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Ok, heres another explanation which does not refer to light cones.

Take some ftl causation (i.e. two points in spacetime such that one is a causal influence on the other, and such that the spacetime interval between them is spacelike).

Take the one which has a causal influence on the other to be first. Then, by relativity of simultaneity for things which are separated by a spacelike spacetime interval, there is another frame of reference in which the point which is causally influenced by the other point occurs before the point which causally influences the other point.

That is, A influences B, and B is before A.

Which is retrocausality.

Therefore, because any two points in mostly flat spacetime (so like, no black holes or anything) which have spacelike separation can be taken to be before or after eachother, if one has a causal influence on the other, there is a frame of reference in which that would be retrocausality.

edit:

also, do you mean that I don't intuitively understand relativity, or don't intuitively understand light cones?

I don't understand where you are getting the idea that "warp and light cones clearly don't work". Light cones are still used in general relativity (at least locally). Shifting things based on frame of reference still works in general relativity.

Do you have anything to back up your claim that light cones "don't work" with "warp"?

At the very least a good search term?

edit2:

further, consider this quote by alcubierre:
' Miguel Alcubierre briefly discusses some of these issues in a series of lecture slides posted online,[31] where he writes "beware: in relativity, any method to travel faster than light can in principle be used to travel back in time (a time machine)." '

[31] http://ccrg.rit.edu/files/FasterThanLight.pdf

So, you can see, Alcubierre (who, iirc, first showed the negative energy density method of ftl mentioned in the article), also states that it could be used for retrocausality (though there's a caveat based on the “chronology protection conjecture").

So, I think my arguments are fairly well supported.
Looking at this story (the wider Amazon story) it seems to me a lot of the value is getting extracted from employees in a sort of creeping way.

So you might go to an interview where the manager says there's pager duty now and again, but it's not too intense. You get on the job, and it's a whole lot more intense than expected. You can't leave because you've just turned down a bunch of other offers and moved towns. You adjust to delivering maybe 25% more work hours than you thought. The company might do better hiring a colleague for you, but they don't, so you lose out on free time while all the benefits of your increased production goes to shareholders.

There's no recourse for this, and management knows it. They can hire people and make them work harder than they've been told, as long as it's within the range where a sensible number of people won't be looking for other jobs. At the same time, you have great reputation (well maybe that's changing) so there's a queue of fools applying to get in.
True, this OPM hack might have a huge national security impact.
Nebulizers create mist.
Is the search as good or as fast at gmail on these IMAP clients? I used the mail app for iPhone for a while and it sure isn't.
Most people in here (I assume) think Snowden's leaks were ethic, though illegal.

The reaction to The Fappening was likewise equal parts glee and disgust.

Almost nobody would blink an eye at revealing a doxxing dump from a terrorist sympathizer or CP forum.

Ethics are a subjective thing, and lines are hard to place.
Ended up staying and have been ever since :-)
One year and 6.76M key-presses later
I completely agree , also , Us as employees we need to learn when to say stop , i know we all work hard and we want to be the an important asset.
But remember going the extra mile and getting recognition for it will only last until the next downtime/problem which could be tomorrow.
Dan Abramov's Redux (Flux'ish implementation) takes a lot of ideas from Elm - https://github.com/rackt/redux
The only challenge with saying "eh, this is big enough, I'm satisfied as are my employees" is that the business world is not static.

Your competitors are nipping at your heels, markets change, technology changes, and if you get complacent and say "this is good enough" your business can be swept out from under your feet and suddenly you are struggling or dead.

Like it or not business is a treadmill. You can never stand still or you risk falling off.
Well the "sanctity" of marriage argument is something I don't really value, so of course there is an opportunity to make money if you get information like that. I just pity their clients, that's all I can really think about this story.

I really wonder what most people would side with, the hackers, who want to unmask infidelity, or Ashley Madison and their clients, who might not deserve to be blackmailed. In a trial of Ashley Madison versus the hackers, I wonder who would prevail, because honestly I don't like neither, and I wonder if a court of justice would really protect people who engaged in infidelity.

Again, the information age is really challenging our morals.
Unbelievers. Only others can be the ones not believing what you believe at the given moment (you can of course believe the opposite later, but you just "changed your mind" or something). Religions use that word to proclaim or even demand that something bad should happen to the others.

Interestingly, some people discussing the leak show emotional and "religiously righteous" response to the people who possibly made or even just considered an act of "infidelity" (not to be confused with the "infidels.")

Infidel: "Late 15th century: from French infidèle or Latin infidelis, from in- 'not' + fidelis 'faithful' (from fides 'faith', related to fidere 'to trust'). The word originally denoted a person of a religion other than one's own, specifically a Muslim (to a Christian), a Christian (to a Muslim), or a Gentile (to a Jew)."

C.f. Barbarian, 2: "2. Hist. a. One not a Greek. b. One living outside the pale of the Roman empire and its civilization, applied especially to the northern nations that overthrew them. c. One outside the pale of Christian civilization. d. With the Italians of the Renascence: One of a nation outside of Italy."
I use Mail on OS X and it is good enough for my purpose. Could certainly be a bit more sophisticated, but most of the time, it works. I like to have a real email client for my mails and not use a web app.

There might be dedicated search engines for emails though, if search is very important.

See, if you use search a lot and Google has the superior product for your use case, that's totally fine. But I guess most people use Gmail out of habit and not because it is truly superior to other email clients.
The other major issue being: How does this affect all the other parameters that make a battery useful?

I mean, sure, an 'indefinite life' is fine, but not if it's got more limited charge/discharge rates, energy densities, etc.
A replica suggests that all nodes are somewhat equal copies.

On a master/slave bus, nothing works if the master is shut down. The master literally supervises everything by arbitrating communication.

In a replica system like elastic search, failure of one node will usually just cause some other node to take over its task.
That's the problem with capitalism.
On the other hand problem with socialism is that people do not work at all or just pretending to work because they are protected by XY laws,unions etc. And in order to maintain the social benefits they need to enslave other people (think germanic countries and the ost bloc).

So what is the solution to this ?
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I agree with you in principle, but for me, when I say phone, I really mean internet connected pocket-sized computer.

As in, running the OS and apps is the device's primary function for me - making phone calls is a nice-to-have that I rarely use.

When the battery dies, it's not the ability to make phone calls that I miss - it's the ability to use the apps!
Out of curiosity, how did the investors and rewrite result in plummeting sales? Was it the distraction from improving the product that let competitors get ahead?

As you wrote it, it seemed the core issue was the technical debt that blocked to large customer sales/hurt retention. So if that was fixed in the rewrite (a big assumption admittedly), I'm left wondering what exactly went wrong.
"The new battery also has an improved power capacity that is 20 to 30 percent higher than traditional models, and can endure frigid temperatures as well"

Nothing about charge/discharge rates.
Well, in my case, I was using a second hand Nexus One for years (almost 3 years if I remember it right) without problems with the battery. I think that if you respect the charging cycles, you make it last longer (I usually wait until 10% of battery left to charge it)
Yeah, I'm starting to consider it a bonus if the devices are separated (router/wifi).

Thank you, I'll give the product another look.
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> God-given natural status

The "God reasoning" isn't the only reasoning. Just like polygamy is a choice, so is monogamy. It's a sexual choice.

What is wrong is that people can't be open about that choice. People should be able to be open and honest about being polygamous or monogamous with their partner - yes, that might sometimes result in the relationship ending; but there's a good chance where there is a disagreement it would have ended with heartbreak further down the line anyway. This should occur long before marriage is ever on the table, or even, before a relationship is on the table.

In Africa it's important for people to know their AIDS status and be honest about it; I wish we could do the same thing with relationship preferences.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to have only one partner, there is also nothing wrong with wanting to have many partners. Both approaches to relationships have their pros and cons.

Either way, debate about polygamy vs. monogamy in this case-scenario is completely irrelevant. Someone was hacked, privacy was violated (it doesn't matter what privacy) and that is the end of that. There's no reason to attach another argument to the discussion because the hack was an outright violation in the first place.
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All of which Google likely has no interest in researching.
Sure, smartphones could really use improved batteries, however ultraportable notebooks are really impressive nowadays with decent performance, thin shapes, a weight of sometimes less than 1kg and batteries that last all day.
> Was there ever any requirement that one be in a relationship to join the site?

No, it's only marketed/targeted towards that demo.
Yes, NTPsec is real and I am involved (ESR)
Maybe we will finally get laptop batteries that don't "mysteriously" die after their maximum charge drops to 50% of the original. I'm looking at you lenovo..
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"Choose a password you can remember, and share it with a friend using the Google On app."

No, but no thanks. Not with Google. It's already hard to prevent people from syncing my wifi password with them as part of the Android cloud stuff.
A library of premade CSS animations would be very useful and perform a lot better than jQuery animations. However, I was unable to get the demo to play any animation other than "hinge IN".
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Speaking of NSA, do you think Snowden's revelations were unethical or misguided?
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> I May Get Stoned to Death for Gay Sex (Gay Man from Saudi Arabia Who Used Ashley Madison for Hookups)

> A bunch of people are accusing me of lying because 'AM is only for married people.' AM is actually about "discreet hookups," and hence its main appeal is to married people, since premarital sex isn't stigmatized in the West. But it also appeals to gays from regressive cultures, and their website has an option specifically for gays, as you can figure out if you do 5 minutes of research.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/3ebzzj/i_may_get_ston...
Agreed. Even if Gmail is superior in some regards (I don't know - is it? There must be a reason so many people use it), as a tech savvy person I consider it a matter of pride (and privacy of course) to run my own mailserver with project like Sovereign https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign
It is only the same if each and every AM user has taken a vocal stand against having an affair. Otherwise it is nothing like Sterling or every gay Republican legislator or preacher who has ever been forcibly dragged out of the closet.

I'm disappointed HN has a blanket ban against Gawker links, as the Geithner story there from a few weeks ago has some very important lessons for this story.
Surprised nobody has mentioned this yet: be careful about that non-promise of a "possibility of getting a bit more into actual software development later."

It's very easy for a company to make vague non-promises like this. Consider how you would feel if it took 1 year or 2 years or infinite years for that "getting a bit more into actual software development" thing to happen. Would you quit after a year of waiting? Would you feel like you had wasted your time?

Something to consider.
I'm obviously a dick because I already sent automated messages to relatives of people in the hack indicating to them that they were potentially cheated on.

Personally I would want to know so I share that information.
> We just might have seen the first public hack that will cause people to die or be physically hurt. Homosexuality is illegal in certain countries (like Saudi Arabia) and this hack might expose people to harm in these countries.

This is exactly what is playing out:

> I was single, but used it because I am gay; gay sex is punishable by death in my home country so I wanted to keep my hookups extremely discreet. I only used AM to hook up with single guys. . .

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/3ebzzj/i_may_get_ston...
At Amazon, unless you're on a PIP (probation), you can change teams after a year and your manager cannot stop you. This is possibly one of the best ways to get management's attention. If an org is bleeding out people, it is clear that something is wrong. Why not switch teams?
q has a windows installer as well.

http://harelba.github.io/q/

Harel
In this day and age of high-quality, freely available information and education online about taking investment, do you have data to suggest this level of relationship/terms is common?

My assumption would be that CEOs are getting savvier and things like open source term sheets/agreements are helping level the playing field.

Some companies might be forced to take investment, some founders might be greedy, some might be uneducated. Some ultimately feel that the combined funding, connections, and experience they can tap is the only thing that will let them beat out the competition to being the 800lb gorilla in a hot new market.
I'd like to be the first to welcome Amazon to 10:00pm Silicon Valley Time ("the company is a mess").

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-the-tech-press-forces-a-n...

It's right on schedule, we just wrapped up 8:00pm ("they're never going to make any money") in the markets, and fast-forwarded through 9:00pm.
The on-call scenario they describe in the article is pretty bad.
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To me the relative morality of A-M and the people using it seem somewhat irrelevant to the larger discussion. It's always fun to gloat when bad things happen to 'bad' people, but even people who live a lifestyle you strongly disagree with should have access to the same basic rights as you wish to have, including the right to privacy.
hop on the Amazon hate.

Stories about how horrible Amazon is to work for have been coming out for years. This isn't some brand new bandwagon - it just happened that 2 such stories were posted on HN within 2 or so days.
Who needs a teaBOT when you can have a teasmade! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teasmade)
Anecdotally, many people I know who also have bipolar disorder (I have bipolar II) are also successful and by most measures very intelligent. It would be interesting to see a comparison of rates of bipolar individuals by industry - of course this is hampered by the fact most people aren't open about being bipolar because of the stigma around it :).
Good thing you did it anonymously. We wouldn't want you to have to face any consequences for your actions. Let's hope you're not responsible for something like this http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/utah-dad-kills-fami...
I was never into Second Life, but it would be really cool if this sort of thing were to be maintained (perhaps read-only) by an archive.org-alike organisation... Especially with decreasing digital storage costs this should be feasible, and it would be really cool if a generation from now people could poke around in these way dated spaces, a bit like someone today dusting of an Apple II lying in a cupboard... :)
Who gives a fuck about slavery in 18th century US, when there are 21 to 36 million slaves in the world today. That means that there are more people enslaved to...fucking...day, than at any other point in history.

If you want to get the word changed do it out of respect for those living in slavery today, and not because some of the most privileged people on earth (first world software developers regardless their minority) could get their feelings hurt.

I got the impression that the people most vocal about these terms don't really care about the issues. They just want the thrill of changing the world, without actually doing or changing anything.

If we ban all the bad words from our vocabulary, it only serves to pretend the bad things they name don't exist.
VersionedBlob: a poor man's Git built on Ethereum
A router these days is basically a Linux server.
"Avid Life Media" is gross and creepy, and apparently totally incompetent.

People (and organizations) have competence in different areas. I was genuinely impressed (in a dark patterns way) by the deftness with which they handle new signups:
http://www.useronboard.com/how-ashleymadison-onboards-new-us...
I'm sorry what does that article have anything to do with anything.

And if some wacko kills his family and himself how is that in any way my fault?
I seriously doubt it feels like a cheap anecdote to the family involved. In fact it sounds like real pain.
> Two of the chefs who prepared meals for Googlers, Alvin San and Rafael Monfort, have been hired away by Uber and Airbnb in the last 18 months.

Ha-ha, can't even keep the catering staff! Time to wake up and pay the market wage.

> In addition, a nimble recruiter from a much-talked-out start-up can still move faster than even the most competitive companies like Google.

And reply to every email, instead of leaving candidates waiting for weeks.
I think tcl/tk was the very first scripting language for the web. In 1992, with the release of tkWWW, it was possible to use tcl/tk to script HTML pages. [1]

> The Tk browser has the following advantages.

> 2. More important, it is possible to imbed Tk code into hypertext documents. To see an example of this, load in the hypertext file file:$pwd/Tcl/text2.html

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1992JulAug/0034...
I do believe there must be something wrong at a significant enough scale to warrant NYT's attention. There are always outliners (i.e. unhappy and stressed out staff) in every company, the question is how big is the population.
I bet many bipolar readers in their manic phase are all "Yey, I'm intelligent and creative" while the depressive ones feel even worse (to say the least) when they read titles like these.
> Homosexuality is illegal in certain countries (like Saudi Arabia) and this hack might expose people to harm in these countries.

Heck, there's still gay bashing going on in Western countries, regardless of the legality of homosexuality.
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Xperia z (at least) series devices have an "ultra stamina" mode that does basically that. I have only tested it once, but it works really well and should give you way over a week of mostly sleeping.

Source: I own a z1 compact.
Nowhere they talk about learning new skills or getting better at your job like if people could not change, they'd stay the same forever. I really do not think it's the case, especially that Laura, for example, who's described as smart and hard-working. I'm pretty sure she'd have been able to adapt to the new skills required.
>you can change teams after a year and your manager cannot stop you.

i remember how at Sun a good recommendation from a manager about his employee wanting to switch to another team was read as "i'd be happy to dump that guy to somebody else" and so-so was read as "God, don't let him to be taken from me" :)
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I would gladly use email client with IMAP server but desktop mail clients are really still in the 90ties.

Do you have a good to alternative Gmail/Inbox which has Inbox like archiving, and easy cleanup of the ... inbox, hiding emails for some period of time, pinning emails?

As for the hosting of emails (assuming I don't want to have 10GB dedicated to emails on my machine), do you have anything that gives me 10GB of mail and has the ease of use of Inbox on all the devices (desktop and mobile)?
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Over-The-Air Software Upgrades Are a Nightmare for Africa
Yes. I really wonder if it is possible to achieve tenure while taking care of your kids.

When I was a PhD student, I asked everyone about this, but I could find no role model. Almost every male professor had a stay-at-home wife who cared for the kids, and female professors often had no kids. Even with my fellow PhD students who became parents, it was always the mothers who took extended maternity leave, and the fathers who advanced their careers.

(I eventually gave up the PhD programme; as a self-employed software developer I now have the freedom to take as much time for my kids as I want, and I can take an equal part in caring for them.)
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Us as employees we need to learn when to say stop

There's a word for this, beginning with "U", that a lot of people don't like.
Honestly, I ask myself this all the time when I read horror stories from employees at tech companies. Just leave!
Indeed, totally not practical.
First, it is a very impressive paper that got into the flagship conference. It presents and solves an intriguing puzzle.

The implied attacker model: you are safe unless your packet traverses an unsafe country. Wrong in my opinion (RFC 7258).

As a scientist I've seen this over-and-over again. No healthy scientific community exists around privacy. SIGCOMM-like venue want novel/crazy ideas. We known onion routing works to a large extend. However, it is a career/tenure killer to work on that. No grants. No citations.
The use of single digit constants is a bit strange. Why kot take the approach of dc and let constant tokens be any string of digits, separated either by a different token or whitespace? Or the rather simpler approach of forth where all tokens are separated by whitespace.

I also have to echo shat someone else mentioned: give Forth Haiku a try!
Yeah, this would be a red flag for me, if you want to be a coder, take the job where you'll be coding from day one.
I would completely believe that most experimentation being performed currently is not structured to make further exploitation possible.

Could you provide an example of an experimental structure that is immune to the statistics being discussed?