skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Master the art of "the transporter" with information being sent via optics. Send a ship out into space. Aboard will be an environment for humans and a big receiver on the side. Send the ship. Wait until it reaches it destination. "Beam" humans to the ship. If boredom ensues, reverse the transmission. Leave the "Stargate" behind. :)

Edit: see quantum entanglement

Edit 2: Thinking aloud about quantum entanglement. I understand that we can slow and stop light by passing it into a Bose-Einstein condensate. Can we thereby suspend two entangled particles, each in its own BEC? That way, we can send our ship out into space, unfreeze light (time?) and proceed to transmit Data (heh).

Edit 3: Transmit, that is: faster than the speed of light. (thinking not) :)

Edit 4: Now, I want to know what happens when a BCE containing stopped light travels at or near the speed the speed of light.. Ah never mind. I'm not a physicist. Cold and fast don't go together easily, either. :)

Edit 5: Do watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Nj2uTZc10

Edit 6: By the way, if Edit 2 is used, no big receiver would be required. Hmm.. Send the quantum receiver to a Class M planet.. Skip the on-ship environment. Terraform to taste.
It feels like the author is personally offended, and is using the blog to stir controversy over an easy target.
you mean the drive that if it were used it would annihilate your destination in a immense-burst of gamma energy? Not to mention we have no idea how to effectively modify space-time. It is interesting, but the drive is basically "if we had MAGIC, we could do this".

FTL is also exactly the same as time-travel. If you could travel 25,000 light-years in an instant, you could turn a BIG telescope back at earth from your ship and watch early humans hunting mammoths.
Add the RA-85563 test flight to the list. http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=122072
While I doubt many here really know the person in question personally (having read about him doesn't qualify), I'm sorry if you do (for both his illness and having offended you), and it's not as if I'm devoid of emotions.

I just don't think this is the forum to discuss such topics/stories, and I don't get emotionally attached to every bad news story that comes around. If I did, I'd be a very depressed person.

Regardless, we're getting way off track from the discussion now.
The last of the four:

> Another important fair use factor is whether your use deprives the copyright owner of income or undermines a new or potential market for the copyrighted work. Depriving a copyright owner of income is very likely to trigger a lawsuit.

I'm curious to know: would Sarkeesian's use of this piece as a criticism would negatively or positively affect the author's potential for future work? If anything, I'd guess the latter (I would forever after market my skills as being used in TED talks and such).
Squeak Smalltalk is better in it - you can actually type in arguments of method and a result and it can find you method that, given these arguments, returns this result.

So, for example you can type:
'hello'. 'HELLO' and it finds you 'asUppercase' method of String object.
I am sorry about that. this issue happens only in chrome under linux (which is basically ChromeOS). the good news is that it will be fixed really soon!
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The current trend with bitcoin is: buy bitcoin now, it'll go up, it'll be 10k by next year.

It's current valuation backed by nothing except hype, once there's not enough hype to keep the price afloat: there will be a lot of bag holders.
I remember seeing PageMaker around that vintage. It came with a runtime-only version of Windows since everyone was still using DOS.
The xml files can be huge, but wavefunction files in general tend to be. The main point being that it allows for direct access to the files for custom code work.

I can quantify a little slow with a specific research experience. This isn't the case for all uses of Quantum Espresso, etc....

When I run an HSE or PBE0 calculation on 192 atoms it takes just over 2 weeks of computation time using quantum espresso. When my co-worker did it in vasp using the same computing systems it took just a couple of days. I don't really know the reason for this.

From time to time things like this creep up.

One of the quirks you should be aware of an enforce in all runs where this is relevant is you need to set

wf_collect=.true.

if you do not then each subsequent run will require the same number of processors in the same configuration each time the program is run.

http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wp-content/uploads/Doc/INPUT...
This is very cool: http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/resistance-in-a-wire/late...

Do you know how many more sims there are to port?
One challenge to relativistic spaceflight is computing. If you put a CPU into a vehicle, which goes close to speed of light, it may not work properly, because the energy pulses in the device will become unsynchronized when going in different directions.
TL;DR: Chemical propulsion is a dead end. But, the alternatives require matter/energy of ridiculous scale (hundreds of times the power output of human civilization, launching hundreds of millions of tons of matter into orbit). We're not going anywhere, any time soon.
Meteor.com is using NodeJS as a backend, but the idea is to not separate these two components. So Meteor spans both and you can write stuff designated for the client and the server side in the same file. In practice we rarely do, but both sides run the same code. Check it out!
Textmate 1.5 all over again
That's great to hear, thank so much!
Remote-controlled model airplane have long existed at those altitudes. How do you cope with them?
This is where tactical regulations need created and applied. The ultralight world operates in loose regulations and has generally worked well with the airspace system - basically keeping them out of controlled airspace, and having them operate as other aircraft in non-controlled environments. As a pilot, you know you won't be at 400ft AGL at all except landing, or crop dusting, or buzzing open areas of uninhabited land. And, you know that there is no control of that airspace and anything could be flying in it today, sans drone movement.

RC aircraft have had 'recommended regulations' [1] since 1981 [2], and I am struggling to remember the last time I heard of an RC vs piloted plane incident (yes, sure, we pilots see them near the airport but they mind themselves under pattern altitude, and don't buzz the real runways). Those regulations are seemingly benign to the community's enjoyment.

I can see having UAV operators such as photog or surveillance operate under a similar set of guidelines as a protection to the people. I have a drone and a real airplane - I would not appreciate my calm day at the park being threatened with a drone buzzing at 15 feet, nor a real plane.

[1] "Outlines, and encourages voluntary compliance with, safety standards for model aircraft operators."

[2] http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/9...
Awesome, that's exactly what we'd hope to hear :)
According to FAR 91.119 you already should be above 500 feet AGL unless you're taking off, landing, or above very sparsely populated areas. I'm assuming fixed wing aircraft, so if you're a helicopter pilot the rules are slightly different.

Either way, I don't see this as a huge problem.

[1] http://rgl.faa.gov/regulatory_and_guidance_library/rgfar.nsf...
What's the point of these huge generation ships? It's not like there's not enough atoms on other planets. You should send a tiny fast robotic ship, maybe with an uploaded mind if your AI tech isn't good enough. It will mine materials at the destination and build a receiver antenna. Then you can send more uploaded minds by radio, which will arrive at the speed of light with low energy cost.

Another reason why you shouldn't send human bodies in tin cans, or even grow them from eggs on the spot, is that human bodies are not adapted to the conditions in space or at the destination, so they would need an unreasonable amount of life support equipment. If you really want a colony of biological creatures with human minds for some reason, bioengineer the right kind of bodies on the spot and download minds into them.
It was more the thought exercise itself than a practical approach. I just wanted to consider the benefits of very low mass offers to space travel.

Sounds like you're talking about panspermia, which does seem very likely to me as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
I apologize for any damage to your face, but I continue to believe that the intent of the OP was to refer to specific experiences with vendors, not to characterize the protocol.
Cool. I wonder if this holds true for quantum computation, as we theorize it anyway.
Here's a real use-case: A few weeks ago I was trying to figure out how to set up a chron job for DB backups (and other things). Being a so-so developer, I couldn't figure out how to do it and the tutorials I read were confusing. But this makes sense, and I plan on tinkering with it a bit.

And a suggestion: The first two screen-lengths are meaningless. It wasn't until I scrolled to the "Start Now" section that I figured out what this does. Many will just leave instead.

The large clock looks nice but is meaningless, and "Scheduler as a Service" says nothing to me. It's OK to call it that internally or when you're having long discussions, but not when you have just 3 seconds to communicate what the app is and why it matters. The "What Is" section says the same thing twice, without really saying anything.
you mean two factor authentication for signups? or for what specifically?
> Generally if you are feeling that "unit testing sucks" or "mockito sucks" it's often that case that you're not doing it the right way.

Either that, or the person just hasn't been sufficiently burned by someone changing something you're not aware of and having to track down a run time error for days that could have been caught and fixed by a unit test in minutes.

I read the article, and much of what he speaks of is tautological unit tests - testing something where someone could never have done anything but that. I've seen people unit test the behavior of filling up a collection then test to make sure the collection has all of those elements, for instance. And there, he has a point.

But there's a dangerous line there. And while the article makes a good point that too much of that type of testing can be detrimental, I've generally found it better to err on the safer side of more tests.

On your own project, or even on a small team, you can probably get away without them much of the time. But, on larger projects, where many different developers sometimes go back and make changes to code they didn't write, it's very easy for a new guy/gal to make changes with unanticipated consequences. When that occurs without sufficient test coverage, the project will wind up spending 10-20x more man hours to fix the issue.
Special relativity says the speed of light is the same in all reference frames. In the reference frame of the moving CPU, it would operate correctly.
> It is implied that when you pay, you are the customer, and when it's ad-supported you're the product instead.

That's, frankly, a popular internet-age meme that is complete bullshit.

For example, readers have paid some amount for many newspapers approximately since newspapers became a thing. Nevertheless, for most of that history, the main business of newspapers, from which the majority of their revenue comes -- even for the ones that have paid circulation -- is selling reader eyeballs to advertisers.

With banks, depositors are customers of "we'll store your money safely and/or provide you interest on it" services that banks provide. They are also, by the same act, suppliers of the "we'll give you cash now in exchange for money in the future" that banks provide to borrowers.

Paying for a good or service may make you a customer of that good or service, but it is not, and never has been, exclusive of you also being a supplier of another good or service that the same company is selling to someone else.

Aside from confusing "suppliers of product" with "product", the ridiculously simplistic meme invents an exclusivity between being a customer and being a supplier which has never been a real feature of business. The two roles often coexist, now and for as long as economic interactions have existed.
Perhaps do the separation by height above the ground? In most of the world light aircraft are not supposed to fly below 500ft apart from landing. You could limit drones to flying below 200ft say. It would also reduce the impact when they pack up and crash on you!
The difference is only 4k. So not much of a difference.
Nope this is the exact product I backed, the Indiegogo page can be found here:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stickr-trackr-find-lost-it...

The comments page would also be worth a look if the company had not removed the negative ones:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stickr-trackr-find-lost-it...
Could still be made by an accomplice trained to this exact kind of situation.
The same "self-healing" property also applies to /dev/urandom. Author tries to show that only way in which is urandom better than random is that it blocks when there is not enought entropy by some pretty arbitrary estimate, and that this behavior is almost never what you require.
There are schemas in JSON (see, for example, Kwalify) although they are not something that is built into the specification. I don't think the equivalent of XSLT is as necessary when the document readily translates to data structures in a scripting language.
After using PLY in production and (afterwards) toying with Parsec for a side project, I could never go back to PLY. Even aside from PLY's obvious flaws (docstrings as code, mutation instead of returns, ample use of python magic backstage...), Parsec wins by being more configurabile and composable.

Whoever is maintaining my PLY mess now might get a handle on it faster than they could learn Haskell, but probably not by much.
> This meme needs to be shouted from the mountaintops until everybody understands it.

This meme needs to die in a fire as it is actively harmful for understanding economic interactions in the real world.
You're hinting that it's not in POSIX, and this is true.

There are many standards and cross-platform interfaces defined outside of POSIX. Some explicit and top-down, some organically evolved.

The spec for /dev/*random is here, as was published in the mid-90s: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-sta...
Why do we still use pilots to fly airplanes?
Haskell's power is impressive but the "Cabal hell" is a serious problem.

Recently I tried to get into Haskell. I've installed EclipseFP and the first sessions looked nice. But when I started to use external cabal modules I always ran into serious trouble with versioning. Even recompilation doesn't help a lot because there is always a complaining module.

Do I something wrong? I am thankful for advice.
Thanks for explaining, this is new to me. Sounds like the situation was just less bad than the video makes it out to be :).
Here is a bunch of those plaines in Engels, Saratov oblast, Russia. Not for sale though.

https://goo.gl/maps/vA8oX
Kudos for great instructions in the readme.

However, bummer that despite the clear instructions, they never state what this does or why it might be helpful, for what problem.

So many developers take the attitude of "if you don't know why you need it, you shouldn't be learning about it" but I don't see why they do that. You should always assume that some outsiders will come along, and some of them will have use cases that could benefit from your solution, if only you would explain what the hell it is.
Can you also fix the hn comments? Longer threads are pretty hard to follow; they "spiral" down from the highest comment.

edit: It would be nice to be able to fold the comments, like code.

Great thanks.
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Actually it was a different campaign by the same company, Phone Halo. As you can see from the link you posted they have let down the backers of that project too.

Here is the project I backed:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stickr-trackr-find-lost-it...
Just watched it based on your recommendation. Thanks! It was a really enjoyable movie. Very centered on reality, I could barely spot any innacuracies, really good hard science fiction story.
And what's sad is that this "formal, correct, unambiguous term" pattern doesn't only apply in academic papers, but also in textbooks and learning and education (e.g. have you ever read a statistics textbook?) -- when we are trying to teach students concepts, we end up getting the opposite of what we wanted to achieve.
I've always been extremely impressed and awed by the pilots of the Gimli Glider.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
I am dying to see something like this go to production. I absolutely love the functionality my pebble gives me, but I also would very much prefer to wear it as a proper watch, without it looking like a 10€ plastic toy :(
I believe that creates a string with the characters "1e999", not the number 1e999.
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Having invested some Bitcoin into a few of the alts, I like to check coin prices on my phone before I go to bed (or sometimes on my work commute). but after browsing the various indices i was kinda disappointed there weren’t any good mobile sites for looking at market caps, prices, etc. So my roommate and i decided to create one this week. It's a work in progress so please feel free to comment below with bugs (I’m sure there are a few), suggestions, and anything else.
If the Webflow website was built and designed using only Webflow, then I would be impressed.
> More than half of the 21 actually.

So, name the 11 that have militaries that employ the bombers in question.
Found a way to generate computerized brainstorming questions.
I recently open-sourced my web-based vector app Mondrian.

https://github.com/artursapek/mondrian

It's a fun project to hack on for anyone interested in math, geometry, SVG, or web apps. You can try it live at http://mondrian.io.

My email is in my HN profile if there are any questions.
Why a New Film on Particle Physics Is Essential Viewing
Non US, non EU merchant? Sorry no cookie for you. :(
Yes, so the problem is more one of "all your eggs in one basket", unless he just left that out of the story.

Sounds like a good guy in any case, who worked on a lot of neat things, I wish him all the best.
Even then they would be useless as my (and many other backers) devices only connect the once and then disconnect forever.

Its a real shame as this is a great idea but the company behind it is crooked.
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It's not quite so big as the headline, but it's still good. Here's the scoop:

The FAA has long had rules for model aircraft, which would include many small "drones", and under which you can personally operate them now. You're supposed to stay low and away from stuff you could damage.

They also (as of fairly recently) have some rules for UAS (unmanned aerial systems) that are more like the rules for real aircraft, and are working on integrating them into real airspace. Thus a UAS requires a certificate and permission to fly--but they're still working on how to do that, so you can't get one yet. If you were to buy your own Predator you couldn't fly it, 'cause it might run into an airliner. Fair enough.

However, they also declared that commercial use of an otherwise-model aircraft turned it into a full UAS, which you currently cannot fly. So you could use a quadrotor to take aerial photos--but you could not get paid for it.

This ruling, in a nice display of common sense, disposes of this last bit, making operation of "model aircraft" the same regardless of intent. You still have to fly safely, and in limited space, but now you can get paid for quadrotor photography, as the FAA no longer has a basis to fine you. You still cannot fly that Predator, though. Sorry.

But I'd be careful before making too much investment based on this decision. At the very least, check into how the appeals process on a ruling like this works; dunno how final it is. You'll also want to check carefully to make sure your intended use can be performed safely by model aircraft; fully unmanned systems probably aren't going to pass muster (unless perhaps your automated avoidance system is really good).
I hope when automated delivery is a reality, those of us who live on high floors of apartment buildings can affix some machine identifiable sticker to the outside of our chosen delivery window.

When that happens, I will know I'm living in the future.
While the speed of light is the same, relativity also has a lot to say about accelerating reference frames.

That said, if you were accelerating fast enough to affect the behavior of a CPU, you'd be experiencing G-forces comparable to the tidal forces of a black hole; computation would be the least of your problems.
Wouldn't balloons be better for atmospheric pressure sensors?
We always welcome additional community involvement for any of our projects at Fogbeam Labs. Yes, we're a company and hoping to profit from our OSS work in time, but everything is ALv2 licensed, developed in the open, in true community fashion, not Android style "throw it over the wall" whatever. Code is all on Github.

Most of our code is in Groovy, some stuff is Java. Future stuff might include anything from Clojure or Scala to R, or C++ or Julia.

Quoddy - an enterprise social network. To use an analogy "Facebook for the enterprise" - but so much more. https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

Neddick - an information discovery platform. To use an analogy, think "Reddit for the enterprise". https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick

Heceta - a search engine. Think Solr + ManifoldCF + (some other stuff for social search and semantic search). You could say the idea here is to bring the Linked Data approach inside the enterprise.

I can't promise anything definite, but as with any commercially backed open source project, the possibility is always open that if somebody contributes to the project and kicks ass, that we may be able to find (or create) a spot for that person at Fogbeam at some point.

All commercial notions aside, we are working on some wicked cool stuff, especially the semantic web stuff, and would welcome anybody who wants to get involved. At worst, we'll all learn some stuff and have some fun together.
I think he was disagreeing with the quote but maybe attributing it to you.
This isn't a "meme". Please stop using that word where it doesn't belong.
But the enemy here isn't necessarily the console, it's the social attack against the console. Making it harder for the user to screw himself over is a worthwhile endeavor, and not merely "security by obscurity".
Or an A-10 Warthog. It's basically what you described but with fairly robust jet engines.
404–A short film by Allen Goodman.
"it doesn't seem to be original work"

You mean it's a depiction of an existing character from a game or something. That doesn't mean that it's not original artwork. I'm sure that would be a relevant issue in court, but that's why we have trials.

"which relies on being non-commercial"

As other posters here have pointed out, this is not true.
How does it perform this search? I can't imagine running all functions with a matching type signature scaling to more complex examples.
Sure. But then all sorts of things will be banned: footballs, baseballs, kites, model rockets, frisbees, conventional model aircraft, weather balloons, etc etc. The better way to do it is with common sense safety standards, certifications and clear rules on airspace.
That or he's trying to remain "anonymous" after being outed. Which is totally reasonable.
Will some of these be available as live streams?