skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's customer friendly. Requiring users to register on their website in order to be able to log in to the mouse driver settings is not.
Malware in Google Play downloaded up to 9 million times
I mean can you judge text editor based on some apps people have written with them?

Sadly, sometimes, yes. If I see code with mixed tabs/spaces, mixed line endings, non-indented code, etc, it's a pretty good guess they weren't using Emacs or some other half-decent IDE. Not saying it's impossible to do it, just that badly formatted code is usually indicative of brain damage, either in the editor or the programmer.
> I don't expect anyone here arguing for the GPL (in an predominately neoconservative community like hacker news)

HN may be predominantly politically conservative, but it seems a lot more neoliberal than neoconservative.

> So anyways, I make the conscious decision to use GPL, because it protects my work from exploitation by others (corporations are people too my friend, right?)

That is the basic difference between GPL and permissive licenses. GPL is for stopping people from doing things with your work, BSD/MIT/etc. is for permitting people to do what they will.
I think Rodolfo Llinás would somehow agree with this.
Don't think for a second they don't charge them for the privilege. Fortunately, the need for AppleCare is somewhat diminished.
Finding Unlicensed Repos on Github
I've never had to log in to any Razer software, stop spreading FUD.
Wow, this is huge! A well-known 3D MMORPG switching to WebGL and WebSocket!

(Here's hoping we'll eventually see WoW?)
"How do you stop any market from getting taken over by psychopaths who want to turn it into an incest-fest?"

I suggest replacing these useless leeches with open source software.

I believe that most administrative tasks in large organizations are by now routine. For instance, there is absolutely zero invention in the insurance case processing industry : get claimee's documents, validate them and check contract's term. The only thing managers do is add useless overhead that justifies their presence and aimlessly complexify software that could be written once for the next 50 years at least.

With good open-source case management software, any organization can use it readily; no need for clueless suits to come in and pretend they analyze it because they can't; no need for them to demand costly and dangerous changes without any justification (other than the inept rules they created in the first place).

There is no need for the bums any more : just use free software that will readily organize your service.
Okay, I am pretty amazed about the Dunkin Donuts exception. That is one of those items so bizarre you know it has to be real.

That being said, it was definitely an over reaction. That will take a few weeks if not months to get sorted out as the analysis kicks in. I am more curious who raises a stink as opposed to those who don't.
Infographic - How the Bitcoin blockchain works
No way to delete accounts...

No keyboard shortcuts.
Just for the record: I didn't want to sound dismissive of samuru. I actually think the results I had were not bad at all (the fact that it gave me a link to the lysis in the front page was great UX-wise, even though it is worth pointing out that samuru yields more results per-page than google). The case I pointed at was simply a case where I thought information could be gathered from the dataset that would lead to better results than those presented by samuru, or google (I also tested bing, but the results imho were poorer than google's).

"baby features kept in adulthood" is a weird one too. You are right samuru yields the best result in first place if one meant to get info on neoteny, but then, on first sight, it is the only relevant result in the first page. And the same thing happens with google.
Those Intel (or may be Windows) sticker are there because it subsidize cost for manufacturer. They are paid to stick it in front of user.
I submitted this link but I am not sure what the deal is with the author mentioning military golf courses. The first round of golf that I ever played was with my father at MCBH Kaneohe. For service members stationed on oahu the greens fees at the civilian golf courses can be exorbitant. There is no way my father could have afforded to take me out golfing three or four times at a civilian course during my visit. Are people surprised to hear that the military has their own golf courses? They also have their own grocery stores, gyms and movie theaters.
A 3-Instruction Forth for Embedded Systems Work (1991)
All macro systems are consistent with blown up versions of quantum systems. Chemistry, then biology. Whats left?
I might add that what made me understand these concepts is the writings of physicist and probability theorist E.T. Jaynes, especially his unpublished manuscripts: http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/node2.html

I think if he would have been alive at the right time these would have been blog posts. Before reading them, I had taken an intro class in thermodynamics which at left me completely confused.

Read THE EVOLUTION OF CARNOT'S PRINCIPLE ( http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/ccarnot.pdf )
for incredible insights on how Carnot pioneered thermodynamics by trying to optimize steam engines.

Also if you think you dislike statistics and probabilities but you like math in general his book might change your mind: Probability Theory: The Logic of Science.
Free draft: http://omega.albany.edu:8008/JaynesBook.html

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-Science-T-Jaynes/dp...

In fact understanding his stance on probabilities, the mind projection fallacy in particular might be prerequisite to understand thermodynamics, the fundamental point being that entropy is not really directly a property of matter but more of a meta property that is about knowledge or information which is taken to mean correlations across aggregate matter.
Every criminal case could be similarly described as one in which allowing the defendant their legally guaranteed rights (to remain silent and have legal advice) could (through strengthening the defendant's case and allowing silence on the question of co-conspirators) lead to someone depriving others of their rights (not to be victims of crime, from murder to graffiti). The question is not how to weigh these peoples' rights against each other. Instead, we have set standards on what the police are allowed to do and what the police are not allowed to do. The question is whether the police are failing to follow these standards.

As to the other questions, if an actor deprives another person of their rights, we assign the blame to the actor alone and not to any third party who allowed it to happen unless it can be proven that the third party had the intent to allow it to happen and were therefore co-conspirators in the crime. Where rights conflict, the questions of who gets which rights and who does not are answered by writing laws and judicial opinions. Several hundred years of such work has produced ready answers for most situations.
Air Force cadets win cyber war game with NSA hackers
> You can record the playback of a vinyl record and transfer it to a digital record without losing any information.

No. Sampling truly analog data always involves approximating.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_%28signal_processing%2...

Notice how they use the term "theoretical ideal sampler".
It was three-to-four years ago when I tried running a ThinkPad X61 with Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora) as my primary machine.

The sleep/hibernate and wifi issues never stopped, and I gave up and bought a MacBook.

I might go back for another whirl with an X1 Carbon soon, though. But honestly, I'll probably run Windows as the primary OS and just have Linux VMs.
I wonder if it'll trigger the Copyright Alert System as well, giving innocent downloaders grief with their ISPs.
Why even have an exception? Surely public safety is more important than trying to add a confession to all of the other evidence. The exception seems like something that could be abused in other cases.

I'd go further, and say that no statements made by an accused person should be admissible in court. That way, you don't give any incentives for coercion.
7 Reasons Apple Is Worse Off Than You Think: Forbes
Still banning gay leaders, though.
Best Male and Female Enchancement on the market
Yeah it is old and shrunken. Won't look good on the wall. Will still buy it though for a dollar or two.
Everyone was pretty scared after the marathon bombing. In the days after, there were tons of bomb warnings as everyone reported anything even semi-suspicious. My neighbors even reported an Amazon package for me because it wasn't delivered by UPS!

Once there was a cop killed on our campus, followed by robberies and a car chase with bombs, things were looking pretty grim. If they weren't caught, the next few weeks would have felt very unsafe. After the drama with the lockdown and the suspects being caught then the atmosphere went from really insecure to people actually celebrating. If it was just a piece of theater, it was pretty effective.
I've checked back to this site a few times since the OP first put it on HN, I think it's coming along nicely, well done. It looks like you have listened to the feedback you received and the design is really appealing.

One question - Do you have a release date for the algorithms group yet?
Why should even one false positive be tolerated?
Does anyone know a good format/toolset for writing docs, wherein I can embed tests of claims made in the documentation, so that the team (maybe just me, maybe me and others, maybe just others later) is forced to notice when the code and docs drift apart?
There are things I dislike about Ron Conway's politics (the gun thing), but in general I support his goals in SF.

What I do dislike in SF are two things: shifting the payroll tax to a gross receipts tax is unfair to non-tech businesses with lower margins. A simple surcharge to the state income tax would be much more suitable, for both businesses and residents.

Two, as far as I can tell, either Ron Conway nor Ed Lee have seriously addressed the lack of affordable housing in SF. Not "affordable housing" -- housing for people with political connections and long-term waitlists, for below market rate rents -- but genuinely making housing affordable based on demand, by de-politicizing zoning and permitting in the city.
I keep hearing people claim that this was an overreaction, and frankly, it sort of confuses me.

Here's what we know happened before the lockdown:

- These two suspects allegedly planted two bombs that killed three and injured over 170 others.

- These two suspects allegedly killed an MIT police officer.

- These two suspects allegedly carjacked an SUV and held its driver captive for some time.

- During a chase with police, these suspects allegedly threw homemade explosive devices at law enforcement.

What we don't seem to know yet (and definitely didn't at the time):

- Did they have more explosives? There's certainly reason to believe they may have.

- Did they have other attacks planned? We don't know one way or the other, and that's sort of the point.

I really don't think it's unreasonable that given what we knew, and especially what we didn't, residents of Boston (myself included) were asked to stay indoors while authorities attempted to locate suspect #2. Remember, they didn't lock the city down immediately after the bombing. They did it after what the Boston police commissioner is calling the "execution" of an MIT police officer, a carjacking, multiple IED detonations (or attempted detonations, I'm not totally clear), and a shootout with police in a residential neighborhood.
The algorithms group is going to be active coming Tuesday :)
I don't think he is agreeing with you at all. The state just spent the social security surplus instead of going into debt. If you followed Keynesian policy you would of saved the money caused by the boom.
> Please steal any good ideas you see here. I’d rather have them benefit the world than die in obscurity.

Class.
Right, because Apple would have been one of the most significant technology companies in the world under the apt leadership of Gil Amelio.

Secondly, the house metaphor about ignoring the carpenter and contractor is silly. Comparing Jobs to an interior designer is complete ignorance -- Jobs didn't "decorate" technology -- he saw what technology could potentially accomplish and pushed his teams to execute that vision. He wasn't arranging digital throw pillows -- he was reinventing how people interact and use their "houses."

That contractor and carpenter build what the designer/architect create. Contractors and carpenters, while certainly skilled tradesmen, are merely inputs to a system. Inputs are generally interchangeable. There are very, very few contruction projects that require one specific carpenter's skills. I can find thousands of carpenters (and hackers) who can built competently. But it's rare that you find a hacker (or anyone) that has the vision, and executive ability to create something like Apple, Google or Microsoft, just as a carpenter might be able to build a Frank Lloyd Wright home from a blueprint, most carpenters wouldn't be able to concieve of that final product, having never seen it before. Who can name the carpenter of a Frank Lloyd Wright home? Who cares? The person living in the house certainly doesn't care about the individual inputs -- they care about the finished product. The ability to take disparate inputs and create something magical, amazing, useful and functional.

Dennis Ritchie, while certainly the father or pretty much most of what we do on computers, doesn't matter to the general public. People love to also suggest that Elon Musk of Tesla as a visionary as well, but without Michael Faraday, electric motor technology might not have developed as it has.

Genius always stands on the shoulders of greatness, but let's also remember that simply inventing some technology or another doesn't make one a "genius" or even a groundbreaking figure -- it's the application of that technology into a form that benefits society. Theories of flight don't matter a bit until someone like the Wright Brothers actually build the damned thing.

The C Language or electric motors didn't matter one bit to the world (aside from academics) until some follow-on "genius" actually does something with it.

Steve Jobs, while maybe not a hacker under the definition used amongst a select group of disgruntled HN-snobs, did something bigger than simply "hacking" -- he turned a group of inputs (highly talented to be sure) into products and companies that changed the world.
The fundamental flaw with an anonymity-structuree news information system as acknowledged by Assange:

"There is many ways for people to transmit anonymously. One of the greatest difficulties for sources is their proximity to the material. So if they have high proximity to it and it's a limited number of people know it. It actually doesn't matter what technical mechanism you then apply at the top. It would be quite difficult for them to evade scrutiny. And it doesn't matter what country or regime you are in."
It's called jealousy. People love to cut others down without having invented anything on their own.
This skips one critical fact that invalidates the entire premise of the post.

The lockdown had little to do with public safety and everything to do with a manhunt. The city was shut down to prevent the suspect from getting out, not to protect people.
Yeah the author was definitely off topic there. Maybe they are unaware of how hard it can be to move around the world at a moments notice. I believe golf courses and the other facilities are hugely beneficial to our service members and are well deserved.
Typical tone deaf nerd rage. If Bostonians didn't agree with the lockdown we would have likely ignored it, we are not particularly obedient.
Actually there are dozens of software and hardware patents with Job's name on them.
In the diagram, I like how everything is approximated as a homogeneous sphere.
Not the first time this has happened. "Down and out..." had similar issues, e.g. http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/08/improper-dmca-t...
I'm almost certain that the UK store was the only store affected, and the UK store doesn't have the Blade for sale. On the stuff they sell, I imagine that 90% off isn't that far away from their costs.
The old saying is: "Cheap, fast, reliable; choose two."

Even if you find a cheaper host that can handle your server load, that host will eventually fill their rack or loose their only sysadmin to Facebook and the quality of service will drop severely.

Some dot coms are only dreams and never use major system resources -- cheap ISPs are for those guys. Web applications that generate revenue are hosted at quality ISPs and their business model is adjusted to reflect this cost.
Millions of people stayed at home an entire day, frightened, watching the news and waiting for a 19 year old to be captured by a heavily militarized police force? In the 21st century? During peace time? In a first world country?
How do you install Facebook? :)
It is very hard to judge how much touch-ups are done (i.e. how much Gimp is used) if the pre-production images are not shown.
"For every complex problem there is a simple and wrong solution." Sorry, I don't know who I am quoting.

But I don't think we should be that skeptical. I guess that some markets may support this model with strong economic basis, not creating an artificial (and not sustainable) production and distribution system. Imagine markets where you don't pay for the production costs or even design, but for the brand. Maybe personalized clothes? My mother create skirts for my girlfriend and sisters that they prefer instead of brand skirts that cost $50. Poor people with a good marketplace could sell these personalized clothes.

Also, improving local economy is a very strong strategy. Social currencies (I don't know what is called in english, but I mean a currency that is only valid and accepted inside a particular community) may improve a lot local communities.
Kowloon Walled City: Life in the City of Darkness
> All the software lets you do is change the sensitivity (any good OS will let you do that), turn off the light, and program the "bottom" button.

Except if you have a mouse like the Naga with more programmable buttons, they're all useless unless you use the software.
Ask HN: Do patent trolls hassle open source projects?
Does it make a difference if the project is commercial or not?

Hypothetical scenario. Say I have a moderately successful application and I publish all or parts of its source code. How likely is this to make me a target for patent trolls?

No matter the nature of a product, it's fair to assume that at least something somewhere in its implementation has already been done and patented - I remember reading about a linked list patent some while ago.
Quick look at Indigo, the upcoming personal assistant for Windows Phone
Ruby translation: https://gist.github.com/havenwood/5426260
Double Tap
Your second sentence is a good point - it was a request from the government, not a demand.
I'd like to have the 'v' for view link, and '?' to show all
shortcuts implemented, but it looks pretty good so far.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group#SCO-Linux_lawsuits_an...
If you ever meet cowboy Darl, be sure to laugh heartily in his greedy face.

If your software threatens monopolies, they will fight back.
Alright, then why not do the very minor step up to Velocity-Verlet?
We weren't forced to stay at home, nobody was arrested for being on the street, it was entirely voluntary. I think most people here were pretty happy with the outcome too. I simply don't have anything to complain about with regard to how the city handled the situation. In fact, that both suspects were accounted for by the end of the day was for me almost too good to be true.
Did they say that when asking people to stay home or did they tell people they would be safer at home?
Linux on an 8-bit micro
Once our content was taken down because of DMCA from Poland (With just a gmail address). We got our content back online with counter following procedures with google after 15 days. (That is the time required after counter for the DMCA complainer to respond back).
How can we expect to sue some on in Poland with just a email address and no idea who the real person is and what they are worth?

DMCA is an American law that only hurts people who live in US. It is very easy to abuse DMCA and trouble people in US if you live outside the country.
I never saw him cut in line, either; he was always in a hurry, and could be short, but I didn't see him pull rank, ever. He did almost run me over once.
This was all just a tactic to raise the fertility rates in Boston. 9 months from now we will experience The Great Boston Baby Boom.
I am not a lawyer but I think precedents have the force of law, and the "Miranda rights" were established by the Supreme Court's ruling on Miranda vs Arizona: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona

Any law enforcement is screwing themselves by not advising a suspect about his "Miranda" rights. They are risking blowing up the case and forcing the courts to toss evidence that could be critical to achieve a conviction.
FinCEN Report on Bitcoin
Breaking News is broken
More baffling is the fact the author likes it.

Even more baffling is the mention in the article that the trackpad is unsuitable to grab window's frames and yet this fact isn't mentionned in the pro/cons section.

I wish the author had given a word or two about fan noise under different loads.
Thanks for posting these. The third link in particular applies a very similar approach to the inverted pendulum example, in depth and with clarity. I also note the modest concluding paragraph for comparison to the grand claims of the OP.

"Finally, we conclude that it would be desirable to transfer some of the generality of the underlying empowerment concept into methods for empowerment calculation in systems combining continuous and discrete dynamics, especially systems of real-world relevance."
I think your definition of intelligence is good and is simply broader than mine.

I split your definition in two parts and only labelled the first part 'intelligence'.
part 1: Predicting the unknown which can be the probabilities of outcome of your actions and such.
part 2. Evaluating these outcomes and their likelihoods to make a decision based on some utility or preference function.

I can see contexts where the word 'intelligence' would encompass both parts. In the context of thermodynamics or information theory I think intelligence is more about the prediction part because pure matter or even computers don't really have preference of outcome so the second part is mostly irrelevant to their 'intelligence'.

The original article seems to take low entropy as a stated goal or preference of the system which is not a bad sub goal in that it is thermodynamically efficient and saves usable energy longer but I don't think being thermodynamically efficient should be the only goal of an intelligent system.
I'm not so sure. Compared to the other examples he lists, London was suicide bombers so they were, ahem, finished with their deeds, and the other locations were well armed (even Maryland). By long standing public policy there are very few guns, and almost no (legal) handguns owned by the people of Massachusetts (if they were honest the government would stop using the symbol and likeness of a Minuteman). In a region that's deliberately filled with sitting ducks as it were, "sheltering in place" was perhaps the best thing to do.

Minus of course what I've heard is the error in drawing the door to door search perimeter just a little short of where the suspect managed to run; not security theater but an honest but very embarrassing failure.