skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very, very small effect right now, near the noise threshold. Magnetic induction from the power leads can be bigger than the effect. Testing in vacuum eliminated some other sources of noise. That's why there's such skepticism.

The encouraging thing about having some theory now is that it gives some insights into what to do to get a bigger effect. Lilienfeld built a field effect transistor in 1925. This was a major breakthrough, but wasn't pursued. He was using a copper/sulfur oxide on aluminum, sort of like a copper oxide rectifier, a known device at the time. That oxide apparently has some semiconducting properties. But lacking any theory, there was no clear way to make it better.

There was nothing to indicate that highly refined silicon (something nobody used back then) was the material to use instead of aluminum. Germanium diodes were known to rectify, but nobody understood why. Not until Bell Labs tried to figure out how germanium diodes worked and some semiconductor device physics was discovered was there forward progress.

Once the underlying mechanism started to be understood, progress was fast.
For many, I think there was a pretty simple explanation: Halo. The hardware was a little iffy, but XBox has always had the mother of all console exclusives upon which to build their ecosystem. (Though the significance of the Halo franchise seems to have faded a bit in recent years.)
Drones and regulations
I need perspectives from industry on FAA's massive efforts to "over regulate" and silently bring into it's ambit.

Need voices that are counter intuitive to FAA's safety arguments.
Reuters is not US. AP is pretty good for big news, yea.
> Not that I'm disagreeing but you could have said "Newton mechanics has been the workhorse method for centuries and everyone has found that they work" then Einstein came along and dumped the apple cart.

That's specious. I am talking about a well-studied physical system, not a theoretical framework.

The correct analogy in this case is that someone picked a system that is well-described by Newtonian mechanics—e.g., a pendulum—and then built a small, crappy pendulum, made a crappy measurement on said crappy pendulum, and then claimed the existence of new physics despite the fact that no new physics is required to explain the behavior of much bigger and better pendula that other people already built.
> At very small accelerations, the wavelengths become so large they can no longer fit in the observable universe. When this happens, inertia can take only certain whole-wavelength values and so jumps from one value to the next.

So the EmDrive glitches the universe size? This is hilarious.
They're not biased when they agree with my point of view.
And ran into a brick wall, iirc.
...I'd prefer my neighbors not to stink up the whole building with their skunk stench.
Yeah, except that this is not really built into Git. You can't get detailed differences or merge differences in these large files. They are basically opaque blobs as far as Git is concerned.
Schools and Colleges Are Requiring Fitness Trackers for Students
I will never again work in an office with music if I can help it. First was the elevator music in a cube farm job, then the dubstep and rap in a small, young office.

The author writes,
" because (in my opinion) there’s nothing worse than being forced to listen to Metallica when trying to do, well, pretty much anything."

For me, Metallica is nearly optimal. I understand the other perspective, which is why I don't support metallica being played to a whole office. I expect the same courtesy from people who have different taste.
Well, one thing is that RTP and DFW tend not to have the laws that places like California does, regarding employee protection against non-competes. Meaning that people are generally not empowered to create their own startups, which is a key component of Silicon Valley's success. Another is the lack of money, and a third, especially true now, is the fact that bills like NC's HB2 can actually be passed in those states.
Cool indication that Bitcoin wallets are being tracked when used for drug sales
Where did you get the 2015 data from CrunchBase? Only the 2013-and-earlier data is freely available and allowed to be redistributed (to my personal frustration)

https://data.crunchbase.com/page/pricing
This is incorrect, a lot of people want to live there. There are many ways of calculating population growth, but Forbes says that the triangle is the 4th fastest growing metro area in the country:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2015/01/27/americas-...
"Wangle is heavily influenced by the JVM-based libraries Netty,"

Stopped reading there. Have experience with using Netty in a java server application and engineers dread being assigned a bug or enhancement in that codebase. There's a tendency throw around the word "over-engineered" lightly but netty is a real, live and inexplicably popular example of exactly what that word means.
Solar does have externalities, as well. Solar panels aren't built from nothing.

And batteries neither, apparently
I know that feeling, but please reconsider.

I think you are wildly underestimating people's surprising ability to do the wrong thing without even fully noticing.

Defeat device engineer? Emission levels are obviously O(n), with n being fuel consumption and the small but important twist that in the case of NOx and friends, O is far from constant but highly variable depending on many outside factors. But when the root purpose of the defeat device is to allow more aggressive mileage/CO2 optimizations (at the cost of a much higher big-O) it would be easy enough to conveniently forget all about O even while actively making it a lot more variable than it is naturally. Yay, higher mileage, lower n, planet saved, it's good to be us.

It's incredibly stupid, but according to hanlon's razor, that is how most evildoing gets done.

Still, I fully agree with your conclusion that the loss of trust (and the resulting lower threshold for future evildoings) is even worse than all the NOx/NSA/lost taxes.
Having lived in NYC and Seattle, I recently visited Durham and it was pretty rad. Great local breweries and local coffee, fun independent music scene, great barbecue. It certainly isn't midtown Manhattan levels of urban, but I could totally see it being a fun place to live.
Yeah I stopped reading there, too.

Somebody should fork their site and edit out all the Falling Down (1993 film) moments.
What Made Apple Apple
No vacuum testing has ever taken place. They've run tests in a vacuum chamber that was not evacuated.
But that doesn't follow at all. Others have pointed out (in this thread) it's possible that old-media outlets have become sloppy _because_ the sloppy new-media outlets are out-producing them and gaining a major share of attention. I don't think this data point supports either conclusion more than the other.
Companies tend to stick to their own ecosystems, and in this case Facebook's folly library has already bought into libevent, for better or worse. Hopefully once asio gets standardized more libraries will switch over, but until then there are a number of legitimate issues:

* There's a Boost version and a stand-alone version, you might want to use one but not the other:
* Boost requires linking against Boost.System, making it not header-only anymore.
* Stand-alone isn't as widely used and if you've already bought into Boost, you might not want an extra dependency.

* Asio's API documentation exists, but that's about the best you can say about it.

* The standard version is likely to resemble the library but won't be quite the same. When it gets standardized, you still have to adapt your code. One might reasonably argue it doesn't matter much whether to use one dependency vs. another if neither binary nor source compatibility can be preserved.

* The Networking TS didn't make the standard for C++17 so it'll still be a long time until the C++ world converges around it.

* Chris Kohlhoff's complete absence from both the Boost and stand-alone GitHub project's issue queues raises questions about the state of maintenance, there are lots of pull requests pending without upstream action. (The one email I sent him regarding his executors proposal also never got a reply.) Modifying their own library would be much easier for Facebook than getting asio patches upstream.

Personally I'd like to see a world where new C++ projects depend on asio, but it's understandable if others feel differently about it.
Well, first of all my friend i feel like i know you from some where. oh yes, you are in the same place as i was three years ago. after taking my bachelors degree.

my friend, things are not gonna end just because you think or believe they will, and even if they do you will get one of the most important thing out of it "EXPERIENCE" i have to failed startups under my name, and am still working on my third, take a plunge i would suggest, plus as you said you have some one to take care of so extra cash in your pocket wont hurt.

the life is yours, the decision is yours, but have if the time is gonna it is not gonna come by, don't lose hope just yet, try to cover an extra mile. some thing good will turn out.

As for me i live in India, in a place where the salaries of an average programmer is 250 euro/month. so there are worst places than where you are right now. take the experience not the money, first two years as a junior programmer are very important.

Thanks for listening :)
This is great. I have used one LiFePO4 batteries (3.2 V) and a copper rod to replace two 1.5v batteries in a few electronic. This would be even better then a copper rod.
From the Reddit comment linked by rybosome below:

>Some have questioned why no companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, or SpaceX have attempted to investigate the device, but regardless of how likely these companies find the results so far, the largest reason is almost surely that the devices are both patented by their inventors.
In this context, jacked is synonymous with muscular.

"I grunt when I get my swell on at the gym. That's 'cause everyone should see how jacked and tan I am."
They are advertising their services by showing how good they are.
An independent organization just ranked Google as the best cloud, beating Amazon
I live in Seattle, but have worked remotely on a startup based in SF. There is definitely a cultural difference. Many of the SF folks I know seem to be ashamed to work for a big company and not "doing their own thing". These people work for very well respected companies with great products, but always seem to be planning their escape to something new. If you are doing some crazy ridiculous experimental thing in SF, it is "cool".

In Seattle, I have talked to many employees of Amazon and Microsoft and they seem more proud of working at a top big-name company. They are working on products that are already used by millions of people around the world. When I mention that I work on no-name startup, I sometimes get the feeling that they feel bad for me. It's like "Oh that's cute, if you are looking for real job, I can probably get you in at Amazon".
"Also Windows Phone is the only mobile OS where C++ is a first class language."

Umm... I don't know how you define "first class language" but our SDK (networking stack) compiles C++ code right in the same XCode project with ObjC code without any sort of translation layers etc (a la JNI in Java) between the two.
AngularJS Authentication Screencast Series – Part 2
Does anyone else also find the following statement plainly stupid:

>H1B immigrant labor from India has clearly become a "strategic" sourcing model for tech giants as in the past 2 years as both Microsoft & Google have appointed CEOs and other executives from India--while backing open borders, pro H1B tech lobby FWD.us.

Does the author really think the two Indian ex-pats were made CEOs of respective companies because of their country of origin?
Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: "Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Knoll
Managed to find a strategy pretty quickly: begin from the outside, opposite of the direction you want the cat to go in; then fill until you have 1 exit in that direction and begin to fill in the exits while the cat travels to the one open route, and when it's one step away you close it. You then have many more moves before the cat can get back to open area, in which case you can repeat until you have a closed loop.
Theranos Under Pressure as Inquiries Mount
It's sad when a chain of logical reasoning points out (again) how weird it is that we cannot solve the real problem, which is "Why is there a third world in the first place?"

Why does there have to be a region in permanent squalor? Why can't every place on earth where civilization exists be a decent place for humans to live, with peace, opportunity and sanitation?

But ... back down to earth. Since we can't fix that larger problem, at least maybe we can stop malaria by killing all the mosquitoes.
The theory seems to predicts reversed thrust in certain conditions, it's at the end of the abstract. I don't know for certain whether they're random or not, but at least this looks interesting.
I also bought a different, brand-name stand for my rMBP. I'm one of the people who are willing to pay extra for a product because it looks better. I don't think Amazon is threatening higher-price/lower-quantity products that are truly outstanding (much better looking, much better quality). These make more money off of one sale, and have a smaller market. The more complex the product is, the easier it is for a company to set their version apart from the AmazonBasics one. I think they're only threatening those that are simply "easy enough" to copy without losing functionality and utility. The laptop stand is very close to the "easy enough" part of the spectrum. Things like USB hubs and ethernet cables, even closer.
I think the "aha!" moment for this is, today, still another 30-50 or even many more years away. I could ramble on for hours as to what I want the future to look like, but suffice it to say it really would be what we generally refer to now as the "automated home of the future". The largest obstacle right now is branding and current technology. Every individual company is vying to meet all your needs. Microsoft wants you to have a "Microsoft Home", Apple want you to live in your "Apple Home", Google the "Google Home", etc. This is not the future. The future, done right, requires seamless integration of all the devices we will own. To the point where we stop thinking of everything as even being a separate device. A single system that blissfully handles your entire home life.

The current situation is laughable. Existing devices in this space are designed as standalone items, which may or may not even be meant to integrate with other devices. The "standards" that have been brought to life thus far are... ugh. Just no!

I will be satisfied the day I can turn every wall into a touch display, with wireless speakers everywhere. Every lightbulb, every speaker, every appliance, every goddamn little thing seamlessly integrated into one beautiful system. No push-and-pull of different standards trying to fight for a place in my home. No separate apps on a stupid smartphone depending on what I want to control.

Microsoft's example with wanting to be the "home media center" is such an insignificantly tiny part of the whole puzzle. A TV and a set-top box gets me nothing of what I want for the future. They only have their eyes set on media consumption, what you will pay for to download and watch/play on their stupid service. It has nothing to do with actually being the center of your home, only the center of your living room spending habits.

I'm so disappointed with how slowly things are moving along. Computing is still in its infancy, and we haven't really advanced very far at all. We need a few true visionaries and inventors to come along and make things start to happen. So far, we've got nothing worthy of being called amazing.

tldr; I don't want a home media center. I want Jarvis dammit. Actually, I want more than Jarvis. And fuck 4K TV; I want to skip ahead to 1024K wall surfaces that you can look at with a fkn microscope and not tell the difference between a display and reality. ;)
Edit: I thought you were the one with your definitions reversed but it seem news organizations and stories actually seem to also use contradictory definition.

See for example:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/06/ec...

versus

http://globalnews.ca/news/2650706/canada-to-introduce-pot-le...
Absolutely fascinating write up, stuff like this is why I still love HN, as a web developer who mostly writes line-of-business stuff this kind of programming is a long way from what I do but reminds me just how big the field is.
I like this idea a lot.

Seems like you don't even need to build a website to get started.

I installed the pocket chrome extension and it looks like I can share my list publicly using this service: http://sharedli.st/jessealdrg9

Can you look at that list periodically and send summaries of any new items to JesseAldridge@gmail.com?

I'd be willing to pay for this. Knowledge is power.
Some women are similar to you and some are different. I know lots of women who swear by their menstrual cups.
the chronically uncool

As in, warm-blooded animals?
Measurement error is a fine, and even necessary hypothesis in attempting to explain the observed effect. Multiple, independent replications tend to cast doubt on the ultimate viability of that hypothesis, however. How likely is it that all of these people at all of these labs are making the same measurement error?

And then, on top of that, when the observed effect comports with a theory that also predicts another, well-established observed effect?

It's been said that the most important phrase you will ever hear a scientist utter isn't, "I've found it!", but rather, "Well, that's strange."

This is very much in the, "Well, that's strange" class of things. Either way, we're going to learn something about how the universe works, or about our ability to measure it, or both. This should be celebrated, not dismissed as mere "measurement error."
It seems to me more bent on buttressing a pro-scientific religious viewpoint.
I would use it for storing and tracking specifications if this is a possible usage. In regulatory compliance, there is always a need to know what the specification was at some point in time.

However, any system would have to be available on a private internal network for most places.
From my memory, it wasn't that they melted too easily, rather they developed stress fractures from thermal cycling. Perhaps due to brittleness relative to lead, or perhaps due to thermal incompatibility (expanding or contracting at the wrong rate)
An online art project that tries to see if the internet can keep a rose alive
The site lost a lot of credibility at several moments for me, this being a big one.
@Tharkun: You are right that not every query is immediately parallelizable. Distinct count's are another example. In some cases data can be re-partitioned so we can calculate exact values and push down computation in parallel. This may provide better performance than a single large table, so there are still benefits to it. Ultimately though there will be tradeoffs to moving to an entirely distributed environment, but depending on the use-case the value may offset those.
Looks like Safari doesn't provide the Intl object (ECMAScript Internationalization API), which I depend on in my module initialization.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I don't think they're saying Nadella was hired because of his country of origin, but rather they would have preferred an American to have risen brought the ranks to be in Nadella's position.

(I personally think Nadella's an excellent CEO)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer

Pickup by virus or other microorganism. Transposons.
The Immortality Upgrade: Mormons and Transhumanism
I shouldn't have written »absorbed by atoms and reemitted later«, that is really a different thing, interacting with the atoms is better. The superposition of all possible paths and interactions results in a wave function that effectively travels slower than the speed of light.
First off, "simple" is relative. A laptop stand is relatively simple, that's just what it is.

So, you're saying we stand to lose original making of products that are easy for Amazon to copy. That's exactly what I'm saying isn't that important.

You point 3 is what you should do if your product is not innovative or cannot compete with a generic AmazonBasics version. If it's truly better, or complex enough that it simply won't be copied by Amazon, then make it and you won't have issues.
I love your dictionary-like sample sentence :)
so, 7% less of our gdp than we spend on healthcare right now.
Sega's 8-bit Master System console is still being sold in Brazil.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/brazil-is-a-video-game-...
Presumably GP meant phlogiston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory
Hey, upgrading pip should solve your issue.

I filed an issue for the missing info at https://github.com/coala-analyzer/website/issues/30 , thank you for your feedback!
Link? According to the article, "And last year, NASA conducted its own tests in a vacuum to rule out movement of air as the origin of the force." So either the story is wrong or you are, but both can't be right, right?
I can't help it - the first thing I thought of was doing a mashup of this and leftpad as a service :)
But there's nothing innovative about the original versions of the AmazonBasics products. That's why they're called AmazonBasics. I'll agree with you when we have an AmazonBasics car or smartwatch, which turn will change the entire paradigm and probably won't happen.
This makes me wonder, how prevalent are non-cheaters? Are they distributed 50/50, or some other distribution?
This is mostly 3D modeling, AutoCAD is more comparable to LibreCAD for 2D stuff
I think Google loon could be the answer to some of these problems. Google Fiber also announced something about bringing wireless 1gbit Internet. Despite Google Fiber being a good business for Alphabet I think many of these thinga Alphabet introduces are just a kick to monopolistic telcos to get with the times.
Sounds like a good area for GE ads to target. I enjoy those commercials.
Ah yes, the wietpas, a mandatory coffee shop membership card only available for residents and with a hard limit of 2000 members. When this government sanctioned system was put into play, the streets of Maastricht suddenly had plenty of aggressive pushers overnight, with no "brand" quality, health information or age checks, and plenty of nuisance in the streets.

It was so bad that the mayor of Amsterdam noped out of introducing it, together with most mayors in towns that doesn't kiss a border. I believe most, if not all coffee shops in the Randstad area (Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht) are still welcoming any adults into their coffee shops.
No, the contrapositive. Being cool helps you access the trust networks through which illegal supply flows.
US Ranks 41st in Press Freedom Index Thanks to 'War on Whistleblowers'
Is that really true? I would think that most people spend more time on their phones than watching TV.
> It could also be that jokes coming from hostile parties sound more like threats.

Exactly. He talks about the second type of jokes in the story about the doctor in the army. How humor and jokes was used for oppression.
I also hate the argument that somehow an American deserves or needs the job more than an immigrant. Creating a job is a great thing, no matter where the person is from.
Did you read the article? It's an interesting way of making a rich shareable document that is readable by those you share the link with and not by anyone else, including those who operate the server, or those on the network route to you.

Well, that's the principle, I didn't look closely enough to see if their implementation can be trusted, but it's a fun idea.