skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a person on the ground in one of the two mentioned states, I find it pretty laughable to imagine a Republican President trying to come here in 3 years and try to change it. It's already so different here than it was a year ago when it was already not a thing anyway.
I remember having the same reaction, especially after hearing many conservatives "considering" emigration to Canada, a nation much more socialist and tolerant than the U.S.
One question: If we launch with pack 1, can we "upgrade" to pack 1+2 when we want to go paid?
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Currently, there is a serious lack of open source apps for mobile devices, especially iOS. While there are scores of very high quality open-source applications for servers (Nginx, Wordpress, HAProxy) and desktops (Firefox, VLC, Blender), the ecosystem isn’t there yet on iOS. There are only a handful of open-source apps out there

Not to say that there aren't meaningfull and large amount of code behind iOS and OS X that is available as open source. It is however noted by the article as iOS is serious lacking a strong open source ecosystem. This has nothing to do with GNU, FSF, or Copyleft. Please find the cause of the problem else where. The parent post you replied suggested DRM as the culprit. Do you disagree, and if so, what is the culprit?
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This guy never ceases to amaze.

Allez Fabrice!
There are certainly alternatives to Lucene.

What about idzebra? It's written in C, it predates Lucene and it was used as the indexing system for Harvest (the origin of Squid).

What is more likely than "low memory footprint" to give an indexing system written in Go an advantage over alternatives is the marketing of Go. It seems the language is being promoted nearly every day on HN's front page. If this is any indication of usage trends among developers, the Go Authors must be pleased.
I would hope so, but I haven't heard anything about that. It would make sense if they were able to "convert" plants by just paying the recreational tax for an existing plant.

They may not have bothered to cover that edge-case though, since it is probably only really going to be an issue once (I assume it would be perfectly on the level to sell "recreational pot" to people with prescriptions for "medical pot"... Growing plants specifically for medical use may stop being a thing.)
There is an even better story about reading the screens of people using VGA cards at a distance by post processing the emissions coming from them [1]. Of course it is always fun to have your computer do things in interesting an unexpected ways.

[1] http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html used to be a page that had links to code that was used for reconstructing a vga image on your screen from picking up passive radiation, it has sadly gone away.
"Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it."

Edward Snowden, in Q&A session at The Guardian's homepage, 17 June 2013

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-...
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Cant you just nest a row?
In practice they do, for example the Heilbronn Institute at Bristol University is funded by GCHQ:

http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/research/heilbronn_institute/
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Great article, definitely struck a chord in me. Guess it should have been called "Why I won't go to TED or Burning Man, ever", in order to generate any interest.
> If you're talking about the Federal government, I don't see them giving up on the War on Drugs(tm) any time soon.

They're obligated by treaty to keep cannabis illegal

Relaxation of US cannabis laws 'violates UN drug conventions'
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/05/relaxation-ca...
When you hear of a lot of American scientists leaving America permanently, then it's time to start panicking.

I got the hell out of the USA to go to grad school.

One thing that really helped is that when I visited one of my two grad-school options, the one inside the USA, the current grad-students told me there was no hope of ever getting a permanent research position, and that we could all expect to just drift from post-doc to post-doc before being discarded.

And this was a very good department for the field we were discussing. I adore these guys and their research.

At Technion, not only my advisor but other graduate students seem to feel they can safely assume they'll eventually find a well-paying industrial, academic, or governmental job with a Technion grad degree.

So, yeah, funny thing, making aliyah may well have been a good career move, which basically never happens. Oh, and speaking of antisemitic graffiti, once when I visited my cosmopolitan college town of Amherst, I found neo-Nazi graffiti about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion on an alley wall, and learned that UMass Amherst has a secret neo-Nazi club.

Be a little bit afraid.
To my knowledge Al Qaeda and the Boston marathon bombers didn't have an extensive domestic data gathering program, a billion-dollar data center in Bluffdale, a network of secret courts and so on.
I've used Scene 7 for the past five years and think that it is a great product. The cost may seem expensive if you just look at the dynamic resize/crop technology and hosting, but it is a good solution for digital asset management for e-commerce. Our photo studio and re-touchers upload directly into Scene 7 and it has simplified the entire workflow.
The intended use in important. If a teacher distributes the speech in order to teach a lesson about it, it is very different than if a business man sell a book of the speech. Furthermore, the negative publicity from suing a teacher, using Martin Luther King Jr's speech to teach about civil rights should make any teacher completely safe from lawsuits.
Could someone point to a resource that would explain what happens when Im viewing a website on my phone driving down the highway?

What does my cellphone send to the nearest cell-phone tower?
What does the cell-phone tower send to the phone company servers? How do they tie back together packets coming back from https://news.ycombinator.com back to my phone?
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Indeed, if Leonardo's weapons were so superior, how comes we could defeat them and capture the duke? :-)
Of course, where there's risk, there's money to be made...
My story about accelerator is all fluffy and red roses (I was with 500startups and the experience was AMAZING) and I moved from another country to the US in order to participate in it. I can only imagine what would have happened if they had cancelled on me at the last minute.

I think these kind of stories need to include name and not be anonymous, I hate when people get away with this kind of behavior because no one is interested in calling them out on this shitty behavior.

No offense, I'm sure you have your reasons.
Tldr; theyre taxing people who have solar panels on grounds that other people have to pay for the grid through their bills.

Oh and they are fining 30-60m eur for people with installs not hooked into the grid.

So yes basically this is as stupid as taxing the sun, the air you breath, or the water you drink.
The idea is terrific but focus is all wrong. Writers don't need branches. They don't code features in. Hell, most developers don't do stupid updates-on-branch-then-merge-merge-suffer-merge-curse-merge commit accounting.

Writers usually write alone, what they need is:
A (desktop) tool with basic WYSIWYG markup (paragraphs, bold/italic, that sort of thing) with version control, visual diffs, export into common formats. Maybe a pull request or two.
It's not bullet-proof, but if you are the only person evaluating the system, then you've only protected it against the attacks that you can think up, and not against the attacks the other people can think up.
That's common in most countries these days with very few exceptions. What few post-doc positions exist are viewed as a transitory positions and aren't very well paid (considering the qualifications required). If you want to do pure research without moving around the world constantly you can just forget about it! Either you get on the tenure-track or you go into industry and figure out how to steal money on the stock-exchange or make people click on banner-ads. Unfortunately, there just aren't that many tenured positions available.

You're probably a technocrat. I'm one too. I firmly believe the U.S. would be far better off if they shut down the NSA entirely and sank those billions into pure, curiosity driven research. Unfortunately, we are a tiny, tiny minority. Most people are very risk-averse and would rather guard a hovel than build a mansion!
I think http://www.jammed.com/~jwa/tempest.html might be the same FAQ/info page (right author, anyway), although last updated in '99, and no obvious links to any code (except one link about sniffing CPU emissions, which is also bitrotted)
Exactly. The difference is those switches allow a wide range of force, from 45g up, as long as the typist is quick enough to retract before hitting the backplane. Kicking instead of pushing.

Apple keyboards are too low for that to be possible (without some finesse), but for me ~60g is just fine.
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What made you feel differently about YCombinator than everyone else? Or rather, how did YC get their foot in your door?
It's important to note that even using well-tested, hardened crypto-primitives, you can still design an insecure system.
It's not my job to help you reason with logic. If you can't appreciate that circular reasoning is a distraction, then what is my explaining going to do other than waste my time? I'll just have repeat myself as you spout more and more meme-like troupes and purposeful misunderstandings. I'm not hear to proselytize or market. I'm hear to figure out the truth for myself, if others happen to be convinced in the process, that's just a happy side-effect.
I wish he cited his sources for the statistics.
I agree, very often we have these average gatekeepers who imagine themselves as top level power brokers at an elite world, and those should be avoided.

But the best "gatekeepers" are not the ones that guard the gate, they are the ones who can show you where the gates even are, it's just very difficult to be able to distinguish the real valuable guys from the "hustlers" without having a lot of experiences yourself.
You have to consider their goals, which define their needs. If they are in very senior positions and have very high salaries already, and don't understand the technology, then it's fairly obvious that they do not need to understand the technology. They got everything they wanted without that ever being a requirement.

Of course, it's better for everybody else if they do. We need them to understand the technology. They don't.
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So they may have built a plant in 1989 when they were 60,000 ft2 and $85M, unless that was misdirection simply to mess with the Soviets. (Notice the conveniently placed infographic right underneath the article).

Twenty-five years of Moore's law later the price and complexity of an operational chip foundry has doubled similar to transistor count. The former Sony plant is 633,000 ft2, reportedly valued as $72M and being leased at $35/ft2.

I don't see any evidence they're using it for anything other than datacenter and office space.
Universities often express dismay & consternation at the abilities of the students that arrive at their gates. Would more collaboration between high school students and universities help bridge this gap?
I'm an American born graduate student in Chemistry lab at an R1 school and the funding landscape has been a very hot topic throughout the department. No tenured professors have said they would move, but we probably wouldn't receive that information until they had already made the decision (as was the case with my boss and switching schools).

Once I am done with graduate school I will be considering employment at a university oversees that appreciates it's scientists.

And it wouldn't be as difficult for many of these tenured professors to make the transition. They all collaborate with researchers oversees. They already have all the connections needed. Furthermore, the institutions over there would jump at opportunities to poach them.

Moving across the globe isn't nearly as difficult these days as it would have been in the 1930s.

And if moving across the globe would've fixed Americans' problems during the Great Depression I doubt they would've hesitated.
DuckDuckGo is great. I always end up after a while using Google though as I find Google generally has better results and I enjoy the 'sort in the last...' functions for example that DDG lacks.
Here's some details: http://news.sciencemag.org/funding/2012/01/nih-examines-what...
There are a lot of good people working on Lucene, and every year good contributions come via GSoC.
Nice catch. University of Cambridge paper I believe, which had a live demonstration. Its been a long time though.
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This is as good a thread as any to perhaps start a discussion on something that's been on my mind ever since I learnt about the NSA's penchant for hiring mathematicians and cryptographers.

How would you reasonably estimate the NSA's academic prowess when it comes to crypto/codebreaking? How does this compare to the state-of-the-art in academia?

I am less interested (but definitely so) in knowing or estimating more about how such a budget helps in deploying and building systems to collect/store intelligence information. I also wouldn't be surprised if they are fairly ahead of the curve in terms of zero-day exploits and the like.

The thing that most makes me curious is in terms of pure mathematics (like better factoring algorithms, better predictors of pseudorandomness, weaknesses in commonly used parameters or poor choice of certain elliptic curves, say).

There are few interesting pieces of information that would help

-- a rough headcount of people in positions comparable to post-docs and professors in the worldwide crypto/math community. I find it incredibly hard to imagine a mathematical breakthrough without significant training and continuous involvement in the research community. Do they get a fair share of the best mathematicians out there? Does the pay make it a fairly attractive destination?

-- whether or not they have an active "collaboration" and "internal publication" environment, once again, comparable to the dozen or so reputable conferences occurring yearly that allows for exchange of several interesting ideas across 100s of people with the express incentive in attending these conferences being discussion and collaboration.

-- how much we can extrapolate from just 2 instances (from what I know) of the NSA being a decade or more ahead of the curve (the DES S-box and public-key cryptosystem examples). What's a reasonable way, as outsiders, of starting to get a legitimate guess? Do we have more examples or at least hints of such possible examples?

(ps: I see after posting this that several other people have raised similar points in the thread. I'd love to learn more about why Bruce Schneier thought that the NSA was decades ahead in 1996 and whether he holds the same opinion in 2013)
Toxic employees exist at the extremes of those buckets. Avoid hiring toxic employees, but the filters available to you might not be good enough to screen them out, so fire them quickly. During the interview, you might just be able to observe minor quirks which are hardly indicators either way.

I cringe whenever I read job ads that are aiming for a culture fit: "we only want to hire harmonious, independent, extroverted employees;" when in my experience, the best employees do not hold strongly to those ideals, but neither to do they hangout at the other extremes.
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True, but we (society) wouldn't be much worse off than we are now. If Wal-Mart didn't exist, something else would exist to fill the gap, supply and demand must reach an equilibrium.

We should focus on helping people become self sustainable, not perpetually on the dole. Wal-Mart doesn't help here.
Anyone else notice that you're apparently more likely to get a ticket when pulled over by a cop if your ID has a funny photo?

Given how easily the percentages convert into low samples (50%/50% = 2/4 or 3/6 vs. 67%/33% = 2/3) I definitely don't trust the statistical significance of this data.
John Lennon can't opt out the violence society perpetuates that seeks to uphold whiteness just by writing a song about how he's not into violence. He also can't opt out of the aspects of capitalism that perpetuate racism. That is what I mean about how it is easy for him to write or lyrics like that, he will not feel the full brunt of society's affects because 1) he is a man, 2) because he is white, and 3) because he had tremendous wealth.

> Jay-Z is rich now too - can he not have opinions on politics/race/religion or do you also dismiss him as a misogynist black man who had all the money and privilege in the world?

I don't know why you bring up Jay-Z, I never said that any musician can't have an opinion. But it is easy to be about non-violence when you are not yourself the primary target of systemic, state sponsored violence.
Their 'Mentors' page is... interesting: http://socraticlabs.com/Mentors.html
In a room full of men under most circumstances there's going to be between some and most that love women. Addressing that group is not automatically the same as disparaging any other.

> Why should HN be "required" to fall in line with his preferences?

An excellent question. Why should HN be "required" to fall in line with your preferences? Especially when we can have our own that may or may not include everyone all the time.
I understand urge for anonymity in these stories but I think it would be really helpful If the names of these accelerators where disclosed so people don’t fall into the same situations. I know "clues" are provided in both scenarios but there are literally dozens of accelerators out there (four alone in La area that I know of) some of which a couple of my friends have applied too. Avoiding these type landmines should be the paramount goal. I know there may be a negative stigma on publicly bad mouthing an accelerator you where part of(sour grapes from a bad team maybe) but this isn’t bad customer service where talking about which could be subjective this is totally unacceptable behavior that is being detailed here and in that case anonymity is a courtesy they don’t deserve
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The obstacle to open source adoption has always been economics, not usability. (Give them paychecks, and the usability engineers will come.) While it's possible to have a successful business model with FOSS, it's typically much more difficult or less lucrative compared to the product/appliance model, and too often completely unviable to make a living.

The curious paradox of Apple's walled garden is that it creates an opening to put every line of code on GitHub, yet be confident that the vast majority of customers will still click "Buy Now" rather than downloading elsewhere for free. It may not include Freedom Zero, and so is far from ideologically pure, but the ecosystem still gains the benefits of transparency, trust, and iterative improvement from open source.

Outside of certain niches, the market is clearly not gravitating towards FOSS on its own; if the politics of computing is important to us as a culture, it probably needs to move forward in the form of consumer protection laws and antitrust litigation. But in the meantime, FOSS would do well to use the App Store and make the best of a bad situation.
This is oddly antagonistic. I understand that the OP's points don't apply to you, but I'd say the concept of leaving your drinking buddies behind or needing to hear the comforting voice of a familiar friend aren't foreign to vast majority of people.
I don't like Starbucks' beans but for two exceptions: their "reserve" single-origin line (http://www.starbucks.com/coffee/reserve), and their espresso roast. I'm actually surprised I haven't found a better espresso roast...Lavazza, Illy, surprisingly nothing else measures up. Their reserve line is also dark roasted (or nuked to taste oblivion, depending on your viewpoint :P), but those are generally still my favorite for the French press or Aeropress or Clover machine. I've tried plenty of lighter-roasted single-origin beans from a local roaster in my town who has the same opinion as you. I always give them a fair shake, but it's just not my thing.

I guess my point is, you may be turning away paying customers based on personal preference. My local roaster also thinks dark roasting is sacrilege, but does it nonetheless because ~half of his customers prefer it.
Interesting, similar jumps happened in every country I tried: Brazil, Vietnam, US, Argentina, South Africa.

I can't imaging the Pirate Browser thing would be immediately so popular across so many different cultures, even in countries without net censorship.
Don't you only need to pay $100 to distribute the app, right?
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Scientists must pass peer review to publish, and peer review can be very harsh. Double blind helps winnow out political bias.

Coders must get jobs to continue coding if they are not independently wealthy. Bias abounds in this case, as other coders with influence must vouch for you, and...in this case your projects can influence their opinion of you.

We are social creatures: we don't live as hermits (most of us anyways).
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Hushmail.
false. did a paper on it in college.
I remember reading articles in the 90's about the TEMPEST technology (or some other name) where spy agencies could remotely eavesdrop on the output of your computer monitor, without a line of sight, from a truck parked on the street.

Example: http://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/privacy/introdu...
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The federal government hasn't challenged partial legalization elsewhere, either; what it has done (even after announcing that it would not make it a prosecution priority) is continue to prosecute people who were complying with the state law for violating federal drug laws.

So, its really not big news that they aren't challenging the legalization. What will be big news is if there really is a durable consistent accommodation in the way they choose to prosecute (not just a statement or guidelines that seems to indicate a deprioritization, but something that is tangible in terms of differences in action.)
MLK was murdered, remember?

At any rate, MLK didn't exist in a vacuum. It is quite possible that the movement, if it only consisted of people that aligned with MLK, wouldn't have been as successful?
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No code here, but other technical details and some photos of what's possible in this paper http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ih98-tempest.pdf - possibly the one you were thinking of in your parallel comment.
"Scientist" is a fluffy title like "Doctor" or "Professor", conveyed by other people or authorities for classification in a hierarchical/segmented society. As a researcher, I wear many hats doing design, coding, science, writing, etc..., but my title is just "researcher" because of the role I fill professionally.
Maybe a botnet has started using Tor for connecting to a central command server? Might help explain a doubling of nodes but minimal traffic increase.
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> Where does the 26 states requirement come from?

A fantasy that the United States is an association of state governments ruled by majority vote of the states?
Only 2 color schemes? Do I get an easy way to import my own too? Its beautiful but I'd rather not look like 50 other sites...