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Can you continuously accelerate at g for 50 years without going over the speed of light? According to wolfram alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=speed+of+light%2Flittle...

it would take a year to get to the speed of light at 1g (if my equation was right.) Then you can't speed up anymore.
We have been traveling in Japan for past 4 weeks (another 2 weeks to go). Talking to regular folks, there seems to be divergence between what regular folks thinks need to be done compared to government.

The regular folks want to see Dollar-Yen parity. As Yen drops, things become more expensive and regular folks cut back more on spending. I am not sure why increasing cost of imports doesn't show up as inflation. Things would have been worse if not for drop in oil prices (major import for Japan). These folks don't believe dropping Yen is the solution as majority of investment by Japanese companies is outside Japan and weaker Yen just reduces that investment, in turn less profit flow back in the country.

The expectation of deflation is deeply rooted in regular folks. Everyone is waiting to spend on large items, just not right now. Land prices are falling so no one wants to buy a house now. We were interested in buying a place in Sapporo but everyone told us to wait until we really need to buy. An apartment costing $200-300K rents for $500-700/mo in Sapporo compared to similar place in Seattle renting for $1,000+/mo. One of our friend mentioned that they just sold their house in Sapporo and had to offer healthy discount to the buyer.

I don't have a solution to Japan's problems. But QE, weaker Yen, and raising taxes doesn't appear to be the solution. Rolling back tax increases may be a start in the right direction.

Regular folks seems to have better pulse on the problem than establishments.
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Small complaint: the number pad doesn't work for inputing numbers in Linux. Some other characters are inserted (e.g. 'ﾲ' for 2) which are invisible in the box but make the function invalid.

Thanks for the fun!
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I'm worried about the ownership of the startups. as they are developed by employees of Unshackled so to speak.

And what if a startup doesn't take off?
I don't agree that increased immigration/population growth is necessarily the key (for Japan or other developed nations). Technology should be able to go a long way to replace the workers who support the nation. Japan, of course, is doing its utmost to prove this wrong.
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I'd love to know if anyone here knows more about this. When it's going to be available for purchase, etc. This project has been on my radar for a long time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe10ExwzCqk
> Theo is unsavory but not abrasive.

What is your definition of unsavory? I have seen him be blunt, but that is a long way from unsavory.
GChat used to use XMPP, as did Facebook IIRC. I also remember reading that iMessage uses it, and HipChat definitely uses an extended version. These could all be made to work together, but how would that keep users on the site where they're force-fed ads? It makes a little less sense in the HipChat / iMessage use-case.

Basically the same reason that little is available via RSS these days, and what is always has the "click here to read the whole article on our site, where we can show you ads!" after a few sentences / paragraphs.
It's also impossible to talk to someone miles away... Oh, electricity!

It's also impossible to travel 30mph... Oh, Petroleum!

It's also impossible to go to the moon... Oh, RP-1/LOX!

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Stop pretending we know everything about the universe when we clearly do not. The best you can claim is "No... with current understanding".
> The consensus interpretation is that FTL is not possible in normal space

I don't think this really makes sense, because "normal space" is not a well-defined term.

What our current relativistic theories say is that spacetime contains a causal structure marked out by light cones, and nothing can move outside the light cones. In certain spacetimes (like the one that describes our expanding universe), it is possible to assign coordinates to events so that it looks like objects are moving apart "faster than light", but when you look at the light cones in those same coordinates, you can confirm that the objects are still moving inside the light cones.

> new space in between these points is being created

This isn't really part of the physics of the expanding universe; it's an interpretation that some people put on it. There's nothing in the actual math that corresponds to "new space being created".

> space can "flow" faster than the speed of light on the far side of event horizons

This isn't really part of the physics either; it's an interpretation (part of what's often called the "river model" of black holes) that can help with visualization, but again there's nothing in the actual math that corresponds to "space flowing faster than light".

> ways of doing these manipulations may well exist

According to our current theories, any such manipulations would require what is called "exotic matter". There are good physical reasons to think that it is not possible to create exotic matter, especially in the quantities we would need to "hack spacetime" (nice phrase!) on the scales we would want to do it. Given that, I don't think it's fair to say that "FTL is most likely possible in theory"; I would say it's most likely not possible on our best current theories.
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Currently, yes and no.

pyspider is running original python code, something like portia is a code generator (Apologize if I'm wrong, I have not use it). So it can been made as another WebUI module.

But for flexible, I have no idea how to make it right currently. So, We have a css selector helper, but no plan for a complete tool.
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I can see that. I don't have much of an opinion on the ideal arrangement for USPS myself, although I do think it works fairly well at the moment and maybe we should leave well enough alone in that case. But really I just wanted to set the record straight in terms of what's actually subsidizing what.
I saw it long coming. We were butting head at the IETF 88 in Vancouver last year, and following the various correspondences on the mailing list, I knew we needed to make a compromise.

Good job!
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I think he was trying to point out those aren't UX issues, they're features you wish existed
> it would take a year to get to the speed of light at 1g (if my equation was right.)

It isn't. Wolfram Alpha apparently doesn't know about the relativistic rocket equation. Try here:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/rocket.h...
The above links were broken for me. Try this:
https://www.sharelatex.com/?r=4243786c&rm=d&rs=b
>No - take a class in evolution theory, MIT has a bunch.

Ah, the fallacious appeal to nature, a classic logical error. What is natural tells us nothing about what is right. Violence, for example, is quite natural, but it is wrong. Sickness and death are natural, but a large part of human effort is spent fighting that.

> I still think you can not simply judge the past by today's standards.

I'm not. I'm pointing out that the problems of today are rooted in a three fucking thousand year history. That people who supposedly "see sexism in everything" today have reasonable grounds to suspect that that systemic gender discrimination didn't just disappear yesterday afternoon. And by implication, that people who continually demand proof of sexism over and over are ignorant, often willfully, of the historical context.

> Any precise data points to state, or just a vague feeling of injustice?

It is not my job to spoon-feed you. It is not my job to cure your ignorance. It's your job. All I'm saying is that your ignorance is so obvious, so immense, that it means your half-assed speculation (in which you persist) is not worth discussing. It is, in Pauli's memorable phrase, not even wrong.
This was unfortunately truer than it should have been. I saw two cases where truly predictive models on cleaned data sets were beaten by less informative mappings of uncleaned data.
Oh wow, it is certainly a challenge to find a public intellectual to admit something like that, especially considering that not everyone can be neatly placed in one of the two camps. But you can get close to that by reading between the lines, by the viewing the context.

Enjoy reading Kenneth Rogoff:

http://www.project-syndicate.org/print/austerity-and-debt-re...

A close reading will show him admitting, quite begrudgingly :

* we aren't that close to a "sudden stop" after all.

* homework shows that rates do seem to stay low, when having high debt. It is "sobering".

* more inflation is desirable (to be fair, this was always his position)

* balancing the budget "tomorrow" is "facile"

But if you look at my post carefully, the case for him looks stronger:

* Cumulative costs - more debt, more problems. Now its worse.

* there are other factors beside monetary and fiscal policy (this is definitely true, but a distraction, no reason why B shouldn't agree)

* no admission that inflation is hard to do

So here you go, Rogoff admits he was wrong, but finds his case only strengthened. Since he was wrong the other side was right, correct? Not exactly, since he invents a straw-man (simplistic Keynesian) to deny how much common ground there actually is. There might be a better admission somewhere, maybe in private or after a bit more time, but this is pretty close.

edit: for a typo
Guix, the GNU system, uses dmd.
Why is this? Computers get rapidly cheaper for example.
I'm not sure I'd agree with you. It's not the kind of thing you try in order to see if it sticks. Communism tried with two out of your three criteria and it didn't turn out all that well --mostly ended up a terrible 'experiment' for those whom it affected. So, I don't think 'trying' is the way to go, when otherwise what you have is working well enough.

That said, Japan has to try something --they are entering 25 years of being in a standstill, so relatively speaking, they are in decline. They (politicians and population, by large) may not have the will to try anything radically different from the status quo --which is a quasi neo-liberal economic model, so they may just end up crashing hard or slowly becoming kind of irrelevant, economically speaking.
> It is quite possible to get around this paradox, if you have absolute time

Which, according to our best current theories, we don't.
This was already-existing terminology in the IETF working-group. A "WebRTC-compatible" device is one that does not conform to the standard, but which can talk to something that does conform to the standard )in whatever limited way it supports). By definition no codec requirements can be placed on it. This was spelled out clearly in the original proposal: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg13432...

The IETF itself of course recognizes that the current taxonomy may not be ideal from a marketing standpoint: http://ietfmemes.tumblr.com/image/102328432749
I thought this is vp9/h265 era already?
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Only these two, or can others be used as well - such as Daala?
> There are users here besides programmers. Just because it's called "Hacker News" and run on YCombinator's site doesn't immediately mean it's exclusive.

Is this some sort of comedic absurdist demonstration of how goofball nitpicking derails discussions? Because if it is, you're doing a bang-up job.
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American society is much more accepting of outsiders than any other, as far as I know. Its not like others are deliberately racist, but just that America's history has been one of accepting immigrants from all over the place, so I guess having people who don't look like you or have the same beliefs/culture/language is more accepted than in other countries. At least that's my theory.

I've lived in America for just 3 years, yet have never felt unwelcome. In fact, most Americans I meet are very curious to know about my origins and the country I grew up in. But maybe that's because I live in a very liberal city (Austin) and can communicate well in English.

I've lived in Korea for some time and unfortunately never learned much Korean to be considered fluent. So I did have a hard time. Its also a very homogenous country so I guess it makes sense why they're so exclusive; I think its the same case in Japan too.

Historically, Koreans and Japanese ( and to an extent, the Chinese) have placed an almost absurd weight on purity of their race. I don't know the situation for other places.
It's unlikely your IMEI is non unique though.
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An agent can act as intermediary if self-service turned out to be unprofitable; or the computer may be able to sell its own insurance policies via persuasive discourse with the customer.

In their wildest dreams, nobody could have predicted that in fifty years, legions of insurance reps would be replaced by animated gekkos, teleported good neighbors, retired comic strip characters, office camels, and ruby-lipped deli clerks. Nobody.
We made this project to allow for development teams to easily build and configure their local environments to easily match what they may have in production.

Eventually we will be using vUp as the base, allow people to download their docker files and move them to production without missing a beat.

Definitely curious to what people think
I wish SMIL is supported in browsers these days. There are some javascript hacks to emulate it and there was also some SMIL players but it never went mainstream.

It's particularly interesting to digital signage systems.
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Your equation is correct in a Newtonian universe, but does not consider relativistic effects.

Generally when we talk about an object's acceleration, we are talking about its acceleration in its own reference frame. By definition, an object's velocity in its own reference frame is always 0, so acceleration does not become more difficult (ignoring the fact that the surrounding matter will be impacting you at higher speeds). From the perspective of an outside observer who is not accelerating, time would appear to slow down on the accelerating object, and the outside observer would record a decreasing acceleration.
> Investment is emphatically not economically equivalent to spending. It's a lot like spinning your cash around in place so everyone knows you can still spend it. It does not create jobs or help the middle class; only actual spending does that.

This is a little strong, isn't it? Investment can certainly lead to job creation for the middle and working classes, if that investment is going into enterprises that need more labor and have the potential for growth. Whether there is much potential for growth after decades of regressive tax policies and hoarding by the upper and ruling classes, with everyone else living paycheck to paycheck, is quite debatable (my money is on 'no'), as is how much new labor is actually needed in the first place. But private investment can certainly create jobs and economic growth.
In my experience, a good designer (especially a UX focused designer) certainly leans on focus group, research, interviews, the history of existing solutions, and their own team (including developers) to arrive at a balanced solution to solve the problem.

The advantage that a designer brings to the table is they are (hopefully) looking at the problem with a fresh set of eyes. They aren't constraining their solution to technology or legacy constraints that may or may not be valid.

> So they spec out things that just ain't gonna happen - and if they do happen it's a huge development effort and only after that do you find out that the animations are janky and can't be fixed and it ruins the whole experience.

Then what the designer intended wasn't really what was implemented.

Good designers may push you to do things you think aren't feasible at first glance.

I've seen so many developers drag their heels through the mud "proving" that something won't look right just because they stuck with their stubborn assumption that a design wasn't possible from the start. So of course, they end up producing something that is kludgy and broken, which only helps them assert that their original opinion was correct.
There's so much about your post which is incorrect that I don't have time to debunk it all. So let me just hit the biggest error, so that others don't have to waste their time:

It's literally impossible for Japan to default on their debts, which are almost completely in Japanese currency.
yes, but also around not you, me, or us -- where us is everybody on HN
Paul Craig Roberts on Japan, America and QE.

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/11/14/global-house-card...
I don't really agree with the author's comment that this is "an unmitigated win for users": if nothing else, hardware products might become more expensive because they will need native encoding/decoding capability for each codec.
21st century activism: refusing to spend money in defiance of the government.
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How does this differ conceptually from Tableau? Yes, I'm asking this (annoying) question even though the OP states, "Lyra is more expressive than interactive systems like Tableau, allowing designers to create custom visualizations comparable to hand-coded visualizations built with D3 or Processing."

...yeah, but how exactly? Because it looks about as complicated of a GUI as Tableau...and I don't have enough knowledge of Tableau to compare it against the video, as Tableau's interface is so befuddling that I thank God I stumbled unto web development, as painful as that journey has been, so that I could code my own interactives rather than have to learn Tableau's conventions.

I guess the issue with Lyra is the same with all other programs that claim "custom visualization design without writing any code"...the two desired features, "custom" and "without writing any code"...are, IMHO, at odds with one another. If you want to do anything custom and interactive, you will pretty much have to do something as complicated as code...and pushing a series of buttons and clicking through menus may end up as being as intellectually challenging as just learning programming.

Also, I don't see how the Lyra visualizations are comparable to D3...D3 is amazing because it is a relatively minimalistic framework for coding visualizations...the kind of flexible, expressive visualizations you can do are possible because you are allowed to expressively code them via D3. I don't really see how Lyra (or any GUI) could accomplish that conceptual feat.
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Given that logic, wouldn't it mean that an ISP is basically obligated to block traffic to, say, the pirate bay when they become aware of it?
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> I don't think this really makes sense, because "normal space" is not a well-defined term.

You are of course technically correct.

> There's nothing in the actual math that corresponds to "new space being created".

True, and this might end up being a horrible crutch, but right now it helps me to conceptualize what's (possibly) going on. I'm sorry for having exported this hypothesis into a context where it shouldn't have been said without additional qualifiers, but it's too late now to edit it out.

> This isn't really part of the physics either; it's an interpretation

That's actually one I stand by. In the end, this seems really more about how you choose to express ideas in a language that doesn't have any exact words for things going on in an object that lies far outside of our normal experience. You might (and I suspect you do) choose to not say anything at all and let equations speak for themselves, but that doesn't really work for most people. So you're stuck with choosing lenses that render this foreign reality on a canvas you can actually picture. I also think there is nothing wrong in principle about choosing this particular representation.

> I would say it's most likely not possible on our best current theories.

Well, we know spacetime is not rigid. We know that interesting dynamics exist at the extreme limits of physical values. We also know that there is a large chunk yet to be discovered about the nature of the substrate on which reality rests. You are completely within your rights to look at everything we know and have ruled out so far and proclaim a high likelihood of impossibility, but along the same line of thought I reserve the right to declare the glass half full ;)

The truth is that neither of us are likely to live to see a definite answer play out.
Lets meet again in a year. SAAS is a falling knife. I bet 20 Satoshi on it.
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Iedit mode works beautifully with wgrep + rgrep/ack/ag results.
...but thats the thing, on the PDP the crux of it was essentially one instruction. May be the worry was that porting this to other architectures of the time wasnt feasible or easy.
I think because while average prices for individual devices go down, you make up for that with volume in an expanding market. Once you saturate the market, then you have to diversify, create new markets or consolidate (buy more market share).
Very true and you seem to be right. The HBO GO app is very much like this.