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This frequent referral to this or that generation seems to be a US phenomenon as far as I've encountered it anyway.
OK, there's not much benefit you then... as long as you spend the rest of your life in Kansas.
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Moore's Law properly expressed is about transistor density and not switching speed. Clock rates have been static over the last decade, but register widths have climbed by a factor of 8 and we're now packing a dozen or more cores on a die that used to hold one.
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How do the detectors work? In my mind they don't make physical sense. They're saying the distance between the mirrors changes, but I don't understand how that's possible in this context.

Let's say a gravitational wave compresses space. To someone inside that compressed space, there should be no noticeable difference. Light will still flow the same way through the compressed space at the same speed relative to the compression. Matter will behave identically, because both light and matter are part of the fabric of that space. As I understand it, the only way the mirror lengths could change is if space is created or destroyed.

If that doesn't make sense, consider the 2d analogy of drawings living on paper. Assume also that light moves only along the surface of the paper. If you bend the paper, the light will bend with it. But when you bend the paper, the creatures living on the paper can't know it's bent. The fabric of the paper is still identical. Even if some of the paper gets compressed in one direction, it will still have the same amount of particles, so any light travelling through there will hit the same amount of resistance. And stretching the paper, even if you're a drawing on the part being stretched, would have no effect. A 2d creature looking at something 1 foot away, even if the paper is stretched to 10 feet, won't see any difference, because the fabric light travels through is also stretched.

The only way I can see this making sense is if light travels independent of the fabric of space, but it's my understanding that light travels through it, not independent of it?
Alternatively, could this be an unpowered antenna that is picking up signal from a nearby powered one?

I'm pretty sure this is what's happening. From past experience with high voltage arcs (admittedly at 60hz, not ~1 MHz), I don't think we're seeing more than a few hundred watts of power in that arc. Also, if this tower was actually the one transmitting that signal (presumably 50kW is the transmitter power) they'd shut it off or switch to a different antenna for maintenance on this one. If you shorted the output of the transmitter at the point where it's normally driving a resonant load, the best possible case is that it would trigger some kind of automatic shutdown on the final amplifier.
At least this is open source and you control your data vs whatever is today's popular mobile / SaaS app offering the same.
> Moore's law is defined as speed increases while the price stays the same.

No. As stated in the second paragraph of the article, Moore's law states that the number of transistors on a microprocessor chip will double every two years or so.
I agree with pretty much all that you're saying (I like the hosted scripts idea a lot). However, I can't help but wonder whether HN should care about all this. Does the lack of these features (which, I argue, is about convenience) really hurt the community? Or is it a filter such that only high-quality users will be motivated to trudge on through all the inconvenience?

Given that HN is (probably?) not a revenue source for YC, these kinds of feature wishlists have very different implications, and the relationship between YC and HN users is very different than it would be for reddit/online communities.
You're right; most of the languages and platforms used for developing applications don't have reliable support for tree-shaking or fine-grained static linking. But there's hope for some of them.

When building Android applications, it's common to process the JVM bytecode with ProGuard before converting it to Dex bytecode. ProGuard includes a tree-shaking step. Sometimes it's necessary to tell ProGuard about specific classes or class members that it should leave alone, if they're accessed dynamically (e.g. using java.lang.reflect or Class.forName). But it's still better than nothing.

Likewise, .NET applications for the Windows Store are compiled to native code using .NET Native, and that compilation includes a tree-shaking step. This introduces some limitations on the use of reflection. I'm guessing similar limitations will apply to the native compilation option of .NET Core.

As for JavaScript, Google's Closure Compiler can do tree-shaking. But I don't know if the Closure Compiler's advanced mode works with any of the popular JavaScript libraries or frameworks, or just Google's Closure Library.
"Advanced civilization go really advanced, to a point their activities would be undetectable to us or would appear to us the nature of reality itself."

This is science fiction, not an argument. We have no rational reason at the moment to believe this is the case, or even possible.

What we do in fact have is an increasing trend towards efficiency. Projecting that out along crazy growth curves suggests that advanced aliens are likely to be more horrified by such a waste of negentropy than we are. What can we do with that much negentropy? Nothing, basically. What can they do? Simulate many millions/billions/whoknows of human-level civilizations?

They're not more likely to be indifferent about such waste, they're more likely to prosecute you, for mass civilizational murder.

I've often thought that if civilization could advance to that point in the future, that I'd have a difficult time explaining to my great-great-great-X grandchildren that when ol' great-great-great-X-grandpa was young, you know, pouring a tank of gasoline into the car got me from point A to point B and that was it, despite it being enough energy in that one tank of gas to, say, simulate an entire human's life time. Well, kids, we didn't have that option! The tech didn't exist. So stop trying to put ol' Greats on trial for things he couldn't control, OK?
The author makes an interesting point that ggplot2 defaults often look polished enough to make a novice find them acceptable when they're really not.

It's a beautifully polished and well-documented R package, but often I feel like I've wrestled a bear to get a figure just right. The effort though seems worth it for the results and I don't feel that way about the base graphics.
"from UCLA". That might mean the researchers intend to apply for a patent on behalf of the university via their technology licensing office or similar, because most universities don't permit individuals to apply for patents solely in their name for research done using university resources. Whether or not the university actually wants to pursue the patent application it is another story.

It's conceivable that they may want to use said patent to spin-off a startup or do something else with it. However, I agree with you that I do not think it is a trap. As a general rule it's very, very bad to be sneaky in academia and once you publish anything it's pretty standard that you should be open about your intentions regarding already-published work.
1. You are ignorant on this topic. This doesn't mean the same thing as "You are stupid", it means precisely: "You lack key knowledge about this particular topic." That's how I used it.

2. I provided a few paragraphs telling why these conditions exist, and why arguing against them is not something someone educated in the topic would consider even attempting.

3. When you continue - over the course of several comments - to progress with your argument from a position of clear ignorance, it does indeed require increased naivety to the point of absurdity.

If you are going to take a stance on a subject you know little about, and then continue to assert that opinion, you can't get upset when people use more and more direct means to communicate with you. Don't assert a position that is based from a position of ignorance; seek to learn instead.

Also: I'd just like to point out the ironic nature of asserting meaningless comments are against 'guidelines' while at the same time suggesting guidelines are irrelevant for a much more important human concern.
HSAs in general are not a terrible idea; but they have created some scenarios (like OP's) that are pretty counter-intuitive. But HSAs are basically "small insurance" - if you max out your HSA on a high-deductible plan, you probably will never use your insurance. So you're paying for most normal medical expenses out of pocket, and your insurance plan is basically a backstop for if you get cancer, have an accident, etc.

Overall though, health care should not be tied to your employment.
>The US did the exact same thing with Lehmann - they found the bank that was more fucked than the rest, let them fail in a controlled manner, and it sent a signal to the market that "this is serious, equity will be wiped out, but it's not financial Armageddon". I expect China to send the same signals.

Which is a very good reason the Chinese probably shouldn't follow our lead. Letting Lehman fail was a huge disaster. It essentially seized the capital markets and sped up the collapse of a bunch of other banks. In my opinion, the solution is making the bailout so impalpable to the shareholders than it's really the last solution before bankruptcy. Or maybe even some special bank only bankruptcy that allow it to fully operate with government backing.
Hopefully, you are recognizing your own contributions to this thread as toxic.
This made me wonder how far we are from being able to create and detect gravitons. The Wikipedia page on gravitons [0] addresses this question:

Unambiguous detection of individual gravitons, though not prohibited by any fundamental law, is impossible with any physically reasonable detector. The reason is the extremely low cross section for the interaction of gravitons with matter. For example, a detector with the mass of Jupiter and 100% efficiency, placed in close orbit around a neutron star, would only be expected to observe one graviton every 10 years, even under the most favorable conditions. [...]

However, experiments to detect gravitational waves, which may be viewed as coherent states of many gravitons, are underway (such as LIGO and VIRGO). Although these experiments cannot detect individual gravitons, they might provide information about certain properties of the graviton. For example, if gravitational waves were observed to propagate slower than c (the speed of light in a vacuum), that would imply that the graviton has mass [...].

Fascinating! I take it that the question of whether the graviton could have mass is now considered to be well answered in the negative.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton
It's already been posted in this thread that it's just a smart NIC evolved from existing Myricom NICs. (Of course, my coworker was just telling me a story about how John Cocke hid his RISC processor in a printer project.)

And Amazon's "custom" CPUs are 100 MHz faster Xeons.
As long as the general public is legally permitted to do it, then yes, I think it's fine.

I agree with the outcome of the case, just not necessarily how they arrived there.

As for attaching things to utility poles, etc. yes, most cities and local governments have rules/laws about that, they're just usually not strongly enforced. As an example:

"No one is allowed to attach to utility poles in the state of Pennsylvania without permission from the pole owner."

https://www.pplelectric.com/at-your-service/for-contractors-...

As long as the government had a warrant, or this was a private citizen exercising their legal rights, I have no problem with it.

What I would have a problem with is the government performing surveillance that only they could legally do without a warrant or evaluation by a judge of some kind.
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The surplus is caused by a lack of suitable males, implying a surplus of heterosexual females. Unless a lot of these females are bi, it's not much of a boost.
> That's not what http://rethinkdb.com/docs/quickstart/ says. It shows a connection that exposes context-bound Builder methods with trigger (insert, changes, run, etc) methods.

There isn't any sort of builder or any sort of context that anything is bound to. insert and changes aren't anything like run -- they build an AST that describes an insert query, and then you have to run them with run.
Thanks, that's helpful. It's hard to get my head around the idea that an event so massive can be over so "quickly", without any residual longer-lasting effects.
This could be very true, but to show the causality it is necessary that tree shaking abilities of language/tools on average precedes widespread use of huge dependency trees. It could be in reverse. That is when for some unknown reasons multiple dependencies appears, tree-shaking tools follow and it is just easier to create them for static languages.
You can setup a catchall email on zoho or google apps for your domain.

Basically a catch all will send any emailaddress@yourdomain.com to the main email on that domain mail@yourdomain.com for example.

Once that is setup you don't generate the emailaddress portion, you can use anything on the fly. It's basically *@yourdomain.com automatically goes to mail@yourdomain.com where you could parse them. (you could also setup forwarding for this to another domain's email if you want.)

I have this setup on one of my domains to use for testing web applications on the fly with multiple email addresses.

Good luck with your project.
Uh, apparently everyone has a thing for truck drivers.
Just add "could be" to your headline and you can write anything.

There is absolutely no evidence that SoundCloud is forced to shut down and the $44m loss for 2014 is was reported before.

So a VC backup company is still losing money and is still dependent on new financing rounds or loans? Not something totally unheard of.
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> if Ruby can actually be a relatively fast language...

I think that "if" still is a pretty big if. If Truffle/Graal ships and is able to run Rails at a 30x perf improvement, that would be huge. Right now there's still some work left there, and the original article notes that they haven't been able to replicate the claimed perf gains. What's also tricky is that while there can often be "performance sweet spots" [1] in dynamic languages, it's very easy to accidentally fall out of them and make most of your app slow even if theoretically it's possible for it to run faster.

The TechEmpower benchmarks [2] are pretty damning when it comes to Ruby's current performance relative to other languages. For some projects, eventually it's easier to switch to a different language that's already fast rather than investing into speeding up a slow one.

[1] http://mrale.ph/blog/2011/11/05/the-trap-of-the-performance-...
[2] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
It's sad and annoying - another bunch of academics who can't be satisfied with using public research money to benefit the public.

They just have to go ahead and patent mathematics too. It's pathetic.
His structural engineering was famously used on the Trump Tower. How awkward.
On November 25, 1915 (at the time of WWI) Einstein presented the actual Einstein field equations to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Almost exactly 100 years later on September 14, 2015 LIGO observed the first gravitational-wave signal.
Is that a coincidence?
I've seen my classification go from Gen X to Gen Y and then to millenial over the years. I guess I should be happy to be considered one of the new kids, but I wish I would have grown up to be X like I was promised.
I've addressed the "bulging muscle" criticism many times before. Suffice it to say that it has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with a cultural difference between untyped and typed generics. C++ and D use untyped generics, while pretty much every other language in existence, Rust included, uses typed ones. It's a tradeoff, and I think Rust made the right choice. In fact, Rust chose "clarity" and "usability" over the expressive power of C++ and D templates!
This reminds of of this article

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html

Apparently Microsoft's Excel team had even written their own C compiler.
The impact of bad software is vastly overrated. Almost all of it is bad already, and yet we haven't killed ourselves off as a species yet.
This is a popular thinking, but actually there were people like Kelvin, Jeans, Rayleigh, Planck and many others who did not get famous who knew there were problems with the theory. In no point in time of modern science there was widespread opinion that "it's mostly done".
The court makes a pretty bad argument here, and one that if it went to the supreme court, would get torn apart (regardless of how they ruled) :
""Moreover, if law enforcement were required to engage in live surveillance without the aid of technology in this type of situation, then the advance of technology would one-sidedly give criminals the upper hand. The law cannot be that modern technological advances are off-limits to law enforcement when criminals may use them freely.""

Except, nobody has argued it's off limits, instead, they argue that using that technology should require a warrant. The argument that criminals can use the technology freely is also pretty much a non-starter. The whole point of the 4th amendment is to say that law enforcement can't freely do searches even if others could.

By ignoring this point, the court makes the opinion a lot weaker than it could have been.
My original comment wasn't about banning private healthcare, it was about a government forcing people to pay for a product or service that isn't acceptable, or actually damages people's lives because it is managed so poorly. The Citizens of Flint still have access to bottle water, thank goodness, but they still have to pay their city water bills unfortunately. The same would go for Bernie Sander's health plan whether or not the service provided was actually worth the price paid.

>>You as an individual are free to afford whatever you want.

That is not actually true. I'm spent the afternoon searching for health insurance for my wife, who is pregnant, and trying to immigrate to the U.S. Thanks to the 2,000 pages of ACA regulation, there is no clause or loophole that allows us to purchase insurance for her. Your argument using 'data' is not sympathetic nor persuasive to me.
Agricultural workers marry each other a lot. Also lawyers and judges marry each other. Software developers too. But apparently we also like to marry nurses, middle school teacher and accountants. But male and male marriages for software developers are somehow with recreation and fitness workers.

Meter readers don't marry other meter readers too much. Guess,once you define something so narrowly it would present a different picture.

Education related professions seem to marry other education-related professions but in administrative positions (or "other instructors") and somehow also marry various "managers"

And truckers apparently are fond of bartenders, just like dentists seems to like to dental hygienists.
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Scientists are pretty sure that dark matter is not just regular gas and dust because the amount required to create the gravity we see, would be visible. It would block or reflect a lot of the nearby starlight.

Just on the back of an envelope: If we assume the percentages in my post above apply to an individual galaxy, then there has to be 5x as much dark matter mass as lit mass. There's no way you could have 5x as much gas and dust in a galaxy as stars, and not see it.

For comparison, the sun makes up about 99.8% of the Solar System mass (500x as much mass as all the planets, dust, etc. combined).
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If gravitons have mass, then the universe is too strange to exist. Gravity is an interaction that defines the presence of matter (see dark matter). For the object that transmits that force between masses to itself have mass ... how can a black hole then project gravity?

Imho whatever is carrying gravity between masses cannot itself have a mass.
SoundCloud is a grassroots thing really necessary for creativity coming out of no where exposing music on an even playing field compared with other services. I love them.

They should not only charge for music uploading but have a premium plan for listeners like myself similar to Spotify. No ads the ability to archive songs outside of normal release windows, something like that.
I wonder of this means the space version of these antennas, eLISA, will get more funding. Using space seems like a much better way to access long distance laser conduits in a vacuum needed to detect gravitational waves.
Under the theory of science as the study of what is falsifiable, there's nothing here to falsify because there is no way to disprove that a conjectured but unobserved collision of two massive bodies was something else or didn't occur. Which is to say that it is impossible to falsify that a conjecture is a conjecture.

That there is not a geophysical theory, doesn't have a bearing on the correctness of the gravitational wave theory one way or the other...anymore than the absence of a helio-centric model for the solar system made the geocentric model more correct or the absence of a theory of oxygen made the theory of pholgiston more correct. More importantly, both these incorrect theories had reasonable explanatory power to the point that they were useful.

The reason they were useful theories is because they were predictive, pholgiston allowed a person to calculate the weight of ashes after burning and the geocentric solar model made the prediction of the location of stars possible with reasonable precision. On the other hand, theories that offer conclusions about unfalsifiable propositions are what Carnap and the Vienna circle termed "metaphysics".

The conclusion that the experiment justifies is that the Earth resonates. There is no external event to which the measurements can be correlated to establish causality. There's no confidence interval. It's a case where the observations confirm a pre-existing world view under the same human cognitive structures by which seashells on mountain tops confirm a world-wide flood. It assumes that because we live on the Earth we know everything about it.

Anyway, it's a case of over-reaching with the conclusions. It's an argument from design.
That's a great read even if you aren't a Rubyist, especially the discussion of monkey patching.
There have been a number of vulnerabilities in Webkit since that last update. https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=Webk...

Maybe they don't apply to Jetpack. Do you know if they have a bug tracker?
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And I think now you are touching on the other part of her comment...

1. Sexuality - particularly with women, in my experience - is variable: hetro women can and do consider other women as viable sexual partners, even if they don't consider them long term partners;

2. The implication of a "surplus of hetero females" is flawed given that bi and homo females do, in fact, exist and aren't properly accounted for. Not every single female in that surplus is available to you. In fact, some of them are available exclusively to "themselves" if you were.
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I dabbled with GR many years ago, so I'd have been surprised if this hadn't turned up sooner or later... but My God, look at that... three earth masses-worth of radiated gravitational energy, I can hardly fathom that.
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