skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, "industrial espionage" actually is a crime since 1996, no matter what tools you use to do it (and notably, has the harshest sentence of the 3 major types of crimes Nosal was charged with).

Unauthorized access to a computer network was made to help complete the crime, which is itself criminal, just like there is a charge "mail fraud" that makes use of the postal system to further any criminal act illegal.

Conspiracy is always illegal itself as well.
Garbage. Many hedge funds only require a BS from a top school. Others, of course, are only looking for PhDs. These exams and certificates, IMHO, are money-making machines (if you need those certs for your job -- like Series exams -- your firm will sponsor it)
No sign of them.
Interestingly this is the only episode of Naruto I've ever seen. I remember being quite impressed at how cerebral it was, as I was expecting to see a bunch of ninjas running around slicing off each other's heads.
Yes that is true for gigabit. Gigabit ethernet is ethernet in name only. It doesn't resemble the original standard in most meaningful ways. But the name is a brand at this point so whatever the new standard is, it's always called ethernet even if it's completely different electrically. Or even optically in the case of fibre, which is something that was never originally anticipated that it would run over.
I think the poor handling is very much AA's fault.
As in:

- I get back to my customers ASAP with new information
- I own my errors
- I rectify my mistakes ASAP (yes, even if someone outside my company f*cks up)
>Huge money imbalances are always based upon exploitation.
>>Abracadabra, and there! It's now fact!

No, it's a well studied topic of political science and political economy. And it's evident throughout history. You might not agree with it, and it's fine (americans in general have an aversion to social sciences and politics), but "hocus pocus and abracadabra" are childish BS.

>What Native American lands are you talking about exactly? While it's true that European settlers did usurp some land that was in use by the natives, I hope you don't believe that the natives had claim over the entire continent.

I very much do. And even if that's not the case, the European immigrants surely can not claim any part of the continent. Not even the ones they "bought" (with their slimy tactics and weapons as assistance).
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All bugs has software.
> “The most common threat actions have realized some shifts over the years, but we have failed to see any cutting-edge methods introduced.”

What about defensive methods? Are there any 'cutting-edge' directions that people are working towards?
I'm not particularly clued in to this topic. But I feel as though there are not really any new solutions being proposed.

(which of course doesn't detract from the usefulness of the report)
Instead, they were changing their goal in the Education Game from “Get a higher grade than my classmates” to “Get to the best answer.”

The goal shouldn't be “Get a higher grade than my classmates”, it should be “Get the highest grade possible”. And the goal for the teacher should be “Translate each student knowledge data into a numeric value”, which is somewhat orthogonal to the experiment.
Certainly this works, for example this is how any electromagnet works. Skimming the article, it seems they're actually transporting the magnetic field itself, though. For example, you hold a magnet at one end of the pipe, and its field is felt at the other (potentially distant) end.

I guess this is roughly analogous to how a wire hooked up to a high-voltage source will produce an electric field on the other end (relative to common ground). The notion is fundamentally different, however, since there are no magnetic monopoles, and so there's no related notion of "magnetic voltage" or "magnetic ground".
Tahoe looks interesting, I hadn't come across it before. What exactly is not succeeding about it? It sounds like BT sync minus the closed source / protocol.
For over a year, I couldn't log into the Twitter for Mac client. Hope this fixes it!
I don't want to sound entitled or mean, but how is this relevant and who even upvotes this?
Soylent Month Three
Researchers turn anything into a touch-screen
Luckily I've had bags "lost"/delayed and then appear..etc but not to your extent.
That sucks what happened but the sad story is that it can happen on other airlines. US mainly from my experience.
A friend of mine swore off Lufthansa after a pretty bad luggage experience.
American/United/US Air.etc...there is something missing between customer experience and running a smooth operation. For airlines that spend so much on efforts to acquire users, their handling of customers is just bad.

There are some airlines that do better such as Singapore but they are in the minority. I don't even expect good customer service if I have to deal with an airline anymore.
I think most of the easy money in startups has been made (and from here on out the dumb ideas that raised millions of dollars won't see as much money), so people are jumping back to finance.

There was never a real exodus of talent. The really talented people weathered the storm, and it seemed as if a whole bunch of B-people switched over and are now considering switching back.
Why can't the UK produce world-beating tech companies?
I'd find a better case, for starters.

The trade secret charge has the harshest penalty, and is independent of computer use.

The conspiracy charge has the same maximum as the unauthorized network access charge.

Someone who is an expert at the Federal Sentencing Guidelines will have to chime in with what that means for an eventual sentence, but I suspect that even if the computer violation were considered extremely minor that it would have nearly the same marginal effect on the eventual sentence, once the trade secret and conspiracy sentences are thrown into the mix.

Even if the prosecutors had never mentioned the term "computer" this guy would be in some deep shit...
Your catch of the second error has decided dinner for me tonight. Now I just need to find the local currier for a nice and spicy curry.
I used this: https://github.com/clintjhill/ember-parse-adapter

Basically just link the JS and add your API keys.
There's a lesson here about not trusting mission-critical details (in this case, DHH's bag), to an unknown and frequently maligned system. Nothing irreplaceable should ever go into a checked bag.
Yes, but that's a feature of human psychology. A lot of people are authoritarians, and in a society where free speech is constitutionally protected they enjoy the right to trumpet their opinions about the likely guilt of people being acquitted.
Very neat. Bookmarked it! Now keep it up and going. Github link?
Reddit material - this doesn't belong here.
+1 Might not be the best looking app but sure it is the most featureful. Love it!
However, FORTH became quite flexible, spawned a family of Forths, and they're quite common these days. You just don't realize it. Chuck Moore was very responsible for this; he claims that there is no single canonical FORTH, but merely the Forth that you build today for the task that you must handle right now. (He is not a big fan of ANS FORTH.)
Pick Two: Quality, Customer Service, and Price
Undoubtedly the best corporate finance book is Brealey and Myers (http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Corporate-Mcgraw-Hill-Insur...) -- amazon ranks it at #205890 versus #249565 for your proposal
II Jornadas de Reabilitação de Infraestruturas e de Edifícios - RIE 2013
I was thinking that what the students did during the test here was what my classmates and I did for almost every homework assignment. We would work through the engineering problems (sometimes individually/sometimes as a group), go over them, ask/answer questions, and move on. I learned so much doing this (mostly that there is more than one way to perform analysis to arrive at an answer and that engineers love looking up the answer in the back of the book and working backwards).

I wonder if this would be more aligned with how the grading system works as a method by which periodic quizzes are given. We had lone wolves/busy students who couldn't participate, but I think everyone would have benefited from this as a class group activity.
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Thanks. That's a good way to sum things up.

As someone who is enthusiastic about LEDs from a distance (I'm not about to run out and replace all my lights at once) I'm comfortable with the idea that LEDs are still a couple of generations away from replacing existing technology in a satisfactory way. But damn, those generations sure are happening fast.

I became aware of Cree because of flashlight LEDs and what they accomplished in that space over the course of a year or so was pretty amazing. At present I can still take out my little AAA light with the newest Cree LED and say "check this out" and surprise people with its brightness. The early LED flashlights were largely junk, but in contrast, this is a great use of the technology.
If the company had to decide between loosing thousands of dollars every time this happens or have some process of tracking / taking notes / assuring quality of the process- believe me- the company would change their behavior. But in this case, there is no risk to the airline- they will just make the customer eat it.
And yet the trade secret charge had the harshest penalty, and the conspiracy charge was tied for second-harshest. Maybe the Federal Sentencing Guidelines count the number of charges convicted on but it's hard to claim that the CFAA is the only or predominant reason Nosal will be facing jail time in this particular case.
Perhaps he is doing all of this work with the wrong goal in mind.
If you start out building something for other people, you're always going to gamble that other people may not need it.

But if you're building tools for yourself, and documenting for yourself, because you have an actual need for these things, then regardless of what others do with them, you'll be happy because you have tools that make your life easier.

Do the bare minimum for yourself that makes your life easier. If other people want to use it, then start building from there.
But don't kill yourself trying to build stuff you think will stroke your ego.
Programming is probably the worst tool you could use to solve that problem ;)
This post has definitely been getting flagged. It jumped from #3 to #25 in like 3 seconds. Some folks here don't seem to like DHH rants. (:

Edit: looks like it's back up now.
At the risk of stating the obvious:

sudo apt-get autoremove unity && sudo apt-get install [xubuntu-desktop|kubuntu-desktop|lubuntu-desktop|etc.]

Or just install the one you want in the first place: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ has images for all eight official Ubuntu flavours.

Seriously, it can't hurt you just by being in the repositories if you don't install it...
I recommend LAN if you do any traveling in South America, especially if you check baggage.
The quote was familiar but I couldn't remember the source. The meaning is clear though! Amazing neverending discussions, it makes me remember the Feynman anecdote when he observed matematiians discussions.
Oh man, just seeing the words "American Airlines" gets me all riled up.

About a year ago I was helping my fiancée move apartments in Dallas, and the move was taking a bit longer than we had hoped. We had time to finish it before my departure later that evening, but we would have had to run out the door as soon as the last box was put down to make it in time. I called American to see how hard it would be to move my flight to the next morning. "No problem!" I was told, "Just a small fee." I was then told to call back less than 12 hours before the flight I wanted to be moved to, because they couldn't reschedule me before then. Easy enough, right?

My 5PM flight departure comes and goes, and around 11PM (<12 hours before the flight the next morning) I call into American and relay the information I was told by the previous rep. After a half hour of being passed back and forth between representatives, I'm finally handed of to a supervisor, who tells me "That's not how it works, nobody here would have told you that, and we have no record that you've ever called us before. You'll have to pay full price for another flight because you didn't call to cancel your previous one before departure and the flight has already landed." My jaw dropped. I asked her if she thought I was making this up, to which she simply repeated, "Look, nobody here would have told you that, and we have no record that you've ever called us before."

I've never in my life been so insulted. I've never had a customer service representative call me a liar before or again. At this point in my life I was flying at least monthly, and used American exclusively. Since then I haven't flown with them once.
ACLU: CISPA Is Dead (For Now)
That's what we do when training the Navy nukes here in the U.S.
They forgot the #1 mistake: Too Many Damn Questions.

There have been plenty of times when I have willfully taken surveys to help out companies I like then immediately gave up after being shown a survey with 20-60 questions. No.

What pisses me off is that they're asking for my time and effort without giving me anything in return. Like they feel entitled to taking 15 minutes of my time.

The worst is when they only display 1 question per page and there's a little progress bar at the top. And after 10 questions you only see the progress bar 7% full. At least it's not as bad as the time Starbucks/Chase Duetto Cards hired someone with a studdering speech impediment to call me for a phone survey... That lasted 30 minutes.
Just another "dignity" argument. That is, by selling something cheap (law services, music performance, movie experience, etc) you are doing decreasing the dignity of the person doing the service. Lanier almost makes a go of it, except that "dignity" is a slippery, subjective quality.

Who gets to say that "performing music" is of high dignity, while "giving haircuts" is of low or no dignity? Ordinarily, we in the USA let a free market decide. In the a few cases (copyrightable forms of art like music, legal services) we've allowed temporary monopolies or let a cartel set prices. Probably, Lanier is correct: making music is a hand-to-mouth existence. Probably, that's due to so many people who are able to passably strum a guitar while singing. The supply is high, so the actual market price is pretty low. Some places have "open mic" nights, and people perform for tips or beers, after all.

I think he's barking up the wrong tree.
The top few are PSY's official channel and official videos, followed by videos on dailymotion, mtviggy, and jibjab. Paging through, I'd say about half of the results are from YouTube, mostly "how to dance gangnam style" home videos.

I don't see anything obviously wrong with these results.
Thank you!, it sounded familiar but couldn't remember the source.
So really, this was was a class project involving a scenario that superficially resembled cheating on an exam, rather than actually cheating on an exam.
> It never occurred to you just to buy a second lamp?

I'd love to. 750sqft Condo, I have one outlet that is hooked to a switch, other outlets are either in some horrid location or already used up with a power strip attached.

Not everyone has large open areas that they can just throw stuff in.

What I need to do is get a better quality standing lamp that can take a slew of light bulbs! But even then, I am not going to be going for 60W, why should I when I can go farther with fewer bulbs of a slightly higher wattage? (Or wattage equivalent in the case of LED and CFLs)
I was going to do this in the house that I am building, but the building department has very strict codes for how often you need 120VAC outlets (quite often to prevent daisy chained power strips and similar unsafe behavior). The relevant code is from the International Building Code:

"Receptacles shall be installed so that no point measured horizontally along the floor line of any wall space is more than 6 feet (1829 mm), from a receptacle outlet." [1]

[1]: http://publicecodes.cyberregs.com/icod/irc/2012/icod_irc_201...
Slight nitpick, but is that really Kobayashi Maru? From what I've remember - Kobayashi Maru is testing how examined person reacts under extreme stress of a no win scenario, not whether he cheats or not.
Ask HN: How do I improve my decision making skills as a young professional?
As I grow professionally, I find that my greatest handicap is the ability to make good judgment calls in business situations.

Judgment calls such as deciding on what the right business strategy for a company should be or the right people to work with to get things done on a project as well as how to manage my relationship with these people are an issue.

Making a mistake in both for example can lead to revenue losses for the company or the stalling of a project.

How can I better improve my decision making abilities as a young business professional? Any advice from the more older folks or young professionals blessed with good decision making skills on HN would be much appreciated.
I find it extremely annoying that most airlines and airports do not seek too ensure that passengers do not mistakenly pick up someone else's luggage. There have been several occasions when I had to chase after my very generic looking grey Samsonite that was picked up by other passengers. I do not recall a security agent at arrivals checking my luggage cart with my checked-in baggage barcodes .
#3. Definitely #3. I mostly model mortgage prepayments and defaults, the housing market, and do econometrics-style forecasts. That's not in any of those books.
I had the same experience. AA lost a bag, then had to wait almost 4 months to get reimbursed a mere $600 dollars (I asked for $2800).

Worse, is that they only reimburse for items for which you have receipts (who saves all their receipts?) and they can refuse to refund you for anything. At the end they refund me for the bag cost plus a present for which I had a receipt. No refund for anything else I had in the bag.
Swedish expert says CO2 is not the main cause of global warming
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5609529
I haven't had time to brush up on C++11 yet. Is pubic a new keyword?

In all seriousness, you make some good points, but I don't think they invalidate the findings so much as they demonstrate avenues for further inquiry.
Ah, I imagine it's a reported score among users who run their brand of "continuous optimization" software? Those reports are nearly as useless as Alexa rankings.
What we're all talking about here is that Oberon, Smalltalk, Forth, etc. all live in obscurity. Having an image seems to spell doom for wide adoption. People like to integrate systems with their other tools. Smalltalk can examine the outside system, but (except for oddities like GNU Smalltalk) the outside system gets a completely opaque box it can't do anything with. One could argue that ZODB had the same consequences.

I don't think there is a technical problem with images (which I think is what you're hoping to pounce on and debate ad nauseum), they just demand the rest of the ecosystem be built around them. This seems to be a trick you can get away with once per computing industry. Lots of people have come up with better image structures/concepts than hierarchical blobs of binary data, but they never seem to get significant traction because they are closed.
The airline industry is screwed up. Rising fuel prices, increased security measures after 9/11, inefficient governments, international rules to be taken care of, high basic cost of operation, etc.

It needs a revolution, from the likes of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, etc.

Having said that, I feel like an airline can do a lot of make the travel experience easier for their passengers. Some airlines, such as Virgin, even try. But, in the absence of a plausible explanation, I would just go with lower standards of ethics. It is the same disease that plagued the financial system.

These airlines just need to understand this simple fact: if you delight your customers, they will come back and be willing to pay more for the same trip. You don't need alliances and frequent flier miles to buy the loyalty of your customers.
Just pack an unloaded firearm in your bag and declare it. They will sure as sh*t not be losing that bag.

Or just fly Virgin next time ;).
Meta: does it constitute a voting ring if people who like Rails and 37signals vote their stuff up without actually reading the articles? This is of course just speculation...
"Translate each student knowledge data into a numeric value"

Which isn't at all easy. Grades certainly have some correlation to knowledge (certainly not "one" though), but in a perfect world we'd be putting everyone through oral examination and putting their projects through peer review on a constant basis. This is expensive though, in time and money and man power.
Well, Diaspora definitely was a project I was aware of -- I had started a year before those guys put up a kickstarter page. They were undergrads in the same school I went to - Courant at NYU. So yeah it was a good idea.

But you probably won't believe how much planning and architecture went into a project like this. This is far beyond simple status updates and sharing. As far as being distributed, we were just careful that all the data was stored by one or another "publisher", so we can scale up as far as we need using sharding. In the future we plan to make a distributed communication protocol between the nodes so they don't have to trust each other.

We applied for a patent on some aspects of a distributed social network: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120110469 so you can read about some things that went into it there, although the patent is mostly for having defensible IP to show investors, as well as the possibility of licensing that stuff to Google+, etc.
This is like an interactive version of www.brandcolors.net. Very nice!
Thanks for the feedback.

I can't replicate that problem but I'm going to investigate how you got those GET parameters on the link.
I've on a few occasions had problems with semicolons in Java: accidently putting a semicolong like this:

if (something()); {
somethingOther();
}

The semicolon seemed to shortcut the whole if-block. I don't know why that thing is even allowed by the compiler.
Ask HN: What is the most interesting fact you've learned from HN?
The Wikidata revolution is here: enabling structured data on Wikipedia
I loved this approach until I read the exam question. After that, I only liked it.

It would have been more interesting to see an exam with question like "is the population of x in hardy-weinberg equilibrium", where x is something students should know something (but not everything) about if they've been paying attention. It would be possible, but not easy, for a very well prepared student to do the research and figure it out (or at least write an intelligent answer) in an hour. Some bright students who haven't studied much probably would be able to research quickly and come up with a good answer, especially if they split up the task. Some people will clearly be vastly more valuable to teams than others.

In short, I think the professor here picked a question that tilts too heavily toward collaboration. If this approach is really going to work, you need to induce some reluctance among the very well prepared, who may realize that their friends who spent more time preparing for the non-collaborative physics exam will be getting a relatively free ride.

I guess I just don't think this quite brought out the nastiness that would truly arise in a state of nature - something of course I understand he'd rather avoid!
So is the article title another experiment in Behavioral Ecology?
Digging through the details in the original article that treehugger links to, it appears that the size of this deposit is not entirely characterized, but that it probably corresponds to approximately 9 years of global lithium production at current rates. (228K tons, with usage of 25K tons per year).
3rd party? Microsoft own Skype.
Clearly the article should be titled "Embracing James Tiberius Kirk's Solution to the Kobayashi Maru"