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And even low-Tc superconductors looked "impossible" under the physics of their day. No question about it! Science thrives on surprises: it's the very best part of what we do.

But maybe non-physicists don't have a sense of the range of meanings that "that isn't possible within current theory" can have. High-Tc might have been "impossible" under basic BCS superconductivity theory, but BCS theory itself taught us that it was possible to find novel theoretical mechanisms generating zero resistance, so needing a new one was surprising but not unprecedented. "Standard" low-Tc superconductivity appeared "impossible" under the usual models of materials' resistivity, but even that was merely a violation of a well-tested model when it was extended to a previously untested very-low-temperature regime. Resolving that apparent impossibility didn't require rewriting any fundamental principles, it just required very careful application of the existing theoretical framework.

These speculative new propulsion theories appear to violate the conservation laws underlying all of our existing models of physics, and in an experimental regime of size/temperature/etc. where (I believe) they have been very well-tested in the past. Any calculation within the framework of quantum field theory or general relativity will inevitably result in momentum being (locally) conserved: it's unavoidably built in to the formalism. So as I said to begin with, although it's obviously not truly impossible that some entirely different framework could turn out to be correct, that is an enormously bigger jump than any stage of the discovery and explanation of superconductivity.
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You should put your email address in your HN profile, so people can contact you. :-)
Wearing a suit makes you think different
I did it by hand, changing the code as I saw fit and learning as much about the NES as I could.

I haven't tried GopherJS, but I don't have much Go experience apart from reading it. On a related note, I read that porting the Go version to Android would be difficult and is still far in the future: https://github.com/fogleman/nes/issues/7
> I'm glad that you're having fun there, getting your 15 minutes of fame

Your comment's substantive point is squandered by this personal ugliness. That's not ok here.
That's a feature ("font boosting"). It's a total mystery to me how something working so badly could ship, especially since the Android Webkit fork had a similar feature working perfectly. But apparently it's of "acceptable quality" in Chrome https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84186#c24
As someone who's used OData for this sort of strong typed, ad-hoc interaction with the server, I'm really happy to see Facebook push this idea. Compared to OData, I really like how GraphGL's approach of making a query look like the data it's requesting.
The open question of Silicon Valley's moral survival is a matter that does engage with the history of the place. We can't make serious attempts at fixing it without understanding where it has been.
No, actually: http://media.cq.com/50Richest/

(And "millionaire" (net worth >$1M) isn't really a terribly high bar for mid- to late-career professionals.) That's not to say they're representative of their average constituents' income levels but I wouldn't reasonably expect them to be.
Go read up on Eratosthenes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
Let me get this straight. We have an emulator for 1985 hardware that was written in a pretty new language (Go), ported to a language that isn't even 1.0 (Nim), compiled to C, then compiled to JavaScript? And the damn thing actually works? That's kind of amazing.
No doubt the Valley will survive and thrive. However it will continue its path toward the business culture lead of Hollywood: further concentration of power and capital, more emphasis on acquaintance-level connections (something innately technical people don't often do naturally), and an ever-increasing cost barrier to entry. Hollywood of course has had the time to take this to the extreme, but the "work for free and hope to get noticed" effect is probably already upon us. I have to wonder how many startups are formed now with the intent to turn a profit from operations, rather than simply on the hopes of a large acquisition after obtaining some measurably significant social relevance.
I think the things we want to conceptually do at least with code are not that complex, but the tools we have are. I don't know how to prove that without actually building better tools.

One example might be that sync is a complex problem, but Dropbox does a pretty good job of creating a simple tool to manage it. So even if source control is inherently complex, perhaps the tools to manage it do not have to be.

To continue with your utensil example, perhaps we should have one version control system for games, another for individuals and another for small teams rather than trying to make one tool do all those things.
[name redacted] from Palo Alto, CA- I just checked out your LinkedIn and this is a for-profit business. You are lying here.
And what of all the molten wires that _were_ charging said battery?
If someone is interested in contributing and not sure where to start, here's a list of issues tagged as easy: https://github.com/servo/servo/labels/E-easy

Not sure if it is still true but a few months back (6 maybe?), there was a post on HN about contributing to Servo where OP said that he found it easy to contribute despite the fact that he didn't have prior experience in rust. As this post mentions, the code base is relatively small and a lot of simple features were still missing, at least back then.

Bugs Ahoy is a handy tool for finding easy issues in Mozilla projects but seems to be down at the moment http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/?servo=1
Integrating a servo and a vim/emacs type editor
> but only earn returns on average usage

Not if the price they sell at is different at different hours.
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I wish the author didn't make the same mistake as Haskell by calling it return. But i guess it has become convention now.
I'd be interested in seeing whether different hardware paradigms lead to different OS paradigms. He says they're working on Linux for The Machine, but I wonder if that's their endgame or if it's just to have something to run on it for now.

Any OS-dev people able to chime in on what they would do?
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What is the current goal with Servo? The last time I felt well informed, I think it was described as just a research project, with zero intention to ever supplant Firefox. Is that still the case? There seems to be an awful lot of promise and effort if there's no plans to make it a production ready browser.
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From a Bayesian perspective, it isn't. One experiment that is difficult to disprove does not carry the same weight as 5 different ones giving similar results.
> Installation of modules within the source directory - no need of a virtualenv. This isn't always good news, but it's generally pretty useful.

This isn't really a feature of npm or a failing of pip. Isn't this more of an evaluation of Node.js vs. Python? I'm sure that if Python loaded a local python_modules directory by default, pip would use it.
You could presumably try something like TaskRabbit although I have no personal experience and it would presumably cost more than $20-30 for the length of time you cite.
Another reason, which you briefly touched upon, is the fact that in large crowds, your view is largely obstructed by the people around you. You completely lose orientation and follow the movement/pushing of people as it's obvious there are people exiting that way.
This has been discussed over and over, but organisations aren't required to release GPL code that never leaves their servers. GPL code belongs to the organisation and the organisation alone if hired programmers work on it on behalf of the organisation.

The programmer in question did not own the code, GS did. By releasing the code, he's stealing from them. End of story.

Source - I've actually read the whole GPL licence.
I couldn't tell if the Nim result was actually statically linked. If it was, then it almost certainly wasn't using glibc, because the binary would certainly be much fatter.
The basic problem is that it's hard to tell the difference between nested tables used for nested tabular content and nested tables being (ab)used for layout, as HN does.
The Houston office is only assembly and order execution. We don't intend to build an R&D unit there.
How to Make Pretty Charts
Certain things are still being tested/rebuilt to work with the latest GCC.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/36926
>On the one hand, it's possible the counsellor concluded that he was a threat to others at the College---an immediate threat, which would require an immediate response.

And they may have protected the other students at the cost of selling out the integrity of therapy in general. Think of a judge, given the smoking gun needed to convict a murderer that was obtained by unconstitutional means. He must let the murderer go because, while releasing the murder introduces risks to the public, the risk of not upholding the Constitution is even greater.

As it stands, I would no more advise someone to see a therapist than I would advise them to tell everything to a defense lawyer in a country where the defense lawyer tells everything to the prosecutor and it is all admissible in court.
Well that's the point: you would, so that's an argument why the device doesn't likely work.
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That makes for a very exciting day.
"local" seems like a fairly large assumption for something hypothesized by at least some to work through quantum mechanics, of which a central tenant is non-locality. In fact, given the consistency of qm experimental results over the past 50 or so years, it seems entirely plausible to think that it would be a field of study which could upend classical physics.

All that being said I agree extreme skepticism is healthy here, though arrogance or dismissal doesn't seem quite appropriate as these results continue to be reproduced.
Velocity compared to what? You have an infinite number of velocities, depending on what you compare to. But you can only have one acceleration at any given time. So how can your acceleration depend on your velocity?
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Well, when I wrote this stuff for the first time a couple of years ago, NVIDIA's official position was "we have no plans to support Wayland". Even now I suspect X will be around for years.

I will be the first to cheer X's demise, as we've had so many problems with multithreading and X, but we have no choice right now.
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LOL

Please rephrase your future comments to include "r3mote" instead of REDACTED.

:)
> - real ObjC compiler (clang) + runtime (unspecified)

It seems Microsoft actually wrote their own Objective-C runtime. I mean otherwise the guy would have said "we ported Apple's runtime" or something like that. But he said "We are providing you with a great Objective-C runtime."

Crazy times.

EDIT: Definitely a new runtime written by Microsoft. The rest of the talk made that clear.
If Servo becomes the default layout engine for Firefox, I really hope that having one more engine in the mix forces everyone towards standards compliance, or at least uniformity. Obviously, they're still working out basic functionality, so they've got a way to go before that becomes a concern. But if the project is successful, it's going to be one more browser type for web designers to worry about. Either that or Servo's multi-threaded speed and safety are so awesome that all the major browser developers decide to ditch their own engines and everybody settles on Servo.
> Reduce the patent age from 100 years to a decade.

The duration of a patent in the US is 17 years, AFAIK.
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That's no longer really true. A/C units are in the past 10 years getting quite common in the hot parts of Europe now. In the '90s fewer than 10% of households had them in Italy or Spain, but that has jumped to nearly 50% now. People do use it a lot less, though: they are typically individual units, not central A/C, and only used for short periods on very hot days, not run continuously with a thermostat setting.
To the extent that's true, it's not really material to this case, right? His own lawyer stipulated to the facts. The dispute was a matter of law, not of fact.

I agree with the prevailing sentiment on HN that (a) it's too easy to get an indictment (the grand jury is supposed to be adversarial against the prosecutors and isn't) and (b) prosecutors bias --- my belief is: primarily bias towards cases they can win easily --- has subverted the goal of prosecutorial discretion.

But the facts of this case suggest a theft that could reasonably be valued at extremely high numbers. For it to be heard in court doesn't sound like a miscarriage of justice.
As long as the rants aren't inappropriate and are related to whatever professional area you're in, I wouldn't think they're a problem. e.g. ranting about the webdev toolchain would be reasonable, ranting about current events or personal viewpoints could raise red flags.
Funny coincidence - I was just reading about DragonBox this morning in The Game Believes in You (a new book by Greg Toppo about educational games) and here it is on HN! The book is a good read (so far) if you're interested in this sort of stuff.
Because a photon rocket is throwing stuff out the back like any other rocket. It doesn't really matter that it's just photons due to mass-energy equivalence.
>In what world is banning someone from college the right approach to handle someone with obvious mental issues disclosing his problems in a counseling center?

Any potential threat of negative repercussions only serves to destroy trust between a potential client and any therapist.

Imagine what would happen if people with AIDs had their info put into a public database (especially back when fear of the disease was much higher)? It would have destroyed not only the trust of those with or who might have AIDs, but of many people with other health concerns as well.
Man, I really wish there were a way to tag meta-commentary (like this) so I could avoid reading complaints from the comment guideline police.
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Where does he say its a non profit?
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Our official roadmap/goals for Servo are here:
https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap

So, it's definitely no longer "just a research project," but the challenges of finding initial product targets and building out the rest of the Web Platform are definitely large ones!
Borges at least made some interesting points (most of which are spot on, e.g. the film being too grand, etc.) but Sartre's review is populistic:

"Kane might have been interesting for the Americans, [but] it is completely passé for us, because the whole film is based on a misconception of what cinema is all about."

What does that even mean, assuming "us" means the French and not film connoisseurs anywhere in the world? Note that Truffaut, who was himself heavily influenced by Hitchock, later heavily criticizes general tendencies of French film of this era in a famous essay on (PDF: https://soma.sbcc.edu/users/davega/FILMST_113/Filmst113_ExFi...)

This xkcd strip seemed to be relevant in this case: https://xkcd.com/1112/
It's like irc. Irc with more formatting.

Can I insert pictures?

woo, a time slider. nice.
Old hardware is not necessarily hard to emulate. Often it's the opposite.
I disagree. To some people it is even more sexy.
The imposition of your morals is not a "serious attempt" to fix anything. You offer nothing but negative rants and it's tiring, to be frank.
This is exactly my attitude. I'm shocked that people don't think twice about spending money on frivolous or even harmful things, but balk at the idea of paying for pure research.
This also makes the mistake of requiring a separate -MM step before building the target -- if a target doesn't exist, you have to build it regardless of its dependencies! -MMD with allows the correct behavior of always building the first time, then using dependency information for partial rebuilds.
nobody objects to that.. the thing is, it sounds as if they have some very cool technology (memristors) which could make other existing products significantly better, but are explicitly withholding because they want to force some paradigm shift.. that seems like a pretty bold bet. What if nobody wants it?
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np, was just the first thing I noticed; enjoyed the article though, thank you.
Wishful thinking, if not base motives, overpowers most common sense.

This seems to be about "reaction-less drives" - I remember reading about how hard-headed SF editor J.W.Campbell had a weak spot for such devices, several decades ago. He entertained a few demos, if memory serves.

Didn't pan out then, probably won't now.
If self-signed certs are accepted silently and shown as "not secure", the way plain HTTP is accepted and shown (per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9472037 proposal), the user won't need to click through anything.

Self-signed HTTPS is in no way less secure than unencrypted HTTPS.