skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The links to the original papers:

older one: http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.3035v1

recent one: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0533

Very cool. The paper suggests a connection between the non-local properties of EPR pairs and the non-local properties of wormholes that connect distant regions of space time.

EPR pair = Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pair, e.g.

|Phi〉 = |0〉⊗|0〉+ |1〉⊗ |1〉. (1)

The vectors to the left of ⊗ represent the state of Alice, the vectors to the right of the ⊗ represent Bob's state. The + in the equation refers to the notion of quantum superposition.

There is nothing mysterious about quantum superposition. You know how y=sin(x) and y=cos(x) are both solutions to y''+y=0? Well then any linear combination of sin and cos is also a solution:

y = a*sin(x) + b*cos(x).

Similarly, in QM, a quantum states |v〉is described by linear combinations of some reference vectors |0〉and |1〉

|v〉 = a|0〉+ b|1〉.

For example, the vector |+〉=|0〉+ |1〉 points half-way between the direction |0〉and |1〉.
However, we cannot describe |Phi〉as the tensor product of two local descriptions:

|0〉⊗|0〉+ |1〉⊗ |1〉 ≠ (a|0〉+ b|1〉) ⊗ (c|0〉+ d|1〉) for any a,b,c,d \in C.

Because |Phi〉, the quantum state of an EPR pair cannot be written in terms of local descriptions. We say EPR pairs are non-local. The equation of the state |Phi〉(see equation (1) above) is a description of the combined state of Alice and Bob.

Their states are entangled. If upon measuring Alice's state we find it to be |0>, then we know immediately that Bob's state is also |0>. Because of the entanglement, the collapse in the superposition on Alice's side immediately causes a collapse of the superposition on Bob's side. Note that Bob's collapse will occur IMMEDIATELY, and no matter how far Bob's system is from Alice's. This is what the authors Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen called "spooky action at a distance."

Now imagine you have have a whole bunch of physical systems prepared so their state is an EPR pair. Alice has the left halfs of the EPR pairs, Bob has all the right halfs. Now Alice's systems collapse into a black hole and Bob's systems collapse into their own black hole. The connection that will exist between these black holes appears to be similar to the wormholes connecting black holes ("Einstein-Rosen bridge"s), which have been studied in general relativity.
I almost 100% do the patdown. Usually they are courteous and polite. I've only been manhandled once.
Go supports exceptions (called "panics").

The substantive difference between Go and, e.g., Java with regard to exceptions is that Go builtin and standard library functions panic in a much narrower range of circumstances than Java's standard library. Go seems to prefer that the decision that an error condition is treated as a panic is generally left to user code that is written with more awareness of what is exceptional in the context of the role of that code than standard library code has.

So, you could write the code in pretty much exactly the way you propose in Go; you'd just need to write a wrapper function around binary.Write that panics on errors.
>"They also want someone who is a collaborative partner who might actually extend your product in cool, different ways."

I wonder how many people really want that versus wanting a skillful automaton to execute their vision or worse, are simply giving lip-service.

>I always find it amusing when I get on the phone with a company after they contact me. Then they ask me the phrase: "Why do you want to work for us?".

So true. The last company to contact me did exactly that. I mentioned that they had in fact contacted me, but proceeded to explain just why I honestly how like to work for them.

A recruiting pitch that starts with a basic "Why we want you." could be pretty powerful.
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That's 20TB per site. Who knows how many collection sites they have?
its simply what the original discussion was about. the specific reason he is being jailed could be 1st degree murder for all the difference it makes. He wasn't asking help to get out of jail.
Can you say more? What's made it worse recently? I was witness to some struggle between GumStix and Intel/Marvell back around when Marvell bought the XScale processor line, but I've been out of touch with Intel on this issue since then. However I've seen countless peripheral silicon manufacturers maintain strangleholds on their softloaded firmware... Though with things like wireless chipsets and DSP algorithms, it's arguable there's real IP there worth protecting.
For what it's worth, it might be better for him since he said, "I may be going to jail ... help me save my business" rather than "... help me escape". It was commenters here that suggested it, and there's no indication that that was his plan or desire.

You're right, of course, that it is unlikely to help him, and perhaps I am insufficiently cynical.
Modeling Ubuntu Edge's Indiegogo sales
People get way too offended by analytics tracking when it's there for their benefit.

While I agree with the rest of your comment, isn't it possible that analytics is just snake oil for webmasters? The third party services like GA collect a staggering amount of real-time aggregate data in return for sharing a sliver of it with webmasters in the form of pretty graphs. I'm not saying this information isn't useful, but can webmasters reconcile the results against their own logs? Can they submit sanitized logs for analysis instead of including code in web pages, so they can proactively protect user privacy while sharing only the minimum data necessary for their needs? In any case, analytics services aren't motivated purely by altruism and their business model plausibly extends beyond purely providing a service to webmasters.
This is so cool, do you have any analytics from the site?
This may get shot down, but why no PHP? I know its not cool and trendy but it works dam well.
please send me the playboy version of yours which states that he slept with a nine year old. this doesnt state he slept with her nor is it a reference from any holy book. i hope you also understand that this has no place here on HN. if you like please go ahead and use my email from my profile.
I don't know why, but it's surprising to me that Dwolla has only been around for five years. They seem much older to me -- not in a bad way, I just feel as though they've been around much longer than they actually have been.
I am slightly embarrassed to say, even when I see all these folks say amazing things about how Docker made their lives easier, I still can't wrap my head around exactly what it is. (This when I KNOW I want jail-like isolation between many of my rails apps on one server)

Is it like a jail in BSD? Ok but then what are the chef-like recipes for? (the docker recipe-like stuff is leading me to think that)... I get the benefits of shipping containers, but what does this do for Quotas? for differing paths? How does it solve init.d vs Upstart vs launchd issues?

Also, on index.docker.io, how do I view these recipes? What do they look like?

Hopefully there's a youtube video out there where a speaker gets a little less abstract and more detailed about where these pieces fit in, actually looking at an SSH prompt on a server.
There was a browser written in Java in the past:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJava
Heart of the Swarm was also inferior.
So you're expecting the world to come to terms with Stallman, rather than the other way around.

Think about that for a minute, and then explain to me why that makes more sense.
He's not opposed to smartphones, he's opposed to cellular phones as these can serve as a tracking beacon, following your movements.

Given that the cellular providers are capturing and archiving location data, this is fact, his conclusion is we should avoid using these sorts of phones completely. Why? The reasoning here is a awfully thin, but has something to do with "being tracked = bad" and then goes into crazy territory from there. It's the same thing with credit and debit cards. They can be tracked, therefore bad, therefore nobody should use them.

If he's concerned about remaining invisible, then this must be applied rigorously across all aspects of his life. Does he wear dazzle face-paint or glasses with bright IR LEDs on them so that CCTV cameras can't pick him up? Does he only use methods of travel that require no identification? If the FBI wanted to retrace Stallman's activity on any given day, it'd take hours at most to piece it together.

The sign that someone's a crackpot is in how inconsistent they are in applying what they've concluded. It means they're missing something important.

For example, there are people that have a genuine need for absolute secrecy, that need to remain invisible, yet they still use cellular phones, email, and social networks. They're aware of the same risks as Stallman, but they take precautions instead of avoiding them completely.

It's notable that Osama Bin Ladin was taken down because he'd gone to such great lengths to avoid being tracked that he stood out as an anomaly, an approach that proved to be self-defeating. He had this large house, but a paranoia about electronic snooping so severe that he had no internet connection, and that alone made that house highly suspicious. If you're that affluent, you have an internet connection, even if you barely use it.

Everything Stallman advocates to avoid detection just makes him an even bigger target.
Wow, congrats. My first "real" job was working on NavTrek when Nobeltec was a startup.

Make sure you work out relationships with beta testers so that you can do a lot of onboard "tests". :-) That was probably the most fun part of the job (other than reverse-engineering the GPS models on the market at the time).
The answer is probably all of them, and more due to derivative works being easier to create. Copyright has little to do with preserving or incentivizing profits at all, and it certainly doesn't have anything to do with how much someone has "invested" in something.
You're welcome :-).
> just not sure if Intel's process is really better for small customers

It depends on what you're buying, but for SoC processors and especially chipsets, it's not so great. And re: "who's small" - yeah, I think ~1M units annually is still "small" to Intel.

However, some of their memory products (NOR and EEPROM come to mind) are very attainable for smaller customers.
All the upvotes so that all we depressed hackers can get some solid recommendations on e-therapy to get started on a path to wellbeing.
interesting that is not even on CNN or MSNBC yet. Has anyone else seen coverage on US news?
Something that doesn't sit right with me is the use of a "channel of bool" when the receiving goroutine doesn't actually care whether true or false is sent. It muddies the API to force the sender to choose one of two values when all that's really wanted is an amorphous signal.

e.g. in http://talks.golang.org/2013/bestpractices.slide#25 , the first case in the select will trip regardless of which value arrives, yet the sender was still made to choose one.
Still worth it! I'm gonna try building that mechanical solar panel.
There was a document released by the Guardian a few weeks to a month back showing how they also monitor open source issue trackers to find exploitable flaws.
U.S. releases declassified documents on phone surveillance programs
> At this point the only difference is cost and scale.

Only if we are talking about the same types of attack, which we aren't. If you do "wrench" style targeted attacks at a large scale, you'll leave 10%+ of the population injured, how is that supposed to work out for a government?

Stallman's counter-measures probably work as long as only very few people use them. The same is probably true for terrorists, which is why this whole dragnet surveillance does not really work towards the stated goals and "crackpots" like me suspect it may have more to do with bullying people into self-censorship.
I've been flying dozens of times over the last few years. Never groped. Never patted down in some molesting way. Never been a victim of all of these overblown statistically small events being made into huge life changing altercations. Every interaction I've had with everyone has been normal. Even the few times I've forgotten and left a full can of spray deodorant or liquid in my bag, they've pulled me to the side, opened my luggage in front of me, asked if I'd like to check my bag or toss the item and that is that. No harassment of any kind.

Acting like a dick to TSA employees just makes them treat you with even more contempt, thus the vicious cycle continues since they now have disdain for you as a customer.

Do you treat all car salesmen like crap, or people at the BMV, just because they have a general "bad" reputation?

Also do you object to a pat down when you go to a sporting event or concert? What about a courthouse?
Ask HN: What's your definition of an "A+ Player"?
A) What's your definition of an A+ Player
B) What metric do you use to determine if someone is an A+ Player or not.

If it helps here's a quote from Steve Jobs to set the context. I'm not certain about the validity of the quote.

"I noticed that the dynamic range between what an average person could accomplish and what the best person could accomplish was 50 or 100 to 1. A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players" -- Steve Jobs
I know a guy who came to USA on his friend's passport, and once he was on American soil, claimed asylum. It's entirely possible this same person could do it.
Well, he may be your solution. He likely understands your business better than anyone else outside. Did he exit on bad terms?
My issue with the conversation now that this has gone "mainstream" is that people are now allowing the media to shape their viewpoints (like everything else that seems to blow up in peoples minds who are normally distracted with reality tv or how awesome they think their life is[personal experience from family members/friends/how I lived for some time]), without digging further beyond what people are talking about at the surface.

The emotions are most likely to be anger and disgust of having their sense of reality shattered, inciting most people who feel powerless to change their habits, to go and protest. And as we all have seen around the world and even within the united states, protests can get pretty hairy, pretty quickly and not in the favor of people who want to live peacefully…

Outside of the issue of inciting the masses to act out physically, there is very little public "mainstream" acknowledgement that corporations are collecting and sharing the same types of data (and more) between one another, where issues surrounding any type of morality become selling points for products. So then the theoretical situation becomes: Government agrees to stop its dragnet programs, non governmental entities will continue to do so as long as people use their services… where's the protest for that (and when that comes they'll hire private contractors to protect them and their interests [remember OWS 2011])?

I posted this a while back on information asymmetry and the surveillance state [0], which lays out simply what is going on now in the minds of people and what is at the core of the issue people are talking about. I also propose an idea about the direction I feel would be more beneficial for the energy to be placed on my post as apposed to the logical conclusion of where all the anger will be placed by people who are now willing to enter the conversation from recent "mainstream" exposure [1].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6042241
[1]: http://blog.pictobar.com/post/52533760444/the-nsa-is-closed-...
That's strange, I tried it earlier using the link on the website which took me to itunes, and it was listed as not available in my store, but perhaps they fixed the link (might have been a link to the US app) or it was a cache issue as you say. Seems to work now.
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Sonny Bono also played a part.

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

"also known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act"
Yep, I do the same. Always opt-out of the naked scanner. If everybody in line opted out, they would be overwhelmed and forced to change their policies. It's really not even that bad, I've never had a negative experience opting out.
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Some great designs from Google
Slide deck is good idea - but does not work with swipe on OS/X - a clue to click on the right side would be nice.
Well, yes. But the game came out in 2004 and for the majority of its history its growth was astronomical. It's only recently that subscription numbers have been declining at a steady rate. And even then, the game still has years left before it becomes obsolete. You can see that this is Blizzard's thinking as well, since they recently scrapped Project Titan (their new upcoming MMO) and started over.
They all have roots going back to a time when C/C++ were the "it languages" for UI and systems development. Java was nowhere near ready for that sort of thing; Mozilla tried anyway, but Rhino is the only thing from that project that really took off. No other language even came close: Tcl/Tk had the UI part, but its performance wasn't up to par, and most other languages either didn't have the performance, or didn't have the UI capabilities, or called out to Tk to get the UI capabilities and thus inherited Tk's problems.

Mozilla tried the low-level guts/high-level UI approach anyway, using JavaScript because they had to implement an engine for it anyway. But it took them a few tries to really get it right, and its false starts in this category remain infamous to this day. The others stuck with C/C++ for everything because it's what worked at the time, and continue because it works for them.

Mozilla's at it again with Rust, though, and that looks like it could be an interesting project.
I have asked this same question myself. It's stunning that only one sys admin has come forth with this information. Further, politicians and higher business officials in companies usually don't know what computers are capable of, which leads me to believe that it's actually programmers who are suggesting that such horrifying systems be built (for example, no politician is going to say "let's make a copy of every piece of internet traffic everywhere." The programmer says "We can copy everything," and the politician says "Ok, do it"). The only excuse I could imagine that a programmer would tell themselves is "This is just my job, and I'm just building the software, but it's the government that's going to be using it, not me, so I've done nothing wrong."
If the language supported exceptions, how would you write this func?

func (g *Gopher) DumpBinary(w io.Writer) {
// Ignore all errors
_ = binary.Write(w, binary.LittleEndian, int32(len(g.Name)))
_, _ = w.Write([]byte(g.Name))
_ = binary.Write(w, binary.LittleEndian, g.Age)
_ = binary.Write(w, binary.LittleEndian, g.FurColor)
}
http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo - This should get you a start on the SEO side of things.
Honest question, no snark - Why not gut out an elcheapo laptop's mainboard (Atom or AMD Brazos) and dedicate a usb port to an Arduino or something. You get the power of x86 along with the expandability (i.e. GPIO, SPI, I2C, etc) of a microcontroller chip.
Another example is shown where they are searching for everyone who read a particular article on the BBC website.
Just to clear up a misconception I'm seeing, the TSA does not use X-rays anymore, except maybe at very small airports (although I haven't seen one in years).

The backscatter machines were replaced with millimeter wave scanners, which are far safer and less intrusive than x-rays.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millimeter_wave_scanner
My recommendation is Chezz JJ: http://chezjj.com

If you are looking for really cheap, you can check here: https://www.airbnb.com/s/San-Francisco--CA?price_max=30
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I'm with the bug author on this: "do not track" should mean do not track. And it explicitly mentions analytics on the DNT site.

Do Not Track is a technology and policy proposal that enables users to opt out of tracking by websites they do not visit, including analytics services, advertising networks, and social platforms

http://donottrack.us/

However, Wikipedia says that the exact definition of what constitutes tracking is not yet clear.

The Do Not Track (DNT) header is the proposed HTTP header field DNT that requests that a web application disable either its tracking or cross-site user tracking (the ambiguity remains unresolved) of an individual user.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
Hey Antonse,

Does this presentation help you understand?
http://www.docker.io/about/
There's an art/science experiment piece on display at the Exploratium (unfortunately I can't remember what it's called) that has a similar construction. The gear at one end is turned at a steady pace by an electric motor, and each successive gear attenuates the motion until you get to the last gear, which is set into solid concrete (iirc). If it were free to move, it would take a fantastic span (billions or trillions of years?) to make a full rotation.

Edit: Thanks to bockris for pointing out the name. Turns out the last gear rotates once each 13.7 billion years.
Thanks!

Beta testing is part of our DNA... there was a group of boaters using this app for months before it shipped, in many different cruising and sailing scenarios.

We shipped the first version to beta before we had built many of the features. We also get some broader test data from beta testing Gaia 8, though that doesn't help with design so much as QA.

I saw Nobeltec just released an iPad app where they drape NOAA raster charts over DEM data to get a 3D effect. I think we could whip up that feature pretty quick, but do people really use that a lot?
I will sidestep particular suggestions for a general comment.

One kind of general background is taking (many) steps toward figuring out who your market is, and not assuming that you understand the target population, which translates into:
What is the business model that will work for your idea, and how should my idea change as a consequence of what I learn?

Steve Blank's venture / startup blog discusses fairly frequently the search (and iteration on the search, and the learning involved during the search) for a business model, answering the question: Who is the population that is willing to pay for the service? This is a distinctly different from the the search for, construction of (and iteration on) a minimum viable product or service.

Nobody really knows their market when they start, or how to find it. They discover it by trying many things, in many populations, revising as they go, from learning experience to learning experience.

Asking people to pay, right now, is a very instructive process toward discovery of your business model. You might have a perfect product, but no buyers. Find the buyers. Ask people why they're not a buyer.

See:

An MVP is not a Cheaper Product, It’s about Smart Learning
http://steveblank.com/2013/07/22/an-mvp-is-not-a-cheaper-pro...

Who’s Doing the Learning?
http://steveblank.com/2013/06/03/whos-doing-the-learning/
> I've had the TSA full-body massage twice now

I've had it a dozen times. I opt-out of the naked scanner every time I fly. As you say, I've never been harassed by the gropers. And if everybody in line opted out, they'd be overwhelmed and forced to change their policies.

Just say No.