skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, as noted on the NASA website itself:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/warp/warp.html

"Ever since the sound barrier was broken, people have turned their attention to how we can break the light speed barrier. But “Warp Drive” or any other term for faster-than-light travel still remains at the level of speculation.

The bulk of scientific knowledge concludes that it’s impossible, especially when considering Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. There are certainly some credible concepts in scientific literature, however it’s too soon to know if they are viable.

Science fiction writers have given us many images of interstellar travel, but traveling at the speed of light is simply imaginary at present.

In the meantime, science moves forward. And while NASA is not pursuing interstellar flight, scientists here continue to advance ion propulsion for missions to deep space and beyond using solar electric power. This form of propulsion is the fastest and most efficient to date.

There are many “absurd” theories that have become reality over the years of scientific research. But for the near future, warp drive remains a dream.

If you would like to know more about the theories of interstellar flight, you should visit the Tau Zero Foundation. Marc Millis, a former NASA Glenn physicist, founded the organization to consider revolutionary advancements in propulsion."
I believe that amn89 was saying that Krugman's version was an after the fact justification.
might want to get knowledgeable on miyamoto as well as read the article for starters. Not really appropriate to ask a person to consolidate the current state of video games when plenty of knowledge is available on the internet easily.
> It would just increase their workload...

Not at all, a remotely descriptive name would be far easier to fabricate than a hideously contrived backronym. Naming something is nontrivial, as a developer I understand and appreciate that, but that's no excuse for creating misnomers with the express intent of manipulating other people.

> ... and open themselves up to political attacks for no real gain.

That logic would seem to work for any other unethical and/or unpleasant activity, "Everybody else is doing it and I would be disadvantaged if I didn't as well!"

> Honest naming would just hurt these bill's chances.

I highly doubt it, I'm fairly certain bill names are only to mislead the public as there's a pretty clean dichotomy between the two parties in the U.S. and their votes are usually a pretty standard party split.
Based on the normal distribution, 0 should be somewhere around 97% confidence. But that becomes suddenly less impressive when you consider the fact that they looked at each month separately. So after looking at 9 numbers, they found 1 that was 1/30. The odds of seeing THAT are over 30%!

So yes, this does seem like a chance result to me. As the saying goes, "You torture the data until it confesses."
This is a little old, surely? That's 15 years ago; not even an update to whether they've changed since?
We have benchmarks (using queries extracted from real Google apps) that show that our query-optimizing caching layer speeds up IndexedDB performance by a factor of 100.

See: https://github.com/foam-framework/foam/blob/master/demos/pho...

Also, load the Empire.js presentation and then press the '+' button on the bottom right. This will load and run all 25 slides at once, at which point you'll have over 20k data-bindings, both one- and two-way, 7k objects, 6k of which are currently being animated.

See: http://foam-framework.github.io/foam/foam/index.html?model=f...

We are capable of handling this many data-bindings efficiently because we don't rely on a digest/diff cycle. Since we generate the JS prototypes from our models, we are able to install hooks into the generated property getters and setters so that we can receive update notifications.

Also notice that our GMail client can perform searches on the keystroke.

I lead the FOAM project at Google.
Of course, since NASA hasn't commented yet on the CNET article, you can decide whether to believe CNET or NASA which has been notoriously open about almost all it's activities. Even the moon landing :-)
It's not too hard to accurately fingerprint source of downloads/conversions. Refer: https://github.com/jkotchoff/adwords_conversion_tracking_tit...
SVN tags and branches correspond quite closely to Git tags and branches, I think; "tag" is a naming of a commit, "branch" is an evolving repository that shares history (and perhaps future, if merged) with other such "branches".

Except Git tracks history of the named branch in the reflog, and SVN (and others, I would guess) track it inside the repository. This is a huge difference for archeologists, but quite minor in practice from my experience.
These best RT's of the day/week and other automated lists seem not unlike Facebook's excessive Game app messages. They were a proper nuisance until you became able to hide them. Twitter needs some tools for self-curating. For example some manual filter that you could teach which kind of messages to hide.
Vast number of people will never adopt any third party options.
You probably replied to a craigslist email which used your real email address via reply-to field and they were using gmail which stored this information.
You ask for full name, workplace, job title, hometown, email and you want to send this information to "everyone"?
I don't know :-)
There's an unbelievable amount of pretentiousness in this thread, it's ridiculous.
You're competing on price, and drivers can use all services at the same time. If a driver gets more of the cut from another service they'll use that too - then they'll of course preference requests from the service that pays them more. It just snowballs - there isn't enough friction associated with switching services as a customer or as a driver to prevent competition on price point until the margins are razor, and then you're McDonalds. Which is fine, but you can't assume current margins.
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My current theory is that I gave him my phone number in one of the emails, but every email transaction was through the pseudo-anonymous craigslist email that is generated per listing.

He probably has a contact with that (now bad) email and my (still current) phone number. Which is my phone number on linkedin.

That kind of makes sense, but it still doesn't make me very happy about their methods.
With the said RaspberryJuice you don't need to have a Raspberry Pi.

I wrote a RaspberryJuice+Python command server so you can have run python functions inside minecraft. [0]

[0] https://github.com/wensheng/JuicyRaspberryPie
I have read large portions of this in the past. I can't fathom working for a company where one of the top executives put out such lucid, technically correct, and interesting documents.
No. Say we choose 100ms as the (soft) deadline, since some study showed users consider a response time anywhere within 100ms to be "instant". Under light load, all requests are served within 100ms. Under heavy load, response time of some requests can exceed 100ms, but the scheduling algorithm will (likely) try to minimize the quality loss.

If we increase the deadline to be 200ms, then even under light load, the response time of some requests can exceed 100ms. That's not what you want.
As others have pointed out, you're obviously wrong here. The investors are big boys who knew what they were getting into when they let the founders take money off the table. If anything, the founders are being stand up guys by returning the investment money rather than "pivoting" into the ground.
Minix 3 doesn't have Debian userspace :)
your choice of the biggest smart phone is a personal choice, makes a tablet unnecessary for you, not OBSOLETE. You're going to find devices spread out more rather than consolidate. despite what people think, things get more complex, not less and the market for products grows a longer tail rather than things disappearing.
While these are nice... Are there no headline features? Macros or something?
Pretty sure the crack from that would be much louder.
Good answers. To be clear I am not complaining. Actually I love it. I love struggling through it and the feeling of triumph when solving those problems.

I think the difficulty is a rite of passage to become a functional programmer, however smoother ramps would help, and I am sure your book will be a great help and is much needed.
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Honest feedback - looks like you're trying to charge me for something that's free. Calling a restaurant to make a reservation is not that big of a hassle.
This definitely plays well with an idea I've pontificated on for a long time, to the dismay/annoyance of my close friends and colleagues.

The thought is simply that the process of iconifying anything (words, people, companies) inherently decouples the item from the original idea behind it. This introduces a dangerous implication wherein the icon can then be re-appropriated in support of literally any idea, including the antithesis of the original idea this thing was supposed to represent.

Everything from "Disruptive Technology" to "Christian" to "ObamaCare" to "Terrorist" (feel free to replace the last with Witch, Homosexual, Communist, or an assortment of derogatory racial slurs, depending the era you're discussing) is subject to this sort of propagandizing via the iconifying process.

Scary stuff, and very important to notice and discuss now, before "Freedom of Speech" becomes simply another of the icons.
This is really cool. I've heard good things about reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest on tablets, because all of the footnotes are hyperlinks - easier than using two bookmarks as you read the book. There also was an internet forum for people who would read it each summer, following along and discussing to clarify confusion (called Infinite Summer, I think it's now defunct).
Nasa Messenger spacecraft crashes into Mercury after four-year mission
> We stopped using case insensitive file systems a long time ago, didn't we?

Windows didn't.

But even Windows doesn't use an underscore-insensitive file system.
oddly appropriate that the linked webpage for the language [http://esolangs.org/wiki/Time_Out] fails with ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
I LOVE THE IDEA:) I'll try to do that in a future release! Definitely
Microsoft scares me, for no good reason. Would, say, a Ruby or node.js-oriented web developer find the F#/.NET community lacking, incomplete, unfriendly, uncool? Is there even a community to speak of?

What's to stop a young developer from going against the grain and adopting .NET?

(Here come the downvotes. Shun the "hipster." But really, I'm looking for a subjective perspective from somebody on "the other side." I don't even know how to search for ".NET" on Github. For instance, is NuGet anything like npm or gem?)
Correct, the problem I was facing prior to this announcement is specific to mobile web (i.e. open download link from browser)
There is mention of brewing duck pond water (I believe in Davis) in the documentary "How Beer Saved the World". A fun and informative 45min.

https://vimeo.com/23278902
The terminology is a little confusing. It's better to call the NFA to DFA algorithm the "subset construction". The power set is a term which is used to denote the set of all subsets of a set. The states of a DFA are not all the possible subsets of the NFA; just those subsets which are generated by epsilon-closures on the state transitions. I.e. the set of DFA states consists of a subset of the power set of the NFA states.
Safety might prohibit different identifiers with a certain degree of similarity, but it wouldn't treat different-but-similar identifiers as if they were the same.

Treating them as the same creates more danger -- the danger that the programmer intended them to be different, but the language treated them the same -- rather than mitigating danger.
Was this possibly at the forefront of the decision to buy Minecraft - like how do we get kids in at the ground floor; or is that so obvious I should kick myself for not seeing it before. I saw it as a userbase acquisition before but didn't see how it fed in to their other business outside gaming, smart.
I do not like how the article easily dismisses the point that this guys wife became a centenarian with "Good genes, perhaps, but probably not her husband’s exercises, which she was said to have shunned."
Screenleap (YC W12) is hiring a customer support rep (remote okay)
Screenleap allows you to share your screen and view it from any web-enabled device without installing any software. We also allow developers to add screen sharing to their applications using our API (think Twilio for screen sharing). Our mission is to do for screen sharing what Dropbox did for file sharing: make screen sharing a hassle-free experience that just works across all devices. The company is seed-funded by Y Combinator and other investors and is profitable.

We are looking for a friendly, energetic, and reliable individual who aspires to provide our users amazing support.

Responsibilities:

* Respond to email support requests using information from support knowledgebase

* Help users troubleshoot issues with their screen shares and file detailed bug reports if necessary

* Handle basic account management for users (upgrades, downgrades, trials)

* Craft responses to questions not already in support knowledgebase

* Test out new and existing features on Mac and Windows and write up description for discovered bugs

* Professionally represent the Screenleap brand, vision, and values at all times

Requirements:

* Strong work ethic and commitment

* Good written and verbal English communication skills

* Positive, team-oriented attitude

Nice-to-haves:

* Interest in developer evangelism

Benefits:

* Competitive salary

* Health insurance

* Flexible work schedule

* Work from anywhere

To apply, please follow the link below:

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DevOps: Better Than the Sum of Its Parts
Show HN: A tightly coupled set of services designed for startups on a budget
Well, yes, it is.

And its worse, especially when the variables aren't "foo_bar" and "foo_Bar", but, say, "cycle_often" and "cycle_of_ten".
The 'radio on the internet' bit seems to point to Mark Cuban being at least a partial inspiration.
..or get the best of both worlds with a data mashup.
yet for some reason (and even with an app that has arguably superior features), sidecar just can't get it up.
You'd be surprised how many developers think brace completion or even code competion is trying to help them type. I've been in huge flame wars in the past where users simply misunderstood why a feature was there and what it's benefits were (brace completion...better interactive feedback, code completion...API discovery).
I'm not sure I understand the use of least squares here.

Why not use a Hough transform with each drawn point voting for a center, then average the radius?

It's not a critic - just me wondering why.
I uploaded a photo with a picture of myself (I'm 25) and my 11-year old sister. I got guessed as 44, she was guessed at 74.

I know I look older than my age (though I wouldn't think 19 years older), but my 11-year-old sister coming up as 74 was surprising. What's 63 years, give or take?
"If one particle can be described by two variables, then to describe the most general state of n particles, we need 2n variables. If we have 100 particles, we need 2100 variables, which is roughly 1 with 30 zeros. This number is so big that computers will never have so much memory."

I think he meant ... 2^100 variables... but am i wrong or this is not good math?
Should a parent who allows their child get fat be tried for negligent homicide for knocking years off their life?

Stay out of other peoples decision on how they raise their kids. (As in by force, enticing / propaganda I have np with)

She believed she was doing the right thing and didn't do it to hurt the child. AFAIK she wasn't diagnosed as mentally ill.

Do we really want the government raising our children by rule of law?
>To be clear I am not complaining.

Oh sure, I didn't figure you were. I just wanted (other) people to understand that, yes, we're aware of the friction and difficulties and that we're working on it.

>I think the difficulty is a rite of passage to become a functional programmer

Hum. There's some place and purpose for this, such as with professional fields like law and medicine. I'm not sure add'l difficulty beyond what is essential to understanding the material is valuable except as a historic social "glue" for embattled/relatively small programming language communities like Haskell and ML.

>I am sure your book will be a great help and is much needed.

We hope so and believe it'll be an improvement. We've been testing the material pretty aggressively with people completely new to programming. We're going to start testing with people that already code but don't know FP soon.

If the book sells well enough, we've got follow-up books in mind (4+ in the queue).
The whole article is about features added. The first point is even about improvements to macros.
I love that you can specify 1 person...

TLC is going to have a nice database of very weird people who would use a service like this to make sure they get to go out to a fancy restaurant twice a month, by themselves...
>At the gas tank integrated oil companies make about 7 cents per gallon

This has to be the figure for what the owner of the gas station makes, which in some instances is the oil company itself, but in many instances is a franchisee. Some states actually have price controls on gas to protect small "mom and pop" stations from "integrated" competitors(!) So, Exxon, et al. are making a hell of a lot more than $.07 per gallon of unleaded gas, not to mention the fact that gasoline is just one product that comes out of a barrel of oil.

I think people do see Apple as greedy, but even more people perceive thier products as non-commodity, luxury goods and think Apple is justified. A lot of people also identify with the Apple brand on a personal level. I don't think anyone thinks of themselves as an Exxon or BP person. Millions of people think of themselves as "Apple people."
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What carries culture is people, not the language they speak. Do all English speaking people think the same and have no identity?

We humans are very good at both forming groups as well as self-segregation. There will never be total conformance and homogeneity. If you think certain group of people fall into that category, that's because your own lack of understanding of them rather than them being the same.

In fact, if we all spoke the same language, there will actually be more understanding and less perceived sameness or difference.
Doesn't seem so. Just a good ol' fashioned incremental update.
Ok, but not in any way rhetorically, why should anyone care whether you want one? "I don’t like being 'plugged in' all the time" is not a wider point. It's a very narrow point. It's an expression of your own self-interest.

I'm not saying you should/shouldn't get an Apple watch. I'm trying to extract some value from what you've written outside of knowing you a little better. Nice to meet you :)

I don't like the way food looks on blue dinner plates. So I don't buy blue dinner plates. Other than informing you of my preference, what value can you extract from knowing this?

I almost passed this HN submission by entirely in my news feed. I know this post will come across as typical HN stone tossing, but I noticed that your username and the domain name were the same, so I thought, "Hey, this guy obviously wants to share his thoughts with the world, so I should take the opportunity to provide some feedback." I hope you won't find my comments too mean spirited. I really do mean them constructively.
Ask HN: How important is internationalization for developer tools products?
To what extent do developers around the world know English?

Is it important to develop multi language versions of developer tools?
LOL
<Spoiler alert>
I still think vorlons were here to help before moving to the next level at the very end, leaving the young races driving the galaxy
HN isn't really the place to get into a long conversation on this, but your comment supports even more the idea that the easiest way to kiss someone is to simply ask for consent before you do. Some guys have this idea that "Can I kiss you" will complicate things or kill the moment, but I've seen no evidence that that's true. It's four words, and saves you from the problems that come up if you kiss her and she wasn't comfortable with it.
George Soros May Face a $6.7B Tax Bill
Unfortunately F# doesn't really have macro support... "working with expression trees is becoming easier than ever" but you can't actually unquote/eval an arbitrary expression tree.

The only purpose I can see for expression trees is implementing a DSL with F# syntax.
Hmm? Google Finance says they made about $31M last year.
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You should really try SuSE again. I was a Fedora user too until I recently decided to try OpenSuSE and aside from a few quirks I think it's one of the best out of the box experiences I've had on Linux.

Main issues I had came down to knowledge of the OS. Their default software repos don't seem to have nearly as many programs as Fedora/Ubuntu, but by adding a few external repos you'll get all that back.
You've misinterpreted my point.

Blinking LEDs is the Hello World of embedded systems. But if I have to develop all of the software myself that I want to run on the Pi, I'd rather just use Linux.

The only benefit I see about having Windows running on the Pi, is so actual Windows applications can be downloaded and run on it.

If that functionality exists, there should be a demo where you boot up the Pi, access the Windows store, and download/run a real application.
Because the Pi version of minecraft has an api http://wiki.vg/Minecraft_Pi_Protocol
Also if you have younger kids check out https://github.com/scratch2mcpi/scratch2mcpi run a scratch extension on your pc and place blocks in minecraft on the Pi. It goes down well at our local coderdojo.
It's a thinly veiled Mark Cuban, who sold his radio on the internet startup to Yahoo and has since managed to increase his net worth from 2.5 billion dollars to a whopping 2.7 billion dollars.
Ahh, the benefits of a nice stable language with no breaking changes.
Did this affect anyone's business significantly? If so, how?
This is why we need more devices like Pyra [1], which was in the frontpage today [2]. Or its sister project, the Neo900 [3].

To me, current mobile phones seem like a step backwards in many fronts, as highlighted by the EFF or the Neo900 developers [4]:

- It should be possible to install your preferred OS, pretty much like you do on a PC.

- Hardware components should be more open. When not possible, they should be isolated like the Neo900 will do [4].

These two things would lead to much better privacy, and less planned obsolescence. It's atrocious that many cell phones don't get software updates past the 24 months mark.

We should get much more serious about this. The current mobile landscape is depressing.

[1] http://pyra-handheld.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9463032

[3] http://neo900.org/

[4] http://neo900.org/stuff/ohsw2014/ohsw2014.pdf
> If you're involuntarily collecting information then Mixpanel or GA are not going anywhere.

Expect a policy change in 3.. 2.. 1..
When everyone is doing something contrary to your instincts, it can be hard to trust your instincts... I think it's pretty common, actually.
The Problem with Mobile phones is that the service is so unreliable and carrier fees are insane..especially if you're running a mobile office. I opt for VoIP services like Line2.

www.line2.com
There is a lot more details on the MSDN blogs:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/04/29/rounding-o...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/fsharpteam/archive/2014/11/12/announ...

For me the most welcome change is the vastly improved consistency of the Seq/List/Array APIs.