Earth?
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There exists an enormous body body of reliable and fast code written in "C" (e.g. the Linux kernel). I've been coding in C for 27 years, C++ for 20. I think the idea that a language can permit only useful work to occur is naive. In order to code well, the programmer must understand how the computer works, and have a great deal of focus. If you have those, "helpful" languages only seem to get in the way.
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They didn't lose the records -- Cohagen stole them!
Okay, so maybe not the best analogy. Contact access expiration via git is far more primitive, sure - if you have access today you can clone a private project and have a snapshot of it in that state, once your access rights are revoked you just won't see any further work. Unfortunately, this 'freedom' leads to far more problems than it solves - horrible corporate bureaucracies around where you may or may not check code out to, remote wipe capability, contractor laptops, etc. There are many real-world use cases where, in order to accomplish the completion of a project, you need to provide an external resource with access to sensitive data for a limited amount of time. Think manufacturing, commercial video production, medical data, game development - pretty much anything where you outsource a specific phase of product development to a third party. Without DRM, these workflows are limited to online-only, where assets are streamed and can't be stored locally. This is a dealbreaker when, for example, you need to send part specs to a manufacturer in the middle of China.
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Selling the #1 Crowdfunding Site Online
Hey guys, so I'm considering/wondering if it is possible to sell [Art of the Kickstart](http://artofthekickstart.com), the podcast, the site, all of it. Mainly thinking about it because I know I am not maxing it out to it's potential, I have other business ventures that are growing rather quickly and just burned out on ATK to be honest. That said it is arguably the top podcast and one of top 5 sites on all of crowdfunding.

The biggest challenge would be finding someone interested in the expert value play or lead gen, ie someone wanting to grow their reputation in crowdfunding growth space(VC, tech mag, crowdfunding agency etc) and then selling them on value of content over revenue because currently revenue is weak as it is more about content, authority and lead generation. Emailed owners of major crowdfunding platforms, plus of course Jeff Bezos :) to potentially pit them against each other for content driven exposure for their platforms and educational material for their creators but I'd love to hear sugggestions or even talk further with anyone interested.

Important Stats:
~5-10 highly qualified consulting request per month
#2 and #4 podcast on iTunes for "Kickstarter" behind John Lee Dumas new show, #1 for "Indiegogo", #1 and #2 for "crowdfunding"
Revenue(very weak, I haven't done affiliate anything really, was initially with my consulting but have since stopped that to focus on other things) - $300/month ads. Possibly some Amazon associates but not sure
81 long form articles on site
130 podcast episodes
1000 email subscribers, highly responsive ~30% open, 5-10% clicks
Auto-responder email mini courses
~10000 listeners per month on weekly episodes
150-250 uniques per day on site

Any thoughts? Sorry for the massive braindump but know the community packs a punch ofr smarts so figured I'd ask :)
And there lies the issue that string theory came up against: it has not produced any novel and feasibly testable predictions. But to be fair, most of the speculative fundamental physical theories suffer from the same issue. The origin form of the following experiment, proposed by an opponent (though not an aggressive one) of string theory, requires an interferometer larger than the solar system, arranged with precision accuracy that would make Rosetta reaching the comet look like a cakewalk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-orbit_experiment_with_las...
There is no magic number for the perfect word count
New Pew Data: More Americans Are Getting News on Facebook and Twitter
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I believe tomorrow we get a higher-resolution Charon and a similar resolution picture of Pluto. The incredible Emily Lakdawalla has a full list of what's coming when:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/0624055...
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I don't understand it well enough to call any of it obvious.

My meaning was more that it was foundational, not that the stuff that built from it was obvious (fortunately I drew my straight line backwards, not forwards)
Yes. I use a 22 character password composed of mixed-case alphanumerics and symbols. I generate a new password for every single website I have an account with, no matter how onerous the process or insignificant the account.

Later this year I am considering transitioning every single account to its own email address on my domain as well. But I recognize that's a tad paranoid. Perhaps only the most valuable accounts.

I recommend 1Password. I don't think there has ever been a major security breach with 1Password, and when I reported a minor cryptographic flaw they were very quick to respond to me and plan a fix for it, despite the threat model being relatively small.
Congrats Yuri!
We live in a culture where "take your work home" is accepted however "bring your toys to work" is not. Bigger picture Microsoft has far more consumer than Apple has enterprise.

The takeaway from Satya is "Look, we don't have to win everywhere, broadly. It's okay to focus on a few great scenarios sometimes."

This is a smart way to set expectations with investors while encouraging more nimble thinking inside the company.
That's why they call it space!

More seriously, there's a dust counter on the probe whose entire job is to be hit with stuff. But it's much tinier than a sand grain.
This! is the most practical and feasible solution. But, it also means that you take the path with least resistance.

If OP really cares about the company/product, he would do this, and then openly talk to the lead about his shortcomings in a fair and constructive manner and resolve the issue.
Ask HN: Just curious, how prevalent is the use of nootropics‎ among HN members?
Yep, it is a "Noble Prize".

Also, "The Founder & Chairman, Solomon completed a 12-year study into the physics & engineering of Gravity Modification"

"Solving gravity modification and doing it in 12-years is a very significant achievement as Michio Kaku’s estimate was ‘several hundred years’ (April 2008 Space Show interview)."

Sauce: http://xodusonefoundation.org/about-solomon/
Your path to enlightenment begins by learning at a detailed level what a web server does, and what a web browser says to that server.

Do these tutorials:

http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbaws-part1/

http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbaws-part2/

http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbaws-part3/

And when you are doing web development, use this command to understand exactly what is being passed between client and server (replace port number with the port number that your server is running on).

sudo ngrep -W byline -d lo port 8001

You have progressed to the next rank in your journey when you understand in detail what a request (typically from a browser) looks like and how it is structured, and what a response (from a web server) looks like and how it is structured.
Motl is an infamous pain, and makes enemies at the drop of the hat, and is extremely scornful and overly negative -- but he's also intelligent and knows mathematical physics.

I would disregard his unsupported opinions out of hand without thinking twice, but not his supported arguments, whether right or wrong.
There is a seminar about PCG from its author available on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Oet5qjlms

Its a bit long but I highly recommend it. I learned a lot about RNGs from it.
It's unfortunate, but cranks are a natural occurring human thing. In the grand scheme of things, it's probably for the best that we use higher level cues as to the value of a work, than exerting a large amount of effort digging deep.
Well, the whole point of most dating websites ('finding life partner' ones) is to have high churn.
How do block chains solve this problem, compared to, e.g. patio11's LAMP app proposal?

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583696870704152576

It doesn't seem like decentralization or proof-of-work are important here, given that everything is going through a small number of exchanges, and even if not, through a single SEC. The existing system already works on mutual trust between the exchanges and DTC, and it's not the trust that's an issue here, just complexity. Blockchains are complexity.

Cryptographic history and authorization of transfers may be useful, but it just requires some straightforward digital signatures, not blockchains.