skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the scientific results of the paper? Not much. Usually you use two different methods of analysis to confirm the structure of a compound. The compound was identified by NMR, so the elemental analysis (EA) is used to back-up the identification (it's actually very sensitive and very solid evidence).

It's not that big of a deal, because often intermediates are not isolated, so if this compound was carried forward to another compound and THAT was fully characterized, the science is solid.

However, there are two problems. Do you believe the data for the final compounds knowing that the data from an intermediate was fudged?

In the sense of damage to the credibility of the authors, it is very important.
Prove? No. Suggest? Absolutely.
Here's the wikipedia article on Intellectual Ventures. Make sure it continues to say they're patent trolls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures
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Not really in the conventional way people think of hallucinations.

What you see is distorted, but everything you see is actually there. The walls might look like they're dripping or wavy, the branches on a tree appear to reach out at you, and colors become more vibrant, but you won't ever see gigantic bunnies or flying unicorns or some other stupid shit that often ends up in film depictions of a psychedelic experience.

As dosage increases, your mind increasingly tends to interpret what you're seeing as something else, like a shadow may appear briefly to be a person. When this starts to happen I would no longer feel comfortable driving, but for me this occurs at the peak of 500 ug + experiences, the equivalent of 5 standard doses. Not saying that driving on LSD is a great idea, but on a single standard dose it's not nearly as dangerous as driving after you've pulled an all-nighter IMO.
If you do that, could you send me a mail? I'd be interested.
I had the impression that government does not need to decrypt anything. They just request it from a company, and the company has to comply.
Data is often repeated in the SI section. You put all of your data in the SI and only put select data in the paper.
They are(were) a fully-encrypted email provider that had no ability to monitor your emails. Edward Snowden hosted his account there, and they had to shut down because of (probably) US government intervention.
Yes, that's why everyone should have at least a few months of saftey net.
> I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this.

Anyone know what happens if he just says "F it" and writes a massive blog post on what exactly happened or what exactly they said to him?
Obvious can also mean Easily understood or Easily seen through because of a lack of subtlety not just Easily perceived. Basicly as soon as you look at the requirements to study pot in the US the bias is easy to notice until then it's easy to overlook.
At this point, it is speculation that the judge would not be impressed. If anyone decided to test the theory, the public would be informed regardless.
Does anyone have any idea about whether we'll be able to write and execute Go (golang.org) code on the Ubuntu Edge?

I assume I'll be able to both write and execute Go code under Ubuntu desktop mode. What about Ubuntu mobile OS?

Will the device support WebGL? What about OpenGL|ES and regular OpenGL?

Does switching between Ubuntu desktop mode and Ubuntu mobile OS involve a reboot with separate systems, or it is one environment with 2 different interfaces? Thank you!
ASM.js is actually a JavaScript killer. It's a hope-giving possibility of not having to touch JS whatsoever.
Interview with Rob Rhinehart, Creator of Soylent
I agree - I've often heard (and said) things like "Make up a solution of 0.05 M citric acid in the same buffer you've been using, at pH 9."

Also: if it's just a proposed intermediate composition (as is mentioned in other comments as the author's explanation), the comment could very well mean to think up something plausible to propose, with the understanding that most readers will think to themselves that although it wasn't actually measured, there is a plausible route.

It looks to me like this particular bit of the paper really isn't the main thrust, and so doesn't need to be proven as rigorously. So in my mind it's not a huge smoking gun.

I've personally seen a couple papers submitted for review where figures were crudely photoshopped. The usual play here is to be gentlemanly and to assume that they were just throwing in a dummy figure to be replaced later when they got presentable data... except they forgot to make the change.

This is a minor embarrassment for the authors (who can now expect closer scrutiny!), but also for the journal... they should be keeping a close eye on what they're publishing!
At the moment, I accept the danger and resent myself for it. Moving to a custom domain is one step in the process, though.

And really, since all your email hops through relays constantly, the only truly effective anti-spy technology is message encryption, which wouldn't depend on where the messages end up.
IMHO Apple should allow these reviews to go thru, and then simply hide/delete them on the server side. They're testing iOS as well, and I would bet that they're tracking crashes and bugs on the AppStore app and review process.
Maybe because people in this community can highly relate to the subject? I know I can, for one...
Where exactly are these keys going to be stored?

Users can not and will not securely manage key material.
It's widely believed that Lodsys is somehow affiliated with Intellectual Ventures, but US corporate law makes it hard to really know who owns or benefits from Lodsys' lawsuits. Intellectual Ventures is known to participate in a lot of shell corporations and intellectual property trades. EFF notes that Intellectual Ventures used to own some of the patents Lodsys is prosecuting: https://www.eff.org/issues/faqs-lodsys-targets

Edit: here is a story about the Guardian trying to get Intellectual Ventures go on the record about its relationship to Lodsys. (Spoiler: they couldn't.) http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jul/27/intellectu... . And here is Myhrvold saying that Intellectual Ventures sold the patent to Lodsys, although he carefully avoids saying anything about ongoing business terms between his company and Lodsys. http://features.slashdot.org/story/13/04/02/1926255/nathan-m...
At present, it should be obvious to anyone that the greatest harm that marijuana causes, by a long shot, is found in the gov't response to those who use, make, and traffic it.

The U.S. made >6,000,000 arrests in 2011 [1] for the possession or sale of marijuana. Many of those arrested were incapacitated for an extended period of time (in custody), and had their life permanently changed for the worse. Even if 10,000 people a year get schizophrenia from heavy marijuana use, to try to mitigate this by ruining the lives of millions more is the height of absurdity.

[1] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/c...
Please do this! This would actually be very useful..
Stripe Open Sources Abba, an A/B Testing Framework (March)
Slightly different, that is an operative agreeing to be an operative with up front knowledge of what it entails. So the person lying has agreed to lie before being given the information or a mission. If you know a case where a person has been prosecuted for not lying rather then breaking an agreement I would still be interested.

I am not sure what I think about your scenario off the top of my head but I do consider it different.
Microsoft ups price on Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter by 28 percent
Old European elites shared a common culture that went beyond borders, at times perversely so (e.g. the whole Geneva Convention mindset where war is all a big game in need of more gentlemanly rules). They respected each other more than they did their fellow countrymen from lower classes. It's the same today: you'd never see a Saudi billionaire droned, even if we knew he'd been "the real Osama" all along.

Snowden is a little fish and as such he's being treated, as an example to his uppity peers. His friends are little fish, and as such are being burnt down without a second thought.
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This part doesn't matter. Where your cert comes from is irrelevant.
change hosts, go with a company with history and longevity in mind.
12 Points on Marketing Your "Brand"
You haven't reached the "verifier" step yet, which is step 4 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Persona/Qui...
> You can't not support something ideologically but still partake in the activity without being hypocritical.

I can think of many situations where you could. And economic benefit often outweighs any ideology in places where people barely make it to the next paycheck.
Based on this survey of attorney fees between 2010 and 2011, it could be anywhere between 510 hours (roughly, in California), to 900 hours (roughly, in the "West"), depending on years of practice and specialty.

http://www.nclc.org/images/pdf/litigation/fee-survey-report-...

edit: that's strictly hourly rates. Some (most?) attorneys will charge you for gas/transportation to and from the courthouse and their office, paper/toner costs from xerox machines, etc, which can add up fairly quickly, especially on a large case like one against Lodsys.

also, IANAL.
I've posted this link on HN before, but it's potentially relevant - we might find out more, but it sounds like this might be the result of a National Security Letter preventing Ladar from talking about the reason behind the shutdown.

I would suspect he has tried to protect his users from a request for information (NSLs are allegedly limited to metadata), but would prefer to discontinue the service than take the other possible legal action (silently disclosing information). Perhaps it is possible he will/has been forced to disclose information anyway.

This link is a video featuring Nicholas Merrill who (if this is in fact NSL-related) went through a similar situation with his ISP Calyx, and gave as much information as legally possible about the frustrating process as a talk at the yearly Chaos Communication Congress in 2010.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4263.en....
> I don't blame the companies; they're as much a victim of USgov as we are IMHO.

While it's true that they are victims, they are in a far better place to demand change or to defend themselves. Money buys the ears of lawyers that the average person couldn't even afford to speak to.
DOs are fully trained doctors that happen to have gone to medical schools affiliated with osteopathy. A previous commenter related osteopathy to Catholicism via Georgetown; that sounds about right. People choose medical schools for a variety of reasons (cost, admissions, locations). One of the practitioners at my primary care doctor's office is a DO, and does not believe in pseudoscience.

I think what happened here is that you overreached; you claimed that chiropractors could prescribe drugs, were corrected, and then scrambled to recover your argument instead of just admitting you were wrong. Now we're in a totally pointless and, from what I can tell, one-sided discussion about the legitimacy of DOs, despite the total irrelevance of osteopathy to the thread we're on.
Germany sends goons to take data as well, as does every country in Europe.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/05/german-police-sei...
If the mere capability of surveillance is what upsets you, then I'd recommend yoga and encryption. Investigatory powers have been used in pretty much all nations for hundreds of years and so if your big plan is to remove the very ability for governments to do that, you're going to be in for a long and arduous slog.

If instead your concern is with unchecked and expansive untargeted surveillance, we need to push hard for transparency and oversight, which is something that is politically viable and gets 99.9% of the benefit to the average person of surveillance not being possible at all.
What Does Marijuana Do to Spiders?
It's a vocation. A career, a job. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes its a challenge.

but dont let it define you.
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I doubt that 'you can easily find good programmers' for other languages than PHP, depending on the location and the language and your definition of 'good'. PHP is widespread, making it easy to find developers while a lot of the more 'sophisticated' languages are not and I seriously doubt that all developers coming to Ruby or Python are immediately 'good' at it. (There are enough companies which are sticking to PHP because it just works and they can't find good developers for other languages in their region.)

Besides that, it's just really tiresome to see PHP bashing on HN again and again. Don't even get me started on the actual article.
Exactly; I was seriously considering buying his cooking books (they are pretty cool), but after careful consideration, I've decided he's too much of an asshat to support financially. This is the same FUDster who trollishly responded to Stephenson's analogy of the Hole Hawg in "In the Beginning was the Commandline" by claiming that people only flocked to UNIX because it was "retro" and only used Linux because it was "cheap".
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Make the bastards work for it.

Enough people using strong encryption (both for data over the wire and data at rest) makes big-data collection (can't dedupe random noise) and processing/datamining prohibitively expensive if not impossible.

Nobody is getting in trouble for moving their data and services offshore.

Aside from that? I'd suggest finding a few friendly people in various countries and establish a constant /dev/urandom | ssh | > /dev/null stream when your internet connection is idle.
Yeah, I thank my stars that I had the sense to do this almost 2 years ago. It really is much better. Another neat hack of using your custom domain is when people ask for your email address you can make one up without you appearing in their chat list. So for instance on Google Talk you're registered as iam@firstlastname.com, you could simply give them i@firstlastname.com so they can still converse with you (catch-alls ftw) yet they don't annoyingly appear on your Talk list.

And yeah, changing providers is just a matter of altering a field or two in the host records page.
He deserves some credit for having fessed up to being wrong.

On other topics, especially in economics, the punditry is full of people who have been hilariously wrong for years, having made predictions a long time ago that have been clearly incorrect, and who still have never once even hinted that their models were wrong.

Yes, Gupta should have done his research earlier. But compared to a lot of the scum in the media, he is basically a saint. He deserves to be praised, if only to encourage others to follow his lead and admit when they were wrong.
perfect world for me: write in coffeescript and compile to asm.js for raw performance :)
I will take mine government over yours. I can atleast try to deal with mine.
Why didn't you just link to their site which already has the link and explains why we should be donating to them?

http://lavabit.com/
The political backlash attached to slapping an NSL on "Snowden's email provider" would have looked obvious to a 5-year-old, and any real player worth its salt would have run from Lavabit as soon as it hit the news.

No, this has nothing to do with common criminals and everything to do with Snowden.
Not quite. Storing ciphertext and keys in legal jurisdictions (like the US) that can be forced to turn over both is a bad idea.

Also, practical key management is still an unsolved problem. The web of trust never took off and the PKI is fucked. Encryption is only as useful as the keys being used to encrypt.
The link from the lavabit homepage is https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_b... which actually works.
The US government is destroying one of the few bright spots in the American economy with its out of control military. It is unconscionable. And the sad thing is it has been enabled by the betrayal by many of the web 2.0 giants, Facebook, Google etc. Google especially is sad to see since they were willing to forgo the Chinese market on principle, but then decided that taking on the authoritarian US government was too lucrative for principle to be involved. If Google had done what Lavabit just did we would be living in a freer country today.
The start-up cost is high, yes. Around 1200 for a good set-up shopping at the right places. This includes a tent, ballist, surge protectors, light, soil, nutrients, ect. The whole 9 yards.

The first few (maybe 2-3) grows will turn out pretty bad, but it will still be enough to last you to the next grow. You have to find a balance in the nutrients and water which only really comes with trial and error, but the recommended dose is generally pretty close.

On the time issue: Once everything is set up, it's surprising relatively low time commitment. Especially if you're only growing 2-3 plants for personal use, you're looking at _maybe_ 3 hours per week for maintenance just to water every 3-4 days, prune dead leaves, sweep the area up, ect. I've also known people who use an Arduino or RaPi to rig a drip irrigation system which they can leave unattended for up to 2-weeks with no issues. Those growing for dispensaries in mass quantities are growing hundreds of plants at a time all at different stages and that is certainly a full-time job to maintain.

The nice thing about growing your own is there's no obligation to grow right after you finish one, and keeping the buds frozen preserves them completely for months until you need it. So, if you aren't looking at giving it up in the next 2 years I think its an extremely viable option which will save you money in the long run.

If you tell me how many grams you consume weekly or monthly I could give you a pretty good idea of where to start and how many plants you'd need to maintain that.

Source: I live in Colorado, grew my own in college with my roommate for 4 years, and have several friends still maintaining large and small operations I occasionally help out with.
you can use C++ for most things in your app and QML for UI only. or you can use C++ for everything. You're not required to use QML and HTML5 for your app, but in most cases (though not all) doing the UI in QML will be a good choice
A case like this would be about 4 months (570 hours) or so of billable work by a good lawyer @ $350/hr or so.
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I wonder if eyeglass-like wearable computers will suffer for the same reason.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6181081
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What are you using for stripping the content from the links?
70 GB / 600K emails = 122KB per email. That's a large average even with headers. To put things in perspective, Costco's massive marketing email sent to me this morning is 138K including headers.

So the question is, what were people sending though Lavabit that averaged 122K and would have attracted attention? Therein probably lies the reason for all of this.
See PRISM Break: https://prism-break.org/
Is there a way to verify that the service has been shut down for the reasons stated/(not-stated)? I want to call my political representatives and let them know that these secret court filings that prevent people from speaking about their case hurts businesses & individuals alike. Before I do that though I'd like be sure that the reason Lavabit shut down is due to the government's interference. Is there any way of finding out?

Also, can someone recommend a trusted alternative?
The only nonviolent solution I've found is to move away and stop paying taxes to the US war machine. Don't use or support services that pay US taxes, either.

It's what I did.

PS: It is very, very, very difficult, because most of the people you care about will not move with you.
If anyone wants to hear more about Persona and lives around the Edinburgh (Scotland) area then please feel free to pop along to a talk that one of the Persona developers is giving. https://edpug2013aug.eventbrite.co.uk/?ref=ecal
Well, the idea is that your test suite should cover ALL code you have, so you don't have to check all your functions. Devel::Cover helps you by clearly marking code your tests don't run in red, so you know where you need to add tests and don't need to go through manually.
I run my own mail server. Linux + Postfix + Dovecot. The standard stuff. How do I enable Persona on user@example.net ?
I wonder if, more than crypto, false positives would make them work harder. They know who you are emailing too, and so likely are not going to target you in any case, since you are not part of an interesting network.

But if you start talking about a movie, where they plan to detonate a dirty bomb in Times Square or something...

Emacs automates this with M-x spook:

morse War on Terrorism encryption Forte Blowpipe LLNL John Kerry Albright Kh-11 22nd SAS ANC Semtex SEAL Team 6 smuggle CIA

Also, everyone here from the US has placed a phone call to their representatives to politely, succinctly, and clearly state their opposition to this stuff, right? Ultimately, a political solution is best. False positives make them waste their time, and there are a lot of them who probably really do care about catching genuinely bad people who want to do bad stuff. Just that they need less secrecy, more focus, and much more oversight.
I highly recommend using Chrome's multiple user feature to log into your separate gmail accounts. This is the only thing that has kept me sane at the last couple companies where we used Google Apps.
Where's the "I wish you hadn't done that, lavabit, I'm a customer and I feel very screwed over by this action" comments?

Or is this appropriate for any SaaS vendor? You're OK with this? Should all customers, even those who really don't care if the NSA could be watching, be put out because some feel that this cause trumps actually doing business and having customer-vendor relationships?

I could see someone suing an SaaS vendor for an action like this, actually. "You cost me $XX in actual costs and $YYY in lost business. Your TOS says nothing about your shutting down because the government asked you to do something you didn't agree with."
What is the exact nature of Lodsys's relationship to IV? I have done a lot of research on trolls and IV and I am not aware of any connection at all. Basic assignments aren't enough to claim IV's involvement.
i suspect Apple is well aware that devs don't want beta users to be able to leave reviews. It has been a think since the app store started. They just don't have much incentive to do the work needed to make the change happen. It likely only effects a small number of people, and not an incredibly huge effect for the most part.
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I would rather have a boiler plate express project that provides the same thing as this without any of the framework lock in.

Cool thing none the less if you already develop with that exact tech stack.
Fuck Sanjay Gupta. There is no debate to be had. It is not up for discussion. I don't have to justify what I do to my body to fucks like this guy or anyone else.
it starts to sound like providing fully encrypted solution (where provider just isn't able to cooperate because of no access to plain text) makes the provider de-facto accessory to whatever crime may be committed by perpetrators who used the solution while committing the crime. Basically fully encrypted solution (incl. without government backdoor) moves into the same category as assault gun, ie. something that regular good citizens supposedly just don't have legitimate uses for.
Thanks to the NSA, the Sky May Be Falling on U.S. Cloud Providers