skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can fire pellets out of the well using a mass driver, I'd think that firing whole spacecraft out is going to be a much more viable option than trying to reduce the depth of the well to any noticeable degree.

Yes, spacecraft are more fragile than pellets, and canned primates even more so, but a ludicrously long acceleration track is still going to cost peanuts compared to the kind of planetary liposuction you're talking about.
EM Drive never was proved to have provided thrust on a rigorous test, the theoretical explanation for it also doesn't have any basis on current standard physics.

I recommend this video for a good explanation [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqoo_4wSkdg
Floobits: real-time collaborative workspace editing for Atom, IntelliJ, and more
Very cool UX stamps to help with wireframing on paper
It's not the cost of Javascript. It's the cost of shipping the latest trend as fast as possible by throwing in another lib that has all the options you will use 1% of.

This is happening everywhere.

And this is also why we are wasting so much time waiting for that page or program to load.

It's a nice article but isn't this something that should be so obvious for the avarge programmer?
These accusations (not charges) came out in 2014 and don't seem to have gone anywhere. Little mention of it since then, and no evidence presented that I can find.
> It's seemed to have dropped off the news completely

Gonna go way out on a limb here and guess "because it's totally fake" is the most likely reason.
I think "the United States' overreaction to 9/11" would need to be broken out into much finer detail.

* Referring to Iraq, there's a good argument to be made that it wasn't so much an overreaction as a seizing of opportunity.

* For violence against Muslims in the USA there was some of that, but I don't think it was either widespread enough or widely accepted enough to be considered a reaction by "the United States"

* For immigration policies, maybe, though again I think it's pretty clear that that's more to do with political parties than a US-wide reaction.
One would think that in 2017 we would be using an OS that takes the best ideas from Xerox Park/Star, Oberon and Cloud 9. At least on new devices (like tablets) which don't have to keep backward compatibility.
Alternate economic views are incomprehensible?
Almost 5years after Amazon loved MariaDB, now Microsoft fell in love with it too.
I’d go on a rampage.
It is implemented with WebCrypto APIs. The performance would be abysmal in pure JavaScript.
Awesome! Thanks for this feedback. Swarming is definitely a scenario we'd love to see Live Share help improve. And no, collaborators wouldn't need to be running admin level in order to participate in a sharing session. We want to make sure collaboration is as accessible/frictionless as possible for everyone :)
Is this a legitimate news source? I have a difficult time believing this part:

> The events unfolded as Zimbabwe is in deep crisis. The economy has halved in size since 2000, an estimated 95% of the workforce is jobless and as many as 3 million Zimbabweans have gone into exile.

95% unemployment?
Nothing but love for emacs, props to those who use it.
We responded well enough to 9/11 up to Tora Bora. Attacking Iraq wasn't an overreaction. It was rank stupidity.
The academic inaccuracies of some internet subculture doesn't make the phenomenon less adequate to mention.

I think they probably just thought that the term hypergamy sounds cool, so they adopted it to appear scientific.
While Ada is not formally a Pascal dialect, it arguably has more influence from Pascal than from the earlier ALGOL (which also influenced Pascal; it has keywords like PROCEDURE, BEGIN and END) and Simula. A Pascal-family developer can more easily pick up Ada than, say, a C programmer; the Pascal family already has TYPE, VAR, ranges, records, etc.

From the 1983 Ada reference manual [1]:

Another significant simplification of the design work
resulted from earlier experience acquired by several
successful Pascal derivatives developed with similar
goals. These are the languages Euclid, Lis, Mesa,
Modula, and Sue. Many of the key ideas and syntactic
forms developed in these languages have counterparts
in Ada. Several existing languages such as Algol 68
and Simula, and also recent research languages such
as Alphard and Clu, influenced this language in
several respects, although to a lesser degree than
did the Pascal family.

Ada was widely considered as being an evolution of Pascal at the time (e.g. [2]).

[1] http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83lrm/html/lrm-01-03.html

[2] https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/article-pdf/25/2/248/1080494...
I read a comment by another PM on Reddit who said that everything is fully encrypted, but is sent to a remote server to negotiate the connection with the other user. They also said that they don't collect any private information/code.
Trüberbruck – nerdy point and click adventure
Just checked, last time I paid was $10 (i think for an upgrade) in 2013.
I'm intrigued by the idea that cryptocurrencies can exist and may help alleviate economics crises, but in a dark plot twist can't governments essentially own the majority of computing power, start their own cryptocurrency, and outlaw all others? What does the world look like when a decentralized concept like this is appropriated and brute forced into a more-or-less centralized concept? (Or perhaps I'm way off track...)
Some schools have an interdisciplinary degree which is close, I think. If I recall, you essentially have an advisor that oversees the classes you take and makes sure that you have "enough" credits in each subject (STEM, literature, humanities, etc) but you don't have to declare that X subject will be the focus of my studies.
As a programmer I know all this. But I don't articulate as well as Addy. So He's given me a fantastic link to share with the non-programmers above me.
Sex robots a turn off for ethics board
Ironically, a stupid thing to say.
Based on the Debian Wiki, plans have since changed[0] (unless this page is outdated?). That LWN article is from June, the wiki article was last edited in September.

My understanding from the mailing list is that they're planning on using GitLab, at least that's what I heard last. I could always be wrong.

[0]: https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth#Deprecation_of_Alioth
Do you know anything about developing with Alexa?
>People were using C almost as a scripting language, which in retrospect is insane. Using it as a portable assembler to build the bulk of an OS, or at least the low-level parts of an OS, made sense — trying to use it for high-level programming was a mistake.

Before C++ and some of the less and more recent higher-level languages became available and were stable enough, people were writing both business applications and desktop / server software products in C - a lot.

Biz apps that required database-like functionality were written either using ISAM-type libraries or low-level proprietary database APIs (specific to a particular database server) or using embedded SQL in C (e.g. Pro-C for Oracle, ESQL/C for Informix, DB-Library for Sybase, etc.

And lots of successful Unix and Win32 software products were written in C, for both the logic and GUI parts of the apps. I've worked some earlier on real projects / products of all those types I mentioned (except Sybase).

Some higher level products such as 4GLs also existed (for reporting and other purposes) and those were used too, but C was still used, even for business apps. When there were less of good higher-level-but-still performant choices available, and hardware was not as powerful, it was not an insane option at all.

Plus, as is known to C programmers, "in C you can do anything." Not many higher-level languages can say that - except by linking to C libs via FFIs of some type. Obviously there were cons involved too, such as string handling, memory and pointer management, and less productivity than higher-level tools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_SQL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro*C

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGU8G_12.1.0...
Tidyverse 1.2.0
I'm excited about their platform for hotels and envision an amazing user experiences for the occupants, especially when trying to access room service.
I don't know. This makes me think of a piano that at random times plays a random note - and sometimes it sounds good. I guess the difference is that photography isn't real time, so the photographer can throw out all the ones that don't look good. OTOH, I think I'd rather put my efforts into adding weird effects to better images than hoping for the best.
good luck with that and Eminent Domain..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
> It is not accurate that most employer-provided health care is provided by firms that self-insure. Self-insurance is common among firms with more than 5000 employees, and sharply less common with firms with smaller numbers of employees. Though the majority of the American workforce is employed by "large enterprises", the definition of that term is "firms with more than 500 employees".

According to this Wikipedia article it's 81% of workers getting health insurance through an employer are self-insure plans[1].

There's also an inherent bias towards healthier small organizations going the self-insure route. If I'm running a small shop and intimately know all the people involved (ex: family business), I know more about our healthcare needs and risks than any insurance company could. Based on that I can self insure and keep costs down or defer to getting policies on the individual market. Rational actors who are "more sick" will do that latter.

> Regardless of that: we already know what happens when the economics of health insurance for a region become unfavorable for insurers: they simply exit the individual (and, ultimately, the small-group) marketplace. No law requires insurers to offer products on the individual and small-group marketplace, and, without the mandate, it's reasonably straightforward to predict that many/most insurers will leave those markets.

And that's what congress needs to solve. Keeping the mandate might delay the implosion but it doesn't stop it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-insurance#Size_of_self-fu...
I wish, I wish, I wish someone would have had this talk with me pre-college: "Why are you going to college? To learn a skill that you can use to pay the bills with, i.e., to make money, right? If the goal is to make money, then wouldn't it be a good idea to try a major where they literally teach you to make money? Which college does that? Does engineering, science, or liberal arts teach you how to make money? Or do they just teach you how to spend other people's money? Hint, as an engineer you are someone else's cost. The college of business literally teaches you how to make money, especially in finance, where they teach how to start with a pile of money and make it a larger pile of money. Granted, some grounding in the hard sciences is nice, but minors are good for that. Final recommendation is Finance major with Computer science minor, and then get an MBA after that as quickly as you can.”

I have bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and in computer science, a law degree (years later in night school), and an MBA (years later again in night school). I do not like that the only advice on picking a major was “do what you enjoy/love”. I loved each of my majors when getting them and when applying them, but I did not enjoy learning the hard way that I want to be the guy paying others to make money for me, instead of the guy getting paid to make money for someone else.
I use a cheap chromebook as a dedicated lab laptop. I set up a digital lab notebook with vimwiki, taskwiki and git, and sync to a git server (and other computers I use). I only have to open it up and vim is ready to jot down things.
My wife used to believe this, and then she got so sick she nearly needed a blood transfusion. Dietary needs are not universal in the slightest.

She cannot have carbs or sugars, but she needs certain kinds of meat like fish or chicken.

The only way to find this stuff out is to have detailed dietary analysis and bloodwork. You might be surprised what you find out about your own body.

That being said, yes eating nutritious plants is never a bad idea. Being vegan on the other hand, is probably overboard for 90% of humans.
Hardware is hard. I was a TechShop member back in 2013. I thought it was a great idea, but I noticed that the laser cutters/engravers seemed to be the only machines that were regularly booked up. I wonder if a model of ‘kinkos for laser cutting’ could have succeeded?
You can mimic a lot of that with rotational grazing.
1Password X is a pure Chrome extension and does not rely on the native app. This has its benefits and obvious drawbacks.

Some of the benefits:

* Simpler installation

* Support for multiple users on the same computer with Chrome user profiles

* Support for Chrome OS
> Disagree. Insults are a problem if and only if they cause third parties to have unfairly* diminished regard for you.
To give a topical example, there does not appear to be any insult which affects Trump: if you hate him then the insults prove you right, but if you love him then the insults are just fake news.

In societies where 'honor' killings take place, insults do cause third parties to have an unfairly diminished regard for you.

Here's an example closer to home - when a drug dealer gets ripped off for $500, he doesn't care about the money. $500 is nothing to him. What he cares about is appearing like an easy mark, which opens the door to everyone and their brother stealing from him. It's why the correct response to that kind of insult, in that kind of industry, is to go to the offender's house, and break their skull open by dropping an ATM machine on it.

He isn't killing someone for $500. He's killing someone to make it clear that he will not be taken advantage of.

Trump doesn't need to do that, because me insulting him on Twitter will not result in other people ripping him off. He is protected from that by a working legal system. My insults are not damaging, and even if it were, he would be able to sue me. Drug dealers, and people living in the mountains of Albania have no such recourse (Or do not trust it.)
I believe it's a deferral on paying taxes on your 'earnings' from the options purchased, not a deferral on exercising.
"quantum" doesn't mean "small".

"quantum leap" means an abrupt, large, leap.

See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quantum_leap
Obviously sending the author to jail is an empty threat.
FYI for those who may not be familiar, thehardtimes is a satirical site like The Onion.
Crossing the Chasm (Moore)
Anecdotally, as a Californian, I've heard it before. Mostly in High School. Although another term was more common for Hispanic people.[1] I don't hear it anymore, but I imagine a large part of that is that I'm forced to interact with or be in audible range of people that would use that language far less now.

1: https://www.google.com/search?q=define+spic
There are lots of areas of speed optimizations that Ember introduced after switching to Glimmer that React stole. Plus their CLI is very, very heavily influenced by Ember's (which was influence by Rails).
Sure they can try to "outlaw" cryptocurrencies. Or the internet as a whole. Good luck with enforcing it though…
​Kubernetes vendors agree on standardization
except in the US that's not really the case: https://factoryfarmmap.org/#animal:cattle;location:US;year:2...
Did you read the forgotten link I posted? The whole point is that we used already discovered concepts, with modern technology, to solve any bad habit. The market was and is wide open.

It's connecting multiple different technologies to attack a wide open market space. Think: smoking, drinking, gambling, oversleeping, getting over your ex, overspending, unhealthy eating, etc.

If that isn't blue ocean strategy then I don't know what is.
One year of Clarity
+1 for highlighting the privacy concerns, but -1 for blaming the software for not having strong enough defaults.

As someone who has integrated FullStory into a production site, I spent several days doing a careful audit of our forms and redacting fields from being tracked. FullStory has an excellent, universal account setting to automatically redact fields based on any CSS selector, so it's very, very easy to tell it to remove any sensitive information - or even all form fields! - if that's what the website publisher desires. Out of the box I found that it correctly blocked credit card fields and passwords correctly, and we were able to add additional fields that are sensitive.

Again, rightly so that a website publisher may want more information than you desire, but they could also store your info in plaintext in the database, making it easy for hackers to exfiltrate as well. Yes, this is another vector, but hardly the easiest one.
No. Price increases, by definition, create inflation.

Cash injections CAN lead to inflation as an effect, but this is not a tautology (i.e. by definition).
I believe the information you're asking for is already all there on the privacy policy page, broken down by feature and with links to disable each, even. It also includes a link to the full technical docs on Firefox telemetry:

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...

The wording of the search partnership disclaimer could be made clearer. Is there anything else that you find confusing or disconcerting?
Not voicing a political opinion is distinct from not being political. Spending 40+ hours a week supporting the status quo while helping maintain the norm that "political" opinions (that is, ones that take issue with the status quo) shouldn't be voiced is unavoidably a political act. It may be a reasonable one, and I'm not taking issue with people who do it. I just object to taking about it in a way that pretends that it isn't also political.
> it might be more of a drunk under a lamp-post looking for his keys because that’s where the light is.

Maybe, but we haven't looked everywhere the light is yet, so why struggle to look in the dark?
Are global variables bad?
If you don't have a major, then what are you really graduating from? Some schools have majors called "University Studies" that lets you essentially be undeclared for awhile until you figure out what you want to do but you can't graduate with this on a diploma. You still have to pick something. If you want a liberal arts education, then choose majors like English. If you want something specific, pick something specific.
Being John Malkovich on Twitter
Facebook open sources Open/R distributed networking software
Strangling the growth of cities and labor mobility is very much a rational economic problem:

* https://www.axios.com/sky-high-home-prices-are-thwarting-thw...

* https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/06/the-other-side-of-har...

Cf. China, which has seen unbelievably explosive growth in its cities in the last 40 years and China has also seen ~1 billion people lifted out of poverty during exactly the same time period.
Article writer here. I meant that "version 3" of source maps were introduced in 2011, which is the date on the google doc. I'm updating the article.
It doesn't really matter if it's a minority of people when I have to listen to a group of my own coworkers going on about how much they loved that ad.

Just to clarify, I totally agree with what you're saying, I'm just saying I can't not be pissed about this sort of thing just because racism exists. That's the standard response I seem to encounter both online and IRL. It's basically "well, racists exist, therefore all of this bad behavior is to be excused".
Were Microsoft and Github using some kind of collaboration tool? Calendar syncing perhaps?
Home Depot does this in a way that consumes my whole upload bandwidth, dragging down the entire connection (moved and haven't gotten around to reintegrating the proper router with tc(8)). As a result, I've moved towards using Lowes to spec things out, even though it's a 45 minute drive and their products are of generally inferior quality. Good job, surveillance parasites - you're starting to kill your hosts!

(I'm sure Lowes is or will be doing something similar, as faux-competition duopolies tend to move in lockstep. But the outright callous boneheaded execution still amazes me).
Show HN: AI Consulting Contract
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704661

Make sure you resize the screen if you are reading this on a browser
> if it thinks it has a concurrency bug in it.

This makes it sound like it is wrong sometimes. I'm not using Rust, if this is what you meant, could you give examples of that?
As a frequent visitor to Albania, I find this article appalling. The author goes out of her way to make Albania seem a weird, Borat-like country. Sadly, while it is common for Western journalists to visit Albania in order to write an article about blood feuds as an easy sale to magazines, they rarely put blood feuds in context – they are limited to a distinct region of the country, their real heyday was the 1990s, and the absolute number of people affected is very small even by the standards of Albania’s population. Furthermore, the country has made enormous strides in development, and much of Albania is now little different from any other Eastern European country. Writing an article about Albania and pointing to road quality is mainly an anachronism, and complaining about the difficulty of finding a ferry just makes her look like a bellend incapable of doing normal things that travelers do in most countries on earth.

And then the complaint about the Albanian language is ridiculous. The orthography is pretty straightforward and Albanian phonology heavily overlaps with English (one reason that Albanians can often have good accents in English even if the don’t actually know the language as well as it would seem). And when she writes this:

> Ukuˆgaan iˆxamnakuˆx or “Nice to see you.”

I speak fairly good Albanian now, but I have no clue what this is supposed to be. It is not Albanian, at least not in any standard orthography.
Ditto. I'm guessing this is getting downvoted because they're so offensive and juvenile, but man, if you're a junky for puns and clever wordplay there's just nothing better.
Fact check on it:

https://africacheck.org/reports/is-zimbabwes-unemployment-ra...

Basically, it's complicated, and nobody knows what to believe. The 95% figure is taken from the CIA World Factbook, and has been repeated frequently in mainstream media and on Wikipedia. However, depending on who you ask and how you count, it could be as low as 4%.

Keep in mind that not everyone in the world takes Western institutions (like a national government, rule of law, and functioning economy) for granted. More than half the world's population still lives on subsistence agriculture: they tend a small plot of land, which generates enough food to feed their family and trade with surrounding villagers. These people are still "employed" in the sense that they work to support themselves, but they don't participate in any traceable economic activity.
I don't think hackers are 1Password's core audience. Password managers have a pretty wide appeal.
How long did it take you to learn to use your mouse with your left hand? That sounds handy.

I currently get around window confusion by programming the F keys to certain windows. E.g. if I hit ctrl-shift-f1, my currently focused window will be bound to f1. If I hit f1, that window will be brought to the top. I did this with xbindkeys and xdotool.

So when I first start a session, I bind everything. F1 my IDE, F2 my command line, F3 my notes, F4 my browser.
Umatrix is great.
RisingStack survey
not sure it really matters, either way, we win :) By we I mean coders.
Just making the point that it went from a simple text editor to a much more full-featured IDE wanna-be. That's a bit of a paradigm shift to me.
Wow, this is awesome. While the use case outlined here is great I could probably use this as a remote editor. That is, I can have my dev environment running in the 'cloud' and still expect responsiveness from my editor!