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According to that Wikipedia page, Le Guin's ansible might not be relying on entanglement.

It "doesn't involve radio waves, or any form of energy. The principle it works on, the constant of simultaneity, is analogous in some ways to gravity ... One point has to be fixed, on a planet of certain mass, but the other end is portable."

About Card's ansible, it says, "Card's description of the ansible's functions in Xenocide involves a fictional subatomic particle, the philote. In the "Enderverse", the two quarks inside a pi meson can be separated by an arbitrary distance while remaining connected by "philotic rays"."

So perhaps Card's "Xenocide" (1991) is where the entanglement => FTL communication myth began?
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Use a AI program to answer that question!
Quantum entanglement, science’s ‘spookiest’ phenomenon, achieved in space
It will be hard to find anything that isn't exceedingly one-sided if socio-economics and politics are involved. One thing to remember when you read that stuff is that the poorest are the ones that suffer the most from the regulations we put in place. For example, I support taxation on any product or service with externalities where it's nearly impossible to price the damage done into the product naturally. Pollution is a perfect example of this. I buy oil from you, but third parties are harmed. Therefore somehow I need to pay a tax and compensate everyone I'm harming. Anyways... who do you think this tax will harm the most? The billionaire oil barons? Of course not. They will still be billionaires. It's the poorest who need cheap fuel so they don't freeze to death in the winter.

If we manage to actually enforce anti-carbon regulation across the globe, who will be harmed the most? It's India, China, and Brazil among others who are still industrializing. It's the people who we're just trying to get up to the point of actually being pretty confident they will get 1-2 meals every day... not even making them wealthy. Often these things are framed to appear to be going after the "evil rich" person who burns coal. Sure, we know burning coal kills lots of people. I would never deny those stats. No one ever talks about how many lives are saved by burning coal. As technology progresses perhaps countries will not need to burn coal to go through industrialization and pull their people off the brink of starvation, but we're nowhere near that today. So we need to consider these types of things as we talk about the socioeconomic and political ramifications of climate change. The solution can't be worse than the problem for poor people.
There are a lot of companies that help you do this. Examples:
http://www.adthrive.com/, https://www.mediavine.com/

Edit: The money takes more than 6 years of hard work and a lot of content, social media management, brand building, sponsored writing, quality photography, now byte-size videos etc.
I ask this in all seriousness - is IBM still relevant today? I don't actually know how they make most of their money. I assume it comes from legacy enterprise support. The last I heard about them was Watson years ago, and I don't think they ever successfully monetized that?
Launch many satellites into space which have huge reflective screens to bounce away some 1% of the light that would otherwise reach Earth.

I heard this idea suggested at least a decade ago in Popular Science. I imagine there are many such proposals to defeat global warming (beyond cutting CO2 emissions), but somehow this one stuck with me. Musk could also do it with his rockets.
Wow, I had no idea they upped the tourist visa days this year! I knew it was 15 days (for US citizens) when I was doing some research into visiting Kyrgyzstan, and found the number a little weird because it's not a multiple of 30 days like most other "visa free" countries. Now I might visit reconsider visiting Kazakhstan more fully.

Is there a lot of tourism in a place like Almaty?
Has Amazon really shaken other grocer's to their cores though? Whole Foods served a completely different market than Kroger and the like. Unless Amazon plans to alter WF to sell affordable groceries as well, I'm failing to see why this move is so threatening to these other grocers. What am I missing?
In Australia at least they do identify you at the smart gates for immigration. The customs officer doesn't look at visas or other immigration details.
Nope. Amazon absolutely struggles with it. They can hide how bad they are with it because they have a lot of cash and don't need to appeal to VCs every couple of months.

That isn't to say that Instacart is better. They're nowhere near a sustainable business under their current business model.

Since >75% of the costs of parcel delivery are due to the last mile, and because parcel delivery margins are so low, we can use parcel delivery prices as a rough proxy for last mile delivery costs.

Last mile delivery is only viable at scale due to delivery density. USPS has extremely cheap parcel delivery because they have a government enforced monopoly on letter delivery, ensuring they basically visit every house every day no matter what. The UPS/DHL/FedEX crowd can do 1 day delivery at reasonable-ish prices due to their scale for all parcels.
But Amazon and Instacart are cutting delivery windows down to 1 hr, and that absolutely destroys your delivery density...on the order of 10-15x.

For the PrimeNow/Instacart business model to make sense, they need costs that are comparable to the current large parcel carriers...meaning they would need to scale their businesses to 10-15x the size of the large parcel carriers to get their prices in the range where their businesses are viable. Amazon is closer than instacart, but that is like saying a car is more likely to get you to the moon than a bicycle.
>>But I disagree that beat 1 is always the cause

I agree that that's a weak part of the theory and it could use more thought.

>>The pattern of dah-DUM is pretty common, and the dah would typically be a quarter or eight note before the DUM on the 1.

I thought about that case, and I considered whether to create the concept of a pre-echo.

Another edge case is when beat #3 is accentuated, like in almost any rock song:

BASS-tick-SNARE-tick

The echo pattern is what the listener expects to hear. When a beat is louder than it's "supposed" to be, it makes that beat sound louder and brings it out. I think the snare sounds more powerful as a consequence of being unexpectedly loud.

Wrt pre-echos, I think you could consider them a deliberate deviation from the echo pattern to achieve a particular sound. The difference between theory and actual rhythms is what we call music, right?
Too bad they've only committed 86 million $/year to the effort...
The full list was never mentioned in the show, but I believe one of the writers (Ira Behr?) subsequently published a full list as a separate book. So probably not official canon but about as close as it gets.
To be a bit more precise, the changelog says:

> TensorFlow 1.1.0 will be the last time we release a binary with Mac GPU support. Going forward, we will stop testing on Mac GPU systems. We continue to welcome patches that maintain Mac GPU support, and we will try to keep the Mac GPU build working.

In other words, it still works (at least for now), and they'll accept patches to keep it working - they're just not going to explicitly test for it anymore.
Somewhat related: the Evil Overlord list.[1]

[1] http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
I think, like with many things, you have to work with the early adopters, then the bulk and finally the stragglers and at that point you can deal with the hard-core holdouts (or work around them). The key is acknowledging this phenomenon and taking it into account so that policies cane be more successful.
Not a field, but a person who everyone thought was Nobel prize bound and it turned out to be all BS. You may think that it's just one person, but the amount of research dollars that got allocated to try and prove or disprove all of this work would be staggering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schön_scandal
"RNNCell objects now subclass tf.layers.Layer. The strictness described in the TensorFlow 1.1 release is gone: The first time an RNNCell is used, it caches its scope. All future uses of the RNNCell will reuse variables from that same scope. "

I'm so glad they fixed this, I've been running 1.0 for the last few months because the 1.1 release broke their own RNN tutorials and a lot of seq2seq code that is out there. I really, really love Tensorflow and understand it is a fast moving project but I hope they do more regression testing on their example code in the future. This is an exciting release though!
Put simply: if you test a random event often enough, you're going to get lucky eventually.

In statistics, the question everybody asks is whether or not a given result is "significant". To answer this question, one calculates a p-value, which gives you the probability that your data are purely random (i.e. not due to any causal factor). By convention, if p < 0.05, one calls this result "significant".

There are various tests to calculate this p-value, depending on the type of data you have available. One of the most common types are t-tests, which are used when you wish to compare two samples. (For example, you might want to compare the number of butterfly species on mountain meadows with the number of species in vineyards.) The t-test takes various factors into account, including the mean and the variance of your datasets. This makes it a pretty good tool for comparison, much better than looking merely at, say, the arithmetic mean.

The problem is that occasionally, the t-test is going to give you a false positive. That means you end up thinking that two things are causally linked that in reality are completely independent. The probability of such a wrong result rises with the number of tests you perform in a given study. That is why such studies need to adjust for multiple testing. Often this is done with the Bonferroni method, which basically means multiplying your p-value by a/n, where a is your level of significance (0.05) and n is the number of tests you perform.

Hope that made sense :-)
> So I am thinking of revenue model based on ads. At its 'full' potential web application can draw a million visits per month (in 2-3 years may be).

Please don't. Find a way to charge money for it, or accept that it's really not that valuable.

Sad how everybody thinks merely hosting a website entitles them to revenue now.
I've used this company to get passport photos with my phone in the past - http://www.epassportphoto.com
What's wrong with d3?
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14564945
Better yet, take the advice given and download the free epub and pick a random page and decide for yourself whether iambic pentameter is kept!
Did they explain why they decided to stop supporting GPU for Mac OS X? That's going to make a lot of developers think twice before upgrading.
At its peak I had one (photos) site making ~$2000/month. Not a lot of text per item, though I did try to provide extensive tree-structured content. (Now that site is lucky to make 1% of peak, BTW!)
It is not a democracy in the form their example illustrated, it is a democratic republic. I didn't think that statement would be controversial as it is true for what I assumed was the definition of democracy used.
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The pattern of brain injury they're referring to is probably "anoxic brain injury." Botulism itself doesn't cause that, but it certainly can cause respiratory failure (by paralyzing the phrenic nerve), which can then cause anoxic brain injury. There's no reliable way to tell at this point whether botulism was the cause in Warmbier's case (there's no test to find out after the fact). I'm an MD.

Of course the NK story is very suspect. We need more information, but it seems unlikely that we'll get it.
Well, in terms of high performance computing, IBM makes the BlueGene series of supercomputers. These computers currently occupy the #4 and #9 on the Top500…
If you want to take it to an even greater extreme here's what I do.
Get a 20lb bag of rice, dry beans, frozen vegetables, maybe eggs. The rice lasts me about 2 months and all together can cost as low as about $15-20 a month.
You can rotate between making a few different things such as soup, beans and rice with different seasonings, and fried rice. If you want, all of this can be cooked in only a rice cooker.
Get used to eating less, your body will adapt.
Distracting and compromising the immune system of a large animal while taking advantage of the free resources in the environment would probably have a very strong evolutionary advantage.

Or it could be more like the benefit yeast gets from producing alcohol, which it resists better than most other microbes.
The way I understood it, the article is about glaciers and ice shelves, not about antarctic sea ice extent which is largely driven by wind patterns. The more northward winds, the more sea ice.

Incidentally, antarctic sea ice extent did go from record highs 3 years ago to record lows this year.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/16/world/antarctica-sea-ice-r...
> Jeffrey said the items were worth just over $1,200.
Ask HN: Any risk in taking money from BigCo VC branches?
Like Baido Ventures, Google Ventures etc.

I'm worried about ideas being stolen. I'm sure the VCs in these departments are trustworthy. However, it would not surprise me in the least if the VCs were being asked to share their notes in a location that just happens to be accessible to business development departments.

Are there any war stories that have made it to light in this area?
I really want to map these to a MIDI controller
In Sweden the cut-off/switch time is 10:00. It has been this time for a very, very long time.
> I find it odd that Prime Now has alcohol, but Fresh does not.

Maybe not so odd. Some states (Colorado, at least) have laws preventing grocery stores from selling alcohol, or severely limiting what they can sell. I could see offering it through Fresh complicating things.
It's good to see Google in the last couple of weeks launching a bunch of [1]projects that are more in line with their mission of 'organising the world's information'.

[1] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/google-digitizes-30...
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Shell aliases do not have that problem as they're generally used with interactive shells only. Non-interactive shells tend to read a different set of configuration files for that reason.
We've updated the link from https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/17/15824260/florida-woman-tr..., which points to this.
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With funding and proper execution, you can meet Amazon at parity. FFS, their online consumer offerings are trash (Amazon Music and Video) and Prime is now "maybe two days if the planets are aligned".
So, now that we are over the "there's no climate change" phase, the "humans aren't responsible" phase and the "it's not that bad, we'll adapt or there might be good things coming out of it" phase it is the "scientists are responsible because they couldn't convince me" phase.

What a time to be alive.
Recently they've been diving head first into public & especially private clouds. They do a lot in the analytics services areas. And of course - huge enterprise support contracts.
It is very primitive thinking to base the content of your meals off of their cultural value rather than their nutritional value.

You should figure out your TDEE, macronutrients and micronutrients and base meals off of that. Burger at 8am? Who cares if it's what you need.
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How times have changed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac#History
I can't find it now, but I remember reading a stat about far more sushi restaurants in the US getting fined by health inspectors due to improper rice temperature handling rather than fish handling as I had intuitively expected.

The fish is easy, just keep it cold. The rice, not so simple. :)
Ok thanks for bearing with me, can you explain one more example. Lets say just as a hypothetical there is a military draft in place. I advise my friend to shoot himself in the foot in order to avoid the draft. Have I then committed some criminal act? Obviously my advice when taken directly results in injury. However there are some upsides, much as with suicide.

My overall point is I think it is absurd to punish somebody for giving advice that you think is bad. The girl was in no position of power over the boy (as a doctor or lawyer might be). She gave her unbiased opinion the matter. And this is a crime somehow. Makes one very weary of what can be said.
...and make it a wind-cooled system, so you have cooling that scales with available power!

Yeah, that will get the subsidies!
Is there any explanation for why they decided to do this? I would imagine they just don't have the means to test on Mac anymore but I'd like to know why for sure.
If they give you money and take your ideas then they aren't stealing.
Thanks! I submitted again, can't edit this one..
For everyone disappointed to see papers only from 2006, here is a consolation prize. Creating a Computer Science Canon: a Course of “Classic” Readings in Computer Science: http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~ctg/pubs/sigcsecanon.pdf (CS only, date range = [1806:2006])
I think the issue is making an emotional connection to the facts. I don't believe any person has the emotional bandwidth to care about every problem in the world.
Given (1) the importance of HPC (both scientific and strategic), (2) the size (man-power, gov. agencies, universities, and companies), scope (new hardware, energy, software), and length of this project (approaching a decade), and (3) international competition with (at least) European and Chinese exascale efforts, the $258 million dollars seems quite paltry.
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> shipping is free

That's why you get them in 3 weeks as opposed to 2 ;>

With free shipping from DirtyPCBs my boards arrive to Latvia in ~5 weeks since order, so you should consider yourself luckier than you currently do :)
There is also reset(1).

https://linux.die.net/man/1/reset
Zwally's study is in-line with the GRACE data, and loss of land ice mass. "According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008."

GRACE shows acceleration since 2008. Zwally's study uses data from 1992-2001, 2003-2008. And is in-line with the net-gain slowing down in his data-set.
This article made my chrome tab use 8gb ram and slowed down my computer. They're doing client side bitcoin mining or something.
> There are a lot of people with adblock these days

And it is soon to be built into web browsers, you have to wonder the impact that will have.
To arXiv in '04, but to ACM in '06.
As far as I know all those things are happening all over the American Midwest. You're trying to create a correlation where there is none.
It's perfectly plausible that the user is piping it to a tool which can parse whatever binary format the file is using. Outputting it to the terminal, however, will just result in a mixture of unprintable characters and ANSI escape sequences.
There was a really bad incident in Greenland in 2013[1]. They were making kiviak, auk fermented in the carcass of a seal. I heard it was the use of eider birds instead of auk that prevented proper fermentation, but this article included that a plastic bag was used in the preparation of this batch of kiviak presumably with the auk birds in the plastic bag inside of the seal carcass. Perfect low oxygen conditions for C. Botulinum to thrive.

[1] https://thefourthcontinent.com/2013/08/07/greenland-terducke...
https://www.itjungle.com/2017/01/23/drilling-ibms-system-gro... this tells you how IBM is making money: one half is from database, data warehousing, data analytics, and transaction processing software (with a very healthy 32% profit ratio), another half is from services & cloud and then -- because I was cheating and both halves are a bit less than 50% actually -- you have financing contributing more than 10% (47% profit...) to the middle line and finally hardware contributing 6% (and less than 12% profit).
yes, i was expecting there to be a song in the comments already
Since at least 1997 IBM has been the top recipient of patents every year, and has had the most patents for 24 consecutive years. They are into basic research from everything from chip design to brain research and quantum computing.
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The important points of the article are that all sorts of industries that historically didn't scale now do so thanks to computer and other technologies, and that is leading to a great centralization, which in turn fuels income inequality.
The entire apparatus sits in a cryostat (a fancy Thermos bottle) which is filled with liquid helium. In general, one supports things in liquid baths from above.
If people weren't lemmings, that would be a valuable indicator. But, it turns out that...
This runs like magic on an iPhone, but for some reason Chrome, Safari and FF on desktop (mac, recent mbp) it's sluggish as hell. Burning through CPU, 15fps for the force-graph.

I feel like something's wrong, but I don't even know where to start debugging this. Do I need to enable Chrome feature flags? Or do mbps just have less powerful gpus than iPhones?
@csallen could probably jump in with some interesting insights. His site Indie Hackers was generating $5K a month from ad rev before it was acquired by Stripe (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14090063).

He actively reached out to relevant companies to ask them to place ads on his website.

If you brokered these type of ad partnerships, you could easily make a few thousand with your audience.

Ad types include: send a targeted email promo to users based on their analytics data, ads on the pages, etc.
They were both published in 2006, so not sure what you're getting at.

Google Scholar and Sean Henderson are promulgating a false historical record, and there seems to be no way to inform them so that they may correct themselves, other than whining here on HN and hoping they notice. Anybody have any other suggestions?
Seems pretty plain logic. Yes most of if you use adsense you will be making around 1-2$ per 1000 pageviews if your niche less competition else around 5-10$ per 1000 page views if it has competition and traffic is from tier 1 countries.
Is it? I thought the newsworthiness was that he re-made it. Otherwise, indeed, it is(/would be) just a picture.

Edit: this comment makes a pretty good point regarding that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14576962
Would you please not post unsubstantive inflammation (aka troll) like this?
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