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Actually, people are all the time now going the other direction (or proposing to): they use cold atoms to simulate setups from condensed matter. The general idea is that you can use lasers to site the atoms on a lattice, and then tune the interactions between the atoms to get all sorts of physics. A quick Google Scholar search turns up http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v415/n6867/abs/415039a.... , wherein Greiner et al. simulate the Hubbard model (it would appear---I don't have access to the paper at the moment.

This is cool, because the Hubbard model is a simple and displays interesting phenomena, but understanding it is a hard problem. The Hamiltonian (that is to say, the energy) consists only of a kinetic energy plus an interaction between the spin up and spin down particles on the same site (e.g. if I have two spin up bosons and four spin down bosons, the interaction contribution to the energy is 8 U, where U is a constant parameter---the strength of the interaction.) Depending on this interaction strength U, the system might behave either like a conductor or an insulator.

The problem is hard to deal with analytically (for reasons I can't say I understand) and, as I understand it, the space of possible states is so huge that the numerics become computationally intractible at about a lattice 5 sites x 5 sites x 5 sites. So being able to see the phase transition happen is very neat, and exactly what you expect from an "analog quantum computer": simulating with cold atoms a system that we can't really simulate with ordinary computers.
No, the difference is that we now have the Internet, which serves as a safe place to point these things out and spread the word. In the past, it was a lot easier to sweep it under the rug.
As bad as things are in America vis-a-vis the surveillance state, I've always thought that England is actually worse. I guess it explains why they have such a rich history of dystopian thought. When I saw the "Secure beneath the watchful eyes" poster [1] I couldn't believe it wasn't satire.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/PS6c0IS.jpg
If a firetruck runs over a schoolgirl in the forest, and nobody is around to see it, did it really happen?
> This is a great example of why we should treat terrorism like any other crime

Perhaps it is, but the American people don't seem to want that. Kerry voiced a similar opinion in 2004 and Bush took great advantage by pointing that out. Popular opinion appeared to be on Bush's side i.e. that terrorism is not a law enforcement matter:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/10/bush.kerry.terror/
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This argument appears to revolve around a very unconventional definition of the word "cure". It may be technically correct inside the oncology community or related affinity / fundraising industry group to use an alternative definition, but the original debate was about insiders using the word "cure" with the general public, where its probably vital to use the general public's definition as opposed to made up definitions. That said, I typed "definition of cure" into google and the response humorously was the exact opposite of the claimed definition, "Verb Relieve (a person or animal) of the symptoms of a disease or condition" solely focused around relieving symptoms, not total scientific analysis of the entire situation or root cause analysis or any of that much more complicated stuff.

Its OK to have a near religious belief in unusual definitions; its just useless when trying to talk to the general public, especially if they operate under the logical opposite of your personal definition. I believe this is a "Startup Lesson". Redefine words for yourself and folks in your affinity group all you want, but trying it with the general public is likely not to work very well.

For example of what the general public defines as a cure, examine the 1850-whatever cholera outbreak in London. The prevailing theory of "bad air" was pretty much blown away when statistical analysis pointed to one particular water well, which had its handle removed. That outbreak of cholera was successfully cured, without understanding much other than it had nothing to do with air and apparently revolved around the use of one particular water well.
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Wow, this describes something quite close to something that I'm working on (and covers a number of problems that we've faced).

That said, all of the issues listed, while intractable, aren't impossible to deal with. CORS is just one way of handing things like forms submissions. Site regeneration can be done transparently from a centralised always-on server. There's no reason oldschool IE can't be made to work.

Indeed unfortunately the author's solution seems to miss a bunch of the benefits of having things static.

There's a lot of value in not doing work (or minimizing the amount of work done) when people come to read your page, and I'm honestly pretty surprised that there aren't more intelligent baked site generators out there.
"What y' lookin' at?", said the little green man.
While I think there are certainly reasons to be concerned with the phenomena Doctorow is describing, I find his reasoning unpersuasive.As a general observation, he is making an argument that certain trends are bad because they could lead to possible bad outcomes in the future. This style of reasoning seems to me to be common in political arguments. The reality is is that there are trade offs from policy choice in the present, which are hard enough to quantify. Then there are going to be future trade offs, which become harder and harder to predict the further out they are, and the more complex the problem domain is.

The core of his argument is that special andpurpose computers open the potential for surveillance. This seems myopic in the sense that the only effective controls on government surveillance are political. General purpose computers or not, the government has no shortage of means to spy.

So far, the adoption of special purpose computers is being driven by market forces. They simply work better for most tasks than general purpose computers. There is a huge benefit to the human population from these devices, just as there is a huge benefit from having a rather leaky worldwide
network easily accessible to "civilians."

So society has to struggle already with how to manage control of information. The availability of general purpose computers seems largely peripheral to this dilemma.

As far as the availability of general purpose computers to technical people, the harm he posits is almost entirely hypothetical. Not only are they still being produced in large numbers, there are fantastic numbers of existing computers that will continue to function for years to come.

A far more likely impediment to accessibility to powerful, modern general purpose computers will be that market forces will shift so that they are no longer commodity items, and the cost to access the latest and greatest will rise. This is a problem of market structure, and legislative attempts to address this type of pricing problem have proven to be futile.

If we were seeing calls by industry or politicians to legally limit the use of open source operating systems, then I think a call of alarm would ring louder (at least to me).
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If you'll count mockumentaries then Supervolcano, it was about the magma chamber(s) under Yellowstone Park.
This would be received very poorly by most of the sub-continent, and apart from being just controversial would be impossible to actually enforce.

Those familiar with the political tensions in the South (especially Tamil Nadu) between Dravidian Languages & Indo-Aryan, would point out that you'd have better luck getting them to switch to English than Hindi at this point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Hindi_agitation_of_1937%E2...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Hindi_agitations_of_Tamil_...
Definitely. This can totally change the economics too. If you calculate the ROI based on passenger numbers from the existing air travel market but your ticket pricing (and other factors - speed, comfort) is so good that ridership increases by a factor of 4, revenues go through the roof and you only have to buy a few more capsules and stations to support the demand... and those are the cheap part. So you probably go from 20% ROI to 100%+ ROI. Not bad :-)

It gets even more attractive once you link up the dots between areas. If you built a hyperloop between NYC and Chicago, for example, you'd probably route it through Detroit... which means you also capture the NYC-Detroit and Chicago-Detroit traffic.
It would be neat to actually 3d printing that can survive the 1/6th atmosphere that the designs call for.
> Would Greenwald have done a better service if he hadn't told the world what happened to his partner? I don't know--but maybe.

Definitely not. And in the end, nothing happened to his partner. His rights were violated, for sure -- but then ask other Brazilians for their experiences in the transit zone of London Heathrow. It's a pretty much lawless zone if you happen to hold the wrong passport.

So, no. More people than you think will be able to relate to this.
You need to follow the assembly instructions . . .
Made this the other night. It hashes the password before it sends it off to the server, to check to see if it exists in any password lists. Made it for fun, I will open source it too.
Really? If you talk with any of your non-tech friends about this topic, does a single one of them care? My money is on no. And in the unlikely case the answer is nonzero, the proffered solution is always to vote for "the other guy".

It's naiveté at the highest level to think that any meaningful proportion of the electorate cares, and that a single thing will change. If anything, the State now has tacit permission to press even further down the road of dystopia.

We live in a highly insular world in which our ideas are echoed by like-minded people. In such a world, it's easy to make the mistake of assuming that the broader populace is similarly like-minded. The reality, however, is that so long as sufficient bread and circuses are provided, nobody will care nearly as much as you or I do.
That might work. I'd like to see how it goes in practice.

Whenever I hear of basic income, it always takes me back to communism. The main difference is that communism wouldn't let you have more than others (people found ways around that anyway).
Exactly. If privacy is the true concern, the solution is to forbid the unofficial mass release of helmet-cam footage, and set up specific exceptions: to expose wrongdoing, when subpoenaed by a judge, etc.
This isn't new. The UK has long had wide-ranging anti-terrorism powers because the IRA were running bombing campaigns in (mostly) London from the late 60s to the late 90s. And every country has different rules for ports/airports, for the same reason they have customs posts there.
Sure, ArcSDE (or whatever it's called these days) is pretty cool, but to be honest I've never seen it deployed in the wild on anything other than Oracle, and often in conjunction with Oracle Spatial. What I've heard is that while the technically support a bunch of databases, they're pretty in bed with Oracle and that is what it works best with.
Reminds me of sitting in a Larry Smith [1] lecture 14 years ago, where he mentioned the real key to innovating is for people who can look outside their discipline and find links or problems in another discipline that could use their experience, knowledge and fresh take on solving it.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_ha...
Absolutely disagree. In my opinion, she does a good job in guiding Wozniak through the interview while still being respectful. Yes, it is obvious that she wanted to have some specific questions answered, but that is nothing bad, it prevents people from rambling and makes the interview interesting. And it wasn't my impression that she interrupted mid-sentence or even just often.

How do you come to the conclusion that she doesn't get his point? Didn't she even react to that with the "is he too visionary in the movie" question line?
Disgusting. The moment it's about exposing their fuck-ups they are all suddenly concerned about everyone's privacy and rights and it becomes "fairly clear".

If the camera is there to catch you, then it's good and you have no right or reason to expect privacy.

But if it's about catching them, uh-oh!
We're actively building the OpenDesk maker network, specifically looking for pro CNC makers with finishing capacity (sanding, oiling, etc). See the info on the https://www.opendesk.cc/contact page. (Plus we'll be on the sketchup stand at Maker Faire next month).

If you're more looking to get into CNC making generally, you can build your own CNC machine or maybe check out a local fablab, like techshop, etc.

The http://wikihouse.cc/community group is active with people who know more than me...
"Before letting him go, they seized numerous possessions of his, including his laptop, his cellphone, various video game consoles, DVDs, USB sticks, and other materials. They did not say when they would return any of it, or if they would."

Having my lifes work on my Macbook, this is absolutely terrifying and makes my blood boil. What solutions do you HNers use to back up your data?
I disagree. These are exceptional powers (they deliberately negate several important rights like the right to know the charges against you and have a lawyer present), and if they are being misused, they should be taken away.

They are justified to the population on the basis of extreme measures for extreme opponents - if that is shown to be a smokescreen and the security services to be inveterate liars, I think the population will be far less inclined to accept any calls for special terror laws.

The war on terror as an excuse just became rather more transparent.
Disgusting.

If I went out and suggested that the families of the politicians who did this should be kidnapped, held by force for hours without any contact with the outside world, and have all their possessions stolen, I'd be rightly condemned all around. Hell, even if I suggested one of the politicians who conceived this should be abducted by goons and abused for hours on end, I'd probably be indicted under some terrorist act or another.

And perhaps I should be: it's a deep depravity what happened here, and I'm deeply ashamed it happens anywhere, let alone in the Western world. Soon we won't be able to hold ourselves up as beacons of freedom to those in savage, barbaric places like China where all Internet usage is surveilled or Russia where you can be targeted for being gay or being a member of the press who has printed stories critical of the State.
Just type the article headline into Google and then open the website again. All articles going through Google aren't subjected to the paywall.
Man on Wire (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/)

Exit Through the Gift Shop (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587707/)

The King of Kong (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/)
I didn't have that feeling at all. At times (one of the first questions - How did Ashton do it as an actor?), he just keeps telling about how Steve Jobs was different before he got away, and the interviewer did a good job trying to steer the interview in the direction of the questions.

If she was indeed like you said she was, she'd push on through the "no comment" on the question about the movie Woz's making, or the question "Should we see the movie?", or...
My hope is that Greenwald is not that easily provoked into making this a personal affair between himself and some government. That's part of what weakened Julian Assange's position, and I'm pretty sure Greenwald is aware of that.
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Poor choice of examples, mate. From the respective home pages:

1. "Ubuntu is the world’s favourite free operating system" - ubuntu.com

2. "Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run." - debian.org

Then you have CentOS and their ilk. But that whole argument is irrelevant: take a step back and look at what you're arguing about. It is such a petty argument. I feel like I'm living in a crazy house where trivial things are important.
Pressure-intimidation tactic? Turn up the indignation up a few notches to make Greenwald trip and release more/all NSA-related information in one go, instead of the slow drip-of-death that is making them look like liars with every denial they make.
>The woman doing the interview really seems to do a poor job.
She seems to let Wozniak get about 80-90% into statements and then speedily talk over him to move onto the next point.

This is a property of American media. When people start talking over each other, I stop watching. I can't take it.

Conversations and interviews are like a game. Each person makes their turn; the next person only gets to go when the current player finishes their turn.

The British media is a little better at this, and I'm talking mainly about BBC News, but it's still not perfect. In fact, you can see the mockery of this in The Colbert Report. Stephen Colbert frequently talks over his interviewees; it's part of his character and it hits the nail right on the head.
They don't seem to particularly give a shit considering friendly reporting of a XSS resulted in lawsuit threats
Sink hole swallows hotel and now after my house?
This is DARPA money.

How many DARPA project mission statements have you read? They all sound like that.
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And you clearly don't know how medical statistics work. Take the simple flu shot: chance of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome from the vaccination is about 1 in a million, and about 1 in 20 of those die from complications (odds are better if you seek prompt treatment). Does the flu shot provide benefit 100% of the time? No: in some cases it's killed people.

So it goes with even the most advanced, futuristic cancer treatments. There will always be cases where the treatment kills the patient, or fails to affect the disease in any way. It will be the job of medical research to make those rare cases rarer.

And by the way, if cancer is not a disease, then what the heck is it?
Are you aware of an accessible rebuttal to the list given in the parent comment? I'd like to know why biologists are skeptical of this direction of anti-aging research. Is it because AdG shows some fundamental misunderstanding of cellular biology? Could it be for political reasons?
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Then how can you make out that you're shocked by this? People who are arrested on suspicion of terrorism in the UK can be held for 28 days with out charge. From the 70s onward, anyone arrested in relation to Northern Irish terrorism could be held for 48 hours without charge. Holding someone incommunicado for up to 9 hours sounds like a distinct improvement by UK standards, sad to say.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-terrorism_legislation#Unit...
For people not familiar with Go Playground, that’s a compiler error.
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I have the understanding that this movie was made in Hollywood, and therefore, Steve Wozniak complaining about the accuracy of the movie is irrelevant. Steve's main point is that the movie doesn't accurately portray Jobs in the early days and that he evolved into the character Ashton Kutcher plays. It's Hollywood, and its different perspectives. I think usually movies are 'based on a true story' not exactly a true story.

Woz has his own fame, so I don't see this as a jealous rant, but I do see it as a guy waving his arms screaming to the public "HEY HEY, I AM STILL HERE! PAY ATTENTION TO ME!"

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Yeah down vote me, my bet is you didn't watch the whole video.
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Ugh, I posted to the wrong hyperloop article. Sorry.
I googled around looking at the opposite direction, are t-cells small enough to get flushed out by dialysis? Could not get a straight answer. There must be a lot of money to be made in dialysis; there are a lot of "popular science" type articles about it. My guess is we'd have to try a level of indirection, red blood cells aren't lost, so relative size of t-cells vs red blood cells would probably answer that.

The other idea I have is MDs are not overly dumb, so if its possible for natural or artificial kidneys to filter the bad stuff to the outside while keeping the good stuff inside, they would probably just absolutely flood the patient with IV fluid. The original article was very detailed about the experience; this didn't make the article, so I don't think they were doing it.
I think it's absolutely great and how software development should be done,
They should be teaching it to everyone and it should be the default - you start with app engine on any project and only choose something else if it can't be used.

Curious about your argument here. Care to explain?
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I'm not sure there is. I'm not sure one can be truly sure he scanned the Internet before impersonating every host. Can't know anything before trying out the inside of every skin.

After all, what would you know, as a traveller, about simple lives of local people?
It's mission creep. Law enforcement will always demand more power in pursuit of what they see as their goal of stopping the bad guys. Trampling all over innocent peoples' civil liberties is unfortunate to them, but they will never cease their pursuit for more power. Have you heard Ray Kelly's argument in defense of stop-and-frisk? "We do this to protect minorities! It's for their own good!" without any mention or even a passing courtesy to said minority's civil rights.

Actually, I can think of one area that probably won't be receiving all the extra scrutiny that the rest of us have been enjoying in new found police state, and that's Wall Street. Someone's gotta pay for all those toys cops have been buying lately.
- Time Machine that backs every thing up hourly when I'm near that local/network drive.

- Daily offsite backup using BackBlaze.

- Weekly full copy of the HDD kept outside the house (in a storage unit) in case there's a fire or something like that (I use CarbonCopyCloner for this)

I use FileVault that (AFAIK) will make the data on my computer useless without my user password. I could be online again with all my data as if nothing happened in less than 24h. It would be much shorter if I kept a spare laptop in hand, but the cost is too high and I can afford 24h.
Tower of Babel. I'm not sure "Extinguish" is necessary, but perhaps the teaching of a common language throughout the country would be beneficial. I can't imagine the United States having a different language for every House district, with only 5% of the population speaking common English.