skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And another 12-year meditator here — my first course was in 2001, in Massachusetts.

My practice has definitely had its ups and downs over the years. In my experience the most significant contributor to a strong, consistent practice is to regularly sit with other people. Like weekly, or a few times per week if possible.

Glad to see some talk of meditation here on HN — I've always felt that programmer-types would dig Vipassana. Buddha was a hacker.
Not everyone went to university, and people have to learn from somewhere. It is also only an introduction, there will be more complicated data structures shown soon, and algorithms. No point in jumping into the heavier stuff. Trying to help people who are new to C.
Yes, well, an iPad on wheels is an idiotic idea in the first place. I never get why people seem to think that it's so difficult to copy a URL. Entitled generation of hipsters who can't deal with a missing a tag. :)
> The charges weren't ridiculous

They were according to a retired federal judge: http://www.wbur.org/2013/01/16/gertner-criticizes-ortiz-swar...

from the article:

"She says she was troubled by much of what she learned and saw from the bench before leaving in 2011. And she says Ortiz should not have prosecuted Swartz."
...
When asked if she was referring to the bad judgement of Carmen Ortiz, Gertner responded, “That’s right.”
Business owners already HAVE and EXERCISE those rights. It's the right and responsibility of a business owner to keep his establishment clean and not profit on the back of obvious illicit activity. He can refuse service to anybody for any reason not protected by anti-discrimination legislation. And he knows that, it's why he addressed it in a quote early in that article -- claiming if he took responsibility and cleaned his motel up he'd be accused of discrimination. That's a cop-out.
Wondering if anybody else is scared this is going to set a precedent for people who feel like they cannot endure a federal trial and simply opt for suicide instead.

Over the past several weeks, I've been completely numbed by all the outrage and media this event is generating. If I was a well known hacktivist and saw what has transpired here, it makes it look like being a martyr for your cause is considerably more beneficial than simply lawyering up and going through a trial.
Winnipeg citizens pay it forward at a Tim Hortons drive-through—228 times
And the message that US attorneys are going to hear is "don't fuck with young affluent white hackers with powerful friends".

If as I hope this gets the CFAA entirely repealed, then yes, I'm fine with the message being that if a law is abused that the entire law under which they're trying to build careers can be swept out from under them. If Ortiz and Heymann have to work corporate contracts for the rest of their careers, that will be fine with me.
Seems to me the whole gang in the Boston DA office need to go, starting from Ortiz and working swiftly all the way down.

Thomas Jefferson - "A government afraid of its citizens is a democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny."
Here's the problem with your logic. What possible purpose would "archiving" it have other than eventual distribution to others? If the guy lives up to his promise no one will ever see or use it, ever, so there is none.
Some pretty impressive things have been said in much less than 140 characters.
Scrabble: Should letter values change?
https://angel.co/minbox

Not much to see from the screenshots, but a lot of buzz.
MLA has been generally allergic to URLs, which I find sort of obnoxious.
There is a difference there. Factory owners who dump are actively breaking the law themselves. The motel owner isn't doing any drug dealing, just renting rooms.

I don't think this is any different to ISPs having to police what their users are doing. For a motel owner to know about drug dealing they need to see it happening, but that's not possible behind closed doors, unless they use surveillance, which is illegal and unethical.

Similarly, ISPs who facilitate users who use their Internet access to download child porn have no way of knowing about this, unless they implement surveillance. This is unethical and illegal... Yet the crime is arguably worse!
Vipassana is a great practice — in my experience, finding other people to sit with consistently has helped better than anything else. Like weekly or even a few times per week.
Judging from the linked excerpt, they don't seem particularly clued in, either.
Started this website
What, they sued a building?!?

Cross examination could be interesting.
I'm not trying to convince you you're wrong. I think you're so wrong, you're not even wrong, therefore I can't even respond to what you said in any reasonable manner. Again, believe what you want to believe, it doesn't much affect me one way or the other.

If you think that's "crabbing at you" or "pissing on you" then I think that's more of a reflection of your worldview, outlook, personality, whatever, than it is anything else. At any rate, I'm done with this line of conversation, since it isn't benefiting anyone. Please, have the last word if you'd like.
I think the most troubling feature is the time convention "time zone of the reader". How should anyone make a valid assumption about that? I think its a better practice to include a common time zone abbreviation.
I would like to compile it on my own with emscripten. Did you use emconfigure or did you write you own compilation script? Couldn't find any pointers to that in the Git, but maybe I didn't look around long enough to find it. How did you deal with kpathsea?
New Technology 2013 - Part 2
What do you care about more: proving a point about how lazy readers are, or making it more likely that people will read your things?
Was Aaron Swartz Killed By An MIT Satanic Child Porn Ring?
Surviving Software Estimation - the Ballpark
> Mother Theresa let people die slow, horrible and unnecessary deaths

Instead to, err... dispacht them quick and efficiently?
Don't call them 'gold diggers', just mention that they're uninterested in people unable to financially provide for them.

It's a perfectly valid concern in this wintry economic climate.
Wasn't it Assange that said fb was the greatest spying machine ever invented? Why the heck people will continuously give away private information with no safeguard that information will ever remain private in the future, I will never understand. Graph Search is just one more example of 'transparency creep' until there is only a microcosm of privacy left, and even that will likely be an illusion.
> "American" is a language.

"American" covers a number of very distinct varieties of English. It isn't considered its own language for political and cultural reasons, not necessarily linguistic ones. (As another example, look at the divide between Hindi and Urdu.)
Alternatives,

APA:

- http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2009/10/how-to-cite-twitte...

- http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2009/10/how-to-cite-twitte...

Chicago:

- http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Do...

- http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

IEEE:

- http://www.york.ac.uk/integrity/ieee.html
It occurs to me that Ortiz is having a spotlight done upon her office. She finally went too far, now people are questioning her actions.

Transparency's a bitch.
> As for depression, the federal case is the only part that is any of our business

If by "business" we mean keeping our brightest minds around to drive progress on the difficult issues of our times then we absolutely must take a holistic view.

If by "business" we simply mean advancing the goals of hacktivism then a focus on depression would certainly not help, I agree.
The crypto is even stronger than the author states: the linked "JavaScript Crypto is Doomed" article only refers to JavaScript delivered over HTTP. Mega appears to be entirely HTTPS, which is (relatively) secure.
I agree. If click on an image that says "Double Robotics," I expect to go to the main site for Double Robotics, not its blog. The "Back to main site" link doesn't make sense to someone who arrived at the blog - going back to anything does not mean anything to me, because I started here. Many company blogs seem to have this behavior.
Steal like an Artist
I thought we learned our lesson about Java.
I still can't put <video src=blah></video> in a page and expect it to work in every browser. I need at least webm + mp4, or ogv + mp4, so I double the space utilization on my server for every video maintaining redundant copies, in addition to the various resolutions you make video at because ISPs are assholes and we are still in the dark ages of internet speeds.
Design Process is a Myth
Spoken like a true scientist.
I think the assumption is that the tweets will go away. Look at the twitter search; I mean, they can't seem to search tweets more than a few days/weeks old. Clearly twitter does not place a high priority on keeping historical data.
The Accessibility Project
My motivations are three-fold:

A) I want to peek inside myself without having to boot them up. NeXTStep isn't really the most efficient way for me to poke around.

B) I don't know if John might change his mind or not, but I want to be prepared in case he does. I'm a history buff, and I believe this stuff is useful.

C) I don't know for how much longer these machines & disks might stay working.

Agreed that if John says "never", then once I die, the data needs to die as well. But hopefully I still have some years left on me. :)
Depending on what kind of storage devices are being used, I have observed very slow file transfers in Windows Explorer versus the Windows command-line copy command.
Can someone actually post the real data.
I assume you are almost doing something for living. May be you can come to great ideas and pain points in your OWN business. Most of the great startups started by founders scratching their own itch. You should be more alert while living you daily life.

There is also another method suggested by Pual Graham think about your daily task and imagine them 100 years later. How do you think they will be perfumed in the future?

Also here is a recommended read for you if you hadn't read it before David http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
And if you had to write the OS it runs on you'd have a really huge "pile-o-code". What's your point?
In practice, it's a lawsuit with the owners on one side and the US Attorney on the other.
Oh look, I can find a convenient mouth piece too (one who has defended a famous CFAA case, no less):

http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/

http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-agains...

You might instead argue that the law is ridiculous (e.g. I would agree that Swartz's conduct is not serious enough to warrant a felony conviction).

You might argue that there were certainly other cases which were more deserving of a U.S. prosecuting attorney's time (though I don't know how we would confirm or refute that). But the charges themselves are well supported by the indictment.
Funny thing. These days when I made a mistake, I kicked myself on my proverbial butt and said, "damn, that's stupid ROOKIE mistake. How could you miss that?"
Exactly what I was thinking as well, I could see people plugging into these and not wanting to leave. It's already what some people who have tried it have said they felt like.
I don't understand why the list of reasons you gave support the idea that government should be able to just steal the hotel from its owner without first charging the owner of a crime.

> The hotel is, let's not sugarcoat it, a blighted flophouse. . . .

If the government wants to impose some standards on how a hotel should be run, it should publish laws to that effect and the penalties should something on the order of fines or loss of business license, not loss of the property.

> The owners of the hotel were warned repeatedly by local law enforcement and an intervention of local hotel owners; specific measures were suggested to minimize the problems at this place and weren't taken; the hotel had no security, and its drug countermeasures consisted of a list of persons not to rent to again.

It is not the duty of private citizens to act as an unpaid quasi-police force.

* The hotel owners made no policy changes after a methamphetamine lab was discovered in one of their rooms.

> The hotel owners made no changes after the dead body of a heroin overdose victim was found in one of their rooms.

Are they required by law to make changes?

> Drug deals weren't simply occurring at the hotel; the Tewskbury PD repeatedly discovered drug dealers operating full-time out of rooms in the hotel.

If and when police discover illegal activity, they are free to do their jobs and arrest people. It is not the hotel owners' job to act as a police force.

> The owners of the hotel repeatedly admitted under oath that they had continuing knowledge of drug crimes occurring on their premises, and had no policies to investigate the use of their rooms.

Knowledge that crimes have occurred in the past does not mean that the hotel owners had a duty to act as an unpaid police force.
The page reminds me of when my wife and I watched Solaris (2002) without realizing our DVD player was on shuffle. We both enjoyed the nonlinear narrative for a good 45m before we realized what was wrong.

Fixing the problem seemed to make the movie worse for us.
The skilled carpenter may make the highest 'quality' table, the young one may make a more interesting or novel one.
> One of the saving graces of the vipassana course for me is they didn't expect you to believe what they were saying, but rather believe in your own experience. That sort of honesty I can respect.

Yes! I really dug this about the Vipassana teachings. They also emphasize that you can "leave out" (per the "black stone in the oatmeal" analogy) any of the intellectual aspects that don't sit well with you.

I suspect that for most of us, just sticking with a regular practice of breathing (anapana) and sensation observation (vipassana) is enough to keep us busy for the rest of our lives, without adding on intellectual components like kalapas, what happens after we die, etc.
Show HN: Simple documentation browser inspired by Dash
i found almost offensive that they offer just 10k for such a task
OKCupid found through their data that online dating is highly racist. I am wondering how the online dating for scientists would look!
If they did it correctly then they would keep a reference count to that the stuff only gets deleted when the last reference to it gets deleted.

It would kind of function like hard links on linux file systems.
Computer Science is Science as much as Math is.
Ask HN: Kim Dotcom's Mega Is Down?
Is it really a citation if you include the entire text? Seems more like a copy.
This bothered me as well, particularly for the example that they provided. The convention may work for tracking conversations, but knowing the exact time that the helicopter was spotted relative to other events seems more important. Yet, by their convention you can only accurately compare it with the time of other cited tweets.
What, in the same way that manufacturing syringes that will be used to mainline illegal narcotics should not be "encouraged or tolerated"?
ping mega.co.nz

4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 29.165/32.276/35.656/2.367 ms

So, no, doesn't look like it
You make dubious claims in paragraph one, invent motivations in paragraphs two and three, then attack those motivations in paragraph four. Orin is a well known law professor, and he definitely doesn't care about how many page views Eugene Volokh's blog gets.

Orin Kerr's second post is an indictment of the government's entire strategy in prosecuting cases. He's using the fact that Aaron's treatment was a standard application of this strategy to illustrate his issues with it. It sounds like you wanted him to invent some point as grounds to equivocate. Maybe that would make his post be better received in the tech community, but we shouldn't expect legal scholars to be motivated by that concern.
I do not, unfortunately. Development is going well, and I hope to have a prototype within the week.
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Ask HN: Why doesn't HN open submitted links in a new tab?
A bit trivial, I know, but I've always found it slightly annoying to have to press the back button to return to HN or explicitly right click and open the link in a new tab myself. Why doesn't HN automatically open external links in a new tab?
Did you even read any of the other responses that were given to you?
I remember them running print ads in Scientific American back in the 80s (if not them, an organization with a very similar logo of two lab mice).
What about other specific online media? How do I cite a Reddit comment? An insightful meme in QuickMeme (the text could be helpful and part of an overall commentary, regardless of how you feel about memes in general)?

I feel the best thing is like an online source - aka like taking a 140 character quote from a blog post. MLA feel differently, obviously.
Every public, non-deleted tweet is easily available via the API or a URL. The search index is time limited.
Campaign to Cut Deficit Has Deep Business Ties
Here's the full list of cards we let you use for testing, including some that trigger specific responses:

https://stripe.com/docs/testing#cards
> Forcing plea bargains

I'm not sure that we agree on the meaning of the word "forcing".

> Other countries get by just fine without plea bargains.

Yes, I'm often reminded of how pathetic the United States is. But with that in mind those other countries have different concepts of the legal system (the vision of what it accomplishes, the policies, everything). I'm not here to claim that the U.S. legal system is 100% appropriate to the task, but instead that the prosecutors are going to the job with the resources that they have. If Congress significantly reduces the category and criteria of what counts as crimes by getting rid of the stupid stuff then great, but that's not the system the prosecutors are in now.

> Maybe we could get expedience by, you know, focusing prosecution effort on serious crimes or ones that actually have victims.

Do you have any specific cases in mind involving serious crimes or crimes with more deserving victims (since apparently MIT doesn't count) that were not prosecuted due to the resources needed being assigned to the Swartz case?

> You might want to read up on how plea bargaining is viewed in other countries.

Please don't take this the wrong way but I don't operate my life based on opinion polls. If I'm right, then I'm right, and if I'm wrong (which is certainly possible) it won't be because Bjørn and Herr Müller have different opinions about what plea bargaining is and is not, it will be because I'm wrong.
> Iirc albatrosses actually can't take off from the ground

Of course they can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKTfcs6LL6A
Submitted w/o opinion, I found this comment in a discussion [1] of the general MLA guidelines for websites:

MLA no longer requires the use of URLs in MLA citations. Because Web addresses are not static (i.e., they change often) and because documents sometimes appear in multiple places on the Web (e.g., on multiple databases), MLA explains that most readers can find electronic sources via title or author searches in Internet Search Engines.

[1] http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/
This provides an interesting counterpoint: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/business/campaign-to-fix-t...
The future of software developers
Diving Deep into Danger
So weird. I can't access the site. Thanks for the info.
Here's one solution: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2461713

However given a file Mega would be able to tell whether they stored that file, eliminating the plausible deniability they're aiming for.
Because that's how it was done in Web 1.0. Also, I always thought sites created new tabs for "stickiness" which is not an issue on a non-pageview-whoring site.
They're not stealing; they're suing.
On the front page, "test.c" is listed twice. Should it be "list.c" ?
I've been to a number of 10-day Goenka courses, and agree that in the videos he occasionally drifts off to questionably relevant territory.

However, the evening talks also point out that we should mentally "leave aside" any of the intellectual stuff we don't agree with, and instead focus on what our own experience with the technique reveals.

The technique itself — actually sitting still and observing breath and sensations — is the important part, not the stuff about bubble chambers, etc.
The book _C Interfaces and Implementation_ is nothing but library interfaces like this and their implementations.

You are, for whatever it's worth, better off defaulting to a variable-length array than to a linked list.
apparently for personal advancement and DoJ-vendetta seeking

What's the evidence for that?
It's terribly inconsistent. I'm in the middle of developing a library to generate citations, and I've had to write out the formatting for each separate type of citation manually (for example, a whole book's title is italicized: in a series, it is underlined).
This is very interesting. I've always struggled with Mathematics. Recently I got a Dover book on Trigonometry, and I finally understood what radians are!

Now I know there are folks here who intuitively grasp mathematics - I see and sometimes envy their grasp of the material - but I'm finding that I'm enjoying understanding the most basic of mathematical concepts. There's something incredibly satisfying about it all.
Why Did Aaron Swartz Face More Prison Time Than Killers?
I like the way Alexander Stepanov, primary designer and implementer of the C++ Standard Template Library (STL), decribed the C Programming Language in an interview:

"Let's consider now why C is a great language. It is commonly believed that C is a hack which was successful because Unix was written in it. I disagree. Over a long period of time computer architectures evolved, not because of some clever people figuring how to evolve architectures---as a matter of fact, clever people were pushing tagged architectures during that period of time---but because of the demands of different programmers to solve real problems. Computers that were able to deal just with numbers evolved into computers with byte-addressable memory, flat address spaces, and pointers. This was a natural evolution reflecting the growing set of problems that people were solving. C, reflecting the genius of Dennis Ritchie, provided a minimal model of the computer that had evolved over 30 years. C was not a quick hack. As computers evolved to handle all kinds of problems, C, being the minimal model of such a computer, became a very powerful language to solve all kinds of problems in different domains very effectively. This is the secret of C's portability: it is the best representation of an abstract computer that we have. Of course, the abstraction is done over the set of real computers, not some imaginary computational devices. Moreover, people could understand the machine model behind C. It is much easier for an average engineer to understand the machine model behind C than the machine model behind Ada or even Scheme. C succeeded because it was doing the right thing, not because of AT&T promoting it or Unix being written with it."
Strange indeed that they use the word "Tweet" when there are many other microblogging services, including Facebook. How does one cite Status.net?
I don't understand why the suggestion wasn't to just convert to UTC. That would solve the problem...
If this is legit, then this is incredibly cool. Having your code run in space is as close as many of us will come to being in space ourselves.

Sure, 10K is small given that it's the ISS, but let's be honest, the money is the secondary prize. This is for bragging rights.
How much will be the renewal fees?