skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ohhh yes, of course, it is still a abelian group.
I disagree. They tracked him to Watertown and he couldn't leave because there was no way to move without attracting suspicion. The shelter in place request did exactly what was supposed to.
They did it when they knew what area to lock down, didn't they? As in, when they thought they knew where the suspect was. Turned out the suspect was just outside the initial Watertown lockdown area (so it's a good thing they quickly expanded the lockdown, and it shows they got the area roughly right).

I agree with you in general. Seemed like a good call, not a sign of a police state. These were extremely temporary and timely measures, and normality resumed quickly.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/b2af26395aeac454b95f064a48155d0e/...

These look like soldiers. I think theres another one with Humvees.
I got an Abyssus, it has all it's settings as hardware switches, so it doesn't require any software.

Most of the time installing mouse "drivers" for any vendor it's a waste of time, since the settings they provide should be adjusted in-game (default driver should give you a 1:1 sensitivity and 0 acceleration).
Show HN: A cool live demo feature
Search without warrant just means evidence cannot be used in court. Are you a lawyer?
At first I was thrilled Gimp 2.8 added live text input. But I don't use it because when I make text, naturally I want to do Layer Styles to it like Photoshop and I can't. For 11 years now I've been waiting for GIMP to get those features that would make it usable for me. It's always just a tool to play around with every month or so.

I think in the next 5 years Linux will get a port or a new graphics app that will take Gimp to the cleaners.
All their efforts and "coordinating" were a complete and total failure.

Repeating again, a point made in the original, it was only after the shelter in place request/implicit order (after Dornan in California it's take it as a "if you want to stay unperforated, stay indoors..." sort of "request": http://12160.info/forum/topics/two-women-shot-in-manhunt-for...) was lifted that a Massachusettes subject exited his house, noticed something was amiss and called the police.
Crazy guy with bombs too. Much more dangerous. And he may have had other conspirators. No one knew then or really now either. It was not an over reaction.
On the rare occurrence that the suspect is armed with and has deployed homemade explosive devices on two separate occasions, the first in a very public setting? Yes.
Proposed new schedule for JDK 8
On "Exclusively peer-generated content", you may want to add the stuff you create here on HN to nwzpaper.com, especially after having read your thoughts on Assange and anonymity.

It's just a php copy/paste - http://en.blog.guylhem.net/post/48447265179/adding-a-hacker-...

I can write a javascript version for you if you want.
Which warrantless searches? Weren't houses only searched with their owners' consent?
Indeed. Our governor recommended that people stay in their homes, and that businesses shut down. In exactly the way that he earlier in the year he recommended that they do so in a big snowstorm, both for safety and so that the streets could be effectively cleared. Indeed, in the snowstorm case was more restrictive, as one could have been theoretically fined for driving (although it was made clear that this wasn't something which there was any intent to pursue).

People by and large accommodated yesterdays request because it seemed reasonable. Also it gave them a chance to stay home with their loved ones and follow the news. Finally, I'd observe that terrorists who throw bombs and fire weapons in the street are scary. In any event, there were some people on the streets yesterday, just not many.

If someone actually feels that their rights were actually abridged, for example if they were arrested for assembling outside, they have recourse to the courts, and I'd be happy to consider donating to their legal fund. And, of course, should someone feel that this was mishandled as a case of public policy, they are welcome to run on that platform and make that case. ﻿
Steermouse is a pretty good solution for mouse configuration.

http://www.plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/
Look, no hands
Cost analysis here: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/04/what-will-...
For the record, I do not consider myself to be better than anyone - Steve was at least successful. My history is paved with failures.
Great question- I was reading about verlet integration and started doing some coding to play with it, and I just kept on going with it. Would love some help with it! First thing I would like to do is abstract out canvas.
"We weren't forced to stay at home"

People who weren't able to go to work and aren't salary most likely won't be paid. Or, employers will have to pay to employees who performed no work. The money has to come from somewhere, right? Unless of course the government wants to spread the cost over all the citizens and cover all expenses. And everything that comes as a result of the lockdown or whatever you want to call it.

Ficticiously I can tell you that if I had servers located in that area and something happened where they couldn't be fixed remotely and were down (for an unrelated reason) I'd be pretty upset if the tech people or remote hands weren't at their job. Or the new motherboard couldn't be installed because the repairman wouldn't go to the colo. Why? Because my customers that are all over the world aren't going to give me a pass on this nor do I want to make excuses as to why things aren't working. Further, this was not an "act of god" in the sense of a disaster that there was no control over (a person made the decision to "suggest" nobody go outside and that will have consequences).

It's easy for people who have only minor things as a result of a lockdown (cancelled classes or you work for a big corporation or you are unemployed) but not everybody falls into the same category. We all aren't government employees who get paid regardless, right?

The point is simply that a cost benefit calculation needs to be done. (Like they do when they try to justify hosting the Olympics or Superbowl). The comparison (if correct I haven't checked) to Detroit is valid somewhat. Obviously in any case we can assume that if there was 1 or 2 of these bombings per month any city wouldn't be shutting down they would realize that it simply can't be handled that way.

Fwiw - I'm not in the Boston area and had no consequences as a result of the decision.
Found less than 10 miles from the original crime scene. It is very possible that the lack of traffic made it difficult to travel unnoticed.
Police in SWAT gear.
Exploring the Raspberry Pi through real-world projects
Are You Listening to Your Most Important Customers?
And it was the lockdown that prevented the suspect from getting anywhere until that point.
wordwrapping.... hmm based on that, it sounds like some text editors are worse than web-based email clients.
> Anyone in a car was subject to being swarmed by heavily armed police and taken into questioning.

Citations? Examples?
I would say his comment is simply reflecting on the odds. Its islamic extremists who are spreading fear and hate. Who hijacked your religion? See Beslan School Massacre on youtube.
> Implicit is the assumption that high-bandwidth collaboration is necessary and useful to all people in all functions at all times.

No, implicit is the assumption that high-bandwidth collaboration may become important to the roles of the people affected by the policy on short notice, not that it is necessary to all people in all functions at all times.
The Math of Music
The article states:

> Linux is not yet "ready for the desktop," and I'm doubtful it will ever be—at least not in the sense that an average person could use it full-time without any assistance.

By this definition, Windows and Mac OS X are both not ready for the desktop. I have had "average people" come to me and rely on me for assistance with both (especially Windows) many times.
During the event, the thing that kept coming to mind was... if the suspects actually have bombs set up, why on earth would you want to gather thousands of police officers around the scene? How many people does it take to monitor a boat to make sure no one leaves it?

But when it comes to a lockdown during a manhunt? That struck me as completely reasonable given that they (a) knew roughly where the suspects were, (b) knew they had access to explosives, and (c) didn't want to risk hurting civilians.

It's easy to play armchair police commissioner. See, I did it too right in the first paragraph. But I'm not the one calling the shots, and they did lift the lockdown when they thought they'd failed to catch him. I really have a hard time writing the response off as security theater when it seems like such a totally reasonable response for an efficiency perspective. And the odds of them planting future bombs was high to say the least, unlike some random stickup (which also happen not infrequently in Boston).

This was a very different situation than an armed robbery.
The first person to say the sky was blue was going out on a limb, too. What if everyone else saw an orange sky?

Then the sky colour would be called "orange" and the blue-seer would be lying or misrepresenting the facts due to miscommunication, sickness (hallucinations), disease (colour blindness), drug use, etc.
I've owned Mac laptops now for over a decade and have never had a problem. My 7 year old MacBook's power supply still works good as new.
I don't think he was a sociopath, only that he shared many symptoms. Namely seeming lack of empathy, narcissism, apparent lack of guilt (he almost never apologized, if what people say is true), etc. Like I said I don't know his exact condition.
Part Two: http://simberon.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/the-math-of-music-pa...

Part Three: http://simberon.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/the-math-of-music-pa...
>> Now, for my purposes, other alternatives just don't work. I don't know an easy way to have a Windows or OSX system to throw up a private virtual cloud over LXC on your notebook so you can work from a networkless Koh Rong beach.

Run it in a Linux VM?
how about a CD-Rom with some Real Player .ram files.
I think the TLS mode of anonymous DH used to work in at least some browsers.
Being Myself On The Internet
Looks like I did -- I'd totally forgotten about that.

The app is Portfolio: http://ipadportfolioapp.com/

It's a tool for presenting visual or audiovisual work to others (e.g., prospective clients) and is used by photographers, designers, sales reps, florists, and pretty much any other field where that presentation is a key part of the job. The customer-facing appearance can be completely customized to match a business's branding while leaving the management bits out of sight.

It started out life as a tool for our photography studio to present more recent work to prospective clients since it's incredibly expensive to keep the print equivalents up-to-date. The original price was $9.99, which was bumped up to $14.99 after a couple months if I remember right. The current $12.99 price is only a few months old and is a result of the market leveling out a bit. In its first year or so the revenue was $10-15k per month, but the saturation of the App Store and the introduction of new app possibilities that dilute the ratings (e.g., magazines) has lowered it to its current revenue. It definitely won't last forever, but I believe it will continue to be worth my time for a while yet.
A small area was locked down when they thought the suspect was in that area. When they couldn't find him, they widened the area. Turned out the suspect was found just outside the initial, small lock down area. Seems to me they had good info, and acted appropriately.

Lockdowns work when you have info about the suspect's location. You don't just lock down after any large crime. Especially considering bombs can be detonated via cell phone. But when the police had some intel on location, they locked a small area down, and then expanded when they feared the suspect had managed to get out of the area.
I really empathize with you Danielle, but this:

"If you stop working on your startup, it dies."

Is certainly not applicable to certain types of startups. If you provide a valuable tool, such as one that positively impacts a businesses' bottom line, they'll keep using it (and keep paying you) regardless of whether or not you update your site or email them.
Totally agree. Beyond the loss of life and injuries, I don't think this poster understands how great a symbol the Boston Marathon is to the city. This attack was extremely personal. I'm sure everyone in Boston wanted to do something to help, and if staying off the streets for one day helped, nearly everyone was happy to do it.
Yes you correct of course. I thought the point nsns was making that quantum was holding on the micro scale, and not-above that. I didn't get that he was commenting on the difference between _govern_ and _describe_.
Good, this is a debatable point.

Evidently he wasn't bleeding enough when he exited the carjacked Mercedes for dogs to follow him, so they knew roughly where he was, but drew the cordon a little too small (he was really into soccer, probably a good runner).

So with enough surveillance, if he'd moved after daylight he might have been caught. Then again, the authorities denied themselves the use of thousands of eyeballs of Watertown subjects, who would have likely recognized him from the description (the point about blood above is that I'm assuming they assumed he wasn't bleeding heavily, a much stronger tell).

And it was one of those subject's eyeballs after they came back into play that resulted in the end of the hunt. Given what we know now, it was a mistake. Given what I'm assuming they knew then, it was not obviously one.
I vehemently oppose long-term civil liberty restrictions as much or more than the next guy, but I totally agree with parent.

Police were in an active search for a man believed to be:

- suicidal, intent on taking as many people down with him as possible

- armed with automatic weapons and numerous explosives

It would seem reasonable that he could show up at a bus or a subway stop and cause dozens of casualties.
You can use those terms if you get permission from Apple. I can't remember the email address offhand, but there is one you can contact for approval.
If this was the first time, it'd be an unfortunate incident. But with its history of abusive DMCA takedowns, this is at least gross negligence.
What message does this shutdown send to other potential rampage killers and sociopaths? You can shutdown society and have millions of people read your life story by committing one of these crimes. We should be treating these murderers more like internet trolls. Try to ignore their message and get them out of circulation as soon as possible.
There are some interesting bits here with respect to debating if telling everyone to close shop and stay home was an effective thing to do but I think the breathless martial law wasted government spending line of argument isn't really convincing in this particular instance
Partial Scala translation: https://gist.github.com/chris-martin/5426294
Or perhaps future terrorists will decide that Boston is too small and cohesive a community to attack. Next time they go to a city where they have more chance of sneaking off in a crowd. I'm not one to think that bombers of civilians are really that brave.
You're wrong. I live in Boston. The MBTA was shut down, but businesses were allowed to open (my employer was), and people weren't getting "swarmed" by any means.
This reminds me of the joke "How do you know if someone doesn't own a television."

(Searching JayZ on google yields About 123,000,000 results.)
It is not only the confession that may be rejected, but everything based on information that he gives about co-conspirators. Imagine that it was not only him and his brother, but that there is a cell of a dozen people getting money from an overseas hub that manages a wider network of AQ cells. He talks without being allowed a lawyer, and the FBI uses the information to roll up another five or six cells and seize the hub's assets in the US. When it gets to appeals court, all of the seizures and arrests can be thrown out as fruit of the poisoned tree because the warrants were based on inadmissable information from an unlawful interrogation.
This isn't quite a programming language - it "lacks a data stack" - which is to say, it can't even pass parameters. This makes its relationship to Forth - the quintessentially stack based language - rather tenuous.

It's really more of a DSL to remote control an embedded processor from a bigger processor running actual programs.
The exemption is fairly narrowly defined to clear and present dangers to the public. Holder has been attempting to expand the definition for years, while also trying to carve out the 5th amendment protections. It's absolutely not how the law should be applied. They can gather that information without denying the kid his rights.
The way to fix this problem is easy. Cite your sources. "According to a Boston beat cop...", "According to a high-ranking FBI agent..."

I am SO sick of hear "according to a source" because they don't want to clue in other news organizations. There was a time when news reporters considered their jobs partially a civic duty. Protecting sources solely for selfish reasons has completely diluted the concept of these "unnamed sources".
Making desktop computers mainstream destroyed hacker culture, and made this industry full of incompetent fools that work for big businesses and only care about making money.
To your point, people often forget that the lockdown likely played a part in the inability for the second suspect to escape. An entire city looking for you is certainly a possible cause for the second suspect to have been hiding in a boat.

The process certainly could have lead to the capture, even if indirectly.
How does this invalidate the premise of the post?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Riley

"Florida v. Riley, 488 U.S. 445 (1989)[1], was a United States Supreme Court decision which held that police officials do not need a warrant to observe an individual's property from public airspace."
Concerning the opening quote on your Multi-fetch Fragments project: https://www.biglittlepond.com/ currently gives an SSL error. While obviously completely un-related to you, your project seemingly 'promoting' an website that can't do SSL certificates properly does have some negative connotations ;).
Maybe I should say it dies eventually?
> Every macbook power supply (cable) will split and fray within two-three years (depending on use)

While there was at least one iteration where this seemed to be the case, it was less of an issue after the first couple of generations.
Automated takedown scripts are illegal. Takedown claims must be signed under penalty of purjery.
It's pretty clear that we are not the only animals with brains, so there are other animals who use their brains to make decisions, such as how to hunt and when to sleep and so on. We make what is in our opinion more sophisticated decisions, but that arguably is a human-centric conceit. There are ant colonies that span continents, and they aren't building any nuclear weapons. Are we really sure we are more intelligent than them?

I don't think it is fair to say that our brain makes us more adaptable to new environments than other species. Compared to the many single-celled species that have survived hundreds of millions of years, the bacteria that can survive hibernation for millions of years, and our current inability to agree on the existence of global warming, is it realistic to project the survival of our species beyond even the next thousand years?
There are pictures of citizens leaving their houses with hands in the air. Explain to me how this does not constutite 'under duress'.
I'm in Boston and I completely agree. It was a 20 block area, which is not even close to the entirety of Boston and it's surrounding neighbourhoods.
The starting point was where he abandoned the carjacked Mercedes, from (always unreliable early) reports that was 5 blocks from the scene. And he was found about a mile from there.
Then the terrorists have won. Now all anyone needs to do to cost the economy a billion dollars is fill a pressure cooker with some marbles and black powder. Instead of killing 3 people, he destroys the lifetime value of hundreds. It's like DNS amplification attacks, but in real life. Great...
Line-Man In Texas :Free
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id633265199

one of the most exciting an amazing game of the year.
90% is definitely a huge loss. But like other users said this bug only applied to the UK store that does not sell Razer blade.

That said most of razer's customers are repeated purchasers and that honoring the orders is going to generate a lot of good will among its core customers. A very bold move though.
FWIW I work in Boston and only get paid for the hours I work. I had no problem losing part of an 8 hour day for this.
Parent was saying that Doctorow's book was affected by accident, incidental to a legitimate claim against another book with the same title.
Yes. This. We stayed home because being out would have disrupted the manhunt and made it easier to escape. How is this not obvious?
Thanks!

It would be pretty cool if you could make the links drop down and display the video on your site so it could be easier to go back and forth between videos at one time.

ex: http://imgur.com/0CyckZQ
Ha, thanks for the advice! (Maybe that's why Facebook friend count is plummeting...) In retrospect, the worry stemmed from the possibility of contracting RMS's personality traits. Irrational, indeed.
Surely pubic airspace does not include the interior of homes?
>First, the unprecendented shutdown of a major American city may have increased safety some small bit, but it was not without a cost: keeping somewhere between 2 and 5 million people from work, shopping, and school destroyed a nearly unimaginable amount of value. If we call it just three million people, and we peg the cost at a mere $15 per person per hour, the destroyed value runs to a significant fraction of a billion dollars.

The assumption being that the people who didn't spend that $15 will not just go out and spend it today?
> It’s all spam.

The scary thing is you could have easily continued Refer.ly, exited, sold it, and it would then turn into someone else's zombie problem. As much as we all hate spam, there is a simple reason that it exists - it works. Kudos to the founders for "doing the right thing" instead of just another pump 'n dump.

@dmor - remember this convo a couple of months back :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4655905
It occurs to me re: Dunkin Donuts, if you're going to keep a huge number of police in an area for an exhausting open-ended search, you'll want caffeine and sugar readily available in large quantities at many locations...
> that I believe that when you provide less value to your users

You're assuming that more options always increases value, but this is not the case. See Apple and, let's say, the Samsung Jitterbug for counter-examples.
Yes, locking down an entire city, is an effective method to conduct a manhunt.

But just look at these pictures, http://imgur.com/a/Asgdb#0

Two untrained losers were able make a major American city look like a warzone.

I hope there aren't other potential bombers out there thinking "that's all it takes..."