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The title of the article is unfortunate. Classical physics adequately addresses the arrow of time through thermodynamics (the second law in particular). What is missing is so called "decoherence". In other words, quantum physics is supposed to explain everything but when we interpret results we divide the world into classic (the observer) and quantum (the observed) parts. The answer, from reading the article, seems to be that even if the world is in a pure state (quantum) a large part of it could behave like a mixture state (classic observer/environment) through entanglement. This makes it easier to have a coherent mental picture of quantum physics.
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Politicians aren't the source of power, they are conduits of power. Rice happened to be a very good conduit.
Thanks for your comment. I'm really fascinated by the efforts people/organizations/corps are putting into such research and the roadblocks that are potentially in the way of progress.

One thing I'm also fascinated by are the bio "hacker" labs/spaces, and I was wondering if you think something in that direction would be more suited for people to build on and if you think that such labs are even close to being in a position to pursue such endeavors that have mostly been relegated to universities (and the funding environment for such research) and corporations (and the closed source environment typically better suited to monetization)?
My installs are headless, no 3D accel or Unity needed.

As originally mentioned, the VBox kernel modules are of poor quality. You may or may not trigger an edge case in your daily use, with or without a desktop environment.
The point release is a roll up of the previous fixes, so if the bug is fixed beforehand you'll get it in an update.
It's a problem for suburban towns because all towns rely on enough people living there to produce enough tax revenue to keep the town running.
Wedding Crashers was entertaining but not realistic :P
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Whoever hired him should pay the cost of this mis-judgement, at least partially.
All hires should be paid bonus _after_ you made contributions, before then you have your regular salary.
This is ridiculous.
> Maybe, just maybe, you could use the vanishingly small entanglement left with the other Everett Branch to directly communicate with your other self. I'm not even sure it can be done in principle.

My understanding is that this would violate a physical law that we still believe to hold.

You're right though, that I don't understand. At least I thought I understood your last post. With this one, I don't follow the connection to the OP.
I agree and disagree; file sharing alone was never going to be "enough". But even Search wasn't enough for Google; it's not wrong for companies to expand their offerings.

In the case of Dropbox, they need to go head-to-head with the Drive/Docs/Apps provision coming from Google. They're not as well-positioned to do that as they could be, and I'm not sure hackpad will be close to sufficient to get them there. But it's certainly a step in the right direction; documents are moving off the hard drive entirely, and there's no reason Dropbox can't help with the move to the cloud by expanding their offerings with moves exactly like this one.
How about moving out into the countryside? Then people would bother you even less :)
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The folks who recently poured millions into connect.com are NOT going to be happy about this.
The consistent key-value store portion is built using a new implementation of Raft (https://github.com/hashicorp/raft) as opposed to the well-known goraft (https://github.com/goraft/raft). Would be interesting to compare and contrast the two!
:) Thanks so much! Really means a lot.
We didn't manage to finish it in time, but it should be released in the next two weeks or so!
Most of the notifications are about "short periods of higher latency and packet loss", which I can totally tolerate.
The last "5-10 minutes disconnect" happened in November 2013.
If you're having issues seeing the '!' you have a terrible font and/or syntax color theme.
I'll probably get downvotes here but to be brutally honest (with no mean intentions) I'll say that I really dont like anything about it. IMO you should hire someone to build your website, or just buy a theme for $50. (themeforest.com)

I originally moved to NYC to do essentially the same thing you're doing. I gave it up and started coding after banging my head against the wall working with founders/product/marketing teams that could talk all day about funnels, optimizations and product flaws but at the end of the day werent capable of actually doing anything about it. I know that the field is not so much competitive as it is brutal in that 85% of your job is convincing the client that they need you when they really dont. They don't need you to survive. However... if you're good, they could make a significant return on their investment in you. That is what your selling.

They do not need you, but without you... they're leaving money on the table.

One thing I noticed is that 9/10 of my clients were product oriented people. What this means (IMO) is that you're website should look great. When your clientele is the demographic that makes up HN, than you can skimp on design and get away with a truly phenomenal product. A great example here is Tarsnap.

I would look into ghost.io and wordpress, among many others.

Also I think you need to make sure that you put your best work into your own brand. You could do so much more to make a better direct connection between your home page and your blog. Right now they appear to me to be 2 separate entities, and initially I thought they were 2 separate domains. Also you should have a bigger social presence front and center on your website. You do a great job of getting these damn posts on the front of HN but you yourself arent capitalizing on the traffic.

Anyway... This is getting really long but goodluck! Let me know if I can help in any way other than my useless drivvle on HN lol.
So can you move the application dock to the bottom of the screen without recompiling yet?
I'm sure for some companies. Personally, I have to deal with too many physical things that require my presence for it to be viable.
This is an experiment that Sunnyvale is trying to pull off. They are creating a fairly tight down town with housing, shops, and easy access to mass transit; all walkable. I don't believe they have a "real" grocery client there yet (there is a Target but its not like a Safeway or Trader Joe's) but that would probably be the right move. I'm watching the project closely to see how effective it is.
Aren't Microsoft's solutions to running XP stuff on newer versions of Windows pretty good? XP Mode works well for our exotic software, but I have no idea how it scales for many users
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> Impressive from a perspective of science, but also deeply unsettling to me. It's clearly only a matter of time before a human clone is created.

Identical twins are "natural" clones. They are genetically identical. (Barring mutation.)

People take issue with "artificial" or reproductive cloning.

If you reproductively cloned an identical twin, you would end up with three genetically identical people. One is just born later, with a more certain outcome.

[Edit: I am not advocating anything. This is a descriptive observation of genetics, not a normative one.]
One comment on their blog post says that after the change he is getting lower performance on a CPU-heavy test (vanitygen):

https://blog.linode.com/2014/04/17/linode-cloud-ssds-double-...

IO is probably more important for most of the peoples who use VPS, but It would be good to see CPU test from others too, not just IO benchmarks.
Similar to crossfilter?
Can you explain why it's better then Google Docs? I've never heard of Hackpad before, but from their front page, it seems like it fills exactly the same space as Google Docs (collaborative, real-time editing), with little information about why they're better.
The value is base64 encoded, since JSON doesn't play nicely with binary values
On the other hand, you're a fool if you think that the sweetheart deal that the established Google engineer enjoys (almost certainly as a result of city rental ordinances) will be an ounce of comfort or of any material benefit to the next person who needs to find an apartment, engineer or no. Believe it or not, landlords don't lower their asking price for an open apartment just because the guy who moved in downstairs five years ago is paying peanuts. :P

I am pretty sure you are confused as to what you believe my point to be, considering you just restated what I have been saying.

Rents in SF will keep going up until another bubble bursts.
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I never said it was impossible. I'm just saying that renting still makes more sense than buying.
Check out this article and you will find out how Eversnap is making an impact in the world: https://medium.com/startup-founders-entrepreneurs/12fbdeb6a5...
Can you run https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench and see how the performance is to compare?
I've personally found a great alternative to living in major cities is not the suburbs but smaller cities. I grew up in the Northeast and now live in a smaller city in the West (pop ~250,000). I can get to SF in a few hours, but locally I still have most of the things I'd want from a city: great restaurants, art, fun tech community, music, easy to access airport etc. I also have many of the perks of living in a smaller community: very little traffic, incredibly affordable cost of living, get to know the owners of most restaurants/businesses I frequent etc.

The crazy thing is that living in a house 10 minutes from the center of downtown I pay a fraction of what my friends and relatives back East do to live in a suburb so far away from the metro area they live near that they visit it only once or twice a year.

Especially with more and more remote work becoming available, if you're getting sick of living in a major metro area I highly recommend checking the diverse range of smaller cities across the US, imho it is a vastly superior experience to living in an expensive suburb.
Agreed. I'm afraid, the famous quote about Dropbox from Steve Jobs about being a feature not a product is playing out. Dropbox doesn't even own the commodity they sell (as far as I know). They sell you on storage, but you receive a syncing service, not storage.

I like dropbox, don't get me wrong, but they need to recognize the core value they brought to the table (and may still have) is better user experience design, not infrastructure. Simply offering more apps that are bound by the constraints of one's Dropbox account seems profoundly myopic.
IIRC, the Chubby paper mentions how Google put protocol conversion servers in front of Chubby to convert DNS queries into lookups into a Chubby cluster. Here, it's built right into the service itself.
I saw this presentation at MicroConf. It was very impressive. Incredible progress and traction in such a short timespan.

Even more impressive is that the demo version of Bare Metrics uses their own data! Incredible transparency - thanks for the inspiration!

https://demo.baremetrics.io/dashboard
Here's a relatively recent example of it being used in US headline writing to mean an explanatory pamphlet -

"Republicans to Distribute Shutdown Explainer"

http://www.rollcall.com/news/republicans_to_distribute_shutd...

And here's another from The Washington Post, to mean the text of the article -

"Who is Daft Punk? A quick explainer for confused Grammy-watchers"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/01/27...
Anyone have any guesses as to when this will be available on DigitalOcean?

Edit: As of five minutes ago, it's showing up!
Sure, it just takes a certain type of employee. Needs to be someone who values autonomy and is working on things that don't need two guys on a keyword in front of a monitor trying to figure out.
Iraq is far worse than mass surveillance, though the latter is definitely a problem. At least in the case of surveillance the supporters have made something like a rational case for why they think it's needed, and the topic is being debated as it should be. It also usually doesn't involve killing people, and the cost is far lower.

I'm honestly not familiar with anything in recent American history as flagrant as the Iraq fraud. Even Vietnam made sense from a certain point of view and its supporters made their case and it was debated. It ended up being a bad idea, but it was technically a lot more democratic and less fraudulent. Some of its supporters have even admitted they were wrong.

My darkest suspicion about Iraq is that the reasons are either too corrupt or insane to even discuss... either flat-out premeditated fraud or something in complete fruitcake territory like trying to initiate the millennial Christian eschaton. The fact that nobody has even tried to make a coherent well-articulated case that doesn't insult my intelligence makes me wonder.
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512 count=1500 oflag=dsync

768000 bytes (768 kB) copied, 0.45329 s, 1.7 MB/s
Reading the Underscore and Lodash sources was hugely beneficial to me. If nothing else, it taught me how to reimplement what I could and drop the dependencies in my libraries. I find the whole "vanilla js" meme a bit snarky and elitist, but it really does make an impact if you are writing a lot of modules used by others.
The argument for rolling release in a nutshell.
May I ask what/who you think is the source then?
I think this is a change in the New York area mostly. Back in the 70s-mid 80s NYC was a much more dangerous place and living in the suburbs was cheap. Young people in the city then moved to the suburbs to escape rents and high crime. However now the suburbs like Westchester, Long Island have become very expensive with very high taxes.

Since these suburbs are comparatively wealthy the citizens fight against high density development. So if you are a young person that grew up on Long Island you have the choice of paying $1400 to live in someone's illegal basement apartment, living in one of the few decent complexes for $2000+ or move to NYC. It is easy to see why moving to NYC is very attractive then. When you are single or a couple it is good to live in the city as there are plentiful jobs and entertainment options.

So I think that there is not a massive landslide of people leaving the suburbs I think it is just that people are having children much later, the city is now safe, and there are no cheap options for singles/childless couples in the suburbs in the NYC metro area. People still move from NYC to the suburbs. And in cheaper metro areas the suburbs are growing very fast because they are much like the situation that existed in NYC in the 70s-mid 80s
No need to debase yourself to make that point. Referring to her as a "bitch" does nothing to make your point more valid. I have deep distaste for Clarence Thomas, but I'd never refer to him by the n-word. Your elaboration here is far more interesting and appropriate than the original comment.
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Not really related, but does anyone know why newsroom.fb.com is running on WordPress?
Damn, we will very likely see illegal clones of superstars within the next couple of decades.
Not exactly a fair comparison, you'd want to compare similar plans, 2GB Linode VPS and 2GB DigitalOcean VPS are both $20/month. Some benchmarks between the two posted at https://blog.centminmod.com/346. Linode fast disk i/o than DO but DO faster cpu than Linode :)
Yeah, it sounds like the reason that they came off as glib and triumphant is because they didn't anticipate how serious the vulnerability would end up being.
I saw a study showing it is possible to deanonymize a hidden service by doing traffic analysis for several months.
I don't know the technical name for the disappearing elements, but I'm assuming it's intentional. Interesting twist! I don't think I'm smart enough to play this one though, I'll stick with doge.
The old jQuery 1.6.2 code by John Resig is a good start for studying good JavaScript coding practices
http://robflaherty.github.io/jquery-annotated-source/
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This is really impressive - kudos! I'm jealous - these guys are implementing extremely cool stuff in the distributed systems arena :) (serf - http://serfdom.io - comes to mind)

How much time did it take to put this together?
Agreed 110%, but I would back up my Hackpad documents now. Claims of being able to sustain a business after acquihire when the parent company has no stated interest in keeping it alive seem extremely fragile.
This is off-topic and flamewar bait. Please stop.
It's not like the $20 DO instance is going to be faster
The difference is that Search was enough to sustain Google and still is its cash cow. They branched out due to interest, not out of necessity. Dropbox's current business will not sustain and they NEED these acquisitions to find viable business models for the long haul.

What I don't understand about these acquisitions is how tangential it is to Dropbox's original value prop of being a "dumb" folder that would magically sync all of your files and stay out of your way. Now, instead of Dropbox passively running in the background and letting me do my thing, they want me to start actively engaging with the software.

I agree that it's necessary and overall a smart move, but still a very large and difficult pivot to make.
I would suggest linking directly to the extension [0] instead of the search page also I've never heard of Codemarks before and the extension doesn't have any details on what it actually does, you might want to add that in.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/codemarks/mhajcmhk...
I'd add "found programming so interesting they did not finish high school/college." The maximum level of education achieved by my team ranges from middle school diploma to PhD.
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I didn't say Albert started the business. I said that Albert was the reason starting the business was a good idea. What I did say is that either Alice or Zola would be better served by having elements of both Albert and Zip.

I would consider hard to find a decent software engineer that would introduce 20 unproven tools to for something allegorically related to "plumbing" like say your web server.

Additionally, a lot of this is based on perspective. If I suggested standing up a web infrastructure on "nginx" am I an Albert or a Zip. I mean "Apache" has a much longer track record...right? By this article's logic we should write everything in FORTRAN and use single-tasking operating systems. Those have been around since the 50's ... rock solid.

Net out is "proven track records" and "best practices" are convenient stop gaps for ignorance. They are a way for people that don't know any better to manage risk. "I don't get it ... but it worked for her". Being competent and knowledgable, having good risk management skills, and understanding the problem will serve an organization much better than being conservative in your choice of tools.
I have the 7$ VPS, here is the result:

_04/17/2014 - VMPLAN - DATACENTER - OS - AUTHOR_
```
CPU model: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4284
Number of cores: 2
CPU frequency: 3000.000 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 2048 MB
Total amount of swap: 128 MB
System uptime: 14 days, 13:31,
I/O speed: 75.4 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: 7.44s
Download 100MB file: 13.0MB/s
```
Keyword is natural though. It's one thing to push science to it's limits. It's another entirely to delve into eugenics.

It's pretty understandable and a default position to advocate for it, but it could be a slippery slope, and will definitely push the politics towards engineered babies over natural ones.
Reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World
Not exactly what you describe, though, but a fun experiment.
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This is great indeed. I'm happy Linode did this.
I ran below command 10 times and used the average below:

dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync

Linode:
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.09063 s, 985 MB/s
D.O:
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.23998 s, 331 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512 count=1500 oflag=dsync

Linode:
768000 bytes (768 kB) copied, 0.478633 s, 1.6 MB/s
D.O:
768000 bytes (768 kB) copied, 1.01716 s, 755 kB/s
This is the best idea I wish never existed.

It's pretty smart... but I will hate getting these links.
Normally I'd agree. I just think this issue is kind of way out in a class by itself, outside the bounds of ordinary disagreement.

Sarah Palin is someone I pretty much disagree with on almost everything, but I would not use such language to refer to her and I would not advocate boycotting a company for appointing her to their board. I might roll my eyes or scratch my head but that's about it.
One place I can see this being useful is at music festivals or other large open-area events. Often you're going with other people, but you're not necessarily going to stick together the entire time. Being able to find each other easily would be a nice improvement, as phone-tag is a pretty terrible way to do it.
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I would prefer that my nearby friends not be launched anywhere.
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I think DC is actually a bad example of this, in the sense that people whose kids reach school age leave very quickly. A quick look at the demographic data of the public school population shows that the newcomers aren't adding to the public school population.

Either they don't have school age kids, or they are putting their kids in private school.

Other cities won't have this issue though.
It reminds me of another paper that was discussed here earlier (I can't find the submission, though):

A quantum solution to the arrow-of-time dilemma—Lorenzo Maccone

The arrow of time dilemma: the laws of physics are
invariant for time inversion, whereas the familiar
phenomena we see everyday are not (i.e. entropy
increases). I show that, within a quantum mechanical
framework, all phenomena which leave a trail of
information behind (and hence can be studied by
physics) are those where entropy necessarily increases
or remains constant. All phenomena where the entropy
decreases must not leave any information of their
having happened. This situation is completely
indistinguishable from their not having happened at
all. In the light of this observation, the second law
of thermodynamics is reduced to a mere tautology:
physics cannot study those processes where entropy has
decreased, even if they were commonplace.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080401 – Published 17 August 2009

http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103... – http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0438
Only if you like Real Estate and spend a lot of time studying it, understanding the market and are well funded.

Most young adults are none of these.
My wife and I moved out of a 3rd ring suburb into the City (a first ring suburb) here in Minneapolis and have been very happy so far. Most of my friends have either done the same or plan to in the near future. I lived my whole life in a quintessential suburban city and had my fill. Suburbs have everything you need and nothing you want. You can go months without ever leaving. Now, enjoying stuff in the city is no longer a long trek. I expect this trend to continue.
Ryel, greatly appreciate you taking the time to write that out. No way would I downvote that -- it's exactly the type of constructive criticism I was hoping for. I'm taking your feedback seriously and will use it.

I've kept the page bland because I spend more of my time on client projects than on my own site, and most projects have come in through word-of-mouth. However, I realize that's not sustainable, and I should really blog more often and work more on the personal promotion front.

Edit: Can I buy you coffee in NYC? Can't find your contact info. Mine is in my profile.
I'll acknowledge it.

You pay > $7000/month for rent? 4200 pounds per month?