skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not illegal to attend an unpermitted party, only to organize one. (Edit: that I know about...I'm too lazy to research NY law on unlawful assembly, and this isn't meant to be legal advice.) And an assertion on a blog doesn't rise to the standard of evidence.

As someone with a lot of experience in this area, authorities are in general not so much concerned with administrative propriety as with safety and respect for others (ie noise complaints).
I would hire the one with the most impressive GitHub account.
Agreed. Imagine HN if the Court had issued a strong ruling with the opposite outcome.
This code is not open source.
Have you even looked at them? The top banner has rectangular links that are the same, as do the 3-column icons and the footer.
What are some potential reasons for a subway station to become abandoned?

It looks like the construction had advanced quite far before it was halted.
And yet no one has explained why they shouldn't pay less than they are currently paying, when their competition pays far less.
As a formerly deeply-closeted gay teen

Should have been "former". I haven't been a teen for quite a while now.
Are you being serious? Google "Youtube to Mp3" and have fun. The only real dent in piracy I have seen is that I can't find clips from my favorite episodes of The Simpsons and other Fox properties.... which is annoying because I tried to share a funny scene from Bob's Burgers and the clip was simply unavailable... viral advertising anyone? Sure some clips are available on Hulu... the ones they have pre-screened, but not the one I wanted to show. The networks are short-sighted in my opinion.
Read the paragraph that starts with the sentence, "Of course, there's a workaround."
it's also interesting to me that a former economist in the obama administration is writing an article about college grads driving taxis, right around the time the powers that be are trying to implement immigration reform to make it easier to import foreign workers to fill various roles. he seems to be dancing around some obvious conclusions that the job market is (gasp) driven by supply and demand for labor, but doesn't quite reach a conclusion.
Annoying, but `defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false`
Not to mention Microsoft's influence in the consumer space looks exceptionally weak, when you're talking 5 to 10 years forward (short of a small miracle in mobile).

They're clearly going to continue to be left out in the cold in search. The PlayStation 4 looks very competitive with the XBox One (and the One is a helluva expensive Netflix or Blu-ray player). Mobile remains a disaster, certainly in terms of market share; ditto tablets for now.

Skype is interesting in consumer and business, but it'll struggle to ever pay for the acquisition (maybe in 30 years).

Their business / server / tools groups are by far and away the future of the company, as of right now.
This reminds of the secret night club in an abandoned water tower (also in NYC) from last month, albeit larger in scale.

article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/nyregion/illicit-nightclub...

photos: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/05/22/nyregion/2013052...
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How delightfully meta.
In this case it was part of one attempt at the Second Avenue subway. I think it was built in the 70s, then the city ran out of money and construction was halted. I believe the new Second Ave subway will not be using the same route in this part of Manhattan (or will be at a different depth) so they will not be using these tunnels/stations.
Why was the party illegal ?
There was one yesterday about IE11 getting WebGL support: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5942739
Gotta love this bit:

The officials wouldn't go into details on how they know this

C'mon guys, put a little more effort into your disinformation campaign! I mean, even Bloomberg carried this the other day:

U.S. Surveillance Is Not Aimed at Terrorists
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-23/u-s-surveillance-is...

C'mon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5BMQ-xpTog
Agreed. That said, for people who aren't necessarily programmers at the start of the process, producing useful things makes it a lot easier to justify the continued learning required to get there.
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You definitely make a valid point, however, many of those laws are only broken when ruled so in hindsight. Most of the foundation of anti-trust, for example, rests on deciding after the fact what qualifies and what does not. It's extraordinarily subjective, and varies frequently depending on who is in power.

What qualifies as an abuse of market power? That's up to the Feds to decide, there is no set objective definition that can be run like an equation, such that you can be 100% sure you're breaking the law. It's extremely difficult to know beforehand, and the only safe way to approach it is to either directly ask a federal oversight committee (which many companies do once they're in such a position), or to shy away from any kind of aggressive competitive behavior.
It's not "damning" because that sentence structure, in particular, can't be copyrighted. It's "damning" because it is one very obvious part of a larger whole which, compounded, make it very unlikely that these two sites were developed independently. You could argue that Kintek changed it just enough to make it not plagiarism or copyright violation, but that's not exactly the point.
Hah, I was thinking "what a coincidence" since I started that thread in the group. Thanks a bunch for writing this up -- I hope it gets fixed soon!
I actually laughed after reading that line. Sometimes you really have to wonder how ridiculous this whole debacle is getting.
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It's not that bad in go though because you should just run gofmt every time you save. It's bad when you have to do it by hand.
> obviously this is discussing a logical CPU not the actual ISA.

being a tad pedantic here, but shouldn't this be a part of the machine's micro-arch rather than the isa ?
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That looks like a fun party. It makes me happy that this kind of thing happens. There's something really exciting about dancing in abandoned spaces. It's as if they've been returned to nature, and the party goers belong to a primitive tribe involved in some ancient ritual. I know that sounds cheesy but I don't know how else to describe the experience.

For contrast, I believe that the same event organized in cooperation with the city in a functioning subway station wouldn't be nearly as fun. Perhaps it's the feeling of peaceful anarchy that's most important.

Many parties that take place in abandoned warehouses have a similar vibe - most western nations have cracked down on them on the basis of unregulated drug and alcohol use - although this location is really quite dramatic and I bet the musicians were amazing. I wish there was an mp3.
I think that, in order to understand ‘spins’ on Pandora, we must also know how many times a purchased track (iTunes, CD, etc) is played over its lifetime, on average.

In my iTunes library, I can see how many times I’ve played a song. There are some that I’ve played hundreds of times, and there are some that I’ve never played. For all those songs, I paid about the same amount. If I’d have to guess, I’d say, on average, I’ll play each track 10 times.

That means I pay about $0.10 per ‘iTunes spin’, of which more than 60% goes to the creators. Compare that to a Pandora spin, which they say pays $0.00137 (one-tenth of a cent).
http://opensource.org/docs/osd It seems to satisfy 1-7
In many stream pipelines you don't care about the order of the data. You just have a bunch of unordered input data that you need to transform as fast as possible.

Go's channels [1] let you essentially construct loosely-typed streams. The channel's type lets you be as opinionated as you want about what should/shouldn't be passed within the "stream" (interface{}, []byte, string, MyAwesomeType, etc.). If you use buffered channels you have "backpressure". You can use > 1 core by using goroutines.

[1] http://golangtutorials.blogspot.com/2011/06/channels-in-go.h...
Why an annoyance? For most users it will look and behave just like a normal folder.
At the company I work for now, they found a site for a British company (we are in the US) that didn't steal the look of the site or the copy of the site -- they stole the names, headshots and bios of the executives and used them on their site.

Still speechless about it.
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> - Contract up ... always >.<

Do you have any suggestions on creating these contracts? Mainly, is it necessary to lawyer up before even starting to make sure your contract is bullet proof?
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For Joe Average Windows user, I think this is a good move.

For everyone else, I think we've probably already got our own system for online doc backups etc. I'm sure, like past Microsoft products, we can probably change the behaviour through a registry "hack"/modification if they don't have something a bit more configurable built in (ie: in Control Panel etc).
well, they might want to put a stop to it before there's a fire or stampede in a tight space with no exits. these folks seem pretty well organized but they're also locking people in. if there's an incident, guaranteed the city gets sued for big bucks if it it's on their property.
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The difference with Google is that millions of consumers and businesses are simply forced to buy Windows because that is the only way to run software that they need. There is pretty much nothing you can run on ChromeOS that you can't run outside ChromeOS almost just as easily, including all the related Google services if you want them. Thus people buying it are buying it on its own merits and people using Google services related to it are using those on their own merits.

I think the bigger case against Google on this front is with how they are tying Google+ to Google Search. I am actually kind of surprised they have not gotten more heat for it - if Facebook ever succumbs its market share to Google I suspect an issue will be made of it. But then, even with search you have to work very hard to make the case that people are "locked into it".
you're supposed to get a permit for events over 50 people, and you're supposed to have separate permits to the publicly-owned venue, there are supposed to be bathrooms, proper fire escapes, yadda yadda. And in fairness, these requirements exist for good reasons, because for every artsy type that runs such an event in a reasonable responsible fashion, there's a greedy promoter that will do the same sort of thing for purely mercenary purposes and who is willing to sacrifice the safety of the guests on the altar of profit.
To be fair, contended atomics aren't free either, especially if you're on the wrong NUMA node. Sharing is rarely free, so try not to share.
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One guess--if it was in Brooklyn and was a station with no tracks laid down (so never actually used as a station)--is that it was part of the IND second line. Maybe the South 4th Street and Broadway station?

This line was started just before the 1929 crash and never completed. See http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/indsecsys.html, there's a hand-drawn map down at the bottom.
Trespassing.
This post has made it to the top of the Ask page without any comments. I hope people put their thoughts down even if they dont have an answer. My goal has been to start a discussion and explore the different perspectives people have. Please feel free to add comments with your opinions. You have till about 12:00 after which this post be buried 4-5 pages down and hence will have little visibility and in turn chances for gathering some answers/opinions
Sure - but the majority for the decision is already there.
Not quite that ephemeral: http://valleywag.gawker.com/heres-how-cops-get-your-snapchat...
The author said they started at a DUMBO station. Then they walked for half an hour. The author doesn't reveal the location for obvious reasons.
I agree, Obj-C has improved a lot. But it's not just Obj-C vs. Ruby:

- you can use the editor of your choice and the terminal instead of Xcode

- you can use the interactive console to debug your app or to live test new code

- you get all the great wrapper gems like BubbleWrap which are heavily influenced by the "rails way" of doing things
What Should You Be Using to Build Your Apps?
Another great project:

Bilby: Serious functional programming library for JavaScript https://github.com/puffnfresh/bilby.js
RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007
From point 1 of the OSD

1. Free Redistribution

The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the
software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing
programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a
royalty or other fee for such sale.

From the source SDK license

You may distribute your modified Valve game in source and object code
form, but only for free.

it is clearly not open source software.
I never said it was?
"I walked away without looking back, feeling like we'd just gotten away with an elaborate bank robbery."

I used to run treasure hunts, along with a friend of mine, where teams of four would solve puzzles and clues that would take them through a series of locations similar to the one in the article [1]. This is a really good way to describe the feeling -- I've always described it as "playing secret agent."

Incidentally though, we were always terrified to bring even small groups of people into these various abandoned buildings. I still have nightmares about it. Having a party -- with that many people and that much noise -- is absolutely insane.

[1] Some examples I dug up: http://imgur.com/a/WVw4Q
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Chinatown area, the article says they walked for a bit from DUMBO which would make sense to cross the bridge. http://secondavenuesagas.com/2013/06/25/abandoned-sas-segmen...
When Steve went on stage and showed it off, the minds of everyone in the audience went into overdrive to start imagining all the possible things they could do with it.

Interesting that it wasn't the first time an Apple CEO went on stage and showed off a pocket tablet, and the minds of everyone in the audience went into overdrive to start imagining all the possible things they could do with it.

What the Newton, in 1993, revolutionized was user experience. For the first time, someone invented a device that was easy to understand, fun to use, and seemingly limitless in capability. Except it wasn't limitless. The public mind was thrilled with the concept, embraced the wonderous new platform, and got...egg freckles? http://fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/db9... The OS, hardware, UI, UX, all were revolutionary - and some revolutions fail. Steve killed it promptly upon his return, and I imagine nonetheless studied it a great deal, taking some 13 years between unveilings to get it right, making sure the engaged public didn't overwhelm the second attempt.
here is a relevant acm article from quite some time back on the topic: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1454466
That's 22 mins from my house, it's quite new, makes sense it isn't showing yet.
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And anyone who is now suddenly communicating differently is flagged as a posible terrorist, or at least someone who has something that needs investigating. Watching the progress of communication patterns changing must be fascinating. If the alternate forms of communication are also compromised that'll be even better.

Action and reaction.
Apples and oranges. Nice try.
[...]the NSA will catch up eventually, he predicted, because there are only
so many ways a terrorist can communicate. "I have every confidence in
their ability to regain access."

So now NSA is the injured party?
Here's one - got reused as a museum. honestly just seems like poor planning, they ended up not having so many local trains they needed a separate terminus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Transit_Museum#Station...

sometimes when the system gets extended, sections become redundant.

when they built the new South Ferry station they abandoned the old one. then when the new station got destroyed by Sandy they went back to the old one, which is so small everyone has to exit through the first 5 cars.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/south-ferry-subway-stati...
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You're right, thanks for the correction. It's been through so many rounds at this point I get them mixed up at times.
The point of the analogy is merely this: You are telling someone going through a potentially awful experience that you were in an entirely different situation where the outcome for you was far far better.

So if you really want to stick with the analogy, it's like an amicably-divorced-and-remarried man telling a widower to just cheer up.
Do you have any thoughts, then, on why Laurent is having such a hard time fixing this in Ruby Motion?

(Looking at your web site, seems like you would have a good understanding of the underlying issues.)
".1" aka "SP1"
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This is not an entirely accurate analogy.

You explicitly chose each of the songs you've purchased on iTunes. In contrast, song 'spins' on Pandora is not necessarily one you would've sought out on your own, nor chosen to pay money for given the option. I think it's only reasonable that the incidental-ish nature of these spins should be valued less than the intentive ones of your iTunes purchases, and yes, I think being valued several order of magnitude less is reasonable.
Then how exactly is this an "Amazing step forward for the Open Source community"
Flask-SQLAlchemy is a thin layer over SQLAlchemy, so the risk of leakage is low. That said, what I don't like is that it's too coupled with Flask, so I prefer to use my own version: https://github.com/lucuma/orm
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60% of that most certainly does not go to the creators.

The creators only get a small fraction of that and only after they've repaid their studios' various costs. A lot of the studios' costs come entirely out of their artist's royalties. Here's Courtney Love famously explaining how an album can gross 11 million dollars, the studio makes 6.6 million profit and the artist never sees a penny:

http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
Its about the same. When/if Google fully replaces Microsoft everywhere it'll be the same but with google products.
In case of doubt, just look at android.
Al-Qaida is not a person. Either you accidentally used the wrong pronoun, or perhaps you're confused as to what Al-Qaida refers to.
I agree it was a tad distracting, but I think your comparison with Apple is slightly flawed.

In the Microsoft ad, you're supposed to be able to project yourself to be the person doing these things. You're supposed to feel that 'you' are opening an e-mail and looking at photos or "you" are searching for Marilyn Monroe, etc. etc.

That is similar to the Apple ads, but the Apple ads do two things differently.
1) they are at a slower pace and with less frantic movement and music, so it is easier to understand
2) apple ads will often have a voice over explaining what is happening.

I don't like the Microsoft ad, but the ad does focus on an end user doing things. Everything in that ad is a user doing things. I think they need to refine their approach though, and make it about things people care about doing.
Can I use it withought any steam game?
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Oh my god! I didn't know that the the united states is literally crisscrossed by roads in a relatively square grid fashion, as in [1]. This kind of detail was invisible in the previous version. Here is a frightening image of China [2]. Each of these patches is a town!

This update of the maps is amazing!

[1]https://maps.google.com/?ll=47.115467,-97.306595&spn=0.29298...
[2]https://maps.google.com/?ll=38.002656,115.434723&spn=0.67848...
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This puts in question Ruby Motion's entire premise for existence.

Ruby Motion is supposed to make iOS and Mac OS X app development simpler than Objective C. If there are lots of complex rules and corner cases to learn about and work around, it becomes easier to just write Objective C, where at least the rules about memory are well understood by the community.

Will be interesting to see how HipByte addresses this. They at least need to get in front of the issue with a blog entry or article about how they plan to address it.
Unfortunate but consistent with the the theme of the article: if terrorists are adjusting due to leaks, the last thing an intelligence operative would do is leak details which would cause further adjustments.
Why no body post on al-qada facebook page no more?
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It's pretty easy to make UITableView's chug if you do something stupid when populating cells as well.

Only the chuginess comes standard with Android.

The property animation system introduced in Honeycomb and backported to what, 2.2? works very nicely.

It's not really close to CA.

>Not sure this warrants calling the platform far behind though.

If you casually dismiss everything else too, of course not.

>I'm not sure what you're getting at here.

Like Android apps allowed to run rampant in the bg, draining the batteries pronto -- a complaint you hear all the time, and of which you can also find some measurements.
Are they not still making money off the radio?
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I've looked deeply into recent criticism of Angular and this is my opinion.
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Kintek has just posted an apology, of sorts: http://kintek.com.au/blog/getting-egg-on-your-face/
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At what point? Not sure. Some years ago now, I think. When did Vista launch?
"And they were worth it. PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization; instead of buying ads, which readers ignore, you get yourself inserted directly into the stories."

Great insight - considering now a days PR is also becoming SEO.

By that I mean that a good PR firm provides a service of getting high-end backlinks from highly authoritative sites - media, etc.
Last year I spent NZ$40 on ordering an album from an artist who isn't well known, but I found on Pandora.

Pandora is radio, and radio is marketing. Much like the FM radio I listen to the artists don't make much money, but I'll hear artists I like who I wouldn't have spent $40 on before.
Al-Qaida don't need to communicate: read the Qu'ran; if you believe it says take up arms then you're in; no need to e-mail anybody.
Ios 7 runs fine on most hardware right now even with beta 2, blur effects aren't exactly that big of a power draw.

Don't believe everything you read in articles before its released. Best not to form opinions on things that aren't in general availability. Apple isn't going for "high end effects" at all with ios7, more fluid effects that overall provide a consistent experience. Can't get too into details due to nda but it isn't nearly as crazy as this article makes it out to be.

It is impressive what they've changed since Ive took over though, very impressive how much of a change they've made actually. It definitely feels designed all the way through.
My point is that the syntax in question is used for XUL boxes, and has been for going on 15 years. It's not used for any sort of implementation of the old flexbox draft.

The old flexbox draft is similar to XUL boxes in some ways, and quite different in other ways. Trying to use XUL boxes and expecting the old-flexbox behavior as a result will land you in trouble, as happens with depressing regularity when people use "display: -moz-box".

The MDN documentation is sadly wrong, because it ignores the fact that the properties _look_ similar but have totally different behavior. Thank you for pointing that out; I'll make sure it gets fixed.