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We have in fact detected one type of dark matter - neutrinos. They aren't sufficient to account for the mass needed to explain observations, but they are definitely dark matter in that they do not interact electromagnetically with regular matter.

The problem with modified gravity, is that it requires a lot more theoretical complexity to explain observations like the Bullet cluster and galaxy rotation, and the large-scale distribution of matter in the observable universe. Ie. a modified gravity theory that works for one of those observations, fails for others. Slow, massive dark matter clouds explain all of them quite nicely.
You're lucky if your case gets that far. Usually an often elected professional will twist your arm to plead guilty.
The fastest realistic one is probably via basic income.
If only there was some way to not accept an electronic payment.
That's how it starts, usually.
Jamming is not a relevant term.

Interference is, and it is illegal.
Those systems are kludges. I'm talking about direct bank to bank account transfers at the push of a button, even for 25 cents.
It has been especially good at palm rejection (I'm left handed). Latency and precision were better than the Galaxy Note, and way better than the Retina Ipad with the Jot pro stylus (one of the bluetooth assisted stylii) I played with the Surface Pro 3 at a Microsoft store based on recommendations from here, and my recollection was that the pen experience wasn't quite as good (but it too was better than the iPad) at the time the SP3 did not have the performance though and so larger drawings would start to bog down.

I too would love to see artists do some analysis of the available technologies.
Already posted twice today. First here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10543668
La motivación
I presume you're talking about WeChat or AliPay payment. The US has equivalents, but they're not as advanced.

The closest US equivalent to WeChat payment is Venmo. But I can use WeChat to pay in McDonald's, not just to send money to friends.

The closest US equivalent to Alipay is Paypal. But with Alipay I can not only pay for online purchases and pay utility bills, I can also see a list of utility bills I have yet to pay.
> I just don't feel like if I did so I'd wind up with a good developer machine that will last me three or four years.

What kind of a PC can you get for $1K that will be a "Good development machine" in the next 4 years? I had a top of the line Sony laptop about 6 years ago, it became obsolete in the third year of usage, at the same time I still have my 2012 rMBP which is still running insanely good (same 3 years of use) for my tasks ( I do heavy photoshop web design work and code frontend)
Thanks for sharing. I've come across Skeleton before but not Pure.

Pure looks amazing. I especially love the fact that it's modular. The base is only 1.1 KB, and if you don't need anything other than buttons and grids, you can get by with less than 3 KB of CSS!
Perhaps clearer language to use here might be the distinction between "for profit" and "solely for profit".
When the checkbook closes, it closes with a thud. I was around when the 2001 fiasco happened, and you have to fight for every cent if you want to consult. Everybody that lost their job after the dot com bust and Y2K, became consultants overnight.
I'm so insanely happy to see this, even with it's minor shortcomings.
f.lux has eliminated all eye-stress for me while computering -- it's been one of the only reasons I've considered jailbreaking my iPhone...until now! Serious thanks to the developers.
We're not nihilists. We see a political process that is broken and throws some peanuts our way to keep the paroles happy. But if you're a potential donor like Lockheed Martin you bill the gov't for a flightless bird

The ACA is less than peanuts, since you have to buy the insurance yourself!
Somewhere around the end of Shmitah, the jews make big sales and trigger markets to panic. Then once all the goyim have sold, they buy everything on sale. This goes all the way back to babylon, and it is the reason why many kings and queens expelled the jews and possibly the reason for many pogroms.

Call your nearest jewish organization and demand they learn from history. Shmitah conspiraces have no place in the modern world!

Tell them to get their shmitah hands off our Europe and off my free market!
End of Sept 2015
SGI fuel. But I had an octane at work, wow that was unbearable!
Not one cat video?
I don't think cynicism is true. People play hierarchical control games because they live in a society where both starvation and hoarding are possible. Basic income would eliminate starvation; deleting money would eliminate hoarding. People do have vocations. They are just suppressed by the 9-5 grind. It would take a bit, but they'd pick them up.
Honest question: what's wrong with plywood? Wouldn't it all be covered up by the end of it? Surely it's got some advantageous properties (lightweight, strong(?), earthquake resistant). Is the problem that it will wear down easier?
Why was this down voted? Not trolling; shares of Alibaba ended down 1.99% today at $79.81 a share.

This seems counterintuitive. Since they smashed sales records I would have expected to see a bump in the shares at least today even if didn't translate to the long term.
From 2003 to 2013, the top marginal and capital gains tax rates were 35% and 15% respectively, and the top 0.01% of taxpayers faced an average tax rate of effectively 25%. The last time rates were that low was before WW2, leading up to a period we remember as the Great Depression. During the nation's most prosperous decades, those rates were consistently above 40%, and leading up to them, ranged between 60% and 40%.

The issue isn't that the mega-wealthy pay no taxes, but that the value of the taxable income of a handful of people vastly supersedes that of most of that of the rest of the population. In essence, lower tax rates didn't fix anything about the economy unless you thought taxes were the problem and provided no overall boost to the economic security or general prosperity of the public.

So when GE Capital pays no corporate taxes and someone points that out, you're likely to hear that they pay those taxes through the number of people they employ. This is deceptive, since a legitimate small business would be paying both taxes. That entities like GE Capital exist is the trope that you need to dispel. Or did those estate taxes not come from the earnings of mom and pop shop owners and people who put in their 40 quarters with a little wise investing?
Apple has several things going for it if it wanted to created a person-to-person payment system:

* hundreds of millions of NFC-enabled, Touch ID-capable devices

* the platform vendor advantage: it would come pre-installed on new devices and in a future iOS update

* users already transact billions of dollars through Apple services: Apple Pay, iTunes and the App Store

* unlike many banks and retailers, Apple Pay hasn't been hacked

Not only could Apple create a Venmo or PayPal-like service using ACH, it would do something with in-person payments further down the line thanks to NFC and Touch ID.

Just as we've seen a large drop in the use of Google Maps on iOS once Apple Maps was good enough and came pre-installed, the same would happen with Venmo, PayPal, Square Cash and the rest, especially for those folks who've never used any of those services and are getting their first smartphone or dipping their toe into app-mediated payments for the first time.

Some people have speculated about Apple doing some kind of cryptocurrency (Dell and Microsoft accept bitcoin, for example), what they really need is real-time, multi-currency transactions, with the ability to create their own currency or token if they wanted to and that's Ripple: https://ripple.com/blog/a-new-chapter-for-ripple/. Ripple would enable Apple to do its favorite thing: cut out the middle man. And of course, Ripple would allow users to transact in whatever cryptocurrency they wanted to in addition to fiat currencies.
Thanks!

No, it seems to have been its own odd thing with no followers. There's some fans trying to remake it in Unity though. They've got quite a lot of it done: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=29400...
Engineer commuting from Hawaii to San Francisco to save money on rent
In NZ it is immediate if same bank, 10pm that night if different. That few hours though can be nice if you change your mind.
So just like Vancouver and London?
Can you please clarify this comment? It sounds like you're saying Ethernet cannot maintain a line-rate transfer at the maximum MTU. But that can't be what you're saying, anyone could run an iperf/netperf or even large crafted packet transfer and prove this wrong.
Did they give you a job offer?
I think the worst mock computer interface ever was the scene in "Jurassic Park" where the girl tries to bring the systems back online.

"This is UNIX. I know UNIX!"

But... it wasn't remotely UNIX. It was an unrelated menu system so slow it looked like it was running on an abacus.
There is a ton of astroturfing going on in this thread. The article looks like an ad... Where are the contrasting opinions?
But you can only mail day-old pheasants between April and August.
I've experienced jerks answering ringing phones twice in my cinema experience over the last fifteen years. However, the REAL problem is that obnoxious individual on the row in front of me (stadium seating) with the brightness all the way up checking texts every few minutes with the screen pointed right back at me. I don't need to keep you from your messages, I'd just like you to turn the screen down please!
I was the lead scripting developer and general content fixer... I helped the world builders and hacked on their tools etc. I was 20 at the time so my title in the credits was "Wonderboy"

I haven't seen a lot of writing about that time but man it deserves it.
If the layer above (i.e. IPv4) can create fragments, you can send up to the maximum payload of the L3 protocol. You can send up to a 64KiB IPv4 packet over 1500-byte Ethernet.
purecss is no longer in development. I've used it and it was a good start, but I've since shifted to using bourbon/neat, which is more a library than a framework and has a light footprint.
https://github.com/yahoo/pure/issues/414#issuecomment-132315...
What the Great Gatsby has to do with startups
i can see why this might be useful in reducing the amount of code typed, but it makes things harder to read and debug by moving the null check somewhere hidden.

i guess its something you could get used to though...
I completely agree. Most of the comments in here seem to think there will be some semblance of technology jobs left. There won't be.
> Why do you not think quality startups will be effected by this?

It's very telling to me that you somehow equate "90% of tech jobs" with "startups"
I understand there are alternate theories based on gravity changing over time. That seems conceptually more satisfying to me, but then I'm not a physicist, so perhaps they're out to lunch.
Then there was the guy who posted himself from the UK to Australia:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31700049
I agree by historical standards they are cheap, but by current volume, simplification (SOC) and process they should continue to drop in price. https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/attachments/content/attachmen...

But the Macbook is a bit of an novelty, really it's the Macbook Air that I find to be badly overpriced now. I like to project on Apple cause I always look for some idealism that must exist somewhere past good design and profit margins since they can't simply be aspiring to smugness. So I find the Asus Chromebook Flip a good example of what a 2016 Macbook Air could look like because it has many attributes of excellent design while integrating practical innovations, yet remans inexpensive. With their own chip they could easily make a quality lower priced Air and still have profit higher than the rest of the industry.

However Apple is unlikely to use the flip design, much less put a touchscreen on a keyboarded device. It would shatter their image.

As well I think Apple has stacked their market, including the Apple resale market, such that any lower cost product would cause value problems across their line. So hopefully these factors create a good opening for a reasonably priced, quality product that is intentionally more open to the hacking mindset from a company like Asus.
Just use Optional<T>! This is what it's for!

There's some saying about Java "design patterns" that can just be replaced with closures. There should probably be another for for ADTs.
It's not stunning. It is a long-running controversy with Tor and its operators. Most of what's in the "Ethical Tor Research Guidelines" is common-sense, but some of it potentially forecloses important research.
>If upward mobility to achieve great wealth is your concern, surely this means we're heading in the right direction.

No, "upward mobility to achieve great wealth" is not my concern -- I think I made that clear in the comment.

Upward mobility to middle class, middle class stability (to going back to poverty), and upward mobility from middle class to upper middle class are my concerns.

To which "upward mobility to achieve great wealth" could even be working against -- while itself concerning a very tiny majority.

>I don't think the system is rigged towards benefiting those with already great wealth, but markets have expanded and entrepreneurship has a bigger upside than it has in the past. You don't have to take the analysis I quoted at face value, but just take a look at the richest Americans. No Vanderbilts, Rockefellers or Carnegies.

What I'm trying to get at is that there's a difference though between:

"we could only make 10 non-rich people ultra-rich in 1950, whereas we have 1000 non-rich made ultra-rich today".

Which might be all well and good, but this "upward mobility" only concerns a tiny minority, and having a healthy "upward mobility" and social stability for the large masses.
There is indeed a distinction between your own private property and a business that invites the general public in to do business. The cinema is still private property, but it's still also public space.

That said, I don't think anyone has ever attempted a ruling on whether chicken wire/Faraday cage in the walls of public spaces is permissible according to the FCC. I'd doubt such an attempt would make it far; there are so many buildings made with metal siding which do a fantastic job of reducing cellular signals to useless levels.
FSF's most vocal proponent has gone on record with his opinion on the BSD/Apache licensed software.

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/02/08/210241/rms-obj...
Reminds me of Gitlab's company handbook that was featured on hn a while back:

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#spending-company-money
They must have expected this when they changed the latest xcode to allow free personal provisioning.

There's already some significant annoying limitations, in particular short provisioning expiration limits (must reinstall the app every 90 days), and no access to services like push notifications.
Ah. The big deal is some languages can abstract over the idea of an arbitrary monad. You are correct though, most monads are not a big deal and fall into the "oh neat that's useful" category, and not the "omfg" one.

The abstracting over them is pretty mind blowing though.
DIY emdrive
yeah the numbers are likely fudged, but it's baffling how someone can write up that much about Alibaba group with seemingly no understanding of how the platforms work... Alibaba is like Amazon for China in scale and dominance, not in operation. it's basically like saying Airbnb is going to have to buy a ton of houses to satisfy the Christmas travel demand.
> I think that a lot of the heavy-handed anti-smoking measures are based on neo-puritanism about "toxins" and bodily purity and not on actual health facts.

In terms of individual, probably.

However, the smoking bans were "nominally" put in place to protect the people working in places like bars, restaurants, etc.

It was something that "the market" was never going to correct. People who smoke are simply WAY more profitable to restaurants and bars.
Why, what would you expect?

I think Moxie is saying that the choice is whether you work in support of centralized authority ("power"), or decentralized "people".
Maslov's hierarchy of needs. Most people don't have time to think about lofty goals like "privacy" when they need all the focus they can get to care about more basic needs like "shelter" and "putting food on the table".
Tracking is getting a bit out of hand. Even the industry behind it is starting to recognize the problem.

And, yes, it degrades the user experience. Install ghostery to your browser and be amazed how much faster the web feels without trackers and ads. No wonder, a site like IKEA is running 31 different trackers. What's the use?

Apple does run Adobe's tracking software on some parts of their sites. But not much more. They already have server logs, why would they run external trackers anyway?
It is a little rough to see this on the front page for so long when I submitted the exact same link and title 3 hours earlier. :-(
Yes, but normally they aren't exhaling toxic junk.

And, in flu season, I tend to cut back on group gatherings as much as possible because, exactly, they ARE exhaling toxic junk.
>do you use multi-GPU for your DL work? If so, how often?

I'm using it right now, to great effect. I can't really say what for, but methinks I'll be using it every hour of every day for the foreseeable future.
It won't get on the app store, it uses a private API.
>I don’t say I disagree, really, but you really ought to dial down the nutty-rant factor just a tad.

Nothing nutty about it, you just don't know what is going on in the world and what all the spying is about.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/the-nsa-files

In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397
I always thought exactly like Mr. Cerf said in that quote, so could someone please tell me why is this exactly "pure, undiluted rubbish"?
Agreed completely. The null object with inheritance is particularly difficult to deal with because you're just asking to forget to nerf something dangerous in the superclass leaving you with partially functional objects. Optional<T> is the right way to handle this.
They stated the reason at the time: CMU hadn't cleared it for release. Presumably they wanted to keep the vulnerability secret so they could keep exploiting it.
A monad in Swift terms is essentially just a container type with an initializer that lets you put something in it, and implements flatMap. In Haskell, the equivalents are return and >>=. You can do more with it in Haskell because Monad is essentially a protocol, so you can rely on monadic types having those functions defined in terms of them.

Array and Optional are examples. RAC's SignalProducer is... maybe one? Maybe three?

That's really all there is.
Ah shit I accidentally down voted instead of upvoting. :(
>I hear this a lot but I really don't understand the logic. Because the middle class is a subjective and proportionate categorization, your target is always going to be moving.

Of course the target its moving. That means society is progressing in the aggregate. So why keep "desired standards of living" stuck in the past? In 1840 having no electricity and running water was considered acceptable. Today we think even internet is a kind of necessary good.

So, with progress the definition of rich / middle class / poverty etc should move too. Who said poverty is some absolute measurable state? Obviously you shouldn't consider yourself "rich" or even middle class, if you live in a trailer park with $100/month, just because you have housing, electricity and lots of available food in Walmart, whereas 1200 A.D peasants and 10000 B.C cavemen had neither...

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.
Polymer – internationalization solutions, element docs, and speedy tricks
Or you could do this:

phoneCallRegistry.callWithIdentifier(identifier)?.hangUp()

The ? means that hangUp() will not be called if callWithIdentifier(identifier) returns nil.
No, it was obvious we were not right for one another.
Not sure about .deb format, but rpmbuild will automatically add dependencies on packaged shared libraries using their sonames: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-depend-auto-depend.html

If you smuggle unpackaged code onto a QA or build machine, IMHO you asked for whatever happens to you.
> Where's the necessity in this experiment? How many human lives were saved by "gosh I wonder how long I can keep a rat awake before it literally dies"?

Sleep deprivation happens among soldiers, workers, people with various diseases. Learning how it works and why exactly do we suffer from it could yield a lot of important and practical insights for medicine.
Yeah, it's definitely conceptually similar to Skeleton (I think Skeleton is lighter though), but I remember seeing Pure first and feeling like it was such a breath of fresh air compared to the weight of bootstrap
Court Docs Show a University Helped FBI Bust Silk Road 2, Child Porn Suspects
StandCrafted – The Minimalist, Modular, Wall-Mounted Standing Desk
The FCC doesn't even have authority to prosecute criminally.

Well, there's a novel legal theory.

Try running an unlicensed broadcast transmitter, and let us know how that goes for you.
Yes. (Btw, might be more efficient for you to flesh out the implications of a question like that in same comment, so the exchange doesn't have to wait for the response if you want to pre-empt it.)
When I watch it back then I wasn't sure and it just felt a bit staged but I guess not.
That's not the point. Installing Flash player is, of course, very easy to do; it's just that doing so comes only at the cost of slightly decreased security and stability.

Of course, Adobe could have avoided these issues, had they only chosen to release Flash player under an open source license. At this point it's simply legacy software being phased out in favor of HTML5, and is mostly just a nuisance.

Thankfully, ever since Youtube released their HTML5 player, I can't think of a single time in which I was denied access to critically important content because it was locked inside a SWF.
Show me a person, and I will tell you his crime.