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It worked in attracting women (perhaps a certain kind of women, but still). That doesn't mean it didn't have side effects.

I don't understand your problem with people criticizing some of the things they did. It's just saying they wouldn't be attracted to the conference. It's a piece of information the organizers can ignore or not, it's their conference.

I suppose in economic terms it will work out because having more women will attract more men. What mix of people they'll have is another issue.
Conway's description of entanglement is misleading. FIN does not actually apply here. According to quantum physics, no information is exchanged between the particles. If information is exchanged, it is not limited to any finite speed we know of.

The thought experiment he describes is well-known in the popular science press: you create two particles with opposite spins (angular momenta), but such that the spins are not determined. As soon as you measure the spin of one the spin of the other becomes determined -- INSTANTLY. There is no speed-of-light limit here. If you describe the situation as two particles colluding by sharing some "information," then FIN does not apply, as far as we know! (And if there is a limit, it is greater than the speed of light.) A physicist would instead say that no actual information is transmitted, and entanglement cannot be used to transmit information faster than the speed of light.

Since the metaphor of wave function collapse as information sharing between particles leads to incorrect physics, I don't think we should read too much into the metaphor of measurements as "free choices" of a particle.
A desktop app, yes.
Well, there's PHP Conference http://phpconference.com And also Northeastern http://www.northeastphp.org/

I don't know of it's too late to get tickets yet since these are late October and September. It's good to check up on these early in the year, just in case.

Edit: On Northeastern, you can check out last years highlights to see if this is what you're looking for http://2013.northeastphp.org/
Looks cool! Another: https://www.quantopian.com
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Everybody seems unhappy with this article, so we're going to demote it. More neutral, substantive articles on this subject are always welcome. (So are more nkurz submissions!)
Devil's advocate, which is why I have this account: why is it not a gender equality issue that the sons are expected to care for their parents and not the daughters?

I'm not saying everything is hunky-dory in India. I'm saying that if someone thinks the fix is "Oh just apply Americanism in this particular aspect" then that someone is naive.
We've already managed to dramatically reduce the processing time compared to the numbers reported in the paper.

It'll still be slow (a couple hours for a 10 min video) but running on a singe standard PC (with GPU).
If I understand this correctly, this proof is used to exclude one of the two given explanations for the "Kochen-Specker Paradox"?

The article says the KS "paradox" implies that either

> 1. Each measurement of a particle is not independent but rather depended on
> context. In other words, the order in which you make measurements matters.

or

> 2. The particle does not decide what the value of its spin is in any direction
> until the experimenter actually makes a measurement!

As I understand it, the proof shows that the order in which you take the measurements can't matter, excluding explanation (1), because of the following thought experiment.

* Take two particles, entangled and then separated by some distance.

* More quickly than information can pass between the particles, measure one particle in three directions in some order, and measure the other particle just once in one direction which you choose right at that moment.

The second particle can't be affected by the order in which you measured the first particle's spins, but if I was able to choose a direction in which to measure the second particle's spin, then the second particle was able to choose a result to match the appropriate result from the first particle's measurements.

I think I followed this argument up until the last sentence above. What I (mis)understand to be happening here is "spooky action at a distance"; it doesn't at all appear to be a free choice on the particle's part.

In essence we established via the KS paradox that our two particles couldn't have "agreed" on their spins ahead of time, because there's no consistent way to assign all of their spins. But then we measured the two particles in the proscribed way and got a result that looks like the particles did agree on their spins beforehand.

I believe that this excludes explanation (1) from above, but I don't understand how explanation (2) is consistent with this. If it were the case that the particle was deciding its spin at measurement time (explanation (2)), wouldn't the two particles have to communicate faster than c (or whatever our speed limit is) in order to ensure that they made the same decision? We explicitly ruled out this possibility via the FIN axiom and our experimental setup.

The only way I can think of to make this work is to say that the universe doesn't "choose" which result I got until I meet up with my friend who measured the other particle. But this seems to be a far stronger claim than the article makes.

What's the right way of thinking about this?
"100% native widgets" is the easy part and wxWidgets/wxPython is doing just that (and always have been). Providing higher-level API is harder and again, wx does that too.

But the devil is in the detail. The reason why many wx apps don't look very well on OS X is because getting all the tiny details like spacing, behavior, layout etc. right for all supported platforms, with (mostly) same code base is hard - and it has nothing to do with the look of individual widgets.

But well, you'll learn that during the journey ;)
Next stop: citation/playback of other customer's recordings hosted by consumerist.
I would use this for sure. I do timelapses of runs I do and set as challenges for our social running group. The source is a head-mounted GoPro.
The problem with them is that a straight forward pick-every-nth-frame gives a motion-sickness inducing video, as well as blurry. If you could extract the frame from the top of each stride when the camera is most steady, I would imagine it would be very much more watchable.
The last time we talked about IMGUI, for historical reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4201748
The link has been taken down for some reason. The Internet Archive to the rescue!
https://web.archive.org/web/20140810205859/http://3dprototyp...
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I just jumped through the thousand tiny hoops needed to get one through Comodo (resold by tucows), and more than anything it was just calendar time and busywork rather than any particular difficulty that bothered me about the process.

After a week of not hearing back from them, I got in touch by email and they said they were stalled (though they hadn't contacted me to say so) because the email and phone number on the whois for the domain weren't exact matches with the ones on the application.

Ok, fair enough. Fixed.

But then (days later) we were blocked because they couldn't look up the business license. So I sent them a direct link to the Washington State department of whatever search, with the business license number I'd given them already pre-filled.

But then (days later) we were blocked because the phone number and business address weren't to be found in any online phone book services. Can't call you on the number listed on the businesses website or whois. Need phone book.

But phone book listings are free. You can add one for any business, fictitious or otherwise, by supplying a name, address and phone number at yp.com. They just take still more calendar time.

Add in a few more meaningless steps like that and I was verified (without ever having to mail them that passport scan or anything else that would actually verify me or my business).

I guess they need to justify charging all that money. But mostly it's just a giant hassle that makes you glad you bought the longest duration cert possible to avoid having to go through that again any time soon.
I made this website (somevid.com) with one of my friends, so that anyone can easily share videos. No signup, no ads etc. It's fast, flexible. I posted two videos on reddit, tried approaching bloggers. No luck so far. How do you get video posters to use our site? We think it is great. But not sure what everyone else thinks.
You get several related units of measurement that each have sane conversion factors. If something goes well beyond centimeters, meters and later kilometers are much nicer to handle. Inches to feet to yards to miles doesn't scale nearly as nicely because of conversion factors of 12, 3 and (I think) 1760 involved there.

And since this property is shared by every unit you have the same conversion factors everywhere. No need to memorise hundreds of units, just a dozen and a pattern. Also when combining units (e.g. N being kg⋅m/s²) the conversion factors stay sane.
Hmm...It seems that at least they still are using it:

http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/product/unity/issues?categor...

I read somewhere that the plan was to migrate away from it, a long time ago (2/3 years back?), so perhaps they just decided not to.
> Then where is the pressure to get opengl on the consoles?

Valve is just entering consoles scene. It's too early to call that pressure, but they at least plan to disrupt it. Time will tell.

> it is because the entire console model is license deals, app store cuts, and exclusives.

Yes, that's why this sick approach needs some serious disruption. Linux gaming looks like one.

> if you could write your games and seamlessly run them everywhere, console manufacturers lose their primary pitch to consumers.

Exclusivity is a weird pitch. Real pitch of consoles should be in ease of access, usability and user friendliness.

> you can build a computer as powerful as either for the same price as either.

That's exactly what consoles should be about - plug and play. No building for those who don't want it. All of that doesn't preclude using cross platform technologies. Let console makers compete on hardware (Asus, Dell whoever) and not on locking developers into their walled garden proprietary OS and APIs.
Note on cheap iPhones
Is there a big problem with murders at hacker events? If there were, then maybe organisers would need to take steps to prevent them. There's certainly a problem with harassment, which is why it seems reasonable to have policies to mitigate that.
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There's also "Scientist and Engineer's Guide to
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These ISPs all record their calls for "quality assurance purposes", so the idea that there's no record outside of the customer's own to whatever they promised is ludicrous. If we're not doing so already, I think it's time to keep records of all our calls.

I believe there are some places where this might be a legal hiccup, but I'm not sure if those rules still apply if the other party informs you that they're recording it themselves.
Meh, as a visible minority I'd rather the open borders than the opposite. The Nordic countries, Japan, and others with historically xenophobic and anti-immigration attitudes have a "stronger" rule of law, and the illusion of fewer social ills, because they don't have to deal with the discomfort of a heterogeneous population.

And now that immigration is increasing in these places the amount of racism being exposed is shocking, even when compared to the USA where racism has been front-and-center for decades. Hell, just look at HN threads whenever Muslim immigration to Sweden/Norway comes up, it's like Stormfront on steroids.

Your argument has been levied against just about every immigrant population that's made its way into the US. The Irish, the Italians, the Jews, the Chinese, all of whom were subject to enormous racist and xenophobic backlash, much of it under the guise of some vague notion of cultural integrity.

All of the above populations have integrated into American society and in fact the US would be markedly poorer - economically and culturally - without them now.

There's a small amount of schadenfruede I feel when I look at the struggles going on right now in previously-closed countries as they experience large-scale immigration for the first time. For years they tsk'ed tsk'ed at the US (and Canada) for their social upheaval, as people came to grips with living in a heterogeneous society, and criticized us for the many examples of blatant racism and xenophobia. Now that they're going through the same thing it makes me sad to see people from these very countries spouting the same justifications and views as Jim Crow-era America, as if they've learned literally nothing for themselves while observing us in judgment this whole time.
Hmm... Did I not embed these correctly? The project page as well as the embed links are plain http:// this is what it should be, no?
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Why don't you do a Show HN? It's look like a cool product!
Thanks I have only ever done some of the OTW challanges but now I can try more :)
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 35M Jul 15 16:27 /usr/bin/clang
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I would love to. But not sure how to post to Show HN. I submitted my URL already without "Show HN" on title and it is now lost in the many discussions. Now, I'm unable to submit again.
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+1 This one is really good, showcasing code, graphics and formula for each lesson. So even if you don't understand totally the mathematical notation you can still read the code. I managed to learn DSP without an EE degree mainly with this book.
Very good points

Chess is the best researched game of all time, yet it still progressed tremendously in recent decades (thanks to becoming a professional sport in the West - around the Fischer era - and the appearance of computers, of course). We know how long the "food chain" is, but we can't tell to a certainty how long it can become (how close can a human get to perfect play), even if the pool of motivated players is very wide.

Current world champions are standing on the shoulders of the giants. Alekhine or Capablanca, geniuses as they were, wouldn't have a shot for the title if they didn't catch up with modern developments. And there are PLENTY. Memorization plays a big role these days. In one of the games in the Topalov vs Anand match, Anand slipped because he messed up the order of moves - all home preparation!! - around the 27th move or so. (Does this mean that humanity has already traversed the entire steep part of the learning curve?)

So the chain is still growing. Does it mean that chess is becoming more difficult game? It's a Platonic question, really :) Do we mean chess as such, and the innate difficulty of the game, imprinted in its rules that remain fairly stable - no major rule changes for the last couple of centuries, I believe? The IDEA of chess, so to speak?

Or do we mean chess AS IT IS PLAYED, or the reflection of the perfect idea :)

In the early era of competitive chess we had the so-called Romantic period, in which aesthetics of the game, the style, was valued over cold efficiency and - for example - it was considered ungentlemanly not to accept a gambit.

Was it just a cultural convention hurting the level of the game? Or was it a different flavor of the game, in which a player had to fullfill an additional responsibility they are now relieved from, and thus not quite the same discipline?

Just my two cents, some chaotic food for thought :) Sorry about the language, not a native speaker here.
Whenever I face the arguments of determinism vs. indeterminism, I wonder how indeterminism would be defined in a purely indeterministic world. I don't know. But in this seemingly deterministic universe, we define indeterminism as a negative sense to the deterministic dynamics we observe, but we can't do it in a positive sense. All of our conceptions of "indeterminism" and random/chaos like concepts is all "determinism-biased" in that sense. Maybe, determinism might be a tiny, tiny small subset of a huge set of indeterminism, as if integers are a tiny subset of all real numbers. There's no such a thing as integers vs. real numbers. Integers are also just real numbers. In that sense, determinism might be a small part of indeterminism.
It is definitely a gender equality issue, but you have to understand that it's simply the other side of that same coin that is generally presented as "women are not equally respected in India". There is a universal correlation between responsibility and respect (and between responsibility and the share of resources that one receives), across all cultures, all organizations, etc. So if in a certain culture men / boys are given higher responsibilities, such as having to provide for their family, then they are automatically attributed more respect and a larger share of power and resources.

The answer, however naive and simplistic it may seem, is to distribute responsibility equally, for instance by expecting both genders to provide for their families. Respect cannot but follow. This is why giving women access to all kinds of jobs is a key issue.
HSR is not simply graft, although it certainly could be implemented as such. Allow me to give some examples.

When you deploy bigger planes you also need bigger infrastructure: The A380, for example, has had some delays due to new requirements. [0] And the A380 itself is not the largest plane ever built [1] - the sizes we've standardized on are an economic tradeoff of land availability, energy consumption, and carrying capacity.

Finally, it's not just planes that a train competes against, but automobiles; simply, if more people drive, we waste more energy. The state's planners have run the numbers and determined that HSR will diversify the transit capacity cost load and make it less risky to hit capacity targets 20 years out. [2]

In current urban planning practice, rails are preferred as a way to encourage dense and sustainable development; when you go downtown-to-downtown, the land value around those hub stops skyrockets. The Japanese rail system was built around this principle, encouraging the rail companies to be real estate investors as well as transportation companies - as a result, the trains go to nearly every major destination. In the case of CA HSR, the stops in the Central Valley will become secondary hubs for businesses that want equal transit times between SF and LA. This puts the Central Valley towns on a more stable economic footing and is good for the overall welfare of the state.

[0] http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_aircraft

[2] http://www.transformca.org/sites/default/files/moving_ahead_... (page 31)
"MUTCD specifies yellow lines between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions and white lines between lanes moving in the same direction, whereas the Vienna Convention uses white for both." (Wikipedia)

No thanks.
In one of the experiments, there were two groups: One was asked to write a original creative essay and other was asked to use a template created by an expert and just fill it out. One of such popular template comes in the form of "X number of reason why Y is not true". Although these bullet points doesn't seem such a "creative" content, in the experiment these kind of template-based approach won hands down VS asking people to come up with something original. Why? Because most people suck at being original and creative. It requires years of experience + some level of genius gene and avoiding pitfalls and keeping delicate balance to be original. So if you can't hire 75 Oscar Wilds, then your best bet to create the popular content is follow the templates.

BuzzFeed's model is simple. You can hire pretty much average Joes who can be assigned some interesting topic everyday like "Cheap Private Islands". These Joes will then do research on Internet for few hours and fill out the template with what they found: "25 Amazing Private Islands That You Can Rent Now". Is this click worthy? Absolutely.

I think people who frown upon this don't get "entertainment industry". When you want a TV series or a movie, the goal is not to educate you but entertain you. To provide you some amusement and excitement in your day - however short living that may be. If you click on BuzzFeed's link and if you found it did provided you amusement, they did your job and in return you gave them some CPI. This is no different than watching a soap opera. In other words, Internet is replacing TV as the source of entertainment and BuzzFeed is now a core provider of content in this arena.
And, as a matter of fact, the modern desktop PC still isn't a world-dominating artificial general intelligence. Because the two things have nothing to do with each-other. No amount of advancement in hardware, quality or quantity, will turn artificial neural networks into the phlebotinum from Charles Stross novels.
While it would of course lower afasd's blood pressure to relax and let it go, his question needs to be considered. Anyone telling law-abiding would-be American immigrants to wait their turn comes off as either oblivious or downright malicious if they tacitly condone, um, "extralegal" immigration. As an American, frankly, it's embarrassing.
Ask HN: What happens to Failed Startup furniture?
Every startup seems to have really nice monitors and chairs, but of course some startups fail and shut down at some point. What happens to said equipment when they close up shop? Is this liquidation process different for say a 50 person startup vs a 10 person startup?
You still need a base power plant and few others for controlling the amount of energy in the system. Using only renewable is kind o hard. If we can figure out a way to store energy the way we can access it very quickly with arbitrary output, we could move on to renewables exclusively.
Yes, you cannot post the same URL twice. If you had submitted with Show HN, it should show up in the "new" section. It it gets a lot of upvotes, it'd show up on the frontpage. You might want to delete the earlier post and post it again.
RubyMine is good, albeit glitchy on large projects.