skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is my understanding that when determining the official figure,the General Conference on Weights and Measurements took an average of some of the most accurate measurements that were available at the time. But I think that there were variations in each case. So we could assume that either our tools were just not precise enough, or that the speed of light is not actually constant. (or both?)
I'm curious, are physicists these days routinely measuring the speed of light, and if so are these measurements consistent?
How+To+Make+This+December+Matter
I'm still seeing a 404.
Netflix would have been a good buy in 2002, an ok buy in 2007, but a terrible investment in 2012. In 2015 it's second-quarter profit was $26.3 which is down significantly from 2014, but it's market cap is 55.6B because if investor insanity.

Netflix is at the mercy of content producers who can extract most of the long term value.
Somebody at Apple probably wanted that sweet sweet karma.

EDIT: Works at IBM. SORRY.
I really wish Microsoft gave HTTP/2 support to IE 11 on windows 8/8.1.
Any insight as to why they decided not to support it on IE 11 for windows < 8.1 would be appreciated.

Many of our users are stuck with windows 8/8.1, or even 7 for many more years unfortunately. Some of them won't even have another browser as an option(enterprise...).
Ah good find with the Android bug, I forgot Android re-draws everything on rotates. As of 0.0.3 it is now possible to customize the text with -t.
It just looks like student debt is correlated to population density[0] and inversely correlated to median income [1].

The difference between the delinquency map and average loan balance maps shows that people from places with low median income are taking lower loans but are still struggling to pay it back perhaps due to lack of jobs.

I do have concerns regarding the scale used.

[0] http://utahlandowners.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/MAP-U_S...

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/US_count...
Regular working class citizens can also pay lower taxes on their investments than on their own labor.
So all one needs to do to avoid estate taxes is put the money in an LLC, and then transfer ownership of the LLC after death? That sounds absurd! Given that it takes some few thousand to create an LLC, any rich person can avoid tax this way!
That's quite a nifty resource
He is not doing something good yet, he announced their intention to do it, let's see what happens :)
No, it doesn't work that way. I don't see how any estate taxes are being avoided here. The "says.com" article quoted gets so much wrong about how LLCs work.
This sort of mindset only works when rich people are not the ones making laws in the first place. The law is not independent of the rich - they can influence the laws they follow. That's why it is a problem.
Be patient guys. Good things come to those who wait.
That article is wrong on quite a few key points, and misleading on others.

> Mark will deduct the fair value of his gift to his foundation from his taxable income in the year he makes the donation.

No he won't. The new foundation is an LLC, not a charitable foundation, so he's not eligible to take a tax deduction on it. And even if he was -

1. Giving away 99% of your wealth to save tax on the income from the other 1% is a really dumb way to save money, and

2. They don't have very much taxable income anway - just their salaries, and any capital gains they realise if they sell any Facebook stock.

> Mark Zuckerberg will transfer ownership of his Facebook stock without paying capital gains taxes.

Well, yes - you pay capital gains taxes when you sell something and realise a profit. Since he is not selling his shares, he is not realising a profit, and therefore is not liable to pay taxes on them. Nothing wrong with that!
Some discussion from three days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10650780
For those interested, here's a link (I looked it up): http://www.businessinsider.com/we-now-know-more-about-how-ne...
There are definitely counter-measures available, although I'm sure a well-funded entity like a government could do a good job of preventing some methods from performing well: http://dronelife.com/2015/06/04/5-anti-drone-solutions-that-...
Actually, family names that can also be first names are quite common in Hungarian. There are even people who have the same first and family name, such as István István.

Edit: Heh, case in point: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Istv%C3%A1n
I am worried that someone will actually try this sometime and it will turn out not to work, either because MWI is wrong or because the destruction of the universe was incomplete — for example, collapsing the false vacuum would merely change the state of the things in the universe, not destroy the universe per se.

Fortunately, we don't have any currently promising avenues for nucleating a true vacuum or anything like that, so this algorithm is purely theoretical.

For now.
Thank you. Strange as I did a title search and it didn't show it was already posted. Good catch.
Let's Encrypt is cross-signed by IdenTrust, not Entrust.
I'd agree on the music part. Timeless is something that stays unique, that will never be replicated. The Beatles have been successfully copied and mass-marketed, and are no longer really timeless. "Smells Like Teen Spirit", I would argue, is timeless, in that none of the imitators ever really pinned it down. Kids still hear it and it resonates with them. I would pin Queen as timeless as well, nobody has managed to really get that formula right again, but it still appeals today. Comedy can rarely be 'timeless', because its SO easy to steal a routine or a persona that made a previous comedian beloved, and thus dilute it.
70% of Investors Made Money in November
"The Dalai Lama’s second-oldest brother, Gyalo Thondup,
helped the C.I.A. train Tibetan guerrillas in Colorado,
among other places, and parachute them back into Tibet."

I had no idea the US had done this.

This link has more details: http://www.historynet.com/cias-secret-war-in-tibet.htm

As does Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace :-)
Yeah I know that story. One guy isn't enough to convince my parents though. Has there been any study into it?
I think it is backwards logic to cite the popularity of Cargo as validation of language-specific package management, when Cargo was officially blessed by the Rust devs:

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/11/20/Cargo.html

Standardizing on Cargo as a build system and package manager was a massively important technical decision that was made by the Rust devs. It will have positive and negative consequences for the language, probably for as long as it is relevant.

Rust will work really well with other rust code thanks to Cargo, but what if you want to make a complex project that mixes Rust with other languages at the package level? How about inside of one library? Rust isn't any worse than other languages on this front, but it could have been way better.
> Cargo will download dependencies built for the client's
> desired platform.

To be clear, Cargo will download dependencies and then build them, which is slightly different. It only distributes source, not binaries.
Actually, what happened?
A five units limited #Land_Rover by Overfinch was unveiled in England
A lot of towns in my area have also let people know they can transact business in the lobby of the police station.
MD Anderson in Houston, Texas, the number one cancer treatment center in the world (gets the hardest cases with the best outcomes), does holistic treatment in addition to clinical treatment.
The F-series outsells any other single car by at least double. 65192 units in November vs 30945 Camrys [1]. And trucks/SUVs/minivans/crossovers (all "light-duty trucks") as a whole outsell cars by about a 50% margin. But if you just compare pickup trucks to cars, it's ~200k trucks vs ~500k cars.

So, you can skew the stats however you want depending on how you want to look at it. Overall cars are actually the lesser-selling segment in the US.

1. http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-autosales.html#...
This is good news (hoping the github link etc will start working in a day or two)! One side effect of swift being open sourced is that more developers will start looking at it for server side development. However, I personally think that Swift will continue to have strong reliance on Apple (esp considering that most external Swift developers will come from iOS development). So, till I see Apple showing interest in Swift getting used on server side, I'll not use it there.
http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-psut...
Head of Let's Encrypt here. I don't love the number of dependencies for our client either, we're going to work to reduce them.
His website (1) says he works at IBM.

(1) psuter.net
Well, the poster's web page says he works at IBM...
Apple App Store: Apps mentioning other mobile platforms will be rejected
Isn't Let's Encrypt supposed to launch the open beta today? Let's hope it actually happens...
It doesn't matter what and how they calculated, because your preferences and valuations are not externally determinable.

For example, there's no way to calculate how much you'll be willing to pay for a can of cola tomorrow at 17:56, but your decision to buy one (or not) will factor into the economy as a whole.

If you buy a cola at noon, that results in a different state for the whole economy than would have resulted from you buying it at 17:56, and so on.

An economy is an aggregate of all the individual choices that factor into it, and all of those choices are based on people's individual preferences and therefore incalculable.

This is why all of mainstream economics is at best misguided nonsense and academic mental masturbation.

In reality, of course, its real purpose is to serve justifications for government intervention in our lives - it's not like Austrian Economics is some arcane knowledge that's only available to a handful of insiders somewhere. You can go to http://mises.org and learn to understand how economics really works.
I don't know Mark and can't comment on his essay or this article.

I can, however, note that on at least 3 different occasions in the last year or so I've read a heartfelt essay on somebody making sacrifices for the common good -- only to later realize they were just setting up a tax dodge.

I do not think these things are mutually exclusive. You can both work for the common good while trying to legally avoid paying taxes. Heck, I'd rather smart people actively and passionately manage their money for the greater good, especially people with a track record of doing great things. More power to them. But I can relate that as a reader, once I finally figured it out what was going on, I was very disappointed. It was not a pleasant experience.
Page not found on GitHub?

https://swift.org/source-code/
https://github.com/apple/swift
Toki Pona: an artificial human language
What exactly happened? From what I hear the money wasn't misused, it just didn't fix things.
Talking cryptographic timestamping and talking only about random brodude startups and not about established, working standard like RFC 3161/3628 and the many digital notaries offering the service...

Seriously?
Maybe check to see if it actually works that way before getting too excited about it.
I thought it was impossible to donate money (in a tax deductible manner) if you the donor had any direct control of how the money was spent. This was supposed to prevent folks from, say, donating their money to a charity which then sends their own child to college.
It's a big problem. Maybe not Zuck's application of it, but other applications of this dodge. I think he's a good guy, and that good thing he's doing exposes some of the lesser known tools used by not-so-great folks.

You can easily use this sort of operation to launder money for the purposes of doing all sorts of things. Transfer your money to an LLC, get a web of LLCs or shelf corporations and "sell" valuable services between them.

If you're a scumbag, in addition to saving on taxes, you can avoid accountability for nasty practices. Slumlords are a great example... many control swaths of cities and use anonymity to hide that fact. So they can do stuff like rig the "prevailing rent" in a area to extract higher public assistance reimbursements, discriminate against people, buy off politicians by giving them sweetheart deals on real estate, etc.

If you're a not so philantrophic rich dude, you can also do shady Koch-brothers style political bribery or establish a presence in South Dakota to exploit loopholes that will leave your family without any tax obligation for several generations. If you're real clever, you use the shady political stuff to create more loopholes for yourself.
Hopefully we'll see it on more platforms now!
The differences are:

* XMPP is using addresses with the same format as e-mail addresses (Jabber ID/JID), Signal accounts are bound to your phone number

* Signal has strong end-to-end encryption built-in, for XMPP you need OTR or the recent OMEMO port of Signal's end-to-end crypto magic

* XMPP is federated, where you talk to your server, and it talks to your buddies servers; with Signal everybody talks to WhisperSystems' servers

* XMPP has no decent iOS app, but pretty good multi-device support otherwise
It's much different though in that the goal to get the group to a point where it is self-correcting (e.g. of new troops).
had no idea that existed
>Unlike a charitable trust, which is compelled to spend its money on charity, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, LLC will be able to spend its money on whatever it wants, including private, profit-generating investment.

Setting up a charitable trust means Zuckerberg could spend the money charitably.

Setting up an LLP means Zuckerberg can spend the money charitably, and invest in companies that are going good things even if they're doing it for a profit.

That latter case is better. It doesn't mean the trust is there to make a profit; it's just a move that gives Zuckerberg more options.
It's not the worst thing in the world, because a competent administrator/infrastructure engineer who's comfortable with the underlying tools can account for this and mitigate it. That said, Docker markets consciously and directly to people who are not competent, with an undercurrent of "you don't need competent people to use this!". And, as in most computer-y cases, it's not the fault of the incompetent and the ignorant that they trust the providers of tools; implicit in actually providing them is that they are generally safe with the defaults that are given. Which in Docker's case they're emphatically not. That hurts people, and very little gets me saltier than hurting people unnecessarily.

(I haven't ruled out that it might be a lack of a culture of security, too, on the Docker team's part; there was that whole "oh, yeah, put desktop applications in Docker containers, never mind that now you're running Chrome as root and putting the unprivileged X socket in the container, letting it pump messages to any other application" thing from a Docker core contributor. Maybe they just don't know, themselves? Woof.)
While true, the difference between the decisions the board of a company makes and the 'investors' is pretty significant. VC investors are not there to act as a board of directors. Where as many private equity/takeovers deals usually end up replacing many people on the board and executives.
Relevant: http://news.yahoo.com/china-tells-dalai-lama-again-respect-r...
You can sign up for the private beta and get access pretty quickly: https://docs.google.com/a/allaboutapps.at/forms/d/15Ucm4A20y...
IANAD - I am not a doctor.
I'm gonna clean up the code a little bit and then make it public. It's written in scala using Play! framework and Akka.
The point many people are making is that he so far is just reorganizing the way his money is held. Also, it's just an announced intention. And putting the money into the LLC isn't actually doing anything for the greater good.

I tend to believe that he will end up using the new financial structure to do things that are for the greater good, but he hasn't yet.
For anyone that wants to do this w/ nginx, you can add this location configuration to any "server" block for the challenge portion:

location /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {
alias	/var/www/acme-webroot/.well-known/acme-challenge/;
}

Then use this this tool from mozilla to get a configuration for installing the cert: https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generat...
Wow. Less than 30 minutes pass and site already loading with huge delay.
Nobody gives a tiny shit about security, see for example LetsEncrypt as well -- including some stupid "automation" which runs as root, wtf?

Very dissapointing.
I love containers as I can finally give up OS X because docker makes developing with virtual machines so painless. I can now once again buy windows hardware and just do my dev using a project's docker container.

Containers democratize dev environments.
But they are related somehow? Like Java and JavaScript?
The point is that "some of the stuff" doesn't matter– the only thing that matters is that you do the most important thing. Once you've done the most important thing, you do the next most important thing. As long as you keep doing that, you're always in the clear.
I'm not diabetic, but I completely agree with the subjective improvement that comes with a low-carb diet. Even a light-ish carby meal -- say, penne with pesto -- makes me feel substantially heavier and more bloated than eating a steak slathered with butter.
At first I was like 'AWESOME', than I was like 'oh fuck, not ready yet'. I am not upvoting this, until there is a GitHub repository that I can clone!
A shocking number of people are quite ignorant about the nutrition of the food they consume.
I don't see how it was leaked, it's on the swift.org homepage.
it is not there. https://github.com/apple is accessible .
i guess OP somehow found this website and put it into HN. I don't even see any press release by Apple related to this thing yet.
Well, like the video explains, I think a lot of people don't recognize the problem, because it's less obvious with 24-bit color. And, if they do recognize the problem, they might think it can't be fixed, or they might not think subtle bands are worth fixing.

I've used the following in the past with a lot of success, for one-click fixing Photoshop banding.

http://nomorebanding.com
Regular working class citizens don't have investments for the most part.
Wonders about the state of Swift on Linux? Was expecting this to be timed with the open source announcement.
I wonder if the conclusions of the OP would still apply in such a person. Would losing weight cure their type II, but not their type I? Are their two forms of diabetes coupled and this would not make a difference?
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Why, aren't they professional engineers, working for pay? Or do they go where its the most fashionable?
Only a couple people should be directly in front of you enough to cause a problem.
I doubt they're even going to approve any more in the next hour and a half before they flip it to the public beta.
#NotAllVegans
When your tax dollars are used the bomb the middle east to pieces is it any surprise people want to pay less taxes?
Not if big oil has any say in the matter. I try not to be a conspiracy theorist, but after watching "Who Killed the Electric Car?" I'm convinced that the interests of the oil industry are why EV's don't dominate the auto industry today.
Ask HN: Apple and Google browser/OS bundling today vs. Microsoft circa 2000
Why are Apple and Google not in trouble today for antitrust violations the way Microsoft was over a decade ago?

Microsoft bundled IE with Windows, in the same way Apple bunldes Safari with OS X and iOS, and Google bundles Chrome with Android. Is it because Microsoft had larger market share? Or have the barriers to installing alternative browsers been lowered? If the latter, then was the decision against Microsoft a mistake in retrospect?
They changed their mind.

EDIT: I'm joking of course. More likely, they realized they accidentally forgot to excise some incredibly sensitive private information from the repo's history and are working fast on it before they make the repo public again.
And this, dear fellows, shows how effective it is to fight politics with technical solutions.
The text about "why we built it" probably doesn't help the potential customer base. If the product is useful, the reason is obvious. If it isn't, that story won't sell it because the product is not a "let's unite and change the world".

To put it another way, sure HN'ers appreciate your motivation. Customers probably won't.

Good luck.
Looks like they have builds for Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.10. I expect they would work on other debian-based linuxes (linuces?) but haven't tried.
People can be plenty inattentive and inconsiderate without a camera involved.
Metal is just a graphics API (OpenGL) and not specific to Swift at all.
Guessing they didn't get a good exit?
I think the author means single channel and not single electrode. At least the picture suggests that there are three electrodes (one to the skull two white ear clips for ground/reference). For bipolar electrodes you need three: channel, ground and reference. For unipolar electrodes, just two.

You can remove artifacts like eye and muscle movements with prepossessing, not as well as with electrodes, but still.

I'm more worried about electrode connections and electrode quality in these amateur EEG applications. You also want high quality active electrodes if you take EEG outside laboratory. I'm also skeptical about these dry skin electrodes (no alcohol scrubbing and conductive paste). NeuroSky devices are surprisingly cheap. I would be very interested to know how well they work in practice.
If you want an alternative explanation for simplicity, I'd say simplicity implies flexibility.

Designing a simple implementation of something means that it is as close to the essence of what you've designed it for, and by doing so you've made it more universal, and therefore more flexible/adaptable.
Hey did you see the video of soulmate love sacrifice ?
I think I've seen this point repeated in many other places. Priority applies to only one thing at a time.
I signed up for a few domains early on and they were enabled, I signed up for two more two days ago but haven't heard back yet.
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