skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, that's a really good point, I hadn't considered that maybe virtual particles might act like a gas.

Imagine if they permeate everything and are generally nonreactive, but still have pressure and viscosity (however small). Maybe the engine is working like an airfoil, displacing the gas locally and using entrainment to create a pressure imbalance with the surrounding virtual particles to cause a larger flow (like in the Bernoulli and Coanda effects). A broken analogy would be the lift to drag ratio of a wing. If it’s 10:1, then you can lift a 1000 pound glider by pushing on the tail with just 100 pounds of thrust.

Maybe a black body is on par with light pressure because the radiation is concentrated like in a rocket, but other geometries are able to interact more strongly with the quantum foam or whatever you want to call it, because they don’t radiate energy in one direction but instead excite the foam enough that it becomes opaque to radiation and can be interacted with (like what happens when an inert gas becomes a plasma). Say the thruster excited the foam so that it was moving faster on one side of the chamber than the other, then that would work like the top and bottom of a wing (where the air on the top side moves faster) and create a pressure differential. The chamber would move to the side with the highest velocity. This might sound far fetched but there’s some evidence that the wave particle duality can be simplified to particles traveling along waves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUBaBdl0Aw

Probably what we’re eventually going to find is that empty space is filled with these virtual particles, weighing much less than say electrons, and because of the uncertainty principle, they are spread over large volumes. So imagine the vertices being shed off of an airliner’s wing. Even though the wing is only a few feet wide, the vortices might be 100 feet wide, so maybe if you could put special glasses on, you’d see a big vortex being shed around the chamber, and if the foam weighs orders of magnitude less than air, the vortex could be really big. It’s probably even possible to tie the size of the vortex to the “lift to drag” ratio of the chamber. Now it doesn’t seem so far fetched that the engine could work when it’s pushing off such a large number of virtual particles.
> iphone 4

so all the drawbacks with no benefits? brilliant!
define crazy, dumbphones last 30 days (simple nokias, samsung solid)
I had never heard of SketchDeck - I don't want to derail, but I'm genuinely interested in understanding their business model.

Specifically, it looks like a linearly scalable enterprise (consulting-like: they provide custom design on demand).

How is this appealing for an investor? I'm not deeply involved in the mechanics of looking for funding, but I thought investors kind of shunned consulting startups.
That's, in my opinion, one of the greatest problems with the world, the economy, and the education system today.

For one thing, we train people to be workers, so they can end up as cogs in the machine of the big corporate system.

Then, those that still want to be entrepreneurs have to jump through political and legal hoops to do so.

Isn't investment, velocity of money, and innovation what makes the system keep moving? Without these entrepreneurs and business owners/founders, where would the jobs be? Why not provide incentives to be business owners and innovators? Or at least nurture the ones who are predisposed to it rather than trying to stomp it out of them!
‘Humans of New York’ Is Suddenly a War Report From Iraq
I'm curious if this will have any impact on the practice other than companies getting better at not leaving a paper trail.

If it doesn't, the only people this settlement will help is those at the named companies and not the trickle down effect it's had on the rest of the industry.
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More details on HOW you actually made the switch would have been nice. I'd love to stop using jQuery, but I feel like if I end up writing my own utility functions to emulate the original jQuery functions then I might as well stick with jQuery for the time being.
At line 116:

if (sum != 1){
return false;

where you're checking that the transition matrix sums to one across the rows, I think you can have problems due to finite precision. The sum can be epsilon different than unity. A reasonable check would be that abs(1-sum) < n*eps where eps is the floating-point precision (say, 4e-16).

In fact, a strict check like this can sometimes be annoying because you might save or transmit the values in a JSON format with less than full precision.
Cryptocurrencies are pieces of technology. Technologies don't make promises, people do, and most of the time those promises are empty. I have the feeling that this guy knows nothing about the technology, only about what people have promised or hope for.
I don't understand, why wouldn't you just use the centralised database you already have as opposed to creating this XML communications middle-layer that seems to be redundant with a centralised data store?

What are your savings doing it that way? It just seems to cost more of everything (resources, man-power, etc).
Hacker News Account Creation Captcha Is Too Hard
Reminds me of this article about similar stories, but about individuals:

5 Famous People Who Succeeded Long After They Should've Quit

http://www.cracked.com/article_19655_5-famous-late-bloomers....

Lists: Alan Rickman, Peter Roget, Joseph Conrad, Kathryn Joosten and Harland “Colonel” Sanders.
sendwithus cofounder; we've had a template gallery internally in the product since launch, but we felt that these templates were something that everyone should be able to use.

We didn't want to launch "just another template gallery", like many others, so we've made these open source. Contribute a pull request on github[0], we'll merge it, run it through Litmus and make sure it's still responsive. You can read about it on the 'about' page[1]

[0] https://github.com/sendwithus/templates

[1] https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/templates/about
Soylent Shipping Update + 100k Milestone
I hope the perception leans more towards 'uber rich tech execs conspired to pay their employees less' and not 'some of the best paid employees complain about how little they make'.
They are much less fully fleshed out, but Zurb Ink has some sample templates along with a whole system for responsive email design: http://zurb.com/ink/templates.php
Your own title says it's yet another "minimalistic" one. Maybe you should answer your own question then.
Their collusion depressed the price of engineers generally. I spent a lot of the years in question ignoring recruiting emails from those companies, and this affected the amount my employer needed to pay me to do that. We should dig up the corpse of Steve Jobs and tar and feather it.
Sounds like you have some poor chair's of meetings. Minutes should be done by a secretary/note taker or a PA.

And if you think that's old school you have never had the luxury of meeting where you had a professional PA it makes an order of magnitude difference.
Physicists developed an interface to the optical nerve
Real servers can't be bought without IPMI and AFAIK the BMC cannot be turned off, so it's probably not worth worrying about BMC power if there's nothing you can do about it.
Ask HN: Handling managers who tends to motivate employees with fake promises?
Managers are faking to help motivate employees.They think they are smart, while they really aren't.

Are there experiences of people who have better handled such managers as employees?
I'm surprised "private & secure" only goes as far as deleting the browser history and cookies every once in a while.

Shouldn't a privacy-by-default experience get rid of many of the information leaks currently inherent in the web browsing experience? Shouldn't it disable the http referer header and third-party requests to tracking sites? Shouldn't it sandbox flash so that it respects the browser's proxy settings and doesn't persist its own cookie-like objects?

Just hardwiring the current porn window behavior into the whole browser seems to create more problems than it solves privacy issues. (Makes search through weighted entries in the browser history impossible, which has 99% replaced bookmarks for me; makes restarting the browser a lot bigger of a deal, especially if it also disables opening recently closed tabs).
You could say the same thing about a summer breeze. They have biological effects too.
Full Stack Developer – Homejoy
As an employer, I'd like to see it move right by two places. I'm not optimistic though.
I doubt it. Academic publishers do not really do much promotion, other than sending lists of books to academic libraries (where there is a reputation effect however, which does help, but for Piketty those sales were nothing compared to retail). Academic bestsellers are extremely rare.
I believe I was looking at it full-res at the time - 1920 x 1200 - but resized after and noticed I could see the photos fine when I resized smaller.
Show HN: SimplyBuilt – Makes building a website so easy, your mother could do it
Personally I found integrating Lob very easy. I did run into some glitches which were not documented since its not used by a lot of people. I used it to send postcard reminders for my site http://helloreminder.com and when there was a delay due to an issue on their part they gave me few credits for the inconvenience. Overall recommend them if you want to send anything related to printing/mailing and happy anniversary to them!
CA's at-will is a little more complex than that, due to the implied good faith covenant.

One (not primary, but fairly clear) source:

http://www.cslaw.com/our-practice/san-francisco/employment-c...

Googling "california at-will good faith" will unearth much more.

Edit: more detail, including that this isn't specific to explicit employment contracts. Also, I'm in no way saying this case would fall under this, only that at-will isn't absolute in CA, even beyond the normal discrimination boundaries.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Breach+of+an+I...
As somebody who was in your shoes (bootstrapped, low revenue) and recently acquihired I can tell you the only thing that drives your value is the perceived (a) time to market acceleration and (b) team potential. Focus on these during negotiation and come to grips that without revenue, customers, or killer tech you are not going to see a huge exit. Our asset purchase + employment contract value was ~$1MM.
I can't tell you how many times I've wanted something like this. The pain of writing and testing html email is pretty huge, and the only people doing an even halfway decent job with them seem to be the proprietary email campaign companies, and until now they don't seem interested in making them as accessible as this.

Plus, these templates look pretty slick.
You are very wrong about this. Clojure libraries are a very diverse ecosystem, and even a cursory analysis of the most widely used libraries will prove your assertion wrong. Heck, you can't even make custom printers (for your own types) in Clojure without extending the print-method multimethod.

Please don't speak for the Clojure community as a whole, because it spreads misinformation about both the libraries and the language itself. If you want to relate your personal experiences, fine, but your original post and this both convey a sense of absolutism in your characterization about Clojure's features that are just not true.
`goog` Prefixed APIs in Blink
I got my 4-week supply last week. I ordered in back in October last year. So it took 10 months. That is not too bad for a kickstarter, overall. But they were delayed a bunch so maybe just expectations were too high with overly optimistic plans.

I started drinking it on Sunday. I am on day 6 of 100% Soylent. So far so good. I'm actually not even drinking a whole pouch in one day. Three pouches lasted me 4 days.
Great idea, but I presume there was a reason why Google Health was shut down and abandoned this space in 2013. How will PicnicHealth avoid this?

“When you’re dealing with potentially the hardest moments of your life, you don’t have to worry about these other logistical tasks and the feeling of confusion on what’s exactly going on,” Leviner said.

True, but I sat down and uploaded most of my data to Google Health when I wasn't sick, and I've been wishing for a simple replacement ever since it shut down. This is a nice-looking project but it appears to leave users with little to no input of their own into their clinical record-keeping. I also wonder (based on previous experience with obtaining my own medical records) how they intend to deal with the fees imposed by medical service providers for the collation and administrative release of the data. I paid about $100 a few years ago for the records of a brief hospital stay, which ran into hundreds of pages (much of it duplicative, and with much of the salient information being in handwritten form).
Rollcall Announcement
We built instant booking to make booking easier for our visitors. If you look at the phone booking experience on most sites, it is miserable.

We've got some phone expertise, and wanted to parlay that into a much better experience.

Instant booking is a way for us to exploit that expertise to make a better experience for users, even as they book with one of our partners.
Sure, but as you're aware facebook, google, et al don't buy "real servers", they buy servers that actually meet their requirements. That's why "real vendors" like HP have missed the boat on selling millions of servers into the cloud.
SpaceX Slapped With Wage Class Action Over Mass Layoff
This is something that seems to be ignored in this discussion. There's a widespread belief that large companies are stupid and unaware of what's going on around them. However, the boom in easily available knowledge benefits everyone, including large corporations. They may be "disrupted" but they are also much more aware that it's happening and can take steps to adapt to it and thrive in a new environment.
While I don't think we should desecrate the dead, Eric Schmidt is live and well.
There are plenty of reasons to be angry, why pick just one?
You need to consult with an attorney who can analyze the specifics of your situation.

Food for thought.

Liability: As the assets appear to be owned by you individually you could be personally liable for any liabilities of said websites/MVPs (usually liabilities of websites or MVPs will be non-existent, but certainly it depends on the nature of the website/service). Additionally, if you have personally liabilities in theory a judgment holder could collect against the websites/MVP's perhaps including foreclosing the asset(s).

LLC: It is my understanding it will be more difficult to raise funding as an LLC, most investors require a Delaware C-corp and the business structure.

Series LLC: If you are intent on the LLC structure, then discuss the idea of a Series LLC with the attorney. Consider this structure (series LLC) as a mother permitting the creation of "Series" underneath, so instead of an LLC/website or MVP as you suggest, you could have a single series LLC with a series/website or MVP, and if in compliance each series should have liability protection from the others. Only a few states offer the Series LLC and there is no uniform approach taken by the states, but you can find states where there is no legal filings (ie. no cost) to forming each series once you have organized the Series LLC at the state level, but other states do have filing requirements for each series.
The Zurb Ink templates are great! We use them as a base for some of our templates as well.

The process of going from the Zurb template to something you might want to actually use often means people break the responsive elements of the template -- something we're hoping to avoid with this template gallery.
That last sentence right there is one of the few times I really wish I was able to down vote. I valued your opinion until you felt the need to include that.
I think that's pretty unlikely. The tech industry has done a poor job of endearing itself to the rest of the economy over the past few years. My non-tech friends have been through the struggle of finding jobs in general throughout the recession. Few of them are going to shed a tear for engineers making less than fair market wages who already pull down six figures in their early twenties.

Someone I know in SF posted a picture today of their new Audi with a caption about how they were finally a real adult now that they owned one. I think that's pretty disconnected from reality, and sadly I think it is somewhat typical of the mindset that a lot of engineers have in this industry.
+1

I have a variety of company ideas, but I have several key issues:

- College loans. I pay close to my apartment costs in these.

- Health care for myself and family. Expensive!

- Living costs - moving to someplace really cheap to bootstrap would likely be horribly for my career and would drag hiring down significantly.

So I incur a fair amount of immediate costs, as well as future risk by quitting and starting my own company. I could probably handle the risk, but the immediate costs are.... high.

(If I thought I could have done something involving early loan repayment that I could have performed, I would have! But I didn't see any when I last checked).
Does anyone know how many people are likely to actually be paid out as part of the class?
For some time now I've wanted a dumbphone with a good radio. Basically an old Nokia brick capable of 3/4g and wifi+hotspot. This way I could use my phone as a phone the bulk of the time, and when necessary carry a separate laptop/tablet to use for internet/navigation.
Can you break down the commission structure that differentiates TripAdvisor from someone like Yelp? Stop me where I go off the rails:

- TA collects reviews, good or bad, for free from users.
- Then they set up commissioned links to someone like
Expedia for the hotel.
- Expedia pays them a commission for closing the sale.
- Expedia then passes the reservation on to the hotel.
- The hotel gets the booking, and pays Expedia for the
lead.

As long as there is enough money in the system to support two layers of outsourcing on BizDev, this sounds like a fairly stable relationship...

...If TA starts booking directly, however, it can do any of several things:

- Charge lower rates than Expedia
- Make more margin on the same booking
- Provide bundling or other discounting not available
from the existing Expedia arrangement
- Start selling "preferred listings" which always float
to the top of search results

It strikes me that the only reason this relationship exists is that Expedia doesn't have a good review front-end... Because the spun it off as TA.

Is there any back-end connection/relationship/ownership across Expedia and TA that would facilitate these two not eventually competing as described above?

EDIT: Formatting.
"The ruling by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, said the proposed settlement amount "falls below the range of reasonableness," before dashing back to her new two million dollar home to pack for her European vacation.
I know the feeling. If I work for 80+ hours a week I won't get overtime but I will get a bonus check. Then the bonus check never comes. It keeps on happening and then I don't trust the manager for his empty promises.

THe best way to motivate an employee for free is to complement them on their work. Don't fake a promise.
I agree. I actually leverage this by leaving a couple Bitcoins unencrypted in my 1Password file and have setup an alert to let me know if any of those coins ever move. Which would be a good indication that its time to use a new password manager.

Seems like the right kind of way to do a canary.
I don't know that the authors are a counterparty in the negotiation, any more than any other employee of Hachette (or, more reasonably, any other supplier to Hachette). If Hachette's relationship with their retailer is problematic, the authors merely need to find another buyer for their product, just like a paper mill.
So TripAdvisor will continue to book with partners and not become an OTA itself?
You'll get it at around 600 karma, if you didn't already know.
I'm a management consultant. When hackers (Michael O'Church, for instance) write about "MBA Culture" as opposed to "Hacker Culture" - well, I'm in the center of the MBAs.

Why do I read HN? Mostly, because I like and enjoy working in the technology space (defined broadly) and hope to build a career in tech. HN is great at giving me a view over the other side of the fence.
Most of the SUNY (New York State) schools charge about $8k per year in tuition and fees. On top of that, they would need living expenses of about $10k per year to live near campus.

Unfortunately, without working more than 20 hours/ week, a college student isn't going to be able to come up with that $18k per year on their own, but they could get more than half way there, which doesn't leave a ton of support the parents would actually have to provide.
Flytenow (YC S14) Lets you go flying with local pilots in small planes
Agreed. Even 3 decimal places wouldn't do justice to what they have done to us. Fuck those greedy bastards. If we were smart we would unionize ... err, sorry, I mean form a professional association to represent our interests. Like doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc.
I knew it felt familiar to me :) My first public side project was built with Cuba. Indeed, I contributed i18n to cuba-contrib around 2011 [0]

Nice to see new ideas around web frameworks. Kudos!

[0] https://github.com/imdario/cuba-contrib/commits/master
In my mind, this is a feature and not a bug. The greatest cybermancy spells technologists can create are inherently safer than an AI with potential to go rogue. Why do we want to create a god when we can become gods ourselves?
Yep, ci's had onboard video, the cx didn't. I think that they were the first color/030 machines with onboard video.

They always seemed fast to me, because I bought a Mac SE just before the classic/lc/si came out. That was when Apple did a massive sales push on campus in late August/early Sept, and announced new machines in October.
Make it right? Why do you feel they are obligated to pay him for work he did not do? Severance is optional, and a benefit of working at larger companies (of which a startup is not). Startups pivot quick and often (as it seems they did here), and usually don't have loads of extra cash laying around to do things like severance until they "make it".

Again, we have one side of the story here, and with only one side, people are jumping to conclusions. What if the founders came on and said the OP lied about his qualifications? Letting emotions get in the way of business is a fast way to fail.

Quite frankly, and in your words, the OP "fucked up" by committing to a startup before even having a Visa he pointed out is/was important, and from the sound of it, may not have even been an official hire with contracts signed. He did work, and if he was an official hire, he would have already been paid for said work.

Being told you will be a COO is not the same as actually being the COO. That would be as-if I told a gardener I thought I might hire him, then come home one day and he's cut my yard and demands payment. If i was hired on as a COO with a startup, you bet my contract would have specific terms for which I may be terminated. Why did the OP not have something similar?

The bottom line -- it's nothing personal, it's business.

Startups are not big corps. They aren't going to do big corp things like severance. If that's not acceptable to you -- do not sign on with a startup. In a few months the OP will be in a new job and will look back on this as a learning experience - one that he will be a stronger individual from and perhaps more cautious in the future.