skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time as "we" know it can only be coming to an end if by "we" mean those who are completely ignorant of early 20th century discoveries in physics, and who haven't even been exposed to enough science fiction (let alone nonfiction) to know about phenomena like the twin paradox. But for time as they know it to be coming to an end, there has to be some expectation that they will suddenly be enlightened. The existence of this new clock will certainly not the catalyst of that enlightenment.

We have already had clocks for decades whose perturbation by relativistic effects matters. Every GPS receiver (commonly found in now inexpensive technology in use by millions of consumers) makes relativistic corrections to the time base received from satellite signals, without which the positioning would be hopelessly inaccurate.

Why would this clock "end time as we know it", when millions of users of GPS navigation still have a naive view of time.
> Considering everyone beyond the retirement age is already effectively getting a basic income

No, they aren't. Presumably, this is intended to refer to Social Security, which is not at all like a basic income (even aside from age):

1) Eligibility to receive benefits at all isn't unconditional (again, even discounting age), its based on qualifying contributions -- your own or someone else's -- and other factors.

2) The level of benefits if you are eligible isn't constant, but varies based on the same factors that go into eligibility.

> or that anyone on unemployment is getting a temporary basic income

Unemployment insurance is also not like basic income, as the benefit level as controlled by qualifying income in the preceding period.

> or that if you ignore the beuracratic overhead and injustice of welfare then food stamps + section 9 + the free electric programs sum to a near basic income

You probably mean section 8 housing vouchers, but, again, nothing like a basic income; all of those are conditional program with both means and behavioral tests (and in many cases aren't fungible benefits, so they also have use restrictions).
I don't really see the benefit of using Qt in this case, and the framework states that because it's in C++ it's faster which is just plain wrong.
This seems to work really well (for me at least) and I like the idea. However, for actually testing the product we're building it's currently not usable, since they've disabled cookies completely. Our product requires a login, so I guess we'll have to stick with the VMs for now.
Learn to read dissasembly
1) Clicked the link and downloaded/installed the app from the Mac App Store.

2) signed in with my work Microsoft account.

3) No Internet Explorer listed under remote apps.

4) Signed out and tried to sign in with my personal Microsoft account.

5) Mistyped the absurdly difficult Captcha 5 times and decided to stop wasting time trying to play with this.

EDIT: Just now received an email inviting me to try remoteIE with my work MS account. I just need to log back in and refresh to see invitations.

EDIT2: Tried logging back in and hitting refresh and it's still not there. I forgot to mention that it prompts me with a message that remoteapp is not available and that I may sign up for a free trial. If you decline the free trial you are immediately logged out! Still no IE.
I build precision gravity sensors for a living. We tried doing something similar and demonstrated a proof of principle. It works, but gravity is often unkind to the experimentalist, chiefly through the combined facts that many mass configurations can yield the same signal and that the inverse-square law requires close proximity for good resolution. Almost any other sensor system you could dream up is more efficient. For three-dimensional arbitrary mass distributions, the inverse problem is extremely hard. For 2-D imaging or simply localizing a mass, things are easier.

If there's any application for pure gravitational sensing that can resolve the position of a higher-density mass to a few centimeters over distances of perhaps a meter or that can make simple statements about a meter-scale mass distribution, please drop me an email. We've tabled the project because we don't know of a single use for it, academic or commercial. Device cost would be in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars and require careful operation. We've thought hard about this, but haven't ever found an application for which some other sensor wouldn't be far more appropriate. X-rays, neutrons, resistivity, clever weighing, optical techniques, microwaves, touch probes, three-year-olds, lemurs, optical imaging, you name it, it's probably cheaper, better, and faster.
If it's so bad, why aren't people moving out of the valley?
Can't you just buy the Windows one and then wipe the hard drive? That's what I did with my Dell.
You've already lost the 's'. Any more would be a disaster.
I had this idea when I was like 6 or 7. Seems like it's always gonna be more trouble than it's worth.
A nitpick that doesn't detract from your main point: the relativistic corrections for GPS are applied on the satellites with a slight change in how fast their clocks run, so that they appear to run at the correct rate when seen from the ground. The receivers don't have to know about it.
Wikipedia says that spin can be changed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(physics)

"Although the direction of its spin can be changed, an elementary particle cannot be made to spin faster or slower."
Apple's iTunes 12 Is Apple's Worst Software Ever, Should Be Withdrawn
Linux got getrandom recently and for a lot of use cases it's better to use that than to use /dev thingies. See https://lwn.net/Articles/605828/
Ubuntu MAAS: Metal as a Service
How can you say this. Have you even looked at Hangouts?
Herp Derp for YouTube
Perfect forwarding and universal references in C++
This Startup Lets You Mail Poop to People
If I buy used laptops, do you really think I buy new batteries from the manufacturer? A fairer comparison is a highly-rated third-party seller for a similar battery.
Yes, we're actively working on getting the Android version up and running so people with Google cardboard can view it as well (and any other VR cardboard ofcourse)

Shoot us an email at press@1157.pm and we'll let you know when it's ready (hopefully this week)
I'm a little sad this article doesn't make the connection to acceleration. The idea that sitting at different points of a gravity well is exactly equivalent to different points along an acceleration curve (from the perspective of time) is a delightful one and I wish it had been mentioned.
Cool, thanks for the feedback :)
Very informative link, I don't really use PHP anymore but I was surprised to see Laravel is faster than Symfony though it uses many Symfony components.
>I must admit i don't know what the linux compat story is, but I am tired of people saying there aren't any decent non-apple laptops when I see a ton of them on the market from just about every manufacturer.

Huh? That's HALF the reason I bought a MBP. You can't just handwave over that considering I listed it right up front.
This is a point that I think a lot of people are missing: Click and Clack, while being funny, were primarily master troubleshooters. They could digest incomplete descriptions of a problem over the phone from a neophite user and in the span of a phone conversation, usually with no ability to run tests, could work out a plausible root cause and a corrective course of action. The "Stump the Chumps" segment would occasionally follow up with some previous victims/callers, and more often than not they had largely gotten it right.

I'm not sure how much you'll actually learn about cars from listening, but if you pay attention you should be able to learn a whole lot about effective troubleshooting.
I wonder what the performance of this is. While functional languages like Haskell are optimized for these kinds of data structures, I doubt Javascript runtimes currently are. We've been bitten before by writing code in too much of a functional style and getting terrible performance, so benchmarks would be really useful before we'd start to use this.
If you have a protocol and enough fancy clocks, you don't have to know what's causing the perturbations or how big they are. At some level, there isn't actually a "real" time at all (partially, for the reasons you state). Rather, there is a time that we can agree upon. If some precise operation requires better time coordination than we can obtain via a particular configuration of these fancy new clocks, then we just need a different configuration, probably with more of them.
So the camera setup was a fairly standard 6 GoPro rig (Freedom Rig). Unfortunately we didn't have the budget for the 3D VR GoPro rig (needing 12 GoPro's).

Would love to hear your feedback on the sound, as audio was a big focus for us on this production
thanks for the tips :)
This currently looks like the Dynamo-alike sharding without the read-repair part making values eventually convergent in all the replicas. This latter feature is much needed, but they are already planning it apparently.
not really, the best you are going to find so far: https://github.com/Netflix/dynomite
Introducing Dynomite – Making Non-Distributed Databases, Distributed
just what are addons for? an extra special Xtraordinary XPI could deal with this..
Another classic: "every single bolt on the thing is sticking, and I'm afraid I'll break the bolt, this thing is 19 years old." [referring to HST repairs] http://www.cartalk.com/player5/player.php?a=longclip&id=Grun...
The story of launching UpdateZen to the world today
For projects with similar goals, see also Twitter's Gizzard (abandoned) and LinkedIn's Voldemort.
As the target of misunderstandings at times, I get it, and your meta-point is taken. My previous statement about the perceived insensitivity to the actual story, Tom's death, stands.
Still waiting for the app that enables the comeback of the meter maids.
TWIN TOWERS MYSTERY COLLAPSE,SOLVED BY CHANNEL 5 PROGRAM
Yes. Paperwork, taxes, expenses, etc. sigh.

No amount of structure can remove the fact that they are inherently extremely unrewarding, and even staring out the window offers more rewards. The stick just doesn't seem to work for my ADD inclined mind - never has.
> The execs at the top (boomers) ignored the new fangled streaming stuff because they didn't use it, didn't understand it, and most of all didn't see the value.

> When you're in a fast moving business, you don't bet everything on what's happening now, you've got to think about what's coming soon...

I work at a telco where the upper management still genuinely believe fax machines are great and we should be increasing the number of copper land lines to homes.

Those two statements rang very, very true for me.
Yes and no - they are a standard system that is popular, the laptops are relatively sturdy and the IT expertise on adminning macs is pretty widespread.

Note, look at how many startups and techies use macs as primary dev machines - most people in the tech "scene" seem to. Popularity and bandwagons have some level of merit.
Ironically, so is GCHQ's, if not more so. It's interesting to watch all of these statements from those empowering the surveillance states. It's almost like they use Newspeak on purpose. Truth is the enemy, the Internet is a terrorist tool!
I am an enterprise architect/developer myself.
It's not a perturbation in the timekeeping of a single clock. This clock keeps incredibly reliable time. The fact is that time passes differently for each location in space. If you put another clock at a different altitude, they would keep different time, and they would both be correct.
Jar of Fireflies
Please god, yes. The government will never solve its own bureaucracy. I am so willing to pay a third party to do it for me.
Ask HN: Increasing your prices as you scale services
Hi guys, about to launch a freemium model of my currently free product. We will probably want to raise our pricing about 6 months after launching the first paid version, as our product offering becomes significantly richer. Anybody have experience with this? My initial thoughts were just to grandfather existing users at the old rates, and have the rate increase only apply to new users, but would love to hear from anyone with experience.
I can report that Tom and Ray did in fact have the occasional cappuccino at Caffe Paradiso in Harvard Square. I had no idea who they were until Tom laughed :-)
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If you're low on RAM (and you will be... Eclipse's Law states that you will download enough plugins to fill all RAM allotted), then the slightest page-in from virtual memory can make typing in Eclipse quite the ordeal. Even if its autocompletion is asynchronous, that's no help when your plugins are thrashing in and out of memory all over the place.
It's interesting that Netflix decided to write this rather than using Amazon's own DynamoDB. I wonder specifically if DynamoDB was too expensive (as I have found), or was there some other reason?
Yep! THANK YOU
> However, I wish government was transparent enough that services like this weren't needed

I do too, but the sooner we realize this is impossible, the sooner we can all get over it and turn the responsibilities over to third party private organizations.
This guy is delusional. But the actions of the United States and the United Kingdom have not aided terrorism in Iraq/Syria whatsoever. I really wish these government officials would try and address the root of the problem (our reckless foreign policy) and not spreading the constant fear of terrorism.
Awesome, curious to see how Airbnb used this with Hadoop
Its not always caches being out of date, what about reproducing bugs that happen on page load? Sometimes you just need to force a fetch.
HashIdentifier.py
Of course this is one. Submarines make up 20-40% of all stories. Work at a news desk or cable station and you'll see it firsthand.
Too many of the great voices they had in that movie are now gone - George Carlin, Paul Newman, and now Magliozzi.
The Gmail Web Calendar has many good features I agree.

But, the Android Calendar would be much better if it would work with other calendar servers besides Gmail. If google called the Android Calendar the Gmail Calendar App, it would be more appropriate. But, this current default android calendar app doesn't use the CalDav protocol and only works with the gmail calendar. This is very peculiar behavior and not what I'd expect from google.
A well-typed program is isomorphic to a proof -- google "propositions as types". This is not the same as saying your program is correct.

For your specific question, google "dependent types", which are types that depend on a value.

In your case, Haskell can type check positive integers:

http://mvanier.livejournal.com/3820.html
At least it seems it was mercifully quick in this case... Just two years since they recorded their last episode.
Almost everything. The colours, the flatness, the overreliance on animation to reveal cues that have been hidden by removing too many of the useful aspects of colours and depth.

Material design is a company led attempt to create a fad a la Metro. They'll keep trying for about 18 months before they create a new one where it's back to bevels again. Just don't expect any of the non-Google apps to follow it, in the same way that all previous efforts went wrong.

Incidentally the number of U-turns by Google on this stuff is incredible. We were previously told explicitly not to attempt doing physical analogues of motion etc. as those didn't map to the app navigation model . . . but now that's exactly what they want.

What really grates though is just how the developer experience for all this stuff seems to be going backwards.
Life as a serial killer’s daughter
I'm surprised by the sales increases, as it takes many years to reclaim the trust of consumers burned by crappy products and services. I recall a personal laptop breaking, not being covered by warantee, and then being shipped to the wrong location halfway across the country.
RIP, love the show. I have my popcast download their shows everyweek.

How can it be Alzheimer ?!?!?

The latest show #1444 on my cellphone's popcast app is Nov 1 - just two days ago.
This is completely different than DynamoDB. Essentially this is a framework for sharding or horizontally scaling multiple datastores (MySQL, Memcache, Redis, etc).
This is the sort of project you do to get cross-region replication on your existing data stores, many of which look more like PostgreSQL than KV stores.
Show HN: Chrome plugin displays Street View of website owner
I don't like google because of privacy concerns but chrome developer tools is a bit ahead of firefox DT. I hope this new one will give me a good reasons to switch from chrome to firefox
Armchair investor here, but I get the feeling this is a person looking to blame someone. If it was so obvious that the CEO was incompetent or taking the wrong strategic path, wouldn't you have some better option than to wait for bankruptcy, then complain about how you knew it was going down the toilet all along?

That article, and some other things I skimmed over, allege some more serious malfeasance, but this quote doesn't say "Jim Keyes has lied to us" or "filed fraudulent documents with the SEC" or something like that. I don't know much about fiduciary duty, but this statement doesn't seem to identify specific ways Jeff Keyes failed to execute the duty. He may have made some bad choices over "the past few years", but apparently this investor chose not to bail out. Why shouldn't he share the blame?
The greed in Silicon Valley does not require much more than an idea, a good network and some luck. Very few start out wanting to change the world, their companies just might end up doing it.

At least New York is honest.
> Isn't it possible for the astronaut to also know whether the other person has opened their box?

How would you know without observing the particle yourself? In which case, how do you know if it collapsed because of your observation or the other person's?

Not an expert by any means, but from what I'm told you can't use it to transmit information, so that's how I think of it.
Trisquel 7.0 Released
GitHub's Swift Style Guide and Coding Conventions
Side channel attacks are more common.
You can get something like what you want by changing the noise strength.
I have used very good standing desks that used springs or pneumatics. They were easier to use and faster to adjust position. They were also much more expensive and heavier than the ones I have seen with electric motors.

Other methods that use sliders with bolts or pegs, telescoping tubes with compression rings, and the like can be MUCH cheaper, but almost impossible to adjust if there is any thing on the desk. The are mostly used to set once an leave.
Let me put it this way: if we had really fast trains (or just imagine some other schedule that must be coordinated over some distance), then it would matter that time passes differently for each location. However, we could still deal with that, with an appropriate time communication protocol and enough fancy clocks (probably spaced out along the train track).
So how do I find one of these jobs? Do I have to be a genius or master at language or technology X? 20 years of work experience? Can I live on the other side of the planet?
With only 100 particles, it looks more like a professional pickpocketing ring simulator.
‘Matter waves’ move through one another but never share space
The Man Who Invented Modern Probability – Issue 4: The Unlikely – Nautilus
I spent the better part of an hour cursing about this. Chrome returns frozen objects from Web SQL. Now I didn't know that a poor language like Javascript had a Frozen! No errors! Finally found it when I queried for Angular failing to update objects because the looked immutable.
Hahaha, no I'm just trying to balance it.

The thing is, I've been using JEE stack and toying with Rails as well on the side. I'm amazed how Rails community changed their tone from "Java sucks" to implicitly copying the best practices in Java/JEE world.

So there ya go, my 2c.
He's also the guy who mantains hunchensocket, bringing WebSockets to CL. Love his work!

https://github.com/capitaomorte/hunchensocket
Show HN: Poor man's secure solution for saving OAUTH tokens and passwords
Also Riak. However, one interesting aspect of Dynomite seems to be offer default support for clustering across multiple data centers with pluggable stores.
They mean whatever the regulator wants them to mean, when you're handcuffed to his table.

Prudence dictates that you not expose yourself or your business to unnecessary risks. So by that standard, the "country" is wherever the enforcer has the power to hurt you, an "import" is bringing something within reach of the enforcer, and an "export" is moving something beyond his reach.

Just stay out of the "country", and you never have to worry about being punished for "exports". If you look at the Byzantine import/export regulations, you don't have to be physically located outside of the geographical boundaries of the U.S. to be considered a foreign entity for the purpose of importing and exporting technical information.

Just feed in this new input to your lawyer/accountant tax avoidance machine, and everything should be all sorted out by next fiscal year.
Absolutely can. But you don't get Dell support :/
Hah. Sounds very familiar. Get yourself in a customer facing role ASAP. This was the advice given to me by a director of product management, who went on to be the GM of our division, and now CEO of a well regarded UK startup.

I switched to delivery consulting after almost 4 years of product dev, and wished I'd done it sooner. There are so many more things to concern yourself with than straight dev work, that your AD(H)D can be a massive advantage.

On the other hand, you will need to teach yourself how to "cut corners" that is antithetical to a software engineering/product maintaining programmer. It's not actually cutting corners, but making calls about when the deliverable should be in the customer's hands with some known design flaws, vs. stuck in beta whilst you wrestle with the extendability.

Now, after a number of years in customer facing roles, technically leading $1M+ programs, I'm thinking about the move to product management. Looking back, I'd have been a crappy junior PM if I'd jumped straight across.

I've seen people with ADD thrive in the "technical marketing", "demo developer", "internal system's engineer" roles, as they are constantly solving different problems, often with little to no requirement to get it right, document it, or look after their hacks. It does require strong (technical) communication skills, though.
Wow, that clip actually brought me to tears. As obvious as their friendship was on the radio, that clip made it all the more clear just how close they were.