skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning
If I understand your question, the two options you've presented are: 1. Make a law to force governments and corporations to be more open, a la the Freedom of Information Act but turned into its live-casting modern equivalent, and 2. Not clear, but it sounds like a combination of adding more teeth to enforcement of our privacy laws and/or individually using much stronger crypto?

If that's what you meant, then neither path sounds easy. They both sound like a giant pain in the butt. However, Path #1 sounds a hell of a lot healthier in the long run to me. It's the one I advocate, because I believe more information is always better. You can certainly argue that it will be abused, but if everyone can see everything, then you can see the abuser doing the abuse as well. That's a key point that's easy to miss.

As to the diminished power, there's a similar argument to be made regarding wealth inequality. Hard to imagine the wealthy would agree to higher taxes if it hurts them, yet some of the most enlightened and even the very wealthiest do believe this, because they understand that while their individual wealth goes down if viewed in isolation, holistically, their true wealth goes up, because they improve the quality their country, its services, and the people they share their lives with.
If you don't have a full kitchen what do you have?
It's a little more complicated than conservation of momentum, which is just a subset of conservation of energy useful for intuition about the non quantum world. If you're converting energy into massive particles or photons for propulsion you can still have a "massless" drive while maintaining conservation of momentum because what you're really conserving is the total energy of the system. Research has previously shown that it is possible to create particles but it requires ungodly amounts of energy and a specially designed apparatus that separates the resulting particle and antiparticle using quantum effects before they can annihilate each other. There is even some research into using a vibrating "quantum mirror" that forces virtual photons to become real using only energy from quantum fluctuations but that's even more complicated and difficult to engineer.

Either the EM drive has a unique combination of features that allows efficient creation and separation of particles using electricity, some other unknown quantum effects are present that can convert energy to momentum without an opposite reaction on another particle/field, or there is still a hidden error. Given the scientific knowledge we have today, it's extremely likely to be the latter but that doesn't preclude the possibility that we have discovered something novel.
I was in my late twenties before I started programming professionally. Always had super crappy jobs before that, and grew up without a lot of money, so I ended up with a fix-all-the-things mindset. I'd think something like "well, I don't have hundreds of dollars to get my truck's ignition fixed. Guess it's time to learn how ignition systems work and fix it myself before I need to goto work on monday."

It could be super stressful, but I appreciate knowing those things now that I could afford to ignore them if I wanted to.

I actually ended up getting a side job working for a stage magician because I worked for the moving company that moved his stuff. I overheard them talking about a motorcycle they used in a trick, and how it wasn't working. I told them how they could fix it and they asked if I wanted to make some extra cash fixing other tricks, which by their nature were all cobbled together one-offs.
Tech companies should just not try to make consumer products. Build your chips and your displays and your compilers and OSes, but please let retail businesses figure out what customers might want before you start building stuff just because you can. Apple is just about the only company that has managed to get away with doing both.
New Zealand's Tectonic Dragon Awakens
Shouldn't crazy stuff be exactly why we fund tenured positions?

I would like to think tenure still produces crazy scientists
While from the same studio, Whisper of the Heart is not a Miyazaki.

Also, mentioned in GP, Cat's return is not a Miyazaki either.
Nanotechnology: Heat to Kill Tumors (2013)
If I have to pay attention to the road while the car is on autopilot then it's basically useless -- I might as well drive the car just for the stimulation.

If/When it's good enough that I can sleep during a long highway trip (and pull into the last rest stop before my exit if I don't wake up) then I'll be happy.
It's also a theme in some of Stephen Baxter's books, where lots of very "hot and fast" life developed almost immediately after the big bang in very extreme (to us) environments, and influenced cosmological history by doing things like changing the balance between matter and anti-matter. Human-like life, on the other hand, developed later and is physically larger, colder, and slower.
You're very skilled at drawing hasty conclusions, it seems!

I said that I will probably leave the US if the trend of anti-Islam policies continues, not solely because of the proposed headscarf ban.

And nowhere did I state that Tunisia is perfect. It still is a fledgling democracy after all, and there is much left to do to get there. But this doesn't mean I wouldn't live there if I had no other option.
i suppose, but one reason I had no interest in math in school was I saw no practical point to a formula, and less-so for a proof. It may be a personality issue with me, compounded by less-than-engaging math education techniques, but I think a good analogy would be: I always loved legos as a kid, and programming is like grown-up legos to me :)
He hasn't even been sworn-in as president yet, but you've given him a chance.
If it repels of Earth, then it can be used to keep orbit.

If there is an anisotropy in the ether, Sagnac interferometer should catch it.
"But even if you could, that is not a reasonable argument"

It may not be a reasonable argument to claim that it is impossible, but it is a totally fine argument to make that it is insanely unlikely and needs a mountain of evidence before we take the conclusions seriously.
Too late to edit, but I was mostly replying to this part:

> You don't have to live on bread and water to be a Stoic.
> Reminds me of the Tyrell Corporation building in Blade Runner.

Reminds me of the building Tyrell and Elliot look at in Mr Robot, the "belly of the beast" building. Maybe that's because the two are the same building :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street

> As it was built to house telephone switching equipment, the average floor height is 18 feet (5.5 meters), considerably taller than in an average high-rise. The floors are also unusually strong, designed to carry 200 to 300 pound per square foot (10–15 kPa) live loads.

Good conditions to retrofit a data/processing center

The description of the building and it's brutalist architecture are also remniscient of the machine building described in The Difference Engine (Gibson).
Here is a less dramatized photo: https://cryptome.org/eyeball/nytel/33-thomas-070802.jpg

It's still pretty dramatic, though. Personally I've always loved walking past that building.

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Just to clarify, the NYT photo is certainly not CGI. It's just over saturated. That's really what it looks like when you are standing at the base of the building.
Currently, perhaps not, what with the refugee crisis and all. I still think it's not as bad as you describe it; I know of several Muslims who live there and really like it. But if the US ends up continuing on this path, I think Sweden would be a great option.
Removing self-determination is extermination.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. My intent was precisely in accord with what you say, and I appreciate you clarifying the point in the way which I should have but did not.
OT:

"Nautilus uses cookies to manage your digital subscription and show you your reading progress. It's just not the same without them."

I don't have a digital subscription, neither do I need my "reading progress" displayed to me. What does that even mean ? What makes that so important that they just can't show me the content, if they not also show me my "reading progress".

I'm a fully grown adult who has been reading for many, many years. Maybe I know a thing or two about my "reading process".

If you want to show me ads and/or sell my "reading progress" to the highest bidder, at least say so, and don't hide behind some bullshit.
[Disclaimer: I think it's a measurement error.]

Just ignore the theoretical explanations. Just imagine that it's something they wrote to avoid the crackpot tag. That explanation doesn't make any sense. Also avoid all the other theoretical explanations, they are also very sloppy.

Just concentrate in the experiments, that is the less sloppy part of these reports.

If they discovered something new, then they can make a working prototype and improve it until it's clear that they are measuring something really new and it's not an experimental error or a misattributed force. They can make foolproof instructions so anyone can make a version in a good enough lab and reproduce the experiment, or sell an experimental setup in Ebay. Then it will "confirmed".

There has been a many famous experiments that were later debunked, like:

* cold fussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion , they had also some kind of theoretical excuse, but it was wrong and it was impossible to reproduce the experiment.

* arsenic in DNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFAJ-1 , they had also some kind of theoretical excuse, but it was wrong and it was impossible to reproduce the experiment.

If you want success cases, my favorites are:

* the asymmetric disintegration of cobalt in a magnetic field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_experiment , I guess they had some wrong explanation, but the correct explanation was discovered like 20 years later

* high temperature superconductivity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconducti... IIRC they have some explanation or practical rules, but the correct explanation was discovered like 20 years later

Just concentrate in the experiments, and wait 20 years for a good explanation.
Ohh, so the only thing that you have to do is change every single human being to do what your ideal of world is?

The closest thing I have been to the ISS is living on a small phishing boat for a week. I could warrantee you EVERY SINGLE PERSON THERE WANTS PRIVACY. And it is crazy if you do not respect it, this people can throw you out of the boat, you could not imagine how difficult it is to live in a small space with other people for a long time.

You say nobody on the ISS wants privacy, based on what? Have you asked them, I bet you do not. You have just thought about it based on your own prejudices on the comfort of your home.

I have lived in China with so many people everywhere, after that living on Norway or Alaska or Argentina feels so great. Vast Spaces just for you.

In my opinion it is just the animal inside with her territory, as simple as that, gorillas have it, lions have it, and we have it as animals.

When they remove privacy from us they are removing our personal territory: We are not free anymore, we are in someone else territory(the country masters, or the big companies).

Without Privacy we can be judged at any time for any reason. They are observing us and they could hunt us like prey when we are weaker, they can take advantage of our vices in order to profit, they could blackmail us.

Remember Bill Clinton or Kennedy having sex with young women, Hillary holding mails in her personal accounts(probably so she could sell it to someone else), prime ministers holding accounts in fiscal heavens. This is only what we know, and it is a normal thing even on people on charge, people are not perfect. The people that know all of this have power and they could and actually legally blackmail those in power and they do.

We can go for Utopia and try to change every single human for it, which is impossible.

"Tolerance and respect" how much tolerance and respect have you seen in the last elections for example, when the people in power risked loosing their power? Zero. All politicians have personal dossiers of all adversaries and friends and no doubt they will use it if you are on their way to power, money or glory.
We're not bystanders; our industry is the most important facilitator of this problem and we understand the causes, implications and solutions far better than anyone. We have a serious responsibility to our fellow citizens, just as the food industry has a responsibility not to poison everyone. What are you and your company doing about it? You have 2 months lead time before your competitor starts rolling out their products:

* Is your company minimizing and anonymizing user data? Is it implementing end-to-end encryption?

* If your product is hard for users to avoid (e.g., an ISP is hard to avoid, a casual game is not), do you provide a way for users to utilize it confidentially?

* Users need private alternatives, which means that FOSS projects need a lot of help making their products much more usable and reliable; can you help out?

If you are thinking, 'my little portion won't solve the problem', you're right. Nothing gets done in a democracy unless people all do their little portions, and unless they organize. The United States is the 'Land of the Free' only if its citizens make it that way.

....

Also see here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/11/tech-companies-fix-the...
I'd personally say 4 spaces on even indentation levels and tabs everywhere else.
Great read...how about media ? They are playing larger and larger role in how our elections are run. One big media comapny could have indirect affect on how people will feel and behave including governments, armies and nations.
Latest CPU leaks mention 10nm cpus about to land. They managed to keep Moore's law afloat surprisingly longer than expected.
How do you prevent an uprising with those numbers?
Not in this case. They're issuing MSRP refunds, no questions asked, in exchange for returns whose shipping they also cover.

Kudos to Intel, and I've obviously incorrectly prejudged them.

That said, I still would like to avoid migration to a new platform, even with a full refund. It's why some of us stick with Apple. :-)
Making and selling Meth is surprisingly addicting.
This is actually incorrect. Pilot wave theory gives a deterministic explanation of phenomenon that the standard model treats as frequentist random events. Only if you assume no knowledge of the underlying hidden variables does the model reduce to the same as the frequentist standard model.

This is exactly analogous to statistical mechanics (e.g. the ideal gas law) arising from classical Newtonian mechanics when you assume no specific knowledge about gas particles (individual positions or velocities), just aggregate mass and energy.

An experiment that "proves" an extension of pilot wave theory might be, e.g., observing that decay rates of radioactive isotopes are affected by being in a quantum corral or something like that. An experiment that shows there is a more fundamental, and influenceable process underlying phenomenon that the standard interpretation treats as frequentist.

For this reason it could be easily argued that theoretical physicists should be spending more time on pilot wave theory since it is this sort of theory from which future advances would come, vs the standard interpretation which puts up a semantic stop sign and says "proceed no further".
So in a case like this does the patient own any patentability of their own antibodies? Or did they sign it away in treatment/study?
Isn't there a valid distinction between the joy of making genuine progress in life and mere pleasure such as that derived from drugs or alcohol?
Concerns about privacy were considered theoretical by so many for so long. At least now we know the theory, but we need to implement and deploy it ASAP.
Global warming is not real! (Will the world really just accept this from Trump? Don't mean to turn on a flame war but it's really about this. Think global warming is bad now? How about in 20 more years?)

I hope Zuckerberg & Brin will do something to improve the direction things are going. New billionaires seem much smarter than the old ones.
Yes, it's true, people who find fault in anything will read that as racist. That is a true statement.
Wikipedia has plenty of pics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
> If one wants to convince me of a thrust effect: build a prototype where the power source (a battery for example) and the RF-source are strapped onto the cavity, put the whole setup in a vacuum of your choice (i heard NASA has very nice and !large! facilities) and show me a sustained increase in impulse (just let it rotate for a while)

Okay, but they aren't trying to convince you yet.

They're trying to convince themselves that it's worth spending the resources you describe.
It's actually one millinewton per kilowatt, which I understand is only one order of magnitude off of current Hall thrusters. It's not great, but Hall thrusters are really useful for deep-space missions, so if this works, it could have use as a vehicle engine.
Asus, Acer, Samsung, Toshiba, MSI, IBM, Sony... all these companies and many others sell components to other companies, but also made consumer products that many people love. I don't quite get your logic.
It's always fun to baffle visitors from other states by bragging that our highway department is better-armed than their highway department.
> 1. It violates Conservation of Momentum. If the phenomena is real, a large number of basic Physics principles would need to be discarded.

Relativity didn't make us discard Newtonian physics though. It just turned out to be a good approximation of something more complex in certain conditions. Similarly, we don't discard the descriptions of macroscopic events when they turn out to be just emergent phenonema, good approximations of complex quantum events at certain scales. Why would this be any different?

> 2. It was designed based on certain principles. Those principles have been shown to be wrong. But it works anyway because reasons?

Those 'reasons' are imo more interesting than whether it really works or not. Sure, the measurements may be off, or the setup of the experiments could be flawed. But until someone can point out exactly why we're measuring what we're measuring, I think it's worth pursuing.

> 3. The results of each experiment are suspiciously close to the limits of measurement.

If nothing else, maybe it will motivate scientists to come up with more exact ways of measuring, or better experimental designs that shield from unintended effects.

I guess my point is, regardless of whether it works as a drive or not, we shouldn't discard it as a hoax or consider its study a waste of time as some scientists seem to do.
I was about to bring up Victor Frankl. I'm happy you beat me to it.

In addition, consider the story of Admiral James Stockdale, who was kept in a P.O.W camp in Vietnam for 7 years. His memoir explicitly mentions Stoic philosophy as having been key to his ability to endure.
Not if it works by momentum being transferred through the power cable.
Perhaps I'm doing a strawman here, sorry in advance.

But you seem to imply that you implement strong type checking into all(?) your functions yourself and think that is a better solution than having your platform do it for you automatically and systematically. Or is it about the freedom of not doing it?
OT, but that dude sure liked commas.
Apple will continue support for ‘great automation technologies in macOS’
They might be same in windowlessness, but the scale is completely different.

Here's a photo that more better captures its size:

https://www.emporis.com/images/show/446315-Large-fullheightv...
Keep calm and pee on a tree.

I am not actually being flippant: http://peeonatree.blogspot.com/
It seems it's their scaled-up estimate and that they actually measured micro Newtons, close to the margin of error of their setup? Specifically, the highest input power was 80 Watts, if I didn't miss some picture in the paper, which would give around 90 microNewtons actually produced per 80 Watts? So their summary seems to be misleading.

I tend to believe that they measured "something" but that that something has some plain explanation.

It seems that at the time the claims leaked (September) the figure was even "1.2N per MW", but still:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/09/02/nasas...

"For the EMdrive, the device that was tested here, thrust was consistently observed on the device to be between 30-and-50 microNewtons, giving us that 1.2 N/MW figure. But the limits of the measuring device’s threshold was just 10-to-15 microNewtons! In other words, these results may be consistent and interesting, but this isn’t as robust as anyone wants it to be."
The difference is that eventually you run out of ions to thrust.
Now if only I can figure out how to get it working on Mac. The official DMG simply doesn't work and the homebrew method doesn't install the GUI.
That's an argument about priors. In the face of actual evidence of its reality, priors establish significance not believability.
As I said earlier this is bogus. We might as well try to prove virgin birth.
I posted a similar story 11 hours ago. It got 71 points and 23 comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12992777

Then it got flagged into oblivion:

http://hnrankings.info/12992777
Here's a fun webpage about some of the ugly telco buildings in NYC!

https://cryptome.org/eyeball/nytel/nytel-eyeball.htm
Wouldn't Canada make more sense? Weather's no worse.
You see, I'm actually proper leftist.

I'm from Europe and I laugh my ass off watching your failing healthcare, your nuclear student debt, your crime, the like

I'm a proper leftist - I want taxes for the rich, singlepayer healthcare, free education, worker rights, real environment protection, etc etc

I'm just outraged at what the fuck is happening. The "left" is so laughable that in Poland we have an upcoming dictator that just took over supreme court, is building a second, volounteer "defence army" that the ruling party just struck down regulation prohibiting it from being used against polish citizens and is on the record saying "we must hold onto power no matter what"

You've got brexit, you've got Trump. In Sweden you got SD, France is looking more and more that Le Pen will win.

And you know why? It's your own fault. The "left" is not able to deal in reality no more and it was busy alienating and radicalising the right

The "clinton email" scandal you put into sweet quotation marks has emails that nicely explain it all as it was happening.

She is THE "devil". She is the epitome of what's wrong with your politics. She is a sellout, she fucked Bernie with a giant cactus (A man who I was so rooting for). She is so despicable that she was unable to beat Trump, who you could tell after 15 minutes of the debate has no fucking clue.

At least he looked genuine, he was uncomfortable and pissed during the debate I watched. She just pandered and pandered and slinged shit at him.

Yes, my jimmies are rustled.

Not because Trump won, I'm not happy Clinton lost, as it was pyrrhic victory.

I'm pissed because the response (from the media) to the "end times" (as I see it) is more bullshit and idiocy, more "ZOMG RACISM, ZOMG WHITELASH"

What the fuck?!