skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am especially confused on how arbitrarily the censorship is applied. I could maybe understand (but not be in favor of, of course) a law that made depicting any crime illegal. But this will obviously never happen; fantasizing about murder and terrorism and depicting it in great detail is a recipe for a blockbuster film. As soon as it's having sex with someone below a certain age, though... then you can't even read a book about it!

I'd like to write some sarcastic reason for this, but I can't even think of one. I have a feeling that "one nation under God" has something to do with it, though.
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Very interesting. Just coming back from 2 days @ MacWorldExpo, the place has the hype of iPad - companies are selling iPad cases, but iPad not to be seen anywhere. I wish products like this come and make it big, and pose a serious challenge to iPad.
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Great stuff. Already this looks much more complete than iPad, just needs to be little sleeker (to be a consumer hit, you need beauty+brains). Apple sure does make products sleek, even though in this case, Apple's iPad may be half as capable as Adam!
It's written "Tcl", not "TCL". This has been true for at least 10 years, as the article nicely demonstrates.

Nitpicking aside, I agree that it's not real lively, but I don't think I'd call it 'dead' quite yet either, as there is still a fair amount of active development, and anything that widely used doesn't just up and go away from one day to the next. They even published a new Tcl book recently:-)

http://journal.dedasys.com/2009/09/15/tcl-and-the-tk-toolkit...
This title is written in past tense but from reading it I'm told what Google is "going to" be doing.
He wasn't convicted at all: he pleaded guilty.

@metamemetics: OK, but you get my point :). Does anyone have a suggestion for a succinct way to say what I meant to say?
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Hitchens has also written a nice book on Orwell - http://www.amazon.com/Why-Orwell-Matters-Christopher-Hitchen...
I think that as business people, we focus way to much on 'attitude' and not nearly enough on 'ability' - When choosing technical employees or business partners, you can often get a much better value by focusing on people who have everything but the confidence.

Of course, if you are hiring sales, confidence matters; However, when hiring nerds, it's different. Confidence plays a much smaller role.
A friend of mine wanted to know if I knew anything about this link. I didn't so I posted it here. Anyone heard anything bad/good?

Looks a lot like http://textbroker.com
Publishing to PDF isn't necessarily a bad thing (e.g. would you rather they published to .odf or .doc?). But if you are planning to publish something to the web, you should probably do it in HTML and PDF (I'm assuming that these are all in PDF because they are being published elsewhere, outside of the web as well).

I wonder what most people are using to generate these PDFs? If they are using LaTeX (or just TeX) it should be easy for them to churn out both formats.
And yet, somehow 4chan continues on... The irony is overwhelming.
is it really relevant ?
That seems a bit excessive, like cutting your nose off to spite your face.
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But Google automatically showed me a list of my friends in Gmail!
Sort of a). WSJ and NYT (and others) decide and control whether to allow entry to a walled article via google. This isn't a hack or a workaround, it's what WSJ and NYT want to happen (or they'd disallow it). You're not "cheating" when you enter via google, you're going in via a side door labeled "Welcome."

And sort of b). It's just a decision to use "the link that works for everyone" (with NYT/WSJ blessing), instead of the direct link that only works for subscribers.
I was almost tempted to click it to see if it worked, but then I thought that it might be a bad idea. I might make a test account and see what happens. Seriously can't stand curiosity. I assume, of course, that it deletes your account but what I am not sure of is what happens between clicking the button and actual deletion. Will report back shortly.
The internet likes to be outraged. Gives people something to tweet about.
I've seen so many benchmark comparisons that only focus on conciseness (that too involving lines of code), and speed. Yeah, they all re-affirm what is already known - C is fast, python/ruby is concise, C#/Java is somewhere in between and there are the ones which do well in both - haskell, clojure, etc. (And then there's APL)

All the benchmarks are algorithm and processor intensive, while quite a few applications are idling most of the time. How about a comparison regarding the standard libraries, ease of debugging, external tools, code readability, available support, external libraries, etc. In short - developer productivity.

I'm not saying performance is not important - it is quite critical, but there are other things code does as well (At least most of my code is mundane, and is just calling APIs, updating files, serializing objects, etc. Nothing too fancy.)
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Verbosity is not Java’s fault
Agreed. I'm not suggesting, just posting.
convicted=found guilty and punishment decided. He was convicted. Pleading guilty is how the majority of people are convicted.
Shareware doesn't have a bad image because developers ask for money.

Wasn't aware I was implying it did. But it certainly does have that malware'd crapware image (however incorrect it may be for each individual app. There's plenty of good shareware out there).
This is hacker news?
It gave me an offer to delete my search history which I gladly took up. Thanks for the tip.
There is a huge gap between existing technology and useable technology. Apple may be exploiting that? Who did use capacitive multitouch before Apple?
Sorry for two top-level comments, but I did some more reading on the case. It started when the postal service seized a box containing the books. So if there's someone you don't like, just order a few books from amazon.co.jp for them, and then they'll be facing 15 years in prison.

"Land of the free," indeed.
The Pixel Qi would go a long way on the battery life. I’m curious about the Tegra tho; the suggestion that it’s has better power-usage characteristics than Apple’s A4. I only know that both are ARM chips. Does it have any effect on performance of video and the like? I’m guessing Apple may be willing to sacrifice battery life for better performance animating the interface, video etc.

But, I don’t see how it can kill a product that hasn’t even been released — the iPad — especially when the details about the actual device aren’t exactly rock-solid.

From the article: "…now they’ve sent over renders of what’s likely to be the final Adam design complete with some mockups of a SlashGear digital magazine."

It’s a potential product at this point. It could be a killer, maybe not.
Ha! Go to the page to delete web history and then click the web history faq link.

"The page - www.google.com/privacyfaq.html - does not exist. "

Too perfect.
There is also the possibility that if your program has an aliasing bug, the bug may only cause failure at -O2 but not at -O0 or -O1.

See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35653, for example.
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"The password you gave is incorrect.

Deletion complete."

true story on web history.
I think textual descriptions of child sex are, strangely, still legal, if only because a lot of literature has included them.
Muhammad never claimed to be a god, but a prophet of the Jewish and Christian god.
Is the 250k+ bracket for a paid app or a free app? I have a free app that is top 10 in its category, and we have 1700 downloads a day on iphone - so it would take me 150 days to reach 250k, or 5 months. How does Android compare?
I just felt like pointing out that the farce goes many levels deep.
I would not bet fifteen years of my life on this.
I think that no one wants to highlight sarcasm. People love to be sarcastic when other people don't get it. It makes them feel superior.

When someone is concerned on the reception of a particular sentence, he uses emoticons that already serve this purpose. If someone does not highlight sarcasm, I think he does this on purpose.

Not long ago, someone introduced a new character for sarcasm, the SarcMark: www.sarcmark.com

Never seen anyone using it.
Conveniently ignoring the fact that Java, by default, includes lots and lots of unnecessarily verbose APIs, and in many cases you're stuck using them - then yes, verbosity is not Java's fault.
wire article from 2009 with more details:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/manga-porn/

''' Chase says he recommended the plea agreement (.pdf) to his client because he didn’t think he could convince a jury to acquit him once they’d seen the images in question. The lawyer declined to describe the details. “If they can imagine it, they drew it,” he says. “Use your imagination. It was there.” '''

moral of the story: GET A BETTER LAWYER
That won't happen, you have to jump through hoops of fire to get a gmail account now. SMS Validation? I am not that curious.
Isn't it the case, that most places will require an application in java and with most people knowing only the official API, noone will write code for some custom one that is company-specific? IMO yes - it is Java's official API, it is Java's fault.
For that matter, if Jesus returned and resumed his ministry in the modern USA, I'd actually expect more Christians to be "scandalized" than atheists.

There are two possible approaches to the Jesus story. One is to realize that he was criticizing the abuse of religious power in general, and make an effort to avoid that.

Of course, the preferred approach for those who actually do abuse religious power is to assume that his criticism focuses on some evil peculiar to the Jews, since being antisemitic is always less work than being introspective...
I like how it's shorter to say and write.
I suppose this is sort of a internet reset button for many people ;)
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I just tried giving wrong password for delete web history and got this - http://twitpic.com/136nev/full
I didn't expect a kind of Spanish inquisition...

The terminally curious may download a file containing the assembler output, and the C source, of the offending file from http://www.hercules-390.org/esamebug.zip . This corresponds to revision 5627 of the Hercules emulator as found in the Subversion repository at svn://svn.hercules-390.org/hercules/trunk . The emulator itself is at http://www.hercules-390.org .

The routine is in the generated assembler as z900_load_multiple_long.
I keep wondering why so few people on this site are interested in ideas like signaling and game theory, given their obvious implications for social software, simplicity, explanatory and predictive power. Why are so many people so resistant to mechanistic explanations of their own behavior, and what's different about the people who aren't?

Regardless, no discussion of Miller would be complete without a mention of Robin Hanson's excellent commentary series, which begins with a review of the book that inspired Spent. Read, smile, and keep clicking "next post".

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/05/luxury-fever.html
Without even getting into the multiple generations of iPhones, each with different processors and hardware capabilities, the iPod Touches that don't have cameras or the fact that applications written for the iPhone/iPod Touch will run on the iPad, I'll just point out that the 3G iPad will have GPS and the WiFi iPad won't.

So what where you saying about not wanting a platform with applications designed for a device with hardware you don't have?
Yeah, a more accurate title could have been: Java's verbosity is due to its API, not the underlying language. It's still somewhat interesting to me to decouple the two, though. There are some things that are verbose and cumbersome in Java due to the way the language fundamentally works: for example, no anonymous functions means that if you want to pass a simple one-time-use function to sort, you have to create a whole new file with your sort functor. But the examples in this blog post could've been fixed by just having designed the API differently, or even had the same underlying API but added a set of convenience wrappers for the common cases.
Something similar to the beagle board: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-2-globalscale-techn... or http://www.igep-platform.com/index.php?option=com_content...

I hope there will be something nettop like with tegra 2 / omap4 / nec's new platform in the near future, I'm looking for something like that as a replacement of my current desktop. Also boxee 2 might be interesting...
That is just a good way to send mixed signals.
you have to create a whole new file with your sort functor.

You don't. You can use an inner class. An anonymous one, if you like. It's more verbose than your typical lambda expression but it's not 'a whole new file' by any stretch.
> for example, no anonymous functions means that if you want to pass a simple one-time-use function to sort, you have to create a whole new file with your sort functor.

No you don't have to. Simply create an anonymous class deriving from your sort functor interface. With anonymous functions it would still be shorter, I have to admit. But it is less cumbersome than the way you suggest.
You can invite yourself to create an account, and than you do not need SMS validation.
Response myResponse = new Response();

ResponseType myResponseType = responseTypeFactory.CreateNewDisagreementResponseType();

responseManger.SetResponseType(myResponse, myResponseType);

return myResponse;
Those aren't specifically Java APIs, though, they're JVM APIs—Scala and Clojure expose them as well. Are Scala and Clojure verbose? If not, why not? And whatever your response to that, can that same response be retroactively applied to Java, now that we know how to do it?
I'm not sure how solid it is either, but for text there are at least some more constraints on what Congress could ban. Fanny Hill (1748) is a very explicit novel about the sexual exploits of a 15-year-old girl, and despite being frequently banned, it was ruled protected by the First Amendment in the U.S. in 1966: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_v._Massachusetts
Ah right, I'm not sure why that skipped my mind; I've even done that before. I suppose that adds to the general view of the linked post that Java-the-language isn't actually inherently that verbose, but the JVM APIs are.
Little bit of legal background for you, hopefully it adds something to your thoughts:

The standard for "obscenity" is defined in the leading Supreme Court case Miller v. California, which held that obscene material was not protected free speech. I won't go through the whole test (Wikipedia explains it well), but it generally says that obscene material has to "appeal to the prurient interest" to an average person in the local community, and it has to have no redeeming social values.

So I wouldn't be worried that the "Ruling Party" deems something obscene or not. Instead, I would be worried about what the "average person" thinks. Isn't that a little odd--that your constitutional rights depend on what your neighbors think?

(That was an argument that one of my law professors made, and I think it's pretty compelling.)
But beware that you'll have to give your e-mail address to get the results. It's a trap.
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whenever someone tells me that money shouldn't matter, I hear "I'm trying to take advantage of you"

If you want me to work for you for equity, you better be bringing something valuable to the table; and you know what? that idea isn't valuable. Not until you implement it.

This is the other reason why startups like young people; a young Engineer is easier to impress into thinking your 'idea' is so awesome that you keep 90% of the equity while he does all the work. (and yeah, I've seen that exact scheme come to pass.)

Sure, business people often contribute more than an idea. A /good/ business person is quite valuable. a bad business person is worse than nothing, though, and it's extremely difficult for a nerd to tell the difference.
Clojure code uses the same APIs all the time, but manages to be much shorter.

Java's verbose APIs are Java's fault, because Java doesn't provide metaprogramming tools to make the boilerplate go away.
Thanks. I didn't see that. Interesting that I'm not alone.

After they felt free to use my email contacts and frequency to seed their own social network, I feel I can't trust them anymore.
FWIW, I do tend to think the problem's in my code until proven otherwise. That's why I spent a week tearing my hair out trying to find the problem.

And, for the naysayers, Hercules is built with -W -Wall.
According to the article, both textual and visual depictions are still legal if they serve "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value". What seems problematic is deciding that a Hollywood blockbuster is art, while anime is not.
It is, to some extent, Java's 'fault' although it's fuel for endless flamage how much that is a fault.

Some stuff is just plain verbose, in part due to lack of type inference -

EndlessParametrizedType foo = new EndlessParametrizedType()

As to the APIs, some of it is due to excessively baroque APIs. But even with a well-designed API, in order to provide a reasonable amount of flexible functionality, a lot of the internal structure of the implementation is often exposed so it can be accessed. This is a consequence of static typing - in a dynamic language, you're more likely to just reach into the bowels of an object and pull out, change or replace bits you want. This isn't an option in Java and a flexible API ends up being a composition of a lot of smaller APIs. In the standard library, it's often left to others to provide a simple layer on top that covers the base cases - for instance, Apache Commons mail for Java Mail.
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The "new Response()" value is unused.
In many cases, they are the Java APIs, there really aren't 'JVM APIs'. Java the language comes with a standard set of APIs, if they're not there you can't call it 'Java'. If you were writing a nontrivial UI in Swing in Clojure or Scala, it will likely be fairly verbose.
I think the important part here is to not take on things that will make you /less/ likely to succeed. Giving ownership to the wrong people will kill the company faster than anything else. Hell, even just taking on debit can change a company from one where you can learn from your mistakes to a failure after you make your first big mistake.

(now, YC is probably the right people to give ownership to for some types of companies; I imagine if your revenue model is to sell the company to some silicon valley VC, the increased access to people wanting to buy is probably worth the 5%. It's probably a bad idea, though, for other sorts; It probably would not have helped my company much. (well, at least my company would have become something entirely different from what it is.)
You're just agreeing with him though - the only bits of Java, as opposed to API, in there are [()=;.], 'new' and 'return'.
This is utterly absurd. You cannot limit in any way fiction that people read or write - not if you claim to be a free country.

Seriously - why is this happening? I am not talking about "protecting the children" or other such nonsense - the question is what actually is happening here? What is the reason? What possible advantage can anyone have from destroying the life of this man like this?

EDIT: Improved wording.
Of course it's Java's fault ... sure, you can design clean and easy-to-use APIs but it takes a considerable amount of effort and Java doesn't help you.

I simply don't get some of its design choices ... operator overloading is not harmful if implemented right, checked exceptions were a bad idea, and why can't it have local type inference or proper closures and why can't developers define their own stack-allocated primitives? Where these really that hard or dangerous to blend in?
Nearly all providers will give you a new IP if your old one got blacklisted before it was assigned to you.

Note; 'clean IPs from unassigned netblocks' are not necessarily good. see bogon filtering[1] - still, running your own mailserver is not an impossibly difficult task.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogon_filtering
Things like this completely devalue the MIT Media Lab to me. I can only hope the creator did not receive a Masters for this.
Or uninitialised local variables, which are affected by the difference in register allocation, but really you should be enabling the corresponding warning.
Hunger, by Knut Hamsun (brought to mind by "The Hunger Artist", by Franz Kafka)
But of course, you can't actually put just that in a file and expect it to compile. You have to wrap it with class whatever public static void main ....
javac does do type inference, but it only exposes it to you in error messages!
Why do you think the brightness was turned down? Have you ever tried to use a macbook in bright sunlight? It's unreadable. In fact I was surprised by how clear the macbook screen was so I'd guess they had the brightness jacked right up.

Cameras don't always accurately reflect what the human eye would see but an LCD backlight simply can't compete with bright sunlight. The Pixel Qi is effectively acting as a mirror for that light.

edit: this video from last June has a good comparison with the kindle and a transflective screen right at the start and a standard LCD touchscreen at 5:20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oawX3wenxNc
Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" is also excellent (better even than Kafka, but less well-known):

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8hngr10h.htm
I use a laptop with a EVDO modem; totally worth the $70/month to not have to trust whatever virus-infested windows box I happen to be near when I am out of the house.
It seems the legal system as well as our society as a whole is pretty schizophrenic about that relationship between fantasy and reality.

Do we believe that representations of violent fantasies generally cause crime? And secondly, if something does indeed cause a tiny group of people to commit a crime is that a good enough reason to prevent everybody from using it?

Depending on the answers the consequences of applying it consistently are very far reaching.

Clearly, if comic books depicting child porn are prohibited, any depiction of rape and murder for entertainment purposes must be prohibited as well. That includes mainstream movies, TV programs and video games.

I suspect the real purpose of laws like the one applied here is not preventing crime or protecting anyone.

So the meta question is whether laws should be consistent and effective at preventing crime, or whether it is sufficient if they allow some kind of collective emotional identification.

I'm concerned that if we put up with the latter the law will become a mere pretence for mob rule, which is easily exploited by fanatics and populists.
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"Handley was the nation’s first to be convicted under that law for possessing cartoon art, without any evidence that he also collected or viewed genuine child pornography."

Mike Diana was first to receive a conviction for publishing, distributing, and advertising "obscene" comics (in 1996). See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_diana

And Diana's website to see the comics he was jailed for:

http://www.mikedianacomix.com/mikediana/mikediana.html