skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps this is not the best example given that Spain isn't from a common law tradition but I find the encroachment of criminal penalties for what are essentially civil matters very disturbing.

Criminal law exists to sanction actions that threaten society enough that the state is justified punish offenders ie murder or physical theft. Civil law by contrast exists to right wrongs between private parties ie suing for compensation.

Copyright violations strike me as a clear case for tort. It's a commercial, not a penal matter, but thanks to effective lobbying, the state has now become the MPAA's commercial lawyer.
What the Study Comparing Tenure-Track and Non-Tenure-Track Teaching Didn't Show
Battening down the hatches
It seems like HN might need to think about subHNs
When I'm on a new project, I also goof off for a few days at first, sometimes up to a week. Then I crunch out a lot of code fast.

I don't really mean to do it that way, and I usually feel guilty during that first week. But apparently my subconscious brain is sorting things out. I try to work and it all just seems too hard and confusing. I make little attempts to start and they just seem wrong. And then one day everything suddenly clears up and it's all obvious.
Simulation reveals bureaucracies and religion arise from war
Because they are blinded by the free.
sigh

This is a little bittersweet for me as I once worked on Realtime World's project MyWorld which was rebuilding the world (starting with the UK) to play games in.

http://lukehalliwell.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/project-myworl...

Which has now found a new home here:

http://www.mapply.com
If it were a proper "Silicon Valley kid" who did that, you would applause loudly.
Does it happen to you that there are talented geeks and developers in China.
For one: http://agentzh.org/
I would think that times were a bit different back then, and it's not really a fair comparison to make.

Companies today that are the size of id software back then, and that are making games of relatively equal complexity, are already publishing to Linux.

There were no 200-person studios cranking out $10 million dollar (or more) game projects when Doom came out, and that's a much more complex issue to address..

We're barely seeing OS X ports of major titles now, so while I think SteamOS is great, I don't think it's going to suddenly mean an influx of AAA Windows titles appearing on Linux.
"And let's face it - no one has actually liked MS products in a decade, they've simply put up with them."

Windows 7 was widely praised, Xbox 360 is the winning console, Kinect was revolutionary and widely praised, and of course MS Office is still the premier office suite (I would argue that people "put up with" the alternatives).
He's not even making the argument you're suggesting, he's simply trying to explain why the media has such a hard time explaining the motivation behind the whistleblowers and why they end up circumventing chain of command.
A lot of John Carmack's code is open source. Also, what he used to do at id was not particularly groundbreaking; and the "open sourced" (by talking about novel algorithms for 3D rendering) the groundbreaking stuff at his popular multi-hour-long keynotes. So you can think of Carmack as someone who does open source, albeit in a different way.
> I have not seen a single stock buyback work

I haven't seen a single penguin in the wild, but that doesn't mean they don't exist ;)

Berkeshire Hathaway and Teledyne are two companies I know off that have had great success with stock buybacks.

Read this http://observer.com/2003/04/the-brain-behind-teledyne-a-grea... for a fascinating account of Teledyne's story.
Relative and absolute levels
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gamers grabbing a few extra FPS by switching to linux is nothing new.

That's not the motivation. The motivation is the ease of transition that is finally coming to fruition. Linux used to have larger barriers in place for a layman.
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Feels like a ProjectEuler problem.
And it's the reason why flying is no longer only for the adventurous willing to risk their lives. Too bad you don't appreciate that and seem to take it for granted.
what about the businesses that sign up for google apps, PAY FOR IT, and still get ads, and their data treated like a common prostitute to share around with the world?
When a door is locked I don't expect it to open by saying "let me through", with all the specific differences I think this is a reasonably common expectation to have.
Makes no sense considering the government itself spies on their citizens. At least with QQ, the government can control its content and see what everyone is talking about.
People that have a great job and have done great projects will ask you for more and can easily leave you if they get bored. I think a great recruiter is someone that gives a chance to people that show other signs of "success" besides pure measurable performance. Especially, I think you are better off sometimes hiring people willing to learn and adapt.

Of course, it is easy hiring the 1% when they are already in the 1%. Much more difficult, and much more valuable, is hiring them when they are in the average bucket or they are not even there yet (i.e. people looking to move into programming).
If Apple wants it gone they have a legal staff that can make life hell for the app author. My guess is the 'iMessage' name and icon design are enough for a takedown order.
He is not an atheist or agnostic, but a christian. He stated multiple times in his manifest that one of his main motive for the terrorist attack was defending christian values.
It should definitely be a thing! I'd love to see a separate politics subHN. Or the one with all the Medium posts ;)
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Cool. The news starts a bit far right and far from the top for my liking, see http://i.imgur.com/WjoXblB.png for what I mean.
"eating sushi"? - wrong country...
That sounds awkwardly a bit like the 1950s witch hunt and McCarthyism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Red_Scare)
thanks for the suggestion! we'll fix it!
I agree. The way a couple folks are throwing around their words shows prejudice.
It may take a while, but have you thought about starting one yourself like lobste.rs did? I think the code for HN is available somewhere(an older version at least) then just troll the gamer sites and give invites to those who contribute well to discussions.
I could see how hashtags or tags could work as well.
Thanks - sounds good.
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Why? for $900, it seems to offer more than a baseline MBAir (better processor, screen). But with some added touch, especially the pen input (something I'm curious to how well it works) in a tight tablet form factor.

I'm curious as to whether I'd be able to plug this into my large external monitor and do my day job with it.
No, he doesn't explain that. There's just some hand waving about "the bureaucracy" and "the system". I think it does a disservice to the many real whistleblowers who believe (often correctly) that by working within the system, or at least by working outside it without breaking the law, they can effect meaningful change.

He makes no attempt to explain just what "evil" Manning was fighting by passing along essentially random classified diplomatic traffic, or why Snowden might have felt morally justified in leaking secrets about U.S. spying on strategic competitors. This was not the Pentagon Papers.
One reason he gives is that there is too much data on the page. Tufte has said having a lot of data isnt the problem (humans are excellent at scanning images), terrible design is the problem.

Since I suck at design though I tend to need to do simpler charts. :)
One: he's not just a "top guy at Google" he's Vint "I invented the internet" Cerf.

Two: the headline is highly paraphrased, which I guess you know since you've read the whole thing. Also sociologically speaking even that warped baiting headline is technically correct.

So, again since you actually read the piece, you'd agree that the point he was making is that "privacy", important as it is, is a subjective and evolving concept thus society shouldn't use it to dismiss or outright ban certain new technologies.
Security Concerns Abound Over Android iMessage App That Uses Chinese Servers
Does anyone have an idea what they're using for the grids or are they home baked? I'm going through the source to find out more but thought just in-case someone knew from memory..
> Why can't younger people vote? Because they don't have valid opinions?

Because society has a long-standing agreement that a phase of life called "childhood" exists, during which an individual is not fully developed and can't be trusted to make decisions about his or her future. It may be somewhat arbitrarily defined at 18, but I don't see why people who need to be protected against entering into contracts as well as receiving a slew of rights and protections can be expected to have meaningful input into the management of their country. Someone who can't even join the military could vote to send their older fellow countrymen into war. I find the idea that the voting age can be lower than the age of majority very strange, and I have strong doubts that the age of majority should be lowered to 16 - on account of protecting childhood.

> This seems to affect our dramatically in our modern era, as many of our older folks are still around and skewing the generational differences towards conservatism.

Wait, what. You meant to come out against ageism, then you criticize old people for voting "wrong"?

All in all, if you take a step back from you criticisms, there's a common point: Legitimacy. Submitting a ballot every few years is a very weak foundation for a government as sprawling and powerful as most modern and western ones. Fiddling the knobs of who can vote does little more than shift the balance of power inside the political class.
> I'm happy to tell you that it's trivial to get a cell phone or tablet to cause annoying interference in the headset.

I'm happy to tell you that your concerns are trivial. GSM chirping noises in your headset are merely annoying. There are all sorts of other electrical noise sources in light piston powered aircraft, and if they were ever a suspected cause of crashes, wouldn't be allowed to persist, specifically, alternator noise, strobe light generated noise, magneto noise from unshielded p-leads or plug wires, etc. Use shielded signal cable and noise filters on your intercoms if you don't want to hear it anymore (of course, it wouldn't actually go away).

>always keep at least one of them on and away from the instrument panel

Do you have some reason other than superstition to believe that a cell phone can affect the operation of even your light aircraft instruments? Have you observed your instruments malfunctioning while a cell phone is operating in close proximity, and if so, why would you fly with such obviously unsafe conditions?
I traditionally come here for the non-technical stuff so it'd be a great way to get specific. Otherwise, there are news sites which allow the user to deselect certain subject matter and leave the rest. Also an option.
WAIT. Newell's Windows port (commonly referred to as DOOM95 http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom95) was never popular and very few DOOM players knew it even existed. It certainly didn't prove to the masses that Windows was a viable gaming platform.

Those that do recall the Windows port do so in the the context of Microsoft telling people that '32 bit Doom will be twice as fast' before finding out that wasn't true.

The most popular - read 'only' - PC version of Doom was the DOS 4GW version. Ditto Doom 2, Hexen, etc. Quake also assumed DOS. No Windows port of those games was mainstream. Go read the DOOM FAQ - everything assumes DOS, DOOM95/WinDOOM is only mentioned as one of many ports of 'regular' (DOS) DOOM http://www.gamers.org/docs/FAQ/doomfaq/sect1.html#5-6).

DOOM was released in the era of 386s (when 486s were new). 32 bit Windows required at practically at least 16MB of memory and a 486. For the people that had those specs, if the Windows DOOM port was faster, people would have used it - but they didn't, because DOOM95 wasn't faster.

DOOM95 may have been used to inspire developers however - the regular PC version of Quake 2 came with a Windows installer / launcher and was frequently launched on Windows.

Source: spent my teenage years building stuff like http://mikemaccana.com/#/doom-the-path/ in DEU, the first algorithm I ever heard of was BSP, and I know what IDSPISPOPD stands for.

PS. Go play my and John's WAD linked above. It has working toilets. In DOOM!
A bunch of titles are available for OS X thru Aspyr [1] with porting latency measured in months.

[1] http://www.aspyr.com/
Learn core javascript without framework. Follow trends in html5 and css3. Dnt 4get to use other js framework like mootools yui dojo etc. Be creative and look at trending website to get inspiration
I WAS taking around £1000 PM through an online printing service which i sold off about 3 years back as i hadnt got time to put the effort into it that it involved. I am now looking at re-launching that as the new owner disolved it and let the domain lapse (www.a2prints.co.uk) (i didnt sell the IP)
As you'll see the site is very dated now so im in the middle of a compete rebuild, hope to launch again in a few weeks.
Currently adwords is basically paying for itself, but the bounce rate is understandably very high due to the very dated nature of the site.

Should turn around £7k pm after relaunch with a realistic initial estimate of 10 1-print jobs per day.
Blog to follow eg jqueryrain.com 1stwebdesigner.con hongkiat.com css3.info webdesigndepot.com etc
I knew Neogaf but did not really check it very often.

> and I wish there was a vibrant (and large) community for intelligent discussion like Hacker News

I was thinking the exact same thing ! We really should try to do something about that. Interested?
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Genocide, imperialism, establishing delivery routes through foreign owned land, oil, and racism? The list goes on.
If this is a feature it is a badly designed one because this could be a real problem if your phone is stolen and you don't notice for instance, they should have added a voice identification system or similar to balance convenience and security, at least on the first use to open a timed session, which is totally in their capabilities in my opinion.
Early Traction with Scott Watermasysk from Kickoff Labs (video)
EBay Debuts Its Answer To Amazon Lockers: Click & Collect At Retail Stores
What exactly is funny about Big Bang Theory? I'm not trying to be a "white knight" here. I was giving an opinion on a show that I know many people dislike due to its over-the-top and unfunny stereotype perpetuating...

I'm sorry if you think I am being condescending, but not once did I insult or single out any particular individual, I called out a show which is definitely not funny for being completely unoriginal. I didn't call out people that watch the show, if you watch it and like it, then good for you, I'm not saying you are a bad person or any less of a person for doing so.

Your comment is condescending if you want to get specific. You've singled me out for having an opinion on a show you share a different opinion on. Who's the bad guy here? Keep things civil buddy, stop trying to bait me, it won't work. Run along now.
Oh and take a look at the subscribe bit near the bottom in FF & IE
Use Ubuntu, employ programmers without work in Spain to replace proprietary software with opensource government systems. Save a lot in the long run on license costs. Proprietary software companies will become desperate and offer huge software rebates.
"You have to be very careful..."

Not the author of the piece. People in general, i.e. the HN community
That's a pretty impressively dense save file.

For comparison's sake, the MindCrack (full-time professional online Minecraft server with ~30 players and no guest access) server, after a dozen or so months of use came to ~5GB itself!

(Minecraft doesn't track historical entities or really much apart from the map block data itself, so the comparison is reasonably fair...)
> “there have to be basic levels of trust and cooperation, a respect for institutions and deference to common procedures. By deciding to unilaterally leak secret N.S.A. documents, Snowden has betrayed all of these things.”

It's funny that he can't see he's arguing against himself. Snownden would've never done this if it wasn't the NSA that was breaching everyone's trust. Manning also wouldn't have leaked those documents, if he didn't think war crimes were being committed.

Why should we be the ones to trust the government, when the government has zero trust in us, and therefore wants to spy on everyone, when it really should be the other way around. Privacy for citizens, total transparency for the government.
> There is a wealth of biological evidence to show that a human's brain doesn't finish maturing until (approx.) age 25

"Finish maturing" as in "can no longer teach the old dog new tricks"? Even more reason to give them practice in adult skills before then IMO
I was under the impression that we admire Joel Spolsky for his management and essay writing skills. Have we seen any of the code he's written directly so we can judge his coding prowess?
> And, why do we stop 16 year olds from voting? Here is one Labour policy I'm very much in favour of:

Meh. That's as naked politicking as if the Tories suggested double votes for land owners or higher rate tax payers.
Games run on operating systems. They revealed there are going to be some AAA titles coming to the OS. Of course if HL3 eventually is confirmed it won't be a solely Linux only release but that doesn't mean Valve won't release it for the OS though. It was an example.
In one of your scripts you appear to be missing an end bracket "}" - also there's no real reason to have them in separate script tags that i'm aware of although i'm just being nitpicky at that point.

It looks nice - I like the graphics.
Senators Wyden and Udall have been all over this shit for a long time but nobody paid any attention.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110922/03520616050/senato...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120611/16214719280/wyden-...
I was just being sarcastic. Crossing immigration while nervous today already triggers interesting reactions from border officers. If/when they start using this kind of tech, I doubt they will be more understanding and patient.
Unfortunately it really does. I think their primary concern in creating this was to be cartographically accurate -- not pretty by Minecraft standards. To do that they'd have to hack/extend the biome generator I suppose, or take forever by hand.
You mean like Washington DC? Plebeians are unarmed, and every political stooge is surrounded by armed guards with automatic weapons.
...yet none of their points have what they say they love...it's all in images.
How about replacing step three with "You notice that all the lockers have glass tops" and following that with a story about taking photographs?
How to recruit frontend developers?
Having said that, the depth of this map appears to be relatively insignificant, with its only substantial co-ordinates being in the X and Z directions, increasing the number of chunks, but keeping them pretty small. shrug
Huh? Github is not open source. It does not promote open source methodologies or technologies.
That is the reasoning I've heard (read on the ML) from nvidia employees working on said driver.
Civil law by contrast exists to right wrongs between private parties ie suing for compensation.

I'd be the first to agree that draconian penalties for copyright infringement are inappropriate, but I don't think the above is a strong argument, partly because it assumes that whoever is being sued for copyright infringement actually has sufficient funds to make good on any harm they've done, and partly because it assumes that harm can be quantified to a standard a court will accept. Neither of those things is necessarily true, though substantial harm may come to the copyright holder who has been wronged all the same.
Maybe, maybe not. But if you don't like how far they get, vote for the guys who will change the system. That's the way democracy works. You have to come to grips with the fact that most Americans do not feel the way hn does about national security and surveillance. Nobody can make a Snowden or a Manning do something they find morally repugnant, but neither does that give them carte blanche to do whatever they'd like with the secrets they were entrusted with.
I personally find vudlab's charts pretty cool. I first came across them in the Simpson's paradox article[1] and i really loved them because they let me EXPLORE the data. Yep, they're interactive! That gives a whole new prespective to the readers.

[1] http://vudlab.com/simpsons/
>There has been a few reported incidents with laptops etc causing interference with nav systems.

Do you have a source for that?
Did you even read the page?

> This report doesn't include national security requests. We want to report the exact number of national security requests we receive, if any. Unfortunately, the government allows services to disclose only the aggregate number of all law enforcement and national security requests received (and even then the disclosure must be in large bands). A report in that form decreases transparency, especially for companies that receive zero or very few national security requests.

They can't report on how many national security requests because they have to lump them in with regular law enforcement requests in bands of 1000. Since there were less than 1000, it would be 1-1000, and that's it. They're working on being able to release the exact number, so they had to file a brief with FISA.
thanks! thank you for the kind words! and as far as typo is concerned we're going to fix it asap, just not now.. we have 250 active visitors right now :)
Its not a bad thing to use jQuery. Basic understanding of the DOM should be sufficient, writing your own DOM wrappers gets old fast. Learn how to write good, idiomatic javascript. Read Crockfords "The Good Parts" and Steve Souders Blog. Learn about namespaces, closures, scope, hoisting. Understand how prototypes work. Try some script injection / module loaders like requirejs. Look at the source of some of the great front end frameworks out there, I always recommend backbone's annotated source [0]. Learn how to use build tools like grunt for minifying, testing and linting. Learn how to use chromes developer tools for debugging and performance, there is a great course on codeschool [1]. Maybe have a look at coffeescript. Javascript is a great language that is easy to begin with but hard to master.

[0]http://documentcloud.github.io/backbone/docs/backbone.html
[1] http://discover-devtools.codeschool.com/
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> in the early 90's, hipsters of that time decided that graphs weren't cool enough, and called them charts

I'd always thought that was to not confuse with graph theory.
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So is probably sticking them on a plane to Boston.
Tell us [the audience] why allowing disenfranchised people to vote is the same as allowing some people to vote twice.
Replace the word "Islamic" with "Poor and Black/Brown" and you've selected the same group of people.

Imagine being in Northern Ireland 20 years ago and stating the fact that all of the terrorist attackers were performed by "Catholics". Or in the Deep South 40 years ago (or today) and saying that all of the people charged with stealing are "Black". Or that most of the people with AIDS are "Gay".

Unfortunately, the blanket targeting of a single group is really part of the problem. Pretending that it is tied to religion is just weakly hidden fear-of-the-other. The down-votes are just the quick-and-easy way to show that the community doesn't accept the cheap shot and sees it for what it really is.