skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is shockingly disingenuous.

Akin to:

"That cop didn't die in the line of duty, he died because medical technology couldn't prevent complications from a routine gunshot wound treatment".

"That guy wasn't killed by the drunk driver. His car was on fire and he didn't get out fast enough".

"The drugs didn't kill that junkie. His heart stopped beating and he didn't have a defibrillator handy."

You are confusing proximate cause of death with an analysis of contributing factors and causality. I suspect you know this, as a quick comment history perusal shows you seem to follow causal chains in plenty of other cases just fine, including on the topic of suicide. So, what's your real point?
My understanding is that all the times shown in Github's punchcards are Pacific thus making them completely useless for an analysis of when engineers commit code in their local time zone.
Well, I would personally still view that as a failure on the parents part. My youngest is extremely introverted. He would put an axe through my face if I doted on him like I doted on his older brother. I learned to respect his need for space at a very early age, when he was a toddler. He shares with me when he damn well feels like it. But we still have a good relationship, because I realized he was different from me and from his brother. Giving him his space was unnatural for me. Doting was easier. But he still loves me because I didn't dote. I backed off.

But I seem to have crazy good parenting instincts. So my high expectations are probably a tad unreasonable in some sense.
I, too, got a Paperwhite (a month ago) and find it vastly less of a distraction or inducement to procrastination than the Android device (Nexus 7) I had before that.
> "The most exciting news of all? The Plugin site returns!"

Indeed!
It would be interesting to use some other data to predict the Oscars -- data that comes out before the Oscars begins, e.g., Golden Globe and other film festival awards, date the movie was released, box office revenue, availability on DVD, history of actors/directors/writers (e.g., have they won or been nominated for Oscars in the past).
I'm partial to vihart's perspective on this at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-e8fzqv3CE It's moderately interesting, but ultimately just a way of doing the exact same thing. Multiplication can be reduced entirely or partially to counting, that's worth understanding. And, if explained correctly, this can give insight into multiplying polynomials. Also, showing that counting the intersections of 8 lines crossing 9 lines is tedious may present times tables as convenient time savers rather than teacher inflicted torture.
I just want to praise you for it NOT looking like that awful look Win 8 is now designed in. That style must have a name but I dont want to dirty my mind by knowing it. ;)

Grumpy old git moans aside, what I really want to say is that layouts like this are so, so easy to come up with on paper, as it were. Lets face it, there is nothing new there at all. But making something so basic look so elegant is the real art.

Yeah, there are nitpicks, but I'm sure you'll smooth those out. The bulk or core is bang on.

As a lazy useless git, I wouldn't mind a template of it!!!!

Nice work.
Bexar set to turn the page on idea of books in libraries
d) except for the one in Windows 8.

They call it the "Store" because package manager is scary, and doesn't allow you to part with money quite so easily. Maybe someone should make a fork?

sudo apt-get install 99centgame --CREDIT_CARD 4959 4959 4959 4959 01/14
"So by your judgement, all these folks could be sacked and nothing of value would be lost?"

I would argue that value would be gained by sacking these people (and organizations).

Most of the money they (and other journals) uses is dependent on excessive licensing fees charged to universities. The universities turn around and add that to each person's tuition.

And all the work the journal publishes WAS owned by the students of the very university, until the journal demands transfer of copyright to the journal... So they can sell them back work at 1000X the profit.

By definition, they are parasites. What we need is a good anti-parasitic medicine.
There is enough porn produced already so if the production ends today there's enough already for most of people.

Concerning distribution: is there anybody stupid enough to ask for an never-ending, positional "war on porn"?
As if wars on drugs and on pirates wasn't enough
America's first bookless public library will look 'like an Apple Store'
On re-reading, I'll certainly grant you that. I did exaggerate a perspective to make a point, which was a little pompous.
Freedom to Connect: Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)
While it is true that NT does not have concept of drive letters (and current directory for that matter), it does not internally do equivalent of unix mounting, it just presents volumes in predetermined places of directory hierarchy.

The fact that large swatches of win32 API are implemented as userspace abstractions is wonderful source of weird windows behavior. For example, changing current directory is not thread safe (not only in the way that you don't know which directory is really current in presence of multiple threads changing it, but SetCurrentDirectory() itself is not an atomic operation)
A UK version (~1 year old, and in use): http://bookadopter.com/

I notice that bookadopter makes it easier to quickly see which books are available for your school/department. And by easier, I mean I can actually find some books to buy. It doesn't have the thumbnail images or ISBN search though.
While in some cases I'm sure that is the thought, but it seems we've possibly reached the point where that way of thinking has made the whole thing a farce.

When people see that a small act like this causes such a number of charges that threatens a large portion of person's life in prison then it becomes an untrustworthy process. It gains the appearance of not being about justice but of something else. It is not good for a justice system to seem that it is more concerned over how a particular crime is committed versus what the crime is in of itself, because it creates a feeling of injustice. For example, why should a murderer be punished more severely because he chose one weapon over another?
Aaron Swartz Plea Deal Reportedly Rejected Days Before His Death
Guns, Maps and Data That Disturb
Norway Faces Site Blocking Measures in Anti-Filesharing Bill
so there can be a single trial in which the truth comes out.

As a point of order, since trials are incredibly stressful and expensive for the accused, society isn't supposed to use them for "the truth to come out" or "to find out what happened."

The trial is where the state -- having decided internally that a person is guilty and must be punished -- goes to prove its case to a jury of the accused's peers, in an orderly courtroom where only pertinent evidence is allowed.

This probably backs up your point even more -- having multiple trials for the same thing is horrible for the accused.
are codec packs still needed? i just install vlc and havent had to deal with codec packs in years
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I have some qualms about attribution based on misspelling since those can be intentional. That said, I have not had a chance to do a second, deeper pass on the analysis, but I'd be careful about taking Kaspersky at face value given his ultimate sponsors.
Why wouldn't they just have both?
500px is down
I'd say spriting is a lot more common - http://www.patternify.com/ uses the URI technique, came up on HN today.

I've been using it for a few years for a vCard SVG image (that is probably next to useless).
I've heavily used CSS and HTML for many years and I still learned a thing or two in here. Great work Shay.
Nice job Shay - Congrats!
I think you have completely missed the point of the article. It is a parody of the behaviour of microsoft users. As a linux user (I have left microsoft because of Vista), I can ensure you that windows Vista, 7 and 8 are very weird.
My point was you're using a product display that is linked to a very specific marketing tactic without using the tactic. So it makes no sense.
I was responding to the OP, he'll have to answer my "so", I have no idea what his point was.
>It's the same as digging for coupons. Everything has a learning curve if you want to do it cheaply.

Not linux. For most distributions the free version is right there on the homepage - often it's the biggest and most prominent link.

The coupon-digging analogy is a good one. Rather than a case of "linux is free, windows is expensive", it's often "linux is free, windows is cheap/free if you can dig out enough of the right coupons". But it's still a much better experience with linux.

>I've been installing vanilla MSDN Windows 7 (with SP1) images on 15 different types of Dell/Lenovo machines.

How many different wireless chipsets was that? And yeah, some manufacturers get it right or lucky, but many don't. My impression is your odds of it working out the box without having to hunt down a driver are better with linux - but I've had to track down a driver there on occasion too.

>Again part of the learning curve. The same with Linux.

Which is the article's point - not that linux is always easier than windows, but that many of the things you have to learn when starting out with linux were just as difficult to learn when starting out with windows, you've just forgotten them through familiarity.

>Sorry gstreamer stuff via ubuntu-restricted-extras. It's the same turd rolled in different coloured glitter.

I don't know what you're talking about; I installed mplayer in the default way and it plays everything I encounter on the internet. It would probably need some codec installation to play WMV3 or real media, but does anyone use those any more? My impression is the world has pretty much settled on MKV/h264, and linux handles that fine out of the box.
Try reading the contents of the yellow box below the 2nd paragraph.
Networking Inside a Large Company
Don't forget that's ~10% thermal efficiency so your really talking about 30% increase in power from the same coal. On top of that they they go for a more complete burn which reduces things like CO and NOx which would otherwise produce smog.
Half of what you learn in your first year is obsolete by the time you finish? Absolutely patent nonsense.

What do you do in the first year of a CS degree? Probably discrete maths, logic, calculus, certainly a couple of languages like Java, C, ML, computer architecture, some basic software engineering.

Explain to me how any of that could be obsolete within ten years, let alone four. And then explain to me where you got the "half" figure from.

The maths hasn't changed in thirty years, and that's when you include the advanced stuff like category theory. The languages are all twenty years old plus. Architecture is all the same apart from some new buses and multicore.

Just maybe some of the software engineering principles won't be fashionable when you come to graduate, but you're on a CS degree aren't you? Software engineering is a means to an end, not the topic of your study.
Still quicker to do the math in your head:

123 * 321

321 * 100 = 32100
321 * 20 = 6420
321 * 3 = 963
-----
39483

You just need to know the times table and keep a little stack in your head :)
Actually, when I read it the first thing I thought was hedge fund or oil traders.

You wouldn't believe the lengths I've seen people go to down here in Houston to get a leg up in the information war. Literally hundreds of millions daily could turn on something as seemingly innocuous as learning the amount of water being pumped into this well or the other. Freighters, fly by infra red photography (spy planes). Even satellite imagery. This hack seems pretty small potatoes, cost-wise, and would give you a big punch as far as trading edges go.
WBC to picket Aaron Swartz Funeral
> what I really want to say is that layouts like this are so, so easy to come up with on paper, as it were. Lets face it, there is nothing new there at all. But making something so basic look so elegant is the real art.

Which was exactly Microsoft's rationale for Metro.

Whether or not they achieved that goal, though, is another matter.
My first game is out for iOS. Bouncy
Not really sure what you mean by 'regular' website, it sounds like you're talking about a variety of different things.

Google the following:

Responsive Design,
Object Oriented CSS,
SASS,
Compass,
Susy Grids. Any help? I don't think you're going to get tutorials on how to create something like Gmail because AFAIK it's JavaScript generated from JAVA.

Nicole Sullivan writes a lot about this sort of thing.

EDIT fixed formatting
Three years in the belly of the beast is enough to make one a lifer. In reading his work, it's quite obvious that his sympathies are with the power of his former employer, not with the rights of the individual.

It's a hazard of going corporate: Corporate becomes more important than people.
Foodvolt- Connect With The Best Restaurants, Cafes, and Bakeries
Tinke: Heart rate, blood oxygen level and more at your fingertip
> a) It is the same as in linux. Linux does not have a magic "Install this HERE" button for whatever problem arises any more than windows does.

I would just like to point out that something like that is entirely possible: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:One_Click_Install

And as an example[1]: you can go to http://software.opensuse.org/, and type the name of a program[2] in there, and it will give you a quick description along with a link that installs that program by enabling the appropriate repository. This means you get the program automatically, in one click, and you get a working upgrade path since the repository is selected. I think that's pretty close to magic, and it is all centralised as well!

[1]: To provide a direct example: http://software.opensuse.org/package/chromium

[2]: It doesn't actually need to be a name, you can also type e.g. "Browser" and look through the results until you find something suitable and/or what you were looking for.

edit: formatting...
QUOTE -The orgasms gotten through pornography aren't any stronger than those found 'in nature'---this isn't heroine.

You have missed the entire point.

Orgasm lasts a few seconds.

Porn addiction is not about orgasms its about porn. The viewing, searching, clicking from tab to tab on tube sites. Starting in early adolescence, training ones brain to need a certain level of stimulation. For some - hours a day.

Dopamine responds to novelty and anticipation, and is elevated to near orgasmic levels during sexual excitement.

Read the start here article on that site, and you will see that all addictions involve the same fundamental brain changes which are caused by a specific set of genes, all activated by the accumulation one molecule deltafosb. This is indisputable.

You will also see about 300 links to citations on that one page.
I'd say Apple is a bit different from BMW.

The main selling point of BMW is its "German craftsmanship." Apple, on the other hand, gets its products from the exact same outsourcing suppliers that everyone else is using.

If BMW were getting its cars from the same suppliers as Hyundai and Geely, I doubt it would be able to maintain its coolness for as long as it has.

Hence IMO Apple is much more analogous to Abercrombie & Fitch than BMW. Just like A&F, Apple sources its products from the same suppliers everyone else uses. And just like A&F, Apple's main selling point is design and logo.
Code Bubbles Now Open Source - Edit Your Code on a Canvas
Problems:

* Why is this a Federal crime at all? Because some computer in another state was involved? If so,then soon all crimes will be federal.

* It appears they used mostly catch-all laws. The vague wording is subject to confirmation bias where almost any action looks like a violation. This is a particular problem with laws related to computer use; but also includes laws like "obstruction of justice" and "lying to a federal agent".

* In order to have a "reasonable" sentence on the table at all, he has to give up his right to a trial.

* As far as I can tell, no damage was actually done to anyone yet.

* Since when is violating a TOS a criminal issue? Did we outsource the writing of laws to company legal teams?
You earn money because you did what you are asked to.
That is your purpose, that is your destiny, that is your one and only target in your life.
Care to disagree?
Windows simply uses a decentralized approach to software discovery, based on the open web. Anybody can put their software up for download on their own website built with web standards, without having to go through any gatekeeper such as a distro manager. Multiple entities can offer software discovery services (Google, Yahoo, Bing... To say nothing of specialized services), again based on open web standards. It's a more bazaar-like system than the average Linux distro's official repository cathedral, but the huge variety of software available for Windows shows that it works pretty well.
I find it interesting that you characterize his personal opinion as expecting "everyone on the internet to cater to his expectations", while demanding that he cater to your expectations of "politeness". People posting deliberately misleading pseudo-scientific nonsense do not warrant some false amiability. His nonsense needs a firm rebuttal, just as homeopathy and chakras and crystal therapy and all the other quackery does.
What's more impressive is flash anzan. The ability to visualize an abacus and then with it do additions of large sums rapidly and accurately.
Last time I checked, gmail was still using tables for layout.
He wasn't the Lord Jesus Christ, and he may not have been greedy for money, but damn straight he was greedy for knowledge.

Aren't you? Aren't we all, here?
I think this is part of a sadness buffer underflow attack by the FBI.
Ask HN: is Boston Startup School a good idea for an aspiring hustler founder?
I am thinking about applying for this program ( http://www.bostonstartupschool.com/ ) and would love to hear your opinions or experiences regarding the school. Although general thoughts/feedback on the program would certainly be appreciated, I will also provide a bit of info on my situation in order to solicit opinions on whether it would be a good use of time for someone like me.

- I've spent the last 12 months running the sales/support team for a successful startup but left to focus on creating my own (as yet to be determined) project
- I don't know a lot of hackers in my city but am actively working to rectify that by attending as many events as possible
- I currently have too much unstructured time on my hands because I don't know how to fill it with activities that will further my goal

So with that in mind, do you think startup school might be a good idea? Any smart alternatives I should consider or perhaps other things I can do as well?

muchas gracias!
You'd have to make a quarter million dollars a year and have no other siblings in college (I think they even take into account medical expenses) to not qualify for something

That may be true, but if you come from a middle class family you would not qualify for a full scholarship. Instead you would likely get a grant, loans, and work-study. When I applied for college in 1998, private schools cost $25k per year, and schools offered me $10-15k in grants and the rest in work study and loans (I am from an upper middle class family and had a brother in college at the same time). I chose to go to UCLA because tuition was $4k per year and my parents could write a check so I graduated debt free. If Minerva is going to succeed, it needs to offer something comparable to and cheaper than a top tier state school instead of focusing on Ivy's.
January 17: 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013 Finals II
1) Ever since XP SP2, anything that has been downloaded does not have execute flags. The downside is the user is prompted in a manner that allows them to override this.

The question is, how did the executable get there in the first place? Most of the explots that really hit windows are bugs in browsers / addins.

A lot are also spread via 'naughty things', to view this really degrading porn of some celebrety you must first do this survey and execute this code. Or even bundled in with pirate versions, over a few beers a buddy who works for a small design software firm was laughing at how many people had become infected by a virus which was spread by just one torrent of their product (not by him!).

Or like 419 scam emails, really obvious things, that weed out the people with an ounce of sense to leave only those dumb enough to run it. People like my Dad, who typed in the admin password because he was running as regular user :( Then threw a hissy fit when I suggest he not know the admin password in future.

Sure administrator as default is dumb, really dumb. But most of these attack vectors would still be open on linux, in fact we've seen some for the bsd based OSX last year.
EFF on the secret interpretation of FISA
Hey, open sourcers: Who’s your code's daddy?
Would you like the red or the blue pill?
I'd love to get this implemented, hopefully once all the lessons are posted.
It use to be the old teaching the young, now it's the young teaching the old. As an old guy I like it.
It does work for 25x25.
Ask yourself this: Would any of those people think twice about violating my privacy?

My high school had no qualms about searching my locker or my bag. My ISP does deep-packet inspection and will hand over my logs to any LEA that asks, without a warrant. Practically every company I do business with resells my data in some way, to their benefit and my detriment. The vast majority of institutions have no respect whatsoever for my privacy, so I have no respect for theirs.
Tell him to type source < wget ...

Then to type your password when the usual dialog appears.
You need to reboot your Point Detector. I recommend one of the many free ones that run on Linux.
Series A Crunch: Revenue vs. Equity
You're absolutely right!

Flexbox, along with regions and columns, is on the list of updates to be made soon.
Annals of the Security State, Glider Pilot Edition
Aaron Swartz's suicide may make the open-access movement mainstream.
The "spiritual communication and summoning device" toggle!
The style is commonly referred to as "metro", inspired by the design of metro signs. The idea is to reject skeuomorphism, and use large, clean typography to deliver something that is 'digitally native'. You could think of it as a direct rejection of Apple's adoption of decorative skeuomorphic designs that bring things into the digital space which really don't belong here.

It's not exactly a bad idea, though it is possible to take things a little too far. Certainty if you observe the trends in web designs recently sites appear to be "flatter", less cluttered and more focused, without the Apple inspired "Web 2.0" glossiness that has taken over from circa 2006 onwards
They Grow Up So Quickly. Or Else They Fail.
Shortcut to threads for Aaron you might want to go back again
Regarding the addition of "malice" to some successor of the CFAA: the prosecution could have charged malice; there was clear enough evidence that Swartz's goal was to harm JSTOR. A malice requirement would have made the case harder to win, but the tragedy here isn't how hard this case was to win.

Aaron's attorney, who at this moment is motivated to make the strongest possible case for the hardship Aaron faced, says he believes Swartz (a) could have beaten the charges as they stood and (b) was very unlikely to get more than a suspended sentence even if he hadn't. I think there's broad agreement that Swartz both shouldn't have and was unlikely to serve time as a result of this case.

Which brings me back to Heymann and the conduct of the prosecution, which seems to have been hell-bent on scaring the crap out Swartz.
I was just pointing out he had options. He could either accept 6-8 months or risk longer jail time in favor of getting found not guilty. He chose suicide.