skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The obvious solution is to write down the initial vector of size N=2^50 and start applying the quantum gates to the vector. […] The size is “just” a petabyte—or actually 1/8 of a petabyte.

Um, NO. A quantum system is described by the complex probability of being in any of those states. You need more like 2^57 bits to represent that. 16 petabytes.

Source: I've written a 24-qubit quantum simulator.
And this! http://sndtst.com/Chrono_Trigger
As explained here: http://aaisp.net.uk/kb-broadband-realinternet.html

The option are:

- Unfiltered Internet access - no filtering of any content within the A&A network - you are responsible for any filtering in your own network, or

- Censored Internet access - restricted access to unpublished government mandated filter list (plus Daily Mail web site) - but still cannot guarantee kids don't access porn.
People have been talking about the impending end of Moore's law for a long time. Now, we have run into a wall with clock speeds which has already slowed things down, and led to a lot of back filling (e.g. The huge push in improving the speed of VMs and interpreted languages is essentially a tradeoff of memory for performance, which follows from memory continuing to get cheaper while performance stagnates (kind of).
I think the player interface needs some tweaking. Putting the pause/play button all the way in the bottom right corner is... unconventional.
I am not saying I am one of those coders. But I know that they are on HackerNews. There is a large chance that the founder and VCs of Yo will see this thread. If you post about a computer language, chances are the authors are reading it.

Yes, there are a lot of coders on here that can code your MVP or a basic mobile app in 48 hours. And I think some of them are still constantly learning new ways to code and getting better.

I made no qualitative statements about these topcoders vs. those coders who can't (or won't) deliver in a weekend.

> ...will suddenly start to wonder what's the point of learning to code if they'll only be good once they can build any app in a weekend.

I think that's more of an issue with self-esteem than it is with the observation that there are hackers on here who can crank out production-ready code in a short amount of time.

HN really seemed to like the posts by Jennifer Dewalt (http://jenniferdewalt.com/). It is not unwelcome to starting coders. You may be interested in Norvig's article: http://norvig.com/21-days.html "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" which aligns much more with my true view on this.

Speed is not everything. Often these weekend hacks lack market demand, lack user experience, can't overcome the chicken-and-egg problem.
How YouTube's Subscription Terms Will Hurt Indies – No Content Removal Required
Sure https://windows.github.com/
Aaron Swartz Doc 'The Internet's Own Boy' To Premiere on Demand
Just gave it a go. Quite a fun game actually. My compliments to the author. Some feedback that may be of use :

1) Use thicker lines, preferably in a color that contrasts better with white (although it'll be fine if the segment width is 2-4 pixels)

2) Support for drag + snap-to-intersect/vertex UX rather than click only. I instinctively tried this first.

3) Some sort of progress tracking (local storage or user accounts even perhaps)

Anyway, great idea and a promising start!
Command-line python tool for manipulating (sync, append, etc) CartoDB map data
That's pretty much the A&A plan that I have, and I think it's worth it for me. This is a case where you get what you pay for, and I both need an excellent level of service (because I depend on my ISP for work) and can afford to pay for it. The equation would be different for other, say, casual users or people on tight budgets.

Also ... IPv6 just works, and I have a /48 assignment.
For a paper like that I'd expect to see Haruhi Suzumiya as a co-author.
It could be worse. You could have published a paper on gravity shielding, and be shunned for the rest of time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Podkletnov
Interesting Swift Features
> What I think the city should have done is invite the kid

It's quite probable that the city official did not even know it was a nine-year-old kid's structure, since the family was on vacation:

from article> When we got home from vacation, there was a letter from the city
"Tools can be used badly", by Phil Space
@chatmasta, Thanks very much for your links, I'm so exciting to check it out.
Okay, thanks for the explanation on the chroma upsampling! I use Linux but it should work all the same.

When I said that I embedded the videos in a web page, I wrote a small page from scratch to display them in my browser, locally, without any server. So no re-encoding. I think that VLC just has a better chroma upsampling.
The reports of Fire Phone's death are widely exaggerated
While we're recommending alternative ISPs in the UK, here's a nod to Fast[1]. UK-based support, no filtering or other obstruction, even remaining polite and understanding when I inadvertently took down a large portion of their network for the afternoon. Competitively priced FTTC (I'm on a £22/m 40/10 offer - now expired) including cheap no-frills line-rental.

I remain very interested in A&A but by comparison I have all I need for now with Fast. A&A have my full support (fwiw) in their vocalisation of tech-community concerns and I hope Fast can follow suit.

[1] - http://www.fast.co.uk
8 Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs
Different product and github only.
> abstraction being excessively glorified (mostly) by academics and formal CS curricula.

It's not just academics, it's many developers, too.

We're in an old-school thread. We like what's really going on. Hang out in the Web Starter Kit from last night though, and you'll find tons of people who glorify abstraction.

The reality is that competing forces spread out the batter in different directions: the abstractionists write Java-like stuff. The old-schoolers exploit subtle non-linearities.

Actual commercial shipments rely on a complex "sandwich" of these opposed practices.

> Demoscene is all about creative, pragmatic ways to solve problems

Yes and I grew up with the demoscene (c64 and amiga 500) and it's also about magic, misdirection, being isolated for long winters and celebrating a peculiar set of values. Focus is shifted toward things that technologists know are possible, such as tight loops running a single algorithm that connects audio or video with pre-rendered data, not on what people want or need, such as CAD software or running mailing lists. Flexibility, integration and portability are eschewed in favor of performance.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the demoscene - it's the path that got me to love music. And I have near-total apathy for functional programming. I only code in Javascript when weapons are pointed at my heart, but with the proper balance, there are some very real reasons to make use of abstraction. It's not just academics, it's people solving real problems. The trick is to act strategically with respect to the question: which parts will you optimize and which parts will you offload to inefficient frameworks?
Could the watch manufacturer print a UUID on each of its parts that you consider irreplaceable if it had to be fixed? The watch could then be verified using the serial number and some online database?
It's the first time in my life I see someone praising their ISP, I'm still astonished...
I use it to read commit log messages and see what changes were made to the files.

For actual commiting, branching, etc I just use the terminal.
Even as the resident apologist for NSA activities, I have to say this bill seems entirely appropriate to me.

Information gathered under FISA 702 shouldn't be able to be searched for American data without a proper search warrant, and preventing the undermining of encryption standards seems like a net win for our own cybersecurity, since it's hard to have faith that bad actors couldn't one day leverage the very backdoors that the government implants.

This bill strikes a good balance between privacy and national security, demonstrates knowledge of how 702 has been used as an end run around the rules for domestic searches, and enhances our nation's cybersecurity posture rather than harming it.

Too bad this likely won't pass the Senate, but at least it's a blueprint for future efforts to preserve our lead in cyber warfare while protecting Constitutional principles.
Why did Twitter buy Gnip?
are you an alien, time-traveler, or esper?
JS Task Runners Comparison: Grunt vs. Cake vs. Gulp vs. Broccoli
Heat apparently affects sperm count, whereas oxidative stress affects vitality and motility.

This in vitro study controls for temperature: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
This is true for most physical inventions. Machines, for instance, may be claimed as a particular configuration of physical components, but the invention is not restricted to any precise composition materials used in those components unless the claims require it. Indeed, claims often don't even mention the materials being used.

For instance, you can use any comparable material or fluid to provide the necessary mechanical support or hydraulic force. Replacing, say, steel (or oil) with any other alloy (or incompressible fluid) with comparable properties will not allow you to sidestep the essence of the invention. This is analogous to switching one processor to another: it makes no difference because they are equivalent. As such, pretty much all patents (except maybe those on compounds) are abstract to some degree: they all claim a useful application with a wide range of possible physical implementations.

This is covered by the Doctrine of Equivalents, which specifically exists to prevent non-infringement through trivial workarounds. The counterbalance to this is that in examination, claims are given their broadest reasonable interpretation to find as much prior art as possible. For instance, examiners are free to use equivalent elements in the prior art to read on those in the claims.
Good managers are able to dissociate people's ego from their work to a large extent. However, there are situations where a decision needs to be taken with incomplete knowledge, for example, adopting a new framework for code within tight timelines. In such situations, if people have different opinions basis their experience, it becomes really difficult to make the right decision.
GP was using parentheses as a grouping construct, as in a programming language, in which case it makes total sense.
tl;dr: Book sales page.
Best Quote: "Possibly publication could be coupled with a small amount of Kickstarter-like funding. Cain and I have not discussed the idea further -- we are both too busy -- but if anyone out there on the Internet wants to explore this idea further, consider me a supporter."
Ever Wanted to Be Spider-Man? The Pentagon Is Working on That
I've been a big fan of GitHub for Mac since it first launched, and it still gets regular updates. It won't be easy to convince me to switch, but I'm all for improving tools that are such a big part of the workflow.
Realtor.com under a DDoS attack since June 17th
Feedly was DDoS'd not too long ago, now realtor.com soon after. Realtor isn't quite as tech savvy, but I thought it was worth mentioning when a major website gets taken down like this.

More information can be found at their Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/realtor.com/posts/10152534424947871
A patent is essentially a document with just two purposes: 1) instructing a practitioner how to reconstruct the claimed invention, and 2) defining the legal scope of ownership for the claimed invention. By itself, it does nothing else, and thus does not constitute making, using, or selling.

Now if somebody other than the patent-holder takes the source, compiles it and uses and / or distributes it without license, they are infringing. Note that by taking and compiling the source, they are essentially just fulfilling the first intended purpose of the patent: instruction. Where they run afoul is the second purpose.
House passes amendment to cut NSA's 'backdoor search' funding
I love Go; having Go as an option for Android development would be awesome because the language is just so much fun. I'm not getting my hopes up though, because Go was intended for server-side stuff. Object-oriented design is a great strategy for rapid app development, and this is the key different between Swift and Go that I've noticed.
Yeah, the bugs (it occasionally needs a full restart) in SourceTree definitely hold it back. I'm willing to put up with them for all the other features, but I can understand how others wouldn't.
These guys look brilliant!

"Even in 2013 it is almost unique to find a "home" package that includes IPv6. In IPv6 ::1 is the address for "Home". Calling it Home127.0.0.1 seemed silly."
One more UI request: Given two points, there are two possible third points on an equilateral triangle, and no clear way to choose between them.

Great game, though. I'm on level 5 and having a lot of fun.
"Call https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Palmer " :)
Probably, I took it apart and had a quick look but couldn't find the key. I only had a quick scan of the Application and Activity classes though and did a search for Parse.initialize (where the key is passed in)
Antibodies and Positrons: Leadership by Consensus and Project Management
Nice game! I think it could make geometry more fun for students.
A bunch of stuff was inconsistent - I think they had three or four styles of dropdown at one point. They had a massive cleanup in 1.9 though.
> There is a strict convention in regards to the gem versioning system.

Sadly this is not true. I've seen numerous gems that don't follow this pattern.

If you're going to create a gem I recommend using http://semver.org and stating in your readme that you use it so that users are certain of the system in use.
Great blog post, where's the actual product?
As unlikely as these findings are, has anyone actually replicated the experiment?
I think the github app actually handles non-GH repos. It's just inconsistent with git terminology and concepts.
Not to be confused with jQuery. This is similar to Lo-Dash or Underscore.
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>It's kind of crazy to me the degree to which the left is becoming a movement built around kneejerk status quo bias, based on nothing but a distaste for the idea that someone might be making money off of making consumers' lives better.

What exactly are you referring to when you say "the left"? The movements I'm familiar with as such are openly pro-technology and blatantly utopian and anticapitalist on those grounds.
How does it compare to SmartGit/Hg?
http://www.syntevo.com/smartgithg/
eBay Sell For Me Program
I use it mostly for the graphs... We work between a ton of branches and it's nice to see the visualization. Also, it's a lot faster when I have to push multiple branches to multiple repos (looking through 2 remotes with 7 branches each right now).
Paid listings for Product Hunt
This is hardly an obscure reference... I think you underestimate the pop culture literacy of young programmers.
I recommend Digilent for cheap boards. Much cheaper than dev boards directly from Altera or Xilinx.

http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Catalog.cfm?NavPath=2,40...
What nailer said. Works great on non-GH repos without any complaints, just maybe non-standard workflows and mentality.

It's actually what I recommend to colleagues who aren't comfortable with git, but we find it to be better than any other version control or [insert LaTeX collab startup here] for writing academic articles.

Edit: for clarity.
Reminds me of this game:
http://www.sciencevsmagic.net/geo/#
which seems to be a lot less buggy.
I don't think we can actually make chips out of carbon...
Sweden makes a lot more sense than North Carolina. It's been nearly 100 degrees F here lately, and Summer doesn't begin until tomorrow.
What we do at work is every developer has their own VM on an on-premise server in a locked room that is rebuilt/destroyed as needed with the full stack.

So maybe he just wasn't being clear?
Big Bang breakthrough team allows they may be wrong
Ask HN: What might the best route be to an IT degree?
I currently have a day job as an Estimator, run a side business doing design/architectural work, and am contemplating studying for an IT degree in the hope of replacing the day job with something I'm more interested in such as a Sys Analyst.

I'm from the UK but currently reside in NYC and am a permanent resident.

I'd sincerely appreciate some guidance on how to go about doing this. Specifically, what courses and certifications are the most sensible to pursue?

Cheers,
HP
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A nice example. Thank you.

I just want to note that in Ramda, because of it's strong insistence on a data-last API (which makes the currying easier), this would be written in this order:

result = filter(greater(R), map(distance(origin), array));

But it's precisely the same idea.
Technology: How far can Amazon go?
X-Rays from Adhesive Tape (VIDEO)
Great sounding. I can only imagine the work behind this soundtrack!
Wouldn't that be a classical computer? PC is a weird term to use here.
2) I assume you’re charging by time. In that case do some research on what your local competitors charge and find a balance between that average amount and what you’re comfortable with based on your experience. Don’t be afraid of increasing prices. Once you get some experience under your belt, look at value-based income[1].

3) I do a guesstimate on how much I can actually work in a week - a bit more than the 20 hours you have, but not 40 - and allocate clients to that time. Most of my current clients are people I have worked with in some capacity, but going to meetups and talking to people about your business helps get new clients as well. Always be selling, even to friends.

4) Ironically I get more social interaction now than when I had a full-time job, mostly due to compressing my work schedule which offers more flexibility for meeting with people (having lunch with others in my industry, going to meetups earlier and staying later to network, etc.).

I suggest just working your damn hardest during the day so you save enough time to get some proper social interaction after work. Co-working spaces are another avenue, but if anything I found people less talkative in these setups than an actual office (in Ottawa at least).

5) Think about getting an accountant, even if you think you don’t need one. Sooner or later you’ll need their help for some trivial thing you didn’t account for, such as signing a new apartment lease and being able to prove your income.

And be open to collaborations if possible. Working with other consultants on a project that they can’t quite get off the ground will help both of you than working individually.

[1] http://breakingthetimebarrier.freshbooks.com/
Do they provide you with a static IP?
You can always compute a large similarity between two very different points by projecting them down onto a smaller space, particularly when the smaller space elides most of the real differences.

Or in other words, if you conceive of politics as "statists" versus anti-state proprietarians (what you call "libertarians", which by the way excludes actual anarchists), you can make anything look like anything.
Reminds me of [0], only with worse controls.

[0] - http://sciencevsmagic.net/geo/
Tell them to come to the US please. :)

We need an ISP we'd actually like around here!
Here's an informative podcast by the Changelog that interviews a Dart author and a Dart outreach advocate, http://thechangelog.com/121/

tldr; it's more than compiling to JS.
Cord from plastic bottles [video]
Why A San Francisco Coffee Shop Stopped Tracking Customers' Phones
How you will not uncover Satoshi
An eraser to remove lines and segments would be useful too.
Examples or it didn't happen.
Ah, just found it: Block of IPv6 addresses statically assigned (/48 per customer), and single static IPv4 address.

From http://aaisp.net.uk/broadband-home1-info.html#more
Software patents take a hit, but they're far from dead
wow, the rat pack of development
Limelight: A light toned, justifying theme for Jekyll.
Ok, I took another look and all the Parse keys are in a very obvious place!
Perhaps no evidence was found because people from the future have seen this paper and therefore know not to reveal themselves this way!
I disagree. This is the best quote:

" On the money-wasted angle, when doing a Reddit interview about the manuscript, I respond to a question about how this research was funded with the fake answer that we used money left over from our study "Does Tax Payer Money Burn Any Better Than Regular Money?" (Nemiroff & Wilson 2014). In reality, this was an unfunded project."
Virgin Media have replied to some users already - here's the email (copied from the Open Rights Group blog post[1])

Virgin Media's response says: “...We have also been in contact with government and with the Information Commissioner's Office following the ruling and the UK government's current position is that although the Directive was held to be invalid, our own Data Retention Regulations are still in force and we must comply with them until such time as they are struck down by a UK court.”

[1] https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2014/data-retention-why...
Oh trust me if I had had the money I would have happily pursued your route. Cutting a trace on your only working computer and soldering bits & pieces onto the motherboard in order to land a job (talk about risk/reward here, I'm not sure how I would have worked without that machine but I really wanted that engine ;) ) made me pretty nervous. If I could have saved myself that batch of cold sweat I would have happily done so.

What got me is that it did work, I fully expected there to be some level of synchronization between the chips that would require both of them to be clocked at the same rate. The only reason I tried this is that the main CPU appeared to stop working and I figured it was worth a shot to see if the FP could go faster. And it did, and not just a little bit faster! Apparently Intel engineers were quite friendly when they designed the interaction between the two processors because in spite of the huge discrepancy in clock speed between the two chips it worked incredibly well.
yet another interesting project from libya..
It's not surprising to me that no physics journals would accept it. Physics journals are, sadly, extremely wary of accepting anything that seems philosophical.

For example, serious people writing serious papers on the foundations of quantum mechanics used to have a hell of a time getting them published. To give a particular example (and I hope I'm not mis-remembering), I don't think Lucien Hardy was able to get this paper [1] accepted. (It now has 215 citations.)

[1] Lucien Hardy, Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms [quant-ph/0101012], https://scirate.com/arxiv/quant-ph/0101012