skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lawmakers who passed the CFAA generally assumed that computers were industrial equipment, and that computer networks were like the railroad network. It was still assumed that home computer access would be in the form of online services and thin clients, and that PCs were just a hobby (if they had even heard of PCs). To them, unauthorized use of a computer was the equivalent of stealing a freight train.

None of the consequences of the law were unintended. The lawmakers never gave any thought to the idea of hackers being something other than criminals. The idea of PCs being the dominant mode of computing remains foreign to most of our lawmakers, who think that their laptops, desktops, and tablets are just terminals used to connect to industrial systems. Killing the hacker spirit is not unintended; the law envisioned a world without hackers at all.

It is still assumed by those in power that programming is something you do for pay (and for the maximum pay you can find), that source code is a valuable industrial secret, and that the Internet is divided into "clients" and "servers" (i.e. it is just a shadow of the world, which is "producers" and "consumers"). Sure, there are "hobbyists" out there who play with computers, but the serious work and the dissemination of technology is done by industry. It is the same worldview that says that research can only be done by those with an affiliation and that legal documents can only be read by lawyers (hence the prosecution of Aaron Swartz).
> So you believe a company can charge $99 for a yearly service and then say "by the way, we may increase prices in 30 days if we decide to do so." So what happens to the $99 I paid?

Uh, it would still be paid? Price increases only apply to new billing cycles, not retroactively, so I don't understand what you're getting at here.

The point is that it's incredibly easy — and relatively standard — to incorporate the possibility of changes into a contract.
Petition to end daylight savings time approaches deadline
Oh there are lots of references to "satan," but what is he? God's opposite number? A fallen angel? A non-fallen, benign angel? Man's own sinful nature? Previously popular pagan entities? It's a long way from the modern theological concept of the devil.

Since then we have post-rationalised all these vague biblical references into one guy with horns and goats feet who hangs out in a lake of fire, but that is a (comparatively) recent idea, as you will find if you examine your own wiki link a little more closely. (BTW the lake of fire barely gets half a sentence either. That's also very much something that came with the "expanded universe" books. Actually they were paintings rather than books, but you can look that up for yourself.)

You could also watch this superb recent BBC documentary on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1aa9q1RULg

Wait until you hear about god's first attempt at woman, Eve's predecessor, who went bad! There's a lot of fun stuff that modern christianity has chosen to throw out.
Were they not making a profit? It's hard for me to see the logic behind this decision - I thought the starwars games were all pulling in a decent amount. The other ip as well. What a shame.
That's absurd. Why the name, then?

Just as I got my hopes up.
Awesome! I'm going to compile `release-0.6` right now, because I've been having some issues w/ trunk these past few days.

Simple things like declaring fixed vectors won't compile for me: `let numbers: ~[int, ..3] = [1,2,3];` fails to compile saying it expected `~[int * 3] and got ~[<VI2>]`. That's an example straight from the tutorial.

I'm getting segfaults when iterating over a non-fixed vector of owned elements casted to a trait.
(This works fine if I access the elements directly; or use managed pointers. With owned pointers my `len()` method returns the wrong number of elements, which I suspect is breaking the iterators.)
Sorry, I should have made this clear: the reason he was focused on by the attorneys general is because of the theft, not the TOS violation. I am perfectly aware Aaron resolved the case with JSTOR amicably. And I agree with everything you said.
Probably only a matter of time.
> enjoys broad popularity in the UK.

I think he enjoys broad popularity just about everywhere in SF fan circles.
What tech are you using?
Nothing personal, just as makers of forum software, anyone else who makes some is a competitor by definition, even if we are both free products.

I'm happy to have many others in the forum space as it legitimizes our cause and pushes everything forward. Our main goal is to modernize forum software and so is yours, so we're fighting the same battle here.

Also there's no way we're backing down on infinite scrolling :)
We're friends with Poole already:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20408037
Fair enough, but I feel that Aaron's prosecution is the reason why this is a major issue.
> Historically, the ability to short-sell a commodity has never been a requirement for efficient price discovery

Can someone clarify or refute this?
The first paragraph is hilarious!
Heh, I really wish salaries in science were at least 3 times higher. Most of my colleagues, including those with many years of experience, have salaries in the 30-40K range, so that average starting salary of 35K seems about right or even slightly high. By the way, this is in Los Angeles, where the cost of living is relatively high. Incidentally, the more highly trained postdocs might even have worse salaries and potentially the worst prospects because the number of available faculty positions have seemed to decrease over the years.

Programmer/analysts do make more, but not nearly as much as they would in VC-istan. The median starting salary for a programmer/analyst at my institution is 50K. Senior programmer/analysts can make as much as a median 116K, but I almost never see people employed at that level despite their capability. More importantly, at least in life science research at a public institution, there's really no guarantee that you'll be kept on past the duration of the grant you're funded from, unless your PI is famous and your lab's rich. Even so, the recent cascade of NIH and NSF cuts are putting pressure on all labs.

Along those lines -- the job insecurity's the worst for junior staff, so I don't really see any good reason for recent grads to continue in public research. Most of my former grad school classmates are now in private pharma or biotech. I'm personally looking to move from life science to the SF tech scene as soon as I graduate this year.

Edit: clarity
Bitcoin Bubble: How 'Geeks' Sent Prices Parabolic
I can't figure out what that utility was supposed to do. What does it mean to "fade" message text? Blend it with the background color or something?
if you do that, ASM.js has definitely wrong level of interfacing with DOM and you're screwed.
And if it didn't require 12 hours a week (or some similarly horrible figure) writing grant proposals instead of doing actual research
SEC Approves Using Facebook, Twitter for Company Disclosures
Yes, you can use a freestanding Rust in many domains. Freestanding is still a WIP, but we have examples like embedding Rust in Ruby that work today:

http://brson.github.com/2013/03/10/embedding-rust-in-ruby/
Your point regarding lost meaning is quite salient. It can be useful and enlightening when a learner reports a measure feature importance (such as in random forest models, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~breiman/RandomForests/cc_home....).

When you say "hashing makes the programming a little easier," I think you hit the nail on the head. I'm not trying to improve classification accuracy -- my goal was just to make it as easy as possible to learn on arbitrary structured data.
Unless the dyno signals to the router that it is busy, isn't this just postponing the problem? Per dyno, unicorn can handle more requests but requests will still get queued at dyno level if one of the requests is a slow one (say 2-3 seconds)
Its also a self fulfilling prophecy. When everyone colludes to start selling at the $200 mark, it will certainly burst.
All the DOM implementations I know store the DOM tree in memory. Because DOM allows unrestricted, write access to any portion of the tree at any time, a disk cache would work well for some access patterns and fail for others. Yes, you can point out that browser implementations don't hold heavy weight DOM node _content_ in memory. (Usually just a pointer), but that doesn't remove the fundamental problem that the API has mostly restricted the choice of data-structures and limited the set of performance optimizations.

I probably should have not used the term "pull based api", since that is just a fancy word for a cursor based api.

Example could be SQL - we get a result set after a query exection and can iterate over the elements of the result set. SQL databases can be implemented in a wide variety of ways. (Though best practice has condensed this to a few).

A browser api that had a query language to get different types of node cursors: read-only, appendable, live, etc and some well-defined, optimizable operations on such cursors would have allowed implementors to choose a wide variety of data-structures/algorithms for optimization.
This is one of the best examples of how stupid these laws are that I have seen so far.
Stanford and edX Collaborate on Open Source edX Platform
Having been part of their efforts to test 2X, and 4X Dynos and using Unicorn long before the RapGenius issue I can tell you the added memory and Unicorn still has issues. We still see periods where queueing is above 500ms. The additional Dyno capacity distributes the chance of queue issues out over a larger numerical set but there is still the possibility of one dyno/Unicorn worker combo getting too much to handle. We use Unicorn Worker Killer to help in that case.
Using Alfred 2? Love Emoji? Then you gonna love this workflow.
IOS 7 Wish List
And as far as i know, only in certain parts of the bay area. I wish i could get it in cupertino.
>>looks at the calendar>>

Oh %$#@!, it's not April 1st anymore...

This can't be happening. :(

I was hoping the title was sensational and that they're just moving the staff to a Disney corp building. But the article is confirming the worse case. How can this be?! I'm not a starwars fan, but I'm pretty sure that whole thing is still making money on t-shirts & mugs & stuff.... right?!
I suspect that the poor bastards who have bank acounts in cyprus aren't feeling top happy abotu the 40% haircut they are getting courtesy of the EU
I was looking forward to StarWars 1313. Showing the seedier side of the universe would've been a welcome change to the "All Jedi, all the time" stance of, well, everything SW-related since the prequels came out.
I suspect it's a websocket upgrade issue that you must be having.

Please email support@moot.it if you can with details! This is the first public availability for moot so it's not too unexpected to have a few bumps.
Essentially random projection, which has good theoretical justification and comes in handy quite often, for instance, in SVMs [1]. I'd be concerned about using something as naive as CRC32 though, ideally they'd be using a cryptographic-strength hash fn.

There's also an entire area of research around "semantic hashing" and local embedding, that starts with such a random projection, and tries to improve the mapping to be better at a certain task while still remaining low-dimensional.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.6085v2.pdf
The last paragraph seems particularly noteworthy:

On whether he's taken a MOOC class: "I've never made it through a complete MOOC," Thrun confessed. Much as books have been shrunk down to the size of 140 character tweets, Thrun says he expects that we'll continue to compress education.
"I believe that 50 years from now, education will be as short and sweet as Twitter is today. It will be like an evening talk. And that will be a fantastic moment."

Could this be a solution to the engagement problem in education that pkrein recently discussed:

http://rein.pk/online-educations-dirty-secret-awful-retentio...
Ask HN: Advice with launching a multi-year "Lone Wolf" project?
I've been working full-time on a rather large Java project for several years.

I have no experience working at startups or real-world knowledge of putting together an office and hiring people, so I don't have a good idea of how to get from guy-in-a-room to office-full-of-people, which is going to have to happen.

I'm not very good at networking, I'm more of a head-down sort of guy and have too many responsibilities just handling the work itself. I'm also pushing myself extremely hard, isolated, and overstressed, and I'm not an easy person to deal with socially. This is a reality that I can't easily change as long as I've got my nose to the grindstone.

I have very little funds other than what I need to pay living expenses for myself, which was originally personal savings, and now loans from friends and family.

I don't believe I can/should get investment capital given my lack of leadership and business experience.
The limited experiences I've had with investors has not gone well, I believe in myself and my product 100% but I'm not socially aggressive or good at pitching, and I am easily frustrated by their standard political procedures.

I'd like some realistic advice on how to take off with this. My current plan is to launch it myself and grow organically, but that isn't a solution in itself, it will just give me a little more cash in my bank account and I'm in the same situation.

I need a building with desks and equipment. I need HR. I need Legal. I need DevOps. I don't know what else I need, because I've never worked at a startup.

How does a guy with a product in my situation realistically go about getting this stuff done?
That's a large part of why I'm thinking it'll happen. There's something "different" about $200 when people talk about the rise of Bitcoin; that number just makes people uncomfortable. I don't think it'll rise much beyond that, this time around. (Though I do think that the eventual value of BTC will be much, much, much higher, years down the road.)
Perhaps, although he doesn't seem as well known, even among SFists, in the US as some other authors. However, when I say broad popularity in the UK, I mean in the entire literate population, not just SF, as his non-SF books are also highly regarded there, while fairly unknown in the US.

If you go into an American book store, you may find a couple of Banks books in the SF section, if it's a large and intelligent store. In my brief experience trying this, if you do the same in a British book store, you'll generally find his entire bibliography, SF and non.
It really doesn't matter what tone you read that note in, all of Cameron and team's behavior is completely unacceptable, unprofessional and unethical.
The problem that no one is solving is ownership. If I pay $15 for movie from vdio, what happens if that company goes away? Why can't I switch my collection from iTunes to amazon, etc...

Ultimetly that is the top reason I avoid buying digital content. It's a frustrating issue, and legislation should be passed to guarantee consumer protection on their digital goods.
The tutorial examples are run as part of the test suite. The tutorial example in question is `let numbers: [int, ..3] = [1, 2, 3];`, which should work.

There are several known compiler bugs with any trait types other than `@Trait`. Please do continue to file any bugs you find, though—all crash bugs are bugs that need to be fixed :)
My organisation in london is hiring. I'll pop you an email with details tomorrow when I get into the office. Would be happy to meet up in london to talk about it. I don't work in that department and have no pull with HR but the organisation does have a big focus on accessibility and diversity so they'd be happy to make reasonable adjustments
Wouldn't this depend on the TOS of the ISP?
Perhaps by signing the contract you "authorise" this.

This sort of thing doesn't surprise me any more. AFAIK DNS on every major ISP in the UK is broken, there is no NXDOMAIN. Unresolvable domains are simply redirected to a specific IP address which happens to host a page of ads and a search bar on port 80. This might not matter to most people, but it's a huge PITA when I'm testing some things.
His wife fell to the floor one day with a previously unsuspected brain tumor while they were on sabbatical in Italy and died days later; Doug was left to raise their two children alone. I was always amazed he functioned at all, honestly.

I can't tell you how happy I am that he's back to research.
On one hand, I'm sad that the studio that created Full Throttle, Dark Forces and Jedi Knight, and many other games from my childhood is gone.

On the other hand, they haven't made a great game in a very long time. Even The Force Unleashed was just okay, but not stellar.
That's really not a feature for anyone.
Yeah I really didn't understand this part. Pretty sure you can short them, just borrow some coins, sell them, and then buy them back... that's shorting.
High Utilization Message Processing on PiCloud
Claimed another victim, has the mobile-gaming wars. </yoda-speak>

In all seriousness ... I am very saddened by this news. I few up playing Monkey Island, Indy Jones, etc. I was thinking of buying all the Monkey Island games again on my iPad but didn't have the time.
Irregardless. :P

(Not that I don't agree with you.)
While this is most certainly a good point (and I'm in the same boat), considering we don't even have protections on a lot of physical goods in this space, I don't see it coming along any time soon.
Towards a Unified JS Stack
Totally agreed. We were excited when you guys launched for the same reasons. Further validates the space! There simply needs to be more options, and it's great that there are people getting interested and creating products in this area.
Not that I know of but that's why I'm saying it would be a premium product. Likely pricing would have to scale with the number of dynos running behind the router.

But that's the service people thought they were getting and what they wanted.

If Heroku prices out the intelligent routing and says; "Ok you can have intelligent routing with your current backend stack, but it's going to cost you $25/mo for evert 10 dynos, or you can switch your stack and use randomized routing for free." Then they are empowering their customers to make the choice rather than dictating to them what they should do.
They already announced it. Dark Matter Possibly Found by $2 Billion Space Station Experiment: http://www.space.com/20490-dark-matter-discovery-space-exper...
That is very bad news in a large number of ways. What a pity!
I think it's really great of a man who has some very high stakes in traditional Javascript to be so open to Asm.js; I fully expected to read some passive-aggressive dismissal.
I’ll Download Game of Thrones from The Pirate Bay, Iron Sky Director Tells HBO
How does that work? Google Maps suggests that LA has a gas station at least every other block, which jibes with my memory of the place. Are the lines really 10 minutes long?
It's worht pointing out that in addition to any actual software Samsung might get from this, compared to a global advertising campaign this is a bargain in the form of dev goodwill->dev mindshare->general mindshare.

I'm frequently reminded of the spokesperson for the old US Army game pointing out that the 40 million dev cost was ~ one 30 second spot during the superbowl.
Please quote the section of the essay that says startups should aim to have exponential growth in their value, since I can't seem to find it (I see a statement like that for revenue, which is different).
Hire someone as a generalist who you trust to just get stuff done. If they are smart, they can figure stuff out or find someone who knows.
LucasArts, AFAIK, is just the videogame studio division of LucasFilm. I'm sure the merchandise is still making plenty of money.
Small-business customer acquisition for your freemium product launch
Yup -- the first thing public health students learn is the WHO definition of health: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." In my clinical trials course, equal emphasis was put on extending life and increasing quality of life (e.g., as measured by quality adjusted life-years (QALYs)).
BitPay Processes $5 Million in March, Eclipses Silk Road
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/bitpay-processes-5-million-in-mar...

FTA: "From a public relations standpoint, this is a positive sign for Bitcoin: the legal Bitcoin economy is now almost certainly larger than the illegal one, especially when one takes other merchant services like WalletBit/BIPS and Coinbase into consideration, and is growing at a much faster rate."
Be careful about vanity metrics. If engagement is low then likely a large number of those users have already deleted the app and moved on. Focus on growing Monthly Active Users.

My suggestion is to find a vertical to focus on as there seem to already be many messaging apps out there. Ie. don't attack the big players straight on, find some niche that they aren't addressing.

E.g. physicians have special needs, so you could offer messaging for them & provide patient privacy.
I'm interested to know why FiOS is illegal in your city? I don't know of any regulation that would make it.
Lots of risk to buy. Far more upside risk to not buy.
From the release notes[1]:

> While we cannot promise that this is the last time there will be incompatible
> changes, the great majority of anticipated language-level changes are
> complete in this version

I'm quite excited about this.

1: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-detailed-release-no...
Same, I cannot believe they're cutting this. That game looked fantastic.
A rough guesstimate would be five to ten years. Don't hold your breath either way. Right now Rust is not very optimized and still in flux, while Servo is pretty much a black box for me.
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Ask HN: Market Rate in SF
Just a quick question : if you hear "market rate for an entry-level software engineer" in the SF Bay Area, what do you think in terms of salary?
This sounds like a good first step, thank you for the reply.

Here are the issues from my standpoint:

Even if I could afford it, I don't know how to hire someone or how to tell them what I need done (or especially actually motivate them or enforce that they'll do it).

I also don't know anybody like this personally, and it's going to be hard to trust random people from the internet.
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And I believe that's what killed them

'Management' shut down everything that was not a SW game some time ago.

Gone were all the other game lines.

The Lucasarts of 15 years ago will be sorely missed.

(Except configuring your SB card with setup.exe)
The week after GDC. 'Cause y'know, who might want to go looking for a job at the biggest game developer convention in the world?
This marks the first time I've felt genuinely saddened by the shutdown of a game studio. LucasArts made some of the best games I played as a kid, it's a shame they couldn't follow up their legacy in recent years. :(
Bitcoin is not even the first digital currency, but perhaps the first of its kind.
This looks really neat! However, I'm going to echo a lot of other people on this thread and ask if we really need another pay-to-watch video service? Amazon Prime, iTunes and Netflix are already very big players in the market, and though I'd love for Rdio/Vdio to race ahead of the competition, I don't think a pay-per-item business model is the way to do it. A subscription service with unlimited streaming is what got me hooked on Rdio in the first place; I hope they are able to apply the same model to Vdio soon.

That being said, I immediately loved the interface for Vdio. I wish they had the grey/yellow interface for Rdio also, looks a whole lot better than the Blue on White they have right now.