skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those interested in quantum mechanics, and that find the 'textbook interpretation' (the copenhagen interpration) or the "many worlds/everett" interpration frustratingly unintuitive, may find the decoherent/consistent histories interpretation interesting.

That interpretation provides an intuitive way to reason about quantum mechanics and therefore makes it much easier to learn how quantum mechanics works, without getting distracted by paradoxes and philosophical difficulties.

To learn more,

Read a paper by one of decoherent histories' main proponents http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0612065

See if you can understand quantum decoherence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence

Read the FAQ:
http://quantum.phys.cmu.edu/CHS/quest.html

Dive into a textbook explaining quantum physics in decoherent histories interpration (by the same proponent as above)
http://quantum.phys.cmu.edu/CQT/index.html

And of course its Wikipedia page may not be overlooked:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_histories
They seem to be doing some really interesting stuff with their technology, and it's the first thing I've seen that would make me reconsider just using straight HTML.
This isn't the case. Marx differs from other ideologies in that it was Karl Marx himself that wrote The Communist Manifesto.

I can't do the same for most other ideologies; there's no Conservative Manifesto as it were.

With that in mind we can take Marx's book and compare it against history in these countries. If you do this then you will come to the conclusion that these regimes were not Marxist and in fact not even close to socialism.
Very closely, I'd say:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat...

The major difference I see is the McDonaldses following highways in the western states -- for example, look at the sparsely populated parts of Montana.

And even there, it's possible that the McDonald's density matches the population density. That's just not what's graphed.
I do agree with you, but if HN were so go at news then why does TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOm, AllThingsD, Mashable, etc... exist? HN isn't really a content creator, it's a distributor of content that has already been created at those sites mentioned. HN is a great community of news commentators, but HN is terrible at allowing people to generate content and articles themselves.

And those types of content creators (editors) put so much hard work into their pieces they want to find a good home for their articles, a permanent place of existence. People writing guest posts for TC, RWW, GO, ATD, Mash, can just as easily make a post here on HN. But they don't. No one wants to put in so much hard work and research just for it to disappear into the jungle of links and never be found again.
Air-popped popcorn at home for me. Cheap, easy, filling, but also fiber-rich and not highly caloric. Provided you don't pour a whole stick of butter over the whole thing. :P
Ask HN: I'm motivated to do my 10,000+ hours, but...
I need help!

I'm 24 years old and, FWIW, I've earned a BS with Honors in Computer Science (Summa cum Laude) from a large public US university. Software Engineering is my career, FOSS is my hobby, and -- as my wife painstakingly exclaims -- something computer-related seems to be on my mind at all times. I've approximately 3 hours per weekday to myself, but I haven't yet produced anything of which to be proud. When I try to take advantage of my free time, I often feel what I can best describe as "hacker's paralysis": a hacker's inability to decide if his/her free time is best spent hacking or learning; e.g., hacking Chicken Scheme vs. reading SICP. (This problem is compounded by personal issues I'm working through[1], but that's off-topic for HN.) It kills my productivity and causes me to waste ridiculous amounts of time.

How do I break through this "hacker's paralysis"?

[1] ADHD and OCD (which, surprisingly, have a comorbidity rate higher than what one would expect).
I agree. The math and theory behind RSA is correct, it's only certain implementations on the web that are lacking.
City Layout Design: A programmer's perspective
I developed under Linux for over a decade (along with Irix, BSD and Solaris), and started doing web development on OS X in 2010. It's completely painless and I have no idea what this guy is bitching about.

My MBP only has 4GB of memory and it's more than adequate for web development.
In Startups And Life, You Need Plan A, B, And Z
This seems similar to the length-extension property of Merkle Damgaard hashes like MD5 and SHA-2, in that it is something bad that happens in the real world with RSA that isn't a flaw in RSA per se, but is an attack that would ideally be foreclosed on by the algorithm.

In other words, all things being equal, you'd want to select the algorithm where the fewest number of implementation flaws could prove devastating in the future. The ability to conduct large-sample GCD collision surveys and the fact that common CSPRNGs mean that survey generates results is an argument against using RSA.

I don't see anything specific to SSL or X.509 here; this seems like an issue with every PKI. If you publish public keys to the whole world, people can survey them.
And patents, and litigation, and bureaucracy, etc...
Scalability of Fork Join Pool
What if I'd prefer to Grouper with a different gender mix?
Most of the Indian Software Engineers work in Software Maintenance business, production support, database administration, network maintenance etc. They are all challenging jobs. Some companies perform custom software development for large clients, and they perform on par with "in-house" software engineers in US and Europe. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Zynga and other coll companies also have offices and they hire the best and brightest programmers in India. India does not have a startup culture like US.
You probably don't need a citation to know that s-expressions have been around much longer than XML or JSON, for what that's worth.
Tim Cook promises monthly reports on Apple supplier working conditions
That will be a feature we'll add in the future, but for now 3 guys + 3 girls keeps things simple.
You can go to workshops organized by hackerspaces or fablabs.
Or you can look around and find a meetup you like.

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_ALL_Hacker_Spaces
http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/labs/ (seems to be missing some places)
meetup.com
"Sig dashes" are the closest to a standard signature delimiter and consist of two dashes followed by one space and a newline (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3676#section-4.3). They are widely supported by email and usenet software (Pine, mutt, Gmail, etc.)
Maybe I'm being pedantic, but the HTML reference to the favicon is the convention. I personally roll my eyes when I deploy something and see tons of 404s in my log for favicons that I've not made available or suggested that browsers attempt to load.
Because this heads towards the concept of thought crime. Who cares what the motive of a pirate is? Do we only want pure virgins who can lie in a unicorn's lap downloading stuff? Or can we get beyond criticising people for not being pure of heart.

The only issue with piracy isn't the motive of the pirate - it's whether it damages the industry, and studies regularly show it doesn't. In fact
a) the biggest pirates tend to spend more, and
b) isn't it about time we found ways of rewarding creators that didn't involve artificial scarcity?

We're heading for a time when we can deliver all of human culture to everyone and the only thing stopping us is that some people want to rent-seek.

On your other point, I wouldn't advise anyone to pay for the Pirate Bay because payment identifies the payee. There's a significant chance it would be considered illegal and records seized by the US, leading to huge fines, extradition and prison. That alone would deter me.
My fingers were crossed for "Leisure Suit Larry"...
Innovator's Challenge: Moving From Idea Networks to Action Networks
Is Data Throttling a Necessary Evil for Cellphone Carriers?
The Next iPad: Rounding Up the Chatter
Requiring my Facebook credentials to log in guarantees my non-participation. I realize I'm in the minority for behaving that way, but there is a nonzero number of potential users you lose when you charge the fee of privacy at the door.

Which makes me think: it would be really interesting to see the demographic breakdown of people who behave similarly.
Access to the site is blocked by my employer due to a perceived security threat.

"...this web site ( http://htmlformail.com/ ) has been blocked because it has been determined by Web Reputation Filters to be a security threat to your computer or the corporate network. This web site has been associated with malware/spyware."

Maybe something you want to track down, in case the site somehow became listed in a malware database. Sometimes removing sites takes manual effort.
The author is writing in a very pretentious and obnoxious tone as if he assumes we're feeling a certain way. Who does he think he is?
In general, I agree with you, but as this uses Facebook to find photos of you and your loved one, it was pretty impossible to not require Facebook authentication.
Honestly, these are quite possibly some of the most incoherent arguments I have ever seen:

"At least, I'm assuming that he's including these companies in his false-nostalgia..." - great assumption

"Where "major differences" would have been" - You seem to be reinforcing the authors point here.

"This has nothing to do with why Facebook didn't want to go public." - You totally missed the authors point here.

"He spends a couple of paragraphs decrying liquidity in markets, and then calls this a bad thing." -You might want to check the definition of decrying.
I wonder if MIT will offer free web development courses. I know Harvard's David Malan offers free online courses (academicearth), but it's mainly PHP. It'd be nice to have a legit Ruby on Rails course.
People don't need nearly as much protein as most Americans eat. One thing I've noted again and again during my decade-long stay in Asia is how much more protein westerners (and especially Americans) eat than people here. And interestingly, the US response to obesity has been to go for even more protein.

To people who make rice the staple of nearly every meal, it looks insane.
I don't suppose you can get the existing versions for Pre3 and TouchPad released? There are some changes that I would like to be able to make.
Having been through very similar (although undiagnosed) issues quite recently myself I'd merely suggest you stop feeling guilty and assume you'll have time to do the other next week. It's not easy to do but I just got the will together to start randomly picking something. The question still comes up but I simply ignore it by habit rather than leaving it as a decision to be made.
edit: I was replying to DarkShikari, so adjust accordingly

I'd argue whether copying is a bad thing. Copying or getting others to do your work is what great businesspeople and managers do. The system of cheating you describe above might be actually creating a great stream of entrepreneurs/networkers. If they could channel that talent to pfoductive use, like getting 3d printers or robots in their hands, or selling through telephones, it could be a huge resource for everyone.

On a related note, everyone disparages Nigerian scammers. Yet these are highly entrepreneurial individuals that western companies should be hiring as salespeople.
Personally, I prefer 1 guy, 5 girls but that might just be me..
I don't see anything wrong with nuts at all (surprise: I'm on Paleo). It's not just the calories, but how long the calories last. Some days I'll end up having a handful of nuts instead of lunch.
You can use HTML in Mail.app signatures already; you just have to copy some HTML from your browser and paste it into the signature field.

But considering how bad Mail.app's signature UI is, this is pretty handy.
Here is another post about coffeescript from the author http://oscargodson.com/posts/writing-eloquent-javascript-wit... that pretends javascript best practices can be elegant enough that you don't need coffeescript.

Best practices are nice, but it's even nicer when they're enforced by the language so you don't have to see anyone not using them. So you don't have to read books and search for tutorials on how to do basic stuff like inheritance and choose from a zillion library options. Using coffescript you can at least learn the top best practices in one place.

If you're using prototypal inheritance to do the equivalent of classical inheritance, it would be nice to just say what you mean - class and super. The JS language committee seems to hold this viewpoint, say what you mean with keywords, instead of low level blah.prototype, blah.prototype.call(this). The multitude of libraries handling this are inconsistent. If you read Crockford, you might choose the style where everything private is in a closure, you're not using prototype and taking a performance hit. Then if you do need performance, if you have hundreds of instances, Crockford just screwed you and refactoring should make you bitter.

Jeremy's own underscore has _.extend which is the cleanest, but to control the wild west JS out there, the language should enforce one true way.

Nobody wants to know that ugly low level detail of blah.call(this). I can't think of one example of JS code not using the equivalent of classical inheritance. All these arguments against CoffeeScript seem silly when the official language committee is adopting bits and pieces of it where they can. If they could adopt the whole thing, they probably would.

CoffeeScript's real problem is debugging. No one complains much about it, but it would be smoother to see bugs in CS instead of the generated JS.
US Cyber Solution Concept: Moving Sensitive Info Under the Radar
Yahoo was an impersonal website you visited. Had no personality, no friends, no gossip. Facebook has all 3.
Awesome Sublime Text2 Overview (Nettuts)
I was considering buying a mac just to use Textmate, but I recently started using Sublime Text2, and it's been freakin awesome so far. Exactly what I've been looking for!
You have taken your first step into a larger world.
Oh wow thanks for the heads up. I wonder how that could have happened - we just launched the site today.

I'll definitely look into it. Is it possible that a previous owner of the domain used it for malware?
Thanks I'm glad you found it useful!
ok. What I get is only a blank screen with a red banner that reads my note, and background music. Is there anything I am missing here? a slide show of pictures or what?
Reid Hoffman basically illustrates 3 potential roads; A is where you plan/aim for, B is in the back of your head as a possible reset, and Z seems mainly functional, so you understand the worst case scenario. If Z is manageable, it may give you the confidence and risk appetite to aggressively pursue Plan A.

In my experience, part of the challenge with these 'Plans' is that, they are CONSTANTLY in flux. In other words, my ABZ 5 years ago looks nothing like it does today. When plans change that frequently, they become useful and interesting thought exercises, but misguiding if one tries to stick to their structure too rigidly.
Nice idea, if a little unpractical. I thought (or read somewhere) about doing something similar using a bathroom scale (you have to put your weight on it for some seconds for it to turn off.
Google Public DNS Server Locations List
Dangerous UK copyright rulings prevail
Hackers compromised Nortel networks for nearly a decade
Building a startup is hard and time consuming enough. Building a side along isn't practical for most people. In a test tube, yes of course I rather have one (isn't it obvious though?), but it's not practical.
I am the audience for this paper, and I recognized the names.

I still had absolutely no clue what the title meant until grandpa pointed it out. I agree with locacorten: Horrible title.
This is awesome, sent to my gf. Thanks and nice work!
Oh right, I remember adventure games. Ten minutes in I've clicked every dialog tree and tried every button on every visible object, and nothing seems to indicate what to do next. If I click every possible combination I might eventually find the right thing that unlocks the next part of the story.

This is fun because...?
Lessons Learned From Documentation
They want to get brand loyalty to their addons so that next time customers will buy the same brand phone. Also, I've heard that carriers would prefer if all the different Android phones they carry actually look different rather than all looking the same (or they could just carry fewer models).
It really depends. You could also argue that an early-stage investor is more willing to fund something based on a still-uncommon license.

Since the answer to your generic question is "it depends", you're not going to get much other helpful information here. Perhaps you should have asked "who is funding AGPLv3-based projects."
A textfiles approach to gathering the world's DNS
I take him to mean, "it is understandable that the NY Times would write up a story on RSA vulnerabilities when one of the authors is Arjen Lenstra, because Arjen Lenstra is a giant in the field".

I agree with you (and not the parent) about the importance of the study.
Is this the paper: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/2217/2008_Bradbury%20D.pdf?

I'm looking forward to reading it tonight. I've been experimenting with a module that profiles Django applications and reports on slow or unused methods. Part of the challenge has been coming up with a decent way of presenting the information, and I've been playing with basic graphing APIs.

Has anyone heard of tools that do this? Does it seem like a decent idea?
Senate cybersecurity bill exempts tech companies from oversight
Also I would like to mention http://www.super-marmite.com/ http://letslunch.com/ and all the other eat/cook with somebody opportunities.

You don't have to be a spy or somebody else to have some adventure. That idea is limited, just combine it with some other needs and there you have it.
These "experiences" like flying like Peter Pan absolutely exist now, things like bungee jumping or hang gliding or ziplines. Most tourist areas and theme parks have lots of upcharge attractions of this sort. The scarcity of their limited capacity drives prices up. (Remember, in capitalism, prices are set by supply and demand, not by cost.)

This sort of service-intensive experience requires a large density of premium customers to justify going for that over a more mass-market entertainment approach. Indeed, theme parks themselves are moving more and more towards the theater model, because that scales so much better with much more capacity. Disney and Six Flags and Universal have upgraded many parks with huge theaters and shows. The best roller coasters and dark rides can run around 2,000 guests per hour; a theater show can hold 5,000 or more with minimal line-waiting.

Just like software, a capitalist can duplicate the movie experience for thousands of watchers at nearly no marginal cost. Compare that to a Broadway play which requires a hundred paid workers to stage a more personal performance. Broadway does exist thanks to New York's density of wealth, but that's the exception. Every town has a movie theater, because the pricing fits into everybody's everyday budget, and the physical hardware is easily constantly repurposed to a new movie.
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There is, but doesn't mean that people can't abuse it.

Shorteners are frowned upon because they can be used to hide nastyware, and aren't needed; HN visually truncates links that are super long anyhow.
Canada debates bill that would allow electronic surveillance without a warrant
Chrome did once upon a time and currently has a bug report filed: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=110449
Bret is one of the smartest, most insightful designers of our time.
As if it's somehow Ron Rivest's fault that people can't generate random numbers?
The only overlap so far is Coursera and Udacity both teaching computer science 101. That's assuming either one of them actually ever gets a course off the ground. (Coursera is closing in on one month after their announced launch without any signs of life.)
Read "A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander. http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Language-Buildings-Constructio...
They really really really need to change the name of their domain/company
Amazon Has Fewer Prime Subscribers Than Estimated
I still don't think his essay says that. Before the US independence, the colonies were part of the British Empire, with local legislatures in each colony. How did the British Empire manage the 13 colonies without any sort of bureaucracy?

Instead, the essay you pointed to suggests that the bureaucracy existed, but the new Americans were distrustful of it.
security is not a matter of being open or closed source
It should be a slideshow of pictures you and your friend are tagged in on Facebook together. Here's an example: http://www.fbmyvalentine.com/cards/462bb3ca
Anybody know a good place to see how much google had to spend on lobbies to get this through? It'll be interesting if it's high or low.
Maybe you can compromise and either have one person bring a laptop or have one in the meeting space. That way it is only used when needed specifically to advance the goals of the meeting.
As far as I can tell, the problem isn't with RSA itself, but with whatever algorithms are used to pick two random primes to multiply and produce the key (or moduli, whatever)...

Correct.

they don't have high enough entropy and output duplicates ~0.2% of the time.

Almost correct: They don't have enough entropy at least 0.2% of the time. These results are consistent with all primes being generated with ~40 bits of entropy -- which would imply that all the keys are broken. Obviously we hope that this is not the case and instead it's just a small subset of primes which were generated with low entropy, but the data do not provide any evidence in either direction.
There is an open bug report for favicon requests not showing up in the network tab.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=110449
A PGP signature would work, but you would:

1. Have to control the signature that's provided
2. Have to have a trust system in place so that people realized that the signature provided wasn't legit.

I'm not sure the personal public key infrastructure (web of trust) is developed enough to absorb that.
And I'm loving it. Windows can really limit your view. Now I even feel that with enought time and energy, I can create my own OS. When I used Windows, I thought it was IMPOSSIBLE
Good lord. It's the point of the application.
I don't like the subject selection for their first course. I think that the benefit of freshman physics isn't necessarily learning classical mechanics (F=MA, FBD's, kinematics, ect.) but teaching students to connect analytical thinking with mathematics and giving them a strong start for a science or engineering curriculum. I am not against learning for the sake of learning but I don't see how this would be useful to anyone who wasn't going to take more science or engineering classes, in which case they would have to re-take a physics course for real credit. I guess that I am less thrilled by their subject selection because the free cs courses already available online are useful and teach easily applied concepts but introductory physics just warms students up to begin working on a full B.S. degree.
That's not entirely true. Since i found how to poison my ISP's PeerApp "invisible" cache servers i started to check MD5 when downloading manually. It does cache big files but not small ones.
Here is the link for technical details if you are interested.
http://godlessmechanics.blogspot.com/2011/12/tale-of-sneaky-...