skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So on average it will take you 500,000 peeks to find the ball. Now a quantum computer can perform such a search looking only into 1000 drawers. This mind boggling feat is known as Grover’s algorithm.

This is a very clear explanation of the benefits of quantum computers. But I don't grasp how this would work yet.

I read the Wikipedia page, and maybe I just have to struggle more with it, but it would be great if there was a simpler explanation.
i seems like your beef with these companies is that we're subsidizing them.

so is the problem the institutions that are asking for money? or our politicians that are giving them money?
I don't know if Thunderbird matches ICU languages e.g. Chinese with 附件
Here's a seriously stupid question: what's the difference between this and hitting the "Clip to Evernote" button on my browser?

As a side note, I've never really understood "social bookmarking." Isn't it just like a cross between Reddit and Google Reader?
The uproar is caused because here's a man who knows more about me than my own mother and he is saying things my mother would have been ashamed of :-)
Just curious - what's the appeal of non-web-based email? I'm forced to use Outlook at work, but I can't imagine having to install something to get my personal mail, and having to back up my personal mail. Do people do this mostly because they're concerned about their data privacy, or because it's easier to work when you don't have internet access, or what?
Is Intel about to buy nVidia?
Ask HN: Is there RSS/newsreader software that groups related stories together?
In my modest (71-feed) Google Reader, much of what I see is essentially a repeat of other things. A press release goes out, a few blogs pick it up, a dozen more echo it, two or three do some good analysis, and a few hundred comments pile up under blogs and in reddit and HN.

Is there a solution to this that I can use to browse through the topics that the blogosphere is talking about today, along with the various comments?

If not, I already have a domain name picked out.
I remember precisely - Cringely called it Carly Fiorina's attempt to "reset the shot clock" on her tenure at HP and that it would hurt HP. It went down exactly that way.
My experience has been the same.

I have been using the Chromium Ubuntu PPA for about 2 months and have had no issues until this week (details: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=29536 ).

Although crippling to Chromium on my machine, I am sure my newly encountered issues will be resolved shortly, so I am not worried.
It's not really the same thing without the alt-text, is it?
You need to install the "chromium-browser-inspector" package and restart Chromium.
Glass-Steagall will definitely prevent what happened in the current housing crisis. The bubble happened because banks were lending money for homes but were not keeping the loans. Instead they were packaging the loans as securities and selling the securities to third party investors. Thus, the banks did not need to worry that the loans were good, they just needed to worry the loans looked ok to the rating agencies at the time of sale of the securities. The third party investors had no idea who the borrowers were or how trustworthy they were, they just trusted the rating agencies. And the rating agencies turned out to be either stupid or corrupt or both.

That is how securities markets work. Exactly the same forces affect, say, the CEO who owns .1% of his company's outstanding stock. Not an ideal situation, but not one that should be banned.

I believe they were allowed to make only 10 percent of their income from securities. They had to make most of their money by making loans directly to borrowers, instead of trading securities. That is what the article is referring to.

You're probably talking about the time before S&L deregulation, when, at one point, savings and loans had an aggregate negative net worth because they could only make long-term loans (mortgages and treasuries) and thus got buried when rates went up. Despite our current problems, I don't believe the US's financial sector has had a negative net worth since then. It should be pretty compelling to you that despite higher leverage, intertwined derivatives, the disastrous market manipulations of Fannie and Freddie, etc., our less regulated system is still less of a disaster than what came before it.
There is still an "online checkin fee", which is lower than the "real life" checkin fee, but it's still there. I maintain you can't opt out of checking in when you fly.
My wife's old yahoo account got hacked. Watching yahoo's nonexistent "customer service" "help" her convinced me there is a giant hidden danger to webmail--she essentially had no recourse, no way to reclaim the address, no way to recover old emails, no way to stop this person from getting new emails she might receive, and no way to stop them from impersonating her.
Diigo does this for free. You can bookmark the page, save a cached copy and optionally annotate the page as well. They have browser plugins for Firefox and probably IE and a JavaScript bookmarklet that works with Chrome and Safari etc.
I'm in heaven.

I just performed the same search I spent 10 minutes on a couple days ago to see if the new search would have worked better under those circumstances, and I was able to narrow it down and find the missing message in under 2 minutes.

Fantastic work Thunderbird Team!!!!
The Clojure debug-repl
This feels even faster than the developer betas. Excellent.
My first startup was a success and pays me a hefty salary now..

For the first year I was working late into the night while I had a day job and it paid off. I didn't tell myself I need to work long hours to get this thing done - it just happened that way. It took me that long to get everything done and ready for release.

The real debate going on here sounds something more like this:

Camp Zen:
Balance your life, family, and work and put it in perfect harmony. After all - my team and I developed Google in just 1 hour per day in 5 weeks. Either we have the right philosophy or you're just not smart enough to keep pace.

Camp Starbucks:
All else be damned. Stay up til 5am, get up at 6am to goto your paying job - then start working on the project again when you get back home at 5pm.. The project is the last thing on your mind before going to bed and the first thing on your mind when waking up.. Health failing? Not to worry - I'll be eating sushi and drinking green tea for the rest of life when I cash out at the end of all this..

I think Camp Zen likes to think they have the superior philo.. They like to point out that you shouldn't work just for the sake of work.. I completely agree.. However, if your idea and project are of any real value to society and have any chance going somewhere - then in most cases- you'll have plenty of work to do and plenty of health to exchange for that payoff later. The work is obviously cyclical in that sometimes you'll just happen to have a lot of downtime and other times you'll be wishing you were dead but in general you'll be putting your heart and soul into it..
I'm currently building a business. I wouldn't do it for just a chance at $100,000. It takes a lot more to get real entrepreneurs to build a real business.
Looks like it tries to download every email in Gmail and index it locally. God. My maillist subscription just made my HDD explode. Didn't IMAP provide some sort of search function already?
I agree. The way most people understand what math is and the way we teach math is horrible. The math curriculum is a disservice to everyone that's been exposed to it. I think mathematicians and scientists alike are realizing this and beginning the long process of fixing it in schools and eventually the culture. Some of the most creative people in the world today are not musicians or artists but rather mathematicians. (and as a corollary computer scientists, engineers, etc.)

I recommend "A Mathematician’s Lament" by Paul Lockhart [1]. He further investigates what math is, how we can better teach it and how it's portrayed in our culture.

[1] http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

EDIT: I also posted this in the linked article. But wanted to provide this great paper to the HN crowd too.
Society is full of things we compartmentalize, minimize and tolerate.

Mostly, because we don't know how to confront them. I certainly don't know how to patch human nature so that power doesn't corrupt. So, in the meantime, I'll take privacy, thanks.
Has Amazon caught the forward integration bug?
I use thunderbird because I have a lot of email accounts and I like to have them all in one central place. With thunderbird I can download all mail from gmail, yahoo, my isp mailbox and all other accounts on my local pc and manage them all from one place. That's the main reason. Then there is the fact that I can easily switch mail provider without loosing my mail.
So do the banks, credit card companies, non-store-brand food companies, etc., etc. Let's face it; if you're too lazy to hold on to your money, it is going to go away. Not getting in on that action means you are going to be put out of business.

(This is why I'm not a business person. I know what it takes to run a successful business, and I don't want to do it.)
I am using Thunderbird with Gmail through IMAP. No need to backup anything. On the other hand I find it hard to do certain tasks using web interface.
Code compiled for NaCL is in a word-aligned subset of machine code that can be quickly verified before execution and can only generate interrupts to the NaCL host (no syscalls). It's currently i386, but x86_64 and several ARM variants are being worked on, hopefully with fat binaries.

The only security hole is timing attacks, because there's no latency hits or blown caches from having a runtime or GC or even any preconceived notions about what your language looks like.
I do it because I use Microsoft Exchange for personal mail. I like having my contacts, calendar, email, and to-dos sync automatically on each computer and on the iPhone. Plus I like how Outlook integrates a Calendar, Contacts, and Email together so it's easy to switch between them versus Gmail where I need to open a new window for calendar and contact management is a pain (though after exchange, gmail is hands down the best).
AA does the same thing. I spent last weekend in London and will spend next weekend in Frankfurt for that reason. And I will get around 35,000 frequent flyer miles out of the deal; enough for a free domestic round trip.

If this means that someone has to pay $35 because they can't follow the directions on the website, I am not going to shed many tears for them.
The bubble happened because banks were lending money for homes but were not keeping the loans....This would not have been possible with Glass-Steagall in force.

False. This happened all the time with Glass-Steagall in force. Glass Steagall was repealed in 1999, mortgage backed securities were issued and sold long before then. Many commercial banks traded MBS under Glass-Steagall as a way of reducing their risk; in fact regulatory bodies encouraged them to do this.

You are incorrectly conflating many activities, and assuming Glass-Steagall prevents all of them.

As for my second statement, I'm mocking the article's silly idea that investing in "productive assets" is somehow different from "financial speculation." I'm not making any claims about what percentage of their assets they would speculate with (either in the form of equities or bonds).
The Economics of AWS
I'm not from a serious Java background but have you tried http://www.playframework.org/

I would recommend Rails too than Drupal/PHP. Since you're a beginner on Rails, i would recommend you try out Django/Python too. It won't require much effort to catch up to speed on the basics and maybe you can use those skills to run the application on Google App Engine for free too.
Writing drivers is one of the most difficult aspects of producing graphics cards; perhaps you are right if competition in the space decreases.
I know this isn't 'Chrome Support' - but any idea how I would get the scroll wheel to get working?

edit (i.e., have it be that actually clicking it yields the windows behavior of being in a 'scroll mode' - motioning it down will have me going down the page, instead of actually wheeling it down)
I don't think the comparison is Flash vs RAM, I think it's "directly-accessed Flash" vs "Flash on the other side of a PCI-E bus". We don't need anything like a shader for RAM because the bus RAM is attached to is fast. The question at hand is whether the Flash on an SDD is best accessed as a SATA device, DMA Flash over PCI-E (or some new slot technology), or through shader-like cpus on the same card as the Flash.
This seems like a good time to mention my favourite add-on, Nostalgy (update for 3.0): http://alain.frisch.fr/soft_mozilla.html . It makes keyboard control easy. From the description: 'Save time and get back the productivity you were used to with mutt/pine/eudora!'.
sigh If only I could get some real clock speeds on hardware like this. These are what, 16 MHz?
You having the full control over your data.

Do you really not backup your mails? Do you consider them not important or do you glorify your provider? I highly recommend making your own backups for anything you consider worth saving.
One imagines that the director of the NSA does not have many surprise parties thrown in his honor.
I think they should allow us to opt out of retaining our data.
It could be that you're just not Boxee's target audience.

It seems as though there's much less incentive for an individual with a rack full of legacy entertainment equipment to purchase an all-in-one device.

Specifically regarding the visual cues we see in the design - the box is literally breaking the plane of whatever it's placed on; the cube sinks into or emerges from what's below it.

The aesthetics of the product seem to indicate that it's aimed at an audience who doesn't own a collection of hardware it wouldn't "fit in" with; for these folks it might function as a centerpiece, rather than a tumor in a homogenized amalgamation of units.
When is it cheaper to 'sneaker send into space' on a DVD, than transferring bits?
I really need that Transmit cover as a desktop wallpaper. Also it's very cool of Panic to be so committed to such a random, amazing idea.
I'm just sad that Mac Chrome didn't also get a comic.
Exactly - tell me all the local stuff without all the AP global/national stuff in between. I would absolutely subscribe to this and would even prefer it to an online version.
When I was working at Google in 2007, D-Wave's CEO came by and gave a talk about their chips. It was interesting and he was immediately interested in getting Google on board with access to resources that most of the world doesn't have.

I remember at the time holding one of the first quantum processors in the world and thinking how this is going to change history. Even though at the time it only did a single simple task, it was clear that big things were coming. One thing he mentioned, and I forget the specifics so I can't really elaborate, but the chips are designed to be crippled in a certain way that doesn't allow them to implement Shor's algorithm. Apparently this was at the request of the NSA. I've no idea if that is still the case, but worth keeping in mind.
This may be a niche problem, but I found an interesting bug in chrome yesterday.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=7357

Basically, if you do a redirect (30x) then the referrer isn't set. This means that a number of things are broken. The referrer should be set, and is set in all other browsers.

For example, if someone clicks on a tinyurl link, which redirects to your website, you won't get info on where they came from. The referrer will be empty.

Bug was reported in feb, I'm not sure why it's not been fixed, since it's a pretty big bug.
Search actually works.
Looking over those examples, I would have to say hammer home how "fundamental" is a very relative term. su_3 is mentioned as a fundamental example of a Lie algebra, but it's not a fundamental example in, say, abstract algebra, even though they can be an object of study in that domain. Perhaps Lie alebras are themselves less fundamental than abstract algebra... then again, perhaps they're more fundamental.[1]

I really like the idea of the site. My fear is that it gets bogged down around semantics of "fundamental." You can split hairs over the differences between a fundamental example, a seminal example, and a classic textbook example if you want, but for the purpose of the site I'd rather have all of the above, possibly categorized by tags.

[1] For the uninitiated: A Lie alebra is a set that has the structure of a group (from abstract algebra) as well as the structure of a topological space, in a way that the two structures are compatible. Even if you don't know what these voodoo majicks are, you can still appreciate the conundrum: are groups and topologies fundamental, and Lie algebras a Frankenstein's monster of math; or are Lie algebras fundamental, and groups & topologies the result of discarding information? I'm given to understand physics makes heavy use of Lie algebras, somewhere, if that makes a difference.
"That is how securities markets work. Exactly the same forces affect, say, the CEO who owns .1% of his company's outstanding stock. Not an ideal situation, but not one that should be banned."

Ok that's how securities markets work. So what's your point? It is still the case that this would not have happened if Glass Steagall was in effect because it ensured that certain types of banks were simply not exposed to the securities markets. Oh and by the way Glass Steagall does not ban owning securities, it still allows other types of banks (investment banks) to own all the securities they want.

"You're probably talking about the time before S&L deregulation ... "

No I am not talking about the S&L deregulation, I am talking about the Glass-Steagall act. You know, the thing I said I was talking about. That whole paragraph is a rather confused straw man argument.

"The disastrous market manipulations of Fannie and Freddie." Huh? Another straw man argument.
Tips for Alternative Funding (by Sean Murphy)
Details: http://www.paywaremobile.com/

Most likely requires a merchant account, while the whole point of Square is that it doesn't.
Short and sweet article.

Bottomline is that entrepreneurs must bootstrap their companies through the R&D phase by forgoing salaries. By recruiting a small number of like-mind co-Founders to fill out the initial team, and convincing each to not take salaries, you are essentially making your own "pre-tax" investment, leveraging many-to-one. Since you don't need to put money in anyone's pocket (including your own), you don't need to raise lots of VC money. You might need a few tens of thousands of dollars. But no one needs a few millions or tens of millions to build a company anymore. My own experience is that if you can bootstrap your company to the point where your are generating sustainable profits, then you are in a seller's market. VC's will be kicking down your doors wanting to buy shares from the founding team, taking money off the table but yet allowing the company to continue to grow.
So, http://techmeme.com for all topics, but sources limited by what you're subscribed to?
You're right only in that they shouldn't have sold it -- they should have sat on it.

They can't let ARM or any non-x86 architecture win in a PC-replacement market.
The Threaded discussion as a visual design pattern
Sticking to my Safari – an extra browser is excess.
Tell HN: Entrepreneur meetup in Barcelona tomorrow - Sun, Sand and Startups
That "ex nihilio" implication is why I avoid the word "intuition" in my own writings and even notes. For the unconscious processes you describe I use the word "insight" instead.
Frans Hals is actually my favorite painter, so if people take nothing else away from this thread, I would urge them to go check that shit out.

The exact quote I was responding to in my essay:

"When oil paint replaced tempera in the fifteenth century, it helped painters to deal with difficult subjects like the human figure because, unlike tempera, oil can be blended and overpainted."

In support of which you now cite... Frans Hals, a sui generis painter who worked two hundred years later. I'm surprised you chose him over El Greco, who at least is within two centuries of the time period under discussion.

It's been entertaining watching you try to walk your various misstatements about art history back in this thread, but I am somewhat surprised by this habit of calling people who poke holes in your writing "trolls", given that you are the author of a celebrated taxonomy of online argument that places name-callers among the lowest of the low.

Weenis.
I often think that UI's for some real software should be closer to film depictions, not the other way around.
Near as I can tell: all that changed was the version number from .27 to .30.

iStat Menus processor graph still goes nuts when scrolling compared to Safari. That said, Chromium/Chrome has been my default browser for about a month now.
If you think it's racist then you must have skipped the history lesson on The New Deal whereby, in an effort to secure the votes necessary, they (House/Senate) basically had to promise key members that the recovery would touch the "right" people. The right people in this case being white males. Blacks, Asians, and Women of all races were largely cut out of the New Deal unless hiring them was a necessity due to lack of able-bodied white men.

Whenever economists speak of jobs programs for everyone, not just "white male construction workers", this is what they're eluding to.
If you're on the developer channel you'll continue to be on the developer channel. That is, eventually a stable 4.0 release will happen, but because you're on the dev channel you'll be updated to an unstable 5.X beta.

At least that's how it is on Windows.
Has Io been useful in any application yet? Admittedly, I find it an interesting language, and my experience with it has been kind of fun - but I can't think of anything it does that most other programming languages don't do better.
Well, every US company has to follow US laws, which means exposing otherwise private records to law enforcement when required. The comment was saying nothing more than this.
gmail can download your mail from other accounts and send outgoing mail through back through the right server.

Have all your mail in one central place without being tied to a single box with a particular config. You can even use desktop clients on multiple computers via IMAP without any hassles.
Welcome to 1957. Or 1857.
I just checked out Diigo and it looks pretty cool. It lets you annotate, share, and search your archived bookmarks which as far as I can tell, Pinboard doesn't do.

On the other hand, Diigo only stores the HTML (like wget) and a screenshot, whereas Pinboard will store the CSS, Javascript, images, and embedded videos, similar to what right-click, Save As would do (minus the video?).
Since when is following laws evil?
Well, the institutions can hold the world economy to ransom, so not giving them money would be cutting off our nose to spite ourselves.

Better not to have such powerful and important banks.
After installing a few extensions (adthwart, sidewiki), I've noticed some problems, so I'd say that the implementation is still a touch buggy. But, still, this is an awesome step forward for Chrome.
I agree - that's why I'm writing this comment on a MacBook - but at the moment no one can buy Apple's tablet, so the choice isn't there. My comment was more on the sneering feel of the OP.
Indeed. I've been loving that feature.
Curing A Sick Chart
The Mac version doesn't have a bookmark manager. You can click the star, and it saves the bookmark (or removes the bookmark). But unlike the Windows version there isn't a dialog/window that shows all your bookmarks and lets you drag/drop/etc.
If that list is not enough, be sure to check out http://ooc-lang.org/ too. Even though it's quite young now, it's exactly what I'd want C++ to be :)