skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My paper is based on this one:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9605002v2.pdf

I don't know if that exact paper was ever published, but an earlier version was formally published here:

C. H. Adami and N. J. Cerf, “Information Theory of Quantum Entanglement and Measurement,” Physica D 120 (1998) 62-81.

But this paper turns out to be a rehash of an older result (Zurek, 1991)

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0306072

which in turn is more or less a rehash of an even older result (1955) by von Neuman:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.7649v1.pdf (See the references for the original source.)

And there is some evidence that even Bohr and Heisenberg actually understood this.

Basically, the physics community bifurcates among those who deny this is true (e.g. Lubos Motl) and those among whom it is considered common knowledge. Indeed, when I submitted my paper to Physics Today back in 2000 it was rejected on the grounds that it was nothing new.

The hard part of QM is not understanding it. The hard part is accepting that it is true. Because people really want to believe that the reason that we can make reproducible measurements is that these measurements are a faithful reflection of a underlying metaphysical reality that is actually "out there" in some sense. But that turns out not to be the case. As David Mermin so eloquently puts it (http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609013) we are in fact made of "correlations without correlata."
Well, yeah. That's what the current bubble is based upon, private equity speculation.

It should be pointed out, though, that you can't really analyse many of these startups by looking at their income statements in this fashion, because even their future monetisation strategies are being speculated about. That is, they aren't expected to have healthy bottom lines yet. They're doing this on purpose.

Ultimately, private and public investors will analyse the bottom lines of these companies, but when that happens, there'll be bigger problems to face than a few orgs with unhealthy gross profits struggling, i.e. the bubble will burst.

Incidentally, I'm not sure why the article is specifically talking about gross margin. Especially since most of these company's costs relate to human resources and servicing debt and so on, and not inventory and production. It seems like operating profit or net profit would be a better single figure to focus on.
Instead of paying $9.99 monthly (forever) why not just buy one of those "TV on a stick" devices [0] (a one time purchase) and run a web browser+uBlock?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-on-a-stick
> Old people + technology = failure. Really common pattern.

True, but so is young people + technology. Young people tend not to be Secretary of State or Director of the CIA though.
Didn't they just fire a bunch of their own?
Kanban is more relaxed than scrum.

When the teams I worked with switched to kanban, they liked that they didn't have the end of scrum deadline, they also disliked that they didn't have the ten day deadline anymore as they felt the arbitrary deadline helped to push them a little.

That being said, kanban is better, it is more relaxed and feature feedback is faster than scrum.
Young med-tech companies often need to wait for FDA approval before starting to operate (if their entire business is based on a new technology).

Based on the recent expose, Theranos doesn't seem to have any new technology that actually works, but this news doesn't seem that surprising either way.
The trick is that the set

N1 = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,... }

can be set into a one-to-one relationship with the set

N2 = { 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,... }

by the function

f(n1:N1) -> N2 = { n1 + 1 }

(Using a notation I pulled out of my flying monkeys right at this moment.)

The first set, N1, is the state of the hotel with one guest in every room, i.e. { n | room n is occupied }. The second set is the state of the hotel after Mr. Hilbert's operation, with room 1 empty.

The meta-trick is that an infinite set can be put into a one-to-one relationship with some proper subsets of itself (that's one definition of "infinite", by the way).
Is this TMS or TDCS?
What I don't understand and I missed it if anyone mentioned but why wouldn't video creators want to participate? Is there less revenue involved then or something?
You mean if you're trying someone of a crime related to a profession at least SOME of the jury should be trained in that profession? (I'd go for at least a third, or slightly less than half (half minus one) of 'closely related fields'.)
I used to work for a guy who would advertise a ML/data science job and then tried to convince applicants who made it thru the pipe to take a software engineering role instead.

Didn't get a lot of hires that way.
Google Play Music All Access I'm Feeling Lucky Radio, on the other hand, is a thing. A thing to which I am listening right now, I should add.
To me, this is a no-brainer if you're paying for spotify. Google music is at least as good as spotify (and better in many ways) at the same price. If you want to pay $10/mo for music streaming, you now can get ad-free youtube for no extra money if you choose google music instead of spotify.
Either not on Youtube or it will stay up but won't have any ads, and he won't have any revenue.
The power of habit – or how to ditch a bad habit and consume less coffee
> https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/3ponbs...

The original post was removed. You might want to check that.
I still really like the form factor, but what a review like this doesn't capture is the long-term reliability and service quality that comes with the device

Someone did a review of the Nexus 7 1 year after they bought it:
http://androidandme.com/2013/06/opinions/one-year-later-the-...

Warning: there is an auto-play video on that page.

This sort of thing is problematic with such short release cycles of products, but maybe something like, initial review, then small updates 1month in, 3 months in, 6 months in, might be useful for non-early adopter consumers.
then why yc alumni network exists? Why yc provides mentors?
Whose feedback is more valuable, mentors or customers?
The percentage is meaningless lowering it to say 0% while keeping the current market prices means that people still can't afford housing and will default on their loans.

Leave it at 20% heck raise it to 50% as long as you can have affordable housing.

If your first housing will cost 5 years of the median wage no one will have issues buying it, when a house costs 20 years, in which you need to pay rent, feed yourself, get married and have kids no one will every get into the market unless they get help form their parents or strike gold.
QNX did something like this years ago. They had a free version, then went partially open source, then went closed source, then went fully open source (you could download the kernel sources), then suddenly went totally closed source after being acquired by Blackberry.

There are few remaining QNX developers.
A streaming server-side rendering library for React
see the last sentence of my comment
Sounds like Colin's dancing bear: it doesn't dance very well but it's a constant source of fascination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiARsQSlzDc
A baby who's never seen an image before wouldn't be able to do that. It wouldn't even know what writing is.
I think people confuse having the technical ability to read any email with the ability to actually read all emails.
Anyone have opinions on whether encryption hardware is a growing trend? Or is it simply a less relevant catch-all approach that will disappear with better security practises
I can't do it (or rather, it's happened maybe once or twice in my life) --- I don't have a strong enough grasp of reality! When I'm in a dream, I am playing the character in the dream, so any strange events will always come across as completely normal to me. Which means most of the standard lucid dreaming tricks won't work on me.

Interestingly, however, I do get another thing, which I haven't seen described anywhere, which I'll dub false memory syndrome: while in the hypnogogic state on the edge of sleep, sometimes my memory will change. I'll still be me, unlike with ordinary dreaming, but with a whole new backstory. Unfortunately I don't remember the new backstory afterwards, so all I retain are second-order memories; memories of thinking about the backstory.

e.g. once I was suddenly convinced I'd committed some sort of crime or other, and was wondering whether to try and run or resign myself to going to prison. No idea what the crime was now (I'd quite like to know what my subconscious was worried about).

This has happened to me so often I will occasionally think, hmm, this is odd, I wonder if it's false memory syndrome again? Which is a classic lucid memory trigger. Except I'm not really asleep, and I will always decide that it's not.

After waking up from the one described above, I was really relieved to find out that it really was false memory syndrome.

...hang on, the police are at the door.
There are no anti-russian documents because Assange nor any of his activists care about Russia. They care about the Western world, that's why they prod it.
I have some personal experience with applying computer/machine vision techniques to assessing rice quality. In India, rice quality assessment is a high value activity as the difference in per unit weight price is dramatic across different varieties of rice. The longer the grain, as an example, the pricier it is. Discoloration is also an indicator of bad quality rice. Since there is such a huge difference in price, there is naturally cheating, subjectivity and sampling driven errors. We had developed a device that would objectively and quickly measure the rice quality based on a multitude of factors. This was not just software because there had to be way to cancel out any variance due to ambient conditions and it had to be a device that was easy to maintain in a highly rugged rice factory environment. We did really well but where we failed was our inability to break through the powerful rice quality inspectors cartel and even the rice suppliers who were worried about being "found out". Manual inspection was strangely seen as way of having some control over the proceedings.
> Hulu is now ad free.

Yeah? I'll have to take another look at Hulu, ads were a major reason for me dropping my subscription.

When did this change?
You probably can but there is so much information in there that it might be trivial (or become trivial) to know that the name is fake based on some other information. But I guess it might be harder to tie it back to the real name.
I like this. Although a lot of great content is, and should be, freely available on the web, I also would like to see more subscription based content creation and viewing.

Google Play movies, TV, and books is getting to be convenient enough so I am using it more (I just bought the BBC 'Worricker Trilogy', one of the best shows we have watched in years).

While subscribing to a service like this, plus Hulu no commercials version, Internet version of HBO Go, and Netflix may seem a little expensive, it basically covers all entertainment costs except for buying books.
[Open Source] AutoTag – Tag AWS Resources with the ARN of Their Creator
Reading this, an old joke and something Hemingway wrote come to mind.

The old joke is about a retailer whose margins were very thin but wanted to attract more customers, so the retailer decided to have a big sale. After looking at the proposed discounts, an assistant questioned the strategy, noting that they would lose money on each transaction. The retailer said, "That's okay -- we'll make it up on volume!"

The Hemingway bit is this gem from The Sun Also Rises: "'How did you go bankrupt?' Bill asked. 'Two ways, Mike said. 'Gradually and then suddenly.'"

It's understandable for startups who don't yet have a business model not to make any money. In fact, that's what one expects of them. But unicorns are NOT startups; they're fairly sizable businesses that already have a business model, with large organizations, lots of overhead, repeatable processes, etc. It is very risky for companies at such a late stage in their life cycle to still be losing money on every incremental dollar of revenue!

Someone should start a Unicorn Death Watch ;-)
Android TV, sorry. It's built into my tv.

The top discussion in this thread is about their poor branding. Chromecast? Google Cast? Android TV? Nexus Player? Google TV? What is it? I have Android TV and even I'm confused.
A cartoon intro to redux
Feels a lot more like Amazon.
I remember reading that article about the open ports and distinctly recall they left out whether or not this was a public facing. Not that it justifies anything, but it wouldn't be egregious.
Because the experience and usability of a chromecast is much MUCH better than what you are suggesting.
How do you become a VIP? Can you just ask? Do all the Michael Jordans just get to share automatic VIP status with the MJ?
Can a Video Game Teach Just as Well as a Professor?
Fermi Paradox: Earth Might Be the First
These experiments provide evidence against local hidden variables. The experiments are silent about theories that involve non-local hidden variables. The act of measuring one particle of an entangled pair instantly affects the other particle, instead of this effect needing to propagate at or below the speed of light; this instant interaction ("spooky action at a distance") is incompatible with local hidden variables. As other folks have mentioned, look up Bell's inequalities for more information.

Also, it should be noted that quantum entanglement does not allow information to travel faster than light.
Check out the book "The Bankers' New Clothes," which addresses the intentionally obscure language of finance
One difference: I was casually browsing web pages on my phone, saw the link, and was able to try out the demo after 15 seconds of loading. Then when I was done I closed the tab and that's the end of it. Nothing to install or uninstall, near-instant casual 3D interactivity (at least on a modern cell phone). I'd say that part is pretty cool.
This isn't to excuse his conduct in any way shape or form, but I suspect that every high ranking official in the public or private sector keeps a private e-mail account for conducting business off-the-books.
Are those centuries of jurisprudence still valuable in these scenarios if they're not working?
That doesn't seem like a great incentive for a dev to work with Twitter's API until they figure that out...
My experience with MS re: the SP2 was quite different. I bought the SP2 in Dec 2013, within a week it was ruined by a failed MS firmware update. The SP2 began randomly waking up from sleep mode, annoying, and hazardous when it did that stored in a briefcase (because it would heat up).

A few weeks later the MS store exchanged it for a brand new one without hesitation. Subsequently I've had other problems with the SP2: the Type Cover failed, the power supply connector came apart, each time the broken item was replaced with little hassle.

That's not to say the SP2 has been trouble-free. Numerous software/firmware issues were evident but most were resolved in the first 10 months it was on the market, coincidentally about the time the SP3 was being introduced.

The SP4 seems like it offers substantial improvements, though it is costly. I'm inclined to wait a while before seriously considering purchase, give it some time to get the bugs worked out, and who knows, the price may come down a bit next year.
The "problem" here is that in many white collar cases, the defendants have the money to be represented by competent counsel and are thus confident in going to trial. Our system is setup so that most cases, when brought to trial with competent defense counsel, are a difficult win for the prosecution. This is as it should be.

Our insanely high conviction rates are the result of the extortion scheme that is our plea bargaining system - not because prosecutors are great at their jobs. It appears from this article that prosecutors are unhappy when defendants have the resources to avail themselves of the rights they have under our system of law, but I find it hard to imagine that they will find many people that are sympathetic to their complaints.
Take a broader view of hacking. A system is not just its code, it's the people that run it, too. If you want to break into a system, they are frequently the best point of entry.
> Brennan, the hacker says, replied, “How much do you really want?”

Could be an embellishment, but it sounds like he really was willing to pay something. Perhaps more for his personal privacy than out of fear of national secrets leaking, though.
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I realise the guy isn't a HFT, but that seems to be how he is being treated.

What EXACTLY does high frequency trading contribute to society? Genuine question.
coincidence: watched this interesting 53 minute interview of Charlie Morley about lucid dreaming last night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwpPbZZxFwY
Ah yes. I may have inadvertently typed almost by habit o.O

and now I will try to distract the reader by mentioning something about keystroke dynamics. I wonder if I type pornhub in a different way than any one else does

If you didn't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics
> Russians

That reads like you intended it as a slur. If so, not cool.
If determinism is true then nothing (or everything) is “fair”.
Maybe as someone said we do not need feedbacks, which I think we all need.

But since already prepared the application, why not show it to more people?
Duh, plausible deniability.
I got an iPhone 3G in AU on a 2 year $40AUD/Month contract.

At the time, this was almost half what I would have paid pre-iPhone. Before the iPhone, I would have had to get a normal contract, plus a data add-on. Monthly cost was close to $80AUD.

Didn't a similar bundling of services at relatively lower costs happen in the US?

Still more expensive than call and text only, but still not that expensive.
Its hard to prove because it would be interpreted as just attacking a leaker.

The USGovt has to be sensitive to the fact that the leaks are real information. But its far more nuanced to prove that WIKILEAKS is just pushing an anti-USA/NATO view.

Look at the Saudi Arabia leaks in light of the fact they're in a price war with Russia right now.

You won't see an Iranian leak on WIKILEAKS..and you haven't.
There's a massive difference in the order ofd magnitude of information acquired by recording people's body language vs legally handing them over your genome. That sort of apples to oranges comparison does nothing for the argument.
If I understand you correctly, you have not yet been rejected. You are just having big feels, feeling sure you will be rejected, and are flailing around looking for an emotional outlet, hoping to find people who will understand you.

This is the kind of thing where the answer is you write emo poetry or watch tear jerk movies or something until you have an actual answer in hand.
Finding set bits in large bitmaps
If this is the case, they can't claim to be objective.
You have plenty of options to interface C and Python. You can use Cython to create Python bindings to C libraries or even better you can use cffi which works with PyPy as well
My hn fix goes unfulfilled when I'm building something interesting.
The device is build exactly for the people like you!
It's just a low power FM station with a raspberry pi in it as a controller. It would be highly illegal to use this device in most modern nations without a license.
The issue is that Safari pops up JavaScript alerts as a native dialog box, which can’t be ignored until it’s dismissed (since it stops you from doing anything else). A nice extension you can use for Safari that replaces the native dialog boxes for JavaScript alerts with an HTML one that’s in the page itself is JS Blocker¹. It can do much, much more than that though, but if that’s the only thing you want it to do, then just make sure that only 'Display alert messages within the webpage instead of a popup dialog' is checked² in Settings → Other → Extra Features. It should look like this³ when you’re on a webpage.

――――――

¹ — http://jsblocker.toggleable.com

² — http://f.cl.ly/items/0f2o110o3V1A1w1z2p0p/jsalerts.png

³ — http://f.cl.ly/items/3g242r322C443G0j1O3J/jsalerts2.png
former intelligence analysts have suggested this.

The USGovt would never admit this because it might backfire as merely attacking a leaker, whose leaks are legitimate.

But the fact is, Wikileaks has to be judged on what they're not leaking.
there is Dailymotion, and a few others but none of them pay their content creators. There was blip.tv but it has shut down.
I don't want to be a spelling and grammar nazi, but this mistake is being made consistently upstream so I thought I'd point it out: "Loose" is the opposite of "tight". The opposite of "win" (which I'm pretty sure is the word you meant to use) is "lose" with one "o".
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No one is questioning that it was made public, rather, that Wikileaks decided to latch on to a data leak that kind of shares the same trollish territory as leaking nude celebrity photos.

Running with the Chelsea Manning leak helped start a conversation about the ethics of drone warfare and the culpability of the US military in the deaths of civilians.

What kind of a wider conversation does leaking John Brennan's SF-86 create? Maybe there's some ancillary discussion about those in the security community not using secure channels but it mostly just feels like a cheap shot.
The entire assumption of YC (and all investors, really) is that they're able to select companies that are likely to succeed. I'm not saying YC (or anyone) is good at it, but let's pretend that they are.

You're proposing to create a group of people who YC has decided are not likely to succeed. That doesn't make any sense.

YC alumni might want to be in a network so they can collaborate, make deals with each other, or find new jobs when their own company fails.

Why would you want to do that with the rejected group? Why not try to do that with other companies in general? There are lots of opportunities to meet other founders in any city with a decent level of entrepreneurship.
This 'an average 4 year old can use an iPhone better...' makes me cringe every time I hear it, especially when it comes from proud parents who think their offspring is a genius. The geniuses here are the engineers who made the device usable by the 4 year old, not the other way around.
On the other hand, if life creating was so relatively easy it would be much more likely to find evidence for multiple independent instances of life starting on earth. My understanding is that, so far, all life on earth is part 'one web' not multiple webs.
It is curious, isn't it. It does make for a useful front organization...
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What Happened After Gravity Payments Set a $70k Minimum Wage
This is too bad... I would be very interested in something like this. I'd be curious about more details as to why it failed as a business. Were its costs too high? I wonder if it was more or less a victim of the insanely high real estate prices in SF and NYC and whether it might have been more successful elsewhere.
That one uses WebKit. I wonder if anybody actually got Gecko to run on iOS. As I understand, there are "only" two problems - Apple not allowing other HTML/JS implementations, and Apple not allowing writable, executable memory. I don't know what the status of the first is, but you can get around the latter by just using an interpreter instead of a JIT (which is of course terribly slow).

Or, you decide Apple is never going to let your engine on the App store, and then you just include the JIT. The enforcement is done at time of submission to the app store, not at runtime. IIRC, you can just call a certain function to mark a memory region as writable or executable, but Apple detects this call statically.

I further wonder if you could just distribute binaries, outside of the app store, and your users would have $99 developer accounts, and run a little script to "build their project with XCode", signing and installing it to their device?