skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you say, N qubits can be thought of as a distribution over its possible 2^N values, but you can't ignore the starting distribution, which may be very far from the set of classical bits that you want to operate over (and therefore may take an exponential number of quantum operations to realize).

So one very simplified model to think of what quantum computation is that you can do parallel operations to a distribution over your 2^N vector of classical bits, but you don't get to specify an arbitrary starting distribution, you can only start with relatively 'simple' distributions.

This restriction is what makes the claim 'you can compute over 2^N values simultaneously' at best very incomplete — yes, you can do that, as long as you're fine not being able to start from arbitrary starting values. But this is a big restriction!
In that case, I wholeheartedly disagree that mentoring people, especially very talented ones, be they women or men has little or no value for one's career and/or life.

Staying in your own little homogeneous bubble and avoid contact with anyone not like you or doing anything outside what objectively gives you direct, measurable value seems like a surefire way to stagnate your career.

And the chance of a false accusation has always been around. So to act so indignant now seems more to throw water on the movement than to truly be worried about your personal career progress.
Also "how did a plastic car survive reentry?"
ResEdit in the mid-to-late 90s was such a fun toy as well.
> they aren't close to mass production yet.

What's your definition of mass production?
Incredible story. Thanks for sharing the link.
That's wage discrimination and is illegal.
If you're using Ubiquiti Edgemax routers there are Wireguard packages that work very well for site to site VPN's.
> The number of Earth-like planets capable of supporting life is thought to exceed the number of grains of sand on our planet.

I believe the popular statement is more towards 'There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all beaches of earth.'

Once you bring in inland sand deposits etc this would probably not be true given the estimate (I've read but there must be other) of stars to beach sand grains is fairly close given the scope.

And as for planets, I'm not sure the ratio of 'earth like' planets to star ratio in the universe but would suspect this to be less than 1:1 given in the milky way this averages a less than 2 earth like planets for every 10 stars.

It's such a great analogy. Its the closest as I can come to understanding the scale of the universe we live in.
Is it not that they gained 110% of the performance (125% of the mass) that the control group gained?
On the freakonomics podcast episode with the study authors, they said that on average women earn over 10 percent more than men from tips.
As someone who enjoys training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, I choose to take it non-literally.
I am a huge Grateful Dead fan (I don't call myself a dead head because I was 9 when Jerry died, I never saw them play.) But I always loved John Perry Barlow's songs. My old band used to cover The Music Never Stopped and Cassidy, and my all time favorite dead song is Throwing Stones.

I didn't even know he was a big influencer in tech until I saw him appear on the Colbert Report representing the EFF.

My JPB story is short and relatively meaningless, but back when I first signed up for twitter I just followed a bunch of famous people and would every now and then attempt to engage them. The only one that ever replied back to me was John Perry Barlow, and it made my week. I had interfaced with true greatness. Rest in peace, John!
He also completely missed the intended orbit so you can't use that "millions of years" number as evidence that it will not hit something.
Unfortunately people like Knight investing in December was probably the best indicator of a bubble. I distinctly remember seeing my Uber driver pull up gdax in the car and I sold the very next day -- not quite at the high, but still at a reasonable price relative to my purchase price.

The other part that was sad is that he has active student loans, presumably with an interest rate, but it is only with the prospect of cryptocurrency that he started trying to prepare meals and put money aside. This may sound heartless, but I grew up partially in a Third World country and can't help but feel that many Americans' financial situations are self-imposed. Wants become needs, and luxuries become necessities.
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If you're on a Mac, Things.app is great.

https://culturedcode.com/things/
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I used to call him from time to time when I was a teenager, back in the early 1990s. He was always very open and neighborly and curious.

There are a number of sub-cultures that exist across the USA - redneck Wyoming ranchers, deadheads, San Francisco computer gearheads, civil libertarians - he seemed to belong to all of them. He was an easy person to say of that "he is one of the members of our community".

I know that him and Sean Parker were friends going way back. Someone told me a story that on the day Parker met Mark Zuckerberg etc. at the 66 restaurant, as portrayed in the movie the "Social Network", that Parker was crashing on Barlow's couch. I don't know if that is true or just part of the legend...

You would see him at various events around New York City when he was in the city. He often went to Florio's Pizzeria and Cigar Bar, holding court with people like Jaron Lanier and others.

A friend of mine said "He lived a life many would envy".
Interesting, and thanks!

> The problem with that is that the police also had images supposedly sent over whatsapp as evidence too. There's not much explanation given for this, the "hacker" says the software "evolved" to somehow capture the images that were sent over messaging applications in later versions

Hmm, in English "evolved" is applied to devices or operations often to mean something different than the actual meaning or the word. Instead it often means the much less nuanced "changed over time". I have no idea if this usage is idiomatic in Spanish, or in the dialect of it Spoken in Chile (or if it's not if it's common for English exposure to cause things like this). As someone that can understand the source and might have more insight into the language and culture, what do you think was the meant inference?

I understand it's supposed to be a keylogger, so images don't make much sense, but I'm also wondering if it was reported oddly and it was actually a keylogger to get credentials which were then used on other phones to access accounts using alternate installs of apps. That's a stretch, but I'm going of your translation of a newspaper piece which I wouldn't have trusted to get interesting details right in the first place, so... <shrug>
Humans are far from dying out and incredibly resilient. Things like climate change are not really about the human race surviving, more the scale and quality at which we continue to live. Both important but very different things.
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How we moved to Google Cloud using Consul and ZeroTier with zero downtime | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15548642 (Oct 2017)
Mars does not have enough atmosphere to assure space craft burn up completely. Once it is in orbit there is good chance it will reach ground.
There is no single correct definition for any word. And most people use words to that effect.
Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark [pdf]
Found here: https://github.com/Lochnair/vyatta-wireguard#vyatta-wireguar... and https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX/Release-WireGuard-for-...
The 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, “The Real World of Technology”
As annoying as the "smart homes are annoying" posts are becoming, I really enjoyed the format and the depth of this article. And I didn't know one could buy internet-connected vibrators. That's... odd. I also don't know why these folks were surprised their devices were constantly communicating to their home servers.

My stance on the smart home and privacy phenomenon is optimistic. I think apple will eventually have a fully integrated smart home ecosystem similar to their standard ecosystem now, which will make the process easier in general. Perhaps we can one day have a single device to control every other device, or a few devices which perform multiple functions (such as a bundled music player, television, light controller, air monitor etc) and that such a device or devices will be bundled such that the meta data will contain only information that the device is being used but not which function is employed. Surveillance is unstoppable at this point, and this means that everyone has the ability to watch everyone else, and I think this is a good thing. We already have a good sense when those in our social group are lying, or hiding things, or even when they need help. If governments and citizens alike understand what each party is up to, we can have a fully accountable society, and of course eventually we must negotiate the relevant social rules that keeps this accountability relevant and practical. This is something I believe we have to work with. We have to take responsibility and understand what is going on, and to also take the power into our own hands and create balance. We can figure this out, and I don't believe that necessarily involves destroying the structure of how our governments and corporations do business. It's simply more efficient to restructure, not to totally resist but also not to be completely complacent. and that's all I have to say.
> He was visibly upset I was overdressed: "Don't you know this company doesn't have a dress code?"

The company has a dress code apparently. It's "forced casual-the-way-CEO-likes-it".

You've really got 2 options: emulate the style, or continue dressing in your style. (Or quit...) Depends if you can handle the potential confrontations and how much you care what you're wearing. It's really up to you.

I've worked with people wearing wife beaters as well as full suits in places which wanted "smart casual". Don't try too hard to look at what other companies/people do. They have their own rules which don't apply to your situation.
That's actually prescient with the NFL concussion crisis.

I'm not sure anymore.
Is it a problem that a web app has a database and web server dependency? It's got to put the data somewhere and run the app...
The current title is inaccurate:

> iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online in 'Biggest Leak in History'

It implies more than what actually happened, which was that code allegedly for the iOS stage 2 bootloader appeared online.

Certainly amusing to look through and probably considered a big deal within Apple, but vague title currently implies something very different.
That episode was more disturbing than most. I can't imagine signing up for something as horrible as that. It's literally torture as described in 1984, but worse.
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Just wanted to take a second and personally say thanks for a great(and easy to understand) product!
> I was going to ask if you'd do it to your children.

Disciplining children when they do something undesirable has been done since we were swinging around in trees and probably before then. The punishment method has varied from belts, to paddles, to canes, to time-outs. The pinch of an electric shock would work but isn't necessary since we can communicate with children.

BTW, did you know that electric shock has been used on bed-wetting kids since the 60's?
Holy crap. This blew my mind. I haven't heard or read a story this good in ages.
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Please feel free to advocate for a brand you like. I’m a 2 jeans 8 tshirts kinda guy too, and been struggling finding shirts that I’d recommend.

Everlane ($ garbage), American Apparel ($ bad with new owners), Alternative ($$ so-so). Best shirts were the BDG brand ($ soft, last 4 years with weekly wear) at Urban Outfitters but they’ve been discontinued.
NASA put a Stirling engine in a car in 1986 [pdf]
See, I did that one time. And found out that since the last time I ordered that same toilet paper, a much better deal had appeared. Amazon knows that people will buy something on sale and then hopefully continue to reorder it after the sale is over. I doubt that consumers will continue if they continually find out that they are missing out on better deals.
More correctly, it is someone's opinion about what an optimum solution might be.

I disagree with that opinion, for reasons that I explained above.
Archive with the article subheading saying this affects the "itanic" architecture: http://archive.is/NFSOx

Ouch.
Anyone have a link the study they're talking about?
Your comment is a great example of the logical fallacy:argument by ridicule. You haven't made a valid point. You re wrong. And you can prove this to yourself (if you're able) by making an attempt to address his comment directly, without ridicule.

See, he did not claim that women want less money. He claimed (and he's right - and you're not even remotely able to challenge this, and you burn with anger at your failure, because it destroys your entire worldview, and deep down, you know it) that men and women are different.

I dare you to address his actual point. I dare you.
2001 - discovering regular expressions in "Dreamweaver Bible" which led me to Jeffrey Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions" which in turn led me to "Programming Perl" and other O'Reilly Perl books before building my first back-end with CGI.pm and MySQL.
Only if others replicate your content. At the moment it's totally voluntary. However filecoin may change that.
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This is silly. There is a ton of high quality free content on the internet. What matters is taking the time and putting in the effort to ensure that you're consuming higher quality content. Even wikipedia is worthwhile as a basic introductory or survey level overview for lots of different subjects (it's hard to know what to dig into and study in depth in some area without having a general understanding first).

And there is absolutely a ton of excellent free material on youtube, of all places. Tons and tons of DIY and how-to videos. Woodworking, machining, electronics, knitting, sewing, cooking, the internet is a treasure trove of data. And some of the best educational content on linear algebra and calculus in the Universe at any price is on youtube for free (from 3blue1brown).

Overall this critique strikes me as generationalist and classist.
This looks awesome

But, unfortunately for me, step 0 for Android is to install a new kernel. Whilst other people have already done the hard work to build kernels for my device (Pixel XL), it would create a significant maintenance headache for me to use one of them. I rely on the device manufacturer's security team to release updates to keep my device safe (particularly as I use mobile banking apps on it). But installing a custom kernel would create a large hole in that, and I can't dedicate sufficient time to reviewing the code patches and building the kernel myself. (Of course, better programmers could do that faster, so the trade-off would be easier.)

Do you happen to know whether WireGuard support will be in the mainline kernel in future?
Random people died from accidents with horses, before cars. Some of them famous.

I wear my seatbelt, but I also have a motorcycle license. I have a modern car with all the latest safety features, but I also have an old car without airbags or ABS. I think phrasing like "crazy death fetish" is unreasonable and histrionic.

Protecting people from harm is something that can be seen as horrifying when taken to the extreme.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands
My Boxster does the same thing, which is indeed annoying, but at least it doesn't disable any functions while driving. That would be infuriating.

One thing that helps in my case is to double-click the MAP button instead of pressing it only once. The first keypress has the effect of accepting the nag screen, while the second pulls up the map. Sounds like you get the message even when you aren't using the nav system, though, so that probably won't help.

If I were any more annoyed about the nag screen than I already am, I'd bodge in a small microcontroller to double-click the MAP button whenever the car is started. (I already had to add one to force it to remember Sport mode across drive cycles.) That would have the significant advantage of working without digging into the touchscreen logic. So if the Ghibli has a physical button somewhere that has the same effect as clicking "OK," that's probably your best option.
MAGNETO: Data Exfiltration Between Air-Gapped Systems and Nearby Smartphones [pdf]
According to a paper by Eric Brewer, the author of the original CAP theorem, Google Spanner technically is not a CA system [1]. It is advertised as such because partitons are supposed to be exceedingly rare as the infrastructure is outstanding and a lot of operating experience is present [1].

I believe at the end of the day the CAP theorem is too fuzzy for such discussions.

[1] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45855.html
People rent monster GPU VPSs by the hour and play over remote desktop or whatever
If there were no incentive to do the riskier, arguably more critical jobs...then nobody would do them.
Still better than a language like Go or PHP where the keywords are in English, but the programmers variables are in Spanish, french or German.

Icy Glare ... Hahaha. Give me clean mono-language "source" code any day please.
I've often wondered about this can you point me in the direction of any info on their life spans?
I used a 7.4" display from Pervasive, about $50USD. It's a simple development board with an easy to drive controller. All the software was in Python, with a few performance-critical bits in Cython. I used wire wrapping to hook things up, and it was not difficulty, even though I'm a programmer with no previous hardware experience.
Last write wins in that case?
1ns according to whom? Clock skew is still a thing :)
Crushed Wood Is Stronger Than Steel
It's deviant in the literal sense - that is, it's not normal. I don't the he was trying to pass moral judgement or suggest that the dress wearer is some sort of pervert.

If you saw a guy in otherwise ordinary circumstances wearing a dress and didn't think it was unusual, well, you lack situational awareness.
> conforming to the dress code he was enforcing

Nailed it.

OP, perhaps consider jeans with an untucked dress shirt?
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A man, who stole $1m of gold, details his escape. Not gold details. He just provides details on his escape. Punctuation matters.
Dress code or no, if I saw someone wearing a wife beater in an office I'd be compelled to ask if they're feeling okay.
I started counting streaks. I'm using an app for this.

I've also been doing HIIT workouts by following this guy's videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYr9PbKKbL-OdIEnIvqVOw/vid...

I love that it is timed. I'm not distracted by anything unlike if I'm just doing it on my own.
Ask HN: How to navigate software patent licensing landmines?
I've some opensource projects - it's embarrassing when someone confronts you (often acting like an asshole) because you've overlooked some patent or licensing issue. Which books do you recommend to improve this?
Part of me believes that geometry is really just a subset of human thinking that comes very naturally/quickly to us, and thus we are more successful studying physics through geometry than through less 'algebraic' frameworks. So we made the most advances there just because we are biased toward doing so.

But then I think that we may be so strongly biased toward doing so because there's something fundamentally easy about evolving a brain that comprehends geometry. That information with geometric representations are fundamentally easier to evolve good mental models for than other kinds of information.
My first car was a two door Honda hatchback, made in 1992, and when you pulled off the plastic panel over one of the rear seat speakers, underneath the speaker bracket was simply the sheet metal of the body. Literally nothing more than a cookie sheet between you and the outside world.
I think if you look at the work we're doing to make Android Things secure, you'll like it too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16327116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16327489
Nothing wrong about being an anti-nihilist.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheAntiNihilist
Come to Berlin! ;)
These people are doing the opposite of what you say, though, they dress and behave in a way that makes them even more omologated than Joe and Jane. The way they look and present themselves takes over their life.
Dressing in a way that society easily accepts might sound like omologation, but in the end it frees up your time and let you focus your attention on more important things.
You might look like the plainest midwestern dad, but maybe in your spare time you learn sanscrit and make mandalas in your basement. Maybe you’ve traveled to the remotest Amazon region and met the last member of some indigenous tribe.
If you dress like these people, well, there’s a good chance that your entire life revolves around the costume you’re so painstakingly crafting.
> Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Don’t risk it frivolously.

I have a rule that mixes the blood sport and the one I quoted above. There are a class of sports/hobbies that, as you progress and improve, you find yourself in more objectively dangerous situations in order to continue to progress.

Some sports are obvious, like boxing and skydiving. But even seemingly innocent activities have this property, like long-boarding and mountain biking. Pretty much anything that goes down hills :(

I'll pick those up hobbies again after this phase of life when rule 12 dominates.
Like most other less-popular GUI toolkits that aren't just wrappers over the host platforms' native widgets, this one is inaccessible to people with disabilities, such as blind people (who use a screen reader). To fix this, toolkits like this one need to implement each host platform's accessibility API. On Windows, that's UI Automation; for Unix, that's AT-SPI. This is a lot of work, but it's necessary if the toolkit is going to be used for any software that might be important for a job, education, or generally living one's life.

To anyone else thinking of developing your own GUI toolkit, please reconsider. It would probably be better for you to just use one of the established ones, unless you have the resources to flesh out all of the tedious but important stuff like accessibility.

Edit: I'm sorry if I offended any developers or sounded like I was devaluing your work. That wasn't my intent, and I actually tried hard to keep the tone of this comment under control. It's just very frustrating every time I read about yet another inaccessible GUI toolkit.
Better protections for female drivers that make them less likely stop driving for Uber. For example having an option to favor Women or only pickup women, or only pickup women and men with a high rating, etc so that they can feel more safe driving for Uber. If a female Uber driver has controls that allow her to stay out driving longer than she would normally be comfortable with, she can generate higher earnings and close some of that gap.
Maybe they do now. That fellow had restored his in the 1970's. Or at least with the internet it is a lot easier to find someone stocking old parts.

Jay Leno's Garage employs machinists to make unavailable parts.

Most car companies start to shut off making parts for cars older than 10 years.
CNBC are the same geniuses that predicted a 1000-point DJIA drop for Tuesday.
If you're like most people on this site (dresses like avg male SF dev)

$$$ - A.P.C.

$$ - Naked and Famous, Muji

$ - Uniqlo U line
Unfortunately, RENUM doesn't work for card decks.
Bowls aren't that large y'know
Should've bought bitcoin.