skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There wasn't, as far as I can tell, any mainstream media reports about Sunil being involved in the Boston marathon bombing, the only accusations were from redditors tricked by a faked police scanner report that supposedly IDed him as the bomber.

Edit: A relevant comment from a journalist regarding the situation: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/1cvb9b/reflections_on_...

As a member of the reddit community, I was really disappointed with the
Sunil Tripathi debacle. D'you know why his name wasn't widespread in
the press as a suspect? Because generally we like to ask police for
confirmation on a suspect name before publishing it.

If reddit users want to act like journalists, they should follow the same
procedures. You're not special just because it's "the internet"
Well, I chose "not succeeding" over "failing" on purpose. The project has been around in one form or another for about 8 years, but it still hasn't hit the mainstream.

Make no mistake, I'm a fan, but I'd rather see all these commercial players making proprietary front-end improvements to Tahoe instead of reinventing the core wheel.
That's kind of how groups, from sports teams to entire nations, work. To greater or lesser extents, minorities do in fact very often represent the majority and greater entity in the public eye. It's usually futile to attempt to hide behind rationalizations (or, in this case, blame shifting). Groups often police themselves for this very reason.

Also, as mentioned elsewhere, the "media" didn't have all that much to do with this particular fiasco.
You don't like Ubuntu dictating a desktop environment to you. So you fiddle with other things for a long time, at your own option. Then you pay Apple to dictate a desktop environment to you. Hmm...
Much as I can't stand to say something nice about Microsoft, the Skype updates at least on Ubuntu 12.04 have worked fine.
It's probably more like he's trying to turn it into something that can sustain himself while he works on something he's passionate about, which happens to take the form of a business because there aren't many other choices at the moment.

Could be a sham. He's (as far as anyone can tell) dogfooding though, which is, in this case, behavior you'd expect from either a very dedicated sham, or someone who wants to make sure something that they think is a potentially very good idea isn't going to make people terribly sick in three months time.
Here's a list I wrote up for a friend when he asked for a few "non mathematically hardcore" finance books to read.

http://brotchie.github.io/favourite-finance-books.html

It overlaps somewhat with the OP's list, but I have a tiny bit of commentary on each book.
'In a statement on Thursday, Amoroso said he had informed the Yahoo board when he became chairman in May 2012 that he intended to serve only one year "in order to help Yahoo during a critical time of transformation."'
It is hard to come up with entirely new problems for every exam every year. That doesn't mean that doing so isn't important, but it really is time consuming and a whole lot of work. It's also painfully easy to think that you've changed things enough for the question to be "new" compared with examples from class or homework or previous years' tests, only for some student to recognize it enough to regurgitate some memorized solution rather than actually thinking.

So while I'd never say that repeating questions is a good thing, I can't be too hard on folks who do (intentionally or not).
I've always been a bit reflexively anti-business, having read horror stories about Monsanto, some of the large banks, and other unethically run (IMHO) corporations.

However, I've noticed that many HN readers are extremely pro-business, while still hating the same companies and "evil" business practices that I do. Indeed there was a thread where HNers were severely dumping on Monsanto, which quickly got killed by PG, but which for me was the most enlightening thread I've read here.

I've come to realize the (in retrospect obvious) fact that this is the correct attitude: business creates wealth, and is inherently good, and it is perfectly consistent to hate the practices of some large businesses while being pro-business in general.
>When you try to invent your own environment to live in, there's a good chance you won't be well adapted to that environment.

I guess this statement would necessarily include wearing clothes, living in houses, using glasses, taking antibiotics, and anything else we do to actively counter forces of nature. I'd say we do quite well at that.

I'd like to point out that the rest of that paragraph is simply a strawman argument and is of absolutely no value to this discussion.

Finally, you obviously do not come close to understanding the complexity of transistors if you think that it can be summarized by the number of terminals it has. That is like saying the programming behind an API is simplistic because the API only consists three functions. I've taken multiple semesters of classes specifically on transistors and logic design have never even come close to using the mathematical and physical techniques they use for designing single transistors, let alone large integrated circuits consisting of billions of them. I agree with your point that the complexity is not on par with biological systems, but you are trivializing something far more complex than you think. We are not that helpless.
Linux haters can't stand that Ubuntu can release new OS versions so often. OTOH, I'm tired of the chase and from now on will just stick with the LTS releases. If I were a some years younger though, I'd be there in the thick of every release. Kudos to the makers and the doers of Ubuntu. RedHat, where were/are you.
I remember when I highschool, we had study class where we would just all sit together in a big room to study and do homeworks, in complete silence, alone. With some fellow students, we often just skipped this class to actually study altogether somewhere else. Indeed, we learned a lot more, or at least we were much more motivated to learn. When I lost those friends as our path went seperate ways, my grades dropped, so did my motivation. It's a competition, but a sane one.
I like the style of this article. It is confident yet has simple humility and openness. One rarely sees that. For example, when I write or talk about some piece of software, it tends to be either the best in the world or incomprehensibly incompetent.
Would the charge be burglary for unauthorized access, or burglary if information was stolen after unauthorized access, and otherwise breaking and entering or just entering? To that, yes. If the information that was stolen was then used to commit other crimes, then other charges should follow as appropriate.
my Canon Printer wont work properly in UBUNTU.
Danielle, have you heard about what Paul Singh is doing with dashboard.io? He basically has made a product out of diagnosing this shit realllllly in depth.
If one aggressive subreddit takes irresponsible action, is that fair to say "Reddit did 'X'".

Or is it more accurate to say "the subreddit /r/findthebostonbombers of the Reddit web site did 'X'"?

I would argue for the latter. Granted, the mainstream media is unlikely to make the distinction or care, but it's an important difference.
I've been in situations like this. I'll give a simple rule set of some topic that someone hasn't quite managed to defragment in their brain (and thus know it as a bunch of rules and special-cases), and then they'll spend hours going "But what if <x>?". Eventually they believe me that my simplified model is equivalent to their overcomplicated internal model. The result is usually closer to "You're right; it is that simple." but that's fairly similar to "It's trivial."

In short: Often people need to try a lot of "Yeah, but what if <x>?" before they satisfy themselves that something is in fact as simple as it appears.
And when the guy sysoping your data is the one who makes the decision about what's reasonable...?
Would you find it unreasonable to have a search warrant on every single American's internet activity? As far as I understand it, that is, in effect, what CISPA proposes.
I think if you thought about it for a moment you would realize that he is appealing to the concept of hacking. In this case, hacking diet, something everyone on this site can relate to. This is why it gets attention.

I'm on the fence as to whether I'll to wait and see how this turns out, with his volenteer base or to even hit up the Kickstarter to try it myself, as I personally am at a pivot point where I could change my diet significantly and benefit. If Soylent proves the easy route, so be it.

I also believe a lot of us are just curious.
"Practically everything has gotten better over the past century but food has gotten worse."

I highly disagree. Food as an art form and as a science has gotten leagues better since 1913. Probably several orders of magnitude in whatever you're measuring.

Except the French. They had it right the whole time.

If you look at the extremes, the negative side of food has gone from shit (literally) to shit (figuratively) so not much change there either.
Reddit, the website, enabled the labeling of the victim. They apologized for it too[1]; they wouldn't have done so if they didn't recognize some kind of moral responsibility for what happened.

While no one should imply that every reddit user is responsible, a thought should be spared as to whether or not false accusations and mob hunts must be a fundamental part of social news. If so, it is worth spending the time asking ourselves how we can avoid it in the future; and if they are unavoidable, how we can limit the damage they cause (or, in the extreme case, if we even want to encourage the continued existence of social news sites like Reddit if the effects are judged too extreme).

[1]http://blog.reddit.com/2013/04/reflections-on-recent-boston-...
Pants for dogs. The current dog pants industry is old, slow, and full of inefficiency. It's next.
I do not think these are equivalent. A company is a hierarchical structure of individuals, with oversight and management relationships. Reddit is just a bunch of unaffiliated individuals talking to each other.
Only about 6 grams per person per year? I guess the batteries are mostly just other stuff...
De-valuing it for whom, exactly? Given the number of people who are following us back and registering for a service that is extremely relevant/important to them, it's hard to see how there is any degradation of value for anyone involved.

In fact, they are gaining value out of it.
Windows, is widely distributed...not popular.
Lobster rolls. wait
If I understand the GP correctly, the claim is that we are now perpetually at cyberwar and CISPA would invite cyberwarriors into everyone's home.
The third amendment has always stated "in time of peace". The specification is due to the fact that any foreseeable war was to be fought on US soil (War of 1812!) and we didn't have the infrastructure to deal with housing troops in the event of that war.

I don't think SCOTUS has had to interpret "time of peace" in the 3rd Amendment in modern times.
I'm not sure it's such a bad idea. It's a non-distorting tax and the unearned benefits of height seem clearly established. Why not?
Have you tasted frog legs?
If you read the press release they say he only wanted to serve for a year. No drama then.
Absolutely it does. Just about every hedge fund, trader, proprietary trading firm, etc..., uses it. But it doesn't guarantee success. Your algorithms, programs and analysis have to be better than the next guy, otherwise you'll just lose money very quickly.

This is simply the evolution of trading, another tool to help traders. And someone will always make a ton of money, while someone else will always lose. That's how trading works.
I will admit this may have changed in the past 8? months, but the last couple experiences I had on different platforms was headache-inducing. Search (on FB docs) would turn up examples for X that just did not work. It didn't seem like the reference examples were tested when the API was updated. Blackhole/flag any examples that fail. The only thing worse than no docs is misleading docs. Another annoying event was app settings would vanish when submitting.

Edit: Okay, I went over to the developer site and it looks like things have improved more from the docs side. Progress! Can you say with certainty all the new examples work?
i could be wrong, but isn't pagination just swiping to the right to activate it? and then to deactivate it, you would just scroll the content normally.

that work for you?
"help with windows", 2.5 Billion, with a "B", hits. Do not pretend 100% or even a large percentage of Windows users never need power user help at a minimum.
> Tripathi, who was reported to have suffered from depression, went missing on March 15 – over a month before the bombings that left three people dead and 264 wounded...Laura Lague, spokeswoman for the Providence police, told the Boston Globe that Tripathi's body had been spotted in the river by a Brown university rowing coach on Tuesday and that it had been identified by dental records, suggesting a long immersion. Foul play was not a factor, she confirmed.
I didn't leave the Linux world because I didn't like Ubuntu dictating a desktop environment to me. I left because OS X suits my needs better than any Linux distribution (except perhaps OpenSUSE) could.
If there are enough of them. Most B2Bs do not have anywhere close to 1% of the world's population as customers.
There are a lot of laws that aren't effective. Empirically, laws that attempt to restrain gamesmanship among investment megabanks aren't effective. Laws against many forms of tax evasion aren't effective. Here's one close to home: laws against breaking into computers, stealing whole databases, and splashing them onto Pastebin aren't effective. That could happen to any of your startups tomorrow, and the likelihood of the law protecting you is very low.

In all of those cases, people routinely flout the law. It's not just that it's hard to enforce the law; it's that people routinely violate it.

The ineffectiveness of laws is not a logical argument that the goals of those laws are bad. It's an argument either that the laws haven't been tuned properly, or that our enforcement priorities need to be changed --- in the case of copyright, probably in a direction you're not happy with.

Long story short: if you believe that this is a powerful argument against copyright, you forfeit a pretty big chunk of any of your arguments against Wall Street.
Maven in my experience may simply be an extension of Archive.org ... at least it feels that way when I run mvn on some of the Java projects at work and I download half the Internet before the build even starts...
When I was watching NBC the morning of the Watertown incident, during a phone interview, one of their 'chief investigative correspondents' said, he wouldn't say who, but a Brown University student that went missing in March was the prime suspect. Given what he did say, he might as well have given the name. Not excusing redditors by any means, but I did see it mentioned on national television, for what it's worth.
It seems all social sites have blacklists -- Reddit certainly does. I've been told that HN blacklists Gawker simply because their content is so irresponsible. So that would be a case where, regardless of the content of a particular article, it wouldn't appear here.

> ... it's just that this case has led me to wonder what could or should be done instead.

Yes, understood. I can anticipate one possible alternative -- but to avoid a blacklist would require someone to vet each exception. Too expensive.
Nintendo Miiverse now available on the Web
To be honest I never even thought of the service as spammy, which is why I was surprised to read so much of that in the comments here.

If people are upset/annoyed that is was automated.. fine.. do it manually.. the fact remains that it is a very effective method to build your audience in a targeted fashion.

Maybe Myles should just "pivot" to compete with Little Bird and focus on just surfacing the data on who you SHOULD be engaging with.
Sony's Mark Cerny explains why the PS4 switched to x86
I took an OO class once where the questions were verbatim for about 3 semesters prior, except for a simple find replace on the variable names in the code snippets. e.g. x = y became var1 = var2

Needless to say after I recognised the pattern from the first exam I got perfect scores for the rest of the semester.
I understand and I share your point of view to a degree, but I remain skeptical that until CFAA, there were no successful prosecutions for crimes that we are told are only now covered by CFAA. Computers and criminals have been around for a while now.

I am also opposed to the idea that we need specific crime laws for things like this. What about vehicular manslaughter while listening to an iPod, and why would that not be covered as distraction equivalent to listening to radio, which I assume and also hope that it would be. There should be some respect for the intent of existing law in addition to the letter, because we do have laws for theft and I am certain that the intent of those laws covers these cases.
Mmmm Debian based distros rock. That's why I run Debian
I'm offended by your broad and overreaching reference to "much of the media". Yes, some media did report it that way, but in reality, that can be summed up more easily by saying "sensationalist headlines drive clicks and newsstand sales". Stop blaming the media community. It was only a small percentage of the media (e.g., Springfield Daily Shopper, United Airlines Hemispheres(r) Magazine and mainstream TV media such as Home Shopping Network did not participate in Reddit vilification).
For some students it also can serve to mitigate exam shock (speaking to high school level anyway, which is my area). Finding a familiar, or even roughly familiar question can mean a nervous student has an entry point into the exam.

I quite liked the article. It'd be interesting to see if the benefits persisted over multiple groups though. I tend to see engagement increase when rules are changed and students need to figure out how to address the problem in a new way, regardless of whether they are collaborating or not. (anecdotal evidence there only sorry ;P)
Tutorial – Arduino and ILI9325 colour TFT LCD modules
That's great to hear. But since pretty much nobody here has access to those awespme internals, I still don't see where the gp's "really cheap" impression would be coming from.
> Smart people can be wrong. Honest people can be wrong. Smart and honest people can be wrong.

All true, and why we have science. But the Jenny McCarthies of the world are so egregious that such charities can't extend to them -- they've been given too many opportunities to access sources of information apart from themselves.

> Focus on the quality of the argument. Focus on the quality of the evidence supporting the argument.

Yes, but after several years of the same pattern, it dawns on you that the problem is not the argument, but its source.
> It would be pretty irresponsible for them to standardize on a single source vendor

What they typically do is write the specs to an existing product sometimes it is laughable really, you can tell exactly the product they mean without them actually mentioning its name. That is one way to put out bids that on paper look open and not tied to a particular vendor but in practice they are.

The other way is to do a pie in the sky kind of write-up. We want something that does everything and we're requesting quotes for it. That is silly as well.
I'm a woman who would hardly be considered "traditionally attractive" and it's always worked for me. People's opinions of your looks change based on how they view your personality.
Previous HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5610833
I haven't posted anything on Google+ is well over a year. I don't think people moving to Google+ from FB. And, I'm sure Google+ is not the next big social network.
Something strange happens on the default android browser.

http://goput.it/p1l.png
His issue seems to be a fear that Parse will be "integrated" into Facebook and its walled-garden-philosophy, rather than presented as a serious B2B offering. That wouldn't be as much as a problem with Microsoft.
Well put.
I think the greatest criticisms come from industries that create their own demand through covert legal measures.
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Ding-Dong CISPA Is Dead
The gents at the conference did not rape anyone, threaten rape or make death threats.
And I will Instapaper that article...
Women Rule 40% of Federal Cyber Workforce
Memory safety protections and the real world
The Wi-Fi Battle Lines are Being Drawn
>I'd find a better case, for starters.

I was responding to the general point.

But as for finding a better case, the problem is that you don't get to pick which cases get prosecuted. If the parties have decided to appeal then a precedent is going to be set here one way or the other. So let him go to jail for what he actually did -- there is no reason to allow the CFAA charge to be piled on top of that and set a terrible precedent for next time when the defendant is sympathetic but the question has already been settled.
Yes, the any legitimate media outlets that reported Tripathi was one of the bombers screwed up big time. The reason I blame the Reddit users who were involved in initially accusing him is because they were very aware that the news media could, and likely would, report on their speculation. Early on in the /r/findbostonbombers subreddit rules were posted that specifically addressed the media. One of the rules stated was to not report on the speculation because it was just that. Frankly, I found that to be a naive and weak attempt and preemptively absolving themselves of their own misdeed.

Yeah, the media screwed up by reporting media but if I jump in the lion's cage at the zoo I'm not going to blame the lion if I get eaten.
The whole device hardware and software needs to be certified. It is hard to make a secure piece of software and prove it so if the hardware or firmware it is running on is compromised.
I personally beg to differ. I'm not willing to give much more identifiable info, so if you want to call me a liar, feel free to.
I haven't seen such a deceptive title in a while.
Textbooks. The market is controlled by a half dozen huge companies that charge around 10x too much because they can.

I intend to tackle it one day. The biggest hurdle is actually finding instructors willing to write a textbook.
Lighting engineer discussing this: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1d3hd1/researchers_...
I think this misses the point.

Grouping ANT/Maven together because of XML is a very superficial association to make. ANT despite what it claims is essentially an inflexible programming language, which offers very few benefits over java (and many disadvantages), except that it is interpreted (not compiled), has a library of build tasks and can be stuck in the root of a project without looking like source code. XML is a big issue in ant because it is a very poor choice for writing a programming language.

Maven is a build framework, into which you make your program fit, by decomposing it into maven projects ... etc. etc. XML is a perfectly good choice for configuration here. The core problem with Maven is poor design. For one, it has tried to make things simpler than they are, and does not recognise that some programming projects are fundamentally not amenable to a module structure (i.e. what ebuild calls products). It also makes developing across the dependency boundary (i.e. your program + the library) very cumbersome indeed.
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What? The point is that people are freaking out on normal and moderate people doing nothing while there are still extremely serious and obvious cases actually worth freaking out about.