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Quantum computers have a lot more utility than factoring integers. How about simulating molecules, or solving classically hard optimization problems?
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I'm impressed how much Python seems stuck on older versions. What went wrong?
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I think there are a couple of reasons behind a Silicon Valley disillusionment with Bitcoin. First, I think we're probably in a trough in the hype cycle right now. 3-4 years ago there were a lot of very high expectations amongst the Sand Hill Road crew. Bitcoin transaction volumes have been fairly flat (in native BTC terms [1]), whereas the VC crowd expected--required even--exponential growth.

Second I think that people in the US--Silicon Valley included--have the benefit of good corporate governance on many of the centralized authorities that underpin the economy. SWIFT, DTCC, etc. People who live in countries where that is not the case have a lot more to gain from the technology. That may explain some of the relative popularity outside the US.

[1] https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume?...
Same idea than Opps List with a different perspective: https://www.oppslist.com/

The idea is good but it's difficult to use because you can't reach the people.
Wouldn't somebody somewhere in this kind of transaction have to pay the VAT, thus rendering this impossible?
> 3. Accessing or modifying a mutable static variable (and this might conceivably even be removed entirely someday)

Mutable static variables removed or the unsafety of accessing them? Didn't Rust, at one early point, not allow mutable global variables?
You are making the oft-made error of thinking that System 5 rc was the precursor to systemd. On several major systems it was not. The precursor was upstart on Fedora and Ubuntu, for example.

See http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ for the System 5 rc fallacy and several others to avoid.
On the contrary, this is the major strength of the system.
Python 3 came about with a split in the community.
The thing is: she actually did help create some of that value.

Before she got there, Carol Bartz was the chief. She had royally FUCKED UP the relationship with Alibaba. As a result, BABA refused to go public until it got back the shares from Yahoo; and, in fact, Jack Ma took Alipay out of the consortium in a fit of anger, without even consulting Bartz.

In short: the relationship was in dire straits.

Mayer comes in, smoothes things over, strokes Ma's ego and next thing you know, Yahoo gets to keep most of the shares, BABA goes public and Yahoo's value skyrockets. Mayer had absolutely everything to do with this.

Edit: for more reading: https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/12/bartz-in-a-china-shop-has-...
One company actually, called RedHat.

Canonical fought back for a while with upstart, but they lost.

See, RedHat got their assorted junk integrated tightly into GNOME (partly also KDE) and "legacy" options killed.
> the Android link in the article is currently wrong. Here's the right one:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.py
we need to get full details about programming language not a summary of it anyway thanks for keeping update us.
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Firstly, great job in getting that mess to play well with Git!

The main limitation with Git is that it only works with
plain text (think Windows Notepad). I have seen authors
resort to plain text or markdown in order to take
advantage of Git, but this means losing all of your rich
formatting such as images and fonts. This is usually too
much of a sacrifice for companies as formatting needs to
be reapplied with each publication, which is very
time-consuming and prone to errors.

"but this means losing all of your rich formatting such as images"

For plain text, sure, for markdown, nope.

"...and fonts"

Sure, but formatting can be applied after. With markdown, it supports HTML so you could event apply custom formatting inline, if you really wanted to do something so dirty.

"This is usually too much of a sacrifice for companies as formatting needs to be reapplied with each publication, which is very time-consuming and prone to errors."

Why not solve this problem? Why not make markdown more accessible to those wanting to use Word? Make something that looks like word, but in reality takes markdown and renders it using some flexible settings file?

I personally quite like markdown, to me it represents a minimal, future proof language. I would actually change a few things about markdown to make it more useful in an academic setting. Issues for me are referencing structure, diagrams, embedding content (at the position) and plots. Those things fixed, I would never look back at LaTeX or Word again.

One thing I would like to see remain, is the plain-text readability and being able to process it line-by-line without having to remember anything about the previous line.

Good luck with this venture, but if you're wanting to take a pivot, let me know :)
This is very similar to a campaign Absolut Vodka did where they used spray guns to create unique bottles. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/13/absolut-unique-vodk...
I hear all this, but I never really see examples of it, which would really help your argument. People hear the 'theoretical', but theoretical doesn't matter if it never makes it to the practical.
The latter is a lie for more advanced scripts like what OpenRC provides.
https://www.demandrush.com/alerts
I think the word you were looking for was "Stealing".
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There's also GNU Shepherd.
It's pretty easy to use a CDN with blob storage, which reduces the impact of serving it from your application.
Which optimization problems are you thinking of?
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I never understood why it mattered that files would be in a single directory or split over multiple directories. At the end of the day it is the same file system with the same number of files. The directories are just a logical structure. Why would there be a difference?
yep, just like fusion. I do think the money is on Martinis actually showing a basic working 49-bit QC in the next year, though.
Are there any more similar stories like this? It's really fascinating.
who do you think is a good programmer?
I think the biggest oversight is the actual feedback portion of sales to train the model on which features sold the best.
Due to light pollution, many people on Earth rarely see a starry sky.
> prove useful for other recordkeeping such as real estate property transactions (e.g. no need to pay $300 fee for title searches in the future)

That doesn't require a distributed ledger, just a database. In the UK it costs £3 and is searchable online.

If it costs $300 then that is because someone wants it to cost that much.
I feel pretty confident in saying that the average person has no clue what an algorithm is. It's just a fancy word for something they don't understand.

They might have some idea about it being a process you follow to get a result, but they would just say, "I don't know" rather than trying to verbalize that idea.
If you're using Photoshop instead of GIMP, you're probably a business. If you're a business and $348 a year is a big deal to you, you probably aren't going to remain in business for long.
A tooltip on hover on the header might help.
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What's wrong with GIMP? I use it every day and find it pretty good. On the MAC now it has lots of weird glitches but they seem pretty fixable...
"systemd" is the init system, therefore anything that has it in the name is part of that init system. See also journald, which nobody mentions as being part of the init system even though it's more tied to it (is it even possible to have systemd without journald?)

If they want to change that perception, they will need to change the name (and hopefully stick a stable ABI around it, but that's unlikely to ever happen).
Init also took a VERY long time to start, and had very, very rudimentary concepts of dependencies.
Having never been rock climbing before - how hard is it actually to get into?

I suppose it really depends on where you live (the author mentioned using climbing to get out of the gym, but I think that's the only place I ~could~)
Why? People all over the world plant trees, it's not a demeaning or unproductive activity.
Negative externalities can reach beyond the CEO-shareholder relationship. Determining what these would be is of course a difficult task.
The "algorithm" is called HP Mosaic and is included free in HP SmartStream Designer for HP printers.

It was first used in a Coke marketing campaign in 2014 ...

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/extraordinary-collec...
Because GIMP has a lot of baggage: a very particular UI, a community of active users (many of whom probably like it exactly how it is thanks), and a terrible name.
One of the chapters added in the second edition of Peopleware quotes from a presentation by Steve McMenamin: "People hate change ... and that’s because people hate change ... I want to be sure that you get my point. People really hate change. They really, really do."
clearly not prominently enough placed.
>Functional programming is what happens to the universe when you eliminate the concept of Time.

I've heard this a lot but still can't find a good code example to illustrate this. Any help?
Bitcoin is mostly popular in Eastern Europe and Asia for transfer payments, fiat currency conversion, money laundering, and evading capital controls (getting money out of China). In the US if you're doing legitimate business with other US entities then there's really no need for such a thing. I can write a check or send a credit card payment or wire transfer to another US bank with a reasonably high level of trust that I won't be cheated, and that I have legal recourse if something goes wrong.
Seems expensive for what mostly sounds like basic black hat marketing tricks
> You know only 25% of Americans have college degrees right?

And most college degrees [0] don't require anything beyond basic math (e.g., intro to statistics or calc) where "algorithm" might not even be said.

Might be overcompensating because I go the entire day only talking to people with PhDs (where 100% could define it?), but I really think << 10% could accurately define it.

[0] https://blog.suny.edu/2014/05/most-popular-college-majors-ov...
Rigetti's quantum computers can be operated by way of the means discussed by other commenters (toothpicks and tweezers at the oscilloscope), or can be loaded with a quantum instruction code called Quil [0], which can be written with Python using pyQuil [1,2]. The former is preferred by physicists doing physics experiments, and the latter by software engineers and application developers.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.03355.pdf

[1] http://forest.rigetti.com/

[2] https://github.com/rigetticomputing/pyQuil
It's not exclusive; it's just a way for people to express what services they wish existed.
You haven't addressed the question at all.

To reiterate, the question was:

Why do you think quality of life is tied to economic growth? What do you base that assumption on?
For those out of the loop, this is a line from the famous "royale with cheese" scene in Pulp Fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYSt8K8VP6k
For some reason only the arrows and page up/down work. Sometimes.

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Your local gym will probably have classes for beginners. They may also have guided outdoor excursions. Also, most gyms are very social, and after climbing for a while, you'll meet some people who are making a trip outdoors.
I don't expect to have to use my keyboard to navigate a webpage. It's also not discoverable or prompted in any way.
This is a really stupid article, painfully trying to find a connection between 2 activities in an attempt to sound insightful. Just climb, and don't try to pretend you are a monk finding divine insight in unlikely places.

And also, if you're writing design documents for trivial features, I'm glad I don't work at your company.
A 12-month campaign of fake promises, ruthless hypocrisy and BS interpretation of reality (which has been the standard for decades) has comparable costs...
Controversially, at least for these circles, I also advocate Trusted Execution as a tool for personal security and the protection of personal information.

In the hands of corporations and governments, imposed on individuals, this becomes DRM and is clearly horrible. It's so horrible, there should be laws heavily regulating it's use by organizations against individuals. However, the same asymmetries that make the issues of disclosure and privacy different between corporations and individuals also make trusted execution different between corporations and individuals.

It's bad for society and individuals when individuals have their information disseminated against their will. However it's very good for society when corporations, governments, and other organizations are required to be open and disclose information. This is why Trusted Execution should be used by individuals against organizations. Aimed in that direction, it compensates for the power differential. Used as DRM, it exacerbates it.

Trusted Execution combined with sandboxing can provide individuals with very good protection against things like malware and the Sony rootkit. My ideal PC would have an inviolate hypervisor kernel supervising an open "dev" VM which can be rolled back, along with various "appliance" VMs where sandboxes with Trusted Execution can protect the individual from the execution of other people's code.
It wasn't broke and they fixed it. Python 2 is a mature language with a robust ecosystem. Those just don't go away no matter how much developers nag people to upgrade.
Lots of detractor comments. This kind of thing gets me very excited for the future of unique products.

I bought a pair of Camo shorts the other day and wondered if every pair was identical, or if they were "random". Unique products can present some fun new challenges for online retail where the customer may want to buy a specific item. Not just a jar of Nutella, but "that" jar of nutella. Maybe they'll even bid on them, because "pink stripes are my favorite" or whatever may be the value proposition.

To me this looks like a world of fun, not a chance to complain about it being the wrong tweak.
Universal quantum computers do indeed exist. It's true that some quantum devices are special purpose (e.g., D-Wave's annealers), but most groups doing quantum computation are doing universal gate-based machines (e.g., Rigetti, Google, IBM, etc.). They're just being made at small scales right now (2-50 qubits).
Would it? There are plenty of curiosity to be had on the ground, in the air and under water. Birds flying, insects digging, fishes swimming.

Sure, they might not feel the need to visit space if they had no stars, no moon and no sun but who knows? They might end up going there anyway due to population and create their own superstructures.
You could ask the same question comparing your project with Photoshop.
Maybe.

There is apparently some evidence and viable theories for ongoing fission reactions in localized regions deep in the Earth. Commentary [1] on a report in Nature [2]. Neither of these seems to be paywalled.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080515/full/news.2008.822.ht...

[2] http://www.nature.com/articles/srep37740
There are 315 comments in the discussion of this story (from a different source) over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14539770
Awesome. Great idea, nice execution.
I've been a gym climber for about ten years, never felt any urge to take it outdoors. Great community, very easy to get into, addictive as hell.

In fact, my local bouldering gym has a co-working space, I set up with my laptop and jam out in javascript all day, with periodic breaks for climbing. It's great. One of the gyms around here even has a weekly "startup night."

Personally, I'm partial to bouldering, where the walls top out at about 12-16 feet, and there are no ropes (18-24" padded floors for accidental landings), so I can do it without a partner.
The situation in California is quite complex. John McFee's excellent "Control of Nature" has a long essay on the interactions between forest fires, geology, and landslides. I'll probably do a shitty job of paraphrasing, but I'll try.

As the population of California has increased, people have increasingly settled farther and farther up the neighboring mountains. The mountain ranges in the area like the San Gabriels are very young geologically. They haven't had the chance to erode down much and are composed of brittle rock just waiting for a chance to break off.

So you have a growing population in an area prone to devastating landslides and debris flow[1].

Meanwhile, the mountains are covered in chapparal. These small scrubby bushes have evolved to endure (and in fact in some species require) periodic wildfires every decade or so. When the chapparal burns, it leaves a coating of ashy dust on the ground. That prevents rain water from soaking into the earth. So when a summer storm comes around later, the water starts sheeting down the mountain, taking dirt, rocks, and boulders with it.

This is a devastating event. It's very hard to build defenses against it, and hard to predict precisely when it's going to occur. You're talking going from "everything is fine" to "thousands of tons of rock crashing through homes" in a matter of minutes.

Ironically, debris flow would be easier to predict with controlled burns, but it's pretty hard sell to say, "Yeah, you're house is going to get flattened next month and we're going to make it happen." So, because of the much greater threat to life (people die in big debris flows all the time) and property, California ends up very hesitant to do controlled burns of the chapparal.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debris_flow
> In the UK it costs £3 and is searchable online.
If it costs $300 then

My short text didn't give enough context. In the USA, that $$$ isn't really for the "search"; it's to pay for the "title insurance". That title company insures that the buyer is getting a "clean title" with no conflicting claims of ownership from others he doesn't know about. The "search" is just one component of labor of what you're paying for. (I looked at my mortgage documents again and my title insurance actually cost $4000.)

With a distributed ledger for property deeds and title transfers, that was used by say -- 1 million people -- that essentially means you have 1 million "witnesses" to the transactions. Therefore "title insurance" becomes superfluous.

I'm not predicting that DLT would be used for property records but proposing that hypothetical scenario as something more realistic than bitcoin replacing the Euro/USD.
There was nothing wrong with Windows 95.
FWIW there is the Photography plan which is $120/yr instead-- http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography.html, but point taken.
I would be curious what the business plan for this site looked like.
The stuff you describe pretty much sounds like a bank. Instead of a regulated FDIC backed institution you want to store your money at some wallet service which may or may not get hacked in which case you lose your money.
I personally prefer the database...

But I think for it to work well you need a better strategy than just large BLOBs.

GridFS for MongoDB - https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/gridfs/

ReGrid for RethinkDB - https://github.com/internalfx/rethinkdb-regrid

I'm sure the same concept could apply to other databases.
genius programmer? Not at all.
Why do you say not the Ponderosa?
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I feel like that wouldn't fit with humanity's ego-centric notion that we are special somehow, and spoken language is one of those things that qualifies us as "special". We've had some results teaching gorillas and chimpanzees sign language: http://www.koko.org/sign-language. That hasn't changed much either. I think it would be neat though!
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If you want to climb with ropes imho it will be easier if you have a friend to learn with. You guys can go to pretty much any gym and get quick instruction on how to use the belay device they will have and then you are climbing.

Climbing outdoors I would recommend finding someone who is experienced. Outside is more dangerous and you should really know what you are doing or be with someone who knows what they are doing. Depending on where you are you can hire a guide to do this for you if you don't know anyone.

Another option is bouldering. This is where the routes are low enough to the ground where you don't need ropes. The routes (boulderers call them "problems") are often a series of moves where each is technical. Depending on where you are you can probably find a bouldering gym near you that will rent you shoes to get your toes wet. You can also find bouldering problems outside.

Climbing with rope or bouldering are both great activities. I would highly recommend both!
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Except there is no guarantee that you will build anything that anybody is willing to pay for.
Because after nearly 10 years this mediocre list is the best they can offer as consolidation for breaking your code, and for much of that time they didn't have everything it does now. If py3k shipped with something like https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2017/03/13/from-__past__-impor... there probably would have been more uptake.
https://launch.blendle.com/ kind of gets there; though it's based on microtransactions per article instead of an overall subscription fee.
I only hope the algorithm knows how to not output "wrong" shapes, such as a swastika.
Or one with better ingredients.
I had been assuming that cloning was very unlikely, yeah. It seems substantially harder than actual redirection or capture would be.

But honestly, I hadn't considered the possibility that they triggered an SMS and then got access later, maybe with a second (rerouted) SMS. That's a good point.
If you need an introduction to the subject, 3Blue1Brown is a really good YouTube channel about mathematical visualizations, and they did an episode about Hilbert curves and why they're so useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuiryHHTrjU
The Photoshop license is $10/mo according to Adobe's site. $120/yr.

Also, $400k is, like, nothing in developer time (compared to what Adobe puts into their software, at least).
Sure, but I was specifically asking the poster above me, because they said "It is easy to prove otherwise. Not sure why the downvote. Calm down."