skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Settlements never set precedent. If the judgment is bigger (which would be just about always), they're already extracting the biggest amount. "We'll take what you have now, plus what you get later" is more than "We'll settle for what you have now." Anyway, I don't think the RIAA's litigation strategy has ever been about maximizing profits.
Anonymous leaks 1.7GB of data and emails from the US Department of Justice
Of course, the practice is abhorrent!

While I agree that eugenics has been used (often poorly) to justify many horrible policies in the past, I don't think it's abhorrent in general. Today eugenics is used very successfully to prevent horrible genetic diseases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dor_Yeshorim

Most of the horrible policies we associate with eugenics are actually a result of a belief in eugenics AND malthusianism. If you reject malthusianism and replace it with, e.g., comparative advantage, you lose the scary policy prescriptions.

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/05/eugenics_malthu....
Not at all.

Facebook show's me updates from my friends activity. It can better match those to my interests if it knows what I am interested in.
So hard to decide if I should read this article or play Skyrim.
It would be nice to have an explanation of what the 'Starter Kit' contains and what it's for.
I think this is actually a perfectly reasonable idea. When I look back on past 15 years one of my absolute favorite memories is playing FPS games with my friends, brothers, and father. Those times were more real and more meaningful to me than many other more socially acceptable activities.

But...you shouldn't die at 32 because you're eating burgers and playing games too much. That's a terrible way to go, and it ultimately means you get far less time gaming!
The difference between receiving data and sending data is a bit more than a technical difference.
>I'm personally not happy that every time I go into a haircut shop like GreatClips that all the haircut folks are women. It makes me feel oppressed. I want to see men working there, and have men cutting my hair, so I and my sons have that as a role model.

Well then don't you think young girls should be allowed to aspire to become pirates? Personally I was offended that the only female pirate was a half-clad wench!
How does this compare with what can be considered a 'gym' addiction. Is it ok when it is exercise? What is too much? What about work, startups? I rock climb at least 6 hours a week, it's not bizarre to hear someone dying from rock climbing though.
as we said in college, "the proof is trivial and is left for the grader"
"GitHub for Windows is a 100% native application"

"The application is written in C#"

Is managed code the new native?
Show HN: New Startup BoodleUP- Play games to win free stuff from local stores
Since the price of a use car is to a large extent determined by what the market will bear, doesn't that amount to the same thing?
How is him having a heart attack in any way related to him playing video games all weekend?
Well, when I started as a professional programmer in 1983, I was hired by a woman. A year or two later, my boss, my boss's boss, and her boss were all women (this was in software development at a Fortune 500 computer manufacturing company). My understanding is that today, there are far fewer women in software development than there were in the 1980s. It seems to me that the billions of dollars in toy marketing (and other factors) are beating the millions in "STEM for girls".
Everyone has done/is doing/will do something illegal. The question is if we or someone in charge cares.

As told to me by some friendly police officers I would chat with.
The Kabul Hospital That Treats All Sides
Interesting, but I'm not a fan of the UI style and annoying flash animations at all, and that really kills it.
Innovation for social change, brilliant idea!
It isn't. We can infer from the rest of the post that the person in question was unhealthy, but OP took an unnecessary shot at gaming. One can argue an unhealthy focus on anything can kill you in the same way, and gaming wasn't a symptom.

Frankly, this entire thread is about as bad as mass media blaming video games when a kid shoots up his school.
Buy Top Male Sex Toys
If you are looking for the ultimate self-gratification experience you have come to the right place, before you decide to buy any male sex toys, you should look at the products listed on our site. We only promote the best male sex toys in the industry.
Echoing others' sentiments in this thread: I don't see the link between video games and the man's death being all that strong here. I can understand if sharing details of his health isn't something meant for the internet, though, and I am sorry for your loss.

As someone who spent the majority of their teenage years "gaming" (6 hours per day average in an MMO), and despite benefiting socially and financially (you read that right) from it all, I have since quit and become a bitter ex-gamer. I speak with that hat on when I say that this is not an article about gaming and its personal costs. I could write such an article, but it's been done before, and you just end up preaching to the choir. Instead, this is an article about the loss of a friend. We always wish we could have spent more time with friends who have passed, regardless of what their hobbies were.

To close, I will share the reason behind my own transition. It boils down to one simple notion:

Do you want to spend your days living in a world someone else created? Or do you want to build your own?
For Volvo, red is slightly less expensive than green. Benz and Honda cheapest in purple. A couple others have black, silver, grey and white. Not sure why this is so interesting.
Laptop Factory Outlet
Data Is More Important Than Algorithms
Damn straight. Historical fidelity is of utmost importance in the education of our youth. No daughter of mine will ever be allowed to act like a pirate. Or a knight. Or wear pants.

Sigh... posts like that just make me sad. You honestly think it's a bad thing that Lego is producing (it's not even the PC nonesense you're positing -- they're actually making them!) toys with girls in them?
If you're buying a Benz, it's a good way to save a few bucks...
Thanks for sharing. I didn't realize you can do that with Github before reading your post.
I said many other things as well. The comment wasn't totally false.

I corrected/clarified my statements in my reply. Thank you for pointing out the need for clarification.
Well two differences... one only applies to some of those things.
In the case of all of the physically active ones they to some extent self-regulate. There is really only so much power-lifting you can do in a week, and very few ways around that max (even assuming steroid use)

But I think the more relevant issue is far fewer people seem to be prone to obsession in any of those other spheres. It's not that hardcore gaming is any worse than an obsession with chess, it's that far fewer are obsessed with chess.

I found this article (which came off of hacker news in the first place) to be super relevant.
http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
Firstly, the pirate archetype used in fiction and represented in LEGO form is not one based on history but on fantasy. In truth the vast majority of "pirates" in the, say, 17th through 18th centuries were privateers operating under the authority of a government (for example, Captain Morgan).

Secondly, there are many famous examples of female pirates from history and fiction (Mary Read, Grace O'Malley, Rachel Wall, etc.)

Thirdly, perhaps you should take up your concerns regarding the gender of your hair stylists with the management of GreatClips.
I was just thinking there are plenty of VoIP implementations available. But if you're using those, you're probably not Twilio's target customer.
> I could erase all my data quickly 'just' by tapping a number on the lock screen 40 times

Doesn't work, there's a time-out of 15 minutes after the fifth try, if I recall correctly.
Fun with funding: What it’s like to run a Kickstarter project
Cute how you think feminism doesn’t have a problem with fixed gender roles (i.e. cutting hair is a woman’s job). Also note that many typical women’s jobs are low paying and low status†. How deluded can one person be?

—

† Yes, there are exceptions to this. But they are just that: exceptions.
Not a reply to azelfrath, sorry. chadmalik, if by chance you see this, your posts have been getting auto-killed since the "Why vertical farms are a crock" discussion.

For those without showdead on, here's the comment, which I thought was worth reprinting:

"I'd like to add another way of thinking of it. Several years ago I was part of a group working on a project that was composed of people from various companies. One of the attendees was blind. It became clear VERY quickly that our blind friend was light years above everyone else technically and in terms of thinking about process. He'd sit there, listen to people go back and forth on this or that issue, then come in with an incredibly intelligent and appropriate solution, time after time. He was using an audio browser to go over the project materials when we weren't working. If you don't make your services accessible to the blind, YOU might be the one missing the benefit of this type of person's input."
1. Any sufficiently complicated text editing program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of vim.

2. No new programming environment will ever satisfy advanced vim users without adding a "vim emulation" mode, thus satisfying #1. (p.s. I am a vim user)
The police chief of my city (Newport News VA, USA) recently declared his intention to set up surveillance cameras "from one end of this city to the other" because "I can't put a police officer on every corner" but "I might be able to put up a camera."

http://www.dailypress.com/news/crime/dp-nws-police-cameras-2...
Having spent way more time than is healthy playing WoW I realized one day, after I had spent 12 hours collecting virtual materials to make virtual armor so that I could go with folks into a simulated environment without dying so that I could get other armor that would replace the armor I had made, that there were much better ways to spend a Saturday.

The challenge of course is that it is so damn easy. And by that I mean that one of the things video games have over programming (what I had previously spent 12 hrs on a Saturday doing for fun) was that in the game everything is set up so that you can get right toward making progress against your goal, and you can stop, and then come back later and get right back into it. From power up to 'engaged' was like 3 minutes, vs programming which seemed to have an hour just to get to the point where everything was in shape to work on it.

Since that time, I've been trying to make programming as easy as gaming in that regard. Things like 'screen' can help since you can pop right back into a session, everything is setup your cd path is current, as is your history etc) and stuff like picking one editor and using it everywhere helps too. A USB keyboard is essential because switching between Macbook keyboard to desktop keyboard can generate a lot of mistyped keys. Finally there is the 'questing' system, where in the game you log in and the quests you have to complete are sitting there in a list with a short note about what needs to be done. I use a notebook for that but it has the same effect. Open up the notebook to the book mark and the things that need doing are highlighted and circled, stuff that is done is lined out.

I'm still not there yet, work to do. But I am long past being 'hardcore' in WoW.
Some people don't want to think about anything except their one thing.

They really resent having to learn about other things.

I don't get it. But that's probably why I am employed as a tools engineer... because I like learning.
Lord of the Rings, amazing Free mmorpg for Mac / Linux
That's the point. It's an unnecessary shot at gaming, which is why the fact that the person was unhealthy is near the end.
Does it have enough active area to cover two monitors side by side?
Also, there are plenty of Android devices (tablets, PMPs etc) that don't have a phone function.

(Twilio employee)
Ugh, thanks. I forgot I'm still running 11.10. I should've checked around first.
I don't know if I'll be getting Coda 2, but Diet Coda looks incredible. I find that the iPad is a nice supplement to my workflow, particularly when I have to be really mobile (this means iPad and smartphone only). I have a few good writing workflow (http://interchangeproject.org/2012/05/08/my-ipad-setup/) but I don't have a mobile coding workflow that works for me yet.

The biggest thing I'd be using Diet Coda for would be fixing small issues on the go.

I hope this it it.
"Native" now pretty much means not-web-based or using a cross-platform framework (like Air).
So what this means is that if you want to write Windows 8 desktop applications, you'll need to fork over $$$ for pro Visual Studio or not use Microsoft's IDE tool chain. I'm not sure what to think about this.
I totally believe you but I also have a feeling you're part of that very small minority who it works for. There are just some industries that lend themselves better to this kind of marketing than others. Ecommerce sites are in this category. Generally speaking, if you provide a service that cannot be done by web app then social media marketing doesn't work well. That's generally. Think of pool cleaners, housekeepers, gardeners, nannies, car washes versus any ecommerce product or services like web hosting, online insurance, travel bookings, etc.

The web is all about instant gratification. If what you're selling can't be delivered over broadband you're going to have a you time. You have to set up your product to be available as an impulse buy or your chances are slim. On the other hand, when people use search engines not only are they more likely to have intent but if they're specifically looking for your product or it's category they're more likely to be prepared for a non-instant buying experience. This is where those physical world service providers fare far better. My big complaint is that social media is billed by many as a panacea or a replacement for search traffic and unsuspecting small business owners waste lots of time,energy, and money on it with little to show for it in the end.
and by 'here' he means

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4005275
It'd be remarkably impressive if it was a new video, considering Feynman's been dead 24 years.
Comcast and Time Warner Open 50K Wi-fi Hotspots
Spacechem is essentially dataflow programming. Unfortunately the canvas size is to small to do general purpose computing. If you could have a lot lot more reactors, then you could encode useful data in the molecules and use the pipelines as queues to simulate memory buffers and, well, obviously queues.
Very cool way to crowdsource fundraising and have something awesome to show for it!
IPS panels are great, especially on laptops (wide viewing angle when sharing a screen with someone). I wish more laptops had these.
Ask HN: What Do Programmers Look for When...
A start-up offers an equity stake rather than an hourly/salary position? Feedback would be great. Thanks.
Isn't the fact that they're rare his point?
> Under the new system, content will be extracted using purpose built terminals in police stations.

So the device in the screenshot is a Radio Tactics Aceso, there is one sat across the room from my desk. It has been around for quite a while.

They are pretty good pieces of kit; but there is something of a limit in terms of the information they can extract (i.e. because phones are so "proprietary" it's only logical data they can easily recover).

> Until now, officers had to send mobiles off for forensic examination in order to gather and store data, a process which took several weeks.

Hilarious.

Anyway:

In a sense this is very old news (over the stuff HN is likely to be interested in); before if your tech was seized and sent of for analysis the data would be retained, no matter what the outcome. I can't remember the exact length of time but it is measured in years.

This appears to be extending the technical ability to "acquire" mobile phones down to the police station level. My thoughts:

* Despite how simplistic (and the Aceso is brain dead simple to use) they make it, there will still be mass confusion

* No one at police station level will understand how to secure digital evidence effectively (no matter how much training they hand out - it took me several years to get to grips with the minutae), I hope they have a plan to mitigate this.

* This is all part of the govt. plan to in-source as much of their forensics as possible. Which just ends up putting the technical stuff in the hands of people ill-trained to handle it, and risks more people being convicted

* It's not discussed, but I would be interested to see if this means they will be acquiring more data than usual. i.e. does this mean every phone will be analysed, or will they only do it for phones they could (in the past) justify sending off for detailed examination.

* In the former case (acquiring everything) how, legally, are they justifying it.

As a forensic analyst this whole thing seems to verge on violating every ethical and moral rule I would ascribe too. It increases the chances of abuse by many factors and reduces the effectiveness of forensic mobile phone work.

> The cost of leasing the 16 terminals for 12 months and training the officers will be £50,000, the Met said.

They are being ridiculously fleeced. I am unsure of the exact volume of phones they might process, but I suspect they could sub-contract it to actual experts for much less. I could process 10's of phones a week, for example.
Mostly this is a Radio Tactics press release.

Even in the best case scenario they are reducing effectiveness, increasing error rate and costing themselves more money. From my side of the fence this is not the first idiotic thing I have seen the public forces do in recent months - and it won't be the last. As a member of the public I don't feel paranoia and insecurity, but I am certainly cautious about the way this is going.

(disclaimer; this sort of thing is what is making my profession redundant)

p.s. put a PIN code on your SIM and phone. From a practical perspective that basically renders Aceso useless (they can try and make you give up the PIN of course).
It doesn't even need to be illegal - just something Murdoch's papers are interested in. Remember who 'owns' the met!
1) The article writer completely missed Feynman's point. Feynman is talking about the nature of reality, not about society and its actions. If I say "bricks are nutritious" and the government forces everyone to eat nothing but powdered bricks, that doesn't change the fact that bricks are not nutritious.

2) There is a slight caveat to Feynman's point -- if a theory disagrees with experiment, it's possible that the theory is correct but the experiment / data interpretation / etc was flawed.
Her majesty's tory,s in shit,cable cuts their posh noses
Skitch does this well too.
> Secondly, there are many famous examples of female pirates from history and fiction (Mary Read, Grace O'Malley, Rachel Wall, etc.)

Never heard of them. The majority of "famous" pirates are men. And the vast vast vast majority of pirates overall were men. No serious historian disputes that. Exceptions do not contradict a general rule.
I'd love something that was a combination of the two, a touch surface and something like this looking 'down' toward that surface at what my hands were doing. I could make typing like motions on the touch surface for typing. But more importantly mostly my hands would be resting on something rather than hanging out in front of me.
I totally agree with #2. I'm curious whether you've tried Sublime's Vintage Mode and what things may have been slow or buggy.

I'd say my Vim skills are somewhere between novice and intermediate and feel entirely out-of-place editing text without vim bindings nearby.
Android 3.0+ has it as an option; I believe iOS does it automatically if you set a pass code. Can't speak to the actual security of either though.

PS: this does nothing against phone numbers and text messages stored on your SIM (the vast majority of smartphones no longer do this, AFAIK)
There comes a point where preparing for all levels of pedantry isn't wise and it's fine for people to assume a certain level of knowledge/experience from their target audience especially if their target audience isn't everyone.
KurbKarma: A Social Network, And App, To Find Parking Where And When You Need It
See also: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/20/how-android-developers-can-...
I used to be a gamer but then I realized something. While gaming is fun, sometimes fulfilling and a source of "flow" it's ultimately without higher meaning. Imagine spending hundreds of hours playing WoW, DI:3 or whatever, now imagine what you could have done with that time.

It's better to game your life than spending your life gaming. I Enjoy gaming in certain amounts,prefer gaming over TV, but prefer creating, socializing and learning over gaming.
Could Affiliate Links Kill Pinterest?
In theory it's only if they think the phone has been used in crime. In practice that'll mean everytime someone is in a station.
It's not. Case closed.
I'm not sure if Feynman would endorse the scientific framing that is being applied, in that article, to the haphazard process by which society evolves.

Science experiments should try and be, at least to some extent, repeatable.

When the article starts talking about 'social experiments', e.g.:
"He’s referring to laws of nature of course, but let’s take a step back and imagine that society is a scientific enterprise. Discovering good legal rules, good regulations, or good constitutions is hard — they are not ‘given’ to us. They evolved. They appeared through different experiments in different places at different times, by different people. They will continue to change."

I think that's stretching it, and going towards the dangerous territory of framing social debate as if it were a science, and as if the 'disruptive innovation by entrepreneurs' was scientific experiment.

I think Feynman was exacting about what could be considered an experiment. From his commencement address, on 'cargo cult science', which covers this general area:
"I explained to her that it was necessary first to repeat in her laboratory the experiment of the other person--to do it under condition X to see if she could also get result A, and then change to Y and see if A changed. Then she would know the the real difference was the thing she thought she had under control."

He also points out that it can be bad to use the language of science, if you aren't really doing science:
"Another example is how to treat criminals. We obviously have made no progress--lots of theory, but no progress--in decreasing the amount of crime by the method that we use to handle criminals.
Yet these things are said to be scientific. We study them. And I think ordinary people with commonsense ideas are intimidated by this pseudoscience. A teacher who has some good idea of how to teach her children to read is forced by the school system to do it some other way--or is even fooled by the school system into thinking that her method is not necessarily a good one. Or a parent of bad boys, after disciplining them in one way or another, feels guilty for the rest of her life because she didn't do "the right thing," according to the experts." http://www.physics.brocku.ca/etc/cargo_cult_science.php

I'm not saying the article is making the mistake of cargo cult science; but just that it seems to be skirting a little close to that territory, by applying the language of science to situations in which people are not trying for rigorous experiments, and where isolating variables is particularly hard.

I don't think that disruptive innovation by entrepreneurs would meet Feynman's definition of science. I like the framing of a startup as a company set up to test a hypothesis about a business model, but I think there's a distance between entrepreneurship and science.