skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are mistaking the idea that all colors and races should be treated equally with "white nationalism."

"The Alt Right does not believe in the general supremacy of any race, nation, people, or sub-species. Every race, nation, people, and human sub-species has its own unique strengths and weaknesses, and possesses the sovereign right to dwell unmolested in the native culture it prefers."

"The Alt Right believes we must secure the existence of white people and a future for white children."

People who find fault with everything will read that as racist, but it makes perfect sense given that white people are a minority globally. In other words, the reverse racism that is acceptable to the media is no longer acceptable to white people and white people are done feeling guilty about slavery and colonialism and everything else that has been pinned on white people as a reason to exterminate them.
For control systems its toolkit is even better than Wolfram's, which is unusual.
I think regardless of if this ends up working or not, it makes some serious changes to how science perceives the universe.
This is violating conservation of momentum, not conservation of energy. You cannot build a perpetual motion machine using it. But even if you could, that is not a reasonable argument. Reality is what it is.
Secure? That's broad. One tip: If you're an activist and scared of censorship better avoid any .tld related to verisign.
This is not in the least true, especially since the gun industry, which is much bigger than the gun manufacturers, have their own very visible lobby, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (http://www.nssf.org/).

The NRA is politically powerful for one single reason: it has ~ 5 million paid members, and lots of other gun owners take cues from it and will vote on this single issue. It, for example, went all in to re-elect Roy Blunt in Missouri, going so far as to drag the Executive Vice President and the head of it's lobbying arm to Joplin, MO, to talk to 50 people who showed up at the airport event (!!! and I've never heard of such a thing before). Plus of course the usual mailings and other means.

And it paid off, he won by about a 3% margin, much narrower than the 14% in 2010 against a Carnahan, a much more storied Missouri political family, and the Republicans very narrowly kept the Senate.

As for why we vote so much on the issue of guns, why the NRA has five million members, see my other posting in this subthread on motivating atrocities.
Could you? How? Perpetual motion machines must put out at least as much energy as they take in. AIUI the EmDrive requires external power (such as solar panels) and produces a rather tiny amount of force. This does not sound to me like it's anywhere even remotely close to putting out as much energy as it takes in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pressure#Radiation_p...
Bob.

Turn out Youtube didn't manage to stop him.
My answer to this problem is less dramatic; I am just hedging my bets.

For search and maps, I use Google, for personal hardware, Apple, for cloud servers, AWS, for email, Fastmail on my own domain, and so on.

It is slightly more inconvenient than having one Google account to rule everything, but it helps me at leas feel a bit saner..
I am a Muslim too. I faced more everyday discrimination and derision in my native India than I ever faced here in the United States. Sure is an occasional bigot who calls me a terrorist and asks me to go back , but that is nothing compared to state-sponsored ethnic cleansing pogrom in Gujarat only a couple of years ago. I have friends here from the middle east who claim the same and know shia vs sunni vs whatever animosity is much worse that a registry could ever be. You just need to look at post war Iraq where fundamental US mistake was underestimating how much these people hate each other and everyone else.

I remember when I was a kid people wouldn't rent a place to us because we were muslims, something that is still widely practiced in India. Vast majority of Americans are not bigots and as a society they have enacted anti-discriminatory laws that are heavily enforced at all levels of society. You have legal recourse here if you are discriminated against, something that's unimaginable in India.
Assuming your hypothesis were correct that making the data more widely accessible would diminish the power of those who are doing the surveillance now: Please explain why you think that it is easier to get those doing the surveillance now to open up their data and thus lose their power instead of getting them to not collect the data in the first place and thus lose the power?
I see the article mentions the Basis recall, but I want to expand on that here for those who might look first or only at the comments.

For those who don't already know: Because the Basis Peak developed a nasty habit of overheating to the point of second-degree burns, Intel has recalled all Basis devices - not just the Peak, but prior versions as well.

If you currently own a Basis device or devices, visit https://www.mybasis.com/safety/ in order to find out how to send your recalled device or devices back to Intel, in exchange for a full MSRP refund. (This is no small consideration! In my case, I bought a Basis Carbon Steel several years ago for about $150. In exchange for shipping it back to Intel, to whom it is currently en route, I'm told I will receive a check for $234.)

Be advised also that the Basis data services will be shut down at the end of this year. If you have fitness data in those services which you want to retrieve, you must do so before January 1, 2017, or it will no longer be recoverable. Also, and for the same reason, no Basis devices will be able to sync from that date, which will make them essentially unusable even if they would otherwise be.

It's sort of a shame to see a good product go down in flames like this. On the other hand, the way Intel's handling it is extremely impressive, and I'm very glad to see it - we can but hope, however forlornly, that this is the first example of a new and much more customer-friendly style of handling IoT deprecations.
You are right, that is the point of studying math. It just did not appeal to me as much as what physics had to offer.
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> With the NSA, Donald Trump will have access to more information about the demographics of American populations and who comprises them than the Third Reich ever had about its own citizens.

Because the NSA was in good hands during Obama right ? No Trump isn't Hitler and the USA aren't going to turn into the Third Reich, it will be no better or worse that the current situation under Obama. The US president doesn't have total power over this country.

Stop the insane fear mongering.
This is like someone claiming why a literal pile of steaming bullshit cannot be the truth, by pointing out that it is bullshit. Then, another person attempts to rebut it by pointing out that the particular species which shat this out is actually some kind of buffalo, of the female gender in fact.
Or your premises are wrong. Before calling it not real let's allow the testing to continue to see wether our understanding of physics is not enough to explain how it's working, or if there's something that has escaped every study and reproduction of the system.

It's certainly not going to take too long before someone puts an EM drive to space to see if it works there too, it's not that expensive to do so when put into context.
Oregon has had vote-by-mail for years and it's been nothing but a positive thing. Their turnout is consistently higher than the national average. There are simply no issues around access to voting (like long lines at polling places, people who can't get time off work, etc), because every registered voter gets a ballot and a couple of weeks to fill it in.

The claims and fears around voter fraud have been studied, and have been found to be entirely without basis in reality. Voter fraud and coercion simply hasn't been an issue in a vote-by-mail state.

It's also a lot of fun to take part in voting parties, where you get to hash out the issues with your friends and fill in your ballot as you do so.
Mathematics is organically grown but reinvented every few years or so. Look at a mathematics paper from 50 years ago. Look at one now. Look at one 100 years ago.

Mathematicians aren't dumb. There's some element of tradition (that's a small part of the reason why many mathematicians prefer chalkboards to whiteboards) but most of the reason we use the notation we use is because it's the best way anyone has ever found to express rigorous, technical, creative, abstract thought cleanly and efficiently. Mathematicians routinely do completely /new/ work which requires us to invent entirely new notation out of wholecloth on the spot. The techniques we use are suited to this need. When we find something that's better, we use it. There isn't anything better yet.
Well, someone's jimmies are rustled.

>Sure, we can spew bs how its racists misoginists haters and worst of all white men

We can, as you apparently are, but I never did. I'm guessing this is where you try to set me up as some kind of SJW strawman, tell me what I really believe and then proceed to tear down the arguments I never actually made?

>People are tired of rampant "social justice" that is vindictive and spiteful
>People are tired of being called racists wholesale

Sure, some people are. But Trump can't outlaw "social justice" and can't force people not to accept political correctness, so I have to ask, whether these complaints are relevant in the context of this particular discussion?

>She is mixed in so many scandals, sure, Trump is a scumbag, but what was her message in the race?

>The worst possible identity politics - vote for me, otherwise you are racist deplorable trash.

That wasn't her message, and you probably know perfectly well that it wasn't.

Your comment provides an example of exactly the reactionist ideology I was talking about. You want to discuss "facts and issues" but provide little more than an emotionally charged and intellectually vacant polemic, appealing to anti-left stereotypes and hyperbole. You accuse me of absurd reductionism while apparently blind to the degree to which you're engaging in it yourself, thereby proving my point.
It seems 'having a Google friend to call' being the only way to talk to them comes up often.
Founder here. Thanks for your comments. No, we do not have 100M users. I think if we did, you'd have heard about us before now :)

What we have is a social graph that a lot of R&D has gone into, using public data - which was outlined in the post.

As I'm sure you know, a social graph is more than just a list of names pulled from Quora and LinkedIn (neither of which are sources for us, btw).
How Robots Will Redefine Competitiveness
The Daily Show was never anything but conservative hate given legitimacy by being "comedy." It was a form of political attack that could be denied since it is comedic.
Would it be better if NASA wouldn't have less then 10 people, out of their 18,000 employees (0.05%), working on testing nevertheless such claims which almost surely don't work?

Maybe, if that 0.05% is used against NASA by claiming it doesn't do its job how it should.
whilst one is considerably worse than the other, both were morally repugnant and the 'lesser' offence would now be illegal due to discrimination laws (if they were not illegal then for other/similar reasons). So IBM should have had some awareness of what was happening. In much the same way that we consider Hacking Team selling hacking services to the Syrian government as essentilly being involved with the dissappearance or torture of political activists so we should hold IBM to account for their involvement.
You seem to be quickly concluding that democracy is dead in America because of surveillance. That surveillance may be illegal but it doesnt change how the officers of government are chosen. America is still a democracy, unless you truly believe that surveillance has already been converted into controlled brainwashing. (I do not believe that to be the case.)
Me again! Cohort as a product, is a social graph first. We expose it through multiple interfaces, mobile being the one we're focused on now.

Cohort.is is our marketing website. We chose the .is TLD for a specific reason.
Could you provide some specific example of something that can be easily done with custom elements that cannot be easily done with other existing APIs? (I'm speaking about user-facing stuff, not some implementation detail.)

Edit:

Here is my quick re-implementation of their example using today's APIs: https://jsfiddle.net/pd0na425/3/

The HTML instantiation uses a single tag, just like theirs. Fully reusable. Works in all modern browsers. I believe is uses less code too.
Yes, but they suppousedly got 4000 times the maximal theoretical value. I'll repost one of my old comments with more details:

If you use a photon thruster (aka a laser or a flashlight in the right direction (or a microwave)), then the maximal thrust/energy ratio is at most 1/c = 3.33 nano-Newtons per Watt = 0.0033 uN/W = 0.0033 mN/KW.

Someone compiled here two lists of experiments: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36313.msg13... http://emdrive.wiki/Experimental_Results

Some of the experiments are few years old, but you can compare the current result with 0.0033 mN/KW. The results in the tables vary from 3x to 200000x the theoretical maximum of a photon thruster. I think that the typical current value is x4000.

It's a theoretical upper bound that is very easy to calculate using special relativity, and it depends on very fundamental laws, not tricky details of the universe.

The theoretical bound is so fundamental, that it's even true if you use a graviton thruster instead of a photon thruster. This example is not totally made up, someone have an alternative impossible massless drive that "push against the far away stars". They claimed also a thrust/energy ratio > 0.0033 mN/KW, so it was also impossible from a theoretical point of view.

Also, for the EmDrive, someone proposed that it emits twin photons that somehow cancel each other, but the pair still carry momentum. That explanation extremely wrong.
I disagree. Taking a walk around the block is time spent doing something that could be spent otherwise. Everything in life has a cost associated with it. I am not saying a walk around the block or spending extra time at work are bad decision. My point is no time is free, you are always trading one thing for another. Going to the gym, you could be studying. Studying, you could be growing your business. Growing your business you could be spending time with family. Its all a balance in life but to claim your time is free is naive of reality.

edit: To those down voting you are welcome to present a different perspective. A down vote by itself doesn't mean much but I welcome criticism and feedback on my point of view.
" You don't actually have privacy, and you won't be getting it back."

This is a claim you have provided no evidence for that flies in the face of the fourth amendment and property rights, not to mention natural rights. If you are wondering, John Locke would be a good starting point if you are truly interested in having the discussion needed on the subject.

"If you embrace privacy, you're also embracing their privacy, and you're reinforcing the increasingly asymmetric, and non-democratic advantage they have over you."

False, the government can be and is subject to the people, and therefore it's rights to privacy say, while in the duty of office, are much degraded. (see: FOIA) They are not the same.
No, but this new president is appointing a series of people with white nationalist leanings to a variety of posts within the government that do hold a lot of power. It is perfectly reasonable to be in fear right now. Action is always better, but it takes time to reel from and better understand this new threat to minorities and marginalized groups in the US
How would you build that?

They're putting in a fair amount of energy to make this happen.
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> If this trend continues, I will definitely leave the US as soon as I finish up my degree.

To go where? because you think things are better abroad?
> you the consumer are left holding the bag

Not in this case. They're issuing MSRP refunds, no questions asked, in exchange for returns whose shipping they also cover.

Full disclosure: I've just shipped back my own Basis Carbon Steel - a device not even implicated in the overheating issue, but one for which they're still accepting returns and providing refunds. I paid ~$150 for it a few years back; they've said they'll be sending me a $234 check. Obviously, since I haven't yet received the check, I don't yet know with certainty that they'll live up to that claim, but they've given me no reason to doubt that they will. Overall I'm very favorably impressed with the way they're handling the issue.
The "Obstacle is The Way" is a very popular book and now sits on my nightstand. I have drawn a lot of strength from it as I endure difficult struggles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obstacle_Is_the_Way
I saw an interesting TEDx talk on this topic a while ago by an AI researcher from the Netherlands [1]. The talk is titled "Why are computers not intelligent (yet)?" by Prof. Niels Taatgen.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ARQsdNvmI
I can't believe. it's the funniest thing I've ever seen
Yes, this is why humans still need to work out some of the age old problems, like governance and ethics.

Otherwise it's going to be kind of a dice roll--what are the values of the first team to achieve the governance-eclipsing technology.
> Do stoics worry about Trump?

I don't think he cares, so in that sense Trump is stoic w.r.t. stoics.

Seriously tho, I couldn't sleep on Election at the thought of all the hateful, racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric that put him in office. The next day, I felt physically ill and that's when my Dad told me "Beta (son), stop worrying about sh_t that you have no control over. Just ride out the next 8 years* , stop watching news and stop reacting and arguing about it, because all said and done, he was DEMOCRATICALLY Elected into Office by a Majority of Voters who got off their butts and cast their vote."

* 8 years = My dad believes that Trump, like Dubya, will get re-elected no matter how bad his Presidency is, because in his own words "When a White Republican President sh*ts, People call it Honey"
> It already is possible to algorithmically deduce who people are voting for.

YES, it is! Therefore, in all honesty, the foundations of democracy have already been eroded -- thanks Obama/Osama/Bush/Clinton/Trump/whoever -- it will take a few years for ordinary people to grok this.

While that happens it is our duty to make people around us understand this without getting them all hassled up or making anyone feel left out in the conversation.

> I am not benefiting from surveillance. I am a game developer and engineer. I see things from that perspective.

Good to hear that. There is nothing wrong if you were in fact. Smart entrepreneur et al. ;)

> We just ceded our government to a guy who won by way of asymmetric information. We had his opponent's taxes and emails, but we didn't have his. How can candidates be judged fairly in a situation like that?

Totally agree!

I'm glad that this discussion is even happening right now. Judgement of candidates (fair/unfair) is still due -- we're clearly in a bet right now. I believe that each comment here is a step towards making more and more people aware about where things really are today.

It's clearly a mess.
> with white nationalist leanings

Ah the "white nationalist" narrative. I forgot about that one. There no "white nationalist" appointee. But I guess everybody who isn't a progressive is a "white nationalist" now.
Discussions about surveillance almost always descend into considerations about personal privacy.

On the one hand you have those who don't want their porn habits on record, on the other you have those who doesn't care.

This is missing the bigger point, which the title of the linked article alludes to, but the article itself doesn't delve into.

For meaningful political opposition to be possible in a democracy, organizations and individuals in those organizations must have some level of privacy.

Considering the modern history of political organization and opposition and its suppression in the US, it seems to me that the incumbent power structures were already far too powerful even before the introduction of ubiquitous surveillance.
Hall thrusters typically operate around 50mN/kW. Gridded ion thrusters a bit lower, like 30-40mN/kW.
That being said, some exotic thrusters like the FEEP still manage to be useful operating below 10mN/kW for precise positioning.

[Edited erroneous data for FEEPs and needless rant]
Anecdotally reflected in my youth- had little exposure to television as a kid. I simply could not ignore "background televisions" for many years, while other kids whom I knew grew up with constant "background television" could ignore it without difficulty.
An oligarch with enough money could simply corrupt the government. They don't need a swarm of robots to take over.
(1) Desktop clients used to be faster and more efficient than using a web interface, and probably still are in most cases. However, Gmail is impressively snappy so I don't think it applies in that case.

(2) You can do things with a desktop client that you can't do with a web interface. That includes sort by subject and sort by size.

(3) Desktop clients can have real folders, which Gmail doesn't.

(4) Works off-line. This is still useful, though not as useful as it used to be.

(5) Easy to backup. Easy to automate backup.
I am aware of the atrocities that are committed against Muslim/Sunni/Shia/Ahmadi/etc. minorities all over the world and in no way do I condone such policies. I am truly sorry for what you had to go through, brother/sister. There is always someone who had it worse, I guess.

And yes, I completely agree; it's much better in the US right now. But if this "plan" goes through, what do you think will happen next? Do you really think that they'll stop there and call it a day? Probably not.
Ask HN: People who've been broke and recovered.Give me some inspiration
I'm broke. I just realized it after looking at my bank account (which I avoided looking at for about 2 months. Yeah, like an ostrich). I just logged in to my bank because I received an overdraft notice and I have $97 left.

I live in a country with a failing economy, practically no jobs. I used to get by pretty well with some small jobs I was doing online, but with the huge inflation in my country, the money I saved and the little money I have coming in is almost gone. All I have left is some small translation and article writing jobs for $10-20 every now and then I get on Freelancing sites that practically amount to nothing. I've posted on every single site and the jobs are getting harder and harder to find.

I have no real skills to find remote work. I've been learning programming (JS, python) but I don't know enough to get any work. Part of the reason I've been feeling so bad is that I've invested so much time and even some of the little money I had left in to learning programming. Now I feel a bit silly, like I was chasing the dream of becoming a 35 year old developer in a country with no market for it and risked my family's financial stability for it.

What skills could I pickup quickly that would help me make around $500 month? The economy here is so bad, that that small amount would definitely help me get my head above water again.

The future for my family is looking pretty bleak. I'm not looking for pity or just posting a sob story, but I would really like to hear some stories of people here that have been in my situation that have made it out OK. I guess I'm just looking for inspiration to get out of this hole I'm in right now.

Sorry for the wall of text. I guess I just needed to vent a bit because this is the first time I've felt this terrible.