skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've played the on the Wii, forgot the name. Only did the guitar, though. Glad to hear there's some artistic merit in it.

Having said that, singing/playing along to someone else's tune is a far cry from actually composing the music yourself.
Is the background also image-free? That seems much more impressive to me than the browser window (and the browser window is pretty impressive.)
It really depends on what I'm doing. For python/java, I use Eclipse. For ruby, Netbeans. Shell: emacs. Any new languages that doesn't have any good ide support (such as go and objective-j): emacs. For smalltalk, well, squeak (but you use whatever version the smalltalk is, as they all come with an ide, which is part of the system, and is very hard to separate ide and production/dev environment).

Os-wise: I always try to stick with linux, as there are very good dev tools that are a pain to use elsewhere (for c programming, you can access the documentation by typing man and the name of the function on the terminal, which is very convenient, albeit a bit ugly).
Scene To Be Believed: California As the World
Yes, on a episode I watched a couple of days ago the cop first tells the camera "we have no proper evidence to take this suspect to court. None whatsoever". He than talks to tge suspect and says "some people told me I should talk to you about this. Tell me what happened.." And the guy confesses everything. It went to a case in which they had no openings at all to a case-closed conviction...
For anyone intrigued: http://grab.by/4wnv
Unless it's DARPA money, it's probably just an NIH grant. I doubt it's over 1 or 2m.
Looks awful on chrome too.
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There is a myth that quantum computers are known to be able to solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time by trying all possibilities at once using quantum superposition. For example, by simultaneously trying all possible variable assignments in a SAT problem.

In general, you're confusing decidability and running-time. Just because two models of computing are Turing equivalent (are capable of deciding the same problems) does not mean that they have the same running time on those problems.
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Then people would build Flash apps and just run it in browser and bypass App Store all together. If that happens, not only does Apple give the control to Adobe (and have to rely on Adobe to support iPhone Flash plugin, which is absolutely not what Apple wants), it also loses the benefits of charging 30% of the revenue if the apps would have been sold in App Store.

It's worst situation for Apple.
I personally think it's a great idea.. but I'm a bit biased =) (Thanks for the plug, btw)

The numbers on good vs blab email are pretty typical, but for many folks even the "good" can be overwhelming. Our goal with Gtriage is finding the more important emails even within that smaller "good" set.

And new hotmail looks very cool. It's very nostalgic.. Mozilla's Raindrop project looked very promising as well.
> I understood Dijkstra to be arguing for simple languages, being more susceptible to formal proof, easier to understand, etc.

Yes, he was. In a way, though, isn't Dijkstra's sort of "designing for simplicity" and even the goal of making a language "easier to understand" the very definition of "patronizing"?
"I think Ballmer asked the right question and got the right answer. He just doesn't have any way to respond to Android."

Of course he does: he can give away the new smartphone OS. It's not as if Microsoft has never given away software to win market share.
My advice for the UK is to generally be cooperative with the police because unlike the US are not allowed to lie nor ask you to do anything outside of your rights.

EG, if they start searching your car when they pull you over, and they don't have a warrant or you are not under arrest then the evidence collected is not admissible in court.

However the UK doesn't quite have a total "right to remain silent" law anymore, the current miranda warning is

"You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defense if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court."

and as such taking the tact of not saying anything at all can actually get an innocent person into some legal difficulties if simply giving reasonable facts about your innocence would have helped the situation at the time of quesitoning.
If everyone who is innocent cedes their rights then yeah, asserting your rights will make you look suspicious. So never cede your rights to a cop under any circumstances. That's too important a principle to sacrifice for a more convenient traffic stop.
I'd like to see a comprehensive breakdown of exactly what you should do in real situations when approached by cops. For example, do you literally utter no words and just stare at them, or do you keep repeating "I'd rather not answer that." If the cops make a false claim, such as "we can arrest you for interfering with a police investigation if you don't answer," should you call them on the lie or what? Also a more specific breakdown by state would be great (e.g. do I have to carry/show ID while walking/driving/in my home. I've seen some rather cheesy video dramatizations (I think from the ACLU) of what to do in a traffic stop, but a nice comprehensive document would be the best.
world is only userland, make kernel builds the kernel. People have successfully built the kernel with clang and booted it, but it is not yet known if all of the code paths are correct and there may be hard to find bugs, also certain code does not yet compile and has to be commented out.
I have the kind of personality where folks (including almost strangers) seem to feel comfortable "getting it all out" with me, and I do my best to listen and tell them what I really think.

What usually happens is that people get happy and excited, because I seem to get it and I'm not interested in knocking them down. How did I become so wise that I can give great advice?

It's simple, really: I just take all of the key/values they give me, eval() it in my brain, then pretty print it out to them as a JSON hash of logic. Then I tell them what I think they should actually do.

This works wonders because obvious I am not an oracle, I can only spit what they tell me back in a different order. And then I'm confident and opinionated.

Sorry dude, your start-up has already died and you haven't realized it yet. It's not worth anything to you or anyone else; time spent trying to get $50k (absurd!) is you being in denial about the time and effort you've put in so far. It's a distraction from making a clean break to try your next big idea.

Hard to hear? Yes! Harsh? Possibly, but it's because I want you to feel that this is real.
Actually, the SCOTUS has ruled the opposite. In the case Tinker vs. Des Moines, the court ruled that the students who were wearing arm-bands as a protest against the Vietnam War enjoyed first-amendment protection and discipline from the school was illegal. The court has been much more lenient on searches -- see New Jersey v T. L. O. However, you still need at least some reasonable ground for a search to be legal.

As for interrogations, the supreme court has yet to rule on it. There is, however, a case brewing: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2010/0405/Supreme-Court.... The fact that it's written in such a fashion as to be assumed that students have Fifth Amendment rights and the court cases are arguing over a technicality of pre-trial processing would seem to imply that students don't shed that right, either. Specifically: "A juvenile court judge determined that Paul did not understand that he had a right to remain silent and a right to have a lawyer and his parents present for the entire interrogation. The judge ruled that police coerced Paul’s confession."
Expulsion is another issue altogether, outside the law. The point is, students shouldn't talk to police officers just like they shouldn't talk to strangers.
So you have to understand monads in order to understand the explanation that helps you understand monads? Heh...
A related question: apart from a subpoena in court, are you required to talk to police about anything even with counsel present?
Yeah, I've also got an E71 instead and don't like it.

I also dislike how Nokia basically left the phone (or the OS) unsupported and they are now targeting the big-screen iPhone-clones. Nice move there.

I suppose it's no need to tell you how broken their Ovi "market" app is...
Google snooping your WiFi? Don't panic.
Just as a follow-up:

I forgot to say that this is great news! You are free, if you let forgive yourself and let go.
I have Spike on tv in the background while browsing HN, and they're showing The Empire Strikes back, which they seem to do every 1-2 weeks. Perfect! I leave it there and read.

A few minutes ago they showed the Bespin scenes in which Vader has short conversations with Boba Fett re: Han Solo (alive/dead, carbonite or no, etc).

Fett's voice has a DISTINCT New Zealand accent. Looking on Wikipedia, indeed, Temuera Morrison, who played Fett in the prequel "movies," re-dubbed Fett's voice for the Special Editions.

Aside from restoring the prints to usable quality, none of the rest of the changes should have happened.
Because these 5 people have an interest in publishing "news" and the Corporate media does not.
if i were you, i'd be grateful that people chime in with any thoughts at all

that's a bit much don't you think? HN is a community based around learning about/discussing this exact sort of thing. he asked an earnest question and felt he received a half-assed response. so he called it out.

it happens here all. the. time. it's why i love reading this site, trite reponses get torn apart.
Adsense uses behavioral targeting, of which a part is based on the search queries you enter into Google (as in, when you're searching for "christmas toys" on Google, for a certain amount of time you become a hot target for relevant ads in Adsense).

Other ad providers were able to mimic this by analyzing the referrer urls from which people were being redirected. This is not possible anymore. If Adsense doesn't disable this functionality, then Google is indeed acting anticompetitive.
Sorry about that. A lot of the meta-discussion I had with others (mostly non-techs or semi-techs) this past week about the Prediction API was simply "But what would I use this for?" kinds of questions. That's what this post was meant to address.

Incidentally this is only my second post, and I'll continue to write both on general insights to existing public data, as well as more technical (with-code) posts geared towards those who want to get their hands dirty.
Nothing makes me want to hire developers like reading lists of algorithms and discovering I don't understand them.
I'd tell, after all HN constitutes a possible audience of buyers.
Isn’t that also the case in the US? Evidence attained illegally is admissible in court in Germany, I don’t think it is in the US.

I don’t know how that changes whether you should talk or not, though.
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This makes me want to give it a try, but then I realize the amount of time involved...
Great advice. I still look back fondly on my days of cooking. There were very bad things about it, but working hard and doing a good job was not one of them. I saw people around me deciding that the job was beneath them and feeling miserable all day and decided I would _never_ be that way. Good work is it's own reward. Take pride in it.
It's not image free, but it would technically be possible with CSS only (except for the kind of glow effect) albeit a nightmare to try.
You may have to say your name if asked. Anything else, nope.

You might have to testify against yourself in court, without Fifth Amendment protection, if you're given immunity for whatever you are about to testify to. (This is interesting, because federal courts can use the testimony from state proceedings against you, but the state can't give you federal immunity. Double jeopardy does not apply because the state and federal courts are different. Pretty sure that's not what the framers meant when they were writing the Tenth Amendment...)
I don't like any of these names. You can get away from using books in the name if you come up with a memorable and short adjective or verb that encapsulates the service and "textbooks" can be used in the tagline subtitle. And "bookpenguin" is likely to generate a C&D order from Penguin Books.
You seem to imply that cops in the US _are_ allowed to lie, and search your private property without cause.

If a cop in the US lies to you, or searches your car without cause, or otherwise 'tricks' you, it's no more admissible that it would be in the UK. The issue (in both countries) is proving the cop lied to you, tricked you, etc. Which is the whole point of have legal consul present in the first place.

One of the comments on the article mentions that the 'UK version of the "Miranda rights" includes the sentence "It may harm your defense if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court."' The most common tactic I've heard cops employ in the US is "if you're innocent, it's in your best interest to talk to us." It would appear the UK has that trick built right in to the process from the start.
I agree with your friend; the optimal strategy is more nuanced than "don't say anything".
The difference is this...

A suspect is stopped by the police while driving his car. During the discusion with the suspect the police officer says "I'm just going to take a look in the vehicle if that is ok?" and with the suspect saying nothing (ie not stopping him) the police officer finds something illegal in the car.

In the US this would be admissible in court because the suspect waived his rights, in the UK I believe it would not be admissible because you cannot waiver your rights.
I opened it up in Chrome first. I'd have lost my mind if Firefox was running in an iFrame. :)
As an Australian, it's been incredibly frustrating to see how incredibly distorted the commentary has been on reddit and occasionaly here on news.ycombinator.

Assange's passport was confiscated for 15 minutes while customs officials examined it because of wear and tear. This is a common procedure. It was then returned to him, and he was told that it may be cancelled (because of damage). If that's the case, he simply has to reapply for another passport.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/australian-...

>(At the time of writing, his passport status was apparently back to normal after immigration officials at Melbourne Airport said that his passport was going to be cancelled on the grounds that it was too tatty).

>''It has been in a couple of rivers,'' Assange allows, of the state of his passport. The first time, as he recalls, in December, 2006, when he was crossing a swollen river during heavy rain, in southern Tasmania, and was swept out to sea. He swam back in.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/keeper-of-secrets-20100521...
My reply to your other US/UK comment in this thread is pertinent here too... I just don't feel like repeating myself:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1371237
"No comment" all the way.

I used to work with several ex-Policemen (UK), and their advice was exactly the same: "no comment."

One thing I stupidly didn't ask at the time though was whether there was potential for badness if you expanded on your answer, e.g. "I don't want to comment without my solicitor being present." versus "No comment." Anyone have any ideas?
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> Everything I have read shows that the uptake in condoms in Africa hasn't caused a proportionate decline in AIDS.

On another note, your expectations are wholly without merit, the use of condoms can only halt the spreading of aids, but not its prevalence, and hence will never cause a decline.

Only the grim reaper causes a decline in aids.
Wait, what? You think Google should deny users SSL so that analytics can work better? That can't be what you're implying, can it?
I had forgotten the sliders: http://www.designaesthetic.com/2007/07/17/facebooks-ridiculo...

I don't think they were a privacy control, just a (complex) way of mixing your newsfeed.
Indeed. I'm a white guy, and I've talked to the police repeatedly, back when I lived in the poor parts of various towns. As far as I know, nothing I've ever said to any police has been used against me. Of course, I assume I've hardly ever been a suspect, so maybe that's part of it, but the difficulty with all of this "don't talk to the police" is that we don't have any statistics on what percentage of people who talk to the police never even get arrested.

It's probably quite true that it will be difficult for the courts to convict you of anything if you don't talk to the police. However, it seems like there'd be a large risk of attracting a lot more attention than you otherwise would have, should you conspicuously refuse to talk to the police. Being arrested and having to endure a trial is, itself, a fairly large imposition on someone's liberty and time, and it's hard to know how many people would have been looked at far more closely had they insisted on saying nothing.
It's anticompetitive to allow people to use SSL to talk to your service? Google doesn't control the Referer header, your browser does.
"If a cop in the US lies to you, or searches your car without cause, or otherwise 'tricks' you, it's no more admissible that it would be in the UK. The issue (in both countries) is proving the cop lied to you, tricked you"

Well, my understanding is different. Here is an example:

Suspect is in the police station being questioned and the police officer says "we know you did it, your friend who we arrested in the car with you said you did it. he just gave a statement. Why don't you just sign this confession now and we'll sort out a deal".

(The police officer lied, the other person hadn't said anything let alone made a statement)

In the US that would be admissible in court because it doesn't matter how the confession was reached, even lies (short of beating the suspect/etc). In the UK that would not be admissible because it would obtained through lying to the suspect.

You are right though, no matter where you are in the world, by the time you are being questioned in the police station it is time to make sure you have legal counsel... and not the one provided to you by the state but a lawyer you already know. For this reason everyone should have a connection with an appropriate lawyer and have their information to hand in case of arrest.
>Quantum computing isn't some new model of computation, i.e. it's equivalent to Turing machines or the lambda calculus.

This isn't immediately obvious to someone who hears about quantum computing but doesn't actually get a proper explanation. The intuition that n qubits in superposition can evaluate a number of possibilities exponential in n simultaneously is understandable, even if it's not really correct.
Opera Mini is a great app for reading news and such, but as your main browser? It doesn't execute 99% of JavaScript. You can't load any smartphone targeted websites with your smartphone. Not very smart.
> Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back is one of the best science fiction films ever made.

I do think that Empire Strikes Back is an enormously enjoyable film, but I take at them calling it science fiction.

I feel this might be a bit of an unpopular sentiment, but Star Wars was never really science fiction at all. It had all the things Ars said it did: Good story, good character development, good settings, good effects, but at the end of the day it was literally a Fantasty/Romance with a large FX budget (for the time). There was no science that was actually integral to the series itself, or at least none that could not have been replaced with Knights-and-dragons style elements just as easily.

Compare to the story elements to (just for instance) Ghost in the Shell, which was a science fiction that asked a lot of questions: In the future, how will people deal with cyborgs? How will they deal with longer lifespans? How will they deal with 21st century governments breaking down? How will society deal with a new and more pervasive "net?" The show tries to deal with many of the pains of emerging technologies and an evolving world.

Compared to such sci-fi, Star Wars was just a romance novel plus lasers. Empire Strikes Back was good, definitely, but not precisely because of sci-fi elements.
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> e.g. "I don't want to comment without my solicitor being present." versus "No comment." Anyone have any ideas?

Yes. My Boss, an ex-copper, says that you should always do the former and never the latter. Also, be polite and restrained. Respond to small talk. Be honest.

If you clam up, stay silent, and repeat no comment they will treat that as mildly suspicious.
In the U.S., the police are allowed to lie to suspects in order to get a confession. They are not allowed to search you or your property without probable cause or a search warrant. If they do so, the evidence obtained (and all evidence stemming from the original evidence -- fruit of the poisonous tree) is not admissible.
Seems fine here in the UK.
"I don't consent to any searches" is a good thing to say if they ask to search you or your car, or if they just try and start to.
The reasons for not talking mentioned in the linked article and video don’t really even touch on what you are mentioning here.
You are running the benchmark with WEBrick, a slow, development only web server. For Rails you should run nginx + Passenger.
I am not a lawyer, but my understanding his that they must stop the interrogation at the moment you invoke your right to an attorney.

My thought would be that if they continue to press you, politely but firmly tell them that you really don't feel comfortable answering any more questions until your lawyer arrives.
I disagree with having a full-time UI element in place for a setting (well, series of settings) that should only have to be updated once. Certain things you can't retroactively go back and change (Example: another user shares a link you posted that's offensive to your new boss) or don't have immediate effect (Ex: search engine results), which this UI item might give the impression of having that kind of control. It also doesn't handle edge cases well (Ex: wanting contact info in the open, but not photo tags), instead covering them with blanket groupings and encourages users to be more ignorant of the intricacies of privacy really.

I think what Facebook should have done already is use one of their blue announcement boxes on the home page to notify users of their default "Everybody" status if they have it turned on and direct them to the privacy settings to adjust them.

Of course, I have everything set as openly as possible, so I really don't care anyways.
Synthetic life. Helpful or Harmful?
What do you think? Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Excellent 45 minute ACLU documentary on how to interact with police in three situations: traffic stop, in your house, and on foot.

BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqMjMPlXzdA

tldr:

-say as little as possible.

-be courteous and don't argue or complain.

-memorize the phrase "I do not consent to any searches."

-do not invite police in your house.
I recently finished reading Homicide by David Simon. It is a mind-blowingly good book. From that book I learned, yes, cops can lie to you. And when they're interrogating a suspect, they lie all the time.