skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you create a rigid beam (ignoring the fact that it isn't possible), once you start turning it with a certain speed, its end will start reaching speed of light and start acquiring mass. As the speed aproaches speed of light, the mass of the beam will be approaching infinity.

To think about it, if you have a sufficiently long beam you won't be able to give it any angular momentum at all, regardless of how much force you apply. It will be fixed in space. Perfect starting point if your hobby is moving stars with a combination of chains and pulleys.
SDN and Optical: Strange Bedfellows or BFFs? SDNCentral Interview
We're currently in closed beta, but here's a render of the tie fighter with a couple of droids from 3Dtin - http://imgur.com/pHPtI
The other nice thing about million short is that the user is in control. The user can choose which websites to exclude like Wikipedia, Ehow and others.

The listings are long, not seven organic listings. this type of philosophy, where the user is in control, Will give them a big competitive advantage. The filtering system is very good, and I expected to get better.
Under New Management
This is the failure of google. I stopped using google about 6 months ago and started using duckduckgo. But at the time I stopped using google, one of the reasons I stopped was that the quality was so low.

Hell, the quality of Google is so low that Bing is actually running ads right now with blind taste tests where people preferred bing. Of course this isn't scientific at all, but my point is-- no big scandal has erupted about how wrong this is. It's totally plausible for bing to do this because everyone realizes that google has gotten to the point where microsoft can plausibly compete with them!

Page rank was really cutting edge, but that was 10 years ago, yet it is still their primary mechanism. It's been gamed, but they seem uninterested in moving to more sophisticated mechanisms (they use them but the influence of better methods seems to be too low) ... meanwhile they've used their bully pulpit to influence the web to conserve page juice which has backfired in such a way that actual links to authoritative and useful sites are lower ranked than spam links, making it easier to game. (When wikipedia is using no-follow on relevant outbound links to pages that wikipedia is quoting or citing, things are fundamentally broken- no site on the web has a more favored ranking position than wikipedia. Not to mention hand curation of pages. You can't even correct errors there without having them reverted by some know-nothing whose sole accomplishment is rising in the ranks of wikipedia editors, so its not like they need this to prevent spam.)

This means the site that google unquestionably considers the most authoritative, when it cites a page that it considers authoritative, google gives that site no credibility. But let me create a web of sites that construct text that passes grammer parsers as "good english" but whose purpose is to spam keywords and link to each other and I can rank for those terms up close to wikipedia. (This is essentially what techcrunch is doing only they are having humans write low quality text instead of a computer.)

It's broken, and google broke it.
With as fast as it's working I would be shocked if a chunk of it wasn't being done locally. I think the refinement may be server side (IE: looking at the words in context against popular search strings to see if it may have miss-interpreted a word in the search string).
That's what I've always thought. A tiny 3-4 inch device with a dual core ARMv7 CPU and 8-64 GB of storage. Why does it need faster internet than what I can get at my house through a Broadband router (ADSL2 here)
Or they'll just assume I'm poking fun at my buddy and fellow Huffman fanboy Moiz.
Power trip.
Not so much a loophole as just lying to get a discount you're not entitled to. Does thenextweb even have editorial staff?
That reminds me of the time I was taking pot while in college. During one class I was completely zoned into the cursor and moved it back and forth 5-6 pixels across the screen.

My experience though it is anecdotal seems to rule out at least cannabinoids.
It's also entertaining to google around for nagios dashboards open to the public, e.g.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22View+Host+Status+Detail%2...
Minor semantic issue, but for the record Yahoo does exist.
just because people "CAN" doesn't mean they WILL

3 binary dimensions:

- original / trite
- civility / rude
- correct / incorrect

leading to 8 kinds of people
1. original, correct, civil
2. original, correct, rude
3. original, incorrect, civil
4. original, incorrect, rude
5. trite, incorrect, civil
6. trite, incorrect, rude
7. trite, correct, civil
8. trite, correct, rude

6 and 8 are acknowledged as non-issues on HN, since they get downvoted and ignored.

7 is the most destructive force of all, because trite things get automatic upvotes. So if we must have these "Tell HN" posts, we should direct our attention to people who are civil, technically correct, trite, and miss the forest for the trees.

The greatest enemy of 7 is 2, and so if you outlaw rude people you outlaw 2 causing 7 to proliferate like a catchphrase on reddit.

2 may be somewhat objectionable, but since originality and correctness are higher values than civility for Hackers, their presence should be tolerated. Tptacek is arguably one of the most valuable HNers around and if 2s were suppressed he would no longer be here.

3 and 4 drive discussion and so are basically valuable. While 4 can be obnoxious and you wouldn't want to have a beer with him, at the very least his inaccurate but original sayings do simulate interesting discussion and provoke 1 and 2 to post.

A lot of very tremendous posts were motivated by the horrible statements of a 4. So 4s do have a kind of value.

Anyway, the worst thing this forum could do is encourage 7s and outlawing rude people would basically give the forum over to 7s. All the 1s and 3s would flee--civil people don't fight back against the invading zombie horde.
It's harder than you are suggesting to find a leading indicator of future engagement. You want to find a metric that is relatively foundational, and is going to produce engagement across a variety of dimensions later on (visit frequency, tendency to pay, tendency to add content, tendency to invite others etc).

For instance, when signing up to Facebook, there is a bunch of stuff they want you to do: add friends, invite people, add content like photos, and come back on day 1, day 2, and so on. It turns out that it's the first activity that is more predictive of future engagement than the others, and specifically 7 friends in 10 days is an important threshold. You can't figure that out from your intuition alone, and you definitely can't get the values of # of friends in # of days just by consulting your intuition, or your sense of what's obvious.

At the same time Chamath from Facebook was keen to point out that there was nothing mystical about what the growth team at Facebook did. He said the best way of describing what they did on the growth team is that they:

- Measured things

- Tested things

- Tried things

His main take-away was that one should be extremely rigorous and analytical when thinking about what drives engagement, and not rely on your gut, or company lore.
those numbers are very impressive, though I wonder how it would compare to major announcements in other industries.

For gear-heads, I suspect the announcement of a new Ferrari draws many times more than the announcement of a new Ford. Even if the Ford is as capable or more so than the Ferrari.
You tend to use the very specific phrase "nootropic drugs" to talk about drugs which help with productivity or creativity or some other aspect of working life. Asking whether there is evidence on nootropics, is just asking whether there are any heavily-tested nootropics. Asking anything else--to lex it out, whether "drugs that have no productivity-enhancing aspect, enhance productivity" is just playing the fool to incite extremely subjective flamewars.

So, let's avoid that, and just focus on nootropics. Is there evidence that they work? Depends on the drug. We have drugs (caffeine, theanine) that are in foods we've been consuming since the beginning of civilization, so we've heavily researched those and are pretty confident in what they do.

On the other hand, new, synthetic compounds, like modafinil, are only really created and pushed through FDA approval if there can be found some sort of therapeutic, non-nootropic purpose in their use: in modafinil's case, treating narcolepsy. This means that their use as nootropics is much less well-researched, and consists mainly of anecdata (however much there is) shared over the internet.

The best you'll find, I think, in terms of data for efficacy of various drugs, is people who have set out to do double-blind studies on themselves: http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics

After reading data-points like these, you might be convinced to try some of them on your own. But be aware that people's body-chemistries can vary widely--especially where things affecting neurochemical balance are concerned--so everyone's reactions to these will still be different. Not in a sense of a "bad trip", usually; just that some things which other people swear by might not have much of an effect on your particular chemistry. So, the best thing to do, as in most situations: first research, then experiment.
No. But I have trouble connecting the dots here. Why Apple doing that makes Microsoft have to do the same thing? If anything I see a wasted opportunity to (even if only marginally) lure developers in, don't you think?
Inbound Calling Outage for Some Google Voice Users
I wasn't talking about "affecting cultural and political discourse". Read more carefully.
You'll have to explain 'why', before you can clear down this assertion.

The 802.11 MAC has limits, to be sure.
American Express does this when you pay your bill on-line. I hate it --- that was one of the reasons, after decades with AmEx, that I switched all our household spending over to a Southwest Airlines affiliate-program Visa.
Anyone else wonders just when is Apple going to acquire them?
Glad you like it. We'll be realeasing some interesting features in the coming days and weeks.
Interview: George Lucas on Lucasfilm sale
Hmm, this looks like a squatter peddling his wares. Is that what it is?
If you sympathize with the author, you may enjoy reading _The Society of the Spectacle_ by Guy Debord, a classic criticism of society in the era of mass media. I think it would be very good if more people from around these parts read this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
The first thing I thought was also 'What language can I script in?' After a few clicks I just closed the tab. Should definitely be more visible.
I've said it before - and I'll say it again - Google is about to crush Apple into the ground. The fundamental difference between the two is that Apple brings style but Google brings substance.

Now in the short term style > substance for the simple reason that it is easy to repackage something that is difficult to use into something simple.

Making things easy to use is obvious for designers - but not for engineers - because they focus on actually making complex things work instead of making it easy to use.

However, in the long run substance > style for the simple reason that anything that can be repackaged to make it simple will either become a minority player or a commodity item because style and veneer are easily copyable but substance isn't. Substance is a natural monopoly, and monopolies make lots of money.

What you see here is the fruition of substance over style - big data is a monopoly and Google owns it hard.

Google will be the first trillion dollar corporation. And it will do so by making everything else apart from Artificial Intelligence a commodity.

Disclaimer: I'm looking to buy Google stock and I recently exited an Apple short.
Psh, anything that gives you a different perspective on life is important. LSD gives you a vastly different perspective on reality, so I guess if you relate that to life in a meaningful way, is fairly important.
I dispute that it's strictly better to have one trust anchor in the TLS PKI, because it matters very much who that trust anchor is and what their incentives are. Verisign won't be ousted from the top of the DNSSEC PKI, no matter what. CA's can fold.

Why are we required to assume that anyone who answers a plaintext email from a domain must be issued the certificate corresponding to that domain? Why can't we authenticate the issuance of new certificates out-of-band? We could address that problem without even requiring browser modifications.

Also, in a TACK+TLS/CA world, Libya could not have surreptitiously swapped out BIT.LY's certificate. In a TACK+TLS+DNSSEC world, they can; stub resolvers don't verify signatures in DNSSEC.

Ultimately, what we need over the long term is a system like Convergence to allow trusted third parties to vouch for CAs, and for users to choose from among trusted third parties who they want to vouch for CAs. This is largely a UI/UX problem, and it's orthogonal to whether HTTPS trust anchors come from X.509 or DNS.

It feels like the very best argument that can be made for DNSSEC as a CA alternative is that it doesn't make things worse. (I personally think that it makes things much worse, but stipulate otherwise here). But it's tremendously expensive and brittle, addresses mostly the solved part of the problem, and does nothing to help the major unsolved part of HTTPS trust.
Tribal Leadership - David Logan
I think this short film neatly illustrates the cheapening of social experiences with too much tech: http://vimeo.com/49425975
Sales Lesson : Lower Your Expectations
No. If you annihilate one of the particles, the other particle continues "unaffected". Whatever you do to one of the particles, the other particle continues "unaffected".
Quantum mechanic is a little more complex, so it is difficult to explain what "unaffected" really means.

It's clearer with an example. Let's suppose that you and I have each one a particle that is a half of an entanglement particle pair:

* If you don't do anything with your particle, for each measurement that I can do there are some possible results with some probabilities.

* If you do any measurement to your particle, for each measurement that I can do I have exactly the same possible results with the same probabilities.

* If you do annihilate your particle :( , for each measurement that I can do I have exactly the same possible results with the same probabilities.

* Whatever you do with your particle, for each measurement that I can do I have exactly the same possible results with the same probabilities.

In that sense my particle is "unaffected". I can't do any measurement to know what you have done with your particle. So you can't use your particle to transmit information to me.

The strange effect is that if we later meet and compare notes, we will see that the results you get with your particle and the results I get with my particle are related. Some measurements always are equal, some have the opposite value and some are related in more complex ways.

Each measurement (yours and mine) alone are perfectly normal. The strange effect appears only when the result are compared.
Isn't the LTE issue overblown?
Are You Afraid to Innovate?
I'm very curious to know how this app did its first couple days... I wonder about utilities like this on the appstore.

My hypothesis is that you'd do $50 over the first three days and then less than that each month thereafter (unless you have some sort of marketing, but how would you market an app like this?)

This isn't criticism, it's curiousity. I don't think you've done anything wrong, it's a perfectly decent app and serves a clear need. (Though I'd put icons in the tab bar if you could, even just images of the text BMI, etc, would look better.)
But Science is crowd funded by taxes, no?
According to this post, the datacenter people are hauling 55 gallon drums up 17 flights of stairs. Diesel is ~7 pounds/gallon so a 55 gallon drum is ~385 pounds not including the container. Ouch.
Martin Amis' Guide to Classic Video Games
Or you do what I do. Grow older, have a kid, and only login in to sporadically see the photos your wife posts of your child.

I've tuned it out. I suspect other people as they get older will too.
Yeah, Bird was the second name that came to my mind. (After Whedon, who is presumably already busy.)
I look at it more as mood lighting than functional light you'd fill your whole house with. I might get the starter kit for my home office. It's a bit pricey, though.

I believe it's built on ZigBee protocols so hopefully it would be possible to create 3rd-party controls. The bulbs are supposed to last 15yrs - I somehow doubt the app will have such a lifespan.
I see this every time I go to Disney World (I live nearby). It's almost impossible to enjoy a single ride or fireworks show without a ton of people videoing the whole thing or taking horrible pictures of it with a smart device of some sort. Rather than enjoying it and capturing some deep memory of a moment with their family, they have their face stuck in a digital device capturing a crude facsimile of the experience that they will likely never look at ever again.

I will never forget when a dad was trying to get a good shot of Cinderella Castle and totally missed out on their daughter meeting a princess (I think Tiana from Princess and the Frog was walking over to her character spot or something) for the first time. Hugely important moment for his daughter completely and utterly squandered in chasing this lifecasted copy of life. She was excitedly jumping up and down and waving to and got a big hug from the princess, and her dad was swatting her off at first, then completely ignoring her.

I've lived here (Orlando) for two years and it's only getting worse. I've almost given up on being able to ride Pirates of the Carribbean and being able to experience it the way the Imagineers wanted you to. The constant flash and glowing screens from people posting pictures of the Jack Sparrow animatronic on Facebook completely ruin it. Fireworks are an exercise in frustration as some joker always sticks his iPad in the air to try to capture a picture. When the first one looks terrible (as they all do), he tries over and over and over. By the time he's frustrated enough that he's not getting good pictures, the show is over and he's just missed the whole thing.

It's depressing to think how many other experiences people are cheapening and/or missing out on simply because they feel some weird compulsion to SHARE the experience with others rather than LIVE it.
spammed.me gives me some sinister ideas...
I agree with the "disastrous for society" part. Information if becoming very hard to verify and I have seen with my own eyes this year the news being censored even from the "fire hose" aggregators like Google news.
I think fetlife is the more-straight, more bdsm-focused Grindr.
FWIw, I've had somewhat flaky results with Buffalo routers. The Ubiqiti gear is solid though ( I too had previously used and recommended Engenious, until one of my preferred distributors turn me on to Ubnt. )

The only real downside to Ubiqiti is the essential lack of tech support, if you're not able to grok it on your own, then you're kind of SOL (though they do have a great support forum).

The other big challenge to Ubiqiti has been the rampant counterfeiting issues with their equipment, and of course the rumored 'mob hit' on one of their competitors, lol.
At $8, I thought it was worth a punt and decided to sign up. Alas, I cannot complete the process as it gives me an error each time I try to submit the payment information.

Only if MSFT got their sh!t together..
Most of the Windows 8 stuff -- including this policy -- makes Microsoft look like a Johnny-come-lately, taking Apple's lead, with the only difference (though it's a pretty big one) being that their two operating system paradigms bleed into each other. The policy you mention is the exact policy Apple has if you want to deploy to any iOS device, except with Apple you can provision up to 100 devices per year on your account.

I assume a big reason would be that Microsoft wants to make sure people can only obtain Windows Phone 8 apps through their store, and if it were possible to install an app on your device without a developer account, or if it were free to do so (and therefore more anonymous), pirating apps would be an easier task. But that's only a conjecture.

On iOS I've come to accept this kind of policy as an acceptable tradeoff for what the ecosystem provides.
Apollo has landed
Very interesting. Perhaps the empathetic and analytic systems are parallel to Kahneman's systems 1 and 2? (1 for thinking "fast" and 2 for "slow," to oversimplify an Nobel laureate's life's work.)
Not in that way. It influences us directly, i.e. if we've already heard about a startup when they apply. But otherwise not much.
Send me an email at my name at my company and I'll keep you updated with what I know.
NYSE criticized for poor disaster planning
Use Windows 8 to build a home server
The Poaching of a Talented Intern
Interesting but don't really see how this addresses the explanatory gap problem.
I was more amused than repulsed by the description, and I thought quite a few people would probably end up using this product if it existed. To paraphrase George Costanza, if I were a different person, I could see myself using it.

What is truly horrifying about sex.ly is that it so utterly and absolutely cheapens the experience of something very important.

It doesn't cheapen anything. Making love is just for fun for most young people, and then most of them grow up to be pleasantly surprised to discover a depth to life that they were unaware of before. A product like this doesn't change the attitude people have towards sex in the first place. Of course some people never discover that same depth, or perhaps discover something else that others don't see. That's fine too.

The attitude of "I see depth to life that the morons [watching football/using social/smoking marijuana/insert activity here] don't see" is really the 21st century version of the inquisition. A lot less bloody, perhaps, but still very counterproductive to social (pun intended!) development.
Roku Adds Unified Search for HBO GO, Amazon, Netflix, VUDU, Hulu Plus, etc...
"strategies to kill (1) and (2) ..."

Hollywood doesn't want to kill Hulu (which it owns) or Netflix any more than it wants to kill Wal-Mart or theater chains. The current threats to Hollywood profits are The Pirate Bay and YouTube and to a lesser extent RedBox. Netflix was briefly in a very favorable contract regime but that didn't last very long at all.

"The best way to 'win' is to never let them into the game."

This entire argument rests on the idea that Apple wants to "be in the game" -- i.e. become a big content company -- but that's what I'm contesting. And the whole thing falls apart because if it's bad for Apple that Disney acquires more content then why did Jobs sell Pixar to Disney?
SMS populating, Collaborative Map for Hurricane Victims/Responders
That's just a phase 'till lifecasting becomes commonplace.
fuck you squatters
hack me bullocks assholes!
I think sub-cortical (limbic) and cortical are probably better analogues for system 1 and 2 than empathetic/analytic (intutive system 1 thought isn't necesarily empathetic, and can certainly be 'analytic'. The difference vs. system 2 is the presence of reflective consciousness.)
Xiaomi facing component shortages which could delay Xiaomi M2
Good pun ;P

Click on "View Demo" for the Responsive Modal. Modal appears with content, and disappears immediately when it reaches center of the screen.

Same thing happens for Stackable, and Full Width.

Click on "View Demo" for AJAX. 'Okay' button doesn't dismiss the modal, as I would expect it to.

Same thing happens for Custom Manager.
fucking squatters
Why is that a big deal? Is exposing the public IPs of some random people really an issue?
Does it really? Or was I in fact trying to make a point :D