skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're correct, and my napkin guess is that it's going about 1.5mph faster than sea level. But the ISS is going a whopping 16100 mph faster than sea level [0].

Popping that into MS Mathematics using the Lorentz equation, we see that gamma now is 0.2 billionths above unity. Which is super small, but definitely detectable. In contrast, 1.5mph doesn't yield anything - I'm guessing (1.5/670616629)^2 is nearing the floating point epsilon (I guess MS Math is using floats?) [1].

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=orbital+velocity+of+ISS

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon

EDIT: Right, as noted elsewhere, this assumes Everest is at the equator. Which Wikipedia tells me is not a great approximation for where Nepal is. So assume that Nepal ended up in the wrong place for a little while, and the arguement holds. Otherwise, we've got a bit more calculating to do.
It looks very promising. I like the fact that it doesn't only work for AWS environments.
"enterprise architect" here. Yes you just stamped on a lot of our toes and rightly so. There is a lot of batshit out there which is what you've most likely experienced. There are a few of us working to destroy this batshit without sacrificing the ultimate goal of building something that isn't a bag of rats though, so please don't tar and feather us all.

For ref, I don't use PowerPoint, I do write (a fuck load of) code, don't organise meetings and don't speak in buzzwords. I do however have a thinkpad so that's the only stereotype...
Struggling in the shadow of Silicon Valley wealth
This isn't exactly the question you asked, but I recently accepted that client-side applications are the future and spent some time with Ember (which as a Rails developer I wanted to like) and AngularJS (about which I was skeptical because it looked like nothing I'd seen before).

After two weeks in each, only AngularJS was paying off (I got architectural and productivity benefits in return for the time I spent learning all those framework things which seem arbitrary at first) so I stopped looking at Ember and haven't looked back.
If the Boston Dynamics division of google are no longer a US defence contractor, then that's news to me. Do you have a link for this?
re: soft keyboard popping up.

I've never had this problem, but I've heard its a bug in
chrome on surfaces (I'm using Firefox). Are you talking about textboxes in web pages, or textboxes in VS?

edit: also the SP line was never advertised as having office on it. But I agree the presentation of the differences between earlier surfaces was confusing.
A second hand Lenovo is what you seek. X or T series, I'd recommend staying in the 220 series or earlier, if you really want cheap. They are indestructible as laptops, have great keyboards, decent specs and good Linux support out of the box (depending on distro, of course).
Reddit Secret Santa 2014 is going for a world record
I couldn't find a mention of this in the IEEE article, but a story on NPR on this topic this morning specifically mentioned that the penguins "sang to it and seemed disappointed that the rover wouldn't peep."[1] So, yes, it looks like the penguins did hit a level where they might have been (at least) confused about what was happening.

[1]: http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/361069792/scientists-find-snea...
Jenkins developer-friendly Client in Go
Relativistic time effects are changes in the rate of time itself, not changes in the mechanism of a clock. If there was a magnetic field effect, that's a different, additional thing.
And why didn't they use a screen recorder instead of shaky camera recordings? Looks really unprofessional.
Well, I don't know. Control+V is pretty important for paging through content. Even people who don't use raw characters have to be able to scroll (which just happens to be what this article is about…)
I use an Ergotron monitor arm to move my monitor between sitting and sanding positions. When I stand, I put my keyboard and mouse on a small shelf. There's really no need to move the whole work surface up and down.
cute video. I have no idea what the new calendar does.
Yep, and I'm pretty sure it's related to a comment(s) that I have made:

http://www.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/2dc6ge/easier_immuta...
Well, the main advantage that Chrome has vs Firefox is not speed (these days, Firefox is faster than Chrome on most benchmarks I have seen), but smoothness, which is largely due to the multi-process architecture of Chrome.

Developer tools have strictly no influence on this, and the multi-process version of Firefox is currently being tested. I don't remember whether there is an ETA.
Apache Thrift http://thrift.apache.org/docs/ - A feature rich RPC framework with documentation that completely sucks. The docs page has evolved from "coming soon" over the last few months. You would have to dig deep into the library headers to find hidden "easter egg features".
Show HN: SFML book source code port to Java
It was a dull ache that slow spread through my whole chest. Also, my teeth stare to hurt, and I got chills / cold sweat. That was enough for me to pull the trigger on calling 911.
Making Your Software Deployment a Success
> I'd say stick to your day-job or whatever

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.
The heating setup is still used today. In fact, you can get integrated components called OCXOs (Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator) that do the whole job in one small package with precision over time on the order of 1ppb. Cheaper, and less precise, are TCXOs (Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillators) where a crystal is paired with a circuit that has an opposite dependency on temperature so that the errors tend to cancel each other out.
Physical fitness itself isn't a status symbol, per se. How people conduct their personal physical fitness is what has elevated it to a status symbol. Things like when, where, how often, how public, what activities/exercises, and even what they wear to work... that's the new status symbol.

A ridiculous recent example is the Trulia co-founder rowing to Hawaii with his wife for the cause of...

wait for it....

the fight against sugar.
I can see how public transport can be a pain in a big city. I live in a city of about 100K on the Central Coast of California. We build out not up like some of the more densely populated cities. Big money here is agriculture.
That doesn't help if one clock is drifting because it's being moved by tectonic activity, or being vibrated slightly by gravitational waves.
I guess I phrased my comment incorrectly. I am aware that other organization have the documents, but my problems is questioning journalist/news organizations as the gate keepers to what the public should know/should not know.

>"The idea was that the professional journalists would be better at figuring out what was both news-worthy and ethical to release"

I completely disagree with this.

Can you provide some a source for the claims about wikileaks?
I'm one of the folks who transcribed it from the scans and added the compatibility glue. One bug remains: The original doctor answered as soon as you ended a sentence with a period ("PLEASE TERMINATE INPUT WITH A PERIOD OR A QUESTION MARK."). In the resurrected version you also have to press the return key. It breaks the immersion, but I couldn't find a way to implement the correct behavior in a portable way.
Thanks, I will talk to my employer about this. They're quite slow. But I will eventually reach you through the contact details in the Google Drive document in case I want to figure out something.
Seconded. The official docking station is nice but you can basically do the same via the USB port
Ask HN: Simple landing page or an informative one?
We’ve changed our landing page to be super simple. What do you think, is it better now?

Current version: https://staply.co

Old version can be see here: http://web.archive.org/web/20141026193118/https://www.staply.co/landing
Thanks for sharing that tidbit of information. I did not know that and now I do, I appreciate it!

I wonder what the reason behind that is, if you're feeling extra motivated you could even look into having a conversation with the folks who decide what future versions of JS look like to add something like it. I am a huge proponent of immutability and can see how being able to override array element assignment behaviors would improve your library.
If you turn off iCloud, all documents stored in iCloud will be deleted from this Mac. http://imgur.com/YcWPjnk
EmberCLI, not Angular or even Ember... with EmberCLI it is a breeze to get productive incrementally and learn at your own pace. And it has a fairly smooth process to keep all the needed dependencies upto date without you needing to check which versions goes with which.
Well, what he describes has never happened to me.
I'm glad to hear an actual scientist in this field also think what I've thought for a long time, which is that time is a human invention. I can't really explain it, but I've always felt like the universe doesn't really have a concept of time, that everything is just right now, hence why I don't believe in time travel either. Time is just a way for us to say 'something was' or 'will be', but in reality what was isn't anymore, it's not that it's in the past, but that the object was changed into what it now is.
That there will be some restrictions on 'editorial independence' and the fact that Matt Taibbi has left the organization kind of supports this.
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What upsets me the most is that these kind of personal attacks delegitimise the entire argument (which happens to be my argument too). Fortunately, there still are a couple of people here who know the difference between "not condemning" and "advocating."
Clickable links:

https://staply.co

http://web.archive.org/web/20141026193118/https://www.staply...
Is politeness actually an important trait in a moderator?
Entrepreneurship is about to make a quantum leap
Can't wait to invade a country to secure America's source of cavorite.
It actually is accelerating relative to you, in exactly the same way that a kid on the outside of a spinny-go-round is accelerating harder than a kid on the inside. Of course, there's not a huge difference, as a couple km is spare change to the radius of the planet, but it's there.

There's definitely a constant vector difference between you and Everest's peak, and that's likely what you're thinking of. But Everest itself is under a greater strain to maintain that vector compared to you. And that's actually a measurable difference (where measurable is on scales of stupefying precision not normally used in everyday life).

And as another noted, it really should maintain that relative vector - if it didn't, the earth wouldn't be in steady-state and you'd have a changing position vector between you and it, and that'd imply one of you was moving... hopefully it's you.

(Let's ignore all the techtonic complications, as that really ruins the simplicity of the argument :)

EDIT: As noted elsewhere in the thread, Everest isn't on the equator, and - if I may be bold enough to presume - you likely aren't either. So it's not clear if you or Everest is on the outside of the spinny-go-round in the analogy.

For the purposes of wondering if velocity or gravitational effects on spacetime are the dominant factors, this has no effect. If you're actually interested in the effective relative centrifugal forces between you and Everest, then it's damn near everything.
Even if you could measure altitude to centimeter precision, the clock speed would depend on gravity, not altitude, and the Earth is too lumpy (in terms of density) for that centimeter to tell you much when comparing two different locations. I also think (speculate) that with this degree of sensitivity, we will be able to measure some gravitational fluctuation due to the currents of molten iron swirling inside the Earth.

With all this uncertainty, all you could do, after getting two clocks to approximately the same altitude, would be to say that clock A is currently running a factor of X faster than clock B. What you wouldn't know is how much of the delta was due to altitude, how much due to unequal density underneath, and other such factors, compared to how much was due to the internal differences in the clocks themselves that you were trying to factor out by using multiple clocks.
This explains a lot. Thank you. Do you happen to know why there is a difference?
If it's repeatable, you can just raise and lower the clock a few times and see the difference. If the clock didn't keep good time, you'd just get a bunch of noise. But if it's good enough, you should see similar drift each time.
Click and Drag – A WebGL Fluid Experiment
I've never had a problem with any Thinkpad, be it your Linux distro of choice or BSD (PCBSD is probably the best desktop BSD distro).

System76 also makes amazing laptops that "just work" out of the box with Linux (most distros). They even have full support sine they sell with Ubuntu pre-installed.

Dell has a good track record for me as well, although I personally prefer the T series Thinkpads myself.
The book "Biocentrism" is pretty awesome and goes into detail to propose a theory about life/consciousness and quantum mechanics
Object.defineProperty(x,'foo',{set:function() { throw new Error(69) }})
Atomic clocks are cool.. if one wanted to transmit a sporting event in the era before time base correctors, one had to bring a video sync generator timed by an atomic clock from the TV station to the event. This gets you the same frame rate as the TV station (phase still needs to be adjusted to account for speed of light delay). With all the signals in sync you can switch to a commercial without messing up everyone's TV.

Time base correctors are also cool: the first generation ones were rack sized and used core-memory. I think they were an enabling technology for on-location news.

You can buy your own: rubidium standards sell for less than $300 on ebay.
Manhattan is not NYC. You can rent a 1 bedroom for $1600 a month with a 20 minute train commute to Manhattan (and even less rent further away) in a great school district in Queens. I've lived in NYC my whole life, and worked in Manhattan my whole school and working life, and never paid more than $1400 a month in rent for 2 bedrooms - living with my wife and in only completely safe neighborhoods.
Except that's blatantly incorrect as anything running before the RNG is seeded will be completely insecure. Sure, that's good enough for generating SSL keys after a system has been running for a while, but what about those SSH keys generated on first boot?

See this paper for further details: https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.extended.pdf

This has been a huge problem in the embedded device world. We need something reliably secure, not just secure after a while. /dev/urandom does not fit this criteria. Currently the best reliable option for Linux applications is to seed a CSPRNG from /dev/random and run it in usermode. Which can also be quite error prone. This is why I think this syscall is a very good improvement over the current state of things.
Crappy article.

Sure, the more precise your oscillator is the more you need to worry about other effects. Basic cesium beam clocks are precise enough the altitude based corrections for relativity are required to achieve full accuracy. Each km of altitude is about 10ns/day of slew, ... I can measure this myself with equipment I have at home (I have an unusual home).

So sure, when you start making optical clocks with accuracy in the 1e-18 land then external effects may well be much harder to correct for, e.g. tides have an effect at the 1e-17 level ... but such a device could still keep time better than prior techniques. The "They just may not be able to tell us the time" is rubbish hyperbole that just serves to confuse readers who don't already know the subject well.
Also I think most of the rules might drop out with having in mind the scalability problem. If you do reduce CSS, HTML files to the very limit you might have a hard time later when you try to implement another feature.

Same applies for JS which is getting more and more complex. Sure you can easily write a single page with vanilla script and even inline it to the HTML, but if you try to support IE it looks like you need to at least include either a library or a more complex JS code.

So anyway all those tips are super overthought. The best ( hardest ) coding practice is taking a professional approach and decide where is the boundary between spaghetti code and performance benefit.
Sadly, the pre-installed Ubuntu version (Sputnik) is $100 more expensive than the Windows version. (I suspect some sort of back-room deal with Microsoft).

With that said, it is a great choice for a Linux laptop.
This could be just meant as a message to other firms. Intel might even be getting the money back through routes like tax breaks and just be playing along.
How well does this work inside virtual machines? Some virtual environments are so repeatable they can start random number generators too consistently.

(Academic ref: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2014/papers/Not-So-RandomN...)
I've been using both Ember and Ember Data for almost two years now for pretty much everything (mostly contract work and personal projects).

Ember had a very high learning curve when I first started using it. Admittedly, I immediately jumped into a huge project with it, which is worse for learning than starting with lots of small ones. Still, it took me months before I felt truly productive. Hopefully things have improved since then, but I'd say it was worth it, regardless. I can't imagine writing a substantial Javascript-heavy app without it or something like it. I did that several times in the past, and I always ended up having to basically construct my own ad hoc framework, which takes a ton of time and maintenance.

Comparatively, Ember has its own built-in conventions for routing, views, models, etc, similar to Rails. Once you know how it all works, it's fairly obvious what "the right approach" is to using these features. The result is that your code is more easily navigable and maintainable, both by yourself and by other Ember developers seeing your code for the first time.

As for the back-end, the last few projects I've worked on with Ember, I've spent very little time worrying about it. One has a Rails back-end that basically serves a REST API for the Ember app. After I finished building the REST API, I almost never had to touch the back-end again. The other two projects use Firebase and the Dropbox Datastore Sync API, both of which store data and feed it into the Ember app in real time in a Meteor-esque fashion. And again here, I spend 99% of my time working with front-end code.

So, to answer your question, yes, Ember is fulfilling its promises for me, and I think it's likely to be the right long-term approach. I haven't used Meteor, yet, but it's hard for me to see it being vastly superior to something like Ember+Firebase. And if it doesn't put a lot of thought into handling things like views (and views within views (and views within views within views)), then I can't see it being much of a step forward for writing front-end code.
Is this kind of like ProductHunt where people join not to solve a specific need but to see what's out there, as a lead generation service?
Agreed on all accounts.

I seem to remember that the current WIP is here: http://w3c.github.io/filesystem-api/Overview.html
But how about a person in the center of the Atlantic listening to a metronome broadcast from Death Valley and one from Mt. Everest, tick-tick-ticktick-ticktick-tick-a-tick-tick-a-tick :-)
Final Rounds of 'North American Startup Clash’ to Be Livestreamed
Publicis Snaps Up Sapient for $3.7B
Yeah I knew it didnt have the same name but I forgot what... thanks for the correction.
Its not just you, it is maddening to use. A sane wrapper is mandatory.
In the current version, I can't tell what it does. The pic is way too small (I mean the text in the pic). May be bigger fonts might help.

You may still want to add "

A better way to share files and links
Turn them into one easy to read feed
and always know who sent what and why"
"“Russian legislation prohibits propaganda of homosexuality and other sexual perversions among minors,” ZEFS wrote in a statement published on the Web site of Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy. “After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called for sodomy, the monument was dismantled pursuant to Russian federal law on the protection of children from information that promotes the denial of traditional family values.”"
I'm excited to see where concepts from isomorphic JS and stuff like browserfy will end up. Obvious stuff aside, imagine what you could do with a fully-baked unified model and a bit of P2P glue...
Build something agricultural.
A guy at my uni graduated this year with an electrical engineering degree. His name is literally Zeus Engineer... (proof: http://nz.gradconnection.com/universities/university-of-auck... )
What exactly don't you like about the new design direction? You mentioned people wanting to switch because of Lollipop/material/"design facism", but I'm not sure why.
> Isn't it possible for the astronaut to also know whether the other person has opened their box? If yes, then this is where the analogy breaks down.

The answer is no, and so the analogy doesn't break down. You can't observe the other person except by speed-of-light information transfer.
Old version is better and informative.
Hovercraft don't have too many exposed moving parts. Just the two (or one) main rotors which also generate lift in most designs.

One of the reasons cited for hovercraft disappearing from many applications is the increased maintenance costs relative to normal ferries.

Externally this thing has far more mechanical joints than a hovercraft. The skirt on a hovercraft is just rubber-like material bolted together, there are no moving parts in there, it just inflates (and, yes, salt does eat away at it badly).

Salt can and does get brought down into the hovercraft but it shouldn't get brought into the engine directly.