skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is not as simple as "Just throw that stuff up on a Torrent and we're good to go".

As a scientist, that would pretty much solve my access problems, and help me do a better job.
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Actually the poster above me inferred that intent. I just provided what I saw as additional context.
Ya, but how do we know that Snopes, the SSDI and the entire world aren't in on it????? /sarcasm
> I don't think the industrial revolution comparison is correct.

And then you go on to prove the point...

The industrial revolution was all about generating profits, the Chinese are doing just that, without much regard for the consequences. They won't be able to do that much longer by the looks of it. Extrapolating from the effects of the 1952 incident to Chinese scales is scary.
Indeed. Business sales will continue. I certainly don't plan on running Android as the base OS on a development machine.

I'm failing to find recent statistics, but I've seen numbers that indicate that 80%+ of licenses for Office are the Home and Student editions. (Even so, the higher cost of business versions makes this a less relevant statistic) No matter what, Microsoft still relies heavily on sales to home and college users.

Windows 8 has a definite non-business interface.
You sir, are the minority (with all due respect). The rest of the population is crazy about games. That's why all top dev's develop games for windows first (forget the consoles) and then the tablets. Because, they are a bigger audience.
I certainly considered using channels here as they would make handling the potential threading issues very easy, but ultimately channels were a bad fit for reads (though writes would have worked well)

Could you elaborate on this? I'm just starting to play with Go and I think my first thought would be "channels". What doesn't fit here? Is just the requirement that all downstream callers would need to use channels too?
I wondered the same thing. I can't fathom how you could be a programmer AND buy into conspiracy nonsense. It breaks my brain that you could program but not have a focus on reality.
Some of these are indeed beautiful, alright, but otherwise it's just a random "Top N list" of whatever typefaces the author has come across "this winter". Flag it off the front page, please.
> 1) The advantage over the personal homepage is that more people will see it. Would a video get more views on your blog or on a video sharing site with lots of content where people went to find content like that?

In the world of Google Scholar, this isn't true. Google Scholar indexes scientific papers and aggregates PDF links, without regard for what website the PDFs came from. If no one cites your paper and it's not in a journal I follow, I probably won't read it anyway. If I am sufficiently interested, when I search Google Scholar, the PDF link on your personal website will be as accessible as a PDF link anywhere else. (It may even be more accessible. If, as others have suggested, Academia.edu doesn't let you download PDFs without registration, then PDFs uploaded to Academia.edu probably don't get indexed by Google Scholar.)
Funny you should bring up taste. I spent some time living in Buenos Aires, Argentina--another city shrouded in a perpetual smog--and had the misfortune of discovering this sooty, dusty flavor for myself. I noticed that the dry beans and grains I bought from one particular shop always had a particular off flavor to them. When rinsed, they left behind a grayish water. I finally realized that what was unique about this store (apart from the taste of their products) was that they stored everything in large open sacks and left the large doors to the store open to the street. Stores that stored their goods in closed bins and left their door to the street closed had better-tasting grains and beans.
The one place you don't want to be is the Waiting Place:

The Waiting Place…

…for people just waiting.

Waiting for a train to go

or a bus to come,

or a plane to go

or the mail to come,

or the rain to go

or the phone to ring,

or the snow to snow

or waiting around for a Yes or a No

or waiting for their hair to grow.

Everyone is just waiting.

Waiting for the fish to bite

or waiting for wind to fly a kite

or waiting around for Friday night

or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake

or a pot to boil,

or a Better Break

or a sting of pearls,

or a pair of pants

or a wig with curls,

or Another Chance.

Everyone is just waiting.

NO! That’s not for you!

Somehow you’ll escape all that waiting and staying.

You’ll find the bright places

where Boom Bands are playing.

--Dr. Seuss

Take action!!
http://www.anonpaste.me/anonpaste2/index.php?b18e0b52166f3c1...

In memory of Swartz.
How the world manages to waste half its food
I totally agree. I've seen bugs that disappeared once I introduce some print statement. I heard a theory it had something to do with memory management. It's beyond my level of expertise to explain, but I have experienced a true Heisenbug.
I couldn't have put it better. Aaron was a stranger to me as well, but I feel the deepest of grief for him. And for our society.
> How can China allow this level of pollution?

The tradeoff between economic growth driven by energy use (for production) and pollution.

"The environmental Kuznets curve is a hypothesised relationship between environmental quality and economic development: various indicators of environmental degradation tend to get worse as modern economic growth occurs until average income reaches a certain point over the course of development.[12] Although the subject of continuing debate, some evidence supports the claim that environmental health indicators, such as water and air pollution, show the inverted U-shaped curve.[1]

It has been argued that this trend occurs in the level of many of the environmental pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, lead, DDT, chlorofluorocarbons, sewage, and other chemicals previously released directly into the air or water."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve
A good friend of mine was there last year. He said he was constantly bleeding out of his nose during the entire stay because of the foreign particles in the air. Insane.
Um. Doesn't anybody find a little funny that the word "linux" does not mentioned in the article? I mean, considering android is built upon linux kernel, a linux on a desktop pc can be called as android on the desktop technically, right?
> We can only speculate on his exact reasoning for doing it, but I would suspect a man in that state of mind may not be acting completely rationally and just wanted to escape but sadly could not find a way out other than ending his own life.

Very few people are saying that the prosecution alone caused his death, as if an attorney broke into his apartment and killed Aaron. People are unhappy because they think the prosecution went too far, and to a man whose depression may leave him acting irrationally,mad you say, that could have been the major trigger
Take the suicide out of it and you still have an overzealous prosecutor who carried on long after the people who kicked the case off by reporting the incident dropped the charges.

Whether or not A led to B is not important relative to that fact.
>Spurrious accusation, all doors were open.

The crime of breaking and entering doesn't require you to defeat physical security.. even pushing open a closed (yet unlocked) door is enough.

I agree that the accusation is utter crap, but that's the law.
and this one:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-...
Federal prosecutors swear an oath to uphold all federal laws, and are generally bound by that oath unless an executive order by the president directs them not to enforce a particular law (in which case the president, not the prosecutor, would be subject to potential impeachment).

State and local prosecutors do not have the resources to pursue violations of federal law; they also do not have the jurisdiction to do so.

Federal prosecutors have several billions in resources to pursue violations of federal law, and are effectively not capped in their pursuit of "justice".

Doubly so given that multiple states currently have extremely uneven enforcement of federal law around the sale of marijuana.

Federal prosecution of drug laws regarding marijuana are fairly even. The difference is that states which have legalized marijuana make it far easier for federal prosecutors to find defendants than states where it is illegal (because defendants in those states do not distribute their marijuana in the public eye).
I think I have a reasonable amount of distance, not being in the same situation, but I would probably do the same thing (albeit with different timing), and I would consider it: 1) the rational decision; and 2) the fault of the U.S. federal government, and indirectly the American public for its fetish for jailing people. I don't have any interest in spending decades in prison, and I would commit suicide to avoid it, if I did not think there was another way of avoiding it. And I think that would be a rational decision, at least for my own personal utility function. So I wasn't at all surprised when I saw this news, though I was saddened: I would've given it about 1/3 each odds if you asked me in 2011, whether somehow charges would be dismissed/reduced, whether he'd commit suicide, or whether he'd end up as a hacker cause célèbre in prison. I do agree that we don't know with any degree of certainty what Swartz's own reasons were.

I think it's tricky to appeal to the irrational pessimism of depression without actual evidence that, in a given case, it was irrational. Depression can trick you into incorrectly thinking that a situation has no way out, but that's only relevant if, viewed rationally by someone not suffering from depression, there actually is a way out. In that case, treatment can solve the problem. But treatment can only dispel pseudo-dead-ends where the "depression was speaking", so to speak, which weren't really dead ends; it can't manufacture a way out of actual dead ends, like impending lengthy imprisonment.
And I mean that it's not ironic to try to make the best of a bad situation.
Ah, I see. I would still prefer the papers to also be hosted on a more reliable system (for example, the ArXiV, or an electronic journals website), simply because they become easier to discover this way and there is a certain assurance that they will stay online.

I think that Terrence Tao https://terrytao.wordpress.com/) has an interesting take on using blogs for math: He publishes in journals, but uses his blog to post lecture notes as well as short summaries of some of his papers.

But then this is not so different from a typical academics homepage: Usually you will find a list of publications (hopefully with PDFs, at least for the newer ones) and lecture notes there. But of course it differs for each author, and perhaps other fields have different conventions.
I invoke Goodwin's Law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
This is good news, in a way. China's pollution is being carried around the world every day-- now that local weather conditions are forcing Beijing to bear the full brunt of their poison, hopefully the Chinese government will take action.
No, free energy machines, silly! :)
Thomas Stevens rode a penny-farthing bicycle west-to-east around the world in 1884-86, followed by Frank Lenz's east-to-west attempt on a two-wheeled bicycle in the early 1890's -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stevens_(cyclist)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lenz_(cyclist)
Different people react differently to pressure. No one is advocating charging the US Attorney with murder or manslaughter but it's worth looking whether their actions were appropriate or not.
Agreed. It isn't much good saying 'arXiv is good enough' when it only covers scientific areas.

http://philpapers.org/ is good for philosophy.
> yet unable to appeal openly to us for the financial help he needed to fund his defense

Was this a court limitation? Why couldn't he appeal openly for his own defense?
Well, the suicide is there. He did it, plain and simple.
Making a bunch of petitions to FIRE people is not going to stop suicides and it won't redeem the injustices that everyone is talking about.

Absolutely ridiculous how some people are handling this situation IMO.
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This isn't a case of regulation or no regulation-- most of the worst polluters in China are state-owned enterprises. Just cutting off national and local government subsidies for industry would do a great deal to stop the pollution.
Imagine a child who gets bullied in school regularly eventually can't take it anymore and kills themselves.

Are you really so callous as to say, "there's nobody to blame here but the child"
His points are fine for what they reflect, which is his own reality, but I don't think his points are a correct reflection of reality for many people, and the authoritative air rubs me the wrong way.

We straddle a large spectrum of worlds here in America, which covers people who don't even have a computer at all (and yes they work in offices as well) to people who are early-adopters and techno-gurus. The latter people tend to bloviate about their bleeding-edge products and working tools as if the entire world does exactly what they do, and this seldom reflects reality. This self-centered view of the world seems to be the trend in tech writing these days. I just wonder if tech writers ever have to pick up the phone and talk to anyone outside of their narrow circles. While I understand he is writing about his own reality, his extrapolation to the rest of the world is [x].
During the industrial revolution, people did not fully understand the health effects of air pollution. Nor did they have the technology needed to eliminate it without also eliminating the industrial revolution. Neither of those facts are true today.
People who voluntarily affiliated with the Nazis suffered a permanent black mark on their reputations, even when they were not aware of what was going on at the time. Those who, after the extent of their evil actions were known, continued to choose to be affiliated with them, were considered exceptionally vile.

That's revisionist history. Those people who voluntarily affiliated with Nazis were generally forgiven unless they benefited from the affiliation in ways beyond mere survival. The Nazis had a nasty tendecy to kill those who opposed them, so "affiliating" and even "accomodating" with Nazis was a valid survival technique so long as affiliation or accomodation did not turn into mutual cooperation. Many people in the French Resistance were officially "affiliated" with the Nazis in some way; this is part of what made them so effective. The same is true of those who helped Jews flee from Nazi-controlled areas.
> "But de-throning that one prosecutor will, in her own words, serve as a message"

No, it won't. People respond to risks and rewards, and we've shown amply over the years that the severity of punishment has little deterrent effect on future offenses if the odds of getting caught aren't high enough.

In other words, by throwing one prosecutor to the wolves, we have no inspired any behavioral change in other prosecutors, because we've shown that once every few decades we will punish one person - and that's stacked against the systemic pressures they face to prosecute as many people as vigorously as possible, every day.

This is the same reason why the death sentence, as severe as it is, has basically no effect on crime rates, because it's not handed out with enough regularity to be a deterrent (whether or not we should have the death sentence is another story altogether).

To achieve the "message sending" you want, we will have to regularly investigate many prosecutors, such that the odds of escaping their reckless prosecutorial actions are low. This is what most other people call "changing the system" ;)

Outlier one-offs is just compounding tragedy upon tragedy.
How and why the US Justice Department over-prosecutes
Until Android can run an office suite that doesn't horribly mangle basic formatting, Microsoft has nothing to worry about.
Larger screens. That is, until 30" tablets are here.
That's bad in itself. But, worse - most laws as written in federal and state codes aren't even the actual laws. The real laws are what my lawyer friends call the 'case law' - the historical precedence and rules of courts.

And, case law is completely impractical for any average citizen to even find, let alone read and understand.

I like to ask these friends the provocative question, "so, when are you guys going to make the laws easier for average people to understand." And, they facetiously reply, "What, you want us out of a job?"

And, they're right. There is no incentive for anyone in the legal hierarchy to make laws more accessible. Maybe our legislatures can fix it. But, we Americans consistently elect into office more lawyers.

As a software development analogy, that's like hiring programmers to decide the features and interfaces of the systems that they will get paid to maintain. And, there's a reason that good software depends on people of different disciplines (designers, product managers, subject matter experts) coming together.
If you could simply file bankruptcy then most everyone in that situation would do that. Presumably the lawyers are on to that strategy and mitigate around it.

You could be right that $1.5 million in debt is not worth killing oneself, but not everyone will take it that way. It would be a major drag on your life in any case. It would be difficult for all but the strongest people to go on enjoying life.
Web application naming question. Big brand name, or SEO friendly?
(Most SEO friendly names, are pretty human friendly as well, and I know that search-term-in-domain is becoming ever less effective for ranking)

So I am working on a business/product and am not sure what direction it will take once I undertake my lean mean customer development process. I would like to have a domain name now, however, that I could use once I launch, which would hopefully boosted by pre-launch marketing activities done from this site.

How do you know when your domain name should be highly specific like: bingocardcreator.com VS. www.teach-nology.com (teach-nology.com ranks #4 for "bingo card creator")
There's nothing ridiculous about claiming Aaron caused his situation and killed himself. There is a prosecutor, defendant and a judge. Prosecutors typically exaggerate their case, defendants typically downplay their side, and the judge is responsible for determining the outcome.

Wasn't she just doing her job? She was brought a high profile case. It involved a notorious internet prodigy who stashed a laptop and wrote a program to download 4M+ articles that otherwise would have cost a ton of money. A quick search revealed prices around $30. $30 * 4M = 120M. What am I missing?
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Microsoft doesn't sell desktops, so it doesn't care what brand of hardware Windows is running on.
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You're right, I didn't mean to imply that they're all the same. It's just that when a PDF is openly available, it's often one of the first results, so seeing citeseer is a bad sign. I seem to remember them creating pages for citations they didn't have a download link for but now I can't find any examples so I may be misremembering.
I'll second this, if you stand accused of a political crime just watch out. They will stop at nothing to convict you, and redouble their efforts once they find out they've been duped into prosecuting you to support someone's agenda.

She was exceptionally pissed to have to agree to stay the charges.
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Open Access Policy for the University of California
Not really an Instagram clone but OpenPhoto has filters in the iPhone app and let's you store photos in Dropbox.

http://theopenphotoproject.org

https://github.com/photo (for all the goodies)

Disclaimer: I'm the lead dev.
No, that is incorrect. If the user has uploaded a copy of the PDF, we both show it on the page as an HTML 5 conversion and offer the PDF file as a download.
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The GPL is enforceable in that it doesn't try to prevent anything. Using it merely means you share title in your derived work.

This (having GPLed code laying around) is a 'found book' scenario. You've got a copy that you didn't violate copyright to make, thus it's legal to use.

EULAs are a non-copyright attempt to control this usage. They used to be based on the idea that any and all copying, incidental or otherwise, was prohibited and thus to use software (and copy it into memory) you needed a license. But this has been specifically denied in current US copyright law.

Blanket permission is now given for copying where it's an inherent part of using the work. This supports the idea that usage is generally unrestricted (unless you or your agent acquired this specific copy by license). Which makes sense; they'd have called it UsageRight instead of CopyRight if they meant that.

Now EULAs are (usually) based on the Uniform Commercial Code but that requires a contract (of sale) which can, of course, only be binding on the original parties and their agents.

So again, why would a EULA be enforceable on software a user found?

As for forum humor, do you know what I find funny? It's when someone takes caricatures of different people's views on different topics, conflates them, declares them inconsistent, and shoots down an unrelated argument based on this trail of "logic".
And you are taking the exact opposite stance. Suicide is the one crime where the person is both victim and perpetrator. You can't just choose to look at one and not the other. He is victim and perpetrator in one.

People treating suicide as pure-victim is absolutely wrong, not in the least because it tends to make it look much more appealing. The real victims of suicide are the loved ones and close friends. They are the ones that suffer, and they are the ones that are truly blameless "victims" (in so much as anyone can be blameless). There is a reason why suicide is considered to be a selfish crime. I am not lambasting Aaron here, but you have to treat suicide for what it is, rather than turn it into a heroic act of defiance and finally sticking it to the man. If only to make people think twice about taking the "easy way" out for themselves.
They had taken action. They knew how to. They're just not doing it.

In just a year before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, they reduced Beijing's pollution levels to "enough to see the blue sky", in time for international visitors to arrive.

They have a billion citizens. Their livelihoods cost nothing. Nothing except their face ("public image") will make them improve living standards for the masses.
Aside from the collaboration functionality which is now present in Office 2013, Google Apps is about where Office was in 2000. It has a long way to go before it is a suitable replacement for anything except the simplest business uses.