skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be an engineering barrier below c when you account for fuel efficiency. Once you start requiring large volumes of nearly impossibly efficient (thrust-weight) fuels, then you will be stuck, even if you aren't anywhere near the speed of light.

It depends how much material you are transporting. If you are sending a few photons, the speed of light it no barrier at all. But if you are sending a crew of humans...
It is one of the many concessions to the god of political correctness - there are already a large number of south asians here, so they are not discriminated against anymore. Blacks and latinos are still discriminated against, so now they are the "diverse" group that needs to be included.

i.e "diverse" means the people from groups that are not included.
Fair call.

I certainly didn't intend to imply I'm head of HR aT Google or SpaceX, but at he same time it wasn't intended to be about me (and turning it around that way the judging it based on 3 a year out of date HN bio or LinkedIn profile still doesn't make it about me).

How do you suggest that "we" (these people's peers) should deal with behavior like hat?
Nice concept. Id like to see this for vim, the one "true" text editor.
Maybe I'm super naive, but that really seemed like something that was added when people wanted to filter posts, and then later these filters got styling and a community sense.

Maybe it was the plan all along and they just gradually implemented it in a way that felt organic and user driven.

But I agree with you, the subreddits are brilliant at what they do. The concept of merging all your favorite BB into a single stream is fantastic and pulling it off is even more impressive.

But early reddit did not look to me like anything that was aiming to be more than a digg clone that used basic text layout to scare the n00bs away and then it just gradually evolved into this crazy huge community.
These challenges are indeed real and enormous, as you point out.

Nevertheless, we should also keep in mind Japan's proven ability to utterly transform itself in a short time. Meiji and post-WWII are two precedents. Each of these change events required the following conditions:

- clear development model to proceed towards

- external pressure creates (perceived) existential threat

Such conditions do not pertain in Japan now, yet they may do so again in the future. I feel sure that the first is a necessary condition to transformative change. The second condition is perhaps optional.
> flares where people wish people involved in systemd would be run over by a bus or just accusations of incompetence.

Wow, these are really contrasting examples.

This HN thread is really focusing on the first category but I who haven't been following any of this actually had the impression that the 2nd category (incompetence) was right on the money regarding the recent bugs I've seen in my Debian installation.

I've used Debian since 2000 or so (slink was the first release I installed). I don't know if this problem is Debian or upstream. But ever since systemd became the default, my machine displays "Segmentation fault" at every boot, boots slower than before, and my previously working bluetooth pairings broke. Even when Debian was inserting extra memset()s into OpenSSL, I've never seen it this bad. It really doesn't feel like the system it used to be and I'm about to give up on it.
I've built something similar as a side project for a competition with some friends. I'd love to get some feedback on it.

It's not exactly the same, and was built with a focus on mugging, but it can very easily be adapted to work in other scenarios (or in different form factors).

Here's a video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Hp6q3PJWg
Weird that Google Maps isn't on the list of commercial projects next to iOS Maps...
If your investment generates profit you'd rather have that profit in USD or Euro than a weak yen, particularly if the yen is weaker when the investment pays off than when you invest.
As someone that uses PostgreSQL, would you care to elaborate on the topic? I haven't used MS SQL Server so maybe if you can actually provide some useful information we can start a discussion and learn something new.
I suppose...but couldn't they just track you by IP address anyway?
You can, via Google, but I wouldn't bother — it's an egregiously stupid and shallow piece of link-bait.
From the "How to submit an article" section:

N.B. If the following instructions are a mystery to you
and your local ADP support is no help, please feel free
to call the CRYPTOLOG editor on 963-3123s.

Send a hard copy accompanied by a diskette (either 3.5"
or 5.25") to the editor at P0541 in 2E062, Ops. 1, or
send via e-mail to mebutle@p.nsa.

For maximum efficiency
(as far as possible within the limits of your word
processor):

• do not type your article in capital letters

• do not double-space between lines

• but do double-space between paragraphs

• do not indent for a new paragraph

• classify all paragraphs

• do not format an HD diskette as DD or vice-versa

• label your diskette: identify hardware (operating system:
DOS or UNIX), density of medium, and word processor

• put your name, organization, building and phone number
on the diskette

CRYPTOLOG is published in FrameMaker on a Sun HPW.

If you do not have access to FrameMaker, ASCII
format is preferred
You can justify from the right with CSS if you use the following properties:

direction: rtl;
text-align: justify;
I agree. They eased and increased taxes at the same time, which was not a smart move. Now they're back to square one, and they don't have much room left to maneuver because of the already high debt. If they wanted to accomplish their goal (more inflation) they should have stuck with the hail mary, rather than changing the play right in the middle of it.

This, plus Japan's anti-immigration policy and rapidly ageing population, spells a pretty bleak future for Japan. They need some really radical reforms, not just economic policies that devalue their citizen's purchasing power and then get cancelled out by a huge raise to the consumption tax less than a few years later.

What Japan really needs is a major reform of their overbloated corporate and banking infrastructure, combined with less-xenophobic immigration policies and improved workforce participation by women, but I'm not holding my breath.
Your individual actions are laudable. Is responsible moderation the only way to create welcoming communities, or are there ways to scale that?
Martin Greenberger, who is associate professor at the School of Industrial Management of M.I.T., has been working with computers for fourteen years.

He wasn't a journalist.
Maybe iron will rust faster when hot, but I don't think heating it to dry it is an issue -- I do that fairly often, and haven't had a problem.

Here's a counter example: There are many tons of metal in hot desert climates that have a small amount of rust on them, but nothing like the kind of rust from a cold wet climate. There may be complications from cooking, but, and this is without giving it much thought, I'd say that water is a much larger factor than heat.
But why should someone writing for Linux think about OpenBSD? Are you saying every piece of BSD software runs on Linux? Go try telling Linus that you want a BSD compatible kernel.

Systemd does not run on BSD because of Cgroups and that is something the BSD maintainers don't want. Here's a small set of justifications why : systemd leverages core Linux infrastructure that has already diverged from OpenBSD

http://lwn.net/Articles/524920/

Having said that, there is work that the systems is sponsoring a project that implements systemd on
OpenBSD

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc4MjQ
debian is much more open source than companies.

The switch to systemd is made by authority, not competence.

The roadmap and the properties of systemd are totally awesome ... on the paper.

The problem in reality is that authority does not makes good engineering. Marketing neither. Systemd can be picked up for way too many reasons but imposing a poorly designed solution () by authority is hitting a nerve.

This move is looking like good old microsoft force feeding wrong technical solutions (thus costing expensive resources) to ALL free unices and a lot of projects for a wtf motivation that is clearly not the optimum technically.

You know how hard it is to make a software that works? Every resource spoiled on a stupid idea at the OS level is like a tax imposed on every single software that requires to be integrated in the system ... thus ALL projects.

Since some of them are impacted they voice their concern. And since debian is one of the most prominent linux that is clearly free software, that is where people voices their bug reports and sometimes also their concerns.

Btw look at the bugs in this mailing list, some are just non acceptable (why would you need dbus to login? What a sysadmin can thus do when dbus fails? For Zeus' sakes: WTF! 0_o)

go read the internet because I won't lose my time
It's more than not wanting immigration in Japan --they're allergic to it. It's very, very hard to be in Japan illegally. Police do immigration raids routinely --the only way to be in Japan illegally is to work for the local mob --where they take a cut of your measly income. And legal immigration is less than one tenth of that of the US, for example. the situation is not comparable.
> Deflation tells consumers not to buy as you wait 6 months and it'll be cheaper.

I live in Japan for many years and I have never seen such thing as deflation here. Prices have remained stable for most items or have increased a little bit. The idea that stuff becomes cheaper as you wait is ludicrous in Japan.
Agreed – my main reaction to Sarkeesian's videos was “Imagine all of the better plots we'd have if the writers weren't phoning it in with lazy tropes?”. It's really hard to see a downside here…
If systemd is that bad, where is The Distro Without systemd?

You know, the Linux distro that sets itself apart from the rest by Not Having systemd. Just... not having it. Going with SysV init or BSD init or Something Which Is Not systemd.

Because I don't see one, which implies it isn't that bad.
It will be about 10 years before, demographically speaking, Japan can literally work its way into growth. Others have posted about the country's reluctance to embrace immigration and I'm afraid that is the necessary transformation unless they can find a way of innovating or enhancing productivity on a massive scale.
heh, Im not sure if respect is the right word. We've got a 30ft walkaround (got lucky with a father in law has always had a thing for boats), and seas over ~4ft with a short period make me want to get back home ASAP.

On clear days we occasionally see some really crazy guys way out in little single engine flat bottom john boats. Don't care how much fun it is to pull in a nice mahi, its not worth that kind of risk.
> Yet they go into this with a massive amount of debt already so are raising consumption taxes at the very time they need consumption

The Japanese government needs to cut deep in spending, and that's what they have NOT been doing for the past 20 years. As long as they don't try to fix the debt problem, nothing else is going to work in the long term.
GNU GLOBAL source code tagging system
Hello Mesos
I uninstalled the latest update and switched back to the factory version of Google Calender.
Not sure that's accurate. From something posted on Cisco's website: "Apart from payment for the service, the carrier is absolved from liability regarding the content of the messages, and from the actions of the customers of the service. This form of social contract is the basis for the status of a common carrier."

http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/i...

Effectively, common carriers are protected from liability unless they know that what they carry is not legal.
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> It'll be interesting to see what they figure out for their society and the lessons they might have for us.

What makes you think they will find a "smart way out" of the situation ? Japanese politicians have been incapable of handling pressing issues for years. They just care about the next elections, as usual. Since no-one expects any drastic change of political climate to happen soon, it's more likely that Japan goes in the wall.
My bad, in this case I agree somewhat. Though it helps fund USPS, I'd rather see USPS be a true public service and be funded by taxes and not funky arrangements with spammers.
I don't know, BSD seems to attract a lot of people who seem self-congratulatory that they're not using Linux, just like how MacOS has been the Anti-Windows since circa 1995.

My theory is that it's straight-up due to how many people use Linux compared to other non-Windows OSes and the fact the average people have more say (or think they do) compared to The One Apple Way. Any large group will have assholes, and the number of assholes is a simple percentage of the total.
So.. is Inbox the "advanced" product designed for users with a firehose of email, or the stripped-down version designed for everyday users? It seems to have elements of both. Snooze is a great feature for people practicing Inbox-zero (which anyone getting hundreds of emails a day and remaining sane likely is doing). The increased automation of filters, and the addition of bundles in the inbox all help.

On the other hand, the reduced compose window size, the removal of read message counts within labels, the inability to nest labels, the inability to specify advanced filters, and more, make Inbox (at least without occasional use of gmail) inappropriate for power users.

This article (at least the final paragraph) seems to suggest that Inbox is the power app designed for email-firehose users, but in its current implementation it appears more useful for the everyday user who wouldn't bother to manually set up filters for recurring emails (and could instead just use the new "sweep" feature).

Anyway, I very much hope they continue to develop both products, and continue to support their inter-operation, as well as porting features between them. (Snooze in gmail-proper would be great, for instance. Advanced filters in Inbox aren't really necessary, since they can be managed from gmail. Read message counts and a decent compose window are, though.)

As long as both products maintain a decent user base, perhaps this best case scenario will play out. On the other hand, if a feature-poor (but sufficient for most users) Inbox gains the majority of the market share, I could see gmail going the way of Reader, which would obviously be a shame.
She may be right that flax oil is better, but I don't think she gives the right reason. I don't think she knows what she's talking about as far as the science goes -- I'm far from an expert, but I believe most cooking oils will polymerize through exposure to oxygen and heat -- it doesn't require special drying oils.

There's a traditional black smith's finish to make an almost indestructible coating by rubbing some beeswax on steel heated to the smoke point... I imagine it's the same process when seasoning a cast iron pan with cooking oil.

BTW, There seem to be a lot of people looking for cast iron pans... Keep a lookout at garage sales and swap meets. You can usually find pans without too much trouble, and for around $5--$10 or so.

As far as seasoning goes, I just wipe some olive oil on and heat it 'till it smokes, let it sit, and repeat three or so times. As far as I can tell the oil forms a tough plastic-like coating. The only thing that'll damage it in normal use is cutting into it with a sharp knife or the edge of a spatula, or burning the coating off by getting the pan too hot. Flax oil max stick less, or be slightly better in some other way, but I doubt there is much of a difference.
> You engineers do not understand the user, but we designers do.

If you got rid of the second part of that sentence, it would just be...

> You engineers do not understand the user

And they would be correct. From what the article said, it seemed the Gmail team (not just designers, the whole team) had mountains of data defending their choices. Their data proved that Gmail was becoming harder and harder for regular people to use, while engineers continued to ask for more advanced features. The only real solution was to split the interface between advanced users and normal users. As hard as it is to believe, especially in Silicon Valley, most of the people using Gmail are not engineers and do not work at Google. So while I'm not claiming that designers have all the answers, they can at least prove that this needed to be done. I would agree with them, I think most people who are going to use the web interface of Gmail are casual users and the UI changes work well for them.

Given Google's immense size, I'm very glad they're taking this approach...attempting to satisfy both the casual emailer and the power user and still providing a great service behind the scenes.
Brilliant talk, thanks for linking to it...I love the bit (8:40) where he says, "The thing you are doing has likely been done before. And that might seem depressing, but I think it's the most wonderful thing ever. Because it means an education in computer science is worth something."
Yes you can.

http://www2.safenet-inc.com/AWS-guides/Remotely_Verifying_an...
If implementors want to be able to interoperate with other implementations they will now know which codecs to target.
That's not true. US citizens can have dual nationality.
http://travel.state.gov/content/travel/english/legal-conside...
The end of consumerism, less income inequality, and automation.

I must just not understand. It seems pretty simple.
I wrote the "third party tool" actually. It was tested thoroughly but on the few records with non-ASCII characters, the data came out weird. It was only about 10 or so records so I just manually corrected it. (I don't recommend this approach, it was a "we're under the gun, just change history and don't fret" decision)
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D) Nope. I wrote the tool and tested it multiple times. The data kept coming out malformed, and playing with mb_convert_encoding() didn't really help much.

I appreciate the feedback though. This was my only time ever using MS SQL.

(Re: the 255 char thing, I had to edit the /etc/tsql/tsql.conf to change the sybase version to make the problem go away. Not a MSSQL problem, but definitely a problem with using it from a PHP + nginx on Linux env.)
> There is no connection or session establishment between peers.

OK, so I'm not understanding why isn't a 1-to-1 message, nor why DTLS isn't an option here.

> I guess it depends on your definition of roll your own. We didn't invent AES-GCM or implement it. We are using the implementation shipped with the Golang stdlib.

You need to read better. I didn't say "crypto primitives", I've said "crypto _system_". That includes everything, including primitives, key management, authentication, replay (which means your application protocol is now part of the crypto system, not a good sign), field concatenation for singing/hashing, &c.

The most important thing is that when your improvised system fails, you will more-than-likely never know and it'll never cause any errors.
> Additionally Increased GDP will bring more revenue

The thing is with the current policy you won't get much increased GDP. Prices are going up in Japan now, which will lead to decreased consumption, decreased savings (or maybe actually an increase in savings vs spending if Japanese feel the worst is yet to come) and negatively impact GDP.

Wherever it's going, it's not good anyway.
Right, but point me to a society that's been able to make that work. The formula has yet to be cracked.
My statement in an earlier post, which you reference here, was neither baiting nor rude. I know how passionately people feel about their cast-iron skillets. Indeed so much so that they simply cannot resist showing their cast-iron love. Making fun of that is fair play.

Pointing out a misspelling, even if only one of tens of thousands made on this and other Internet groups, is simply a honest reminder that literacy is valued even on the Internet. I said nothing rude. Your calling the correction "lame" _is_, however, at the least ambiguous and at the worst truly rude, since you may be making (incorrect) assumptions about my internal state of mind.

My Favorite Article on Cast-Iron Skillets:

"Why Do I Have a Cast Iron Skillet? By Sonia Saraiya

http://therumpus.net/2012/06/why-do-i-have-a-cast-iron-skill...
lfuller is right.

For example, if you have a ship capable of continuous acceleration at 1g, you can reach any point in the universe on the order of ~50 years.
Get a FIDO key right now and log into stuff with it
I love how this explanation is fully feminist right up to the point it utterly ignores the existence of female police officers.
Title is sensationalist. Amazon is just going where there is cheap power, and Ohio has cheap power for many reasons. Coal is one, but another is plenty of spare capacity since the economy in the northern and rural parts of the state has been on the skids for decades.
I don't really know any of the back story of this guy, but having been on the receiving end of similar poor behaviour myself, it's easy to see why he would be walking away.

This malicious behaviour is not okay out of anyone - leader or follower. When I was a kid, my parents asked me to consider the position: If my friend told me to stick my finger in the fire, would I? For those that shrug and blame it on Linus, I ask you also to consider that position; you're not 4, you're capable of critical thought. Stop being a dick and blaming it on others. You being a dick is on you, period.

I don't care if this is the example set by Linus himself - just because he does that, does not grant you leave to behave that way too. If he acts that way, I will consider him a dick. If you do that, I consider you a dick. I don't look at you, shrug my shoulders and say "Hey, I don't blame you, I blame Linus for setting a bad example." I judge him for his behaviour and for acting that way while being in a position of influence. I judge you for bad behaviour as well as bad judgment for considering that you can blame someone else for your own bad behaviour.

If you're working in a community that has garnered a reputation for poor behaviour because of its leaders and/or constituents, don't become that, you're better than that. If your leaders are like that, don't be scared to call them out. Bad behaviour is bad behaviour, I don't care who it's from. Respect garners respect. If you're a dick to people, you don't deserve respect. It's okay to hold people accountable, it's okay to hold them to high standards, but stop being a dick. That's not okay.
I didn't have DBA access so I couldn't do much to prove someone had maliciously dropped indexes. It was about an every-other-month occurrence, and it would make our response time go from 200 ms to 90s.
While I think your post for the most part did a good job of summing up the issues I am a little confused by the following.

"Default and excessive inflation can be a result of too much expansionary policy."

While I understand how too much expansionary policy can lead to excessive inflation, I'm curious how it can result in a default.
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