skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The freefall of Demand serves as a cautionary tale for hype in the Internet age: No company burns so hot that it can’t cool off."

What a crock - what cautionary tale? A company that grew really fast, is still producing lots of cash, and is already public? Companies rise and fall and are dependent on lots of other forces. Airbnb could crash any time if cities decided they don't want it (I doubt it will), same with Uber, and TONS of companies are in some way dependent on Google not shutting them out.

Seems like this was a pretty crappy business with extremely low value added to the world, but it's so obnoxious to hear every single company that starts to decline or doesn't grow the way we thought it would as a "cautionary tale". Companies grow, companies die.
entanglement does not allow faster than light communication, but it's also not like your boxes, which have a "hidden variable" (a known real answer).

entanglement is a non-local effect that is deeply weird. both marbles are "bled" (or "rue") when they are put in the boxes. when the boxes open, one becomes red, and the other blue. even though they are now far apart.

(and what this new work suggests, afaict, is that this is no longer so weird - they're actually close together if you go "through the wormhole", but that's just my vague understanding).
The hardware could be completely capable of handling it but the software isn't. A lot of times when you buy an ARM SoC it comes with a supported kernel from the manufacturer and some documentation(but sometimes for various reasons a lot is missing). To ensure that you can always port the newest version of Android to a phone you need to ensure you can port the newest kernel. Limiting yourself only to well supported mainlined chips or to chips that you have all the documentation you need to maintain your own branch greatly limits your options and can run up costs a ton.
The end state of the measured/observed particle can't be controlled.
Apple's New Goal: The Computer as an Appliance (2010)
JPMorgan Emails Show China Family Hires Made to Win Deals
The only time I think people should drop out of college is if they're building a company that's becoming crazy successful and making a boatload of money to the point that running that business makes more sense then college.
the problem here, is that they make SO MUCH MONEY that offering a (truely) low end model, or making any drastic changes is a great risk to their bottom line
iPhones are not intended to be purchased for $649 except by the very impatient (or people who break/lose their uninsured phones). If you wait your 2 years, it's $100 or $200 on-contract.

Of course it's different in emerging markets where contracts aren't the norm, but smartphone prices in the US are pretty damn close in terms of 2-year TCO.
try inventing a system using the marbles i describe in an answer above. you just go round in circles. the problem is that there's no "useful" information "coming out".

two people are both observing random processes. they happen to see related results, but they don't "know" that unless they get together and compare notes.

it's like you and i both flip a magic nonlocal coin, and we both flip heads. how does that let me tell you something? it doesn't. all you know is that i just flipped heads (and really you don't even know that - you only know that if i had flipped the coin, i would have seen heads...).
That price point is now full of phones with 1920x1080 5" screens; 1280x720 is very much "last year". The camera specs are beaten roundly by my year old $200 phone. The physical design is almost identical to said year old phone (which is to say it looks pretty much like the Galaxy SIII).

And said phone also has removable battery, dual SIMs, and support for a 32GB SD card.

This might put ever single "cheap" Android phone of a brand well known in Europe and the US to shame, but from the specs given it's middle of the pack fo cheap Android phones overall (it's likely to be a bit faster and with better graphics performance than most low end Android phones, but lower resolution and lacking camera and storage e.g.)
There's a middle ground here though. The iPhone 4 is legitimately pretty shitty on iOS7, but the 4S runs the newest OS just fine. I've tested some pretty demanding apps on 4S/iOS7 and the thing barely breaks a sweat.

And that's a 2 year-old phone. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect at least one major update out of new hardware, even low-end.
"I got a reply in writing that it was $20k"

What did the reply in writing actually say?

Seems almost as if this was merely a "retainer" paid in advance against the expected cost.
Standard family plan. No contract!

Spotty service coverage but can't beat the price.
Exactly. But that they said FTL is a violation of general relativity made be doubt the article. General relativity does not disallow FTL, special relativity does. But that is about my extends of knowledge about these things.
You are correct, information (at least in the classical sense) isn't traveling faster than light with entanglement. The marble analogy is good, but like most analogies, it breaks down at the edges. Quantum entanglement is a little bit more magical than just revealing the discreet state of an object, because it turns out the probabilities we expect don't match the probabilities that we measure when we do certain entanglement experiments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem#Bell_inequalitie...

It seems that measuring a particle does indeed have some kind of effect on the particle that it is entangled with (or, at least, with the universe we are measuring it from) beyond just revealing information about some discreet state.
Many things in the graphdb space are broken.

Tinkerpop people are pushing too hard Gremlin DSL/API/whatever which is AFAIK only useful in some situation somewhat complex and more or less a nice way to write some common queries. But in simple situations any language with the raw Graph API can do the job. And there is still no drivers for Python in Rexster. I tried, but it was too complicated. Rexster itself is too complicated.

Neo4J with their own query language made things even more complicated. Instead of a “Graph that can be queried with your preferred language” you get a “Graph that can be queried with something that looks like SQL but is not“

ArangoDB is nice for people that want to do JavaScript full stack. Which is not the case of people doing Python.

Also, there is nobody marketing graphdbs just saying “it solve the general problem“. period.

The only thing that may hold you back from using graphdbs are performances but in a lot of situtations you don't care especially in situations where you want to be flexible and to move fast. That's where GraphDBs shine a lot. Of course there is also the graph/tree problem solving space but this is taken for granted.

GraphDB actors market a lot the specialized database aspect of graphdbs, nonetheless graphdbs are good even for solving generic webdev problems.

Also if you are looking for a Graph Database server that does just that, and where you can query the graph in Python 2.7 (or Scheme) have a look at: https://github.com/python-graph-lovestory/Java-GraphitiDB
Have you read about the guy who accessed publicly accessible URLs and was convicted under the computer fraud act?

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/07/dont-hate-the-crime-hat...

The point being that although security through obscurity is recognized as a terrible way to secure anything, it's still a basis for the CFAA.

I don't think the Vine people are such terrible people, but please realize they have you by the balls if they so please.
It is unlikely that quantum entanglement allows FTL signalling of any kind. I also believe it is accepted among physicist that it doesn't allow actual FTL communication.

The classic EPR experiment run thus: magically create a pair of entangled photons, send them in opposite directions. Have them pass through polarised filters of the same direction. Now, the instant a scientist on one side see the photons pass through the filter, she knows the photon on the other side won't get through (and vice-versa). You will notice that the photons don't travel faster than light. So, the obvious explanation will be some kind of common cause. A "hidden variable", that will kinda determine in which direction the photons goes through.

Turns out, there is no hidden variable (Bell's Theorem). So, FTL? Not yet: there may be a third alternative: Many Worlds. Remember Schroedinger's cat? Well, after the experiment, there are two of them: the dead one, and the live one. (No, you don't get to see the other cat, just like your other self doesn't get to see yours.)

Likewise, in the EPR experiment, the scientist merely learn in which blob they are. Though I believe we don't know exactly how decoherence works in this particular case. I'd be surprised however if it actually involved something as complicated as wormholes, or even another dimension.
>That price point is now full of phones with 1920x1080 5" screens; 1280x720 is very much "last year". The camera specs are beaten roundly by my year old $200 phone. The physical design is almost identical to said year old phone (which is to say it looks pretty much like the Galaxy SIII).

I think you missed the fact that that's the non-contract no subsidy price... Your $200 dollar phone was probably 500 or 600 off contract so this costs about 1/3 as much.
So it's a brake replacement? Pretty cool, but too expensive even if it generates more power than a simple dynamo...
The GP is suggesting you'll get a C&D for the use of the word Vine, not the use of what might be private APIs. This is where people get crafty (Instagram > Statigram). No good synonyms [1], and the name is so short that you easily leap from Wine to ShortVidClips - too near to too far.

http://thesaurus.com/browse/vine
Apple seems to be aiming to fill the cheaper price points with tablets. Their idea seems to be, $1k+ laptops, $300-$900 iPads.

Within those price points they're nowadays pretty reasonably priced. There used be a significant "mac tax" versus similarly specced PCs, but a MacBook Air or Pro these days compares pretty reasonably to the stuff Dell is putting out. If you want a dual i5 with 128 GB SSD and 8 hours of battery life, the Macbook Air's $999 price point is within the norm.

The main market they aren't competing in is sub-$1000 laptop form factors, like the Chromebooks. That seems to be less an unwillingness to compete on the low end, and more a disagreement over what it will look like: Google is betting on a netbook-esque form factor at ~$400, while Apple is betting on a tablet form factor in that price range.
You missed this.

> I have a family and want to immigrate for their sake.

I believe OP meant emigrate
>3. Objects are lies. An object that calls itself a COW is not a cow; a function that calls itself SEND-COWS-TO-MONTANA really does send the cows to Montana.

Err, no it doesn't. Both are manipulating symbols (names), not actual cows.

That's how we can have games like Sim City that don't cost trillions of dollars to play.
Archos developer here, glad that you like the app :)
It's not quite like that; there are experiments that show that there's no hidden variable, but yeah, entanglement isn't magic. (unfortunately)
If you are programming to the level of abstraction of an ISO C or C++ program (or a higher-level language/abstraction), then the stack and heap are your primitives and address spaces are an implementation detail.

If you are programming to the level of abstraction of POSIX, then address spaces are fundamental and the stack and heap are just convenience interfaces around mmap().

The fact that the StackOverflow question was asking for more OS-level details than the existing explanations they had found suggests that this is the time to provide actual implementation details instead of answering in more abstractions.
Nice! Looks pretty cool.

How did you get these data? Is there any public source for this? We are using US News Ranking & CMS charge data.

Best,
developers behind the BetterDoctor PriceMaps
The stack is a concept that's built into the CPU to handle function calls. Every time you call a function, there is a return address that needs to be stored. Since you need to hang on to a return address for every function that is currently in progress, and you use them in the reverse order that they were stored, what you need is exactly a stack. The stack is usually (always?) located at the top of memory and grows down. In addition to return addresses, it can be used to store data associated with an in-progress function, like arguments, local variables, and cpu state data that needs to be temporarily stored.

So that's the stack. The concept of the heap, on the other hand, isn't built into the CPU, and is sort of a vague abstraction implemented by programming languages. The first thing to know about how it differs from the stack: it's not a stack. Stack reads and writes follow LIFO; reads and writes to the heap can potentially be in any order. The heap is usually (always?) located close to the bottom of memory, and grows up. So the stack and heap grow toward each other. At the lowest level, the heap is basically just memory that can be used as the application sees fit. Data on the heap isn't inherently tied to an in-progress function call, so it can last indefinitely (at least, until the process ends). The programming language or the C library typically provide a means to subdivide the heap memory into discrete blocks as needed in response to an explicit or implicit memory allocation request (e.g. malloc(), new), and keep track of what memory is available and what is currently allocated.

Differences between the stack and the heap:

* the stack is limited in size, so it is easy to overflow and crash if you try to store too much data there. the heap, in contrast, is designed to grow as much as needed
* the stack is managed primarily by instructions built into the cpu. the heap is managed by library calls and system calls
* the difference in speed between the two refers to the speed of allocating or freeing a chunk. the stack can inherently do this quickly, because the location for the memory is predetermined. since the heap can do allocations and deallocations in any order, finding memory for blocks is inherently more complicated and slower.
* since the fundamental purpose of the stack is to store data about in-progress functions, it follows that every executing thread has its own stack and usually only accesses its own. the heap, on the other hand, has no association to a thread of execution, which consequently means that multiple threads can share the same heap, and locking and synchronization must come into play when the heap metadata has to change. The locking is typically transparent, but the net result is to make allocations and deallocations even slower in threaded code.
Pardon my complete lack of knowledge in this field, but would MEMS (or NEMS) mirror arrays be sensitive / accurate enough to measure the gravitational effect on light at the scales you're talking about?

I'm surprised to read the statement "over distances smaller than the diameter of a hair, nobody knows if gravity acts" as I thought we were accurately measuring all sorts of interactions at or below that scale (10s of microns).

It sounds like a very interesting field to be in!
If you just want a media player, pick up almost any current generation chinese Android phones from Alibaba/Aliexpress. Many will be as cheap or cheaper, with plenty of them offering 1920x1080, and pretty much all of them supports 32GB or 64GB SD cards.
One more that I like is: http://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/

Shows the contents of any pkg file including scripts
I'd be very surprised, but eh, could be true. Really just a research question.

I'm a big fan of economic history as a discipline, if you have anything to recommend, I'd love to check it out.

UPDATE: I found one research paper claiming that "The statistical record reveals a high and growing labor force to population ratio in America for most of the last two centuries." http://economics.ucr.edu/papers/papers03/03-13.pdf

I don't take that to have settled the question, I'd like to go back further, and make sure we properly account for the reversal of this trend between the 1930s and the 1960s. But it certainly is a provocative set of data.
This is actually why I've got a Moto G on order. This will be my first smart phone. Before I heard about the Moto G I always assumed my first smart phone would be a Nexus device, because I refuse to sign a carrier contract and I would rather have a dumb phone than carry around something that cost $600 in my pocket every day.

But with the Moto G, I get a cheap-ish device with all the features that actually matter to me (high res screen, good camera, reasonably fast processor, decent amount of RAM) and it doesn't come with a contract or a crazy price tag.

I saved $150 over buying a Nexus 5, and I doubt I'll even notice the difference (if anything, I'll like it better because, IIRC, the Moto G is a bit smaller than the Nexus).
Lenovo has no presence in the U.S. for cell phones. The P780 doesn't support LTE, which is a big problem in the U.S. Because American carriers never built out well-developed HSPA+ networks. They put most of their energy into skipping ahead to LTE. So the differential between HSPA and LTE is a lot bigger than in Europe. Finally, most international phones don't support all the bands U.S. carriers use for HSPA. This makes the lack of LTE even more acute.
The "nothing faster than light" thing has been repeated so much that people just take it verboten. Its actually not specifically true.

Electromagnetic fields can only propagate through a vacuum at roughly a max of 299,792,458m/s.

Its super easy to slow light down. Sunlight does not travel at its max speed when it hits the ground. Its been slowed down by the atmosphere.

The one thing that most definitely can, and has travelled faster than 299,792,458m/s is space itself. Indeed, space is expanding as we speak.

You only have to worry about causality and referential frame violations if you physically are trying to move at high velocity. Wormholes are shortcuts through points in space. Its a different part of physics that doesn't get into the whole "faster than light" thing. Just sidesteps around it.
This.

I've just bought a Lumia 520 as a play phone / replacement while I send my HTC One back to be repaired (due to it continually rebooting / crashing - I'm otherwise generally very happy with it).

I had an iPhone 3GS and 4S as well before the HTC One, so I've tried the three main platforms.

Windows Phone is actually very nice for the basics of webbrowsing, sending texts, calling, etc. It has its faults (limited app selection, screen's not amazing, the font hinting is a bit poor), but I'm very impressed with it (and I'm a Linux dev by trade who hasn't touched Windows for many years).
'Content Farming' was a cynical, manipulative business model. Frankly, we should all be glad that Google found a way to kill it. Some 'innovation' needs to be culled from an ecosystem occasionally to allow higher forms of life to not be starved. Pruning the deadwood is the proper method of 'farming' content when you are intent on producing high-quality, IMHO.
1) read this https://python-graph-lovestory.readthedocs.org/en/latest/blu...

2) make sure you have the API in mind

3) choose a problem

4) take a pen

5) take sheet of paper

6) solve the probem

7) ???

8) profit!

There is most of the time (to not say always) several solution to solve a problem, but only one particular solution will be the best...

The thing is there is still no FOSS projects in the wild using graphdbs from which you can copy the designs, but is it really what you want?
There were a couple of IAMA's on reddit with some teenagers who (supposedly) build nuclear reactors

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/hmn56/iama_teenager_wh...

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/xd19t/iama_an_incoming...
Enabling text selection in Quick Look through "defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE" has been very useful together with QLStephen.
Quantum entanglement allows you to know something about a far-away system that you couldn't have been told by communication, but you can't control what information is passed. Essentially, you both get a random result, it's just that you both happen to know what result you both got. That doesn't allow you to communicate anything to each other. The best it does is allows you to both get the same random number at the same time.

Try constructing an experiment where one side answers a predetermined question, and you'll notice that you can't.
I am pretty sure not considering he was in this unit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayeret_Matkal

Which has listed in its known operations both assassinations and kidnappings.
In programming languages, having 3 proper solutions to a problem is worse than having a single proper default solution - simply due to the overhead of first having to choose, and then the unneeded difficulty when reading other people's code who chose a different lib for the same thing.

For things such as hash table literals, you're not supposed to simply have some way of doing it - you're supposed to have a good and commonly used way of how most everyone else would be doing it and representing them in his/her code. Having a bunch of nonobvious, nonstandartized ways alone hurts readability, maintenance and reusability - and thinking that it is okay is a sign of being stuck in the past.

Being able to add it trivially yourself is an order of magnitude worse - because results in everybody rolling out his own. If you want to make an usable ecosystem (not just 'language core') then you have to make sure that for all/most commonly needed things, the default 'batteries included' or 'batteries taken from first google result' work well, not that it's simply possible to get them somehow.
I'm not worried. Thanks for the heads up. The software is produced under a company anyway, not me personally. I'll be waiting for a C&D.
So what is all the talk about how ANNs yield solutions that don't have a straightforward interpretation unlike regression?
The word "Vine" is in the dictionary, it does not solely serve the name of the Vine application. Also, none of the copyrighted logos / trademarks are used on the site. I'm not worried.
My understanding of tribler is that it is going to use onion style routing and use some internal cryptocurrency to incentivize users to provide bandwidth. They hope that with proper incentives people will provide enough bandwidth to enable speeds that are high enough to stream high def video anonymously. They hope to prevent spam by enabling anonymous wiki editing of torrent channels and voting of torrent quality.
> The new trend "Hacker News for X"

New trend? This has been happening continuously for about 5 years now.

I'm just amazed people keep upvoting it, despite the fact these sites always die.
I, and quite a few people I know (admittedly perhaps not average consumers) refuse to sign contracts partly because the phones are so expensive to replace, and breaking the phone doesn't get you out of the contract. That means you need insurance, which adds to the cost. I would rather fully own my device, have the flexibility to switch carriers, and be able to downgrade my plan if my phone breaks or my needs change.
No, it's a pedal-assist motor/control system (with regenerative braking).
Wacom also has a whole product line called bamboo. Not software though, but still a common name in tech.
It's really quite sad that the best the people of any nation can hope for, is that their government doesn't rape them too hard. The US is quite a police state already, but hey, at least it's not North-Korea.

It's pretty interesting why we hear so much about NK but the rhetoric isn't nearly as harsh when hearing about the crazy societies in East Africa. Such flexible moralities at work here.
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