skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you are correct. I wrote the comment too hastily. To expand a bit on this, the heuristic Thomas follows is "did the government simply do what a reasonable parent would do under the same circumstances?". Thomas' argument in Brown was that adults would still be able to purchase some of the violent video games, as would children with explicit adult permission -- but absent parental involvement a government would act similarly to an average parent (prohibit purchase of certain video games).

He used similar logic in case of school censorship (if a parent would reasonable want to prohibit a student from wearing a shirt with an illicit message) or search and seizure (if a parent would reasonable want to search a students' person in one case, so may a school do so).

Personally, I disagree with this logic: the government is not the parent and in all of the above cases the parent could still exercise authority without the statute at hand (a parent can prohibit a child from playing video games, wearing a certain t-shirt, etc...).

Furthermore it's often insufficient nuanced: the standard is too vague (two children of same age may differ wildly maturity wise, some children may become "emancipated minors", etc...).

I personally believe there should be a "gateway" for youth to have greater civil rights (the right to vote, emancipate themselves, work under adult labour laws, serve in the military, etc...) -- but I haven't spent much time thinking how such a gateway would work.
"White" excludes 40% of Americans, "female" excludes 50%. Its just semantics.
Egor Homakov's consultancy sales pitch
Seconded. Amusing terminal effects, but really poor visualization of the thing I actually care about, which is these new orbits. They should look into CDF or three.js
Ok, that looks good! I wonder if LayerVault will put out a DMCA notice for this as well :P
Overview of current cyber attacks (logged by 97 Sensors )
Agree with that, but would also like to throw in a scenario where there wasn't a sterile environment, but conditions were harsh enough for all present life to die, leaving you with a 'sterile' thin soup containing the building blocks of DNA based life.

That might shave a bunch of time off of the time needed.
I've BTDT and it's tedious at times. Try this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/php5

Fedora users have it easy, the packages there are mere days behind: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/php

With a bit of experimenting you can easily do a network install of a headless Fedora/SL/CentOS in KVM using virt-install and a kickstart file. Use filesystem passthrough to access your source files, run php-fpm and configure its address as a backend in your web server. Keep SELinux enabled, but adjust it to your needs using setsebool if necessary.
My mom uses Coca-Cola to remove mineral stains from toilet. She says works better than chemicals.
I disagree it is the governments job to give people a place to live. From the sounds of it, Hong Kong already does a lot of this. At some point, people need to take care of themselves.
I find that fact impressive, not disconcerting. (Perhaps disconcerting about the evolution of the internet.)
It's not often you see a basically unchanged tech website over four years becoming more relevant to the HN community instead of less relevant.
Flash version is much better. Less CPU for me as well. I do native mobile/flash/html5 versions for games I make; the html5 versions rarely get any play time. People download native on iOS/Android and on Mac/Win they play the flash version.
What are you running? For me Flash does less CPU. I agree with HTML5 being the future, but the future is not now.
Shenzhen is still much, much cheaper than HK. I had a 2 bedroom 90 square meter apartment in Shenzhen in a brand new building and a nice part of town for 3,000 RMB/month. The same in Hong Kong would have been roughly 10 times more expensive. And Shenzhen is an expensive mainland city.
I hadn't thought of it that way.
This would "solve" the problem within one winter...
Simple living and minimizing material possessions is absolutely a philosophy, and an increasingly popular one at that. Im not sure how you argue otherwise.
Is that really how it works in SG? I've been told housing prices are outrageous there and if you're too poor to afford public housing you get shipped off to the poor house and are not allowed to leave unless you can find someone to take responsibility for you.

Note: I've only visited SG so this is 2nd hand info through my friends in SG.
Adobe has been increasingly embracing open source for a while now: tamarin, brackets, acquiring typekit, phonegap, etc.
If you wouldn't do it to your mother, it's not ethical.

So, most marketing isn't ethical at all.

But that doesn't stop most marketing.
You are to feminism what Fox News is to news channels; I'm not trying to pull an "Ad hominem" but pointing out that it makes no sense to keep a discussion where one of the sides try to cover up all the mistakes and recognize none by constantly changing the conclusions extrapolated and interpretations of the subject.
It is absolutely the governments job to give people places to live if they are unable (not unwilling) to do so on their own. The difficulty lies in determining who is truly unable and who is simply unwilling.
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Some dark corners of C
Wow, that text scrolls slowly...
This is actually a response to some Ubuntu contributors very publicly leaving the project, and not to criticism from users. This is the blog post that started it off:

http://doctormo.org/2013/03/06/ubuntu-membership-2/

And here some the many responses in the past two days (remember, these are Ubuntu members, not random users), many of them agree that there's something wrong with the Ubuntu community of contributors:

http://randall.executiv.es/ubuntu-stage-next

http://blog.pault.ag/post/44821301540/ubuntu-the-community

http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/03/08/thoughts-on-recent-commu...

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1235

http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/divisive-leadershi...

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1232

http://smartboyhw.tk/wordpress_smartboyhw/?p=28

http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/thoughts-and-worr...

http://philipballew.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/confessions-of-...

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=7670

http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/freedom-and-commun...
The article and his Wikipedia page state that he was born and raised in Worcestershire so it looks like he is British.
If you're making an efficiency argument, then it really depends on the details. You could conceivably have 10 programs that are horribly mismanaged, and 100 that are well-run.
Requiring the user to watch a Flash video is a dark pattern.
Flash and Flex are EXTREMLY stable and easy to maintain for my projects. Maybe it is not Flash/Flexs Fault but yours ?
You make a good point, but the OSX comparison doesn't work. Apple practically invented the smooth user experience and they design based on feedback and studies, not being arrogant and forcing change for the sake of change.

When you boil it down, it's pretty simple. Unity sucks, taking away the users ability to configure sucks, but they've made the stand and don't want to back down because it's the only way they can differentiate themselves from other distributions. Why? Because different, not because better.
Japan also has many fairly small apartments.

Here's a few in the 5-6 sq meter range

http://www.chintai.net/detail/bk_C01004728000466001/

http://www.chintai.net/detail/bk_C01004509001707001/

http://www.chintai.net/detail/bk_C01003440000826001/

A bigger list shows a lot more in the 10-12 sq meter sizes

http://www.chintai.net/tokyo/search/ensen/List.do?e=101001&#...

10-12 seems small in my experience but I have many friends in the 14-16 range
DotA 2 isn't out and we don't even know their financials, do we?
That's exactly what most smart people have done. How does that help Canonical when that happens?
How bad would it be if you injected something that killed all CD4 T-cells?
Like how long would it take until new ones formed and how vulnerable would you be until that happened?
Nice one again. @homakov thanks for sharing. Shame on github for their bounty policy.
It is telling that these "dark corners" all seem harmless compared to what you can find in certain other languages which shall not be named.
Three IMHO relevant things:
a) High phosphoric acid content in the Coke
b) Importance of phosphorus in a organic life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus#Biological_role
c) "Phosphorus is a scarce finite resource on earth" && "recycling" -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_phosphorus
I "learned" the gist of Prolog in one day. Same as Lisp & Smalltalk. Of course, it takes years to master, as in Lisp & Smalltalk, but you can get a taste of the magic fairly quickly.

A highly recommended book is The Art of Prolog, the "PAIP" of Prolog. But unlike PAIP I have managed only a chapter or two, though it's on my list of "to reads" ;-)
Converting Shopping Malls to Micro-Apartments
This seems like a really cool idea for a hacker space or even a YC funded area. Everybody lives and works under one roof but you still have some personal space to call your own.
Scientific Reasons to Respect Light Beer
Self-Organizing Organizations (For Real)
The problem is these people generally have little skills so their job prospects are pretty terrible anywhere. In reality, if you have a stable job, or possibly a family, you'd be living in public or subsidized housing instead of a cage. But that's no longer possible in the last decade since the government had stopped these programs.
Really? I was starting to think this would be the "Duke Nukem Forever" of operating systems.
You clearly have no idea how big a problem DRM are for customers. I have no sympathy for anyone who use it.

Especially in this case where the DRM have totally screwed up the game, where EA have explicitly said people to ask for a refund, and denied it in the end.
Wow

A student residence house (of course, subsidies, etc) could be had for around 250E, or even around 150E for the smallest rooms (around the 10m2 mark)

Of course, not Paris.
That's sort of how it works here. The Singaporean housing market is divided into HDB (public housing) and Condo (private housing). Condo's nowadays start at around SGD 1m for something small and basic, but aren't such a bad deal with banks charging interest of just 1.8% on a 40 year loan. Most Singaporeans can't afford this with an average monthly wage of just SGD 2,000 per month.

Public housing on the other hand is heavily subsidised and somewhat controlled for PRs and citizens. FYI Singapore was a giant slum up until the government formed the HDB board in the 1960s. The CPF (Singapore's retirement fund) can be used as a deposit against your apartment which nowadays start at SGD 300,000 if you go far from the city. As you can guess, this results in many people having a lot of cash tied up in non-liquid assets when they retire that leads to a host of other issues.

I moved to Singapore 3 years ago from Australia and love the place and prefer life here to Hong Kong any day.
Maybe police should have to obey the Geneva convention:-) cops are allowed to use ammo that would be considered a war crime if used by armed forces.
to rebut this sticking to your libertarian premise (which I don't agree with, but you might actually listen then!):

Government intervention caused this. The government strictly controls which land can be built on, and restricts supply so much that this is what is left. If government stopped restricting which land developers could buy, build on, and sell as housing (which is a bad idea for another reasons, but not libertarian ones) then this problem would go away.
Alternatively, these people choose to live in these cages that cost ~ HKD 2K and save the rest for their families.
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Try to store one, or maybe even two expensive and dirty mountain bikes in an apartment. Especially with a crazy girlfriend around.
48% of the HK population already live in government provided/subsidized housing, that's already very high.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_Hong_Kong#Housing_st...
That sounds like pseudo-religious baloney. You can't get the Spirit of Internet, you have to be born with it, it has to enter your lungs with your first breath. No, it does not. You can get it just fine in any age. It's just technology, like cars, TVs, mobile phones, microwave ovens or electrical toothbrushes. There's no mystery in it and no sacred spirit that has to fill you from your birth. There's nothing special in being born with it. There's a real lot of nice things about being young, but sorry, this is not one of them.
Can you quantify this? HK has one of the best welfare systems in the world.
The bigger news in this article is that they're trying to 3D-print chocolate! Everything in my apartment looks delicious now, especially those PCI cards.
> I would imagine that there's hardly a comprehensive database of a DNA of all existing life forms on Earth.

An annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences is available from the DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and GenBank at NCBI. They are basically all three the same database and they exchange updates on a daily basis. However, small timelags in propagating data between the database centers causes minor differences.
Ask HN: Good Examples of Credit Card Forms
Form design is hard enough, but I'm looking for good designs of credit card forms. I'm curious as to subtle items that would help the user feel confident that submitting payment is okay and secure.
Why did you think that? Did Mozilla not deliver at some point in the past?
* and even not by httpOnly (they should go first obviously).*

Why is it obvious that httpOnly cookies should go first?
Quora answers the YC question "When have you hacked a system to your advantage?"
but your opening was about a completely different story

The second paragraph starts with: "It’s a parable about what happens when you’re always solving the problem right in front of you rather than questioning whether this is a problem you actually need to be solving."
runit user here. For someone without a strong understanding of UNIX the runit documentation will strike her as a little low level. That being said, the learning curve is steep but short. What’s missing is a blog post that explains UNIX from the point of view of runit. Starting & restarting and logging. It’s actually a good place to start learning more about UNIX.

Zed Shaw has also starting a project of his own to tackle these things. Not sure how it handles multiple unrelated things. Seems to be a good idea to document in understandable Python code, what the requirements are to daemonize a process corrently.
I wonder if these are new vulnerabilities or if the maybe existed all along? Would an adapted exploit work against Java 5?

Maybe java security research just had a breakthrough and they found some new attack vector/methodology which uncovers all these vulnerabilites?
Loan word from Spanish (guapo).
Cedar stack apps are herokuapp.com, but their older Bamboo stack is heroku.com. But I don't think you can create any new ones with Bamboo, thankfully!
I completely agree. This kind of pivot will slough off some Ubuntu enthusiasts and contributors, and upset some users, but I suspect that we'll all be looking back in 5 years and saying how obvious this move was.

Why am I so confident it'll actually work? Canonical has done a great job for many years on managing the sprawling world of integrating multiple upstream OSS projects that weren't under its control.

That's just a totally different thing from how you manage the development and integration of commercial software. What Canonical has done is much, much harder. And in my view, people who have done that can do anything -- beginning with the long-term technology planning, partnership building, and platform integration work that their vision requires.

That vision, by the way, is I think one that most of us want: 1) a 'smart device' OS, suitable for many hardware channels 2) a desktop OS tuned for content creation and collaboration 3) open cloud infrastructure to provide services to 1 and 2

For me, the single most important outcome of this vision is using Ubuntu to drive an educational revolution in the developing world. That requires Ubuntu to be in the hands of a wide and diverse community of developers, educators, scientists, engineers, artists, artisans, activists, policymakers, and hobbyists interested in such things, and who have total freedom to hack them.

That will not happen if "Linux" still means your dad's 90s desktop OS.

Go Shuttleworth!
I don't know how you could seriously say[0] that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS#History
https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-checkout

https://trychec.com/
>>There are lots of pure community distro's. And wow, they are full of politics, spite, frustration, venality and disappointment.

Soo... It is a community distro? Because Ubuntu sure has plenty of that.

>>To Shuttleworth, Ubuntu isn't about catering to hobbyists, but about building an open source OS that is so compelling that free software becomes the norm, rather than the exception.

There's nothing compelling about implementing advertising directly into the operating system. I was just starting get used to Unity, and then Canonical did something that makes it impossible to trust them about anything.
D2's multiplayer sucked. It wasn't until LOD (a year to the day later) plus patches that the mutliplayer was decent. And I think you're misinformed, I know plenty of people (myself included) that still play D3 and enjoy it.
#define struct union
#define else

That's evil. I have to do it in someone's code some day just to have some fun.

But, apart from that, it's a really nice compilation. I didn't know about the compile time checks of array sizes, but I have a doubt. What if I pass to a method declared

int foo(int x[static 10])

this pointer

int* x = (int*) calloc(20, sizeof(int));

Does the compiler skip the check? Does it give me a warning?

EDIT: Funnily enough, in Mac it doesn't give any warning, neither for pointers nor for undersized arrays (ie, foo(w[5]) doesn't give a warning). And I've compiled with -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall.
Open Source Diablo 2, so to speak
Proof http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31tkQ4tp_2c. This was built using Gameleon, a HTML5, open source gaming server, and its visual editing tools

If you think it is cool, help spread the word about our kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/341483420/gameleon-sandbox-game-making-for-everyone

HTML5 Realtime RPG FTW!
That's not really true, beware not to fall into a "Golden Age Fallacy".
I am sure many of us will be able to debug stuff even more crazy than that. Just look at all those hardware startups popping up lately. Let's check back in 20 years.
Army's First Interactive iPad Book Lets You Finger-Swipe Through Afghanistan
> I bought the damned thing. I didn't buy it "for X years".

Misunderstanding what you bought doesn't actually entitle you to anything more than what you bought. No one promised you that your game would last forever. It was clearly advertised as reliant on an online connection to their servers, and the overwhelming majority of plaintiffs here demonstrate an understanding that such a connection connotes an eventual cessation of service.

If you want to have full ownership over the capability of running the game, get it in writing before you pay.
Bomb Squad - 1 Mac 8 players
I am currently trying to set up a demo for a project, and a simple 'plug and play' would be great.
I don't see why there's a competition. SQL is great for analytics. NoSQL is great for operations. When you want to do analytics on the data from your operations--which are presumably Big Data and far too much to pack into a single node--just query your Operations data using statistical sampling methods to generate a representative data set, stuff that "analytic snapshot" into any old RDBMS, and query it to your heart's content.

(And if they're not Big Data--well, then, the solution is even more obvious. :)
> which shall not be named

So... not that telling then.
I'd think people still read about a game before they buy/preorder it?
plenty of cultures don't generally have room to be alone at home. Not saying I don't like the idea. Just pointing out that depending on where someone grows up the idea that they might have alone time at home might seem strange.
The claim in the article that "kids and grandkids" could answer how text messaging system works "while sleepwalking" is ridiculous. I am sure more than 50% of HN visitors do not know in details how mobile telephony and SMS works in details, and probably about 99% of the "kids" do not. They know it send the message somewhere and then it arrives, but how exactly it does it? What exactly receives it? How it knows where to send it? What exactly happens if the recipient is unavailable? Where exactly the message is stored and for how long? etc., etc.

Assuming the judge does not know about existence of the mobile service providers is outright ridiculous - even idiot would notice building-size ads on every second road advertising mobile services, or ads on the TV and in the newspapers. And SC judges are not idiots. I think more plausible is that Ashby Jones just didn't understand what it was about. It was about if the message or information about it is stored on provider's systems - which is quite reasonable question, some systems are peer-to-peer, some use dedicated server, they wanted to know which is it because it is highly relevant for the case, which discusses if it is legal for the employer to check on communications of an employee, and if it is then to what extent.

The pager/email matter even more laughable - clearly the question was if the legal implications for pager are different than for email (for which the law is known) and if so, what exactly makes them different. To understand this as if Roberts couldn't figure out what is the difference between email and pager at all is plain silly.

Supreme court judges have to deal with pretty much every aspect of modern life, thanks to over-invasive state. So I am more than ready to forgive them if they ask questions about technology that most people know how to use, but have very vague idea about how it actually works in detail. Unlike their kids sleepwalking, they can not afford to have vague idea - they have to know exactly what they are judging about, and thanks God they are asking questions - I'd be much more concerned if they relied on vague idea in a matter they are not professionals in.
> I'm not sure if user ignorance is a valid legal claim.

IANAL, but there is a case that can be made for reasonable expectation [1]. On the other hand, most people who complain about this actively demonstrate foreknowledge, which AFAICT immediately invalidates their legal standing for reasonable expectation.

I think a talented lawyer may be able to figure out how to draw together law into a strong case where there is some obligation to make sure your game can run mostly-featured without an internet connection... but in order to set precedent, you're probably going to have to sue an indie company to have a fighting chance in terms of money (which would also probably kill said indie) or put together a large enough legal fund to go after a worthwhile target like Ubisoft or EA... and I don't rate your chances high, there.

[1] http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/doctrine-of-rea...
Facebook was created 9 years ago, he's probably older than 9 (though I can't be sure), so poor chap can't understand Facebook!
That's in essence what HIV does. You'd give the patient a quicker onset of AIDS. Perhaps if you eradicate the rest of the HIV and keep the patient stable in some other way this could work... but I think this sort of scorched earth method isn't/wouldn't be as attractive as a targeted cure due to the period you'd have full blown AIDS.
It just gives them type 2 diabetes :)