skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya sounds like the NASA EmDrive (possible) verification from a couple days ago:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/31/nasa-validate...

I heard about this independently from JLN Labs and other replication groups, doing lifter experiments with asymmetric electric fields in near-vacuum:

http://jlnlabs.online.fr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G359-G4SZlE&list=FLBsZga0Y-s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGN65lse5yE&index=5&list=FLB...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QuHgzrPuGk

Running in the atmosphere, the electric field created between a small conductor like a wire or point charge and the larger foil is asymmetric, meaning that the field strength on the surface of the wire is stronger than the electric field holding the electrons to the atoms of the gas molecules. The molecules become ionized and get accelerated by the electric field to the large conductor. This would ordinarily cause no net force, because the action and reaction of the molecules bouncing off the large conductor are exactly balanced. However, the molecules drag on the order of 100 other molecules in the air along with them, creating a frictional force against the air and propelling the craft forward. The most efficient lifter uses pulsed DC and is about on par with a helicopter:

http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/lftphv.htm

However for near-vacuum, the electric field would have to be strong enough to separate virtual pairs, which would then be sent in opposite directions. There would probably be no interaction with other virtual pairs, so there should be no frictional force and no propulsion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_polarization

My best guess is that if they aren’t running the experiments inside Helmholtz Coils, then they are actually creating a homopolar motor that interacts with Earth’s magnetic field by way of the Lorentz force, or possibly resonances set up in the surrounding metal that create small magnetic fields:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_coil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homopolar_motor

The big question is, if one of these drives eventually does work, then why is the force stronger than light pressure? I just mean that it’s straightforward to build an accelerator that creates photons with high enough energy that they oscillate between waves and say electrons/positrons, then separate the pairs and fire them out the back like an ion drive. But the momentum delivered by the energy to do that that should be less than or equal to light pressure.

I suppose if a way can be found to pull virtual pairs from the vacuum that takes less energy than splitting photons, then a Q-thruster might work. It would work by creating mass at one location, propelling the engine against it, and returning the borrowed mass to the vacuum.

I know there’s a lot about quantum mechanics that I don’t understand, and there’s probably a specific reason this won’t work (probably because virtual pairs are created randomly and can’t be coerced into existence?) so if anyone knows, please explain. I’ve tried to write this as scientifically as I can because I dislike psuedoscience.
Charge more, get more customers, set up retainers.
There are already ARM versions for Android, but whether they will bother making the mac version build for it is a different question.
I couldn't afford an SSD big enough for my entire steam collection... ;)

and I too hope to play HL3 at some point before I die!
Your point about inability to integrate large systems is the exact opposite of my experience. I find that Vim and Emacs users are the most proficient in using tools to build and integrate large systems. Most, again in my experience, know multiple languages, including shell scripting. They also are very comfortable with command line tools. This has significant benefits when turning a system over to the operations team.

By way of comparison, the IDE users (with some exceptions) are stuck when needing to accomplish anything not directly supported by the IDE.
I think, it's because FDA (or whatever the agency controls supplements) doesn't allow these statements.
> It is sufficient justification because the item has had significant attention within about the last year.

HN_FAQ > If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

Being a repost is not sufficient justification, as stated above.

EDIT: Cool Dang, I get ya.
Books have more senses than movies and games, because in books, you can describe touch feelings, smells, temperatures, etc., thus giving readers a multisensorial experience. In movies you can only rely on sound and image. Zero other senses. Smell in books is superior to smell in movies.
All software would need to be rebuilt .. OR, like before they may have some emulation, but then older software would be quite a bit slower.
> Specialist medicine beats finance in many ways, particularly lifestyle. (Autonomy, work hours, vacation).

If you're in private practice, maybe, but that's really not the case anymore. And in any case, private practices are a dying breed. If you're an employed doctor, you have essentially zero autonomy with regards to your practice, your work hours aren't that flexible (or forgiving), and you don't get that much vacation time.

What you describe certainly did apply to doctors one or two generations ago, and still applies to some of the outliers today, but it's not true for the vast majority of doctors anymore, and the direction of the trend is very clear and has been for many years.

> As always going to a top school changes the calculus significantly compared to everywhere else.

Not as much as the residency and/or fellowship does. The top schools charge more, but ceteris paribus, the residency is a better predictor of how much money you can make. Both of those effects, however, are swamped by whether or not a doctor actually lasts long enough after their fellowship to become one of those incredibly lucky high-earners. As much as people might not want to believe it, specialty medicine is a very competitive and cut-throat world, and there's a reason that so many would-be doctors burn out before ever seeing the thick paychecks referenced in this thread.

> I don't believe the 30 year figure for specialists

It's true, though if you choose not to believe it, I'm not going to argue the point further.
oh no you didn't..
What's wrong with this? From the government perspective, it's a great plan. A lot of people are stupid and sometimes smarter people should make choices for them.
FCC asked six more ISPs, content providers to reveal paid peering deals
Most people don't think advertising changes their behavior, but the numbers say the opposite. We're surprisingly naive about how easily influenced the human brain is. For this reason I'm extremely careful about what kinds of friends I keep. I might not have much control over how they influence me, but I can control the kinds of people I hang out with.

The science of consciousness suggests, with the caveat that it's very early days, that we don't actually have free will, and are we really just the sum of our past environments and genetics interacting with our current environment. Your genetics and past are immutable, but your current environment can be changed, and that's likely the best chance you have of putting the future "you" on a good course. So watch what kind of inputs you feed into your brain computer, because those will determine the outputs.

(I don't like to dwell on the no free will part, I find it useful to pretend I have an "I" and a free will, even if it may not be true.)
"The change you wanted was rejected.

Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to."
If I may misquote patio11: "Double your price!" :)

You can get some ideas from the real patio11 in:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/10/10/kalzumeus-podcast-3-grow...

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...
Ask HN: Who is hiring in Boston?
Post open positions at companies in the Boston area. Please include a brief description of the job and company. Describe the kind of problems the company solves and the technologies used to solve them.
Very interesting article. I can't how imagine how difficult it must have been to support localization after the game was released.
The alternative is to "get out of the way." Instead of allowing these countries to get to internet access in their own way, and at their own pace, internet.org will hamstring the efforts by providing this free crippled version that will permanently warp these users view of what the internet is and push out smaller local competition that provides real internet.

The very fact that it's called internet.org is obvious proof of the dishonesty at play.

Sometimes the right answer is to do nothing if you don't have anything good to contribute.
They almost certainly have some 68k/ppc guys left, and while tooling has changed they at least had a historical recipe (e.g., go ahead an emulate somethings, transition gradually, etc) that was proven to work.
He did, and I like it.
Science of Science Policy
If someone could explain why smart watches (especially with their own OS, I get phone-pairing, but standalone just seems stupid) are a good idea, I'd be glad to read and upvote it.
The transition will be easy for applications that rely on Apple's APIs only, the fun will be for programs that use proprietary third party components all of which will need to be rebuilt, as well as all binary plugins to applications.

I can imagine this might be a huge job for some of the more heavyweight production programs for Mac , as well as AAA games.

It would basically spell doom for Parallels and other virtualization software which give Mac switchers an escape hatch back to any Windows programs they might use.
Well, thank you. The first minutes of usage are pretty cool, it seems to be a keeper.
even in code 'foo (bar' is as common as 'foo(bar' and because parens tend to be narrow -as opposed to W or M- moving it one direction or the other would leave a -taste vary but- weird looking gap of white space. It would also through off visual alignment in columns, which is basically the only argument monospaced fonts have going for them.
the conclusion at the end of the article about the future of video games doesn't even mention VR. I fee video games are about to get their biggest boom ever with the advent of mainstream VR.
I still think Firefox dev tools are subpar compared to Chrome's. For example the lack of a proper cookies listing. I often want to delete a specific cookie when developing. Very easy with the Resources tab in Chrome while a real hassle in Firefox.
What I mean is that they've already decided to mug you, they'll take that phone whether it's locked or not, whether they know it or not ("maybe we can get our computer guy to unlock it!").

On the other hand, having the phone send out photos and GPS coordinates is a much better idea, and it's been proven to work.
It's just very inconsistent. It just happens sometimes and I either restart firefox or close and open the tab and it goes away. I can try to take a memory dump when that happens. I don't know how useful that might be for you. If I ever get something consistent I will make sure to file a bug.

Thanks for all the amazing work though! nothing beats the visual tools and network traces in Firefox.
This is the funnest thing I've seen in weeks in regards to tech. Nice job. And looks like a nice tool too.
Meep – Free simulation software to model electromagnetic systems
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Did Google Go Too Far?
Had a hard time loading it, so here's the cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SDIaXc5...
Yes. Being able to find things out for oneself is useful.
Oh that's weird. What did you try to do? I built the site.
Though paralegals might only be experts in the area of law that the attorneys they work for specialize in. Very deep knowledge is possible by paralegals, but not for all parts of the law.
Show HN: Rust-Lazy, safe, concurrent lazy evaluation
So, you can do the following:

interface OverOptional<S,T> extends Consumer<T> {
public S getResult();
};

Which allows you to create an anonymous class that embodies the first two arguments of maybe:

Optional<Integer> maybe_int = Optional.of(7);

OverOptional<Boolean, Integer> is_seven_or_empty
= new OverOptional<Boolean, Integer>() {
private Boolean result = true; // default

public void accept(Integer i) {
result = i == 7;
}

public Boolean getResult() { return result; }
};

maybe_int.ifPresent(is_seven_or_empty);

return is_seven_or_empty.getResult();
Imagine how much worse we would be if we have unqualified lawyers and medical doctors. Hidden in every libertarian geek's logic when it comes to this is stuff is the implicit assumption that the world is is just teaming with autodidact geniuses that have no use schooling. It's fun to think but I don't think reality is cashed out in this way
Sure, in this specific instance, they may do that. However, after stealing phones that turn out to be unusable (and pretty much something that will lead the police right to them), they will stop mugging people.
Ask HN: How difficult is fundraising as a solo founder?
My product* has a huge inherent cold-start hurdle and it's not going anywhere without a funded launch. Unfortunately, the "team" is just me. Accelerators won't take solo founders, I've been unable to find a viable co-founder in my existing network (trust me, I've tried) and I won't partner up with anyone I haven't known for years -- too risky and investors don't like it anyway.

Given my background: proven engineer, "finished" product, long history of entrepreneurship (with some moderate success), solid resume and decent sales ability...

1. How difficult is it to raise money (maybe $250k) as a solo founder without big past successes? "Happens all the time", "nearly impossible" or somewhere in-between?
2. Does it matter that I need the funding almost exclusively for a launch? The only hire would be a launch specialist, possibly on a temporary basis.

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* http://www.words4chrome.com
A friend of mine raised $500k+ by himself outside a major tech hub. However, he already knew these investors well and they're local-yokel D-listers I wouldn't take money from anyway.
That's according to one company's analysis which is not described in any detail. Worth noting is this:

> R.B. was also running TV ads, handing out samples and doing in-store marketing at the same time, but the company says the Facebook campaign contributed to the gains.

Don't get me wrong: there are some very smart people trying to figure the ROI calculus out. But that doesn't mean that producing solid answers is easy or even possible.

One of the biggest problems in my opinion is that few people involved have an incentive to come to the conclusion that Facebook ads aren't effective.

Facebook obviously wants to prove that its ads work. Brand marketers want to prove that the money they spend isn't being wasted. And the data/measurement companies, many of which count the brand marketers as clients and Facebook as a partner, wouldn't have a business if they concluded that there was no ROI.

The Upton Sinclair quote "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" is very appropriate to many aspects of modern day marketing.
Wow people are still using Gnus. I think I stopped using it around around 2005. I think it was the best text only mail client but osx mail works better for me.

What I missed most from Gnus was good search.
It would be great if you sorted by name popularity according to the census or something (or detect where the connection is from and use that region's census, if available). Seeing names like "Rocket" and "Loic" and "Yash"? I see some not-so-interesting names like Ammon and Mohamad, but most of these names seem unusable. Looks like you're pulling together a huge array of ethnic names that wouldn't make sense for most parents not in that ethnicity/culture.
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fair enough. I'm mainly thinking of a European context -- tenants rights in the US being much weaker, the same pattern may not apply there.
I was just about to post something similar. Although I was lucky not to have the Cryptolocker or Synolocker.

My syslog shows a few people have accessed my NAS this month.

This is worrying.
Ohloh Is Now The Black Duck Open Hub
What makes this "HTML5"? I don't see any use of the new semantically-meaningful elements.
A Simple Strategy for Shaking Confirmation Bias
Do you mean that you'd rather have nobody providing these services to the citizens than Facebook doing this?
Thus, NIMBYs and city haters are standing in the way of history.

Lobbying for height restrictions? Lobbying against the next Michelangelo.
From what i've understood from benchmarks and reviews the latest Intel atom processors have a better power/performance ratio then arm processors. I'm not sure if the performance/price ratio is better though, does anyone know?
I think it's funny that the main reason people cite the need to switch from Intel to ARM is power consumption. A big reason to stay on Intel is that a lot of people have real needs to run Windows software (whether in Bootcamp or a VM). Switchers feel a lot better jumping to the Mac if they could fall back to Windows if they wanted to.

Regarding battery life: The latest MacBooks get 9-12 hours of battery life. I haven't experienced battery anxiety on a Mac in a long time. In contrast, my iPhone is dead by the end of the day and watching it creep below 50% makes me start thinking about the nearest Lightning adapter (yes, I understand the Mac has a much larger battery and cell radios are power hungry).

Put another way, max power consumption on an iPad Air is ~11W[1]. The max power draw on a Haswell MacBook Air is 15-25W (~50% improvement in battery life from 2012 to 2013, which had 21-34W max draw)[2][3]. Given that Macs have more space available for batteries due to larger screens and the need for keyboard and trackpad, I don't see power consumption argument holding water.

[1]: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7460/apple-ipad-air-review/3

[2]: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6063/macbook-air-13inch-mid-20...

[3]: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7180/apple-macbook-air-11-2013...
Was it directly connected to the internet? Do you know how they got access? I am now worrying about my synology, but I am away from home for the next few days.
The x86 instruction baggage is a red-herring. It takes maybe 3% of the transistor budget to support it.

I saw an interesting interview once with an ARM exec who leveled and said they don't really have a big power advantage over Intel, despite what people commonly think. I didn't manage to find the article with Google though.
> None of the complains in this article seem valid. They appear to either complain about Unicode,

The complaints about Unicode are absolutely valid.

They conflate somewhat the targets of the criticism, since Google didn't unilaterally define the Unicode codepoints, but when Google presents Noto as a font for 'all the world's languages', it's perfectly valid to point out that their definition of 'all the world's languages' is based on a biased and/or exclusionary system (Unicode), and explain why that is biased, which they did.

Remember that this is a piece of news targeted towards the general public. Given that, they do a reasonable job of explaining the difference between Google and the Unicode Consortium, and appropriately spend most of their time focusing on the impact of the design decisions on the languages in question.
Qualification == passing the bar exam

Schooling == 4 years of law school

Qualification != Schooling
To me it seems mostly a problem of unwalled garden. When Apple owns the platform from the silicon to the development environment, it's easier for them to manage power. Wintel on the other hand has so much variety all the way down the software stack and even into hardware, it is more difficult to control... x86+Linux (Lintel?) suffers the same problem.

The unwalled garden can still be made low power. Android has set an example of tackling that problem with the battery tracker, which profiles which application is chewing up battery.

For power over USB, what do you mean? My Android cell phone can power keyboards, flash drives, and the like with an OTG cable. It certainly has no fan.
I would love to use Gnus (I currently use mutt but increasingly love all things Emacs). The problem seems that memory baloons with even small modest maildirs, where mutt does as well but the memory consumption was far less by comparison. Also, the imap layer seemed quite slow.

I know this is anecdotal. But does anyone else know have counter experiences or tweaking recommendations? I sync maildirs with mbsync/isync and use notmuch. I could use the notmuch Emacs interface as well, but it does not do some delete operations and other things that require frequent access to raw maildir access (notmuch indexing will not delete maildir emails, but syncs all other flags). Mutt-kz (mutt with notmuch extensions) is pretty much my current sweet spot.

Anyone else where I am at? It is so hard to part with the efficiency and simplicity of mutt once you adapt.
Well "pbhjpbhj," like I said, you're confusing logical positivism with science. Positivism, the idea that we can only believe propositions which are proved correct, lost favor in the late 1800's. Modern science, including social psychology, is in the vein of scientific theory called operationism. Like I said before, you should research this, because you don't know what you're talking about.
Do you have any idea if they could pull off X86 emulation on a theoretical but plausible ARM chip? It seems like a really hard thing to emulate an i7 or am I missing something?
This is certainly fair. There are lots of ways the name suggestion algorithm could be improved over time. What you see now was built in less than 24 hours and is really the MVP.
I'm probably in the vast minority, but I tend to use apple hardware to run windows... so I'm hoping this doesn't come to pass. I use OSX occasionally, but the thing that got me to switch to apple in the first place was bootcamp.
I recently switched back to Mac for the first time since 2006 and one of the factors in my decision is that I can run other x86 compatable OSes. I haven't felt the need to but it is nice to have the option.
Dropped to 0.02% circa 1878, stayed about there until a slow trend upwards started in 2012, now at 0.09% in 2014: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=while.whilst&format=pe...