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I'll agree that experimental error is the most likely explanation by far but I think there's still a noticeable chance that the explanation is some novel effect that doesn't actually violate conservation of momentum. If I were to give a break down on my expectations they'd probably be something like

90% Experimental error
9% Unexpected and novel consequence of current physics
1% New physics that doesn't actually violate momentum conservation
~0% Violation of conservation of momentum.

But this has gone the point where even if it's experimental error I expect the mechanism will be at least somewhat interesting, as with the Italian speed of light experiment.
It's relevant to that question, but it's also cited regularly as an example of how "even doctors can't do stats".

Which, like most people, they probably can't. But asking someone with lots of experience with a situation, a question about a superficially, but not actually, similar situation adds another level of confusion beyond inability to work out the numbers logically.
Kinda wish I had joined the military so I could do 4 years, quit, get a contractor job and make money disappear.
I believe you that the construction probably isn't great, but how does it compare to living out in rural areas, or wherever people moving to the cities used to live? There are still a lot of Chinese who are not urbanized and all this building should be a step up for them.
So if I catch you in an error, I can not only call you on that but now I can imply that your are developmentally stunted as well? Sounds like fun! Let me try:

The Post argues that because the Democrats support gun control and protest police, they are becoming the “pro-crime party”.

Actually, the Republican-leaning columnist Ed Rogers argues this. If Scott Alexander were a fully developed adult, he would recognize that individual columnists' views may not align with those of the paper. If indeed "the paper" can even be said to have a single point of view.
I don't know, on the scale of the Federal budget, losing $800 million is about on the same level as losing some change in the couch.
idk if you're aware, but this isn't twitter.
I wasn't aware of that crankery, however, that does not discredit these straightforward allegations (argumentum ad hominem). I should add that this particular tactic is already being practiced on the bigwigs in the atheist community, so it's far from implausible.
I think this is a case where the physicists and engineers working on these experiments say one thing, but what gets delivered in the headlines and articles, including NASA's own marketing/journalism department, is completely off. It's just PR. People have been talking about successful experiments with perpetual motion for how long...
"Shipping to PayPal registered address only" is in order to prevent such activity, no?
Most of the things you can do with smart contracts in Ethereum involve some kind of currency...crowdfunding, smart locks, prediction markets, etc. It's possible to implement subcurrencies with Ethereum contracts, but native ether is more efficient, a little easier to work with, and is the one currency you can be sure everyone on the network has.
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> I, for one, will deal with some idiocy to guarantee a safe and secure retirement.

The potential for idiocy negates any guarantee for a safe and secure retirement. If they're idiots they'll lose your money. Anyways, if that's your preference why not take the cash and give the money to an investment manager of your choosing? Why let your employer choose the investment manager and force it on all your coworkers?

> Regardless of who is in charge, the switch has nothing to do with the people managing them and only to do with saving the company money.

Oh yeah, no doubt. But hypothetically, given the same present value, I would rather take cash over a pension plan that may or may not be managed well and exist in 40 years.
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Happy to participate. I read Hacker News regularly myself so getting a chance to jump in and be involved is always fun :)

A design overhaul is definitely in the works. I think, but can't confirm, that it will alleviate some of your concerns. I don't have a time frame for it but given we're saying that the 1Password for Teams beta is going to last about 3 months we'd like to have Android ready to go for that launch as well. They're hard at work on making it happen now.

Thanks for the feedback! We're always happy to receive it and pass it along. It's how we drive development in a lot of cases. Teams came about from requests from our users. Multiple vaults came about from requests from our users. A lot of it is driven by user feedback so don't be afraid to send it in. No promises everything will be done but the more people that say they want a particular feature the higher that gets bumped up the priority list.

Kyle

AgileBits
That is true if speaking about servers running text based stuff, what real UNIX used to mean back in those days .e.g. UNIX System V.

However, from those days I have in memory that the price difference between workstations wasn't that big. Maybe I don't recall that well.

Also JIT compiler research goes back to ways to improve Smalltalk.
After for subscribing for 20 years I fell out with NG after repeated attempts to renew with a credit card simply failed. They wouldn't even let me send them a check. I found it to be a curious indicator of decline.

A year later when I was considering trying again I came across a racist historical re-enactment video of theirs depicting medieval Malian sultan Mansa Musa as a grunting savage. Just not feeling them any more.
> The rationality of performing the tests is social and societal reasons.

The rationality of performing the tests is that it's the basis of science. If someone claims something is possible, the role of science is not to respond with contempt and condescension, it is to prove the matter one way or the other. If the claimant is a crackpot then the experiment will prove it, which is what will happen most of the time. But not all of the time.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka" but "That's funny..." —Isaac Asimov
"Several people in the channel’s fact-checking department, for example, were terminated on Tuesday, employees said."

Rough, talk about a job sector in decline.. Maybe Buzzfeed is hiring? ;)
Jesus's historical existence does not mean all the miracles attributed to him are real or that all details of his story are true. The story on him was written long after he died and you make it sound like it's enough to justify everything claimed about the character. Furthermore in terms of proof most of the text written about him are written as if they were witnesses of the events when they're just recounting what others told them. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_source for more details.
NatGeo tried to spin the sale to Murdoch by saying that Murdoch's cash would bring stability to the troubled magazine. It looks like cash is being taken, not given. This is a strange form of stability...
Says the man who doesn't work in defense.

95%+ of the work done is thrown away. I'm not talking about cutting edge R&D projects that happened to not work out, but literally work will be done and then never evaluated and throw into the trash. Agencies have so much money that they need to spend that they will have no idea what they want and will just throw half a million at you to go do whatever you want for a year. Then they will look at a powerpoint of what you did for maybe 20 mins, nod their head and scratch their chin and then pretend the whole thing never happened.

The Phase I to Phase III ratio has go to me like 100:1
We must still remember, the UK people voted in this current government.

That is a weak argument, though.

For one thing, the last election was the best (worst?) demonstration in recent history of how a first-past-the-post electoral system can lead to wildly disproportionate power (or lack of power) in Parliament compared to actual levels of popular support for the various parties.

For another thing, what the current party in power said to get people to vote for them and what they do once safely in government are not necessarily the same thing, and there is little practical way to hold them to account for deviating from their pre-election claims until the next election comes around five years later.
I am a long time subscriber. We jokingly call it "Earth is Dying Magazine" in our house because more often than not these days the cover is trumpeting some very dire environmental issue.

Will be sad to see it go, if that's where this is headed.
What incentive does anyone have to contribute to OSS?
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What about people who come up with complex solutions based on their ideology?
Archit from ClearTax here. We are working very hard on creating a new product for freelancers and businesses.

Following is for the freelancer / business scenario:

We have to invent the interfaces, the design language, while making sure people can deal with tax concepts and pay appropriate tax. There are difficult concepts like depreciation which need careful handling.

Our freelancer / smb version of taxes will dramatically simplify life for self preparation.

Imagine an ITR-4S equivalent for freelancers which we are creating.

Note that a good CA can help you and come out ahead of software because of the complexity involved. But we hope to make software good enough for the services industry.

By the way, we are the makers of TaxCloudIndia.com which has 10K+ CA firms using our software. We have some of the largest CA firms using our tech. I believe a good CA can offer advisory today which software isn't able to yet.

I'm hoping to fix the "difficult to do" tag for Indian taxes with the efforts of the ClearTax team. That's our mission!
Yes. People were usually asking in the $500-1000 range. Now, it's mostly $100. (it's my limit though).
The Economist is increasingly pro-BIG-business, pro-establishment, rather than fair/free-market (as it used to be).
I actually had this idea back when I first started at AgileBits and had to really start maintaining ssh keys for work purposes. Prior to that it was mostly just side projects and my own personal stuff.

Maybe we'll have to kick this one in the pants and see what we can do. No promises of course but I'll be passing this along again since I have a personal investment in that idea :)

Kyle

AgileBits
"A source I won't name says people I don't like are out to get me" from a known crank is not a "straightforward allegation".
I found the early part of my career to be horribly boring. I'd ace all these technical interviews that were hard and then get into jobs that weren't as interesting as the interviews.

The high point of my career was when I quit a job and just started making money without an employer.

I really don't think tech jobs pay well enough for what they demand. I read the descriptions of job ads now and just get disgusted.
I'm not fooling myself into seeing this as anything but a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" setup. RedHat is getting a ton out of this, and so is Microsoft.

Who's the main target for Azure? Enterprise companies who trust Microsoft implicitly. When an exec comes to the head of IT and says "we need to be on the cloud! I read about it!", Azure eases the transition by being able to go to vendor you've already been using for a dozen years.

RedHat's core audience is enterprise as well. RHEL is the de facto standard for that level of infrastructure due to the support you can get versus any of the distributions that are equally as good, but minus the support contracts.

So, they're helping each other out and that's good in my humble opinion.

Microsoft's new direction under their new CEO is one surprise after another. I've only tinkered with Azure so far but makes me want to pay MS more attention than I would have a couple years ago.
Yes, what spoils the experience to me is that only looks like that on the surface, but then when one gets into it I run away to native development.

Have been doing web, server and native since ever, depending on the employer or customer project, never liked the impedance mismatch between HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
I recommend https://electrum.org, even though the website doesn't look super awesome. You'll get a "seed" that generates your keys that is 12 words long. It looks something like this:

"help staple correct horse ..."

From there, just store that seed somewhere secure and you can use that to generate your keys whenever you want, on any machine you want. Personally I keep my seed in two different safe-deposit boxes and one on (shameless plug) my own encrypted text app I made called Onions - http://onionsapp.github.io.
You could take a couple days to set some bots and accounts up, and potentially make tens of thousands of dollars. That'd take months as 'productive member of society'.
Complete feudalism had 0% unemployment. Best system ever!

Honestly, I'm a bit tired of the "create jobs!" mantra. Jobs for job-numbers' sake has little point, in practice it's just further enslaving the population.

The government has an incentive in keeping unemployment down and cut spending, so it forces people to work shitty jobs by taking away subsidies, which in turn drives down salaries and only helps high-manpower low-skill enterprises like burger-flipping. Is that good for society as a whole?

People working two jobs (great for employment numbers!) are not bettering themselves, they're just producing more surplus for owners, often not even by choice. It doesn't really matter if you have 0% unemployment but everyone is forced to do stuff they don't like in order to survive.
As I understand it, the Linux codebase has hundreds of regular contributors and Torvalds basically spends his entire time reviewing patches to an operating system kernel that is used in countless mission-critical scenarios across the world. The implications of introducing a bug or security exploit to an OS kernel could be as severe as loss of life.

With that in mind, I find myself wondering every time I read a report like this: the instrument may be blunt and the punishment humiliating, but is it really unnecessary?

If just one more contributor submits a similar patch, the chances of such an error making it through code review is doubled. If you don't have a strong handle on what is being submitted you will quickly lose control.

The purpose of a rant like that is not to provide feedback to a contributor that he made a mistake, it's to send a clear message to the wider community that code of that kind must not ever be submitted in the first place. It's a first line of defence against bad code. And to that end, I'd say it's quite effective.

I've never written a line of kernel code in my life, and I probably never will. But if I choose to make a contribution to Linux, even a few years from now, I will remember what practices to avoid through my memories of this and previous rants.
people who do it, either live in countries where they can not really realize their skill in any meaningful way, or it is gang business, where scale is quite different. Globalization helps a lot to prevent former.
Yes, and I really don't understand it. Every dollar spent on these folks is a dollar that could more usefully be spent supporting, say, searches for life on Europa, or laying groundwork for asteroid mining, or improving exoplanet searches, or heck, mapping Earth's surface composition to find Mayan ruins.

I've seen theories about why NASA continues to fund such a patently baseless project. (As I noted in my earlier linked comment, the project's own FAQ answer that tries to explain why their drive doesn't violate conservation of momentum essentially says that it does violate conservation of momentum.) I don't know which ones are right, or whether it's a good idea, but I'm frustrated about the credibility that NASA continues to lend to them.
> the main objective of the DoD is preserving a general liberal-democratic post-war order, one which persists only because of a balletic balancing of forces.

Objectives are one thing - how much effect they have is a quite different question. Historically there's a long-standing decline in violence; the fall of the Soviet Union, the decline of British dominance, or even the end of the Roman empire are barely a blip on the graph. Is the DoD actually helping, or are they just a rock that keeps tigers away?

> to condemn the DoD as "620 billion going towards killing people" is. . . dumb. Or unconsidered, to be more charitable.

Maybe. If the politicians screw up welfare, the worst that happens is some shysters get some money. The DoD is always going to involve killing people. Hopefully they're a tool that we can use to do more good than harm. But if you don't believe they're being effective - or being used effectively - then all that's left is the killing.

> Remember: it isn't manna from heaven. It's money from income earners.

True, but equally applicable to the DoD

> economies have overcome many revolutions, from iron to industrial, without these programs. Do you have a principled reason why the information age is any different?

Economies survived without these programs, and would do so today. But most people's lives were nasty, brutish, and short. It's worth spending money to improve on that.
And no team had a conclusive result.
that's kinda a separate issue... that's maybe a problem with the tax system in the US?
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>I, for one, will deal with some idiocy to guarantee a safe and secure retirement.

There's no magic behind the management of pension funds; they're utilizing the same markets. So how can they "guarantee a safe and secure retirement"?

They can't and that's the problem with them. During boom times they promise the world and in lean times they go bust, or worse, put the onus to pay for it on the next generation (while those people face cuts to their future benefits). No thanks.
either for nostalgic purposes or simply because they determined the name still has value and with some corrections could again be valuable?
Awesome. I can't wait to receive my Redhat voucher.
>History is full of oversold simple solutions.

Of course, history is also full of people insisting, "No, hold on, it's far more complicated than that!" and then being totally wrong.

For instance, people spent a very long time believing that a difficult-to-model combination of many different factors produced stomach ulcers. Then an experiment was done, and voila, the real cause was Helicobacter pylori.

Simplicity (or, in fact, regularization) is helpful far more often than it's harmful.
I was ordering good on ebay quite often to different address, sometime international (legitimately) and this never was a problem somehow. May be it is because my ebay and paypal accounts are quite old and rules will be different for freshly made accounts, but i fail to see how this stop hackers, who use stolen ebay/paypal accounts.
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Today we inefficiently train H1B humans to take over our job in place, or to move the job and the recorded job procedures to India or elsewhere.

In 30 years, those of us left will efficiently train computers to take over our jobs.

In the cloud!
It depends on society. Most of such people are young, bright and computer literate from the 3rd world countries where often doing even a small time scamming on Internet nets you way more than local office job.
> they knew people were coming in to sample goods and then buying it online.

And even when people go into their store with the intent of buying, they don't, because of BB's poor customer service. My sister just did this - she wanted to buy an iPad, but couldn't find anyone to sell one to her (from the security-locked cabinet). So she did a search on her phone while standing in the store, and bought it from Walmart.com

I predict this Christmas will be BestBuy's last.
you do not need bots. just socks server running on free ec2 instance
I remember that one. Many people were pissed off because that partnership included a patents agreement. This was because in the eyes of many, this meant an acknowledgement from Novell that Microsoft was in the right to claim patents infringement of Linux and SuSE Linux was then advertised as the safe distribution. Talk about a sure way to piss off your community.
I think you might be confusing two different things.

Is this the worst Linus rant ever? No. I think its virality is a bit inexplicable too. For a Linus rant, it is unusually focused on the code and not the upbringing of the authors of the code. It's weird that this is the one everyone's glomming onto; Gizmodo even ran a story headlined "you don't need to be a programmer to understand what this rant is about", but as you can see from this thread, even programmers don't understand what this rant is actually about.

But "not the worst Linus rant ever" is not the same thing as "not abusive". This clearly is abusive language, and would not be tolerated in most professional teams, even if the rant was about something more substantial than the relatively insubstantial thing it's about.
Note: CueKeeper is a bit unusual here. Merges always succeed, but it adds a note to the item saying what it did to resolve the conflict.

e.g. if you rename an action "orig" to "a" and to "b" and then merge, you'll end up with an action called "a" with a note saying the change to "b" was discarded.

BTW: it's easier to generate merge conflicts using this web interface, which lets you run two instances in one window:

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2015/04/28/cuekeeper-gitting-t...
>"This is a strange form of stability..."

How so? Maybe it's "stability" in the sense that NatGeo will continue to be a going concern for the foreseeable future? What sense would it make to buy a struggling business and make no changes?
Thanks - and OK, for all drugs makes a lot more sense to me.
A lot of the difference in vegetation is due to climate change. I'm Norwegian and born in the beginning of October, which was first snow at the time. Now it never snows in October. You have to wait late November or early December. That sort of thing makes a lot of difference to plants.
The allegations have absolutely no evidence behind them. In that case of course one should take into account their source's general credibility, or lack thereof.

As for the atheist community, you will have to provide a source.
In Spanish this kind of thing is so common it has its own word: "testaferro" (would loosely translate as frontman or figurehead, but it has a lot more connotations)

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testaferro

They can own 100% of the company, they're usually controlled or trusted in some other way.
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What does being abrasive or bossy have to do with abuse? These are character traits, and not necessarily bad ones.
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