skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She's the one who's putting herself at risk. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing. And every time you slander someone you really should link to independent sources so others can at least verify and judge for themselves.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/black-holes-are-a-...

We have many theories but little evidence of any of the theories having to do with black holes.
> if by unhappy chance it turns out that some of the quantum details of the brain's state are important to the mind, then it's possible we may simply never be able to copy a person. Let us hope that is not the case.

I would hope that that is indeed the case...

For people who are into anime, there is a very nice one about this issue called Kaiba [1] that envisions a future where everyone is freely able to modify their memories and swap them across bodies.

[1] http://myanimelist.net/anime/3701/Kaiba
You would need a shift away from publishing i think. The rationale behind publishing in long-form journal articles is not really valid in our century. There is an immense amount of noise in each paper, and findings are typically summarized in their 3-4 figures anyway. There are proposals for new approaches (e.g. http://www.silvalab.com/silvapapers/QAAlcinoSilva.pdf).

I believe we need a directory of scientific findings of sorts. It should be possible for each finding to cite other findings it relied on, thus creating a graph of influence/significance. The current situation with citations often involves friends citing friends , so i don't consider it reliable. It should also include open questions , thus giving research directions.
> Similar to e.g. how property tax works in the US, you would pay something like 1% of the value of your "property" in taxes each year -- and when you sue, you can only sue for how much of that "value" was taken away from you (with perhaps treble damages or something). Then, all of a sudden, it's not enough to claim that your copyrights are worth $18B to sue Google for $9B - you have to have actually paid $180M/year or so in taxes in the last few years to make that claim.

So poor small time developer can't sue any large company for a substantial payout because they can't afford the $N x 1% fee? I don't think that'll work.

The real solution to this is time. We'll eventually get a new set of judges and legislators that understand technology. The former is all that's really needed though their extended terms make change very slow

Once you've got level headed judges willing to throw out bullshit cases and impose punitive fees on trolls, this entire problem goes away. Until then, it makes financial sense for trolls to operate and even legitimate companies have to play that game to survive.
Something I encountered recently changed my outlook on "the speed of light"..

The "speed of light" is not really the speed of light - it's the speed of causality.

When one measures the "speed of light", one is measuring the time taken between two events;

Event 1 : the moment a beam of light was emitted from a location.

Event 2 : the moment that beam of light was detected at some other location.

The time taken for light to traverse between its initial emission and its subsequent detection, is basically the speed of causality.

For me that was a bit of an epiphany, and makes it much easier for me to understand the concept of spacetime that previously had me befuddled.

Also, the realisation that the "speed of light" is denoted as c (causality, anyone? ;) ) made me smile :)
Overall I think the main agreement here is that humanity is far too ignorant to even posit how a type III would operate - never mind figure out how to detect them.
I'm pretty sure that economics, not technology, was the hold up. Pressurized hard drives have been around for a long time, the halon filled IBM 3390 being a classic example [0]. Yes helium is more difficult to contain than halon, but it is a long solved problem.

[0] (eevblog #395) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjoWMA5d84
Pretty much this:

Researcher: "I have to go to this club so people think I'm fancy"

Club: "The club charges a lot so only fancy people go there"

Other people: "This person is very fancy because they go to that club"

End result is that people buy their "fanciness" by being on that club
> I can only assume that technology has created more social isolation.

Well, bluntly, it IS putting distance between the participants genitals.
Not dogfighting but you still have to evade missiles and whatnot.
But what amount of the SpaceX is funded by money gathered elsewhere? Is it fair competition or are they undercutting?
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Even if they could (and they can publish their preprints), scientists rarely bother. That's because they want to communicate their science to people who matter to them (e.g. grant giving bodies), not to the general public.
That title is some serious clickbait. It's just as strongly expected that the signal will disappear on closer inspection.
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The Honourable Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi launched a much awaited scheme- “Stand up India” along with a web portal for the same on 5th April, 2016 in Noida, Sector 62.

See more at: http://www.biz2credit.in/blog/2016/04/12/whats-in-stand-up-india-scheme-for-msmes/
I believe tomp's suggestion is that you can bootstrap as an overlay journal (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_journal ) to build up that expertise. You don't need to have experienced people from the start, because they can learn while doing. At the start, no one is going to pay attention to the journal. Then as it gets known for being a good curator, people will start requesting to be reviewed for inclusion. Poof you've got a journal.

You might even start with only yourself. And in 5 years if you want to distance yourself from your earlier, naïve efforts, then simply announce a name change.

Here's the ugly truth - it's hard to tell if most papers are "good", and there are many types of "good".
Umm what? a few bad apples do not represent all trump supporters. By the way what you said has nothing to do with why normal news submissions are being censored.
Both infinite and dropbox are standard dictionary words.

Dropboxes are also not limited to the physical world, as many online educational software platforms (that pre-date Dropbox the company) call their shared storage areas for assignment submissions a "dropbox".
> I mean, if you're going to be unbound by facts or reality, why be boring?

To be more persuasive.
In a reply I also just made alongside yours, I mention that we're actually measuring the speed of causality - so you could think of "the speed of a massless object through spacetime" as the "speed of causality".
What happens when automation starts to produce more physical, intrinsically valuable goods, though? I'm thinking of developments that don't just eliminate jobs, but also increase personal security.

Like, what if farming becomes primarily robotic. But, in the process of that transformation, each of us ends up with solar-powered, open-source driven backyard robots that tend gardens where the produce did not require pesticides nor chemicals to grow. Perhaps even raw materials for 3D printing and manufacturing of some household items could be raised as backyard crops.

You'd have less need to buy things that you need to survive, and so less need to work. Society probably will need to trend more socialistic, but perhaps automation will wind up allowing unemployed people to live more independent and self-sufficient than they can today.
That's a terrible example, not just because of technical inaccuracy because China is one of the few places in the world making vast capital investments - not just in production, but real estate, transport, power generation etc.

(Sibling comment is correct that SMT automated assembly is used for most parts, and a few large TH parts like connectors are soldered on at the end. Wire bondout of chips into chip packages and things like SD cards and USB sticks however seems to be more manual.)
Hyperbole, but the actual article isn't entirely awful.

The TL;DR of this is that no-one's entirely certain as to what it is that's being created, if anything is being created at all. It's still very possible that this is noisy data.

That being said, the main contender at this point is a boson. At the far end of the possible options are things like a graviton, or a fermion, which would make the supersymmetry crowd happy.
I am not sure why this is being up voted.
Well they do that with Global Warming as well, so

But it is unfair to blame only that group for "magical thinking"
Selling the finished film would probably give CBS a stronger basis for suing, but I haven't seen anything to even suggest that Peters or Axanar Productions plan to do so. I'd be interested to know of any evidence to the contrary.
They have an excellent comparison FAQ:

http://infinit.sh/faq?q=&hPP=20&idx=infinit_sh_faq&p=0&is_v=...

Maidsafe isn't on there, probably because it hasn't really launched yet, but Storj, IPFS, Wuala and others are. Should give you a good feel for what Infinit is doing.
It depends – you can generally expense anything you buy over it's useful lifetime, so if you aquire a patent for your new project, you'll spread that investment over the next few years. If you hire an architect, it's part of the building's cost.

The only exemption I've ever encountered is intellectual property that you create with employees – there'd be just too much uncertainty over it's value so you suffer those costs immediately (which can be a good thing, it lowers your taxes etc).

But yes, if you're investing a lot there will be some negative effect from the beginning because everything starts losing value immediately and revenue only starts later.

Note that all this is completely removed from cash flow. You'll have to pay for all the stuff you buy – usually pretty quickly. There have been companies with excellent balance sheets which still ran out of money because all the value was in illiquid investments. That's why companies often prefer to lease cars or machinery: it gets the different cycles in sync.

(all based on the laws of my small European country. Not endorsed by GAAP. Lack of acronyms caused by inexplicable loss of the relevant vocabulary once I got away from all the CXXs)
Occam's razor is a heuristic, not a law.
Different A-12: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_A-12_Avenger...

You're thinking of the first generation of what became the SR-71, which was made for the CIA, and used a different numbering scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_A-12
There's a reasonable distinction to be drawn between trying to make money off the production, and using Kickstarter to crowdsource the capital necessary to make the production at all. As far as I can tell, Axanar has remained solidly in the latter camp. Is there anything to show otherwise?
Microsoft has created its own IFTTT tool called Flow
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Can someone explain the regular (weekly?) dips in the graph of Sci-Hub usage? Is it people not working on Sundays?
In many disciplines, authors do the typesetting, the publisher only really handle the peer review coordination (reviewers themselves are not paid)...
Ugh, yes. I recently wrote a parser for an ISO standard file format. I had to base it on the draft submission because they wanted me to pay them a bunch of money for the actual end standard.

I really hope the final standard didn't have any substantive changes, so that my implementation is correct. But all I can really do is cross my fingers since it at least seems to work with available data.

Charging for standards has a direct negative effect on the proliferation of those standards, especially today when a lot of code is written as open source hobby projects, which are left out in the cold.
Don't forget that SpaceX had to sue to be allowed to even compete in these bids.
Haxe seems an interesting alternative for mobile development ( cross platform) for my currently chosen way : Xamarin.

Any tutorial for a crossplatform app on haxe with using native features ( eg. gps)?
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To be pernickety (because we like that around here), what I think you're referring to is the transmission of information, which is still down to the maximum velocity at which something of no mass can propagate through spacetime to interact with something else within its light cone[0][1].

The important thing in causality is the concept of the light cone. For things that happen far apart enough that the light cones don't interfere with each other, causality doesn't matter. One could happen first, or the other. It's only when you consider two things where the interaction occurs that the propagation matters.

Clearing this up a little further, having just read your other comment, the causal link between events and the speed by which information propagates is as a result of c, not the cause of it.

0: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Light_cone
1: http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/spa...
Thanks for the correction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
We've yet to see where this ends, however. Legal papers may be next.
Ask HN: Vim starup time for opening 1000 lines code file
Hi vim users,

What's average startup time for opening, say a 1000 line python/c/<your favorite programming lang> file?

How to find startup time:

[0]~$ vim --startuptime ~/recordtime.log a-file-with-say-1000-lines-code

Now the file ~/recordtime.log 's last line: shows time (milliseconds) in first column with comment "--- VIM STARTED ---". That's vim startup time.

For me:

* Startup time :2885.87 milliseconds

* Number of lines :3719

* Programming Lang :python

* Config :hacked version of spf-13-vim https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim
(956 line .vimrc and ~120 bundles(plugins) being sourced.

* VIM version
(vim --version) :VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4

* Operating system
cat /etc/lsb-release
for ubuntu :Ubuntu 14.04

* Share hardware details if you want..

* Any other relevant information.

Interested users may use above format or whatever works for you!

Please note:

Don't get in flame wars on Usenet (or anywhere else). [ http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html ]
I think the parent comment meant that Infinite is a word, and also a sensible name for Dropbox to name their product. Dropboxe is a silly neologism that only makes sense in the context of Dropbox's recent press, and not a good name for a product outside of this context.
Sure does but avg payload cost would need to be 990,000,000 for it to no longer hold true.
Thanks to Infinit for this, it was right on my humour sweet spot!
I find the case a bit borderline, but I can see Instagram's point. It's not just the -gram ending context-free.

Unlike kissograms, or even the Telegram app, Littergram is specifically about photo sharing, which risks confusing people into believing they and Instagram are related.

TBH I think the guy has done a good job of getting publicity. He should use this opportunity to get some goodwill, and use the publcity to change the name to something close enough but not infringing.

I'll offer LitterBot ;)
Also, for ages Macs have had a "Public/Drop Box" folder as a write-only way for other people to give you things (and it actually makes a lot more sense in that interpretation). It did make it a little confusing when starting to use Dropbox itself, as then you have "~/Dropbox" and "~/Public/Drop Box".
I don't know, my experience with Google service is that it is on a par with Microsoft UI - makes me want to break things. Maybe we have different meanings of service though - I am thinking of service as 'something does not work, can I get some service for this thing of yours I am using?'
> Finn Brennan, who drove London Underground trains for 23 years and now works for union Aslef, says drivers deserve their £49,673 annual pay because they do a "difficult and skilled job".

> He says they start work as early as 04:45 and finish as late as 01:30, working eight-hour shifts in a "small metal box underground" - conditions he says would be considered "cruel and unusual punishment" in other circumstances.

And yet whenever LU try to automate them they go on strike. Guess it can't be that bad after all. I wonder if he can say "hypocrite"...
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temporary, massive fall in employment, and sharp interest rate volatility are required for releasing ineffectively used capital and labor in the economy, to be hoovered up by stronger businesses

This argument really needs more economics to back it up, because the trouble with the "creative destruction" line of reasoning is that you get the destruction first and the creation is far from guaranteed.

A big fall in employment is something that has real human consequences in misery, ill-health, and even death. Likewise a capital collapse tends not so much to release capital as destroy it - both in terms of capital values and actual physical capital of abandoned buildings. Detroit's vast areas of abandoned real estate aren't capital that's freed, they're capital that's destroyed one burnt-out building at a time.

Stability is vastly underrated. There are plenty of less stable economies and they do less well. Stability enables planning.

Also, your interest rates/capital investment argument is the wrong way up. The normal understanding of how interest rates affect inflation is that high rates reduce inflation by reducing investment ( e.g. http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetarypolicy/Pages/how.aspx ). Raising rates makes it less attractive to make physical investments and more attractive to just leave the money in bonds. Conventionally to encourage more investment we need lower interest rates.
Yes, I'm aware of the nature of the drive. It is purely used to store incremental backups from my main ZFS set of three, so sequentially-written large tar files, with associated par2 parity data.

No, the drive isn't technically returning corrupted data. I ran "par2 v" over the stored files (which is a read-only verify of the parity data), and it reports several of the files corrupted. However, looking in /var/log/messages, I do have several messages saying "Medium Error" and "Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed".

The drive also has quite bad SMART stats, for instance:

5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 8
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 001 001 099 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 2853
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 093 093 000 Old_age Always - 7
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 111 100 000 Old_age Always - 38134120
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 24
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 24

The drive also has seven logged ATA errors, and has five failed self-tests.

I think it's stuffed.
I've made peace with the fact that life isn't fair...and work hard to be on the right side of that coin toss.
There is a theory that, in Brazil, the popularity of telenovelas (ie soaps) have directly caused a decrease in the number of children that women choose to have [1]. Quote:

"The secret sauce of influence is the telenovela's subtle promotion of extravagant materialism by means of a smaller family as opposed to the relative poverty of large families. It's also had the effect of promoting urban lifestyles."

I don't know how directly relevant this is to teenage pregnancy, but there does seem to be evidence for media consumption affecting reproductive outcomes.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/how...
This discussion is in the context of a sudden failure of a variety of crops, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Grass

In that context, for a couple or so of years you don't worry about soil erosion, except to avoid a repeat of the Dust Bowl, you worry about people not starving. Before AKA "now", and after the emergency period, yes, you worry about it, as we do now.
Employment == life in our society. They strike when you try to take it away.
From a practical point of view, the baby universe theory is no different than the “information is lost” theory. Although it might be satisfying to think that information is not “really lost”, there is no way in which we -- in our universe -- would be able to tell the difference. The distinction is philosophical, not physical.

There is a different theory not mentioned prominently on that page that in my opinion provides the most useful resolution: Black Hole Complementarity. In a sense it is not a satisfying resolution, because it basically states “the paradox is not a paradox”. It is very counter-intuitive, but that is a problem with intuition. The wave-particle duality of light, which is nowadays not really considered a paradox any more although it was ~110 years ago, is a good analogy. As always happens with questions like these, in the end the answer is “that is a nonsensical question to ask”.
Oh, that might explain where all the antimatter went. :)
How hedonic adaptation produces just world assumption.
I don't think it's hypocritical to say a job is difficult and also to say that you want to keep that job. Automation may or may not be a good idea, but I think it's important to be compassionate about those who we lose their livelihood as a result. We as a society don't have a compelling idea for how to help those people yet.
That's the official policy at a lot of places.

IMO, as a manager, you're an AH if you aren't willing to give more information than that in a reference check, regardless of company policy.
Never heard of infinit.sh, but it looks great. The repo is almost empty, though (https://github.com/infinit/infinit).

Is the code completely open source? Could I setup infinit.sh inside my own infrastructure?
I think the article misses the point. Since when do you need to "justify" getting a salary that is above average?

I see it as simple as: I wanted X, I was offered X-10%, we settled on X-5%. I don't need to justify anything, to anyone.
That will Streisand on Dropbox very quickly.
Exactly. Some games are perfect for touchscreen, like Temple Run, Candy Crush and Subway Surfer. I don't think that's the real problem with mobile gaming.
Eh, it's not inconsistent to have a very bad job, and that such a bad job is better than no job - the same way that one is not a hypocrite for not quitting from a bad job. People generally need money to have shelter, food, healthcare, education, etc. for themselves and their family. Do you think these merit sacrifice?
Facebook revenue up, productivity down, coincidence? You decide !
It's not the medium, but the forum that matters. There's a hierarchy to forums such as workshop, conference, journal. Then within each forum there are tiers. For instance SIGIR is better than CIKM for information retrieval. USENIX is better than FAST for file systems.

The World

Then even within each conference there's a tier. Posters are the least, full papers are the most.

At each tier, submissions are competitive. This is where the peer review takes place.", and mostly it comes down to reading how the experiments were done and of the conclusions made sense given the experimental setup, and how well the paper is written.
Justify? I make what I make because I convinced someone I was worth it. No other factor matters. Not my education, not my history, not my skills... it's just a question of "Who sells who? Either they sell me that I'm worthless or I sell them that I'm useful."

Every worker is a gamble for any company that hires them: Will this person generate more revenue than that person costs? In the world of tech, as long as huge gains are possible, it is your job to convince others you are worth that risk.

In a world where tech no longer yields such gains... well... that's a different story.