skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Barrett Brown was the "Official Unofficial Spokesman for Anonymous". Meaning, he participated in many interviews giving insight into the mindset of the collective, was involved in their IRC chats and generally immersed himself into their world. Some have questioned his description of his role as either being larger or smaller than he has portended in the past. He created the Project PM wiki (http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page) to collect information in private intelligence contractors in the United States and abroad. Mr Brown is a known heroin/opiate addict, alternating between heroin and the opiate substitute Suboxone as he has battled his addiction. He has taken stances that private intelligence gathering corporations influence on government is a threat to our national security. He has been accused of sending threatening letters to law enforcement officials, which he posted--as he does many of his videos--on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOW7GOrXNZI).

My personal opinion is that he was an intelligent young man with a troubled life led astray by drugs and emotional turbulence. I find very few of his topics interesting, and most of the rantings to be paranoid circumambulations regarding the evils of our current government, and his own actions to agitate authorities bring upon responses by the government that feed into his persecution complex. Just my personal opinion, buy frankly I think it's sad. If he does end up in prison, it might present itself to be the best opportunity for Barret to ween himself off his opiate addiction. The fact that he is on Suboxone and alternating between prescribed opiates and heroin is disheartening. Many doctors are afraid to try abstinence-based recovery as opiates are so hard to deal with, but perhaps prison will assist with that.
I don't think Pittsburgh has the funding to do it. You're looking at a budget of ~$450mm.

I think the funding, rather than the locale, is the blocker here.
Where exactly do you see me (OP) or the parent discard the creative work of a whole generation of people?

Right about here:

_why was the first person to actually create art "around" and "about" software.

That statement is discarding the creative work of (at least) a whole generation of people. Certainly you claw a bit back by stating "but to my knowledge". However, the rest of your statement throws away that concession.
Upcoming.org was a big deal once upon a time.
I am coming from another culture, so would some kind soul explain to me how, in the 21st century, the society tolerates an organization called "Girl Scouts"? Am I the only one seeing something wrong there, as if there would exist "White Scouts", for example?
Because it's real?
Many people are worried about the switch to a chicklet-style keyboard. I've been very happy with my previous employer-provided Thinkpad T-series laptops and purchased an X220 online, knowing the keyboard would be great. I wouldn't order one of these new ones without trying it first.
False dichotomy? Science is based on verifiable facts and religion is based on belief and faith. This is the place for a debate and I won't engage in one, but I couldn't let that one go. Adding 'Christian' in front of biologist doesn't extend the science in the least.
Upcoming and Yahoo Deals seem like good product ideas for improving personalization for users' local news. Does Yahoo have replacements for these services?
Location is only an issue if we focus on local govts.

Who else do you see investing in an Autonomy Fund? Once the concept is proven, everyone will want in (and then there will be saturation + a bunch of crappy ones that don't vet and underperform) but I think the first ones are going to be very hard sells. My thought was that local governments' desires to build tech hubs might be used to justify the first Autonomy Fund.
What I find even more interesting that these shutdowns is that an entry from the Yahoo corp blog has made it to the front page of Hacker News. This may be a sign that people are starting to find Yahoo related news interesting again.
No, I am saying you seem ignorant of the history -- of the many many feminists groups demanding that no rape go unpunished, demanding that the public believe there is no such thing as a false rape allegation, demanding that all rape allegations be believed, demanding that law enforcement take on predominant aggressor policies (that are necessarily biased towards women), and telling us all that innocent until proven guilty as well as Blackstone's ratio should be put aside for rape allegations and rape prosecutions.

You make your points in this vacuum, seemingly ignorant of 40 years of bogus feminist statistics, anti-democratic feminist behavior.
The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster
If you work on types that might be null, you're bloody careful or you're in the wrong profession. We're not calling incompetent programmers a gazillion dollar mistake, even though they probably have caused as much.
Aaron Swartz was an incredibly talented and idealistic developer and entrepreneur who made a slew of positive changes the world over.

Barrett Brown is a narcissistic heroin addicted hack journalist whose biggest claims to fame are ones he creates or inflates through media-whoring and being a mouthpiece for Anonymous.

The thing they share in common is the FBI enjoys fucking them both over as hard as they can. I can't say that Barrett deserved it, but in no universe is he in the same category as Aaron.
I always imagined yahoo kids was profitable for them. maybe disney/angry-birds/whomever are just too dominant?
this times 1000x.

Had exactly that same grad school experience myself.

Lucked out after I left, and i'm doing even cooler stuff research wise in an industrial context! Building my own tech product that really require doing great Research and Dev both!
I disagree. If null was like Maybe, than you should be able to do:

E foo;
...
foo=foo.bar().bat()

without having to do a null check after each function.

I think that Java's approach has the worst of both worlds, because there is no way to make foo.bar().bat() safe when a function could return null.

In C, for example, calling a method on a null object does not cause an error. Rather it passes in null as the 'this' value, allowing you to do you null checks within the method.
I believe it's more people find Marissa Meyer interesting, rather then Yahoo.

Edit: I will add, her position as CEO IS interesting, as are the changes that she is making.
Unfortunately that second elephant in the room isn't purple but is the invisible pink elephant that will never get addressed :(
Identify & Control Encrypted Traffic
That's the clearest case I've seen for not buying "smart" hardware (firewalls, routers, etc) that know any more of the higher levels of the stack than necessary.

I think the parent comment is valid though. If we wind up holding 2 or more TCP connections to multiplex, with failover, we are basically creating an overlay network that will have the same needs as the lower levels. Namely, routing, link cost metrics, fragmentation, etc... This is effectively what IP attempts to add on top of 802.3.

With that in mind, it seems like it would be more faithful to the point (possible, if not practical) to use the Ethernet+IP stack directly on top of two TCP connections (providing simulated physical links), creating a throw-away network segment between two hosts that could re-use existing routing and bonding logic. I don't think Linux could handle that many virtual interfaces or taps, but that feels like the right place for it...
A New Explanation of Jewish Success
I really like how you put that - it perfectly sums up how I feel about it. I'm never sure exactly what parts he's kidding about (though there are a few obvious ones), but that isn't the point, right? It's a story, and the story and the feeling you get from the story are the point, not specifically what is and isn't true.

A lot of people have tried to dissect this way too far and have gotten extremely heated in the process. I would argue that they haven't spent enough time dealing with high art. The artist might have a statement they're making with a certain piece, but ultimately that's unimportant next to what you take away from it. If this speaks to you, if this is meaningful to you, then that is the point. The reaction you take away is precisely what it is, and there's no point in arguing about it - but if you wish to share and revel in the experience, let's collectively appreciate it in that way.

I for one found it enthralling. Part of it I know had to do with nostalgia, as I actually was first interested in programming in part by his Poignant guide. The first third or so of the book really reflected that writing style, and I loved it. As it progressed, it got heavier and heavier, and I'm still not sure I understand the allegory he was painting, but the sense I got from it was very clear to me. Some have suggested that it was in reference to his experience in the startup world, and I can buy that, but I feel like there was something there that I probably won't grasp until I wake up in the middle of the night tonight thinking about it.

Thanks for telling us one more story _why, wether it's your last or not, I enjoyed it.
The new Yahoo Weather app mentioned in the article is really nice. However, one thing I'm surprised it doesn't let you do is take a photo.
Anyone who's ever been at home with a child between the ages of 0-7 knows they pretty much need constant attention. Maybe you can put older ones in front of the TV and get them to a vegetated state while you write code for an hour or two at most.

Doing it occasionally with a sick child is understandable if it's a rare occurrence. I've done this quite often, but even then I'm always playing catch up at night after they go to bed. It wouldn't be sustainable every day.
How Facial Recognition Tech Could Help Trace Terrorism Suspects
I'm the editor at Ars who approved the headline. I was ok with it because the Girl Scouts badge actually requires development work, whereas the Boy Scouts badge was just for game design. So it's not a matter of the girls "keeping up with the lads," but surpassing them.

Thanks for the feedback!
It seems a bad thing to me to expect that employees give up telecommunication even for family reasons when the CEO doesn't have to endure such a tough choice because they get a special CEO nursery.
Oh I just love C++ better!
Show HN: Cupcloud lets you save everything you're doing, and do it later
If the database structure is encoded in your type system, and all your code that accesses the database (including the initial population of the database) is checked against that encoding, the compiler can absolutely statically check the correctness of code that relies on the structure and contents of the database. Several of the mainstream Haskell database packages do this.
How to choose a good scientific problem
calling a[5] isn't obscure, but 5[a] sure is!
I don't think this is appropriate for general office use simply because you might leach private data from employees (bank accounts, retirement accounts, medical records, whatever), but in secure, restricted environments I think it's totally appropriate and probably needed.
Does your culture have separate bathrooms for boys and girls?
Heineken’s first interactive beer bottle
Heineken’s first interactive bottle uses micro sensors and wireless networking
technology to sense the moment when a bottle is being used to say “Cheers”.
Bing is fine, insecure as ever, but fine
> Most PhD thesises I have seen are just a waste of time of the PhD students

I'm curious why you feel qualified to judge the quality of PhD theses, or whether they were worth the authors' time. There's obviously a gradient in quality, but your post is overly dismissive.
I don't think this would work. Installing your own solution on customer facing hardware? Might get you out of prosecution, but I think you'd have a nearly impossible time explaining that.
Yes, makes sense.
1. X86 server is now commoditised.
2. In the long run, with cloud computing, there will be less demand for brand servers in general.
I probably titled it poorly, but my earlier post[1] about Yahoo's new mobile weather app (Yahoo doing mobile right?!?) didn't get past a single point. :P

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5577427
How much money do you think it'll take? I'm thinking single-digit millions per year. First class would be about 28 people. So that's $3.5 million per year.

Salary plus tech budget is $125,000. That's half-decent but not great, and by design. I'm looking for entrepreneurs, not salarymen (who'd command $150-250k at the level I'm looking to hire). It's not the extreme low salary of bootstrapping (negative including business expenses) but it's not cozy either. That's sort of what I'm aiming for: a middle path between might-fuck-up-your-family-life-bootstrapping and not-really-an-entrepreneur-VC-funded-salaryman.

I'm also thinking that it would be useful to find private investment with 1:1 matching. So local governments would only have to kick in half the initial funding requirement
Bailed-out Cyprus will open casinos and bolster tourism to restart economy
> Give me a statically typed Python

Not sure that's so far from Haskell, really... :-P

> and a type system that can handle external hardware poking around in its memory

Can it be in isolated places? That's doable...
Male CEO's can act like alpha animals, take what they want and flaunt blingy perks, but let a woman build a nursery... Employees never get the same perks as CEO's.
Imagine my surprise, getting out of college and trying to use this at my job, when the compiler told me it was invalid! It wasn't obscure to me, but apparently was to the Sun Studio C++ compiler.
Maybe overwork exacerbates things, but sometimes it's just chemicals wrong in the head. It can be dangerous to treat major mental illness without addressing the biochemistry. In general I am not pro medication, but breakdowns can be deeper than work. Of course an 80 hour work week won't help an already unstable person.
Great post, from the heart. And a beautifully designed website. Great to see someone using their exit money to spread good in the world.
It's an interesting idea, but I don't think local governments have room to pay lots of engineer salaries for no specific reason. Startups are risky and this will smell even riskier since it scans politically as a boondoggle. $125,000 is 5 working-class jobs. I don't see cities directly 'creating' jobs by just paying people to do things.

So, maybe don't depend on local governments.
We have a really big C++ codebase at work and I find codesearch[1] to be the best way to search through the code, although the UX is terrible compared to Ack/Ag. Another problem is that it's written in go; so hard to get builds for the AIX PPC machines. Faster than everything though -- running a complex regex against 2-3 million SLOC and getting an answer within a second is certainly worth something.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/codesearch/
A fictional anecdote, FWIW:

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
> I've tried this and it was so disastrous that I'd never let an employee do this.

It's not your employees' fault you didn't raise your children properly. Kids in Asia are doing hard manual labor on a farm at 7 or 8. They can definitely keep quiet and entertain themselves at that age.
On the other hand, can you really combine taking care of a baby with getting real work done? For some people and some babies, sure. But i switched positions on this topic when confronted with the noisy reality of my own son.
I find you're assertion, that something that lacks a copyright license shouldn't be shared, far more troubling.
How an Indian-American family was dragged through hell by reckless cyberjunkies
Virtual TrackPoint buttons built into the trackpad. No thanks.
Multitreading android applications
The Bearer of BadNews
Interview: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg
The Fed can invest. Federal government has a lot of development grants. The Fed had the stimulus money ready to spend. Lots of them probably had gone to the banks or infrastructure projects to hire bodies off the street but 25M is a rounding error in the scheme of things. It's time for the Fed to invest in hi-tech.
> Academics are even more interested in getting attention than they are in getting to the truth.

untrue and insulting

> Which is why this episode is more likely to discourage publication of data than encourage it.

Why would you expect this? It seems more likely that data and the software used to produce results will have to be open sourced and verifiable in the future.
Who uses bitcoin?
How many companies buy POWER hardware?
Copying my comment from here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5578223

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How about Las Vegas? I've never been there but:

1) Cheap airfare, international destination

2) A Party Town, probably helps the gender balance in one aspect, people would like to visit you.

3) No Income Tax

4) Still close to the SF Bay Area

5) Never cold, barely rains (good or bad depending on your preferences)

6) Really cheap real estate. Buy a townhouse for under $100k!

7) Many tech conventions are hosted there

8) Driving from one corner to another takes only 30 minutes according to google maps.
Or, here's an idea (that might be politically explosive, or really cool): the funding is contingent upon teaching local school students (at various grade levels) programming (which is still not part of the curriculum in most public schools)-- a 10-15 hour per week commitment. This does mean that we must select for people willing to teach, but as far as I'm concerned, if you're not a good teacher, you're not a good leader and I'm not interested in funding you.

Now, public school students are getting after-school coursework with "Silicon [V]alley technology entrepreneurs". These aren't techies getting thrown a bunch of local money to build their careers; they're getting thrown local money to build businesses and teaching students how programming works in "the real world"

So then, there's a great service provided that is of use to the community even if the startups flop.
Suspending apps in the background of iOS is a _feature_. It's not like the OS doesn't support "real multi-tasking". Apple could give us "real multi-tasking" at the flick of a software switch -- most of us prefer battery life.
It seems Yahoo was fostering a dysfunctional office culture in general and WFH abuse was a symptom of that. I totally agree with you about housecleaning scenario.
Application Resource Optimizer Challenge
If GS can embrace this then maybe they'll also embrace letting the Brownies collect payment for cookie sales using credit card readers and other methods besides cash.
Hat tip for use of the words 'Jimmies' and 'Rustled'

And boy, you sure did rustle them :-)
You Be the Judge of Which Amazon TV Pilot Is Worth Watching
Sure, I will look at Haskell.

Still, IMO this may be true in theory. In practice, most of the errors we encounter come from incomplete understanding of the input we're dealing with. These are many little rules that are very hard to formalize.
The funny part is fans mix gases and prevent exactly the scenario they're accused of causing in fan death (assuming we're talking about asphyxiation and not hypothermia... the hypothermia concern is beyond ridiculous). I don't think I've ever even heard of fan death, but I checked and the issue I mentioned in the OP is actually discussed on the fan death wikipedia page.
Yahooligans was my introduction to the web. I'm sad to see it go. I hope it remains well-archived.
I think you should reserve judgement until you've worked with a more sophisticated type system than Java. I held the same opinion for quite some time but Scala and Haskell have showed me that much more is possible than I expected.

Still, on balance I prefer dynamic languages because I don't like to spend time defining and using type relations but I am no longer sure I really know which way is "better" for many types of tasks.
Technically, according to the law, they are 100% correct.
> Actually if I were up there I'd be more worried about the lack of pressure

Interesting you should mention that. I learned a few days ago that while the ISS at large is kept at 1ATM, the spacesuits they use for spacewalks are only pressurized to a fraction of that (if you pressurize a suit too much, it becomes too balloon-like to easily move). Because of this astronauts/cosmonauts have to spend several hours before each space-walk breathing pure oxygen so that they don't get the bends.

That degree of preparation before every spacewalk would disturb me to some extra degree I think. If there was a problem, it's not like somebody else could just hop into another suit and come help you.
I own a Model S :P

But yes, and most gas stations I've ever used don't have a cash and credit price.
> I wonder how may one go about understanding if they are using a 'hacked' version of something as non-trivial and comprehensive as 'ps' and 'netstat'.

So this happened to me once, but it wasn't ps or netstat but sshd that had been replaced. We only noticed it because the replacement sshd was bad and didn't set up the PATH correctly so "darcs push" stopped working (it was presumably set up for a different linux distro than we were running).
Yahooligans was my elementary school computer classes! :(
Per federal law (and company practice,) he's overtime exempt.
(I like _why and I don't have any problem with the attention he receives or anything. But I did kind of agree with some of the "that's rubbish" responses to the "first" stuff.)

I'm reasonably sure I won't agree with you on any definition of art. But, uh, here's some stuff. I may-or-may-not think of some of it as art. I do think it's stuff that keeps the coding world from being some dreadful place of "craftsmanship" and "professionalism" and things.

The miniKanren presentations are wonderful. They're all "and now let's run this stuff backwards. Because because."
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/miniKanren

Meta-circular evaluators.
Page 13 of http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m6hoOelZH8&list=ECE18841...
http://www.scheme.com/tspl4/examples.html#./examples:h7 ("After completing the preceding exercise, use the interpreter to run a copy of the interpreter, and use the copy to run another copy of the interpreter. Repeat this process to see how many levels deep it will go before the system grinds to a halt." :D)

SICP opens with this: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-3.html
I think it's lovely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra
"One of Dijkstra's sidelines was serving as Chairman of the Board of the fictional Mathematics Inc., a company that he imagined having commercialized the production of mathematical theorems in the same way that software companies had commercialized the production of computer programs. He invented a number of activities and challenges of Mathematics Inc. and documented them in several papers in the EWD series."

Also obfuscated code and some esolang stuff, I guess.

I remember some competition that was about creating and hiding some bug that did some particular thing in code that appeared to do something else, in a way that seemed (if discovered) like it was a mistake. That was cute.

Oh, and maybe http://sigbovik.org/
Maybe not.
The simple function call
Did anyone notice that a number of the links in the blog post are being routed through Google? (via google.com/url?q=theurl) What's up with that?
I don't think his techniques are sustainable, and some are even self-delusional, such as thinking beyond your life situation.
Thankfully I don't use these products so the shutdown doesn't personally affect me. The only issue that jumps out is the post went up 4/19 Friday afternoon and the shutdown date is 4/30, including the API. Anyone relying on these services has 7 business days to respond.
Hey Google, this is what it really means to focus.