skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Both JSTOR and MIT declined to pursue civil litigation. They clearly didn't consider themselves to have been materially harmed.

The second statement doesn't in any way follow from the first. There are call kinds of reasons why JSTOR might have decided not to pursue civil litigation. Swartz quite possibly didn't have enough money to make it worthwhile, and it would have been bad publicity. On top of that, given that Swartz was already facing criminal prosecution, there was no need to pursue civil litigation as a deterrent to others.

>Where did you get the information that the entirety of JSTOR was shut down, even temporarily?

http://swartz-report.mit.edu/faq.html ("This activity was in violation of MIT's licensing agreement with JSTOR, and its scale threatened JSTOR's network so profoundly that JSTOR blocked all MIT access for three days in October 2010.") My original post was open to the interpretation that JSTOR shut down everywhere for everyone, which is not the case. But anyway, it's clear that Swartz's activities were significantly disruptive.

What you seem to be missing is that Swartz's actions were a direct challenge to JSTOR's entire business model. The only way that JSTOR can make money out of scanning old journal articles is to charge fees to someone or other for access to those articles. If the entire JSTOR database becomes freely available, then this income stream is cut off. It's worth considering what the effects would have been if Swartz had succeeded in doing what he intended to do, i.e. release JSTOR's entire database of articles. This wasn't merely a prank or a protest. It was something that had the potential to destroy JSTOR entirely. (And JSTOR isn't even evil -- it's a non-profit that does a lot of great work.)
I agree, though I would argue that the iphone was genuinely a new product category (and perhaps also the iPad). Some re-imaginings of existing tools are so dramatic, they create new categories.
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Why 'seemingly'? Why is that not 'actual' groundbreaking progress?

Because mapping problems to pre-existing algorithms is bread and butter of computer science and software engineering. To be groundbreaking a work needs to change our understanding of the underlying issues. In a lot of popularized cases that does not happen.
That floating robot image is from this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw0-JRa9n94
Microsoft does. ;)
AFAIK that's because they're trying to keep the price-point low, since they're aiming for consumers.

Edit: AFAIK, the tech they're using can support a wider FOV, but then the price jumps pretty quickly. I definitely do NOT know for sure, however; that's just what we figured when they were first announcing.
Of course.

I just feel the need to push back against the people who think about agriculture as some kind of natural ecological outgrowth. Ag changes the ecology of a landscape enormously, and the accomodations to ag end up reshaping the physical character of things so much we forget what they originally looked like or how they originally functioned.
Python module finder/loader from GitHub, like in golang
Because every suggested redesign has been gorgeous as anything, and not as functional or practical. People do this all the time - "Here! Look! I've redesigned HN" - and it's never as practical.

Content over form, every time.
Airbnb has a new neighbor: http://bit.ly/1TBitzf
This is what happens when you reply to spam email
plus you can have locally saved backups with http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Quick_save_to_a_temporary_file_bef...
There's not much to get, or anything to hack.

Grocery stores are organized by idiosyncratic individuals. The placement of any particular item can change from store to store, even within the same chain. Canned black beans? They're not with the canned red/lima/white beans, they're with the Mexican food, or not. And on and on.

With a new store your best bet is to wind through the entire place looking for what you need as you go. If it's a place you'll go to often then all the better, you'll learn as you go time after time. Brute force it. Done.
Well master/slave could be changed with primary/standby or primary/replica in most situations, still we can change terms all we want people will find reason to be offended. Sometimes they have a point, often they should just go away if they are offended by something. Drawing the line right is responsability of the society, but the problem is hate group waves amplify only certain kind of extremists and almost never the voice of reason is to be heard within the stream of hateful posts.
Take a look at my comment, for my actual use case.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11022768
The best proof of this behavior is the Prius. It's a simple appliance car that is cheap and reliable. By all accounts, it's a great car to own if cheap and dependable are your top considerations. However, the sales and depreciation of the Prius are highly correlated with gas prices to a much larger degree than similar economy cars, like the Camry.

Car sales are at record highs and Toyota just released a next generation (which always coincides with increased sales and higher transaction prices). Yet, sales are down 12% YoY.

Meanwhile, Jeep sales are at record levels and their best selling models are also their least fuel efficient.
one of your sentences is actually true.
Here's a reference I found for one way to do it: http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~matsr/ProbII/Lec6.pdf (Theorem 2.1). You define the Green's function G(x, y) = \sum_n Pr_x(S_n=y), where x and y are 3-vectors and Pr_x(S_n=y) is the probability that an n-step random walk starting at x ends up at y. If you have an infinite random walk starting at 0, then G(0, 0) is the expected number of times that the walk returns to 0. That's what the mathworld link calls u(3). You can use Fourier inversion to compute G(0, 0) -- the link gives the gnarly details. It's pretty cool.
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Why performance reviews like Yahoo’s are out of favor
i'm more interested in the screenshots window manager.

having been forced on a mac recently... just the fact i can't move my windows with <one key>+<mouse left button> is driving me crazy. and to add insult, the title bar that i have to hit to move windows is smaller then anything on browsers such as chrome and firefox.
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What about Vimperator or Pentadactyl?
Related: Apple's patent for "polluting online social networks with fake profiles".. based on variants of the real profile.

http://www.darkreading.com/risk-management/apple-gets-patent...? (Or google for other articles)
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Let me know when its up, and what you end up doing to further the cause. Would love to help if possible.

Speaking of which, one simple way to enact change in your own life is to minimize the use of animal products in daily actions - i.e. going vegan. You may have already done this, but the impact of an individual's decision to abstain from consuming any animal products has a huge effect.
I think (most) of us on HN are on the same page here. But we are a minority... many people truly don't care and are not incentivized to care.
Hmmm, I'm not sure, I was rather distracted in the 2 presidential campaigns his brother ran, but I don't think those they were masterful. My impression is that he himself is maybe merely good and not at all "hapless" ... and that aspect of politics doesn't do much for me. Heck, the first presidential candidate I rooted for was Nixon ^_^! (When I was 7, but still did so 4 year later when he ran against McGovern.)
put in proper context

Imagine if its WWII and that they asked for all mail to be un-sealed..Shocking but did almost happen..as far as they got was asking Military Personnel to 'volunteer' not to seal mail..
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I'm not involved in any armed popular uprising, but I do sometimes go on mountain hikes, would these fit the bill there? Like when the group separates and you try to stay in contact over a few kilometers (no line-of-sight). We had some cheap radios along a few years ago, no idea what kind of technology, but the reception was useless.
To me a real OS is something where you can have root access on the command line out of the box.
etsy has done some work in this area, too.

https://vimeo.com/63087035
YAY: high level parser combinator based PHP preprocessor
man brew

That won't help if you don't have Homebrew [0] installed.

[0]: http://brew.sh
I think that's i3. But it's Linux anyway, why would you be interested if you have to use Mac?
MaidSafe is hiring if I remember correctly- promising project...
Based on the recent popularity of "Go, Marvin Minsky, and the Chasm that AI Hasn’t Yet Crossed" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11020652) I came across this article about Gary Marcus' work on a hybrid deep learning / rules-based AI system for his stealth startup: http://geometric.ai

Gives some interesting perspective to the other story.
Maybe you’ve seen the terminals T-Mobile/T-Online put up everywhere instead of payphones, which are basically payphones with WiFi hotspot and a touchscreen with webbrowser.

Every time I see a chromebook, I am reminded of those "Smart payphones", because they are as much of a computer.
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> to maintain, rather than raise, inflation

The Committee judges that there has been considerable improvement in labor market conditions this year, and it is reasonably confident that inflation will rise, over the medium term, to its 2 percent objective. Given the economic outlook, and recognizing the time it takes for policy actions to affect future economic outcomes, the Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 1/4 to 1/2 percent. The stance of monetary policy remains accommodative after this increase, thereby supporting further improvement in labor market conditions and a return to 2 percent inflation.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/2015...

> exhaustion of the Old Age & Survivors Trust Fund is in 2035, not 2029

Social Security’s combined reserves likely will be fully depleted by 2034, according to the trustees’ intermediate forecast. The disability-insurance trust fund could run dry as soon as the end of 2016, while the old-age and survivors’ fund is expected to be depleted in 2035 – assuming it’s not tapped to backfill the disability fund. (The Congressional Budget Office, in a separate report that uses somewhat different demographic assumptions, projects that the disability fund will be exhausted in fiscal 2017 and the old-age and survivors’ fund in calendar 2031; if the funds are combined, they would be exhausted in calendar 2029.) The exact depletion dates depend, of course, on future demographic and economic trends. After the reserves are exhausted, the system still will be receiving tax revenue, but it will only be enough to pay about three-quarters of scheduled benefits – unless Congress changes the benefit formulas, raises the payroll tax, or makes other changes such as raising the cap on taxable wage income (currently $118,500).

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/08/18/5-facts-abou...
Very stimulating paper!

You kind of allude to things like this with the "discrete parameters" comment, but here's how I imagine one could use this to meta-optimize layer sizes, which are after all continuousish: make all layers too large, then compute the hyper-derivative dn_i of a per-layer cutoff that starts regularizing units more and more strongly beyond some unit index n_i for each layer i (as in the regularization strength is sigmoidal, or better exponential, centered around n_i). Does that make sense?

Also, I immediately wanted to see vector gradient field plots in hyperparameter space of a bunch of toy models. It'd be fun to actually see "hyperconvexity".
If you don't have black you can't achieve metallic effects... If you disagree, please explain how it is possible to achieve said effect without black.

As far as I know, and I was pretty deep into this at one point, metallic requires black and without it you cannot achieve any sort of luster-like effects.
Uber looks like a classy app, this looks cheap.

But that's what they want, and the best direction for their company. Silver is luxury: like Uber before UberX.

The new logo is a throw bag of bright 70s/80s colors and 70s/80s geometric design is the cheap transportation you know and love. It looks like a billion 'metro' rail lines or taxi cab logos. Which is what they want: a cheap mass transit app for everyone.
I just want to say that I'm a huge fan of your open source projects. Thanks for sharing them!
I wish someone would do this with the Walker *recall (not impeachment) advertising dollars, from several years ago. I think it was somewhere around a magnitude more than the challenger.
An interesting article about the author, Gary Marcus, and his stealth startup[1]: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/544606/can-this-man-make-...

[1] http://geometric.ai/
Once you step outside the boundaries of the major cities, you'll be shocked at the type of opinions Americans hold.
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Star Wars, however, has a run-down, lived-in aesthetic. That was part of its appeal: it was futurey, but it looked old. Star Trek does not have that kind of aesthetic, and its holograms do not look the same.
> The Federal Reserve is not on a "quest" to "raise interest rates and inflation", it is raising interests rates as a means to avoid deflation (or, phrased differently, to maintain, rather than raise, inflation.)

Raising interest rates generally lowers inflation. The Fed recently raised interest rates because it thought the danger of deflation had receded as inflation had begun to increase (though inflation remains below the 2% target.)
It acts like a literal crowbar, so why not call it a crowbar?

There are likely already plenty of diodes across the rails (the body diodes of the chips), so without a fuse the power is already limited by just the source. IMHO you might as well try and protect the circuit from foreseeable power-limited situations like frayed cables and the OP.
This is also what is used to do, and I found it added some unneeded overhead, so I thought it would be easier to simply sync it.
> The "stimulus" didn't work.

That's pretty far from being a simple observational fact. I'd say the stimulus did work pretty much exactly as well as most economists expected.

Evidence:

* Unemployment rate: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

* GDP: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=3kv2

* Household income: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=3kv6

The stimulus did exactly what it was supposed to do: prevent a prolonged recession and return the economy to growth.

> Nobody 8 years ago would have predicted what happened.

If you had taken a poll of Keynesian economists on the likely impact of the policies (a modest fiscal stimulus together with expansionary monetary policy), I'm pretty sure most of them would have predicted exactly what we got: a mild recovery coupled with strong asset growth.

This idiotic notion that stimulus didn't work is a myth promoted by Republicans. If the stimulus didn't work, we'd have suffered through a long recession and would have high unemployment to this day. You don't even have to look far to find evidence of this: European countries forced into austerity have had precisely the kind of anemic economic and labor market growth that Keynesian economics predicted.
blender is, contrary to popular belief, extremely nimble and easy to compile/modify.

it is all python, mostly.

and can be used a command line tool with very little effort. you can make a "open obj file, put default camera, render" scripts very easily.
Irony for Nature to be talking ill of other journals' research reporting "standards". Pot. Kettle. Black.
The author of this post (Gary Marcus) is a huge proponent of hybrid systems, in fact he is using that technique for his current stealth startup: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/544606/can-this-man-make-...
Pagespeed is absolutely one of the worst plugins in the world. mod_pagespeed for apache is garbage, and permanently breaks some websites when removed. I see no reason why the nginx version would be any better.
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Well, to be fair, they are typically talking to someone who is halfway across a galaxy.

Apple only has to get that signal partway around one measly little planet. ;-)
I use Zim on Linux. When I saw the Quiver screenshots I thought "hey, this is very similar to Zim!"
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This is a really cool idea, accidentally pressing my Sublime shortcuts on website forms is definitely a very common mistake for me.
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I suspect you may be on to something...

His father, George H. W. Bush, was known for prosecuting a fairly "successful" war--the 1990-1991 Gulf War--that ostensibly lasted about 5 months...essentially "ejecting the Iraqi army from Kuwait"--the stated goal... his domestic record was viewed as "less than stellar"...

Americans pay attention to things like that and seem to relish a victory...listen to the response to Whitney Houston singing the National Anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
(This is worth a listen even if you're only interested in the question itself...it's the best rendering I'm aware of at any time in U.S. history.)

The audience's response hints at the "prevailing" national mood at that time...

His brother, George W. Bush, served 2 terms with mixed results...some counted him as one of the least-talented (intellectually) Presidents the U.S. has ever seated...here you can factor in the controversial 2003 invasion of Iraq itself, and the mishandling of a response to Hurricane Katrina, especially in the city of New Orleans...

I'll stop here; the tale is long and complicated...those are just major highlights...

Jeb Bush is likely quite capable of exceeding expectations, but some say he lacks charisma, charm...there's probably some reluctance to elect another Bush because of journalists and historian's evaluations of the presidencies of his father and brother...

Having said all that, he might be the best qualified "moderate" candidate the Republicans could field in this election...time will tell...he appears to be out of the running for a nomination...
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I am talking about the "money hungry retailers" part in particular, and of course wondering why for example.
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> the poor have gotten poorer

I'd love to see any evidence for the notion that the poorer have gotten poorer since 2008. (I don't dispute that the rich have gotten richer.)

FYI median household income is up since 2008: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=3kv6
The graph there is very misleading because it doesn't use 0 as a baseline. The browserify bundle is only 20% larger than the webpack, but the graph makes it look 5x or so.
From the blog post:

>"We want you to feel empowered and connected to your friends and family and the world, in a way that feels much more natural than computing today."

They've been setting up supply chains and manufacturing.. Maybe the first product is a next gen web cam.
bloomberg is limiting it's articles to 140 chars now?
I have a friend who works for a major media company, sort of, he works for a staffing agency that puts him at a desk at the media company where he works alongside the media company's employees doing the same work with an email signature saying he works for the major media company even though he technically doesn't...he doesn't get paid holidays or other benefits the media company employees get bc he technically works for the staffing agency..would this change that set-up?
Interesting documents.

But this is a rare occasion (I normally love his work) when I have to honestly say, Cory's writing is all over the place in this article. It really needs some serious editing to make it properly readable.
I don't think I agree. I've been developing stuff for the web since the mid-90s, when TABLEs were just about starting to be a thing and Perl was definitely the preferred choice on the server. There has been plenty of excitement along the way, undeniably, but it feels like HTML5 took forever to get to where Flash was, JavaScript on the server still underwhelms me, and it seems almost daily to get more complex and full of enterprise beans, browsers are far from equal, the CSS3 spec isn't finished, developing for the mobile web is often a pretty wretched experience... and my clients still ask me to make their logos bigger and complain that important stuff is below the fold. Am I jaded? You bet.

But hey, at least we can centre things vertically in CSS with Flexbox now (apart from the dubious browser support, of course).
Interesting blog post, but the conclusion seems hilariously optimistic to me:

>Eventually we’ll get to SF-quality hard AR, but it’ll take a while. I’d be surprised if it was sooner than five years, and it could easily be more than ten before it makes it into consumer products.

The post is already nearly 4 years old, and we've seen effectively no movement on the state of soft AR since it was written. I wonder if Michael still thinks we're going to see even very early prototype hard AR in the next 6 years.

As one of the commenters on the blog post mentions, AR in general is a whole order of magnitude beyond the next useful step. I don't need AR, just give me a wearable interface to my phone so that I don't have to pull it out of my pocket to interact with it. A simple heads up display has far fewer challenges to deal with than any AR system and would still be a huge leap forward in technology.
I can't wait till we can 3d print materials with compatible electro-grammetric properties to allumite. With brass fill, carbon fill, and magneto polymer fill petg and abs, we're getting closer to full ionic encapsulation which will let us make an equivalent device. Though, our rotational flex won't be as balanced. For now, however, differential girdle springs will still have to be purchased off the shelf.
But in this case, the buyer already purchased the product.