skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you can get an iPad for half that price, it doesn't seem "forced".
Corey Taylor, lead singer of Slipknot, speaking at Oxford University [video]
It's more of a 'stop our users words making us suable' rather than 'don't curtail our users rights, especially free speech' effort, but I can't think of any serious differences. There will be some.
Definitely creepy, when travelling. I've seen it, too.
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Sure, but I don't know if that qualifies as disruptive.
They may supplement some peoples viewing but they aren't going to be a substitute for watching a good Drama show or whatever.
I worked on CAPTCHAs at Microsoft Research in a past life, and I can tell you, most original forms won't work. In the case of the one you described, I as an attacker can just put it through Tin Eye to find the original, and then do some semantic analysis on the page containing the image, or event just the URL, to figure it out. I have working code for this as a proof of concept for Microsoft's Kitten Auth.
So if I understand correctly, the answer is no.

Is there some sort of iTunes kiosk, a publicly accessible device with iTunes installed where a customer could purchase songs, download them to removable media and then move the songs from the media to whereever they need to have them?

Or maybe you can use a friend's device with iTunes installed?
> Remember what happened with the Palm Pre and iTunes syncing?

Palm Pre exploited security holes that would have allowed any rogue USB device falsely reporting itself as an iPhone to access e.g. your address book, and Apple patched the security holes. Quibble all you want over Apple's motivations, but there wasn't any other responsible thing for them to do.
Not sure how alzheimer works, but some memories dont vanish - especially the early ones. I.E. when our generation is stuck by the disease (if no cure has been found) will we forget how to use cell phones or a web browser ??

So early technology exposure could change a lot about how the disease impact life.

Now if such shoes could exist soon, and people could be exposed to them in an early age, yes that would be a real game change about the impact of alzheimer. (if I m correct about how it works)
I just glanced over the URL in your post and it took me a while to figure out your book wasn't called, "Double Your Freelancing Ingrate." :) Too bad too, because I thought the book was about how to gracefully get rid of ungrateful clients and that would actually be a great book too!
> never once have I seen the messenger say "Here's how not to couple, but note that this takes longer so pick your poison."

I agree, but this perhaps exposes a problem: All of the tutorials/approaches are green-field development. I'd like to think that I basically don't write coupled code "the first time".

Problems can come later, when design decisions need to be revisited, often because requirements change. And when they do, sometimes you're faced with choosing between a quick 20-minute change (that introduces coupling between previously uncoupled code), or a day-long refactoring to do it "right".

> To your point about junior engineers... In other industries, we don't hand over the keys to such momentous decisions to entry-level people.

The "momentous-ness" of these decisions is very different. If an junior architect screws up while building a building, people die. If a junior dev makes tightly-coupled code, then at some point down the line, schedules slip.
Elements missing from a CFAA case for PadMapper include at least interstate commerce and intent to defraud.

Swartz's prosecution alleges --- credibly, given what Swartz allegedly posted prior to scraping JSTOR --- that Swartz intention was to liberate data from a commercial database onto file sharing networks, making intent a much easier case to prove. Moreover, the indictment is at pains to point out that MIT and JSTOR repeatedly attempted to stop Swartz from continuing his plan, and found themselves in a cat-and-mouse game with Swartz eventually trespassing to maintain access.

PadMapper found itself having exceeded Craigslist's terms, found out by having its access withdrawn and becoming the target of a civil suit, and did not (directly, at least) attempt to evade the countermeasures Craiglist applied to prevent them from obtaining further access.

Whether or not you believe Swartz did something wrong here (I do) or whether you think he should get a felony conviction for doing it (he probably shouldn't), you can see pretty clearly how JSTOR had no straightforward civil remedy to what Swartz was doing. Swartz was playing chicken with them, and he lost --- or rather, his bicycle collided with JSTOR's semi truck at high speed.
And if you don't want to jump into Haskell's strangeness right away, there's always OCaml. It's fast enough for finance, so it should be fast enough for you.

(I prefer Haskell, it's much more beautiful. But that's more of a religious issue. OCaml is still way better than, say, C++.)
> FPS games don't lend themselves as well to spectators as fighting games or RTS do for example.

This may be true, but I'm not sure it definitely is.

FPS games have been involved in some of the biggest steps esports has taken over the past decade to get to where it is (from duel games like Quake 3 to team games like Counter Strike).

Right now it's true that FPS games aren't getting the same spectator numbers as some other genres, but it's also the case that FPS esports scenes aren't as big or high profile, as there aren't really any FPS games in a good enough position to compete with the likes of SC2 or League of Legends. Counter Strike 1.6 is dying and while it's newest sibling Global Offensive is picking up steam, it doesn't have the user base or the developer support (in terms of esports support) that Blizzard and Riot are showing their games. Quake Live made a decent attempt, but right now there aren't really any huge duel games. And the biggest selling FPS franchises, like Call of Duty or Battlefield, just aren't well enough suited to competitive play.

Maybe the FPS era of esports is over (at the top level, that is, it's still strong lower down), or maybe it's just waiting for the right title to take it back to the top - if that happens, we'll see if the spectator problem is actually a problem.

(I'm 10 days away from finishing the job I've had for five years working in and around esports, and largely due to that work, with a bit of personal preference added in too, FPS has a big place in my heart, so I certainly hope to see bigger things from it in the future. Not decided whether to stay in the industry or look elsewhere yet...)
Actually, it may well be. Depends on where you are, where the website is hosted, and whether any of the fiber(etc) your packets traverse cross state lines...
I'm guessing they are using more precision parts each time, which are a major step forward, but definitely still not cheaper.
You are missing the key difference between Google's Youtube app and Maps app. The key differentiating factor is that iOS 6's built-in Map app maybe sufficient for, let's say, 50% of the casual map users, whereas pretty much everyone who wants to use Youtube on iOS 6 has to have some sort of Youtube app. If Google were to make a paid Map app, that might cause some (or many) of other 50% users to continue using the build-in app for maps. So for the remaining 20-30% of the power users who would want to pay for a Google Maps app, I am not sure if it's worth the effort. Then again, all this might be incorrect and we might see Google Maps app in the coming days.
It may be interesting to note that the author is a Libertarian, not a liberal.
3D printers are still several years away from regular consumers.
Courts have a very long history and lots of people have tried lots of really weird things over the years. Swartz will hopefully have a good lawyer, and a good lawyer won't even try to something along the lines of "there wasn't a preset limit on X therefore my client didn't do anything wrong" when his use of X was over a hundred times the combined consumption of all the legitimate users over two months.

Judges are not computers. If counsel presents them with a bad enough argument, they might get insulted that counsel thinks the judge is dumb enough to fall for it. Things that depends on the judge's mood (like purposefully obtuse arguments) are not a good courtroom strategy.
At Citrix we only have a couple dozen thousand lines of Haskell. But it's also a real world use.
That's certainly one way to look at it. In my opinion, Stripe should be the entity responsible for fraud management and not left up to the individual implementations, but I can certainly see your point of view as well.
Looking at the code, I'd guess Wordpress + iA4 theme
Maybe one of them changed his name ^_^
This looks really great. Can't wait to see one in person. I'm sure I'll see some at MakerFaire next weekend!
College Degrees, Zombies, and the Future of Education
Did anyone else feel like they were being trolled by some kind of Steve Jobs joke during the video or lifestream?
The whole reason he (allegedly) plugged into it was that it wasn't the same network. There were rate limits and / or other access restrictions on the wifi that weren't in effect when you plugged directly into the equipment in the closet.
Actually if you look around some of the Chinese deal sites, you can find $50 ramp/soak PID temperature controllers. At that price, it's downright dumb to DIY.
Four Years to Nowhere: College Degrees, Zombies, and the Future of Education
1. If you had a body fat % of under 25 (for men, 35 for women) then you'd be more productive purely because by getting there and staying there you'd be eating better and so on. The energy this gives is immense. Think about children who eat less and less sugar as they grow up.
2. Same thing. General life satisfaction goes up, everything about moving around is easier. Healthier food tastes better, and healthy people have better taste senses.
3. A long road gives you longer to look back at, more progress made.
4. Gyms are not for 95+% of people - bikes and calisthenics (exercises without equipment, using your body's weight) are for everyone.

I bike, because I see a lot more than when I walk, I get a massive dose of energy from the extra blood flowing/etc, it's relatively smooth on my joints and its outdoors.
It would take some careful research to show helpful (if at all) different fonts are for people with reading difficulties, who after all are still going to be in a world full of standard fonts.

Much of the best research on dyslexia is gathered into the very interesting recent book Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read

http://readinginthebrain.pagesperso-orange.fr/intro.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Brain-The-Science-Read/dp/0143...

by Stanislas Dehaene. There are definitely educational approaches that help prevent the development of dyslexia in young readers or that alleviate it in older readers. Cross-national comparisons of reading in different scripts for differing languages, and comparisons of reading performance with differing typefaces for English (both reported on in the book) don't suggest that letter forms are the MAIN issue in dyslexia, although helping readers notice distinct letter shapes is helpful for readers who don't distinguish them. It would be a good idea to use the kind of brain-imagining studies mentioned by Dehaene (a neuroscientist) to test the usefulness of different fonts for readers who are categorized as having dyslexia.

As they say in Chinese, "實事求是" (the standard English translation is "seek truth from facts," which will do for this Hacker News comment), so whatever helps dyslexic persons, more power to it, but test to make sure how helpful it is and to find out what else would be helpful too.
One thing to keep in mind with comparisons like that are that it's an average game against a weekend full of above-average games.

Still impressive numbers, but it's too easy to glance at them and think (and I'm not saying you were doing this) "esports getting more viewers than baseball!"
According to a very insightful, but perhaps now slightly old article (http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lin...) Coverity tries--for political reasons--very hard to keep false positives down, very much at the expense of false negatives.
Not many kids grew up sailing. Most kids these days have a fair bit of experience with video games, first person shooters especially. They might not get the subtleties of some of the 'pro' level FPS games, but I think they would be able to spectate. Games like Starcraft and DotA pretty much require that you play the game regularly to appreciate them though.

Then again, the rules to football are fairly complex depending on how deeply you're concerned about player formations and stats, yet it's wildly popular. Starcraft can be simplified to 'blow up all their stuff' just like football can be simplified to 'get the ball in the endzone'.
If I can use my own bootloader with Surface, I'd buy one.
No one is expecting Yogscast to be aired on NBC. But, how many kids you know watch Television in any quantity even approaching how much they surf and watch youtube on mobile and PC? That's the future of entertainment. Kids are getting endorsement deals and doing direct ad sales because they can 360-degree no-scope kill in Battlefield 3 and record it using fraps and voiceover some clever lines or overlay it with dubstep.
Very true I instinctly do a ctrl-c first, but once you learn to not cat binary's/unsanatised data to your terminal you learn to add strings or use OD instead.
I saw Adam Mayer speak at a meetup and he said they dropped the kit versions because they were a huge customer support burden. A lot of things can go wrong putting one of these together.
According to research [1], fonts similar to this don't entirely do the trick, but they help with certain errors.

[1] http://www.ilo.gw.utwente.nl/ilo/attachments/032_Masterthesi... (page 3)
So everyone is self-made? What does that even mean anyway?
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You can use a friend’s machine. Either create your own Apple ID there or redeem your gift card using your friend’s Apple ID and buy music from their account. After that you can just copy your music to an USB stick or to Dropbox or whatever.

Yes, you need iTunes to buy – but once you have the music, you do not need it anymore. They are just standard audio files that work with any (somewhat current) player.
> If you want a 3D printer and cash is an issue, look to building your own Reprap.

Or you can just buy a Solidoodle. I did.

http://store.solidoodle.com/index.php?route=product/product&...
Not by the core team, though I think you could make a pretty cool Trident state implementation for Datomic.
I remember reading at least 10 articles with nearly the same content during the year. Why are authors so eager to convince everyone of big data's sexiness? Results should speak for themselves. So far Linkedin's Friend Suggest is one of the biggest success stories.
A "protected computer" has a specific definition, and "a website" doesn't necessarily meet it.

tptacek knows the CFAA pretty well for a non-lawyer. It doesn't mean he's always right, but you should be careful if you're trying to trip him up.
Show HN: ChowNotes - Private Note Taking and Meal Reminder App for Foodies
I put together this app to allow myself to keep track of my favorite restaurants and what dishes I enjoyed or disliked. I added integration with Google Places so when you create a note at a particular place, it attempts to find the address, phone number, and website so you can easily get directions, make reservations, or check out the menu online.

Its free to download and try out, feedback welcome!
You are probably taking about this article (http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lin...). A very good read, indeed.
It isn't the FSF that enforce the GPL, it's the copyright holder, i.e. the original programmer.

I think "this software is for personal use only" is the main (only?) GPL incompatible parts of the App Store terms. I don't know if it's a possible outcome, but I wonder if there's some way to force iOS to be an OS where you can run any programme (i.e. no App Store needed), if there is GPL software. This is clearly not something Apple want, so they may be trying to nip that problem in the bud by setting things up to stop GPL. I believe some sort of Microsoft app store explicitly bans GPL.

Apple do officially care, and they only officially allow things in that match their rules. If you told Apple that the software was GPL, they would probably care and pull it.

The reason VLC was there for long was because Apple clearly don't check things in the App Store very much (examples like this, and various scammy apps, and pirated software back this up). However once (one of) the copyright holders noticed it, they informed Apple that Apple was distributing copyright infringing software, and Apple promptly acted.

GPL software on the iOS App Store is about as legal as copying DVDs of Hollywood films and selling them yourself, or copying someone else's closed source software and uploading it to the App Store.

Remember, GPL software is often based on other GPL software that someone else wrote, and released to you under certain terms (the GPL). To distribute it via the App Store goes against the spirit and letter of those terms. It should be clear why some developers are annoyed about people who do that.
Watch out when modifying global state (database, file system) in your tests.
I still don't follow.

Look, if your issue here is that there's no apparent bright line that needs to be crossed to violate the CFAA --- that you don't have to break a 128 bit AES key for instance, or inject a ROP payload --- I guess that's a valid complaint, but it speaks to a pretty profound (and very common, especially with nerds) misunderstanding about the way the law works.

The prosecution does not need to produce a cryptographically signed unimpeachable notarized audit log spelling out exactly which parts of the US Code Swartz broke at each timestamped moment of the day.

Instead, they have to convince a jury that a reasonable person should believe that Swartz knew he was violating JSTOR's terms, took constructive steps to violate those terms, and did so purposefully to commit a fraud.

All we have to go on is the story laid out in the indictment; Swartz has a side to tell here too. But if you just go on the indictment, I think there's a pretty decent case to be made against him.
Sorry to hear that you had trouble finding support for your issues. The mailing list is very well trafficked so hopefully you have more luck there next time.
Just an anecdote - back over a decade ago during my consulting days, a large client I was working for in France said that when they chose a competitor over Siebel, Tom himself flew down to the client site for the sole purpose (as they said it) to tell them they were idiots for not choosing his product.

Flying to a different country just to say FU to a recently lost sale doesn't sound very afffable, and yet, the Siebel product line still exists today (under the Oracle umbrella - but then again, Oracle seems to just like buying out their competitors).
That was exactly my thought as I was reading the OP. Pissing off the waitstaff at restaurants is not only rude, but incredibly stupid. As is, there is already a chance that they don't like you for some reason and spit in your food regardless of how nice you are.
No, stealing a candy bar across state lines is also not a crime under the CFAA.

(Wait, it might be. I misremembered what the dollar minimum in the CFAA applied to --- the dollar limit is why you can't be charged under the CFAA for stealing airplane wifi, but things of value other than computer service itself have no dollar minimum I can find.)

Anyways, don't steal candy bars.
Amazing. I'm glad I asked. Thanks!
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As a "data scientist" I found this article had much more meaningful content than most articles I've read in the past year. It's not just repeating how data science will be big in the next decade, it discusses who data scientists are and how to hire them.

>So far Linkedin's Friend Suggest is one of the biggest success stories.

I don't agree with this. Google is basically a big data sciences company. 'Data science' may be a new term, but it describes something companies have been doing for decades.
The Lean Startup's most important lessons
Probably for a few decades until these companies lose competitiveness and regain it through legislation.
Apple Maps might need some code improvement, but what they really need is data improvement, and that can be bought.
Where I work, our > 15 year old ticket retail system was developed on a platform called Dataflex [0], which provides a character mode user interface. We have since migrated the datastore from the embedded ISAM database to Postgres, and built eCommerce and other web applications around the original schema.

Our administrative and call centre staff continue to use the original character mode interface to interact with the data and do their daily work. The software works and we have no reason to redevelop it anyway, but seriously, you should see the speed with which experienced staff move around the system. Editors can input hundreds of events an hour and call centre staff are amazingly efficient - they can practically use the thing blindfold.

There's a lot to be said for consistent keyboard controls and a distraction free interface in the workplace. Line of business applications from the last couple of decades, mostly mouse driven, are often tragically inefficient.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflex
Cool. Once these things are self-hosting, it's going to be the beginning of the beginning.
No need to apologize, it was quite early in the development of the project(and expected). I'm just glad to see the progress you've made in a year and look forward to implementing Storm to solve a few of our issues in the near future.
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Oddly I was just at a JUG last night about Arquillian. To your point #1, we were led to believe that the deployment was a micro deployment and you only deployed the bits that you were testing, so that this was "quick". Not so?
This is so very, very true. The major change appears to be one of scale, rather than any qualitative change. Funnily enough, since I put predictive analytics (what does that term even mean, anyway?) on my CV I've gotten much more attention from recruiters and employers. I guess it sounds so much sexier than statistics.

More seriously though, the requirements to be able to hack up a prototype and talk to people are probably what hold back a lot of people who otherwise have the skills to be good "data scientists", or just scientists.

My current employers told me at interview that they had no data, and in the three months I've been there I've been slowly discovering that they have loads of it, unfortunately in multiple incompatible forms and jealously guarded by different departments. It is rather funny, though a little sad that they were essentially drowning in data and didn't realise it.
>We are indebted.

I'm not sure how I feel about this statement; it(the article) almost has a communist vibe. It seems like a negative way to state that in order for the advancement of technology, we need to pass our skills and knowledge to others. Yea, I agree with the overall message of helping/being helped, but not the tone that it's being described.