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So what they actually measured is something that appears to go faster than light in the reference frame of measurement. This does not mean they measured the actual speed of the interaction. Instead, the point of this experiment is to lose a loophole in Bell test experiments: simply put, Bell experiments had previously proven that this seemingly-"non local" (bear with me) state exists and preserves dntanglement over long distances. The loophole was that it previously wasn't possible to time the ecperiment well enough to make sure that the whole thing didn't occur in some unexpected, subluminal way. Now we know it couldn't have occurred by some sort of classical interaction between the entangled qubits.

So how fast is the interaction, really? Well, it turns out that if something moves even 0.0001% faster than light, we can always find a reference frame in which it moves a million times faster than light, or infinitely fast, or even in which it appears to move at some huge negative velocity: back in time. See "tachyonic antitelephone". In other words, once something is faster than light, it is, essentially, instantaneous. This is in accordance with standard predictions of quantum mechanics.

Source: I'm a physics grad student.
Downsides: doesn't have full HD, and you can't upgrade the RAM from 4GB to 8GB without paying for many other additions that you don't need.
I enjoy playing indie games as well as the corporate blockbusters. I'm glad there's a market for both. However, Is it just me, or can anyone else not wait for Battlefield 4!
(Everpix founder here) It most certainly should unless some of the photos are not compatible with Everpix (see https://support.everpix.com/entries/20972951-What-kind-of-ph...), older than 1 year if on the Free plan, or if Facebook API doesn't return us all of them (yes, we have seen issues with the API).

Feel free to reach out to support_at_everpix.com if you think something is amiss.
I did quite a bit of research for a new ultrabook. I am a software consultant and needed a hardware update. One of the surprising things I found was that most of the ultrabooks do not have dedicated home and end keys which I regularly use for coding. I finally came across the Lenovo Yoga book, it was almost high-def, had all of the keyboard keys including home and end, however as soon as I got the laptop out of the box, the keyboard had different "flex" in different areas of the keyboard. When typing "0" in the upper right the whole keyboard actually moved. This was disappointing as 3 other Yogas I tried had the exact same problem.

I returned the Yoga and found the Acer S7 (It does not have home and end keys, but it has dedicated page up and page down) which I plan to remap to home and end. (The base Acer ultrabook does not have these).

I have been quite impressed with the S7, the screen is incredible, keyboard is nice. Battery life is not excellent, but that is not a show stopper since the longest of my in-person meetings are less than a few hours.

Good luck! Finding just the right "ultrathin" ultrabook for development can be a little tricky right now.

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It's like you and a friend have a deck of cards.

You each take a card from the deck, and then travel a million miles away.

Then, at the crack of noon (synchronized to GST, of course), you both look at your cards.

Your card is the 3 of Clubs.

You travel back to meet your friend, and discover that his card (which he measured at noon, just like you) was the 7 of Diamonds.

You repeat this experiment a gazillion times and are amazed!! No matter how many times you run it, you and your friend never get the same card!!!

It's as if the cards are sending spooky signals to each other.

And after you double check that you and your friend are both looking only at 1200 GST, you realize that this spooky signal travels faster than the speed of light (since the it takes no time to "travel" a million miles).

It's like magic, eh?

Not really. The fact there is one of each card means it's impossible for you and your friend to have the same card. No magical spooky signals are being sent.

(I think the quantum mechanical case is analogous to this contrived example. The difference in real quantum mechanics it that you really don't know what card you have until you look at it. However, that doesn't mean that your card is sending a faster-than-light spooky signal to tell the other card what to be. And you certainly can't use it for signalling or anything useful.)

((Reposted to main thread with some slight edits, in case people find this comment useful or interesting.))
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He illegally accessed a network to download material that wasn't his. If this was all a big misunderstanding, why did he set it up the clandestine operation in a server closet? His intent was to distribute the material. The CFAA was the way they went after him. It's pretty simple.

The OP made it seem like he broke some ToS accidentally and then was somehow going to face jail time. This is certainly not the case. He deliberately accessed a network he had been banned from with clear criminal intent.
I think Facebook Home is just a step towards a real mobile OS.
Watch out for arxiv.org, these papers may or may not have passed peer review. A lot of junk is deposited there.
I think it might have to do with the founder, jack dorsey, staying on as CEO, though he was eventually ousted out of that role
My guess would be that iPhones get used a lot more frequently.
What you're suggesting sounds like a hidden variable theory, which have been thoroughly disproven (Bell's Theorem).

Quantum mechanics cannot work through merely pre-arranging actions.
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Hi I am a UK university student and out of the 6 units I Have to do 1 is Java Programming. I am very poor at this and struggle to understand even the basic objects.

But if code is given to me written by a university lecturer I can easily understand it and can tell what it does.

I need help with understanding where to start when I have to create my own programs

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Maybe I haven't been following things close enough, why is there no significant presence for Android 3.x?
That's how it always was with Perl community, and I like that mature and calm attitude. "What's all that hype about? Ah, someone just reinvented yet another wheel [1]. Oh, kids these days, so loud, aren't they."

The Perl community is not so vocal, that's it and that's just pragmatic. Why yelling about nice tech you done? It works, it solves your problem, it's uploaded to CPAN, it's not a silver bullet, and that's OK.

Look at some Perl project like Cheater [2] - that's best tool for generation of test DB data available. Simple and extendable. And there's no hype about it. While I cannot even imagine an amount of hype if it were produced by Ruby guys (especially a couple of years ago) or NodeJS crowd.

[1] The bleeding edge in BigData'2013 - pipelening! So wonderful! Oh, wait a minute.. Is that Schwartzian transform we use from 1994?

[2] https://github.com/agentzh/cheater
It's not my fault that the USA in general doesn't care about their external image. I'm just pointing out what the rest of the world thinks about the USA.
That commentary of his betrays a sizable misunderstanding of what a role model is.
Maybe some employees got fired, but I saw kids having their fingers scanned :/
(Everpix founder here) Not exactly the same, but you can manually organize your photos "at the source" (e.g. folders, iPhoto events...) and Everpix mirrors the organization in the Sources view [1]. This is actually quite powerful as you can keep using the same organization tools you are already used to, while still reaping the benefits of Everpix.

[1] https://support.everpix.com/entries/22001287-Understanding-E...
China - and South Korea actually (and other countries in SE Asia) - are primarily on pirated versions of Windows. If computer adoption is up, it's up on the versions that are readily accessible to people.

It's been a while (so someone could tell me if South Korea is transitioning to Windows 7), but another thing you have to consider is you're not dealing with a "genuine" copy of Windows, so that creates some massive headaches for developers of typical computer games as well. It's par for the course for a developer in the US to pay someone like Nexon to handle porting to the Asian market not only to cover culturization and localization issues, but also to point out what won't run on non-genuine versions of Windows (and to help port the regionalized and original copies to no longer need those dependencies). This is a big deal, especially when you're sometimes at the mercy of PC bangs which, yes, largely run pirated copies (> 80% last time I remembered).
See my comment on reddit here for why it's not quite that simple:

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/19w1ag/why_is_qu...

(Yes, the probabilities are fudged)
Whatever you do, DO NOT get an ultrabook with a discrete graphics card to run Linux. As someone else said, it's a pain in the ass, and it actually ruined my Dell XPS 15 that managed to live just long enough to get out of warranty.

I had been running bumblebee for months, and yes, you can install it and make it work and get almost as much battery life out of linux as you get on windows. That said, bumblebee is error prone, sometimes doesn't survive kernel upgrades, etc. Several times I installed basic Ubuntu updates only to find bumblebee was disabled and my battery life gone to hell.

Sounds like an easy fix (just turn bumblebee back on), but in my experience, laptops aren't made to absorb the heat from a discrete graphics card all the time. I'm 90% sure that's why my Dell XPS 15 bit the dust after just a year, due to a shoddy implementation in powering the Nvidia card up on demand.

In my case, I just bought a new system to replace my Dell XPS15, and opted for a 13" Macbook Pro running OSX. If I wasn't running OSX, I'd probably go with an ASUS, again without the discrete card. Get a nice display, with an ultrabook, I think that's extremely important.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304112803/http://www.onlamp....

diff that against this one:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/01/25/lamp.html

I love the obvious later edit:

"Of course, there are plenty of excellent open source variants for any of the pieces of LAMP. Let the L stand for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Darwin/Mac OS X, all of which are open source operating systems and all but the latter have open source GUI layers. Let the M stand for MySQL and PostGreSQL. Let the P stand for PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby."
Really? The developers I know in London earn 500 to 650 pounds per day, which after corporate tax and say 3 weeks of vacation is still at least $140K per year.
No, entanglement cannot transmit information. It does not (necessarily) violate speed-of-light causality.

Like eoinmurray92 said, entanglement can be useful for cryptography.

It can also be useful for quantum computing, where you need to find clever algorithms where the wrong answers "cancel out."
Another possibility might be just colloring variables and assignments (since thats where the scoping actually matters)
(Everpix founder here) No we don't support receiving physical disks. However, our Mac [1] & Windows Uploaders [2] are really optimized so give it shot, you might be surprised. Please note that our servers are US based, so if outside the US, it's certainly not as fast.

[1] https://support.everpix.com/entries/22115007-Learn-More-Gett...
[2] https://support.everpix.com/entries/22243387-Learn-More-Gett...
Was really thrilled at first, this could be exactly the kind of wysiwyg-editor I've been looking for. Unfortunately it seems the markup returned by .cleanHtml() is completely useless (see http://pastebin.com/uwpSMKsi). If I could get proper markup (paragraphs, headlines, not a thousand divs) and maybe the possibility to edit the markup myself this would be the perfect editor.
I know nothing I could say is worthy of following Chuang Tzu. But in this instance, it would have been a mistake to leave the quote to stand on its own.
Agreed with you, totally off topic, but I spend most of my days doing web development. I opted for OSX over Linux because I wanted to run Photoshop (Gimp sucks), native Word/Excel (LibreOffice sucks), etc. and got tired of constantly rebooting to Windows to export an image in Photoshop.
To nitpick: Only LOCAL hidden variable theories are disproven by Bell's theorem.

However, I agree with your point that my example is not compatible with quantum mechanics.

I only meant to give the sense that nothing is travelling, even though you can semantically say something is.
This is ignorant speculation, but what if the interaction doesn't depend on distance, and instead always takes the same fixed amount of time? What if that delta t is equal to 1 plank time, one tick in the cosmic 3D simulation? Of course that's an advanced experiment to run, but the implications would be fun.
If they're not paying for windows, are they going to pay for your game? Why would you care if it runs on their systems or not? Or are game developers just wanting large numbers of freebie players to keep a network effect going, to keep some paying customers but also to keep competitors out (who'd also have to be catering to non-genuine windows users too?)
> As an aside, "Half of the population is below average intelligence" is false. Half of the population is below the median intelligence.

If intelligence is normally distributed, then the mean and median are equal.
It's like you and a friend have a deck of cards.

You each take a card from the deck, and then travel a million miles away.

Then, at the crack of noon (synchronized to GST, of course), you both look at your cards.
Your card is the 3 of Clubs.

You travel back to meet your friend, and discover that his card (which he measured at noon, just like you) was the 7 of Diamonds.

You repeat this experiment a gazillion times and are amazed!! No matter how many times you run it, you and your friend never get the same card!!!

It's as if the cards are sending spooky signals to each other!

And after you double check that you and your friend are both looking only at 1200 GST, you realize that this spooky signal travels faster than the speed of light (since the it takes no time to "travel" a million miles).

It's like magic, eh?

Not really. The fact there is one of each card means it's impossible for you and your friend to have the same card. No magical spooky signals are being sent.

(The real question is whether the quantum mechanical case is analogous to this contrived example. I think it is. The important difference in quantum mechanics it that you really don't know what card you have until you look at it. However, that doesn't mean that your card is sending a faster-than-light spooky signal to tell the other card what to be. And you certainly can't use it for signalling or anything useful.)
I love seeing my blog posts at the top. :)
I found this hidden gem and have used it in several projects. It is the simplest ORM I have ever used in Java. (I use Eclipse to generate the JPA class from database tables, and I a done).

https://github.com/mwanji/DbUtils-JPA
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I have a box. Inside the box my cat is alive and dead until I open the box. I open my box. Now my cat is either alive or dead. The cat in the box a billion miles away is instantly !alive or !dead.

But! Cat_A being alive is paired with Cat_B being dead. We know this. When we discover Cat_A being alive and thus Cat_B being dead we're not really finding out anything about Cat_B; we're just finding out something about the Cat_A / Cat_B pairing, and Cat_A is local to us.

(http://everything2.com/title/Quantum+entanglement+and+faster...)

Also, you can't change the polarity at a whim.
Let's say I don't know any server side language. Why should I learn Perl when Php is ALWAYS loaded and configured on every single server, was literally built for MySQL, while Python and Ruby and hotter (and more intuitive) with better MVC frameworks and libraries behind them, why?

I'm not being facetious, I really want to know the reason I would do that. I buy the "Perl is better than C" argument 100%, but how is it better than Php, Ruby, or Python ESPECIALLY for someone picking their first server side language?
I've tried developing on a remote dedicated server via PuTTy, VM under Windows (VMWare and VirtualBox), and a native Linux OS. The native Linux OS destroys the other two options by far. I just couldn't handle the slight delay you get in a VM when it comes to the mouse, keyboard, etc. I just really didn't care for it.
Aren't there a lot of institutional iPad users (schools, etc)?
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What you're describing is a hidden-variable theory, which has been ruled out by Bell's Theorem. Sorry.
It can be used to share a cipher (one-time-pad) because you and I would know the arrangement of bits that the other person has, and no-one else would/could know. However the measurements on the qubit's are probabilistic, so we cannot control the arrangement of bit that we have. We will only know if the are correlated/anti-correlated.
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I wholly agree. :)
Almost, but spooky action is quite a bit spookier. Suppose you and your friend both agree to MAYBE wave a flag every day at 1200 GST, then communicate no further about it. The alien would always observe that either both flags are being waved, or both are not.
But it sounds better.

>as a commercial artist you definitely wouldn't release anything new on it

ORLY? [1] Yeah, maybe Justin Timberlake or Jay Z will not release their, ahem, music on vinyl, but who cares?

[1] http://www.markknopfler.com/store/Product.aspx?id=SM001173
(Everpix founder here) Everpix was designed for scale and people' larger and larger photo collections to be entirely stored in our infrastructure.

Actually, we don't care so much about the number of GBs, but rather the number of photos. We have users with 100,000+ photos and it's all good as long as not for commercial use. Like you pointed out, in practice normal users have thousands of photos but not that many.
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I've done this many times. This is special case that happens if you test with values inside the code. The compiler that I use, Visual C++, is smart enough to know that the result can be known at compile time, so it does just that in (Release).
What you need to do is to read the arguments from a file or standard input.
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Isn't that just tamper-proofing, rather than FTL communication?

(http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12786-quantum-cryptogr...)
Heh. I have tried to buy BTC for the past two days, but nobody was interested in selling at the last lowest ask price. On the Canadian exchange, it seems as if some people are controlling the market by buying and selling to themselves.

I understand that the ask prices are going up in part because of increased demand, but the constant ratcheting up of asks smells fishy.
Stop here if you haven't taken the poll. I think it is very readable but gives itself away by favoring certain phrases which suggest a template. Phrases like "we are done", "whenever", "therefore,[setting]". All the proofs are terse in general but it tends to spell things out more carefully than humans who prefer to string ideas using conjunctions and leave obvious basics as implicit.

Because it spells things out like a careful someone just learning (uses "so" less, the mature person is also apart) it would be a good tool for exposition. By that token I can also guess the grad student as the one who seems most comfortable (and also for favoring "take" and for all style statements while using "exist" and "since" least). This is most interesting for what it says about teaching and how internalized understanding makes teaching hard: expertise is an iceberg floating in a sea of unconscious reasoning. My guesses:

========

grad student: b, c,a, b,a

bot: c, a, b,c,c
You wrote:
"The sad thing is that Peru can barely balance the tourist traffic it gets already while still preserving its natural sites and artifacts. "

Any facts/numbres to back up this claim ?

Do you mean Machu Pichu (Where this is true) or all of Peru ?

I recently visited Nazca and it was not particularly busy at all. ( Compared to last years visit to Yosemite valley it was refreshing not to wait in line to see anything)
iPhones are also used in a much more personal context, whereas corporations, hospitals, schools, and shops use iPads for more general purposes.
Remember to migrate the threads if you are using Disqus (Admin -> Tools -> Migrate Threads -> Start Crawler).
This same group research group, including the same first author, published in Nature last year.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2024

Since it's common practice to first post to the ArXiv before submitting to a journal (note, for instance, that the first version of their Nature paper was posted to the ArXiv 4 month before being published), I'm confident this paper is or soon will be submitted for peer review. It's always possible they made a mistake or are overstating their findings, but I don't think these guys are a bunch of hacks.
Why not offer an export to S3 or Drop Box or Etc... feature so to avoid this fear? I agree - not going to pay unless some back up (locally or otherwise) option is offered to mitigate this risk.
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Python doesn't do any parallel computation. Go does it very well. I honestly don't know how to do parallel computation in C or C++, but I doubt it's very easy. Slower code can run faster overall if you have multiple processors, so pure processing speed has the potential to matter less.
I may be wrong, but I think the parent's point is that nitty gritty realism/brutal/gory/violent games were niche before the advent of halo/xbox.

What would really be helpful is a sales chart for FPS games between 1990 and present, but I'm not sure where we could go to obtain such information. I suspect that there would be a burst in the popularity in FPS games from niche to mainstream status around the release of either halo, counterstrike, call of duty 4, or one of the quakes, but I'm not sure which one.
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Here's some of the discussion about the "island hop" from perl5 to perl7:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/02/perl-7.html
(Everpix founder here) We are working on it, but it's not ready for prime time yet. From our FAQ [1]:

Everpix Uploaders fully support external drives but currently do not support network drives (aka NAS). Our Mac and Windows Uploaders use some advanced file system features to track photo files and these are typically not available (or not reliable enough) on network drives.
If possible, it is recommended you connect your network drive directly to your computer as an external drive over USB or Firewire.

[1] https://support.everpix.com/entries/21783022-Frequently-Aske...
Is Ubuntu really an alternative to Windows?