skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not as certain. They don't mention measuring thrust from when they replace the test article with an RF load (whatever that means), or when they reverse the test article. Then they end on this note: "Test results indicate that the RF resonant cavity thruster design, which is unique as an electric propulsion device, 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. Future test plans include independent verification and validation at other test facilities."

So that makes me think that maybe they just don't know why it works, so the modified one still works for the same unknown reason. Probably not though. Like they say, they need more tests.
Has ICE ever seized a TLD?

Could a registrar that operates outside the US not be compelled by that nations laws w/r/t the domains under it's control? Because as far as I'm aware, that's how ICE does in the US.

Not saying I like it, but I don't know that your characterization is accurate.
Probably because he's comparing Perl to C.
So that would be "I don't want to be bothered with two clicks and a single terminal command." Really?

Leaving aside the whole "PHP sucks" vs "PHP is great/fine for my purposes" thing, this is really breathtaking. The fact that you can just FTP up your folder does not mean that's a sensible best-practice way to deploy anything, PHP, Ruby, Brainfuck or whatever you like. It isn't. FTP is insecure[0]. If you're balking at 'git push', then presumably you're balking at source control, which involves a lot of that sort of thing. That is just entirely unprofessional.

And 'no replacement'? FTPing a bunch of stuff into a public folder allows you to deploy something quickly and easily. So does the GP's suggested workflow. It is, exactly, a like for like replacement - except that it's a more secure and less fragile workflow.

I repeat - this has no bearing on the pro/anti-PHP holy war (I lean towards anti, but there's good PHP code out there, whatever. Hopefully a proper language spec will shove things in the right direction). If your argument for PHP is that it allows you to easily evade responsible working practices in software development, however, you're getting dangerously close to the anti-PHP stereotype of the average PHP developer.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol#Security
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See https://github.com/devyn/unholy (Ruby to Python bytecode, then Python bytecode to Python source). Used to run Ruby on Google App Engine, I think.
The user would need to receive the equipment in some secure fashion. Direct from the manufacturer in tamper-proof packaging or something. And from there it's up to the user of the key to ensure it is not physically compromised.
> So now we need a USB abstinence campaign?

What's your risk assessment?

Some places already have a USB abstinence campaign - they remove the ports and do as much as they can to remove the functionality from their OS. Or they remove as many ports as they can and lock other cables in place.
There is nothing to report. What do you want to report back? You were just given $50! Go party!
Why does a keyboard even have/need a firmware update mechanism? USB devices are disposable commodities. Their firmware should be permanently burned into whatever minuscule ROM they need to function.
Is there a group representing the 93% who accepted the restructuring?
And there's the crux of it. It's balancing consumer protection with providing the best service and experience. My example: If I'm on a crowded train on my way to meet someone and I want to look up the location on maps, but service is congested because people are browsing FB or HN; I would like priority to my request. I'm not saying this is right, but I do see some justification to "tiering" different services and if customers start demanding it (maybe it starts with poor people and Facebook), the carriers will be more than happy to deliver.
The USB Rubber Ducky just emulates a keyboard. That's not a vulnerability, really. Unless I'm actively logged in it won't compromise anything. It just speeds up the process of installing back doors (and the like) if you've already got physical access to a system that is already logged in.

I could do the same with any $5 Arduino Leonardo device (of which I have several).
It's a signal, that they are not doing manual labor.
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Of course, but there's still a lot of things consistent with the experiment that are less improbable than reactionless thrust.

This is still an important experiment, though -- if your testing methods are discovering 'impossible' effects, they are discovering effects that are possible but wrong, too. This is something worth getting to the bottom of. Every contradiction is a discovery, even if it's not the discovery you want.
I think even with a financial arrangement of this magnitude there's a place for considering what's fair and equitable. Maybe there were mistakes in the contracts, but the overwhelming majority of bondholders are willing to be reasonable - it's the few holdouts who are wrecking it for everyone.
Wow - only 10 days notice!
> You really should take the time to learn how to build your own server cluster.

Not sure where I mentioned that I don't how to do that. But thanks?

> The savings is exponential.

For a lot of start-ups rolling their own infrastructure is generally a giant waste of time and money in both short and long term run.
I wrote this after the "Is TDD Dead?" debate of a few months ago, and I think it's high time I published and shared. Comments most welcome!
Sign of wealth/prestige in some places, means you don't do hard labor with your hands. (Someone please correct me if there's a more subtle meaning.)
They are especially valuable to HN because most HN users have not used Rust for a long time [0]; they're still approaching the language.

—

I know your question isn't specific to this submission, but Rust is a new language, built to support an ongoing research project. Very few people, if any, could have written a large complicated system (apart from Servo).

Even if an expert were to write an article explaining how they use Rust, it would be of little use to most people using Rust at this point in time.

Example: Nobody was explaining how to use JavaScript for large complicated systems in 1998: the language itself wasn't ready for this kind of usage, and adoption hadn't reached the critical mass required for certain discoveries (language quirks, unexpected ways to do things, ready to use libraries and frameworks etc.) to be made.

[0]: Substitute Rust for any new language.
Quite interesting to see that Google released it on Github rather than using Google code hosting like they've done in the past [1].

[1] https://code.google.com/p/iosched/ IO 2013 app.
Argentina issued the bonds on explicit terms that it will be okay to hold out on a haircut - Argentina agreed that even if 93% agree on restructuring, then it's not binding to others and they can demand full value.

Argentina issued the bonds on explicit terms that it will pay everyone equally - even if they agree or refuse some future deal. Argentina dislikes them from not agreeing to it, but that's it - only a dislike that doesn't give any rights to pay them differently than others; they didn't have to agree to the haircut, so it's within their rights to demand to be paid whenever the others get paid.

For your CC example - yes, it would likely be different in personal bankruptcy, but that's not relevant because personal bankruptcy intentionally gives much more protection than sovereign bonds, the rules are quite different there. And sovereign defaults don't wipe you as clean like a personal bankruptcy does in many western countries - and there are jurisdictions where you don't get personal bankruptcy, and you keep the debts until you die. And in some places, even after that - the debt transfers to the heirs.
Fascinating! I am glad that I was missing something! Thank you very much for the background!
Sorry but that's like saying building a nuclear power plant to power your christmas tree in your apartment is a good idea. I agree it can be nice to learn these things but in a mission critical environment you should focus your time on what adds real value to your customers. Unless you're building the next AWS or Rackspace doing these things yourself and saving $50.00 a month is not the right place to focus your efforts.
I think, one of the problem here, is the universality aspect of USB. When we had different plugs for different things, no keyboard could pretend to be a mass storage device and vice versa. Now, when you plug something into your USB port, it could be anything.

It is similar to the scripting languages, Microsoft included into their office products. Before their where also some scripting possibilities in office products, but most of the time not that powerful. When they did it into the most popular office suite existing, the way for a new kind of virus was paved. The universality of office scripting also made the products more vulnerable to attacks.
I think it's because in the U.S. most of the school funding comes from property taxes

http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/1308_The-Property-Tax-School...
It doesn't matter:) I've got plenty of internet points; I just appreciate your thoughtful replies.
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Except that they're explicitly international - they have boards with international representation, they move their meetings around to different countries to try to be equal, and in general don't specifically advance a US-specific agenda.

Years ago, ICANN was funded/an arm of the US Department of Commerce, and then it could justifiably be accused of having an American perspective. The CCTLD operators got annoyed that the US was running things, and eventually the US DoC spun off ICANN into its own independent entity, and ICANN self-funded through what are basically taxes on registrations.
Quantum mechanics, dreams stuff is made of.
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Did you check that these codes work and are not just a ruse?
Look at the attempts to outlaw apps like Trapster. You give away the position of speed traps and DUI checkpoints and cops don't like that.

Last I heard, Trapster was forced to remove DUI checkpoints to stay on the app store. That was after attempts to rule it illegal in court failed. Same result. Crowdsourced DUI checkpoint apps are effectively gone if the stores don't have them. If only a few sideloaders have them, then there's no crowd to source.

This would work in a similar manner, but would expose the cops' fake cell towers. I fully expect this to suffer a similar fate.

That is not to say I don't like the project. I commented just so I could find it again in the future :)
Looks like countries need to look into decentralized DNS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
Alternate title: some guy says he was doing the limit in a Porsche.
Show HN: Australian GovData Exposed
Josh Bloch is awesome.

For the non-java inclined, he wrote (among other things) java.util.HashMap. Most all Java programs run (lots) of his code.
If you fire the thing up an the satellite's orbit changes, that's kind of a hard measurement to screw up.

Caution: a re-reading of the Pioneer Anomaly is in order before you start assuming things in microgravity move because of new physics ...
PagerDuty raises $27.2M in Series B led by Bessemer
Yup they are cheap and fast to provision.

I use and recommend them for projects but I'm still not sure about running production grade stuff on their infrastructure.
It would be interesting to know a way to pick the skills one can excel in. 10000 hours of deliberate practice is a huge investment. I'd rather invest it in something I can excel in.
"As seanmcdirmid points out, this is not the same, as the discrimination happens at runtime."

Doesn't the discrimination of which branch of a sum type your data represents generally happen at runtime?
I've always thought it was unfair that this is impossible. It's not like you're getting something for nothing - you are still required to expend energy. So why does the universe have to be such a dick about converting electricity directly into motion?
The reviews I've found claim they remotely disable your ability to recharge the battery if you go over the mileage you've paid for, so the car keeps going until the battery runs out and is no more at risk of dying at a dangerous time than if they hadn't disabled it.
I'm confident they already do. I really doubt they stop at "I hunt sysadmins"
Thank you.

I think it's about collecting evidence in the least invasive way possible. To me, the priority is limiting damage while still allowing law enforcement to function. One of the key privacy advantages of how LE access to phone companies or gmail or similar is implemented that it allows them to be granted access to just the data in question and little more.

What really becomes a problem is when the evidence in question is only available from one source and there's no way to do it that doesn't run the risk of what I'm going to term information bycatch. At that point there are really only two viable options - allow the collection with bycatch or disallow the collection due to bycatch.

The first is a significant privacy risk. That said, it's also not a new one. As long as people have kept records or written letters, a search has run the risk of exposing the private information of other unrelated people. Certainly, the same concern applies to tapping phone calls, and that's permitted by courts.

The second runs the risk of hobbling law enforcement entirely. Without perfect knowledge of what a given document, packet, phone call, etc. might contain, it's impossible to say that a search will or will not invade the privacy of another person in addition to the subject.

My understanding is that a warrant is for information or items because it's known and understood that information bycatch isn't always avoidable. This is considered unfortunate but unavoidable, as there cannot always be assumed to be other and better options.

I think this goes back to my earlier point about design. If a system isn't designed to contain any breach, then any breach - legal or otherwise - will be uncontained. I think this is less a constitutional problem than it is a technology one.
Anytime a dollar is printed, the person who receives the physical dollar bill is a creditor to the US government. The government is in debt to the holder of the bill, just as they would be in debt to a purchaser of a government bond.

This is why counterfeit money is so bad - it's literally forging a debt of the government that never existed (essentially forging the government's name on a contract that says "I promise to pay the holder of this note $1" when they never did).

Anytime a dollar bill is inadvertently destroyed, this is equivalent to the creditor forgiving the government's debt. This is a form of seigniorage[0][1].

The USD is the currency of choice for many black market transactions across the world. These transactions are usually conducted in cash, and the cash is oftentimes stockpiled (kept in cash instead of deposited into banks) or used for other black market transactions. In many cases, very little (if any) makes its way back into the domestic legal market.

"Free loan" is a little hyperbolic, but it's a way of saying that the US has a number of overseas creditors who are unlikely to either demand that the US make good on its debt or sell that debt to someone who will. It increases the demand for USD internationally, which allows the US to print more USD[2] without any (or most) of the normal consequences of issuing debt.

There's a body of academic literature that goes into the impact of black market transactions on monetary policy. I'm running out the door so I can't look for it, but if you're interested it should be easy to find (though a lot of it may be paywalled by JSTOR and the like).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seignorage

[2] Sidenote, but this is why protests in which people burn dollar bills (OccupyWallStreet was one, though there are others) are so ironic - they're simply giving free money to the government, which is someties the exact opposite of what they are trying to convey with the protest.

[2] Here I use the term "print" both figuratively and literally, unlike before
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It's a difficult situation because a lot of these bonds have been resold at a steep discount. Someone who paid ten cents on the dollar for a bond has much different financial incentives than I may have as an original buyer... should the fact that there are more of them mean they can screw me over?
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I confess I was expecting to not care for this. I'm not sure how any of it should be surprising, as it seemed fairly straight forward analysis of the tools.

That said, this was a ridiculously fun read. More detailed than expected for some parts, and always informative. I'm glad it did not come across as anti speed detectors. Really more of a "know the limitations."
fyi: http://strongloop.com/strongblog/tj-holowaychuk-sponsorship-...
One could use some sort of RSA secure token technology that would be very hard to replicate the state of at the time of the attack. I guess my point is that there's loads of ways USB could be used in a secure fashion. To say it can't be "patched" is completely unfounded in reality.
In Bangalore, rickshaw fares have been going up, while cab fares have been going down in the past few years. Currently, it costs Rs.13 per KM for a rickshaw[1] and it costs exactly the same, Rs.13 per KM, for a small cab[2] during the day in Bangalore. During the night, rickshaw is 50% more expensive than using a cab.

A cab is clearly a more comfortable ride than a rickshaw. I don't see how the rickshaw business will continue to operate and grow under these conditions.

Cab services have been growing steadily though.

[1] - http://www.taxiautofare.com/taxi-fare-card/Bengaluru-Auto-fa...

[2] - http://www.olacabs.com/fares/bangalore
You don't get to go back and demand full value on debt that was restructured for everyone else. That is like if I declared bankruptcy and one of my credit card companies held out for full payment on the debt when all the others had already signed off on X% of the debt.

Yes, yes can, especially when the bond says you can. A bond is a legal contract binding the debtor and the creditor.

That credit card company wouldn't be able to do it but these bondholders can because they found the right judge.

It has nothing to do with the right judge and everything to do with Argentina seriously fucking up on the original bond issuance. One of the terms of the original bond was that minority bondholders could not be forced to accept renegotiated terms *even if the majority of bondholders had accepted new terms. One of the other terms of the original bond was that all bondholders would be paid back equally. It's the combination of the two terms which got Argentina in this mess. You generally don't see either of these terms in bonds, let alone both of them together, for precisely this reason--it restricts the debtor's ability to restructure the debt if things go south.
In many ways cash dollars behave like US government bonds with zero coupon - their effects on the money supply are similar. The government can print dollars in place of issuing bonds or vice versa, and the economic constraints that cause it not to print an infinite number of dollars are the same constraints that cause it not to issue an infinite amount of bonds (modulo silly political things like the debt ceiling). So when you accept a dollar in return for valuable goods you're in some sense making a free loan to the USG (probably via several intermediaries) - you gave up something valuable, and got a promise for future repayment.
"To do this with a sum type you'd have to have a common super type of string and nil and no other types."

This seems wrong. You can make a new type that simply contains one of those, right?

In a sense that's what you're doing with a sum type in Haskell, though there you get to produce new types automatically from higher kinded types.
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I don't understand how code on a USB drive can be executed on a PC. I seriously thought that USB was (as a protocol) a generic data interface.

However, if it is something else (like, e.g., something that executes code from time to time), isn't it insecure by design?

And if so, why did nobody see it and was it malice or stupidity?
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Since the typing is made with the full privileges of the current user and he might be totally unaware of this, it is nearly as good -- the dongle has only to wait until some administrator is on the computer. It gives all sorts of new attack vectors at least.
That sounds amazing. I was just in Edinburgh and the build quality of all the stuff downtown seemed extremely high. "Not really old" is different here in SF, and the quality is terrible. Half the town was built as cheap housing for migrant/temp workers a century ago and the new stuff isn't much better.

I live in one of the older apartment buildings in SF, built in 1907. (Not much exists older than that, for... reasons) I can tell whether my upstairs neighbor drops a quarter or a dime, and I am regularly woken up by the next door neighbor's iPhone alarm clock. The whole building shakes slightly whenever a Bart train (which is pretty far underground) goes by.

Walls are roughly 1cm thick plywood, apparently. And yet it still costs a fortune!
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That is probably a cut off of some kind. [e.g. Not enough $$ to pay for their servers]
Aside from being a pervasive presence, sure.
right on.. i grew up in Argentina. and yes there's a rivalry, predominantly friendly, among things like asado, futbol, mate, etc. :) and yes, between arg/uru/bra people are very friendly with each other as long as it doesn't involve futbol ;-)
Nissan and BMW are currently hammering details with Tesla on this very issue.
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Better than nothing? I hate to say it, but I feel like I could slap an ad on their website/photo stories as-is, and make a decent amount of money. Not to mention, their apps. are free. I'm not sure if that would outweigh the server costs for hosting high-quality images though.
My clickbait technique is impeccable.
Users care, but they don't have a choice when the only affordable option at their house is the monopoly over the cable access.
The usual way to run Ruby on GAE is just to use JRuby on the App Engine Java runtime. Unholy has been dead for years, and from the commit messages seems to have never gotten to more than very basic functionality; I doubt very much that you could run meaningful code with it, on GAE or otherwise.
Written for the recent GovHack down here. Integrates spatial data from many disparate gub'mnt departments, and displays as a Tweetable heatmap.

I find these ones rather interesting, but you can make your own too:

Average Taxable Income vs. Average Donations to Charity (http://australian.govdata.exposed?q=-33.86726011483213+151.2...)

Adults who are Divorced vs. Homes with Six Children or More (http://australian.govdata.exposed?q=-33.865977283552276+151....)

Public Toilets with Baby Change vs. People Aged 0 - 4 (http://australian.govdata.exposed?q=-37.79925451435619+144.9...)

I also JSON-ified all the data I processed and threw it up as a static API at the following URL:

http://api.govdata.exposed/

Comments most welcome!
Well; 600$ really and my email address ;)
Well, he fought with half science: he came up with a set of testable hypotheses, but didn't actually run any of the tests. I guess that's as scientific as cosmology :-)
Two different devices, Shawyer's "EmDrive" was the 720mN device, Fetta's "Cannae Drive" was the 30uN device.
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