skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, it's annoying that people can't comprehend this.

The fact here is that it was a deliberate insult and even with free speech it wouldn't have prevented the government from harassing him.

Without free speech? Well that's easy, charge him with felony treason. The law is still enforced, and was originally written in 1848. It doesn't even take a manipulation of the wording of the act to make his life hell.

> If any person whatsoever shall, within the United Kingdom or without ... devise, or intend to deprive or depose our Most Gracious Lady the Queen, from the style, honour, or royal name of the imperial crown of the United Kingdom, or of any other of her Majesty’s dominions and countries, or to levy war against her Majesty, within any part of the United Kingdom, in order by force or constraint to compel her to change her measures or counsels ... or to move or stir any foreigner or stranger with force to invade the United Kingdom or any other of her Majesty's dominions or countries under the obeisance of her Majesty, and such ... imaginations, ... or intentions, or any of them, shall express, utter, or declare, by publishing any printing or writing ... or by any overt act or deed, every person so offending shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable ... to be transported beyond the seas for the term of his or her natural life.

If they charged him for felony treason. He wouldn't be eligible for bail. He could be held in solitary confinement. It's an indictable offence, which means even dropped it could mar his record for life without it being pardoned. He could be sentenced to life imprisonment without eligibility for parole for the term. He also might only be allowed a judicial hearing and no jury, meaning luck of the draw.

Sorry, but this is a bit of over zealousness to harass a jerk. If anyone actually wanted to destroy him a Felony Treason charge would have done the trick even with a freedom of speech law. So I really don't see how "freedom of speech" factors in here. It's hate speech and already violates a law just for that, free speech is already trumped by that.
This thread has more details:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1983672
I see it more as a sign that "20% time" projects are becoming an employment benefit, particularly important if Apple is competing with Google for some of the same talent.
Amazon Have Damaged the Case for eBooks
Seesaw, a new social decision making company from the founders of CoTweet
Contacting customers with invalid billing information is definitely a good tip. I was surprised to find out at 17% of our subscribers for StartupThreads were delinquent. Some had cards stolen, numbers changed, expired, etc. Wish I had taken their phone numbers to reach out easier, but sending a few friendly reminder emails will help.
The font on the website is really difficult for me to read - it causes me to overly strain my eyes.
Lunch with Warren Buffet went for $3.5 mil. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500395_162-57449980/lunch-with-w...
It would not surprise me to see this go for $10-$25k.
He definitely goes more into that in the book. Robert tells the stories of the masters from a couple different angles, I think this is just one of the more interesting ones.
Here are two relatively inexpensive options for tick-by-tick market data:

* IQFeed
http://www.iqfeed.net/dev/

* Nanex
http://www.nanex.net/historical.html

The Nanex data is more expensive and harder to work with, so you might want to start with the IQFeed data.
I'm the original author of the article.

I'm not sure why this made HN 2 years after posting it, but I wanted to make a comment.

SO has implemented a way to remove the nofollow links, but it is way too strict, and probably only affects a very very very small percentage of answers. I'd bet less than 0.1%.

For example see this answer with 74 upvotes from a user with almost 100k reputation.
The links are to MSDN (which is probably not spam by definition) and to a quoted source on techbubbles.com.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2660355/net-4-0-has-a-new...
Exactly my reaction.

You can run Python actually ON a Raspberry Pi, btw. That device is just not as robust on GPIO (5V destroys it, weak current source.)
Touch sensitive artificial skin that heals itself at room temperature
Wonderful analogy.. you must remove old and mediocre stuff to leave space for innovation
This already exists, but it uses the CPU: http://www.bitcoinplus.com/miner/embeddable

I tried it for one of my websites and it made the user experience intolerable, and didn't even make a dime.
> Is that the smell of superfluid helium? I do believe it is. Oh lord help, I do believe I am asphyxiating.

Cracked up quite a bit at that little "performance". But all in all, a fascinating video. A bit dramatic, naturally, but I've never seen the LHC in that much detail before. Really cool stuff.
BYOD - Bring Your Own Drone
I'd write it up this way: Tim Cook is a remarkable individual, but he's not exactly the fountain of creative ideas that Jobs was (how original those ideas were is an ongoing debate, but nevertheless). I think it's a remarkably introspective move, recognizing weakness and moving to rectify it.

Put another way it's much better than the "strategy" of suing everybody who uses fruit or 4 sided shapes in their products as a hedge against the lack of creative direction from the top.
Not necessarily. After the iPad micro, the iPad nano, and the iPad pico, we will finally get to the patented glasses, with tiny Arment and Gruber avatars guiding us in our daily lives.
Ok, this is pretty cool stuff for the robotics community. End effectors that don't need replacement as often are key to keeping the cost of running a robot down, these guys have worked out a way to have the skin 'surface' self heal while retaining its touch sensitive properties!
I do dislike people calling that expression a "regex", because it isn't: regular expressions cannot contain backreferences, and must be computable in linear time, whereas primality tests are polynomial.
Part of Apple's culture?

How about allowing apps that block calls in the app store from third-parties?

A year and a half ago I passed on buying a new iPhone, even though I owned a 3GS and out of frustration I've gone out of my way to buy a Galaxy S. The Android Marketplace (as it was called back then) had several apps for blocking calls, some of them broken on my Galaxy S, but I could find one that worked and solved my problem.

So you know, I'm sure that one day Apple will wake up and provide the very best experience for blocking phone calls and SMS messages. But that's something I've been doing for at least 1 year and a half already, which goes to show just how fucked up is Apple's gatekeeper culture. "So this expensive gadget doesn't solve your real problems, but look how user-friendly it is".
It is expensive as you know. The data is generally owned by exchanges and they see it as a major revenue source. On the other hand if you want it it is just a cost to play. Open data is not big in finance.
Wingman: Git + GitHub + OS X
Google a day puzzle
It's a situation where your average hedge fund can shell out the thousands of dollars per month for a full-access feed while individual investors are left hanging. Zack's used to offer reasonable prices for accessing fundamental data via their API but have since changed their pricing model to be more prohibitive to small timers.

Intra-day data is still a bitch but YCharts recently added a premium plan for $200/mo that seems to hit a nice sweet spot for individual investors that do serious trading for accessing fundamental data & analysis tools.
Bah! Back in my day, we counted ourselves lucky if we had an 8 MHz crystal clock. I had to make do with an uncomfortably temperature-dependent RC oscillator running at what I lightheartedly hoped was about 4 MHz.

(I'm actually pretty young, but I've done work with microcontrollers, which feels like stepping into the past. I know a guy in his late 20s who steadfastly refuses to switch from assembly to C, for reasons that come straight out of the 70s. It's a strange world we live in.)
The first part of the video on the home page is way too fast.

And second, I don't know what's going on or what I'm supposed to be looking at in the video.
> Giving their developers a little freedom and flexibility is just what they need.

Developers submitting stuff to the App Store could probably benefit from this too...
None of my half-dozen friends at Google have 20% time. I think the common joke that it's "120%" time might actually be accurate.
I can guarantee it will go for more than $500. If not to me for what I bid, then it will go even higher than what I bid... which is a secret. So no one bid $502, okay.
I think the Cortex M4s that are coming out have 512 kB and up in their bigger variants. They also have more MHz and MIPS, and just need a cheap board available. The TI Stellaris Launchpad is looking good in this direction.
Crapware is predominantly a problem on new PCs, where the vast majority of the population just goes along with it. It needs a strong stand from Microsoft.
Facebook Isn’t the Promised Land
Linux does not have an external API or ABI for drivers. Whether you like it or not, Linux drivers are developed against internal interfaces.

The external interfaces that Linux provides are remarkably stable.
This is what happens when someone in the US discovers a vulnerability in transit ticketing:

http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/288
You don't understand what an "ad homnimem" is. Simply insulting someone for saying something stupid is not an ad hominem. My argument would need to be of the form "That person is <unsavory characteristic>, therefore he is wrong in his argument".

That is not what I did, therefore it was not an ad hominem.

Please learn the definitions of phrases before you use them in conversation.
I don't think you can really blame the state/police for this.

The overwhelming majority of the British public see these kinds of things as grossly offensive and in cases have created petitions wanting stuff like this to be illegal.

This first blew up when the group "Islam4UK" demonstrated in Luton against the royal anglian regiment's homecoming parade. This spawned the EDL group to counter-protest.

They later threatened to demonstrate in Wootton Basset (where dead soldiers are repatriated) and the uproar against this was huge with major newspapers all calling for the march to be banned.

It is now illegal to be a member of the Islam4UK group, so they have had to change their name a bunch of times.
Image diffing is very cool, I wonder if that could be its own standalone product?
One Hypothesis About the Role of Philosophy
Ask HN: Database for a content-based recommendation system?
Items will have hierarchical features.
The system will recommend new items never seen by any user based on the features.
What database do you recommend for storing this kind of data?
Should I use a classic relational database or dabble in the NoSQL world?
> With the internet it would be easier than ever for OWS to get their message out, but they're not.

Where did you get that idea?

https://www.google.com/search?q=occupy+movement&hl=en...
What? You suffered from other peoples' bad internationalization, which implies that people shouldn't care about internationalization?
But it only really makes much sense if Apple really thinks any of these two-week projects will turn into actual products.
Yep, Apple had the Advanced Technologies Group. Jobs shut it down partly as a cost savings measure and partly to focus Apple on the NeXT frameworks as its long-term technology foundation.
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Christmas Comes Early For BitTorrent – Demonoid is Back
If you're interested in doing this for your work life, check out my startup: www.impacttrail.com . We're currently in super early MVP, but it's open to the public.
Hustle, as a personality characteristic, sets top entrepreneurs apart from the pack. It's the one that really matters because those with hustle know how to pivot when a chance encounter arises. Although this particular word is avoided, Greene's description of PG reads much like his description of 50 Cent in The 50th Law.
I really don't see SO as being the problem here. I happen to think that secret SEO/page rank algorithms are the culprit in many ways. Google is in the unique position as to be able to write a "how to behave" guide for the internet. Play by their rules and you are golden, start to violate them and you start to be "punished" in a gradual (but exponentially more severe). The whole time full feedback and data on what you are doing wrong is provided. As this approach evolves spammers would be less and less successful and might just have to resort to legitimate means of marketing.
It's been reported that he moved to Belize in an attempt to shield his assets from lawsuits stemming from a death that occurred at a paragliding company he owned.
I think that there is a difference between sending abusive messages to or at a particular person or group with the purpose of offending and from publishing them to your own contacts and subscribers. For me one could (at least if repeated) constitute criminal harassment and the other is free speech.

Some of the example you give fall on different sides of the line for me.

Racist messages may be a different matter. It is pretty clear that the UK does not have free speech in that area (including face to face - inciting racial hatred is a criminal offence) and I'm not sure that is a bad thing although I would like to imagine it is better to hear everything and beat racism with arguments that sounds like a naive view.

So from your list:

Tom Daley - probably an overreaction. Angry tweet mob response probably sufficient. Prolonged harassment of less popular people in more need of police intervention.

Carlton Cole - Potentially criminal on or offline. I wouldn't argue against police involvement.

Praising Brevik - shouldn't lead to arrest (unless racist itself) although might get you watched.

Dale Cregan fan - shouldn't be criminal just nasty and dumb.

April Jones - Ridiculous. Unless posted to the family or on a memorial site.

Soldiers - I don't think this should be a matter for the police or law enforcement at all.

[EDIT - The Poppy Case is I think completely ridiculous and he should have just been ignored and not given the attention especially as it sounded (on the radio news) like he had just posted to his friends on FB. If he sent it to fan page for the British Legion or a support page for those who had lost family in conflict it may be worth the police having a chat with him although as a one off I don't think it should be prosecuted even in that scenario.]
Libraries suck
"Can I put it in my brain, just in case I lose it while watching the video?"
Alright, let me say that I do not like this part of path. Operator overloading is fine, I mean the + is overloaded all to hell. But seeing the division symbol in weird places in a project I took over was distracting first, then irritating, and by the time I figured out what was going on I did not want it despite seeing some benefit.
Unfortunately for Apple it seems to be easier for Google to catch up in OS and hardware design than it does for Apple to catch up in services.
I just hope they do the sensible thing and are selective about which ideas they actually turn into products. Gil Amelio and Steve Jobs, between the two of them, had to kill off dozens if not hundreds of fringe products that didn't amount for much and destroyed focus.
It's valuable in the "I'm a leet hacker" sense.
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>Google Labs first taught us that

I think this concept predates Google Labs. Not sure if they were the first significant cloud-based product to do that (likely they weren't). But even before the cloud when one has all of the software on their own machine, there was still a risk that the company that made it will pivot away from it/go out of business and stop providing fixes, etc.
Right now I've got two videos: the teaser on the front page, and a "getting started" video.

My goal was for the teaser video to get people interested enough to start the download and watch the "getting started" video. Based on my google analytics, it looks like I'm getting a pretty low conversion rate, so I'll try using the "getting started" video as the teaser. Gimme a few minutes...
The "proper" Hayes AT drop-back-to-command-mode sequence was +++ followed by a long pause (1 second or so). Any characters sent during that pause time would invalidate the attempt to switch to command mode. So theoretically this shouldn't happen. However, lots of cheaper modems seemed to not check for the pause, so sending +++ATH0 would make them switch to command mode and immediately process a Hangup command ... not pretty :-).
The discussion of programming libraries vs. services is pretty interesting.
Rapid Prototyping: Rough to Ready
Social Chat Service Features
They can disregard the nofollow tags, but they don't have as much information about the links as SO does.
This looks like a great example of how NOT to demo a product. I watched two videos and still had no idea what the heck was going on.
My preference for this style of thing is the series of controllers, sensors, and actuators made by TinkerForge. They use the same style of USB daemon to talk to the microcontroller(s), but there are then bindings in Python, C#, C++, Java, Perl, etc, etc. They also have more 'stuff' available to add (IMUs, I/O, motor controllers, all many of sensors, video controllers, etc.)

I've no idea why they're not more popular. Low marketing budget I'd guess...
Well, I certainly stand corrected.

Like I said, that's the "publically stated" reason. Evidently it's just that -- bullshit smoke he's been blowing to cover up his foul play.
I’m glad Tim Cook is trying new things like this, involving Jony Ive in Human Interface design and becoming more involved in charity. I just wish they’d shitcan the lawsuits and get on with making products. Hopefully the HTC licensing agreement is the beginning of the end of SJ’s “thermonuclear” tantrum.

The only way to beat the competition is to make products that are too difficult and costly to replicate – they already use fairly exclusive materials for their hardware, sophisticated designs and have an unmatched retail chain - now they need to step up in the software department. They have the money but need the inspiration.
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Long-Lived Orbiter Resumes Work With Fresh Equipment
I appreciate that they didn't go for the 'brogrammer' stereotype.
I wish I could understand LuaJit completly. I think if there is any (reasonably sized) software I would like to completly understand its this one.

There is not only lots of good algorithms but also a lot of fantastic engineering. Things that you can not learn by reading papers.

Congrats Mike Pall. Now lets see if you can do the same for GC community that you did to the JIT community. Good Luck.
Google Research: Large scale distributed deep networks 30x larger
"You cannot walk onto a cinema and shout fire". That's actually an interesting analogy you make given the context.

The "theater/fire" metaphor was first used by US Supreme Court Justice Holmes, to justify the imprisonment of anti-war protestors in World War I for distributing leaflets. It's exactly because such a broad justficiation can be so appealing and so easily misused that the US rejected that decision in favour of a far more narrow description of prohibited speech.

I realise that the UK can make a different stance on free speech, but it seems ironic to pluck as your standard the very language that was used in the United States to quash opposition to the war and mass deaths that the poppy is intended to commemorate.
Google Blocked In China
I suggest moving your imagery over to a CDN. Chrome network tab clocked your site at taking 30 seconds to load all the images. (I am on a 100mbit connection)
Are Humans Becoming Less Intelligent?
Which idea? That it's easier than ever to get a message out? Or that OWS is failing to do so?

The person I replied to said, "You've been misinformed, on all fronts..." and then made a bunch of claims that OWS is doing stuff, but didn't provide any references to back it up. Supposedly, "OWS changed the political landscape in pretty dramatic ways, and continues to do so (and to deny that is to deny reality)." I'll stop denying it when I see evidence of it.
There's a big difference between displaying a PDF file in JavaScript and compiling and displaying an active, real-time Flash game in JavaScript. A PDF file is just words and pictures on a page, same thing browsers have always done. They don't include animations, they don't accept user input, they don't connect to servers and stream files and send updates, and they definitely don't run real-time graphics code or path finding and collision detection algorithms.

The applications of Flash make it a better candidate for native code instead of the performance wreck of a from-scratch JIT-on-JIT solution. I think it's a great demo and probably a useful experiment that can improve the quality of Firefox's JavaScript compilers, but I don't think it's a very serious candidate to replace Flash Player for its most common strongholds (for instance: that simple little car demo runs at 20fps on my machine, which I built last month and has an i7 3770K). And that's really what we need right now.

The excuses to write this in JavaScript are pretty flat. You don't think they can figure out how to make an NSAPI plugin reasonably secure? You don't think they can get the code portable enough to work on multiple platforms? The biggest issue is probably mobile since many machines there use ARM, but Lightspark uses LLVM as its backend, which already supports ARM. I'm confident Mozilla's engineers can figure that out and give us a real replacement for the Flash player.

I don't mean to imply that this project isn't impressive -- it is. But I hate to see them duplicate so much effort for a solution that is, by nature, performantly disadvantaged. We need a serious challenger to Flash Player (we've had enough toys) and Mozilla is in a good position to provide that, so I hope they choose to do so.
Not all Badges are moderated through the notification center. Doodle Jump is one such app that manages to sneak badges past it -- they're not push notifications, but are populated upon application close.
Ask HN: Good places to learn UI/UX?
Hi HN! Long time lurker, first time poster.
I'm a 22-year-old in the Greater Boston area, slowly working my way through college.
I'm trying to build some sort of UI/UX degree, or, as I've recently taken to calling it, Human Interface Design. I want to approach the subject from multiple angles at once: from a coding perspective, as a designer, and with respect to the psychology of perception and interactions. I'm genuinely very interested in this.
Unfortunately, the university where I'm currently enrolled doesn't have anything like that, so I'm forced to look elsewhere for help.

Really, I suspect that the best thing for me might be to find an internship where I could observe and maybe even assist someone doing this sort of work. I have some (limited) experience coding (Java, JS, HTML, etc.) and doing design, and I've been working at a smallish startup for almost the last year, essentially doing whatever needs doing, so I'm comfortable with that culture, as well.

My questions for you:
What're the best resources, online or otherwise, to learn about interface design?
What's the best way to learn? Do I build this major? Find one elsewhere (at another school, for instance)? Self-teach? etc.

Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for your help!

tl;dr Need help figuring out how best to learn how to be a UI/UX designer.
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