skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple things. First of all, the elaborate fabrication you're talking about is possible with all kinds of evidence, not just cell phone records. You could go around leaving misleading physical clues. You could take photographs that have an intentionally mis-set clock in the background. You could bribe or intimidate people into lying on the stand. etc. etc.

Second of all, the kind of fabrication you're describing is much more difficult to pull off than you realize. There are lots of different kinds of evidence and you would have to have some serious foresight to fabricate it all in a way that is consistent. For example, here's a case of someone who took a lot of effort to fabricate evidence of a rape against an ex-boyfriend. She did such a convincing job that he was jailed for a while, but eventually the truth came out.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/26/local/la-me-accused-...

Most criminals (or false accusers) don't have nearly this level of planning. The defendant in my case was actually a really smart guy, and had spun a story that cleverly was corroborated by the cell phone records of his accuser. But he was caught in a trap when his own cell phone records showed calls that the other phone didn't show. And he had had weeks to create this false story.

Framing someone (or hiding your crimes) is harder than it sounds. In most cases, the simplest explanation is the right one.
I presume you deleted it, but they do say they will delete it. I may try a data protection request to see if they have as I deleted my acount a long time back.
LWJGL, and I think he's working on a level editor rather than actual gameplay.
This was on Richard Feynman’s blackboard when he died.
I created mineflayer[0] - software which implements the minecraft client/server protocol and provides an API so that you can create minecraft bots in javascript. So I followed minecraft development for a while, decompiled and analyzed the code, had to deal with the shitty protocol, and observed the way bugs are introduced and solved.

I've seen his posts about how git is too hard to learn[1] so he's going to stick with svn. I've seen him post that "we've started to bring in bug fixing into the development method"[2], and then the very next release is a "bug fix" release which causes more new bugs than it solves.[3]

I wouldn't hire him for a software development job that required any level of maintenance. He's good at creating original fun concepts but not at making it nice for people to read, modify, or maintain his code.

Also, I would argue that emulating a 16-bit CPU within the constraints of a game environment is easy and straightforward. For one, it's ridiculously simple to do test driven development without any overhead. And second, have you seen all the emulators that have cropped up after the specs were posted? There is already an emulator for almost every popular programming language.

[0]: https://github.com/superjoe30/mineflayer
[1]: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/2623477410/strategy-meeting-day...
[2]: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4423138657/11-11-11
[3]: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Version_history (might have to view history)
Legal analysis that conflicts with decisions of the supreme court and done by someone with possibly little more than a high school diploma is still valid legal analysis. Said analysis clearly isn't useful when trying to figure out the likely outcome of the modern "criminal justice" system. However, such analysis is quite relevant when talking about how far the country has diverged from the original intent of its constitution.

When the Supreme Court sets precedents that conflict with a straightforward logical interpretation of the Constitution, how can anyone claim that the Constitution is at all relevant?
If you follow him on Twitter, he was looking for a code quality analyzer months ago. After trying some he found there were a lot of things he should change in the way he writes code. He settled on Sonar for some reason, don't remember why.
This seems to crop up a reasonable amount - I always wonder, why another silicon valley? Why not something unique?
I doubt that's the explanation. But I don't doubt that either it's (a) astroturfing (fake), or (b) there really are a few people out there who are fans and have FU money to spend. (Think: FU money in the hands of successful techie biz owners, they do exist, and they have played computer games.)
Police rescuewoman, recoverN2.9m ransom fromsuspected kidnappers
Asaba – The
Police
Command in Delta on
Saturday announced the
rescue of the wife of the
Financial Secretary,
Petroleum Tanker Drivers
Association, the recovery
of N2.9 million ransom and
arrest of four persons in
connection with the
kidnap.
Mr Ikechukwu Aduba, the
Commissioner of Police
while briefing newsmen in
Asaba, said the woman
was kidnapped on
Tuesday in her store at
Ekpan in Warri.
“The gunmen who
demanded the sum of N5
million, took the victim to
their hideout in Benin, Edo
State,’’ Aduba said.
He said that police
officers who carried out
the rescue operation
returned with the woman
unhurt at about 4.30 a.m.
on Saturday.
“Acting on intelligence
report, men of the state
anti-terrorist squad
stormed the kidnappers’
hideout in Benin city and
arrested four notorious
armed kidnappers including
a 20 year-old girl.
“The victim was rescued
and items recovered from
the suspects included N2.9
million which they collected
as ransom.
“We also recovered one
black Sienna space bus
with registration number
EK 483 BEN and an Audi
car with registration
number AA 261 DGS,” the
commissioner said.
Aduba told newsmen that
anti-crime patrol team
from Sapele also arrested
two suspects during a
stop-and-search
operation and recovered
25 live cartridges.
“On interrogation, the
two suspects confessed
membership of a robbery
gang terrorising the
residents of Oghara in
Ethiope West Local
Government Area and its
environs,’’ he said.
The commissioner, who
described Ororokpe in
Okpe LGA as a `den of
criminals,’ appealed to
parents to monitor the
activities of their children
and wards.
“It has become necessary
to warn criminals to have
a change of heart and
take to legitimate
business or be prepared
to face the full weight of
the law.
“We want to appeal to
members of the public to
have absolute faith in the
Command as we have
resolved to rout
hoodlums and kidnappers
out of the state,’’ Aduba
said. (NAN)
Lots of mentions of fail2ban here - would like to add a quick plug for OSSEC (http://ossec.net).

You can configure it to block brute-forcers, scanners, and other rapscallions, but it also provides a bit more power - rootkit checking, configurable file-change checking (i.e., don't alert me to md5 changes in my custom log files, but if /bin/su changes, holler!), and a bunch of out-of-the-box alerts for common services (apache, mysql, sshd, postgresql, etc etc - see http://www.ossec.net/doc/rules/index.html for the full list).

Also, you can configure alerts/blocks for your own events - if you have a custom app, this can be really, really useful. For example, if you see a certain Redis error more than X times in X seconds, sound the guards!
> Nobody is giving money to public schools. It is taken under the threat of punishment.

Let me rephrase to be more precise: a person who votes for federal education spending will also tend to vote for federal control over education (regardless of the effectiveness of that control).

And that goes for everything. Federal spending means federal control over anything related to that spending. Anything else is sustainable only by wishful thinking.
Another smooth genre is "deep house", also found in genres like slowmo, nu disco. An example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tD74t6K7mI
Because they've consistently shown they can't be responsible with it. That's why.
Michigan State Police using device to copy/analyze cell phone contents
Just so you know, Minecraft is pretty infamous for being technically unsound. Making millions isn't a valid qualifier, in my eyes--it sounds an awful lot like "More Money Equals Better Than" (search it on YouTube).
Are you implying that doing a livecast makes you a skillfull programmer? Minecraft is riddled with shockingly bad code.
The Innocence Project reports that they've exonerated (via DNA evidence) 17 people who had already been sentenced to death and were awaiting execution:

http://www.innocenceproject.org/know

This strongly suggests that many other innocent people are still on death row or have already been executed, since the Innocence Project doesn't have the resources to investigate all cases of claimed innocence, and has to limit its efforts to saving people who are still alive.

The Wikipedia article on wrongful execution claims that "at least 39 executions are claimed to have been carried out in the U.S. in the face of evidence of innocence or serious doubt about guilt."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution
Many, I dare say even the vast majority, of the problems with Apple's App Store are not cases where Apple has favored users over developers, but rather cases where fixing the problem would help both users and developers. Thus, IMO, this idea that it's all because Apple cares more about the users simply does not fly.
One downside to their strategy is that the follow on investments can be seen as a vote of confidence. It may be very hard for a company to raise funds if passed over by the people who know them best.
It's "Rainbows End". The absence of the apostrophe really is important, since it completely changes the meaning of those two words.
sigh I really should get around to updating my home page with something respectable. Feel free to check out my github page or resume before judging.
What people fail to realize is that here is what TSA does:

1. Reads overseas incident reports about what terrorists tried.
2. Makes up new rule to cover items/issues in step 1.

Meanwhile the terrorists have moved on to the next technique. Random searches is the only way to raise the opportunity costs high enough that they do not target planes.

However, we have other plane dangers that do not require
obvious items..for example the new Boeing planes can be taken down by computer intrusion..
Didn't see the part about limited to 75/day :)
It's very easy to think of cases where it would be illogical to presume the 6th Amendment shielded assets for use in legal defenses; for instance: the accused has robbed a bank of several hundred thousand dollars, and, having been apprehended, now insists the funds be transferred to the best criminal defense lawyer in the state.

Nevertheless: it's been the law of the land for over 20 years that you can't run a massive criminal conspiracy and expect to have all its proceeds available to you in the ensuing criminal trial. Techdirt is clearly disinterested in learning this fact, or, worse, having learned it, Techdirt is clearly disinterested in the rageview dissipation associated with disclosing the fact to its readership.

So, I call "not productive argument".
No. Google Chrome is Chromium + closed source components like the PDF reader. Wikipedia has a list of differences here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differen...

Both Google Chrome and Chromium let you choose a search engine other than Google when you first start it.

The privacy policy is a good read if you want to know exactly what information Google collects:

https://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/privacy.html

My read of this indicates that Google is not tracking what sites you go to, only sites that don't resolve or attempt to feed you a bad version of Google's SSL certificates. And, if you believe that Google is actually tracking the Safe Browsing queries when they say they aren't, you can ask either browser to not check for malware:

https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
Well, it seems awesomeness is another thing in the eyes of the beholder.
>>It seems unhackerish (if that's a word) to just accept circumstances rather than to try to build your way out of them. I'd gladly use a FHF motherboard/CPU for the next box I build if they were decent -- and if they existed!

As I mentioned above, they do exist: http://orsoc.se/127/langswitch_lang/en/

Even the bus architecture is open and the processor itself can be debugged or modified. As other people have mentioned, there is coreboot (coreboot.org) for a number of other platforms.
Glad I could help. I'll ping you if any other ideas come to mind.
It is full of excellent advice. But, you know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Somewhere along the line my fear is that it'll get forgotten and bad practice will start slipping in. That not everyone will be singing from the same hymn sheet. That person A's interpretation of something is not going to be person B's. That involves training and vigilance. Adherence to one's own standards. Frankly, this isn't something I associate with Government IT projects.

It is really good stuff. But I'll reserve judgement on it till I see it translated into real-world results -- one way or another.
Doesn't work with Canadian Netflix.
The Hugo Award Nominees, 2012
It seems that I may be in the minority, but I contested a 1 star written review because it was obvious that the reviewer didn't read the description and didn't even try the app before reviewing it badly. I reported it to Apple, stated my reasoning and within a day or two that review was removed. It was for this app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/basketball-shot-tracker-hd/id...

Granted I only did this once, but I think that since it was a clear cut case, Apple quickly removed that poor review.
My problem with Quora is that it is very difficult to penetrate the inner sanctum and feel welcome in the community.

You used to be able to gain recognition with thorough answers to domain-specific questions. But if you take a look at a lot of the "trending" answers on Quora, they all seem to be written by the same 10 Quora power users (Mark Bodnick, Garrick Saito, Venkatesh Rao, etc..)

The problem not so much the existence of these power users but the fact that they seem to only upvote amongst themselves and contribute to each others boards, creating a very exclusive feeling.
Fascinating, but perhaps not for everybody. I can waste a fair amount of time online, but most often when I do it’s because of a general lack of motivation due to a depressive mood. If I didn’t have the internet at such times, I would just sit around and mope. At least on HN I can learn things.
Unit testing for game logic: good.

Unit testing for graphics code: far more trouble than it's worth.
An amazing idea to disrupt this industry. I can see the same thing for medical and vision. Lasik for 25% of the cost sounds nice (but messing with your eyes is a big risk). What are other players in this market?
I figured. Thanks for the tip. And I actually had an idea of a Facebook app and was wondering whether things change in that regard. Of course you would want to be the first customer of your app. I wonder how people who share concerns like me deal with these kinds of situations.
I don't think it's the same. This is the (tedious) process of composing something. Ever watched a video of a composer composing Or a painter paint? Must be distracting for him too. Either that or the attention actually forces him to be more disciplined.
I'm doing a light version of this starting in a few weeks. I've canceled my home internet, but I still have my Nexus S & access from work and cafes. It was motivated in part by the ridiculously poor level of service/price in my area, and part by the same notion that I might be happier without it.

Sadly, I can't easily travel to Cuba for this experiment (US American).
This is not a quirk of logical thinking, but of the justice system. If you want to take that money from him, establish that the money are ill gained funds.
And the only way to do that is to hold a trial.
Not to mention that this isn't your standard criminal conspiracy either; thousands of people including many government officials happily transferred money to his company, and he probably paid taxes, too.

We don't directly proceed to executing murderers in flagrante delicto either.
DISQUS (SF) is hiring an Engineering Manager to help scale our infrastructure
I do believe that when implemented properly by a developer, in-app purchasing can lead to a pseudo trial versions of apps. There is an implementation that I have used in an app that hasn't had anything, but good responses from users. Users are able to try out the vast majority of the features in a "trial." Even after the "trial" is over, most of the features are still accessible to users.

If you want to check out our use of in app, check out the app here: Basketball Shot Tracker HD http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/basketball-shot-tracker-hd/id...
I read this great article and bought both his books on Amazon.

I want Dan to read this post and analyze why I did it.
Actually I remember my first experiences with Google. It was very weird for me that the page was so empty and I kept using AltaVista and later MetaCrawler. They seemed to be more 'serious' :D However more and more I've started to notice that the most relevant links are provided by Google and that was it ...
I have a foolproof solution to your quandary, one which I've been using for years:

Don't use Facebook!

It wasn't so long ago that we didn't routinely post every last freaking detail of our personal lives online for all the world to see...
Completely off-topic before reading the post: This guy's blog has a ridiculously tempting design.
> no, i think you're falling into the common technical-person trap of assuming that raw intelligence is the only measure of competence.

No, I am looking at the logical consequence of "hire people smarter than yourself". If A is smarter than B, then B is less smart than A.

Therefore: "hire people smarter than yourself" implies hiring people who are willing to work for someone dumber.
How Las Vegas missed out on a life-sized Starship Enterprise
> That's the second time you've failed to comprehend the use of a negative. I suggest you reread what you've written.

You are right, thanks for correcting me, I'm a bit tired. Luckily, it was just an example and not central to my point. The key point here is that this way of formulating a question attributes an opinion to your opponent that he may or may not have. Fixed it: "Decades of isolationist Maoism didn't have more influence on the rural poverty in China than US and British protectionism."

> The rest of the thread doesn't show me attempting to win any argument. I suggest rereading that too.

At this point, there's nothing I can do but question your intellectual honesty. The least I can say is that you come across as someone who disagrees with your interlocutor's opinion. If you are not willing to admit that, I will call this conversation over.

> And on this note, do you really think it's helpful to throw comments like "straw man" into conversations you aren't constructively participating in?

Yes. Fallacies are subtle and it's important to highlight them.
Not the only reason. But how often do you see a profile showing something other than successful people having a good time? It's self promotion all over.

Just like anonymity lends itself to trolling, personality cult lead to idealized public images.
Slightly off topic, but relevant in this discussion.

I worked in IT in local and central government in the UK, all departments of which I was in would have completely ignored these guidelines for their own petty reasons of security, people skills, costs(!), supplier lock-ins etc

Neither does this address bigger picture stuff such as supplier favouritism, lack of single systems across multiple councils (eg council taxes) open hostility to open source, total lack of fair tendering or the fact most IT spending is authorised by people who's only qualification is they studied history at the same college in Oxford as the CEO or go to the same golf club.

I could name several examples of the above from the security services but would probably be immediately arrested because of that pile of steaming shit called `the official secrets act'
Thanks Patrick.

I'm familiar with pg's essay about High Resolution Fundraising, but as stated in the essay, this can happen even without the use of convertible notes: "You may not need to use convertible notes to do it."

Is it a fact that it's much easier to get a higher dollar amount with a note deal compared to shares? When issuing the investor shares with an anti-dilution clause doesn't it have the same effect as a cap, so the investor is protected from a down round? Wouldn't this ultimately allow the investor to agree to the same dollar amount as in a cap?
http://themixingbowl.org/ and http://www.livesets.us/ are great sources for EDM mixes also
We're probably not picturing the same thing here. How about a nuclear reactor? A 100kw transmitter? Does that help? Want me to draw it?

Nice way to stray from the argument while being an ass. We're not even discussing anything related to free software anymore.
Your arguments in both cases rely on presupposing that the defendant is guilty. I understand that you personally have made up your mind that Megaupload was running a "massive criminal conspiracy", but you're not allowed to use this assumption when arguing the case.
I don't think the low-quality general answers from some of the high volume contributors really matter; I'm a lot more into the niche experts, and Quora makes it easy to find those people. (Marc Bodnick upvotes are so common as to be essentially content free, although his answers are great; there are a lot of users who contribute lots of crap with no actual knowledge, across a range of categories, and a number of users who are only contributing in very well defined areas of expertise. e.g. Gus Fuldner's PCI related answers are great, and there are a lot of domain experts and people with first-hand knowledge who post on Quora.

If you have a problem with Quora, follow better users and better topics.

The boards product is IMO pretty ill advised. Quora is doing it because they want to be a repository, easily searched, of a lot of interesting information, but they didn't take into account the second order effects of attracting a lot of boards users to Quora.

The funny thing for me is that the OP joined Quora (I think) during the big wave of idiots in December 2010. ("Scoblegate"). People said all the same things about death of Quora then, and in June 2010 when it opened up to the public. I suspect the average IQ of Quora users has been in strict decline ever since the first user was added after Charlie and Adam.
A lot of other people think he has done great things. Opinions can and do differ.
And the Missing the Point award goes to...
While interesting, I have to ask, what makes reading books, watching TV, and watching movies higher value than whatever it is you're doing on the internet?

I learn about travel, science, technology, and countless other things through the internet. While not a replacement for real life experiences, I certainly think it could be considered a high-value experience (personally I think it is better than TV), perhaps on par with reading books.

Sure, if you're spending all your time playing minecraft online... wait we have kids building graphing calculators in minecraft, nevermind.
Interesting perspective. The problem is what you're spending time online doing. If you're looking at cute cats or on facebook, it's likely you're wasting time. I would also bet that lots of time is spent procrastinating. On the flip side I find time away from the computer to be highly unproductive. It's good if you need time away to relax, but overall there's alot of time wasted drinking beer, socialising etc. It's all about balance and getting important stuff done.
What's the idea of the negative counter? Why don't you simply reset to 0 on a successful login?
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