skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you pressurize a sealed cavity with a gas, it's not going to move due to the internal pressure regardless of what shape you make it.

That's true of the container as a whole, but if you put a delicate torsion balance inside the container, you could see many kinds of apparent anomalies caused by circulating gases at different temperatures. At sufficiently high sensitivity even a vacuum vessel would show some anomalies arising in ordinary physics that would need to be taken into account.
What makes the power to power them?
Given that the research animals are much more heavily monitored it is surprising that the simian analogue only showed up in that environment after the human version became a big deal.

As quoted earlier, they say the study was initiated because they noticed the animals dying more often than usual. You don't need genetic/epidemiological data to notice something like that. I do not understand what relevance that should have.
The title, at least, does not nullify anything. It only presents a possibility.
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the only reason HN is discussing this result is that it is unexpected. The point of the experiment is to zero out all pedestrian explanations.

Occam's razor is a good guide, but it is not a rule the universe is obliged to follow.
For one month, likely. How many months are they going to be running? Will they scale up? When do you decide the investment is worthwhile?
Experimental errors are very much predicted by physicists, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...
Hold on a sec. I see where you're coming from here and it's good impulse to try to address the most charitable interpretation of an argument but you've gone past "charitable" into "gullible".

Even had he not quoted the "fourteen words" slogan, the words themselves have a plain racist meaning.

I feel compelled again to remind people: there is a reason we have "black history museums" and not "white history museums", and it's not because "all history is white history". It's because there is a coherent black culture, which was created by the forced relocation of African people to the United States, a process which stripped them not just of their original culture but of their very names.

There is not in fact a coherent "white culture". There are Irish Americans and there are Italian Americans and Polish Americans and Anglo-Americans and German-Americans, all with their own museums and parades and cultures. There is not much overlap between Irish culture and Italian culture: they don't eat the same foods, speak the same languages, or play the same music.

"White" means a lot of different things; it is a fucked up term in the same sense as "hacker" is. You have to evaluate it in context. So when I say "I hacked a bank", you know I did something that was very probably illegal, and when I say "I hacked together a PDF renderer" you know it wasn't.

But the original meaning of the term "white" is racist. It's the term Anglo- and Germanic- Americans used to make common cause with the Irish and Italians Catholics they'd been hating at the turn of the century, when the end of Jim Crow escalated the threat they felt from black people. In fact, to this day, a significant faction of white nationalists that Italians aren't white.

"We must secure a future for white children" is like "I hacked a bank". It's intrinsically racist.
Well, someone like Assange would surely have a Dead Man's Switch, but may be of interest that it hasn't triggered yet. (Honestly, if I were ever in the same situation, I'd probably let it run for quite a long time, just in case I'm incapacitated for a long time by an accident, say.)
Kind of like the Timex Datalink (1994) [1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink#Wireless_data_t... [2] https://youtu.be/2VmtPaiOBwI?t=1m3s
Nothing in that comment is news, but if we've reached a point where we're completely unwilling to accept that experiments could show us something new before theorists predict and explain it, then we should hang up our science hats and go home.

Skepticism is warranted, but the team behind this study seems to be proceeding with a healthy dose of it, and AFAIK they have not made any inappropriate claims. The results so far are interesting, the experiments do not seem terribly expensive, and I see no reason why they shouldn't be followed to their conclusion (which will probably be the discovery of a mundane explanation for the phenomenon that's been observed).
The patient was not on any antivirals at the time his sample was taken.
Do you have a proof of that?

Could there be structures that are provably impossible to create after some time?
I'm not trolling, but I'm not sure I follow. I know that some European countries are embracing the far-right, but I have not heard anything about Sweden specifically.
>I will probably leave the US if the trend of anti-Islam policies continues, not solely because of the proposed headscarf ban.

Sorry didn't mean it to be a 'gotcha' comment. I am just surprised that you would even propose Tunisia. US would have to propose and pass hundreds of absurd laws against women/Muslims to get anywhere close to Tunisia. Do you really believe US is going down the path which would lead to banning Muslim women from public sphere. Would you still go back to Tunisia if you were a woman?

You act so surprised at proposed head scarf ban( which did not pass even in red Georgia) yet you see nothing wrong with Tunisians trying to ban Islamic political parties[1].

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/09/07/...
Which part of Sunnyvale was that? Honestly all of my South Bay memories are being outside and hardly seeing another person.

Sunnyvale and MV do have lots of strangers in the small downtown strips, but that's just 2 blocks; San Jose has the inverse where the area near SJCC is always empty but people are in a circle around it. Maybe.
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You are assuming that the concept of tolerance and respect are the same for everyone.
It's a curious argument that says un-nuanced insults should be permitted but pointing them out as such should not.

Or that in the past insults differed therefore we should ignore today's.

Or that hypothetically something hilarious might happen so don't call out trolling harassment.
I wanted to read this article but the LA Times is evidently a member of the annoying website design committee.
Okay, here is an addition he made to a bill for providing government funding to help people with HIV/AIDs

"Congress should support the reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act only after completion of an audit to ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus. Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior."

If that doesn't scare you, I'm scared of you.

I'm tired of racists pretending to be victims and using the language of the left when they are called out on their bigotry, please stop perpetuating this.

Edit from the future: The Southern Poverty Law Center also agrees on this
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/18/jeff-sessions...
Wow. I do not have much to say except that these lines have made me understand a lot. Or maybe it has always already been there but never formulated so clearly and poignant. Thanks!
i assume that this result is notable because they made all the needed corrections and took into account all known phenomena. Like serious scientists would.
That article says that his internet was cut off because they were afraid he was interfering with US Elections, which were two weeks ago. Why wouldn't they have turned them back on by now?

Also, the internet isn't the only way to communicate and prove you are alive, so one would think there would be credible information by now.

Not that I really believe anything's happened - could well be he's trying to drum up some drama - just pointing out that on its face the "temporary" cutting off of his internet seems to have extended beyond the deadline.
Probably true for alien life we discover. But also possible: any life that discovers us may very well be more advanced than us by a similar margin.
Otoh, most evolutional progress happened after global catastrophes, and maybe some worlds had it earlier. For example 3.3 B years of life, 800.000 or so of alien civilization.
And what precisely does this have to do with man made global warming ??

Not every drought / flood / tornado is a result of global warming.

In fact there have been recent studies showing that extreme weather ( drought, flood as mentioned ) has not gotten more frequent since we started emitting large amounts of CO2.

Recent Study (2016): Trends in Extreme Weather Events since 1900 An Enduring Conundrum for Wise Policy Advice - Prof MJ Kelly

http://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/trends-in-extreme-weather...

Comments and refutations instead of mere downvotes appreciated.
I can confirm I got a full MSRP refund for my Basis Peak.
It is worth reminding that the freedom of speech was understood at the time as one of our unalienable rights as individuals. Notice the phrasing of the First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging _the_ freedom of speech

The article "the" before "freedom" was deliberate. "The" freedom of speech is an absolute given. And it is not that Congress authorizes or allows freedom of speech. It is "Congress shall make no law".

Part of the debate on writing the Bill of Rights was not that rights needed to be granted to the people and the states, but that it was not necessary because it was understood that these rights already exist and come from our humanity and cannot be denied. A document like the Bill of Rights could be misconstrued and abused to flip the tables and make people assume their rights are granted as a privilege of the ruling government, instead of a truth that it is inherently in every person and they delegate their powers to the government.
It is just a type alias as far as I know. I suppose it adds more 'annotation' to your program, in addition if you decide to change the type of Symbol to be an Int or String String then you have a single reference to change initially.
I had a similar experience: keeping my hands warm while keyboarding made all the difference.

Before this I was at 20% use for 3 years, tried multiple things, went to multiple doctors, etc.

I also: wear a pil-o-splint while sleeping so that area of my wrist can relax at night, make sure my hands are warm and that I've stretched before starting for the day, and changed my typing posture so that my hands are mostly flat and wrists don't touch the desk/keyboard while typing.

Finally, I stopped using emacs and the like because of the control key induced hand/finger stretching. Vim is more RSI friendly in my experience because there is less stretching required to use it.
Wow - I had no idea that Atari was even in this space. Talking about Transputers, I spent all of 1989 working on a Meiko computing surface with 40 T800 Transputers. Had a glorious time writing code in Occam for the traveling salesman problem.
That's kind of what this whole paper is about...
Ya, I was wondering the same thing. It seems like uneven ablating on the outside surface is the most obvious reason for the thrust.

Why didn't they do a careful analysis of the cavity mass before and afterwards? Or electron microscope analyses of a few points of the outer surface before and afterwards to see if the microscopic topology changed?

Did they rule these out some other way?
I agree that that could be a proof of life, but in Assange's particular situation, that would be putting a good amount of faith in his operational security with respect to his GPG keys. I try to keep good op-sec, but I'm not sure that my GPG keys would be secure if someone had physical possession of both me and my devices and the motivation to try and get at my keys.
> You know that everything around us is both matter and wave at same time (wave-particle duality). Right? I.e. small bit of matter surrounded with wave.

It's not quite like that. Imagine a particle whose location we don't know, so we're obliged to make an educated guess about where it is. That's the wave interpretation. Later on we actually observe the particle at a specific location. That's the particle interpretation. My point is the wave/particle duality idea doesn't mean there are particles riding waves like miniature surfers -- it's more like making a statement about where a particle is likely to be in advance of observing it, given certain statistical rules.

> Unlike regular matter, waves are propagating through space, by contraction and expanding of a field.

Not necessarily contracting and expanding -- that would be true of a longitudinal wave like sound waves in air, but not an electromagnetic wave in space, which is transverse.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Sound/tralon.html

> Because of particle-wave duality, when matter is moving, EM field around matter expands and contracts at high frequency. Right?

No. See the transverse/longitudinal link's explanation.
Why doesn't GCP force you to do this if it's best practice for anything remotely important? Surely your target customer generally is doing things that are quite important for them.
I see nothing about electrocution therapy in there. I don't agree with Mr. Pence'a traditional view of homosexuality, but you're attacking a straw man.

>I'm tired of racists pretending to be victims and using the language of the left when they are called out on their bigotry, please stop perpetuating this.

Being a leftist doesn't give you a license to lie. Give me a break.

If he weren't a highly public figure, you would be guilty of libel for your original post.
I was under the impression that terrorist attacks dramatically increased after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. I realise that correlation isn't causation, but I suspect the invasion backfired.
> They can make foolproof instructions so anyone can make a version in a good enough lab and reproduce the experiment,

Is that not what this is? Roger Shawyer invented it, but NASA, NWPU and the Dresden University of Technology have all built and verified their own versions to work.
Slow cooker, microwave, a bunch of containers, and a freezer. You can make lots of bulk, one-pot recipes and then freeze them for later.
If I were muslim, Canada would be my first choice. Europe seems to be revisiting the 1930's at the moment.
I disagree with that assessment, based on reading a whole lot of people of color's writing on the subject of solving racism. I'm doing the best I can in the time I have on earth to undo racism and the harm it causes. I don't always get it right, but being colorblind is not always the right answer.
For a few years, any time I got a new camera I'd use the ATT/SBC central office here in Houston as my test subject for comparison shots:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/418219038/
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I know why DLR was created. I work on a team that has one of the guys who was working on it, and specifically on IronPython.

My point is that they are two different layers in the stack. CIL and JVM are lower level. DLR is a higher level layer. Said higher level can be implemented on any kind of lower level that's powerful enough - for example, you could have a kind of DLR directly on top of native code. All that matters for the lower level is that it's flexible enough to permit something like DLR to be implemented on top of it. CIL is undeniably flexible enough for that.
Am I reading this right, that you're arguing in support of the idea that there is a "white genocide"? You'd be the highest-karma account on HN I've ever seen do anything like that, so I'd rather assume I'm misreading you somehow.
I dunno. Accidentally discovering a way to, say, shove dark matter around with microwaves and do useful work with it would not necessarily violate momentum conservation, and wouldn't really be that boring.

(Not that I think this is what the EM drive is doing, or that I'd bet on it with anything other than very long odds, but I'm glad someone is looking into it).
The Swedish will only be talking to Ecuadorian embassy staff who will pass questions in written form to Assange. They will not meet Assange himself.
Trickle-down tyranny?
Sessions is a drug warrior and against sentencing reform. He also voted against the don't tell don't ask repeal act of 2010.
Fake it till you make it ?
A while back I read an interesting but possibly also batshit crazy article that proposed an explanation possibly involving something like quantization of inertia, and/or generation of extremely long-wavelength photons, wavelengths on the order of the size of the universe.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? IIRC it was based on some theoretical work that was done before EmDrive was a thing, and it seemed less hand-wavey to me than simply "conservation of momentum is wrong" or "we're using the quantum vacuum as a tractive medium which is supposed to be impossible but whatever" explanations.

I'm not saying this explanation is right (or wrong, or that the thrust observed in these experiments is or isn't caused by "new physics"); I'm just curious whether anyone knows what I'm talking about and can provide some more context.

edit, found it: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601299/the-curious-link-b...

Any thoughts?
What do you think those institutions are? Do you really believe that gay kids can be converted into being straight?
Here's some more reading about Mike Pence and human rights:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/mike-pence-isnt-...

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/07/mike-pences-top-seven-hom...

And here is a survivor recounting what it is like to be "provide[d] assistance to ... change their sexual behavior."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/realities-of-conversion-...
The armor isn't a bad thing, generally with tractors the heavier the better. It's really common to have tires filled with fluid and wheel weights for traction and stability reasons.
The end of the end of history
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Does everything have to get back to partisan finger pointing?
> Why should someone be punished and labeled as fake if they're on a wordpress.com subdomain

i don't know about "labeled as fake", exactly, but it's possible that quickly and easily acquired urls (such as a wordpress subdomain) may display a different amount of reliability (per whatever heuristic) in comparison with various established urls.
Relying on the passions of benevolent billionaires seems like a really bad idea.

Sure, I'm happy when they decide to do good, but they also do a fair bit of bad.
There is no need to create a new robot army if you can blackmail the people who control the existing army.

For me, the most interesting revelation in the recent Wikileaks dumps is the surprising willingness of prominent individuals to share their most private thoughts via gmail.

Larry Page (or his unscrupulous AI successor) may already have enough blackmail material on hand to seize the levers of power, if he so chooses.

In that case, Google's new motto could be, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely".
That's a good point, I should've included that in the post
Arguably, that already happened on November 8th. It just didn't quite go like Mark Zuckerberg planned :)

[I was going for a chuckle here]
I don't know the official answer, but given that it's all under the table, short term and no money is being exchanged, I think you'd be crazy to even try getting a work visa. I'll be honest that it didn't even cross my mind.
Yes, but more importantly now, the poll was almost a month ago, and they never bothered to do anything about it. This despite the masses of people calling for proof of life on every twitter post they make.
>Do you really believe that gay kids can be converted into being straight?

Woah there. All I did is point out that you're lying about Mr. Pence supporting "electrocution therapy" in particular. Now you're accusing me of supporting gay conversion therapy.

Your tactic of falsely smearing and impugning the reputation of everyone that you disagree with is frankly disgusting.
I think you're talking about McCulloch's quantisation of inertia theory. http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2015/PP-40-15.PDF which I believe was originally inspired by the rotation of galaxies.
Thanks for the Joel Spolsky video. Skip to 12:53 for the gems => https://youtu.be/pPJf8KrvJXU?t=771
We simply put up with the bullying. Mercedes chief is worried because his passengers are high social status individuals who will be very unhappy at being bullied despite driving powerful expensive cars that denote high status.
The speculation is that the reason the switch didn't get triggered is related to the ddos attack on the dyn dns provider which happened shortly after that.
And your homophobia and defense of Mike Pence despite his public support of homophobia is abhorrent. It appears we are at an impasse.
What is there beautiful about a poorly proportional hunk of aluminum with disfigured fugly touchpad?

I mean, back ages ago the Macbook was kinda surprising and nice. There wasn't many alubody laptops back then.

But now? They look goofy as hell with oversized keyboard, no keypad, featurelessness...

AND THEY DON'T EVEN COME IN BLACK
Does anyone know if there are any plans to support Postgres by the Cloud SQL? Because currently it's the major deal breaker to me. I have a SaaS business that works on Postgres and we don't plan to replace it with any major SQL alternative.