skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe data could travel faster than light if we find a property of the universe which goes faster than light.

I imagine a bowling ball rolling down a blanket stretched tight at half light speed. The bowl shape of the blanket in front of the bowling ball would be very different from the rear. I'm just pointing out that if gravity goes light speed, then something coming toward the earth at half light speed will have a longer delay for us to feel the gravity, and as the object leaves the earth, its gravity will linger longer. Maybe it's true, it boggles my mind.

If gravity is light speed, then an object travelling toward you at light speed will have no gravity until it has touched you. We should be able to detect shock waves like a jet breaking the sound barrier breaking all the windows in a community because the sound builds up. Gravity would build up too.
would be very cool to see seam carving in this.
Thanks for that - this set is from Feb 2010

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-demog...

* United States: 46.80% (65% female)
* India: 34.00% (70% male)
* Miscellaneous: 19.20%
I am pretty sure that origin policies would prevent this from working. I considered using Adobe Air, but, it's probably easier to just bundle a ruby desktop app with a simple UI. nokogiri trumps all when it comes to screen scraping!
http://searchengineland.com/google-balls-logo-not-googles-bi... claims to have an official statement:

"Today’s doodle is not related to a birthday but is fast, fun and interactive, just the way we think search should be."

and mentions that there's a Google press conference tomorrow.
I'm renting a 2.5 bedroom house with a yard in a reasonably-good neighborhood for $250/month in Columbus, Ohio. Utilities (water, gas, electric) come to about $200; Internet and cell phone is another $150, so we're talking $600 a month, total. Throw in $1000 in debt payments and another $400 for food and entertainment, and I could easily live on $2000.

If I got a roommate, my monthly cost would drop by about $200 (I could afford a car). Once I pay off the debt, making $2000 a month would mean I would be putting $500-1000 in the bank every month.
Amen.

The greatest success I've had is using a hybrid approach of agile and waterfall. But, let's face it, Agile is anything but agile when it comes to the process. The Agilists out there will be the first to beat you over the head when you don't follow the process by the book.
It seems quite useful to me. I differentiate between bookmarks and things in my reading queue. Also instapaper has 2 neat features 1) they generate a text only version of each saved page 2) they can automatically send your 'to read' in-box to your kindle as a .mobi file. Reading a text only version of a webpage on my kindle is ideal.
Most of google's js web apps use closure pretty heavily. It's not that big a stretch to think that there would be some cross pollination.
The article specifically addresses LOLerApps that outsources all of their development. Not that they are a great case study based on any meaningful success, but it's interesting to see that there are startups who only outsource this sort of thing and yet sustain a business, even if fledgling.
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The new design looks very good. I could definitely see this being useful for online educational videos and interviews. I often find that I can read faster than the conversation happens on video. It would be very cool if they could partner with Khan Academy to transcribe all of the lessons. This would allow for translation to other languages, which would also be a cool feature to build into the product.
I'm pretty sure that Einstein intuitively "guessed" that the speed of light would be the fastest possible speed and used that fact to work out the rest of the equations. E = mc^2 was the bizarre discovery that those equations yielded, and it was so weird that he felt like he had made a mistake at first.
It does, but I think Instapaper randomly grabs articles from your backlog. My idea is to have some sort of priority attached to articles
I think angband is a low quality game. But that's just a religious stance, since I prefer nethack. :o) (Without tiles, of course.)
I'm sorry but this is overthinking something that is relatively simple to understand
To be fair, now days even bash manages to tab complete lots of stuff like ssh/scp, git and aptitude. And yes, it's wonderful :)
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It's the 7th of September, Brazil's Independence Day.
I like the idea - not so sure about the execution.

We are a global community of hand-selected entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers. The network acts as a breeding ground for creating disruptive ventures by connecting selected cofounders.
To join the network we prefer you get recommended by one of our partners or members. We also consider direct applications with strong references.

It just seems slightly elitist. I'm not saying that's what they are going for, but that's the feeling I get looking over the site. Even by applying you have to wait 1-2 weeks for approval. I imagine that most people that really need a cofounder are not that well connected to begin with.

I would have liked to have seen this be a bit more open and inclusive in order to provide more value to people. It just feels like there should be better ways of sifting through potential cofounders rather than preselection.
I like the idea, but that thing is way too busy for me. Personally, I find that I internalize editor commands as I start to use them more, and if I don't use them often enough then I just take a minute to look them up.

Good luck, this might be a great product for some people.
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Reminds me of a thought experiment that's always bugged me: if you had an incredibly long see-saw or lever, like the length of the galaxy, would movement at one end instantaneously be matched by movement at the other end? (I think the reason it bugs me is because the object itself is preposterous, but I still want to know)
"Your web browser is not supported by EtherCodes"

Fine I didn't want to see you site either.
Hmmmm... Given by the replies of others, I'm wondering if Google is showing a different homepage here in Brazil.
I wasn't surprised about difference, only that up to now I didn't know that half of the families in US live on less than 50K USD per year.
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Something that puzzles me about "the speed of light in X" discussions is exactly the confusion over whether the speed of light is "different" in a medium. On the one hand, it seems like it isn't, since no actual photons are moving more slowly. On the other, things like Cherenkov radiation seem to indicate that the apparent speed of light matters for things that you'd expect to be based on the constant speed of light in a vacuum. There's a physicist, Ronald Mallett, who has suggested an experiment to see if the constant speed of light or the apparent speed of light is what matters for frame-dragging (!).
There are many falsehoods and misrepresentations in this article. Is your goal here to start a political debate? Wouldn't such a debate have little place on hacker news? If so, please don't post political propaganda and you can save us all the effort of arguing for or against it.
As a slightly-related follow-on, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation for a nice example of what happens in the case of a charged particle moving through a medium more quickly than the speed of light in that medium.
You can save as PDF from MS Office too. Adobe pushed Microsoft not to include that feature in installations though, but it's free for download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4d9...
Indeed this is a how to create a blog kind of article but then again isn't this one of the ways that a lot of startups or ideas begin?

I know a lot of people that started blogging about something they are passionate about, people did follow them and in the end a strong business model was built to move the whole operation to the next level.

Granted there are limitations to what you can do with this example. For instance you can only use it for blogging and sharing of information but there are other tools one might use as csomar points out (see comments).

I think that there are a lot of 'hackers' out there. There are those who have the guts to put everything on the line for something they believe in, put all their savings into a project, borrow from friends and family, raise VC etc. with the dream to achieve something. Some succeed and some fail.

However the vast majority of people out there are might have really awesome ideas but they lack the courage to move that one step forward to make their idea materialize.

If the idea is information sharing based and can be achieved by starting up with a blog, then this article is a really good starting point for a baby startup :)

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While, as you said, you can "in theory" replace Apple's OS -- with Android, it's a practical possibility since the OS is available for you to tinker.

But I totally agree, this declared "openness" is bullshit. The situation with Android ROMs right now is almost identical to the situation with Windows Mobile and nobody would claim that is open.
All of the "heavy" agiles like Scrum have confused me: isn't agile about fundamentally less process and more flexibility? One can't serve two masters. Teams have to pick a point along the completely structured - completely flexible line. As far as I'm concerned, these flavors of agile are just wolves in sheep's clothing that allow existing waterfall autocrats to continue their reign under the guise of adopting "agile."
Here's an example:

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fc... 293m

http://www.seoprofiler.com/analyze/creativecommons.org 19m
sudo apt-get install ttf-liberation ttf-droid
Would love some more discussion on this too, to discredit either approach. I've gone with the env approach precisely because I've found the only other ways I know to be even more brittle.
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I love Android, I'm all in favor of the robust multitasking model, that having been said - StumbleUpon and PayPal do NOT need long running services in the background and they were both promptly uninstalled and ranked poorly because of that.
Well you already know it won't be instantaneous, & there's only a few ways it can fail. What do you think will happen?
This is all well and good, but what the article is talking about is the speed of the propagation of gravity waves. I've never heard anyone who wasn't a crank argue that gravity waves travel at anything other than the speed of light. As the article confirms, observation of pulsars has confirmed the speed of gravity waves to very close to the speed of light.

However, I think the larger objection goes something like this:

Gravitational attraction contains information about the location of an object (say, for the purposes of argument, a singularity). Information may not travel faster than the speed of light, by relativity. Information may not escape the event horizon of a black hole, because to do so would require it to travel faster than the speed of light (or to use some funny quantum teleportation that Hawking describes as the mechanism behind Hawking radiation), but which is not described by relativity.

Therefore it follows that the information about the location of a singularity behind the event horizon of a black hole is somehow travelling "faster than light". This is of course impossible if relativity is correct, which leads to a big WTF?

My guess, and I am most emphatically not a physicist, is that you get some funny macroscopic quantum effects near a black hole, which allows Hawking radiation (and therefore also the encoded information about the objects that fell into the black hole) out, and also lets out the information about the location of the singularity itself, so that objects outside the event horizon can be attracted to it.

Perhaps studying black holes in sufficient depth (pardon the pun) will allow us to finally unify QM and relativity.
If the speed of gravity was the speed of light, then heavy objects passing near the earth would have more gravity than objects passing away.

This is a problem because...?
I agree wholeheartedly. Users will contribute content if they have or already create content that you will help them do something with -- present it, organize it, get feedback on it, analyze it, whatever. I signed up for Goodreads thinking I would use it for social networking, maybe find cute girls who read the same books I do, and show off my writing skills to them, but I never actually used it that way. I use it as a place to put my thoughts down about the books I've read. It turns out I don't want anybody to read my embarrassingly shallow and rushed notes, nor do I want to read the embarrassingly shallow and trite ramblings of other normal people like me. I just like the way the site lets me organize my notes and records about what I've read.
Sure, didn't mean to come off as disagreeing with you, as your article makes many of the same points. Just venting because so much of these ideas have become an ideology....I respect that you are advocating a non-ideological approach.
Imagine how hard it must be to make understandable text-to-speech / speech synthesis for Chinese.
"I think that's the problem. Everyone wants talented developers. Many companies can no longer afford to hire less talented developers who many have been able to get a job in a booming economy."

They're also trying to take advantage of the economic situation to lowball those talented developers -- many of whom are leaving the industry or starting their own companies, or in some cases (like me) both.

Where I am now, we've hired a few folks that the tech team wasn't very keen on, because they were the least useless candidates we could find, not because they're talented.

The media are conveniently ignoring the fact that a surprisingly large fraction of the people who are unable to find tech jobs weren't qualified for them in the first place, and only got hired because the employers were desperate. Unfortunately, the ones who were never qualified in the first place don't know that (or do but refuse to admit it), and the employers can't tell them apart anyway, so everyone ends up getting the short end of the stick.
Teachers Hacking at the Problems with Schools
Similar: http://tunes.org/legalese/bugroff.html
"Linux infrastructure was heavily used in Avatar's graphics rendering done by Weta Digital [...] The Data Center of Weta Digital was re-built in 2008 and consists of 34 racks and more than 4,000 Hewlett-Packard blade servers with a 104TB of RAM. Ubuntu is at the core of all of this, running on all of the rendering nodes, and 90% of the desktops at Weta Digital, according to Paul Gunn, the data center's systems administrator."

http://jordanopensource.org/freeplanet/article/ubuntu-linux-...
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problem because if you had a stable highly elliptical orbit of two bodies, the attraction would be greater during the approaching phase than the departure phase. The equation would not be balanced. Elliptical orbits would degrade due to the pulling being greater on arrival than departure. This is not the case. Maybe it is only a problem as you approach light speed.
I see. Either way, reading articles from web on Kindle is definitely the way to go.
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The DIV version is still pretty intensive on Firefox and IE. So much so that I really question whether the inmates are in charge of the asylum over at Google: They have been taking some big risks putting these tech demos on a homepage heralded for its simplicity.

If they're trying to use this as a way of saying "Oh really? Resource intensive? We didn't realize because we're using Chrome and there's no problem there", that's a very dangerous way of promoting a browser.

Having said that, agree with your core point overwhelmingly: There is an irrational love of Canvas that simply isn't merited.

SVG is absolutely made for this sort of task (a number of elements that you are transforming in size and place, etc). Again, as you mentioned, it leaves the primitives up to the browser where they might be hardware rendered and optimized as the client sees fit, instead of treating it as a dumb raster canvas.
SEOprofiler shows the backlinks only for the creativecommons.org subdomain, excluding support.creativecommons.org, wiki.creativecommons.org, search.creativecommons.org, de.creativecommons.org, etc. For this reason, the backlink number appears to be lower.
The div version was a bit slow in my Chrome browser; the canvas works very smooth.

That said, I think the source code of the HTML5 version is quite pretty and worth having a look at: http://github.com/robhawkes/google-bouncing-balls/blob/maste...
Internet Explorer is the new Linux. Sweet sweet justice.

Works in Chrome/Firefox in Ubuntu
This post reminds of the Ballmer peak comic at xkcd.
http://xkcd.com/323/
> Visual Studio is not bad for people with little understanding of development.

You do know that Visual Studio is not just a drag-and-drop visual designer tool right? This is the most insulting gibberish I've read all day.
How do you motivate your team?
From employees or fellow co-founders, I'm curious to know how you keep your team motivated.
PNG-screenshots of a tty application - perfect.
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This whole "double-down" strategy is a bit terrifying to me. But it could work. The real key though, I think, is that it would only work if the stimulus money put people to work on projects that would increase the Nation's competitive edge: green infrastructure, broadband, better schools. Dumping the stimulus into tax cuts for home buyers--which serve only to pull demand forward--that strikes me as a useless wealth transfer.

Any stimulus spending should both create jobs now (to distribute consumption dollars and ease consumer fear) and should pay dividends in the future by creating an atmosphere where the average worker can be more productive. The WWII stimulus obviously had a major impact because, by winning the war, we emerged with a huge competitive advantage. Unless we're going to rebuild that advantage by bombing our competition back to 1944, which I hope we aren't considering (...), we've gotta find another way to construct that advantge. That's the challenge.
Yes, too bad. It looks far superior to what I'm typing in now.
Your intuition is right. Einstein is famous for the theory of relativity not because he was the first discoverer of the relativity equations (they're called the Lorentz transformation for a reason), but because he proposed that the speed of light was encoded in the structure of the universe, and that the universe is not the three-dimensional Euclidean space we think it is.

Further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_special_relativity#E...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space -- the space of special relativity
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That's exactly the problem, IMO -- the bar for entry in the tech industry is altogether too low. The glut of unqualified but formerly employed tech workers is symptomatic of that.

And if anyone ever had any doubt about the veracity of claims that the bar is too low, they have only to spend some time reading the Daily WTF... though I suspect that most people outside of the tech industry would prefer to remain blissfully ignorant and assume that the content at the Daily WTF is the exception, rather than the rule.
Yes, please don't say economic nonsense. What you are giving me here is political ideology, not economics. Your claims are easily disproven. The period of Americas greatest economic growth, where we went from backwards colonies to economic leader is a period of deflation! From the late 1780s to around 1910- the dollar appreciated in purchasing power due to deflation and we had the industrial revolution. All that extra productivity from machines manned prices go down and gave people more money to spend, and contrary to the claim that it prevents investment, more purchasing power means more capital to deploy.

I have ot laugh at the absurd claim that inflation is good because people have no savings to benefit from deflation. The reason they have no savings is that your lot have stolen them via inflation!
hmmm, it seems like one predictor of start-up success (at least according to pg and yc mantra) is that the cofounders have to be good friends or work well together. seems tough to achieve when matching up cofounders on a 'dating service' like this one.
I learned vim with a cheatsheet either on my desktop background or stapled to the cubicle wall at my desk (depending on where I was at the time), and I'm not inclined to pay more than that for a temporary learning fix.

I'm also skeptical because people who haven't already learned vim are less likely to pay for vim accessories, and people who have already learned vim have less need for this product by definition.

But I'm a cheapass. I would probably prefer a keyboard cover since once I learned vim I'd not need the hints anymore. OTOH, vim is deep and there is lots of vim I don't even know, so I might have a use for a permanent keyboard. But then I could just keep the keyboard cover on, so I'm not sure.
Really cool idea, but I must admit using this is going to take some time to get used to, especially if you are a user that prefers to skim read particular sites.

My only other complaint would be the ability to blacklist certain sites. EDIT: Didn't realize you can quickly just disable the plugin by clicking the extension icon. I suppose that is good enough for me then :)
Actually the article states that it is cheap and does not address any other aspects. My point was that it could be viewed as biased and it is a disservice to due diligence. You infered the rest. It is obviously an elephant that countless businesses fail to see because the failed project still stream in day by day.
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Pretentious, watashi?
Maybe if his friend was going to dump his life savings into the project, I could see it being pretty reasonable to try and stop him.
What is the technical definition of "information"? I know what information is in a colloquial sense, and I know something about it's technical definition in the field of computer science, but I don't know what physicists mean when they use the word. Is information the same thing as light? Is it analagous to light? Is it a property of light? Matter?
Only if government is fiscally irresponsible would deflation be bad. If they operated responsible, deflation would mean they could offer more services with the same tax rates as last year.

For banks, they would have less income from lending, but realize that overal economic growth would be muc higher giving banks more money to lend out and more customers in a position of being able to borrow for economic growth because the economy would be more stable.

Prior to the founding of the federalvreserve, it took wars to underne the economy. Now we have a boom and bust cycle that benefits government and their insiders, buturts the economy.
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