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Welcome to the post-Edward Snowden era
Regex is not necessarily the best intro to coding, but for a lawyer, it will animate much of what follows by quickly delivering value. At least in my practice, we'll commonly encounter terabyte-sized productions of data during litigation, and the search tools are just awful. For folks in litigation, the power of regex, once past the learning curve, will quickly provide value and might motivate them to dig deeper.

If anything, this list of topics is not law-specific enough. I'd suggest a tutorial on the format of doc production of load files, tesseract, and pdf-manipulation tools for those dealing with doc productions. And a tutorial on relational databases would be very useful for those lawyers drafting discovery requests trying to extract "documents" from ERP systems.
I got the point of the argument. And, I made it very clear that I don't know where to draw the line. All I know for sure, is that 50% mortality in 14 days comes below that line. Sign me up for an experimental treatment.
This guys is a laywer, with a mechanical engineering degree, and does coding on the side.

He was also the guy who wrote the SCOTUS opinion tracking software that was all over HN a few months ago.

Seems like a cool guy, and unlike some posters I think regex are definitely something to start people off on.

Many people who are non-technical but have used a computer understand the concept of a wildcard operator, you just expand that knowledge a bit and they can do very powerful things if their jobs involves a large amount of text.

I had some realtors that I worked with, and after seeing me fly through some of the things they did, they were eager for me to teach a bit about regex (and gave them a simple simulator to give them instant matches, I think it was rubular at the time) and they wrote some simple rules to take like 10 hours of drudgery out of their jobs per week.
The Fable series is pretty damn good :)
Insanely profitable, established and growing viral user base. The valuation feels a little high, but not complete insanity made out of unicorn farts and fairy dust.
I think what you are missing is that people do use abstraction if you offer it. Java or C# generics or even when C++ added templates. C++ templates where abused but it was done so often that is now standard.

If you look at code from the newer fancy languages people do use these fancy features.
I know it's popular in tech circles these days to hate on Comcast, and I'm not saying they don't deserve the hate or that they wouldn't do something like this, but I'm not buying this one just yet. This is all supposedly statements by 2 telephone support people.

The actual source article seems to be confusing running a connection to Tor and the Tor browser with running a Tor relay node or exit node. Prohibiting the Tor browser would be a bad move on the part of any ISP who isn't part of a police state, but none of their document suggest that they're doing that. I can understand them prohibiting running a Tor node on your residential internet connection though. Almost all residential ISPs officially prohibit running servers, though it usually isn't enforced as long as you aren't pushing too much traffic. A Tor node can easily fall on those lines. I think even the Tor project doesn't recommend running nodes on your home connection rather than actual servers with server-class connections.
Unrelated, but maybe he did enter, under a different pseudonym; it's what I'd do in his shoes.
Show HN: Predicting what user reviews are about with LDA and gensim
In fact, only the law can execute.
It's hard for me to describe it in simpler terms. It does make interesting points about fame and how people react to those that are considered famous.

It makes an excellent example using Nickelback. When people say they hate Nickelback they aren't necessarily saying they hate the band, but the music industry system that they somehow represent. But it doesn't seem to suggest the possibility that when people say they hate Nickelback, that they mean they actually do hate the music the band produces.

It attempts to say that maybe Fish isn't as bad he's made out to be. But it goes about it in a strange way. First it says that people overreact to the things that Fish says or does because he's famous, but then it goes into how he isn't really famous in terms of traditional fame. Basically, if you didn't know who Fish was then you wouldn't care what he said.

Which is probably true.

But my feelings about Fish is based off of what I saw of him in the Indie Game doc before I even knew who he was or that I was supposed to think of him as famous. Then there's his behavior after the Fez release that didn't necessarily make me think more highly of him, whether he was antagonized by others or not. As the many versions of the saying goes; if you are the only reasonable person always surrounded by assholes, maybe you are the asshole.

In all of this, I really hope Notch doesn't think of himself in terms of what people think of Fish. They are most definitely not the same, nowhere near close. There's a difference between saying I've had enough of this path in my life to wish to go down a different one and rage-quitting like a child.

Multiple times.

I for one, hope that he finds what he's looking for and I hope to hear about the new things he creates. If I never hear of Notch ever again, that's okay too.
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The point being, we who are like the businessman are the slaves of our economy. We get great perks from that Moloch, like healthcare, million types of foods, computers, cinemas, all the awesome technology - but in exchange, we need to slave away our lives. It's a trade-off.

We're entering the times when we can build machines to relieve us from our chains, but (apart from needing to restructure the capitalist economy) the transition is being slowed down by the deeply ingrained meme that Everyone Has To Work, Or Else Is A Lazy And Bad Person. It was a reasonable assumption in the times of high scarcity, but nowdays it's becoming hurtful.

What is striving to earn "FU money" if not trying to free oneself from the slavery?
> I bought some old Playboys because of this (Castro, Connery, Dylan etc.)

me too
Tedious? Open google maps, search on phrase, and note closest search results.
Was it based on connecting with the wrong tracker or identifying torrent traffic?
What is interesting is how Minecraft has been pretty much the only game that people actually pay cash for in the Eastern Europe.

This is pretty amazing since most games and software are pirated.

Of course, people can and do pirate it, but it has a fantastic sell-through that no other game has achieved outside first world.

The popularity among 5-15 year olds is very high.
It's not clear.

The AO claims that the courts affected have systems created by "local vendors." It never appeared before that individual court sites were made by any other vendor than the AO itself, however, with some customizations for each court.

Even if database engines or schemas differ, there's always ODBC.

There's effectively no good reason why the cases should not be available on PACER. And there's also no good reason why PACER should cost $0.10 per page.

Disclaimer: I'm suing the AO over this. http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/29himg3wm/california-northe...
Does it mean we can finally have web-based popcorn time?

This is REVOLUTIONARY
Well, we have it in Brazil. In the last 12 years the government effectively implemented a scheme to trade votes for money using social programs. The only thing preventing this country to go the Venezuelan way is the press being a bit stronger here.

I suspect the illiterate crowd would travel to the nearest beach and spend their social programs money on beer if voting was not mandatory. That is why I want voting to be optional.
Nomad: Command Line Utilities for iOS Development
Why not raise your round from only one VC?
Scottish independence: Animation on Scotland by numbers
Kind of reminds me of something Richard Feynman said:

"Then I had another thought: Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used to enjoy doing physics. Why did I enjoy it? I used to play with it. I used to do whatever I felt like doing - it didn't have to do with whether it was important for the development of nuclear physics, but whether it was interesting and amusing for me to play with. When I was in high school, I'd see water running out of a faucet growing narrower, and wonder if I could figure out what determines that curve. I found it was rather easy to do. I didn't have to do it; it wasn't important for the future of science; somebody else had already done it. That didn't make any difference. I'd invent things and play with things for my own entertainment."

I think we should take serious stock not only in what Notch is saying here but also his overall success: if you get off making ephemeral photo-sharing apps or a Salesforce clone then keep on trucking otherwise you should ask yourself why you're doing it in the first place.

Are your little projects a ton of fun to work on? Notch makes an all around good argument for pursuing your passion.
It is a very specific game that caters to an almost abandoned niche : Minecraft is a sandbox.
Unlike most other games where you either have a story driven experience, or a match focused one, Minecraft gives you a sandbox and let you build things in it. You can pretty much have an infinite game length that way.
It is no wonder that it has a lot of success with kids.
New Mobile Platform Smacking the Norm for Student Social Interaction
I am so glad that this started off with REGEX.

So many coding lessons are so irrelevant to business / law people. No, business people don't need to really learn how to code. They want to learn how to parse / clean messy spreadsheet data.

REGEX + basic loops and conditional in VBA will do wonders to the productivity of business people.

On a separate note, I am surprized that there is still no good graphical way to build regexes
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Your recommendations are exactly contrary to the guidance from those who have spent their entire careers studying the best way of responding to these types of epidemics.

Attempting use "force" to seal off the area, is perhaps the single most effective way to lose all control of this disease, and see it spread to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who (quite reasonably) decide to fight back against such an activity.

Careful Training, use of locals who have developed immunity, massive injections of beds, medicine, and supplies, can have a huge impact, and keep this current epidemic under control
I've been involved in the Minecraft community for a long while, but mostly from the sidelines as an observer. it's a nasty community full of more bitter and hateful people than any other community I've ever seen. It doesn't help that many of them are children. I don't blame Notch for wanting out.
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Its not about the scale of an individual drone operation, its about the aggregate scale of all drone operations when commercial operations are allowed vs. when they are not.
While JavaScript is a terrible language to debug, machine-generated JavaScript is little better, and leaves you guessing which code you need to change and how in order to affect it.
In 2008, I worked for a startup for free in hopes that it will be compensated at the end. We did achieved our goals, but the owner gave me just $5K and kept the rest for himself (he even screwed up his own bother). It's my mistake, of course, but that's not what I want to talk about here. I've started to accumulate a lot of credit card debt. Not because I was spending a lot (although having a family means paying health insurance, rent, etc. - all adding up to a pretty significant amount, which ate up my savings at the moment), but because my APR went up to well over 30% on all credit cards. I was paying over $5K a month at some point and my balance was ever increasing. I tried talking to the banks, nobody was willing to adjust, of course. I've never had a missed payment in my life till then. At one point, I went to talk to a friend, a very prominent VC in Southern California. He told me: "You're crazy! These credit cards are crooks! What they are doing should be illegal. Stop paying - it's the only way to grab their attention and negotiate!" So, I listened to him, didn't make a payment for over 6 months, then I settled on 50% of the balance and it that was the end of that chapter of my life. My point is, sometimes it's the banks to be blamed. If they've kept my below 10% APR, all would have been fun for everyone. At the end of the they after the settlement, they made the same money, but they put me and my family under so much stress, and some sent me tax documents for the difference between the balance and the settlement that was taxable income! I.e. money I've never actually got, I had to pay income tax on it! It's a big scheme, I just don't how banks get around. I'm sure there are valid use cases, but in many like mine, I was being greatly abused.
What about over Tor?
> Secondly, the cable connection belonged to a friend

Sounds like the perfect legal defense that an IP address does not identify you.
Reminds me of the scene in The Aviator where the Hepburn family obviously can care less about money to the point of obnoxiousness, and state they don't discuss it.

Hughes responds with "That's because you have it."
What's the driver support for dot matrix printers like in linux these days?
The people who deal with it best I think are sort of the aloof types. They may not even read their own Twitter feed, delegating it to a social-media staffer. Notch has the problem that he uses it as a personal account and is on it regularly, so he reads comments @directed at him, tries to reply to them, etc. He also has a public email address that he reads, and it sounds like people send weird/angry emails to that, too, so it ends up going beyond just Twitter. I could see getting annoyed if people were constantly emailing me in that manner.
Are you trying to build a business off this service, or will it just be an open dataset that anybody can use for whatever they want (along the same idea as openstreetmap)?

I'm just asking because I've toyed with the idea of building the latter, and I strongly believe it's something that will exist eventually, whether I build it or someone else does.
Minecraft has some 100,000,000 users with 14% of them paid versions. If Microsoft can elicit just $25 from each user, they break even. That's not just from straight sales, that includes "sticky ecosystem" money (somebody might not pay for Minecraft outright, but may buy an Xbox and related games/gear as a consequence) and brand licensing ("pixelated" foam costumes & swords, books, other inane paraphernalia). If we assume just 14% of users pay game-related costs, break-even comes at $180 each (which still isn't that high considering entry cost + monthly server + upgrades).

Sounds like a sensible move, if they don't screw it up. They may be able to improve the franchise by raising standards for infrastructure & participation.

Yeah, Notch is certainly at the "take the money and run" stage. There won't be another chance at $1B cash.
Since the beginning of humanity people have been slaves to the necessity of survival.
Most lawyers understand the concept of a regex, so I'd agree that its a good place to start. Law students are taught how to search for caselaw using Terms and Connectors, which is a simplified form of regex: http://lscontent.westlaw.com/images/content/WLNT&CSearching....

So they already have a lot of familiarity with the topic, and this just makes it easy for them to understand that coding is not so foreign as they might otherwise believe.
Unfortunately, Jobs as visionary is a meme that sticks. Of course, by '85 the idea of a nationwide or world-wide network was common amongst nerds. Heck, around that time I was a kid with a modem then dialing into BBS's. We were already in the baby steps of it all. Universities certainly were ahead of the consumer market with ARPANET and NSFNET, I think at 1.5mbps. Not sure if compuserv was up yet, but it was certainly around that time.

The story of the birth of the internet is an interesting one that had little to no involvement from guys like Jobs, who were fixated on the new desktop market and were shockingly short-sighted in regards to networking. When did we even have an integrated by default modem in the 80s? The desktop guys talked a big game regarding the future, but knew their bread was buttered by hardware and software sales and this whole dial-up thing wasn't profitable for them. In fact, it was kinda a threat. I spent a lot more time playing things like Tradewars (or other doors games) or MUDs, for free, than buying the AAA titles of the time, which I found boring because they couldn't do online multiplayer.
> My main concern is getting to graduation and realizing that I've neglected a critical aspect that was necessary for all job seekers.

Search Indeed.com for demanding 'entry-level' positions requiring CIS backgrounds. Note the typical requirements/experience/qualifications that employers are looking for. Use that as your personal education & training road map.

Here's an example> https://university-crowehorwath.icims.com/jobs/8577/consulta...
Notch said the Facebook deal was rotten because early backers on Kickstarters who weren't promised equity didn't get equity. Minecraft was one of the first early access games and likewise didn't promise or give equity.
Does anyone else feel at least a little betrayed?

I bought Minecraft quite early, back when it wasn't such a big hit. Normally I do not buy games. But I'm all for free & open source games, and back then what the site said read or at least felt like a personal promise to eventually release the code. That is why I bought Minecraft. The game looked interesting, and I wanted to contribute to (eventual) open source gaming. I wouldn't have paid for it otherwise... and no, I don't actually play Minecraft.
iPhone's new barometer is really about the weather, not your elevation
Bukkit is a licensing disaster zone though - the developers decided to license it under the GPL without exceptions even though it had to be tightly integrated with proprietary Minecraft server code to actually be useful. Now that CraftBukkit - the glue code to do that - has been DMCAed and everyone knows it's not legal to distribute, Bukkit is useless.

The only fork of it that's still standing is Spigot, who are releasing their updates as binary patches against the last pre-DMCA-notice release to avoid redistributing the stuff which was the subject of the DMCA, and aren't making any source-level patches available. (Which in turn is almost certainly a violation of the GPL/LGPL license that CraftBukkit was under.)
Wouldn't that be the opposite of crowd behavior? If most people are not looking up, and only a few people are looking up, then looking up is not following the crowd.
I use TOR and I would really like to get a call from comcast so that I can inform Comcast I am using a Navy funded project.
WikiLeaks releases FinFisher – weaponized malware
All I can say is that my daughters are so lucky that Games for Windows Live is dead and won't be integrated into Minecraft.
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> Technology? You do know what the 'T' in 'IT' stands for don't you?

Yes...
Um wow no.

Go is a language for people who write servers. It is really really good for those uses. Look at Docker, etcd, Kubernetes, Juju, Cloudflare, Soundcloud ...

And probably a ton that are internal to a company and not really exposed as a user-facing "Go Application™" (like the stuff behind google's downloads service, some of youtube's metadata processes, etc etc).

I think the fact that early on in Go's life someone called it a "systems language" really confused a lot of people. It's not a systems language. It's just a language. The channels, goroutines, and standard library happen to be really useful when writing networked servers.
I like your summary much better. I tried reading the article and all I saw was "shitty", "shitty" and "shitty". The author needs to learn how to present information, ironically.
Yeah I thought about this point. If enough people participated we could mitigate this, but I am not sure if we could attract such number of participants.
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> who's liable for not deploying an available experimental treatment that is later determined to work, but only after tens of thousands have died while it sits, unused, on the shelf due to lack of test data?

No one, that's exactly the point.

There's no way to sort out misdeeds, eg, fake cures from real attempts if we lift the normal trial and liability procedures. No one would use untrialed drugs if they had to take the full liability.

So the reality is that there is no good way to send only useful drugs there while skipping the filtering process.

If you're okay with some people being poisoned or lied to for money in the hope that some people will get a real drug, then we could make that work, but I'm not sure we want to go down that path.
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Yes, but for the first time ever, we've reached the theoretical capacity to change that.

What's funny (for some definitions of fun), we will actually need to do that - given how our current economy pushes automation to replace humans everywhere, we can either accept that people should be allowed to live and thrive without having to earn for the living, or we'll see a massive increase of poverty.
Interessting. I have not done any go. Could you review go in spirit of you beeing a FP guy? Why does go make it so hard?

Im mainly a clojure guy and we generally belive the CPS and FP go together very well. The new interduction of transducers makes this even clearer and it seams to me this is a feature that go should really think about.
Thank you for this. This may be a stupid question, but how would your ISP know you were actively running a Tor (non-node) connection?

Obviously I need to read up on all the back-end tech but I would assume that if it was easy to identify someone using Tor, it would no longer provide the anonymity / security because it would clearly identify outliers.

It makes sense to ban someone running a node off their Comcast connection (not because it's logical but because of their high traffic / server banning track record) but for Comcast to detect a browsing session? Seems odd.
It's never been clear what FB will do with the integration of messenger in the browser. So much for unbundling that one.
Considering the requirements, I'd say you could build a BSD machine for less than U$10 (the microcontroller is about US$5). Nowhere near as functional as a Pi, but much smaller.
I'm not the author (but I know him and he doesn't have an HN account--I've also contributed a chapter currently awaiting as a PR). PRs are certainly welcome.
My children (ages 6 through 10) had a similar experience to what you described in your comment.

It pretty much sums up why we've banned Minecraft from our house.

EDIT, To clarify:

I fully encourage them to learn to code. We let them use Scratch and write love2d games.

I've banned it from our house because we want them to build real things that they can actually use. We want them to learn how to build furniture and tree houses and real circuits.

I banned it because we want them to live in the real world.

EDIT 2:

Don't be shy, downvote me if you disagree. It helps me to know just how far off my perspective on life is from that of the average HN visitor. Which in turns helps me to know whether I should just reading/writing comments.
I hope he puts that money to good use.