skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I a court of law, or over a dinner with a mathematican, you are absolutely right.

In real terms -- in getting the prosecutor removed from office, in stopping these kinds of mindless overuse of federal reach, it is best to count both, and use the nickname 'Suicide Steve'.
Good questions. I have no answers but only this guideline…

Reality is generally more constrained than the models people make for theorems. That can help or hurt.

Back in the days when ethernet meant unswitched 10mbps and it was proven that you couldn't get more than about 1mbps utilization and should probably go with token ring or one of the better thought out networks… my name was on a paper showing 9mbps utilization in our real application without doing anything special. Except we were using real world hardware that was not even close to capable of sending back to back packets, so the our data streams were naturally interleaving and collisions went to near zero.
Thanks for your time. I'm the lead dev on HyperDex, so I'd be happy to address your points.

- A SEARCH is simply a mapping from secondary attributes to objects and it was designed for your use case.

- We're still adding server-side atomic operations. In the future we'll definitely have richer types and operations.

- Server-side exec of Lua code is definitely an interesting feature.

- We've put a lot of effort into making it easy to manage a HyperDex cluster without sacrificing on the scalability or fault tolerance. When you do your assessment comparing the two systems, please let us know the outcome because we'll definitely correct any deficiencies.

- The client does indeed maintain a mapping for hashing. Our design is pretty asynchronous already (from the C API), so it'd be a good idea to optimize that further. Of course, we'll eventually document the wire protocol for those who want to go further.

Feel free to contact me if you have questions or need a hand.
Show HN: Show'em - Sometimes you just need to serve some files
Disagree. Here is why:

Advertising (online and offline) works by repetition. The more people learn about your offer, the more of them will buy. To promote your offer from different angles you need a combination of offline and online advertising. There is no way around that. Online will continue to grow, but offline will not disappear. It will only evolve into more online tie-ins. Turning into what I call onfline advertising.
Firefox on Ubuntu.
Can you give an example of some things that you subclass?
I agree, but I think that's where we're seeing this particular system go:

The petitions that generate notable interest are increasingly those who are written or championed by people who do have a better-than-baseline grasp on how the government works and what to ask for. The petition to dismiss Swartz's prosecutors is a good example. That's something aimed at the right place, asking for the right thing (to indicate the severity of the citizenry's reaction to the (mis)conduct) and really only getting traction because people who grok the system are promoting that petition in the general interest stories/blogs that initially revealed that misconduct and stoked the citizen response.

Particularly as they raise the threshold for response to reflect the total crowd using the site, I think we'll see the 'qualifying' petitions largely become those that are written/championed by -- for lack of a better term -- special interest groups of citizens.
There are a couple assumptions here that seem like they could be pretty faulty:

1. Whoever touched a line of code last is most familiar with that line of code. I just moved a method to a different module, so following this assumption I am now the person most familiar with every line contained in that method.

2. The line of code triggering the exception is actually at fault. I just changed a value in a configuration file and it triggered an exception off in some code that creates a network connection - code I've never touched.

How faulty these assumptions are probably varies pretty wildly from organization to organization.
You capitalize almost every word. It makes it hard on the eyes.
So, most of these seem to be basically Obama telling federal agencies involved in firearms regulation to be better at their job, and here are some new tools that might help?

IANAL, obviously.
This is the perfect example of a why many devs here on HN need to stop undervaluing the benefits of a non-technical co-founder that can seriously rock the marketing side of stuff.

What I see here is a pretty good looking app. Sure, it lacks things like scratch marks, but a solid version 1.0. However, you have really not done very much to promote the app. Emailing press and posting on forums won't get you far. The press get hundreds of review pitches a day - you can't expect to email them out of the blue on launch day and get them to cover your app - especially when it is not exactly noteworthy (it's not the first app of its kind).

Learn to hustle. The newspaper ad under the sudoku puzzle was a good idea.
On the other hand, if the threshold is high enough, they might actually start recognizing the petitions. At the current limit, a successful petition represents a fractional percentage of voting Americans, but if the threshold was 1 million, any successful petition represents at least 1% of voting Americans.
That's how it's usually defined, maybe with the exception of terminal illness or mortal injury.
so what exactly does it do?
No disagreement here. I used that term b/c in the US the mainstream left broadly supports Obama and many consider him to be part of it.
I agree, it's getting creepy. I'm starting to get the feeling of 'man worship' where perfectly sane men put giant Fathead pictures of professional athletes on their walls, wear their jerseys, and get a little too involved.
Leap Motion launch planned in February, Best Buy to be exclusive retailer
They're called PACs :p (different than Super PACs) but it would be interesting if someone took the Kickstarter approach to one. Not sure if they would run into a bunch of legal troubles, because PACs are heavily regulated.
Well this may be true, but the mainstream left gives Obama a TON of slack on many of his worst policies.
I have no idea. As a non-lawyer, my answer would be yes, I'm still allowed. So the message is "we don't like what you're doing", not "you aren't allowed on this network".
I look forward to using your app
Great competitor to Docusign's ink product, or gmail extension. Nice to see competition here; making it less painful to close contracts is helpful!
I was hoping for a sympy tutorial when I clicked
Born and raised in Austin, still live and work here. I suppose I should learn a bit more about my own state as I didn't know much of this or the above comments...

HN: where all y'all learn you somethin'.
Last time I checked it was also available on Hulu Plus.
If you want to change the discussion to "was Aaron's crime worth 7 years in prison?" that's different. (Note: he wasn't just getting onto their network to play Nettrek. Walking into a closed store at night that happened to be unlocked to be out of the cold for a few minutes is different than doing the same thing in order to interfere with their business.)

I guess I'll need to put the "Ob: I'm not saying Aaron's crimes were worth 7 years in prison" on every comment again. Thanks.
Is Bazaart the killer feature that Pinterst needs?
Interesting offer - I wonder if there is a market for this since there was so much talk about the $8000 dev build for 50% stake. In addition a site like http://stylate.com/ offer domain + design at a flat $250 - What are you thinking about asking for this IP and domain?
It wasn't clear to me either. I understand the UI, it looks great, but why do I put a file there in the first place?
I accessed a network without permission from its owner, and my actions interrupted the normal operation of the network. That's about all I really want to talk about. I was very young and stupid at the time, and have since learned better :)
"Unauthorized access" is why it's defective. The wording is wrong and the penalties are wrong. Here's an example. This is the MA law against trespass:
http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/...

Penalty: "shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days or both such fine and imprisonment."

On top of that, look at the wording: You have to have some specific notice that you're unauthorized before it's trespass. And then the penalty is a $100 fine or 30 days. So okay, you want to have the digital equivalent of trespass, let's do the same thing: You have to have been specifically told (not implied by some trumped up circumstantial nonsense about MAC and IP addresses or URLs) that you aren't allowed to access a particular computer and then have done it anyway, and then the penalty should be $100 or 30 days.

Because that's the trivial offense. That's the one that should have the really low penalties because it doesn't necessarily imply any substantial harm. The high penalties should be for high value financial fraud or misappropriating classified materials or disrupting the control systems at a power plant or a chemical processing facility, and they should each be separated out so that we know what they are and have penalties proportional to the specific offense.

And to do that we don't need to talk about XML or SOAP or AJAX, because that isn't what matters. It doesn't matter specifically how you did it, it matters what you did and what you intended to do. This is why we don't have laws against trespassing while wearing a yellow shirt. Because you don't need to specify the irrelevant details, only the relevant ones, and the specific underlying technology is almost always irrelevant to a particular class of criminal activity. Sometimes it does make a difference, and then you need to update the law, but that doesn't actually happen so often that we can't keep up with it if we're paying attention.
Pretty much every distro does this. Like most things, the way to get the most out of Linux is to learn and explore it. I've been happily ignoring the "GUI Wars" because I'm using i3, a tiling window manager that AFAIK nothing comes with out the box, but you just install it and configure it and bam, you're away. No worrying about Gnome 3 or KDE bloat or whatever. You set it up so you have a nice enough GTK theme that is then emulated by Qt (so things look consistent) - I use Zukitwo - and then you just pick which apps you like and use them. There's no deciding one way or other, you just use the programs you like.
And it doesn't bother you how circular that is?

1. Anyone who would kill themselves is not mentally well

2. We cannot allow you to kill yourself because you're not mentally well
Same here: Chrome
Joseph here, cofounder of HelloSign / HelloFax.

Thanks for the comment. Paul Buchheit is an investor, so he got an early view of the plugin. We were especially interested in his feedback, since he created Gmail.

As a company, we have made a conscious decision not to disclose our funding. But, for the purposes of transparency, we'd like to make clear that he's an investor.
Please STOP tagging everything under the sun as social.
Good point. Though, I think that really works with physical goods. It definitely works with services (pointing at the massive box billboards) but online is still where you engage the service and the offline presence may become less and less relevant/necessary as more and more of your time is spent online.
What the hell does this have to do with hackers?
One of the things you're doing wrong is that social sharing bar which, besides bring completely tactless, overlaps the content on mobile devices such that reading the article is impossible—even when scrolling due to it being fixed.
Can you provide a link to buy the heart rate monitor/easily see options available?
My point is that it is often beneficial to the company to know that you will definitely be available during certain hours.

Obviously you are going to be doing other work during these hours assuming that there is something to do.
> But it's still the law, and it's not unreasonable for a prosecutor to enforce it.

Orders to do something obviously wrong should be followed, because the law is the law. Nice thinking there.
This is exactly true. Soduku players are attracted to words like "difficult," "hard," "impossible," or any other challenge.

The level-up format sends a very strong signal that there are tons of "easy" puzzles and like many of these level-up games, it is going to take a while to get to "hard," and that is a tough investment to make when you are 99% sure the payoff doesn't exist.

It is a nice-looking game, but I don't get the impression the creator is someone involved in the soduku world or understands the market too well.

Think of soduku like you'd think of crosswords. Crosswords have a very quick ramp-up. Those that do well early and like it will quickly move on to the hard stuff, only bothering to do Monday and Tuesday as a speed-trial if they bother at all. They use ink instead of pencil and they get very upset at poorly designed puzzles and bad clues. In other words, you are dealing with a highly finicky crowd.
But storyboards read and merge very nicely, in my experience.

With two caveats:
- the classes section will sometimes be removed by IB. Ignore it
- the last section, inferred something (priority? segues? metrics?) with 5-6 entries, can cause the storyboard to be unopenable. So, when merging, if there are changes to that section in both versions, just delete the contents of the section.
Try delivering your reply without the sexism. What you said is offensive.
If there is a ' in the headline you are showing it escaped:

\' should be '
There's a follow-on effect too, that organizing to get 100k signatures for anything, even the death star petition, creates networks of activists. Some of them stay active afterwards.
Thanks! Subscribed.

It would be interesting to see what the subscription stats look like after a day/week.
Sure, but people at a mall are personally identifiable. This is more like a mall full of clones,whom you can individually address but collectively not differentiate.

They were intentionally not installing a security system at their "mall" while catering to a bunch of high risk consumers (i.e. high level of knowledge addiction, know track record of MIT "hackers", etc). Since they were having identification systems for other clients in place, one could even suggest, that they had given up restricting the access towards this specific crowd.
Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann: accountability for prosecutorial abuse
Maybe the best part of this is that mental health just might start to get some attention in the USA and not just be left to the criminal correction system to lock away the worst results of neglect.
If by 'if by "if by 'if by whiskey'"' you mean to usurp primacy by passing judgement, I remind you, judge not lest ye be judged. But if by 'if by "if by 'if by whiskey'"' you mean to shed light on these proceedings, to guide your fellow citizens, then I am certainly for it. These are my morals. They will not falter.
Maybe try making a game there isn't already 50 million ways to play it.

Sorry, but Really!? You expect a game that is also in every single newspaper in the world and has a puzzle book on every single book selling stand to do really really well because why? You launched it and sent it to a few app review sites? That's not all it takes to advertise something, there has to be a reason for someone to choose your game over the 50,000 other Sudoku games. And looking at it, there really isn't.
The trick to get it to work in Chrome is to add 'plug-in' and 'pop-up' exceptions for host:

[*.]allisnotlo.st

(Under Settings -> Advanced -> Content -> [plug-ins, pop-ups] -> Manage Exceptions.)
This is exciting and headed in the right direction. I am definitely going to use this and provide a feedback. One of the things I am pressing on in 2013 is going paperless as much as possible.
I really liked their product video. Does anybody know how can we create such product videos? hire agency or something? can it be done in cheap and effective way?
The Science of Learning (a reading list)
It works with all products. Haven't you seen the Angry Birds billboards, TV ads, etc? Or the Google Chrome campaign? Or maybe the avalanche of shoppers that walmart sends to customers both online and offline.

Digital products still have a need to advertise offline in the same manner as physical products. Nowdays, it makes more sense to also market offline because fewer people do it.
Your introduction message disappears immediately when you click on it.

For people who habitually select text they're reading (like me) that was quite annoying ... I still don't know what it said.
I have always admired simplicity and this is easily one of those simple ideas executed perfectly well!!
I do not agree with you. You're basically advocating for a form of anarchy in which one makes his own law based on how much money he can pay, however in a true anarchy money would have no place. This complicates issues greatly, because without placing a price-tag on value, then all value you create is relative and selling it is the product of opportunity.

This might not be bad, but because of this, even in anarchy the majority wins. Like, if somebody is gay, what would you have them pay to a big mob of people with torches and pitchforks coming for him, a mob who thinks that gays are an abomination? They might not be using the same currency, his created value may not be worth anything to this mob. And since there is no police, who is going to protect him? Remember that he's in a minority after all.

We take many things for granted, but IMHO democracy makes tolerance possible.
I'm not sure if there's a historical archive of the official Beijing city readings, but if so I'd love to see those figures interposed with the unofficial Beijing embassy readings.
If you are paying Comcast, and not exceeding the level of access for which you are paying, then you are not costing them any money at all, and arguably not defeating security since you have a legal right (by virtue of your contract with them) to the resource you are accessing.

The situation would be different if you were not paying Comcast, but still using technical trickery to defeat their network security and access their bandwidth.
If the likes of Flipboard find a way to bring offline advertisings margins and reach to online advertisers, then maybe.

But the reach of events like the upcoming Superbowl just have no parallel of hysteria and trust in the online world.

We, as humans, are wired to respond to the offline world more than online. That's why tweaks like button placements and colours and users leaving sites that take a micro-second too long to load are such relevant factors online.

Maybe we'll, as a populace, become more comfortable online... but online is noisy and serial. The offline world can be manipulated by our minds to focus or operate in parallel with greater ease.
Well, I can design a Logo for you for free, maybe, since I'm already a designer. Thanks, that link is new to me :)
Not just "someone willing to help" but also customer support, tutoring, medical emergencies, bomb diffusing... The monetization force is strong with this one.
works in chrome/Ubuntu
Am I the only person that really doesn't see the problem here?
I really like how you blend the photos into the text by color and focus.
So, I was about Tito question your news sources when I saw "chip Kelly to the eagles" on the front page. Then I checked and... it's true. Well done.
Well my point was simply here is someone with a good reputation. Perhaps it's worth understanding exactly what took place crying for revenge.
Someone read "4 Hour Work Week":

http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Anywhere/dp...
Factor: the motivating problem
I have to agree. If the company had wanted to outsource this job to people in China, it would have done so. Obviously, it felt it had a reason not to, and that reason may have had to do with more than just the quality of the work.
"Please enjoy this content on your PC" and a static image is what I'm seeing (chrome/ipad)
>>18. "Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers."

What is a school resource officer? Are these the armed guards that the NRA has been pushing for?
I don't think it's reasonable for any of us to sit in front of our computers and say that his choices/decisions were reasonable or unreasonable. He was depressed and facing a 50 yr sentence and most of us don't know how that feels.

But I will say this - http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/15/aaron-swart...

He had options. He could have got a plea bargin and stayed in jail for 4 months and pleaded guilty. Of course, nobody knows how this would have turned out until the prosecution plays it out in court, it could have been drastically less or more since it was a crime without physically harmed victims akin to violent crimes. He had influence, he could have still fought the fight like he always did and used his story to make clear the inefficiency and injustice served to him by the system that convicted him. This would have boosted his credibility up much more than where he's at now because he went through jail for his cause.

My point is, there were many options, we don't consider all of them. He didn't need to become a martyr. As great as he appears to be dead, he would have been much greater alive.
More, please!
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Hi Paul, I'm a big fan of Geckoboard - in some circles, your name is almost analogous for a dashboard :)

Getting to over 2500 signups in four months is definitely a great achievement, but I think it would be more interesting to hear about getting to 100 daily active users for example. After all, signups are not worth much if the users don't keep using the service (I'm sure this was not a problem in your case though).

I know there are a lot of generic blog posts and SaaS services for maximizing customer engagement, but reading real stories from founders is always uniquely inspiring.
The legal status of a security mechanism does not depend on its engineering efficacy. For example even though many deadbolts can be easily defeated with a bump key, using a bump key to gain entry to a house you're not legally entitled to enter would still be considered a crime.
A publically linked URL...fine

A URL you found by guessing URLs, like say on an internal test site? You're on your own
Anonymity is anathema to the government. There are plenty of laws on the books prohibiting it even if you're not committing any other crimes: many locations (most? all?) ban wearing masks at legal, peaceful public protests, even if the protesters have legitimate reasons to fear employer or community reprisal for participating in the protest.

That's because State Power is not, contra popular imagination, based on a monopoly of violence, which only exists nowadays thanks to the triumph of its real source. It's based on legibility: by abstracting the world and identifying and naming its subsystems, the State creates its own power. Naming and identifying people is a natural part of that: indeed, adding last names to a first name to create a (ostensibly) unique global identifier was one of the first projects of the modern State. One hundred faceless people you have to monitor at the moment is far more dangerous than a thousand identified people you can attack after the fact.