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Nature Photonics: Light Source for Quicker Computer Chips
>I wonder why WSJ and some conservatives set a target on Elon.

Because he has made some very powerful enemies. SpaceX encroached on ULA's turf in the military satellite launch business with a vastly more cost-effective solution. SolarCity is making energy utilities across the country nervous because it threatens their monopoly (just read about the so far successful push from Buffett's NV Energy to stop the advance of distributed solar in the state of Nevada). Tesla just sent Detroit into catatonia with the Model 3 launch and their (almost sure to be a) half-million reservations for a car that will exist only in two or more years.

None of these forces will go silently into the night. This feels like a deliberate, coordinated attack that hits Musk personally, and all three of his companies at once.
Cheating in online games: trusted-client vs. server-authoritative network model
First time I see this, pretty cool stuff. Glad to see I potentially have a lot of room for pricing adjustments:)
That's your definition of a "free society", as is "fruits of your labor". You know, I might say that societies with our concept of property, where a state monopoly on violence guarantees rights, and where wealth is largely the product of appropriation of people's productivity based on those state-sanctioned property concepts, is very far from a free society.
Farmers make no money. The government-supported crop insurance means they don't lose money as fast.

And unfair? We use that word to describe cars, steel, electronics but not grain? A Brazilian farmer can grow grain, haul it using donkeys to a barge, sail it down river to the coast, pay for shipping on a grain scow, and load it on a train to Chicago, for less than farmers in Iowa can afford to grow it. Its got to mean miserable working conditions for people in that whole chain. Is this any different from clothing or iPhones?
Topsoil erosion is already a massive problem.[1] So far we've been able to mask the damage by substituting fossil fuel inputs for soil fertility, but realistically soil husbandry is the only sustainable way to grow food.

Heck, many people nowadays aren't even aware that soil organisms can manufacture bio-available nutrients from local minerals and the air.[2] The dominant view of soil seems to be as an inert tank that needs to be "refilled" with imported fertility.

[1] http://www.fao.org/docrep/t0389e/t0389e02.htm

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H60ritjag
New flexible, wearable transistor as powerful as some of the fastest computers
on the front page already.... please check for duplicates before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11583829
Mashape and BNC partner to bring full suite of Bitcoin and Blockchain API’s
They say it's a mix of both.
I'm assuming you've looked at https://www.promisejs.org/generators/

I somewhat agree, prefer callbacks to promises, generators as I see it give you more control of what happens within a promise and how to deal with multiple promises being returned.

The danger I see with promises is they can be used incorrectly. The project I've taken over at work, the developer used a promise as a timer and littered watching the same promise all over the code using
```
Promise(functionToResolve).then(function()...
```

This means we never know where a function is being called from. I don't think you could do something like this with callbacks, instead you'd have to do
```
function(callback(){
// trigger your other methods here
}
```

but maybe I'm wrong, I never would have expected somebody to use promises in the way they are used here.

Like'em or not, they are here to stay, and some people like the more synchronous appearance of them and I believe when dealing with an array of promises, generators will provide more fine-grained control.

Keen to hear others thoughts though.
Facebook's reach gets even bigger: 1.65B monthly users
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The same is certainly true in Australia. Smokers cost the healthcare system far less because they die sooner and faster. Of course, the value and efficiency of a healthcare system isn't measured in how little you can spend per a person but instead at what cost can you keep people healthy. In the case of smokers there's no way at any price point for the healthcare system to provide long term positive outcomes so it ends up being cheaper. That's not a good thing.

Obviously I know this isn't what you're arguing. You're right in saying that alcohol and tobacco taxes aren't used to offset higher costs to healthcare. In most cases they're supposed to be a cost pressure to change consumption.
Facebook revenue smashes expectations as mobile ad sales surge
WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has done very little positive in his career other than sell trashy newspapers, diminished those media who once were decent, manipulate political power (Tony Blair, Thatcher etc) for his own commercial interests - including pushing UK away from the EU. His newspapers were shut down as they were involved in phone hacking dead children, amongst other things.

Elon Musk wants to tackle climate change, build safe open artificial intelligence and go to Mars...
Peacemaker
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6JQNao30K_I&feature=share
https://soundcloud.com/jap-505418537/peacemaker
Look at it as a regular income event. You were taxed when you got that money from whoever gave it to you and now your kids are being taxed when they get the money. Your kids aren't you. Money isn't a taxed-once thing, it's taxed every time it changes hands. Death is an event at which money changes hands (from you to your kids), and is taxed appropriately.

Anyway multi-generation estates are very well tested as being bad for society over time. Just look up monarchies.
In the US, you can give your property to whomever you like... and they have to pay taxes on it as income.

I'm not sure why your children should be exempt from paying taxes on the gift of an estate. Call it "death tax" if you want, but really the lack of an estate tax is tax break privilege for the wealthy. The estate tax is simply a decision of what the income tax will be on income in the form of an gifted estate.
I feel like the value of this article would be greatly increased by including a video of gameplay of the game in question. I have no idea what Nighttime Terror is or what it looks like.
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Not quite. property tax includes the value of the buildings. Land value tax is different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
No it is not, as I said many games do it correctly. It is a very simple distance check, you can perform millions per second on cheap commodity hardware.
If you use Core, after reading RWO, and don't like the large executables, rest assured that there is an effort by one of the flambda devs to improve dead code elimination as well, but that will also take a while before it's available. I wish it would happen soon, now that flambda has landed.
Half of U.S. Conservatives Say Climate Change Is Real
You can, but the transaction gets taxed .)

Anyways, you're appropriating the word free for describing your personal political agenda.
The United States and the West is not the world. Maybe you can file a couple of lawsuits and get an injunction against a US launch, but try that in China and the best case scenario for you is that nothing happens to you, and the scenarios get progressively more, ah, "interesting" for you from there.
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Buying shares gives you two things: the ability to vote in a company and the ability to sell the shares later at the market price then (in essence, a bet that the value will increase). What's the reason these should be tied together and not traded separately?
It's bad enough that the VEP was bypassed, but the high-profile, 7-figure payout for the security researchers who had their hands on the bug is a problem too. Plenty of bug bounty programs have remote code execution at $10k, but the FBI paid _100 times_ that. That's an amount of money that some bug hunters might find very challenging to turn down. And this is "above board", with no shady bitcoin payments from dingy IRC channels.
How the Other Fifth Lives
Making Your First Game: Minimum Viable Product
now that i think about it - doesn't GTA5 suffer from the exact same problem? cheaters spawing tanks above people practically must be a client game state problem.
DevOps and Standards
>UO had rubberbanding rampant

Only if you had high latency and tried to move somewhere you couldn't actually move.

>If speed/warp hacks are a problem, it's not because the developers that use client-set-movement aren't able to fix it, it's because they don't care.

That's precisely what I said. Obviously they can fix it, since it was fixed before they started development. They did it wrong and don't care.
I recreated the “text decryption” effect from the 1992 movie Sneakers
Next EUV Challenge:  Pellicles
Buyer beware however, I'd say 90% of the stuff out there is rubbish. Like you said it is "greek style" but it's thicker only as a result of adding thickening agents, and a far-cry of actual authentic greek yogurt, Dannon and Yoplait being the biggest offenders. Chobani is close, but I would say Fage is the absolute best.

Greek yogurt should be hardly sweet, extremely tart, and so thick it almost makes you thirsty -- as you can see where I am going, not something that fits the pallet that giant food has crafted for the average american (I.e fill everything with sugar) which is why I think Chobani has beaten Fage in the US, beacause of it's smoother consistency and slightly sweeter taste.
"well thats the stupidest f-ing thing i've read all day" (The idea, not the article). Serious privacy invasion & would never work in practice.
Now watch Bezos do some spectacular moonshot to beat Musk.
TIL Rexx wasn't something OS/2 specific :)
Let's just run through this see what we can quickly glean.

The meals may be cheaper. What's that constitute a meal, though? Here, I can get a footlong sub and side items for $8-10. A restaurant meal, with tip, is going to be $10-15 per seat if it's an inexpensive one with one plate and a drink. What's the $2-3 USD you claimed get you?

For taxes, I try to stay in states with no state tax. So, it's just federal. We get various types of deducations that should be considered. I'm ignoring that to simplify to worst case. So, $75,000 is $5,156.25 + 25% of amount over $37,450. That's $14543.75 of tax. That leaves $60,456.25 of disposable income in an area with cost of living of $15,600 which leaves me with $44,856.25.

Note: Wait, are you paying $1,300 for your part of rent or is that the whole rent? If we're halving it for a roommate, I can drop a few hundred off mine to add a few thousand a year. That's still around $50,000/yr so not huge difference.

"This doesn't include singapore's common "13th month" salary which is often an extra month of salary as bonus, usually to cover the cost of taxes as tax is not withheld here like it is in Australia / NZ."

We do withholding here, too. Many withhold extra to cover for overtime as the IRS will come after our ass if we don't have the difference. People like the check they get during tax season, though. So, similar in practice to the bonus but with some differences.

"Also not a good idea if you're American to move to Singapore to work, since you get double taxed. Even all forms here in Singapore ask if you're American Tax Citizen."

That last part is due to all the tax avoidance and U.S. cracking down on it. We can't even open a bank account in some places like Switzerland. Plus, if we renounce citizenship over taxes, they claim taxes on 10 years of our income in the new country as punishment. Taxes are not among America's strong suit unless you're rich enough to avoid them with loopholes designed for the rich. :)
"CE" as printed on random imported crap seems to mean
nothing in particular.

http://www.icomuk.co.uk/News_Article/3794/17103/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking#China_Export
Site's slow? Compress your images with Exhale
People are mixing "Xamarin the company" with "Xamarin technologies" here and I'm not sure how to sort it out. Obviously the tech stack works. Obviously the stack ain't going away, especially now. As for "hard to build a quality product" and "so few wins" well that describes mobile in general now, doesn't it?
NASA makes it rain with $243M in contracts to institutions and small businesses
More useful than bool and mixed-declarations-and-code, in my opinion, are: designated initialisers; compound literals; inline functions; and varargs macros.
How to panic a current grsecurity kernel as any user
Another interesting compression project is "Zstandard"

Open source, high performance, decent compression and a "dictionary mode" that's especially fun when it comes to compressing a lot of small data.

http://www.zstd.net

Previous discussion over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941955
"Once HP recovered, I'm assuming they reinstated previous salary levels and then some."

No way this happened.
Exactly. Motives and intention matters. Read the freaking article, Duane. They were recording the data to forecast the harvest and rainfall for the coming year. It had nothing to do with whatever tinfoil hat motives you have flying around in your head.
A Silicon Valley VC says investors from China are joining Series A deals
Does anyone know why this article was unreachable yesterday? Was it "just" an outage of the entire n+1 magazine?
Seriously. Govt agents are out of control in this country.
I'm very impressed they did this with only 68 image pairs!
It's the thought that counts:) Yeah, it's a shame there's no way to integrate with Excel for Mac, not a small market either.
Why would you need a server farm to handle a few hundred users? A gaming host, which does essentially the same (push location of players around in realtime, just in a virtual world) can support hundreds of players on a single server, and not a particularly beefy one at that.

That said, even if the company does host the servers, in what way does that mean they should also vet and hire drivers, handle (non software related) support calls, invest in marketing and advertising, and all those hundred of other tasks that a taxi business needs, all in many countries and languages?

And the reality is that there are already dozens of companies doing just the software and renting it out to taxi companies, they must have some reason for doing so.
What It's Like to Work for Jeff Bezos (2013)
Maybe income tax is just a bad idea? Bad for humans, that is, not for maximizing government power. The U.S. got along without it for a long time, and economists have argued for other bases like a land-value tax or consumption taxes. I dunno, myself; it's not like I get to choose.
And the ability to forward an event. And the ability to propose a new time for a meeting. And the ability to accept a new proposed time for a meeting from a client that does have that ability.
So essentially a golden share? If I were an equity holder I would be pretty annoyed by this news
Unanimously. How often does that happen?
Bek Liverpool Mamadou Sakho
I too hate cross-platform schlockware but it sounds like you are not familiar with the technology.

"controls are mapped to platform-specific native user interface elements; for example, a Xamarin.Forms Entry becomes a UITextView on iOS, an EditText on Android, and a TextBox on Windows."

https://www.xamarin.com/forms
This is a red herring.
Real news is "Facebook plans new non-voting shares to keep Zuckerberg at helm"

"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-results-stock-idU...

This smells of a unwanted dilution.
Dear Amazon Prime, I don't want to watch the ads for your original series
While texting and driving is definitely an issue, this isn't the solution.

It would be much more appropriate to implement ways that remind people that this is dangerous behaviour.

Preferably there should be something done during driving tests to see how people react. Something like calling the participants phone when in a safe environment to see how they react. Of course people could plan for it but that would be the point.
An "optimal" amount of time? So we expect "good enough" solutions to be materialized in a matter of an hour?

If my PM ever walked up to me and said, "Hey, I have this project, and I need you to have it back to me in an hour," I would laugh, then escort them over to their boss, who would also laugh at them before they walked back to their desk in shame.

It's not testing anything but whether or not you're good at studying for exams.
If their Github is anything to go by, they appear to work for a Chinese company.
Interesting that he's going to start giving away shares now. Makes me wonder if he doesn't see much more financial upside to FB, at least at current price levels.

If there's a lot more value to to accrue to his FB stock (even on a time-discounted basis), wouldn't he want to rationally wait for the future value of those shares to materialize to have maximum impact?

Alternatively he could just think that the value to society of funding the right causes (in his mind) is just that much greater than the time-discounted future value.
You mean the ones made by google, connected to the cloud 24/7, dumps its logs remotely on demand, and will lock its doors and drive you to the police station if its bayesian analysis thinks you're probably a terrorist?
Betting Against China
And of course practically speaking, death is a great thing to tax, because one of the problems with taxation is that it can be distortionary - when you tax something, people tend to do less of it. That's obviously not a problem with estate taxes.
The Way Houyhnhnms Compute
> how it can open AI to the world unless it can share rather valuable data sets

I think the spectacularly publishable performance from industry comes entirely from these massive datasets.

AlphaGo needed way more energy and data than a person did to perform as well as it did. To a set of pedantic but extremely well-meaning researchers, that could be interpreted as a huge failure.

Clearly whatever it's doing isn't the kind of intelligence that people have, since people don't need megawatts of power and 30 million game sets. But that's what big companies have that academic departments don't.

Journals publish both approaches though, and we all win from great discoveries.
>The ratio can now be as much as 1:100, so a supercomputer is forced to spend the vast majority of its time moving data to and from memory. This is spurring the adoption of data-tiering hardware and software that try to maximize CPU effectiveness by storing frequently accessed data in high-speed tiers such as solid-state drive

Err... this isn't new, wouldn't the high speed tiers be processor registers and cache and we've been doing this for over 30 years?
I just want to watch The Wire, not ads and commercials, those are the devil. I'm not interested in "Catastrophe" your drama with a love interest original series. I give you props for supporting production of James May, Jeremy Clarkson, and Richard Hammond, but this commercial interruption is bullshit.
From 2015.

Related press release: http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/11/20/strange-quantum-...

In my naive reading this seems highly significant. But I really can't back that up.
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> No, we are borrowing from each other in the present.

Not according to the Bank of England.

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
Who Is Raffling Off a “Dream House” in San Francisco?
Golang Query Parameter Library
To provide an alternate viewpoint, OPAM isn't that great of a package manager if you've come from other languages or have used a Linux distro's package manager. It's incredibly slow, partly because you're supposed to use an external constraint solver. When it crashes, it leaves lots of things in an inconsistent state. It's environment handling is really picky and gives warnings about not being set up properly even when it is, because it used to (maybe still does) expect itself to be the last thing in a lot of environment variables. It is something I try to avoid when possible.

EDIT: Sorry, realized I replied to the wrong comment. Meant to reply to the grandparent.
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My sister is a nurse (traveling nurse actually) and she does carry credentials. Moving to a new state requires you to get licensed all over again. However, from everything I can glean from the process, as a nurse you only have to take a certified test once. Then you just submit some paper work to have it renewed every few years, you do not need to retake boards every so often like physicians.

When getting licensed in a new state (ie move from Montana to California), you just need to submit basic paperwork, background check/get finger printed and then you are licensed for the new state (no need to retake an exam). All these comments seem to indicate nurses have insanely high selective pressures to weed out people who suck. It's really, really not the case. The stories I hear about certain nurses who completely lack common sense are astounding.

When my sister gets a new position (even when she started travel nursing after only 1 year of experience), she has a phone interview with a company hired by the hospital to find travel nurses. They may or may not contact her previous employers/references and then she finds out within a day or two if she has the job. It typically takes her 1 week to get a new assignment, 3 weeks tops if she is being exceptionally picky and trying to work in a specific area/hospital. That's all there is to it.

She's gone through this process about 6 times in the past two years (I've even seen her do a phone interview while at a wine tasting! -- and she was offered the position) and she rarely stresses about these interviews as they are not technical.
This is an interesting and well-researched article. We've been getting postcards in the mail every year from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts advertising their Dream House Raffle. Never donated but was curious what the deal was. Now I know a lot more about it than I did before!
You crossing a bridge actually lowers that bridge's utility to others---eventually it will become too full and nobody else can cross at a given moment.

You using Facebook basically creates value for you and others, including Facebook itself.
Could still die in the senate, unfortunately.

More than a quarter of senators have endorsed similar legislation in the upper chamber to the House bill, including No. 2 Republican John Cornyn.

Are we supposed to see that as a positive? Because I read it as "Only a quarter of senators have endorsed similar legislation."
Thanks! Looking forward to be able to try it :)
Here's a link that mentions a NE Journal of Medicine report backing up your claim: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-01-04/news/1998004017_...