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I don't understand the implications of this research. Can anyone enlighten me? Clearly, they aren't saying that light travels faster than the previously determined speed of light in a vacuum. Further, they can't mean that information is being transmitted faster than light.

I think they mean something like this crude thought experiment of mine: I shine a laser pointer (a strong one) at a point on the moon and flick my wrist to point it at a distant point, say 4000 miles away, on the moon. The laser dot on the surface of the moon will travel faster than the speed of light if I am rotating the laser pointer fast enough, which because of the distance of the moon isn't difficult at all. This isn't faster than light travel; it's still photons traveling at the speed of light, but they are just arriving at the moon's surface at very slightly different times.
>After watching the examples of our good neighbors to the East you'd think we would have learned our lesson by now

Sorry, as it's 2015, we were looking at the Nordic countries.
Speculation is a thing. BC is still infinitesimal in terms of the global economy and even relatively tiny movements of money can underline or pop a bubble.
Interesting to see an article about this on HN. I consider myself an antinatalist. Antinatalism is a philosophical position that assigns a negative value to birth, and by extension, that it's immoral to have children. However, I think it's silly to try to promote it as a world view others should adopt. It's contrary to our most basic biological instincts. There is absolutely no chance for it to succeed as a movement. I also don't find the environment argument compelling. Our world has no inherent value other than the utility it provides for the creatures who live here. For me, antinatalism is just an issue of individual morality and not something to push as a political or social cause.
>to the basics (rights/health/edu)... we need a couple more planet earths

I don't think that's true. Human rights, health services and education needn't use much resources. The ability the whole planet to drive 3 ton SUVs might be an issue but that's a different matter.
Skype founder Niklas Zennström to lead Europe’s scale-ups
11.3M people, 37% of the electorate, voted in the current government.
Yes but the EU standard (which only Spain doesn't follow IIRC) for measuring unemployment is a more inclusive than the US one.[1]

edit: which isn't to say that France doesn't have higher (comparable) unemployment rates than the US, I believe it does but different government types have different tolerances and expectations for unemployment levels naturally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment#Measurement
So what are you going to do, commit genocide against all the wasps? Not that I am necessarily against genocide in all cases. If every single HIV virus or anthrax bacterium was wiped off the face of the planet I would shed no tears, but you need to think through a position like yours. Are you in favour of whale eradication due to their predation of Krill?
Hydro is ~1/30th of battery costs. Nobody is prediction price swings on that scale.
Take momentum from virtual particles was one, IIRC.
Some of the translations are surely made by a Norwegian. Those are not corn, but wheat bushels. In Norwegian wheat is "korn", and corn is "mais".
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This is great. They replace the software entirely, provide hardware schematics and timing diagram for interfacing, figure out the font format and devise their own fonts. Finally they add a driver to troff - I always wondered at the Mergenthaler Linotron 202 being mentioned in the troff manual.

Note the cost of the Linotron 202 is implied to be relatively inexpensive at $45k without options.

Ken Thompson wrote a disassembler on day one so they could examine the machine code.

Read it! It's full of goodies.
I wish the ObjC was supported for Windows x86 (>= 7) for linking with Gnustep.

In any case, congratulations.

I wonder if the C++ to D translator could be used in other codebases, like Fltk for example.
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Which is why I think it is crucial that we all understand what it is that those party-poopers are actually saying, rather than respond to the whines we're hearing.

The one core point of all of our liberal struggles -- whether "class warfare" as you call it or feminism -- isn't about being content, happy, alive etc.. It is about power[1] and its distribution. Absolute measures of wealth are very important, but so is the distribution of power. As long as the distribution of power is so grossly imbalanced, it means that few of us have a lot of control over the many, or, if you prefer, that the many aren't free[2]. If people learn only one thing about this class-warfare or feminism, it should be this.

This unfair distribution of power is a problem at any scale: within the West, the West vs. the rest of the world etc..

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)

[2]: The word free is a loaded one, and in the taxonomy of values it is an ill-defined one because it is self-contradictory, but I'm using it here very loosely.
This is very different from the Bell inequalities.

The Bell inequalities is an easy to calculate result of quantum mechanic, the whole calculation is less than 1 page long. (It's not easy to discover, but once Bell discovered it, anyone can check the calculation.)

It follows the same rules of all the other QM experiments that have been thoughtfully tested, so it's totally expected to be true. The problem is that it's unintuitive, or to be more clear it's even more unintuitive that the usual QM results.

The loopholes were very weird, like:

"The PRNG of my computer is conspiring with the PRNG generator of your computer to get the results of the Bell inequality. They can conspire using signals that travel at less than the light speed, so perhaps we have conspiring hidden variables and not QM."

So to close the loophole someone has to use a real RNG instead of a PRNG, and be sure that it random. And do the measurements in a short time so the crystal in one site can't conspire with the crystal in the other site, and do the experiments far away so the light doesn't have enough time to travel from one sensor to the other sensor. The loopholes were totally paranoiac loopholes, but to disprove the hidden variables theories you have to close all the loopholes. (I think it's possible to imagine even more weird loopholes, so expect a few linkbait announcement in the next year with the discovery of an insane loophole in the last Bell experiment.)

The EM drive breaks the current accepted physics theories if the thrust/energy ratio if greater than 1/c = 3.33 nano-Newtons per Watt.

Some of the loopholes are:

The electromagnetic force between the wires in the device (it's like an electromagnet, without the iron core, so it's not as strong as a true electromagnet)

The force due to thermal effects, like expansion or convection, because the device get really hot when in use. Some of the experiments measure a delay that is expected when you need some time to heat the device and some time to cool the device after use.

The problem is that they still are closing the obvious loopholes, not the weird ones.

The usual trick is to have a very strong force that is much more than the expected effects of heating and electromagnetic interactions of the wires, but they have measured only a very tiny force.
On a meta level, this is probably a good example to study for the impact of grouping data into classes (most likely the truck driver is just a job that is more easily groupable than the different types of office jobs etc).
I find it ironic that if MMM is having an impact on the price, that irrational actors (people buying into MMM) are inflating the price of Bitcoin (mainly promoted by libertarians).

Anyway, the up swing is impressive now and can't be dismissed as normal volatilty:
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitfinex/btcusd

There will be a big drop at some point, no one really wants to sell when it's rising like this. This sort of upward movement is exactly why a lot of people have bought Bitcoin. Trying to time the top will be hard though. I imagine a subsequent drop of ~25% would be likely.

It's fun to be back at a time of thinking about when to sell again.
I've had the experience of understanding feedback loops perfectly well but still feeling inclined to blame a "big bad" for most ills. I had trouble developing an ethical basis for my actions because I swing across the political aisle very readily based on utilitarian arguments, but simultaneously feel tons of empathy for others and thus want to be in collaboration with everyone I meet. Thus I swept through the gamut of political thought, radical in various ways at various times, moderate at others.

Working through that meant gaining a better distinction of the self from the system. I explicitly use a virtue ethics mode for my immediate surroundings and everyday behaviors(i behave in the way in which i feel the least guilt), and then a utilitarian mode when I have to make a decision affecting potentially large groups(e.g. my voting decisions tend to be less selfish and more model-based). This keeps my priorities healthy because it stops me from pointing to an inappropriate "scale" of thinking for the situation.
Everything I don’t like about the banks-blockchain love affair in one post
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The entire point about being careful of our environmental impact is because we are destroying our own habitat. Sure, the advent of human civilization might be a mass extinction event, but the Earth had these before, and nature will go on. Nature is going to be fine. It's humanity who's potentially in trouble, not the planet.

For us to die out voluntarily in order to preserve nature is completely backwards. The correct way of thinking about this is we're changing nature until it becomes hard or impossible for us to live here. So in a sense, our default path is already one of self-extinction. If we turn that around (and I'm cautiously optimistic we will), nobody needs to die out.

It's not us XOR the planet. It's us AND the planet.
The Talktalk data leak actually seems like criminal negligence. I don't know the British law, but that level of negligence at least should be criminal.
Thank you to the author for making the colours easily distinguishable for people with colour vision deficiencies in most of the graphs. Graphs like these tend to be spectacularly bad at this, putting aesthetics over accessibility.
Taking photobooks to the nest level by including text and email to contextualize the photos.
what is MMM?
That's probably how.
This headline is plain wrong. Ireland isn't about to do this. The news is that our drugs minister is talking about it in the media, and talking about the need for the next government to talk about it. A conversation has started, that's all.
There's this: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/traits-ml-modules/272, but it didn't seem to get anywhere.
I don't see anyone reporting that the bill mentions encryption.
Feeling like you are an expert makes you closed-minded
I'll jump in here too. First was a Gateway, Pentium II 400Mhz, slot 1. I tried to save a bit of cash by downgrading the memory from 128MB to 96MB, which I regretted in retrospect. But I took the option to add both a 16MB STB RivaTNT (2D and OpenGL) and a 8MB 3Dfx Voodoo2. Now I could do both OpenGL and Glide! w00t! And what was whacky at the time, an LS-120 drive, which read both 3.5in floppies and a 3.5in 120MB disk. For my friend and I who both had one, it was a great way to share files. (Our cable modems an the first CD-Rs would pretty much make this obsolete a year later though.) Sound was via a SoundBlaster "Live!". Gosh, I was thrilled. I'd saved a long while for it, and boy it delivered. I really got my IT career started while learning on that box.

I was amazed at how long that PC lasted. It used the Intel 440BX chipset, which meant I could later upgrade that 400MHz PII to a 800MHz PIII Coppermine. Videocard was upgrade to a Voodoo5. The card just barely fit. =P I later filled it with some more hard drives and a DVD reader.

I get strangely teary-eyed when I think back to those days of Win98 and Descent, connecting to the internet and really getting to know how the insides worked. We've much better devices now, but I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for that Gateway PC.

Thanks Mr. Hammond. Godspeed. =)
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I love that the question of this technology's validity is so grand it can be approached with Fermi's Paradox. If such physics indeed exists, allowing interstellar expansion of life, then it increases our chances of detecting a signature of extraterrestrial life out there. Since we haven't detected anything yet, it seems that EmDrive-tech is less likely to be real than if we would have.
Hi indeed.

Are there any plans for formal standardisation, review or the like? The docs look cool but at this point I'm suspicious of any single-vendor cryptography.
Why is pre-fork WebKit shown under the colour for Blink? Blink didn't exist in 2001.
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I thought the inaccuracies were obvious enough not to warrant much further apart from dealing with the conclusion.

Here are some examples then:

"It was definitely written in the first few centuries BC."

Firstly, the New Testament documents were not written "BC" but AD. Secondly, most scholars will agree without question they were written within the first century, and no later.

"22-25 years is still a very long time before any written records emerge"

22 years is actually reasonable for most history, and these documents are ancient history. Further, there is evidence to suggest that Matthew and Luke for example had access to even earlier sources. In any event, this kind of historical distance is still short enough for any inaccuracies in the accounts to be corrected, provided the eye witnesses are still alive, which in this case they were. Remarkably, 1 Corinthians 15 recognises this and is careful to mention that "most of [the eye witnesses] are still alive, though some have died".

"That doesn't make it historically accurate, it just means lots of people read the stories."

Actually, having lots of manuscript copies (in different languages and from different locations and places) is the key to textual criticism, which was the context. Having thousands of manuscript copies, as in the case of the New Testament documents, is mind-blowing when you compare it to the typically handful of copies for ancient history of the same period. As an unbiased person looking into history, you really couldn't ask for better.
> because Fedora is easy to install

Last time I tried Fedora was the previous version and I found it impossible to install codecs. You have to add third-party repository (rpmfusion), the problem I'm having is the way the repo is authenticated - http website points to a pgp key signed by one Corey Sheldon who appears to be only self-signed, so there is no way to establish chain of trust.

I could download the key from multiple sources but I don't feel I should have to and more than that, I don't trust people who to some degree rely on security theatre, which http page pointing to a lonely public key essentially is. It's no better than downloading over plain http and my slight OCD compels me to refuse to do that.

I realize this is more a rant about rpmfusion than Fedora, but then I feel essential support for playing various media files should be included within desktop OS.
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"We have an embarrassing wealth of food"

Who's this "we"? 40% of school children have free/reduced lunch due to poverty.
This is eye opening...
I did not expect this to be published on the official MMM Worldwide channel
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Most suicides being attributed to mental illness is one of the great (not necessarily deliberate) deceptions in our society.

There was a great article posted here on HN a while back by a number of highly-regarded psychologists that stated most suicides in men (who make up most suicides in raw numbers) are not actually due to mental illness at all, but rather cultural and philosophical factors combine with certain events in their lives leading to a sense of irreconcilable failure.

Hell, seppuku is a form of ritual suicide that has nothing at all to do with mental illness but it arrived at by a set of personal and moral values.

I'll see if I can dig the article up.
Right, that was just a few posts, a long time ago, and never really came close to being a serious proposal.
[ed: bitcoin.de does require direct bank transfer, I'm not sure if I'd consider them shady though. So not sure if that helps or not (was it the shady part or the RID part that was a problem?)]

I have good experience with bitcoin.de -- although I'm currently stuck in a loop needing to verify my account (again), after they got a bit more strict with account verification.

At any rate, since I was "smart" and sold my experimental 5 btc test purchase and made thousands of percent (and 100s of USD...) - I don't really have any bitcoin to sell any more. It's kind of funny when you make back lots more than you put in, and still feel regret because the bubble kept going up (I forget when I sold, suffice to say it was way below 200 USD per coin - I think I bought at an overwhelming ~2 USD/bitcoin or something. And then forgot about it for a year or two.).
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There's a problem with using Git concepts for everything
The play button is not obvious for the first time user (a.k.a. me). Perhaps you can paint it with another color.

Another possibility is to add a "Start Demo" big orange pancake button s patio11 recommends.
> Trading just for profits is no different from other kinds of gambling

I'd say this is absolutely false. Roulette is pure chance (and -EV at that). Trading currency/commodities is a bad idea for most people, however you can gain +EV edges with domain knowledge.
I think it's more about Rust's approach to OO. In Rust, traits are usually used as interfaces for generics instead of dynamic dispatch. The generated code/performance is more like what you would get if you implemented them explicitly for each appropriate type in C, built around structs. You could do this with C++ templates, but it would be a huge pain in that language due to lack of template type safety.

This is a quite important part of Rust (IMHO) because it gives the language a performance profile closer to C than C++ in many instances.
There's no requirement to or expectation that they will be. Papers are not required to present any kind of balance, as long as what they say is broadly true (external pluralism), for a given value of true. The broadcast media (the free-to-air ones) are required to be demonstrably internally pluralistic, to show a variety of sources and viewpoints within their output - and that applies across BBC, ITV, Ch4 and Channel 5, but not Sky News; goes back to when Radio came on stream in the 1930s.
In UK English "corn" generally means wheat - we'd call "corn" "maize":

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96522/why-does-co...
While OOP is perfectly possible in Rust, IMHO it is a lot more like doing OOP in C than in C++ (despite nice features like traits and generics).

Rust is marketed as a "general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language" and D "originated as a re-engineering of C++", so may be I'm biased by my interpretation of the goals from both language designers.
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I had a professor pull this visualization up on one half of the screen, and then a news article about Mercede-Benz' self driving semi on the other half of the screen.

He left them up for a about a minute, looked at all of us, said "All of your actions have consequences, some of them unintended." and moved on with the lecture for the day.
A little late, but why not Rust? Not the right libraries? I would think no gc would be one of the biggest factors
He does kind of improve on it. You do have information about whether the host knows which door the car is behind. If the host does not know which door the car is behind he just did something very unlikely so you should update your model based on this information. Assuming you have reasonable priors about the distribution of whether the host has information about the car then after he did what he did it is very likely he has information about where the car is.

Though actually I don't think you can then use this information to answer the question because it is tainted with the assumption that the car is not behind your door. :(
>this was way before the era of cheap multi function routers.

Indeed! One of the first things I did with mine was turn it into a sort of router. I was taking a Cisco class in high school where we were learning networking. Realized I could connect the two PCs in our house together to share the same dial-up connection, and so I walked out of school with some donated Cat5, crimpers, and a pair of 3Com NICs. Microsoft ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) did the rest.

The only issue it created was that, in the process of explaining to my parents that my PC had to be turned on in order for theirs to reach the net, they continued to ask for years if my PC was on, long after we had a router. I still get a question occasionally like "my tablet isn't working, does your father's PC need to be on?"

Heh. Good times. =)
It's the same in German, probably all northern-european languages. "Korn" is a generalized term for cereal grain, and I think the best literal translation would indeed be "grain". I suspect it's related to the english "kernel".
Time to dust off the ol mining rig, LTC to the moon!
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Alibaba's got them from about $150 single gas http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/NEW-K60-handheld-0-200...

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I don't think this is good advice as stated. If you are showing the symptoms of scurvy then your Vitamin C intake is too low. This model tells you nothing about when your vitamin C intake is too high. But it's still valuable.
I found the interview so inspiring that I had to set up an awesome list for all things Antifragility.

Please feel free to send pull requests:

https://github.com/antifragility-corps/awesome-antifragile
Redphone and Signal are all backdoor applications with bugs and exploits that i have found. Even the server is backdoor. Nobody in the security scene could use this, except a kid.
In my opinion the Ubuntu LTS basis of eOS can be annoying for someone needing the latest packages, but is quite a boon for someone who just wants the computer to function and be predictable.

With Fedora, a new version comes out every 6 months and you receive updates for around a year. Elementary seems to release a new version roughly every two years and at least the Ubuntu LTS basis receives updates for much longer (~4-5 years, depending on the release time of eOS).

So I think that unless you want to upgrade the installation regularly (which is something that an inexperienced user probably should not do on his/her own, since a lot of things can potentially go wrong), choosing something with a longer support window is a good idea.