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I think the track record of the current administration puts my accusation on pretty solid ground. As I said, the election is in November, so I expect we'll know in four to six weeks.
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He (the CEO) didn't have to respond at all. But he did. How 'bout we all give him the benefit of the doubt.
Yes. It is incorrect to say that.

The term "Quantum teleportation" just refers from moving quantum information from one place to another, which happens to be kind of hard. In fact, in order to do it we "piggyback" on classical information, so it is by definition subject to all the same limitations of classical information transfer.
> In Python, threads are only useful as an abstraction of things that have to run concurrently, even though they never do.

This is just false. Threads still offer performance benefits for non-CPU bound operations. For example, if you are trying to download data from 100 different sources, you could do it in a single thread, but python would spend most of its time idling while other prosseses do work, or you could have 100 threads, so python can do work while it is waiting on other stuff to get done.
The global rep recalc happened in March 2010 and for good reason:

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-r...

There were users who were earning huge swatches of rep by asking hundreds of questions and giving little back in return.

I lost ~1k in rep back when I was >20k, and 1k back then (relatively speaking) was a fair old chunk. It was disappointing at the time but it was the right thing to do.
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(Note: my full qualifications are an on-going Coursera course on quantum computing that covers quantum teleportation lightly. FWIW, I recommend the course.)

In vague terms, the process of quantum teleportation is the following:

* You have a qubit that you want to transmit to a friend and that you don't know anything about.

* create an entangled pair of qubits (such as photons) and separate them. Keep one yourself and give another to your friend.

* Now you have two qubits; one entangled with your friends and one that you want to transmit.

* Send your two bits through a quantum circuit (the main part being a 'controlled NOT gate').

* Your bit is now entangled with the bit that is entangled with your friends bit.

* Measure each of your bits, hence 'collapsing' them. Each measurement gives you a classical bit.

* Transmit your two classical bits to your friend over any classical connection.

* Your friend then performs an operation on his or her qubit depending on what you send him or her.

* Your friend's qubit is now in the state that your original qubit was in. Your original qubit is now in a different state.

Call it teleporation if you want; it's not that unlike some sci-fi teleportation constructs of 'beaming' things places.

Why bother with this?

* It lets you send qubits to distant places that you have only classical channels to (and previously close enough contact share two entangled qubits).

* It allows more error-resistant computations: if your qubit is difficult to construct and you wish to perform a difficult operation on it, you can actually have your friend perform the difficult operation on his or her bit - prior to teleportation - and, if it succeeds, you can then proceed with the teleportation. If it doesn't succeed, your friend may try again on another entangled qubit without messing up your difficult-to-prepare qubit. After a success and teleportation, you get the same result (up to a commutator which is usually relatively small and risk-free) as performing the difficult operation on the difficult-to-prepare qubit, but with less risk of messing it up.
'Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic'
Arthur C. Clarke

You could add more. I particularly like this Clarke observation. cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
On Q5 (if you had 3 months to learn a technology what would you choose) ... DHH replied "Cocoa programming on a Mac"... which in hindsight would have been great preparation for the iPhone release the following year...
It may be that the information encoded in the spin of a photon or something has jumped non-continuously. But most people think of "teleportation" as transferring matter.
I haven't logged onto SO in months and not likely to ever log on again. The only time I ever end up on SO is due to a Google search and almost invariably the topic has been closed due to the "closed as subjective and argumentative" reason.

The other day I was doing some searching on the use of express in node.js. I think I found about 10 relevant and useful threads of which I think only 1 was still open. All the other threads I actually found very useful had been closed by some moderator. Subjectively, I think this is a very typical ratio.

I just don't get it quite frankly.
Wolfram Alpha's "Close this [ad]" button covers "Upgrade to Pro" button
I don't know if anyone else has been noticing how slow Wolfram Alpha has been becoming lately, but I do understand their intent in trying to monazite their product. Either way, I'm wondering whether having the two buttons overlap is part of their scheme or if its just an honest bug.
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This makes sense because the product is free so of course it would need to be supported by ads. Oh, wait...
The Bloodhound Gang's chorus is probably the worst part of it, and is probably primarily what the OP was referring to, though the rapping verses work reasonably well. That said, it was still great overall.
Sounds like an idea for a petition
Interesting, so you have a way of making the relationship at the end. Now I could start nitpicking about how you decide to make the link to Aphex Twin and not his name (or another nick), and how would you make that decision for any similar cases.

Note that I don't consider this issue the main problem, it's just one I hit a few times, and I wasn't able to select a correct solution.
I would rather they fire anyone who thinks the profit they have made off interest from frozen accounts is a good thing. It is just as despicable as car companies making money off their service center.

I would really like them to make a policy change that any money collected in interest off frozen accounts is given to the account holder after the freeze.
Ironically, the one time where I noticed this bug was while testing a component, whose only use involved me emulating the behavior of mutable default arguments on a higher level. I still think it is a horrible system.
My strong opinion on it might be because I spent hours looking at our c-extensions for the source, because the previous two 'language bugs' I ran into were both in our c-extensions, where we had a type that could not cast to it self, and someone thought it was a good idea to make ~x mean x-1.
Addressing points

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[[ Albums have artists too ]]

Albums often have a person that mixes songs together. In ID3v2 series we use a tag "TPE2". Early ID3v2 adopters used "TXXX ALBUM ARTIST" and "TXXX ALBUMARTIST" as originally TPE2 was reserved for Band definition. iTunes and WMP both standardized on TPE2 for album artist.

Armin Van Buuren - State of Trance v561- #2 - Artsy - Open Space

TPE1 (song author) - Arsty
TPE2 (album author) - Armin Van Buuren
TALB (album title) - State of Trance v561
TRCK (track number) - 2

TPE2 typically comes in use with TCMP designating that a song is a compilation. (Before TCMP became standard, people also used "TXXX COMPILATION").

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[[ You need multiple versions of songs ! ]]

Most programs automating software will ask which version of album it is.

For example, Pendulum band released album "Hold Your Color" in 2005. http://www.discogs.com/Pendulum-Hold-Your-Colour/release/494...

However, in 2007 the rereleased the album, http://www.discogs.com/Pendulum-Hold-Your-Colour/release/134...

The last two songs differ. You need to pick right year to ensure you tag them properly.

Alternatively, the year could foretell how remastered the song is. Is this original compression, or the new louder version? See Loudness war article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

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[[ date/year is screwed up -- agreed ]]

We have to differentiate three types of dates:

When song was recorded -- aka: This song was released in 1994

When album compilation was released -- aka: the best of 90s was released in 2005

What decade the song is trying to recapture -- aka: the song feels like music from the 60s

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[[ Genres / taggins is a solution -- although at time blunt ]]

Genres were terrible in old ID3v1, where we were locked to 127 genres.

In ID3v2 we can enter whatever we want into genre, and store multiple of them. Good taggers read data off Last.fm / discogs / music brainz enter complete information about songs. This includes tags detailing genre, instruments, style, moods, decades. Certain players, like XBMC can use style and moods. Some systems like discogs even support hierarchal tags (see their style vs genre).
"... it would be interesting to see what the conversation would be like when segmented as such. ..."

You already can. Just randomly pick a low item id, ie: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20111 and follow up the comments to the article head ie: "How to Build a Web 2.0 Dating Site in 66.5 Man-Hours " http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19988

The sig/noise was different, fewer higher qual comments.
I resisted the switch for a long while, but once I did switch, I rapidly grew used to it, and I don't think I'd ever go back.

A lot of it really is just "what you're used to".
I thought his reponse for Q2 (most important skill?) was spot on and something rooted in his getting things done mentality ...

"A strong sense of value. The ability to ask yourself the question: Is it worth doing what I’m doing right now? So many programmers seem to waste oceans of time on stuff that just doesn’t matter. And not enough on the stuff that does."
What is up with U.S. retail gasoline deliveries?
As always, there's an xkcd for that: http://xkcd.com/465/
"That may be true, but I wonder what the kids will say when they're grown."

I think they'll be much more pissed off about all their childhood pictures having been taken in instagram.
I am a fan of how much Google has put in Eclipse. I think Google employees are on the Eclipse board, they pay Eclipse committers, and might be one of the bigger contributors to the foundation.

However, I do think that Google (and most companies) should step it up even more. Consider how many employees Google has using Eclipse, and how many products Google has building on Eclipse. They are doing a lot with Eclipse and should contribute a lot.

Yes, Eclipse is open source, and companies do not need to contribute to it. But the benefits of open source is a lot more than the free price, it is the freedom to improve bugs that affect your development, and most importantly the freedom to make sure that some single company is not leading the product/project in a strange direction.

I do think that every company that uses Eclipse as an IDE for its employees should have a moral obligation to donate $500 (the typical price of an IDE) to the Eclipse Foundation. And if you are building a product on top of Eclipse, then perhaps 10% of the $500 per user of your product.

Yes, I know I am asking for a lot. Yes, donating to the foundation does include the full time salaries of committers. Yes, there are more companies than Google that need to be doing this. And, yes, I do fear that the tragedy of the commons is to be expected by default for any successful open source project.
Really. I mean, now I have to pay to not receive ads on a product I already paid for?
Yes, but you're usually more interested in when the song came out than when the album came out.

If you sort your playlist by date so you can pick songs from the 90's, you probably wanted to hear something like Nirvana instead of The Best of The Who: Volume 3.
Some of the claims people are making about the purported security advantages of quantum crypto are borderline dishonest, IMHO.
It does matter who does it, when it is done, and how the results are used.

Doing user study with the intention to iterate on the design after the development progress is already far into completion is failure of the designer. If the design is so weak that it hasn't been validated by users, then it is not finished yet, that's it. One has to straighten up the design and validate it with users first. And it has to be done -before- giving a detailed framework to the developers, and claiming that the design is good enough.

After the fact user studies to brush up the UI polish is fine, but that is not the core task of the interaction designer. It can be done by a different expert other than the designer if needed (a junior designer, a developer with interest in usability, etc.).
What do you imagine they thought teleportation meant when they appropriated it?
Everyone commenting on this thread seems to make the assumption that all smokers in fact smoke cigarettes inside their residence. As a 26 year-old semi-heavy smoker, I've never once even considered smoking inside my apartment, nor do I know any smokers who do so. This may be dismissed as anecdotal by the type of vehement anti-smoking zealot you seem to be,But I believe it's an accurate depiction of smokers at large.
Better question. Why are you in the gray? People need to stop down-voting things just because they disagree!

It's a solid question. jQuery mobile also emulates iOS appearance. I think it's like when people made old windows apps, people would try to make there apps look native to windows and use the same color scheme windows did.
Average vehicle fuel economy hit its all-time high [1], and there's been a massive cut-back in how much people drive [2]. Americans are driving less and when they do drive, they're driving cars that use less fuel per mile.

You can likely credit the fuel economy increase on the federal mandates for higher MPG ratings on new cars, and the cut-back in driving on the high unemployment and stagnant/falling real wages of the employed.

Whatever the cause for the drop in September/October 2011 was, that was only a drop in refinery sales, as gas sales at the pump experienced no such fall [3].

1: http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2012/0223/Americans-trend-...

2: http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2008/12/16-transpo...

3: http://ycharts.com/indicators/us_gasoline_station_sales
Yeah, someone should alert the newspapers. Oh wait...
Hi! I'm not a programmer, but a nerd who trolls around HN... What I am? I am a strength and conditioning coach who happens to also travel the country teaching amateur and professional endurance athletes how to run better. I'd love to help you out if you're interested. Want to see what one of my programs look like? Go to http://crossfitendurance.com and check out the daily workouts, that's my stuff. My email is in my profile if you'd like to chat!
his name is david marcus. isn't this the same guy who cheated and used protomatter in Project Genesis?
As was mentioned in this thread 2 hours ago, Google has 9 committers to Eclipse. http://dash.eclipse.org/dash/commits/web-app/commit-count-lo... They've also paid members of the foundation for over 6 years. And there is never a moral obligation to pay for something that is explicitly licensed for free.
This article explains and provides an implementation to do that: http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2009/11/29/how-to-detect-fo...
> The innovation was bringing a screen with that high of a DPI to millions of users without an incredibly high cost, and pushing their competitors to follow suit.

Such high DPI displays were actually quite common in Japanese cellphones way before Apple started using them, even in the lowish-end "free" phones.

The main thing Apple did differently was to give it a catchy name ("retina display" is great marketing) and talk a lot about how "innovative" it is...
I agree that year is screwed up, but some taggers (like the picard-lastfm tagger) reads also decade feel tags. So music that sounds like 90s is tagged as 90s music, even if it isn't recorded in 90s.

For example, ""La Roux -- In It For The Kill"" will get the song tagged as sounding 80s like:

http://www.last.fm/music/La+Roux/_/In+for+the+Kill/+tags
Are you suggesting we should look to newspapers for sustainable business models?
um.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvxPc5MPEuQ
"... The karma you get there is helpful to demonstrate to employers how well you can help others ..."

That's the impression I got listening to all the SO podcasts. A quick search found this article, "Stack Overflow Careers: Amplifying Your Awesome" http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/11/stack-overflow-care... and this quote:

'If you're actively participating on Stack
Overflow, we now have another way to convert
those slices of effort into something that
actively furthers your professional goals
Stack Overflow Careers.' Coding Horror.
Very good for cryptography (think untamperable shared secret keys)

Sounds to me like an incredibly convoluted, fragile, and expensive method of exchanging keys.

In what practical way is this better than traditional or elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange?
rsnapshot onto a portable hard drive, that I take home each night.

The hard drive is encrypted with Truecrypt in case someone gets their mitts on it.
"The number of victims affected, the duration of the campaign, and the difficulty of identifying and exploiting so-called zero-day vulnerabilities mean the resources required "could only be provided by a large criminal organization, attackers supported by a nation state, or a nation state itself,"

Just say it, you want us to A) hate China. B)Give up internet freedom so we can have a bigger cyber army
Are you suggesting there are no major online content publications and blogs that do not have ads plastered all over their sites like print-based media?
It was indeed 'In Da Pub' by 50 Pence aka ladon86. Here's a video with lyrics in the desc to help with the British-isms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pioFIcQw2zM
Is this some kind of experiment in how many people will automatically upvote something from a karma-leader user?
Discogs tracks Alternative Nicks that artists use, and can help you link songs together. Here is Aphex Twin example:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Aphex+Twin

Also, discogs will track which albums were released under different artist tags. Foobar+discogs tagger combination lets you pick, if you want to use most common general name (so all tracks are Aphex twin), or the alternative name that songs were released under (aka: AFX songs stay as AFX).

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This is same issue as a book ''Running Man'' (yes, followed by a movie with Arnold). Was it written by Richard Bachman, or Steven King? How does your public library list book?
Alternatively, you can credit both the fuel economy increase and the cut-back in driving on higher gas prices, which can in turn be credited to rising global demand for gasoline.
And the lead singer from Tool who left to make wine... in Arizona.
Yeah, because newspapers are just dying out because they sold papers with advertisements. Nothing to do with that web thing, right?

BTW can we drop the sarcasm? Doesn't seem like there's any reason you can't sell a product subsidised for advertising.
There's not much context, but I'm struck by the fact that this appears to have been a (very modest) leading indicator before the Great Recession.
That would explain the steady decline, but doesn't explain what I think is the real question, the drastic drop starting in October 2011.
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whats also interesting is that the price of gas hasn't moved much either: http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx?time=24

i guess this is a case where lower demand has kept prices high.
Perhaps Eclipse and the open source community as a whole needs to consider asking for more than just making their code/products free.

I know of way too many people giving so much to open source projects, building 'successful' communities, but having a hard time getting enough investment into the community to guarantee the future growth of such ecosystems.
Back in 2006 someone hacked my paypal account and used my credit card that was attached to paypal to purchase a few ipods. The criminal had them sent to their home address. They also changed my paypal password so I was not able to login. I contacted paypal support and they were absolutely not willing to help even. It was terrible customer service. I have never used paypal since.
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This isn't something that relational database fixes. It is about schema and data tagging. It can all still sit in ID3v2 tags, as long as people use all tags properly.

The problem is that most tags are badly written, and most software that displays songs only displays bare minimum. Typically tags I miss seeing: Style / Moods / Genres / Composers / Performers. Even Album Artist or Compilation tags are bad. Same with some misspelled tags, or inconsistent (is it 'D&B' or 'DnB' or 'Drum-n-Base', etc).
(not a kindle owner) Can someone with a kindle explain exactly how the ads work and why they would be offensive? From what I heard they just show up when you aren't using the device.
Asking valid and relivant questions is important, it contributes to the community. However, it is acceptible to reward answers more. [Since they do take more work]. Its their site (despite most of the site's value is derived from the work of the users), so their determination on whats important is up to them. However, they applied this retroactively. That irked me, if they had a system where they applied it after x date, that would be fine.

That decision told me... hey tomorrow they can just decide that all users with name x, y, or has numbers in the name can go bankrupt on reputation.
They do employ the author of Vim.
Some artists re-record or alter their song on secondary release. Or if it is live performance.

Deduplication should be done by algorithm that detects that it is same binary copy -- not through tags.
Its that 2011 September October decrease thats particularly interesting. I'm trying to think of what happened that would have caused a 25%ish drop in sales.
And yet SF MUNI runs those double-section buses (hello, 38 Geary). I don't see the point of those, BTW. Unless they're meant to turn the tight corners.

With the dedicated lane you almost have BART.
Actually, he comes off as a person not interested in taking this test.

Which is fine.

I remember when this got posted on reddit years ago, pg chimed in and said he had also probably received the interview but didn't do it (and now wishes he did so he could see how his answers compared to others).
Its easier to make a comparision of accounts if the employer is using Stackoverflow Careers. But if you have a general reference to your rep amounts on your resume thats much more difficult to explain why you don't have a decent amount of rep, or if the employer is clever.. they may notice a difference in rep from an older copy of your resume and current.
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Pretty simple: the U.S. economy is contracting severely, even though the manipulated (and preposterous, if you think about them for more than a moment) economic statistics (GDP, U3) are not.

I'm not saying this is The Big One (I've been expecting it for a decade now) but I do expect The Big One to start a lot like this.
I think you mean the lesson is for people who thing being a world-class programmer is the primary rewarding career path for 'making money' (or being successful where 'success' is defined as 'money').
Pump prices are very sticky and depend on the cost of production per country.

With recently depressed crude prices, some countries are actually pulling back production.

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