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Reactionless doesn't mean "free." This device requires a vast energy input. I have no idea how efficient it could get if it's developed (assuming the effect is real in the first place), but I doubt it would come anywhere close to "effortlessly."
This brings me back to my junior high days, when I bought a Centris 650 Mac at a yard sale for the express purpose of installing OpenBSD. That was my first real delve into open source operating systems, and it deserves much of the credit for my professional developer career.
This essay by Scott Aaronson is an interesting study of various ways to solve NP complete problems in real physics:
http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
Saying "you must be under 25" counts as a personal attack? Dude, the Internet may be a little to intense for you. My apologizes if that really offended you...

I don't know what 5-8 year legislated plan you are talking about. My immediate concern is preserving Net Neutrality (the way the Internet has always worked) and that can be corrected right now with the reclassification of ISPs. That is only step one...

The USPS should have been split up... First class mail delivery (no profit) run by the government and a private entity for package delivery. They could have shared resources and faculties. Requiring UPS and FedEx to also do first class mail delivery would have been another idea. Just privatizing the USPS with the burden of first class mail delivery and thinking they will ever be able to compete with UPS and FedEx in the long run was stupid.
Gotta love the fact that there are open pull requests.

https://github.com/git/git/pulls
Exactly. You can attempt to filter for noise on that low end to achieve better results, but quantization errors are hard to overcome.
Did you actually try it? It's almost impossible to get a hold of the old versions of chrome now. Google tool down almost all of them.
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Fence sitting. The journals need a way to cover operating expenses. On the other hand, if a more efficient and cost effective model exists, this is good disruption. Nothings free tho, right?
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This makes reading corporate memos so much pleasant.
Further, it's worth putting the components on npm individually and retaining 101, but making it depend on those modules (so it's really just a wrapper). This is what lodash should do imo. Lodash has the separate bits on npm, but lodash itself does not depend on them, which is a little weird.
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Seems pretty likely this (and other pushes like it) will create that kind of disruption.
I prefer github, personally. Mostly because it doesn't fight the nature of git as much (though, surprisingly, it sort of does a bit).

Particularly, if you have a back-and-forth of changes on a PR, the inline comments that relate to lines that haven't changed stick around (and references to no longer connected comments are available in the UI). I find this huge for progressively dealing with things. And it does this whether you've force pushed a rebased cleanup or just capped another change onto the PR's branch.

And then there's the way phabricator manipulates your commit messages in rather elaborate ways that are often confusing or frustrating. It also shows that the authors don't have a lot of respect for the idea of using merge bubbles over squashing commits, and I much prefer bubbles. And because of using merge bubbles primarily, github can tell when you merge a PR even if you don't use its tools to do it.

And while I like the ability to batch comments, I don't like that it makes you always batch them. Sometimes I really only have one thing to say and it's way too easy to forget to submit.

Likewise I like the ability to do pre-review tests, but for a large codebase I also really love the commit-hook UI cycle of github's integrations with stuff like travis and circleci, because a lot of the things I've worked on in the last couple of years have full compile+test cycles in the 10s of minute ranges.

Two column layout, the batch commenting, pre-review-tests, and the code highlighting are all great. But I really prefer tools that really strongly integrate with git. I'm not really interested in vcs portability at this point.

I often wonder how many people who have really strongly negative opinions of GH PR workflows have been forced to use it with full forks instead of a shared repository. Honestly, github forks are terrible for anything but casual submission of open source patches (and even there I think there'd be better ways). I've seen people try to use them for more serious stuff and it never goes well.
> What if this thing works and momentum is still being conserved? What if it's pushing against something

That's what they are claiming: gravitational waves travel back in time, and move all the other matter in the universe a little bit so that momentum is conserved. Or something.
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Get a high enough score. Also don't use words like jelly. HN doesn't like reddit's tendency to use funny memes etc.
Big Mithril.js fan here !

Mithril.js seems like something I would study in my maths class (its a good thing). I have spent a good amount of my last year trying to get better at angular and wasting a large amount of my time. Angular.js has seriously colored my image about google's engineering poweress.Looking back I put my intuition and education at the back seat - due to my own insecurity of my intelligence - google must be better than me right ?
That's really odd.. I see it on both the public github and the not completely up-to-date GH-enterprise setup I have access to...
That would violate a physical principle (The Holographic Principle[1]), namely that the amount of information in any given volume of space is limited by the volume's surface area. At some point an exponentially growing number of connections is going to overtake the surface area of the volume of space occupied by the supposed physical device.

[1] I understand that this is largely theoretical, but it seems to be pretty much accepted by the Physics community AFAICT.
Well... HN may not exactly be the target audience ;)
To piggyback on what hadley said a bit, I find thinking of a data frame as a "collection of records", and a matrix as "two dimensional data" to be a bit better.

One useful heuristic worth asking is "Does it make sense to sort this data by something". In that case, you have a data frame. Whereas if you want to perform matrix math on something (inverting it, multiplying it by another matrix, reducing it, etc.), you have a matrix. Things that I use a matrix for can generally also be expressed as a data frame with columns rowId, colId, and value. If it doesn't make sense in that format, a matrix is generally not the appropriate structure.
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Margaret Mead is probably a better analog than Jane Goodall, since it's humans studying humans, and the methodology most resembles cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropology has been around for well over 100 years. Yet even today, the extent to which it is a "science" is controversial, even among anthropologists. The AAA removed the word from their mission statement a few years ago, which led to a lot of public debate and coverage.

So, while I agree that this sort of information-gathering is useful, I don't think your apology is helped by wrapping it so firmly in the mantle of science. Rather than lending an air of trust, you're tapping into a debate and controversy that goes far deeper than women in startups.
"2 years" and "10 projects" - 2 months for each project? And he talks about "big enterprise apps"? lol.

Please links to examples of your code, author.

I wonder how people can't understand all the power of the 'directives' approach it's the MOST powerful thing in web development now and only advice I can give to future inventors of new frameworks: implement 'directives' concept, and then do everything you want else. It's advice after my 3 years with Angular, and counting ;)

Reusable code and TDD is the key for growing apps and directives - most successful following of this way.

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please news.ycombinator, treat new line symbols as new line symbols and use ANY modern framework to make this site less slow and more mobile friendly
Agreed, they should throw it out, but they're also throwing out a paycheck.

FWIW, I was just parroting Nate Silver's section on the financial crisis. He identifies the ratings agencies as one of the several groups responsible for the downfall. In S&N, Silver discusses how the ratings agencies gave their ratings software to the banks, so the banks could "dry-run" their tranches to get the best ratings available.

They were more than just complicit -- they actively enabled the financial groups to game the ratings.
That sucks, but unfortunately your best bet is probably to keep quiet and not make a fuss about it.

Obviously DocuSign has looked at the HelloSign experience and decided that it's good. That's great, because it means you've had 18 months' headstart on your competitors with a more effective onboarding experience. You can't ask for better validation!

You can't build a SaaS service and expect your competitors to sit back and not copy your best ideas. There's no actual IP infringement here, so there's nothing you can do, and that's the nature of competition!

I can't blame you for a bit of snark, but honestly – just drop it. Complaining about competitors copying, and trying to drum up a social media campaign, comes off as extremely childish at best. Just focus on building a better product, and leave it at that.
Something like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vatqtaur20f35yi/Screenshot%202014-...

I found their github[1] and ran it locally. Worked perfectly.

[1]https://github.com/mrmrs/cssstats
So is content editing, in many disciplines.

I believe copyediting and layout is paid, however.
Isn't that what this is http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ ?

"The NIH public access policy requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to PubMed Central immediately upon acceptance for publication."
I totally miss this technology advance! The video in company site has a more information than I expected. For a text version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_concentrator
It's surprising what a big deal "author fees" are. A historian told me recently that when submitting articles to one major journal, there's a checkbox saying "I want this work to be in the public domain". If you select it, the system automatically adds $5,432 to your bill. That wasn't the exact number, but it was about $5k. In his field, and surely for most academics, that's prohibitive, and an odd way to treat people who are already effectively giving their work away. Yes, journal economics and so on, etc., but something's got to give here.
Why not just host on aws?
> Currently publishers ask for $1000 to $5000 in some cases, which is completely insane.

How many articles do they publish per month and what are their costs?
I chose a 2 hour delay to give the effect of processing information (cashpoint machine effect) and to act as a reminder. I guess it compounds the issue that the thank you page does nothing though. Great feedback thanks!
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"It is possible to use Skype in a safe Docker container. The program is then run through an SSH tunnel with X11 forwarding and sound is heard through PulseAudio's Network Server."

Well...

1. how is video speed through the ssh tunnel, then? Unsolved, I guess.

2. as I said, Skype won't do untrusted X11 (at least the version I tried didn't). This means that you need to tunnel it with trusted X11 access. Which means, no security (it will log your passwords and open and use X terminals if it wants to). Which makes the whole exercise moot.

Other suggestions on this page are suffering from the same flaw. It seems all the writers of that page have never heard that X11 doesn't provide security. Also, they advise to use xhost. In the end you're worse off when following the recipes on this page than you were before.
Had a brief look on your plateform, nice execution, can't wait to see you guys expand!
Is it not possible to create a separate foundation / organization that manages peer-reviewed, open-access journals for multiple scientific fields? I realize the costs involved in asking academics to review submissions, etc., but couldn't a small $10-$15 million grant for an organization be enough to kickstart an open journal consortium? Even if they did require small review fees from submissions ($25-$50), I feel that with proper management, and digital distribution, that a project like this could 'disrupt' conventional journals.
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." --SICP
How would competition prevent ratings agencies from poorly aligned incentives? The "fitness function" of how good an agency is will be determined by the customer, who only wants to receive the highest ratings.

AFAIK, to rate a company/tranch/etc., the ratings agencies need access to internal company information. There's no room for an outsider ratings group to call bullshit -- people are only going to listen to the agency given internal info, the one hired by the company getting the rating.

More competition wouldn't make the outside groups any more relevant, and without revenue, they would likely quickly dry up.
Google is one part of several companies that will form like Voltron to become a real life version of "Buy n Large" from Wall-e
Seems like a detailed and highly informative article. Not political, despite the source (TPM).

Given the subject matter, this should be more highly placed at HN than it is now.
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> Class action suits are a powerful pro-consumer force. They allow consumers to seek redress without cost - as the legal costs are paid for by the plaintiffs attorneys.

Keep in mind that Slack is a B2B service, though; its clients are companies, not individuals. Would a class-action suit really make sense here, given that most of the "consumers" involved should already have access to legal representation?
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This is what Hacker News is for.
A hot topic for sure, but this is a highly simplified view in my opinion. (remember too that everyone's experiences vary)

>There are tools that can evaluate your existing software code and determine estimated levels of technical debt. If your IT department is not using this, force them to do it. If they can’t, hire someone who can

Tools shouldn't be a requirement, a culture of open dialog should be. Your team knows where the risks are, make sure they are comfortable raising issues and are able to prioritize them AS A TEAM.

>Lastly, now that you now about the silent killer, make sure that you adopt the software development practices necessary to insure that excellent code quality is baked into the product. Adopt BDD/TDD and Continuous Integration and Delivery.

For my teams I like to put the CI foundations first instead of last. This lays the groundwork for TDD. Also understand that the dynamics of changing a team to BDD/TDD is a much larger undertaking ( with plenty of risks all in its own right ) and can take months of hard work and time investment.

Setting up CI gets all the delivery roadblocks out in the open and enables the team to focus on repeat-ability and reliability. A simple accounting exercise in documenting all the instances of technical debt does nothing to directly resolve these issues and is a burden in its own right. While sometimes useful, it should be a living document and part of the teams process, not merely a one-and-done step.

A wholly separate topic is explaining technical debt to business users who may not be truly familiar with SDLC.
Your trivial proof is "this thing that is explicitly not part of the language"? The whole point of comments is to say "these next characters are not part of language -foo-, so don't compile/interpret them".

And if you notice, comments are written in a 'traditional' human language, usually English.
Having built Cardboard myself, but used an Oculus DK1 for about 10 minutes, I can tell you for sure that even the first Oculus is a totally different order of magnitude of product compared to Cardboard-style devices. I'm not really a part of the Oculus cult of personality, I didn't back it and probably won't buy a devkit, but this is a ridiculous statement.

Oculus efforts on mobile VR appear to include much more attention, including Carmack et al campaigning to change Samsung phone hardware APIs to improve fidelity.

Magic Leap is a totally different product, AR vs VR.
The amount of luck that goes into winning a battle and summarily a war is insane. Here you have the United Kingdom desperately trying to get supplies into the ports and are stymied by these new magnetic mines.

Only through the absolute luck of a Luftwaffe plane ditching its cargo prematurely, the contact switch not being set, and the salt water not self-priming the mine because the air-dropped mine lands in a swamp does the United Kingdom short-cut research / spying efforts and address the magnetic sea mines.

The countermeasure tests being done through live tests must have been fun to volunteer for: "Take this plane, fly 35 feet off the water and when the mine goes off the blast will shoot you into the air."
I accept that Arxiv material is generally eventually published, and serves as a staging post for publishable material, however I was protesting to the idea that being on Arxiv in any way constitutes peer review.

I note that the lead author is a Physicist, which makes it even more suspect for me - Physics and Theoretical Computer Science share some of the same toolkit, but the tricks and corner cases in each case can be wildly different, meaning that even if someone is a world leader in one field, they can be a complete novice in another!
This is not true. I know the University Police at my college are full fledged state police officers and have all the same rights, protections, and duties as a city patrol officer.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say exactly. If it's not your experience that both sides usually want to make the deal happen when the deal is genuinely mutually beneficial, then I'd say you're probably working with the wrong people (it's amazing how many perverse incentives exist in many companies and some entire industries). I'm not saying that doesn't happen. I just prefer to avoid those types of deals if possible. In fact my point was to the effect that things are quite a bit less scary when you do avoid those types of deals.

But my experience with both big and small deals, is that there's often much more flexibility than people assume, and the only way to know how much flexibility there is, is to push back a little (not for the sake of pushing back, but if there's something that you genuinely want or that bothers you about the deal, speak up).

Also, you seem to be saying that when deals get to a size large enough to warrant participation of legal departments, that there is no flexibility. That is the opposite of true, as the only reason the legal department would be involved in the first place is to work out the "custom", or non-standard, parts of the deal. If there were zero flexibility in the deal, then everyone would just use the standard documents that already exist for that deal, fill in the blanks, and sign away.

Why do large deals often result in greater than $50k-$200k or more in legal costs though? It's because the two legal teams are actually negotiating (i.e. fleshing out and changing the terms of the deal that need to be changed).
There's no glory in jeopardizing your wellbeing. And it's hard enough to make money in any market, especially one as competitive as fantasy sports, where all the big players have massive audiences already built-in.
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My bank's site is SSLv3-only. Banks do the least amount of security they can get away with, because they do not compete on security and they are insured against loss and the customers indirectly pay for the insurance via fees.
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The code for the Mario demo has a signal every 1/25th of a second due to the (fps 25) function call in it.

I'm not entirely sure why its updating more on keyboard, I just started using Elm but it could be related to the demo combining fps and key events into a single pipe and reacting on it. So by hitting keys you may be emitting extra events it needs to react to.
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For languages other than raw machine code, the main purpose that they exist is human-to-human communication.

If this were the case, then write-once software would be done in machine code. Instead, the 'constraint' you mention is the main purpose of programming languages.
It's fair to highlight the less-ideal parts of AngularJS, but IMO the ecosystem and testing integration is as important as the framework code itself. Most of the issues the author mentions can be mitigated (eg. use ui-router).

The momentum behind AngularJS is huge, and with the 1.3 release I feel like 90% of webapps can be written well in Angular. Ionic is a great example of pushing AngularJS to the edge with mobile applications.

It really is up to the team to enforce good practices, pair or review code and refactor and unit test components. There is no framework which can make this happen, you need to be disciplined and always look to leanr more and improve the code you have written.

The author certainly does not recommend anything else, so where to now?
I personally think the current AZ plate template is superior to the one offered by this article:

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if code wasn't a human language we'd write it in binary, straight to disk.
It's nothing new:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/31/northernireland.ri... (2000)

I'm sure all they learned about politicians/activitists and their family helped in the "negotiations" on Northern Ireland and other matters.
Almost all publishers and journals have adopted a "hybrid" model, where you can publish in a paywall journal but pay a fee to have your particular article made available OA. I think if you want to publish in Cell and get your article OA all you have to do is pay $5k.

At Sage our OA fees for hybrid journals range a lot, but are typically either $1,500 or $3,000 (source: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/SAGE-Choic...). The more prestigious the journal the more the fee is typically. Also, high fees are common in hard sciences (where everything is grant funded, like from Gates, NIH, etc) but the fees are typically much lower in social sciences and humanities where there aren't typically publication fees built into research grants. I don't think we (Sage) publish anything that can command the $5k like Cell and Nature, which is basically the price point where OA fees top out.

So the authors will still want the prestige of the top-tier journals (at least while hiring decisions are still made with that metric), and one byproduct of mandates like these is more APCs flowing to the big publishers.
It might just mean that they publish in the same places and just check a box that says "our funding agency mandates open access" when filling out the copyright license/transfer paperwork.
It's cool seeing this technology being used.
My dad had a PDP-11/23 in the his basement along with three 5 MB RL01 hard disk drives and 256K RX01 8" floppy disk drive to with it.
Is there anything useful/interesting to do with this technology today?
The detail link elaborates:

> to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication

This new policy removes the 12 month embargo.
It is hosted on AWS! I am just a dev ops n00b. Working out the kinks at the moment.
Apologies for the downtime. Should be back up now.
Small increase in salary for less than college degree
I think he was referring to Java