skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And here is Ortiz in her own press release telling the entire world the DOJ is threatening Swartz with a maximum penalty of 35 years and $1M in fines:
http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR.....
AARON SWARTZ, 24, was charged in an indictment with wire
fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information
from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a
protected computer. If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ
faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three
years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a
fine of up to $1 million. "

That quote in no way says what you claim it does. It makes a comment (as every DOJ press release does) stating the material fact of the maximum penalties available based on the charges laid.

It doesn't say anything about "prosecutors are seeking..."
The day wikipedia was blocked npr broadcast a story about some poor dumb dumb who couldn't do their job because they couldn't access wikipedia. They really wanted me to feel sorry for her. Then a few stories later a reporter talked to someone who could still access wikipedia, and that someone explained how. I hoped that poor lady was listening.
Nice! Just want to point out, this seems to be referring to the original APC, which is now called APC 8750, not the Paper. (They mention getting a case for it, while the Paper is new and comes in a case.)

http://apc.io/products/8750a/
Europe is a major consumer and is desperate to stop relying on Russia.
I think many professions have to put up with the condescending and patronizing bullshit that this article reveals. This is exactly why tech corps are ruined. A few business grads get into the top and convince the company that anyone who has to think to do their jobs is infantile. It's quite sickening but is a natural part of the death of a corporation.
What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
Do you really think a criminal defense attorney would do that? Just go around telling lies?!
"I think this is really one of the core reasons so many hackers disagree with this lawyer mindset. A hacker or an entrepreneur is someone who breaks rules to create something. Innovation and consensus are antonyms, not synonyms. Innovation does not happen by committee."

Honest question, curious about response: I get your general point about "breaking rules", but do you think it needs to be taken literally to the point of breaking laws? Is that an imperative call to action for all modern hackers? And furthermore, would you recommend Aaron take this action again, if given the choice? Would you recommend we all take similar actions?
"you should know" and "you did know beyond reasonable doubt" are two different things, particularly when it comes to prosecution.

Running open networks without explicitly communicating and agreeing terms of use with your users really does muddy the water in these cases.
Thanks, which one do you use?
How Redbox Instant is gamifying its beta test
"probably"? Yes, it is.

Heaven forbid when someone 'kill's the Apache instance on aaronsw.com...

EDIT: Sorry, this might seem a bit harsh/shallow, but it was my attempt at pointing out that there is a reaction here that is, in parts, bordering on the hysterical - to use the parent example, "I'm sure the use of 'terminated' is probably just legal terminology"... as opposed to what, "Yeah, we got him, target terminated"?
Nashorn Voted In as a Successor to Rhino in the OpenJDK Project
Again computer literacy is mistaken for "using PowerPoint"

The benefits in open source, platform neutral software where all government development is put back into the commons is going to be huge and is what the Germans are recommending

Then the article (and to be fair the German debate) focuses on whether spreadsheets in MS Office are easier to use than Open Office

This is like suggesting we should teach our children to read and write, and then people suggesting that Microsoft comic books have better pictures in them so it's easier to work out the story.

Aaarrgghh
> If the interaction is non-iterated, yes. In an iterated interaction you can't--or rather, you can but the other person will just retaliate by ceasing to cooperate...

You're assuming things about the nature of the equilibrium that I don't think you can assume.

There is I think an illuminating but relatively unexplored set of parallels between human social dynamics and algorithms. There is a lot of social theory that is predicated on assumptions that can be likened to the assumption that a given optimization problem has greedy solution. Convergence versus divergence, the existence of polynomial time algorithms to solve particular problems, etc, I think all have a lot of potential to illuminate social theory.
If you keep using plugins, you're probably going to want to understand how they work since you can't always rely on the person developing them. That said, I'm STOKED that this is finally back!
It takes TIME to build pipelines to move the natural gas brought up by oil drilling operations to natural gas customers.

Perhaps it would be prudent to wait for that TIME to pass before beginning extraction? If my excuse for dumping trash in a nearby river was that it takes TIME to come up with a way to dispose of it, and I could be being doing other things meanwhile, I don't think the authorities would look kindly on it.
The Trading Profits of High Frequency Traders
Yep, rough of iPhone, too.
"Staggering possibilities managed by rules: that's also a description of natural language. The difference is, when it comes to natural language, we've had lots of time to deal with it. Our brains have evolved pockets that just do language-y stuff. When I write, I benefit from this history. When it comes to programming, we're just getting started. Our brains need help."

From what I've read (reading On Intelligence currently), language is far too new for our brains to have evolved any significant optimizations for it. We owe our processing ability to the amazing versatility of the neocortex - something that can adapt to nearly any sequential input we throw at it.

The same mechanism is at play for understanding programming - we just don't tend to be bombarded with code from the age of zero or use it directly to get food or sex as life progresses.
Interesting - is there a public listing of which states this is true?
Quite possibly true. However, I'm not talking about everyone who didn't vote, I'm talking about people who would vote if the system were different or if the outcome of the election in their area were more likely to be different.

This can roughly be seen by the difference in voter participation in swing states vs non swing states, not everyone who doesn't vote at all. (I'm assuming the people who don't vote in swing states wouldn't vote under a popular vote or different election system).

There's also the fact that get out the vote campaigns and campaign advertising would be conducted differently under different election systems. Under the current system, neither presidential campaign advertised much in Vermont or Oklahoma, but under a different system they might have, and the actual percentages coming out of those states might have been different.

All I'm really trying to say is that it's difficult to look at the results of one election system and easily predict what the results would be under a different system. The results under our current system may still be generally representative of what we'd get.
We Are This Future
I generally agree with your analysis, however you will find that lawyers disagree on the threat assessment. A prosecuting lawyer always says "these are the charges [specific charges] which carry a maximum sentence of [worst possible sentence]" and rarely (and never that I can find for first time convictions) are those maximums given.

The implication in the press, and denied now by Orbitz, is that she told Aaron's lawyer that she was going to ask for, demand even, the maximum sentence. And she has denied that was ever the case. His lawyers can confirm or deny that.

There is more to hear about the intransigence of MIT in their willingness to accept a lesser sentence as well. As with many things, everyone reporting on this has reason to shade the words to advance their point of view, and so it takes a lot of work to be discerning.
Apparently a material statement of fact that charges x, y, and z could result in a sentence of up to 35 years is a "threat"?

People have shown a great ability to leap into conflating the two, a statement of intent versus a statement of fact.
LinkedIn recruitment is different. If someone contacts you via LinkedIn, then they've already seen your photo and are interested regardless. There's little or no way to prove that someone even saw your profile on LinkedIn and then passed up contacting you for a job.

In the case of DeveloperAuction, I'm assuming that if you have a photo, then the potential employers are going to see it. If a 45 year old with similar qualifications as a 25 year old doesn't get offers from the same companies as the 25 year old, it opens up the potential for lawsuits -- this might be over-simplifying. I'm not qualified to comment on how much standing a lawsuit like this would have, but it's certainly happened in similar situations before. That's why photos are a no-no in recruiting in the U.S.
Surely this will improve with time as you said. The dev tools will only get better as Android continues to grow and enter into new markets like appliances, cars, etc.
Nowhere in there did I see you say "I invest my savings to earn a return over inflation." Do you consider that non-viable?
It may be good to see this in the New York Times. But others (like, for example, Glenn Greenwald, both at salon.com and at guardian.co.uk) have made this point many, many, many times. And at least Greenwald I think would agree that one should strike one word from that headline. To be exempt from execution, at the sole discretion of the U.S. president, just because one happens to hold a U.S. passport, is still not a desirable position to be in.
Effing clever - love it.

http://www.getyog.com/

One suggestion: Make "yog" more meaningful w/ a better tagline. "Run with friends" isn't very descriptive, exciting, or memorable. Is there a way you can use rhyming or alliteration in there to make it stick more?

Yog - Jog wars!

Hell, I quit. Never mind. You do that. I clearly am no good haha
raise = working less

I went from 40 to 32 hours in the past years on different jobs when I got a raise. Sometimes I prefer free time over money.
Thanks! The goal is to support a community of people actually exercising together, beyond talking about it before and after the fact.
Yes to all of the above questions. As to the specific one about breaking rules vs laws, a moral or patriotic individual has a civic duty, in a democratic society, to disregard or oppose rules and laws which they believe to be immoral or wrong. Hackers, of all people, should know this.
If you mean configChanges, I would strongly recommend against it because it is a bad practice and it probably wouldn't work in this case anyway (no activity recreation = no multi-panel layout on a 7-inch landscape screen).
do you know if there have been any attempts to solve other perhaps simpler forms of poker? in particular, five card draw seems like it could be "solved"...
This column will change your life: creative thinking
Five Signs a Startup is Ready for Marketing
It only dominates (and has dominated for basically the whole existence of internet chess) because games are short, fun, and non-committal. Playing a tournament game means spending hours on one game. That's exhausting and not something people "do for fun." On the other hand, you can get in a dozen 5 minute games in around an hour.

Computers still overpower humans on 5 0 chess. Even a crappy non-optimized bot I wrote can get 12 levels of the tree plus quiescence essentially instantly.
A lot of demand is transfer: due to shale extraction technology, the cost of US gas is significantly lower than the cost many consumers pay in other countries. Therefore, they can replace their current supply with US production at a lower cost (even after the relatively high cost of liquefaction and transport).
It sounds useful when you phrase it that way, but a little less so if you rephrase it like this:

"Everyone buys things that depreciate in value. Rich people can also afford to buy some things that appreciate in value."
> i wonder how this relates to the numbers behind the peak oil predictions?

+880K barrels/day of production is a significant up-tick in US oil production, but I bet it will end up looking like some fluctuation around the prediction line of Hubberts model[1].

Fracking shale rock 2 km below the surface is just another step towards an EROI of 1:1. The fact that it is considered economically viable now just means that the easier oil sources are gone; not exactly a good sign.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/US...
Please do, I'd love to read it and see the results.

I, too, have thousands of images. The camera did ice up a bit on the way up and fog up a bit on the way down, but there is still some great imagery in there.
Lenovo ThinkPad Chromebook - for schools
Sure, I see the confusion.

So basically, you bring the data, pick the neural network architecture you want to use, and set its parameters. The model trains on the data you've given it using a GPU cluster (which still takes a while)

'spanish_speech_recognizer' is the name of the model you just trained, where 'MRNN' is the actual architecture (a multiplicative recurrent neural network as described in http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ilya/pubs/2011/LANG-RNN.pdf) used in the example.

So the models themselves aren't pre-defined, but the architectures you can use are. You can play with a lot of different parameters (if you want), but you don't have to worry about optimizing the code for GPU or making sure your implementation of the algo itself is correct. At least that's the idea.
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Three hours in the life of a (glorified) "data scientist"
Threw an exception from a method that throws no exceptions -- wait, what?
This reminded me of James Hamilton's blog post [1], about 48 Atom servers in 3U, or 624 servers into a standard 42U rack [2]. Shows you where the industry is headed.

[1] http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2012/12/11/MicroserverMarke...

[2] http://www.quantaqct.com/en/01_product/02_detail.php?mid=27&...
Obama Proposes Funding for Game Violence Studies
> (given that the activity has already been put in the domain of law versus free markets).

However, it is important to realize that in the case of computer networks, "the law" hasn't done the requisite work to analyze the domain and create appropriately scoped proscriptions. Instead, it has taken the expedient way of making everything illegal unless explicitly allowed (with possible three decade sentence), and then letting a small autocracy (prosecutor/court) decide individuals' fates.
I think you are conflating "Gasland" (documentary) with "Promised Land" (movie from Matt Damon).
Go concurrency patterns
Oh, look.

Lobster.
It's difficult to reply to this because there are lots of moving, intertwining parts. I'll label them, I guess

1) I didn't assume political apathy, but I did assume apathy about this particular case.
2) His responses suggested that he was somewhat concerned with politics outside of HN.
3) My use of "these sorts of issues" did suggest that I meant politics in general, but I meant *this* brand.
4) I did not suggest that HN was a vehicle for political awareness in general, but rather than this brand of politics is well-placed on HN.
5) I also suggested that this particular brand of politics do belong on HN given its criteria.

I realize this isn't my best writing, but I'm running on very little sleep and I don't have the energy for the dozen proofreadings and rewordings that I normally give my posts. I hope that my meaning can be accurately discerned.
Just curious, are you using an existing library like Theano, Torch or some other GPU-enabled lib?
How many ppl still using PHP 5.3.6?
Neo4j Blog: Fun with Beer - and Graphs
Interestingly, the practice is not obviously unconstitutional. As American citizens they almost certainly have due process rights, but the question of "what process is due" when U.S. soldiers have been trying to hunt you in Afghanistan for years is not a quick and easy one. "Due process" does not always require a trial, though in cases where the deprivation is life it almost always has meant that.

I wonder how you even get a test case for this. Who has standing to sue?
If you enjoyed this, I recommend the Unix-Haters Handbook:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix-Haters_Handbook

(I love Unix, and C, and Ruby, and yes, they're all awful, festering examples of "worse is better".)
> He broke the law. Which means he is a criminal.

Which law? Spoofing your MAC address law?

First of all, he hasn't been convicted of ANY law breaking. Secondly, if Ortiz wanted a lesser sentence and was 100% sure he was going to be convicted (the criminal part), she could have brought one count to avoid the stiffer sentencing.
Any insight into what sort of work culture Apple has now?
For sure, of course the problem comes when you have several separate groups of friends and it becomes more than once a month.
OpenERP 7.0 is out
Using blocks for looping (i.e. using callbacks) is actually a great feature. See Oleg Kiselyov's spirited defense of callbacks (as opposed to iterator objects) here: http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/LL3-collections-enumerators.txt

The fact that `break`, `next`, and `return` work the way they do in blocks is a remarkable simplification; it turns a set of constructs that work only on loops into functional constructs that work on functions, broadening their usefulness.
Gets stuck on the second 'magic in progress' page :(
Please don't let stories like this discourage you from playing tournament chess. There are tens of thousands of tournaments each year, and typically just 1 or 2 incidents of cheating. There will always be some element of cheating in any competitive endeavor, whether it's business, academia, sports, video games, etc. If you enjoy chess, play chess! :)
This is an excellent analysis of Ivanov's suspect games by FIDE master Valeri Lilov. His conclusion–there is little doubt Ivanov was cheating. He also details several low cost plausible methods Ivanov could have used.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J...
> But almost everybody that likes sodoku already has one installed

How many new Android phones are activated every day?
100% agree. Bashing on other languages, as the author has done, makes him look childish, but worse, does the community a disservice.

Professionals should be able to articulate and compare the merits of the decisions made by different languages. Even when the talking about more subjective topics, like syntax aesthetics, we can do better than simply calling them "bizarre." These are learning opportunities, not reasons to ridicule "the other team".
Oh man, you just reminded me that there's one (in particular) other interesting image I forgot to share in that post.

Here, check this out: http://robotrising.org/StratoSphere/?src=images/cam1-200fram...

That is what one camera saw over the course of 200 frames, or ~7 seconds. It's not as nicely aligned as the other images because this one is taken from many points in time and space, but it's still pretty neat. I'll be sure to get this added to the blog post at some point. Thanks for the reminder.

And thanks for reading the blog! That is the longest thing I've written in a long time, and it took a lot of time to prepare that post. I do appreciate it.

I'd love to do more projects. I have nothing planned at the moment, but who knows what might come along.
I wish more people understood this argument. Hollywood lobbyists have brainwashes a lot of people to equate piracy and stealing. When people like you or I try to disentangle them , there's often a knee-jerk accusation that we're somehow endorsing piracy.
U.S.-China deficit may be lower than thought
This is exciting. Kim also tweeted that each user gets 50GB of storage for free.

https://twitter.com/kimdotcom/status/291936750580953088
"Pay yourself first."

I've been able to save a rather impressive amount of money by just diverting a portion of my paycheck to an investment account. I never see the money in my checking account, so I never have the money to spend.

Paying yourself out of available funds is hard; there's always something else you could be spending the money on, and it requires a conscious choice and willpower.

By contrast, paying yourself before the money even turns into available funds is easy because there's no choice involved except initial setup.
Front-end framework, interface kit
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Sure. Rightly so. The Samsung Chromebox uses an OS designed for it. I'm just remarking that people seem to be interested in making, buying and selling cheap, small android "PCs" (and media boxes & such).

It worth remarking on specifically because it is not where Android was designed to go and it fits rather awkwardly.

Imagine you sell taco kits. Then you discover some people are buying your taco kits, throwing away the shells, downloading instructions from the internet and using the other ingredients in different proportions to make bean soup. You also sell canned soup and it also sells decently. You might decide to bring out a bean soup range based on the taco kit. Maybe they think it tastes better then your intentional bean soup. Maybe they like making it themselves. Either way, it's worth noticing.
I read about someone pledged to give money to the KKK if she ever smoked again. The negative association was motivational. The strength of the feeling was stronger than the urge to break the habit.
Layout is broken for me http://imgur.com/Les2I

Latest Firefox on Ubuntu 12.04.
Deep Blue was one computer against one human.

The comment you're replying to is suggesting teams with two members: Computer A and Human A VS Computer B and Human B.

Thanks for the link to the Blondie24 book!
Sounds like another one's ready to fall.
In your post, I see a lot of examples of why might makes might, but that's hardly new information.
I would recommend against buying this on steam. Buy it direct from the developers, it's DRM free. Yes, updates, blah blah blah, but launching steam is physically painful. You don't want that in the way of working on your budget.

http://www.youneedabudget.com/

Plus, you get a 34-day free trial. (I don't know if you can get that on steam).
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Not "doing a meme", making a point. There are arguments for fracking from both sides - unfortunately the pro side takes a very short term view, and the con side takes a long term view.

The length of politicians' terms fundamentally shape the direction policy takes, along with the fact that, whether it's conscious or not, there's the "well, I'll be dead by then" phenomenon.

It turned into if-by-whiskey as I wrote it. There's a difference between lolcats and discourse.