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There are a few interesting explanations in a Guardian article[1] published today:

Heinrich Paes at Dortmund University and colleagues believe it might be possible for neutrinos to move through hidden, extra dimensions of space and effectively take shortcuts through space-time. "The extra dimension is warped in a way that particles moving through it can travel faster than particles that go through the known three dimensions of space. It's like a shortcut through this extra dimension. So it looks like particles are going faster than light, but actually they don't."

Another potential explanation for the observation was given by Alan Kostelecky at Indiana University, who has devoted his career to violations of the limiting speed of light. He proposed in 1985 that an energy field that lies unseen in the vacuum might explain the finding. The field allows neutrinos to move faster through space than photons, the particles that make up light.

"It may very well be that neutrinos travel faster than light does in that medium. It is not at all unreasonable that that would be the case."

[1]http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/23/physicists-spe...
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This is not endemic to Facebook. It applies to any platform. Apple, eBay, Amazon, etc.

I'm not sure this is really true. If you build a regular application for Windows, Linux, or OS X, Microsoft, Red Hat, or Apple can't control whether I install your application. No one "approves" Firefox for OS X. Curated, for lack of a better term, applications only appear on particular platforms -- cell phones, sub-sections of websites, and so forth.
While i do love my air i recently got a MBP 17" and i tend to use it more often now
I seldom ever ask for 'citations' but in this instance the author makes a sweeping claim about everyone missing the mark when it comes to Ada Augusta, and then proceeds to quote the bulk of the existing work---none of which 'misses' anything. Color me confused...
No, I don't, and I'm OK with that. And I'm OK with other people not doing that too. I don't mind sharing what I put on Facebook, and I like reading what my (Facebook) friends are doing. So I personally don't mind those changes, at all.

I understand though that many (most? - given the comments under Facebook-related stories) people are not so OK with that.
I'm curious what happens when a Facebook user dies. Is their timeline going to have pictures of their funeral at the top then? This is just depressing.

Edit: This is a serious question.
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That's why you have friends on Facebook, not "stalkers and people who browse your past for kicks."
I've just spent the last 10 minutes attempting to violate causality. It turns out that the implementation is a little bit sketchy when trying to add "Life events" that occur before you're born. I'm kind of looking forward to recreating all of "Back To The Future" as life events on the timeline.
Thanks. I think they have some rate limits in place. How do you get around it if you have a lot of users?
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http://www.etsy.com/listing/82254797/usb-typewriter-computer... I own this exact typewriter. I bought it a few years ago for $20. Now, if you have the money to spend, perhaps for a gift, and you don't feel confident that you can find a good typewriter and assemble it yourself, $700 might be worth it to you.
Well, that's your fault for adding them and considering them your "friends," isn't it?

I don't think your mis-use of Facebook is their fault at all.
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That type of behavior is representative of someone with an anger problem. And you're right this could also be chalked up to someone, anyone, having a bad day. But in this case (as you described) he was doing an interview and is for all intents and purposes retired and having a great time being toast of the startup town. He's didn't just get fired from HP or anything. (And of course what you described is what I did experience.)

But that video appears to have vanished. If you can find a link I'd like to see it.
Really enjoyed the bootstrapping deck, Garrett. Thanks for that. Would love to hear about your dev and technology stack evolution.
If you were trying to hose a competitor by posting e.g. their blog posts at a slow time like 4 am pacific, they'd have to help you out by publishing their blog posts at that time. In my experience no one does that. Companies wait to publish their posts at good times, and then the links are quickly submitted to HN, either by the company or someone else. So a bad guy would rarely have an opportunity to submit an as-yet unsubmitted link at a slow time.
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It'd be interesting to see what the split is between people upvoting under 'new' versus duplicate story submissions. I'm betting that the dupe submissions are much more frequent since highly on-topic posts from lesser known sources will often just vanish entirely.

For instance, I submitted a story about WalmartLabs from mercurynews that didn't go anywhere. A few hours later, a new submission on it from a different source zoomed up to the front page within minutes.
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The path from the things people observed to "and neutrinos travel faster than light" travels down a long string of inferences. Inferences about the equipment working properly and inferences about other aspects of physical law.

Most likely this is a problem with the equipment. I'm sort of hoping that some other aspect of our knowledge of physics has been revealed to be off, though, since that is where real progress comes from.

It might even be that the most straightforward but most improbable case is right, and these neutrinos actually are traveling faster than light. That would be awesome, but also terrifying since then its only a matter of technology to get a device that would permit communication with the past.
I don't consider them friends. I think of them as contacts, maybe acquaintances. You know, social connections. Facebook calls them "friends" but that doesn't mean I do.
I can see why people might not like this, but personally I would tend to think this is actually a good thing. Just imagine if climate deniers or intelligent design proponents had open access to every scientific paper they might want - imagine the howling din of useless distraction that would result. More generally, and less politically charged, I think it cuts down on the amount of aimless speculating and ill informed inquiry that an actual expert has to deal with.

That said, it's very true that this is worlds different from maliciously withholding data.
Whether it's Amazon or not, the only sensible reason I could come up with for the split is a sale of one of the two pieces of Netflix.

Whether it's to a content owner (Time/Warner?) looking for a distribution mechanism for their content, or a competitor (Amazon, Blockbuster, GameFly) looking to increase share, I expect to see a sale/merger/takeover announcement within six months.
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OP probably uses a standalone program (like MS Word) to author articles, then copies them over to the web CMS which picks up some of the formatting.

EDIT: Damn HN, easy on the down votes. Didn't realize you had to be "right" in order to have a worthwhile comment.
But I think a central assumption about a lot of this sharing, especially on social networks is that it's ephemeral, soon forgotten, lost to the passage of time. Just like the conversations we have offline. That's part of what's creepy.

The other part is the autosharing, which I've discussed in another comment.

Taken separately, I think either part is notably creepy, but put together, they cross waaaaaay over my personal creepiness line.
You are probably correct - bad title. I cannot edit it now, alas.
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I'm not sure there is a way around it. You can try asking in their forums, Sean is the go-to guy behind the API and is very helpful.
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You forget one crucial thing in the experiment. A neutrino reacts with almost nothing. A photon on the other hand, react with almost any damn thing you place around its path - metal? Yes. Mirror? Yes. Wood? Yes. Air? Yes!

I very much doubt they completely vacuumed the path of the neutrino to the same degree as it is in outer space. It is possible that neutrinos travel at the same speed as light in vacuum, but travel much faster when there's other material present in the way.
And that is why it is first result for keyword reader? or feed? They use search to support RSS.
Not to mention Checkout.
And those messages in Gmail about Firefox being not optimal?
It's is the same thing: using one product to support another one. I dont give a damn if Chrome is google's or not.

I want to say that they all do that. I don't support it, but it's not unique for Facebook.
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No actually it is memorialized and family members can request removal.

https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=13941
The term computer used to mean a person who sat at a desk doing mathematical calculations. When someone talks about their Amazon computing cluster, I don't picture a huge office building full of people putting pen to paper, crunching numbers all day long, even though that is exactly what computing cluster would have meant at one point in time.

When the term sharecropper is used, one will naturally turn to the meaning of sharecropping today, not hundreds of years ago. I am familiar of the stories of "sharecroppers" of the past, but sharecropping does not refer to those people anymore. Words are evolving all the time and present day usage is what is important when communicating with others.
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Hey, HNers,

I'm a 19 year-old, self-taught programmer (C/systems + ruby experience) and I'm having a hell of a time finding relevant programming internships/job opportunities in the Chicago-land area.

Currently, I've been most "successful" (if you can call it success) by first tracking down software companies operating in Chicago and then checking if they have any available internship opportunities. Is there a better way?

How would you go about looking for internships (or an entry-level job) as a self-taught programmer? Are there any companies in the Chicago-land area willing to take a chance on a passionate programmer without a degree?
Satellites are not designed for that - the Hubble sure wasn't. It is not a capability that needs to be replaced.
Finnish banks have had domestic customer-to-business online payment system (TUPAS) running since 2000 or so. It sounds very similar to the Dutch iDeal scheme. It used to be a pain to set up since you had to sign a contract with each bank chain you wanted to accept payments from, but nowadays you can sign up with a gateway instead.
Wow, well, this got way more attention than I wanted.

First, to be clear -- I have nothing against the guy who took Dave Morin's job (who wasn't supposed to be named -- Amazon CloudFront didn't bother to invalidate its cache when I uploaded the final edit of that paper). He played his cards right, came out hundreds of millions of dollars ahead, and then he got out. He's not in this to control your social life or anything, he just played the Silicon Valley game and got his.

The issue is really about the people who are trying to control your social life, and who are trying to convince the sort of people who read Hacker News to use them as a stable, reliable piece of infrastructure for your projects and businesses. My story is just one datapoint of so many -- most of which are private, but easily discoverable by quietly asking around the Valley -- that should help you realize that Facebook is definitely not the company you want operating the world's social infrastructure. The code might work, the pages might render, but on a deep social and ethical level, Facebook and its platform are not web-scale.

Also, the "sharecropper" and "beware of your platform" arguments don't apply here. Social infrastructure isn't like being a developer for the Playstation -- this is very basic and very global stuff, similar to water or power, and you shouldn't have to question its integrity. I shouldn't get dirty water, or my power shut off, because the CEO of the utility company allows his/her VPs to play God. There's a reason these guys don't call themselves a "social utility" anymore... But anyway, that's a whole 'nother subject, and I'd rather be coding (or socializing!) than writing.

And to all of the people who question why I would even publish something like this -- chill out bro, I'm just obeying Zuckerberg's Law! /disconnect
The key point is that good stories can get lost in the noise and once lost reviving them is very difficult. Re-posting the story with the same URL just adds a karma point to the original poster but does not get any mention on the "new" page so no-one else gets the chance to review and (possibly) update a good but overlooked post.
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actually that is to say i know the difference, but i didn't have the time really to get exactly the right the details of 1200 baud vs. bits per second vs. bytes per second vs. 7-bit vs. 8-bit and which component does which, if there's error correction, if it is based in 1000 or by 1024, etc, etc
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Maybe they do that because of the number of mistakes and basic misunderstandings of the science involved? If you don't like the name calling just look at the actions of the man, as outlined in the article. He is not a credible commentator.
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What gives? When I post an item using the bookmarklet, I see the following message, "Stop spamming us. You're wasting your time."
Powerful insight from Gabe applicable to startups:

"No -- we don't recruit for games. We recruit people..."

Replace 'games' with 'products'.
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That's what happens when someone posts a link to a site marked as a spam site. Sometimes sites get marked by accident by fat-fingered admins. Email me (pg@ycombinator.com) and tell me what site you were trying to submit and I'll investigate.
This headline seems unnecessarily snide... It's like the opposite of linkbait. I know Color is the startup people love to hate, but this pivot is actually kind of interesting, and far more innovative than their initial app.

From the guidelines: "You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it." Editors?
It just means Firefox and Chrome have to make a Metro app. No biggy.

I just hate that you're making a big deal out of it.
> and to void all existing software patents

The Fifth Amendment states "[No person shall] be deprived of... property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

In other words, this means a lawsuit for every existing software patent to determine its hypothetical value were the law left as is. The Federal Government is suddenly the defendant in millions of civil cases. It will essentially have to buy every software patent out there. The fallout would destroy everything you love and more.

I know it seems like a sad compromise, but there might be huge practical difficulties with that sort of ex post facto rejection of existing patents. Just tell them to stop issuing new software patents, and urge the judiciary to vigorously scrutinize existing software patents which come before the bench for obviousness or prior art.
+1 here! Questions are fun. I didn't learn my name till people around me bugged me thousands of times a day with the questions -- 'what is your name, you cute little thing?'.

I so so digg your 'the more we learn, the less we know' dialogue.
The desktop is moving in this direction as well. Your example of OS X is shaky in particular, given the App Store. Even if it's still _possible_ in the future, acquiring apps outside the official channel will be exceptional, done only by enthusiasts.
They know where the neutrinos were produced and where they were detected 730km away. That seems like enough for a pretty good guess at their direction of travel. But I guess they didn't really present that aspect of things.
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Yeah, i think blog posts aren't such a big issue, since often important news gets reblogged and the posts come from there as well. It's more likely to be a problem with the initial announcement of a url as being life. Say, AirBnB.com changes their name to rent.com, for example.
I see talk of controls for hiding and sharing items on the timeline, and for turning the timeline on and off, but not for only making it available to your friends.

The barrier to entry to browse a user's past appears to be: a Facebook account.
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No i just have a really crappy WP layout and for some reason i have it set in my CSS to do no whitespace between paragraphs. So the lazy solution, instead of fixing my css, is to do br nbsp br between paragraphs. I know, i should fix it.
OK, I see that manual submission fails too. The site is a video about trusted computing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnXU7z2_6Jg
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Why not submit a link to one of the legitimate sites covering this (some even covering it accurately!), instead of a link to a discredited conspiracy theory site?
Also, aren't companies suppose to be paying the TARP money back?

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This article is not about auto-sharing.
I watched the news conf. this morning.

The neutrino production "curve" looks like a a square wave pulse as a function of time

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and the detection points look like this

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with ∆t ~= 700km/c time distance between the two pulses.

The claim is that the "most likely guess" of the received
pulse shape (obtained from many measurements) is too far right to be consistent with speed of light, but the ∆t measured where?

between the onset of the pulses?
between the place where the pulses go down?

What they did some mega calculation (maximum likelihood stuff), to predict the best approximation to the shape of the pulse at the receiving end -- so somehow they take on the approximation of the whole pulse (which is much wider than the claimed discrepancy).

They should downgrade the claim from: "speed of neutrinos is...." to: "speed of pulses of neutrinos ..... on average, as predicted by the maximum likely shape of the pulse",
which sounds much less profound.

The conf was good though, the speaker stood up to a lot of
serious scrutiny. My guess is the problem is with the ML curve shape calculation.
Cool library; I'm sure I'll have use for this!

SpiceApps has a ton of other cool stuff too (which the OP no doubt knows). Nice work. :)
I'm not sure that your premise is solid. Your citations point to a single program that was somewhat naively written, not well optimized, and designed as a computational benchmark spending much of it's time in GC. That's doesn't necessarily imply that "GC takes more CPU time than actual computations in normal Go programs". That's not to say that Go's GC isn't slow, but as citation #2 shows, one can limit heap allocation if performance requires it.

So, the fact that you're saying "Don't do what Go does, it makes Go almost useless for real world applications" seems odd to be because:

1. Not all applications care deeply about stop-the-world gc pauses.

2. Not all of those that do will have a problem with them, as GC can be avoided by value semantics and escape analysis.

3. Go will not necessarily always have a Stop-The-World GC, though it does now. I don't think it's required by the spec.

4. People are using Go in real world applications, implying that it isn't almost useless. Even servers.

5. The Rust folks clearly have thought hard about efficient and scalable memory management, and the slideshow indicates that, so I'm not sure why you're worried for them.
I'm not grasping your point.
I agree it's creepy (just another great reason to continue not using Facebook), but I don't agree that it's creepy because people can see you in context. I think it's creepy because people see everything out of context.

Those drunken photos, random pissed-off status update, smattering of professional news, and "Lost a loved one" updates followed by a photostream of your grandmother's funeral form a stilted caricature of your actual life and persona.

That's why, when I want to share something significant, I do it in a form suitable for the purpose, hopefully in a way that is beneficial to the reader, and contributory to the internet, world, etc. if what I'm sharing is significant enough.

Perhaps to wit, my memorialization of my grandfather, who I saw decline and pass away this year: http://cemerick.com/2011/04/05/opa/

That is all to say, if you want to control how you are represented, don't turn over your identity to a third party.
This strategy backfires when managers want the release out so they fight to lower the severity for every defect that is entered. Then they generate a report showing no high severity defects and release the software. Another common problem is a high number of low severity defects that make the software annoying to use.

I am not claiming that a bug count of zero is possible with most software, but testing quality in at the end is the wrong approach. Nothing affects quality as much as the skill level of the developers.
What I thought this was going to be about was a killfile system for blacklisting websites for users who are logged in and are interesting in that sort of thing. Kind of like Slashdot's system that let you blacklist editors you didn't like (like Jon Katz).

Is this the sort of thing that you would ever consider implementing?
Ack, someone banned Youtube. I unbanned it; should work now; sorry.
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Honestly, I think this is just the nature of the social beast that we are working with. Whether things get "picked up" or not are often based on a lot of arbitrary, impossible-to-track variables such as "how many people interested in WalmartLabs happened to be looking at /newest within 20 minutes of your post". While there are definitely instances of causality that can even be extrapolated into trends, luck is always a key factor in these services
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I saw your post and was awesome but have little upvotes, then i entered and it was the same but with a lot upvotes, pretty strange . I felt a little sad because you deserve some good upvotes man.
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I didn't notice a loss in productivity as I was afraid of, and I really love the portability. I brought it to Southeast Asia for 5 months this year - really liked that it didn't weigh too much!
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Apologies for the confusion. I believe this is a free, full 40 minute course that covers a lot of the content about researching and optimizing media buys. It's not like a 2 minute preview/trailer or anything like that.

The second part of the course is available to Mixergy subscribers only, as is all of their other premium content.