skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that the US court system is not funded through filing fees. Courts generally have struggled with funding. Minimum mandatory penalties and the drug wars caused Miami to end up with four downtown federal courthouses and a (relatively) new federal prison. These facilities were not inexpensive.
To get back to the principal issue, the Government gets free access to PACER (and even free photocopies at the courthouse) whereas a private defendant, like Swartz, has to pay for these out of his own pocket. The government gets a case agent, the defendant gets none. The defendant may get a public defender, but only after he has exhausted his funds--and this happens.
That's an excellent point too. Kids treat each other like complete and utter crap in school, and teachers often aren't all that much better from a kid's point of view.

When I was a teenager I didn't give much thought to other peoples' convenience, privacy, etc., and I disagree that this is an inevitable part of being a teenager. I think it was because others (both peers and adults) did not treat me with respect, respect my privacy, etc.
And then you'll end up with no job and no girlfriend, and you will sleep peacefully because you just said the truth. Not.
Apple cuts orders for iPhone 5 parts on weak demand
Now do the reverse perspective (actually, it already exists). Not sure it will look much rosier.
New Windows install: use www.ninite.com to get a 1-click installer for most popular programs and codecs.

I agree with your analysis though: there is a difference between parody and stupid, and this hits the latter. I've been building Win7 PC's for years and I haven't loaded to messed up graphics and no networking since before the friends and family beta. That was always a hallmark of WinXP, not 7.

The only thing I can think of is that he installed Win7 on 10 year old hardware and the drivers for such an antiquated setup weren't even included in the default set.

It's also possible that he grabbed a really old copy of Win7 with no service packs or updates baked in, which includes tons of driver updates.

However, and I run Ubuntu, Mint and Win7 on my machine, I can say that both found all of my drivers immediately and worked, although the Windows drivers are newer, more stable and more fully featured (I'm looking at you ATI).
>I believe in mandatory voting because pretty much everyone bitches about politics. If you're not willing to do the minimum of cast a vote (in Aus, that's one each of council, state, federal, every 3-4 years) then you don't really have the right to complain. You may not have a candidate to vote for, but you definitely will have one to vote against.

I'd turn that on its head, and say that everyone who votes has dirt on their hands. They've all participated in propping up that government, and they're the ones who should not complain when that same government regulates, taxes, or otherwise harasses them. Those who did not vote, did not give consent.

>As for a 'none of the above', on a paper ballot, you can write what you want.

There is no write-in option where I live. One could, I suppose, write whatever they'd like on the ballot, in effect "spoiling" the ballot. But not showing up to vote would have a similar effect.

>Of course, we have voting well organised - here you won't see queues of eight hours to vote like the debacle in Florida. This is despite mandatory voter turnout and paper ballots.

That is a good thing, for sure. If you're going to force voting on the population, a good way to get them to turn against the idea would be to have American-style efficiency in place!

>It's nice though, that you put an evil spin on mandatory voting by labelling it 'coerced'. I wonder if you call traffic lights 'coercion'? I personally think of it more as a citizen's responsibility, but I wouldn't try to colour it by calling it 'responsible voting'.

If I am faced with a fine of some kind for not voting, that is most definitely coercion. Traffic lights, whatever one may think of them, are not directly coercive, though they are increasingly a revenue-generating stream for local governments (a separate problem entirely).
Video projection mapping (on Renault Clio)
Silicon Valley Congresswoman talks 2013 tech agenda (Q&A)
I think people are willing to take criticism much better when it is phrased in a respectfully way, rather than an "I'm right you're wrong, here let me prove it" perspective. The OP may have been incorrect, but the best way to help him realize this isn't by yelling at him across the internet, but by politely pointing him to the science.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.h...

And you don't have to install anything. I chuck it all in c:\windows and it's available in PATH then.
Thanks for the input.

Im assuming you mean the layout for the Semesters/Sections/Notecards? if so they are meant to be 3 vertical rows so it looks a bit better when you have some content filled in. Obviously thats not ideal but I'm still working on my design skills. the pagination numbers also seem to be a bit off center which I'm still working on.

It is geared towards academia with creating semesters and sections first, but I agree that I should allow you to jump right into creating notecards.
I prefer to do it by hand. Ninite isn't always up to date so you end up with a crapfest of auto updaters running instantly.
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Dude. Dude. Listen to yourself...

a) "Everyone installs K-lite" Wow yeah. Everyone who torrents. All the other poor fellas have no idea. And I personally know those other poor fellas and they could not tell you want a codec is if you put a gun to their heads. Hell, my wife is one.

b) I WISH there was a Windows 8 live CD. MS does not want you to "try windows" they want you committed.

c) Drivers. Ok I give you this one. For the most part windows 7 is ok. Gone are the windows XP days where if you didn't have a disk on you, you didn't have your network card drivers.

d) There is NO PACKAGE MANAGER! None, ZERO. Windows Installer as a package manager is like saying my Garage is a parking lot + valet. Windows installer (this atrocity that is...) is used to... INSTALL software. It's a glorified unzip. There is no way to say "oh hey windows installer, I'd really like to install ruby 1.9.3 with sources" and it would say "give me an hour". Instead you say "windows installer? hello? ok to google!"... "to google" can often lead an unexperience used like my grandfather to download spyware.

e) Well. At least windows can be downloaded now as a free unactivated copy. Gone are the days where I purchase a copy of windows only to find out I can't get a legal disk image of windows 7 stand-alone. Only some upgrade, which is not upgradable from windows xp 32 bit.
I've seen plenty of IP holders arguing otherwise.

A prominent example is Notch, the creator of Minecraft, which is also a member of the Pirate Party.
An Ivy education without the debt? Minerva Project non-profit to figure out how
Taco-Driven Development
9 Lies Unproductive People Love to Tell
This is cool but not a part of any standard curriculum in Japan despite the title.
What are the chances this 'structure' is just the unusual coincidence of a large number of quasars in (relative) proximity? Not unlike a seemingly impossible run of "heads" in a stream of coin flips?
New Java 0-Day Exploit Spotted in the Wild
Related HN post from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5049457
Exactly right. Part two will be about generators like this, as well as coroutines and fibers. Simple generators don't really let you flip internal and external iteration, they just give you a nice way to reify a single stack frame. Coroutines and fibers are even more awesome because they let you reify an entire callstack.
Key point with regards to your opening paragraph is:

" But the ordinary practice is to charge all the possible offenses committed in the indictment, even if they overlap, and then let the jury sort them out at trial."

There is at least a passable amount of evidence for each of the charges, so naturally the prosecution will maximise the number of possible charges. This prevents the whole case falling through if of the one of the counts fails.
These reports based on reduced orders to suppliers are pretty routine, either in the post-holiday period or a few months before the roll-out of a new model. Without actual info on sales numbers, it's just hearsay.
The paradox of how bugs and downtime can be a good thing
It would and they should do it. But the whole thing would still be fundamentally insecure. Read the link submitted by raphinou:

http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
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You say the country capital, are you from the US? Perhaps you got the "big red phone" or some associated item?
well , Windows can be good , i use it everyday , the only problem is that is not a POSIX env which sucks when one is a developer using a lot of open-source stuffs(hello VM). Window can be proprietary , that's not an issues MacOSX is , but all that DOS stuff is just stupid in 2013 and makes it hard to use some neat Linux dev tools.
Paving a path to intelligent energy use
"Why are my pages suddenly not indexed on [Google Webmaster Tools]?"
If my program reads a file one byte at a time, and it's IO-bound, can I improve performance by re-writing?
a) They install VLC. It plays everything you throw at it.

d) It does manage your software and you can use the package manager to remove software.
I think the idea has potential. Maybe you should rethink the way feedback is provided. If I understand the idea correctly, it gives the 'customers' a choice between two products. When doing customer research you should never ask suggestive questions, which is what you do when you ask "Which one of these do you like?". Maybe they don't like it at all, but they still need to make a choice. This leads you to believe that one might be better than the other, while both ideas/products could be bad.
Interesting in that it shows how geometry can related to mathematics, but very laborious when applied to larger numbers. Amounts to adding up the contents of each place in the numeric result one-by-one. The work involved is the sum of the output digits.
What Does This Apple Order Cut Mean?
Acquiescence
Ask HN: Any interest in a free course on patents and IP for startups?
The HN community seems to be anti-patent (especially software patents) in general, however knowledge is power. Would you be interested in a free course on patents (and intellectual property in general) tailored specifically for startups, and taught by experienced patent attorneys?

Examples of topics that may be covered in such a course include: evaluating the importance of patents to your startup; how to prepare and file a patent application; the advantages of provisional patent applications; how to respond to an accusation of patent infringement; when to talk to an attorney; evaluating the patent landscape in your field; enforcement and licensing of patents and other IP; the basics of copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets; etc.

What other topics would you be interested in covering in such a course?
I personally happen to disagree. (I have production/team experience with both node.js and CoffeeScript.)

For many learning types, I'd guess it's preferable to leisurely learn JavaScript from the shores of CoffeeScript. Rather than having to deal with all of JavaScript's absurdity at once.

And when you need to read someone else's JavaScript code, you can usually get away with ignoring boilerplate.
Guilty to what? How did the government indicate that they might only seek seven years at trial?

Even six to eight months sounds excessive for what he was accused of doing (although it was wrong and some charge may have been reasonable).

And it would be one thing to accept guilt for unauthorized use of a computer and another to plead guilty to a $5M wire fraud.
a) Even my grandparents worked out how to find and install k-lite codec pack.

b) No there is just no value in it. 99% of PCs come with it preinstalled. Why would they bother to target a few Linux users.

d) Yes there is. Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer - yes a fully transactional installation system. If you can work out which things not to put your penis in, then you can work out which web sites are trying to rip you off. Oh and they even bother to sign official packages and warn you if it looks dodgy.
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> The e-mail that Defendant Swartz's supplemental memorandum cites as paramount to his fifth motion to suppress [evidence against him] is relevant, but not nearly as important as he tries to make it out to be

I'm sorry, "chided"? This is just a legal argument. It's what happens in court proceedings. And it's pretty tame. It's not personal, and while it names "Defendant Swartz", what it really means is his attorneys since they are the ones that submitted the memo. There is no malice in this statement at all. This headline is sensationalist.

Yes, Swartz was bullied by the government. This is not an example of it, and it's a shameful attempt at shifting blame for a tragedy.
JSTOR only withdrew their complaint cause he got caught. If Aaron succeed they certainly wouldn't have dropped it. My point is his intent was certainly criminal in terms of billions of dollars in the eyes of the law and public, even if they aren't in mine and most of HN.
I'm about to launch my 4th business, and I should add to this: You can always think of a million reasons NOT to do something. The only questions you should be asking yourself at this point is: 1) Can you implement it and 2) Is it possible for to make money from it (ie: what price are you thinking? break-even point? how many customers do you think you can get? etc)

On the second one, note I said "possible". It doesn't mean you definitely will make money from it...
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TLDR Isn't meant for the author to sum up what their waffle means. It's there to ridicule the author in response to the waffle.

It's just idiots (probably the sort of people who go to Reddit) started adding their own TLDR at the end their posts.
This activist was working to change laws, so that's a circular argument.
Harvard's Hitler Club
This is not a debate on who is right or wrong on the factual matters. Nobody is suggesting that the extremely rude person was factually wrong just because he was extremely rude. As you said, it's an extremely important part of public discourse that incorrectness be called out in a polite way. Nobody disagrees with that, but it's totally beside the point because here the problem was that the calling-out was anything but polite.
Scientists Design And Operate Molecular Motor
So by your judgement, all these folks could be sacked and nothing of value would be lost? http://www.plos.org/about/people/staff/
I don't know if I'd call the posthumous interest in Aaron as fawning. He did a lot of great work and had admirable ideals. He no longer has the capacity to be an agent of change. And while you can say his spirit "will live on", part of that passing on the torch comes from a thorough examination and celebration of his life. It doesn't just happen sometime down the road.
Macintosh Stories: 90 Hours A Week And Loving It
> You can't blame a prosecutor because Aaron reacted violently to them doing his job

We seem perfectly happy blaming bullies when people commit suicide (including incidents where both parties were adults). Given the position of relative power of the two individuals, it's not unreasonable to draw a parallel there.
Nice trick, but it would be better if explained in correlation to the traditional algorithm, showing you can separate work by units and that they're really the same at the core.
Couldn't agree more... it was the frontier days.

I grew up in rural Texas about :45 minutes away from Houston. I ran a BSS for my neighborhood around the time of Duke Nukem 3D. We traded our custom maps over it, and coordinated our bamboo fort building plans for the summer so our parents didn't know where it was located.

We also got our hands on the anarchist cookbook and remember Hacker Manifesto being circulated everywhere. And a time when aliases matured into leetness like .oOo. Silicon Toad .oOo.

Then we got our first taste of mass internet with AOL, visual basic war proggies, and IRC scripts like teardrop.c and port attacks on Windows 95... and it's been downhill ever since. :)

Oh the memories...
Non-profits and being a business are not contradictory. The Associated Press and NPR are both non-profit and have the potential to "go out of business" if people stop supporting them and paying member fees. The best non-profits are run as good businesses...because you need money to pay salaries and keep the lights running.
http://www.harveysilverglate.com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.asp...
Stackoverflow comes close to the same thing, with big warnings if you change your vote that you can only do it once. Maybe it's to prevent us from saying "I liked your comment" and then realizing tomorrow you said something offensive and going back and downvoting all your comments out of spite.

I guess. Doesn't seem worth it, but it's the best I got.
>"Somehow this aggravates me."

That might be because it is poor parody.

"Please note that this article is a parody of what some Windows users write about Linux. The events described here have not actually taken place. However, the article is based on author's experiences with the Windows 7 operating system."

What is being parodied - the experience of Windows users encountering the peculiarities of Linux - is not particularly interesting, nor is it particularly worthy of ridicule. Such stories tend to be about people giving Linux a legitimate chance and running up against technical unfamiliarity.

The particulars of this parody just don't carry any water. Windows downloads drivers automatically? That's dog bites man since the 1990's. Windows doesn't have a live CD? Nobody [1] expects it; again there's decades of precedence AND nobody cares.

The parody isn't funny. It doesn't go anywhere intellectually, and if there is a message it's something along the lines of Windows users are inept. The last point is salient because Windows users tend to admire people who understand Linux, not hold them in contempt.

I read the title and clicked. I read the lead and thought it could be interesting. It wasn't and I too was annoyed. Not because I love Windows, but because the article is dull.

[1] "Nobody" in a statistically significant sense relative to the population of computer users and potential computer users.
PhinUX the First Open Source 100% Egyptian OS
Thanks for writing this Loyd. It made an impression on me when I was younger and I re-read it fairly often. I recall (with slight embarrassment) translating it into French for an assignment whilst at school (we had to translate an article/story we liked). I don't think the teacher was very impressed with my choice.
Remembering Aaron Swartz - ThoughtWorks
The 'Learn Advanced HTML & CSS' button takes me to a password protected area, I'm guessing that's non-standard behaviour?

Site looks really nice, not got much time to check the content whilst I'm at work but I'll have a better look at it. It certainly seems very clear from the quick scan I had.
Agreed. I went to Japanese elementary school (in college now, so within the last 15 years) and didn't learn this lines method ever.

What I found greatest about the Japanese method of learning multiplication was actually the method for learning single-digit products. The Japanese use a system called "kuku" (translated, "9 by 9") which involves memorizing a rhythmic chant that goes through the entire multiplication table, with each product being concisely expressed in a few syllables. This is made possible by the various ways in which a number can be pronounced in Japanese.

I think the method is made necessary because to say the full products takes a lot of syllables in Japanese (e.g. 7x7=49 would be "nana kakeru nana wa yonjyuu-kyuu"). So perhaps it doesn't differ too much from the way you learn multiplication tables at an English-speaking school, but a cool method nonetheless.

Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hLyzXM53IE
Ask HN: Where and how to "learn" UI design
Hello,

what's the best thing I could do to deeply dive into UI design? I live in Italy. Other than Internet blog etc that talks about it, is there any "school" or course I could follow?

Any suggestion will be very appreciated!

Thanks,
Filippo
In this case probably not, though public pressure may have been a part of it. And MITs statement was less clear on that matter. However, this is not for the prosecution to decide. The prosecution should treat each case equal. If criminal charges haven been brought forward, they must be prosecuted or dismissed solely based on evidence, not based on the victims actions.

Please note that I do not think that the way the prosecution pushed the charges was right.
Thanks for the adult, reasoned perspective Professor Kerr--it was much-needed. I have been dismayed (but not surprised) by the ghoulish treatment of this poor kid. He's a perfect martyr for movement-minded people. The only movement he should inspire right now is a gut check by anyone who is "mentoring" a minor or a troubled young person. Are you mentoring him/her for his/her benefit, or for your own? I'm sure it's immensely flattering for the leading lights of the various hacker and open source, open information movements to have brilliant youngsters sitting at their feet, capering and reacting to their social manifestos. Well, I hope Aaron's whole-hearted devotion was gratifying to SOMEONE. I personally wish he had never been allowed to wander at an impressionable age among the manifesto crowd, who in fact do incite criminal actions by their followers. They have now shown that they will allow themselves to address a child as though he is an adult, and let the chips fall where they may. But of course we all know who the REAL villains are: those who have and attempt to assert property rights. Just astounding. I think I will have to avert my gaze from this crowd of ghouls--I don't want to see a dead kid's face on tee shirts and posters, but that is where this is going.
While there is technically a package manager (as others have pointed out) I think what you mean is that there's no official centralized repository. That's a legitimate complaint I have with Windows and one of the reasons I wouldn't consider going back. It is baffling to me that Windows still requires their users to navigate to firefox.com to install Firefox, etc. For people I introduce to Ubuntu this is a major selling point.