skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many (most?) interpretations of quantum mechanics do not involve a "collapse" of the wavefunction. The Copenhagen interpretation, which is the oldest and better known, does, but the many-worlds interpretation (which I dislike), which is favoured by many working in cosmology and quantum gravity, does not involve a collapse of the wavefunction.
Countable does not make a difference. If you pick a random integer, each has probability zero, but you will pick one of them.
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It's obvious you have a personal axe to grind with VP8. You show up in every VP8 thread, going on and on about how VP8 is dead on arrival[0].

Why don't you tell us all why you're so personally invested in this argument?

[0] http://www.hnsearch.com/search?q=VP8+taligent
Three things

1) remove the online DRM
2) significantly expand the size of the ridiculously small city area (let users push the bounds of their system by choosing how big of a city to work on)
3) enable a save/load to go with the offline mode

Do it as fast as possible. And then suck up to users by providing some free DLC here and there.

Anyone taking bets that EA will do the opposite of these obvious steps?
For those with high bandwidth needs this would really make sense. The cheapest package has 2TB of egress bandwidth; this would cost $228 (0.12 x 1900GB) with AWS EC2.
Depends how you look at it. A minute and a half a day? Doesn't sound too bad when you say it that way. A 3-hour outage every 4 months? My cable company can barely do that.
I eat in large groups often and we only split evenly on occasion. It almost always never happens. To charge per transaction makes this even less useful (to me in particular). I personally find something like Venmo much more practical where one person fronts the bill (and gets rewards/points) while the rest Venmo what they owe on the spot. It's never a fair even split.
Yes you're right - this post has no discussion of what governments might require of a business from a legal standpoint
No, but it's hardly confidence inspiring for the brave new world of 100% micropayment coverage that EA wants to train us to enjoy.
Do you care why Dorner deliberately targeted and shot to death an innocent unarmed woman and her fiance in a car? If so, I respectfully submit that you should spend a little less time on the Internet. Dorner was a monster.

The reason I brought this up was the Counterpunch article, which really does go out of its way to try to make Dorner more sympathetic.
He isn't messing with time in the game - he built a separate iPad app that allows the user to calibrate the time manually to that of the minecraft server.
They did an AMA but weren't comfortable talking about that? Talk about foresight.
This is funny. The only thing I could suggest is that they use a subtle textured background pattern to make it even more startupy.
Should also include Rupture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupture_(social_networking) :(

Oh, and I Play Wow too: http://wow.joystiq.com/2009/01/16/i-play-wow-facebook-app-re...
I don't understand why the merchant should pay the chargeback on fraud. Online payment works best by making electronic wire transfers. This is how payment normally works in Finland: you buy something, and at checkout click the logo of your bank. You're redirected to the bank's website where you login and accept the payment. Then you're redirected back to the website.

That's quite similar to 'Verified by Visa' model, where the client has to accept the payment on Visa's website.

Recurring billing (e.g. monthly payments) could be authorized once.

If a customer's computer gets hacked and the access to the online bank gets compromised, then that situation should be dealth completely by the bank (in the same way it's being dealth even now).

Merchants and online stores shouldn't have to worry about preventing fraud, that should be centralized and dealt by banks
It is a solved problem. You can't just copy over a folder (or file) and call it a day but it doesn't take that much to get Node deployed by simply typing 1 command on 1 machine and this is the same thing you would end up doing for Go too.

If you ever dealt with deploying to more than 1 machine you would realize that doing it by hand is a pretty crazy idea. The first thing you would do is create a solution that allows pretty much hands free deployment, and those solutions exist for every modern language. Heck, it's one of the first things I did as a developer even while deploying to 1 machine.
As far as I can tell this doesn't interact with time in the game.
Poisson's (Arago's) Spot was meant as ridicule, and ultimately became one of the definitive experiments to justify the wave theory of light:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arago_spot

Amaze your friends! Shoot light through steel ball bearings with a laser pointer.
You're using integer arithmetic in Ruby and floating-point arithmetic in Go. Try replacing

math.Mod(float64(i), float64(j))

with

i%j

My results:

$ time go run primes.go
Found them! 78702

real	0m0.835s
user	0m0.787s
sys	0m0.039s

$ time ruby primes.rb
Found them! 78702

real	0m21.013s
user	0m21.005s
sys	0m0.016s
I'll throw out the radical idea that it won't be anywhere near what it is today. Probably still used casually but no longer the center of everything taking place online.

I've had a FB account since 2006, am up with the tech trends, very social online, but am feeling HEAVY Facebook fatigue. I go back and forth on just ending it for good, but my usage has gone down and will continue to drop.
A similar story:

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-Fifth-problem--...

which was previously discussed on HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752047
How do you deal with finding vulns?
A fair definition of "simplicity" is relying on the fewest (or simplest) assumptions. "God made it happen" relies on the most complicated assumption possible, that of an omnipotent god. It is never the simplest answer, except linguistically.
The Scariest Jobs Chart Ever Isn't Scary Enough
"I mean, besides the DRM."

But that's the core issue, really.
Racism and racially-motivated policies (mostly affirmative action) definitely exist in the US ... Particularly for older, and less educated populations.

But the bottom line is, even if not everyone likes you in the US, you can still live a fully actualized life even if it takes a bit of hard work. In Russia, institutional racism created a hard ceiling that most of the time could not be broken, even with hard work. If you tried to hard, you would go to jail or worse.
There Is No Path – Oliver Joseph Ash
Did Nate Thayer Plagiarize in the Article The Atlantic Wanted for Free?
For example my community for and about Internet Startups or the Hacker News one.

Internet Startups: https://plus.google.com/communities/100445483815501942968

Hacker News:
https://plus.google.com/communities/104388679763490357266
Entering the university was not the biggest problem for Jews in USSR. And what scares me is that people, like the director of admissions, who actually discriminated the Jews usually did not hate them. They discriminated because they were told to do so.
The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List 2013
All the tools one needs, to find information about startups. Anything missing?
There is a significant difference between wanting to do something locally and an internet connection being required and wanting to do something on the internet because it works better than what you have locally.
A pointer to T is not the same as Nullable<T>. There are many important differences.

The expressible values for a Nullable<T> are, in theory, the following:

A valid instance of T, or Null

The expressible values for a pointer-to-T are, in theory, the following:

A null pointer (pointer-to-0)

A pointer to a valid instance of T

A pointer to a previously valid, but now invalid because it was freed, instance of T

A pointer to an arbitrary location in memory

In systems programming (the space Go is presumably designed to be most useful for), the distinction between valid and invalid data is pretty important, so it's a little lazy to say 'just use pointers' when there are examples out there of safer, more efficient alternatives.
SimCity's problems were much like Diablo 3's character creation problems at launch.

With Diablo you had a hell of a time just getting a connection to a server - but once you were in you got to play (laggy though it may be).

With SimCity you'd bash your head against your computer connecting to a server, but even after you do that every step could possibly fail because it was doing something substantial to an internal database (presumably) that doesn't scale - creating a city, taking over a city, joining a region, etc etc.

See even once you're past the dreaded "wait 30 minutes for your turn", there's still no guarantee your game will even be functional.
Google Labs sets indeed. This was one of the most amazing labs ever and I used it all the time.

It's good to know I can use it directly inside Google Docs ; )
Actually, I think the answer is to be found in the Silmarillion. All of the events in LOTR unfold according the music of the Ainur. Events unfolded as they did, because they could not have unfolded any other way. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainulindal%C3%AB
It depends on the stage of the business. For a small business that might be running off of one or two VPS's, you're probably much better off paying a few hundred dollars a month for a machine that is up 99.99% of the time instead of 99.9% of the time than to spend significant engineering time trying to setup database replication and failover (and either relaxing consistency or adding significant latency to your site) in the hopes of getting an 99.999%.

This is especially true given that more often than not, within the first 5 times you use it, you'll experience some bug in your HA setup that leads to some complicated, slow-to-diagnose-and-fix failure.
The gem in the article is this:

Testifying earlier this week on behalf of IEEE-USA, a group representing more than 200,000 technical professionals and students, Bruce Morrison told a Congressional immigration policy subcommittee that the talent needs of U.S. companies would be better served by deregulating the process by which employers sponsor new hires for permanent residency. This would allow foreign workers to participate in the talent market on a more equitable basis.

"If an employer is willing to pay a substantial fee to sponsor a skilled foreign worker for a green card -- which means he or she can quit if they are underpaid -- that is solid evidence the employer actually needs the worker's skills," he said in prepared remarks. "But if an employer is only willing to pay a fee for a worker who cannot quit without going back to the beginning of the green card process, that indicates the employer is more interested in the indentured character of the visa, than in the worker's skills."

The last company I contracted with only had H1B Visa people working there. No doubt they would all have moved to new jobs if they could (the company was falling apart).
I will have to agree with your perspective. I feel more comfortable setting up my parents with an iOS device than with an Android device. With iOS, I can happily have them install any app they find in the app store.
Drone strikes come with a lot less collateral damage than traditional airstrikes, and less again than carpet bombing. My in-laws are from North Vietnam and I've heard some fairly horrific stories about what the latter is like. Realistically, if you're traveling around or having dinner with someone who's a military target, such as an Al Qaeda commander, then your life is also in danger.
SimplyHired, Indeed, & JobG8 all have api's you can use to backfill jobs that you might want to check out. You can drill down your search query to just include remote jobs I'm guessing.
Don't think that is true. Our gateway will report zip match or full address match.
No, I was referring to the so-called "sequester" that took place around that comment's day.
Um, no. MWI is simplest in the strict, formal, information-theoretic, Kolmogorov-complexity sense, while fitting the data to equal precision with any competitor. That's kinda the whole point of MWI.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/q3/decoherence_is_simple/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/q4/decoherence_is_falsifiable_and_te...
I remember when The Sims was first announced, where Maxis was saying "And most of the game isn't even done yet. We've got loads of new stuff we'll release for free online!" which turned into dozens of boxed expansion packs.

Yuck.
There's an ArchiveTeam project underway to back it up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5305073
I've never had to fill out 14 fields for payment. Ever. While I agree this might be too many fields, I very much doubt it's the standard practice.
So there's a weird gap. I can still pay games I bought in the 90s... but apparently EA games I bought >5 years ago I can no longer play...
A huge part of the problems with the web are people playing politics with technology.

Leave the highly common hardware accelerated that's the _only_ one all browsers support alone.

VP8 can beat it on technical grounds.
Apple didn't voluntarily stop using DRM; they convinced the labels to stop requiring it. Piracy isn't Apple's concern, but the user experience is.

This is in service of saying that DRM isn't in the user's best interest and even big companies that care about user experience don't like DRM. Apple didn't ship DRM on its OSes when they were DVD based either. Yes they probably lost some sales due to piracy, but not having to deal with serial numbers is big for users.
This type of thing is a hall of mirrors, though. What defines "combat"?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5340078 has the answer you seek, in this very thread no less.
Of course dollars matter when they come out of the mattress. But the issue was what happens in the short term if they are kept there and not spent.

The amount of resources in the world available for either consumption or investment (future consumption) don't change when a bubble is collapsing. Resources are just more likely to be used to grow sound businesses. And that creates more resources and good jobs in the future.

Consumers curtail their consumption because they are no longer fooled into thinking that their wages and asset rices will be rising fast. They stop loading up on debt. They aren't bidding up prices and the factors of production are cheaper as a result, helping expand businesses that do make sense.
>The expressible values for a pointer-to-T are, in theory, the following: A null pointer (pointer-to-0) A pointer to a valid instance of T A pointer to a previously valid, but now invalid because it was freed, instance of T A pointer to an arbitrary location in memory

In C. Go has garbage collection, and no pointer arithmetic, so that's not the case in Go.
discriminating against ethnic groups is usually also grouped into 'racism', and judaism is both a religion and an ethnic group.

"It is important to note that my family was not religious at all. My father was not brought up in a religious tradition, and neither was I. Religion in the Soviet Union was in fact all but non-existent in those days. Most Christian Orthodox churches were destroyed or closed. In the few existing churches one could typically only find a few old babushkas, like my maternal grandmother. She occasionally attended service at the only active church in my hometown, Kolomna. There were even fewer synagogues. There were none in my home town; in Moscow, whose population was close to ten million, there was only one. Going to a service in a church or a synagogue was dangerous: one could be spotted by special plain-clothed agents and get in a lot of trouble. So when someone was referred to as being Jewish, it was meant not in the sense of religion, but in the sense of ethnicity, “blood.”"
--http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-Fifth-problem--...
It was his blood relative, for one. Two, they did not necessarily know the full power of the Ring. Third, Elves don't go around killing people without cause.
BS. I was on at midnight release night. No one could play reliably. It was hit or miss for a week after that. Besides, the game itself was ruined by the AH and the RMAH, regardless of whether or not the servers were holding up.
I probably fall in the category of those that think that authors of open source projects do have a responsibility for the code they share and its maintenance.

The main reason I'm saying this is that I feel that the open source world is not an infinite dump area where everyone just throws out code of any quality (in many cases just for having something to add on the 2nd page of a résumé).

This is not to say that authors are required to implement additional features or support a piece of code forever. But trying to deliver as much as the original "promise" of the project and making it clear what's the status of the project is the responsibility of the author. Browse GitHub and tell me how many projects are marked as "defunct" or "abandoned" or "unmaintained". (maybe Github should automatically do this...)
The Functional Web: The Future of Apps and the Web
Actually Aristotle criticized using the "machina" (one of several instruments used in Greek theater) to resolve a plot difficulty:

http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.2.2.html

(search for "deus ex")

I think Aristophanes also made fun of it, but I can't find that reference now.
This is all silly and retarded in my opinion. Consumer credit authentication is in the stone age. What happened to two factor authentication?

If someone steals your social security number they can open accounts in your name. To stop it you have to call one of the credit bureaus and they will put an "alert" on your account together with a phone number. What most creditors do when they see this alert is call that phone number and make sure it's really you opening the account.

Really? Why isn't that just the default? Are you opening credit accounts so often you are majorly inconvenienced to make sure someone verifies it's you by calling the number you selected?

Similarly with credit cards. They could just text your phone to confirm that you really are about to purchase something. You could turn this off EXPLICITLY, and turn it back on when you lose your credit card.

If everyone used "Verified By Visa" or PayPal oauth-type portals for payment, this wouldn't happen. When your bank password is compromised, you can just change it. To do this, you simply ask them to send you an authentication code at a previously supplied email address -- two factor authentication. But now it's too late, because anyone who accepts your credit card can steal it, and use it a year later.

For that matter, why do we use Social Security Numbers and Credit Card Numbers for such important things? It's a relic of terrible one-factor authentication. That signature stripe was probably supposed to be used to match your signature that you sign the receipt with. Well, no one does that.

All you have to do is go on the site, purchase something using two lines, and they text you on your phone. You can turn it off explicitly. Then the law and the liabilities can change with such merchants. Of course, this will take years.
I was initially apprehensive about the server-based architecture of the game. However, after playing it for a few hours and being pleasantly surprised, I can now see why they did it. There's a concepts of multiplayer regions with cities that contact each other, and it's more than simply visiting the city.

It's a full economic simulation in which you can sell excess electricity supplies to other cities, lend them public services such as police or fire protection, build mass transit like commuter rail between cities, etc. Long story short, I was surprised to find that there are a lot of features that legitimately need a server. I initially expected the server-based system to be purely for the purposes of DRM, but anyone playing it can probably determine that it's a bit more than that.

Now if they can wrinkle out the bugs and get the servers running (which is, don't get me wrong, a huge huge huge issue right now), I'll be happy.
First, why is of paramount importance. So, yes I do care why.

I never defended his murder of those two people. I am not saying he is not a monster.

What I am saying is that too many people, and it would seem yourself included, use that as justification for the state to murder people.

Do you care why the LAPD shot up the two newspaper delivery ladies? What about the ramming and injuring of hte white surfer guy?

DO you care why the LAPD was able to justify warrantless entry to ~400 homes in their manhunt?

What we are seeing is that the LEOs and the Fed would like to leave the structure of our system at the door whenever they have a threat to their power.

Context is critically important. Having both truthful facts and full context does not threaten the reality of the situation.

Obfuscating either, however, has far too much potential for abuse.

In this case, the LAPD pulled out all the stops in going after someone who pulled out all his own stops in his effort to fight against what he perceived as an insurmountable injustice against him.

I am not defending his actions - I am pointing out what the facts of the situation were.

I am not sympathetic to Dorner, nor am I sympathetic to the LAPD.

I am sympathetic to the fact that there were multiple people murdered, this is inclusive of Dorner himself. (because allowing the LAPD/Sheriff to murder people because they are 1) embarrassed 2) angry 3) scared 4) incompetent 5) arrogant with their power, is never OK.)
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> When a text editor or spreadsheet requires an internet connection to run we call it innovation.

I would be raging if my text editor required an internet connection for me to access my local files. Al Capone rage even.
Very cool!

Not too far off topic: I worked for a good tech company for most of the years between 1973 and 1996. The only major negative thing about the company was a 'glass ceiling' for women engineers (we did have some very high profile women on our board of directors though). I found that situation embarrassing.

So, yes, special events featuring women engineers are a good thing.

BTW, my granddaughter can program fairly well using the Scratch game platform :-)
It started with FPS mania

You could go a bit further back and say it started with Atari 2600 era shovelware.
Quantum internet is "starting to become feasible"? It will be in their daily lives so much faster than that.
Sorry for the multi-day delay in responding. The electric vehicle thing is only one aspect of their innovation.

They also have a direct sales model that removes the pain of negotiating with car salespeople and dealerships. You can buy the cars online and everyone pays the same price! I bet they don't charge extra for floor mats and undercarriage rust protection.
Also, put the Ring on a lock to which Sam has the key.
And you would have been sooooooooo right. Since I wanted to use sh only and not even Bash, I don't even have some useful Bash features such as arrays, so I use temporary files for many many things. Plus invoking a git process for each meta information, plus an awefull lot of sed processes for the templating system… I have a few users with a growing number of blogposts who are complaining about the speed when regenerating their archives page and RSS feed. But now I don't feel like rewriting it in Perl. Plus I had a lot of fun coding in sh.

If you or anyone feels like writing a fugitive clone in Perl, I can assure you a few users as soon as its working!
Are we to believe that these are some sort of magic eagles to which the laws of physics do not apply?
the detection loophole has not been closed.

Not completely, but if I'm reading the paper correctly, they claim a detection rate of 91%, which is pretty high. Previous experiments had much lower detection rates. So while it may not completely close the loophole, it does make the detection loophole argument ("the photons you detected weren't a representative sample") much more "paranoid", to use your word.