skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I'd call this Ford's fault.

>Lopez said the smuggling organization was able to get a duplicate key from a locksmith in El Paso, who got the codes after calling up a Ford dealership.

>An FBI affidavit says someone at a Dallas auto dealer accessed the codes in Ford's database, giving out more than 2,300 codes over an 18-month period.

I think dealerships, of all places, would be (should be) allowed to have codes for cars in their lot. I trust dealerships to have these codes. If they do nefarious things with them, they should be punished, but I don't think Ford should be punished for having a dealership-accessible database of key codes. Whoever was cooperating with the criminals is, to me, the person to blame here (along with the criminals).

I'd have sued that dealership, not Ford itself.
I don't think it's a really great idea, games take a lot of disk space and you must have a windows partition. The macbook air storage is a bit small imo.

Plus you don't want to play on a 13 inches screen, let's be realistic.

Not to mention that "clutering" desk with a full keyboard, a good mouse and a bigger screen will still be needed.
Service is pretty good in Italy too - I wouldn't say noticeably different than in the US.
Any caveats on running OS X on this setup? Thanks for sharing, btw. :)
Because they run Windows? That's a bit myopic.
I hate to break it to you but MS Office is here to stay. There are no good alternatives to it for the average user.
This sums up the most common case that I've encountered:

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Simplifying assumptions do not belong in libraries; they belong in applications, where you know the boundaries of the problem space. On rare occasions, the ground of one problem is trod often enough to warrant a framework. Emphasis on rare. A framework is almost always unnecessary, and, in these days of rapidly-changing technological capabilities, likely to be obsolete before it’s finished. Frameworks written by amateurs are the worst of the worst: brittle constructs that assume everything in service of one or two “dead simple” demos but collapse under the weight of a real-world application.
As someone who is mildly afraid from heights, this gave me chills quite a few times during the duration of the video. Wow.
I don't think this is a useful mindset. Grids are very handy comparison tools. Also, licensing costs are only part of the overall cost of running a service. 'Serious businesses' will not run on a piece of software that is not supported by either a vendor or their own staff. Not everyone is comfortable fixing bugs in their DB platform, or relying on the community to do it.
The bestest briefing on intersectionality
I wonder how many bags of marijuana made it undetected in that car, since he was in the screened commuter lane.

And he's so lucky they had a record of accesses to the key code database. If they could have erased that record of the access, then it would have been a perfect crime.
Lincoln also didn't shoot himself. He was shot.

Aaron suffered from suicidal depression. We know that from his closest friends' own accounts that his depression long predated the JSTOR incident. So to lay all the blame for his depression and eventual suicide on MIT is just lazy and irresponsible.
I have a Surface RT as well and I'm super happy with it. I can do serious Office work with it, work on any file, browser, mail, etc. I bring it with me all the time when I go to my customers to take notes.

Last time I was in a conference, I talked with a Microsoft guy who was happy to see I had a Surface RT. He told me I was the first person he saw at a conference with that device (or a Pro). I was pretty surprised.

So where did Microsoft screw up? Marketing?

Maybe they shouldn't say it's a tablet.
I agree that the branding could be better, but IMO the Surface Pro is in the weirder spot out of the two. No-one expects Windows Phone to run desktop apps, and I'd wager that people wouldn't expect Windows Tablet (if they called it that much more sensible name) to, either.
I don't think the logic is sound. The psychological finding she's applying is that willpower is a finite cognitive resource. It isn't sound to apply that finding to all decisions you make while using an app -- only the decisions that involve willpower. She generalizes to all cognitive resources being finite...

If your UX asks the user to make choices, for example, even if those choices are both clear and useful, the act of deciding is a cognitive drain. And not just while they're deciding... even after we choose, an unconscious cognitive background thread is slowly consuming/leaking resources, "Was that the right choice?"

... which sounds plausible and may well be true, but is much more general than the result she's building on.

I'm inclined to think she's right, though. It would be interesting to know if the psychological research has already been done. The willpower results are only well-publicized because people have a compelling personal interest in it.
blindhippo: I thought I should mention that your posts are appearing dead to me.
The Burden of the Nondiversifiable Risk of Entrepreneurship
Sorry, it looks I was wrong about #2. 2dw actually works. I wonder what I was typing?
This for me is the one feature of git that I could never give up. The confidence that, once a state has entered my history, I can always get it back is really helpful when playing with things.
I'm glad you like it! Thanks for the suggestions. Here are my responses:

1. It's setup right now to keep showing you each command until you complete it two times under 5 seconds. I did this so that if a user has trouble with a particular command they'll keep seeing it until they can get it quickly. I'm open to other ideas though if this doesn't seem to work well.

2. Right, thanks for the heads up. I added 2dw as another option for that command, so the program will accept either answer now.
that's a very good point, but there hasn't been an official Declaration of War since 1942 per the wiki (which is a whole nother issue, albeit a very valid one).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Unit...

Rachel Maddown recently came out with a book on this, called "Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/books/review/drift-by-rach...
Exactly. I'd say folks should wait to see what they sentence him with before declaring the outcome balanced.
Parquet 1.0: Columnar Storage for Hadoop (from Twitter and Cloudera)
Forced to use Office and only Office, eh? When there are plenty of free alternatives? What a racket. Perhaps they can be sued.
Check out the XDA forums - a very simple bit flip allows installation of any (unsigned) ARM binaries and most open source projects have already been ported/recompiled.

Edit: Links:
"Jail break" tool: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2092158

Ported apps: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2092348
Yep. Justice at its finest.
Pop culture at it's finest.
I don't think it's a common experience in America.

I was eating at an Italian restaurant in Miami. Two beachgoers came in a bit after me, stared at the menu for 15 minutes, and left in a huff. Even if they had looked around the restaurant in a grumpy "where the fuck is our waiter" manner, he would've been at their table in 10 seconds.

The normal hover/frequent checkup behavior of American waiters and waitresses seems to be counter to this in almost all ways. It seems as though the rounds they make to check on everyone makes it much harder to get their attention when needed, in comparison to a waiter who stands back and watches.
Asda removes Nintendo's Wii U from stores
Good question. I think it's more about having alternatives to official reporting channels so the stuff never actually gets reported, vs. hiding reports. But, we've seen citizen cameras as a huge force to accountability in cases of police abuse, too (Rodney King for a city PD; BART and Toronto for transit police, various people who came forward at Penn State after the Sandusky stuff blew the issue up there). So it seems plausible.

I'm not saying the only thing the police do is hide rapes, it's that their essential differentiation vs. other LEOs would be to protect their employers from embarrassment which would be detrimental to the organization's mission, which rape would be. So the reason it exists as a distinct force is that, whereas they still spend a large percentage of their effort in duties totally in common with a city police force.
This reminds me of the MSL landing last year. The way this video was done makes landing on the Earth seem nearly alien. Like this is what it would look like to someone who's never visited here before.
In the hypothetical you raise, Weev is at best an unprovoked aggressor, and at worst a bully who harasses people because he can. In contrast, MIT can reasonably claim that Swartz was the aggressor against them; he was the one who sneaked into a network closet to "liberate" JSTOR.
Surprise is a useful emotion for noticing that your model needs updating. There's no need to suppress the emotion - better to notice it. This is a kind of core principle in rationality - sort of the little sister of noticing confusion[1]. I think I'm pretty well trained at noticing surprise and using at as a signal to look for more information, and that was, in fact the purpose of my comment.

I don't post comments to demonstrate my cleverness (I hope). I post to tell about an interesting experience, make a careful argument, answer a question about which I'm knowledgeable, or solicit feedback. An expression of surprise for me is a solicitation for information. I was hoping someone with more domain knowledge would have some insight that I could integrate into my model. I realize that some people do just post comments to show their cleverness, and there's no way you could have known my intent without knowing me, so that feedback is well taken. I'll try to be clearer in the future about my intent.

I absolutely agree that what I said probably wouldn't work - no need to apologize! The prior probability for P(simple solution not used by experts | simple solution obvious to a non-expert) is low.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/if/your_strength_as_a_rationalist/
Don't let the mistakes and abuses of the top give you some feeling that the system and everyone in it is corrupt. That system is literally putting themselves in front of bullets right now to defend your right to have such misguided ideas. What are you doing today?

Careful there chief. I'm not sitting in a swank control room in Vegas killing innocent men and women via drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

No one is putting themselves in front of bullets for my rights. They're putting themselves in front of bullets for their own reasons, but not for me.
Einstein is wrong. Here's why.
This isn't a nitpick, it cuts down the premise of your whole argument. Military tribunals decide lots of different things--when was the last time you heard a court or a regular person contemplate what would've been the result under military law? This isn't a question of legal experience--I'm asking based on your experience as a civilian person out in the world. Our culture draws an extremely deep distinction between military and civilian law.
Hmm, I guess many people have a false definition of 'passive' in mind. It's not like "build something and it will make you money forever" - it's rather like "Build something and for the time you build another thing it will make you money. But then go back and put some more work into it or it will die".

Passive income sources always dry up if you don't put constant work into them. I never had one last longer than 2 years without working on it from time to time.

To me the prototypical passive income model is a software product. Once you get it out you can reap revenue for one or maybe two years without much additional work. But after that you better release an update.
I'd love to have screen pixels in CSS for doing hairlines. I hate when something that should be a hairline comes out fuzzy or lumpy.
Thank you -- very interesting.
Bradley Manning found not guilty of aiding the enemy, guilty on other charges
>1. The default file chooser on windows is horrible.

It's really not though. I've never had a problem with it.
In most establishments its the bussers that clean up the messes and many wait staff won't share tips.
> probably isn't cut out to be part of the community in the first place

Thank you for so wonderfully illustrating the problem you wish to perpetuate.

"Be more realistic?" I am being realistic. I'm telling you that being an asshole is bad. That is quite realistic. But it means having to not get your jollies. So have fun abusing beginners, as you think is your right. I hope never to encounter you in a project I care about.
People are discussing when the disproportionate response occurred. Was it calling any police at all? Was it a prosecutor offering a six-month plea bargain to a charge that likely would not have gotten Swartz any jail time at all even if guilty on all charges?
GPUs become obsolete way faster than monitors.
Chaise Blog: Building a diary with Angular.js, Grunt.js, and Cloudant
We used your wife's site when prepping for the arrival of our twins. It was great. Hope she made some good $$$ off of our purchases - we bought double of everything.
One problem is distribution. They don't have the network of stores that Apple does, and they didn't make Surfaces available in other retailers until quite a while after release. This made it impossible for most people to try before buying.

Another problem is messaging - it's very hard to concisely describe Windows RT's role in a way that people can grasp. It doesn't run legacy software, but it does run Office. Is it a laptop, or a tablet, or what?
Observations: in the bottom right quadrant of devices, one can find the iPhone5 is a device with an Android installbase. Also, it seems silly to degroup carrier-branded phones in the branding section (A 'Verizon S3' is not listed under Samsung).
Holy shit that is creepy. What/who is that?
The (In)complete story of benchmarks
Half a coin is stranger than none
I agree that the things MIT did were wrong no matter the outcome.

So as we do bring focus on back to it, I only ask that we do so without clouding the issue by branding them as murderers for their wrong actions.
Here's what I've tried:
1) Built a website that let people send USPS (real) mail, from the website. 0 sales.
2) During the social news height, built a digg like social news website with a coworker. Never used by anyone outside of those I work with.
3) Built a custom trail mix website (still running, making regular sales.... barely profitable...).

I've been building sites for years, and I'm starting to think that my focus should be on what I'm really good at: C/C++ software (instead of trendy websites). I've been obsessed with the idea of finding an underserved vertical, and taking my knowledge of machine learning and analytics and building some game changing software for that niche. The only issues I have is: what niche?
Should We Abolish User Access to rm? (2011)
I'm waiting to see how he is sentenced. According to the article he could be sentenced to practically nothing, or he could spend the rest of his life in prison.
Do enlighten us, won't you?
When the new guy wants to fix that one old known issue…
> MMM being rich just seemed obvious to me,

Do you actually believe he is rich or are you just saying this to be contradictory?

You make a big deal of owning his home outright, but it's actually not that much money when you think about it. A $320k mortgage for a $400k home is $1,200 in interest a month at 4.5%. That's an extra $15k a year and that's not nothing, but even adding that to his $27k puts him below the U.S. median family income. And that's why things like ice cream freak them out. $27k/year, even with a paid for home, is not a lot of money.

Another way to think about this is seniors. Social security isn't too far off his income level. A lot seniors own their home outright. If that's your only source of income then sure you can live a simple life in Florida, but no one would call this "rich".
My mom bought a Windows Tablet. I had just dismissed it before. However, I started using it. The UI was great - fast, responsive and clean. Sure, the app choice is nothing like in it is iOS. But it had all the most common apps and did everything it was supposed to. Who thought so? Face palm moment

In other news, my Windows machines crashes much lesser than my Mountain Lion machine. Go figure.
When I see other members of the military putting themselves on the line like Manning did, they'll get my respect also.

Going above and beyond is part of duty. I'd like to see more of it. Nothing will change until then.

> What are you doing today?

Working to pay taxes so the salaries of public employees and military personnel can be paid.
Quite the opposite. I wish non-US companies were disallowed from using .com.

All American businesses use .com. Some non-American businesses do too, but it's first and foremost the "business" TLD for American businesses, just as .gov is used by the American government, and .org is loosely used for many types of American organizations.

In hindsight, doing .us.co or .us.com would have made a lot of sense. But hindsight is 20/20, and that's simply not what happened.
I see what you're saying. I guess I'm not that hung up on the definition of the word "victim". My point is that those kinds of interactions are just horrible and that nobody deserves to be on the receiving end of such abuse.

We (as geeks, video game culture people, internet culture people, humans, whatever) should be able to get past these childish escalating aggression tantrums. This isn't the bronze age.
Here is a useful chart explaining the charges and verdict, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/mannin...
That is the sticky bit isn't it?

Allowed by (then) MIT policy: Enter library, download "some" jstor articles.

There were no explicit limits other than 'we reserve the right to refuse service' sorts of things in their policy. So were he a patient person it would have been ok for him to come in each day, download some, until he had the entire set of all documents, however long that took.

An analogy might be ketchup packets at a fast food restaurant. You are allowed to take a 'few' for your meal, but clearly if you poured the whole box of them into your back pack you would be asked to leave, not because you are "stealing" ketchup, but because they choose to refuse you service based on your abuse of their free ketchup.

So he clearly abused their good will, and by that abuse they had the right to revoke his access. And he was clearly working to avoid automated monitoring and revocation (which is a stand in for the librarian kicking you out) But prior to them revoking his access, his access was authorized.

Like I said, it's a weird thing. If someone comes to your "anyone is invited party" and then starts making an ass of themselves and you ask them to leave, you can't really accuse them of criminal trespass and breaking and entering. But you can sue them in civil court if they damage stuff, and you can call the cops to haul them away if they refuse to leave.

The point though of Lessig's note is, I believe, that this was an egregious use of a poorly written law (CFAA) with a variety of legal problems with its application. Had it gone to court the case law it might have established would have been helpful in avoiding future abuses.
> Putting a hand on my back isn't going to make me prefer the food I'm here for.

Perhaps you're immune to the effect, since you know about it. But in aggregate, it can change the disposition of customers (measured using the metric of increased tips).

They wouldn't do it if it didn't work.
Can the Enterprise be Consumerized?
Will Google dominate the future?
Customer services comparisons to Japan always leave the US on the losing side. Attention to the customer is deeply ingrained in their culture.
Ask HN: What is the adaptation potential for flexible pricing merchant tools?
I am working on a project out of simple interest. I am building merchant tools and an API for flexible pricing. Basically allowing, sellers and developers be able to accept different price offers for products. Most people have taken the approach of building one single site where people can come and sell their stuff, but I want decentralize the flexibility. Allow sellers, especially creative folks who sometimes struggle with pricing structure, to simply add the option to the site and developers to embed the functionality into sites.

I would like to hear people's opinions on this approach, the challenges, the pros and, if any, the potential.
Its funny watching peoples eyes light up and mind start racing with possibilities when I explain that the Pro is a full Windows Laptop... that happens to be a tablet as well! :P
Snowden's activism is quite different from MLK's so I don't think that's a very fair comparison. MLK was specifically advocating for breaking unjust laws. The whole point was to get arrested and then show the world "this is how African Americans are being treated." The point of Snowden's leak is to reveal unconstitutional spying, it's not necessarily about the plight of whistle-blowers. Getting himself arrested and put on trial does nothing to further his cause.
I don't think that's true. It's certainly more convenient for me to go the grocer and know that, usually, they'll have bananas for sale. However, during the summer in my town there is a farmers market every week, where I actually can go and buy produce off the back of a truck. The prices are often cheaper and the products are often better. (Sometimes the prices are higher, but that's because the products are better: organic, varieties that don't ship well, etc.)

I can take this one step further, and actually go to many of the farms around here to buy produce right off the plants, by picking it myself. Even less convenient, but it makes for a nice weekend outing, and the prices are even cheaper.

Note that in both cases the prices drop for me and stay the same for the farmer by cutting out middle-men: the shippers, the grocer. By your terms, those are the market makers, and while they make produce commerce more convenient they're certainly not reducing costs for anyone. They're taking profits out of the parties on the two ends of the transaction.

I'll grant you that, in my example, the middle-men provide an essential service by giving me access to produce that is not produced locally, and by making that access more convenient. Neither of those apply to the financial markets though: as purely information-driven markets, they're accessible 24/7 from anyplace in the world. So again, what value are the market makers actually providing to the buyers and sellers of financial products?
Connection Management in Chromium
>What other criteria is it "worst" on?

That's a state secret.
It's also what they're going to use when they are done with college and working for most companies.
Basically, not being civilized. Animals DO belong in cages, for the sake of civilization. I'm talking about the weird, crazy harassment stories, assuming they're true of course.

It inhumane to punish even animals for ridiculous illogical stuff, like, say, accessing a public website. Here I'm talking about AT&Ts security epic fail where they had to blame someone for their mistake...
Good point. However, that still means that this advice does not apply to most people in the wild as most people are not working on projects that large.
Chez Panisse and Per Se don't have the same reputation.
The manner in which it's being used at current is largely unknown to the public.
Curious what you learned from this experience, how old you are, and what you're doing now.
I am not sure about your definition of a generalization, but to me that does not include the exceptions.