skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is contemptible garbage. The author implies engineers do not improve the world, but he is not about to go without cars or washing machines or credit. This current election was going to be difficult even for a moderate Republican to win, but this guy got emotional over the coverage therefore it was poignant to him and relevant to his argument. Twitter has so little to contribute that much of what he says is an apology for the unavoidable abuse that saturates the medium. This kind of article is why so little is lost in flushing traditional journalism down the toilet.
There are a few things to tease apart in this. First, maintaining a constant speed of 1 m/s requires constant application of force to overcome the forces working against you. On a road surface, these are air resistance, rolling resistance, etc. It takes very little force to oppose these at this speed (wind resistance increases with the square of speed, so the faster you go, the more force you need to keep going that fast, which is why gas mileage drops as you move above your engine's optimum operating range).

Heading up from Earth, you are facing a deceleration of 9.8 m/s/s, so you need to apply enough force to counter that. The amount of force depends on payload, e.g., a little plastic drone don't need so much, a Saturn V carrying something to high orbit needs a whole lot.

Escape velocity is the velocity at which no further thrust is required. That's the key point: The object is travelling away from the well so fast that it is already going fast enough to overcome all of the rest of the gravitational drag it will experience until it hits micro/zero-G.

Rockets need constant thrust (constant force and acceleration) to overcome the constant force and acceleration of gravity).

If you accelerated a human being to escape velocity at the surface of the Earth, you would concuss them to death (and likely organ damage them to death).

A photon starts life at C, whatever C is in its current medium.
Or a fucking website
I don't think a male founder would've gotten UBeam off the ground. The press around it was about the novelty of "look! girl engineer!"
As developers we need a super simple way to log a session. Unfortunately that's non-trivial in tmux.

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/629#issuecomment-2584153...
I assume he was referring to the mechanical resistance while connection the plug to the port.
That is not what the OP said:

> I'm actually pleased to hear that a tech company is going to perish. Too many of them think they are invincible (airbnb)

The OP said a tech and not theranos. Wishing failure on really any company is IMO a terrible attitude. What you want is the company to change and improve.

It appears the OP is glad that people will loose jobs and options in the company (i.e. regular employees).

I don't agree with North Korea or China but do I really want them to fail? No you want change and improvement.
I used to enjoy these:

http://www.gimpel.com/html/bugs.htm

BTW (apologies), the correct past-tense is "In 2008, I started to learn the C...".
"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" David J. Wheeler

Tmux/Screen provides an extra redirectable abstraction layer over the terminal device.

The biggest complaint I regularly see about it is that people are used to the screen keybindings. I wonder why not add an abstraction layer there, where keypresses really call commands that perform the actions, and you could reconfigure these.

This is how Emacs has done it for 30 years...
You know, I really didn't know then or now. The Business school taught COBOL and RPG on, I do believe, an AS/400 they owned separate from the rest of the computer infrastructure. I might be remembering wrong, but I was pretty sure that was the story[1]. I think it was something to do with the information systems degree requirements.

1) my Dad did IT on an AS/400, I still hear "wand in" instead of login.

[edit] looks like the new requirements are a bit more inline with today's world http://business.und.edu/undergraduate/school-of-entrepreneur...
You're 100% correct.

Source: VC friends and the VC's I've pitched.
> perhaps they should use software that is not dependant on Google

Isn't this what MicroG does?

If you're referring to the system as a whole, the only real alternative is ios, which is far worse in terms of user control over what the system does.

In an ideal world, I would be running some linux distribution on my phone and be finished with it. We don't live in an ideal world.
FIND AND RENT STUDiOS OR VENUES BY THE HOUR
The reason people keep beating up on Freud is that a great many intellectuals and people in the humanities still worship him.
She's 32, a decade out of college, try again with a little less sexism.
I don't think ruthless because I don't know if he physically hurt anyone, but its a secret how he got off FBI top list with no consequences whatsoever.

Perhaps high connected friends - who knows? But there are people sending 1/1000th of spam volume he did and are doing 10 years in jail, so ultimately that's where I think Nathan belongs.
Looks like it is Allwinner R16 SoC - Quad A7 + MAli 400.

https://www.pcper.com/news/Systems/NES-Classic-PCB-Pictured-...

Wow - but I can see that it will be cheap.
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=ori...
Guessing the tone right is hard on a pure-text medium. I was not referring to leadership abilities of various genders, but to the recent market trend where the gender (and age!) of the founder/ceo forms a major part of the pitch and media image.
We had it too (I went to a mixed IT-business university). I think the idea was to get some perspective on what COBOL is, so if you're managing a company one day and IT people you hire tell you that something is hard to do, or takes too much time because the system is in COBOL, you know what they're talking about and don't think that they're just messing with you.
That or breaking zoning laws in cities and making the rest of us miserable while our "neighbor" profits.

You ever had a surprise AirBnB right above you? At 4AM on a Wednesday morning? Yeah, the tenant got dinged, eventually... maybe. I still had the joy of feeling someone's musical choices during time I had planned to be asleep with no real recourse from security or the police.
Its only usable outside of any serious gravity wells, e.g. for interplanetary and possibly intersolar travel. They would replace uses currently postulated for solar sails. Not sure, but it may also be suitable for use-cases currently postulated by small ion-thrusters as well (especially where weight is critical).
There's an episode of "Murdoch's Mysteries" about the process of hanging a man. The rope was consistently reused, it was nearly as thick as your wrist. Too short and the man would strangle, too long and he would be decapitated.
I don't have an answer to your question but the latest news from BT is:

"All BT broadband lines support IPv6 with a compatible router, except IPstream connections"

http://www.ipv6.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/UKIPv6Coun...
2006 - The company I joined as first employee couldn't pay my salary and offered a cut of the server consulting business (which was done 100% by me alone). Each month they would find excuses to avoid paying it. A new owner bought part of the company and was determined to review my deal. It wasn't making me a lot of money, mainly ensuring I got paid market rates.

2009 - After almost 4 years at at a support role at IBM, I wanted a change. They sold me on some architecture role that ended up being about collecting requirements for small SOA projects. After 3 months, my people manager wouldn't let me apply for a job at their Linux Tech Center and said I had to wait at least another year. Plus the director wasn't happy LTC was trying to "steal" other projects' staff and it was unlikely they would even consider. Since I had gotten the maximum performance rating every year, I thought they should be more considerate. Gave a 2-day notice and left. Manager threatened me, saying I would never work for IBM again in my life.

2011 - Team lead was a dick and consistently make me look like a inexperienced fool in front of other teams. He wouldn't touch the infrastructure for fear of breaking it and would constantly fight other teams, trying to hide our issues. I felt it was wrong. One day he refused to acknowledge a ton of errors we were causing and I confronted him. He said I should leave if I wasn't happy. I gave my 30-day notice to our manager. The team lead called me saying I could leave in a week if I wanted (he would talk to my manager to cancel any fines). Before leaving, I updated all our 500+ servers to the latest firmware version that was know to fix a lot of issues. Got thank you notes from other teams for a while.

2012 - project to modernize all servers from aix/VMs/hpux to Linux got cancelled at Motorola after Google bought it. Nothing else to do there and we all know what happened. Stayed 10 months. Nice people but it was like working at a graveyard.

2013 - I guess that IBM manager was wrong after all. Got a job working with Linux at IBM. Left for better pay and more benefits. The team was excellent.

2015 - Left top 5 global food company. They treated us really good but their technology stack was horrendous and they didn't care. I felt it was setting my career back. How would I explain to a recruiter that was working with 10 years old technology? I really miss them though but this is a fast paced industry.

2015 - still here... Lack of clarity around projects is a concern but pay is good, remote work and they are nice people.
Leaked from fall of 2015. I feel like we've already discussed this since then.

The fact that it works is surprising (and I'm still not convinced until we are actually in space testing it), but also, 1.2 newtons per megawatt is... not a lot of thrust. But the fact that it works at all still the shock.
> water does not attract other water in any way

Um ... once we've cleared up all the misconceptions about electricity, we might want to move on to this other thing called gravity :-)

The usual reason that people are mislead by "water" analogies—more precisely, the analogy between height and electric potential—is because they misunderstood gravity to start with. If you start by writing Newton's law and Coulomb's law side by side, and develop the analogy in a precise way, smart students will be able to debug their own fallacies.

For example, a capacitor does have a precise gravitational analog, where you have two tanks floating in outer space, and water gets sucked into them by gravitational attraction. Once you understand that, you can think about the effect of removing the minus sign from the gravitational energy law, and about the things you can do with two types of charge, but can't do with only one type of mass.
Almost all of these are done or do-able, though. They're just not right there on the surface.
This is what I've observed on T-Mobile, Centurylink and Comcast over the past month across two phones, it does allow me to backdate messages and send them later at least, so not a total loss.

In regards to federation for Signal, what are you looking for in terms of technical competence and skills? I'm already intimately familiar with running servers, VOIP, SMS delivery, etc so I've got a good grip on things, and I'd like to tie in our existing PBXes with Signal whereby ZRTP calls go straight to endpoints, perhaps we can force the issue with Grandstream and get them to add ZRTP support on device for their GXP2140 & GXP2170 phones.
Technology presentation:
https://vimeo.com/channels/Emdrive

Inventor website:
http://www.emdrive.com/
I suspect I'm about to regret this, but here comes the electricity analogies for accounting, the appendix to your 8 lines.

A balance sheet is like charge on an array of loosely connected capacitors (or batteries). I know I got a pile of electrons (and holes) stacked up somewheres, and the balance sheet shows where. All "accounting circuits" are electrically neutral and the number of electrons and holes on your balance sheet MUST match.

A income sheet is like looking at the individual cell results from a solar array in parallel. So you got 10 aH out of that entire array, now which cells contributed more or less of their share, and which battery cells soaked up more or less than their share of charge?

The cash flow sheet tells you how fast electricity energy moved, essentially a power. So your 99 watt-hour laptop battery holds 99 watt-hours, but how many times did you fill and empty it in a year, how many times did you turn over the energy in the battery?

Once you learn op-amps you can do some hideous analog computing analogies, but don't call up what ye can't put down, so I'm not even trying that. So a financial derivative is like a sample and hold ckt connected to a four quadrant analog multiplier and a log/antilog ckt, or maybe this is just too far of an analogy not to be nonsense.

The purpose of accounting (aside from mere control fraud prevention, at least optimistically) is to squirt out some ratios to help make management decisions. Much like the transistor collector current is not terribly interesting nor is the emitter current at a large enough scale, but the ratio is exciting because back in the old days people made management decisions to select one transistor over the other based on the ratio of those currents, which is essentially how good of an amplifier it is. Much as income statment vs cash flow ratio tells you a lot about a retail establishment compared to its peers, how long "stuff" is sitting on shelves before getting sold. That current ratio is a bipolar transistor alpha ratio which no one uses anymore. Kind of like how people used to make investment decisions based on the ratios in the famous Graham and Dodd book, but no one has invested on fundamental ratios in, gosh I donno, 30 years? Its been a long credit bubble and fundamentals don't matter in a credit bubble.

I have no idea what a credit bubble is in EE terms. Some twisted analogy of trapped charge on a Teflon dielectric resulting in an integrator getting saturated eventually, but until it does the ride is pretty exciting.

I would extend this post with my traditional HN automobile analogy but I'm not sure there's enough liquor in the world to achieve that level of debauchery. So ... Keynesian economics policy sees the role of the government as like an electronic speed control on the automobile, uh, kinda.
RawTherapee and the other Linux RAW software can't hold a candle to Lightroom. I don't even like Lightroom, but the Linux RAW editors are just not very good.

My advice to the OP is to tell them to buy a Mac, get Apple Care and let Apple Genius Bar deal with it.
"Go bust + Get bought for a song" != "paydirt IPO"

Something fishy in your story here.
I'll believe it when I see a small spacecraft propelled by it (even if the entire spacecraft is the engine), but I think it's an experiment that should (and could) be done soon.
I think all the people recommending Chromebooks or Linux are entirely missing the point. Those are only viable alternatives within small niche uses for people who literally only use email and facebook. It's the 80/20 fallacy. 80% of the people only use 20% of the features, but for each person in that 80% they use a slightly different 20% subset. It's the same here. Most people only use a very small subset of the internet, and most things they do would work fine on a Chromebook, but each of them has that one thing they just can't live without that only works on Windows.

I have this exact problem with several family members PCs who come to me regularly with messed up machines.

It's not just old people either. One problem person for me is a 10 year old who always insists that all he downloaded was just that one minecraft mod and it was definitely a safe mod, honest, because he downloaded found it on google, or he saw stampy using it on youtube, oh and a java update because the mod says it needed it, oh and forge, and optifine, and, and, and... He's loosely tech savvy, but in a way that doesn't make him any safer, he still gets his computer into a mess. He's not going to switch to a Chromebook. No minecraft, and none of the other games his peers are into. (On a related note, the minecraft modding community is one of the most vile den of scam-mongery I've ever had the misfortune to stumble into)

The older people all require MS Word/Excel (And don't tell me LibreOffice is a replacement, it's not even close if you expect file compatibility with other people who use MS products).

Windows only plugins for specific websites, that's another one that is hopefully getting much rarer, but I still do see from time to time.

I've tried setting up restricted accounts and keeping the admin account password secret, but it always eventually has to get given out. Last time it was because their son needed to do submit his homework on the schools website, but the submission processes required a Windows only plugin which needed admin access to install. They were all panicked because I hadn't been answering my phone and his homework was due the next day. After that I gave up and stopped using restricted accounts.

I've tried disk imaging software, but it's typically a lot more work than it's worth with the images quickly getting out of date and needing redoing with new versions constantly.

This is a big big problem that I just don't have a good solution for.
Yep, I am the CTO for 3 very successful startups. This has been my experience as well.
diaspora* doesn't prevent you from using real names, as well as it doesn't force you to use them. That's exactly the point!

XMPP was sabotaged by major IM participants not using it. Especially Google. They first were pushing XMPP a lot, but later betrayed the whole effort.
> but char doesn't have to be 1 byte in size

It is, but not required to be an octect. Quoting from the standard (n1570, 3.6):

byte
====
addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any member of the basic character
set of the execution environment

Later in a comment (page 44 in pdf, note 49): A byte contains CHAR_BIT bits
>> That's only because you don't know who she knew. With such deep connected friends when you bring powerful people to the board, money will follow.

This is the one thing that I always think about when people talk about the SV crowd. There were a fuck ton of red flags and everybody ignored them continually until you couldn't any more.

All I ever read about SV is that you have to have a solid idea, solid financial plan and make damn sure you know what you're doing before you even get a whiff of the big VC money. In her case, all of that somehow just evaporated and they jumped in without doing any due diligence. I guess to some degree, the investors have no one to blame but themselves. If you're not going to vett these companies before you throw a few million at them, then you get what you deserve and her investors are getting in spades right now.
Now I'm really confused. That case number is not in PACER as of right now.
Drift velocity is irrelevant. Changes in the electric field propagate at nearly the speed of light. The fact that it's happening in a wire slows it down a little bit, but it's still measured in nanoseconds, not milliseconds.
It looks like you would have got support on your existing device soon. A recent BT presentation says:

"[IPv6 support] Home Hubs 4 and 5 support from early 2017"

http://www.ipv6.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/UKIPv6Coun...
To be pedantic, research isn't heavily regulated. Hell, even getting a CLIA license is a bit of a joke. Once you start selling to the general public however...
Two words: Corporate IT.

Another two: Onboarding Process.
"1.2 newtons per megawatt is... not a lot of thrust"

If I recall the previous conversations correctly - the amount of thrust is irrelevant, because in space you continually apply that thrust over time, and eventually reach ridiculously high speeds?
RabbitMax Flex: an IoT hat module for Raspberry Pi (and compatible)
Seem like it's already in motion by USA and China

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/space-race-revealed-us-china-test-f...
This is not (just) unspecified, but rather a classic UB.
Debated adding Rock'N Roll Racing. I played it a ton back then.

The NES Classics system is not designed with later downloads in mind, and I'm not sure why they would release a followup system that still looks like the NES, so I really tried to make the list comprehensive so it could be released in one go like the first.

If it were based only on personal preferences, I'd probably have dropped about 10 of these games and replaced them with others. Lemmings, Earth Defense Force, Batman Returns, Metal Warriors, King of Dragons, Secret of Evermore, and a couple other games probably would have been added otherwise. Actually, King of Dragons probably should replace Final Fight.
Electricity. The electrons barely move, but the wave (the voltage in this case) travels at almost the speed of light.
Much better. I'll spend some on it later
Rvest is for webscrapping newbs. A more seasoned R person would still use PhantomJS and RSelenium as it actually collects all the page's information but Rvest only collections a portion of it. Try it on washingtonpost.com and you will see.
I don't think my father actually knew that. I think he was just trying to be nasty/snarky.

Things learned talking to people in online forums...
I played a loooot more Turbo (It was one of the games I received with the system on my birthday), but figured the extra fighters made the Super the one Capcom would most likely add.
Ask HN: How to relax after coding for too many hours?
Hi, what do you do to relax and sleep after coding for many hours straight? I tend to get very agitated and can't sleep well.
I dont want to pay for what I am not getting. Is that so hard to comprehend ?

> Don't justify your skirting the laws.

Breaking laws ? That would be playing right in their hands. I would not give them the satisfication to confiscate my properties and lock me up.

Most of the tax goverments think they should but dont get are legally avoided. They have to be. Otherwise exodus would be catastrophic.

> Why don't you spend the tax you don't pay to the government to a charity?

First my money my rules. Second if the charties help me ofcourse I would for example EFF.

So please justify more of your extortion.
A note: 'int main()' and 'int main(void)' are different in C (but the same in C++).

Most online puzzles uses the former (I have also seen this in hacker rank), but the standard says that the main function should be defined as void if no argument is accepted (or some implementation defined manner)
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The amount of thrust is relevant if something like ion drives gives you more thrust for the same power.

Of course, with something like an ion drive, you're throwing mass out the back, and eventually you run out of mass. (On the other hand, eventually you run out of the ability to generate power, too...)

[Edit: The bigger picture is that, for this to work at all, there probably needs to be some kind of new physics here. If there is, this device probably only exploits it by accident (no matter how much the inventor may think he knows what's going on). Once we figure out what the new physics is, newer devices may be much more efficient.]
Except that most people don't think of their lives as "problems", not "big problems" (more like little annoyances), and definitely not "problems that can be fixed by software".

Source - had same idea, surveyed 50 random people on the street.
Relevant: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/
I see this all the time with client's computers that I must clean.
I think you are overlooking the fact that very few people buy cars for the engine technology.

They buy on design, price, prestige, history and possibly other 'soft' aspects.