skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not "teleportation" in the Star Trek sense. They need to get the entangled photons to both places so observers at both sites can see them. That means that nothing can interact with the photons on their path (or rather that any interaction needs to be precisely defined such that it doesn't break the superposition). So you can't just send them through the air.
Same concept applies to dress shoes - Allen Edmonds and Aldens will last years to decades if properly maintained. You will need to replace the soles periodically, but that is not expensive.
That is just plain stupid. I wouldn't want to work anywhere that would hire me, or anyone else on my team, without a proper interview.
Superliminal persuasion! Love it.

Tried to submit it myself too, found this :/
I accidentally upvoted you, so I figured I should leave a comment explaining why I intended to downvote you: you either failed to understand the question, or chose to intentionally provide a useless and snarky answer. The GP was asking a social question about how the HN userbase had changed such that a rumor like this made the site.
> Often people don't sue over verbal contracts is because the burden of proof that one existed/exists is very difficult

That, and because verbal contracts are not enforceable for all transactions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_frauds
If you're going to consume the editorial content of the site? The ethical and legal (if not practical) answer is yes. It's your obligation to understand and accept the terms of a service (not just a web site) before using it.

Is that impractical? Yes. But when I rent a car, I don't read the terms either, and they still apply. It's just a result of a world in which we undertake hundreds of "transactions" a day with business entities, all of which have to be governed by legal agreements.
The RDF gives free license to shitty journalism. Trendy subjects makes SEO-obsessed content mill writers happy. Just read Techmeme - the content is almost all trendy garbage.
What you should do is use the button to mark that as a bad turn. Then it will get flagged in the map editor, and anyone who's in there will see it and can fix the roads. In my local area, it's had drastic improvements in just the last month or so.

What's clever is that they also generate automated suggested corrections. Like a local intersection has a little cut-through side road to turn right. It isn't on any maps, but people obviously take it, so Waze noticed a lot of people driving off road there instead of the suggested route, and flagged it as a possible correction.

Waze just seems to me like so much smarter a solution to GPS than the traditional providers. They actually use the two-way features of the phone in a way that a traditional GPS system will not.
Beyond pushing Google further out of their device and perhaps creating a more accurate mapping system, what do you think are the "strategic" points for bringing cartography in house? It's not like Apple would be interested in unmanned vehicle nav, or something... right?

I myself can't think of any strategic reasons beyond competition with Google.
There are some boost macros which will run clean up code at the end of the scope if you prefer. They are not pretty. But they work. (This is a life saver in a long function with multiple exit points)
Maybe I'm missing something here, but why is security from attackers a concern for pacemakers?
I recently had a similar experience at my dentist's office. I was asked to sign a waiver of liability, presumably for insurance purposes. It asked me to state that I had been informed of the risks of the procedure (tooth removal), including a long list of possible bad outcomes. I asked the dentist about this, and she said not to worry, most of those couldn't happen here. So I asked her to please strike the ones that couldn't happen, and explain the likelihood of the other complications, as her own document required her to do. After disgustedly doing this, and spending another 20 minutes fulfilling the other requirements of the document she wanted me to sign, she poked a needle in my mouth, yanked my tooth out, and walked away without saying another word.

She clearly blamed me for wasting her time, since other patients obviously sign the form and get on with it. I actually think the problem here was that the form was too short, and so I felt that I could actually reasonably go through it, as opposed to a lengthy legalistic form that I couldn't possibly be held to in court if it turned out to be unfair.
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In fact, we have recently fixed a common source of addon memory leaks: http://blog.kylehuey.com/post/21892343371/fixing-the-memory-...
The version containing this fix is scheduled to be released in August, I believe.
I can think of a few ways:

1) Siri integration.

"Let's watch the Cardinals game."
"What movies are on HBO tonight?"
"Facetime with my mother."

2) Convergence with other iOS devices/tools. iMessage/FaceTime on your TV. AirPlay mirroring. Play your stuff off iTunes. Remote control from your existing iOS device.

3) Well known, deep catalog of music/video content for purchase or rent.

If it works well, it'd be huge.
I would love if there is a simple diagram or layout that explains how teleportation of information works. Does anyone knows a good resource, video or lecture for that?
Pretty cool. I probably wouldn't use this unless I was given enough information to feel that I had a good idea what each option was going to do -- either some code or a short description.

e.g.

"Cleanup - Removes some default Rails files that aren't very useful" doesn't really get across what is being cleaned.

"DANGER! Super-simple static webpages" - I assume this includes static 4xx pages?
Why do you like S+C, aside from the obvious that they did your A?
What's funny is you post the link to makeuseof.com which seems to be one of the worse offenders. For a direct link, http://collusion.toolness.org/
Kind of curious what kind of trouble that you ran into when using Quickbase. You can e-mail me if you don't feel like posting it here. (jeff@ragic.com)
Because medical devices are pretty shoddy right now? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/27/fatal_insulin_pump_a...
The big thing with Sandy was the natural language input from almost any method. You could send it emails, text messages, tweets, what have you, which would then be automatically captured. Basically you could add tasks via whatever communications method you had immediately at hand.
That's hardly the point I was trying to make... What do you think of the rest of the article, which has nothing to do with architecture or whatever, but to do with the importance of sales in a business?
When you change channels, you're no longer consuming the content on that channel. It's closer to using a TiVo to skip the ads in a programming. I do it myself, but it's pretty obvious to me that if everyone did it, it wouldn't scale and they'd find some other way to create revenue like more product placements during the show (which is already happening) that's even more intrusive and obnoxious, because it's unlikely that providers or consumers are going to go a-la-carte.

(This is also why I liked paying for content on iTunes or Amazon - that seems like a more fair deal where I don't get both charged and ads (cable) and I don't have to mess around with using the TiVo to skip ads.)
Street view or ISO (bird's eye) view are both indispensable to me, because they show store fronts instead of roofs. When I'm driving around, I can't see the roofs, so that does me no good.
When I go to a job interview, I like to check what the street looks like and where is the entry of the building. It relieves some anxiety (although it didn't prevent me from getting completely lost once). Street view is one of the most useful features of online maps.
Wow. They asked you the monty hall problem, AND argued that you shouldn't switch the door you picked? That's awful.
No, I did not mean prime minister.

In Spain, the head of state is the monarch and the head of the elected government is known as the "Presidente del Gobierno", or president of the government. Although a counterpart can be found in other parliamentarian systems such as the prime minister in the UK, the Spanish president of government is not primus inter pares but the undisputed head of the government.
So this is what the Occupy movement is so upset about!
Using graphs to cheat at Boggle
When your stealing a billion from the public (you know the company is going to plummet and you accounting methods r more similar to a drug dealer then GAAP) its best to wear a tie, less suspicious that way
> Almost all middleware is now written in Java.

That is a bit worrying with Oracle's recent shenanigans with Java copyright.

I wonder what people like Rich Hicky and Martin Odersky have to say about this subject.
Are you using Readability? There was a recent change made to fix massive shutdown hangs when using that addon (or others that use FUEL):

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/139e8e845aa5
Some amateur astronomers have red-lens glasses for this purpose. Also allows them to run inside a lit house without spoiling their nightvision.
Since you know the author of that paper, could you find out for us what he/she thinks of this new information about death rates?

Proving causation would be a high bar, of course, if not impossible. But I'm curious to know what further investigation could be done with this.
Sony integrated it into a display, and it always seemed pretty clear that Google's intent was to get others to do this as well.
I've personally seen astronomers use red perspex covers for their laptops/phones as a way of preserving their night vision in the field.

I imagine that there could be some edge cases where contrast could be low etc. But it's a cheap solution.
What a shame.

On one hand I feel some compassion for the onerous regulations and malpractice issues that require medical practitioners to pay for very expensive legal requirements.

On the other hand, they should follow their own policies without complaint!
Well that's okay, they did it wrong in the movie anyway (they get the constraints wrong).
Reminds me of when I refinanced my mortgage... The bank sent a 100(?) page copy of the contract for my review prior to signing in front of a notary public (in their employ). When arriving at the appointment they produced their own copy that may or may not have been modified with respect to my copy, expecting me to sign in short order.

I complied but only because I was dealing with an otherwise reputable organization. It does seem like there's plenty of room for improvement in these situations.
The headline is obnoxious too. It hasn't happened. It might happen, but the way they wrote it makes it sound like Tim Cook got on a podium and announced that to the world.
I'm actually very very happy with Todoist (just reread my OP and found that it made it sound like I was an unpleaseable jerkface) - really the two things that I'd give almost anything to see are a native desktop app with some kind of quick entry (Another Omnitask feature I've been spoiled by.. cmd+space, window pops up, enter details, tab, enter further details like date, enter, task is captured), and as mentioned elsewhere here, a better mobile app. I would pay by the month for something like this!

In any case, keep up what you're doing. You've got a killer app :)
The funny thing is that many game programmers I know grew up watching demos if not making them. Who hasn't seen at least one Future Crew demo?
"i wouldn't be surprised if they actually started charging large corporations like nike for their pages usage"

That's the thing, I think their valuation is based on the ton of potential revenue opportunities like that they haven't explored yet. There's a ton of companies getting value from Facebook marketing (not ads, pages and so forth), Facebook just (in theory) needs to figure out how to capture some of that value.

And look at stuff like Zynga as well -- they built a billion dollar company on top of Facebook's platform, and now make up something like 10% of FB's revenues IIRC. Are there any similar untapped opportunities for the company that owns the world's social graph? I know it sounds kind of airy trying to value a company on as-yet non-existent revenue streams, but what's the chance they don't manage to find a few more Zynga-scale opportunities in the next ten years?
You're really saying you don't want to work with people who:

1. Don't know the volume of a golf ball

2. Don't know the volume of a bus

3. Don't know the amount of a bus's volume taken up by seats and other protrusions

I think that's a little silly. I strongly doubt a single one of those will make you a better programmer. Likewise, problem 1 is a physics problem. If you're applying for a job programming physics simulations or video game engines, it could be relevant, but otherwise I don't see how knowing the physics of water would be helpful in the day-to-day experience of programming.

I see how the underlying skills of solving the problems could be helpful, but in practice it seems like brainteasers tend to be more trivia than problem-solving.
Strictly speaking no, but LG's going to release TVs with integrated Google TV systems in a couple weeks. ( http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/07/net-us-google-lg-i... )

(And [like jsight said] Sony released a couple also, although they're apparently focusing on set-top boxes now: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/sonys-second-try-at-googl... )
Apple accuses Samsung of purposefully destroying evidence
The same world as me apparently. I never hear of Chinese innovations. Where are some good places to learn more about things developed in China?
Advice on getting a strong start with your VC
I would pay 10k to have future unethical employers filter themselves out (even if it filters out some ethical ones too).

I might not have handled this exactly like J, but I certainly wouldn't think twice about hiring him because of this.
Apple reportedly putting acquired map technologies to good use in iOS 6
How do they plan on monetizing their efforts?
True. But at this point, what exactly does anyone expect them to do? They screwed up, got caught, apologized and finally, paid him. It is very much possible that they wouldn't have paid him, if he didn't go public. It is also possible, that companies in similar positions will behave the same way in future (abusing power, until they get caught). There is probably nothing that can be done at this point, except move on.
Github's modifications to Twitter's TwUI pulled into master
It's called sarcasm. It's like how I say "Nice catch!" even though someone dropped the ball. Or like how someone who says "I could give a damn" probably doesn't.

Pardon my pet peeve.
Interesting to see they're still pushing on.

The redesigned profiles seem a little full-page-bokeh-background, Path-circular-profile-image, Pinterest-masonry heavy.

Not bad styles in their own right, but it feels as if borrowed from the other hottest sites around.
First, congratulations to Josh (who I do not know).

Second, Josh: you took a Hell of a gamble (speaking as someone with practical experience on the hiring side). From now on you will have to find some subtle way to include the entire history of this situation in future job application processes. A hiring manager stumbling upon only the first part of this episode will likely not give you the opportunity to explain the whole story.
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Just some hopefully constructive feedback here: for Excel power users, you're not just competing with Excel, you're competing with Excel+ODBC+SQL+Workbench which is basically an Excel/DB hybrid, just not web based.

I read your "how this is different than a spreadsheet" blog, and none of the examples struck me as compelling, even though I use my Excel/SQL toolchain every day. Given how strong the ecosystems are around those tools, I think it would be very challenging to convert power users without some really obvious hook.

That one hook COULD be a good mobile client. For example, I have a dashboard built in Excel with an ODBC connection to a few of my company's DBs. However, I obviously can't see this on my phone, since no mobile Excel client supports ODBC (not to mention the macros I have built in).

I could maybe see a "disruption" angle, where you provide 75% of the functionality of Excel+ODBC+SQL+Workbench in one easier to use package, but I wonder how large the market is for people who want to work with that level of data but don't want power tools. I guess that's one area where you'd have to trust your market research/gut.
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I've never really drawn a bright line distinction between the two, choosing to treat tasks and appointments as a generic obligation that has to be prepared for and dealt with like any other task.. that's one thing that's always bugged me about traditional time management apps like Outlook's calendar.
Exactly. Too much narrow focus on the fear of waking up before 5am.

I'm on something akin to the 11:30pm -> Up at 7am schedule and most days I’m too tired to even make it to 11:30pm. It's a very good thing.
When Did We Become The Bad Guys?
Vulnerability can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.

There's several of those. They're also fixed in the ESR (10.x) releases.
Really sorry for the downtime… I thought my WordPress install was ready to go, but for some reason the caching plugin was not activated. So everything came crashing down under the traffic, and then I was unable to log back in the admin to enable caching.

I'm now talking with the PHPFog guys to add resources to the server, but it's taking some time…

The lesson here: never EVER run WordPress without caching. Triple check that's it's active before you do anything.
I am glad that free mobile apps are putting a cap on GPS makers' profits!

But since a mobile app depends on a mobile data plan I could never use it when I need the GPS the most: when I'm abroad.

Within the US I guess it would make sense to start using you phone and your data plan as a GPS, but within EU it would get really expensive really fast. That's why a dedicated GPS unit seemed to me like a better idea.
feeling a little bad for your server right now ...
They already have, the new download manager landed in the nightlies about a week ago, no more download window to get lost.

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I doubt that these documents are contracts. They aren't intended to create a legal obligation on the part of either party but rather are intended to be evidentiary documents to prove that the privacy policy was disclosed to the patient and the patient told the doctor's office that he understood it.

Your signature on the document is there to refute any future claim you might make that you were not presented with the privacy information.

I'm assuming the privacy form is a separate document. If it is part of a larger document then perhaps that document also includes elements that make it a contract. In that case the lack of signature on their end is probably not a problem.

It's a common belief that contracts must be in writing and signed. In fact only certain kinds of contract must be in writing and signed (the biggies are contracts that cannot be performed within one year, contracts that transfer interests in land, and contracts for the sale of goods for $500 or more).

Otherwise, all you need is for both parties to have agreed on the terms of the contract and a thing called "consideration". Consideration is a subtle and elusive concept but roughly it means each person obligated under the contract is getting something valuable in exchange for taking on the contractual obligation.

If both parties agree to something and both uphold their end of the bargain then it doesn't really matter whether or not they actually managed to form a legally enforceable contract. That only matters if something goes wrong and one or more parties want to use the courts to enforce the contract or win damages for breach of contract.

If you have to sue someone over a contract you'll have to prove that there actually was a contract formed with them. That will be a lot easier if the contract was in writing and you had them sign it.
WebGL in Enterprise Web Apps? Uh, no.
Up-vote because many people feel this way, so it's important to discuss. But I strongly disagree.

From that point of view, this seems like a perfectly fine action to take.

There's certainly an argument to be made in support of your statement. If we were to work in a purely utilitarian manner, there would be little room for argument.

But the design of the structure of civil rights we have in America doesn't work that way. We recognize that people have certain inherent, inalienable right. Even if stripping someone's rights would save tremendous tragedy, our philosophical underpinnings prevent it.

We don't condone torture (unless you're the current President or his predecessor), even when we might be able to extract information that could save many.

We could save many thousand people who are sick, and destined to die, waiting in vain for organ transplants. Just pick somebody's name out of a hat, and divide up his organs -- a liver, a heart, a couple of kidneys. For each life we took, we could save four or more others (not to mention improving others with cornea transplants, etc.). But despite the fact that utilitarian balance says that the net benefit to society would be positive, our system will not even contemplate such an action.

Those examples are extreme, but they illustrate the point that we don't take actions that injure innocent people (and remember, everyone is innocent until proven guilty) even when they can save many others.
Is there a way to run them without installing cryogenmod?
Phoronix is one of the main reasons I run ScriptNo.
50 or 100 years ago, there was real risk inherent in being an equity underwriter. IPO underwriters purchase the equity from the issuer and resell it to the market, and in theory that creates material risk that they might not be able to resell it at a profit. These days, they've pre-sold the equity (usually several times over) to institutional investors before they do the deal, so the risk is pretty minimal. Just look at the average first-day pop (something like 20%?) on large IPOs and you can see how little risk they're taking.
And you still opened an account at that same bank?!
The thing is it really isn't "teleportation" in the typical sense of instantaneous travel. The photons still move at the speed of light, this method just happens to be useful for taking cryptographic advantage of the quantum properties of photons.

It also bothers me that the article specifically says the "information" is teleported, as it seems like the author is going out of his/her way to imply a violation of the No Communication Theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem), which is not in any way violated by the experiment.
Or you could guesstimate a diameter of a golf ball and then tell them how much the answer could change as a function of your error, rather than demanding perfect information in an imperfect world.

The goal is not to get a precise answer, the goal is to see how you think.
Google's maps on Android kicks iOS's butt- the vector rendering makes it much much faster, turn-by-turn navigation and offline mode.

In case you aren't aware, the Android version doesn't download the image tiles, rather it downloads the raw data and renders the streets and everything client side. This makes it much faster to get the data and makes a smoother zoom experience.
In other news, Business Week is two years behind.

Also, what's the deal with the fake-vintage effect on the pictures? Is it their lame corporate way of attempting to be "hip"?