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The entanglement does not break. The entire black hole becomes entangled with the electron left outside (which is less exciting than it sounds).

Sure, plenty of thing break if we start talking about unknowns, like the black hole evaporation for instance, but today's physics has a pretty good idea what happens if we just drop one of the electrons in the black hole and measure the other one. We just learn the spin of both of them at the same time, but we can not choose the value (it is random) hence there is no communication and no "weird peeking into the black hole".
>Well, they did,

Well no. They REDMAP'd it. That was impolite, so to speak: not technically illegal, but sufficiently unethical that in 2004 the Supreme Court basically said they'd ban it if only they had some consistent standard to apply.

This year they might have that consistent standard, and starting with North Carolina and Wisconsin, the permanent Republican Congressional majority might stop being so permanent.

In fact, every single politician who utters the phrase "permanent majority", with or without a party name in the middle, should be jailed. A democracy never has a permanent majority, or else it ceases to be a democracy.
You didn't even bother to respond to the content of my post, rather you're more concerned with some weird sense of decorum.

We all have cognitive deficits, but it is not necessarily rude to point out when one's mental faculties are failing.
In very possible violation of DOT rules.
Still better than world-splitting at every instant. Isn't it?
I'd go webpack over grunt/gulp tho.
I've lived in Europe. I've lived in the east bay when the whole Fremont to Walnut Creek 680 corridor was orchards and fields. I lived in Almaden Valley when it was orchards.

My definition of built out is simple -- municipalities planned for X, implemented X, and we have X. Getting a community to go to Y, yeah, no.

Thought experiment - enforce denser building (maybe use eminent domain) in Atherton. What do you think will happen? (Extreme example). Apply that to Saratoga, Cupertino, etc. in the more rural residential areas, not the commercial areas. Commercial is building as they can and that won't be enough.
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> The fact that our laws are subjectively interpreted is a blessing.

This is precisely because many of the uncountable laws are bad ones. I interpret Lincoln's quote to imply that if the bad ones were strictly enforced, it would quickly be realized how bad they are, and they would be repealed.

With the Texas Sodomy law - the reason the public at large was made aware of it was because it was enforced. If it were more strictly enforced, we would have been made aware sooner, and it likely would have been repealed.

Perhaps we have so many laws because we have so many bad ones. If all were enforced the bad ones would be pruned. Then perhaps congress could actually count them all.
These days there's an "unvote" text link added next to their name, or "undown" for the case of a downvote.
Because they're human beings, not money robots.
Then how is it different than just splitting a coin, throwing the other half far away and then looking whether you have heads or tails? There is never any spooky action at a distance.
>I would wager many on the left are rethinking their whole stance on guns and 2A with the Republicans in power now. Not saying we are getting ready for revolution

Why not say that? If we're talking about people leftist enough to be Leftist rather than "liberal", yes, there are calls for revolution. Well-justified calls for revolution, IMHO, given that Congress and our state-and-local governments now feature a permanent, unbreakable one-party regime by the Republicans in most states, with a very few "state-and-local swing states" and a couple of one-party Democratic states.

A two-party system that degrades into a one-party system should be overthrown. One party systems are not democratic. Democracy demands a multiparty system with responsive government and extensive civil liberties.
I'm pessimistic that this proposal will go very far in the face of sustained opposition by groups like Greenpeace or Sierra Club. Another tragic remainder of the harm caused by undereducated misdirected environmental activism.
If everything that can match in a regular expression is valid UTF-8, and everything the regular expression can generate is valid UTF-8, you can just run the regular expression on the byte string.

This requires that matches match UTF-8 substrings, only. That's easy for explicit strings, such as "abc". For more general forms, "." must match one rune, not one byte. But that's not hard.

Python's problem is that strings are random-access indexable by rune (in the Go sense). Python either needs a representation that's rune-indexable, or it needs to generate an index array for strings that need one. There's an argument for the second approach, because most loops don't need a random-access index. "for i in "abcdef: ... " does not, for example.
On account of Proposition 13, existing property owners in fact do not form the main tax base. Personal income taxes are in total greater than property taxes in California. If you earn more wages your income taxes increase, but if your property appreciates your property taxes do not increase.

Property owners get to vote and they stand to realize 100% of their capital gains, but they aren't really subject to taxation.
Even on an absolutely selfish level: because someone who had a good night's sleep is a lot less likely to crash the bus into a wall.

Experimenting with pushing a human being to their very limits just because you can tends to have blowback, eventually. If I found out my company shuttle underpaid its drivers like this I'd be disgusted, but I'd also be worried for my own safety.
Acceptance is a basic human need, much like nourishment. If anything, the author is making a very valid point about the lack of etiquette in the Bay Area.

Coming from the midwest, I am continually shocked by peoples' aloofness and lack of civility here. That stuff would never fly where I came from.
Its been going on since late 90's. I used to work as a security guard in 2002 and 2003. Guardsmark, a security guard contracting co, then used to provide good health insurance to its employees; so, they had to charge more for their services. Then, other contracting companies were like: we can provide the same service with less money. I worked for the latter companies as well: no health insurance. In the end, the companies who get services from these contracting companies, see how much they save by selecting the lowest bidder.

This is happening in IT contracting too. Not every one who works in IT is a rock star programmer. So, companies contract out to contracting companies (like offshore Infosys, TCS, etc; onsite ones like Robert Half, etc). You see, how wages of non-rockstar IT workers have diminished since 2000. Who is making the killing? Of course, the contracting companies like Infosys, Robert Half. The recruiters don't make much; the workers get less.
My only explanation is that a certain segment of voters is willing to overlook them if they consolidate power in their ideological favor. Party control at all costs, and the more control the better.

I really don't understand how the current political situation in the US, broadly speaking, could be described as anything but fascist or at least protofascist. I know that term is used glibly, but the concentration of power in a single party, to such an extreme, and with such little respect for diversity (even majority) of opinion, or appropriate process or ethical behavior, seems unprecedented to me.

I can't imagine those in control not using their power to extend it indefinitely either, as long as it meets the letter of the law. To me it seems some line was already crossed a couple of years ago, and now we've seen the safety checks catastrophically fail. I think that's what makes me so nervous--it's not just the unchecked power, but how they arrived at it and their demonstrated lack of ability to compromise or cede.
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My inner cynic says that higher appreciation will increase competition for those jobs, driving down wages. See: teachers and college professors.
Unfortunately most of HN doesn't :) , the downvotes brigade is strong on this one. I'm not normally a purveyor of conspiracy theories but to me this seems like the most obvious reason why the rest of the launch would be not only filmed but Livestreamed, with no footage of the sat deployments
You're right, they can't. But, think of it this way: At that particular moment, I have a choice:

1) I can exit the bus without saying anything.

2) I can exit the bus while thanking the driver for getting me to where I wanted to go.

Option 1 is the status quo. Option 2 hopefully puts the driver into better spirits, which hopefully helps them to go about their day a little better.

I am extremely limited on what I can do to affect the situation, so I would at least like to do what I can!
Except that by now, labor has been weakened and economic inequality has increased to the point that the Old Left is clamping its hand over the New Left's mouth and taking over the title of "left-wing" again.
It's also possible to chunk the index array: to store the byte-index of every 16th rune, say, and do a bit of cheap iteration afterward. I've had good success with this approach: it's fast, it's light on memory, and it preserves constant-time indexing by code point.
Haha! Thank you for saying something that I've observed as well!

(I'm from Ohio, BTW)
Have you ever talked to a bus driver about this? I usually thank the driver too, but I can't imagine they care that much. It's a very minor courtesy.

And it's a little weird to bring this up in this particular thread, as gratitude obviously can't make up for being homeless.
More housing is the long-term solution, but higher wages will help in the short term. They aren't mutually exclusive.
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An electron is a lepton, it isn't made up of quarks. What does it mean to rip it apart?
I think you'll find (in general) that the people most opposed to new housing (long time residents) are the ones paying the lowest property taxes, due to Prop 13.

Newer homebuyers who are paying taxes on the actual market-value of their homes tend to spend far less time at Supervisor meetings.
So if we pay these workers more, and they compete more effectively for housing, then we will get a sob story about how industry XYZ is underpaying their workers and now their workers are unable to afford housing in the SFBA and net number of people who's lives have improved is 0 (well, maybe the landlords).
I agree that its awful that their wages have gone down. This is a huge issue, but the issue should be looked at in isolation from the lack of secure housing within a reasonable commute distance for pretty much everyone in SFBA that makes less than ~80k. That issue is much larger than the unfortunate story of these service workers, and in my opinion is, by far, the largest social justice issue that the SFBA faces.

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> I dare say that majority of the 7 billion of us who are alive now would be dead. No jokes. Dead.

This is an illogical statement which rationalizes utilizing technology and capitalism to achieve greater numbers of instances of people. If we didn't have the resources/medicine/tech to support the 7.5B people here, then a lot of us wouldn't have been born. Jokes or not, if you aren't born, you can't die. ;) I suppose you are technically dead if you are never born, but nobody cares if they aren't ever born (or we can't tell, which is the same thing).

I do acknowledge people don't want to suffer greatly and causing suffering either passively or actively in others is wrong. Technology reminds me of sugar in the days of low fat diets. Yes, technology can help reduce suffering, but at what cost does it do that and is it worth it in the long run?

I could rationalize that the supreme pinnacle of human civilization will be perfect capitalism and technology that is beyond comprehension, enabling quadrillions of us to live here in this solar system and in good harmony with each other. Who's to say if more people/entities aren't a good thing why aren't there more of us? Surely not me!
This is a pretty great question with a fairly subtle answer. It is not much more than just flipping a coin, indeed!

See section "4. Relativistic Causality" of http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec11.html for the best explanation I know of. This entire book "Quantum Computing Since Democritus" is absolutely great if you want to understand these topics.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

TLDR:

Think of it this way: We've got two players, Alice and Bob, and they're playing the following game. Alice flips a fair coin; then, based on the result, she can either raise her hand or not. Bob flips another fair coin; then, based on the result, he can either raise his hand or not. What both players want is that exactly one of them should raise their hand, if and only if both coins landed heads. If that condition is satisfied then they win the game; if it isn't then they lose.

They can win 75% of the time if they just never raise their hands. Using a shared entangle state they can "cheat" and win 85.3% of the time by using a specific protocol, because they rely on some new form of correlation. But they still can not use this correlation to send messages (see the no communication theorem). Naively (this naive intuition does break!), you can imagine them having two slightly correlated coins - sure, after Alice flips hers she knows Bob's result, but she did not decide the result of her coin so she can not use it to send information to Bob.
People all over the world struggle to survive. What's sad is that people only care when it becomes visible to them. Plenty of people have awful lives but live out in the country and no one cares.
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I thought Microsoft or somebody implemented a prototype for secure pop-ups where the windows had animated borders containing personal user information as a marquee? The idea was that this would be extremely difficult to fake (even if it looked a bit weird).
UTF-8 substrings can't find a misaligned match, because of the way UTF-8 is encoded. First bytes are unambiguous. I had to write "rfind" in Rust, and here it is:

fn rfind(s: &[&str], key: &str) -> Option<usize> {
(0 .. s.len()).rev().find(|&i| s[i] == key)
}

No need to explicitly worry about rune boundaries.
This, like forward find, returns a byte index into a UTF-8 string. Explicit byte indices into UTF-8 strings are troublesome.
Why is the answer to not change zoning laws? Why is the answer not to remove local say over what gets built and whats not? Why should the area's property laws remain frozen to an arbitrary point in time?

Silicon valley is not "built out". Single family homes in what happens to be a big congregation point for workers in a high growth area like tech is just not the right idea. We dont have to go full Manhattan. Even if most Bay area cities developed like Barcelona or Paris(4ish stories) we would dramatically change the housing affordability.
I can tell we are probably going to agree to disagree here, but yes, doing all of those things sucks for me.

Making my own food takes time that I could spend doing something else. I also hate cooking, so it sucks even more. I did find cheap frozen food that's good, easy to track and fits my diet, so there's that.

I fly every week for work. Sitting in cheap airline seats for more than three hours is torture in my book. I do realize that some care less about this than others, but getting comfy seats, a decent meal and drinks while being in an enclosed metal tube a mile high really does make a difference for me.

Modest hotels are usually okay, but we need to define "modest" here. If "modest" == hostel or motel, then I'm out. I've done both of those things. I'm good. I don't need the Ritz but a clean, quiet and private room, a comfy bed and security are absolutes for me and motels and hostels vary wildly on having these things.

I would much much rather find ways of maximizing my income. That's actually easier, IMO.

Working "until you die" isn't a bad thing in my book. I really enjoy my work and have for years. I would like financial independence so I can choose what and with whom I'd like to work on and with, but I still see myself working at 60-65 to some capacity in this field, possibly longer.

Example: Being a consultant is really nice if you can find work and enjoy traveling. People pay a lot for your knowledge and they get to benefit from it. I also like the sales aspect of it. I also also like free dinners and drinks!
Nobody tells that walkers are simulate all quantum behavior and doing that correctly. However, they helps to understand some of quantum puzzles. For example, droplets have spin. Can you predict behavior of the classical droplet spin in compare to the puzzling quantum spin?
Thiel vs Zuck. Should be fun. Reign of the billionaires. Slowly but surely America is descending on its downward path to join other banana republics. Welcome to the club.
yeap! You face people ghosting all the time and some hoaxes...
There's a spacious middle ground between single family ranch-style houses, and "apartment towers". A handful of four-story buildings would make Mountain View a much nicer place. If there's a multi-story dwelling anywhere in Mountain View, I haven't seen it.

As for "built out", most of Silicon Valley consists of parking lots and freeway interchanges.
How so? Why should faster-than-light travel imply a reversal of the arrow of time? Can you explain the reasoning?
I'm a street photographer and I loathe long lenses. Every time I see a photo with a telephoto I instantly recognize it. Telephotos give a very cold and distant emotional look to your photos. 85mm is fine in some cases, but 90% of the stuff you'll see, and what I shoot on, would be 35 or 28.

I would never advise the use of a zoom or telephoto on the street.
So that's your rationale?!
You can still get the source code for paint.net before the license change happened here: https://github.com/rivy/OpenPDN
Ok, so you read it as "spiff up the 'poor' neighborhoods so the inhabitants will pay more property taxes" too.

I did pull it up on Google maps and visited a few random addresses on the Sherrif's property tax lookup page, etc. The orientation of the red-green graphic doesn't seem to be north-south and it isn't clear what is driving the large red areas.
The standard zhuyin input is laid out on the keyboard in order. By in order, I mean it is in the same order as the sounds have been taught for many generations and still are today (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlNGJzYJQDI).

It would be like if English speakers didn't use "qwerty" keyboards but instead used "abcde" keyboards. Touch typing would be far easier to learn. My computer doesn't have zhuyin printed on the keyboard, since I bought it in California, but I type zhuyin on it every day. Even before I could touch type, it was easy because it was in order.
Well then municipalities will have to plan for X rising to Y and plan for and implement Y. Civic planning doesn't have to get frozen in time and population.
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Mesa was the only for a while. (You need libgbm and a DRM+KMS driver to make a compositor and/or EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display for an embedded one). So that only worked with Intel and AMD GPUs.
Nvidia now has EGLDevice and EGLStream for their drivers, and they provided patches for Weston and GNOME has added support as well.
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> Color me impressed

Is there an HN reader app that does it? or just HN jargon?
Something else to add, a Data URI can do this: https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/812268998742118400
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Shame. I went when I was a kid and thoroughly enjoyed myself. The elephants were my favorite. I was in awe of a HUGE bull elephant with giant gilded tusks straight out of an indian fairy tale. I think I still have a poster from that event.
Well why stop there? The origin of the cosmos...

Newton's remark was mostly a backhanded slur against Hooke, as far as can be told. If you can point to some novel development in rocket fuel or rocket engine engineering of the 1950s that somehow contradicts my account, I am sure that I would be grateful of the correction. I wasn't alive then nor am I a particularly good scholar. But I did read Dr. Clark's book, which I understand to be the authoritative work on the subject, and the distinctions in the persons and nationalities involved in the periods in question do seem to be fairly distinct. Von Braun acknowledged the influence of Goddard explicitly, and the post-war and pre-Mercury/Apollo era of rocket science does seem to be quite an interesting one both scientifically and politically. As far as the fundamental science of rocket fuel goes, yes, there is unfortunately not much further to be done, but every science has noted limits to efficiency. But if I may repeat myself somewhat, the point was not that there had been prior art, but that nothing particularly important happened in the 1960s. There are only so many chemical reactions that are suitable for liquid fuel rocketry, and -- pertinent to the news event -- SpaceX is going down a very well-worn thermodynamic road with these rockets. So the impressive point, the reason that anyone is giving these people business, is not that they have any sort of greater chemistry-related insight than anyone else, but that they are planning on re-using enough components to drive launch costs down. But they haven't actually done that yet. They have yet to re-use anything but the barges. So perhaps in that sense, one could consider the achievements of the 60s and SpaceX to be equally lackluster, but otherwise it seems like a poor comparison.
> Python's problem is that strings are random-access indexable by rune

Yeah, one of my points in the blog post is that random-access rune (code point) indexing isn't very valuable. Python is stuck with it, but if anyone in the future needs to make a similar choice, I hope they don't use O(1) rune indexing as a reason unless they have a very specific use case where O(1) rune indexing actually matters.

(I, for one, am very happy with the "rune" terminology, "char" is way too overloaded. It took me a minute to understand why they did that in Go when I first picked it up, but when I realized the reason I found it brilliant)
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This is why most of my important passwords are at least 30 characters
Just because something is amazing doesn't mean we need to constantly be screaming about it.
so we shouldnt care then either obviously.
Something like this: http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/28/yandex-brwoser-concept/

Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8670503
I've been shooting street photography for almost two years now and I guarantee you that the fear all come from inside. In two years of shooting on the street I've never once had a bad encounter with a person I was photographing.

Hesitation and fear are the number one enemies of new street photographers. The reality of it is you can shoot just fine and not worry about it, but that only comes with time and experience.

Another part of it is learning to read the subtleties of the atmosphere and your potential subjects to know when and when not to take a photo. Some people very obviously should not be photographed, some you should ask permission, most you can just fire away. These days I don't even think about it unless the picture I want is quickly approaching Bruce Gilden levels of in-your-face shooting, which I rarely do.

Street is one of the most difficult forms of photography even for the experienced photographer. Adding the fear on top of it really hinders people.
> Implying that non-free software is unethical?

Absolutely. It is.

There may be few other options in the current global economic system, but it does not make it any more ethical.