skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not worth getting excited about. Really.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. These drives would violate conservation of momentum.[0] Conservation of momentum is built in to the known laws of physics at an extraordinarily deep level. It is obviously not impossible that our known laws are wrong, but the alternative would be to somehow produce a radically different set of physical laws that nevertheless reproduce every test of existing theory to high precision (as much as 14 digits of accuracy in some cases). And you probably also need to explain why the existing theory worked so very well if its bedrock foundation doesn't describe our universe.

So really, don't get excited. And don't send these folks money that could do real good elsewhere until they give at least some small reason to expect that it's not a wild goose chase.

(Edit to add: I wish this were real, too. With all my heart. But it's not a realistic wish.) [Re-edited to cut some less-appropriate phrasing.]

[0] Yes, I know the EmDrive site FAQ (http://emdrive.com/faq.html) claims that it doesn't violate conservation of momentum. The explanation of why it doesn't actually indicates that it does: "The electromagnetic wave momentum is built up in the resonating cavity, and is transferred to the end walls upon reflection." But the wave's momentum has to come from somewhere, too. So either this is just equivalent to a photon drive (propelled by shooting light out the back), or their device is pulling momentum out of nowhere.
as a surface 3 owner, I want to say that the pen is a disaster. I won't buy it again.

the don't let you to configure the pen's buttons ...
> Guess what, they couldn't get it to work because they didn't understand how it worked.

This isn't necessarily a good sign.
tldr; Efforts to reproduce 100 psychological findings. Only 39 were reproducible. And 61 were not.

Hal Pashler, “A lot of working scientists assume that if it’s published, it’s right,” he says. “This makes it hard to dismiss that there are still a lot of false positives in the literature.”
Where is your parents' house? Ski towns attract people there to party, which may be part of the difference.

My take on the so-called sharing economy is it's a scam run by uber et al to exploit soft employment in the united states by sidestepping the requirement of being an employer in favor of an exploitative game where you can pretend all your employees are contractors and hence not subject to minimum wages, worker's comp, or the majority of legal protections given employees.
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Marijuana should definitely be legal, but I'm conflicted about opiates and cocaine. We can certainly establish a rational basis for banning them based on addictive potential, dependence, &c., if we put alcohol as the worst drug we're willing to tolerate within the law. OTOH, the basis for drug policy, I think, should be harm reduction.

The prospect of heroin corporations selling advertising dirt-cheap heroin on TV is not something I would welcome.
I tend to disagree that the subsidies make sense. In New Zealand, the sell back price recently was reduced in half. The problem is that the price is effectively set by the electricity supplier, which means it's not exactly competitive to sell back. It's gotten to the point where the ROI calculations from this reduction has affected the feasibility of installing solar panels in NZ.
I wasn't making a value judgement on bicycles. Look at the growth curve and adoption rate of bicycles in the western world. The bicycle paved the way for the car. Tubed tires, chains, sealed roads. All for the bicycle. Cities could have been denser, cleaner, quieter and vastly safer with bicycles. Places like Amsterdam weren't always cycling paradise, canals were getting paved for to make streets for cars. In China which has had great bicycle adoption is seeing a state sponsored push to switch over to a car based consumption economy.

Only recently has the bicycle seen a resurgence in the west. Because there is a small uptick doesn't mean bicycles as a technology have succeeded the level they should have compared to the alternatives.

http://planyourcity.net/2013/03/15/amsterdam-the-bicycling-c...
I gamble when I make a trip to Vegas or Atlantic City and I go in with the expectation of losing money. I am a somewhat novice blackjack player. It's typically a social experience so I avoid tables where the players appear to be making their lunch or dinner money. I usually interact with the dealer a lot, asking for advice on hands, etc. My wife plays along side me and she has some incredible luck or skill so I use her to hedge my losses and it seems to work.

I go about once every 3 years or so. The losses I can tolerate are typically on the order of $500/day for a 3-4 day trip but I do my best to avoid hitting that limit and so I play at the daytime $10/hand tables. Suffice it to say, I am not high on the casino's list of valuable players.

Also, I live near a large, popular, all machine casino and have only been there once out of curiosity. Not really appealing and the liquor is not free there.
Yahoo Finance auto-update bug
Yahoo Finance alternatively updates stock prices with the latest data with data that is perhaps 10 minutes old. The new price is shown about 60-70% of the time, and old about 30-40%. It makes it difficult to tell what the price actually is.

I don't mean to post it here, but want to reach someone who works at Yahoo in that group. It's been this way for a very long time, months or even years, and I'm now looking for other data sources (paid even).

Thanks HN.
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Understand that the most likely gate of knowledge that this unlocks is, "oh, there was some kind of magnetic interaction between the test drive and the harness," or something to that effect.

The proper Bayesian approach to these tests is to downgrade your prior of "drives require reaction mass" from 99.99999999% to 99.999999%
Because your explanation is nonsense.

Congress has enough time to fundraise, they have plenty of time to legislate and they do legislate extensively and almost exclusively in the interest of those who give them money.

It has nothing to do with partisan gridlock, that's a complete sideshow circus, notice how large companies routinely get their special interest laws passed no matter what side of the aisle is in charge.
I don't care who's involved, honestly. The problem is that they're a lobby and they actively push for policy changes. That's a full time job in and of itself -- identity verification is also a full time job, and a requirement of a properly functioning PKI.

What I want involved is an identity verification organization whose mission is clearly defined to be identity verification and management of a PKI trust.
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I chose C# for the cross platform nature of it, the strong OO model, the pluggability, and my large established base of Minecraft code in C# to draw from. All of these things make it a strong candidate for a project like TrueCraft.
I had no idea about the elevation changes on the AT:

Appalachian Trail
Distance: 2,175 miles
Total Elevation Gain/Loss: ~515,000 feet

Pacific Crest Trail
Distance: 2,650 miles
Total Elevation Gain/Loss: ~315,000 feet

Continental Divide Trail
Distance: 3,100 miles
Total Elevation Gain/Loss: ~400,000 feet

http://equipped.outdoors.org/2013/10/total-elevation-gainlos...
madoff, enron, ... all without jailtime?
That's a good point. I guess creditcard are just horribly unsecure right now. They're literally pieces of paper (plastic) with a password (credentials) written on them. Usually without any form of 2FA.

Anyway, have you spoken to some other company's about this? It's a very common issue of course, you'll usually have an part of an entire department dedicated to it at larger company's like AirBnb. For shipping there's usually a pretty decent flagging process (check IP, compare shipping address vs creditcard address, flag certain countries as high risk, flag first-buyers for high-price items as high risk etc etc. Once something is flagged you follow up with a phonecall. If someone is spending $30k or $100k and has to wait days to wire it, usually a phone call or an ID selfie (getting popular) isn't such a big deal to arrange everything within 24h.

Anyway, I guess the most important question right now is... did you see bounce rates spike once you started showing people the 'wire only' page? Very curious!

Btw, I generally condone posting information of the scammer on the condition the scammer was warned of the fact the information would get posted and that if he complies, even years later, and returns the money, the info is removed. And on the condition the information was publicly available. And part of that could have been done just fine without illegal access to his email. I sympathise (was scammed two months ago) and in all honesty I'm 99% sure I would've entered the email accounts if I got scammed, but that doesn't mean it's right. At the very least I'd strongly consider taking down those facts, not just for your own protection but also because it glorifies something illegal. Criminals are not alienated from their right to privacy, particularly not at the hands of citizens, as much as it sucks.
What is it with all the job offer thread WHEN THE HIRING THREAD IS AT THE TOP OF THE FREAKING FRONTPAGE?

breathe You are supposed to post job offers in the monthly "Who's hiring thread", not as normal items.
Have you worked with it? I love the idea of a fully powered F# without the kiddie gloves. F* looks pretty neat.
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I learned recently that "Canola" is actually a portmanteau of "Canada" and "oil", named such as calling your product "rapeseed" was seen as a liability.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-secret-history-of-ca...
As someone from a country that gets less sunlight, how do you know the difference between good solar cells and less efficient ones?
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A non-profit, apolitical organization dedicated to identity verification and management of a PKI trust, whose charter includes yearly audits of its systems.
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Yes, I believe every congress member is now a millionaire and most are multi millionaires.
I understand that your job search has been frustrating, and I'm sorry you felt misled by our careers page. I'd prefer not to comment on our decision in this public forum, but feel free to reach out to me offline (you have my contact information of course) if you'd like to discuss further.
I am not so sure. On paper, I would be an ideal candidate, I have a 4.8kW PV system (20 panels), with an inverter the Tesla could likely use. But in practice I generate enough extra power during the sunny months to have credit for the winters, and that's in Portland OR. $3K for a whole-house UPS seems like a lot, somehow...
I'm going to reply to myself, since a friend asked about vendoring.

Our current flow is just to privately (and occasionally publicly) fork something that we care about - to solve the vendoring issue. I could easily see vendoring original sources for builds within gigo, that way we use something like bruise to make it easy to support a virtualenv-like thing for golang.

But today, that's not the problem we had.
Given the daily 10% increase, anyone selling would have to be desperate for cash and, simultaneously, a horrifyingly bad risk. A loan at significantly lower than 10% daily interest could probably be secured using the securities as collateral, so I don't think that's the explanation.
Who is behind this? Is it the EFF? Because it should be the EFF. I gave money to them years ago to do exactly this kind of lobbying, but they haven't been doing much that I can see-- except posting a lot of blog articles. The EFF seems to have gone the way of greenpeace. (I once gave greenpeace a bit of money and then they spent 10 times that hounding me over the next 5 years for more.)
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in addition to 'ctrl+f' you might want to checkout: http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me/city/2015/4/REMOTE
which does a pretty good job of removing the 'No Remo..' entries
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Although experience with our existing technology stack is great, we're much more interested in hiring developers with exceptional problem solving skills, creative out-of-the-box thinking, and comfort with quickly learning, evaluating, and deploying new technologies. While we're not looking for any specific industry experience you should have at least two years of experience and come prepared to join a fast-moving team. Above all else, we're looking for others who are as excited about the potential in this space as we are, and who will be willing to join us in moving fast and breaking things as we execute against that vision.
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I'm not sure what this is supposed to do. You're showing a congress a list of people who disapprove of privacy violations. Then what? Congress knows people disapprove and they don't seem to care.

I dislike slacktivism like this. I feel that it's damaging because it wastes attention and effort that could be put to good use. Instead of taking a photo of yourself and writing a hashtag, become an informed and educated voter who actually votes, votes for people who represent the majority of your beliefs (don't be a single issue voter), and votes for someone who has a track record of governing as they promised they would. Encourage others to do the same. It's literally the only thing that will fix these problems.
Ublox LEA-6T + RTKLIB not enough?
My mom bought a Commodore and I gained the most marketable job skill of all time
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