skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of the other way, probably just a typo.

From what I understand, not sure if correct, the spine has a weird role. If you touch a hot stove with your hand you instinctively jerk your hand back but there is a small delay until your brain gets it and thinks "hey that's hot!"
>But phys.org never highlighted my research which is infinitely more accurate than [...]

>The lead author of this paper has CAMBRIDGE AFFILIATION.

>So phys.org is glad to highlight an inconsistent and yet unpublished paper by ignoring my series of my exact and original papers on the same topic."

welcome to modern science. It is a professional guild like a guild of shoemakers of Middle Age Europe cities with about the same rules. Or like another my friend (former second-rate professor from a first rate university :) put it - it is a mafia, at every level. Researchers of the highest tier universities publish in the highest tier journals, researchers of the next tier - in the next tier journals, ... A good physicist should be able to understand the laws of Nature behind such formation :)
> The other thing that sets off my hand-wave-o-meter is the pretending that we are somehow already observing these things "new telescope detects hints of black holes" or have concluded that they exist without any positive evidence.

Actually, the evidence is pretty good. We have orbital velocities around the mass at the center of our galaxy that cannot exist unless there is a very massive, very dense object at one focus of the ellipses:

http://astro.uchicago.edu/cosmus/projects/UCLA_GCG/

This doesn't prove anything by itself, it only reduces the number of possible explanations.

We also have general relativity, which basically says that, once you exceed a certain spacetime curvature, you enter into the realm where black holes (or something like them) are inevitable.

The observations are very good, and the theory has stood the test of time, producing very reliable and consistent results. None of this is conclusive, there are difficulties with general relativity at the smallest scales, but the black hole idea is a reasonable conclusion to draw based on both theory and evidence.

> In the hypothesis Einstein's field equations obviously break down ...

General relativity doesn't break down for a black hole per se, only the realm inside it. If we observe phenomena from a great distance up to the event horizon, GR reliably predicts the outcomes. Within the black hole, i.e. between the event horizon and the hypothetical singularity at the center, we have a the region for which claims like "all physics breaks down" are appropriate.

But the fact that general relativity cannot explain everything isn't by itself a reason to doubt what it can explain. But it is a reason to look for a more complete theory, one for which GR is a subset. The same can be said about quantum theory -- it also has domains of excellent agreement with observation, and other places where it's less useful.

> ... we seem to have bought into this completely untested idea that matter can continue bending space-time around into a singularity and all that.

But that idea isn't hypothetical, it's pretty easy to see that it falls out of the mathematics. I won't present the general relativity treatment, but here's one from special relativity that's easier to understand. This equation tells us the relationship between space and time in SR:

t' = t √(1-v^2/c^2)

t = time

v = space velocity

c = speed of light

t' = time rate of passage at velocity v relative to velocity 0

Now try increasing v so it equals c (try traveling at the speed of light). See? Time stops, which in SR is roughly equivalent to an infinite curvature in GR.

Photons travel at the speed of light. This means in their frame of reference v = c, and therefore t' = 0. Does this mean that photons don't experience time? That's exactly what it means. In a photon's frame of reference, it's created in an atomic interaction, then it's taking part in another atomic interaction somewhere else, with no intermediate time having passed.

The above example is pretty remarkable when you think about it, but it doesn't mean the laws of physics have broken down, any more than they do at a black hole's even horizon.
You're right: adding it tomorrow and shooting back an update here.
Google Wi-Fi Roundup Has Lawyers Chasing Landmark Jackpot
The US does have more important and unresolved domestic problems but there are vanishingly few that could be solved with just more money.
Additional information on the Hackathon: http://breastpump.media.mit.edu/
The "lecturing at Stanford" is also oversold. He taught one instance of a MOOC that was really one of the most poorly prepared I've ever experienced, and eventually devolved into him reading nearly verbatim from a written PDF.

EDIT: I toned down the criticism slightly and made it more specific (changed "worst" to "most poorly prepared").
Wow, this is awesome. I've been meaning to experiment with Hearthstone AI but coding the rules engine has been putting me off.

I've seen lots of Hearthstone projects in GitHub lately but most of them about getting data from the client. With all this wealth of code around putting together a bot is getting easier and easier. I wonder how Blizzard will react to this trend.
Wasn't this project originally called "Constantinople"?
What if cowboys had social media? (Washington Post)
Because the technology to send a spacecraft to another planet is the same technology to solve terrestrial problems.

The Internet, nominally the single biggest technology solution for the developing world ever, runs on compression and error correction algorithms that were first implemented for Voyager.

A manned mission to Mars must solve a the problem of a closed ecosystem. Think that might be important to developing countries who are polluting terribly (just like everybody did) in an effort to modernize?

You can't solve everything. There will always be some problems.

And, get enough good scientists together and those same scientists will start demanding that you make progress on domestic fronts as well.
Try out different ways to slice stuff. Different permutations of longitudinal, diagonal or cross cuts yield different shapes. Try getting regular shapes after cutting a big carrot cross, then lengthwise-diagonally. The resulting triangle-wedge shapes are great for dipping (hummus!). If the carrot is thick enough, "bisect" the wedges.

Speaking of carrots, use a potato-peeler.

If you're thinking of getting a knife-set, instead, consider spending your money on a single quality chef's knife. If you later find you need a different type of knife for some particular task, just get a cheap one, but your chef's knife should be proper quality.

Also, I'm going to echo darkarmani's advice (well, it should be a decree), to never ever put your good knives in the dishwasher. Ever. Keep them out of there.
Know MapReduce? Prove it with this challenge from eBay
In 15 seconds you'll be using an Atari ST emulator -- http://estyjs.azurewebsites.net/
It seems like the current patch might not be a complete fix:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/671
Wasn't he alive for the iPhone4 and its flawed antenna?
This is an important point. Change your passwords on all your accounts (after patching up that hole first, of course).

Good luck!
Am I the only one who'd really like to see Microsoft back on their game? Not their evil-stranglehold-on-the-market game, but their technical game.There hasn't been too much super exciting about Windows in a good while, and that means that most of the news coming out of Redmond is inconsequential noise like this.
I'm no security expert by any means and I'm probably not aware of the severity of this issue, but:

>> If I enter [script] As my username on your website, and your website runs a script and sets TARGET_USER to my username, then I will install my rootkit on your web server.

How contrived is this? I mean, who does this in the first place? Isn't this more an issue with weird authentication?

Again, I'm probably ignorant how all of this works so if anyone could give a better explanation...
> What is an example of this positive evidence?

Are you asking what observational evidence exists for black holes? There are very massive, very dense objects at the center of most galaxies, objects that by their mass and density fall well inside the theoretical limits for black holes. At the center of our galaxy, there is a very massive, compact object, around which many stars are orbiting, in orbits that reveal the object's mass and approximate size:

http://astro.uchicago.edu/cosmus/projects/UCLA_GCG/

This is pretty good evidence -- if the object weren't within the mass/density realm that allows for black holes, the orbiting stars couldn't approach it as closely as they do without colliding.

Again, this doesn't prove anything, it only supports the idea that black holes are possible, and that our observations agree with that idea.
Why do people always pass judgment on spending on things they don't agree with as if the money is destroyed. It's not like they pile all the cash onto the rocket and send it to space.

Let's just forget for a moment that valuable skills and infrastructure are being created for India in this process and look at where the money is going.

A large proportion of the expense of this mission goes to paying the wages of domestic scientists and engineers in India. This money will in turn get taxed and spent by the recipients and pumped back into the local economy.

As far as I can see it is a win win win.
My Dad also has had CRPS for the last 10 years now, and treats it with THC currently.

Initially, they weren't able to diagnose it due to the odd cause. Like the article said, mostly this disease is caused by extreme trauma. My father's case was when he cut himself and had to receive a Tetanus shot. About 5 hours after the shot, he was back an the hospital with an arm swelled to twice the size and it's been downhill since. He's actually been to a number of universities for studies, as he's the first documented case to get it from a shot I believe.

He's taken virtually all forms of THC to help, but the only way it is manageable is in addition to the extremely heavy methadone dose and oxycontin as well. Usually he relies on smoking, but pills are sometimes used. Unfortunately, his THC use has increased to the point that's it's insanely expensive and he rarely is thinking clearly any point in the day. It's had long term effects on his mood as well, either from the pain or the heavy drug use (it's hard to tell). He appreciates the THC because it's reduced his dependency a little on the methadone and oxycontin, which were beginning to do severe damage to his memory. It definitely wasn't a miracle cure though, but it's seemed to help.
I love the focus on Diversity and Inclusion during this hackathon season.

Sam Altman said in a blogpost "People who are not white males will start many of the best companies of the future, and we’d like to fund them," and I think that's true of people making and accomplishing incredible things in the hacker community too.

Everyone has the potential to become a fantastic hacker/potential founder given the opportunity and I'm really proud of MLH for focusing on this.

http://blog.ycombinator.com/diversity-and-startups
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Totally agree that would've likely worked too, though I'm not convinced it would have been significantly faster doing a dump, import, and data processing. Dumps from mongo typically took upwards of two hours not to mention transferring the file and then importing it then processing the data. Just a different way to skin the cat.
Surely, the question you mean to ask is if it was originally called "Byzantium".
Can someone give a really brief description of what service discovery is, and when/why one would need it?

What's wrong with simply having a config file that tells your code the URL for each service it depends on (assuming my understanding of what discovery is is valid)?
Its not Android that makes them not profitable.
By your rationale Blackberry should then be profitable.
Shen: A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp (Strange Loop Conf)
Yes. Remember that cost per kg for a launch- just in fuel costs- is still something like five figures USD.

Weight is a tremendous source of cost savings. Compare to the Mars Science Laboratory, at 3,893 kg. They might have spent $150k in fuel costs, while we might have spent $38M.
The OP doesn't really do that. The article linked by pushtheenvelope does, but that is what I was criticizing. It doesn't actually support India's program; it mostly just makes sarcastic and hostile comments about other countries. Regardless of your opinion of the West or of India, personally attacking critics (based on their ethnicity, no less) is not the same thing as supporting an idea.
Ask HN: Bought a domain on SEDO and the seller canceled after I sent payment
Short story:

I purchased a domain on SEDO. Sent the payment ($1,000), didn't hear back anything. Asked what was happening last night in the SEDO transfer center, and received an email saying that the transaction has been canceled and I'll be getting a refund.

I'm looking at the whois of the domain, and it definitely appears to be owned by the same person who listed it.

What legal rights do I have here? Anyone faced a similar issue? Is it worth pursuing legal action?
This is so great to see. I know we're years away, but what does the HN community think it would take for Daala to reach the Opus-levels? Not just in technical achievement, but widespread usage/hardware support? I would love to have a completely free codec dominate video.
Never said I couldn't, well except when it said it would take 48 hours to download the update the first weekend. It just became too much work to actually upgrade, for what seemed like very minor upgrades.
I updated debian on DO like 25 minutes ago and had a crystal-clear bash update there. So I guess they updated their mirrors.
> In particular, black holes can exist as long as they've always existed ...

This doesn't work in physics. If you say they can only exist if they've always existed, then you're obliged to say how they came into existence earlier -- the deep meaning of "always".
It doesn't have a nice catchy name and a logo, though
> Some extra space on the side is more valuable to me than more at the top

Serious question: doesn't the landscape mode of rectangular screens sufficiently address this?
Except that it was a collaborative effort that involved far more than just Microsoft, such as CERT, and the WG14 committee as a whole...
Do your genes skew how you taste alcohol?
Another nonsense-gate
Thanks for the tip; they went straight onto my list of books to read.
Watson is already better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/11/ibm-watson-me...

Human doctors need sleep. They get tired. They get old. You'll still need innovation in the medical field, but lets not kid ourselves that we need a gourmet chef in every McDonalds.
Do the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus bend? -ConsumerReports
Unbox Therapy also "covered" the issue by bending the phone with his hands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znK652H6yQM

Snopes is calling it "undertermined": http://www.snopes.com/info/news/iphone6bend.asp
Blossom looked pretty good, but wasn't sure about if it might be too feature heavy and cause too much time bring spent on the tool rather than work.
No, you're not the only one. Regardless of anything, competition is good. We all should be thankful as developers to what Microsoft has done for us.
why use python for real work?

For reference, I was handling 30M daily records in about an hour on hardware 15 years ago. This performance is absurd.
Remind me again how much surplus money did US have to fight wars in Iraq ? Please tell me that US is overflowing with so much money that they have an army stationed in Germany for absolutely no rational reason.

Why exactly is US spending so much of higher education when most of the public elementary education is good enough to mass produce kids whose only skill is flipping burgers ?

Large nations need to allocate money to all problems proportional to the seriousness of the problem. We have learned how to live with less. My classrooms did not have even a bulb. Did not prevent me from getting good education. My village did not have any water pipeline and we figured out how to survive.
Hackathons have personally changed my life. At them i've met some of my closest friends, and some of my best mentors. The work that MLH is doing is great they are really improving the quality of the events and the community as a whole.

Rock on!
Don't forget he said he does hone it with a honing steel. That's different from actually sharpening it. You can easily quickly hone your knife before every cooking session (though I don't do it always myself).
The Power of Habit – So You Like Your Oreo Fix
Indian labor is very cheap. Even cheaper in the Motherland.
I'm a relative newcomer to the command line and have been Googling around for what exactly the () {:;} is doing with no luck. Does anyone have a good link or explanation?
There are going to be so many jokes about this waffle...
I've been also using systemd since Arch switched over, I've discovered bugs and vulnerabilities. But the thing is, if you're happy with systemd and works well for you, great! I've seen this very prevalent attitude in systemd users, the less they know, more fervently defend systemd, even if they think it sucks, they tell you it's the best thing ever because they're using it, and they always have to use the best.

Arch is bleeding edge, if you've never seen a bug, you haven't been paying attention. So, again, you've never suffered a problem with systemd. Now do a web search, and in less time it takes to write "[citation needed]", you'll see that this is real. Sorry, but systemd has bugs, just like every other program, but by being so intermingled with the kernel, the consequences are much worse.
Correct, but the majority of them can be solved with a more equitable distribution of said money.
cool. I was just shopping for a new growing text view since HPGrowingTextView seemed like it was not maintained and buggy on IOS 8.

I settled on https://github.com/oseparovic/MessageComposerView.

It's nice, simple, and does the trick. However, I will definitely checkout SlackTExtViewController.

For people not in IOS development: yes this is crazy that it is not built in. But our tool chain is better :)
> A huge black hole may have pretty weak gravitation at its horizon.

Not really. The amount of spacetime curvature at the event horizon is fixed in the theory -- it's always the same. It's how the event horizon is defined. Near the event horizon, light orbits endlessly (in principle), and (again in principle) if you were located at an event horizon and there was sufficient illumination, anywhere you turned you would see the back of your own head.

> Thus no-escape is valid only in the sense that escaping object just would never reach "a point at infinity" from the black hole and the light would get red-shifted into full oblivion.

From a more distant frame of reference, yes, but not at the event horizon itself.
There's some potentially funky stuff there like CUPS, which runs a local daemon that serves binary CGIs (though I think it's bound to localhost by default).

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4169

Might be wise to turn all network-listening services off that you don't immediately need until a fix is available.
It's not actually a steak house. It's not a house, either, though it used to be one. Have a good trip!
widespread usage/hardware support

A lot of bribes to implementers, probably.
You misunderstand my argument if you read it as "the West is dumb and mean". What I meant to emphasize was that the West made the (IMHO right) decision, to spend on research etc while it was working on other social problems. It is never one or the other. But I would add the same model should be extended to other countries as well.
Ask HN: How do I move from a cushy corporate job to a startup?
Hi HN!

I'm a couple years out of college but have only worked for large tech companies. My long term ambition is to build a startup of my own someday (yes, I'm following along with How to Start a Startup). Leaving my cushy corporate job and joining a startup seems like the next logical step in that journey.

My biggest enemy has always been my confidence. I always have that little voice in my head telling me I'm not smart enough to succeed at it, or that I'll burn out quickly, etc. Maybe it's all just part of that HN effect where I compare myself to the front page subconsciously. I don't know.

Any tips or pieces of advice on proceeding? I'm going to be updating my resume and personal site in the next day or so before I begin applying, but I'm feeling super nervous about it so I wanted to hear more from the people who have done it and what there experience was like.

Thanks for any constructive advice and commentary you may have. It's greatly appreciated.
Exactly. Projects like this generate huge amounts of value for a country -- not only because they help to push money around the economy, in terms of salaries and invoices paid to rocket-building companies -- but also in terms of the skills gained by everybody that works on the project, as well as the international capital of being a spacefaring country.

Right now, launching satellites in the US is a pain in the ass, thanks to the combination of ITER[1] and the lack of a replacement for the shuttle.

If India can become a launch destination for US companies looking to throw birds into orbit, that's big. Doubly so because it's not like they don't have plenty of engineers. Hell, this might be the case already, and I just don't know.

[1] okay, now EAR, but still.
While I understand your intentions I believe your action to be incorrect. The original title of the post was the exact title of the source article. Also the OP is associated with opengov so they were presumably satisfied with the title.

As you stated the thread has been mainly about the title. That was what posters found the most interesting part of a fluff piece.
Since July 2012 I suffer something similar (not as bad as the guy in the article thankfully); named "fibromyalgia", I get along with a couple of drugs, one called Duloxetine and the other one is Modafinil (that last one is for insomnia but one of the symptoms of my disease is being sleepy/tired all the time). I'm a strange case because I'm a 25 years old male but most people with the same illness are middle age women.

I don't think a cure is between our reach (some doctors don't even believe its a real disease... just in case life doesn't suck enough with the disease itself) but I'm trying to lead the creation of better treatments, and topical pain-relieving in general.
I don't think the parent's talking about doing all operations via the fdw, but rather using the foreign data wrapper to fill the table. So instead of pulling all the data into a python script and then pumping it out into the postgresql database, you're using postgresql itself to do the fill operation. Additionally, by using the foreign data wrapper, you could also create a materialized view based on the results, if you still want most activities using the mongodb instances for whatever reason.