skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May I note that theft, invasion of privacy, and vandalism are all violent crimes that causes harm to the victim[1]. Those crimes can follow almost any human acts, such as partying (party people mug), alcohol consumption (drunk people steal), protests (politically opposing people vandalize), but you wouldn't say those things are equal, you would look at these marginal cases as a subset and to be treated as separate acts.

In short. Squatting is sometimes, but rarely followed with more violent and damaging crimes. But squatting in it self are not those crimes.

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[1] with exception, of course, in the case of vandalism, if no the "owner" is oblivious of its value, or when vandalism acts to prevent further vandalism, like the destruction of military tools and weapons.
PracTutor for All 3 Tiers of Response to Intervention (RTI) Framework
When you buy toast at a coffee shop, you're not just buying toast, you're also "renting" a table in a social place. You can't make that at home.
Spain Breezes Into Record Books As Wind Power Becomes Main Source of Energy
I'm in a second-tier, if I'm generous, but realistically a third-tier city in the Netherlands and €7.35 will buy you breakfast with coffee for take away only - sit down will cost more.

Not sure where the writer is coming from - goods and services will cost more than the sum of its raw materials, news at eleven. He complains about the settlers eating toast and it not costing as much - sure, if you make your own toast, you won't pay as much either. No settler had even the option to just go out and buy toast and coffee.
Maps explaining the world of 2013
Won't get much done in an hour. That's not even enough to reach the fear and confusion stage while coming up to speed on an existing codebase.
Fractions are a hack? 'Cos decimal is so intuitive!

1/3 vs 0.3' ? Much elegance!

1/3+1/3+1/3==1 vs 0.3'+0.3'+0.3'==0.9'==1 or something.
If squatters could be consistently relied on to leave when the building was going to be used, nobody would have a problem with them.
Football Manager gets fired and protest for his job back outside stadium
A football Manager was fired for not showing loyalty and then took it upon himself to march to the stadium and protest for his job back and SHOCK the fans/supports
Zero Dollar Movies
I'd say this touches more on the mechanics of time travel than free will.

So if this "predictor" is nothing more than a circuit that sends information to itself in the past, there must be a "me" that pressed the button without seeing the light, before the data is transmitted to the past to the "me" that then sees the light but at that exact point splits off into a separate timeline. And then I would have free will again.

Of course I am assuming time travel where travelling forward in your own timeline is impossible, something the article seem to not really go into.
>..squatting laws are to make sure property is being used and not hoarded.

That is simply not true but thank you for providing an example of the hot air about homelessness that I referred to.

Squatters rely on section 6 of the Criminal Law Act 1977, which creates an offence of using or threatening unauthorised violence for the purpose of securing entry into any premises, while there is known to be a person inside opposing entry. As I said, this was originally implemented to prevent slum landlords from using violence to drive out tenants who benefited from statutory rent controls.

No UK government has ever passed any law that legalises or permits squatting.
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I am impressed by the fact that you're running such an old machine and have managed to avoid the rabid upgrade habits that apparently infect Mac users! (I myself have to sedate myself to overcome this).
I suppose the "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" adage comes in here, and I am mighty impressed that you are continuing to live with such an old old machine. Is OSX usable on that? I recall 10.5 (and older) being horribly "crashy"; 10.6 was far better for me, but it was probably the desktop software I was using that was causing system instability.
What's the battery life like?
That still only applies to homes; it needs to be extended to commercial premises first.
Concept for Browser running Java/C# programs in VM sandbox - Feedback wanted
Will buying porn turn out to be bitcoin's killer app?
I stopped paying for Spotify back in August even though there was a clear benefit. The only clear added benefit you're going to receive is no ads. I think Google Music is putting pressure on them and they need something to compete.
Google is building a robot army
As far as I know you can't listen to spotify using 3rd party clients (like the Sonos).
Which was the worst VR headset of the 1990s?
I think you really hit the nail on the head with the keyboard shortcuts thing. On Vista and beyond, they made the listview headers accessible by Tab in Explorer. This was STUPID.

So XP really is dead easy to use with keyboard shortcuts, particularly in Classic mode. OSX by default only lets you tab to text boxes, which you need to change in System Preferences, but can't get to without a mouse because you can't tab to the control to change it...... the irony......
Why and how to use Twitter as a software developer
Isn't usual Java(not sure about C# model) sandbox enough?
IOS Development For Teams (+ new blog post)
Hannibal Lecter isn’t a psychopath, but you might be
Imcache : Open source Java Ninjas are wanted
Imcache is a Java Caching Library. It supports various kinds of caching models that have been applied so far.
>> "As said in another comment, you get a better audio quality and the avaibility to store music offline (I found it quite useful on my mobile phone). Of course, the quality will only matter to some people."

As you say the quality thing will only matter to some people. The ability to store music offline is also becoming a less important feature as mobile networks improve. I have to admit I still use it quite often but looking ahead a few years Spotify really needs to differentiate their premium product more.
Malware installed by Cron job
Still, it's better than public radio stations.
It's also still common as language for hardware debuggers.
Support for Windows XP Security Essentials extended till July 2015
Java applets are either greatly limited in capability or have full access to the underlying system.
This is circumventing the applet/plugin paradigm and allowing full Java programs without security being an issue, as they only have access to the virtual system.
Happy birthday Tcl!

The first web application server I used, between 1999 and 2001, was an in-house framework built on top of Apache + C + Tcl.

Quite similar in principles to AOL Server, actually.
Software Development, Configuration and Management
New blog post here -> http://simpleweb.co.uk/2014/setting-up-your-team-for-ios-app...
Check: App.budgetyzer.com
Similar tool more advanced.
Here are 10 Steam Machine games you can play right now
I think the mid-tier features are mostly free now (mobile use was the big one I think).
Lean Startup im Selbstversuch (german)
I would second this. Many office staff (who tend to be women) just use the computer because it is part of their job and don't learn their way around a system or learn the concepts of files etc. (I am not attempting to be sexist btw - just many people my wife work with in the office don't attempt to learn anything new and can't cope with basic changes to the system; they complain that Word isn't working because they have set the font to white and are typing onto a white background, for example. A web browser is "the Internet" and they don't know the difference between "Windows Explorer" and "Internet Explorer", and have no idea where their files are etc. etc. etc.)
I can see why the iPad took off with its lack of usable file system from a user perspective, because you don't need to learn any of the stuff you would with a PC.

Icons that have moved is the end of the world for some people. Putting Linux onto a desktop would be like the end of the universe, despite how easy we find it to use.
Another HN outage?
More problems this morning? I've been getting errors and timeouts this morning, and noticed one of my comments has disappeared.
> This IS still a site about startups, right?

Yes, but this thread is still about a language.

> I like to make money.

Of course. And the main concern with npm, Inc is whether making money will at some point conflict with wanting to make npm better, no-strings-attached.
You're right about Windows CLI - PowerShell is dreadful!
As someone who wants Spotify to succeed I don't know if the recent changes are a good sign or not as to how the company is doing.
I'd imagine the POCSAG network would be quite overloaded, quite quickly. It doesn't have a lot of bandwidth, and unless the network knows where you are, messages destined to you would have to be broadcast everywhere.
It's funny that, in an article describing issues with a high-DPI display, the author never explicitly says the size of the screen (e.g. in inches), or the DPI. He just tells us it's 3200x1800. In case you were wondering, the display on the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro is a 13.3", 16:9, 276 DPI display. Personally, I find this description more immediately useful than saying that it's a 13.3", 3200x1800 display.
Doesn't using Spotify on Sonos require a premium account?

If not, I'm not sure why I'm paying any more.
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Unions have special carve outs in the antitrust laws. Besides that, colluding to limit labor supply isn't necessarily legal either. E.g. The DOJ has threatened the ABA with antitrust enforcement if they use the law school accreditation process to artificially limit the supply of lawyers. This is labor side collusion, but is still considered illegal because it doesn't fall within union carve outs.
This is starting to feel a bit like a race to the bottom. There's not a lot left to charge for - offline storage, higher quality and ad-free playback. Offline storage is becoming redundant with an increasing WiFi presence, and audio quality isn't a huge draw (I hear enough people playing music through their phone speakers).

Rdio already offers ad-free playback on the web (6 months) - it's going to put these services in a tricky situation if one of them starts offering ad-free everywhere.
I feel good: I don't think they'd be able to make certain actions without some bargaining power.
Windows 8 is alright on a Surface but on a computer with a big screen, it is sadly very mixed up and a frustrating experience. Like iOS 7, you have no idea if anything is a button or is text until you wave your cursor/hand over it, and then some things are hidden until you do that, so for new users it is HORRENDOUS (even if they're competent Windows users), and for experienced users it is still pretty HORRENDOUS.
But on a Surface, it is quite good!
The problem I see there is the resources necessary when you have multiple tabs open. If you are forking the web browser, it would make sense to provide a HAL as part of the sandbox and run in a different process.
> The ability to store music offline is also becoming a less important feature as mobile networks improve.

I only need it when I don't have wifi, but I think I'm going to start using mp3 players again because managing the whole download/undownload thing in Android Spotify is tedious and the overall useability of the app is crap.
F.C.C. Chairman Adds More Ambiguity to His Position on Network Neutrality
I noticed my submit also disappeared.
Meet the Man Google Hired to Make AI a Reality
Well said! Its probably the tinkering that eventually teach people that something that is in coreutils is worth looking into.
They could still track you though. You'll need a sim card, and you'll need to attach to the network - which means the carrier can track your location.
Nice, thanks!

I needed this for my Synology NAS, so I added bindings for it: https://github.com/beardedspice/beardedspice/pull/4
I'm a bit annoyed at the fact that the free user's plays dictate where my subscription cash goes.

But I don't see how the free users actually detract from my experience of the service...
Yes, I think the VM overhead wouldn't be as big a deal as the programs themselves though. People would have to realize that applications are "heavyweight." Not sure if HAL would introduce security issues, the VM is to keep things as secure as possible.
I don't think that there will be a sudden mass conversion. Look at the mess of Vista and the unpopularity of Windows 8. There wasn't a mass migration to Linux.

Home users will just buy an iPad because they realised that they didn't actually use Excel at home and so didn't need a PC. Businesses will just upgrade to Windows 7/8/9 and IT departments will moan/groan.
Show HN: Instant Movie Search for YouTube
From the article: "We have removed these caps completely across all platforms"
I'm experiencing login errors (PEBKAC caveat: password manager, 2x checked, reset), but the support confirmation page is a nice surprise.

http://i.imgur.com/w01CoUy.jpg
That doesn't mean it doesn't set up a good incentive, similar to the use of disused land going back to the Peasants Revolt and Diggers and concepts like adverse possession. While Parliament might not have explicitly legalised it, it also hasn't closed the loophole, perhaps in recognition of its social use and history.

I'm not sure what you mean about "hot air about homelessness"? Do you think squatters have nice warm homes that they could actually go back to if they weren't being such frightful brutes?
And offline playlists. Apart from the US there aren't many countries that offer unlimited mobile data plans for a reasonable price. So for me, offline playing is a very big deal, since that's how I listen to most of my music when I'm away from home.
Spoken Word Poetry: Ol' Wooden Dock, Beneath the Pines, and Snowcap
I'm not saying it applies to every salesman, but say a company with an existing product makes a new sale - the money from that is mostly down to the salesperson who closes the deal. I'm sure it depends on the situation. Anyway, the point was more that it is possible for one person to be worth say 10 million USD to a company at a particular time, even if it is quite uncommon.

This is just an expression in the difference in scale between a single person's resources and those of a corporation - if any individual has access to the leverage and resources of a large corporation, they could easily make/lose a lot of money for that company very quickly, sometimes down to dumb luck, sometimes down to skill at their particular niche.

Of course the society which allows the limited liability company to exist might want to redistribute some of that wealth more evenly, because capitalism is pretty unfair and brutal in its raw form, but an individual can certainly be worth lots to a company in monetary terms, because they can make a lot.
HALs will always introduce security issues. I believe Microsoft Research has been working on that particular problem with Singularity, it would pay to take a look at what they did there.
Marissa was appointed to achieve the near impossible task of turning around a massive behemoth which seemed dead-set on a course towards oblivion.

The only key asset that still gave Yahoo significant leverage was its war chest and rather than let it dwindle she decided to invest it in a number of bold steps to achieve a dramatic shift in corporate culture.

While some of these steps are indeed turning out to have been mistakes I find I hard to argue, keeping Occam's razor in mind, that her actions did not keep the best interest of the shareholders in mind, especially given Yahoo's performance on the market.
Ah! I still remember the day I discovered that some of the project I had inherited was Tcl that was generated at runtime by Tcl.

There's somethings you can do when everything's a string that you can't easily do in many other languages, unless that language is Lisp-based of course.
I have LTE in my area so I may be an exception, but I was listening to Spotify in my car for over an hour yesterday without any WiFi connectivity.

The app itself is sometimes a pain (particularly via the controls on my car steering wheel...), like the inability to change whether I've liked or disliked a song.
What's the difference between Angular and Ractive?
submitted the same article 1 day ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7058448

[I wonder about the filters - this submission has some discussion to it]
Hinton to Google, Yann Lecun to Facebook, the game is on :)
Because you'd buy a lot less things. There are 2 reasons to that :
- they are more costly, so you can't afford as many
- their quality means they last anywhere from 2 to 50 times as long as their crappy equivalents ; so again you have to buy them less often.

Take shoes : a man could buy only 8-10 pairs of really good shoes throughout his entire adult life and be set. Of course, those would be $500 high-quality shoes (not random 'designer' shoes).
Or he could buy 60-80 pairs of cheap crappy shoes that quickly wear out and become painful to wear, and are not worth maintaining since they're so dirt cheap.

Then the high quality shoes are probably made by a craftsman in the U.S. instead of an exploited worker in a third world country, so that's a more fulfilling job. And you don't have to transport the shoes across the globe on gigantic boats, so that's another eco-benefit.
Obama Is Announcing His NSA Reforms Tomorrow - Use This Scorecard To Judge Them
i'd be surprised if there wasn't a decent amount of bugs still in the standard library
While the Hawthorne Effect is widely cited, even after many years the results have not been reliably reproduced so it should be invoked cautiously.
Besides, stock price isn't a good measure of de Castro's performance. Advertising revenue is better. Over the past year, Yahoo!'s advertising revenue has declined while its competitors' have grown. Facebook took the #2 spot in US digital advertising revenues (Google is #1) from Yahoo! last year.

If Yahoo!'s advertising revenue had grown increased at the same rate as, say Google's (up 15% over the past year), revenue would have been ~$600m higher.

It's interesting that de Castro started out at McKinsey. The book 'Dangerous Company' portrays McKinsey consultants as Powerpoint jockeys who are great at formulating high-level strategy but not so good at actually running businesses.

Perhaps de Castro benefited from a rising tide at Google but lacked the turnaround skills required at Yahoo!
I think IBM has a problem in that, as a company, they do not know how to sell to smaller fish. Chances are that you already have a relationship with IBM or a vendor, and that is how you get information on new products or upgrades.

My guess is that $5k / year for a product does not "move the needle" to reach sales quotas. Therefore, there is no incentive to talk to small shops.
Stock is generally viewed as part of compensation, no-one's talking purely about salary here and the higher you go on the corporate ladder, the less important salary becomes.
And relied on not to trash the place.
"Peculiar law"? Dutch laws aren't that different. A property has to have been empty for at least a year before it becomes legal to squat (and I believe these rules have been tightened further a couple of years ago, but I'm not entirely up to date).

The reason to have squatting legal (with restrictions) is to make it unattractive to keep buildings unused in the face of housing shortage. Find some use for it or turn it into housing. If you don't, eventually, someone else can.
>While Parliament might not have explicitly legalised it, it also hasn't closed the loophole

Actually, it did in 2012.
Tell HN: Server Status
HN went down for nearly all of Monday the 6th. I suspected failing hardware.

I configured a new machine that is nearly identical to the old one, but using ZFS instead of UFS. This machine can tolerate the loss of up to two disks. I switched over to it early morning on the 16th, around 1AM PST.

Performance wasn't great. Timeouts were pretty frequent. I looked into it quickly, couldn't see anything obvious, and decided to sleep on it. I switched back to the old server, expecting to call it a night.

Then the old server went down. Again. The filesystem was corrupted. Again. So I switched back to the new server. During this switch some data was lost, but hopefully no more than an hour.

And here we are. I'm sorry that performance is poor, but we're up. I'll work to speed things up as soon as I can, and I'll provide a better write-up once things are over. I'm also really sorry for the data loss, both on the 6th and today.
China’s Internet population: 618 million with 81% connecting via mobile
Thank you a lot :) I'm further bombarding you with questions:

I'm trying to list the usages of Bayesian inferences in industry. So, there is spam filtering, I bet there would be recommandation engines (ex: amazon's product recommandation, ad targeting). Would you know of other uses?

Do you know of some kind of tutorial of how one particular bayesian engine is applied to a particular dataset in a commercial venture?

Also, I have been looking at weka (http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/), and j48 in particular. j48 is an implementation of the C4.5 algorithm, (which is close to ID3 and C5). Here is how I learned about C4.5: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~samir/498/10Algorithms-08.pdf.
Would you happen to know if one of these algorithms have commercial applications?

In a different subject, Judea Pearl has been awarded the Turing award for using Bayesian networks to calculate probability of causality. Which is different than traditional Bayesian analysis, where we calculate probabilities of a property being true. In his theory, he claims one can calculate the probability of a property being a necessary condition, the probability of a sufficient condition to another property (and the probability of both combined). I'm really having trouble understanding the ins and outs of this too. Have you heard about an usage of this theory? Do you think it has a viable shot at having commercial applications?
I'd love to argue that PG probably thinks this is a good thing. (no scraping). And for good reasons.
Who is paying the bandwidth bills in the end, and for whom, you might ask. And then if those users will end up contributing to HN in any intellectual way in the end, or are just scraping content to spin in their auto-blogs filled with ads.
>But, given nobody else thinks this way, then no, unions are not a conspiracy.

Historically unions were conspiracies until the late 1800s.
Not always (as long as you're talking about something they are in possession of, you're right if you mean you can't prove that you don't have some flash drive hidden somewhere but, then again, it need not be encrypted if they don't have access to it).

To start simply, it's certainly possible to prove that a disk installed with a base install of an OS (and then never touched) contains no encrypted volumes if all of the remaining blocks are empty. Every file can be compared to a known good copy and if there's no other data anywhere on the disk then there can't be anything hidden on it.

From there it's a case of proving that each bit of extra data on this disk relates to a file available under the OS or a fragment of such a file (now deleted). This gets progressively harder the more the disk has been used.

It impossible to deny this when you have a GB+ sized area of unpartitioned data (or unmounted partition) containing seemingly random noise. Or a similar GB+ sized file that you cannot demonstrate to be something benign by unpacking/decrypting/etc. "It's a file of random noise I generated" is going to set off the alarm bells.
The story of prisoner F95488
Ask HN: Cannot find a website where you could hire sysadmins short term
I recently saw a cool website on HN where you could hire sysadmins for small bits of work. HN Search is failing me. I can't seem to find it anymore. Can anyone remember what it was?
The answer to that is Land Value Tax, which can also replace all other taxes.
Thanks for the info!

Out of curiosity, do you have an idea about the source of the corruption problems?
Why Humility Pays Off