skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be nice to just read in the court filings, which are a public record, and produce data extracts to explain the world. Unfortunately the PACER system -- officially a public agency -- charges you by the page for those public documents.

Once you've got them, they're free for you to share, but sharing projects threaten the revenues of the system and the publishers (Westlaw and Lexis) that prosper from the lack of public access to public data. Those publishers and PACER have worked hard to block and shut down and even bring unrelated federal prosecutions against people who organize free systems.

One of the reasons Aaron Swartz was a major target of federal prosecutors even though his nominal accusers didn't want charges brought is that he was active in promoting free access to federal court documents. [0]

Companies like Lex Machina [1] work with the officially supported publishers to offer analysis of patent lawsuit filings and patent office documents (also officially but not really public) to answer questions like yours for very wealthy clients.

[0] http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/8/3968824/aaron-swartzs-battl...

[1] https://lexmachina.com/
Google reveals its real face: unfocused, unoriginal and a little bit evil
Quite right. My, how time flies.
There's research showing that almost whatever you do (short of charging), congestion will remain the same. More roads makes for more drivers. More public transport takes cars off the road? Others will replace them due to the increased convenience.
I've added a note in the readme.

Sorry to have been misleading.
> Imagine if the instructions in one of your program threads were not guaranteed to be executed in order.

Modern CPUs do not process instructions in the same order they are stored in memory. Out-of-order CPUs rely on the implicit order created by the dependency between instructions and operands.

As in the Lamport paper, the order in which the instruction are performed is meant to preserve the order in which the effects are produced instead of the order in which the commands are given.
Agreed, I can't imagine how those signs are a net positive for safety.
Hi, Leo Wandersleb, founder and developer of FluxCards web here.

This week we decided to go into public beta with our learning platform and I hope to find some valuable feedback from the hacker news community.

FluxCards is tabbing in an old field of flashcards apps where 30 years ago Supermemo and later Anki and more recently Brainscape came to fame among literally thousands of other, mostly worthless apps (sorry for using this strong word, I consider most flashcards apps that don't use spaced repetition learning worthless). We do so because we believe that spaced repetition learning did by far not yet get the attention from learners that it deserves and if you don't know it and don't like our colors, then by all means please try a competitor's product to see what you've been missing back at school/university.

To get to mass adoption we strongly believe that content creation has to be crowd-sourced and that is why one of the most unique features is shared ownership, allowing concurrent content creation and editing while others are learning. Rich feedback on the use of the content, including feedback on single card performances will help content creators to improve cards to make their cardsets ever better.

Lastly, if you have technical questions, just ask. The most basic might be our software stack (playframework, jquery, bootstrap, touchpunch, mongo) and our collaborative tools (git on bitbucket, kunagi).
I'm sure you can do that 'natively' in Excel, but not my field of expertise; IIRC I actually spent longer faffing about in the Excel docs looking for a way to do this (and failing) than writing the awk regexes.

It did make me wonder how often some variant of this happens every day. "Data entry" is still a job, after all...
I find that image specifically to be a bit uninspired, but the other, more complete designs are actually pretty good IMO.

That said, I still like Oxygen, just not the taskbar design. I think they could have iterated on it and got a really really awesome and unique design. In there situation, I'd make the gradients a lot more subtle and smooth then work in more of the idea of lighting into the design. The icons could be abstracted a little more too.
Meet TARA, Your New Tesla Companion
Ask HN: Where to go in Mountain View / SF?
I will be visiting SF and Mountain View Friday-Sunday this weekend. I am interested in computer and mechanical engineering. I would love to visit your startup. I would also like to visit a Maker Space, surplus electronics store, or something else of that nature.
I am also looking for recommendations on hostels and good food, especially some great Mexican.

My email is in my profile.

Thank you
Design should drive product and engineering, not vice versa
I'll throw money at you, for sure!
Of all the possible reasons to introduce intelligent breaking, this is the worst. Risking accidents to save money equivalent to 3 large coffees?
The key point: unlike the old Chinese censorship warning, this notice appears on all name queries, not just queries which have actually had data removed. Thus, for better or worse, it isn't able to subvert the purpose of the law by encouraging people to search elsewhere...
Those who are pointing out that the CPU & threads operate in a deterministic manner should consider that the universe may operate under the same principles. Maybe some day a computer can watch live video of someone rolling a die & predict what it will settle on before it is settled. There may be no concept of "random", only more or less predictable to humans or algorithms they create.
Those who are pointing out that order the threads finish in are deterministic at the atomic level should consider that the universe may operate under the same principles. Maybe some day a computer can watch live video of someone rolling a die & predict what it will settle on before it is settled. There may be no concept of "random".
With cycling, in particular, it's not just individuals making judgments about their own safety, either; a 2006 UK study shows that drivers passing cyclists give helmet wearers less clearance, perhaps out of some subconscious sense that they'd do better if they get hit, or maybe that, being risk-averse helmet-wearers, they're less likely to lash out and do something unexpected. (see http://www.helmets.org/walkerstudy.htm )
Interesting.

Though sleep sort is obnoxious (& hilarious), I'm sure it could be of use in educational situations. It's both elegant and intuitive. Thought provoking, maybe?
Nobody, including the police, thinks that is a good idea. It isn't illegal to make a pass over the speed limit, for example. Or if it is, it doesn't matter.

Judicious application of speed, including over the speed limit, makes the road safer for everyone.
You could imagine drones of various kinds being pretty good at taking auto speed readings while still being way cheaper than officers with radar guns. My money's on that as the next strategy once fixed camera placements become completely ineffective.
I had like a lot of pop-ups with ajax failures?
A few books on computer / computing / internet history:

1953, Faster Than Thought, B.V. Bowden (British 1940s & 50s)
https://archive.org/details/FasterThanThought

1984, The Home Computer Wars (Commodore, Atari, Apple)
https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Wars
http://www.amazon.com/The-Home-Computer-Wars-Commodore/dp/09...

1985, History of Computing Technology, Michael Williams (Abacus to IBM360)
http://www.amazon.com/History-Computing-Technology-2nd-Editi...

1985, The Great Telecom Meltdown, Fred Goldstein (USA deregulation)
http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/TELECOM_Digest_On...

2001, The Universal History of Computing, Georges Ifrah (Egypt to 1970s)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Universal-History-Computing-Comput...

2002, Electronic Brains (UK, US & Ukraine soon after WWII)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/electronicbrains.shtml
http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Brains-Stories-Dawn-Compute...

2008, Geeks Bearing Gifts, Ted Nelson (rants & factoids)
http://www.amazon.com/Geeks-Bearing-Gifts-Ted-Nelson/dp/0578...

2010, Commodore, A Company on the Edge, Brian Bagnall (war stories from 6502 through C64, no Amiga)
http://retroasylum.com/commodore-a-company-on-the-edge-revie...
http://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Company-Edge-Brian-Bagnall/d...

2011, The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976, John Harwood
http://www.west86th.bgc.bard.edu/book-reviews/interface-ibm....
has anyone seen it? review?
If you need remote access, given sshd-in-container versus sshd-in-host as an access path, the former is clearly more secure by design, even if the containment eventually fails.

what is your alternative means of sandboxing the apps

Well, I don't have a finished solution but already I could write a fairly hefty book on evaluated approaches here ... basically combining the normal kernel tools (aggressive capabilities restrictions, connectivity restrictions, read-only root, device restrictions, mount restrictions (no /sys for example), subsystems-specific resource limits) with formal release process (testing, versioning, multi-party signoff), additional layers of protection (host-level firewalling, VLAN segregation, network infrastructure firewalling, IO bandwidth limitation, diskless nodes, unique filesystem per guest, unique UIDs/GIDs per guest, aggressive service responsiveness monitoring with STONITH and failover, mandating the use of hardened toolchains), kernel hardening and use of security toolkit features (syscall whitelist policy development automation via learning modes + test suite execution, etc.)

Fail-safe? No. Better than most? Probably. Security is a process, after all...

That doesn't change if it's run on the host

It does, because you're now contentious for host resource, and you have to have the comprehension of an abstract concept of hosts and guests and their identities living remotely, ie. normal tools - which assume node-per-address - won't work out of the box.

neither a "free" solution in terms of complexity

You have highlighted a tiny difference in the process space, which is basically free. But in doing so, you have ignored the other aspects. A single read-only bind mount per guest is very cheap in complexity terms.
I guess Nokia X series comes without Google goodies
Breaking the NES for Shovel Knight
Having dealt with all of this stuff directly, from editing on the device to dealing with the myriad of possible renditions on the server and streaming them back down to various devices, I can say this - bad ass. This app is well designed.
> But I was even more peeved of Android when there was no way to store contacts locally. No option to store on the phone, but instead you had to save to Google account.

Are you sure about this? This may be unique to Touchwiz or something, but you can save a contact to either the device or to Google contacts.
Robot can be programmed by casually talking to it
I suppose the 100% CPU is (very) unnecessary.

Maybe I'll include a variable sleeping time determined by current buffer values. That way, thread synchronization would be further disorganized, and CPU power wouldn't be wasted quite as much.

In that case, it's important that mutations take place between every byte outputted tough.
Youtube to add support for 60 FPS videos and tipping
Not that Verizon are angels, but notice how all those "government doesn't like another government" passive aggressive actions end up hitting people and companies who have no fault at all for a given government policy.

Case in point, Germany doesn't like what U.S. does - boom, Verizon takes a shot.

U.S. and few other countries don't like the anti-gay laws of Uganda. Boom, poor Uganda citizens take a shot (aids get cut).

U.S. doesn't like North Korea's policy. Boom, poor citizens take one again.

Obviously there's no channel where said governments can express themselves, maybe we should have a social network for governments where they can rant and vent off, instead of having innocent third parties suffer?
How much does IKEA *really* overcharge Australians? Here’s the data.
Ray Kurzweil: The Business Of Extending Human Life Is Going Into “High Gear”
It needs to happen more, but there are exactly zero reasons for the U.S. to give a shit about some business Verizon lost in Germany. No taxes go to the U.S., no jobs go to the U.S., and thanks to high taxes, no profits get repatriated in the U.S.

The only one suffering here is Verizon.

Probably if all U.S. based companies suffer enough, they'll start lobbying for change in U.S. but that would have to be some massive wave of upset businesses.

And guess how companies "protest" policies in the U.S. - they pay politicians to lobby for changes. So yeah, the shittier the govt does its job, the more lobbyist money politicians get, funny how it works right?

The more likely situation is the govt keeps not giving a damn, and companies suffer.
How much are your speeding fines? In Australia, 10km/h (6MPH) over is $150, and 20km/h (12MPH) is $300.

I agree, this is a terrible idea though.
This is very bad. Google should be telling Europeans the truth about what their governments are doing. "Some results may have been removed due to EU censorship policy" would be a truthful and informative disclaimer.

Including the message only on pages that have actually been censored would be much better because then you'd know when the government has required Google to lie to you.
Google Shows Off Working Prototype for Project Ara
True, but it does come instead with Microsoft goodies (and HERE maps, which are still owned by the part of Nokia that Microsoft didn't buy). Depending on your personal preferences (re: service quality, privacy etc) Microsoft cloud services may be an improvement over Google, they may be no different, or they may be worse.
USB charger blamed for woman's electrocution as store owner faces questions
Founder of http://sabok.org here. Thanks for the mention! I used to work with the founder of Ops School -- we're still in touch and we're both gung-ho about effective ways to make more sysadmins / ops engineers.
Relevant? Bitcoin itself has very limited functionality for smart contracts, but a set of distributed oracles could change that.

We're building such a system here: http://orisi.org/ and there's a whitepaper available here - https://github.com/orisi/wiki/wiki/Orisi-White-Paper

A similar system could be used for Ethereum as well, to bring external inputs into the mix.
No, no that's not like Super User - as parent mentions, "What is the best tool for ..." is offtopic for Super User too.
During the live broadcast, there was some discussion on the problems. ICPCNews uploaded clips for all the problems to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ICPCNews/videos
But that can result in people only slowing down where there are cameras. If you don't tell people where the cameras are, in theory (if there are enough of them and the punishments are harsh enough) people should slow down across the board.

There are of course issues with this (sudden braking when a camera is spotted can lead to accidents in itself, it punishes low income earners harder than high ones etc.), but I have noticed that in Australia, with relatively harsh speeding punishments and the majority of speeding cameras being hidden, there is a much lower incidence of speeding than in the US.
A Physically Universal Cellular Automaton
Well you picked a hell of a weekend to come to SF. You may as well go watch the parade and party with the natives because it's going to be a shit show all over SF anyway - http://www.sfpride.org :)

For maker spaces in SF there is TechShopSF in SOMA and Noisebridge in the mission though I think they are renovating the later for about a month. Any of the Mexican places on 16th or 17th between Valencia and Mission...

PS. Why don't you put a bit more about yourself in your profile?
It seems to be an improvement from the notoriously poor rand() of PHP.

(not confident in the credibility of this article)
http://boallen.com/assets/images/randbitmap_computer.png
People have done this stuff for free. GNU/Whatever/Linux itself is a clone of some existing APIs. Wine, reactos, while being far from complete, attacked a far larger API and also a big moving target.

It's doable. By amateurs and professionals with passion and spare time.
Is this going to be on Netflix?
Don't let reporters mystify you with all these things people "claim" and say. It's just one PR department relaying a message from another PR dept.

It's all the US. It's all the current system. Yes, the constitution has been drastically weakened by money interests. Yes.

I went to Austin, TX a couple weeks back to be my Brother's best man. I didn't realize he was marrying a cop's daughter in a rural area outside the city limits, because all he told me about the guy was he's a skydiver. I fly paragliders, so I figured we had a lot in common.

There's a really good reason all the souveneirs in the area say "Austin City Limits"! It's because if you're a beta male, you really shouldn't stray too far outside into the Red State. You really, really shouldn't.

Within an hour of getting to the house, I got in a minor verbal spat with my own sister. My ridiculous mother decided to call the police department to ingratiate herself with my brother's new family. Well, I'm 150 lbs (but still pretty tough) and a 270 lb gorilla showed up to learn me some manners about how to act when in Rome.

He practiced some Krav Maga on me, probably something he just learned and was aching to demonstrate. He twisted my carpal tunnels around, bend my injured knees around a bit, damaged nerves in my left hip and left wrist. Stood on my scoliosis, stretched a tendon in my left shoulder....

And then the police department itself put me in a hospital! I could have walked it off in a couple hours, but the cops run this hospital. They have the doctors and orderlies continue to be very abusive so as to keep you in shock for days (5 for me) and then they try to have a doctor threaten you with institutionalization because you had a delusion about police persecution!

That's their system, and apparently the Red Staters really truly like it that way. Keeps the outsiders and Mexicans out! Or so these fools think. They think they can keep the Mexicans out! They'll be in for quite the shock themselves when they find out Rupert Murdoch has been lying.

And that it's them that have to learn spanish after all. Glad I speak it, that's for sure.
The two ways mentioned in the article for how they can still do it are:

1) Ask the telco nicely.

2) MITM with things like stingray.

#1 can be solved by telcos starting to say no, which might be easier to do now that you can blame it on economic fallout (e.g. Verizon losing the Germany contract). #2 will likely be solved by a successful court challenge by the ACLU.

Not hopeless, in my opinion.
Possible, but for now the other possible venues are listed here:

http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy
- Didn't test database apps because reasons.

- Tested Twitter instead.
What's Rupert Murdoch been saying in the US?
Living in a developing country like India, I'm sometimes half-thankful that our police is inept...

Isn't it great to be a man?

[edit: I realize this flippant remark probably makes little sense for those who don't live in India. Ineffective policing is a very serious problem here, primarily for women. If I stay out late with a girl, it's almost automatic that I will escort her home regardless of the inconvenience to me. Black women often wear a keffiyeh at night to avoid racially motivated attacks. Physical security is a significant electoral issue.]
You can reach Facebook over IPv6 at https://www.v6.facebook.com

Interestingly enough, last week when they had their 45 minute outage worldwide with some kind of routing problem, it was still up and running on that address
I would certainly say "doing their own way" rather than "doing it right", and I would never say "wrong", for most values of wrong. I'm merely pointing out to the OP that other than the "side projects" (e.g. SSH), there is for all practical purposes zero uptake of OpenBSD in the commercial networking space. Yeah, there are some very niche players and lots of DIY folks, but that's not what was being alleged.
The government isn't censoring information here, citizens are.

Any explicit mention of "there is censored information" would mean Google are back in court.

I honestly doubt any big scandal can be hidden by removing it from Google. Scandals spread virally, ear to ear (i.e. social networks, digital or not). This is more useful so embarrassing or false information can't prevent normal folks from getting a job and so on.
Note that this appears to be a $9.99 version of http://www.proofofexistence.com/, a free service. Also, this does not appear to be affiliated with the popular bitcoin exchange Bitstamp.
Being part of util-linux makes sense. However, it would be so much nicer if I didn't have to look up those two lines.
>Yeah, DUI should disqualify you from ever driving professionally IMO. Anecdotal, sure, but my experience is that people who actually have a DUI are the ones that finally got caught after years.

What you are implying is that once someone drives drunk they will never stop. If that's the case, they should be stripped of their license completely. It doesn't make sense to stop half way and say they can keep driving themselves but can't drive professionally. Both scenarios put many people at risk.
Try the JRuby mailing lists[0] or IRC. JRuby is actually quite impressive these days and people are using it in prod with servers like Torquebox. However, benchmarking JRuby is even more skewed and complex due to waiting for the JVM caches to warm! :)

0 - https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/MailingLists
Here's another company going after the last mile, i.e. blood testing at home: https://cue.me/
Two people, one goal
Come on. Why are reporters employed again? Oh, right. Because most of us are descended from rapers and pillagers, and so are the reporters. It's a great big circle jerk of people disconnected from their own humanity. Like a biiiig round prison for derelicts.
Nuclear Reactor start up
I had the same problem when I got a nexus 5. No way to store contact information locally without disabling google contacts sync. And I only knew to do that by complaining on HN at the time and getting the suggestion.
Hard for Caucasians to live by! Talk to a hindu about it and see if they're at all conflicted. Hahahaha.
Slant is a general "what is the best..." website:

http://www.slant.co
China pulling the plug on IBM, Oracle, others
"Google should be telling Europeans the truth about what their governments are doing."

What does private persons being able to censor searches of their own name have to do with the different censorship policies of European countries? These censorship policies, e.g. Piratebay blockades or secret child porn lists which when uncovered often also contain porn of young-looking adults, are also widely discussed in mainstream news of the countries in question, so saying that people are not informed about it is, well, misinformed.

Or are you referring to something else, some secret censorship, of which proof is difficult to obtain so it must be true?
Like I already said, there is an ongoing discussion about replacing SSH with nsenter now that nsenter is a viable alternative: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/issues/102

SSH was purely chosen because until recently there wasn't a better alternative. lxc-attach stopped working out of the box since Docker 0.9. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951042
NGD Studios is exploiting the FIFA World Cup trademark for commercial purpose
NGD Studios is a game development studio from Argentina.

Their game Champions of Regnum is a fantasy MMORPG.

They have football team costumes being sold for real money in game.

Their main page advertising the "World Cup" event, with no credits to FIFA

http://www.championsofregnum.com/index.php?l=1&skip=1

The event page displaying the teams

http://www.championsofregnum.com/index.php?l=1&sec=42&world=0