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Quantum boffins send data ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
WHY THE HELL DIDNT I FIND THIS THREAD SOONER? THESE PEOPLE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I WANT
Deterministic quantum teleportation between distant atomic objects
Thank you! Seeing people buy it this early is a great motivation for me, and is the reason I can quit my summer internship this summer to work on Skycraft instead :)
Will we ever be able to use clear, concise language for these sorts of things?
Scenes From Zynga After The Fall
This seems reasonable—thanks. Can you quote where the article actually claims those two things? I'm curious, and I don't disbelieve you, but I really don't want to have to go back and comb through the whole thing again :)
Sometimes, as a minority, it's important to affirm your presence.
By default you have to whitelist sites, and most of the fixed bars require Javascript - so yeah.
What? Even assuming that Google is trying to become Facebook and that everyone is "trying to get acquired", why do those situations preclude trying to create something that you believe has actual value (vs the complete, blatant ripoffs and spammy crap that Zynga pushes). You're free to disagree that Zynga's games _are_ spammy ripoffs, but you didn't seem to take issue with that part of the parent comment's post, and saying that the rest of the Valley is engaged in the same behavior is downright silly.
Apart from the military service bit, the two comments above could apply to almost anyone that isn't deep into the Silicon Valley echo chamber. People who are not "stuck in the school > big MNC job > build connections > (possibly) venture out and do business" are outliers, not the other way around. Asians in general probably exhibit that mentality more often because Asian countries are relatively poor or were so at most a generation ago. When you are poor, it's tougher to take big risks as you don't have a family/friends/house/bank account to fall back on if you fail.
World generation is definitely one of the most time-consuming bits, and Skycraft is nowhere near where I want it to be at this point. It'll get much better, and I'll keep experimenting with new ways to store the blocks instead of as pure voxels. But I think the chunks will be there in some form or another, as it's a very natural way to not have to send ALL the vertices of the world to the GPU each time you build a new block :)
Porn comes to Google Glass (Aurora Snow)
Could you publish a citation referencing these problems?
Ah OK, now I get it. It's what you would want from a VM (isolation & reuse) without all the data duplication of the VM image files, and the memory requirements associated with provisioning and running many VMs.

The copy-on-write aspect is very neat.
Minecraft uses a lot of native libraries via JNI[1]. Specificly the openGL rendering has been pushed out to native code due to both Java speed issues, and support for opengl features beyond OGL 1.1. As essentially all skycraft entails is a rendering of a pregenerated map with some minor UI and deformability, the parts of Minecraft this compares to are infact largely native.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Native_Interface
That is not how fiduciary duty works. The company's duties require it to make good-faith decisions regarding spending, which can include a good-faith decision that it is not worth their time or energy to chase nickels and dimes.
Zynga Shares Plummet 12% After It Lays Off 520 Employees
You found the "Gravity crystal"... which currently does very little except glow, but that will change! ;) Thanks for the kind words! I tested several different illumination techniques, including having shadows depend more on the direction of the sun, but the "Minecraft-radiance" lighting just looked the best in this kind of world, in my opinion :)
Well, I just set up a few circles when I joined (maybe 7ish), and now whenever I add someone, I quickly tick one or two of the boxes. It's not really high-maintenance.
I've been following this for awhile, and am very impressed with how the book is coming together, both from a process and a content standpoint.
Ponencias de viviendas saludables,
This is a problem with studying wars in general: many people need a good-vs-evil narrative, when it's more shades of grey.
Title of this article sounds a lot worst than what the article presents (thankfully). This is off topic, but as refreshing as this article is, I wonder how many readers avoided reading this due to the title as it could've been a very depressing article.
> Apart from the military service bit, the two comments above could apply to almost anyone that isn't deep into the Silicon Valley echo chamber.

Not true at all. Most American and European cities are hotbeds of creativity and subversion.

> Asians in general probably exhibit that mentality more often but that's because Asian countries are relatively poor or were poor only a generation ago.

For east Asia, I think it has more to do with Confucian influence. Even when China was the richest/most developed country in the world, their schooling system was still based on rote memorization and repetition.
But does it decrease infant mortality? According to the CIA Facebook 2013 figures, Finland has the 12th lowest infant mortality. Not sure if this means the scheme works, or if simply paying a pregnant woman $50 each time she visits a doctor prior to birth would be a cheaper alternative (with the same outcome).

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

The WHO recommends countries record all babies born alive as live births, but some countries don't if the baby dies soon after (this makes them look better).
That is a pretty big assumption that any of those "benefits" will be offered.

The other effect is whether you can handle the downturn in company morale. It is like smiling while the ship is sinking. It is not a good feeling.
I agree. That does actually sound like quite an appealing internet, to be honest.
The most outrageous conspiracy theory that ultimately proved to be correct
Twitter and Traditional Media: Rivals or Lovers?
CNN Turk is no longer independent, should no longer be called CNN
Is this something scarier than simply a video decode IP block that's TrustZone aware, or is Torrentfreak hyperventilating?
Stand outside ASDA in Feltham or Hounslow and observe.
securedservers.com
I had visited the Zynga office a few years back, and was super impressed. Free food/drinks everywhere, and the office looked really nice. They even had Zynga branded water. I had not played any Zynga games until then, but came back thinking these guys must be on to something.

That evening I went back and signed up for Mafia wars. After a few minutes of repeatedly clicking buttons to watch an 'experience meter' rise, I knew this couldn't last. There is of course more to it than just that, but it just wasn't fun or engaging to play. I read a lot about how their analytics gives them an advantage, but I just didn't see the appeal of that game. That bubble had to burst.
On Talent And Curiosity
I read this book a few weeks ago. I loved the ipython notebook format. Being able to edit the code for each figure and play around with parameters while reading was a treat. As a bonus, I learned as much a about making nice figures as I did about Bayesian Methods. There were quite a few typos, but it wasn't much of a context switch to edit the source as I found them and then submit patches when I was done. I probably wouldn't have taken the time if it wasn't as convenient.
A very interesting way of making a book/"store of knowledge".

I really really like this. Can these python interactive books be constructed to show and run code snippets of different languages?
"PDF versions are coming. PDFs are the least-prefered method to read the book, as pdf's are static and non-interactive. If PDFs are desired, they can be created dynamically using Chrome's builtin print-to-pdf feature."

While I agree PDFs are antiquated, I still like them for casual, off-the-grid reading, and opening many different pages and printing to PDF is not feasible or easy to organize once on my iPad for reading. All the same, I'll check this out.
> People need jobs to provide for themselves and their family.

That may apply to the administrative staff, or people in sales and marketing. Maybe even managers.

But not to the developers that had options and chose money over ethics. It doesn't make them "evil", but it puts them very low on the list of people to feel sorry for.
They also had a maternity grant though the box was just opted in 95% of the time though
I don't even know what you're looking at. He was referring to this message upstream: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5815793
I somewhat question the effectiveness of ... let's say Reddit as actual communication, though. Maybe I'm projecting, but I find my online social interactions are nice, but don't really compare to actually hanging out with friends, or even taking time to do something I enjoy, like cooking a nice meal or whatever.

At the end of a couple of hours of commenting on people I know's pictures of cats or whatever I look back and think "Wow, where'd that time go?" whereas if I've done something "productive" I feel much better. It's possible that's just because I've filed time-on-the-internet under "wasting time" and so I'm judging myself, but I think the feeling bad was the reason I decided I shouldn't do it, not the other way 'round.

Sorry, that turned into a ramble.
At 2s difference it's fair to say that a user is going to notice. Maybe even at 200ms. But at 20ms? I'm not sure that counts.

I know it's just a fabricated number but the point is that the server you're running on won't make a difference to the user experience. And, probably in the case of the differences were talking in these machines, a user would never notice it.

Edit: meant to say, I agree with you.
That was not my confusion..... I think you know that.

If your motivation for pointing out that America has some extremely poor properties, even when held in comparison to Singapore, was to somehow reassure me about anything concerning Singapore, then your attempt fell flat.

Saying that the food your diner serves is better than burnt toast does not comfort me. Similarly, saying that you are better than America does not comfort me.

If I say "Your eggs are burnt", don't tell me "well the diner across the street sells burnt toast" and expect me to think better of you.

If your intent was not to comfort me in some way with this comparison, then I don't know what the point of the comparison was. I am confused as to why you are making comparisons to other countries, not why you are making a comparison to America in particular.
The Road To Continuous Delivery
Did you read the article?

"In the 1930s Finland was a poor country and infant mortality was high - 65 out of 1,000 babies died. But the figures improved rapidly in the decades that followed."

It's now 3/1,000.
> while MS has held back web development

On the other hand you can also argue, that Microsoft were web apps pioneers. There should be people who still remember DHTML demos of the IE4 era—it was the time when Netscape has fallen behind. One can also argue, that the real break-through for web apps was Gmail, so let's not forget what was at the core of it: the thing later named AJAX, which was non-standart invention by Microsoft only later standardised.
It is not all black and white.
But I still do think that (mobile) web apps are an attempt to turn three-legged table into a tricycle.
Sure, you can try and eat your soup with a knife, but why, just because you carry your pocket knife wherever you go?
Af for Firefox OS I doubt it will get much traction. It may appeal for the devs who think web tech is superior to everything (which makes me doubt they even know the tech well enough), but for general users… meh.
Most important I think Mozilla lost its focus, or at least shifted it somewhere else. When Firefox (Phoenix) started they did the right thing. I attribute this to Blake Ross, and seems like FF lost the direction and shifted to politics instead of making the best browser when Blake moved on.
Whats your story?
Even if there is magic inside someone will crack it.
Network latency is very inconsistent on EC2. This is a huge issue is you use a piece of software that assume that you are in a data centre with good networking, as you'd expect in an regular data centre.
The source blog post suggests it's exactly that. Whether that's scary or not depends on your perspective - I doubt it will prevent any material from leaking out, but it certainly could encourage companies to restrict video playback to devices that support the feature, which would be rather annoying for users of other devices. That is, if manufacturers bother to actually use it...
> Furthermore, the idea that war should be "proportional" is also a sophomoric argument without merit. War is hell for a reason. If someone engages you in war, you fight them to the death. You don't go back and forth in a tit for tat manner that negates all of your advantages and magnifies theirs.

Did you just agree that people, army and paramilitary forces of Afghanistan are right to go to total war "to death" with the USA, USA army and USA civilians. Because even one innocent dead man in Afghanistan can justify action of, for example, poisoning NYC water supplies?

Or this "unproporional" punishment of enemy is justified only if it's the USA that is doing it, not when it suffers it?
They can be appropriate for production workloads. You just need to understand the consequences of that burst performance. You also need to understand that you'll hit the invisible CPU usage limit without any notice.
For what it's worth, I've been using SharpDevelop almost full-time at work. Then again, I'm more of a Linux guy working at a .Net shop because "Hey, why not. C# is nice enough"
Your fixation on the US whenever somebody criticizes Singapore is downright bizarre.
What exactly is easy about flying drones? Hovering in place? Flying in a straight line for a mile?

How about autonomously navigating air traffic? Navigating 3d space, full of unexpected obstacles?

We don't even have sensory devices that would enable true autonomous drone flight of any complexity beyond trivial.
Ask HN: What is the best open-source microblogging platform?
For any startup in the microblogging field
A Bigger Future for Facebook New York
I have seen bias based on operating hours which can benefit USA based freelancers, but rarely I had seen someone explicitly wanting someone from USA when the job didn't involve on-site work.

OTOH, I have actually seen jobs restricted to countries marked as "developing economies" in order to take only the cheaper bids.
Don't worry. You wouldn't be the first white American expat in China to make sweeping prejudicial generalizations about the locals. It's depressingly common.
Movie2k will be back as Movie4k...
This definitely doesn't sit right with me, and it will hurt sales if they move forward with hardware DRM. Is it going to allow me to play content that I purchased physically and ripped? If I can run a ripped version, what stops me from running a friend's ripped version?

Either it will lock people out of their own stuff, or it will be totally useless. I hope for ARM's sake that it's ineffective.
At this point in the development of ARM, an argument against TZ-aware video blocks is basically an argument that ARMH should deliberately hamstring its IP blocks to prevent them from being used to implement content protection, right? TZ isn't spooky DRM technology.
That's right. Most people watch mainstream media that was airing penguin documentaries when police was brutally attacking to peaceful protesters (there wasn't even provocateurs amongst them then, they joined much later).

I read anecdotes that when people try to explain what's happening these citizens display disbelief. They are possibly the same people who sold their votes for a bag of coal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-6hF12n73s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6nPyfoyrsg
http://t24.com.tr/haber/akp-8-yilda-136-ton-komur-dagitti/21...
http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=300702
http://www.birgun.net/politics_index.php?news_code=128238067...

I know the links are all Turkish, I am not sure if these issues got any coverage in international media.
But you still need the function tables and follow prolog/epilog conventions with x64 for SEH to work.
Proposed new ANSI escape sequences for hyperlinks to URLs
That's right. It's closer to the software layer than the infrastructure layer, so there's a lot more flexibility. You could essentially run a few machines on bare metal and use Docker as the virtualization layer. Just need an OS that supports LXC and you're good to go.
Most of the standard library is written in go.

a large part of the runtime package (within the standard library) is written in c and asm. This c code compiled with one of the 5c, 6c or 8c compilers.

gcc is only used for bootstrapping (I believe... tho I am still trying to get my head around what happens).
I guess what you call an "internal DSL" I call an API.
So far it has been really hard buying E-paper displays as a hobbyist, with Sparkfun[1] being the only easy option. Crap, scrape that... it has been retired.

I once tried to get some people together and make a kit[2], but that project never went anywhere.

[1]: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10150

[2]: http://wishfulcoding.nl/epaper/
One of the difficulties of fixing the problem is going to be that you can't just pass a law that says poof "you must be the company that makes a thing in order to have a patent on a thing". There are many legitimate reasons for patents to be tradeable assets. Take for example the basement tinkerer who comes up with and patents a completely novel widget. They may not have the resources to build, market and sell that widget. But a Samsung might want to buy that patent for a couple million and make those widgets themselves.

Sure the basement tinkerer could license the patent to Samsung, even an exclusive perpetual license, which is almost as good as owning it, and might be the preferred path forward (though there can be some problems with that too as companies start to defensively buy exclusive perpetual licenses with no intention of making those widgets just to keep others out of that market).

But at this point, any law requiring such licenses would have to be for those going forward. Any retroactive law would require either handing back legally purchased patents (which destroys wealth) or require the originator to buy them back (which may be impossible in many cases if they've already spent the money on retirement homes).

The core reason patents become so valuable is because they last so damn long. If they didn't last until the next ice age it would take much of the value out of ownership and make licensing naturally make more sense anyway. The way to attack this is at the root and revert back the patent expiration to something far more reasonable.
At the expense of being captain obvious, given the limited amount of time in your hands, which I assume is the case, you could provide a visually appealing, intuitive CMS for documenting and providing intelligence for the people involved in the resistence. Also, as you have indicated the proven usefulness of articles written, photographs and videos shared, it could likely as well provide a portal for these material to be managed in a central location.
Why do you assume Google is so good? Or so unavoidable?

Recently Google bought Quickoffice and booted two offices of android devs + QA in Ukraine without even paying them 2-month equivalent of salary for the inconvenience. Not sure if they are going to sue.

You can argue it was not "The Google" but some of their proxies, but it doesn't matter: as a company they're cool with that, saving some dimes by ripping out employees they aren't going to use, when they can get away with that.
The Science Of Self-Control: Can We Improve Our Willpower?
Intel Haswell processors offer 'longer battery life'
I have lived in Singapore and still have many friends there. That's one of the main reasons for me to submit this article.

I really liked the place, but for the complete control on media by the government and for this kind of measures to both stop criticism and "assure a peaceful society".

I'm really not sure if PAP would have the support it does if people could freely criticize it.

Another interesting related effect has also to do with how Singaporeans see themselves in relation to creativity and spontaneity due to the way things are structured there.
it sounds like the gpu basically has some keys and does the decryption before sending the stream to the screen.

ie you'd need to dump the keys from the hardware or find a flaw in the implementation or dump what the screen gets, basically.
the last one always works, although its not very neat.
are there any technical information available how this maglev train differs from the one operating in shanghai?
or a phone/tablet.

Smartphone + E-paper = long battery life :D

People can actually try what it's like by hacking their Kindle: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3621

I find that it's goof enough for most stuff, if you get your vim keybinding right.
See the parent of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5813045

@cup is basically saying whatever might devalue these protests and create disinformation on HN. See his comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cup
Does DRM usually just mess with people who actually paid for the content? I mean make it inconvient for them to access their content else where?
Weird that FF's FSM works while WebGL's FSM exits to NRMLM when taking an SS.
CNN was independent? When?

I still can remember all the US military propaganda on CNN during the Iraq war.
TZ in video decoders has little use other than content protection, and ARM is explicitly positioning it for use as such. While the article is certainly very hyperbolic, and many more steps will need to be taken before an annoying scenario of the type I described is likely to come to pass, I think it is a valid concern.
On a related topic - may I seriously ask how we as a community of technologists can help change the tone directed at our brothers and sisters in code? It's no wonder more people from Microsoft don't bother engaging when the first (so far only) reply is a hostile tirade about random collection of complaints that have nothing to do with the person being replied to.
Yeah that's a fair point ;) To be honest though I never actually noticed the Getting started section on the right of the screen. I've never visited the site with the intention of building a site with jekyll at that moment so I was just skimming. If all the Getting started section pages were a single long page at http://jekyllrb.com/docs/home/ (like the sinatra docs) then I probably would have noticed them. I realise this is probably ridiculously pedantic though, I'm sure I would have found the information if I was trying to actually get started rather than just get a feel for how it works.
> in Java, I frequently ask my tools, "Give me a list of
> classes that implement this interface,"

You don't generally ask this question when working in Go, because you don't really construct your "type" system in these terms.
Yes, you can play your own media. What this does is to keep the entire process of media decryption outside of the control envelope available to the (regular) OS, so not only are keys not visible but also decrypted content is also not exposed outside the secure environment. But this is only for encrypted media from a organisation that is using a TrustZone infrastructure - all other media will continue to work as today.
Optimising Autolayout
a lot of aspects of corporate culture that are much esteemed in startup-land are really basically designed to get you to work insane hours, from undergrad-dorm-esque offices

This is how margins are increased (runway gain) by the people who are going to be selling the company: cheap offices and more hours under the same salary. You want respect for your time from a startup? Work hourly.