skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Far be it for me to come to the defence of lawyers, but there are some mitigating circumstances that should be familiar to software developers:

* Lots of laws look crufty to casual observers, but the reason is that they have been amended again and again and again over the years to accommodate various edge cases.

* Laws are a structured, formal attempt to model human bevaviour, which is messy, fuzzy and unpredictable except at the statistical level. A clear, simple law may not be the best way to govern unclear, complex agents in a complex system.

The temptation to throw out our laws and replace them with something simple and clear is dangerously close to the Second System Syndrome to which well-meaning software developers often fall prey.
Is this a trailer for a highbrow dismissal?
http://elinux.org/RPi_Hub tries to collect many links about RPi, with eye on beginners coming from different worlds. It really has plenty of highly valuable information; maybe not exactly easiest to navigate, but tries hard, and succeeding here is probably not an easy task to achieve in the end.

[edit] In simpler words: if googling doesn't help me, that's the second place I try to search (and sometimes even the first, especially if I already know the thing I need is there).
And this has allowed Disney to do what exactly?
Google already has the two-factor authentication with Google Authenticator for iPhone and Android. I use it for my Google account and (this is the awesome part) other websites that use their API to add their auth keys to the Google Authenticator app on my phone.
Please, expand "can't find one". Does he just sends online curriculums and nobody answers? Does he fails the interviews? There are no job related? Does he wants to much money?
All this things can have different solutions.
I am a gun owner and have many gun-owning friends, and I would have to disagree with you.

There are many people out there who think that guns are cool toys and don't follow safety procedures. I've encountered more than a few of them. Not checking downrange before firing, pointing a gun at people with no intention to fire, not checking the chamber after removing a magazine.
Powering down
Will the death of LinkedIn Answers drive users to Quora?
I've been following most of the Aaron Swartz threads and have been surprised that rtm's name hasn't come up more often, if at all.

Curious what hn thinks of his case in the light of the current firestorm.
11.36 is going to be quite an upgrade and I hope it doesn't break things

http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/Chang...

The new UI in 11.34 is bad enough
"Yes, that's a wonderful family you have there.

Shame if anything, you know, were to happen to it."

That is how this whole wording of 2011 comes across to me.
It's called Rapiscan? Really!?
When the code gets cranky, its time to refactor.
Piling shit on top of it just makes it worst.

I'm not talking about NIHS or rewrites, I'm talking about refactoring.

And lots of edge cases and special things are not a good thing in law or software I think.
People tend to learn things the hard way. I feel that if I were to be myself on facebook, it would disservice me down the road immensely. Because I cannot be myself on facebook, any goal I may have has to be cast through an obfuscation process to strip out anything that may cause problems gaining foreign work visas, jobs anywhere, any political process that I may want to engage in to bring positive change, etc etc etc etc etc... Because I cannot be myself on facebook, it is a logical conclusion (for me) that I should not have a facebook account. So I don't. I call friends on the phone and use email, and the smaller set of more intimate friendships that I maintain are deeply satisfying and efficient.
As a 10-year UXer, I totally agree! I was nodding and saying "exactly" out loud throughout the whole article.

People that WANT shadows and details and pre-made stuff like that are the people who want to design the UI in stead of the functional specification. The more experienced you get, the less you want them.

Here is an exhaustive list of every feature I need to make wireframes that you would call beautiful:

- shapes: rectangle, rounded rectangle, circle, triangle, line, arrow

- rectangle with an X in it, representing images

- text in a couple different sizes and two weights (bold & regular)

- a few colors (maybe 5). Shades of gray, red, green, & blue.

That's it. Anything else and you're slowing me down. Seriously.
This is an error. It's the total operating costs. Server costs for 2013 are budgeted for 41,700 $

https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/12711648...
Well...

Most are logged into FB when they browse their porn, so FB definitely knows what porn and how often the user browses it. Whether or not that info would end up in the graph, I don't know. I don't THINK it would? Not sure.

In any case, FB definitely HAS the information. Just a matter of whether they would let anyone else have it. I could see it being a valuable "background check" type service.

Actually, now that I think about it... FB tracks your browsing whether you are logged in or not. So they would probably have A LOT of information on people who like porn.
This is briefly mentioned in Clifford Stoll's book "The Cuckoo's Egg" (which is great read).

It's a fascinating story. I also like his father's (or maybe it was his?) idea for a spellchecker - using statistical analysis.
What's wrong with PostgreSQL 9 replication?
JT Foxx Flickr
Ask HN: What's next : RoR, Symfony2, Responsive or ... Arduino?
I wonder what would be the best to learn for my website creation skill set :
- Ruby on rails
- Symfony 2
- Responsive design
- Drupal
- Arduino & electronics

Any advice ?
Used one of these before (YubiKey) - they are an utter pain in the arse.

The contacts get dirty, they dont fit some USB ports properly, they die regularly, are absolutely no good if you don't have a USB port handy (my desktop for example doesn't have a USB hole in the front or on the keyboard or monitor, resulting in crawling around under my desk to authenticate) and to be honest quite fragile.

All it does is act as a USB HID keyboard and pump some text down when you press the button on it. It's basically about as secure as an RSA key but requires physical electrical contact with the machine.

No thank you.

(For reference http://bigv.io/ uses these).
Own3d.tv – a beginner’s guide to being an asshole
> It's the same procedure that everyone else gets.

That was also true of torture, flogging, stocks, breaking on the wheel, burning at the stake, the heretic's fork, knee splitters, the rack, thumbscrews, and the other various sadistic forms of punishment that every European civilization routinely used on its prisoners before they were condemned as barbaric and banned.

They were not regarded as "cruel and unusual" because they were uncommon, but because they went against contemporary ideas of fairness, civility and efficacy as legal tools.

I would argue that the threat of 35 or 50 years in a federal prison for a victimless act of civil disobedience is similarly "cruel and unusual" against today's ideas of fairness, civility and efficacy.
Where emotions prevail, the chances of a real, objective discussion are very slim.
Pogo insanity in New York City
I did mean subset, apparently a quantum computer could not solve every NP-complete problem in polynomial time. factorisation seems to be one of the candidates to benefit from quantum computation (thanks to Shor's algorithm), but SAT (for instance) would not, at least based on current state-of-art
It is dead easy to install Firefox OS on _some_ commonly available Android phones, see [0].

Also, see [1] for the commonly used devices to develop and use Firefox OS with a top notch experience.

[0]: https://autonome.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/firefox-os-devices...

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...
Here's what I told my two daughters to do (one is midway in college and the other in University, both were looking for employment):

Instead of having the mindset of: "I need a job, can you give me a job" change it to:

"I have these specific skills and this is how I can be an asset to your business".

See the difference? Your friend needs to tell these employers how his particular skill set can benefit their business. This requires knowing a bit about the business beforehand. Not a lot, but enough to show initiative and forethought.

No one is handing out jobs anymore. That era is over. Now people need to demonstrate value right out of the gate. Reframe the situation from one of not having and needing to one of 'I got something that can help you succeed'.

I'll end with this: the best advice I ever got was "make your boss look good". That is the golden rule. If your friend can make it evident he will make his next employer look good, he will be gainfully employed very quickly.

P.S. Since applying my advice, my daughters quickly got work and have never had employment problems since.
Ok - I'm curious why you couldn't have said that instead of leaving your initial snarky comment. This comment leads to a productive discussion - your initial comment was just a bit demeaning.
Gates, Jobs and Wozniak were all criminals too, they just did it before anyone could catch them or the laws set them up for felonies.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5078351

Far less noble crimes than what Aaron was trying to do though.

sentenced to three years of probation, 400 hours of community service, a fine of $10,050

I dare to say Aaron might still be around if that was what he was facing too.
> you're the one without the girlfriend and with pathologies

If I was trying to have a girlfriend, I would have stayed with my girlfriend. Once again, you're a man who defines his whole life in terms of women. Have you ever been single for a significant length of time, or did you fall in love with the first girl you saw and get 'married young'?

> if & when you want to attract women you are going to put in effort

Nope. If I have to jump through hoops to get a woman to notice me, I'm going to spend my whole life jumping through more hoops to get her to keep noticing me. Instead, I do things I enjoy, and I meet people. Some of them are men, some of them are women, and I treat them the same way. If I get to know a woman, and she's interesting/funny/attractive, I ask her out. Period. No games, no fucking around spraying myself with cologne and putting her down to increase my chances.

> That effort should be effective; game is about what works

I don't really understand 'effective', nor the three month promise. What'll happen in three months? Some women who are superficially attractive will be interested in me? Will I have to pretend to be interested in them because we have no common interests or basis for a real connection? No thanks.

> I don't mean that in a bad way

Yes, you absolutely do. The difference between calling my personality a shtick, and me recommending a counselor is miles. When I say 'I don't mean that in a bad way', it's because I'm against the stigmatization of mental illness. Everyone has some baggage that talking to a professional would help them unload, and the world would be happier for it. From the description of your relationship it sounds like you're used to passive aggressive people, I'd like to offer this for your consideration - not everyone interacts like that. Some of us just say what we're thinking, plainly and clearly.
Ask HN: have you installed Reddit/HN features? Best practices?
I want to add a community feature to my site, where people can post links and comments, like Reddit, HN, StackOverflow,... I know the Reddit code is open source (minus the captchas, I think).

I was wondering if anyone can give me some advice about Reddit and Reddit-like alternatives:
- ease of installation
- the robustness of the system
- the maintenance involved
- spam control
- Wordpress integration

Etcetera. Thank you very much for your help.
Keep in mind that FB can, and does, track your browser usage whether you are logged in or not. So even though some info may not currently be in the graph, they certainly have a pretty good dossier covering everything you do on the internet.

It's not only what you put on your FB that counts, it's anything you have done on the internet from a browser.
The PSY curve
$2 million isn't enough to design a reasonable performing GPU that can be sold at low cost. Just the salaries for the engineering staff and prototype builds will cost in excess of that.

A more realistic goal would be to get $2 million in a Kickstarter and pay a bunch of engineers to reverse engineer the drivers needed to drive an existing high quality SoC GPU. That way we can use existing silicon but have open source drivers. Open source graphics drivers are something that's very hard to find in the ARM SoC world today.
A carbon tax can apply here as well. In fact, it's probably best to make producers pay carbon tax where possible, since they will be simpler to tax (and the tax will be harder to evade for them).
Really, Hacker News? Is this what you want to see on the front page?
About You: [EDIT]

I like falsifying statistics and
Lying to Facebook
I dunno.

I don't use Facebook much these days except as a way to log in to other web sites. I didn't have a day when I decided that "I hate Facebook", I just drifted away.

My profile is full of all the anime I was watching two years ago. It's pretty thin, and when you consider that it intersects with a population of friends and family I knew 20 years ago, I don't know if anything useful is going to come out if it, at least for me.

Some people might be in a more thickly connected part of the graph and get better results.
In my opinion, it's unconscionable to imprison people for nonviolent crimes.

> We as a community are right now grasping at straws trying to make Carmen Ortiz as this horrible monster, when she was basically just a woman doing her job.

Isn't her job to pursue justice? Nothing about this strikes me as just.
It seems a little bit generous to allow 30 years per generation. The current average maternal age at childbirth in Western Europe is apparently around 29.5 years old.

Wouldn't we expect that to be earlier in aboriginal cultures?
The idea that appraisal of academic work must be made in secret does not ring true. Perhaps universities have degenerated into political posturing over pursuit of knowledge, but even this seems like an argument for opening the process in order to reform it.

The young researcher should not have to be the one to tell the senior researcher the work is crap. This is why the process is called "peer" review. Of course, the senior researcher should not be submitting crap, and should be told bluntly if she or he does.

But perhaps I'm missing the point and "peer review" is now doublespeak for the process of editing a paper. In this case, the academic publishing racket appears even more absurd.
Google buys $1 billion plot of land for new central London HQ
Given the circumstances this must surely win the HN award for Best Link-bait Title.
I think it's intended as Samsung's plan B if their relationship with Google sours
> we’re now pushing over 10,000 likes per second at peak

These kinds of stats always sound so impressive, but let's imagine:

- 8 byte timestamp
- 8 byte user ID
- 8 byte post ID
- 128 bytes DBMS overhead
- 128 bytes for user->like index
- 128 bytes for post->like index

= 3.96MiB/second, or ~1015 IOPs/second, or 342GB per day absolute worst case. A single economy machine with an even remotely decent SSD could handle a full day's data at these rates.
Just as one note on that, it isn't an API but rather are existing standards (TOTP and HOTP). Google Authenticator the application uses a very simple text pattern for the QR-code that anyone can emulate. It is good stuff.
Probably related:
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/17/disney_is_spying_on_you/
Enhancing Git on OS X
"Disney’s platform is growing at 5TB a day" - 5TB of what each day?

What business problem are they solving? There's no context here which makes this story less than useful.
I don't disagree with you on the need for careful refactoring of our legal code. In fact, a few years ago I wrote an essay on this very topic:

http://quandyfactory.com/blog/30/software_as_a_model_for_gov...

I do believe we need to exercise caution, balance and good judgment, and that most of the time, careful refactoring is more prudent and effective than throwing out the existing code and starting from scratch.
Resisting the temptation to be clever
Australian study points to potential cure for Aids
This reminds me to RSA SecurID:

"In a 21 March 2011 email to customers, RSA essentially admitted that the information stolen from their internal network could allow an attacker to compromise a SecurID-protected system without having physical possession of the token."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_SecurID#March_2011_system_c...

So passwords are a bad idea, but I'm not sure if I want to replace a problem with a different one.
Academia is rife with politics. I've seen some of this up close through an ex girlfriend and I was frankly shocked at the pettiness and the vindictiveness of it all. Furthering science didn't seem to be at the forefront of the minds of those participating, it seemed to be mostly about ego. This was in the field of biology, possibly other fields are better / worse.
A tester for strong exception guarantee in C++11
'imaginary dating of the "Indian civilization"'

The 23rd centry BC seems to be right in the middle of the peak of the Indus Valley Civilisation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilization
How about collaborating with Mozilla on BrowserID?
Stop It. Apple Is Not Dropping Dead.
Which other more serious cases did Ortiz choose not to pursue and why? Perhaps there wasn't good enough evidence to pursue them?

I really don't think she's an idiot... I know we're honor-bound not to like her, but we're calling her an idiot because we have no proof to the contrary? What...?
I haven't installed Reddit from scratch in quite some time.

I just looked at the reddit github source. You can get to it from www.reddit.com/r/redditdev

There appears to be an installer script now along with upstart scripts to launch the services. This is vastly simpler than it was when I was using the code. I had to manually install all of the dependencies; looks like they have taken care of that.

There is also a vm floating around with an already installed reddit. I'm not going to track it down but it should be able to get you up and running in a few minutes.
"...hung up on semantics..."

Which is precisely what the legal system in the US does. The judiciary gets into semantic analysis and declares a law unconstitutional. Sometimes, they get a little loose with the semantics and attempt to ascertain 'intent' and make a determination about the law.

Semantics matter when your life is on the line. Semantics matter when you're trying to communicate clearly.
Facebook: Why some “likes” are worth more than others
Still going, probably experiencing a revival:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_house

World's biggest food fair:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste_of_Chicago

If you don't like house:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_hip_hop

For the amateur economist :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_school_%28economics%29
I'm sorry for your inconvenience but that's not an excuse, IMO, to create a scandalous, lying headline. Flagged for that reason. They deleted your videos, not "all videos from paid accounts" as your headline reads. I hope you get resolution (we use vimeo which has been great for these types of things) but please: don't fall victim to just out and out lying for the sake of getting attention. It just reads as hyperbole which, as you probably know (you aren't new here), has a tendency to push people away.
The law has tried to keep pace with the technological changes since then. This has resulted in the laws being reflective of the economic impact of networks and computing, rather than of the social impact of the various crimes and the punishments are accordingly severe. The real problem is how to make sure that actual crime can be punished hard enough that the punishments serve as a deterrent while at the same time allowing for activism and other reasonably benign (or even positive) transgressions of those same laws without allowing prosecutors to nail those same activists to a tree as an example using laws intended for the former group.

This is a hard problem to solve.

Woz, Gates, Jobs (and me too...) all profited from being born when this stuff was not as much on the political and social radar as it is today.
You allude to many things but don't state counterpoints. Would you please elaborate?
You're right on the first point. However, as a first approximation the top comment is likely the highest upvoted comment, particularly when the name isn't one of the top 10 posters on HN.

The CRS and CBO do provide a useful service. But, it would be impossible for each congress person to research the effects of a tariff, increasing pre-k funding to the states, chimpanzee sanctuary funding needs at the NIH as well as the changing feelings related to technology, copyright, gun control and how it effects their various constituents who all have their own interests. It's much easier and more practical for lobbyist just to hand them a "fact sheet" that says: "This bill will save 240 lives this year in your district." or "This bill will provide 430 jobs in and increase the tax base 2 million dollars in your district"

Of course, maybe you meant "hand all this off to an LA" which they already do to some extent.
what I prefer is don't disturb by default and ping by irc if you want to talk.
To put an example of a prestigious free open access journal: Journal of Machine Learning Research (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/)
Safe way to erase memory in C++
The grandfather was under no obligation to leave even the land sans mineral right to his heirs.
BigV uses these, but beyond the beta they're an optional extra not required.
Facebook uses that information to target ads. If you're going to claim that Facebook makes that data available to prospective employers, prove it.
Another thing that hasn't been mentioned that used to great effect to become a programmer is take any job that's the least bit in the vein of what he wants to do for the tiniest sum of money. After 6 months of _some_ experience he can start looking for another job and iteratively work his way up.
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> I dare to say Aaron might still be around if that was what he was facing too.

Probably. But, and this is a very big but: Aaron was encouraged by every victory (and the coverage of those victories) to shoot for an even bigger target.

In spite of being very sympathetic to Aaron, the goals he fought for and what he stood for, sooner or later that was going to lead to a confrontation. And he was encouraged by the public response to his deeds as well.

So even if everything in this particular case is as bad as it looks Aaron definitely was not one to say 'that one is in the bag' and call it quits. If he had stopped after the PACER incident it would have been a very worthy achievement. Serially taking on entrenched interests of this magnitude will sooner or later have consequences, it is as far as I can see unavoidable. The fact that he did that makes me admire him even more but I fear that for someone of his self evidenced emotional make-up this was not a long term sustainable recipe.
How quantum computing will change security forever
Or a shitty team that can't sell seats (ahem, I'm from Jacksonville).
Do you have anything to back this up? A lot of people believing something doesn't make it true.
Whatever shape it takes on, it's a Google-only thing. Being a Google-only thing means that it will (maybe) solve the password problem... for Google.

So which desktop is runs on, or even phone, tablet or any other form factor, is irrelevant.
HaLVM. https://github.com/GaloisInc/HaLVM