skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this holds up I am prepared to believe in almost anything – like the universe being a simulation and this is a deterministic round-off error.

Conservation of momentum is pretty fundamental.
Are you seriously comparing down votes with lynching?
Turbo Pascal first or early version was for $50 I think. And many other compilers were ~$500 around the same period.
After getting a reference to a Peanuts cartoon, that turned out to not be a Peanuts cartoon but something from ImageBlitz (now defunct) that was also supported by white power nationalists on Stormfront, I am thoroughly vetting everything.

Get a picture > check Snopes > put photo through a photo forensic application > report back to the sender and everybody they sent the image to.

When I'm accused of being left wing because of this due diligence, I make sure my accusers know that I am an equal opportunity debunker. Find me a liberal left leaning image and I'll try to debunk that.
No, that's not the whole story. Bell pointed out that Bohm's theory, already known but ignored, is a counterexample to von Neumann's and others' claims on impossibility of hidden variables. He analyzed how that is possible and found out: 1) von Neumann made some unreasonable assumptions in his analysis; 2) the fixation on hidden variables is missing the point; the real surprise is that locality, not theory with hidden variables, is inconsistent with quantum theory. That's quite a discovery.

http://www.ijqf.org/wps/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Bricmont-...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.1826.pdf
How strictly do people writing code have to adhere to styling guides (not just in NASA, but everywhere else too)?

I get that coding standards are a good thing and plain-simply following these will produce "readable" and (possibly) maintainable code, but will that make the code any _better/efficient_ ?

Though this does catch some "gotchas" in C, like the if-if-else and the #define trap, I wonder if the Code Review involves a guy rejecting my patches with the comments, "you have missed out guideline 6.4.3.5 defined in page 54".
I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
Since many people may be jumping into this topic without context/awareness: Shawyer's explanations simply do not hold up. Even the minority of folks that know physics and think the emdrive is real agree that Shawyer's proposals are invalid. Further, he's been at this for years, repeatedly making grandiose claims and failing to deliver on them. Take anything he says with a huge grain of salt.
There's zero chance of a large collection of major economies getting together to pass such a thing. The sole reason the Paris Agreement had any chance is due to the US.

Let's look at the world in question.

Europe can barely hold itself together as it is - whether the Eurozone or EU - their overall economic system is rolling from one disaster to another while 0.3% growth is cheered. Europe has registered near zero real growth for a decade at this point. Their cooperative systems are all imploding as nations - from Sweden to Britain - put up barriers. Russia is guaranteed to seek more territory in Eastern Europe with nobody to stop them. Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal are all still in economic disaster mode and trying to recover or not implode further. German banks are acting like a depression is on-going, while the German economy is barely expanding. Finland has been in a near decade long soft depression. Norway's oil party is over, the next 20 years will be mostly austerity for them. France is a worsening mess both economically and politically. The UK has no idea what it's doing one way or another; Britain will be a mess for years to come due to Brexit. Oh and not one European country can actually afford to spend a dollar more on defense (and none of them really want to outside of Russia). The US pulling out of Europe in terms of military would cost those economies a hundred billion dollars per year that they don't have and would substantially increase nationalism and infighting.

Japan is fully subservient to the US because they have no means to deal with a rising China threat (they're already bankrupt at a government level and can't even remotely afford to defend themselves without nuclear weapons, their standard of living is rapidly falling thanks to endless Yen debasement). Japan is also still mired in a 25 year economic stagnation caused by debt and bad Keynesian economic policies, a stagnation which isn't going to end so long as they keep doing the same thing over and over again (which apparently they are going to do). Japan is in no position to stand against the US (which is why Abe just paid a visit to Trump, their position is exceptionally weak right now), nor are any other nations in Asia except for China. There is also almost zero unity in Asia, thanks to the divisive nature of China's aggressive territorial ambitions.

South America? Forget about it. Two of their three largest economies are in depressions (Venezuela is beyond that actually, they've fully collapsed as a nation). The other, Argentina, is barely starting to drag itself out of a deep recession. Who there is going to stand up to the US? Not going to happen, they have far bigger problems to deal with in their own backyard.

Australia? New Zealand? Canada? They might lodge complaints, let their grievances be publicly known, but that is all they can do.

Africa? They have no power or unity to cause the US problems.

The Middle East? Happy to keep the fossil fuel party going and would be promoters of the US tanking the Paris Agreement.

And that's it.
> then they tried to claim that the hashes were for the decrypted files

What do you mean "tried"? Even if WL didn't say it explicitly, that would be the top sensible explanation after one find the actual hash of one of the encrypted files does not match the published one.
Still it can be visualized.
I pee on a tree every single day and have for years. So far, no one has arrested me -- for anything at all.

But, hey, feel free to keep your squeamish "Oh, my god, it's a PEE PEE!!!" attitudes while the world literally goes to hell around you. Cuz: Priorities!

This would seriously not be a problem in Europe. America is weirdly uptight about a lot of things.
"The thrust was suspiciously repeated in many experiments" <--- How sure are you of that?

http://emdrive.wiki/Experimental_Results claims that there are six orders of magnitude difference between the lowest detected thrust and the highest detected thrust.

Going from the assumption that some effect actually exists and all the physical principles we have painstakingly tested ten million times over are wrong... Most of these studies are still complete BS, because they don't agree closely enough to be a replication.
Although some have pointed out that the article is pure speculation, this is a topic that interests me. Are there any recommendable books that explore similar topics?

I've tried googling, but there's just too many "Alien" theory books out there. Hoping for some solid recommendations.
You are right to draw attention to Facebook, but personally I live in China where it is blocked (a very intelligent and forward-looking Chinese government action, in my view) and rarely mentioned so I don't feel informed to comment on it's recent changes: the last time I touched it was perhaps 6 years ago in order to remove all vestiges of media from my account, then to remove my account.

It is true that there are larger manipulators of public perception - look at Hollywood - and I do think the same concerns should be leveled at them (eg. US military sponsorship and support for certain pro-US movies, product placements, etc.).
Yes, I've seen free to use web based services like this on Product Hunt. I've also seen many "products" on Product Hunt that are services that support/are supported by other services, like Whatsapp for the browser and 3rd party social networking tools, both of these types have even been in the top 10 for the day that are shown in the email newsletter.

I'm not familiar with the submission process, but have heard it helps if you're connected there already. But if your product is big/cool enough, other people will submit it, for instance a new car from Tesla or product from Apple are usually shown on Product Hunt.

Good luck!
The ST was another musician's favorite, because of the MIDI ports.
What's your take? You're not offering an alternative here.
You are so right
> 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.

Yes, but nobody's ACTUALLY saying that -- that's just the typical narrative of people-selling-perpetual-motion-machines. (Who, you'll note, have a slightly different agenda.).

What's actually going on is that everybody's saying "this would require New Physics -- hold your horses!"... and the response seems to be "YEAH, BUT WHAT IF?!??!".

Pithy answer to the "what if" challenge: Not good enough.
I disagree with the edit. While they have been responsive, they have been completely useless on my Gold package.

The individual teams however have been fantastic, available on both Slack and Google Groups.
The molecular clock isn't dependant only on the isolation estimate, it comes from in vitro studies of a given virus and each of it's offshoots combined with our understanding of it's replication rates in a host.

Again it doesn't need to have a perfect isolation, and the fact that the island is home to completely different strains which are unique to that island and can be genetically studied for drift and mutation rates does show that there was sufficient isolation to prevent transmission between the mainland and the islands.

All isolation is relative, N. Korea is isolated it doesn't mean that nothing gets in or out, same thing here a monkey on a branch might be thrown out to the ocean but it doesn't mean it will become a transmission vector.

Strain X exists only on Island Y while strain M N and O exist only on Mainland Z but not vice versa is enough proof for isolation for the studies to be valid.
Looking at the video more, I agree with you that this is more recent.

However, I don't see any reason to believe that wikileaks itself is not compromised.

Wikileaks is saying assange is in control, wants to give proof, does not give proof, releases hashes, releases files that don't match the hashes, and despite all the calls for proof of life, they do nothing.. which if assange is still alive is possibly his way of trying to get people to not trust wikileaks anymore because it's been compromised and he can't say anything about it. (1) because they're not letting him and (2) because ecuador might kick him out for revealing the truth

Until the man himself gives some proof that he is alive and in control of the organization, I see no reason to trust wikileaks.
An alternative definition:

> Stoicism means never having to say, "Gee, I really lost my sh*t back there."
All science starts with speculation. The problem with the intelligent design 'hypothesis' from a scientific perspective is that it's not a testable hypothesis, and is therefore metaphysics, not science.

Dark matter as intelligence substrate is a testable hypothesis (though not to our present instruments), although there is no evidence to support the theory right now.

These two propositions are quite different, and there's nothing wrong with a bit of idle speculation, as long as one keeps in mind that it is unlikely to accrue evidence either way in our lifetimes. (Though I suppose inasmuch as our physical theories gain understanding of dark matter as a strictly physical process, that does reduce space for the 'dark matter as information-substrate' hypothesis even further).
Fastmail with a personal domain is very easy to set up.
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The drive being power hungry would not change the fact that kinetic energy goes up quadratically with speed (E=(m*v^2)/2) while this drive supposedly can keep accelerating with only constant power input. So kinetic energy would go up quadratically with time while expended energy only goes up linearly. You'd get free energy very soon.

Since violation of conservation of energy is very unlikely, I'd say that this is a sign that the drive doesn't actually work. Or at least that there is some gotcha that we haven't understood yet.
I'm not knocking stoicism, it's a great outlook. But it asks us to have some perspective. A weakness of Stoicism is that it can allow people to attribute too much of thier emotional and intellectual success to thier own powers, when lack of physical comfort can be a limiting factor on having any intellectual life at all.

You should remember that stoicism was concieved amongst the elite of their time and place, who worried least.

Modern population density also makes comparisons of the contemporary 3rd world with ancient Greece rather far-fetched.
A buyer might pay more if they were confident you included all relevant information, including communication history.
You already said "everything that can happen". I feel like that rules out things that are provably impossible.
The kindest thing I can say is that the relationship between Muslims and Europe is beyond troubled. You're in a bubble.

Without self identifying as a Muslim, go to a random variety of forums and ask the question "What is the future of Europe and Islam" or just "Europe and Muslims" in search engines.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Europe%20and%20M...
This is a pretty brilliant talk, frightening and funny at the same time; in the end I take refuge in the fact that the robotic future will likely not involve humans as no sentient technology can be as stupid as we are and will likely eliminate us at the first opportunity.
I'm a citizen of both countries.

Obviously, that's what democracy is for. But if the laws are passed and the damage is done, I would choose to leave; in a sense, that is my form of protesting. I refuse to contribute to a society that has decided - by rule of law - that I'm not welcome because of my beliefs.
Welcome to the pyramid at the end of the world (2016)
"there's not enough land" wasn't my original point, it was about control of that land, I'm glad you agree it's a problem.

As for what happens to the poor in future generations, it depends on bringing out the best in those with the power to choose. I don't think the alternative is helpful to entertain at this point. The only question is whether we can mature as a race to share without force, or whether balance will be made using force (government coercion, etc...). It's a question about how much faith we have in the human race to grow up quickly.
It's because there's no such thing as absolute velocity, so your thrust can't vary with velocity, it has to be a constant for given input energy. Kinetic energy is the square of velocity, so as you keep accelerating at a constant rate, you'll eventually get to some velocity at which the energy you get out is higher than the energy you put in, assuming your reactionless drive is more efficient than a photon rocket.

Not that it matters. If it works, it already violates conservation of momentum as we currently understand it. That's just as fundamental as conservation of energy.
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Most often encrypted archives contain more than one file, so the only way this could be true is if there is an archive inside an archive. Which is totally possible.. but then the whole point of a hash is to let someone know that a file is as it was intended. So, if you're not giving a hash for the file you're sending.. you're basically setting people up for opening potentially malicious files on the hopes that the file they want is actually inside.

Which to me is just ridiculous.
yum wasn't renamed dnf -- dnf is a new, yum (mostly) command line compatible replacement.
But there is no reason at all to think the universe is infinite. Plenty of evidence it isn't. The idea it is is entirely from either the religious or secular versions of "Dude, I'm going to blow your mind"
> Couldn't it be the case that there is some local phenomenon happening that we do not understand that still manages to maintain conservation of momentum?

Ever hear of the Luminiferous Aether? From what I can tell, it could explain this phenomenon. Most people consider it an outdated crackpot theory largely because it's at odds with the entirety of quantum theory and the theory of relativity. But, this is the sort of thing that makes you go back to square one and re-consider everything you thought you knew.
As did the OPERA guys, and yet a fiber optic cable attached improperly slipped through.
Could you offer up a specific example of privacy and transparency not being opposites? My imagination is failing me.

I find when "transparency" is used in conversation these days, it tends to mean, "These guys over here shouldn't be allowed privacy, but I want to keep mine."
I downvoted for basically the same reason as 'danbruc -- the comment contains inaccuracies (as far as I understand physics, IANAP) that don't become accurate just by appending "Right?" to them. I don't really read that "Right?" as condescension like 'humbledrone but more as a verbal tick. I hear it from others and even suffer from it myself sometimes, the idea is that a "Right?" pause offers the other party in the conversation a chance to interrupt and correct you, because you're not entirely certain of your own assertions. But that doesn't work so well in written communication except maybe with instant messaging.

I gave you an upvote for persisting in getting corrections/tips from people like 'danbruc and 'lutusp though. Since you were interested in simulation you might enjoy this article (or others on his site) from an actual physicist: http://oyhus.no/QuantumMechanicsForProgrammers.html
In the Stanford/Coursera machine learning class, Andrew Ng said that his teaching experience is that students pick up octave/matlab quicker and the course can cover more actual machine learning, compared to python where more time is spent learning the language.

This seems to be a special case of teaching a course where the students come from diverse backgrounds, having learned different programming languages or none at all. And in any course that involves some computer based activities, it's always good to avoid the situation where fussing with the tools overshadows the content that's being taught.

In this case, a language whose notation mimics the notation being used to describe the math on the chalkboard, is certainly handy. And I appreciate that he's offering a way to do the work without requiring a commercial or platform-specific tool.

I'm not sure it means that Octave is nicer in general, but I can certainly see the appeal if it's well integrated into a well designed course.
Off-topic : Are you the puranjay from growthpub ?
DynamoDB and Datastore are mostly equivalent in terms of utility and pricing. GCloud also has Big Table if you're dealing with really large data sets/qps.

Lambda and Cloud Functions are competitors, though there are some things you could do with Lambda + API Gateway that you can't quite do with Cloud Functions just yet (pretty narrow scope, though). I prefer the environment for Cloud Functions, subjectively.
Compared to the 6809 or the m68k, it's awkward as all hell. Compared to the 6502, it's still awkward.

Comparing Z80 assembler to 6502 assembler is like comparing CL to Scheme. The Z80 gets some things Right that the 6502 doesn't, but the 6502 does the Right Thing more often, and is very elegant and minimal. However, the Z80 has a ton of useful building blocks that the 6502 sacrifices to keep that elegance.

I prefer Scheme to CL, but I think I like Z80 better than 6502. Go figure...
I recently visited the google cloud pricing page and had a hard time making any sense of it all. The pricing isn't at all clear. DigitalOcean on the other hand, you take one glance at their pricing page and know exactly what your getting. Google can learning something from that.
But the question of how the scientific community should be reacting to this, and whether more time and money should be thrown at these experiments, seems wholly separate from the question of how the public should be reacting.

You asked "Or maybe it's just a waste of time/money?", which is a question for the scientific community, but most of the "WHAT IF?!??!" reactions seem to be coming from the public.

edit: I replied before you edited your post fairly heavily; I think what I said still applies, though.
Reading that felt strangely liberating. It's a refreshing and eloquent reiteration of the whole idea of the goal being the journey and vice versa. Contrary to what modern society has instilled in us..
This is actually what the Long Lines building looks like in real life. I'm not sure what you are objecting to. The saturation level of the sky looks enhanced, probably to add contrast to the building's surface which is quite dull and muted. But the building itself is naturally dramatic in a dystopian or Art Brut kind of way.
"Matlab and Octave have multidimensional arrays built in. Few modern languages do. C, C++, Python, Go, Rust - no built-in multidimensional arrays. (Arrays of arrays are not the same thing.)"

What is the difference? I was thinking about this just recently (in connection with Python and C). But not clear on the diff (for either language), though I know that internally all arrays have to be represented as 1D sequences of bytes in memory, and the translation betwen 1D and say 2D (for 2D arrays) is done by adding and multiplying indices, offsets, etc. Is there any more to it than that? Interested to know.
This is the story of a software project err castle
i recently moved a database off of RDS onto a "bare metal" VPS and my queries are > 10x faster
Minor nitpick: the proportion of each serotype would determine the final reduction in your calculation above. If the serotypes in the 1% the vaccines don't work for are in 10% of the population of patients, then the final reduction would be to a 1:10,000 chance.
This.

If nothing else, many academics are motivated by ego rather than money (I'd put myself in this category). Having successfully discovered a cure for HIV would do such spectacular things for my career that the level of money that would have to be involved is pretty substantial - and would have to be spread over a large number of people.
I suspect the answer (perhaps unfortunately) will be 'anyone with the money to afford the technology'. I can see an actual industry appearing around robotics and AI controlled weapons systems, and a fair few companies willing to sell to special interests outside of the police or military.

So I suspect we'll get a situation where everyone from the police and military to political groups, companies (mostly larger ones), richer/more tech obsessed civilians and criminals have access to military grade robots. Like a more expensive version of firearms in the US.
Flags are still very much used around the world.

Visual signalling leaves no trace and can only be seen by those who you can see. Radio transmissions can be detected by sensors you don't know are present. This is useful for navies.

They're reasonably quick, reliable and transcend language barriers.

They also work well as a broadcast method - you can hoist Flag Alpha and every ship in visual range will know you that have a diver in the water and to use caution in your vicinity, you don't need to create excess chatter by announcing it on radio every 5 minutes.

Also, when you need a laugh during a long and boring watch you can get someone junior on the bridge to read out the ICS definition for Single Letter Signal Flag Zulu.