skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see from the report that they are urging people to stay away from 32 specifically. Can anyone clarify if they have someone trapped inside the building, or are they just trying to keep people away from the police net?
Fisker's Road to Bankruptcy
weisser posted this below http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/theres-shoot...

lots more details
Retail War & The Art of Sale
This seems to be confusing what is happening right now with what happened a few months ago: http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N7/hoax.html

MIT has NOT called off the lock down yet: http://emergency.mit.net/
I wrote a system that did that for students. It was a ton of fun to work on. And then it didn't work because the cell phone towers couldn't handle it. So of course they scrapped my code, went with a third-party system, and had the same problem.

Text messages during emergencies? Not a chance. Not when they don't even work for a simple test (hour delays!)
When I was at MIT, I don't recall a single on-campus shooting.
Yes like he said emergencies.
"MIT officer was shot and firearm was stolen. No suspect description, no direction of flight, happened about 45 minutes ago, was an MIT officer, is at Mass General now."

Manually transcribed from police scanner:
http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web
Presumably the one across the street from campus on Main St., for those not from the area. (ETA: And assuming that the police report is accurate.)
As Patrick said, Go was announced much later in the development lifecycle. Go was developed for quite a while before it was announced. At Mozilla, we do things a little differently. All of our projects are open and public from the very first commit into the repo.

People seem very excited about Rust and want to use it right away, which is great, but things have been changing a lot, as you noticed, and will continue to do so for a while. One of the reasons things are changing is because the Rust developers take into account the opinions of random early adopters of the language. There is no idiomatic way to write Rust yet because Mozilla wants the Rust community to help figure out what idiomatic code should look like. Go, on the other hand, has lots of opinions.

There are obviously tradeoffs to each approach, and one downside of the Mozilla approach is a lot of churn and chaos sometimes. However there are a lot of benefits too, one important benefit being that the community is helping to shape the language in an open way.
Sounds like a plan--didn't mean to come off as a jerk; you probably grok what I'm getting at. Thanks!
Transcript of meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt
"There was a shooting at 32 Vassar St... No suspect description... No direction of flight..." MIT officer was shot and weapon stolen, I think they said the weapon was recovered. Officer is at MGH. Witness in lobby of Stata saw man in cowboy hat.

(All that on the police scanner in the last minute or so)
Well if you truly meant one life saved fair enough.

So you'd have to deducted the people killed in making sites like these first. So a web site is possibly $40,000. A humans life in the US is probably worth around $2,000,000. So it might cost one 50th of a humans life to create a site like this.

I'd guess not, but the figures are complicated, the site is used for other things for starters.

I'd suspect a suicide help line would be better money spent. Don't drink and drive campaigns, healthy eating, quitting smoking help all far better returns I'd guess.
I like Farhad Manjoo, but I deplore this article of his.

If you want to sell me on increasing surveillance, don't bother selling me all the upside based on fear. Any random salesjerk can do that.

Instead, let me know what sort of information you consider needs to be made public, what sort you do agree should be kept private, and what safeguards you think should be put in place to guarantee that information is safeguarded.
Form an LLC in Vietnam?
Oh, also, if you see incorrect syntax or broken links in the manual, file bugs!
Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lmc2Jdwpjs
New, Higher-Resolution Image of Boston Marathon Suspect
Also might have been unrelated incidents... Scanner traffic just reported shooting in Stata, and I don't know why a 7-11 robber would go inside Stata.
Sure, credit cards aren't a good product for every person, but your dismissal of them is fairly shallow.

Not all credit cards have annual fees, and those that do usually offer benefits to the card holder that the card holder has determined are worth the cost of the fee.

Interest is only charged if you don't pay your card off each month, and I have mine set up to pay automatically.

They do allow you to spend money you don't have, but they are also isolated from your savings account. My credit card limit is substantially lower than the amount of money in my bank account. A debit card on that account would mean that card fraud actually has an impact on my savings.

In addition in most cases, using a debit card over a credit card network (as opposed to EPTPOS) subjects you to the same rules as using a credit card - you can still end up spending money you don't have, and be liable for it. So your distinction between Credit and Debit cards is actually between credit card networks and the EFTPOS network.

All of which is unrelated to your original point that I was offering a counter-opinion to. Regardless of you personal views on the merits of credit cards, my experience is that Australians use credit cards for in store purchases more often than EFTPOS, and much more frequently than your suggestion of "when they're already living beyond their means".
A solid idea! I'm pretty dedicated to not having a job and I'm pretty good at it, but if it was anyone but me (or something like that) I'd do it for sure.
Nope, nothing. Well, you can win sometimes, but it has to be National Enquirer-level blatant. "New York Times Co. v. Sullivan" is the basis for modern defamation cases and it is heavily weighted to the press.

The second part is that the FCC does not have "truth" in its charter, but it does have decency legislation. Although a recent ABC case might make it impossible for the FCC to repeat the CBS Superbowl fine.
Are you trying to say you get a lot of attention and don't like it/can't handle it and thus you think being subordinate (low power poses0 is the answer to not being able to cope with things? Come on your argument is that if you fail at something you get burned? There's nothing truer to to life except that we're going to be uncomfortable in it for a long time, but it's easy to ignore if you choose. I understand not wanting to draw attention to yourself, that's a personal thing and a choice only you can really make, but saying "it hurts, I don't want to fly any higher" is never going to change reality, and I think it's sad that someone is posting about life is "forcing" them to do something they don't seem to want.
Having worked in political advocacy, what you're wanting is exactly the right way to go.

It's almost impossible to get an email to your actual representative. What you want to do is get your sentiment to their aide via email. Simply put, your subject should be one of:

"Please oppose Senate Bill <number>" or "Please support Senate Bill <number>". Make sure you know if it's a senate bill or a house bill, and make sure you know the number. If you can't be bothered to perform that simple amount of research, then it's a signal to them you probably aren't a voter, or don't have strong opinions on the matter (right or wrong).

In the contents of the email, which probably won't be read, but in the case that they are, state your name, district (if applicable), and whether you're registered to vote, and if it's for their party, then say so. If it isn't, omit it.

After that, do whatever you like, but keep it brief, polite and on-topic.
On MBTA police scanner I hear hipsanic, possibly wearing a cowboy hat, with blood on him
Of course, Bitcoin is also designed to charge a processing fee. This is currently optional, but it is entirely conceivable that this would change in the long run if Bitcoin ever sees adoption on a serious scale. This holds especially true given that mining awards will go down. Furthermore, services built on top of Bitcoin will have such charges as well.

I don't think economics as a science has a consensus theory that has withstood serious empirical shakedowns for explaining how high such fees end up in practice.
AFAIK, the bombs used were triggered by kitchen timers, not remote detonation.
White hat on the left.
Since nobody has pointed out the obvious: buying things for $1 in the business world means that the thing has negative book value (= its liabilities exclude its assets), but not so much that you'd want to structure the sale the other way around (= Provo paying Google to get rid of the thing). So Google's not getting $39m worth of stuff for $1, they're getting $39m worth of assets plus $Nm worth of liabilities (where n > 39) for $1. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(legal)

Also, paying $39m to build something doesn't mean the resulting asset is actually worth $39m any more, but that's another story.

(And obligatory disclaimer: I have no personal knowledge of how the valuation was actually made.)
1. Human lives are valued at between $6 and $8 million in the US.

This is not what can be produced in the average human life, which is probably more like $1 million as I estimated recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543848 . Instead, it's how much it costs to save a human life on the margin, which is the applicable number here.

2. My impression from previous things I've read is that suicide lines are largely ineffective.
Google forbids users from reselling, loaning Glass eyewear
Einstein did his best stuff while he was working as a patent clerk.
If this had involved known suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, there would probably have been a small platoon of federal officers involved. The officer in this instance is MIT police.
I didn't say anything like that. You can read remarks by anyone in the public eye about the fact that there is a very real downside to it. For some people the cost is more of a problem than for others. I was simply agreeing with the OP that the situation is not as cut and dried as "dominant behavior good, low status/submissive/nondominant behavior bad."
The website is public. There's nothing keeping them from having using a CDN or other caching service or, better yet, setting up their own caching servers to handle the load better.
Me neither, I was there from 1982-1996. There was one knifing on Mem Drive during that period.
Not to mention latency, which is the most significant factor for me. I'm on semi-NBN and now have a 4ms ping to work. Only have to leave the house once a week (Warning: side-effects may vary).
隔岸观火

watch the fire on the other side of the river, basically it means it's not my problem so LOL

http://www.zdic.net/cd/ci/12/ZdicE9Zdic9AZdic94247719.htm
I'm hearing it was armed robbery with life threatening injuries to the MIT police officer: http://www.wcvb.com/MIT-campus-police-officer-shot/-/9849586...
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015157344...
Okay? But when is somebody going to fix the documentation and keep it in sync with the language's development?

I've never once had a problem with Go's documentation and it started out as a relatively casual project that is more peripheral to Google's interests than Servo is to Mozilla's.

Making a language be able to get picked up by the wider programming community means somebody has to spend time on things other than the compiler. Lots of time.
One of the pieces of research he cites (the one I've actualy read :) concludes that faking it will make it easier for you to feel it from whithin.
> At a hospital with modern software...

That's one helluva qualifier when talking about hospitals. Our company creates web-based software for hospitals, and we have yet to talk to a customer who doesn't need IE7 support. (We draw the line at IE6.)
I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell"

The mid-April week has always had a higher-than-normal rate of manic-type (e.g. spree killings) violence, and there are a lot of theories about it (spring inciting grandeur in unstable men) but no one knows why. Those are very rare, high-visibility events, though. Overall, that time is no more dangerous than any other. (There's only about a +/- 5 percent seasonal difference in violent crime, with summer and December being the worst).
I thought he was a pretty good speaker but I do see what you are saying. Considering that there's no real audience, it seems like he's not trying to fool anyone, it's just to give an idea of his skills as a speaker, it's a resume piece.
tl;dr: contestant submitted 23 entries to a contest, rules state you have to select one for official calculation of your score, contestant changed his mind a few times and ultimately selected an entry that did not have enough points to win despite having another entry that did have enough points.

--

In reading Anthony response, this seems less about a "bug" but more about you not being happy with the results and blaming the complexity of the submission and selection process.

This part of his response seems fairly clear:

"The submission page stated: “Note: You can select up to 1 submission that will be used to calculate your final leaderboard score. If you do not select them, up to 1 entry will be chosen for you based on your most recent submissions. Your final score will not be based on the same exact subset data as the public leaderboard, but rather a different private data subset of your full submission. Your public score is only a rough indication of what your final score might be. You should choose an entry that will most likely be best overall, and not necessarily just on the public subset.”

During the course of the competition, you made 23 submissions of which 3 were selected for leaderboard scoring. First you selected submission 242748 on January 7, 2013 (all times UTC). You unselected that submission on January 24, 2013 and selected submission 250852. You unselected that submission on January 26, 2013 and selected submission 252143. You did not revise that selection at the time of your final submission. It seems logical to conclude that you understood the process of selecting submissions.
Three of the other winners selected their final submission for scoring. The two that did not select the final submission had not previously made a manual selection or had unchecked prior submissions and the software worked as designed and selected the final submission. One participant (but not a winner) made 3 final submissions and selected one for scoring - which was the case the software for selecting a response was intended to handle. There was no bug in the software. "

While unfortunate for you, it is worth noting that all of the competitors had to follow the same set of submission guidelines to be considered.
Your response becomes a debate on how you “feel” the submission process should work, as opposed to indicating a “bug” in the software.

“What on earth is a checkbox doing on the submission screen of a two phase competition? There is no ambiguity - there is only a single file type that is valid for the final leaderboard file. Why on earth is your software not smart enough to figure that out?

Also - why didn't the default selection logic kick in? Because only final leaderboard files are valid for the final submission, why didn't your software pick the only valid option?”
That's not the point. The public should be able to get the information directly from the FBI's website without it being filtered through the media. You'd think the FBI would be able to setup some server caching to handle traffic spikes to their website.
Two weird feedback exploits I like:

1) smiling can lead to feeling happy
2) deep slow breathing can lead to feeling calm
All the evidence thus far points to yes.

1. John Poindexter + SAIC + TIA Program = $200 million turd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office

2. ADVISE (DHS ) $47 million turd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADVISE

3. Trailblazer (NSA) $280 million fiasco + turd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project

4 Turbulance $500 million /year as of yet to be disclosed but very likely turd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence_(NSA)
Botched the robbery, and panicked?
ANY company can do this including your employer. A dogshit group of villans I used to work for pulled money from an employee's bank account that had been deposited from a paycheck because he took two weeks vacation to train for a new job. Was it legal? Almost certainly not, but it happened.
How is that crippling it? From the point of view of subsidized public infrastructure, it's much better to keep it fast for everyone than to let it get overloaded with people torrenting movies.
Seconded (2000-2004). And I've lived near campus ever since, and nothing like this has happened. Some shootings in Central Square, but never on campus. I'd say this is a pretty big deal.

And HN should care - Stata is full of CS people.

Edit: dates
Live stream of police scanner: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web
Edit again. Much better collection of pics

https://twitter.com/JoeXu/status/325086354176364545/photo/1
>international terrorism.

Haven't you heard? Privacy = terrorism.
My academic records suck. What should I do?
I've been reading a lot of posts on HN lately, but reading them makes me sad and very hopeless. Almost everyone has been exposed to some kind of childhood programming and are geniuses in one way or the other. As for me, the area from where I've been brought up is still in the stone ages. Yet I happened to enroll for a CS degree a year back out of sheer curiosity and I just loved it. BUT my grades haven't been the best for sometime now, frankly academics just wears me out and if I continue in this path, my records are surely going to hold me back and hinder my future (right?).
So do you guys think someone like me can land up in a decent job besides the shitty academic records?
We recently built an app that tracks this based on official US government data - per the Cleary act every US college that receives Federal funds must declare their on-campus crime rate. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/campus-sentinel/id513108130?... - you can compare MIT to other campuses.
It sounds like the suspect fled in an unknown direction.
Yes and no, I think. The government building evacuations and suspicious package stories on Tuesday got a lot more attention than normal, but the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion was extremely dramatic and probably not hyped up by simply being days after the bombings.
In fact, they actually support all the versions of IE supported on a given Windows version using the lifecycle of that Windows version. I personally have a MSRC case pending against IE7 on XP.
Where there is multiculturalism there must be cameras. Lots and lots of cameras.
I've certainly read before that it being tax day brings out the 'crazies', which makes at least some semblance of sense.
In fact, that is one of the key tenets behind modern cryptography!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect
"The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion."

On a similar note that object-oriented model makes it easy to write code when you don't understand the problem yet. "I know I'll need a Patient and a Doctor and a Diagnosis ..." Soon you have all these pretty objects and interfaces and Patient and Doctor inherit from Person and ...

I've seen people with literally dozens of objects who still had no idea what they were building or why and couldn’t answer basic questions about the problem domain.
You know I had never thought about that, but Twitter really is the rapid alert system nowadays. You only really need to push messages to a few select parties then boom, everyone knows. It has to be as effective or more than any other alert system we use.
Gun violence is a very uncommon thing in Boston or Cambridge...it's big news here every time it happens. Now outside the city, in the areas where poor people live, it's a different story...but MIT and Harvard are located in some of the wealthiest, safest areas of Cambridge.
I wrote about this last summer: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/what-is-spagh...

Inheritance (typically assumed to be part of OO, but not a requirement) is a big part of it. It gets nasty pretty quickly. Inheritance is the 21st-century goto, although it shares features with the even wonkier "comefrom" of INTERCAL.

Spaghetti code isn't just "bad code" but a specific kind of bad code where understanding a piece in isolation requires pinging about an ungodly number of places. There are a lot of causes of that, but usually it's poor software management and bad development practices.
How Far Can the Mighty Apple Fall?
Great article. If anyone's interested I've got a video course on how to improve your body language. The course is 100% free and you can register at: http://gobodylanguage.com
Wow, this is one of the smartest ideas I have seen. I can see this blowing up like Imgur.
Do you really want the government to be in charge of data transport with its track record of blatantly ignoring the right to privacy? Aren't you the least bit concerned that we'll end up with something like in the UK or China, where government control over internet infrastructure has lead to extensive monitoring and censorship?

I'd rather take (possibly) slower and/or more expensive internet that the government has to put a lot of elbow grease in to censor or monitor than a (possibly!) cheaper and/or faster internet that the government has extensive control over.

If you've worked in telecom, you might know how extensive the government's data monitoring infrastructure already is. I sure as hell don't want to make it any bigger.
'SWAT robots' soon to protect US first responders
There're plenty of self-interested design decisions in Apple products. Don't be naive.
Also, any UI or UX feedback would be appreciated since my goal was to make it as simple as possible to share a file. Thanks in advance
It's been available for more than a month I think.
Why some smart people become oblivious to their stupid actions
This is why almost all good investors pass on startups with weak or no technical cofounders.
Maybe. Also based on a photo of the crime scene that was sent out, it looks the officer was shot right outside Stata, so the robber could have been running through campus.
I ended doing the following for those who are in the same situation:

pip freeze > pip_list_with_sudo.txt
sudo pip uninstall -r pip_list_with_sudo.txt

So now let's start doing things right with virtualenv...
Me neither (1994-2000).
Simple and useful.
This has a specific name.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RavioliCode
Is it not in the interest of a service's users for that service to operate at a healthy clip of profitability? Email alerts like this can make a very big difference in clickthrough rates, implying both that users find them useful and that the company would take a significant viewership loss if they stopped the practice.