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> Is even near (but slower than) light travel possible?

Sure; send yourself as data. ;) Just don't use comcast.

On a less flippant note, in addition to the interstellar dust issue, another fun engineering problem is providing the energy necessary. If you want to send a 50 kilogram person to .99c, you'll have to provide about 4 months worth of the United States current energy production (7 quadrillion btu per month or about 7 exajoules)[1].

Now, if you are wiling to increase your flight time by a factor of ten (reducing yourself to .1 c), you can cut this down to merely 15 days worth of California's total consumption[2]. Mind you, that's just the poor 50 kilogram astronaut. The space shuttle weighed in at 75,000 kilograms (empty). So plan on using about 9 months of the United States energy production capacity for your dinky .1 c.

Given that you'll probably want to STOP once you get where you're going, antimatter engines are probably a prerequisite for relativistic space travel.

[1] http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/

[2] http://www.ecdms.energy.ca.gov/elecbycounty.aspx
> PostgreSQL: the docs actively encourage you to simply use the TEXT type. This is a high-performance, UTF-8 validated text storage type which has no length limit.

The emphasised part is incorrect, Postgres's text storage has a 1GB limit (that stands for CHAR, VARCHAR and TEXT which all use the same underlying mechanism): http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype-character...

> In any case, the longest possible character string that can be stored is about 1 GB.

Although note that this is 1GB, you have to take in account both multibyte characters and compression (which by default is enabled on text values of more than 2k, using LZ)
Executive orders aren't subject to oversight by Congress. But their validity depends either on Constitutional or (as in this case) statutory authority.

As I said upthread: the President can issue executive orders like this because Congress has overtly and deliberately allowed him to do so.
When I've read the first part of the first sentence, "Twitter's mobile advertising arm enables its clients to use a hidden...", I've thought "I'm a client, but never heard of ... oh, nevermind.".
Inbox is created for high-volume users.

The backlash was because GMail was being used by high-volume users who struggled with the new, simplified version.
In Europe the cheapest way to get around is a budget airline like Ryanair or kin (often easiest too due to more flights at smaller airports). To go business means not only upgrading your seat, but your airline too, so you are talking £450 vs £45 for a return from London to Dublin.
Genuine curiosity: what do you mean about functions not being stored procedures? What is it you want to be able to do with them that you can't in postgres?
I agree about Google Apps support. So far, I like Inbox, but I don't get much volume on my personal Gmail account.

Most of my mail flows through my business account on Google Apps. I really want to put Inbox through it's paces there. Hopefully it will be available sometime soon.
I think for the average passenger, that's very true. For frequent flyers, the airport experience has actually improved in many ways. Global Entry and PreCheck make airport formalities much less inconvenient (I sped through LAX immigration and customs in under 60 seconds on Wednesday). OTOH, most passengers were stuck in line for a very long time. The TSA is actually tolerable when you have PreCheck—I'm sitting in PDX right now and clearing security took no time at all, no one in front of me, no nude-o-scope, kept my shoes on.

But yeah, for most passengers it really sucks.
Random missing features on every platform are also Netflix's fault. Whose else would it be?
So? I like Netflix's front-end. So does my daughter, my mother, my mother's mother, my dad (who is terrible with tech), and almost everyone else I know.

Craigslist is much the same, what they have is easy to recognize, very easy to use for both sellers and buyers, and it has been consistent.

If it's not broken don't fix it.
It should be possible to counter this by running a proxy somewhere and use that. Privoxy would work for this and while you're at it you can make it remove the ads too.
I don't think there's any reason to think that we've reached any kind of serious limit at the moment, or that a technical civilization, say, 10,000 years older wouldn't be much more capable. There's certainly no fundamental physics in the way of that sort of velocity.
Why You Don't Want to Be the CEO
I may be missing something, but how would giving programmers more powerful hardware prevent incremental changes? Even if I'm using a top of the line rig, it's unlikely that anyone actually using the software I write will have that same level of technology available. I can only see this as a benefit in specific cases where the limits of modern hardware are being challenged, which are far fewer today than they once were.
Exactly... Netflix is the New Craigslist.
For what it's worth, this article is 2 weeks old and it seems Verizon may have either stopped this or is now respecting opt-outs. I'm curious if others are seeing this.

While I was definitely getting that header added to my outbound traffic two weeks ago, it is not happening to me now. I noticed that a day or two ago, and it still seems to be the case now.
The last time I did it couldn't even typeset a root. (The line on top and the thing at the front weren't connected)

And in Powerpoint the formulas have constantly different sizes and are distorted. I don't like beamer (a latex package), but it the only viable slide show software for me.
VP8 and H.264 to both become mandatory for WebRTC
The POV Dude
pl/pgsql functions require you to define the schema that it returns in the declaration itself; this isn't an issue really as it should more or less be known after you've writing the guts of a query, but it's just more boilerplate.

the key difference is the multiple result sets with different schemas (which you can do with stored procedures but not with functions)
More people would be confused if you dispelled the term "meta" than are confused by its use today.

Similarly: there is no particularly good reason to use the term "lambda" for anonymous function constructs --- its use traces back to a typesetting quirk of Alonzo Church's. But here we are today, typing "lambda" like a bunch of chumps. :)
The thought experiment about 2/3 of the way thru is very amusing, in a city of basically constant size over previous decades, if a significant fraction of the grads actually stayed, the population doubling rate would be just a couple decades.

Another humorous way to look at it is a "large" fraction of the 150K grads are imports from across the country and around the world, so if the imports don't leave the city will obviously eventually fill up. Its a conservation of mass argument.

The report carefully avoided discussing why there are no new jobs on a net basis in Boston. The government there is just a tad oppressive, the rebels of 1776 have turned into the redcoats of 2014 and all that.
As a DBA, that has years of experience with both. I disagree with you.

I stopped reading after the very first bullet, and just skimmed through most of the titles.

First, you can import/export csv's. Hell all you need to do to export, is right click the view and hit export, then select .csv.

Second, you don't want such a simple installation, MSSQL has several options/packages/configurations. If you don't need it you turn it off, otherwise you will be charged a fee.

That being said, if you have chocolatey installed in powershell. It's also a one line command, and you can configure your own custom installation command.

choco install MsSqlServer2012Express

Third, I don't feel like correcting the rest of your mistakes.

I'm not shitting on Postgres, it's pretty awesome, but out of the box MSSQL is better. Especially when you have hundreds of severs running it.
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Have you taken a look at NeoVim (https://github.com/neovim/neovim)? They plan on replacing VimScript with Lua.
Nope, they haven't stopped. Reduced a bit, maybe. I'm seeing maybe 5-6% of our HTTP traffic with the X-UIDH header instead of 10% two weeks ago.

AT&T's x-acr header, though, seems to be gone, as others have reported. They were about 0.5% of our traffic.
Netflix is great, don't get me wrong... I wouldn't want to do without them. But at the same time, a large portion of their business model is devoted to making sure that nobody can tell just how little content they have to offer. There is no other explanation for deliberately nerfing their search engine and killing off third-party apps.

If and when Netflix is able to reach fair and reasonable streaming contracts from all of the major studios, I believe the API will come back. Right now, though, it's more of a liability than an asset to them.
That's why I said "one reason."
For what it's worth, I am no longer seeing the dox header in requests. Something has clearly changed without much fanfare.
For what it's worth, I am no longer seeing the dox header in requests any longer. Something has clearly changed without much fanfare.
Show HN: See how NPM will normalize your package.json data
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Figure 2 shows it without the aerodynamic envelope. Figure 8 shows the cross section. There are hatches on the bottom which open up for loading and unloading. These can be used for stiffening, but don't need to withstand pressure so can be weaker.

In paragraph 0085, this interior unpressurized space can be used for luggage or freight. Or (paragraph 0094) to store the spiral staircase.
That's because the game uses the Unity Web Player, which is not yet supported on Linux. Try using the downloadable version instead.
I don't know that I agree with this. I'm rewriting for the fourth time a blog post I wrote on auditing C/C++ code using Emacs. The combination of Helm, cscope/ascope, hi-lock, ectags, Projectile, and incremental recursive grep is pretty hard to beat.

I use unobtrusive dabbrev-style completion --- I don't want popup menus with completion possibilities drawn from documentation, because Dash.app does a better job of that and is shared by all applications.

I think Emacs does an at least adequate job at all the core functions of Xcode, but does some things Xcode can't do at all.

(It's been a few years since I've written more than a couple thousands lines in Xcode, though.)
What OS and browser are you on? Does this persist when you refresh?
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>Where's the Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB integration?

Oddly enough, Rotten Tomatoes has Netflix Integration:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/dvd-all/?services=netfl...

Whether this is through the public API or not is unknown.
Couldn't that be solved by a new language that compiles to Latex?
Oh I completely agree in regards to QoS! That was not my point.

My point is that the technology is still immature. We haven't really considered what our true criteria are, what layer they live at etc. There are still many innovations ahead. And don't think the carriers aren't well versed in how to game the system!

You say, correctly, that Title II is common carriage. But consider what came along with that. Note that I think CC has mostly worked with busses (you can't discriminate by race, at least) and the roads. It's worked well with trains. In other areas it hasn't got such a good record (and my politics are what is called in America "liberal").

In the case of telephony, title II unarguably held back technological development. All the development was done at the center. AT&T and Bell Labs did a really astounding job of development in the core (FDM in the 1930's for chrissake, and direct dialing with routing tables on punched metal cards in the 1940s). Not to mention SS7, the transistor and fibre optics. But all that came at a huge cost: phone calls were expensive, long distance was a limited service, and all innovation at the edge was explicitly, and by legal force, suppressed. You probably don't remember how horrible it was to use a Bell 103 modem, or the crappy approved phones. Mobile telephony was expensive and essentially useless. The communication infrastructure of today would be unrecognizable to a telephone engineer of 1990, while the communication infrastructure of 1990 would have been be easily comprehensible to a telephone engineer of 1925.

My point is: that it worked at all was because we had a useful metric: 99% of all calls had to be completed, even if it meant overbuilding to guarantee that on Mother's day. On the other hand we don't even have an equivalent of an Erlang [1] in the internet domain. I don't believe NN can legitimately be legislated in 2014, and any attempt will screw us at LEAST as much as ATT/comcast/verizon etc al are screwing us today.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(unit)
Are you f..ing kidding me? If I pay for Internet access, I demand best-effort of the provider to transfer the data packets unmodified (except, for IPv4, NAT usage), shortest way, to the target IP address.

I do not pay and then want to get tracked so that the provider or some other dickheads can data-mine me and make even more money. If I want this, I can choose a free plan (e.g. unlimited 3G, but with tracking).

About time everyone switches over to HTTPS with HSTS (so that no provider can perform a SSL MITM attack using its own trusted certs).
Too bad, since there's basically no way to find what good content Netflix has using their inferior tools. From accounts which are permanently contaminated by kid shows (let your kid watch a few shows, you'll never get anything except cartoons recommended ever again, irreversible, no way to edit or start over) to discovery algorithms that just give you the same five shows (that you've already watched, on Netflix) over and over...
There is so much here, it is so verbose...so religious.

There is the appearance of facts, but mostly it is bias by omission. Take for example the CSV complaints..."MS SQL Server can neither import nor export CSV. Most people don't believe me when I tell them this". This is just false, patently and obviously false. BCP and SSIS, both part of SQL Server have excellent support for importing and exporting flat files. I did keyword searches through the whole post, no instances of BCP, SSIS or Integration Services (the long term for SSIS).

I am sure others will break this thing apart section for section but I wish people would be fair and open about stuff like this - I mean, seriously if you are going to put the time and effort into a long document like this, don't be so blatantly bias.
Paragraph 0030 says that figure 2 is without the aerodynamic envelope. The aerodynamic envelope is labeled 22, and visible in figure 7. Other parts of the description mention how the hole can be filled with cargo or other items, and that a non-pressure skin can be used as a cover.
The author spends quite some time explaining that MS SQL Server's CSV is mangled and broken, and what you've said is that it exports CSV. So what does your comment contribute, except to say that you didn't read the article?
Furthermore the notion that the addition of an HTTP header to the request would be a patentable invention is absurd. The protocol explicitly supports it. Nothing was invented here.
Seating that's displaced far from the centerline of the aircraft would also be less comfortable during banked turns. The sensation of falling or rising would be greater the farther you are from the centerline because you're moving through a larger displacement around the axis, and also at a higher rate.

Incidentally this style of aircraft looks really wide and flat.
The author is pretty misinformed about how enterprises work.

a) Security is critical. It routinely trumps common sense and evidence. And telling people "not to fall for it" is advice that will get you nowhere.

b) Vendor support is critical. And no your local mom+pop consulting shop doesn't count. PostgreSQL could really do with solid, global companies like Microsoft, Datastax, Mongo etc who offer training and proper SLAs.
I agree, Netflix serves it's purpose like a champ. A company doesn't need to run their front end like a hackathon in order to be great, in fact, much of their demographic might have had a learning curve just to learn how to watch movies on their ipad, so doing drastic UI redesigns might actually create a churn from subscriptions. Netflix works on basically every platform(even ubuntu now) with basically no issues except for the native install, and gets right to the video after only a few clicks/touches. Remember when they were carousel and now they're a direct slider? Seems they would simplify due to data. Also the argument for no front end work I find to be unfounded as some of THE BEST Javascript, reactive programming seems to be coming out of the netflix shop with amazing event listening management presentations and and other impeccable reactive front end coming out of netflix. I use those videos to study and learn tons on reactive javascript and find their front end to be exactly what it is. On a meta level and simplicity level superbly build and prestine.
Yes. His posts are a great. He is working on a VM and I do to so I follow his work closly.
Very confusing wording.

In the last paragraph, the author is (with poor wording) saying that Inbox, "the new Gmail", would be the new simplified "Email for people who only Get GAP ads and notes from grandkids", and there would be another new Gmail for power users who like the old Gmail.
The two things I got from this story:

- If anyone of us, that didn't work for Google, had cracked into a sever that breached our servers and just looked around, not destroying data. Wouldn't that be illegal?

- The NSA is getting access to software and hardware back doors before the public is made aware so they can try and catch Chinese hackers. Doesn't this also give them the access they would need to route all our traffic to their giant datacenter and mine it? Aren't the 'Chinese' hackers giving them a convenient excuse?
I feel like most startups were using google mail (no longer free so not sure if people are buying it). I'm the "interesting" guy in my small startup office because I use apple mail as my client instead of gmail.
ProPublica reporter/developer here.. There's a tool embedded in the article to see if your carrier is setting a tracking header.

We also published a follow-up about how AT&T has said they will stop using the header: http://www.propublica.org/article/att-stops-using-undeletabl...
Yep it's time to just stop using plain HTTP. Unfortunately I think that the number of people who care enough about this to suffer the pain are not enough to change ISP behavior.
QFA "MS SQL Server can neither import nor export CSV"
Show HN: A study of Betteridge's law of headlines
Of course you are. Are you paying for Twitter?
So now we agree. But that is the point. The order is lawful.

So you have the following problem:

(1) President <can> supersede an old executive order on his own volition, and without congress's consent.

(2) Congress <cannot> supersede said orders without the president's signature[+]

____________________

[+] unilaterally, unless they have veto-proof supermajority etc
Go ahead and try it. No algorithm will fill in the details like that.
Put this together on a day off. It crawls major RSS feeds looking for headlines in the form of a question (e.g. 'Is this the Cure for Cancer?', 'Is Obama a War Criminal?', 'Can Pigs Actually Fly?'). Betteridge asserted that all such headlines can be answered 'No'.

Answer a few, and if I gather enough data I'll share the results!
>If it's not broken don't fix it.

That's some serious survivor bias with Craigslist.

There have been a slew of useful services that have sprung up over the years (e.g. Padmapper) involving Craigslist data, only to have Craiglist send cease and desists.

If anything, Craigslist has stymied the progression of internet classifieds by not changing with the internet.
The people who care enough will begin to use VPNs anyway. A pity that enabling VPN on mobile equals massive battery drain :'(
As an Uruguayan I can't be prouder. For the tech community knowledge he supported deploying FTTH and LTE country wide with even free plans if you can not pay for it. He's a hero in many ways, like it or not.
and here I thought it was about land mines.
For B), EnterpriseDB look promising. Ex-Red Hatters, similar model.
As someone who has worked with PG, MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL and others for almost two decades - I can promise you the author is misinformed about more than just enterprise politics.
Ask HN: Turning my SaaS into an Automata?
As a solo founder I often wonder how long my SaaS application could survive without me. How long would it take my customers to notice I had been struck by the proverbial bus?

I haven't had to reboot a single of my server/app nodes in months although I do occasionally suffer downtime to one of my nodes due to DigitalOcean issues.

My database backups are automated, my logs rotate before I run out of disk space and hosting payments are on autopay.

I do not however have autoscaling or any service which automatically reboots instances if they go down...if they do.

What are all the little things I'd need to do to turn my SaaS application into a full Automata?

Something that could survive decades without any human intervention.
No, the author misworded.

Inbox has the hidden power-user affordances, The real power-user Gmail is the old Gmail that is allowed to still exist.
That's great if people are viewing your resume online, but the print version looks very ordinary; there's a page break within a block, the format is dull (you even set a print stylesheet), and, for instance, the kerning is mediocre compared to TeX (e.g. in Europe).
Your resume even compete on any of the points that (La)TeX is good at.
My provider, TracFone, appears to be sending beacons. This is a low cost pay-as-you-go service that buys airtime from the big carriers. My particular phone uses the Verizon network.

Is there a way to opt out of this?
That being said, if your relational database has 1GB records, you really need to reevaluate whether you are using the right tool for the job.
One surprising thing I learned is that large companies like to mass-produce patents, even ones they have no intention of ever implementing or suing over. Why? Because they provide a MAD defense against patent suits. If Boeing ever sued Airbus for violating patents, Airbus could countersue and, odds are, each company is violating some patent of the other. Also, if each company has 10,000 patents applying to aerospace, it's going to take each company's legal team a lot of time to sort through them and figure out which ones they can countersue over. Time = money; a patent attorney's time especially so. So coming up with as many patents as possible makes it expensive (often prohibitively so) to sue over patents.

Your natural reaction might be to think this is an outrageous waste of people's time, and you'd be right. But if you don't do it, your competitors will and you will be vulnerable to patent suits that, because of how this works, are essentially impossible for you to avoid making yourself vulnerable to.
I've hit a bug on "Waves - Order Still Matters!" where the graph is affected by zoom and object positions. Sorry about the short report, but it's really hard to explain, it just happens.