skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's wrong. "Non-programmers" won't be modifying code themselves, but they still want to be able to install the modified code. Things like "try this version and see if it fixes your bug" are impossible on iOS unless the recipient is a registered Apple developer.

This is why iOS is perceived as so hostile to open source. It's basically impossible to have a "community" of users for your open project other than a tiny cabal of professionals.
Gun laws vary state to state, so that doesn't really tell us the whole story. Look at these numbers, all per 100,000 from 2006:
Canada - 1.9

States with cities that have VERY strict gun laws:
Illinois - 6.1
Michigan - 7.1
Louisiana - 12.4 (!)

States with lax gun laws:
Montana - 1.8
Idaho - 2.5
North Dakota - 1.3

Now, admittedly, I cherry picked those to prove a point that you can blur the numbers to show what you want them to show, and I can just as easily pick numbers from strict gun law states with really low numbers and states with historically lax laws with higher numbers. We could go back and forth all day long like that, but I think that this paper, or whatever it is does make a pretty valid point which is that gun control doesn't really have the desired effect. Whether you look at entire countries, or individual states or municipalities, you will always find examples of strict gun laws with lots of violence, and no gun laws with almost no violence, and vice versa. We really just need to take a step back and realize that we are coming at this violence problem the wrong way and that the time, energy, and money we keep using to push for tighter gun control, is all wasted on something that likely would not work, and we're taking all those resources away from research we should be doing to find a real solution to the problem.

Links for the numbers I found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Canada
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-...
I got the modal subscribe/login window also, though I don't immediately see anything to click to make it go away (without messing around in Firebug).

The current browser I'm using is Firefox 23.0.1 on OS X. My UA string is Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0

Thanks for speaking up. That's one of the great things about HN - primary sources standing by!
After many months of zero Japanese support, DDG seems to now have support. It's been great!
Oh blah, you're right. Bloody Simons.
To get the regular mantra out of the way: Humans are always the weakest link.

But, speaking algorithmically, it is likely you can rely on a well-vetted symmetric algorithm like AES, used conservatively according to current best practices, to keep information secret during your lifetime.

Asymmetric algorithms are another matter. RSA relied on unproven assumptions that are turning out to be squishier than we might have hoped. ECC relies on assumptions that, for the moment, appear less squishy. I'm not a mathematician, so I can't have a truly informed judgement on how likely they are to remain unsquished, but the empirical history of public-key crypto means my confidence in ECC will remain well below my confidence in the likes of AES.
Linux: It's being ignored
As a professional scientist: One should be very careful about using peer review as a mark of quality. It's not necessary nor sufficient.
Google can still track you, cookies are just one example. So DDG uses only the data which can not related to a single user, essentially "users who searched X clicked most often on the second link" while Google builds a profile, that is "the user with cookie value Y usually searches for computers."
In this case, intellectual property "rights" are not natural rights because they are neither essential for a free society nor essential to the survival of an individual. My objection is exactly that intellectual property rights do not quack like natural rights and that legal terminology (and eventually laws themselves) should respect that.

Referring back to the U.S. Constitution, a limited monopoly was granted "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". No one would argue that those aren't noble goals, but one wouldn't be oppressed if his patents and copyrights were violated.

If one's home or savings were stolen or unfairly confiscated on the other hand...

If you want to talk programming, it is a design bug to label patent monopolies as "intellectual property rights" because the "property rights" abstraction does not fit the idea of limited monopoly powers. Because, among other reasons, violations of "property rights" have side effects of a different kind and magnitude than a failure to respect monopoly privileges.
Abe gives hope to Japan's entrepreneurs
I find it fascinating that my set-up looks nearly the same already. :)
Haha, serious first world problems (my portfolio is all first world problem solving). Thanks for the kind words- Goodfilms is still very much a work in progress. I'm optimizing it in spurts. I'm thinking i'm going to turn it into a proposal for a better discovery engine for films...

I'm really impressed by aquarium manager! I used to have a salt water reef tank when I was younger- what a pain to keep those water conditions right! You should look at arduino kit integration (if you haven't already) so you could add dosing, feeding, lighting management etc... would be helpful for people going on vacations.
Do you really think that the NSA is going to allow non-NSA experts to review and audit their systems for what the access controls are? I'm not optimistic on the odds.

We've seen before that the NSA can't be trusted to tell the truth about their systems. That means that their experts, reporting on their systems, also can't be trusted.

Furthermore the legality does in fact hinge on the implementation. If the NSA records everything but encrypts it with something that they themselves can't crack and different judges are given the encryption keys for their respective regions of authority and better still there are multiple judges for each region and its randomly decided which judge gets the key on a given day, you might actually convince me that the NSA hasn't yet performed a search.

So let's suppose for a minute that the NSA would claim exactly that. And let's suppose that the panel decides that given the system described, it is in fact constitutional. We would still need an independent auditor to examine the systems in question and ascertain if in fact the NSA is telling the truth. Because what matters isn't the WRITTEN policy, it's the ENFORCED policy. If all we're doing is finding out the legality of the written policy, it's a total joke.
See also https://www.scigit.com/
My understanding is that huge pay increases are in fact the primary motivation behind the shift to these quasi-private sector contracting arrangements. It's basically an accounting scheme to either "retain the brightest", or to defraud the taxpayers, depending on how you look at it.
Use RF noise from VGA DAC to drive VHF TV
Mobile is not a thing, it is everything [video]
thank god.
that was the only dealbreaker for me.
thanks for the article by the way!
and the free wine on fridays
Thanks for sharing. Any insight as to why investors sometimes back out at the last minute, after the startup has already committed to the change? I've read of that same thing happen at least a few times now... I just don't really understand why it happens.
After seeing this I've already begun writing a plugin for Gate One to do the same thing:

https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne

Soon (I hope) you'll be able to "sudo pip install gateone" on your Ubuntu machine and be able to access it in your browser on localhost (or remotely if you so desire).

I had plans to add a feature like this to the help plugin but it didn't work out and I forgot all about it. This article has suddenly renewed my interest :)
I have nothing against the entities involved but reading the comments here I get the impression that many simply ignored the "cooperation" bit i.e:

Cooperation: It's been some time now since we were first contacted by DuckDuckGo regarding the possibility to partner with them in order to share a percentage of the revenue that they make from the traffic originated on their search engine links ...

So DDG made a deal they could afford and got their partner to hold water for them and link to one of their PR websites, they've been ramping up their marketing efforts to try and capitalize on certain fears, which I suppose is logical.

Generally speaking I think ddg went with the "we don't store data" route because it's the niche they were left with and that ultimately means their search won't improve beyond a certain point.
UK votes *against* military action in Syria
A word of warning: these personality types are incredibly common in the startup world, for a number of reasons: Driven, strong personalities are valued. It's easier to hide in a small company. As a founder, it's relatively easy to build a team that will tolerate your excesses.

Don't be afraid. Moving on after one month is ok. It won't irrevocably stain your resume. The self-aware hiring managers know this dynamic exists, and won't hold it against you.

There are thousands of amazing, hard-working, kind, creative, interesting people and teams. Find one and cherish it.
> "...investing in groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities to defeat adversarial cryptography and exploit internet traffic."

This could be little more than a way of making the purchase of a bunch of D-Wave boxes sound more compelling than it might really be at this time. The problem with secret organizations with no oversight is that we'll probably never know for sure.
Clicking on the logo gives a 404 error by the way.
In addition to aggregate usage stats, there's also the indirect (and slower) route: more users -> more ad impressions -> higher revenue -> more employees or other resources available to improve the service.
Morons Judging Ballmer's Performance
Also, that first link has numbers for Canadian provinces, but I have no idea if they have individual gun laws, or what the story is there, so I just left it alone. All the numbers seem pretty low there and they all seem pretty close(except for Nunavat, which is 6.5 but that's probably because the pop is only 32,000), so I just left it as one number for all of Canada for comparison.
> the percentage of people who said they were leaving the country when Obama was (re)elected.

I don't get this. Most of these people were presumably conservatives, that were unhappy with Obama's election, but at the same time, most of their ideological/political views would seem incompatible with living anywhere other than the US.

[ I realize that this is probably horrible stereotyping, but I would be interested to talk to someone that held this view. ]
Why we built LaunchSky
I wish I knew. I think in our case it was the mentor. My guess is that they sent news of the great new deal out to all their mentors after we signed the note. The mentor got it in his inbox and jumped at my name. I can only imagine the hurried phone calls.

In that case, they just needed better due diligence. They shouldn't have had us upend our lives because of that simple failure.
Howdy!

I've been using https://github.com/jspahrsummers/ObjectiveHaskell/ as my bridge between the two worlds (with some modifications for iOS that I'll be posting soon). Haskell has a wonderful FFI that lets you easily call C/Objective-C from Haskell and vice versa.

There's also Manuel Chakravarty's extremely exciting "Inline Objective-C" project (coming soon) that allows you to embed Objective-C code directly into Haskell, which would make it nearly effortless to speak fluently with Apple's frameworks.
https://gist.github.com/mchakravarty/4632567

There are tons of awesome Haskell FRP implementations, from Netwire to Elerea to Reactive-Banana:
http://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2013-08-18-asteroids-in-ne...

It would also be a lot of fun to get Helm running on iOS once they finish their OpenGL backend.
http://helm-engine.org

I definitely couldn't have pulled off my own project (SpaceTime, a multiplayer app engine for iOS; announcement soon) without Haskell. I've been using the development versions of GHC iOS to build it for over a year and it's been a joy.
NSA could have its own fabs for that kind of budget. Some people believe that they do, or at one time did. My guess is that they'd probably just prefer to book a midnight run on US industry fabs these days.
It's nice, but that darn font shadowing and sky blue text is horrible. And who the hell uses 'Dog Pile' anymore?
Wasn't his Russian visa contingent on him not leaking anything else?
I'm a new Ubuntu user who's not super savvy but am considerinng moving to another distro due to these malware issues. Which distro would you recommend I move to? Mint?
I wrote a very sophisticated iptables command line argument parser a while back and found shlex to be too limited. Instead I used Pythons OptionParser module--in reverse! It worked out great:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/pyci/browser/iptables.py

The mechanism used by that code may or may not be helpful for you but feel free to email me (daniel.mcdougall at liftoff software dot com) if you want to collaborate. I'd love to put together a module that anyone can import to interpret/explain commands that can perform man page lookups and whatnot.
The turning point as far as I am concerned was when Leon Lederman resigned as Director of Fermilab to work more on the LHC.
There are not benefits to copyright?
> opening of recreational marijuana storefronts, which should happen around the end of the year.

My understanding is that legal growing for recreational use cannot begin until around the end of the year, so it will probably be a few months after that when the stores actually have goods to sell and can open.
Thanks for writing this up.

> They agree to pay for flights so long as we pay for our own hotels and car rental.

This seems crazy to me. In my head, if a few hundred bucks for flights & lodging is too much to ask, how much dough could they really have to invest? Is this standard?

> It's a convertible note with pretty standard terms, fully signed by all the partners. We sign and send it back. [...] He explains that they can't do the deal. A check isn't coming. He can't explain why.

Is there any legal recourse available in this situation?

> My mind races and I think: it couldn't have been that mentor, could it?

Which mentor are you talking about here?

> Now I have to try to reorder my life. My job is gone. My apartment is already rented out to someone else.

You know, I've seen deals fall apart so often that until cash is in the bank I don't change my life. Maybe it's from my time as a car salesman in college - until the bank funds the loan, I wasn't counting my commission. Deals fall apart in all sorts of crazy and ridiculous ways.
Story time? I'm a graduate studentat a US college. I study quantum computing, and have for the past year. I went into quantum computing despite the primary investigator being unsure of HHS funding situation, because it was something I had wanted to study for a very long time and I liked the opportunity too much to pass it up.

In July, my advisor told me that our funding had been retroactively taken by the sequester. He had lost funding for 4 graduate students and two postdocs. I am currently transferring to another school as a result of this.

The most promising locations are nearby Toronto and Madrid. Spain. They're broke, but they still fund science better than we do. I guess.
Because if I own your server, I can set it up so that it serves the good file to your pingdom-like service, and corrupted files to everyone else. Or more realistically, I'd do something more targeted, like serving the bad files only to the ip block of my business competitors.
If we were talking about a young aspiring writer-director moving to Hollywood and similar shenanigans happened, we would not be surprised would we?

Based on the OP and your story, I guess tech start ups have truly "arrived".
I started to use the Tor browser bundle this week. Manly because of the whole NSA/Snowden thing. Plus Tor was a lot in the news from the Freedom Hosting take down, so I was reminded several times that I should test it out.

Maybe many others experienced the same? At list I have had enough. Obama is tracing me no more!
Racket remains special at a deeper level, AFAICT. At first glance, it's a wonderful, modern, practical Lisp with many batteries included. Which it is. You can use it as just that. But also, it is a remarkable language for making languages that can interoperate. For example you can freely mix `#lang racket` with `#lang typed/racket` modules, as well as with `#lang my-little-dsl`. The combination of `#lang`s and macros is seriously wicked good.

My own hope is that Clojure will open many more eyes to Lispy ways (including reducing paren-phobia) --- and then many of those people will go on to discover and love Racket, too. Indeed already I see people who seem to appreciate and use both Clojure and Racket. I expect that will increase.
Sounds like something out of The Onion.
I'm building a Web site.

What does a landing page have to
do with the Web site? Is
the landing page
one of the pages at the site
with the domain name of the site?
Is the hosting the same as for
the site?
Does the landing page first exist
before the site does,
at the same time the site does,
or only after the site does?
Why isn't a landing page
just one more page I could
have at my site with the
same domain name of my site?
Does the landing page have links
to the other pages of the site?
In what sense is the landing page
"marketing", keywords for
search engines or search engine
optimization (SEO) or something else?

I understand the Web site I'm building
but not landing pages --
trying to learn. I might need
a landing page.

So, if one reason someone
might use my site is to learn
about cooking, then maybe
I will have a landing page
intended just to attract
(via search engines and keywords
about cooking) users interested
in cooking and from that landing
page have a link to my site? In this
case the landing page for cooking
doesn't really tell the user much
about cooking but just directs them
to my site where they can learn more
about cooking?

And if my site is also of interest
to people interested in classical
music, then I might have a
landing page just for
users with that interest?

Is that the idea?

If so, then such a landing page
might have difficulty doing well
in page rank?
oh, I forgot about the leading zeros part =/
"Generally speaking I think ddg went with the "we don't store data" route because it's the niche they were left with and that ultimately means that their search won't improve beyond a certain point."

As they will all be too busy not storing peoples data, or how does this line of reasoning work?
I'm speculating heavily, but it might be beneficial to precompute some kind of timing map for a large portion of the network in order to have a baseline for future timing analysis attacks. I only have a very vague idea of how that might be useful, so this is low probability.
This is a good tool to find out how much you can possibly earn by job title/keywords + location: http://www.indeed.com/salary
Economics -> Research priorities

"Because of science - not religion or politics - even people like you and me can have possessions that only a hundred years ago kings would have gone to war to own. Scientific method
should not be take lightly.

The walls of the ivory tower of science collapsed when bureaucrats realized that there were jobs to be had and money to be made in the administration and promotion of science. Governments began making big investments just prior to World War II...

Science was going to determine the balance of power in the postwar world. Governments went into the science business big time.

Scientists became administrators of programs that had a mission. Probably the most important scientific development of the twentieth century is that economics replaced curiosity as the driving force behind research...

James Buchanan noted thirty years ago - and he is still correct - that as a rule, there is no vested interest in seeing a fair evaluation of a public scientific issue.
Very little experimental verification has been done to support important societal issues in the closing years of this century...

People believe these things...because they have faith."

From Kary Mullis, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner(and the genius inventor of PCR) in an excellent essay in his book "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field".

Side note: The book, overall, is ok - some of the stories/opinions he holds are "alternative" and a refreshing perspective.
Aren't more than a fifth of PhD holders in the U.S. foreign born? The story of immigrants returning home is a lot different from a story of native-born Americans abandoning their country.
No I'm saying the exact opposite.
I was about to say the same thing. It may be that since the PTOS is going to snub a 1 on 1 chat with putin and the U.S deliberating strikes on Syria which Russia and China are against,they decided not to enforce it.
Yes,but given that US belligerence over Syria has diluted Putins commitment to detente I doubt he has much to worry over.A lot of gloves have come off recently.
Read LWN, or check Kernel Newbies, and you'll get a pretty good sense of what's going on.

Some of it is some fairly esoteric stuff that's not all that interesting unless it happens to be the kind of thing you're interested in. A lot of it is just more hardware support and drivers, which is of course only interesting if you have that particular hardware.

But some of it is really great new stuff; cgroups for dividing processes up into groups and being able to control them together, monitoring and limiting resources on a whole group basis. Namespaces (user, PID, network, etc), which together with some userspace tools give you containers for lightweight virtualization (this is what trendy things like Docker use to provide you with instant and easy containers for deploying apps). There are a couple of distributed filesystems (Ceph and Lustre) which have landed in the kernel recently, and there's btrfs which is developing rapidly as Linux's next-gen filesystem, supporting snapshots, checksums, integrated volume management and RAID, and so on. There's reshaping support in the software RAID system, allowing you to change RAID layouts on the fly (going from a 2-disk RAID 1 to a 3 disk RAID-5 to a 6 disk RAID-6, say). There are new SSD caching options, allowing you to use both an SSD and large but slow spinning disk, caching random reads and writes on the SSD, getting the best of both worlds. There are new sandboxing tools that give you the ability to run BPF filters on attempted system calls, giving you fine-grained sandboxing support (used by Chrome to better sandbox the renderer).

There's lots going on in the kernel space if you pay attention. You do have to be interested in infrastructure; if you're just interested in applications, you mostly wait until whoever provides your platform (Amazon or Heroku, or Google in the case of Android, or Canonical, or Red Hat) packages these up into a nice, easy to use platform, and you may not ever realize what kernel changes went on underneath to allow these new services. But there sure is a lot going on, and I at least think it's pretty interesting.
This is true. I looked up CLR's treatment recently, and it was surprisingly readable (for CLR). It describes the FT as transforming a polynomial between its coefficient representation and point-value representation (n point values are sufficient to fully represent a polynomial of order-bound n). To yield the point values, the polynomial is evaluated at the n complex roots of unity, because these numbers have useful properties.

My background in math is thin when it comes to things like complex numbers, but the explanation more or less made sense to me. CLR was focused on how the FFT was useful for multiplication, so it didn't really go into all the things I would have liked to know.