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Swartz was never going to get anywhere remotely near 35 years and people need to stop spouting this nonsense as it makes them look completely ignorant of every single fact in the case. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is designed to prosecute all computer crime from minor mischief to advanced terrorism. As such its maximum sentences are extremely high and the press just loves to throw around maximum sentences with no regard to the actual cases.

Swartz accessed a system he did not have permission to access. He did so by entering a restricted area he did not have permission to access. While I agree with his general ideal, what he did was an act of civil disobedience.

The single most basic tenet of civil disobedience is that you are willing to go to jail.

Swartz was apparently unable to think beyond the immediate and to the inevitable, obvious, end result of him being charged with a crime that he blatantly and admittedly committed.

Six months house arrest, which given that he had no criminal record, would likely have been halved or reduced even further. This is absolutely in line with the crime that he, again, admitted to committing.

Mitnick's sentence shows exactly what these maximums mean in regards to real-world sentencing.
Well, Propranolol was available in Europe for its main indication about a decade earlier than it was allowed in the US saving 10,000s of lives. European drug regulation encourages competition in ways that provide for about a dozen EpiPen equivalents rather than just one provider that can jack up its price to $1000. You can buy sunscreen that blocks both UVA and UVB in Europe, though the FDA is thinking about maybe allowing those sunscreens in the US soon. They did miss Thalidomide, though.
I'm currently building an app that enables this, but don't have a technical background. Anyone have knowledge of BLE, GPS, iOS, and backend (including aglo dev)?

If so, rogertk3@gmail.com
Not everyone has to actually be constantly surveiled for the effects to be the same, a-la panopticon.
It depends on the AV.

Either the AV ties into the kernel with a module, in which case it can also be an avenue for an increased permissions exploit, or it doesn't have any special kernel level capabilities, in which case it will never find rootkits that include kernel modules to hide themselves.

Personally, I would be happy with an open source community based disk scanner looking for weirdly named files and folders (there are common variants used in hacks) and a locked down selinux config. Bonus points if you compile a kernel that doesn't allow modules (but IIRC that doesn't preclude kernel level shenanigans).

Interestingly, it looks like since the PCI requirement for AV is for "all systems commonly affected by malicious software" they don't actually require it of all Linux systems in all cases.[1]

1: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/58345/how-to-pa...
I had no idea. Thanks for the info! Might subscribe just for that.

https://www.bloomberg.com/philanthropy/
Thanks, that supports my point.
Do you really need it though? It would be pretty immediately obvious to the other player that their opponent is cheating.
There are other models of modularity that make it easy to separate transport, routing, link, and physical protocols without starting from the assumption that "layer X can only interact with the minimum common denominator interface for layers X-1 and X+1". That assumption leads to everything from the PMTU discovery silliness to the pain of getting TCP to work correctly over links like wireless where packet loss does not imply congestion.
Ask HN: How might I blacklist code from running on WSL?
How might one prevent thier code from running on WSL. Idont want any GNU based code i develop, to run on WSL or any windows10 based system.
Probably one of the 314 other people in the group felt offended.
This is why civil suits exist. Generally such attempts at exploiting clauses made in bad will get settled out of court.
"literally all products have a value so if you price it right then people will pay for it"

All products do have a value. However, you need to compete against easy and free with piracy...which is virtually impossible to win and unfair..especially if you aren't the person that created the product in the first place.
There is currently a monopoly in electronic prescriptions in the US. Surescripts runs the only network that connects electronic health records to pharmacies. (over 99% of electronic prescriptions are sent using them) They dictate that you must have a contract with an approved commercial prescription drug database vendor.

I want the industry to come together and make an open source drug database so that it can become the world standard. This way a lot of legacy businesses will no longer have a reason to exist and charge exorbitant licensing fees.
I'm saying you have the perspective of someone who came from a tiny ghost town, since you think the Bay Area is high density.
Your willful ignorance is astounding. Then again I don't expect any better from Trumpettes.
Regulatory burdens are some of the most frustrating challenges of running a small business. If you're a big business like Amazon or Northwestern Hospital, you can afford to hire entire teams of administrative staff to handle regulatory paperwork and procedure. 50% of the staff in most healthcare facilities are administrative staff, hired to deal handle the regulatory burden Obamacare placed on those facilities. Small businesses can't afford that, and it has crushed a few companies I've worked at already.
I've had mixed results going this approach early in my career. At small companies, you can find some _shockingly_ huge egos. "Tiny kings, in tiny kingdoms" as they say.

The worst one was where during the interview, the interviewer specifically warned about the dynamics of the place: "we serve at the pleasure."

And indeed we did. The owner expected bizarre rigid behaviors. For one, everybody clocked in/out (a question that didn't occur to me to even ask about), and if you clocked in >5 minutes after when you were supposed to start, you had to go to HR and sign a document explaining why. This was a development gig.

We also had to watch cartoons made by the owners wife. Absolutely bizarre place. I made it about 6mo before getting the hell outta there.

The other notable "small shop" experience was when I stopped getting paid on time and the company credit card started getting declined.

MegaCorp1 is nice in the way that the others were not.
Wow, that's so different from my experience. It's like saying only world-class weightlifters should work in construction carrying stuff.

The world around me seems to be constantly screaming: here's yet another thing that could be made easier with better software, no stunning virtuoso performance required, just plain old hard work. Why do I have to lift my eyes from my phone to know whether or not the bus I'm waiting for is arriving? Scrolling is nice and all, but can that menu with a hundred items take up all the space available to it? The pharmacy cashier the other day asked me for the same information twice because two systems won't talk to each other. And a million other things.
Fair enough.

However, this is the type of sensationalist garbage that shouldn't be allowed here in the first place. How does this article promote intellectual curiosity?
Absolutely. HR is a risk management organization. They are not there to help your manager hire you. They do not care about you.
Unity3D has this sort of license, though it's not OSS last time I checked.
While I agree with your premise (that Apple's lack of care or rigour for platforms likely stems mostly from having very few people to support), the specific story being provided for Carbon doesn't fit the history to me given that not only was iTunes written with Carbon (and was a holdout in switching to AppKit for a lot longer than Adobe), but so was Finder (a core piece of OS X, and that didn't transition until 10.6).
But the cop isn’t sitting there the whole time watching.
The booming business of police tech can’t address deeper problems
Well, yeah, but if you're buying a 32 bit CPU with weird bugs then why bother.

At this point, I'm thinking the x86 memory segmentation sucked less than a 32 bit CPU with no MMU and bugs requiring the compiler to pull the parking brake

I am familiar with how bad it was on the x86 world, but then maybe that explains why Mac OS before X was so bad
> How are the Electron project creators and core contributors not 'the core persons involved in open source'?

I didn't say that and would not have agreed to saying that.

Notice what I did say, though:

> "Unless companies take an active role in supporting open source with significant funding"

When a company has employees working on an open source project, such as Electron, that is an active role in supporting open source.

There are different projects, some are internal company infrastructure that was open sourced (React, Electron, Angular, etc), and some are built by hobbyists/indies (Unified, Prettier, Core-js, etc). Companies definitely take a good active role in the first type, and less so in the second type. However, quite often there are projects of the second type being used as dependencies in projects of the first type, as well as in proprietary software, of course. This is why I raise the need for even more company active involvement in open source. It's more about requiring their participation in the culture of gifting (because open source is a commons), than it is about requiring specific donations on specific projects on a transactional basis. In my article I address why companies typically don't participate in open source commons: because companies have a financial brain that guides them towards profit and competitiveness, not gifting. This is why we must "rewrite some rules of society".
Still looting though.
I think that's more the malnutrition causing weight loss, there.
The Tragedy of Herakles
Honestly no never thought to bother. They're just holding already packaged merchandise.

One day when I can show up with containers and load up on goods without all the custom packaging, that'll be a different story.
I wouldn't bet on him getting extradited, in the end it'll be a political decision and historically the UK press hasn't exactly been kind on the UK/US extradition treaty.
One my most painful realizations as an adult was realizing that my parents were emotionally negligent and that I have long suffered from CPTSD as a result. They treated parenting as if it was just providing food and shelter and failed to realize that good parenting is actually about teaching your kids to be emotionally mature. I struggle with feelings of emptiness, depersonalization, and numbness in ways that make it hard to feel normal most days.
I've rarely encountered situations where a superior wouldn't tell me on the record exactly what level of diligence is necessary, and the few exceptions turned out to be extremely toxic situations.

Which expenditures are "essential" can't always be objectively determined anyway. The purpose of the rule is not to ensure that inessential expenditures don't slip through the process but rather to ensure a chain of accountability that can be checked if some flagrant violation is discovered. In the letter-writer's position, it's probably only their job to be able to produce evidence of who assured them that an expenditure was essential, which means they need to put the right language on the form by which people request expenditures. As far as I understand it, procurement teams exist because a dedicated team of specialists can be more efficient and effective at procurement, not because spending decisions should be second-guessed by people who don't have the background to understand them.
SDF seeks same for friendship. Interests include swimming, exploring and fresh fish.
In that context, it IS essential: We need the item, and it's cheaper to buy a new one than to figure out if we already have one.
What would be the problem with granting permissive citizenship, or a path to citizenship to citizens of HK in the UK?

Is the fear one of demographic change? It seems somewhat perplexing to me why the UK would not want to accept these folks who are fluent in English, highly educated, familiar with British civic principles (which are similar to the HK Government) and would likely provide a nice boost to the UK economy as well.
“In the U.S., he faces an 18-count indictment including charges of soliciting and publishing classified information and conspiring with former Army private Chelsea Manning to crack a Defense Department computer password.

Assange has insisted he was 'doing journalism that has won many, many awards and protected many, many people'.”

“If found guilty of all the charges against him, the Wikileaks founder could be jailed for 175 years.”
>I also consider the people of Hong Kong to be more British than French/Dutch/German.

It's a bit... gross that you only seem to care for people who are "more British"
Also sometimes a medicine's most important uses end up being off-label anyways. E.g. http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007140.html
This works for NLP too: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10444
> Maintaining that trust keeps a whole lot of other relationship dynamics healthier.

Most of us learn at an early age that "We'll see" means "No"
Thanks. I'll post that column to Hacker News tomorrow.
I did. I remember when NN was big and IE was an afterthought. I remember when IE6 came onto the scene. I remember it all.

It's nothing remotely like the bad old days. You are correct.

It is however bad new days.
>then encouraged Manning to search for any more stuff

So, he did in fact encourage the theft of classified info?! Doesnt matter if it didnt produce any results. There was still intent. Secondly, do you think Manning is the first he tried that with? Don't be naive.
It's also worth remembering that he disseminated information on the behalf of the Russian state in an effort to get Trump elected.

That renders much of what you've written moot, given the Russian state and Trumps attitude towards war crimes and killing journalists.
We'll agree to disagree then. I see that as a major distinction.
Isn't that achieved by minimising too?
“As the Supreme Court has accurately warned, a First Amendment distinction between the institutional press and other speakers is unworkable” -- Ninth Circuit, deciding that a blogger count as "press", in Obsidian v. Cox.

Your link doesn't in any way support the distinction you're making, because the issue is who counts as "press", not whether the press has some rights.
[Running sarcasm detector.] Thanks!
Very well put. It's not just the war crimes committed (or indirectly caused) by the US, it's the major financial crime of the war spending and the crime of falsifying intelligence information to sell the war.

Assange helped shed light on all of it, and one would think that after such a humiliating series of revelations the US would find it harder to sell the public on new wars and new enemies. Unfortunately that has not been the case.
I think he's saying the devs are average because they're in massive corps that hire average devs, who are managed by nontechnical, average middle managers.

Those corps often like Microsoft, so that's what those devs work in.

He's not saying working in Microsoft technologies = not a good dev.
So there is reference to a previous lawsuit where someone sued them for claiming to be "all-natural". Which is not really a legal definition, so I don't know what merit it actually has. Similarly, for this lawsuit, BPA doesn't really seem to be harmful, and it doesn't seem they use it anyway!

There is something about marketing yourself as a "pure" product - you will never meet everyone's purity standard. But you set yourself up for a very discerning (aka fickle) customer base.

At the end of the day though, the CEO seems to take "the brand" too seriously. It's a very crowded marketspace now and I don't think there is any room to grow. If they want to get bigger as a business, they need to diversify.
The 3rd source does a better job of explaining who the "Turkish Hezbollah" are. They are indeed a separate Kurdish group located in eastern Turkey.

They are also Sunni Muslims while Lebanon's Hezbollah are Shite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Hezbollah
> I take it as a given no US-made missile can kill a US-operated aircraft,

I'm not so sure about that. That would require that all US made missiles have a "disarm" signal that the operators cannot override. Maybe for weapons we sell that is okay, but for our own use, that strikes me as too much of a liability if that signal ever gets compromised and spoofed.
Just adding, it's generally worth it to have such servers relatively close to your own network/physical location if you are concerned about performance.

Though having it in another country entirely might be beneficial as well.
I think signing "FORM NOT PROVIDED" might go over better with the judge, than outright stating what can be perceived as your own ignorance in signing something without reading it. That is, cut off the possibility that the judge, when presented with the printed form and your signature printed on it, interprets it as you signing "I didn't read this form" when the text was in front of you.

In principle, when there's a problem situation you are documenting, I think it's better to make sure you document what the other party did wrong first and foremost, then move on to what you did in response to it.
Unfortunately there is no Vitamin D3 in these products, here is one of the nutrition labels: https://www.nutritionix.com/i/gardein/fishless-filet/5460edc...
> It's also worth remembering that he disseminated information on the behalf of the Russian state in an effort to get Trump elected.

Not sure why you believe that any more than you would believe the claims that Saddam had WMDs.
I have never myself heard that narrative about Appelbaum. It seems clear that, while some of the allegations against him were unfounded, others were made by women who publicly identified themselves and their experiences of being sexually harassed or sexually assaulted by Jacob Appelbaum.[0]

Is there really a narrative that these women fabricated stories of sexual abuse by Jacob Appelbaum because he upset some powerful entities?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Allegations_of...
The X-32 used a direct-lift thrust vectoring system for its STOVL variant, while the X-35 used a lift fan. Late design change ramifications and logistic footprints for the two options would have been different.
From the article, it sounds like they will be using some microgrids as well in areas where geography would hinder recovery after disasters.
Fran Allen begs to differ.

Plus the experience from all from us that had access to early C compilers on CP/M and home micros.

IBM already had a LLVM like toolchain for their RISC research with PL.8 and respective OS.

Only later did they switch to UNIX due to the market they were after.

Surviving mainframes are still writen on their system languages.

As for Fran Allen point of view:

"Oh, it was quite a while ago. I kind of stopped when C came out. That was a big blow. We were making so much good progress on optimizations and transformations. We were getting rid of just one nice problem after another. When C came out, at one of the SIGPLAN compiler conferences, there was a debate between Steve Johnson from Bell Labs, who was supporting C, and one of our people, Bill Harrison, who was working on a project that I had at that time supporting automatic optimization...The nubbin of the debate was Steve's defense of not having to build optimizers anymore because the programmer would take care of it. That it was really a programmer's issue.... Seibel: Do you think C is a reasonable language if they had restricted its use to operating-system kernels? Allen: Oh, yeah. That would have been fine. And, in fact, you need to have something like that, something where experts can really fine-tune without big bottlenecks because those are key problems to solve. By 1960, we had a long list of amazing languages: Lisp, APL, Fortran, COBOL, Algol 60. These are higher-level than C. We have seriously regressed, since C developed. C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine. This is one of the reasons compilers are ... basically not taught much anymore in the colleges and universities."

-- Fran Allen interview, Excerpted from: Peter Seibel. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
OK, getting off topic, but: we had this toaster when I was a kid, and I hated everything about it. This is the worst toaster I ever used.

Getting it to engage was super finicky. I never saw anybody get it to work on the first try. You often had to whack it down pretty hard to make it work, while other times a light touch was sufficient. You could tell when someone was using it from across the house because you heard a metallic "whang, whang, whang, whang!", at various volumes, as they tried to get it to trigger.

Going up was super slow. (In his video, he shows it at "6x" or "12x" speed so viewers don't fall asleep.) Who would ever want that? It's done toasting. Don't make me wait 10 seconds to get my toast. Lots of singed fingers from impatient people reaching in to get their food.

The sensor wasn't very good, either. There was a razor thin margin where you'd get reasonable toast, and it was almost all the way to the "light" end. At even 25% to "dark", you'd get a block of charcoal. I'd set it all the way at "light", and toast my bread twice, if needed, because that was safest.

Lack of a manual up/down lever makes everything worse. It means you need to use the special "ONE SLICE" slot when you only have one slice. It also means if you see your bread start to catch fire (yeah), there's no easy way to get it out in a hurry. You could push the lightness all the way to "light" and hold it there (I think that was the official way), but that was unreliable. Usually, we'd just unplug it.

Also, as he notes in the video, the bread guides don't move so about all you can fit in here is a small generic white slice, and the outside gets as hot as the inside so be careful not to touch it.

This is the 2013 Mac Pro of toasters: very pretty, very clever, and a thermal nightmare. If I had infinite money and space, I'd buy one to show off, and never use it.
Some of this data doesn't seem right.

For example, the author lists Gatsby as "below poverty threshold". However, Gatsby raised $3.8M recently. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gatsby-e828 I'm pretty sure they are able to pay people better than poverty wages.

Another important omission is that many developers contribute to open source as part of their work for a larger company. The core React team, for example, is primarily working for Facebook. They spend a lot of their time working on Facebook-internal things, but a lot of their effort is going towards the open source community as well.

The real lesson here is that the OpenCollective model (where these numbers come from) is not where most of the funding for open source engineering is coming from. Most of the money paid to open source software engineers comes from companies that produce open source code as a byproduct of their main mission, like Microsoft building TypeScript or Google building Go.
Like W3C? “Standards” funded by Google’s ad monopoly? How is that going for them? The demand for everything to be “free” is destroying the idea of neutral standard. Standard must be funded somehow. The ISO model has worked for decades. The W3C model, where you don’t charge for either the standard or the products, has become a tire fire.
No one gets their cancer cured, just hopefully into remission. No matter the therapy there will always be a few cancer cell populations that evade treatment. This is why cancer patients are monitored for life.
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That's a really neat project! Thanks for sharing
It wasn't from the dollar store, he said it costed him $8.53 for the can.