skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw this in Sydney. I kind of hated it. What we have here is someone who drops a hundred thou a year on Lego and builds realistic 3D sculptures by gluing the pieces together into suspiciously realistic computer-generated forms.

It would have made mediocre art in any other medium, and it's not actually Lego building (if you're gluing the parts together). Meh.
Yep, and just as annoying. Hundreds of posts with the same arguments happening over and over.
According to Clay Conrad, author of this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Jury-Nullification-The-Evolution-Doctr...

And according to an article that he wrote in 2003[1]:

Jury nullification occurs in 3-4% of all criminal trials. Jurors cannot be ordered to convict or punished for acquitting. A jury verdict of Not Guilty is final.

[1]: http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/05/a-guide-to-surviving-...
I second this. Especially the first one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_a_typewriter

I think it will be hard to remove ENOTTY. It is documented differently now, but as you can see, the error message is still there.
Good point. Because of the bad ergonomics I hedged my bet and only said the mouse "may" become obsolete, but it didn't occur to me that full-size displays could sit flat (or very shallowly inclined?) on a desk.
In the US justice system, one is technically always innocent until judged guilty. He had only just begun the legal process. Sadly, the American system has evolved into an administrative model where confessing to something is mandatory to avoid a pernicious experience.

My sincere condolences to his friends and family.
For people using npm, check out the 'int' and 'num' modules.
I live in Israel, where if you start your day by reading the news, you will fall into a depression that, if lucky, will last until you fall asleep.
I was shocked because I too was expecting spin and instead got a promise of action.

The fact that they are taking this so seriously speaks volumes...too bad it took Aaron killing himself for them to analyze their actions.
It is a relevant quote, but it should be said that infrastructure facilitates commerce and that the New and Old World - despite Thoreau's humbuggary - had much to talk about. He would probably disapprove of the Internet in specific and modernity in general.
"TLDR" is unnecessary
JDK 7u11 Release Notes
Apparently you do.
This place needs more public interest lawyers. It does not need more questions about whether its participants deserve to call themselves that. Please stop doing this.
Show HN : Side projectors - what are you building?
I intended to up vote this (downvoted by accident as I am reading on my phone)
I'm looking forward to this. I have two great rooms that may have a dozen active devices at any moment. I'm ok with the single-room applications for both of these common areas.

I can imagine a lot of similar places in offices. Cubicles could have antanae attached or be made of a material that is more willing to reflect the beams; much easier than pulling wires.
True or False: a federal prosecutor decided to charge Aaron Swartz with 35 years in federal prison for downloading pdfs from JSTOR [1].

True or False: Lawrence Lessig, Alex Stamos (an expert witness) and Swartz's own family said that the overzealous and vastly disproportionate prosecution was the principal factor in his suicide.

The real witch-hunt was led by Carmen Ortiz and Steve Heymann and ended in Swartz's death. Witches don't exist, and the evil hacker of their imagination did not exist. Your proposal to be "better than this" seems to mean remaining silent, averting our eyes, and pretending that this was some act of nature like a mudslide. As for whether we should have done something beforehand: how could we have? Lessig himself said that the government had effectively muzzled Swartz to prevent him from defending himself online or alerting others to the severity of his situation.

There were specific people here to blame. If you believe the US Attorney's charges were merited, that they should not face discipline, that seeing a sitting US prosecutor forced to resign would not have the requisite "deterrent effect", or that we should all remain silent and accept this -- just say so. Otherwise your critique is contentless, and a recommendation for Aaron's death to be meaningless.

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120917/17393320412/us-gov...

EDIT:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5052033

And a court would have no choice but to find him guilty, as
that is the purpose of the judiciary. A court cannot let
someone walk after a crime simply because the law itself is
unjust.

OK, pretty clear where you stand. You are not really arguing against "overreaction", you actually think he should have been found guilty. What you are not taking into account is the direct personal responsibility of the prosecutor for the disproportionality of the charges.
For local ordinances and state laws, geographic boundaries in which they could apply is fairly straightforward. Specific context (beach, club, &c) would be harder, to say the least.
I usually listen to one of the Music for Programming[1] mixes, and when I'm in the mood for more ambient music I listen to Brian Eno.

[1] http://musicforprogramming.net/
Good. Nokia's S40 based devices are awesome. They are the last bastion of sense in the mobile communications market.

I've just replaced by Lumia 710 with a Nokia C2-01 on pre-pay. It cost bugger all, last literally days to the point I don't have to carry a fucking charger on me 24/7 any more, bounces when you drop it, actually has decent call quality and I can actually type on it without smashing my face on a lamp post every few minutes because I have to spend all my time staring at it to correct mistakes. Plus the sound quality is better when playing mp3s and the alarm clock is actually audible (the Lumia one is like an ant farting). And if I break it or lose it, I will just shrug and buy another one for less than the monthly contract bill of a Lumia 920.

I have willingly traded convenient browsing, email [1], apps and all that shit for a phone that actually works properly when I need it to. In fact it's improved my life because I'm not constantly bugged and distracted by the damn thing.

I've had an iPhone 4, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy S3, HTC Desire recently and they are all just as horrible so this is not specific to the Lumia but the whole "SmartPhone" concept.

[1] It actually has a good IMAP4 client in it but I haven't bothered to use it past an initial test as email is annoying me.
My answer relates to experiences getting started in malware analysis rather than microcontroller assembler, but it might be useful to you :)

I took an interest in malware analysis last autumn and cant recommend the book Practical Malware Analysis enough. It introduces the subject to a beginner including the wide variety of skills required and tools used. One of the best things about the book is the malware samples supplied for analysis at the end of each chapter and then the detailed walk-throughs of how it should have been done.

The book focusses on windows malware and thus discusses x86 assembly, both an introduction to and identifying the constructs of higher level languages on dissassembly.

I immediately looked to supplement the information on assembly however. First with the Linux Assembly and Windows assembly "megaprimers" on securitytube.net, then with the Intermediate Intel x86 series of video lectures on opensecuritytraining.info. The quality of the latter was very good, so much so that I may go back and watch the introductory x86 lectures as well. I'm not usually a fan of video tutorials, but I thought the format suited the topic quite well.

I've stopped looking into malware analysis for now due to work, part time college and side projects that will hopefully lead to better work in the short term. I do look forward to picking it up again in the future though, its really quite fascinating.
For quite some time there were API calls in Facebook that would return the ID's as numbers, not strings. It wasn't specific to the entire API though, only some calls would show the behaviour. As you can imagine, PHP did not like it. It was rather irritating...
> It's furthermore frankly insulting to think that (a) anyone is glorifying his suicide (or did you miss the many suicide hotline links, links to posts saying "don't do what Aaron did", etc., on the front page yesterday?), or that (b) someone who is already depressed/suicidal hasn't already engaged in some suicidal ideation.

While I fully agree with you that this is not glorifying suicide, it does normalize suicide and create social proof that may make it easier for others to carry out theirs. The specific application of this to suicide is sometimes called the Werther effect (after Goethe's character), after an alleged "wave" of suicides across Europe after the publication of The Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774.

For a more modern take, according to Cialdini's book "Influence" (I have read the book but not chased down the refenced paper), Phillips, D.P.'s "Airplane Accidents, Murder and the Mass Media: Towards a Theory of Imitation and Suggestion" estimates almost 50 excess deaths due to airplane and car crashes alone in the US in the few months following a highly publicized suicide.

Of course it is hard to prove a direct causal link here, but a particularly chilling part of this research that makes the causation likely showed that there was a strong correlation between the type of "accidents" and the type of suicide: If the publicized suicide was "just" a suicide, the largest increase in car accidents was lone drivers driving into obstacles etc. If it was a murder-suicide, the largest increase in "accidents" were drivers with passengers and/or drivers hitting other cars.

The "Werther effect" is well known enough that in many places, journalists self-censor reporting of them. E.g. in Norway it was until very recently considered ethically dubious for newspapers to report a suicide (the death would be reported, but the cause would be left out or obscured), and while that's loosened up somewhat, media is still generally very cautious about it.

I'm not saying people should not discuss this suicide. But on the other hand, downplaying the effect it is likely to have on other people who may be on the cusp of making the decision, is not great either.
I think this highly depends on the what you consider "news". Aaron mentioned things you find on the front page — those usually are short pieces of the latest information without much context or in-depth analysis. I don't think he wanted to condemn background articles, no matter if they are published in a newspaper or elsewhere (he mentions "longer-form essays or thoughtful books").

With this in mind, I agree with him — I benefit more from comprehensive articles describing long-term developments than from the latest events in some affair that affects me way too little for these details to matter to me. This is not to say that the happenings in faraway countries are something I ought not to know about, however, a short summary after the events have passed would usually suffice.
They responded to the petition for Obama to resign and to allow secession...the response may be whitewashed (or, rather, not to people's liking), but it at least puts the case in the spotlight again. And for those who think Ortiz's political career should carry this baggage, it becomes harder for her to disassociate her history from this.
> I have to admit that I have no idea how I would react to being pushed by the system to this extent.

What about trying to apply for a political asylum in some other country?
That’s not what jury nullification is for – not in the sense you are talking about it.

The possibility of jury nullification is an inevitable consequence of how the US justice system is set up. There is no way around it. It’s a property of the system, not a intentionally designed feature.

Put another way: For juries to have meaningful power, jury nullification has to be a possibility.

I also think it’s illusory to believe that jury nullification is in any kind of way a meaningful escape. It’s a fluke, nothing more.
I agree that this place needs more public interest lawyers.

Informed ones, rather than state level prosecutors that try to wash their professions hands clean without some introspection on cause and effect.
The author of this filing is making an argument before the court, not chiding Swartz personally. More importantly: I'm unclear on whether its author is US Attorney Carmen Ortiz or her deputy AUSA Stephen Heymann. I believe the distinction is meaningful; Heymann would have been responsible for the superseding indictment and the overall prosecution strategy; the former is a political appointee who may be supporting her deputies just like anyone else in her position would be doing.

Heymann is a nationally recognized authority in the prosecution of computer crimes, and if he's responsible for the overall strategy used by the prosecution, it's him most of all you'd want to see accountable; not just because removing Ortiz (which will for what it's worth never happen) wouldn't remove him, but also because he's the key national influencer in cybercrime prosecution, not Ortiz.
Not necessarily, and it is controversial. I read the indictment and have followed the case and, though I'm not a lawyer, it seems to me that most of the charges were dubious, at best. They seem to have over-charged him, perhaps to extract a plea deal. In other words, the prosecutors may not have even expected to be able to convict him on all counts.

You cited nothing, and your claims are impossible to back with reasonable facts. I suspect you haven't even read about the case (though I see in some of your other comments that you claim to be familiar with the facts).

You want us to be "better", and I agree that anger after the fact is less ideal than anger beforehand. But making ridiculous statements about guilt or innocence is just as bad as condemning the prosecutors for murder.
I've been looking for a prettyprint replacement. Is that what you are going after here?
M C Escher (and more) in Lego
Show HN: Teoria.js - Music theory for JavaScript
There was plenty of outrage (and lack of it) on other sites (and I assume here too), when the charges were made known.

It's really hard to say if punishment fits the crime when the evidence isn't available (so we can't really say what the crimes were) and what the punishment is; we only know the statutory maximums. Without a trial, verdict and sentencing we don't what the punishment is aside from the conditions of release which I don't think were unreasonable http://ia600504.us.archive.org/29/items/gov.uscourts.mad.137... )
Same road in Beijing, Jan 9 vs 12, showing difference in visible air quality.

http://twitpic.com/buocrx
Indeed there's a lot of emotions involved, but that's because people know Aaron well and what he did wasn't worth 35 year jail intimidation. I think you inverted the meaning of reactionaries, this is not a conservative movement, it's actually about changing the state of justice.

Hate to repeat myself but this information is important:

Aaron's "crime" - http://unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the-truth-about-aaron-swartz...

Strategies to disable legal defense - http://www.forbes.com/sites/harveysilverglate/2013/01/03/bla...
Whithey's case seems to be related the same attorney(Ortiz)
no, correct way is disbarment
So a cheaper device is selling more units than a more expensive one? This hardly seems newsworthy. If the Asha was making more profit then perhaps something interesting might be happening but there's no indication that this is the case. Perhaps a better headline would be "Nokia Asha sold 9.3m units in Q4".
Ask HN: Do you register on your competitor's site...
Would you register and log on to your competitors' site as a customer to check out their features? Or have you found out your competitors registering on yours as customer to check out your features? Would you use a real name? Is it immoral?
Family blames US attorneys for death of Aaron Swartz
What I didn't understand from the article is: Do they have death sentence for obscenity?
He was accused of committing a felony. There's quite a difference.
Did you read the whole article?

"With the time people waste reading a newspaper every day, they could have read an entire book about most subjects covered and thereby learned about it with far more detail and far more impact than the daily doses they get dribbled out by the paper. But people, of course, wouldn’t read a book about most subjects covered in the paper, because most of them are simply irrelevant."
Bounce iPhone app
Well, tar is the Tape ARchiver, so that makes more sense. It just happens that everything is a file in unix, whether it's a file or a tape driver.
Not good for a house, but very useful for apartments in large buildings. You can have one wireless AP in each room (connected to eachother with wires), and almost no interference from the neighbours.
"I think following the news is a waste of time."

I'm sure this plaid a role in him being so productive.

But I do think its my obligation to read the news. Even if it makes me less productive. Without the news I would have never learned about Aarons hack and his trial.
Of course, just knowing the news is not enough. One has to act. In the case of Aaron, we didn't act.
Is Kristin Lee a state prosecutor? All I see is "public interest lawyer". If she's worked as a prosecutor, we should 10000x more want her here. I'm trying my best to find someone who's worked as a prosecutor to explain the mentality behind the baffling-in-retrospect decisions made in the Swartz prosecution.

It is very obvious how upset you are. But we should want more perspectives, not fewer, especially from people with actual legal training.
Probably a bad idea to mention that you might consider that in such a permanent and easily query-able forum, lest you ever actually have to do that.

It would suck to be sitting in a court room some day and have yourself declared a flight risk because you said on hacker news a few years ago that you would absolutely be a flight risk.

On an unrelated note, I have always admired Socrates' response to Crito.
They do, you just have to request it:

//Python
>>> repr(1000000 * 8.2)
'8199999.999999999'
>>> "%lf" % (1000000 * 8.2)
'8200000.000000'
From an email three days ago from a friend who's a teacher in Beijing:

Pollution levels were at super high, stay inside or die today.
I can now predict the pollution levels by "how bad the air tastes".
Copper is one.
If zombies were to come walking down the street here, I would not bat an eye.
I live in an apocalyptic /hyper capitalistic waste land.
The lightning talks were impressively high quality, on the whole.

On the social/political side, I loved http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2012/29c3-5305-en-long_l...
It's more about conveying a perspective than information, though.
For some fun: Fnord News Show (translations should be included)

I've heard Everycook was good, too. Still need to watch it.

For some mathematics/security: Facthacks

Topmost on my to-watch list right now: Hacking Cisco phones.
yes yes no no
Do we care? The next thing he will suggest: let's censor, let's break the web, let's put people in the jail, let's force parents to spy on their children, let's take parenting rights from ones who don't. Let's create a police state because he doesn't like porn.

His problems with porn is just his problems. I suggest dealing with it.
Without the news I would have never learned about Aarons hack and his trial.

Maybe it depends on how you define "news". Everything I know about Aaron Swartz, I know from following links I encountered here. True, this is a "news" site, but it's filtered news; I think that's an important point. The problem with "mainstream" news media is not just that they're bad at reporting; they're also bad at filtering, because their filter criterion is what will sell papers/get more viewers, rather than what information is genuinely of value to the most readers.
> Javascript doesn’t have integer type but lets you think it has

Actually, JS has integer typed arrays.

new Uint8Array([1,100,300])
[1, 100, 44]

new Uint16Array([-1,2,300])
[65535, 2, 300]

new Uint32Array([-1,2,300])
[4294967295, 2, 300]

Here's the spec:

https://www.khronos.org/registry/typedarray/specs/latest/#7
What We Lack in a Hyperconnected World
Essentially a non-issue. But it is a funny message to get :)

Here's the original tweet - https://twitter.com/rkkski/status/288956938778189824

It's been known for quite a while that Windows Phone 8 actually utilises the Windows NT kernel rather than the previous Windows CE based one, which was used by Windows Phone 7.x and Windows Mobile etc.

I'd imagine this is just a case a generic error message (for this situation) that was coded with the assumption by the original developer(s) that it would always be a desktop based product.

Also, check out Windows running on ARM photos in this old blog post - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windo...
That interface looks a lot like MeeGo, which is great. Is it just me who sees that?

Such a shame we never really got to a phone mass-marketed with it.
> Is Kristin Lee a state prosecutor?

Yes. By her own account.

> If she's worked as a prosecutor, we should 10000x more want her here.
> I'm trying my best to find someone who's worked as a prosecutor to explain the mentality behind the baffling-in-retrospect decisions made in the Swartz prosecution.

Agreed, but she has already made up her mind. Aaron killed himself because he was mentally ill, and that's that as far as she's concerned.

> It is very obvious how upset you are.

You don't know the half of it.

> But we should want more perspectives, not fewer, especially from people with actual legal training.

This I agree with. But attempting to whitewash this is not very productive.
"[The news'] obsession with the criminal and the deviant makes us less trusting people. Its obsession with the hurry of the day-to-day makes us less reflective thinkers. Its obsession with surfaces makes us shallow."
I assume you saw the post on the Windows phone. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5051291 ). Windows is an interesting case: Microsoft is still the incumbent; Windows is royalty, and the press loves photos of royalty with their pants down. (iOS is in a similar position.)

Ubuntu is in slightly different situation, and people would more willingly forgive glitches as long as they are trying. Swartz's point (among others) about the Hollywood launch was that the more you set yourself up as glassy and untouchable, the more people want you to fail, and the bigger you usually do. So, if Ubuntu/Canonical suffers the same sort of articles as the Windows phone article from earlier it will have probably been because they took themselves so seriously that people became all too eager to point out their flaws. It's the Streisand effect on marketing hype. As soon as you say "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" everyone starts tugging at the curtain. "No touching" already works poorly for geeks (and at this stage, I think only geeks care about Ubuntu on a phone), and even less well for a company that built all their offerings on free software.

As for traction, I think Android could work to Canonical's advantage. I don't know how much Google "needs" Android, but they even might benefit from outsourcing the platform. (Those Android phones could pretty easily become Ubuntu phones.) Dalvik's open-source, so there's no reason to think Ubuntu wouldn't be able to run Android software out of the box. Ultimately platforms are less fertile than the standards they embody, so if Ubuntu becomes only "another Linux phone" it's still fine by me.