skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your analogy is shit. The circumstances under which a "getaway driver" can be charged are not nearly as generous as you make them to be. If you genuinely had nothing to do with the crime other than unwittingly being the getaway driver (say, if your job was transporting around many people at once... a bus driver), then you would not be held accountable.

Should bus drivers have to ensure they don't drive anyone committing crimes? Of course not, that is patently ridiculous.

Do yourself a favor and exercise a few brain cells before you blindly suck up bullshit reddit is spewing.
People who need or want to use something like GMail over Tor?
Site is barely readable on the iPhone:

http://imgur.com/IbwipKQ.jpg
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I imagine the market for drugs is substantially larger than the market for child porn.
Agreed. I used a USB 2.0 video adapter on my Air and while it was fine for a terminal, it probably managed 25FPS at best (Youtube is choppy). It also has to be by itself on its own USB controller (well KB & Mouse are fine) due to the Half duplex nature of USB 2.0. Using it on the same bus as a HD makes the display lag badly. Still cool that it can be done.

The new USB 3.0 ones probably fix all/most these problems but I just use monitors 1 & 2 for that ;).
Thanks! Any thoughts on using passport for a restful user account login/registration API? I guess I've been spoiled by how Rails/Django have everything built-in.
Your analogy is far worse, and your post is too condescending.

This is a hosting service, it's like a taxi. A taxi driver would not get in trouble here. The reason a normal driver would get in trouble is because it's assumed that the people you give rides to are people you know.

And if I provide a hosting service why would I have to listen to some guy off the street claiming that a site breaks TOS? If thoroughly checking such things was standard I'd probably be inundated with useless troll reports.
Having survived several accidents at the hands of other drivers going too fast, I can say I don't find it awesome at all. I think it's more just ignorant, particularly of how stupid and horrible you would feel if this kind of driving resulted in injury or death of anyone.
Slightly off-topic. I often read about how non-americans are extradited to US for legal reasons. How often does US citizens get extradited to non-US countries? I honestly never read of any such incident.
So the latter should be easier to crash?
The allegation seems to be that he had actual knowledge of child porn being hosted on his service, and did nothing about it.
> Indeed, it is also trespass on someone's physical property. This is obvious, and brings into question your own understanding.

It really isn't. Trespass is about land, though in our modern day world of two-story buildings, it is more exactingly about space. See: http://thelawdictionary.org/trespass/

In order to work trespass into your convoluted example, you had to call upon several other ancillary crimes, like breaking and entering and the oddity about exploiting someone else's property, which I don't think is even codified.

Personally? If you want to figure out how to fix patents, I'd suggest dropping software as an example and going over to food recipes.

> Back to patents.

I don't particularly care about your clever table-turning unless you actually get the argument to hold up in a court of law. Patents are problematic: this is obvious to virtually everyone working in the tech industry and many more besides. Philosophical tricks are useless until legally recognized. It's nice to be able to play semantic word games, but it's an entirely different league to be using legal language.

Also, you seem to be under the misapprehension that I was defending patents. I am not. I'm objecting to your criticism of the word "theft".
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they are a generalization and a pattern to be recognized and used only whenever it is reasonable.)
What kind of 'drones'?
Tri-/Quad-/Hex-/Octa- etc copters are typically direct-drive, with unshrouded conventional propellors.
You could certainly make them quieter by optimising the pop design, putting the props inside shrouds, etc.

Just using a bigger, slower spinning prop, on a bigger (so the props are further apart) chassis can go a long way, in terms of noise.

For an electric helicopter, most of the noise comes from the pressure waves coming off the tail blades interfering with the waves coming off the main rotors. Full size helicopters minimise this by switching to NOTAR and fenestron designs.
Gear noise can be substantial on older designs of model helicopter, direct-drive is extremely rare, I think only Robbe ever made a direct drive design, cheap, strait cut gears are more common. Belt drive designs are available now though, and at low RPM, reasonable quiet.

If you're really concerned about noise though, you'd just build around a motor glider. So long as its not going so fast that the whole thing whistle's it'll be effectively silent.
I'm assuming you're referring to fixed-pitch hovering drones. There, most of the noise is made by the propellers. For reference, running a quadcopter at full blast with no props on is pretty quiet.

There are some optimizations you could theoretically do by moving to variable pitch, and trading off pitch for RPM (or the other way around, I don't fly helis myself)
Thanks for the support everyone. It's the first website I've made and worked on so I'll be updating everything but it might take a little while. Glad to see such a positive response. Keep pointing out the mistakes so I can get them fixed!
At this point, it doesn't matter anymore.

The US is going to do what the US is going to do. Whether or not he is guilty or innocent, the US will ensure that it is inconvenient for him to do anything until such time as it is impossible for him to do anything.
From what I understand, the person in question was aware.
I think the argument is that Pulitzers are a low-meaning metric for journalistic quality today given that they're awarded by an (allegedly irrelevant) subset of the media. I read the "buggy whip" part as humorous garnishing.
Contra Piracy only had IPs, so they went to court to request the identities of the file-sharers from ISPs. At that point, there was nobody to defend since they had no names.
I think it would be great if someone with money in Silicon Valley were to make public statements along the lines of, "If you blow the whistle, and it's legit, you won't have to worry about your career. We want people who are driven to do the right thing. We want to hire heroes."

If Google really wants to make a statement about being not-evil, make Snowden a generous offer for employment while he's in Russia.
How do you consider the USB standard a mess? I am quite impressed with it as a low-cost peripheral port that requires minimal hardware resources. I agree, it can be a pain to write for. My biggest difficulty was crafting HID descriptors! Yikes!
Sure, but one rarely goes out of their way to use a monad. They just crop up. Often you gain expressive power by noticing when all you need is that pattern. Further, recognizing it reduces your cognitive load.

Even in Haskell you can write all of your code without ever explicitly using a monad. There will be a lot of repetition and unneeded complexity but no loss of expressivity—just grace.
The guy in the article has US citizenship though
I think you would find that no one is actually paying for CP on Tor services. Any kind of money transaction that can be facilitated over the internet tends to make moot the benefits of Tor.
This is a terrible article - not enough background information. I'm assuming this has to do with some Tor exit node thing, like all the other people who get charged with this?
Actual knowledge meaning what, precisely? Had he seen it himself? Had a court told him it existed? Had someone he trusted told him it existed? Had someone he didn't trust told him it existed? Had an anonymous comment called him a pedo host without even specifying a domain?
He's been very clear about what he wants as a replacement for javascript for many years, hiding it in plain sight in a little book called "Javascript the good parts" and codifying it in JSLINT. It just looks too much like Javascript to be recognised as a replacement.
Then the analogy is still shit. If your friend shared his bank-robbing plans and you don't do anything to stop him then you're guilty of conspiracy, and being a getaway driver is orthogonal.
So we're just gonna use that as a citation for everything now?
I mean if the data we are using for this conclusion is one news story of when everything goes bad then sure your conclusion is valid.

"Using the media to determine how well the world is doing is like using an emergency room for an image of health." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I certainly don't need to know you or even have a "vendetta" against Apple to have a good laugh at someone complaining about SQL Server pricing when they've happily paid Apple for the privilege of running OS X.

I'm going to let you have just one more "last word" here though because that seems to be important to you. Good night, my fellow comedian :)
And Irish citizenship, which means that for nearly all purposes, his US citizenship will be irrelevant to how he is treated under Irish law. Dual citizenship complications are more an issue in third countries. If you are a citizen of the country you happen to be in, that usually trumps everything else.
For a related story, check out "Humanity's Final Game," the story of the winner of this year's GDC Game Design Challenge: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/28/4158218/humanitys-final-ga...

The winner's efforts show the difficulty in designing something that will last, and be recognizable, in thousands of years. It was constructed of titanium and glass, the instructions were custom pictographs, and the location where it was placed was carefully orchestrated.

This illustrates the problem with trying to span such a long time. What will the world even look like in 100 years, let alone a millennium? Will we have the Internet? Will we speak any recognizable language? Heck, will we live in this solar system?
Exactly, we don't know enough to make strong statements about this, though it is nevertheless clear that the analogy of the poster "calling out" the quality of another analogy is itself utter shit.
JUST DO IT!
Re: learning resources, I found the book "Clojure Programming" by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, and Christophe Grand to be excellent.

http://www.clojurebook.com/

After reading through that, the exercises at http://4clojure.com/ helped me to solidify things and learn what the core library has available. Work through a problem on your own and then check out how someone like 'immo' or 'jbear' did it.
If you haven't tried Studio since it hit 0.2, it might be worth another look. It's become much more stable and I've been able to replace Eclipse completely. I actually don't have Eclipse installed on my primary dev machine right now.
Chrome has its own "native" flash implementation, maintained by Google; no reason they couldn't add a hook to notify the browser about audio playback.
> Trespass is about land

Well, to borrow a phrase, it really isn't. Or more precisely, land is one subject area.
Take a few moments to research if you're curious, but do go beyond a law dictionary.

> that I was defending patents. I am not.

It seems we agree... then?

> I'm objecting to your criticism

Ok, fair objection. I also noticed your objection was less than friendly,
so perhaps your predisposition to the abuse of certain words is so strong,
that you will recognize that indeed, using the word theft when one intends
to convey the concept of infringement, is invalid.

This is precise legal language and meaning.

As to changes to the patent laws, I can only hope. I do also hope, that as
you say, it is obvious. The more blindingly obvious this becomes to people,
the better. So hopefully, we can close on the positive note of both hoping
for the same thing?
There are known IKnowns: there are APIs we know that we know.
There are known IUnknowns: that is to say, there are APIs that we now know we don't know.
But there are also unknown IUnknowns: there are APIs we do not know we don't know.
In touch with Shane @ Startup Genome? http://www.startupgenome.com/
>The average salary is $68,000, for a 7 hour work day, which, discounting lunch is more like 6 hours. The get very nice health plans, pensions, 10 sick days, 3 (or maybe 5, I can't remember) personal days among other benefits. Teachers are hardly underpaid.

Wow, teachers in jersey city don't do prep or grading? Sign me up!

> In China, if a school gets parent complaints, that teacher would likely be fired.

Now you are just talking crazy (disclaimer: long term expat in china). My wife had a nice laugh at that one, I don't think you really understand Chinese PUBLIC schools. I don't want to spoil it for you, but the Chinese education system is way much more messed up than the American one, especially when non special schools that 99% of the population without money or guanxi attends.

The problem with education politics is that people like you love to totally distort the issues. Ya, there are problems on both sides, but we aren't even having honest debates yet.
Did they ascertain where the servers are located?
Otherwise how can the US claim jurisdiction in lieu of Ireland?
The policy is imperfect, though, due to an opt out clause. http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1413
Yes, the NSA revelations have officially rendered all pretense at American jurispridence null and void. There is only Obama with his murder squads, which have been clearly established.
So the solution is to pay less so all of the slackers stay (it's still a good deal for them) and all the good teachers get pushed out?
Right, so it's alternative in the cases where someone might use Lucene/Solr for indexing and searching general Internet content. That's all I meant, is that it's an alternative in certain very specific cases.
Here's why I want something like Mailpile:

Right now, every single email I receive is encrypted. I have my public GPG key on my mail server, and every incoming email that's not already encrypted is encrypted using that public key. That way if the anyone compels my VPS provider for access, they just get a bunch of encrypted email.

So my problem isn't receiving or encrypting email, it's reading it. The only real option I have right now is Thunderbird, which isn't great, and is no longer under development. Mailpile doesn't look like a mail service to me, it looks like a browser-based but locally-hosted MUA, which might be the remedy to Thunderbird that we need.
"most urban school districts are staffed with a high percentage of people that have no business anywhere close to a classroom, let alone actually teaching in it."

It is even more dire that than. The pool of teacher candidates is already compromised since the students pursuing education majors are already the poorest performing of any other college major. Even discounting for the worst performers never completing the degree and licensing requirements, we are generally not talking about a group that is blazing any intellectual trails. Then once a teacher secures a position, there is little incentive for a teacher to improve on the job. Nearly every other job would require some amount for ongoing training, but in education that is rarely implemented.

Teacher quality starts with making the field attractive to more higher performing students. That only happens if the field provides incentives to reward excellence and hard work, and the current arrangement just does not do that. It rewards mediocrity.
Are the murder squads under the same command structure as the death panels? Or are those two different departments?
The site does not work for me.
Ask HN: What's the most beautiful language in your opinion? Why?
This may have been posted before (I couldn't find a similar post), but I'm curious and looking for some reasoned opinions. Of course, there is no real right or wrong answer.

I'm asking also because as a bit of a side project, I've been making a simple interpreter for a very basic scripting language (that I'm making up as I go along) in JavaScript.
Mark Maunder wrote a good blog post on colocation - http://markmaunder.com/2011/10/31/clouded-vision/

As for the California earthquake risk, one option is to colocate your servers in Dallas or somewhere with no earthquake risk. The Maunder article talks about why colocation doesn't tie you geographically to that place.
Here's my current understanding:

- Freedom Host's founder arrested in Ireland for potential extradition on American child pornography distribution charges.

- Odd Javascript snippets found on sites hosted by Freedom Host. Initial investigations seem to point towards a possible 0-day targeting Firefox.

If the delivered Javascript is a browser-breaker, this strongly suggests someone is collecting the actual identities of the Tor users.
The election is in Nov, right? Even though I agree with your premise that public schools need to change the rules that have allowed so many ineffective teachers to stay in the system, I have to say that if I were in Jersey City, I would not vote for you, at least not based on your post. Here's why:

First, you come off as highly dismissive of teachers in general. Grammar, body language, word choice, and even the way someone conjugates "to be" is often linked to a person's ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or cultural group. To compare that to the language found in "a prison yard" is insulting and makes me think you're more focused on judging how these teachers speak than on addressing the actual concerns they raised.

Likewise, your calculation on how many hours teachers work is a best-case estimate. I'm not a teacher but I know many, and I went to public school. So I know just how often teachers get to school 30mins to an hour early to prep, work through their lunches, and stay hours after to help students, grade tests, write letters of recommendation, meet with parents, and host clubs or coach sports. And then there are the multiple days at the end of each quarter when teachers work through nights and weekends putting together progress reports. Do you want to factor that into your estimate?

Also, I'm not sure how it is in Jersey City, but most teachers I know spend hundreds of dollars out of their own money on supplies each year because school districts don't have the cash to pay for pencils and paper and other basic supplies.

What school boards need is not someone who is antagonistic to teachers, but someone who is willing to work with them.
Numbered tabs for Firefox
Slightly off-topic, but I never understood the obsession of legal enforcement with child pornography. Don't get me wrong, the idea of pre-pubescent children being exploited by pornographers horrifies me as much as anyone, but it always felt so ... random.

Maybe I'm wrong and the problem is a lot more widespread that I think it is, but I think that there are so many more crimes committed online. Yet, almost every time some morally righteous politician talks about regulating the Internet, he or she mentions "Child Pornography". I can see how the words would have the desired effect in a political speech, but is it really THAT common a problem?

Where did that come from? Call me paranoid, but it feels like this term came out of an orchestrated propaganda campaign to scare uptight puritan Americans from the Evils of the Internet, similar to the propaganda movies we can see about marijuana in the sixties.[1]

> The court also heard that a search of Mr Marques's computer revealed he had made inquires about how to get a visa and entry into Russia.

And it's valid to consider this suspicious? I've queried how to get entry into Russia before, I hope that didn't trigger any kind of alarm.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bm2koyUqmU
They were separate, but now they're out of the same IRS office now due to sequestration.
Your computer is your greatest ally but also the worst traitor we've ever known.
Expensive `joke`, I was billed about 8k.

k: karma
Ask HN How much do you spend on lawyers?
With a Bootstrapped company, every dollar counts, and it seems like legal fees are a never ending money pit.

Beyond the basic requirements of doing business, what do you pay lawyers to do, and how do you keep it affordable?
"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board"

-Mark Twain
I can tell you don't have children.

Politicians almost always have kids. It changes your perspective on things. Suddenly they're number one and you'll do anything you believe is right for them. Including outlawing soft drugs and filtering the internets.
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"shameful" is an opinion based on your personal belief systems.
You're right, It was stupid of me to call it broken. But I don't agree with it.
messaged him, no response.
I'm not the demographic, but from a usability POV, the site is hard to use on a phone.
I'm doing CS at high school, but also doing some projects of my own on the side.

I use PHP for myself (I started with it because it was easy, and I don't feel like rewriting what I've already done), along with Javascript and SQL. At school I use Java.

Most of my coding is in NetBeans at the moment, though my CS course recommends some thing called BlueJ. I also use Git.
Every normative statement is an opinion. What is the point of bringing that triviality up?
is this actual Child porn offence OR is this, the TOR network is used for child porn (bullshit)?????
The main advantage is that PNG compression allows for 8-bit transparency, rather than 1-bit transparency in the GIF format. This means that you can have partial or gradated transparency that looks nice when placed on top of other backgrounds. Even opaque objects with curved edges have nice anti-aliasing to prevent jagged edges.
At Home (Work is same, just aesthetically different)

Black ikea desk, finely tuned height, otherwise plain
Steelcase think chair
Two 21.5" Dell Monitors, 1920x1080 IPS panels, usually in vertical position
Kinesis Advantage Keyboard
Logitech M570 Trackball
Alienware M14xR2 running Arch Linux
Not true.

See http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/parallel/3.1.0.1...
Pandora has a much larger catalog than your local record store. Pandora is amazing for music discovery, I'd say far better than the hipsters working in amoeba records that are seldom older than Jerry Garcia's guitars.

I used to use your methods, but have discovered far more thanks to pandora and YouTube than I ever did.
> friends and coworkers who are too young to remember the atrocities of old

I'm 21. If I'm working on a project, I'll use whatever the guy paying for it wants. If I get a choice, I'll use what I'm most experienced in.

There is no magical solution at the end of the rainbow. The only real important consideration is that 99.9999% of code you will write has already been written and is probably open source somewhere. A lot of that ends up in a library. And a lot of that is still maintained to this day. So rather than look for a framework to reinvent the wheel in as quickly as possible, relearning the entire stack every time (or at least the framework, which I find takes the longest just because it constitutes huge amounts of library functionality and dictates the workflow) is almost always a waste of effort.

In my defense, I have experienced the "reinventing of the wheel" many times that didn't work or caused a lot of unneeded growing pains, starting probably with Netscape 6, but more recent examples are Gnome3, KDE4, a lot of switching between wxwidgets, gtk, qt, and efl over the years, and the duplications of work associated with them, even if I am young in the profession.
What class did you get?
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Stop playing computer games, look to HS sports like bb/soccer/baseball/track as a way to learn social interactions instead of playing Diablo 2 and Starcraft.