skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contrary to the claims of the extremetech article, they have not closed all loopholes in this experiment. Specifically, the detection loophole has not been closed. This loophole is caused by not being able to detect a high enough portion of the photons your source emits. A paranoid person might argue that the ones you do detect are not a representative sample. For example, some devious third party could be choosing which photons you detect in such a way that your results are skewed. Yes... This is a paranoid suggestion, but closing loopholes is all about satisfying the paranoid.

In this paper they invoke the assumption of "fair sampling". i.e. They assume what they do detect is representative. Ergo, they have not closed the detection loophole in this experiment. Fair sampling is a perfectly reasonable assumption to make and is very commonly used, so this should not be interpreted as invalidating their results. It just leaves room for improvement in the future, since single photon detectors with sufficient efficiency to close the detection loophole do now exist (They are very bleeding edge).

Note that the paper is correct and does not make the claim that "all loopholes" have been closed. The extremetech article got it wrong.
To be fair, I don't think they realized that it was on her blog. Both her blog entry, and the linked article were aggregated from her Twitter.
Conceivable, but a real stretch. It would imply that they considered adding a single player mode, knowing that there would be demand for it, but decided it would be too difficult given their other design decisions to make it worth adding. Or as Diablo 3 players like to joke, "the technology just isn't there yet" to do something that previous games already did successfully.
This is why I pointed out that the question was phrased in multiple different ways, because I realized I was writing on a message board for nerds and that someone was going to try to litigate the meaning of the words "imminent" and "threat". If you watch the testimony, it was more specific than that.
Bill Gates: education needs much more than just 1 percent of R&D spending
Thanks for the clarification; it's pretty awful of them to have them have this copy protection mechanism and fail to allocate enough server resources for people to be able to play the game they legitimately purchased.

It sounds as if some random MBAs said that they really need that server-side undefeatable copy protection, then balked at the price of actually purchasing enough resources for it and decided to skimp on that.
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Thank you. I had the github page open for 2 days, but hadn't cloned the repo, then found out it was DMCA'd! I've been hunting around looking for someone who had mirrored it.
I think I would be more inclined to condemn the drone program that almost always comes with collateral damage. The fact that we can't positively identify those who we are attacking should be reason enough to be critical.
Your C point implies purchase.

It's safe to assume EA uses purchases as their success metric, as they are unlikely to complain you actually paid for the game.
SSL cert installed.
You really want to measure life expectancy for people entering working age to avoid measuring infant mortality. Those numbers sound like they don't take that into account.
Not sure how it changed after the release, but I remember there being alpha or pre-alpha WoW servers.
Torrents have gotten pretty amazingly simple and are now mainstream . My 65 year old mother figured out how to torrent a TV show (that wasn't available in Canada - she tried to buy it first, but they wouldn't sell it to her) in about 30 minutes, including the time required to download and install µTorrent. I would guess that 90%+ of the computer using population is now comfortable torrenting files.

Agreed with you on the hassle of running a pirated game, and, honestly - I'm unwilling to run some random .app/.exe on my system. Hell, I'm not even comfortable opening .pdfs anymore.
Ignoring the patent issues for a second...

The reason why people tend to be fans of H.264 is that it has a wide range of hardware that can encode/decode and that hardware has been available for years. This saves greatly on power for embedded devices/phones/etc.

While implementations of VP8 in hardware do exist, I'm not aware of it shipping in any sort of volume. Are there any modern Android phones that can do VP8 in hardware?
It's not even "perceptually 3D" though. It's a 3D rendering projected in 2D.
The familiar trigonometric functions can be geometrically derived from a circle.
Flagged because there isn't a disclaimer. For anyone reading, if you have many tabs open don't try it. It'll (as suggested by the name) crash your browser.
EDIT: haha, thanks so much, guys! Stupid mistake. Go is _significantly_ faster if written properly.

I'd love to know what I screwed up. The results surprised me:

https://gist.github.com/pkulak/99d2d5a5968b5fc03754

https://gist.github.com/pkulak/909d882614e0781e4525

bender:Desktop phil$ time go run primes.go
Found them! 78702

real 0m21.349s
user 0m21.304s
sys 0m0.033s
bender:Desktop phil$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-darwin11.4.0]
bender:Desktop phil$ time ruby primes.rb
Found them! 78702

real 0m7.656s
user 0m7.651s
sys 0m0.005s
bender:Desktop phil$ time go build primes.go

real 0m0.269s
user 0m0.231s
sys 0m0.033s
I think the bigger the company the more likely it is to happen. You may have separate teams in separate locations with differing agendas. One building the game, another managing infrastructure, not necessarily on the same page or with the same goals. Software team will say they want the best user experience. The IT team might be hearing they need to get costs under control, so they are going to try and be efficient and not over capacity. The software guys may have had a passion for single player, but marketing needs them to add features they are not passionate about. They spend less time on and the features end up less robust.
I believe BF3 used internet connectivity only for DRM which means it's easy to carve out. SimCity actually computes the game mechanics on their cloud servers.
I agree but why take particular issue with this bit of marketing speak?
Wouldn't you say that almost all self-deployed marketing adjectives are disposable?
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Lincoln and Grant suspended habeus corpus for this reason. Leaving aside the preliminaries, once the shooting started the government had an armed insurrection within their borders.

Article 1, section 9: "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it."

Following from that, imagine telling an army that it is under arrest. :)
That and I'm not spending 60$ for Google Docs access.
Pinterest is built on Django too.
Yeah, it's not even the screw-the-consumer DRM part: I expected that a competent product manager would have said "Hey, our competitors built a city-sim game that was supposed to incorporate a significant online gameplay element, and it didn't go so well for them. What can we learn from this and how can we avoid it?"

So either they didn't ask the question, or they didn't answer it well, or they didn't bother avoiding the problems after they learned it, or they managed to flub it anyway. I'd be curious to know which dysfunction they suffered from.
There is no security through obscurity only illusions of it.
Finally. I was wondering if FB will even get rid of its cluttered design. It took them so long... I like mobile first approach and clean user interface.

Looking on these screen shots http://newsroom.fb.com/ImageLibrary/detail.aspx?MediaDetails... still can't get why some huge images overboard the main column (looks like they have negative left and right margins) on iPad and mobile while other pictures/videos have margins? It was already the case on iPhone, but on iPad in the two columns view it looks worst.
Sorry. It's just a lot of websites have gone that route and it's really annoying. I didn't want Amazon to cave in to the seeming demand from users and wanted to present another view.

Judging from the up-votes it seems this resonates with a lot of people.
Duke students use Coursera in 'flipped classroom'
Now if only Google would actually remove H.264 support from Chrome.
What's the problem that this is solving? Paying friends with credit cards isn't the way to go. Cash, if you don't have this week (it happens) I'll /you'll wait for a week or x weeks.

People hang with people with similar values so it's extremely rare for friends to screw friends and when that happens, it happens once.
In contrast to direct database access, the HTTP implementation of the abstraction layer performed significantly worse. This will have also been part of the abstraction library having to parse/run the logic as well (nginx + PHP).

From memory, after trying the entire abstraction layer, I boiled it down to as small a file as possible for testing purposes (ie. a single PHP file that took the call and stored it into the DB, no configuration, removing as many "variables" as possible).

EDIT: Direct database access over the network.
My math and physics is pretty weak, but it seems to me that this assertion is wrong:

> Classically chaotic systems generate information over time.

Really? Simply being chaotic does not preclude a system from being deterministic. Every future state of the system is "present" given the initial conditions, even if it isn't predictable.

The situation is analogous to that of the digits of irrational numbers. I can't tell you a priori what the 2^1000th digit of pi is, but if I calculated for a million years I could find it out. It's not being "generated", it's just as much a part of pi as 3.14 is, just a little harder to access.

There may be true non-determinism in nature, but it isn't necessary for a system to be considered chaotic.
This is meaningless because of the weasel words "not engaged in combat." The president can determine that anyone is "engaged in combat."
We didn't suspend habeas during World War 2, and we did kill US citizens in Europe.
This is all an assumption but:

With the amount of stuff that gets simulated on their servers, the sim city servers are probably more resource intensive than even really popular FPS servers.

That means they're also more expensive per person than most other game servers.

What happens when it's no longer profitable for EA to keep them running? I doubt they'll release the source code.
'Too Big to Jail' Admission Changes Debate
Hiring sales teams can be delayed in most cases by simply integrating with every platform that that can generate top-of-funnel traffic for you. There is an upfront engineering cost, but in the long-term it will seriously drive down your CPCA rates.

Obvious, but necessary tidbit for rookies: Integrate with platforms, not in order of most traffic, but BEST (highly-qualified) traffic.

Minor critique of the article. Would have loved to have seen more examples. Thanks!
You can invite non-G+ users to G+ events, I am not sure how smooth that experience for them though.
And Groups and Pages!
Why? I see this over and over again in this thread, but I don't believe it anymore because it is not just a one-off case of the developers being ignored, they're willingly doing bad practices like this over and over and over again.

Best case: They do it reluctantly, but don't care enough about their work to stop it.
Worst case: They do it willingly and think it is a great idea.
You are building a product that has finished designs for a news feed and you are not launching for another nine months?

Forget Zuckerberg one day might sue you - try launching now and find out if you have built something people want.

Why wait nine months?
This is from the Memo to congress from the Justice Department:

"The condition that an operational leader present an ‘imminent’ threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future"
No, this is simply false. The Administration has been unequivocal that the use of force limitations they work under apply to all lethal force, not just drones.
Is this peptide a key to happiness?
>People are upset about the lack of a single player offline mode, which absolutely is about preventing unlicensed copies. There is no technical reason for its absence.

I see this sentiment expressed pretty often, but in this case it seems flawed. From what I understand, you can't build a city that does everything, instead you rely on the other cities in your 'region.'

The new Simcity is no more single player than World of Warcraft. The previous games were single player, as they focused on a monolithic city. This game is designed from the ground up with the assumption that you will play with other people. There's no technical restrictions preventing Blizzard from offering single-person servers for WoW, it just doesn't follow from the game design. The same is true here.
If you're actually running a business, then redundancy is the way to go, not spending more on real hardware. With a VPS, you're able to achieve redundancy fairly easily, provided you have multiple datacenters available (Linode does). Without some sort of failover, a dead server means downtime whether you're dedicated or VPS.

Also, Linode's SLA may be 99.9%, but I've experienced with two businesses, using Linode over the course of four years, about 45 minutes total of downtime (on any given server, not our entire infrastructure). I'd much sooner take years of past experience showing incredibly good uptime over a piece of paper meant to limit liability.

I believe Linode is an excellent choice for small-medium sized online companies.
> but you never once looked at the field of technology and thought "People who look at me don't do this". That is, you never felt deterred because of the people who dominated the field.

That's a rather huge assumption on your part.

> That's nice, but I don't see how your personal motivations are relevant on an industry-wide scale.

I don't think my personal motivations are relevant on an industry-wide scale, that was my point to begin with.

Like I said, the OP is hardly a bad thing, by all means, try. I hope it helps somebody. In my opinion it is treating the symptoms and not the disease.
So you're implying that the strength of the Ring is a function of only distance?

I would say the article more then discusses the fact that it's a function of distance AND time.
No, they cannot. Holder testified under oath at the Senate about this; specific examples were given.
But the title leads people to click. Why let about the little details like truth and math interfere with that?
The result is that we are increasingly switching to renting our music via services like Rdio and Spotify.

And I can't say that this trend is all bad. I know what I pay for (temporary access), and I'm OK with that.
Article 1, Section 9. Habeus Corpus (right to a trial) can be suspended during a rebellion.
But you're writing on an internet message board, for nerds or otherwise, so appeals to the primary sources are generally going to be ignored in favor of a rush to judgement and mischaracterization of the actual issues.
Great functionality, but the 4% fee is way too high, considering we are talking about giving money to a friend.
You think this because drones are new and alien. But airstrikes are not new. Airstrikes in World War 2 killed more innocent people than any drone will ever kill. Tokyo was made of paper and we firebombed it.

Drone combat is surgical compared with practically every other way in which we've fought wars. Drone operators are in no personal danger and don't need to act while under the cortisol and epinephrine loads of bullets whizzing by their heads. Drone operators are well-rested (in-theater combat troops are never well-rested). They're more mature than combat infantry. Drone resources are comparatively inexpensive and so missions don't have to be crafted that sacrifice risk of civilian casualties to minimize risks of military casualties.
What package is md5deep from? I've never seen it, but had several use-cases for it.
Good bye clutter... hello new room for more ads
Yes, the issue of drones is extraneous. A drone is no different than a gun, the former just has a longer range. It's just fluff around the question of whether the government can kill unarmed and non-threatening citizens.
I see, women are going to share their traumatic experience in tech.

BTW, this discussion is just silly because there are millions of meet Ups in tech filled with only men, but in the other hand meet ups of rape survivors not accepting men would be just evil, men are a minority in that group, it would be like a tech company not accepting any women.
There is no shortage of IT workers, there's however shortage of "IT talent" Most IT workers I have met are mediocre at best. Companies want rock stars. That's the problem. Worse of all, they are use to paying average salary for average programmers and don't reward rock stars appropriately.
Do you guys hire fresh graduates?
Techniques for Warming Up a MongoDB Secondary
A few nitpicks:

> it is simply a hole in the plot of an otherwise excellent book that the issue is never brought up. This is not to say that LoTR is in any way a bad book

In a small way, it does say that.

> When Sam carries Frodo on his back, he is surprised that Frodo is unexpectedly light: "...he had expected to share in the dreadful dragging weight of the accursed Ring. But it was not so." (III, 268). At least with regard to weight, the Ring affects the Ringbearer much more than the one carrying the Ringbearer. It is not unreasonable to speculate that this is true not only of mere weight, but also of the degree to which the Ring affects the will.

Isn't Sam basically immune to the ring anyway? He's not necessarily a good canary for this test.

> If the eagles had carried Frodo in, he would not have had time to build up the strength of will to destroy the ring.

Frodo didn't have the strength of will to destroy the ring. A steelman objection would be "...the council would have expected that Frodo would not have time to build up...", but the council could use roughly the same reasoning as this article to dismiss it.
$83,490 but the price rises dramatically if they filled all of the expansion slots.

http://www.ctistore.com/catalog/cat/prod,574258.html?gclid=C...

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Cisco-Nexus-7000-Series-32-...
With most of the spinner gifs I use, the gif will just be in the element that I put the dynamic content into. Then when I load the content into the element, the gif is replaced and disappears.
The entire globe is not on the Department of State's travel advisory list. Different countries are on it for different reasons, but it shouldn't take an international relations expert to figure out that traveling to certain parts of the Middle East or Africa puts you at risk, not only due to native conflict but also due to U.S.-launched drone strikes, if you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, or associating with the wrong people.

Is there any place the U.S. is conducting drone strikes that's not on the list?

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html
Firebase used in 1/3rd of hacks at Launch hackathon
The fee is the killer, especially when you're in competition with PayPal's ability to pay friends for no fee when funded through a bank account.
I deleted some mails on my phone the other day because there was a new flat icon and I was curious what it did. Turns out it deleted the currently selected emails.
I have similar suspicions but have no real data to back them up. I'd love to see your timeline and any hard data.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned building matchist so far (http://matchist.com/talent) is that there is a delicate balance between when my opinion is king and when data is king.

In my opinion, GroupMe isn't solving a problem with this feature (for many of the reasons others have commented on here). But I'm assuming GroupMe has a good amount of data proving that this problem exists. I sure hope they do, because in this case, data should absolutely trump their opinion of whether or not this is a problem to be solved.
It's actually pretty slick. I like the small picture icons on the left of each content pane as the content scrolling by.
"Thus Eric Holder's position would be that a weaponized drone strike against him would be authorized."

Considering police likely intentionally burned Dorner alive [1], a drone strike doesn't seem like that big of a stretch.

[1] http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/13/the-execution-of-chri...
VP8 and MPEG LA
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> "Takeover by EA is usually considered a death knell for game studios..."

Further to this point: Maxis, makers of Sim City, were notable for a long time as being the glaring exception when it came to EA's habit of buying and squeezing studios to death.

But the writing was on the wall when THE SIMS hit so big and was.. "exploited"[1] so heavily.

And when Will left... well, it's just flat-out inconceivable that anyone remained naive about what EA was going to get up to.

[1] http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/05
Scientists don't dislike his work because it goes against their theories. They dislike his work because there is no experimental support for it. If anyone could prove this stuff there would be nobel prizes galore for them. They can't prove it because he has the wrong type of theories and no possibility of proof.

Here's a video of Richard Feynman explaining what it takes for something to be real science, and why the letters from amateurs he keeps getting are incorrect. Sheldrake is no different from the people who wrote to Feynman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw

There is also the issue of how much of their career a scientist needs to spend examining the theories of cranks. They have, after all, got their own jobs to do.

Perhaps it could be a tithe, in which scientists are ordered to spend one half day a week debunking perpetual motion machines before they are allowed to practice actual science?

Or perhaps the onus ought to be on Sheldrake to prove his theories rigorously first?
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One-time cost vs. ongoing cost for years to come? It's not as simple as you make it out to be.
No, it actually doesn't sound like some random MBAs.Are you one of those guys that blame MBAs for everything?The truth is we don't know what actually happened there.We'll have to wait for EA's reply on this one.It will be hard for them to recover after a huge mistake/strategy like this.
Get off my hacker news comments! :)
Battlefield 3 is a bad comparison because it's intrinsically a multiplayer franchise. No one complains that they need an internet connection to play World of Warcraft, because it's expected.

Additionally, BF3 had an offline single-player mode. SimCity could have an offline single-player mode, but elected not to.
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> we did kill US citizens in Europe

We did? Was it on purpose [1]? Can you provide some references?

[1] I'd certainly believe that it's almost impossible to have a nonzero amount of friendly fire casualties in any military operation of this size.