skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being aboard a spaceship that's accelerated to such speeds would feel pretty normal internally, but the outside universe would pass by very quickly and processes in that universe would appear to be impossibly fast. Accelerated to a very significant fraction of c would allow you to visit practically everywhere in the galaxy within a few years of ship time. But on the outside, millennia will have passed.

You can see why that's not practical, because everything you left behind would be gone. Still, there are scenarios where this might be a valid solution.

However, you could never reach a destination that's speeding away from you faster than the speed of light. Because you can't accelerate your spacecraft beyond that speed, parts of the universe will always be unreachable - which is the point of the article.

You might wonder why galaxies moving away from each other faster than the speed of light works at all given the cosmic speed limit. The answer is that their "movement" is not normal, inertial movement as we know it. Instead you might imagine that new space is being created in between them, driving them away from each other by simply scaling up the distances involved.

Given the practical and theoretical limits on spacecraft acceleration, people have been thinking about a different way to travel, a way that doesn't involve momentum but instead manipulates spacetime to simply shift an object to another position without acceleration. The article hints at this as well. It makes sense because technically the acceleration and deceleration part of a journey is wasteful and limiting. At this time, it's the only way we know how to get from A to B, but we're all hopeful that one or more alternatives can be researched which allow us to simply go somewhere else without using traditional movement.
Real world async/await defects
Philip K. Howard has a new book out: The Rule of Nobody. (Note: I haven't read it, I've just seen a few interviews and considered buying the book.)

The premise is that the fact that laws are constantly added but almost never removed is crippling us. Also, unfair laws are almost always unfair in someone's favor, and the groups benefiting will defend those unfair laws tooth-and-nail, and the morass of laws becomes even more stagnant.

I think Howard is usually seen as conservative, because he's seen as anti-regulation. I tend to think he's anti-stupid-regulation, which is a subtle but important difference. But even if you disagree with Howard in broad strokes, you have to admit that the alcohol laws in this country are pretty good supporting evidence for his premise.
Not sure how well it can be learned. It's not about an inability, but an aversion or preference not to. When it is important enough and risk and reward are worth it, you will find a way. As eshvk said above, It is exhausting. It just needs to be the right situation.
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This crashed my browser for about 10 seconds too,
up-to-date Chrome on Windows 7.

I agree about the parallax stuff, its great, but when you're sitting there waiting for your browser to come back alive it sort of puts you off visiting the site again
Github leverages such content-type negotiation for other resources too: add .diff or .patch to commits or pull requests. There's a way to get git am compatible data too.
It's the main reason we can't use it. Org gists would be great.
When I was younger (a late teen) I used to hang out on IRC and forums. I got in touch with many nicknames, few I ever got to know anything more about them than their music preferences or opinions on trivial stuff (games, arts, politics, etc.). And some, I used to play on-line game with them.

Fast forward ten years later (which is 2 years ago) and there is that 14 years old Norwegian girl popping up in my MSN list. I never added her, I think we somehow got into each other's buddy list because of those multi-chat layers some tried to implement over MSN.

In my country, Belgium, we got a huge scandal over abducted girls in the 90's. That changed a lot of things for some of my friends who were chief of boyscout and the like: they couldn't handle children the same way as before and every physical contact was suspicious, some told me they didn't take children in their arms anymore when they were crying because they feared people might misinterpret it.

Back to that Norwegian teenager: Had I been a teen I guess I would have chatted a bit more with her (aah those days when some random nicks on the deftones forum would send us postcard of his european trip.. on our REAL PO Box) but all I was concerned about was:

Am I being targeted as an on-line pervert by some agency ? If I keep on answering her "who are you ? how did you get in my list ?"... will that be turned against me later for god knows what ?

So I told her to not contact me because she doesn't know who I am which is the adult thing to do but at the end of the day I am sad that the internet land isn't as open and as welcoming as before.

But it's the same in the real world: One day I am at the mall and there is that 4 years old crying and asking "mama ?". I asked here "are you lost ?" "yes" "Well, can you see your mom around you ?" "No". So I told her "Well, come with me at the information desk and we'll ask them to tell your mom to meet you there". As she grabbed my hand I saw a woman cashing her groceries 2 meters away and of course she was the mom. That was awkward and it shouldn't have been.
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It's funny, because in most other first world countries, it is the responsibility of the government to provide higher education to its citizens. Perhaps you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth or "pulled yourself up by your own bootstraps", but not all of us are so lucky to have thousands of dollars to put toward education.
So you 'check' your tasks inside the mail app?

Does that mean:

* You need a GUI mail client?

* You cannot share the task list with other people? If you can, how do you handle propagating the state of a task (done/undone) to multiple people?
That is the thing, a free community college associates just means two more years of school. I think we need to make some progress on getting some of this compressed into the 4 years of high school as well. Plenty of people don't have the option of two additional years of school because they have no family. Or the just have to work full time or numerous part time jobs.

Its a hard problem.
Can't debit cards generally be used as credit cards?
Founders and mental health
... a virtual service that the perpetrator believed was real.

Past sting operations in the narcotics space have involved fake drugs---flour in plastic bags. Perpetrators who either bought or attempted to steal the fake drugs were convicted. One can debate the morality of stings in general, but I think the question of intent vs. reality is a settled question regarding legal precedent.
I second having roommates. I'm terrible at meeting new friends but have pretty substantial social networks stemming from random roommates off of Craigslist. The best man at my wedding was a Craigslist roommate, who was very much a social connector. Much of my social network when I moved to another city was from his college friends, and another group here was another roommate from Craigslist's friends.

Look for good roommates. The more social the better. I also was similarly uncomfortable with roommates, commuted to college, lived alone, and one day in my early 20's I made a choice to deliberately do things that make me uncomfortable and it changed my life forever.

Step out of your comfort zone. Its the only thing that will change your situation.
Wow, congratulations. It's interesting that what seems to be a more video/etc. content focused company is going to Box -- is Box trying to beef up their consumer/content-professional market?
None so far. Generally they are only interested in trying to convince you to give up consulting.

Sometimes they will pitch you on a contract-to-hire position, but most companies want to hire engineers on the cheap.
I've had a few (1/10) recruiters help me get consulting gigs. I prefer to pull my own however. You are better at selling yourself to the right gig than any recruiter could be.
Presumably citizens are allowed because they don't have the power to charge & convict you of some alleged crime. If the citizen's imagery were somehow brought into a legal matter, then it would be up to the judge to determine its legality. Conversely and unfortunately, law enforcement and government seem to enjoy a defacto legality until someone says otherwise. By limiting their use of this technology, hopefully it mitigates the defacto and clandestine nature of it, bringing it at least to a level of awareness during legal proceedings.
> I'm me, and if everyone were alike, things would be pretty boring.

Absolutely. Some entrepreneur said(I forgot who) something like "Do something different. And you will become successful."
Show HN: Instant Music plays songs on Chrome
Having suffered this, I will comment based on what I've done that I feel works.

- Join social groups. I went on Meetup, local college sites, did Google searches for things I was interested in by area, went to logical hangouts for that stuff (gaming shops, hobby shops, maker hangouts, ect...) If you are diligent, you will soon find yourself with more to do than you have time for.

- Rarely say no. If you are hesitant or nervous about a social situation, particularly one w/ new people, ignore that and participate. You will meet people much more slowly if you only accept social situations where you're comfortable.

- Smile. Many people have what I would describe as a non-approachable resting face (worried, mean, nervous, ect..). Folks who might talk decide not to because they expect you will respond poorly. People also interpret smiling as confidence. They will be more likely to smile back at you (oddly, this seems to make me more happy myself) As a corollary to the above, also try to project openness (open arms, calm/interested sitting posture, ect..).

- Say "hello", "what's up", ect... to everybody and pay attention to the answer. The most wonderful thing most people can talk about is themselves. Let them, and then Ask Questions. Conversations are like ping-pong, they cannot survive unless people serve and then return serves

- Learn people's names and then use their name when you talk to them. The most wonderful thing they can hear is their own name.

- Work offhand compliments into your speech. True for female or male. Nice hairstyle, excellent choice of clothes, ect.. Only things where they've made a choice or developed a skill that then worked out well in your estimate (ie, not natural features). Effectively complimenting their judgement while showing you're interested in them

- Look people in the eye. It is extremely difficult to establish a connection or communicate interest without looking people in the eye. People who don't are viewed as shifty or evasive. You're not staring, but when you say something, look the person you're saying it to in the eyes.

- Get in shape. Aerobic exercise gets you out, looking healthy, and is another form of social contact. It also keeps weight low, which affects features like facial fat and general desirability. For Anaerobic exercise, women are biologically programmed to find certain physical features interesting, develop them. Good self image also helps build self confidence

- Find good rolemodels. If you want to be charismatic, find people who are charismatic. Its much easier to develop effective habits with good examples

- Grind charisma and confidence. All things require practice. You should try to talk to people at every opportunity. Also pay attention to effective things people do. (Perhaps a co-worker who grabs everyone's attention at a meeting or a friend who effortlessly strikes up a conversation with a stranger) Note and then practice those techniques.
Congrats Ritik! Box adding a streaming content provider opens up a new world for them. Great choice on their part.
Yeah, catastrophic fires are an issue. And yet we've no problem with home storage of gasoline for lawn mowers (and yes, we don't typically collect gasoline in gaseous form over heat sources).

Catastrophic fires are also an issue with deep-frying turkeys, and in fact with deep-frying anything.

And we do already have a well-formed body of law dealing with responsibility for fires, damage to neighbour's homes &c.

'Someone might maybe do something wrong' isn't really a good reason for there to be a federal ban on most behaviours. I'd be much less incensed were it at the city or even neighbourhood level.
I don't think much people outside the former USSR, apart from the usual weirdos, saw Stalin as a hero or a Good Guy™. And inside the USSR being a dissident wasn't a healthy option.
Amazing work. Love this.
I couldn't find any mention of this but does it have any sort of TI-BASIC-type language you can use on it? I got started programming with that and it was awesome to be able to carry around with me a little computer that I could write and run programs on. I never delved down into ASM but I did install a few ASM programs that provided better access to the BASIC programs doing things like sprites or screen draws a magnitude of times faster or providing features that were not available in BASIC.
I wish I could trade in my karma and upvote this a few hundred times.

Genuinely caring about others, and demonstrating it by doing things like asking people about themselves, are powerful and are central to every human relationship.

In a good conversation, the amount of things you say about yourself should roughly equal the number of things they say about themselves. (Obviously, some things you talk about might be about neither of you - like if you're discussing a book)

You don't even have to ask particularly insightful questions. You can always ask open-ended questions like, "How do you feel about that?" in response to something they tell you.
Congrats to founders and whole team. This is just awesome.
Do you never patch the kernel for security updates?

Every time I hear/see these crazy high uptime entries I cringe a little at the security implications. Unless you're applying updates to everything but the kernel, but still there have been at least 2 local vulnerabilities in the past few years.
Merchant fees are more or less hidden: somewhere between 1% and 5% of your purchase does not go to the merchant.
Nice, can you describe how this compares to Streamus?
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If you fill out the form on the page, we'll submit a request to your local police department, asking for policies, invoices, etc. that will detail if and how they're using cell phone scanning technology (including Stingrays), and even what vendors have unsuccessfully pitched them on the technology.
Hello:)

Author of the BIP draft for the Instant Confirmation Payment Protocol aka BIP70 extension and founder of GreenAddress.

You can find the draft here https://github.com/greenaddress/bips/blob/bip-payment-reques...

Bitcoin dev mailing list discussion http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bitcoin.devel/5628

Reddit discussion http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/284me8/instant_conf...

The aim of this extension is to reduce risk by allowing, via a third party, instant confirmation of bitcoin transactions.

Questions, comments and in general any feedback is very welcome!

Cheers!
Lawrence
I'm happy the real flesh-and-blood children who were accessible one screen name over from Sweetie are now marginally safer.
FTFY: Churchill's 'policies' were supposedly intentionally "responsible" for the famine.

Link to actual wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943#Governme... (the article has NPOV problems for more than a year now).

For the British apologists, here is the quote to give you some acquaintance with the subject of Britain induced famines:

"During the first eighty years of the nineteenth century, 18,000,000 of people perished of famine. In one year alone—the year when her late Majesty assumed the title of Empress—5,000,000 of the people in Southern India were starved to death. In the District of Bellary, with which I am personally acquainted,—a region twice the size of Wales,—one-fourth of the population perished in the famine of 1816-77."

"Suppose we divide the past century into quarters, or periods of twenty-five years each. In the first quarter there were five famines, with an estimated loss of life of 1,000,000. During the second quarter of the century there were two famines, with an estimated mortality of 500,000. During the third quarter there were six famines, with a recorded loss of life of 5,000,000. During the last quarter of the century, what? Eighteen famines, with an estimated mortality reaching the awful totals of from 15,000,000 to 26,000,000. And this does not include the many more millions (over 6,000,000 in a single year) barely kept alive by government doles."

- From an article printed back in 1908 (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1908/10/the-new-...). The actual article is much more detailed and better written. And it has less reason to view history from distorted mirrors than we have 110 years later.

The reason Churchill was different from Hitler was because Hitler had an effect in Europe, while Churchill was conservatively continuing the thats-how-people-used-to-think-then policy towards his 'lesser subjects'.
I dont think Haskell is suitable. In fact there are very few languages that are. The reason is you need dependent types in order to compete with VHDL when it comes to type safety. I only know of two general purpose languages that support that, Idris and Nimrod (kinda.. Its coming along).

Your work sounds interesting. Contact me at skyfex@gmail.com if you want to exchange more ideas
I wonder if they purchased Custom Support for WinXP.
Can task statuses be updated through e-mail? I don't see anything mentioned about it. I work on a team where it's typical to respond to the email when something is done instead of going to the web. There are many different ways it can be noted so I'm interested in how that would be solved.

This could be the "bookkeeper" of the e-mail chain of tasks and statuses.
Very nice. I can't seem to find it anymore on the site; is the discount on yearly prepayment still valid?
I eventually went with Middleman for my actual website (back when I tried to make money selling OS X apps on the side) mostly because it allowed a 1:N mapping of templates:pages. But for simple blogs hosted on github-pages, Jekyll is still fine.
intercom.io is a great service, but from what i can tell, it's more tailored to in-app interactions. helping people stuck in the flow, and the like.

does it really stand up for email/content marketing? tracking campaigns, A/B testing emails, and a metric ton of reporting and analytics? their tour doesn't really talk about marketing stuff at all
I was about to post the same thing. It's a form of structured interaction that's not at work. In a meeting at work you know what your role is, so when everybody looks to you, you know what to do. Board games are the same way - there's no pressure towards non-purposeful talk, but non-purposeful talk is welcomed. You could be quiet the entire time, and everybody would enjoy your company and invite you back.

OP: If you were in Chicago, I'd invite you by. There are a few particularly difficult games that I own that I need a few particularly lonely people to spend the time with me to figure out. Meetup is a great place to start.
Smart acquisition! I didn't know about Streem, wow what a great idea. The one thing always holding me back from day to day usage of Dropbox / Box etc is being able to mount these drives in Windows. I would definitely sign up / pay for an account now.
I was planning to donate but it requires subscribing to Beacon with monthly recurring donations and you get a CD/thumbdrive? I just wanted to throw some one-time cash their way ala kickstarter. I don't really care about subscriptions/CDs.
Yes, that's what I do at night these days.
Heh: "Achievement unlocked: Refresh Prince of Bel Air".
Did anybody else read "Box Acquiring Steam" at first?
> The whole renewable energy push is an expensive mess.

Peak oil is too. Eventually costs will go up and as they do if your market doesn't have any viable substitutes what will happen?
Instead of "ditching friends", my approach to flakey people has been to mass invite people. I've ended up with a core of about 4-5 very reliable folks for any type of event I'd invite them to, and the rest can go or be louts and stay at home if they want (ok, only a few folks do this, the rest just overbook their time).

EDIT: A note: There are a couple folks that I've effectively ditched. I no longer take their schedules into consideration because they were such a PITA. Folks: If people invite you to things every week because you tell them you want to be invited, and you never show, don't feel hurt when they stop considering your schedule. Pouty friends are annoying friends. Annoying friends cease to be friends.
If by task status you mean complete/uncomplete, yes - just click the checkbox next to the task or the edit button. If you mean custom statuses like "in progress", it's possible, but there hasn't been enough demand for it for us to add that functionality.
Sounds like great advice. Practice talking to strangers in low risk ways that are easy for others to respond to.

Also, true about proximity. You can form friendships with people just by going to a coffee shop on a regular basis and just being helpful when called upon. People ask you to watch their stuff for a moment if they've seen you there many times.
Fascinating. Looks like it's 40+. http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/age.cfm
No Single Points of Failure
i loved it from the start when i was in the bay area doing my and loved it so much that if i wasn't a founder almost applied to join. good luck and exciting market.
Camouflage netting is perhaps the only surefire way to do this, although I'm sure that will attract far more attention than doing nothing at all. Something that would work kind of OK would be to create a large radiometric difference in your property like having a dark black roof and making your lawn as reflective as possible (white cement or gravel, swimming pool). That way when the imagery is processed in an automated fashion it will render your area badly. It still would be possible to go back to the original images and enhance the area manually but can be quite a chore.
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Yes I'd love to! Streamus was way ahead of this and it was a great inspiration for Instant Music. One key difference is that users of Instant Music can play songs off BillBoard and iTunes charts and choose their favorite genres. Like Streamus, users can search for the songs they want and create their own playlists with them. However, users cannot "save" because there are no user accounts. So the nicest thing about Instant Music is that when you don't know what you want to listen to, you can just turn this on and start playing music.
> To make that clear: the only company that is allowed to run a beer store in Ontario is The Beer Store.

For what it is worth, it is possible to become a Beer Store and LCBO franchise as a private business in (rural) Ontario.