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I keep hearing about faster than light communication with quantum entanglement. It seems to be a very persistent misconception. The same "communication" as with quantum entanglement can be done in the classical universe. You can easily create two entangled envelopes. People's minds are blown just because we put the word "quantum" in there.

Take two indistinguishable envelopes. Put a green card in one and a red card in the other. Shuffle the envelopes so that you do not know which card is in which envelope. Have a friend take one of the envelopes many kilometers away. Your envelopes are now entangled.

If you now open your envelope, and it contains the red card, you instantly know your friend's envelope contains the green card. Did information travel faster than light? No, it did not, since in order to communicate by this method you still need to tell your friend what it means to have the green card.

You still need to send slower than light information that Red is 1 and Green is 0 which you can only do once you've measured your own envelope, after which you've destroyed the entanglement of your envelopes.

Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon where you can tell something about the other part of the entangled pair by measuring one part. Just like with the entangled envelopes, you cannot communicate anything by this since you don't know in advance what you're going to measure.
This is due to the different libraries possibly being compiled against different versions of the C++ standard library or C runtime, and is thereby somewhat relevant to and "caused by" this specific feature (where different libraries can do this in the first place).

The same thing could happen if two people, for example, linked against different major versions of an XML parser: they would be unable to share state, as data returned from one library would have been generated with one XML library and then would be modified by another, even though the types matches for the purposes of the C compiler.

In practice, different major versions should simply be considered different libraries, and many argue it is an encapsulation mistake to allow your public interface to be bound up with details of the libraries you use; however, this kind of use case is much more likely to either work correctly or fail horribly on Linux, as opposed to ending up in some kind of weird uncanny valley of stability.

People then reference C++ with regards to this, because C++ happens to have a library that acts on tons of core data types, and yet by default (you can build setups where this doesn't happen, but it requires coordination over the DLLs you are mingling) compiles trivial parts of the algorithms inlined into your logic (so there isn't even a function boundary at all, much less code that could be shared easily).

The result is that if C++ touches your public interface,
you are almost certainly, at bare minimum, wanting to share something "simple" like a string or a vector, or alternatively wanted to use exceptions somewhere. You now, however, run into the XML library issue.

Some people believe this is simply bad API design (as C++ should be treated as a library to encapsulate), while others believe it is a language deficiency. I argue that to the extent it is the latter you probably do control the DLLs that are acting as a set, and external APIs should operate under the former regime (as yes: you also have to worry about name mangling there, although compilers have gotten very good at that: we now tend to see them as part of the system ABI).
I would take this with a grain of salt. He doesn't say what exposed passwords he used as his sources, but I'd bet the linkedin passwords were part of it.

But a lot of people will knowingly use an unsecure password for a site like linkedin, because they don't really care if its hacked. Using a secure password for bank accounts, email, etc. is critical, but I don't think it's realistic to ask people to have unique, secure passwords for their account on forums.49ersfans.com. That just isn't going to happen. It's interesting, but I'm skeptical his sources are even remotely a good proxy for bank account PIN numbers.
You can pull that off on either Windows or OS X, it just takes a little more work. On Mac OS X there is even a supported simplerish feature for it called "interpose".
NSFW http://i.imgur.com/RV7na.png

I was just observing, didn't know I was stumbling on a live canvas when I clicked the link :)
No, quantum entanglement does not allow Information to travel faster than light. Classic channel is needed to know what if any unitary transformations are needed. Otherwise requiring roll of massively many sided dice. Check out No Communication Theorem.
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I find Windows update to be the most reliable update of any software. Since 2005 I can't even imagine how many updates I have run on thousands of computers that never once "broke" because of an update. MS worked out how to test updates years ago and now , unless you have malware, its probably not going to break anything.

Also keep in mind that if Chrome was released in 1998 with its current update model it would of failed with people screaming to governments that Google was spying on them.
I can't provide a coherent explanation of Relativity in one little HN box, but what I can say is that Special Relativity is pretty easy to learn and understand if you're willing to put in a bit of effort and deal with some high-school level algebra.

General Relativity is much much more difficult, but once you understand Special Relativity, a lay-person's understanding of GR gets the job done for most purposes.

Re quantum entanglement, no it doesn't imply that data travels faster than light. The versions of QM where the probability waves collapse might, but in the Many Worlds interpretation, which is probably the most popular interpretation now among physicists and philosophers of science, the probability waves never collapse, and so there is nothing to transmit.

In the Copenhagen interpretation, one might argue that the probability wave collapsing transmits information all along that wave instantaneously, but if so, this happens under the covers of the universe. There's no way for anyone to use this feature of QM to transmit usable information from one place to another at faster than the speed of light.
Just curious - how are you planning to address the problem of ssh key lookup at scale ? Github hacked its own PAM module to read from MySQL, if I'm not wrong.
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That's not strictly true. It is partially a matter of editorial style, and many standards have exceptions where apostrophes are used to form plurals.

For example almost everyone agrees that single letters are pluralized with an apostrophe. It is somewhat less common to prescribe an apostrophe in the case of a number either. When this is not allowed, an exception is sometimes made for pluralizing the number zero so that it is not mistaken for the letter O.

It is fairly common to pluralize period-less abbreviations with apostrophes. The New York Times, for example, follows that standard. It is more common still for abbreviations with periods to take an apostrophe.

So basically, no. You don't get to just say "this is the rule for apostrophes in all cases" because that's not how the written word works. We (or the publication we are writing for) can choose our own editorial style, and screw anyone who doesn't like it (although you should be consistent, of course).

But interestingly enough, this is one situation where there can be a universally correct answer: a trademark. If Yahoo! puts out guidelines for how they would like their trademark pluralized, and they say it should be "Yahoo!s", then that is what everyone should use. If they say it should be "Yahoo!'s", then that's what everyone should use, even if it violates their usual rules.
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You did not "jailbreak" your phone. You merely ran the company provided developer tools to unlock the boot loader. You did not need to crack any security and you can be confident that the unlock tools will work just fine on next version of the OS. You can re-lock the boot loader so I would imagine that it would be hard for anyone to figure out that you've tampered with it.

It is also possible to run any standard app without unlocking the boot loader. You only need to unlock or root your phone for non-standard apps or modified versions of the operating system.

This is not at all the same thing as iOS jailbreaking and the level of control iOS exerts. It might be nice to support a stock way of using root, but the fact that I can run any program developed according to the standard OS apis is enough for me to consider it a proper computing device.

My definition would have at minimum:

(1) Be able to run any app designed for the system.
(2) Be able to buy or receive apps from any source.
It would probably be a huge security risk just to visit the demo page if people weren't constantly pasting over each other with "MY PENIS" in HTML/CSS/JS

edit2- No proof of any security risks, not like I tried any
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What would then stop the squatters running their own pro-squatter DNS system in parallel?
> Well then he's not really saying anything then, is he?

What? He's clearly saying something. Hardware-only is dead.
Sorry. I agree with your desire for respect; I'm just not seeing the falseness.

I read him as advocating patience and setting aside one's immediate personal desires to satisfy the needs of the person you're talking with. That is not perfectly forthright, but I don't think holding off saying the most difficult thing for a few minutes of warm-up is in any way false.

I think the alternative, which is to ask your urgent thing and then come around to asking how they are, can also work for some people. In particular, I can make that work with people who don't like small talk and with whom I have a solid relationship.

With most people, though, I definitely follow an escalation-of-intensity pattern, which lets me establish some rapport before getting to the heavy stuff. Key to me is being relatively chill about my own agenda. If I am too agitated about it, then asking how they're doing would indeed be false. Then I agree it's best to come out and say the big thing.
It seems the simulation is running on an open source engine [1], and "The source code will be made available on the Blue Brain website" [2]. Does anyone know whether the exact code and models, as run, is available? It'd be interesting to take a peek at it.

[1] http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/

[2] http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/files/content/sites/bluebrain/files...
Warning: graphic/gore images (not to mention irritating JavaScript alerts, etc) on the demo page. I would highly recommend avoiding it.
Not sure what you tried, but they haven't fixed the problem. I just tried 100 different random 6-digit passwords using a python script over a one minute interval, then logged in to my account just fine using the web interface.

I'd post my code, but that would let any idiot figure out how to replicate this attack. Try including a user agent, and not using the same cookies every time.
If you're buying someone a smart-phone so it can look pretty and symbolize your love, then yes, exactly.
If only that pesky piracy problem could be addressed, developers might actually make money on Android.
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And still represents excess, decadence, and gluttony.
Optional parentheses wouldn't be so irritating if the rules for omitting them were universal. Currently, when calling functions with arguments you can omit the syntax, but when calling functions without arguments you must use parentheses. Could the 'dispatch vs variable reference' question be decided with some sort of suffix that preserves the value of whitespace? Something like 'f!' 'g! arg1, arg2'?
How about sending them this article?
I've been with someone when they signed up for a virgin mobile account (instore), and the rep specifically asked for a new password - and did not prompt with using the birthdate for example. That was in august last year. That said, I distinctly remember the process being somehow a bit wrong - e.g. having to handwrite the 6 digit PIN on some signup form. Once you've got the initial PIN, you can however change it on the website.
Her informal management style and potential empowerment of the new 'Yahoo!s' is impressive. I can't think of a setup where a new hire would go around the campus taking off all the Rs without her encouragement.
You could do the economist thing and try to phrase it in terms of opportunity cost. That is, by insisting on a diamond, she's giving up a moissanite stone that's 5 times the size; by insisting on an uncultured diamond she's giving up a diamond that's twice the size (and more pure to boot).
Badge numbers? Are you talking about the badge numbers of the authors of the original article? If so, I'm sure they are quite aware that their proposed drive violates causality. Some scientists are willing to bite that bullet. It's some people on HN who don't seem to understand the chose-two-out-of-three principle when it comes to Relativity, FTL, and causality, and want to willfully ignore it.
I was actually testing if they had the iframes coming from a cross domain, which were so our ability to explode the thing is much smaller.

Poor are those who have no way to block alerts tho.
...and this is why the Dow is a ridiculous barometer for the stock market. With only 30 stocks - none of which are part of the original index, and very few of which are actually "industrials" - it's severely dependent upon which stocks are included. If you want to draw conclusions about the market, you're better off looking at the Wilshire 5000 or at least the S&P 500.
If you've somehow made A and B closer together, then you've made a wormhole, not a warp drive. Wormholes also come with "closed time-like loops", which allow for time travel.
It's a fake.
http://ria.ru/science/20120917/752346830.html
Google translate: http://tinyurl.com/9kqjr3t

TLDR: There are so called "technical diamonds", they are not good enough for jewelry, bat can be used for making tools, such as drills, etc.
Virgin Mobile outsources everything to IBM. It'll be months before the paperwork and red tape get done to allow them a fix.
A hint on how to achieve that would be greatly appreciated.

I tried starting Acme as follows, but no joy:

9 acme -F '/Library/Fonts/Comic Sans MS.ttf'

ADDED. After googling site:swtch.com, I tried the following two invocations, but still no joy:

9 acme −F /mnt/font/Monaco/13a/font

9 acme −F /usr/local/plan9/mnt/font/Monaco/13a/font

-- which is not so surprising as neither /mnt nor /usr/local/plan9/mnt exist.

ADDED. Actually, cannot get the -F flag to Acme to do anything. E.g., $PLAN9/font/luc/latin1CW.18.font exists, but Acme started with "acme -F $PLAN9/font/luc/latin1CW.18.font" uses the same font as Acme started with "acme".
I think it should be "Yahoos!"

She said "Yahoo!" They all gave some "Yahoos!"

Just so long as they don't vacillate as Panic(!) at the disco has.
Really? Flickr didn't believe in native apps? Or they didn't have enough iOS devs?

EDIT: Changed Yahoo to Flickr.
I can agree wholeheartedly. At this point, if software is freeware, I don't see as reason as to why it shouldn't be open source in this day and age. While there are probably numerous reasons, it's certainly created a mindset of suspicion, regardless of how valid that suspicion is.
Wow that's awesome! Thank you I will definitely look into ranking for course words!
In those terms, it is the same as it ever was, just with different tech.
You can't tell that incoming UDP is spoofed. The only filtering you can reliably do is outgoing.
2580 seemed like a fairly obvious PIN choice to me, but I'm completely baffled on the significance of 1004 in position #6. It is neither easy to type, has no good geometric representation, and doesn't seem like a year/date/zipcode or any common number. Any ideas?

(I'd also venture that one of the reasons 2468 is so much more popular than 1357 is because of the nice symmetry that 2468 has)
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Where can I buy ALL of these for Referly?
Find someone who can think logically. Not easy, of course...
Native apps were owned by the mobile group, not the individual teams. And they didn't get have the people to do it. I'm sure Marissa will rectify it.
So why not to name a few big app developers and their apps?
I wonder how much of this discrepancy is driven by the motive of the person writing such software. I remember how amazingly crappy the Roxio CD burning software was, mostly it was tool to sell labelling supplies and CDR blanks. Pretty much all the open source I've used was written by someone who really wanted to write it rather than achieve some alternative objective by making it available.
Special Relativity applies ANY TIME that you transmit information from one point A in an inertial frame to another point B in an inertial frame.

If you can use your warp drive to transmit information from A to B, then Special Relativity applies.

If you cannot use your warp drive to transmit information from A to B (e.g., from Earth to Mars), then what good is it?

(I've mentioned several times in this thread that you might be able to come up with some sort of FTL drive that doesn't violate causality if you put enough constraints on it to make it useless.)
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If/when the media coverage ramps up, this will be done quickly, believe me. Not to would be corporate suicide.
A belief in a higher power can easily be a rational decision.
1) Make jokes about diamonds being bad long before there's thought of engagement rings. Get your friends, hopefully her friends, and ideally her to do the same.

2) Make it clear that your objection is not to financial. If you do go with a gem that proves to be less expensive, donate the balance to a cause she believes in. If you do have financial objections, express them separately, in financial terms; don't conflate the issues.

3) Point out that it is not a long-standing tradition, but rather a recently manufactured one.

4) Don't skimp on other traditions.
I think this is a problem with mail clients in general, particularly on large networks. Mail.app and Evolution don't fare much better, in fact I would say Evolution is significantly worse.
As a Microsoft employee, OP has access to the private symbol server. Open up windbg and for a lot of MSFT products you can file a bug and send a dump straight to the team... all with a single command and without leaving the debugger.

Other than that, I really enjoyed the author's writing style, it was a good rant
What's the weight of the 104 batteries and the gain/loss after removing the gas engine and replacing with electric?
It's so confusing to have a ceo mention a company related matter on it's personal space on a rival service.
Long time reader and first time poster. As a Chicagoan and a huge fan of S.F., this pissed me off because of the pure lack of journalistic integrity (and logic for that matter) when putting this article together. The Chicago startup scene pales in comparison to San Francisco, everyone knows that. There is no need to go through some ridiculous and poorly executed comparison to prove it. My comment to his post on the Atlantic (edited for grammar):

That is hardly representative of both Chicago and San Francisco's startup scene. I am not sure which is more shocking to me, the fact that you are posting this on the Atlantic (an extremely well respected publication) or the fact that an editor approved this.

A. The San Francisco map doesn't even include Menlo Park, Mountain View, etc. The San Francisco startup scene is even larger than you depict.
B. You don't list the San Francisco startups as you with the Chicago map.
C. You just Googled the locations of a few well known Chicago startups and just plopped them on the map. Simply taking a few minutes to search you might have found 1871, a startup incubator located in Chicago's Merchandise Mart that is the home to several HUNDRED startups. http://www.1871.com/about/
D. The scale on the maps are not comparable.
E. This is simply unintelligent and a perfect example of the poor journalism we see today.

In Short: Thank you for wasting five minutes of my life with your last minute-deadline submission that contributes zero value to society.
And many want their smartphone to be just a smartphone.
OTOH being iOS developer I have a plenty of room to hack.
My SO has agreed to being given a kitten as an engagement gift. I think it works great as a replacement. Not cheap (food, needles, etc), not short-term, and cute. She'll probably enjoy it more than the 30 aggregate minutes of showing off a ring, too.
some editable shell interaction in http://xiki.org/ & http://ipython.org/
You are getting valuable life advice from an internet venture capitalist? I will say a prayer for you.
What?

I know I shouldn't reply to a troll, but I'm curious about this one.
I wouldn't! A lot of people do though, it's the downside of a mostly cashless economy, but with the rise of internet banking and near-instant transfers online it should go away.
I doubt an improbability engine would be good for much more than party tricks. An infinite improbability drive would be much more useful, but such a thing would be virtual impossibility...
Scrolling down is too difficult?
I wrote the aforementioned article.

Being an intern implies a temporary/part-time position or a student position, however the dictionary term is: "A student or a recent graduate undergoing supervised practical training."

I think that's absolutely what our new engineers from dev bootcamp consider themselves. I've heard that the teachers tell the students that when they graduate from DBC they are "World-class beginners". So in a way, I actually agree with what you just wrote. Not only that, but the attitude of treating yourself like a beginner is so healthy in bay area tech companies.

Another thing to keep in mind is the education is very competitive, more competitive than Harvard. These aren't just anyone, they're the top few percentage of people ready to drop 10 weeks, most move into a new city, and totally change their life in order to devote it to technology.

Luckily we have many projects with work to be done all over the stack. Obviously we're not sticking them into the hairiest of problems right off the bat. We'll start them off easy and let them progress. With their drive and their attitude, I'm confident it'll be impossible to tell who came from dbc and who came from a college in just a few months, if not weeks.
Artificial diamonds are solid, physical proof of the achievement of mankind. We've taken the most regular, durable objects that nature can produce and we've duplicated and bettered them. Every time you look at an artificial diamond, that's science, right there, concentrated and almost literally crystallized.