skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have good reason to believe that when we talk about dark matter, we really are referring to some kind of "stuff" that has mass and momentum, but doesn't interact electromagnetically with normal matter.

The most visually striking evidence comes from the Bullet Cluster. We can see two galaxy clusters that have recently collided at ~1% of the speed of light, causing the gas to be slowed and heated. And we can map the mass distribution via gravitational lensing, and see that a large amount of the clusters' mass has passed right through each other without being slowed. This is more or less what you would predict if "dark matter" is made of weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs), and is pretty hard to explain by appealing to a modified law of gravity.

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1e0657/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
Like what, global thermonuclear war?

Oh, you mean the website that doesn't actually sell anything sector. I keep forgetting that cars, radios, medical equipment, airplanes, rockets, robots etc. (all of which contain software, and are sold on websites) are no longer considered "technology".
Third posting in the last few hours. First here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10549902
You're allowed to ignore the sixth amendment when the target is a poor brown skinned foreigner, you can't do that to rich white Americans!
I use a similar system when building mobile app features.

Sometimes (almost always) an app feature is developed parallel to the API service.

It's useful to return a mock response so you can build the entire feature including networking. This way you don't need to wait for the server side component to finish.

A temp server takes time to set up and maintain. It's like any tool. Why use Dropbox if you can just save your file to a usb drive and carry it around everywhere?
> If you could point me to a single bank president who says

Why do you think they would say what their true goals are to you? People in positions of power are extremely judicious and strategic about what they say and to whom. They get daily exercise in this and only the best survive. The most effective are excellent at pursuing their goals while maintaining a socially credible exterior. The less effective use coded language (corpspeak or political rhetoric) to try to hedge through via indirection.
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Please don't make the thread worse by feeding trolls, annoying as they are. Instead, flag the comment by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'flag'.
Just posted an hour ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10549902
> Wells Fargo & Company is ... headquartered in San Francisco, California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo
Also see http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-matter-explos...

Edit: I find this 2011 paper, but nothing newer: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1010.2752v3.pdf

Maybe someone can point to their latest stuff.
OsmAnd has more features but the UX is still a bit complicated.
.com and .net are pretty similar if I understand correctly.
I don't understand this - every product & service sold in the open market - from baby formula to clothing, from a meal at a restaurant to a flight - relies on competitive advantage that's proprietary to the seller.

A mindset to open this advantage up is somehow being selectively applied to software.

In a truly open and free market, malicious elements that include spyware, rootkits .. etc will get rooted out. Additionally, regulation from the justice department and FTC tries to maintain the free-ness of the market, so that one company doesn't abuse its position.

In this light, the GPL is simply not compatible with the tenets of economics - which by the way is how evolution and biology has programmed all of us.

BSD/Apache/MIT kind of permissive licenses offer true freedom. They allow for jointly harnessing the resources of many to build infrastructure that has widespread use - an approach that allows companies to focus on their value-add rather than re-inventing the wheel.

Stallman is a vocal detractor [1] of ANY permissive open-source license. This is unfortunate for someone who actually played a pivotal role in the big success that open-source is today.

[1]: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/02/08/210241/rms-obj...
SecureDrop Leak Tool Produces a Massive Trove of Prison Docs
Flash still exists? My small world of unix (with a lean Firefox) and Android have spoiled me.
Totally wrong. That document is not about loans. It doesn't even mention the word 'loan', except in the context of 'savings and loan associations'.

The document is about reserve requirements for deposits. Roughly speaking, if a bank takes in $100MM of deposits, it has to keep 10% of that ($10MM) in a way that's easy to access (either as cash in a vault, or as a deposit at the central bank). That way, if a depositor wants their money back, the bank will probably be able to give it to them.

If a bank has total deposits of less than $14.5MM, then the reserve ratio is 0%, instead of 3% or 10%.
I've covered this issue closely in my role as a journalist in the association space, and this is definitely a clear divide between the hospitality industry and the associations. The thing is, associations and businesses bring in thousands of people to each event, and they drive major economic benefits.

Why do those economic benefits have to come from the wireless access? If you want to drive massive revenue from a conference, build a restaurant that profits off the many instead of a wireless business that profits off a small handful of people.

Here's a take on this issue that's specifically targeted to those in the association space being targeted by these high charges: http://associationsnow.com/2015/02/learned-fccs-wifi-blockin...
I noticed lots of spaces like this in a trip to northern Italy, as well. Buildings push right up to the sidewalk, and surround private courtyards with a single entrance.

Not sure how communal these spaces are, but I presume not all of these blocks of buildings were owned by single families.
Realistically speaking, moving into technology as a supporting role for existing companies and governments works pretty well. That's how I rode out the last tech downturn.

Nowadays, there's still so much demand for technical skills, you should be fine as long as you can provide value. It's easier to demonstrate as an individual contributor than as a manager.
One of the biggest reasons I'm hesitant to move to the valley is the housing situation, things like this are great to hear.
I love how 100 million in fraud shakes wallstreet, while we all more or less quietly ignore much more severe in monetary scope and prevalence fraud in the business and larger banking sector. Such as the LIBOR scandal.
Maybe the question that should be asked is why a large part of the population can't afford to live in a hip place in town, so what's left at the end is only rich people and banks. I think there's two aspects to this: (1) Income inequality and (2) smart zoning laws. I think (1) has been discussed ad nauseam but for (2) see Japan as an example: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.jp/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html.

I live in Tokyo and I have to say - while there is still the business district that noone can afford and the gentrification process is somewhat visible in some places (however IMO slower than elsewhere), it's really not too hard to live in a place with lots of small business, shops, nice restaurants and locals to talk to. We pay <1000$ rent and have a three small supermarkets, ~15 good restaurants, 2 train stations, a recreational park with big pond and all kinds of small shops do get whatever supply you need, all within 10min walking distance. And this place is far from exceptional in Tokyo, this city is basically a huge spread of small towns grown together and connected with a train system on steroids. And I think zoning laws is probably one of the most important influences on why this happens - basically you can build an expensive house, a cheap apartment building, a restaurant, a medium sized supermarket, an estate agency and a fish tank supply shop all in the same block here - and that's also what actually happens. I've never seen this sort of chaotic mix in Europe or the US, but I think this is exactly what you need for a thriving community that stays this way.
That sounds a lot like how LZ77 works, with a predefined dictionary. Probably the only way to do it given the potential symbol size at any given moment.
Funny, coming from a guy who has made millions of dollars in his career. I agree, once I make a billion dollars I'm all for not being so focused on money anymore ;) I think his argument would be a lot more convincing if he was not rich.

It's sort of like when Stanford/Harvard graduates say that we should abolish elite universities and that the degrees are worthless. Easy to say for the guy who already graduated from there. I totally agree, as soon as I graduate from Stanford, I will go around saying how it's not worth much. But until then, I'll try like crazy to get in.

Thoughts?
just posted yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544026
"Acceptable" is arguable and subjective. Every day when I open multiple web applications on my phone, I tacitly accept the performance, as does everyone else who does the same. But, of course, we would also all love everything to be faster and for our batteries to last longer. Those desires are being attacked from different angles with different trade-offs all the time. I'm not at all convinced that the pace of improvement has leveled off, but that's just my gut feeling, and I would be interested in seeing analysis. I'm also not convinced that, assuming evolutionary improvement has indeed leveled off, there isn't still plenty of potential for new techniques that bear more fruit. One area of research I'm aware of targeting further improvement to performance is increasing concurrency, which the servo project[0] is exploring. Perhaps things like asm.js and webassembly will also make an impact.

I'm not a complete web apologist and I'll freely admit that you may well be right that it is inevitably a resource hog, but it is an incredibly useful platform, and I think giving up on it would be "throwing the baby out with the bathwater".

(I also find it pretty crazy that things like Slack and Atom spin up a full web rendering environment, and I would rather see us have better tools for making nice cross-platform desktop applications where they make sense.)

[0]: https://github.com/servo/servo
I don't understand the appeal of GUI VCS either. I have to use TFS at work, and it's always such a pain. I recently attempted to use the git GUI client in Android Studio and while it had a couple of neat features, it didn't seem worth the learning curve.
Sorry, should edit that - it's immediate for us in Australia if you have transferred to a certain person before OR if you use the same bank.

It's the next day for external banks / people that you haven't transferred to before.
Once upon a tech TechCrunch did an amazing write-up on San Fran housing issues. One of my favorite points was the following cascaded issue caused my rent control.

1) Rent control keeps rent prices down
2) This leads to matching controlled property tax
3) This incentivizes small cities to prefer uncontrolled commercial zoning over controlled residential.
4) Which means smaller cities have way too much commercial space and not nearly enough residental.

Oh what a tangled web we weave when we practice to artificially constrain rents. Wait. I think I did that wrong. Ah well. Close enough!
I've used Jekyll (quite a bit), Metalsmith, and Hugo and tested some others. They all fit a particular use-case, like Hugo is incredibly fast, Metalsmith is incredibly flexible (it's something like a Gulp for static sites), and Jekyll is well-rounded, has a large community, and has the most progress with content editors for non-technical users.

I run a site with resources for static site generators, The New Dynamic, and you can find a lot of articles on those and others there: http://www.thenewdynamic.org/
Though I see you're talking about the UK now (something you may want to make clear on the site), just to provide a cite on #2 with respect to the US, I find that's explicitly the case for the US Federal Reserve:

"The U.S. Congress established three key objectives for monetary policy in the Federal Reserve Act: Maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.[10] The first two objectives are sometimes referred to as the Federal Reserve's dual mandate."

Given that it seems you want to recreate something like the Federal Reserve for the UK, I'm curious about which parts of the system you want to reuse vs. change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System
There are millions of people a day that play Flash games across many websites. Many of the members on HN have a flawed view that just because they don't use flash then no one else does.
Already posted 4 times today.

Lots of comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539100
I have suggested DNSSEC2 several times and it would likely use ECC not RSA. At least the root keys are 2048-bit RSA now, right?
CERT falls under the Software Engineering Institute, which is a Federally-Funded Research and Development Center sponsored by the Department of Defense. CMU administers the SEI in the same way MIT administers Lincoln Laboratory.

This kind of thing happens in private industry as well. For example some CMU professors also hold positions at Google (while still remaining active CMU professors doing public research, i.e., not on sabbatical) and do work that might not get released to the public.

Admittedly, the line between SEI and CMU is rather fuzzy, so the line between contract work for the government (or whoever else) and academic research is fuzzy.

Should there be a brighter line between contract work and academic work?
Already posted 3 times today.

Lots of comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539100
Already posted twice earlier today.

Lots of comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539100
Not as simple as Pure, that's for sure. It's separate because if you don't need the grid (neat) then you just don't include it.
It doesn't seem like we consider the economic impact of fines to individuals. The government looks to be more than happy to bankrupt people as part of punishment. Why should corporations get special treatment. "Too big to fail"?
I don't mind waiting for responses, find it best to keep focused on only one or two points, hope that's alright.

So if the companies are linked through their owners, could we not have more restrictions placed on sales made between companies that have the same/related owners? Could government bodies oversee such sales to check for market manipulation?
I think he meant to say that trust fund kids lack motivation while inner city kids lack the skills.
Appeals court allows NSA bulk phone spying to continue unabated
I loved Ultima 7.

An amazing feat for the time! The world simulation aspect of it was really cool (and something even now you don't see that often. Like a baker going to through process of baking bread everyday)
Interesting. I found PC 100x more frustrating than console. With console there's 1 target. With PC there's infinite targets. No matter what you ship it won't work on someone's GPU, OS version, with XYZ installed.

A company I worked at shipped one PC game and swore never again. Their support costs went through the roof relative to console.
Perhaps you are not smart enough.
http://ww7.mikegagnon.com/?kwrf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F...
Drop the T
Why so much fear mongering? People have been saying the bubble's going to burst for years now.
Incorrect.

All requests to metrics.apple.com and securemetrics.apple.com are going directly to Adobe Analytics, a third party analytics provider and part of the larger Adobe Marketing Cloud. The only reason the requests appear as 1st-party is down to Apple going through a few relatively simple steps that most companies do to configure their DNS to route a certain sub-domain specific to their analytics to an Adobe server and completing a first-party ssl cert request/setup process. Once the data enters the Adobe Marketing Cloud, depending on their specific implementation, they can then link that data across all kinds of other Adobe Marketing Cloud platforms to both track and target your ass down to the millisecond like everyone else. Boom, you've been third-partied.

Adobe bought Demdex for fucks sake. 1st or 3rd party means jack shit these days.
Hook Forms looks good. I'll post it to our tools section at The New Dynamic. Will it always be free, at least for some functionality?
Actually, you pointed me to Fcron, to which I countered that for Fcron to be an satisfactory scheduler (that is, satisfactory to me) it would have to become Systemd. I think I was pretty clear on that, actually.

No, I really did mean "historical sloppiness of Unix." It's a fine foundation, circa 1985, but it's time to make some progress. For example (just a minor example), the fact that Cron's error reporting is email is ridiculous. This means that the only way to collect reports is to either use a mail client, or to set up a special rule (in Postfix or whatever) that pipes incoming mail to a special directory or a process. Both options are insane, not to mention horribly brittle. Surely Cron violates the Unix principle (the "do one thing well" one) here; the right thing would be to not support email at all, but to mandate that every error report is piped through a per-job command. So PIPETO rather than MAILTO. If you really want email, according to the Unix principle, you just pipe to sendmail, after all. But a whole lot of the traditional Unix toolset is weirdly crufty this way.

As for shell scripting, my original point was precisely that the shell language family is very hard to get right, and so it's a poor foundation to build complicated, resilient moving parts on top of, emphasis on "moving". The situation is much worse than C; the class of possible bugs is completely different, and much more damaging. Things like process management should not be done using shell scripting. Lots of things suffer from bad scripting; autoconf, for example.

By controlling SSH: Yes, I mean interacting with SSH commands. You have to cover a bunch of pitfalls: disabling tty, disabling the control master multiplexing (has never been stable), always using heredocs, etc.
I think this is the piece you're referring to: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/
Ultimately if you follow the network layers it gets to physical media. Without physical media nothing works. Ergo, just layering over the top of the physical layer means you still interfere with wifi comms.
I don't know it at all, but isn't Dylan a Lisp w/o parens?
One thing I'll add about this is that these wireless hotspots need to cover different types of uses than what you assume with traditional hotspots.

The event director of the American Public Human Services Association is not trying to put people on a MiFi or a Karma device—she's trying to ensure an entire room full of people at an education session or a large hall have access to an open wireless network.

That's a lot different usage than the average person might expect to run into. Her $30,000 bill is essentially to manage the wireless for the whole event.

I think it's actually misleading in the other direction than what you're suggesting–generally it's the vendors who are running into these frustrations with wireless blockers, not the event managers for the associations. The people who usually feel the brunt of the pain here are the vendors on the tradeshow floor, the startups and companies who are running stands that rely on a lot of multimedia gizmos.

These are the folks who are reaching out to the FCC, not the event planners.
Using parens just makes manipulating the AST easier, but doesn't necessarily remove the homoiconocity of a language. I've barely done any lisp programming, though I have done a fair amount of work with AST's and compilers. S-exprs lend to thinking of the structure of the code as data, useful for "lisp-ing".

Personally I don't care to write in lisp since I loose track of parens way too readily. This project might be very handy!

In the meantime I've come to view Julia as my goto lisp. Quite fun to be able to write hygienic macros, but still have a mostly familiar imperative syntax for common tasks. Actually, the disciplined (read limited) usage of macros in Julia is a big draw for me, since I've heard too many horror stories of macro readers and spaghetti code in large lisp projects. Interesting look at elixir, I'll have to play with it sometime.
A million dollars is rather achievable with a good education, good health and drive, provided you live in a developed part of the world and can keep expenses lower than earnings. Hopefully we someday develop the rest of the world, as well as making sure that everyone can get all the education and healthcare they need, so that this level of success no longer boils down to luck.
Tesorio (YC S15) is fixing slow payments to SMBs
A free emoji keyboard SDK for mobile apps
Work for a non-IT business where IT is a support function and you'll be fine. You need to spend less time on doom-and-gloom blogs. It's bad for your health.
Yup. BofA charges $35 or $45 for wire transfers. That's a hell of a lot of money when you have 200'000'000 captive customers.
The article isn't really clear, but the alleged activities were attributed to SEI, which is not at all the same thing as CMU, although they are obviously related.

reporting: http://www.post-gazette.com/business/technology/2014/07/31/2...

About SEI: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/about/organization/workingwithanFFRDC...

Lots of room for discussion about these activities but it probably should be done in the context of expectations for a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (and one funded by the Department of Defense) and not in the context of expectations for a private university.
Paypal is free for personal use.
In-N-Out Files Lawsuit Against DoorDash
Patents are a tradeoff: short term power granted (to patent holder) in exchange for long term freedom (for everyone).
> What was the case "in the past" doesn't come into play when people compare their status to other contemporaries -- and the level of the society they live in.

So then it's all about envying those who have more, no matter how comfortable a life you happen to have.
Exactly. I don't know which is worse..
Mountain View currently has 75,000 residents. It will be interesting to see if all these new voters kick off a pro-housing virtuous cycle.

Something similar happened in Loudoun County, VA circa 2000-2007.
This is great news, but they really need more than 9k units up there, especially as they'll continue to add more office space. Now that there's a pro-housing city council, I wonder if some of the existing low-density office buildings could be redeveloped to be taller and mixed-use.
Hmmm... I'm a bit of a goose and misread that. The bit I got wrong is:

"under United States Government criteria, standards, or specifications designed to achieve the objectives of reducing interference to radio reception and to home electronic equipment and systems, taking into account the unique needs of national defense and security."

Sorry about that.