skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit surprised by some of the errors on the site.

- Tweet button doesn't have a link

- G+ share button isn't working

- Opengraph tags point to a missing image-url, so Facebook shares don't have an image associated.

I think maybe this hit HN before they were quite ready for launch - I'm guessing these'll be fixed pretty quickly.

Excellent move by the companies involved though. A lot of advocacy organizations have been pushing these companies to come out publicly meaningful surveillance law reform, and this is a great start.
Edward Snowden isn't mentioned, no, but it's largely due to him that the debate and recent revelations have been so heavily discussed by so many.

We'd known about strange telecommunication interception by governments for years[1] but Snowden's disclosures and the following saga brought it to the attention of the world by providing a theatrical backdrop for the media to start using. Now it's something that normal people know about, not just techies.

Regulating government surveillance is the issue these companies are best positioned to support. If they'd explicitly mentioned Snowden, the discussion could quickly be derailed.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A and many more
i never understood why non-capturing syntax requires extra work - '(?:' vs '(' - seems very backwards.
Yes you are right. I'm sorry. Same general policies though. You need an exit Visa to leave. Your employer holds your passport.
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You can be paranoid and assume things, but that only saves you if your assumptions are correct. In fact, if your goal is to avoid the NSA (or the cops/FBI/whoever in your acquaintance's case), having the wrong assumptions would be detrimental in that you'd be expending a lot of effort to avoid authority with no gain in security. Never mentioning drugs over the phone doesn't help if the police never tap your phone but the guy you just sold to is an undercover cop.
usu is internet for usually or something else?
I can see why they're anti-rooting--they need to be able to offload voice + SMS traffic to wifi, and they can't do that if you've flashed a custom ROM or whatever. I think they're hoping to eventually have the wifi calling stuff packaged as an app, so it could be installed on whatever ROM (or device) you wanted. But for now, it's integrated with the android system at a very low level.

> you're out of luck if you want to cancel the service after 30 days.

Sort of. There's no early termination fee, so in that way it's better than legacy carriers. But you can't take your RW phone and use it on any other network, so you are out the cost of the device.
another one i have been really getting mileage out of: "do it (whatever you are trying to get done / get better at) every day", aka the "seinfeld method"
All signs point to a hasty implementation of this; seems like there was some pressure on the companies included, or an urgent turn around.

All the articles were clearly planned; The Guardian has already run two stories, each published exactly at midnight. That said, the www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com site seems almost haphazardly thrown together; graph tags are butchered making sharing awkward with a terribly misleading preview, Apple's logo is left out of the first batch of supporters, the logos at the bottom are awkwardly aligned, etc.

I'm not exactly sure how to decipher all this; could the hasty implementation be good news? A sign that it's not taken seriously?
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IMO, most of these explanations of Big O that I've ever seen have missed the key feature of Big O (the "killer application" if you will): that it's relatively independent of the exact computational model you use. Sure, you have to decide on the broad strokes of your computational model, but you don't need exact, instruction-level details.

This is a pretty huge benefit because it means every CS paper doesn't have to start with a section introducing an abstract machine. The downfall is, of course, that you lose some ability to estimate the potential real-world performance of the algorithm, and the notation itself hides differences between algorithms of the same Big O complexity.
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A more accurate title would be "We've found parameters for our simulation that gives a role to room-temperature entanglement a shot at being somewhat relevant to base pairing", by and large ignoring all that chromatin structure that also holds DNA together as well ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatin )
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>There was a time, not so long ago, when biologists swore black and blue that quantum mechanics could play no role in the hot, wet systems of life.

When was this? Last February 31st? I don't recall any biologists discounting the last Nobel prize in Chemistry (which was biology and classical/quntum physics related as well).
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It's also the stark differences in the consequences of misuse. Google can use my information to serve me diabolically targeted ads. The government can put me in jail. It's not that I trust Google more, it's that they have vastly less power to harm me even if their intentions are bad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/technology/tech-giants-iss...
ido doesn't become really amazing until you add ido-ubiquitous (which makes most minibuffer completions use the ido interface, as opposed to just file opens) and flx-ido (which allows fuzzy matching).
Maybe this wasn't meant to be launched yet?
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Exactly my point - you make it more clear: free != good. Must optimize for good. That kind of community would be great.
Good catch! I passed your comment on to Google's liaison to R.G.S., and she's working to get it fixed.

Let's see how long it takes from here. :)
This is probably a naïve question, but what examples exist of room-temperature entanglement naturally occurring? In other words, are we dealing with an entirely new phenomena or is this a "routine" phenomena being postulated to be found in a really cool place?
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I feel the same way, and have also been hoping for internet companies to put a stake in the ground.

On the other hand, it frustrates me that the tipping point for how Snowden's legacy will be viewed is action by a set of corporations, and not action by elected officials, the media, or an informed public...
They may not all care what happens to Snowden, but I think it's unfair to say they're merely showing off. I think these companies are acting on pretty high principle. They have little to gain by issuing such a statement, except the goodwill of people like us, but since they're all participating, such goodwill is evenly distributed and no one of them derives an advantage from it. Whereas they all depend on good relations with various bits of the federal government, which they risk offending with this statement.
One thing I find fascinating about discussion here versus many other places is the hacker mindset that drives so many of the discussion here.

I would characterize it as a combination of nitpickiness, the need to articulate the "Right Answer"[1], and of course a desire to show off one's knowledge, that often results in interesting discussions full of counterpoints and analysis, but also can lead to flame wars full of righteous fury and petty snark.

1: e.g. http://xkcd.com/386/
There is one thing missing from this text so far, the answer to "or what?"
Since you're bounding (with a constant) the time each iteration can take, this is just O(2^n).

EDIT: I suppose if the time bound per program is a parameter "m" that you can vary, then it's actually O(m*2^n).

Without the bound, this algorithm is unlikely to work, since programs can run indefinitely.

If you modify your algorithm to only generate programs without any infinite loops, you've solved the halting problem, which is impossible.
Reddit and HackerNews x-posting: Who gets there first?
I've often noticed a link get to the top page of r/programming or r/technology, only to see it pop up on Hackernews a few hours later, and vice versa. I've hadn't really figured out a discernible pattern, does anyone have any analytics on when links get submitted to Reddit vs. Hackernews? Or any theories on which site gets a link first?
I'm confused. Why is the output infinite? Do we know when the hashing was stopped?

I'm not sure this is a decidable problem with just the information you gave.

Did you just make up the problem, or is that inspired from a real world situation?
This is a fulcrum for how Snowden is viewed by the populace; I find it all too easy to imagine the government symbolically caving in to this cause while still forcing Snowden personally to live out his life as a political refugee from the United States hiding from charges that never quite go away.

And yes, getting imprisoned makes you less credible in the eyes of the public; people love a winner. :/
This is mostly a moral and ethical judgement, but it appears to be a mild ethical preference, and I wouldn't accept ethical advice from Givewell. They may be trying to do "good" now, but the Wall Street shadiness of their founders shines through.

http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Givewell
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With all due to respect to Internet Archive efforts, I would be a bit cynical here. I once downloaded Code rush documentry and the quality was so bad with heavy lost frames and flickering that it was impossible to watch it. At another instance, I downloaded mp3 of a classical piece, "william tell overture" and it was nothing like what I have heard it in its best.

I might be talking about only specific cases that happened with me but quality wise I didn't had much luck with it. Albeit, I do realize the project itself is huge and have been fan of the Internet Time Machine.
What planet are you on? No one is suggesting the government force anyone to do anything with regard to housework. The antigovernment herds come out whenever anyone suggests that our government should do something. That's par for the course on HN. But I have to say, seeing someone just start ranting against government intrusion in a topic that has nothing to do with it is... unusual.
Your appeal to hypocrisy is a logical fallacy. In other words, Facebook may well be snarfing all up all the info they can, but that doesn't mean they can't criticize the government for the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
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O(2^n) where n is the number of bits?
My understanding is that their work is more like "coupling" than "entanglement" (as the media describes entanglement). From the abstract of their arXiv article, it sounds like what they're looking at is the motion of the base pairs together. This is certainly pretty cool, but it's not quite the same as some of the other results on quantum entanglement where two particles are entangled and by observing one, you can infer the other, etc etc.
Does she have any pseudo-basis for this pseudoscientific belief?
I only care about the best practices for making the RIGHT things happen. The cat can push the vase on the floor and make things happen, that doesn't mean it was the right thing.
That may end up being the view, but in fact it is the people behind these corporations making the decisions.

Given this is the United States Military waging an espionage offensive on domestic soil (as well as internationally), I regard it as a brave effort for anyone at any of these companies to stand up and push back.
The "too much time has passed" bound on each iteration guarantees that you don't end up running an iteration forever, and makes the algorithm O(2^N), since the number of programs up to N bits long is 2^(N+1) - 1.
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Out of curiosity, not being a US citizen, can I ask what was wrong with:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized

Seems like a pretty good basis for a framework for surveillance. Is there something about the 21st century that renders the 4th amendment unusable in framing legislation?
Sure, but it's "Hacker News" not "Interesting Hacker Discussions" :-)
I kind of like it. It's a nice blow to the straw viewpoint that corporations should have no rights to speak.

Everything these companies say is informed by discussion in the media, among the public, and, yes, with elected officials. The line you want to draw is extremely fuzzy at best in reality.

I have read that Genghis Khan's original plan after conquering China was to raze the farming villages to provide more pasture for horses (and the Mongols that horse populations supported). Some bureaucrats pointed out to him that he could personally do better by taxing the Chinese farmers. And he sold out the Mongols to do it, which worked out great for him and the millions of peasants he didn't kill.

Do we count that as action by the peasants, who held essentially zero formal power, or by the mandarins, who could never have afforded to pay for the deal themselves?
What would you say differentiates this from Quora? Just curious.
If you use gitignore, the file(s) will only be local so they won't be accessible by other team members (or yourself on a different machine) and may not be backed up at all (depending on your strategy).
Well, it's not the first time someone told us what the NSA were doing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqN59beaFMI
The difference is quite subtle, if any. I'm not even sure why you are afraid of government stalking. After all, government is prevented by the rule of law from arbitrarily throw you in jail. For every reason you are afraid of government, you should be afraid of corporation X. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that corporation X will not collude with the government to do you harm 10 years from now. These corporations are building your dossier with a detail that would make Stasi blush. If there are teeth to such dossiers, they'll make use of it in good time, perhaps hand in hand with the government.
You have very little choice to avoid Google Analytics (or one of a handful of other major analytics companies). Almost every site on the internet uses it. None of them reveal in an obvious way if they do, or give you any choice (or they just pop up a generic "we use cookies, if you continue using this site you agree").

Or beyond that, there's all the sharing buttons, Google Web Fonts, hosted JavaScript libraries, and the like. If I wanted to prevent Google from being able to track me at all, I would have to avoid the vast majority of the web.

You can apply more and more extensions and filter rules to block this sort of thing. I have a variety enabled; they make it a quite a pain to surf the web, as they wind up breaking a variety of sites by blocking a little too much, and I have to sit there and selectively disable them until I find what allows the site to work.

So, effectively, you cannot opt out of corporate tracking either. If you want to, just like avoiding government surveillance, your best bet is to just disconnect from the net entirely.
Only eukaryotes have chromatin. Besides, even eukaryotic DNA doesn't spend all its time as chromatin. Base pairing is still important, especially during replication and translation.
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EV was an exercise in money making, not security.
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I think it's simply because capturing groups are much more common than non-capturing groups. Even though non-capturing is "simpler", it's less common, so we default to capturing and use the more verbose syntax for non-capturing.
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The crux of the issue for Snowden is whether he is viewed by the public as a whistle-blower or traitor.

These companies have staked out a position, off the back of his endeavors, yet lack the courage and conviction to fully support him.

It makes me cringe to see Larry Page, Marissa Mayer et al posting weasel words on a web-site, as though they are champions of the people.

In the week that Nelson Mandela passed away, the contrast between giants and dwarves could not be clearer.
Well they seem to have put enough pieces together to run a training exercise with the same details as 9/11 on the same day, as well as warn the President of the attack a month earlier.

My guess is that compartmentalization was given as an excuse in order for the government to expand power during a time of 'crisis'. Today they lie to you about what the NSA does, 10 years ago it was lying to you about what caused 9/11, including lying about the memo, and the training exercise.

Remember that before the memo and the training exercise were public knowledge that 'no one could have predicted 9/11'.
>What about cleaning up your own house first?

These corporations, to my knowledge, have never used their data to:

* Spy on love interests

* Kill people abroad unilaterally

* Construct court cases against people

* Imprison people for victimless crimes (or any crime for that matter)

* Add me to no-fly lists

* Forcibly extract money from me to make me pay for their programs
> After all, government is prevented by the rule of law from arbitrarily throw you in jail

That hasn't exactly stopped them from holding detainees in Guantanamo with no charges for years, and no hope of release.

If the government gets the wrong idea about you, they may bust your door down and run in with guns drawn, then shoot you because they think you're reaching for a gun.

While I'm concerned about what Google or Facebook will do with my information, the biggest concern (and the one expressed here) is that the government will demand or snoop it from them, and act on it in one of the ways described above.
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Just like any other blog that teaches you how to make incredible things happen, offering way too general advice.
Just because you can start a blog and write doesn't mean you should.
> I always found the mathematical definitions of asymptotic notation the most clear

Which definition of asymptotic notation is there besides the mathematical definition, which by definition defines it? :)
Ok, I'm vary far from expert in QM or physics for that matter and talking out of ass here. But here's my thought: Can we look at quantum entanglement as a result from a process that occurs between two objects in a different dimension free from dimension of spacetime. Currently we define entanglement as two objects effectively sharing the same existence, no matter how far apart they might be. But "far" (or distance) applies to the dimension of space which is limited by current known laws of relativity (speed of light) that's why entanglement sounds bazarre and spooky.
I'm not sure I grok Salmon's angle of it being a bad thing that the NYT almost exclusively promotes proprietary content over stories off the AP/Reuters news wires.

"Felix Salmon is the finance blogger at Reuters"[1]. There's his angle.

[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/11/15/how-the-nyt...
The other day, my younger brother and I spent 6 hours BASE jumping off various things in GTA 5. I'm terrible at games with too much freedom, and I get bored with that pretty rapidly :(
They should have passed the url through Facebook's Open Graph Object Debugger to invalidate the cache before launching the site. FB 101...
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Thanks so much redler! That's totally it! I found a number of photos of the book on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/erice/sets/72157625355578461/) and they really brought me back to my childhood. I had the first two as listed here: http://www.khantazi.org/Rec/TTABooks/TTABooks.html

I'll have to see if I can pick up the whole series. Thanks again!
A "major" Norwegian language tech-network (tek.no/hw.no/gamer.no etc) recently started demanding that you either show ads, or use their paid service. That means that with adblock/noscript, they do some tricks to hide content, forcing you to either make some kind of effort to get to the content, or whitelist them.

I have no idea how successful that has been for them with regards to increasing revenue -- I do know that I've pretty much stopped reading them (but a large part of that is that their content is hastily written crap, not offering much of any value over other, better, international sites). Had at least some of their reviews and articles been worth reading, I might have considered paying for a subscription.

I'm not sure what the takeaway is from that, though. Don't try to sell crap?
>If you modify your algorithm to only generate programs without any infinite loops, you've solved the halting problem, which is impossible.

Nonsense, there is no reason you cannot design an algorithm that uses a halting oracle. Running that algorithm may be difficult though.
They can't be that particular, they're even using the old Twitter logo at the top.
Using ghostery or similar browser plugins covers 90% of the use cases you describe.

I dislike that you get forced to use it to opt-out, but there is little other choice.
I thought transient-mark-mode was enabled by default in recent releases?

Correct.
I was hoping to see Amazon.com signed on to this as well, given their substantial position in cloud computing, and their likely future influence being even greater.
Tried to push it on you, or prescribed it and you filled it? Often doctors will prescribe the new drug to help patients save money: the insurance company doesn't yet realize it's the same as the cheap generic, and will pay the full cost for you because it's the only drug in its class available. (Buying the over-the-counter drug, you have to pay 100% of its cost from your taxable income, instead of paying $7 from your tax-free income. Then again, given a year's supply of generic Zyrtec is like $20 on Amazon... you'd have to have a pretty high tax rate for that to make sense.)

Obviously, insurers have wised up to this scheme with the "new" allergy drugs, but in other cases, it can be helpful.
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