skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the "Completeness of Quantum Theory" chapter (on one theory of the determinability of quantum systems): "If an atom has a probability of one half of radioactive decay over an hour, then all that really means is that its wave function describes an ensemble of many different atomic systems, half of which decay in an hour. Whether one particular atom in the ensemble will decay in one hour is definitely determinable. However we will not be able to discern it if all we know is the quantum wave associated with it. Whether it decays or not depends upon properties of that system that have been smoothed away by the quantum wave and thus are unknown to us. It is our ignorance of these smoothed away properties that makes a probabilistic assertion the best we can do."

HN, what does "Whether it decays or not depends upon properties of that system that have been smoothed away by the quantum wave" mean?! What properties exactly, and smoothed away how? Just by the fact that observing the system causes a change within the system and therefore changes the quantum waves?
Scheme is not used in many professional environments, and Common Lisp is on its way out, but Clojure is growing quite fast and can take advantage of the Java libraries.
I'm just happy you didn't make one for insects. Just imagine an app that doesn't recognize a running bug and the owner of the iPhone kills it after 3rd try to get a better result ..
Here's a video morphing the eleven pictures:

http://www.freeweb.hu/polecat/bull.mp4
Sounds like they are ignoring Jane Jacobs. Her four rules for a flourishing city area: the area must serve more than one primary function, and preferably more than two; most blocks must be short; the district must involve mixed aged buildings; and there must be a sufficiently dense concentration of people.
My favourite book on special relativity is Spacetime Physics by Taylor and Wheeler. It's intuitive, clearly written and well laid out, with an Edward Tufte style column of text running along the main body that stops you getting lost in the equations.

Some parts of the first edition are available online:
http://www.eftaylor.com/special.html
http://www.eftaylor.com/pub/spacetime/STP1stEdThruP20.pdf
You mean that only the browser is software, but not what runs in the browser?
Such traffic misreports on Compete are typical for low-trafficked web sites.
Can you show an example of a web site that is withing top 20000 web sites on Quantcast.com, but still has an order of magnitude inaccuracies on Compete?
my point was about "yet", though you are right about "embedding" (it wasn't my translation).
That's correct (or was when I lived in London).

Of course, this law is widely ignored -- which is just as well if you want to get home at 3 am.
Nope, not quite. Resize your window to less than 600px and see what happens.
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It has Makefiles. Assuming those build a binary, why would you think they are hiding Xcode project files?
My personal feeling:

It's sortof inevitable. Governments are subject to economic forces. They can't make the Internet go away by decree. They can make their country's access go away by decree, but that's economic suicide. For example, does China want to risk giving their citizens access to all the goodies on the other side of the great firewall? But they have to do it to keep up. They will decide that ruling over a prosperous country is worth more to them than being a tyrant.
You think it would require much more work than just a recompile? With the similarities between iOS/OSX and Apple's investment in the LLVM toolchain I see the switch going smoother than PPC -> x86.
The LGPL requires that I am able to take Apple's provided source code, make my own modifications, and somehow compile/link the result into the program that is using the binary build.

And, for the record: Apple's provided source code (which /is/ heavily modified for the iPhone), when they do provide it, isn't even complete enough to compile (it is missing a bunch of code for the WAK* classes), so Apple has simply never been in compliance with this license.
My knowledge for outside of London is merely anecdotal as I never had any clients like that, but to the best of my knowledge, you're right for London. Outside of London, minicabs can use taxi ranks (in their area) and I'd be surprised if they couldn't be hailed in certain areas too (at least, I've seen it done in other large British cities).
It is actually worse than that, as Apple has /never/ been in compliance with this license: I want the code to WAK*. It is simply not possible to compile a copy of iOS WebCore with the incomplete code that Apple has chosen to provide.
Does your browser run JavaScript strict mode?
Ask HN:Max age for YC program application
I have an idea for a mobile app,my age is 29.Is it acceptable?
No, it isn't: Apple uses a modified version of WebKit and WebCore for iOS that is not present in trunk. For WebKit they are allowed to hold back these changes, but for WebCore they are not. They do anyway, however, and have actually /never/ provided a copy of WebCore for iOS that is complete enough to compile (in particular, the code for WAK* is redacted).
Slightly offtopic, but does anyone have any experience with motorbike taxis (or indeed being a passanger on a non-taxi motorbike).

The firm I use whenever I'm in London offers them, I assume that no experience with motorbikes is needed to be able to sit on the back of one?
> Log Users in Without Leaving the Page

As someone who uses LastPass, don't do this. It (usually?) won't let LastPass log you in to the site nor save the log-in details for a new site - a huge pain in the ass.

On another note, if I fail to enter the right details or check the right boxes, don't let me start all over again! Opera is great in how it lets you go back and retain all entered data, but other browsers are not as good at this.
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Here in San Francisco, some of the "old money" people control a large chunk of the medallions. The whole process is very opaque. Drivers usually rent the taxis from these owners; typically, it's $100 for an 8-hour shift, double that for weekends.

Sometimes I think about what would be a fairer scheme than locking away a medallion for life? One possibility would be to have 5-year Dutch auctions of medallions. This way the City keeps getting value out of the medallions, and can increase the supply as the population grows.
It takes a lot more than 10 billion euros of infrastructure to create a Silicon Valley. Else, China would have about ten of them by now.
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Light on theory, heavy on examples please. Coders always want to see code. So show them the "hello world" of button making.

I know you want to write about theory, everyone does, but leave that for the end and keep it light.
Reddit is a good example of pointing out to inaccuracies of Compete.com
Still, when reporting on Reddit Compete.com is off by factor of 4 (not 10).
And the trend is shown correctly (Reddit growths).

For Blippy.com both Compete.com and comcast.com show very small numbers and Compete.com shows steep downward trend.

Unless somebody could share more reliable source of data I would assume that Blippy is on decline.
Of course. There is no age limit at YC (that I know of!).
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Did you look at the images? It has use and hdmi.
But where can I find numbers on income mobility?
Possibly of interest (I haven't tried these myself):

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/tunesviewer-itunes-university-medi...

http://www.fritscher.ch/blog/2009/05/13/browsing-itunesu-wit...
The NSA (and FBI et al.) have a pretty workable solution for strong encryption on the wire - they attack the client. The client computer (or mobile) is pretty much full of holes, if someone wants in they'll get in, and sooner rather than later.

Related, the Germans seemed to have commissioned a trojan to monitor skype and tls traffic on the endpoint: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/01/leaked-document/

Somewhat related, the FBI routinely uses flaws to install CIPAV: http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/07/fbi_spyware

Granted, none of this enables the wholesale monitoring of skype communications. Practically, even if the NSA had access to individual signing keys or some kind of side channel leakage it probably wouldn't be getting used en masse. The computation requirements of decrypting all traffic are likely significant, and operational security would discourage the wide use of a closely held leakage bug in fear of disclosure like happened with the domestic wiretapping scandal.

As an aside, I found it quite amusing to read "For example, a person in Germany, talking to a person in Russia using land-line phones would previously have been out of reach for NSA" - ultraparanoid? Pshaw.
In Paris, when the government proposed to allow motorcycle taxis and other modes of transportation (such pickup by taxis not from Paris and privately-owned shuttle buses) as legitimate ways to pick up passengers at the Paris airports (CDG, Orly), Paris taxi license owners organized a taxi-blockade of the airport. It was very effective. After a couple such blockades, I believe the proposed change was stricken from the law.

The whole thing was/is known as "Operation Escargot" -- Operation Snail.

I hope I have to eat my words one day, but I just don't see how any law involving "competition" in the Paris taxi scene could ever pass. Even small increases in the # of licenses will lead to taxi strikes (or the threat thereof), and the government/city back-off very quickly whenever that happens as you can imagine. The only way for it to happen would have to be through an out-of-France process, such as Euro-level (de)regulation or a competition proceeding (antitrust).

I'd love some more background for the video and any suggested liberalization of licensing (perhaps there is only minimal licensing requirements in Avignon in the first place, compared to Paris, e.g.).

edit: added "Paris" at the end of the last parenthetical.
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This still leaves open the question: what happens if nobody can or will verify? What if the company in the cited incident had instead played the line: "We want to know who gave you those documents because they are fraudulent and we want to pursue libel action against the party who released them," or even, "if you don't turn over the source, we'll pursue libel action against wikileaks."

Alternately, what if a set of documents really are forged, but it's an inside job? The same person or persons who "leak" the document to wikileaks could then "verify" it to journalists "on condition of anonymity." The journalists would know that their sources are from the appropriate organization, but nobody would have all of the information necessary to connect the dots that the leaker and the verifier are the same person or group. I could definitely see this being used as part of a corporate power struggle (make a rival look bad, get him fired; or do the same to your boss) or a political struggle in government (use politically sympathetic career bureaucrats to generate a scandal for an incumbent six weeks before election day).
I've taken them in Phuket, only because I refuse to take a tuk-tuk. Kind of hairy, but if you take into account the large number of motorcycles/mopeds, you see very little in the way of accidents.

I forgot to mention the trikes in the Philippines http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3SbC7Uh_bI&feature=relat... You're very low to the ground and can be somewhat scary, but they get you from place to place rather quickly and you don't have to suffer the jeepney.
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LG Genesis - Android Phone with two screens on same sides
LG is expected to propose a Android phone with two screens on the same side. A screen inside and a screen outside.
"The idea of replacing spark plugs - a technology that has changed little since their invention 150 years ago - with lasers is not a new one."

There's a reason that spark plug technology has not changed in 150 years: it works. The mechanism of a spark plug (and many mechanisms inside of an internal combustion engine) are so simple that they leave little room for mechanical failure.

Everyone likes to make the joke about "If Microsoft built cars", but there is some amount of truth to it - automobile engineers value simplicity far more than computer programmers do, as it has a direct effect on reliability. The reliability of a car is far more important than the reliability of an online chat application.

Spark plugs as they are now solve the problem, and are cheap. You can buy one for about $5 where I live. That one plug will last years. If by chance it does get dirty and start to fail, I can pull it out and clean it with a wire brush.

The "fuel efficiency gain" from a laser plug needs to be substantial to justify the complexity and expense. Leave it to journalists to ignore the practical side of a story and make it all 'science'.
It sounds way too artificial. They don't even have any universities of note in a radius of, what, over hundreds of kilometres?
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That 300Million figure to develop Falcon 9 seems stunningly low. Fascinating stuff.
>"If someone could find a British metastudy containing a nice graph indicating ~50% of current standard medical treatments has no evidence of effectiveness"

"What percentage of the around 3000 treatments included in Clinical Evidence fall into each category:

- 11% Beneficial

- 23% Likely to be beneficial

- 7% Trade off between benefits and harm

- 51% Unknown effectiveness

- 5% Unlikely to be beneficial

- 3% Likely to be ineffective or harmful

http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp
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Are you working for Sony? Seriously this case has so much to do with it. Suing Geohot was one thing, but asking for IP addresses to people who viewed the youtube video? And it actually went through in court? Sony asked for it, and they got it.
Speaking of the British
Indeed, the fact that Skype was spun off by Ebay, and is preparing for an IPO with close to $1Bn in revenue, contradicts a significant part of this conspiracy theory. Although, it still could be true.
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(Also posted as a comment on the blog:) Groovy would have won the "Java.next" title by now if they weren't so stubborn about being a dynamic language. If they invested half the effort they've put into "IDE-time" static type inference/type checking in Eclipse/IntelliJ (so that programmers can still get the warm fuzzies of auto completion) into building static type inference/checking into the language itself, I think they'd have seen much wider adoption.

This is basically what the guy behind groovy++ has done, but, from what I've heard, they basically told him several years ago that they had no interest in taking the language in a static direction.

This sucks because, in IMO, 90%+ of the calls in a Groovy program can be statically dispatched just like regular Java. Sure, duck typing is useful in a few places, but those few places shouldn't mean my entire program has to be dynamic.

Groovy has an awesome syntax, awesome compile-time AST transformations, etc.--but a dynamic language, in enterprise environments at least, will not be Java.next. Scala is maturing, and Groovy's window of opportunity is quickly closing (or already gone).
For any performance intensive tasks, yes. Especially gaming.

That said, the entire computer industry is going ARM (Windows 8, all mobile platforms, etc.) so I'm guessing that the transition will be easier.

There's much less tight x86 assembly for critical performance areas than was commonplace 10 years ago.
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Lasers instead of conventional sparkplugs actually sounds pale in comparison to what goes into a modern car of today, tens of sensors, different programmable modules and possibly thousands lines of code to run them. Wire harness got so bloated BMW (and possibly other modern car makers) had to replace them with fiber optics channels.

I can definitely see this happening and production numbers will lower the expense. I'm sure spark plugs were more expensive than the equivalent of 5 USD now, when they were first introduced.
As I understand it, Einstein was arguing that quantum theory was basically incomplete. That it provided a statistical view of unknown, underlying deterministic processes.

To say that properties "have been smoothed away" means that the particular statistical measures that quantum theory was using were losing the fine-grained detail necessary for understanding particular events. It's not that the "quantum wave" is literally smoothing things in the world, but that the theory of the "quantum wave" is disregarding particular facts.

Imagine that we described human populations without having the ability to observe individual sex characteristics, or individual human interactions. We might say things like "a human has a 10% chance of splitting into two humans over the course of a 20 year span." In this case, our statistics "smooth away" differences such as sex, and the interactions of specific humans over time, leaving us with a probabilistic statement. We might start reading the apparent non-determinism as a fact of nature, rather than as a problem with our knowledge.
There are already a few consistent ui toolkits, even with visual designers. Ext js for example. I've developed desktop apps, and building ext js apps isn't far off from that experience anymore. Maybe it would help if we could get the various javascript frameworks to agree on a component spec.

Also, performance on the mobile space is a matter of waiting 2 or 3 years. Mobile perf is moving up fast, partly by browser revs and partly by better hardware. People used to say we needed something better than javascript and the dom on the desktop as well, and a few years of moore's law made that discussion irrelevant. Browser tech isn't bad enough to need replacing, so i don't see it getting replaced.
Non-savvy users usually look for a FAQ or a 'Contact us' page in case they have questions about the service. You can have a Get Satisfaction widget too for the savvy ones to offer feedback.
Images at the bottom for Green Certified Site, HN Sidebar, and Analytics by Mixpanel take away from the simply lookfeel of the site.

Besides, it looks like all you need to get "Green" certification is to pay the certifiers $10 / month...
I was quite confused by this statement, because it just looks wrong. Upon consulting the text you are citing, I figured out why: This is the author's summary of Einstein's position on the determinability of quantum systems, and Einstein was wrong, famously wrong. This statement is about how Einstein thought the world worked, not about how the world actually works.

This statement you quote has often been called by the jargon name "hidden variables theory". You're asking: What are these hidden variables? Well, Einstein could never find them, and later work has shown that this is because they don't exist. Read the end of the chapter first. ;)

Incidentally, at first glance this chapter doesn't look like light reading.
I seem to possess a bias against cities that doesn't grow organically.
1. Skype is not blocked in Russia. Federal security officials voice their concerns about Skype every once in a while, which causes rumors about possible blockage in media. Although nothing came out of it yet.

2. In China all skype servers redirect to their Chinese partner http://skype.tom.com/
Tom Skype has everything that you would expect in QQ or other Chinese IM's, namely intrusive ads and content filtering.
There is research showing how much data is leaked by the Tom Skype and how insecurely it is stored.
http://www.nartv.org/mirror/breachingtrust.pdf

It is quite worrying that Skype has a such partner. Although it makes me think that Google would have more success in China if it found a Chinese partner like Tom Google.
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They are going with what they know makes them money. They have already cut Saturdays, and I would expect them to cut another day too.
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The motorbike taxis and minibuses were operating at the train stations last time I was in Paris, so maybe they won in the end...
I don't know how far this is from Porto, since the article just stated "Not too far from the northern Portuguese city of Porto", but there's a notable engineering university in Porto, FEUP (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto). The other one (Instituto Superior Técnico) is in Lisbon, around 300km away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngRjfTk7O7s

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I get the point, but am not sure I 100% agree. I think your dead on about the "Pro" line, but I can see the non-pro laptops going ARM. The customization ability might be the key.
I'm glad that SpaceX is so concerned with cost. It is sometimes hard for a company to stay focused on that when they get a government contract.

As for the rest, I would imagine when robots get good enough, then the incentive to use cheap labor in China drops and factories in the US become more economically viable.
This is why the modern native application environments are winning, and the web isn't: "There are already _a few_ consistent ui toolkits" "isn't far off", "maybe it would help," "matter of waiting 2 or 3 years" ...

To compete, the web environment has to change drastically, but those that have invested in the web as it exists today don't want to change.

> Browser tech isn't bad enough to need replacing, so i don't see it getting replaced.

That's just the thing, though -- for applications, it is being replaced.
Those sound like proxies for measuring some other factors; who flourishes based on the range of ages of the surrounding buildings? Presumably that really measures some variation in the types of businesses nearby, or that there are some long term residents, or the area has some hook factor which keeps people investing over and over.

All of which they could design in or design around without having to have old buildings, say.

But it sounds like they are designing for the administration of the city, not for the end users. I wouldn't want to live there for a few revisions at least...
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