skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA mentioned:

> "TorrentFreak is in the process of obtaining details of the content to be offered and the prices to be charged. One option would be to ask users for $5 a month in return for unlimited access to U.S. media."
I still want to know why a completely unelected government official gets to decide what is and isn't illegal.
Apple made as much profit this quarter ($5B), as Amazon has earned, ever.
And also the rising frequency of blog posts of every minor change at GitHub.
I'll take a page from the book of the guys you're defending and make a pithy comment to add some "levity" to the situation, as you called it.

"At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. " - Billy Madison

Man I love your version of tolerance.
So robomartin is happy? Good. The important thing here is that robomartin is satisfied that this incident has played out according to his guidelines on how such matters should be resolved.
Steam Hardware & Software Survey, Dec 2012 (now including Linux numbers)
(6) Leg press 800 lbs,

That's actually pretty trivial for anybody who lifts weights even semi-seriously. I could leg press 600lbs as as skinny 160lb high-school senior. Now if somebody claimed to be able to squat that much, they'd be making quite a claim, as that's possibly near world-class range depending on their weight. (At one time the world record back-squat was right around 1000lbs, but I'm pretty sure that's been broken)

(7) broken 3 aluminum "forks" on bikes (the part connecting your front wheel to the frame).

That gets another meh from me. Breaking frames and forks isn't that uncommon, at least in the mountain biking world. An XC bike that isn't designed for handling big drops might break if you ride off a 3ft drop, for example (bodyweight would also be a significant factor in this).

The other stuff though, especially taken all together, is, yeah, fairly incredible.
Does this mean anything for Half-Life on a Mac?
Hitting "Upload Date" no longer reorders the video results from search.
"m more often resulted in result A than result B"

I think would be another way of saying it. I could be completely wrong though, it is a bit confusing.
I feel for the hamsters. I'd have a 400+ bpm too if I knew I'd only live for 3 years.

But being serious, I'd like to see the the variance on those numbers. Bpm's of ~60 are normal for some, while others hover around ~90+. So within the range of what's considered a normal heartrate (60 - 100), numbers can vary by as much as 66%.
Against the US who abides by WTO when it pleases them and disregards it when it doesn't.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2973445/gnu-makefile-rule...
I've worked in telco in Australia for a number of years now, we are better off: the phones cost is built into the plan these days (hence why an iphone on a $35 plan is an extra $23 per month).

It used to be worse. They used to come locked, and getting unlocked was an exercise in pulling teeth. Thankfully things are better now.

To those that say it's a lease, it's not: you cannot give the phone back and receive the money you've paid for it. It is your handset. You cannot even request a new one if it doesn't suit you (here in Australia anyway). Unlocking the phone does not cancel the contract: you still pay that monthly fee.
Is it Half-Life or Half-Life: Source? I'd assume it's Half-Life: Source since they probably aren't going to port the old engine over.
> And it may be that people will be interested in something else.

Personally I'm eagerly awaiting #5: treating the question of whether to continue a test as an optimization problem.
my general observation is that libertarians don't object to "i'm bigger than you, and therefore i get my way", just to "i'm the government and therefore i get my way". nowhere is this thrown into sharper relief than when discussing "i'm the government and therefore i say you cannot use the fact that you're bigger to get your way".
We Don't Need Facebook For Dogs
Realized that this was up when Steam asked me to take the hardware survey just now. Relevant bit of the "OS Version" field:

OS Share Delta
Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit 0.29% +0.29%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64 bit 0.26% +0.26%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 0.13% +0.13%
Ubuntu 12.10 0.12% +0.12%
Other 0.71% +0.14%

Given the deltas for all four Ubuntu categories, I feel comfortable assuming that the 0.14% in the Other category (including my own computer) is largely for Linux as well, putting Linux penetration at ~0.9%.

Sadly, the interface doesn't let you filter by Linux yet.
Does anyone know why the US govt is so vigorously against Internet gambling? Is it propping up some other illegal activity?

What is the deal?
>New Asus routers like the N66U

Tangential questions: why do consumer routers never have six or eight ethernet ports? Most appear to have space, yet so few include extras.
This is a great development.

Sometime, maybe 20 years from now, you are going to be able to say "I was there when everyone was figuring out copyrights and patents and stuff."

That said, its an interesting maneuver on Antigua's part. Using the WTO rules to push the conversation along. The article on Ars Technica about the Dutch not liking the attention they are getting for facilitating tax avoidance is another interesting piece of this puzzle. I could imagine a number of ways this might branch, from a 'economic zone' which is "the internet" to a outright revolt by the people and the creation of multiple 'shadow' internets.

These are the 'conversations' that I find very interesting:

"Where" is the Internet with respect to taxation and commercial commerce doctrine?

"What" is role of the economic powers in shaping that doctrine, and "who" is the economic power with the most influence? (Currently its the US but it will be China in 5 years if the trend continues)

What is the role of the nation-state in person-to-person interstate commerce? What "should" it be?

All very very interesting questions and discussions that drive a lot of action from pornography, to gambling, to software sales, to chat rooms.
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another way to look at this is: we didn't say to ourselves, "we have to be on the JVM, so which JVM language should we use"?

instead we asked, "what would be a great language for this project?" and arrived at Clojure based on the above.
Agreed on both counts, when taken in isolation. It's when all these things converge, that even these independent data points become suspect.

(I myself could back squat 350lbs at my peak so I understand that leg pressing 800 lbs on a machine isn't particularly unfathomable. However, usually you don't find power lifting and road cycling -- which was the subject of the conversation at that time -- in the same person, especially riding enough miles to stress fracture three different aluminum forks [1]. I'd certainly consider switching to steel at that point.)

[1] Although I myself am a powerlifting cyclist :P
http://cdr.xpaw.ru/app/70/

Seems to be using the original Goldsource content GCF, so it appears indeed to be Half-Life. Interestingly enough, the OS list shows both Linux and OSX.
Here’s My Effing Resume
> you do have good reason to believe that the choice is harmless.

The issue you will run into here is that 95% confidence means that you will only have a false positive 5% of the time. It does not mean a neutral finding is 95% likely to be neutral. The lever that controls that is statistical power, which is oft-ignored in conversations about A/B testing. Most statisticians use 80% power, which means a full 20% of neutral findings were false negatives.
Identifying People from their Writing Style
Do you have any extensions that might mess with the Javascript? I've seen it working with this exact configuration.
Feds indict Barrett Brown again, this time on obstruction charges
And.... cue the slander.

The apology wasn't for you. Nobody cares that you don't buy it.

What they may care about, however, is your slanderous trolling.
I don't they are really comparable.

Swartz was in effect martyred by the US Government over an "information wants to be free" matter of idealism.

Vayner became a laughing stock because some asshat in UBS leaked Vayner's awful, awful, AWFUL video resume. And all Vayner had going for him was some athletics.

It's "The people deserve access!" versus "I can karate chop 7 bricks, hire me UBS!"

If you think people laughed at Vayner out of jealousy, you haven't seen the video resume.

Swartz was a great man? OK

Vayner? Not so much. More like an above-average guy, unfairly hounded.

ADDENDUM:
There's a lesson here, you should be very careful about what info you give to an organization, even a 'respectable' one like UBS, even in a job application, so that you don't give some bastard the chance to ruin your life... I doubt the person who did this to Vayner even loses sleep over it.
Yea, I had to go lookup what a cervix is because that didn't sound right...
There are cheaper lawyers, even cheaper business lawyers. See: http://lawfirmsuccess.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/big-news-for-.... The inter-quartile ranges in the study are $200 - $875.

E.g. see: http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/print-edition/2012/04/27/l.... The firm in the article is a 135 lawyer outfit (so solidly on the larger end of mid-sized) with offices in Boston and D.C. and four other Northeastern cities. Partners bill out between $300-$500. (No affiliation, just Google-ed).

Experienced solo practitioners serving individuals in personal matters might charge $100-$150. And if you just need someone with a JD, you can get one for $10/hour on Craigslist.

Then on the other end of the spectrum, you have firms like Wachtell Lipton, who basically only do billion dollar M&A deals. They don't even charge a fee, they charge a percentage of the deal value. People hire them because when you've got a $5 billion deal, you don't care if your legal fees end up in the tens of millions of dollars.
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That's great but... where were you 15 years ago, Valve? I was trying to keep Windows 98 taped together to run HL...
So what does Amazon do when it has finished using loss-leader pricing to drive its competitors out of business in every retail market where it wants to play? Clearly market share at any cost is the name of the game for Amazon. It is a well-oiled, market-share-taking machine. But when it has swallowed up so much of the retail market that it becomes a monopoly? Then what?
If your goal is to free academic publications, can you clarify as to why it's necessary to register for an account to download papers from academia.edu?
How does that work when you "win" but have actually lost? If I go into a casino, spend 20k, then win back 15k, have I actually lost more than the difference 5k because that 15k is taxed?
It is the original. I was also surprised since they already have Source ported.

I'm very excited for the rest of the Source games showing up, especially with CS:GO.

edit, sv_cheats, noclip, fly, god etc don't seem to work? (edit2: I forgot -console -dev -sv_cheats 1 launcher opts.)
Agree. Your math doesn't quite work here but your thought process is good.

The opportunity cost of taking 3 months off work full time is significant - 30-60k per the number above is reasonable and I'd suggest is on the low end if the hustler is any good at what they do.

To give a co founder whom I have never worked with $5k and 50% share in the company for only an MVP is not really compelling - I could go to Elance and spend $5k for something pretty reasonable, and retain 100%.

Perhaps restructure your proposition, because your idea still definitely has merit. How about becoming a technology advisor for hustlers - help them translate their vision to a brief that can then be outsourced to elance (etc), then manage the developers for the hustler.

I doubt you'd get 50% share in the product but you would get listed as an advisor with a minor share, some good $$$ for your time, combined they might have sufficient appeal.
News flash: Anyone who comes to Antigua with 10TB of High Definition movies is eligible for Antiguan Citizenship with no extradition guarantees.
Basically nobody, its pretty hit or miss at this point. The only device which I'd say is solidly worth buying is the Apple Airport, however its pretty low on features.

I see a fair amount of these sorts of devices and I can tell you most of them make me want to stomp on them and swear at the people who buy them. They're so terrible.

I know that some people love them, but as someone who does network engineering for money, people need to get real.
So, stating the obvious, this was only done because the Steam Box will run on a Linux variant, right?
You're hallucinating most of what you take to be my opinion, to the point that I wonder if it's a waste of time trying to correct it. (I.e., assuming that I consider the dead to be offended by Atwood's post, that I think it harms the living, etc.)

Being callous means showing a lack of empathy toward others, in this case people who are depressed. Not all depressed people are dead.

Atwood's post may very well be self-therapy, but that doesn't immunize him from the social fallout of his post. One could might argue, for instance, that Achilles' effort in the Trojan war was his way of coping with the death of Patroclus, but that hardly condones his war crimes.
The Aaron Swartz analogy doesn't work. The point that the parent was trying to make was that for your average violent and even non-violent criminal (typically low-income upbringing, living in run-down conditions, living on the "streets" but not in a homeless sense), prisons are not real punishment. In fact, conditions in prison can for some be an improvement. Aaron grew up in an upper-middle class environment. Prison would have been a total change for him.

The problem with deterrence is that criminals by their very nature do not think about the consequences of their actions. This is a generalization, but criminals tend to have poor impulse control and don't think about the future. This is why many studies have shown that the death penalty does not work as a deterrent - a murderer is not being rational in their decision to murder someone. They either do it in the heat of the moment (can't control their temper), or they do because of overwhelming emotion/hate/spite/sociopathy (premeditated murder).
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Yep. Another point of comparison is the character Naphta from Thomas Mann's 1924 novel The Magic Mountain:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Mountain#Naphta:_Radi...

For example, "Naphta was [...] revolutionary in a reactionary sense: [...] fighting against the ideals of left-wing socialism, liberalism and enlightenment, but also detesting the lost Empire’s dull conservatism of the petty bourgeoisie and the aristocracy. [...] somewhat elusive, flirting with every radicalism against established views."

The subhed to his blog, of course, is "Reactionary Enlightenment."

In this scheme, the innocent HN reader plays Hans Castorp, the young German engineer, and the day you spend puzzling over the abstruse and impenetrable arguments within the sanitarium of the blog will pass by in what seems like an instant.
> definitely the UK and Australia

Why would Australia, the country, follow suit?

While it's true a few misguided Family First types have proposed mandatory filtering laws for Australia such laws are not in place and have repeatedly suffered setbacks. The other side of that coin is Australia has had one of its major ISPs defend all the way to the Supreme Court the right not to monitor the torrenting behaviour of its users.

It's a robust and engaged debate here in Australia and the country hasn't followed the American industry lead on tracking piracy.
It sends chills down my spine the number of these "hacking" cases with trumped up charges totalling the amount of years you'd expect a rapist or serial killer to get that have been in the spotlight lately. Do the US not realise their actions are setting the stage for a very volatile society? I can't say for sure whether or not the claims that he hid laptops were true, he certainly doesn't deserve a 100 years of jail time for sharing links, creating Youtube videos and hiding laptops.
Well, there are no bears or dangerous wildlife in my country (except maybe for some bulls), but there are a lot of "planchas" which is the local brand of ghetto people, and drunk aggressive homeless people, and I've come close to getting hurt twice already this year.

I should look into a self-defense spray though :), with the added benefit of them being much cheaper.
Some of these stories such as the nuclear waste one came from stories from people who met him at Yale, and reported in the Yale campus tabloid Rumpus. Jordan Bass, an acquaintance seems to be the source for several of the outrageous ones which were told in the context of Bulldog Days, an official Yale event featuring illegal underage drinking for high school seniors that were accepted. It's pretty clear that most of what he said at this event, assuming he said it at all, was intended as a joke. After it got written up in the campus newspaper and people knew him for this it seems he continued with the joke during his time there since people obviously greatly enjoyed it.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/23/061023ta_talk_mc...

* taught tennis to Jerry Seinfeld and Harrison Ford

* a specialist in Chinese orthopedic massage

* the Dalai Lama wrote his college recommendation

* he is an action star

* he is an espionage expert

* he is a professional athlete

* he practices on the C.I.A. firing range

* he participates in martial-arts competitions in a secret system of tunnels underneath Woodstock, New York

* he competes at skiing competitions in Switzerland

* he worked for the Russian Mafia forging passports

* won two games in a tennis match against Pete Sampras

* founded a charity for troubled kids

* wrote a book called "Women’s Silent Tears: A Unique Gendered Perspective on the Holocaust"

* is a professional male model

* must register his hands as lethal weapons at airports

* is one of four people licensed to handle nuclear waste in the state of Connecticut

* has killed two dozen men in Tibetan gladiatorial contests

My take? He was an awesome guy.
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I'm so glad none of the bad judgements I made ever came back to haunt me. I'm sure we all sometimes make bad judgements. I distinctly remember doing very stupid things when I was a teenager.

When I was 14 years old, my mom took my iPod to a repair shop because it refused to turn on. In a week, when they said they fixed it, I went to this shop with my friend. Although I had the address, I couldn't locate the building, and we spent an hour searching for it in the cold. We passed an internet café and a wonderful idea popped into my head. I sent them this email:

My fingers are freezing.
Been looking for your motherfucking shop for an hour.
Barely writing. Wait for me, assholes.

Of course actually meeting the guys who fixed my iPod wasn't exactly fun—I'm glad they had some sense of humor. But they also called my mom and advised her to teach me some manners.

What came as a surprise to me is that the same minute I walked into the store I realized that sending this email—heck, even stopping to write it—was a grand silly idea. Self-WTF. I couldn't remember just why I did this. It was like I had this silly little brother who did it, but it was me who had to face the consequences. But then, just five minutes ago this seemed like a really clever and fun thing to do!

In such moments I did not just embarrass myself (and my mom) in front of people I don't know, but I also made my family extremely puzzled because I was the “smart” kid who has been learning programming by books since twelve, knew OOP and stuff, moderated a large internet forum dedicated to programming, and this kind of behavior just didn't fit together with what they knew about me.

Sometimes people do very silly things they later regret. And usually they do them because they try their best at a given moment, with all the knowledge and context they are given, and make a wrong decision. Such decisions I never regret.

But sometimes people do their worst for no apparent reason, and then they WTF at themselves. Their judgement fails them, something blinds them and they do unimaginably stupid stuff, and later they feel even more embarrassed because they don't just see how misguided they were—but that it was so painfully obvious from the start.

I think it's important to understand this distinction this before judging people in any way.
Did I manage to clarify the wording in my latest revision?

If so, how would you like to be acknowledged?
Will we ever find out what happened to Flip Video? (2011)
Those of us who fondly remember the Flip video camera understand your point too well: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/will-we-ever-find-o... .
The difference is, if I pay full price for an unlocked handset, I still pay the same monthly bill as someone who doesn't. Explain that one.
Funny you ask, last night, I got Wordpress running on Heroku.

https://github.com/mchung/heroku-buildpack-wordpress

Why? For the lulz.
Cool project. I expected to be underwhelmed, but when I saw the dependency stuff, I was impressed. Maybe it should include a hook so that it can detect dataset changes automatically by running a separate command (or did I miss it?).

With a bit of creativity, I think there may be a lot of applications here.
It is his firm billing him out at $700/hr. He's not putting that full amount into his pocket.
Looking at the steam registry link[1] posted by Breakthrough, it looks like there is a mention of osx in the app.

[1] http://cdr.xpaw.ru/app/70/

Edit: I opened Steam on my mac, Half-Life is showing up under "Mac games," I'm downloading it now. Great.
Dear law,

no.

Signed, Users
Also, let's say you are with AT&T and your phone breaks or you lose it a few months before you qualify for a new phone. You are forced to pay for a new one at full price even though you've already decided you are going to switch to T-Mobile or a prepaid service when your contract is up.

If you can unlock it and the new carrier is also GSM, you can take the phone with you. Or, if you want a new phone with your new carrier, you can sell your existing phone that you just paid full price for. If it's unlocked (or unlockable) you can sell it to ANYONE if it's unlocked and might get a better price since the potential customer pool is larger than if you HAVE to find someone on the AT&T network to buy it.

I just bought a currently locked AT&T phone because I was told I can unlock it for use with T-Mobile. Then I discovered that when it arrives tomorrow I have EXACTLY ONE DAY to unlock it before that becomes illegal. In my case, the scenario described above is exactly what happened to the guy I bought the phone from. Only he wanted to stay with AT&T but when his contract renewed (3 months after buying the phone I just bought from him) he was eligible for a new higher end phone (actually an iPhone 5).

I just can't get over how freaking BIG BROTHER-ESQUE this new law is. I HAS to be unconstitutional, right???
Imagine not being able to buy cheap gas because some economist got it in his head that people were more easily fooled by cheap cars subsidized by marked up gas with an implicit 20%+ interest rate so that you had to buy the gas and car that way even if you were perfectly willing to pay up-front for the car rather than the implicit financing fee via marked-up gas.

There, that's the analogy we should be using.
'Cause 87 people thought it should be.
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Most of the churches that need to be shamed into becoming better Christians, are unfortunately, completely immune to being ashamed of anything.