skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So long as the recording and reproduction processes are faithful to the colors present in the original image

The faithfulnees is at the monochrome level. The recomposition, if done digitally, is impacted by the scanner, the working colour space, and the output colour space. color chemistry has unique set[1] properties (eg polaroid) while digital has far more flexibility [2]. From there is more a question of style than authenticty per-se.[3]

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[1] The colour is set once, and by the chemists. Kodachrome will not look like Velvia will not look like Polaroid, etc. You can digitally mimic these looks, however. As instagram has shown, to good effect.

[2] Non-destructive 16 bit editing, various colour spaces, etc etc.

[3] We have limited idea what colours look like on Mars, etc
Here is another article that tries putting in English.

http://www.zmescience.com/science/physics/physicists-quantum...
The security by obscurity approach usually give you only an ILLUSION of security
Woah 20k$ I mean it's like .... Like ... Ridiculous !
Some victims may be unwilling, but I'd say a higher portion of them are unwitting; most of them almost definitely have no idea what the extent of the attacks were, if they know at all. When you're dealing with advanced attackers, just knowing that something is going on isn't going to be obvious.
Really funny joke
I am sure you will like it!
Well put ... PayPal has some housecleaning to do but here is someone that appears to be listening ... listening in a big way.

I give PayPal credit for this response. Rather than being cynical, I'm happier giving credit to someone who wants to make things better.

Mr. Marcus - some of us appreciate your efforts here.
But couldn't knowledge of this fact by your potential customers make them wary of giving you much business, thus canceling out your advantage?
What about the Yahoo! transformation currently being led by their new CEO, Mrs. Mayer? My view, and most of the things I've read about the Yahoo! situation is that people are generally optimistic about the change in leadership and feel that she is not only talking the talk, but walking the walk.

I don't have the same confidence in this type of change happening inside PayPal and I'm not sure why. Maybe its because, as a financial institution, I view it as a very "corporate" entity that resists change. Whereas Yahoo! is, in my mind, has a "hacker" feel that recognizes the problems and really wants to make things better. I guess I have more faith in Marisa and the kind of company that I know Yahoo! can become, whereas I've already written off PayPal as a necessary evil that can/will be replaced as soon as possible.
No, but I've had one hint that If I did things might go faster.

Another time a buddy of mine was opening a retail space, and he bribed the lady at the dispatch office to send another building inspector out a day early.

I doubt there are very many building inspectors who would take a bribe to cover something clearly dangerous because there's too much chance they'd get caught, but there are so many little ridiculous regulations that I'm sure there are many willing to overlook small things.
> The only question left is: to trust or not to trust?

RTFE. This entire thread is basically regurgitating what was already said in the email. It already says they hope to win back trust, but with action, not words. To trust or not to trust?

Email makes that very clear: wait and see what they do.
It was the "provable security" phrase that just seemed out of place
in light of recent (but still undisclosed) events. But at least I did
differentiate between the flaws in the implementation and flaws in
the underlying crypto... or at least I tried.
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The description of the poor little critter slowly dieing as it tried to find breathable water made me really angry at the universe. Death is such a horrible thing.

Maybe I shouldn't feel empathy for a nonsentient bug, but similar things happen to thousands of humans every day...

We shall have to work faster.
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Biased television and newspaper media.

government passing draconian copyright laws.

moral national education.

functional constituencies.

corrupt heads of state. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f5055f20-628b-11e1-872e-00144... (accepting free private jet flights but only paying economy fares for them.)

the candidate with most votes from the people have the least from representatives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Chief_Executive_elect...

chinese influence on majority shareholders of radio stations; this one in particular is closing next month or so: http://www.dbc.hk, one of the major shareholders was even quoted saying "CCP wants to shut you down" (in chinese).
http://www.scmp.com/article/1014470/politics-play-dbc-radios... (scmp is one of the most pro-beijing newspapers in hk, but I couldn't find any other article in english; yes I was surprised to find this there, no the quote isn't in the article.)

more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-Beijing_camp (the most funded political party is the DAB, which is pro-beijing.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_legislative_election,...

In Hong Kong, even though pro-democracy party has more votes than pro-beijing parties, they have less seats.

Oh and just as a coincidence, today is election day in Hong Kong, tell your friends to vote!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19533116
msluyter: sorry to hear about the signup troubles but the motivation length is min 140 chars. We don't think that this is too long (one tweet?). Adding a more line or few more words should do the trick (e.g. write something about yourself or if you prefer a poem!). At least we don't use re-captcha - each time I sign up for a site using that I need at least 4 or 5 attempts ! Thanks to this HN submission we are received a lot of applications so you can make it too! (if you want of course).
I agree, it is tough. I have 8000 pts, have been on there for years, but most of my questions get seriously shat upon. It's pretty frustrating.

I can see why though, there are so many damn dumb questions, the moderators have to be sick of them by now.

It's a lot easier in the newer sites like DBA.
Eclipse is the primary and recommended dev environment for Android, and it's quite a sluggish beast. This is no gift horse. It's a spoonful of charity where several metric tonnes are called for.
Thank you - it has been approved && is now live at
http://saltcod.1.ai - you should have received the full info via email
Not sure which 28 years you are referring to, but the handover was in 1997 and the 15 year anniversary has just been celebrated in July.

35 more years to go before Hong Kong becomes another Chinese province (or not if China decides that this 2-system thing works well for their interests), but I'm also worried about the direction taken by China and its obvious hand in trying to shape Hong Kong politics to its liking.

I'm still hopeful in that in Hong Kong, pragmatism usually prevail and even if schools were force-fed such propaganda it's dubious that it would have much of a real impact, given that information is still free in HK and people know better.

I will be very worried when censorship or monitoring laws start to pass through the legislature.

True democracy will never be achieved in Hong Kong, there will always be intense supervision by China.

It's fairly obvious that many aspects of the freedoms we currently enjoy in Hong Kong will be under siege over the next 35 years.
You guys do know we've been paying members of the foundation for going on 6 years or so? This was an additional outlay for some hardware.
Ugh, tech news is slowly turning into mainstream press. They try to find a controversial angle on everything.
Yes...once they figure it out, you still need to change your spam filtering/fraud detection methods. But if they have the algorithms, then they can figure out how to bypass it offline, on their own hardware, and you'll never now that it is happening until it is too late.
"Occupied territories" aren't a country though. Otherwise the domain should be related to Egypt or Jordan (whose territories are supposedly "occupied").
Security has nothing to do with fraud. And in combating fraud, obscurity works. SSL is security, but it's meaningless if the site you just sent your CC data to is fraudulent.

Then, you need to understand how open PayPal is to fraud. I can easily commit major crimes using PayPal, and security has nothing to do with it.

This is the challenge they face. If you think it's an easy problem to solve, ask yourself: why is there no one else out there doing this same thing? Why are all the other supposed opponents limited in such drastic ways that PayPal is not?

I'm not suggesting they are perfect, but your trite remark is meaningless and ignorant of the realities of the system.
I approved your account so you should be ready to go. Good observation about the "mission-critical" part. As you can see after the login this is clearly specified pretty much everywhere. We are indeed keeping a close eye on abuse and, as specified in the EULA, we have zero tolerance on this as it is essential to keep it functional and fast. Thanks again for giving it a try :)
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Penny is a beautiful, one year old, terrier mix. But she's at the SPCA, and slated to be put down on Wednesday. Score 1,000,000 playing solipskier and help save Penny.
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no we do not - it is SFTP only at this stage. The idea is pretty much "drop and run" your apps being Ruby, PHP or Perl.
The price of a car wash should take into account the aggregate probability for any car to get damaged. The idea that one would price discriminate via the exact make and model is absurd and when I stopped reading...
Is it incorrect to say that, with quantum teleportation - while faster than light travel of _matter_ is impossible, faster than light travel of _information_ is possible provided that you have previously shipped the endpoints of the link?
It's always easier on the newer sites - and it's one reason I barely participate on SO anymore myself
"People like you are why I actively avoid comment threads on Hacker News."

That's just a gratuitous ad-hominem.

If you are terrified by the thought of putting your work out there for others to judge, I suggest that you work on that problem.
The Chicago Tribune has a good series about how Big Tobacco and chemical companies have pushed for more flame retardants in everything despite health concerns:

http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/flames/index.html
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Looking for suggestions on how I can track efficiency of my employees in a 15-member team? I used timesheets till team size of 7-8 but it became difficult and time consuming to manage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation

First paragraph.
In the previous post David replied to the comment (on HN) i made about wanting to change paypal's generic template to increase sales through a/b testing.I had a rant about paypal's api suckness and i also ranted about how draconian the fund freezes of diaspora and wikileaks were.

He said that he understands and told me to send him an email and we will take care of it.
No email was sent yet as i'm afraid i'll be targeted in the future. I can't put my legitimate digital business at that risk - there are tonnage upon tonnage of forum threads over the web of people's business going under because of pp freezes only because they contacted paypal it's heart breaking and too much of a red flag to me.

The only thing i can say about David is that he looks and sounds like a genuine guy who replied and started a discussion with the community and that as we all know goes a long way. So maybe his intentions are good but will paypal have zappos's culture regarding merchants all of a sudden? i doubt it and you all doubt it too because what matters is implementation ie real life.
Although I often feel stackoverflow is less useful than it used to be, without a doubt many of my google searches are answered immediately with a stackoverflow post at the top of the results, removing the need for me to ask a question in the first place. It's easy to discount how important SO still is to my developer learning workflow.

I'm finding I'm starting to go back to mailing list for niche programming topics (e.g., a specific framework or library) because nothing beats getting an answer from a top contributor or owner. Most people don't sit on StackOverflow all day waiting for questions, but they will respond to e-mails that pop up on their mailing list.
Ask HN: Track your employee efficiency and track task time
Looking for suggestions on how I can track efficiency of my employees in a 15-member team? I used timesheets till team size of 7-8 but it became difficult and time consuming to manage.
good point - probably not but judging from the number of people that applied anyway and yet pasted a lot of random text in the "about you box" (or copy and paste galore of lore ipsum) probably make it a little harder to them to submit bogus applications makes sense :)
You are forgetting one thing that was previously stated in the comments: this isn't Paypal responding through their normal support channels.

This is a fire-fighting attempt from the CEO of a company that snubbed the people they should live off of, prompted by a bigger than average shitstorm created by their persistent crappy handling of accounts.

Think of it this way: suppose Mercedes went around, burning the cars it sells to their customers - much to their chagrin - and one of the customers creates a big enough fuss for the CEO to come and personally give him a new car. Is that an acceptable handling of the situation in your eyes?
at this point we don't configure domains for the users other than the subdomain but you could forward it using a free service - but if you really need it drop us a line after you try it out and are happy about it.
Welcome! I've been here for a few months just on the other side of Market street. It's a great place!
They have their work cut out for them indeed, but it's of there own making. They should have been looking at systemic issues when the Minecraft founder couldn't get access to his account for months, when their customer service advised someone to destroy a perfectly good violin due to "fraud", apparently mass payment doesn't exist even when it does [1],
numerous reviews in magazines such as PC World [2] and Kernel Magazine [3], and an entire website devoted to how bad they are was established from pissed off customers [4].

PayPal are in big trouble. It's going to take more than platitudes to get them out of it!

1. http://christianowens.com/post/15771850658/my-recent-experie...

2. http://www.pcworld.com/article/101525/consumer_alert_paypals...

3. http://www.kernelmag.com/comment/column/2978/paypal-still-su...

4. http://www.paypalsucks.com/
In this case, I'd suspect that lighting the fire should be the first step to burning most of the customer relations department. I'll trust Paypal when I feel the smell of burning corpses from their offices.
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/doc/html/intrusive/list...

How do templates make this type-safe?

By using composition instead of inheritance, it avoids the downcasting.

If you want to, you can even have objects that are elements in several different lists using tag types to let the compiler keep the lists from getting cross-linked. Or you may prefer to use the node pointers for different things at your discretion.

Self-removal on destruction can be useful too. All without any more run-time overhead than the two pointers you need in C.
Hack: use horse hair, down, and feathers for furniture stuffing.

More comfy. Longer lasting.

Won't spontaneously cumbust! =D

Environmentally friendly, too

That's so 1930's.

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[Used today for this very reason!]
A Square Peg in a Round Hole
thank you for the kind words ! Oh well if it was a paid hosting it would be yet another hosting service and would have probably not even made it to hackernews. There is a lot of "money can't buy" fun and pleasure to see what smart developers build + helping people starting out and learning something new.
Isn't it ironic that so many things are free online (e.g. having a blog, storing files etc.) yet hosting is not ?
Fostering is a great word for the attitude we should strive for.
Tolstoy's and Dostoyevsky's legacy lies heavy on our minds as well as perpetual hangover and bone ache from dancing with bears. ;)
I love IntelliJ, but I keep coming back to Eclipse because of all the plugins available for it. I would love to see IntelliJ somehow build the 3rd-party community of plugin developers.
Note that the $20K was for hardware, not people.

Google also has a few devs pushing code into Eclipse, so it's not like Google's been ignoring them all this time. http://dash.eclipse.org/dash/commits/web-app/commit-count-lo...
This is a double standard common in the tech press. Compare (from the same article):

wireless charging, a feature that Nokia isn’t the first to offer, but one that could now be ready for prime time

"Innovative" isn't an objective property of a company, it's a facet of the narrative journalists choose to weave around the current trends.
Yeah, this gift is for a specific purpose (to supply machines for a test lab). I'm sure 20 or so machines is plenty.
Kind of tangentially, down is one of the few products where the "humane" way to harvest involves killing the animal; the "pluck living geese over and over again" method is apparently quite painful for them.
You know, I could never get into using vim. All the hotkeys and commands seem really counter-intuitive. Maybe because it wasn't my first, but i find Nano and Jed far more useable day to day for quick editing than VIM. And I love how there is so much work trying to get VIM to be a IDE. I have found that Intellij is an IDE that can pretty much handle any language, Has bindings for almost anything and works well. If not, I just use a different IDE.

In all honesty< I havent found a language I that I use that I can't work on in VIsual Studio or Intellij.

I just could never use VIM or Emacs. Seemed like I was trying too hard to make it do something that it wasn't intended to do.

Then again, i do see the other side of VIM that could be awesome if I could ever learn to use it, and its powerful scripting and plugins. Maybe if we could take Nano and add the power of VIM without the horribly counter-intuitive usage of VIM.
Careful with this article. They get it wrong, suggesting the possibility of "instantaneous internet connections". No FTL information transfer allowed, kids.
But quantum teleporting does require a link between the two points. From the Wikipedia article:

The prerequisites for quantum teleportation are a qubit
that is to be teleported, a conventional communication
channel capable of transmitting two classical bits (...)

There is no teleporting in the classical meaning of the word, just communication between two locations to make a remote qubit match the (unknown) state of the local one. That state is 'teleported'.
$20K seems reasonable, since it's directed at acquiring hardware for testing Eclipse's performance. You can buy a lot of simple workstations for $20k, especially given that they don't need SSDs or GPUs.
For those complaining that Google should have donated more, that's just ridiculous. Google already does donate more; they support the Eclipse Foundation financially.

There are performance issues being reported in the latest Eclipse, and it emerged that automated performance tests that used to be run are not currently being run because there aren't machines available. Google steps up - within 48 hours - with more than enough cash to solve the problem.

The problem needed a small amount of resources now, rather than a huge donation in three months time. A bigger donation might not even have solved this problem - obviously there was some resource allocation failure in the first place.

As an Eclipse user, let me say: thank you, Google.
They can't escape these laws on Australia as they are a financial depository institution regulated by APRA. Should they try to deny an Australuan their money like this, they will be in a world of pain.
Crime - HTTPS Session Hijacking
There is no teleporting in the classical meaning of the word

So isn't it dishonest to call it teleportation? Even if all the scientists working in this area are calling it that?
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Is this for real? On the other hand, pretty fun game
It's still pretty expensive. But even if it were cheap: reducing the price of something is not "brilliant innovation", unless it involves some amazing under-the-hood new technology - which this does not.
eBay is even worse than PayPal! If he can fix PayPal, he might want to try his hand at the owning company...
For those who haven't read the essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/heroes.html
It was totally a lobbying effort to get the legislation passed. First by the tobacco industry because of fires started by smokers falling asleep with lit cigarettes, then by the chemical industry (by courting state fire marshals) to boost sales of their flame retardants. The Chicago Tribune has a multi-part series on it here: http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/flames/index.html
Yes. Does that make it untrue?
Probably one of the best article i have read in recent times. I cannot agree enough. I have been struggling with this problem for last 3 years. It is not really easy. Trying meditation is a good idea or going to mountains.

I think this problem applies to only certain personality types like ENFP. In my opinion, Not all may be able to relate to the article.
No? How on earth is it dishonest to use the technical term for the thing? It doesn't seem any more dishonest than calling the constituent parts of matter "atoms" even though they can actually be split.
"Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me."
would mod_wsgi + django be enough or is something else needed ?
Thanks, the key sentence here is

> However, it does not _immediately_ transmit classical information.

As I understand it, once you distribute an EPR pair, you can transmit one qubit of quantum information which thereby destroys the pair. Provided you can encode your classical information into quantum information, the amortized rate of classical information communication cannot be faster than light because you need to first distribute the EPR pairs (which you cannot do at FTL), but the _instantaneous_ rate of classical information communication could be faster than light.

The biggest assumption here is that you can encode/decode classical information to/from quantum information at a rate (if at all) faster than it would take for matter to travel over the potentially infinite distance between the EPR pair. Some googling reveals that this is possible via means such as time-bin encoding. (Edit: time-bin is only for photons, which I don't know if you can entangle, but it still appears that you might be able to encode classical information in electron spin)

What am I missing?

Edit - alecco's other answer in this thread make it much more clear what is going on. Thanks again.
Do you have a demo version of it running anywhere?
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