skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He said:

>Also, all the rights listed in the first ten amendments are limited to the point at which you're infringing on someone else's rights. The threat of death or injury, such as it is, would seem to be a pretty clear reason to limit that right.

Apparently, if someone legally owns a gun, this presents a "threat of death or injury" to others. Of course, if the gun weren't legally owned by an individual but still existed, it would either be illegally owned by an individual or be legally owned by the government or by some other exempted institution. You might feel safer with only the government and criminals owning guns, but many others would feel less safe. What makes your fear more legitimate than theirs? Other rights are restricted only when exercising them would directly infringe on the rights of others. You can't demonstrate that you would be safer if a particular gun owner with no criminal record were forced to turn in his gun. You can't even demonstrate that you would be safer if all law-abiding gun owners were forced to turn in their guns. Even if you could, you couldn't demonstrate that your increased safety wouldn't be more than offset by the decreased safety of the gun owner(s).

The comparison between gun ownership and first-amendment rights is not a good one, because there are already restrictions on gun ownership comparable to the restriction on first-amendment rights. True, you don't have the right to practice human sacrifice--you also don't have the right to murder people with your legally owned guns. True, you can be prosecuted for incitement--and also for waving your gun around in public. True, you can be sued for libel--and you can be prosecuted for brandishing.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6474/nexus-4-includes-support-... Looks like the LTE does, in fact, work for "band 4 AWS". This is said to be the band T-Mobile will be deploying LTE in next year.
Perhaps Paul's philosophy is perceived with some of the same adjectives by some other people. I don't want to start a religious or philosophical flame-war on HN so I will just leave it at that. I come here to get information on things that are objective and can be measured, and personally I like it that way.
>If you have no web background, figuring out the idiosyncrasies of CSS and JS, while very doable, is still very time-consuming.

That's true for anything. Objective-C is not exactly intuitive.
> Goldman Sachs knowingly sells junk to their clients, minimizing their own exposure to the financial crisis, and gets a bailout.

GS never got a bailout. They were paid by AIG using bailout money, for what they were owed, but never received a bailout by the US government at all.
She seems to have pretty well dropped off the radar in the second half of 2012. I'm hard-pressed to think of any very culturally influential rising stars in female pop--the standouts seem to be on flat or downward trajectories.
I am a software engineer who dabbles in hardware. I know all about OS, algorithms, how to prevent deadlock, how to throw together a jquery web page, etc etc. And I have a rudimentary understanding of electronics. Enough to put together kits and follow tutorials.

But there is a definite upper ceiling I hit for the projects I want to build because I don't have the background. Complex numbers, signal processing, etc - I don't have any of that fundamental stuff as a software guy.

I can write assembler, but I get nervous when trying to implement a PWM because I just don't get it.

It is frustrating to try to learn. All of the kits and guides are tailored for newcomers. I don't even know where to begin as someone who is fairly technically competent, and who has debugging skills, but is missing a chunk of math and theory and rote practice relevant for hardware hacking. Do you know how long it took me to figure out what "Vcc" meant on a datasheet?

So guys like me love these modules because it lets me create my raspberry pi party trick that responds to tweets. (blog post forthcoming.) Or my MIDI-controlled glockenspiel. But your point stands that there is a whole world of innovation that I can conceive of, but cannot put into practice, because you can only go so far with an Ethernet shield.

My raspberry pi twitter device ran out of batteries halfway through the party - I don't know enough to design something more efficient.

So. While I can agree with your points, short of enrolling in my local EE program, what is one to do?
Point out where I said "feelings".

EDIT: The word I used was threat, which, if arguing in good faith, you would have read as "actual risk", rather than "angsty feelings".

I also qualified it with the phrase such as it is. Which, again in good-faith discourse, means "if it exists" or "whatever form it takes".

But do continue to tell me more about how I feel.
This is good but I'd rather prefer paying for individual items or buying credits. A subscription model is not efficient for customers, I think. I am a fan of NSHipster blog but I also would love such tutorials and screencasts. But at this moment this is very inefficient.
Of course they have logical reasons for acting unethically, just as a common thief has a logical motive for snatching purses. That doesn't make the behavior any less unethical.
IMO, it's not about about being related to chat messages or not related. It's definitely related. The #1 on my list has moved up to that spot recently, while our chatting has increased and interactions have decreased. There is some formula that we don't know and likely won't ever know. My guess would either be by what percentage of our messages/likes/interactions go to certain people or giving different actions relative weights (e.g. 50 chat messages = a post on someone's wall) and then that list is ranked according to some raw score.

I maintain, as I said below, that the users are assigned values from -1 to 1 with our various interactions factoring into that. The jackpot question people seem to want to answer is whether it's a one-sided statistic or two-sided.
While I'm pretty sure that the length of his sentence is first and foremost a function of his victims' high profiles, a bit of background on his MO changed my mind about the importance of removing this guy from society:

http://news.yahoo.com/hollywood-hacker-honed-skills-years-07...

He really had this coming.
That's easy to say for someone living in a rich country. Before you advocate the murder of poachers, remember that they are most quite likely not evil, but rather ordinary poor people just trying to survive. The world is rarely that simple.
Because States do not universalize their own rules & laws. The exempt themselves, and are above the moral obligation that the rest of us are expected to follow. They also control the language and will create a vast set of euphemisms to excuse their contradictory behavior.
thanks I tried to clarify more -- if it still doesn't make sense let me know. working on another medium for explaining stuff ;)
I just wish they would add some challenge that wasn't publicly available information. The rep admitted to me on the phone that "that's all we need, and we can do a lot with just that." They can't place new orders or add billing methods, and she claimed they don't have access to even see your billing information anymore (perhaps since the Mat Honan debacle?) but yeah, eager to please, clearly.
Here's a thought experiment:

Many people here seem to be okay with the idea of this being a punishable offense, but take issue with the length of the sentence (which I'll admit, seems excessive on first blush).

But what would an acceptable sentence be for hacking someone's email and then distributing their personal information? Maybe a year? That doesn't sound outrageous.

So if he did that, and was sentenced to a year in prison, and then got out and did it again, presumably another year in prison isn't unreasonable (you could argue for a harsher sentence because it was a repeat crime, but we'll ignore that).

So he did this to 50 different accounts. That's 50 separate crimes. He took a plea (which resulted in being found guilty of a lesser number of charges), and that got him 10 years.

I still think 10 years seems like a lot of time to spend in jail for a nonviolent crime, but shouldn't the number of crimes be used somehow in calculating a sentence?
per order basis, if you have special requests just toss us an email, we'd love to help :)
"this is a significant accomplishment for these people"

What is the accomplishment in your mind? What they did? Or?

Because it seems like you are saying the fact that they were picked for a list by (let me repeat myself here) a panel of unnamed expert judges is an accomplishment?
I don't get it. What does the dot-email have to do with them social engineering their way to your order numbers?

Is the fact that they used a dot-email the weak link here, and what thankfully allowed you to catch on to the problem early?

If that is the case, why would an attacker use a dot-email, when they could just use any email.
Bit of a tangent, but I'm wondering if anyone here has had any luck with Cython?

I'm starting to run into some performance bottlenecks with Python, and so I'm just now looking at Cython, PyPy, Psyco, and... gasp... C.

From what little I've read, Cython is supposed to be as easy as adding some typing and modifying a few loops here and there, and you are in business.
The new address book is an absolute usability disaster, IMO. Though to my great joy, Mountain Lion at least restores a large part by bringing back the three-pane setup.
Taploid's shady 'visa' spin on Techcrunch.
Worst argument in the world [ http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst... ]
Aussie ISP: We Won't Be Hollywood's Copyright Cops If Hollywood Won't Fix
How This One Simple Change Tripled Conversions
Just yesterday, I had to fend off invading hordes who came to pillage my house, I wish I had more guns.</sarcasm>

You should try living in a society without guns, you'll quickly realize how useless these things are.
Do they go in with murderers and rapists? I was under the impression that hacking was a "white collar crime", and you'd most likely end up in prison camp. Or does the federal system not differentiate?

Anyways, this is not a case of some guy just accessing email. He "stole" identities, photographs and other stuff. According to the FBI site, he even continued to do so after his computers were raided.

Instead of thinking about the hacking, think about the actual damage of identity theft, invading privacy by leaking personal documents, and so on.

(Not that 10 years is a perfect sentence, and not that other sentencing makes sense.)
90% of these attempts at scamming the CSRs could be prevented if Amazon allowed me to provide a SMS address that they could send a message to for confirmation.

Every time I login to gmail over the web from anywhere but my personal computer, I take an (at most) 5 second pause while Google SMS's my cellphone and has me enter the 6 digit code. Failing that, in my wallet, I have a list of 12 Backup "Nuclear Codes" should I for some reason lose my iPhone and need to login to email in the intervening period while I get it replaced.

Trivial to implement, very secure.
Leaving it as a differential equation gives you some room to experiment more easily. For example, suppose you want to add a swimming mechanic to your game: you might end up with a completely different closed form solution, but if you left it as a differential equation it could just be a couple extra additive terms.
"Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that _anyone can edit_."
I think they used the dot-notation to legitimate it, basically just a brick in the social engineering scheme pulled on the support rep.
Exactly. The point of the constitution isn't to protect the popular rights; popular opinion will do that. The constitution is there to protect the unpopular rights; the ones that, for whatever reason, seem out of place, outdated, downright silly.

(The same argument applies to individual rights. The right to free speech protects both popular and unpopular speech, but you don't actually need protections to talk about how awesome a cure for cancer would be. It's the unpopular opinions that need protection. And people say "well, I support free speech, but that shouldn't mean these people get to spill their filth and hate in public venues!" But that's exactly what it means; the only purpose a right to free speech serves is to protect what is (for now) deemed dangerous, stupid, crazy speech. Because just because something is unpopular now doesn't mean it will always be.)

There's always some wonderful reason why abridging some fundamental right is a good idea. Terrorists. Communists. Neo-nazis. Actual nazis. School shootings. Pearl Harbour. The 1919 Anarchist Bombings. And in retrospect, sometimes they were good reasons, but not always. And so we have constitutional rights specifically to stop us from enacting the really obvious clever solutions to the problems of the day. That's the point.
Google has had years to tweak and tune things. I think it is practically impossible for anyone to match them, let alone surpass them in index quality.

Google needs to open its index and create a search market place. There are millions of domain/location specific apps that can be built around that index.
Or $2k per second..
It's a major revision number change, that's the only time to do such a major api change.
The world of software development is a lot bigger than HN.
Where LinkedIn Fails
Rock The Post And CrowdHut Are Solving Two Of Crowdfunding’s Biggest Pain Points
What does it mean when I discover that the things I've been doing forever have suddenly become a "movement"?

I was right all along.

(Perhaps if the movement gets big enough, my son won't get bullied and called a freak for tinkering like I did. Sounds like win to me.)
1. I don't think the argument is that firearms are less lethal only that attacks and death will still occur.

2. It focuses the conversation on, what I think is, the actual problem rather than something that is achievable but clearly does not solve the problem.
As Europe Presses Google on Antitrust, U.S. Backs Away
I think my point was pretty explicitly clear. Perhaps there's some other point you imagine I was making that you disagree with, but I can't really help you out of that pickle.
As much as I hate the U.S. visa system and support startup visa movement, I am offended by this startup blaming their failure to a U.S. visa issue. I know this Redg guy is very well connected in SF, and many people including the TC writer is friends with him and people will be afraid of badmouthing him because of his network, but I am disgusted.

This company allegedly launched this October, yeah that's like two months ago. If you are working on a startup and have to shut down your company because you ran out of money two months after launching, that's your fault. Not some other company that was supposed to acquire you.

This is nothing more than some well connected valley biz dev guy launching a silly idea and failing. Don't blame the visa for it, because there are tons of other startups that are doing much harder work and still failing without getting any attention.
Interesting and a clever system, but kind of nasty to read. They probably had fun developing it, though :)
Just a note here that this person's blog is utterly amazing for folks just getting into game physics-related programming. All the articles are gold.
I suspect this is a result of their attitude towards re-orders due to delivery issues, it would make sense that if CSR's are told "if a user wants a re-order, just do it" that they'd not really consider the implications of allowing them with a new address, because their attitude is do whatever to keep the customer happy.

I had a delivery of a game go missing (~$60 cost) so I opened a live chat and explained, then they shipped me a brand new order (which arrived!) without any hassle or confirmation that my prior delivery had really been stolen. This seems like a trivial thing to abuse (and I'm sure many do). After my free re-order was placed I thought "that was cool, I'll order from Amazon in the future just in case...".
Seeking Frontend Developer for Rails/Backbone.js application ASAP
Please reply to this post with the following HEADLINE: HACKER NEWS

We are looking for a freelance web designer for a financial reporting application. It is a data-driven application and it would be great if you were already familiar with the available options for reporting and graphing data.

It is a light application without many nonstandard application details otherwise, additionally documentation for interfacing with the API of the system is extensive.

You will need to take data (almost entirely in a tree-like JSON blob format) and convert it into a number of different reports (that is to say tables and graphs). There exist 5 distinct graph types and about 15 different tables, all of which can be easily produced in a by traversing these tree data structures (of which there are a handful) and extracting certain node's contents. Additionally a draggable "dashboard" (In a fashion similar to the report elements in http://wbpreview.com/previews/WB0DK033H/ or http://wbpreview.com/previews/WB01PF84M/dashboard.html ) will have to be constructed to view these report elements (of varying widths) in, again. This should be elementary to anyone with experience in frontend design and a firm grasp of computer science.

A resource responsible for this task has failed to materialize a few very critical components, so we need you as quickly as possible!

A bright, experienced candidate can easily make light work of these reports and could become an ongoing resource for a great firm with large, multitenant datasets ("Big Data").

Experience with Rails required, Backbone.js experience helpful

Please also include in your reply any URL to your personal blog / portfolio as well as your Github.

Email me at : zephyr . pellerin at gmail dot com

Thanks!
"HTML/CSS/JS is exceptionally good at building user interfaces."

I can't believe you just said that. -- every seasoned web developer.
Actually, all the reps would need to do is look at your history. Like "You recently returned a book, can you tell me what book?", and it would be pretty hard to social engineer it from some other source.
... but fails to generate as much quality journalism as even one US newspaper.

Define quality journalism however you wish, but please consult a definition of journalism, e.g. how to write, edit and report news.

The point is, as with so many things they offer, not just news, Google is nothing but a middleman. They are not going to be the ones to keep e.g. decent long form journalism alive.

How that situation - a monoplistic middleman for news - bodes for our long term future is some interesting food for thought.
I'm not going for emotional reaction at all. Compared to a dictatorship, a democracy is more complex, harder to bring about, and yet has real benefits for the public, which, to some, justifies the effort. And all of that is also true of open protocols, compared to monopolies. Whatever your feelings, the analogy holds.
Responding only to the theological coda, if you read this wiki page you will become enlightened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism

This particular belief system of unconditional love vs condemning judgment and promised reward, in the context of Christianity, was completely anticipated two thousand years ago. And then criticized.

Instead of reinventing the wheel in this way, you should consider following the grooves of people who have already carved the path. At least you will understand why they turned the way they did.
Ask HN: What would you build on top of an "open" Google index?
What if Google opened its index and created a search market place? Are there domain/location specific apps that can be built around/on top off those returned results?
Yes but there's six billion of our species and very few rhino left. You could wipe out all the world's poachers and it be a rounding error on human population. While I don't think advocating killing anyone is a good idea, I have no sympathy for poachers.
Here's some brilliant flat design, right guys?

http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/xmh/figs/ormarwsr.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiguan_kindergarten_attack 12 killed. Knives and gasoline used. It's terrible stuff but let's not argue from positions of ignorance and fear.
I'm sure that is what they are counting on and once it happens to people they probably become very loyal customers. At a previous place I lived my neighbors stole two Amazon packages from my doorstep. Amazon had no problem not only sending out replacements, but sending them to my work address instead. It made me very much want to order from Amazon from then on.
What happened with the profit margin disclosures that were appealed by Apple?
Instagram's new Terms of Use
Industry boffins list their favourite infosec cons for 2013
I've seen lots of articles that seem to have been designed to drive click traffic, but this didn't seem like one of them. The author seemed completely sincere, and if he says that under a slightly different set of circumstances he could have succumbed to his violent urges, why should we believe otherwise?
"We did all of the web design, video production, motion design, and copy writing ourselves". Doesn't seem that hard to me. And we're talking less than a year's salary for someone skilled at any of those things, let alone all.
Here's The Launch Trailer For The Minecraft Documentary
Its amazing that this scam seems like its being pulled off from outside the US, via a re-shipping service in Oregon. Anyone know how vulnerable international Amazon customers are to this same scam? I'm thinking that the scammers require some sort of re-shipping service, which are generally not as widely available as they are within the US.
If the project requires a team it works best when the whole team is remote and/or extremely conscious of using written communication. That is, if you want the remote person to feel like they are a part of the team. If you have outsource contractors it doesn't really matter. You just tell them what to do in meticulous detail anyway. But, if you want a contributing team member that buys into the company, make sure they are included in all communication. The easiest way for this to happen naturally is if everyone is remote.
Technical details of really highload video service: BBC Olympics
Does any one have problems to create or modify a gist?
I am having the problem since this new face of gist.

Now it's still not fixed in my case. What happened to github?
Ask HN: Do antivirus companies create viruses to run their bussiness?
I have heard that most of the viruses found on internet are produced by the antivirus companies. How far this statement is true?
I remember a car trick (do a barrel roll) in GTA San Andreas that for the life of me I could not accomplish. I found out that this variable physics was likely the problem - I dropped the graphics settings to minimum, and I was able to do the trick.

This is on a quad core, 8GB ram, 1GB video card machine - it's no slouch - but the subtle difference was enough to make my task impossible.
The DNA is definitely the code but I think proteins are code,data and the processor itself depending upon what role its playing in the cell. At molecular level protein structures can affect creation or destruction of other protein structures, they also act as logic-gates. So proteins are clearly part of the cell hardware that regulates the cell. They also act as messages and if-else control logic (its also called GNR, Gene Regulatory Network) to read different DNA chunks based on certain conditions, so in that way they are part of the code. So I think DNA is the code on the disk-drive but proteins is "in memory" code,data and the hardware itself.
Do people pay for things like this? Seems like you could just google some free examples or just look at stack overflow.
Yeah that confused me too .. I assumed it had something to do with creating a new amazon account with the dot-email address?
I'm not so sure about the claim of working anywhere in the world. Decent internet connectivity is not that widespread.