skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My final sentence was getting at a mechanism by which momentum is conserved in this system.

If you assume that time is quantisable (big assumption, I know), and that the planck time is lorenz invariant (not as much of an assumption), then an EM wave at a fixed frequency moving from one reference frame to another could experience quantisation due to the shifting time-base, resulting in an apparent net deceleration - resulting in a measurable acceleration of the system as a whole.

And now I'll take off my fringe hat and get back to the day job.
>Russians do not approve of Kasparov's political views

Speak for yourself. Kasparov is a great guy and I would vote for him anytime.
The new reality: all the people you've ever known will forever be able to find you. That blind date in High School. Those jocks in Marketing from your first job. All your customers. Every salesman that ever sold you anything. Forever.

Unless you 'go off the grid' or some such nonsense. Which becomes a bigger wrench every day as physical social interactions get replaced with virtual ones. Escaping anyone now means escaping everyone - no middle ground.
These were other, earlier experiments, which the current experiment is attempting to duplicate. Importantly, while the new experiment has superficially "confirmed" the previous ones, it shows a much smaller effect.

When the magnitude of the observed effect scales roughly with the margin of error of the experiment, one has very good reason to be skeptical ...
That's detailed in the blog post I was linking to above: http://blog.cloudflare.com/google-now-factoring-https-suppor...

To quote it: "Second, at CloudFlare we've cleared one of the last major technical hurdle before making SSL available for every one of our customers -- even free customers. We're on track to roll out SSL for all CloudFlare customers by mid-October."
Yeah, but then you're creating a whole class of people who basically don't have anything anything to do. They will inevitably find things to fill that vacuum, such as having lots of babies. What happens when population growth outstrips the ability of production to provide for the needs of non-production? Unless you assume that productivity can scale up indefinitely, those people will just get poorer and poorer as wealth needs to be shared between more and more non-productive people.
Time to mod my quadcopter :)
This is a law, Google can't just go about excluding things from it. Furthermore, I don't see how Wikipedia is special in this context, it's just a stupid law, easily circumvented because it only censors indexing and not actual content, and only in EU.
If you consider stuff like sniffing cookies to steal sessions as hacking, which most people do, then it's true.

In terms of compromising the server you're right
https://qloudstat.com seems to be doing some more services. do you think they do it as passive income as well?
Probably the HTTPS one, since the difference in speed isn't that big between the two.
Have you considered making a switch to a data team? I switched to a BI/DW team 5 years ago because I did not enjoy building corporate CRUD apps all day. Working data in a large enterprise is really more of a mental challenge than a programming challenge.

The coding work is so much more enjoyable, only about 5% of the it is UI, the rest is all design and working the data. I absolutely hated how long it took to do the UI part of a crud app, so much that I steered my career around it.

Data work is so challenging because you truly have to understand every process you are taking data from and come up with creative ways to make that data useful to the business. The BI team at my work may not be the most advanced java guru's but they are some of the most creative solution designers you can find in our company. They are also the team with the most experience and the most knowledge about our super complex business processes because you have to understand them all to produce useful analytics.

I also can't stress how nice it is to have SQL as the most used tool in your toolbox. I scoffed at it as a simple data query tool before joining a data team. I now know it as the most efficient programming language I have ever used. Sure it can take a lot of mental effort to develop a complex query but it is so much faster than putting that logic in any other language. You simply ask a detailed question of the database and it returns an answer set to you. You do not need to tell it how to get he answer, the optimizer takes care of that for you and it does a much better job than you could ever do (99.9999% of the time). No more coding endless series of loops. A couple dozen lines of sql could take thousands of lines to code in java/c#/ruby/python etc.

There is also a whole new world of data science opening up right now and corporations are cashing in. I will be learning hadoop and map reduce very soon so we can position our team to offer a competitive advantage to our business through big data. I will have to learn R and python because they are used to gather and work all that data. The future is looking bright for data workers.
Not requiring energy is a mistake from Wired.

A superconducting version of the drive would be able to provide much higher Q, and thus much higher static thrust to power ratio.

It would also have much better performance at higher waveguide velocities.

http://www.emdrive.com/theorypaper9-4.pdf#page=9
Assuming that the goal is to host a single "App" on the bare metal server, these tests results are indeed interesting.

Another interesting result -- not addressed in the paper -- is to see how many small Apps that the container approach can support versus the vitalization approach can support.

While hosting many Apps/VMs, not having to run the OS multiple times is one of the advantages that the Docker approach provides and it would be interesting to quantify the performance implications.
If this works, and if it's scale able, it would be something like the impulse drive. A normal spacedrive for speeds far below C and without space-warp.
The analogy is not perfect though. High-temperature superconductors are not breaking well established principles in physics. We just can't describe these superconductors well now.

Most of the limitations describing solid state materials come from that we can't solve the Schrodinger-equation directly (even with simulation). So we have to make assumptions and reasonable approximations of the resulting wave functions of electrons. For many solid state materials there are standard approximations that are working really well but they are not working for all materials.

We simply didn't find any working approximation for high-temperature superconductors (but I think there are some not well tested theories out there).
To expand on that a little:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2014/08/06/nasa-v...

>>In the paper by White et al, they also write that the Cannae Drive “is producing a force that is not attributable to any classical electromagnetic phenomenon and therefore is potentially demonstrating an interaction with the quantum vacuum virtual plasma.” That last bit stopped me. What’s a quantum vacuum virtual plasma? I’d never heard the term, so I dropped a note to Sean Carroll, a Caltech physicist whose work dives deeply into speculative realms of cosmology and quantum theory.

Carroll wrote back immediately, with a pointed message: “There is no such thing as a ‘quantum vacuum virtual plasma,’ so that should be a tip-off right there. There is a quantum vacuum, but it is nothing like a plasma. In particular, it does not have a rest frame, so there is nothing to push against, so you can’t use it for propulsion. The whole thing is just nonsense. They claim to measure an incredibly tiny effect that could very easily be just noise.” There is no theory to support the result, and there is no verified result to begin with.<<
I can't find prototype diagrams with dimensions or something, did you find any? Please link?

The paper is $25 .... mmm
http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2014-4029

This post has some more info
https://plus.google.com/117663015413546257905/posts/WfFtJ8bY...
I kept thinking, if Day thinks this girl is good, he probably hasn't seen this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwC544Z37qo

Be sure to watch the credits.
First of all, the consequence of free time isn't necessarily more children. In fact, as people move up from poverty to "middle-class" lifestyle (with more free time as well), they have less children.

Second, China solved the overpopulation problem quite well with the one-child policy (maybe too well, even).
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Genes are swapped all the time. Its not just about mutation.
Nice! Which CA are you using?
You missed the point. Someone probably used a different phrase trying to describe a physical phenomena, which exists, under a different description.

You can take a look at some popular lectures of Dr.Krauss where he describes empty space in more detail, which is full of virtual particles.
Uh. What if a site doesn't need https? Like if it has just static pages with public content?
Productivity doesn't need to scale up indefinitely - it just needs to be able to scale up until it's enough.

Silly but simple thought experiment:
- 10 people on an island
- 2 people can pick enough coconuts for all 10 to eat well
- Using a ladder, productivity picks up enough so 1 person can pick enough coconuts for all 10
- A coconut picking robot is developed, picking enough coconuts for all 10
The coconut picking robot's productivity can't scale indefinitely but it doesn't have to.

I am sure you can see the implications of using robots in the real world.

Edit: Speaking of babies, prof. Hans Rosling's TED talks are mandatory. http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies
Twitch.tv should use it too!
Immigrants aren't even citizens; I don't think they receive any sort of social security in most countries even today. I'm not saying that's the optimal policy, just that they wouldn't be worse-off.
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Does Feynman's "if you can't explain it to a laymen in a few paragraphs then you don't truly understand it" no longer hold?
Probably because the population they recruited participants from had a similar distribution.

"Diversity" as a slogan is somewhat misleading, because what these initiatives try to do is to counterbalance negative selection of characteristics like skin color, parental income etc which shouldn't matter in coding.

Also "minorities" has become a difficult term because of spatial segregation, demographics, blending, and even the decline of racial prejudices (which is a good thing) blurs the lines of who's the majority and who's the minority in a particular issue.
> Its just that most programmers don't want to code in it.

Most programmers don't want to code in APL, Prolog, Haskell or Scheme either. Most programmers don't want to even consider writing Smalltalk or Clojure or F#; and they won't ever touch Idris, even if they somehow knew it existed.

I get a feeling that most programmers just plainly don't want to program at all, that they'd be happier doing something better-specified, more solid, like painting walls or something.

I don't believe that getting "most programmers" to use some language or other should be the goal. Creating better tools for people who want to use them should take priority over trying to simplify the tools to make them more accessible to those who don't want them. If the tool is really good then someone will make it "user friendly" sooner or later, and "later" really isn't a problem here and in most cases means about 20 years.

I'm not involved with Factor community, but I was under an impression that its users are people who understand that. It would be a shame if they got discouraged by the lack of "mainstream adoption" and stopped working on it after a mere "few years". That's not even enough to tell if the idea is really good or bad.
Even a public static site needs HTTPS, for authentication and integrity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146670
I can't reveal that at the moment. That will be part of the announcement in mid-October. I can say that this will not require anyone to install new root certs in browsers etc.
As cool as space can be, it can also be incredibly hot. It's not uncommon to see huge temperature variations on the same object based on whether or not the surface in question is pointing toward or away from the sun. In any case, as others have said, there is no conduction or convection in space - only radiation, which needs a little help some times.

For an example, when I worked on the Hubble, a thermal short was discovered that would severely limit the life of one of the cameras, which have to be very cold to operate. In order to counteract that, a pretty complex cooling system was built to counteract the effect. It consisted of a couple of large metal boxes (a couple hundred pounds each, if I recall) attached to a couple of huge radiator panels. (About 3'x10' each, if memory serves). The whole thing took over a year to build and took a lot of care to launch and install.
Don't worry, an obvious solution will present itself as soon as unemployment reaches 50% of the voting population.
Indeed. My static blog hosted on Linode behind Apache has survived a HN frontpage entry three times now. If I have to use HTTPS, does that mean I need a beefy server with lots of entropy?
Where I work the decision to hire is made by the business, the actual candidate selection is done by programming team leads, with some input from the dev manager (whose role is mostly to look for red flags). I think the last time I was hired by someone who hadn't written code within the last 6 months was in the 90s.
> We were all told we have to memorize things because we can't carry the textbook around with us

I was told to memorize things because it's much faster to recall items than it is to look them up.

I also don't consider memorizing certain historical facts "pointless", I think they are vital for context. The birth/death dates of a certain author may have little value in of itself, but it may have a lot of to say about the era they lived in and how/why their works were/are relevant.

Agreed that "critical thinking style education" is worlds better than mere memorization, but let's not forget that the devil is in the details, and its those details that you benefit most from memorizing.
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A few things on this:

* Snowdon revealled much about GCHQ so you can't really expect the UK government to be any more supportive of his activities than the US one was. I don't know enough detail but suspect other countries were implicated too. In those cases they're not in thrall to the US, they're simply responding according to their own interests.

* For European countries not specifically mentioned, why would any government antagonise the US when they're probably doing similar things themselves.

* Let's not kid ourselves what the Russians are really doing. This is basically trolling on an international government scale. Putin certainly doesn't believe Snowdon is a freedom fighter, and his actions around support for Snowdon are hypocritical in the extreme given the sorts of activities Russia are almost certainly engaged in themselves.

It's unrealistic to assume any government will support Snowdon as a matter of principal. They'll do so if it is popular enough with the people of their country but to me at least this doesn't feel like something that your average person is going to get worked up about compared to more domestic issues such as jobs, the cost of living and Kim Kardashian's ass.
Google Webmaster having robots.xt tester now
Leaked New Spotify UI?
> my cow-orker had chosen some other language

I don't know if it was intentional or not, but I'm soo gonna use it next time I'm talking about the choice of a language for a project... :-)
One of the selling points of the new app is that it will proactively alert you when you are near a restaurant that matches your tastes. Like if you say you like pulled pork, and pass a great BBQ place, it will let you know.

So, that feature pretty clearly requires "tracking users even when the app is closed."
Thank you, Tea Party (yes, I'm being sarcastic).

The far right in this country have driven home their stupid Ayn Rand message and too many people have listened. We now have the most polarized government since the Civil War.

The right believe that their way is the only way. To them everything is a zero sum game.

I would settle for a Scandinavian or Swiss-style system. The older I get, the less I like capitalism as described by the right.
On the other hand we (I'm in the UK) seem to be drifting in that direction, that if you don't work you get social security. I don't know that it will ever be a simple fixed amount though as the government want to encourage people to be somewhat productive rather than just getting drunk etc. Here's part of the UK system:

http://www.focusondisability.org.uk/brates-1.html
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varnish has supported disk based caching for quite a long time, it's just that all the instances at tumblr are configured to only use memory.
This is for location-based recommendations, like "hey, you are near a great place to eat." So it does need to know your location.
There is no arrest warrant, at least not a red alert from interpol. It's all done biliteral on a per country base.
Technological innovation is more important than any job.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-bans-food-imports-from-c...
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No. My HTTPS blog hosted on Linode's smallest plan has survived a HN front page without any trouble. It's a myth that HTTPS causes significant resource overhead.

As for entropy, your server only needs a small amount of entropy to seed a CSPRNG, and the CSPRNG takes it from there.
It is bizarre (and a bit frustrating) to drive down a NJ turnpike and miss your exit. You have to drive 15 miles to the next one to turn around. And most urban centers are miles from the exit. No stores around. I like the latter, not so much the former.
I agree that basic income isn't a permanent solution. We don't need it to be permanent, though. We just need to survive the period of increasing automation leading up to self-improving AI, and ensure that the AI is Friendly. At that point, either overpopulation and all other problems get solved automatically, or we all die.
Huh. I thought the OP experiment WAS verification.
As somebody else pointed out recently in another thread, being able to steal session cookies can even help you attack the server directly, as authenticated users usually have more/different write access to databases and the like, making (e.g.) SQL injections easier. In this regard, even if you don’t consider it “hacking a website” if someone steals session cookies, HTTPS makes it more difficult to “hack websites” in the sense of “getting root access to the server”.

How that compares to the increased attack surface of the HTTPS implementation is of course up for debate.
Nope!

Google, from 2010:
"On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead."

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h...

Entropy is a different matter, but I believe pretty much all virtualisation platforms have ways to ensure the VMs have enough entropy sources - so it should be fine.
Yes, still sad to see.
See "Is TLS Fast Yet?": https://istlsfastyet.com/
In Europe, most immigrants can receive social security, which doesn't mean they do.

In the US, undocumented immigrants have that problem though. Some politicians praised illegal immigration because that's a young, eager workforce with zero rights and benefits.

Also it seems that welfare states can't really save money by excluding immigrants. At the very least the society has to foot the bill for medical emergencies, so declining them prevention and health care may fire backwards. It's hard to "get rid" of the immigrants' children, so you better make sure they get the same education and chances as citizens do (or you end up with a young, poor and extremely discontent minority). If these children aren't put in good schools and fed accordingly, they will also be sicker and less intelligent than their peers.

That's why I think social security is a very profitable business for state and society.
Not really, Turks came to that territory much later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey#The_Seljuks_and_the_Ott...
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Unlikely to be related. Europe just embargoed Russia hard, those counter embargoes are their answer (it will hit them harder than us, but it still sucks).
I get a free SSL cert, right?
Totally! Access to the web is the issue to be tested; not my skill at research.
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Windows 9 will kill Charms, be an operating system you can love
Most IQ tests use standard questions in different combinations. So maybe not so hard? Find the image, then find the page its featured on, maybe find the answer.
I was in a similar situation recently. Was at my job for just over a year. Came in, noticed development practices were lagging (and this is the kindest term I can use). Tried, with the support of leadership, to bring the team forward, ever-so slowly, but it only resulted in more backlash. These people were deeply entrenched, not looking for change, and certainly not from the younger (early 30's here) newcomer.

I came to loathe coming to work. I'm not at the stage of my career yet where I'm able to willingly dial down my productivity just to "fit in". On top of this, my wife was pregnant (much further along than yours).

What did I do? Once the baby arrived and we knew it was healthy, I quit. I've been freelancing since then and am 10x happier. I make significantly more in an hourly basis and have much more time to spend with my wife and son. I have different risk levels from your situation though. I live in Canada (free healthcare) and in a medium-sized city (relatively low cost of living). I'm still on good terms with the management team from my old employer (they know and acknowledge the difficulties I encountered as real barriers; they just didn't take decisive actions IMHO) and they've told me the job is mine if I ever want to return.

I know this may not be a realistic option for you, but the overall thing I've learned through this process is that what may seem like a really big risk at first glance, becomes apparently much less risky the more you think about it in a calm and rational manner. If you're good at what you do, and it sounds like you are, jobs are easy to find.
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Looks pretty simple which I like.
Quick question: what are you using for the location search? Seems to not be able to translate zip code to city.
The assumption that people will have more children if they do not have to work is highly dubious at best. Some people would find new ways to contribute to society, some people would be a drag on society, and some people would live a quiet life. Any prediction of the net influence of a new leisure class on society at large is wild speculation.
I think it would be usefull at which generation the pokémon appeared.

Eg. Pokémon Red & Blue = Generation 1