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I'm pretty sure that, in theory, all the major interpretations of QM are experimentally distinguishable from each other. The feasibility of ever being able to perform some of these experiments, however, is rather questionable.

Two exceptions to this are (1) that the Many Worlds Interpretation is experimentally indistinguishable from the Bohm Interpretation, unless you want to commit suicide many times with a quantum revolver; and (2) the Copenhagen Interpretation doesn't define what a "measurement" is, so scientifically determining whether it's correct or not is impossible.

None of this implies that any of this is "like religion".
One of us is (me) for a while longer. Also we hired our first in Chicago: https://zapier.com/blog/2012/10/24/zapier-team-grows/
I've been using tinkercad for a few weeks and I absolutely love it. The editor is amazing.

I'm not really sure I see the point of the original post though, since it is just a viewer and not an editor. tinkercad's ability to import, edit, and export stl is extremely compelling.
A Donald and Howard buddy flick can now be finally realized. Well worth four billion ducks.
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Star Tours still exists at Disneyland, and was recently remodeled.
This is not just middlebrow dismissal, it's outright wrong. In the AAA world we would love to spend only 3 weeks of an engineer's time to get a 15% speedup. Seriously, that is a great deal, it's like, where do I sign up?

However, it becomes substantially less impressive when you notice that you're using 2x or 4x the amount of processor hardware (2 or 4 cores) and only getting a 15% speedup. In a by-hand implementation that would be very disappointing.

If it were fully automated that would still be pretty valuable, but it appears that this isn't. So it seems to be of questionable utility.
Why not? The web browser in question is basically just FF10 with a more OS X friendly UI stapled onto it. The site owner shouldn't have to do anything special to get it working in Camino, just don't make it the most over-the-top and animation-heavy blog you can.

Google chose to ignore that, and they're rightfully catching flak for it. This isn't some fancy homepage, it's an informational blog. Text on a white background is the reason 100% of visitors visit. Hamming it up at the expense of non-mainstream browser users is pointless.
I'm not saying QM's mechanisms are the same boxing marbles. I'm just saying that separating entangle particles isn't just more interesting than boxing marbles, IE, all the modifications that are going interfere with each can be seen as already having happened - which is why QM doesn't allow you to transmit information faster than light.
Lucasfilm is actually pretty cavalier about the extended universe. I went back to read some of those books after some of the prequels came out, and quickly learned two things. First, those books are, for the most part, terrible. Second, the EU actually established a backstory about the Death Star that was totally ignored when Lucas went to write his own backstory.
Why would banning content farms draw the eye of regulators when the content farms are gaming the search engines?

Because search engines fell asleep at the wheel and now content farms are a sizable chunk of the economy?

And they can always release some features like curated/customized search to weasel around any regulation dangers. Maybe search engines just don't care about the health of the web.
Thanks for the update withe link.

Yeah, not sure I'd agree with it not being a big deal. Especially with the type of recon you can do on this information as an attacker.

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> These meta-comments may seem harmless, but when this is the top comment, it stifles the entire discussion about the article.

And for others this is one of the main values of HN. Usually the discussions here are much better / insightful than original articles, and quite often those interesting discussions are tangential to the article itself. Let the community decide what to discuss about, in terms of topic (and the community do decide, by the means of an upvote).
Yes, but this complex is growing the whole time, as it entangles with other parts of the universe around it in both locations. That means that I become entangled with it in one location, and simultaneously become entangled with some other part of the universe that is not remotely local to me.

That's why I find the description of it as 'local' somewhat weird, but I accept that I'm probably using the term incorrectly.
Based merely on the abstract, I'd guess that I wouldn't find Thompson's paper very interesting. I'm glad there's someone worry about possible loopholes in Bell experiments (just like I'm glad there are physicists working on GRW and astronomers looking out for killer asteroids) but I don't think there's anything to find there.

As far as the philosophy goes, I'd say most people's frustration from Bohr's positivist position is actually due to the real flaw with Copenhagen, which is the ambiguity bundled up into the word "measurement". If you eliminate this ambiguity (which I think is being done incrementally through the study of decoherence), you'll find that a positivist position is actually a lot more attractive. At least, that was how my feelings evolved on the issue.
> That's why they have mostly gone

Actually that's incorrect. The majority of browsers don't utilize a rapid release system. Really, only Firefox and Chrome do.
I could (but don't) call myself an audiophile -- I love the world of sound around me.

I notice the aural qualities of every room I enter; when I'm in a small space with hard walls, I hum a bit to identify the pitch that will make the room resonate. (I'll bet some with perfect pitch could measure the space between two walls quite accurately with their eyes closed by learning the wave sizes...).

I notice when someone's speech or laugh in my house causes sympathetic vibrations on the strings of my acoustic bass guitar in the corner. Or on the metal cover of the radiator.

I've spent decades learning to produce sound, from various instruments including the built-in ones (like whistling, body percussion, various forms of vocal music including Tuuvan throat singing), to making music from objects never intended to be instruments. When I listen to others making music I pick it apart in my head.

There are lots of people with better-trained ears than I have, who make better music as well -- so moving on: how much money have I spent on audio reproduction equipment?

Probably less than $500 in my lifetime.

The music I'm listening to the most right now are performances of the Brandenburg Concertos, from YouTube, played from a Macbook Air speaker in another room, while I march up and down the stairs with a baby over my shoulder.

I like the way it echoes up the narrow stairs, and how there's one spot partway up that's more resonant than anywhere else. I can't hear subtle details -- so what? I know what that sounds like already; my brain can fill in the missing bits. And there's no possible playback that can reproduce actually performing music -- imagine tje cello vibrating against your body and filling your ears, the thrumming pushback of the bow against your hand -- and these are the things worth having in your head when you listen to someone more accomplished playing a piece.

I'll probably get a decent set of speakers someday (though I can't imagine paying more than I'd pay for an actual well-made instrument), but any playback is unavoidably a shadow of the actual performance; I can't imagine caring deeply about getting a perfectly crisp shadow (as long as I get a reasonably clear one) when I'm just using it to imagine the real thing anyway.
You're objecting to paraphrasing a quote from Shakespeare? I generally don't think people are trying to show off when they're referring to something that's in as many high school curriculums as Hamlet...

And it's a quote that provides a nice succinct way to convey a certain meaning, that I'm not sure I disagree with in this case.
Yes. I recommend _The Secret History of Star Wars_ - as a longtime EU fanatic, I was shocked how many pieces fell into place reading it.

(Incidentally, the narrative of _The Secret History_ means that this sale is particularly interesting; we can see the sale as the definitive death of Lucas's youthful dream of a paradise for indie filmmakers like he was, who were going to revolutionize the staid Hollywood establishment of bloated corporate giants like Disney, the dream which motivated him to produce sequels to the standalone movie _Star Wars_ as cash cows.)
I know that the Hero with a 1000 Faces heavily influenced the first Trilogy, but I think some of the light on Jedi story lines have a lot to offer as well since they doesn't put so much focus on hero heavy mythology and can give more attention to the flaws of men (and women) (human, droid or otherwise) as the basis of a story. These stories have the potential to explore themes like those in Bladerunner, Alien(s), etc.
> I have fond memories of reading some of the expanded universe books as a kid

Yeah, I did too. Piece of advice: don't go back and reread them. They're awful. At least the ones by Kevin J. Anderson.
> Google needs to be usable by everyone.

Since when AJAX search is more usable than JavaScript-less one? I'd say it's strictly (in the mathematical sense) other way around.
the narrative structure that people respond to is objective and possibly derived from ancient myths. disney follows this structure rather than invent it.
I have always found Git Flavored Markdown funny.
Not in a bad way, really. Just funny.
Thinking of the taste of markdown is just interesting, and something we can possibly expand on.
So we could perhaps refer to the original as 'vanilla markdown'.
Git is of course 'git flavored'.
Perhaps we need 'markdown with nuts'.
Or from the bagel side, 'everything markdown'.
Pandoc would probably be 'everything markdown'.

I know the main thread is a very serious topic and there are passionate opinions.
However, let's make sure we keep it light and civil.
Yup, and your files you got via FTP. You searched for them using Archie. There was no web; but there was Gopher, and Veronica was the search engine for Gopherspace.

Instead of Twittering, everybody was chatting on IRC. And the internet wasn't corrupted by commercials yet, as the Web is today.
This can also lead to DOS issues, as I understand it, the Apache server-status pages are very computationally intensive to produce, and it requires stopping and polling every child.

Something like

<Location /server-status>

SetHandler server-status

Order Deny,Allow

Deny from all

Allow from 10.0.0.0/24

</Location>

(where 10.0.0.0 is your local network range) will prevent external requests. This is mentioned in the linked through Apache documentation.
> My problem is that if a measurement is done on the other particle, long before any message from me could possibly have got there, then that measurement and the effects it has on its local environment and the effects they have are all also dependent on my measurement.

Imagine that your friend Joe writes the same word on two pieces of paper, puts them in envelopes and hands one envelope to you and mails the other envelope to Paris. At some point in time, you open up your envelope and read the word "popcorn". At some other point in time, Pierre open up his envelope and reads the same word.

The word that Pierre reads is not "dependent on your measurement". Nothing nonlocal occurred.
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git is a homonym.
then that measurement and the effects it has on its local environment and the effects they have are all also dependent on my measurement.

I think that's your trouble there. Those are totally independent of your measurement, the waveform splits at the measurement of the other particle the exact same way, regardless of what happened to you locally.
There are obviously legal technicalities but just in terms of humanely treating your users — don't assume they've agreed to something they haven't read.
sounds like a plug for using blekko's slashtag system. You could always create your own, and then never have to see techcrunch/other spammy blogs ever again.
Not sure it's applicable, it was in a galaxy far, far away.
My grandma puts a donut in one of two boxes, closes both, gives one to each of us. You leave for Mars and, at an agreed-upon instant, I open my box. Now I know what is in your box, and you know what's in mine. No faster-than-light, no mystery.
How about Howard the Duck? How did he do in Europe?
I didn't, yet now that you mentioned it, I'm kind of curious.
>>News Corp owns Fox News, which is stridently right-wing, but also the Fox network, which broadcasts more left-leaning shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad. In fact, Fox's prime time cartoons regularly mock Fox News.

Except for the fact that Fox News is (unfortunately) taken seriously by millions of Americans and therefore has much more power over political discourse, whereas shows like Simpsons and Family guy are satire.

>>Koch isn't a media company.

It literally doesn't matter. If you think a corporation has to have media outlets in order to affect cultural and political discourse, you are either living under a rock or just hopelessly naive.
Please post this to Hacker News.
Hence why I couldn't be happier that Google is continuing to limit the Nexus line to 3G. That's the price of keeping costs low.
I'd say the focus on quality product ended up being a creative force of its own.
I'm surprised it still "misses" on a lot of phrasings and sends the search to Google which is generally useless since Google loses the context. Especially phrasings that Siri advertises as working.

"how far is it to X" doesn't work in Google but works in Siri.
"how did (sports team) do" doesn't work in Google but works in Siri.
"what movies are playing" works but "where is Argo playing" doesn't. And this is just weird because "where is Looper playing" works.
Disney has always been a merchandizing company at heart. It understood, and understands, the value of brands better than any other entertainment company on the planet. LucasFilm is the same way; George Lucas has always been a savvy merchandizer. This is not only a good portfolio acquisition for Disney, but also a good cultural match.
I agree about the $25K part. I fail to see how they plan to achieve anything when a single vial of ultra purified drug API or even dendrimer will see you back a few thousand dollars.

I mean their intentions are great but I get the feeling they're yet to experience the crushing and pessimistic realities of scientific and especially pharmaceutical/neurobiological research. It's a depressign world for us sometimes.

Edit: In review, I would be very interested to read about how they were given permission to experiment on mice. Filling out the paperwork just to get ethical approval alone is a daunting task.
I remember when I was 8, going there and seeing a HUGE walker. One of the most exciting things to see when I was a child.
Be specific. What experiment do you have in mind that could distinguish between interpretations? Note that if the "experiment" involves dying to see what's on the other side then it doesn't exactly make it seem less like a religion.
OK, but who will make sense of encoding the array {2,3,5} by the object {"1"=2, "2"=3, "3"=5}? Shouldn't you be trying to represent arrays by arrays?

How about representing Lua tables by arrays with an object in position 0? Then { 11, ["11']=11} would map to [{"11"=11}, 11]. The extra layer of depth is annoying, but the semantics is closer to what you want and you avoid collisions between strings and array indices.
NYC - The starbucks is closed but the wifi is working
M:I Ghost Protocol was probably the most cartoonish thing that Brad Bird has done. I recently re-watched The Incredibles and... yeah, I can totally see him making a redemptive Episode VII.
Does anyone else suffer from EXTREMELY slow gmail. This happens for me across all devices, browsers, and even IMAP. 30+ seconds to load messages sometimes and lots of 17, 317 and 503 errors.

I've tried every recommendation, and of course hear nothing back from their support or in their forums. Gmail is almost unusable for me now.

Any recommendations or contacts would be appreciated. It seems the only way to get help from Google is to know someone.
Empathy represses analytic thought and vice versa
Though in this case Google has Apple beat on style as well. The Siri presentation looks extremely lacking next to Voice Search.
It's especially problematic since Facebook's newsfeed algorithm seems to promote posts by exactly those who interact with me a lot on Facebook, which is correlated with living on Facebook a lot, which is (as you said) correlated with how much real life they have to talk about! Missing out on my acquaintances' big life events is one reason I've been experimenting with http://WikiSapien.com/
Like I said in my response to the parent, a corporation does not need to have media outlets in order to have an influence on political discourse. This is especially true for mega-corps with CEOs whose net worth are in the billions.
Or Grim-Fandango HD for iOS. A man can dream, right?
So are you saying that your comments shouldn't be taken seriously?
And on phones with soft buttons from anywhere just by swiping upwards from the soft buttons.
Wow, flannel George..really? I hope he's wearing flip-flops, too ;)
I was being sarcastic because I (and everybody reading this comment, other than you apparently) could probably real off at least fifty use cases given an hour, so I found it hilarious that you were claiming that I couldn't even name one.

I am not going to name one. You may now repeat your claim that the reason is because I can't think of one, for continued comedy affect.
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That brings up a good point. Die-hard Star Wars fans have been begging Lucasfilm to release the "unspecial" editions of the original trilogy for many years. IIRC Lucasfilm claims the original negatives were permanently altered when the special editions were made...but certainly no editor could be so careless? It's possible the original negatives still exist and Disney will eventually release them.

Further watching: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1325014/
I remember thinking the Thrawn trilogy was great. A few months ago I found the trilogy at a library sale and picked then up for a couple bucks for nostalgia's sake. They are awful too. And you are right, the ones by Anderson were worse.
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Well, sure, but the problem is the more scientific you get the smaller your readership is. It might not matter so much to you as the author, but your book can't become an object of discussion if it isn't widely read.
Nobody. Nobody said that.
>>I'm not sure why you think this is a compelling argument. In the unlikely event that CL's TOS was found unenforceable, CL would simply adjust them to comply with the courts.

Such changes would not be enforceable retroactively, meaning they could not be used in the current lawsuit. CL would essentially need to file a brand new lawsuit, which is both costly and time-consuming.
Zapier seconds both of ZenBox's requests! :-)
It would be interesting to see the result of experiment where one electron in entangled pair collides with a positron.

I suspect that this might give some interesting results.
I didn't put words in his mouth, he wrote that they were lying to managers and possibly being deceptive. You also misquoted me, which is ironic given your criticism.

Your postulation is unwarranted, by the way, since my posts have been going up and down based upon their depth in the thread. The top comments have been upvoted more than the lower ones, and the lower ones have actually been muted somewhat. I would actually suggest that people are reading the thread and voting appropriately, and probably aren't making it deepest into the thread.

Your sweeping characterization of mindless Hacker News voters acting by whim is disconcerting, to say the least. That we're so fixated on the voting here when karma is absolutely worthless is equally annoying. I am, however, intrigued by the shift from very light gray back to legible that has taken place on his comments since the beginning of this meta discussion (starting with ww520's remark); there might be something to what you're saying, which is that people are acting based upon what others are saying -- that's troubling.
It depends on how much wire coat hangers cost.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/coat-hanger-wire-is-just-...
On the homepage, there is an example of an incrementing counter. Is this actually an atomic operation, or if two users hit the button at the same time, will it potentially only increase the count by 1?
Potentially, as long as you don't run out of Lemon Pledge, you're ok on supplies. I think homeowners (or renters) insurance would cover you on liability (I would be unhappy if she broke my washing machine, more unhappy if she broken/stole/etc. my laptop, but really worried if she got hurt and I might be liable, and incredibly worried if she accidentally hurt someone else in the building while I was employing her... but I think a homeowner's policy would cover all of that).
I think you underestimate the effect of repeated subtle messaging thrown into an otherwise innocuous storyline. If it wasn't effective, Coca Cola wouldn't have paid to have their product barely visible in the background of a scene in War of the Worlds, for example.
Installee as well. Good luck and awesome idea with great timing.
Strongly disagree. Strict urpf is pretty much impossible to implement. The only plausible place to implement it is directly at the edge where a sinlge AS owns both sides of the link. Think DSLAM or other consumer agg device. Any connection to a multihomed peer, or peer with a different AS, cant have strict urpf enabled.

Once you get away from the network edge the only possible urpf is loose mode. But thats a restricted implementation as plenty of stubs out there use default routes. Then asymmetric routes are so common as to rule the use of feasible urpf completely.

So in summary, it has to be the edge networks who enforce this. And the prime intermediate offenders actually have a monetary incentive to not prevent this traffic.
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Wasn't Ljubljana already equipped with a city wide wifi network? Thought I read about it some years ago.
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I'm not looking for fifty use cases. One would suffice to move the conversation forward. Maybe somebody besides you --- "anybody reading this comment" being able to generate "at least" fifty of them --- will provide one.

It is not a subjective statement that Internet commerce doesn't rely at all on DNSSEC today. It's a fact.