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Not necessarily. Dark matter could be made of small dense objects. Because they are small, we wouldn't see absorption of light. And because they are small, they will very seldom collide. These kinds of object are called MACHOs.

Based on observed dimming events while monitoring many stars, we have ruled out brown dwarfs as more than 20% of the total. Other possibilities still remain, but none have shown evidence of being sufficient to explain dark matter. However we have not ruled out the possibility of it being something that we haven't thought of yet.
That's not to say that LOR is impossible with a smaller payload. Saturn V enabled a large, complex, redundant set of vehicles. The never successfully launched Soviet N1/L3 with half the TLI payload also used LOR but with much lighter vehicles and a smaller crew.
The LRO has provided great photos of Apollo landing sites with the LM base (and the Rovers for later missions) identifiable.

Still looking for the tall black monolith, though.
In the short-medium term? It makes it easier for democratic countries to wage war, just or unjust. No more footage of coffins draped in flags coming off transport planes. No more soldiers coming home with PTSD or concussion-induced dementia. Just a bunch of guys in Langley, sitting in their cubicles, killing people on the other side of the world.

The domestic propaganda goes down much smoother at this point. After all, who wants peace when we can win?
With Python3 not likely to be one of them.

I answered his question on 2 vs 3 if you read what I said.
Erm, yes. We established that. And I assert that this is not what science teachers teach.
I read this article somewhere else and, frankly, I'm thrilled that this guy got jail time. The FAA already has rules in place for drone use that restrict drone flights and explicitly forbid flights over areas where there are people that are not shielded by some type of cover. In order to fly a drone commercially, you have to pass an exam that covers all these rules and the registration for your drone requires you to agree to these regulations before you can complete the registration. He ignored the regulations (whose only purpose is really safety) and got someone hurt. He deserved it.
> The Germans had a good point: kids' toys which record their voices and send the recordings up to the web pose some serious privacy risks. It's not that the risks are particularly any different to the ones you and I face every day with the volumes of data we produce and place online (and if you merely have a modern phone, that's precisely what you're doing), it's that our tolerances are very different when kids are involved

It's a bit paradoxical. There are way less things a kid can say that can get him in trouble than an adult. Even the most oppressive regime will not hold what a 4yo toddler says against him. The need for privacy should rather be less for a kid than for an adult.

What it means is that violations of privacy are creepy, period. We try to rationalise it by arguing that we get something out of it, but when dealing with our kids, we stop believing our own bullshit and it is just becomes purely creepy...
You get rid of destroying assets but keep killing people. It is kind of an improvement if you just compare the losses incurred in this kind of war as compared to normal war, after all you are not losing your assets. But morally it seems actually worse to me. You decide to lessen the consequences of a war but you decide to keep your assets but keep killing people.
I believe this (mating tanks given multiple missions) is what they were considering. Imagine you have your reusable falcon 9 boost into orbit a 'fuel only' second stage. Land the first stage, put another one on it, and send it up again. Once you have your 'boost pack' up in orbit, presumably docking with each other into a single unit, you launch your crew which attaches to the 'tug' that takes them to the moon.

ULA has a great writeup of how you might do this if you have on orbit refueling capabilities.

And on the one hand it seems like total science fiction but on the other, Elon is talking about next year.
As pointed out though the idea that we are more likely to be living in a simulation was always pretty sound.

That being said it's pretty much a non falsifiable theory and not a very useful approach in life or science.
Vote. Get other people to vote. Preferably have already done that in an alternate universe decades ago.

Now? Now that corporations have all of the rights, and none of the responsibilities of personhood, Trump is in office, the Republicans have the Congress, and will have the SCOTUS for at least a generation? Now it's getting a bit late.
It strikes me as likely that crashing a car into a kangaroo is not considered a kangaroo-related death.
Thanks for sharing! How did you deal with FCC approval?
yes but in the end they lost, nazi's were defeated, the freedom-loving humans won :o
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Are there used furniture online communities (craigslist, facebook groups), stores, auctions or recycling centers where you live?

Where I'm at, things like a certain brand's bookshelves can be bought and sold relatively easily, because they're common, strong, practically forever and modular so can be customized to almost anything. They also have a timeless look.

It's everything Ikea is not. Even most of the solid wood Ikea stuff uses is just weak and soft.

Having said that, most new unpainted wood furniture here (not just Ikea) looks terrible because it's filled with knots. That's because of local forestry policy decisions, good quality forests and wood has been destroyed, and the country has been driven to producing low value pulp.

By the way, efficient aftermarkets exist for other things as well, for example musical instruments, because they also don't wear out so much in amateur use, or at least the wearing parts should be replaceable.

It brings satisfaction to me to use, own, buy or sell a good product that is designed and manufactured to last.
does it go up stairs as well as down?
Kinda tempted to just flag Uber stories atm.

There obviously a negative campaign going on (probably just organic, but these days who knows)

Self driving cars will save millions of lives. We need to speed this up.

When does HN normally love regulations so much?
I'm pretty sure Musk is doing what's reliably necessary to keep his companies running under Trump.

An administration full of oil wealth and climate change deniers are a significant business risk when you make electric cars and have States banking photovoltaics.

He needs to be within Trump's monkeysphere.
But Attorney General is a political position, e.g. appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the U.S. President.
Haha I have always thought this though, I love that Tammy the waitress who I knew from school endorsed that I am capable of Network Architecture and Geospatial databases....
> I don't think bullies can thrive in a healthy workplace culture

This part is really key: a single incident, sure, perhaps that's a bad hire but if it's not directly and completely rejected by senior management they're sending a message that anything goes as long as you get results / have the right friends. That doesn't even mean explicitly condoning something – merely allowing it to continue is enough.
1. That goes towards the other point that I made [1] about how microbenchmarks have only limited relevance for the performance of large applications (the performance of memory pools can also change as a result; as an extreme case, multiple large memory pools can lead to swapping).

2. Many GCs allow you to tune performance for individual computations. For example, Erlang allows you to basically start a new lightweight process with a heap large enough so that collection isn't needed and to throw it away at the end; OCaml's GC parameters can be changed while the program is running.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747876
"CloudPets can send and receive messages from anywhere in the world! Buy Now".[1] They delivered on that, all right.

If you want one, they're now available for the low, low price of only $3.[2] Including WiFi.

[1] https://cloudpets.com/
[2] https://www.hollar.com/products/as-seen-on-tv-cloudpet-dog
> What's up?

igouy is the maintainer of the benchmarks game.
States have always been constrained by what their soldiers are willing to do for them. It's the difference between Tiananmen Square and Russia a couple years later. I think taking away that constraint is a bigger deal than how robots might change the nature of wars between states.

This particular robot doesn't strike me as especially military, though yeah, it's kind of scary-moving.
http://www.businessinsider.com/kelly-ellis-claims-she-was-se...

http://www.gadgette.com/2016/01/19/what-i-learnt-from-being-...

https://prezi.com/jtikgiukl0tl/sexual-harassment-in-google/

http://nypost.com/2014/05/28/staffer-slaps-google-with-sexua...

More light on todays news: http://gizmodo.com/former-google-engineer-blasts-companys-hr...
Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)
Solar might already be competitive with coal [1]

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2016/12/25/cost-of-solar-power-vs-...
"I don't care where you live, you're terrible at managing money."

Not necessarily. Everything in SF/Bay Area will require a compromise. Want to save on real-estate? You will pay in time traveled. Want to save on travel, you pay for somewhere to live. Either way you loose.

For all the hi-tech in these companies the question should be asked, "Why do you have to come to work to do your job?" Is it necessary every day?
I mean come on. I'm asking friends to vote for my post. I wrote an enormous post that offers a guide for many people looking to build their own hardware. The least I could do is get it as widely seen as possible.
The warehouse setting, and then snowy outdoors. Just needed some exploding barrels or random crates around the place and it's a charmless FPS.
The fact that they keep lying and getting caught regularly should be very troubling to their investors. I could understand differences in definition, but lying about what objectively happened is beyond that.
How can physical books be impractical to actually read compared to e-books when text looks so much better on paper than on screen?
True enough, I forgot about the TSA bags with flip-out sleeves.
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How would you go about applying antitrust laws to companies like facebook, google, uber, and airbnb?

I think this would be a difficult fight because they all can claim serious competition. For instance, probably your best case could be against Google and their search engine advertising, but they could easily say that they are competing against all advertising mediums in the world. Airbnb could say they are competing against hotel chains. Uber says they are competing against taxi's. Facebook is competing against 100's of social networks. While I agree something should be done to help business compete in these new mediums they are not defined enough to draw a line in the sand.

To your point though you look at a situation where a single company, Google, could shutter a businesses website on a whim... that seems like a valid antitrust case. I'm just not sure how you would make the case though.
Except for the whole thing where it's illegal to record someone without their explicit consent.
100% agree. Dragging the issue into the "accuracy" direction away from the "moral" direction is a Thermian argument.
Ideally, yes. I can understand some exceptions there to get, say, driver/firmware support for FOSS-unfriendly hardware, but integrating Pocket - at the time - was not such a situation.

Now there's a different, much better story.
s/world/city/
The next step is mandatory facial recognition of everyone in the U.S. What better way to track all of those visitors who come into the country and where they go than to track everyone everywhere all the time. License plates are already recorded almost everywhere. The location of your cell phone clearly has to be known by the carrier, it's a simple database dump to track your phone. Track everything you do online by tapping databases from Facebook and Google (as best you can since they probably don't want you to). Track all of your credit card, stock and other purchases. Correlate all of these data points together, and imagine the possibilities. Of course it's not 100% accurate, but for nearly 400 Million people (citizens, illegals and visitors) what's a few tens of millions of inaccurate data points.
The thinking behind this isn't complicated. The US wants to construct a database of people who visit the US, and using it on people leaving the US will probably encounter less resistance than people entering the US, as well as have people who don't travel much going "whats the big deal anyway?"

Now they have your face and personal data, and they can probably run that against all the surveillance information being collected daily by the NSA etc.

From a privacy perspective (what happens if theres some sort of mistake, and you're not a citizen), this is F*g terrible, but that's what happens when you get a populace inured to surveillance in the first place. I don't see this ending up anyplace good.
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Why is this a problem? Because it looks creepy?
I think it's possibly a bit more that we rationalize it as an adult because we can make a choice to give up the privacy or not. For a child they haven't developed mentally yet to understand that choice. That said I agree that the child has less potential for revealing information.
Historically rocket research has been funded to develop the capability to deliver bombs.
Who do you want to vote for?
What evidence do you have that the answer "sorry, I've never heard of that; it must not come up much in iPhone development" would get them turned away at the border?
For commercial service I agree with you heartily. For AF1...I don't know. I'd be inclined to take a seat myself, but I can understand not, for a number of reasons. For example, even if landing is a tad rough, from the sounds of it there isn't nearly as much "stuff" in the interior (seats, overhead bins, etc.) you could potentially bang into.
Much creepier version of this, video of it was actually surfaced about a month ago. [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/giS41utjlbU?t=52s
The elites mentioned would just use ML to war game and hone tactics, and no one has experience fighting with (or defending against) this type of mechanized warfare.
You're pretty much making the same point as the people mentioned in the article, just framed positively. Single renters can get by if they're willing to spend a large portion of their take-home, but a family on the same salary cannot.

35 year old me could not live like 25 year old me.
Why do you have a picture of Van Gogh's The Starry Night if it's called Monet?
I agree. For some reason I imagined that orbital-capable rockets use order(s) of magnitude more fuel than airliners...
One of the dirtiest tricks that Uber uses -And I found this out through firsthand experience - Is doing performance reviews where all feedback is public (I think technically it's only shown to your manager and team lead, except they're expected to make it public). This prevents you from writing negative feedback, and even damning with faint praise is a sure strategy to face retaliation. Rather than work out, privately, when one of your coworkers is underperforming, you only have the option of naming and shaming.

I'd really like a culture where this was viable - I'd love for nearly everything to be done in the public sphere, and even 'backstabbing' to be handled in the clear, but since Diffie–Hellman exists, it's not viable.
Running Google's Chrome Web browser

Version 49.0.2623.112 m

(which is now a very old version)
on Windows XP SP3; Google no longer supports Chrome on XP. Yes, I'm shopping for a new PC, especially because my current motherboard has problems causing the system to reboot several times a day, has caused some data corruption, e.g., my software, including essentially all the software for my startup, that dynamically loads Microsoft's .NET Framework will no longer run, etc.

On your Web page at 100% zoom, I see two columns. The left one has a block of text with title

AMD Ryzen 7 1700

and the right one has

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming Premium Pack

At 100% zoom, a lot of the text I can't read because the font size is just too small and/or the font is not bold and/or dark enough to show up clearly on my display.

As soon as I zoom to the next larger magnification, 110%, I get just one column that starts with

AMD Ryzen 7 1700

as in the left column before the zoom.

At zoom 150%, I can read the content, but zoom 175% is easier to read.

But, now that I look again, at 175% zoom, farther down the Web page I see again

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming Premium Pack

again. So, this looks like the start of what used to be the right column.

So, maybe I can see all the text but at zoom 175% the page is reformatted to one column instead of two.

In the Web pages I've written for my startup, I have put all my content in tables and not used HTML element <div>, and zoom settings do not reformat or rearrange the content on my Web pages. So, maybe your pages (I have not looked at your HTML code) have HTML elements <div> which let a Web browser rearrange the content.

So, maybe I was wrong: A user doesn't need horizontal scroll bars to read the content.

What fooled me is that suddenly at zoom 110% the page reformatted (rearranged), jumped around. Pages I've seen that jump around a lot are at Facebook; at times I've screamed myself hoarse; and that jumping nonsense is a big reason I try to avoid Facebook, even when they have content I'm interested in.
I don't understand. If I got a call in my daughter's voice saying "Help! I'm being held for ransom! Send all the bitcoins!" And then I call her phone and she answers or she walks in the door having gotten home from school, how is anyone going to collect on that?
According to the article, they are not highly skilled workers.

> Many of the jobs are also accessible to people who might otherwise struggle to find well-paying jobs. An entry-level worker without a degree can conceivably double their salary within a year, from $10-$12 an hour for simple manual labor to $20-$23 an hour. The median wage posted for solar installer jobs in 2016 was $26 an hour.
"I don't know what I'm going to do when I can't use treestyle tabs anymore. I guess move to Pale Moon."

I hear ya, being in a similar boat. My hope is that Netsurf ends up being a decent contender here by the time Mozilla kills XUL. Else, hopefully TST will indeed be made possible with Firefox-specific WebExtension APIs.
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I was gonna say "CloudBear", after Cloudflare, but it's basically already called that.

Maybe just avoid anything with "cloud" in the name?
> we also don't know if the space time on those scales is "smooth", if it isn't then light will not travel in a straight line which would account for the lensing effects.

Except space isn't perfectly smooth. It does curve, and that curvature is gravity. That's what general relativity is all about. If you want to postulate some way for the universe to curve absent observable mass, go ahead: you're doing nothing but restating the dark matter problem in a (minimally) different way.
That's fine, but why advertise the Hacker News submission instead of the post on Medium itself?

Moreover, why advertise upvoting using a known exploit (that doesn't work) if you are trying to get authentic exposure?
> one line of unsafe code (a call to the libc "memchr" function)

Is burntsushi's Rust implementation of memchr notably slower than libc's?
Wait until robot personhood makes disabling one of these things equivalent to murder, then we're in real trouble.
Dogs, toddlers show similarities in social intelligence
"The cost of housing is a common complaint among Bay Area techies. Engineers can expect, according to one analysis, to pay between 40% and 50% of their salary renting an apartment near work."

This is the core problem.
That sounds like it would be an amazing plot point for a show like Billions. Garmin basically did the impossible: force a supplier of a scarce product to renegotiate their position. Amazing story, thanks for posting.
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[...] they'll probably target one anothers' civilians.

Which would be a first class war crime.

Nations are never going to rid themselves of the desire for war, or the need for war to involve bloodshed, because we're just another species of simian bludgeoning the out-group to death with extremely abstract and over-engineered rocks.

While that is not an uncommon point of view empirical evidence suggests otherwise, war seems to be in decline and seems to have shifted from wars between nations to civil wars and asymmetric wars.

Some argue that advances in human behavior heavily lag behind technological advances and I tend to agree at least somewhat, but concluding that we will never manage to overcome this stupidity seems not really obvious to me. And I certainly hope that it is not true.

We already have non-violent ways to resolve conflicts between nations, we fight wars explicitly to kill people.

Force is the ultimate and only way to »resolve« conflicts if all other means fail. But I do not think we are killing people for the sake of it in wars, it is just a means to an end.
Because it forces people to put more effort in an actual argument and not just hide behind 'x is Hitler' generalizations.
One thing I don't recall seeing mentioned in these discussions is validity checking based on the different sources of ratings.

If you're seeing widely varying ratings of a single person that seems like it'd be a big red flag - if the boss says 1 or 2 but coworkers or reports average 3.5+ that's a situation that seems to cry out for further investigation. Similarly, if the boss says "4" but coworkers and reports average 1.5, there's probably also a serious problem.

I'm sure investigating involves costs that companies don't want to incur, but if you have that kind of disconnect going on it may be cheaper to investigate and resolve it than to deal with the eventual fallout.

I've seen the personal aftermath of bad bosses and work environments on people in the past, and it's really not pretty. If you're talking with someone about work and say "Mean Girls" and get a response of "Oh my god yes!" that's a pretty good indicator of a toxic work environment.
er, Moloch is not a made up word.
> There's plenty of competitors that would love to fill that hole.

Maybe in the US. Elsewhere (e.g. Toronto), it's Uber or taxi.
There's always the possibility that the toy overhears adults.
Not just any huge corp, but Uber - getting away with shady stuff is in their DNA
This can be applied to much more than just fuel, mind you. Interplanetary manned vehicles might very well end up looking like space stations, with a bunch of modules docked together in order to provide the necessary creature comforts to sustain a crew for months on end.

In fact, a permanently-in-orbit transfer vehicle might make sense here; have this vehicle run the actual Earth<->Mars transfers, then just shuttle in fuel/supplies/crew on each Earth arrival.

Either way, a Falcon-like reusable launch system makes plenty of sense here in terms of making this sort of thing possible.
It would be cooler if they donated it for sending more robots to Mars...
The same thing that stopped the addition of epicycles to the geocentric model of the solar system: a better theory that explains the observations more naturally.
Uranium from seawater factors into nuclear power
Fact checking universal basic income: can we transfer our way out of poverty?