skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe Aaron would agree with you on this:

"[W]hen the system isn’t working, it doesn’t make sense to just yell at the people in it — any more than you’d try to fix a machine by yelling at the gears. True, sometimes you have the wrong gears and need to replace them, but more often you’re just using them in the wrong way. When there’s a problem, you shouldn’t get angry with the gears — you should fix the machine."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5078343
Okay, you can argue that, but the two huge responsibles of the suicide are Aaron himself and the terror based system, in that order.
Said once, of course. Regularly repeated though, it is a scare tactic to push for a settlement, with "up to" merely acting as a plausible deniability device. Being prosecuted is psychologically exhausting, and such tactics introduce lingering thoughts weakening one's mind even more.
Makes a very good point. And it is exactly the same reason why torture is illegal: a sufficiently scary threat will make anybody confess of anything.

The plea system is institutionalized torture.
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I find none of the answers here will work for me. I'm looking to make a small product, which I believe is a great idea. I need to hire designers and developers every now and then.

Borrowing money from people is not an option, and neither is will banks help me in any way — I'm a student,and 17 years old.

I have little or no savings. So yea...
Yes, and evo-psych is usually unfalsifiable. So these studies probably won't show up any time soon.
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"Rules" like this are silly to write down.

By telling people that wearing headphones is a signal that someone wants to be left alone, you're asking people to make assumptions about those of us wearing headphones with no intention to make a statement about our availability.

I wear headphones constantly, as do two of the guys I work with directly. We simply want to drown out office white noise, and wearing just one ear doesn't work for that. If Ryan is wearing headphones, that means he is secretly watching The Daily Show on the clock and there is no better time to interrupt him today. Sometimes my department will focus on changes to system audio, then everyone has headphones on.

Try learning how to ask someone to leave you alone. Or, put a sign up on your desk that says "I'm "not here' today, email me instead", one of our guys does that, its pretty unambiguous.
I have no idea who this guy is, but often "alternative medicine" is very effective. In poorer countries it's often performed by smart professionals, who are using experience accumulated over centuries or even millennia - what plants help what conditions, etc.
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I can't remember its name, but there's an effect whereby syntax and style are discussed more than semantics because they are easier to talk about. This is far from the worst thing about Go.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5078104
1 headphone = one ear covered

2 headphones = both ears covered
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As I've been finding myself thinking lately, US lawmakers and prosecutors need to re-read Beccaria's Of Crimes And Punishments. After its publication in 1764, the framers of the US Constitution were persuaded by its reasoning to amend the Constitution to include a prohibition on "excessive fines" and "cruel and unusual punishments".

Someone please explain to me how the threat of 50 years in federal prison and a million dollars in fines for downloading a bunch of academic papers can be considered to be anything other than "excessive" or "cruel and unusual".
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> After a couple of years of trying to become more outgoing and understanding social mechanisms

Could you elaborate on that or provide links, books, anything that worked for you? I agree with your view and I don't see this ever changing for me, yet I would still like to make these experiences for myself to be honest.
I never said that anyone should harass her. That was your idea. Don't project it on me.

If Carmen Ortiz has done nothing wrong, then what does she have to fear?
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Are there any similar sites to Coursera in terms of offering actual University courses in Nutrition etc rather than just comp sci / engineering?
There is a 6.25% sales tax in all of Texas with counties having the option to raise it an additional 2%.
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You could always talk to yourself?
If you happen to plan on making yet another mobile OS, make sure it runs Android apps. Anything that is a burden to the developers will not fly easily.

Bada OS? It's fast, so what? People slowly get that "smart phone with touch screen and facebook" is not really a selling point and start to look for Google if not iPhone.
Git is not a storage system at all. I was talking about actual physical storage systems that drive requirements for storage software, and there don't seem to be many petabyte-level git repositories. Git doesn't even qualify as storage software, as it delegates all of the real storage tasks to filesystems and such. It's an application that uses storage, much like every other application from emacs to Excel.

Also, have you noticed that git is in user space? Must be a toy, then. Just ask Linus.
Yeah, but it's too late. :-/
Or a set of earphones + a set of headphones. You know, for maximum something.
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Her reasons behind the word choices may have been nefarious (although I hardly believe that either). But she didn't lie or contradict herself, which is what Linus is claiming.
" She said something that was misleading but technically true."

The word I use for that is "lie".
In order to fix the judicial system, we need to fix the underlying system which molds it. Unfortunately, this very system encourages those in power to protect the status quo for personal status instead of societal. Thus, we find ourselves in a system which incentivizes egoism over the accessibility of information.
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No chapter numbers appear on the table of contents, and the chapter title doesn't appear on the chapter pages

By the way, if you update the book, will we get the updates as well?
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When is Sean Parker joining your board...

"Drop the 'The.' Just 'Head Phones Rule.' It's cleaner."
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> 1 headphone = one ear covered

Then no headphones is better. I love my music in stereo.
It wouldn't be accepted. It's not an error by accident.
This also happens organically -- for instance the best IF journal in JCR 2011's statistics & probability group is open access, CC-BY and fully gratis Journal of Statistical Software.
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What I don't get is the 1973 court decision allowing these searches:
"In 1973 the 9th Circuit Court rules on U.S. vs Davis, 482 F.2d 893, 908, there are key pieces of wording that give the TSA its power to search essentially any way they choose to. The key wording in this ruling includes “noting that airport screenings are considered to be administrative searches because they are conducted as part of a general regulatory scheme, where the essential administrative purpose is to prevent the carrying of weapons or explosives aboard aircraft [...] [an administrative search is allowed if] no more intrusive or intensive than necessary, in light of current technology, to detect weapons or explosives, confined in good faith to that purpose, and passengers may avoid the search by electing not to fly.” " (source: http://boardingarea.com/blogs/flyingwithfish/2010/11/20/how-...)

So our forefathers obviously intended "reasonable searches" to include strip-searching the entire population of travelers to ensure they are not bearing arms. Riiight. According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_... ), in colonial America the government regularly searched houses and seized property without warrants (general searches) to enforce taxes. There was a legal battle over this, AND
--->>> John Adams viewed it as the spark in which originated the American Revolution.

Seriously, how in the world can we be so ignorant as to ignore our history and try to enforce constitutional amendments without sensible historical context.
Correct but why make a principled stand on this? Those who wish to claw onto status will like you for this, and those that don't will like you for your underlying personality. The former are quite flawed but they're still people.
From what I know they don't impement ssh-agent. Do you consider ssh-agent as another attack vector or additional security?

If the sandbox is compromised to have file system access, a process can read your keys from ~/.ssh as well as chrome storage files.
Otherwise a webpage has to escape its own sandbox, bypass the native client's sandbox (in a different process) composed of the inner and outer sandbox and then access the native client.

I'm not saying that it's impossible, I'm saying that using a simple analogy as "a house with two doors" might not be the best.
> Every single person I know who has a profile at LinkedIn has falsified somehow their job history, their set of skills or their credentials.

That says more about the company you keep than anything else.
You don't really need to blame someone, but if your life capital depends on hacks like that, then it's a sad life.

Tangentially, Michael Sandel's "What money can't buy" is a good book about the morals of markets:

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> It was always there very much as a threat.

But wouldn't the maximum penalty be there always no matter what the prosecution would do? I mean, isn't the final decision made by the judges, who can give the penalty the deem fit (in the bounds of the law)?
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> Yeah, the state with the surplus.

You mean California?

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-california-budget-surplus...
Citation please? Is that a recent change? Otherwise a $15 fee seems at least an order of magnitude off.

Android hit 200 million activations in November 2011. It hit over 500 million in September 2012.

Assuming the $15 fee was in effect when Android hit 200 million, then Google got roughly $4.5 billion in licensing fees in less than a year. Even Google (earning roughly $2.8 billion last quarter) would probably have trouble hiding that much pocket change in an earnings statement.
Perhaps this isn't the best place for this question, but I know that this is a community of hackers and I can't think of a better audience for it.

I've been eyeing a Raspberry Pi board for some time, but I can't think of what I'd like to do with it. I have NO background in EE - I'm really just a programmer. But I think it would be cool to, say, somehow make a raspberry pi turn my house lights on and off remotely (or via some timer). Now I know that there's the GPIO port on the Pi, but... how do I use it? How do I wire it up?

I think that's my biggest challenge. I have lots of old electronics, and potential uses for the Raspberry Pi, but I haven't the faintest clue about how to wire it all together. Perhaps I'm way out of my element, but I don't even know where to get started. I'd love to see very, very simple Rapsberry Pi hacks using the GPIO ports to interface with existing electronics, so I can get some ideas and so I can learn.

I guess what I'm saying is: I think the Raspberry Pi is really cool for hardware hacks, but I've not got the faintest clue about where to start - only that I want to start somewhere! Does anyone have any ideas?
Seems rather behind the times. MSP (http://msp.org/about/) and others seem to have already shown that "researchers can organize the peer review and publication of their work at minimal cost, without involving commercial publishers".

I understand that this link is talking about something slightly different (basically collecting links to Arxiv instead of "publishing a journal"), but I also don't think this is as ground-breaking as Nature makes it out to be.
> The license to use the name, Google maps, market, etc. is around $15.
Source?
This quote was pretty powerful, for me:

"In this hypothetical scenario, those 10 years in prison would, practically speaking, have consisted of six months for his original crime (the sentence Ortiz actually thought he deserved) plus a nine-and-a-half-year prison term for exercising his constitutional right to a trial."
> you cannot lose (beyond your share of the rake) playing a GT strategy, regardless of what your opponent is doing. This is the basis of what GT is.

What does GT mean here? Not game theoretic, since general Nash equilbria don't have this property. Nash is a strategy where no individual has a motivation to change from the equilibrium.

There are multi-player games that have this property that optimal play always results in statistical winnings, but I doubt that poker is one of them. For example, that would imply that collusion isn't effective against an optimal player.

Heads up is a different matter. There it's fairly elementary game theory that there exists an unexploitable strategy. A brief search says you're probably right, though, about heads up not being solved.
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>> But also his loved ones near him didn't do enough to help.

>You know NOTHING about that and should refrain from such comments.

If you suspect someone is going to harm him/herself, you call 911 and explain as much. They immediately come and forcibly lock the person in a mental institution against their will until a doctor or board decides they're no longer a threat for suicide.

Also, I'm not defending Ortiz in any way. What I am saying is that a lot of people are overreacting. Yes, she's a terrible prosecutor, went way overboard and likely played a role in a young man's death. But to say that he "was killed by the government" (Aaron's father said that) and then for us to focus our anger on Ortiz is absurd. Sure, I can accept the government had a role in his death. But Ortiz is operating within the system that exists, enforcing ToS-violation-is-a-felony precedent that already exists, using multiple counts to force a plea that all prosecutors do.
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What a waste of time and space.
There is going to be work involved somewhere. It's not going to just fall on your lap.
The OP offers up Python as an example of "weightlessness", which I take as meaning "it will execute any code it can parse." Languages with this kind of tolerance require exhausting levels of diligence to verify assumptions and ensure consistency in a development team.

Go's pedantic compiler and style enforcement fade pretty quickly into the background with practice and a reasonable text editor. The pain of trying to fix mixed metaphors between modules in Python never will.

As an aside, here is the solution to your fmt.Println problem:

func traceln(v ... interface{}) {
fmt.Println(v...)
}

Just bind the function, and you can comment or uncomment traceln to your heart's desire.
> 1 headphone, you can talk to me if i like.

How is someone supposed to know in advance whether you 'like'? isn't that the whole point of the headphones?

or was this supposed to say "if you like"?
OK but you don't do that for other peoples industrial control units.

Look I've done MAC spoofing, switched UA's, tunnelling, used VPNs and such; it's not rocket science - certainly a moderately computer able person with legal training is going to be able to understand such things.

It's like signing up for multiple API keys in contravention of the ToS, you know it's not authorised.

There's nothing especially technical about what happened my only incredulity is that anyone supposes a person doing such a hack wouldn't know it's not _authorised_ (ie countenanced by the system owners). The first thought in addressing the access limit is that switching IP and/or MAC and/or UA is likely to enable access to 3(?) more JSTOR docs - but there's a realisation implicit within that of the JSTOR owners having only authorised a very limited access.

Now if we're talking about the ridiculousness of the proposed sentence that's an entirely different matter ...

As an aside I'm surprised no-one has crowdsourced the gathering of all JSTOR docs, they'd need an index, a script to pass the links to a person for download and a repository for upload. It would be just as copyright infringing as any other method but far harder to trace - the majority of it could be automated I'd expect (perhaps not the JSTOR registration).
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Proud of efforts at fairness, Ortiz is "terribly upset" at allegations
Aaron killed himself for reasons we do not know. We are all saddened because of that loss and I understand that emotions are running high, but please keep in mind that he reportedly was suffering from a depression. The pressure from the investigation probably added to all of that, but the whole case may have just been a trigger or even an unrelated event. Depressive people sometimes kill themselves for a variety of reasons that mentally stable people would shrug off and ignore.

Crying out loud "But Aaron killed himself, his death must mean something." just does not help any cause. He was a bright, talented man who got caught up in a legal case that highlights major problems with the way criminal cases get resolved. Focussing on that and highlighting the problems should be the goal, not revenge for his death.
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There has been many open/free publications in the scientific community. The basic idea is that if most of the work (writing, formatting, reviewing and selecting) is done by researchers for free anyway, why should the same researchers (or their institutions) pay for the privilege of accessing these papers.

Such efforts remain marginal because in my experience the tenured professor who decides which work to publish where tends to select well established commercial outlets which supposedly have a better name/impact/reputation/fame and all that goes with it.
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Wow you really know everything don't you?

It says that they’re ordinary folks who would like to be perceived a little better than their current status. I guess your acquaintances are all super successful people who have nothing to lie about regarding their professional life. It must be so boring for you addressing mere mortals like us, with flaws and everything.
I think this is where we're branching apart - I see pagination as part of that pre-filtering against a larger dataset.

Having a dataset your web server can crunch and cache is just one use case.
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Well, I had to bring industrial earmuffs (30 dB) while working for one customer, as there was such a noise in their office (lots of people shouting at each other) that strong in-ear phones were not good enough.
You need to drill before you'll know where/if that pipeline will be needed. Once you have estabilished that the oil is coming from that exact spot, only then you can start pouring in money to connect that spot and not the dozens of others which are dry.

There's an old army joke - the sargeant tells the troops: "You start digging here, here, and there; while I'll go find out which direction is needed".
Quantum computers don't work this way.

Solving 1024-bit key in SHA (or sth) will take as much as 512-bit key using a comparable traditional computer. So it's still hard, and will always be.
Is this then a Freedom of Information request from a citizen in each state?

Basically we seem to be certain that plea bargains are both denying large numbers of people trials and doing so with draconian threats that make both guilty and Innocent afraid

It makes a good narrative - it would be nice to know it is true

And it would be nicer to know it in real time (ie putting court records into electronic form)
Any crime has a maximum sentence. If I rob a store, there's a maximum sentence. If I kill a man, there's a maximum sentence. If I cross on red, there's a maximum sentence. Depending on the circumstances I may or may not get a lower sentence. But the maximum sentence is always there and you might get it - the decision is up to the judge. So all the prosecutor can say "The maximum sentence is 35 years" and maybe add "and I'm seeking 6 years, but the decision is up to the judge."
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