skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here for sailing. Just got into it a few months ago. I love how intellectual the skills required for the sport are, and the long tradition of seamanship. Also one thing that appeals to the nerd side of me is there is so much specialized sailing vocabulary to learn, and I'm now beginning to read more on the topic on the physics of sailing

One bonus also is it's a very social sport. I don't have my own boat, so joined a local sailing co-op/club here in Minneapolis. Now that I've passed my "skipper tests" I'm free to take out their fleet of boats (about 12) anytime I like. I get to sail with other skippers twice a week, and learn from their experience. Most everyone is incredibly nice.

Unfortunately the seasons is just about up here, we're pulling the boats off the water this Saturday :(
I think Adobe is still relying on the fact that presenting videos in Flash players still prevents the casual user from simply downloading the video. This is something media corporations still care about, and conceivably will keep caring about until there is a radical shift in their business models. Maybe I don't understand the H.264 standard well enough, but I don't see why HTML 5 engines won't just provide a "Save media as..." option in the context menu just like they do now for images. Unless HTML 5 provides a way to at least partially control the distribution of videos, I think Big Media will opt to stay with Flash.
Watching anime; playing Touhou and racing games.
His actions were speech. I was trying to comment about people's intuitions, not the legal definition.

You can say whatever you want, as long as what you're saying isn't helping someone commit a crime.
Kevin is a great Entrepreneur but it strikes me that we have heard this a million times before. There is some value for someone who is either very young and/or very inexperienced.
I had mixed results with a small sample of about 100 paid clicks.

Compared to AdSense, Facebook had 2X the percentage of users who signed up for a free account. However, it had only half as many goal conversions, where the goal was simply using a free application. Kind of weird. I probably need to buy some more ads and rerun the campaigns before I make any conclusive judgments though. Costs were similar between the two.

If I do PPC in the future, I'll probably do about 30% Facebook, 70% Adsense unless the conversion rates change dramatically.
Because criminals have a great track record of following the law.

Or, in other words, that law is only intended to punish people for making the data available via other channels. It explicitly targets people like this guy for simply disseminating public information. A guy who wants to rob a house will not care that using a police scanner to help commit a crime is illegal. He's already robbing a house, by using the police scanner data he can reduce the risk of being caught by incurring the additional cost of the penalty for using the scanner _if he is caught_.

It's a non-law. It doesn't stop the criminals and criminalizes innocent citizens. Plus, the people being the government, when is it illegal to tell people what you are doing?
It is much closer to an employment contract than to an "award".
Mostly: books, music, my fiancée, COD4 on a tactical server (no blind fire and jumping around).

Wish I had something cool to write about here ("rebuilding pre-1950s motorcycles"), but in fact, "books" includes so many things that it's enough to keep me occupied.
I'm curious about the entry "March 23, Manassas, VA". Did somebody from the FBI wonder why the case hadn't been closed yet?
I don't believe that statement is true. It's a noble statement but it misses the point in life.

The point in life is not to avoid suffering and discover but to live and procreate. If you're not sure whether this is true do a split test on two families and measure which sets of characteristics do best in 100 generations.

Science and medicine may be what separate us from the animals but for most people they are enablers for the rest of life, not the point in life itself.

Working in entertainment and anything that furthers our ability to enjoy and "live" life is just as valid as your first two. It may not sound as good in a manifesto but making people happy is an extremely worthy pursuit.
I cannot emphasize this enough. While phishing is definitely a threat, calling it "hacking" creates a massive problem. Imagine, for example, if grand theft auto was referred to as identity theft. If they become synonymous in the public mind, many people will begin to think "Well, I have a safe that I keep all my information in, so no one can take anything from me."

The problem is the method for protecting yourself from anything, from car theft to identity theft to having your email account hacked, all have different methodologies. The best way to protect users from phishing. In fact, that's about the only way to do it. Calling it hacking means that people start to think "Oh, I have a firewall, so I'm safe." I've heard that from far too many users, frequently after they've fallen for a phishing scam "What? The firewall doesn't stop that?"
Well, the problem is that licensing often morphs into cartel building over time. The ABA and state bar associations are notorious for this, but they're hardly the only ones. Read about how various bar associations have pursued "cease and desist" injunctions against "We The People" (a company that fills out legal forms for a fraction of what a lawyer would charge) for a sense of how far this can go.

If engineers want to include a software component in their licensing of, say, civil engineers, that's fine by me. But it needs to be clear that they are licensing civil engineers who write software as part of their civil engineering work, not software engineers per se. Once they get their hands on software engineering, and discover how lucrative the newly formed cartel (er, profession) can be, you'd be surprised with how broad the scope of work that needs to be licensed can become.
I would have responded earlier if I had noticed this.

You're right that it's not quite a necessity. It's concievable that population growth could continue, albeit at a very slow rate, until people are ready to colonize space. I don't doubt that humans will figure out how to do that-- if they survive long enough.

But it seems likely to me, maybe even obvious, that at the current rate of growth people are going to commit evolutionary suicide long before that becomes possible. This because the earth is very limited and recently economic growth has been really fast. In addition to the Club of Rome stuff recommended above, check out: Capitalism Nature Socialism, a pretty good journal which often discusses these issues, and Beyond Growth by Herman Daly.

Edit: note that it was I who upvoted your comment.
This way -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=225879
"People and Information want to be Free!"

Hmmm. The fact that he attributes volitional desire to information makes me wonder if he could use a freedom of religion-based defense, rather than just a political ideology one. Courts are rarely sympathetic to "anarchism" but frequently eager to demonstrate tolerance of "beliefs" and "worldviews."
The two accounts were responsible for downloading more than
eighteen million pages with an approximate value of $1.5 million.

Ha! Just because they charge $0.08 a page doesn't mean millions of page views online cost the same amount.

This reminds of big drug catches that bring in tons of a controlled substance. The value is always given in street value, to make the efforts seem more substantial. Too bad they never publicize stats that show the police and FBI catch an infinitesimally small percentage of narcotics.
Court records are, in general, public. Not 'public'. Just go to the library. However, PACER costs money and so do the favored online vendors (westlaw and lexis-nexis).

Even if they aren't public. They should be. This stuff can be used as law -- precedents. The only valid objection I see is that there needs to be some process to protect the privacy of the people involved in the case. But that's second-order concern.
Re: never stopping to learn, when I was meeting people at my local flying club, the 89-year old Chief Flight Instructor Emeritus welcomed me and showed me around. We were chatting about flying, and the man's been flying for literally 70 years starting when he was 17 for agriculture. He said he felt it was a great thing to spend a life doing and kept referring to himself as being "still a student".

He was unfortunately killed in a car accident a few months later, but his humility left an impact on me.
Monads are nothing special. "They" somehow acquired some stigma of being "difficult", which caused people to write tutorials to help others understand them. Then the proliferation of tutorials led people to believe that they are difficult to understand, which caused people to write more tutorials. And here we are today, where people avoid a programming language because they think there is some incredibly hard concept they have to master but will never be smart enough to understand.

Anyway, the Typeclassopedia is recommended reading: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Typeclassopedia

Once you understand the relationship between functions, applicative functors, monads, and arrows, everything will make sense -- they are all the same thing.

(The next issue is, "why would I want this kind of abstraction", but that's best for you to decide on your own.)
Reducing carbon output using electric vehicles is thousands of times less financially efficient than providing people with better loft insulation.

I think what Elon Musk is doing is great but he's trying to build an electric supercar - it's not the most philanthropic of pursuits.
They should be public but are behind a wall. Thus, the quotes.
If you look at it closely my responses are replys to specific posts. I am not against being downvoted. To me it just proves that people are not buying my view, and that I am totally different. Which is good, in a way.

Also to you this may be a pointless meta-meta-discussion but I take it upon myself to reply to people who have something to say about my views.
Fantastic project. I'd like to see some high resolutions output samples though, that page only links to thumbnails.

The video is interesting, but you have to pause it to get a good look at the output.
Why does this matter or is valuable news?
Hmm. How about we shut down organizations that are "too big to fail"?

After all, regulators world-wide have pretty much demonstrated that they're incapable of stopping such failures. The regulated companies had worse failures and were more likely to fail.

Of course, we should start with govt agencies and affiliates (I'm looking at you Fed) s that are too big to fail....
But when lawyers told Mr. Malamud and Mr. Swartz that they appeared to have broken no laws, Mr. Malamud sent Mr. Swartz a message saying, “You should just lay low for a while.”

It's not illegal, so what's going on?

Trying to collect $1.5MM?
"... NCIS report for Aaron Swartz was negative ..."

excellent.

the other thing I don't get is flags should be going up if nothing bad is being turned up. as for being legal? I bet Pacer didn't think/want 20% of their records searched even if they opened them up. It's unstated but it would be fair to assume this.
The problem is ActionScript is pretty far from the EMCAScript you get in browsers - ActionScript was based on a proposed standard for ECMAScript which was later abandoned, so it's pretty much a different language now.
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I enjoy various sorts of hands-on projects when I need a break for the tech world:

Woodworking - building furniture, etc.

Fixing up old pinball machines

Working on the house, minor remodeling sorts of projects
Actually I find the nationalities of the winners to be the least interesting part of Nobel Prize season. Apart from opportunities for nationalist chest-thumping, brow-beating and/or hand-wringing, who cares?

On the other hand, I bet if you were to go to the newspapers of the home countries of the two researchers not born in the US you wouldn't find the headline "Three Americans win Nobel Prize". Hmm, let me check...

Yup! The Age (Melbourne) currently has the headline "Our Beautiful Mind: Scientist Australia's first woman Nobel laureate". (Can't find an equivalent in the UK just now -- there are enough British Nobel laureates that they don't need to get excited over each one.)
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> 41 percent less likely to suffer from high blood pressure

Compared to whom? Serious racquet sport competitors? Power lifters? No, compared to couch potatoes with lousy diets. Well no shit. That's not the point.
league, or union?
Either they think it is illegal or what is more likely is that anytime a sysadmin at a federal facility sees "atypical" behavior (as defined by them) they contact the feds. It is very unlikely that a sysadmin in the federal court system would think about whether the crawling session overloading his server is legal, forget moral and I am sure if he/she complains, the FBI is obligated to investigate.

I am not saying this is what should happen but this is what likely happened.
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Preface, I probably have a bias regarding the 'hate' towards videogames since I have worked in the field. I understand mahmud's point of view and have friends and family that share his viewpoint as well.

I would say that videogames, as a medium, are artistic; some titles more than others. One quick example would be a title like 'Ico'; in my estimation, the visual impact and animation was similar to an impressionist painting, the lighting effects and overall composition was very well put together. How can the graphics team, animators, creative director not be considered artists? Its a matter of taste I suppose because after playing through that interactive piece of art, I recommended and spoke about it with many people.
I had my hotmail hacked with a plain old dictionary attack (it was an extremely rare word, but still). While I hadn't used it in years, at some point I seem to have synced it with Plaxo, so it had all of my contacts, who were all now the recipients of various kinds of spam. Sucky.
I can too agree we must tell people that its not hacking but phisihing so they can be better aware of threats like these.
I'm right there with you on your other hobbies, but I do enjoy video games and don't comprehend your reasons here. You sound like you have an axe to grind with video games. Video games are anti-social. Video games aren't cultural. Come on.

1) Okay. So how does pool or Sudoku teach you something? I don't get this movies-to-games comparison. Apples and oranges. Games are not meant to be vehicles for artistic expression.

2) I find video games to be very social, actually. If it weren't for Xbox Live, I wouldn't interact with my old friends much except for when we all vacation back home for the holidays. Beyond that I find it very easy to talk about games with others. If you enjoy anything enough, you'll be able to have a discussion about it.

3) Fair enough.
Scuba. San Jose, but I just returned from the Galapagos.
I wasn't saying they should actively seek to be arrested. I was saying that engaging in an illegal act -- even if you believe that act is justifiable and that your actions will help to bring about the end of something you view as evil -- carries a risk of arrest and jail time. People who aren't willing to accept that shouldn't engage in such acts, because in the real world there isn't always (and in fact often isn't) a happy ending.
I do a small amount of pen and paper roleplaying, and the odd bit of computer gaming. Mostly though, I'm a political economy nerd. I read a lot of industrial economics, and a pile of political/current affairs stuff. The Phoenix, the Village, the Economist, as well as a reasonable amount of more textbook type stuff.
I found this amusing and a little thought-provoking:

"Forbes says Tiger Woods has become the first athlete to surpass $1 billion in career earnings.

"The magazine estimates that golf's top-ranked player crested the plateau when he earned $10 million for winning the FedEx Cup on Sunday.

"Forbes reported on its Web site on Tuesday that Woods entered 2009 having earned $895 million since he joined the PGA Tour in 1996. Prize money, appearance fees, endorsement fees, bonuses and his golf course design business were calculated to have pushed him over $1 billion.

"The magazine says former NBA great Michael Jordan and former Formula One driver Michael Schumacher, at $800 million and $700 million, respectively, are Woods' closest competition in career earnings.

"More golf: Watson takes 2-shot lead"

So we have this stupendous amount of money discussed for four paragraphs, and then the cliché "And in other news..." is that Watson has taken a two shot lead somewhere or other. The implication that both datums are of roughly equal interest to the reader is amusing and makes me curious. Is it a machine that decides that? Or does a human actually believe that after reading about Tiger having earned a billion dollars the reader will next want to turn back to the details of a match instead of thinking more about investments and careers?
"There is no runtime"

Ah, so they got Flash on the phone by taking away the bit that makes it suck bells. Good job, Adobe. Amazing what you can do when Apple forces you to not to be craptacular.
That's not a start-up, it's just a humorous website.
http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/

This lets you play Youtube videos via Mac OS X's built in decoders in Safari. Plus it's a general Flash-bocker. I love it.
PACER records are public, even that they cost money to access. So are most of the records on Lexis and Westlaw. Westlaw has tried to claim a copyright in certain annotations on the court documents, but they have no copyright in the text of the court records themselves.[1]

[1] Matthew Bender & Co. v. West Publishing Co., 158 F.3d 693 (2d Cir. 1998) - http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/158/158.F3d.693.97-...
I'm having a very hard time imagining a Python developer wanting to do a straight port of Drupal.
I understood what you meant, Thomas. As I said, I wasn't making an argument either way in regard to SF vs. Chicago corruption. I've only visited SF a few times, so I have no basis for comparison. I just tend to marvel at how brazen and business-like Chicago corruption can be.
You can already rewrite Youtube pages to play the exact same video via HTML5. I linked to the plugin you need elsewhere in this thread.

So Youtube in flash is already "far too easy to download" and Flash's "encrypted" streaming mode has been broken too, though it turned out not to be that protected anyway.
Fair enough. Probably true for AS3, which seems to superficially resemble Java. One of my hobby projects (HipHopGoblin) uses a bunch of AS2, which I find very similar to JavaScript.
Lol. And, LLVM is mainly sponsored by Apple. Pwnd.
And I'm sure you also think people should not spend their money on Rolexes when a Casio will do, or on Mercedes when a VW will do...etc.

People pay for what they want to pay for.
"... In his call to action, Mr. Malamud pointed to the free trial Pacer was offering and called for a “Thumb Drive Corps” to go to libraries with small-but-capacious “thumb drives,” plug them into computers, download as many court documents as they could, and send them to Mr. Malamud so that he could translate them them into a format that Google’s search software can read and put them on line. ..."

There's a bigger picture (activism) here & maybe that's why the fbi has some interest. Having read this article ~ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13records.html I can now see why.
This is the correct answer -- when you fork the process yourself, you don't have to guess about it dying, you get SIGCHLD and can handle it accordingly.

If you use daemontools, this code is already written for you.
Good thing it was just the FBI. The BATF might have classified this mysterious residence as some sort of cult compound and executed a no-knock raid with automatic weapons drawn.
And no, I don't want to hear about a stretched analogy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well

Read it and never again use that kind of sentence, unless you actually want to make constructive discussion harder.
That is an interesting thought and one of the many problems with the way data is typically organized.

This IS the "sports" section of the paper, but whether or not this is the appropriate paradigm is certainly worth questioning...
I sure hope IndestructoTank is ported right away. One of my favorite games and I think it us well suited to iPhone gaming.
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Since VCs usually take equity stakes or convertibles, it's pretty doubtful that they'd be able to pose a systemic risk. Usually you end up seeing systemic risks when there's multiple tiers of non-convertible debt.
To really take advantage of static typing, you would probably need to add support for it to the Lua VM

Understandable, but not entirely correct. See StrongTalk. You can have the static typing be in the parser/compiler frontend only. The programmer can get feedback about type metadata, and can use it in refactoring and ensuring program correctness. The VM has to know bupkus about that stuff. In particular Lua's VM is good enough that in most cases it's not needed for performance reasons.

This makes the typing system somewhat circumventable. But the type system is usually circumventable even in a traditional static typed language. At some point, you have to count on programmers not doing stupid things.

On the other side of the coin, such type systems are optional. Which means that you can have less typing for prototyping and rapid development, and more for mature code going into production and maintenance.
I think the technology is already available.
Of course, not yet integrated into a functional system.
The little iPhone like camera could be implanted on your forehead and powered by a tiny rechargeable battery embedded inside your chest (like a pacemaker) together with a miniature circuit. Video would be buffered on an internal 64GB solid memory and continuously transmitted via 3G network to a centralized storage facility.
the 64GB buffer would be used when wireless was not available. With 64GB you could store about a day worth of highly compressed (YouTube video like at about 1000kbits/sec) of continuous video before you an out of memory.
Hardware wise it could be mass produced for less than $100 bucks. Wireless costs would be expensive but as they go down in time more affordable.
This is _exactly_ how I browse too! :D
For one thing, it makes me wonder...

Why is it that an entrepreneur that gets rich is frequently criticized for making too much money, taking it out of the pockets of his customers; while on the other side of the coin, the sports figures who haven't created anything (other than a feeling of satisfaction in fans, I suppose) are still celebrated?
Interpretation of 'unauthorized access' is murky and there's a lot -- too much -- discretion in how access legitimacy and damages are evaluated. (See also: the submission last week about an author's estimation most people commit 'three felonies a day'.)

In this matter, I'd bet the NYTimes coverage was more valuable in deterring prosecution than any legal counsel or even influential friends -- it meant any trumped-up narrative of nefarious intent would be fighting an uphill battle against the story already started in 'the paper of record'.
Film making and film direction.
I play poker and I cook. I love the extra money I win at playing a fun card game, and I love to invite people over for dinner parties. Somehow, I wish my hobbies had a bit more synergy! :)

I also enjoy reading quite a bit.