skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. But maybe the aggregation isn't for more conversation (people like to do that within their trusted communities), but to enable better filtering. That is, you could have a rough total count of interest in a topic. Then you could label comments different things like "funny", "anecdote", "primary source", "trolling", etc. So if I just want to read the funniest comments, I could. If I wanted to get more context from on the ground, I could select "primary source" or whatever. Not sure why this isn't done already...I'm sure enough random commenters would categorize comments on their own to make it useful.
Thanks. I've got a pretty good understanding of lexing & parsing, so I would have gotten it for the other parts, but I won't bother.
Gruber is taking apple fanboism to the extreme. Wishing some guy would go to jail for a _lost_ iphone, just wow.
Thanks, that means a lot to me.

On the subject of the article: Somebody please give me a sharp rap with a wooden spoon if I ever sound like being a pundit is my job and writing and selling software that solves problems for people is my quirky hobby. It should be the other way around.
By the definition provided in California Penal Code, section 485. By the further refinement of such in section 484.1 of same. According to section 487.1(a) the correct term for this event is grand larceny. Try reading California Civil Code section 2080 for more information about the requirements placed upon a finder of "lost" property.
Accountable to users is a HUGE point. What happens to a site when users feel alienated or violated or whatever? Those users begin to walk away towards an emergent alternative.

The facebook "lock in" isn't a lock in at all. It's more like a disincentive to walk away from the user base, media storage, and slickness of the service. But that can be reproduced if need be, I think.

I think there are better things to be worried about than the hypothetical situation where Zuck goes nuts.
Declan McCullagh and Greg Sandoval: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20003539-37.html?tag=newsL...

(for the sake of adding opinions, as opposed to refuting the EFF opinion)
Shoot. How'd I miss that? Anyway thanks for pointing that out!
The Dylan was pulled quite a few months ago, and in fact, some has been coming back-- they just added "Tell Tale Signs" not too long ago. Also, McCartney pulled most of his stuff a month or two back-- there seems to be a dispute with EMI.
I have to agree. The act of executing someone else's ideas with code is mundane and borderline annoying. It's the other things, the design and development that really gets your brain churning -- its also what gives you more value.
You're really glossing over the details there.
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Well...I suppose my criteria is weak since I couldn't find your Judas Priest image on your site...so I assumed you've grown up (a little) :-P
The point is that taking a lost item and saying, "finders, keepers" is against the law in California. Gizmodo would not be on the wrong end of the law if they had purchased pictures of the prototype from the guy that found it (and the shield laws would apply). By purchasing the prototype itself, they were in possession of the 'stolen' property, and their actions once obtaining it were restricted by law.
the tweet tweet itself looks like this...
http://github.com/mzsanford/twitter-text-rb/blob/master/lib/...
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Google vs. Experts vs. Readers vs. Bing
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One under-appreciated reason is storage. Frozen meat and most of the accoutrements can be stored for vastly longer and remain "fresh". Highly processed food products are all about preservation, to their nutritional detriment.
Do you have plans to take advantage of the upcoming front-facing camera?

Do you have an idea of the timeline for the Android app?
It bothers me that Google advertises to consumers their pro-net neutrality views, but then pays for and partners with carriers worldwide to have their services/traffic prioritized.
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And this is why futures markets make sense. If a (food) insurance seller wants to hedge their risk, they could purchase futures, driving up the price of those futures; and a way to arbitrage an increase in price between today's price and a future price is to store it (i.e. your buffer). For example, the first forward contracts on the Chicago Board of Trade, the oldest futures exchange, were food contracts. But none of these mechanisms have a necessary requirement for governmental policy intervention, save perhaps collective purchasing of insurance.
Anybody else immediately think of "The Door into Summer" when they saw the title?
The police are only treating it as serious business because it's a popular news item. (and it gets the DA's name in the papers)
"lured away the girl who was in a relationship with me" is just wordy.

"took" and "my girlfriend" are accepted contractions of that. There doesn't appear to be any insinuation of possession :)
The law says the finder has to try to contact the owner, he tried and they didn't answer his calls. So he's supposed to just burn the phone or make it magically disappear?
The twelve classical olympians were always enough for me, too.
Both studies took into account increased calorie expenditure in addition to intake:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20357041
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19056602

Never debate some journalist's summary on these type of articles, just click through to their sources and read the actual conclusions.
The public health disaster of the 2020s: blowback from the sodium crusade of the 2010s.

Wherein it will be found that:

- sodium isn't nearly as bad as was thought -- the numbers shopped by advocacy groups are found to have been based on flimsy studies and extrapolations -- and many population subgroups already had sodium deficiencies at the beginning of the crusade, which were worsened by the new standards

- most people unconsciously sought a homeostatic balance, and thus increased their consumption of other foods to try to restore the salt levels that were lessened-by-statutes, aggravating other health issues

- novel salt substitutes cooked up in the labs had unforeseen negative health effects
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"Disgraced liar"? Is there something in particular you're referring to?
Just don't drop any of this Salt-9 in the oceans!
Corporate law doesn't necessarily equate with CA criminal law.

Also, I know she's a member of the bar of England and Wales, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything to the CA criminal justice system.

Then again, I too am not a lawyer.
No, Android did Not just pass iPhone in web traffic in U.S.
Relevant link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooveshark#Legal_issues
I think that point is that Gaby is a lawyer in the UK, not licensed to practice in the US, and probably not well-versed in California's state laws. So for her to give legal advice about how to not commit a crime in California is a little disingenuous.
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Yeah, with Markov processes, taking sample data from StackOverflow.
Read my post. I never said it was the only barrier. Not sure why you put words in my post that weren't there.

There really isn't a problem right now with good Internet service. NN solves a problem that doesn't exist, yet wil have long term effects on the market in ways we may not fully understand today.

Do you get a discount for biying cable and Internet together, yes, but I also get a discount for buying my life, home owner, and car insurance from the same company. I'm unclear on why a bundled discount is a bad thing for consumers.
I believe that the penal code says that if he can't contact the owner he needs to turn it into a police station.

{edit} To those down-voting read section (a) here:

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/CIV/5/d3/4/6/4/1/s2080.1

(a)If the owner is unknown or has not claimed the
property, the person saving or finding the property
shall, if the property is of the value of one hundred
dollars ($100) or more, within a reasonable time
turn the property over to the police department of
the city or city and county, if found therein, or
to the sheriff's department of the county if found
outside of city limits, and shall make an affidavit,
stating when and where he or she found or saved the
property, particularly describing it.

If you don't like the law, don't down-vote me just for stating what it is.
If you finish this book in its intended role, you will be bad at programming. That's an upgrade from the "completely unable to program" from before you started, but still, you'll be bad.

Instead of reading it as discouragement to become good at programming, I'd read it as encouragement that it can be used in the other things you are interested in. You don't have to be "a programmer". It's an important point.
Speculation
This is a great idea. Dijkstra didn't use a computer and he worked out just fine.
RDMA on Linux
Faking Human Input While Interfacing with X11 Applications
No, but he's not supposed to sell it.
If I'm a paranoid tech journalist (I'm not), everything would be tucked away in a hidden TrueCrypt volume masked as a swap file, and all my other files would be in the cloud. Not sure seizures are even useful in such a case.
I'm very curious about the Android app's release too. Thanks!
What he did sounds like the equivalent of knocking lightly on a door once, and then declaring that no one is home.
They would risk their department's integrity for the sake of popularity?
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At the end of the video, one of the girls said, "I care more about Afghanistan than I care about myself."

This is entirely inconsistent with her requirements for survival. The Taliban says that Afghanistan is best served by a strict adherence to Islam, and that if the girl really cares about Afghanistan, she should submit to the Taliban law (which is based on Islam) and stop going to school. To much of the population in her country, the Taliban's ideology holds sway - her assertion, however heartfelt, does not attack the ideas that have enslaved her.

I would be far more hopeful about the prospects for Afghanistan if the message was in effect, "I care more about my long-term rational self-interest and my individual rights than I care about Afghanistan or Islam."
This looks like a good start for what may become a great resource. Like others have noted, the ending is well worth reading, pity it had to arise from such vitriol.
> The police aren't doing this to find his source, they're doing this to determine how much Chen/Gawker knew about the phone being stolen before they bought it, and what they did about it once they found out.

That's what we suspect and what seems to be the case, but unless I missed an update, I don't believe the police have said what they are looking for specifically.
yes, it does have this. 'File > Send SSH Command' brings up a dialog where you can type any SSH command, but also has a pulldown where you can select 'Zip Selection' or 'Unzip Selection'
http://freddy1990.com/scar.php - Is a similar tool for Windows. It was originally built, and is wildly used today, to cheat on an online RPG called http://runescape.com/ (it does the boring, repetitive tasks of the game for you while your are sleeping).
Whenever I see claims like this, I just have to wonder: Why haven't I heard of you before this? If this guy has really produced a string of "wildly successful" websites, shouldn't he be somewhere on my radar, or at least have some Google results talking about him? Shouldn't he be at least as prominent as, say, Leah Culver?
For insert mode I switched to using <C-O> instead of <Esc> after reading that it only enters normal mode for 1 command. That way I stay in whatever mode I was in when I saved.
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I work here: http://mecel.se/

I'd say that most Swedish companies have them. Ergonomics is big here.
s/They/The DA/
s/their/the police/

{edit} Also, the police will go after popular news items because their response will also get into the 'papers.' This way it looks to the public as if they are doing something. (The police may also feel there is public pressure to 'do something' due to the coverage of the crime.)
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Nothing against PageRank or whatever analysis, I just thought it a bit wild to suspect that infochimps stole your idea.
I think this comment sums it up nicely: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1299174
Google demands neutrality (just don't apply it to them)
> At the very least, the courts should forbid the police from looking at any file timestamped before March 18, 2010

Except that timestamps can be altered.
This whole analysis is predicated on the idea that Gizmodo editors must not be the subjects of a criminal investigation because none of them have been arrested. Doesn't that whole analysis fail against the single word: "yet"?
I get the feeling that your "cloud" service provider will turn over your stuff quickly and inform you later.
I said this on Twitter directly to Zed, but it bears mentioning here. This is a sweet introduction to both programming and Python. I started playing with Python a couple weeks ago and wrote a few small applications. One of my pythonista friends looked over my code and noted that I could have used string formatting instead of concatenating everything. None of the books and tutorials I'd skimmed mentioned the print formatting but this book explained it perfectly. Best of all, its succinct.

I'm sure there will be a ton of new exercises added to the book, and more topics to come, but this is a great start. Thanks Zed!
You can live on a few dollars a day if you eat unhealthy food.

In my experience this is only true about processed and prepared foods. Check the price on dry beans or rice in bulk. If you're willing to bake your own bread the cost is competitive to even the cheapest products. Learning these techniques requires a time investment initially, but if your time is really so valuable why are you living on a few dollars a day?

because the choices aren't equally available.

This is a big problem, and a free-market paradox in my opinion. When healthy food isn't available, it's removed from the culture and unless everyone has good education about nutrition demand disappears.
I'm Italian

That's a big advantage, as as an EU citizen you will not be deported if you lose your job (and don't find another one shortly thereafter).
From the end of the article: "... the task force should freeze their investigation, return Chen's property, and reconsider whether going after journalists for trying to break news about one of the Valley's most secretive (and profitable) companies is a good expenditure of taxpayer dollars."

If someone purchased stolen property, why does it matter who it came from? In my eyes, the analyst loses a lot of credibility with this final statement. Feels childish.
I'm nowhere near the apologist for Apple that Gruber is and the Gizmodo thing is way, way under my skin. The TechCrunch Twitter debacle is still under my skin for exactly the same reason.
This is pretty interesting, really, regardless of whether you think Gizmodo should be tossed in the slammer or not. I've already learned quite a bit about the history of journalist shield type laws that I never would have known otherwise, particularly from the dude the EFF links to at the bottom:

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/paul/gizmodo-warrant-s...
> would estimate Android has more ad-supported applications so I'm not surprised at all

Always interesting when people refute metrics with hand waving. "I would estimate" is a good sign that you shouldn't.

AdMob isn't secret about their metric methodology. http://metrics.admob.com/

It is overwhelmingly driven by mobile web sites (which, humorously, usually call themselves "iPhone versions"), which I think is pretty fair to use as a comparison point.
I didn't quite "get" the visitor pattern until taking the time to learn CLOS and multiple dispatch.
EFF is already working on that.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/gizmodo-search-warrant-...
We're currently working on Streamory.com (http://www.streamory.com/). It's a simple HTTP live streaming service with single-click stream and VOD publishing. It's designed for small-scale and non-tech publishers who want their content available for iPhoneOS devices.

Still pre-beta, but we'll be looking for testers!
"A thing that I'm realizing more and more is how few presentations are one-offs; that is, when you're developing a presentation, it's actually going to become part of your repertoire, and you're going to be able to use it again and again."

Agree. I was thinking about this today because I'm coming back next year to give a talk to this school about being a "Startup MBA" and how that presentation is applicable to any MBA program. Put in the work once, it pays dividends for a long time.
you win the thread.
You have zero credibility until you spill which sites you started.
This is awesome. I love this guy, really. Zed, I'm interested in knowing how did you evolve as a programmer? Do you've a degree in Computer Science? If no, how did you go about learning all the stuff that you know today? Totally OK, if you choose not to answer this one ;)

Non-native speaker, so sorry for bad English.
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I think the error is in concluding outspoken == confident and quiet/shy == low self-esteem.
That's still an uphill battle, especially if stuff ain't hosted in the country you live in.

Like I said, I'm not paranoid, so I don't have time to go to such lengths, but simply having physical access to a computer these days may not yield nearly as much evidence as it may have a decade ago.
Was the warrant excessively broad? I'd say!
What exactly is the point of the police seizing someones mice and display screens in a case like this other than to ensure that Mr Chen now has an even bigger bill to pay if he wants to get back to work any time soon?
It's not predicated on that, though, the broadness of the warrant seems to be a problem regardless of whether Jason Chen is suspected of anything.
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One of the most frequent questions people ask me is "when will (insert favorite feature here) be included in Subversion?" Many times, that feature is already part of Subversion, but just the questioner just doesn't know how to access it. Other times, the proposed feature is something which would be better served as a local customization to Subversion, such as hook scripts. But occasionally, my inquisitor has pointed out a bone fide deficiency in Subversion, and I've often stumbled to answer the question of "when will it be done?"

Until now.
If instead you ask people who actually know what the hell they are talking about, q.f. people who were brought up by gay parents, you will find the vast majority to be quite happy about it.
There's plenty of folks who makes sites that just bring in money without publicity. Making money and publicity don't always go hand in hand.
One of the most frequent questions people ask me is "when will (insert favorite feature here) be included in Subversion?" Many times, that feature is already part of Subversion, but just the questioner just doesn't know how to access it. Other times, the proposed feature is something which would be better served as a local customization to Subversion, such as hook scripts. But occasionally, my inquisitor has pointed out a bone fide deficiency in Subversion, and I've often stumbled to answer the question of "when will it be done?"

Until now.
The story of the Shure SM57, the most popular microphone in the world
Where will this all end up?

That's right: talking penises.
The restrictions on proposed exercises seem a bit extreme: http://learnpythonthehardway.com/wiki?name=Proposed+Exercise...

If a beginner can't learn OOP or use projects that span multiple files, are they really ready to learn Python the hard way?

Plus, I would disagree with the definition of "complex math". My college discrete math teacher (who was from Mexico) said that he learned everything he was teaching us in elementary school, so I don't think that just because you learned some math in college necessarily makes it complex.
I agree that injury may not be big with consumers, but I can imagine scenarios where the leak is damaging with business partners/suppliers/vendors.

For example, if Apple is negotiating pricing for current models and other party was willing to pay more pre-leak because the did not think the next gen would be as large of an upgrade.
I had a mouse that had built-in memory. When plugged in, it looked like a mouse, a hub and a pendrive.
Summary: the warrant to gank Chen's equipment should not have been issued to begin with.
I like how this "millionaire" uses some lame free wordpress theme. Then he goes and talks about how it took 2 days to create....

Yeah..
In CA it does. He is supposed to turn it into the police. Now, some people will turn it into the bar, but that is not what the law says you should do.
Insurance, a heavily regulated industry with many competitors, huh. You suggest that regulation always hurts competition and that is simply not true.

Bundling is an interesting topic and in some cases it not necessarily malicious. However, unlike your insurance company, cable companies have a ton of pricing power.

I don't know why you think NN problems haven't existed. Comcast tried to block bit torrent connections, the FCC shut that practice down, but just recently the courts said the FCC could not stop that from happening.
He forgot about finance for some reason :-\
I've never heard of fossil before. There's a lot of noise around Git and Mercurial these days (I just recently transitioned to Mercurial from SVN), but fossil sounds like an interesting concept - and indeed, once I've got an SCM, the next thing I go looking for is some kind of bug tracking system to integrate it with. Nice!
This same old tripe again.

Did Gizmodo return the phone to Apple immediately when Apple finally admitted it was theirs? Did Gizmodo demand payment from Apple in return for the phone? Did Gizmodo ever dispute Apple's claim to the phone? It doesn't really seem reasonable to me that anyone at Gizmodo ever thought they were "buying" the device.
Doubtful. The amount of sodium in processed food products and restaurant food is absurdly high. Which population groups have sodium deficiencies? certainly none in the 1st world, and probably none in the 2nd & 3rd world.
I was always really impressed with the types of animations you could make in kid pix. Reading about the ui thought process that went on with the creator was quite interesting. It really highlights why that program was so successful and a hit with kids everywhere.
"The policy have now is problematic, therefore we shouldn't have any policy". This is a non sequitur, but it's common fair in the libertarian world view.
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Not only does lack of sleep increase caloric intake, but you use up MORE calories while sleeping: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sleeping-angels/200906/l...