skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I say, I'm not saying that the definition is wrong, I'm saying that it's not the common usage and it's not what people repeating the quote mean, therefore if you disagree with the quote on that basis you're not disagree with what was actually said.

When you say "it destroys [...] money" that's what they mean, you're just picking on their choice of words.

As it goes I agree with you about it creating wealth (see my post elsewhere in this thread), I just don't think the right way to express it.
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Did it specify that he was writing to local disk? If I did a stunt like this, I'd probably try to write to some cloud storage like Amazon S3. I'd bet that Amazon's servers can drown JSTOR's, particularly if there's a big pipe like MIT's in-between.
Perhaps to have enough legitimate traffic surrounding you to mask the fact that you're trying to download every single article.
Looks to be EC2.

IP: 184.73.182.11

Whois: Amazon.com, Inc. AMAZON-EC2-7 (NET-184-72-0-0-1) 184.72.0.0 - 184.73.255.255
There is also: Trying the old version, but accepting their loss when the hardware starts to fail and just saying if it's not simulator based, sorry, you can't support it
I'm not saying the Desktop OS is dead. I'm saying the only reason why you'd use a desktop OS is for complicated tasks like designing / programming / gaming / spreadsheets where this kind of power is needed.

This OS looks very minimalistic. The only functions I can see are web browsing, e-mail and pictures. It's even called Elementary OS. I just feel an iPad can replace all the features that this particular OS offers easily.
I admire Aaron's persistence. Sadly it was quite rude of him to repeatedly crash JSTOR's servers. If only he'd throttled his script back a bit.

Liberating those documents from JSTOR would have been quite a gift to society.
Beautiful! The gurus do not disappoint.
Yes, by mine. I've spent quite a lot of time elbow-deep in Drupal. It is better code than Wordpress--though that is damning with faint praise--but does not really reach the bar of a Lithium or a Symfony2.

Now, it's certainly more normal-friendly than Symfony2 or the like by way of allowing non-developers to implement (a subset of) features, but I wouldn't call it programmer-friendly and I wouldn't use its internals as an example of good code.
I don't. I always target the latest firmware, and if the app sees a major version upgrade (1.0->2.0) I just target whichever newest firmware is out.
I basically have a device rotation that basically works like this:

I have the current iPhone. I keep it updated to the latest stable and it's my primary development device.

When significant new beta comes out, I buy a latest gen iPod Touch and install the beta. This becomes my primary development device for all beta builds.

Once the new iOS version is released, I update my iPhone to the latest OS version. At the same time, since Apple allows some overlap, I downgrade the iPod Touch to the latest old version of iOS. At this point, I leave the iPod touch frozen at that iOS version and use it for old compatibility testing.
For the love of God, man! What a trivial fucking complaint. I guarantee there have been times at your job when you weren't in peak form.

How can you possibly say that one case of leaving the office for maybe 20 minutes during office hours explains an overall 1 point drop in evaluation averages? Many here are so quick to pile on the prof, am I the only one that read this and was shocked at the amount of cheating going on??
Sounds good, I will take a look. What games do you have planned after the ping pong game?
My point, in fact, was that the conflict is _over_ the perception of privilege. Indeed, it has to be. The corollary to your statement:

>privileged groups have historically tended to perceive equality well before disadvantaged groups (and its true emergence).

... is that disadvantaged groups tend to perceive equality after its true emergence. Please disentangle the current context (gender) from this discussion so we may examine a power struggle in the abstract--which is to say, I am _not_ commenting on whether or not gender equality has 'emerged' because such a question is a) too detailed, and b) probably way too ambiguous, because equality is not well defined. (and c) true gender equality, at least from my perspective, require an abolition of gender using lgbtq viewpoints)

Groups act in their self-interest. Privileged groups are required to act as if they do not--equivalently, they are asked to place disadvantaged groups within their 'self'--equivalently, their sense of identity is dissolute.

Thus (to bring the discussion back in context) my statement was not about 'correctness' or 'taboo,' but the fact that the conflict is _over_ what is 'correct' and 'taboo.' There is a vague discomfort in this topic with the idea of 'girl power.' The wave is beginning to build in the other direction. But those who stray too far, to identify with their group, are shot down by the taboo. (Incidentally, I was not trying to toe that line, merely trying to comment on the line's existence.)

We are not in stasis. At some point the wave will have crashed and those 'privileged' with 'unprivileged' status will lose that privilege, and those 'unprivileged' with 'privileged' status will as well.

Finally, I consider myself 'queer.' Examine which 'status' that accords my viewpoint, since you are readily prepared to ascribe membership to classes based on viewpoints.
Compared to the millions of people who viewed "Friday"?
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Notice on the first page of every JSTOR pdf:

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at .http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unlessyou have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use.

Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at .http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=hyi.

Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship.
We're running some very strict stuff to filter out any questionable traffic, and probably have a fair amount of false positives. Email me your IP address at help@strikesapphire.com and I can whitelist it. Having said that, if it's telling you that you should probably contact your ISP.
Your software appears to be broken. I input my email address and it said you already had it. Then I got an email with a verification link, so I clicked on the link, tried to log in, and the page said I needed to verify.
Ha. Your shit got dismantled.
Demand progress makes it sound like MIT asked the gov't not to pursue the case. But the gov't went forward anyway

http://demandprogress.org/aaron
alexis doesn't seem to agree

https://twitter.com/#!/kn0thing/status/93374221685755904

one talks about a merger and the other of an acquisition
I'd love to chat. Please reach out to me - not sure the most proper way to do that in an HN thread. I am apinstein on GitHub or check out tourbuzz.net contact page.

I was at php|works Atlanta, but I didn't present. I have presented it at ATLPHP before. I've presented on other topics as well though and usually at least mention that I created phocoa during my bio.

Our position isn't just PHP actually, but that is our primary back-end language. Probably makes the other commenters' posts about multi-language experience all the more relevant. We do a lot of front-end work in Javascript and we use ruby a decent amount as well (rake, chef, capistrano).
Hackers leave CIOs on edge
Conjecture? Since his previous projects seem to involve downloading and analyzing huge sets of data.

This does not necessarily mean shovelling the articles out to file-sharing sites.
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I get the same notice...
A shoot-em-up (top-down view) next. I've not yet chosen my tool yet. But I fell in love with Polycode coz it abstracts the OpenGL APIs and gives you a nice set of Lua APIs.

I thought pong was simple to start with. But Pong in itself is not that simple when it has to be 'complete'. Realized that gamedev isn't that simple as web dev :)
I'd put money on it: The potential customer base for a prediction market would have a huge overlap with bitcoin miners. They're valuable for research and possibly even policy[1], but seem to be on shaky legal ground in most places.

[1]http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.html
Cute, but does not work with bash builtin echo, for which two -n's equals one -n.

bash-3.2$ echo -n -n foo
foobash-3.2$

Like always with echo -n, no matter what you try, it's not portable.
My iPod does.
Keto and Paleo people will argue that good, cerebral food is also very tasty.

Think about a dessert that requires pig fat in its recipe.
//You are not expected to understand this

Definitely one of the best comments ever.
Huh? This is no more than a regurgitation of the source [1]

[1] - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-c...
Yeah, it said he went in at least once to swap out the external disk. I assumed it was USB and not eSATA or something.

Also, it's a lot easier to find the owner of a Amazon account (credit card) than a "ghost" laptop under a cardboard box in a closet.
The 10 most ambitious science experiments in the universe today
IANAL, but in the modern world, that can result in a lot of potential legal hassles. E.g. company gets sued, and suddenly your personal computer gets subpoenaed in the process. You're without your laptop AND other people are looking at potentially embarrassing personal data, etc.
Out of curiosity, where do you live/host? I've been thinking about creating a bitcoin poker game but it would probably be foolish from the US
Please try again. I see what happened, I had just done a testrun of cloudflare on the game server, and it wasn't talking to the playerservers anymore because the new DNS hadn't propagated yet. The system is distributed on a few continents. If it still doesn't work, give it about 5 minutes. I know it's a funny time to test that out, when this is ranking on the front page of HN, but it's actually less stress than when I start having a lot of real bets riding. I haven't announced this elsewhere, yet.
You're chasing your own semantic tail here. The point that the parents are making is that copyright is an artificial subjugation of immaterial goods to behaviors and laws that naturally apply only to material goods.

Ideas and expressions, by nature, entertain no notion of scarcity. Copyright is an attempt to artificially introduce scarcity and grant control to the newly rarefied goods.

This process is, by nature, fraught with contrivance, and thus prone to abuse and ludicrous corner cases, such as the case where a monkey steals a guy's camera, and the guy then claims ownership of the monkey's work.
Microsoft opens Garage, an incubator to spark innovation among employees
The browsers are fixing this; no plugins should be needed.
> heart rate straps like the polar or garmin attach to the chest

FWIW, Garmin also makes watches with built-in hart rate sensors and ANT+ integration, although these are rather pricey ($100 including USB stick).

> and require skin contact. This is not always desirable if you are, say, sharing the sensor, or engaging in casual (not athletic) use.

Doesn't your sensor also require skin contact?

> Your BOM above does not account for the heart-rate strap signal receiver.

The USB stick I mentioned is $30 from Amazon. The strap is $35, also from Amazon (prices are similar for co.uk). This is assuming a wireless 2.4GHz heart rate -> PC interface without a 'duino in the loop.

> Add $15 for the Polar Heart Rate module at Sparkfun, or $60 if you want it on a PCB. Plus the engineering and lashup time.

I'm not talking about Sparkfun, I'm talking about off-the-shelf stuff you can buy from Amazon.

> (full disclosure: I'm one of the Pulse Sensor Creators)

I thought as much :)

> the Pulse Sensor outputs analog waveform based on blood oxygen content with some people the waveform shows systolic and diastolic components.

What kind of applications do you have in mind for this? I doubt you'll want to measure blood pressure with this thing, it's wildly inaccurate and if I understand correctly, blood pressure varies throughout the body. It also doesn't really change over short periods of time?

> Heart straps will only send out one ping per beat.

Like I said above, I don't think this sensor is doing much more than that, but I might be wrong. I mean, it's a neat way of doing it for sure, but I don't think you should try to sell it as anything more than a low-cost heart-rate sensor, and maybe a trendy earring :)

> This Pulse Sensor may have some limitations. It may get noisy if you're being really athletic, for example, and it might not like being drenched in sweat.

I believe you guys designed it for MMI, so I don't really see much of a problem in that. Besides, everybody knows nerds don't like to work out anyway.

> But for that it's applicability is very unlimited indeed. Specially if it's coupled with ANT+.

I think your sensor is useful for hobby projects because of its low cost and simplicity, and because it can easily interface with 'duino. I could certainly see it being sold on SF or a similar site. I can also see it used in installations where a user inserts his/her finger into a slot to influence the visuals for example.
I think I've just loosened the restriction that was stopping you, but I'm not sure. Try again now...
Btw iOS doesn't suffer from fragmentation like Android does, make sure to blame it on lazy developers.
Paging Vivek Wadhwa to write an article about Immigrants' children doing well in STEM. (6 out of 20 finalists are Indian-American) [1]

[1] http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/finalists.html
Not going to believe this unless I'll see a federation protocol (or at least official promise of such), so I could possess and host my own identity (not Google Account) hosted on my own physical server, possibly integrated with my own services (XMPP, email) and communicate with G+.

Maybe I've not looked much (I've just Googled a bit and had no results) and there's some?

For now, G+ is just another Facebook. With a minor differences.
Boom or bubble? Is there a difference? (Honestly, I don't mean this as a rhetorical joke.)
From being UX designer to being a Product Manager
For a Services Business, a Blog Trumps a Website
The motive behind that wasn't about people not being skilled outside their current language (which I agree would be amusing), but that I wasn't sure trying to pitch a PHP job to ruby/python/java developers was going to be successful.

I guess seeing all the PHP-bashing that happens in the world (especially on HN) made me a little gunshy about approaching high-level devs to work on our project.

Fortunately thanks to some very well-made points and stories shared on this thread, I am now optimistic that I should be able to convince devs used to "better" languages that working on a PHP project could still be cool and a good learning experience.

This thread has been really great for me. Thanks, HN!
But why is a reminder is needed? If you exclude computer science, women received the majority of bachelor's degrees in science since the late 80s. It was 60% in 2008 and probably even higher today.
They seem to still be pretty pissed at him.
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You will learn from the biggest mistakes, but you will damage a lot from them. It's all about balance !
Google+ iPhone App Pushes Out Speedy Update
We Can Stop Wondering Now (Nortel patent sale investigation)
Your function isn't close to linear. Here are my benchmarks for 10 iterations of sorting:

patio11:
100000 -- 120.469834
10000 -- 1.218803
1000 -- 0.019961
100 -- 0.000958

Array.shuffle:
100000 -- 0.054125
10000 -- 0.002993
1000 -- 0.000302
100 -- 4.1e-05
Why is the outer while(1) loop needed? Seems redundant to me.
Please reach out to me, I'd love to chat. I'm not sure what is the most proper way to do that in an HN thread. I am apinstein on GitHub or check out tourbuzz.net contact page (feel free to call).
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The Gap between Core and Casual - the Premium Casual
That's very strange. Maybe it's a flash version issue? Because I watch NASL all the time on my air (which sounds like the same hardware as yours but maybe slightly worse) and it runs great.

Well, flash drains my battery like nothing else, but that's just flash video. Same thing happens to me on YouTube.
Those opening sentences are a grammatical nightmare. I like the piece, but that's a harsh opening... might want to fix that.
this is insanely illegal in the U.S. -- it can get you in trouble and it can get Bitcoin in trouble
Yeah, flag and move on. No value here.
BBEdit used John Gruber's BBColors file format. In fact, if you used BBColors in the past, BBEdit 10 will automatically recognize your color schemes and import them. Gruber provides 3 colors schemes:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/bbcolors/

And here is a copy of the Solarized themes:

https://github.com/rcarmo/textwrangler-bbedit-solarized

search for "BBColors" to a few more
Undergraduate grade inflation, quantified
result |= x ^ y

means

result = result | (x ^ y)

means

result = result 'bitwise-or' (x 'bitwise-xor' y)
Portland Seed Fund unveils first 8 investments
The indictment mentions only one laptop, BTW. No indication he signed up with "different laptops".
If $99 is a little steep (and for me, it was), PenguiNet is a pretty good, mostly-modern SSH client. I purchased a license and it's been worth it.

http://www.siliconcircus.com/
The salaries of Ithaka Harbors Inc. (JSTOR's holding company), a supposedly not-for-profit organisation are indeed bloated. See pp. 7-8, 23, 26 of http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2009/133/857/2009-1338...
The problem is that Apple somehow thinks their updates are worth charging for. If someone has to update from 3.x to 4.x, the price of your app just went from $.99 to $10.99.
I was working with a large retailer to develop a free iOS app. For the initial release, they wanted to target the widest number of users that they could, so our requirements were 3.1+ only. We included a bunch of analytics to track use and client statistics.

After being live for 45 days, it has around 50,000 users total at this point. Of those 50,000 users, less than 2% (817) were using pre-4.0 devices.

At that point, it was easy to convince them to abandon 3.x support for the next version, which will greatly simplify a lot things for us. I'm anxious to see how quickly 5.0 is adopted once it hits.
I agree there's a high risk potential for that. At the end of the day, no money is withdrawn without a manual check on it. The other vectors, like injection and no money's stored on the live servers. There are constant backups and mirrors to servers around the world, so at worst, the site could suffer a couple hours of downtime and we'd have to comp a few people. I'm limiting signups to 50 per month, at first, until I can afford to hire more help; right now I've got floor managers, and yes, I have lawyers, and yes, the guy who posted about finding an attorney is a fed who I think just tried to sign up with a fake IP address. But we control the throttle and this will only do what it's supposed to do; I won't put players at risk of losing if we get hacked, but if we do there are backups and people on standby to clean up the mess.
A solid legal argument for switching your MAC address, hiding a laptop in a closet, and deliberately concealing your face to try to avoid recognition? He isn't going to win that defense.
That’s stupid, though. iPod touches can competently locate themselves (it’s actually astonishingly precise – at least in cities) even without GPS. Oh, and the app should already behave gracefully when determining the location fails – GPS is most certainly not always available.

It’s just dumb.
Hopefully you are being sarcastic. In case you were not, I've downvoted you.
And so many people mean it's a bubble, it can't be one. Real bubble are not seen by much people, except when they blast. Everyone knows the 2000 crash now. How many bubble repeated themselves in the same scenario in the modern history in a 10y timeframe?
Ahh, you mean iPodTouch updates. Phone and iPad updates are free.
High Performance Evented Unit Testing for PHP 5.3+
This sounds very hypocritical. If their "Mission and Work" is to support scholarly work and academic usage, and encourage usage of large sets of data, why are they suing Aaron's ass instead of working with him to further understand what were his needs that their system was lacking and how they could reduce that gap? Why else would Aaron hack their system if not for research?

Sounds like instead of spending money in improving their system and security, they found a more beneficial (to their eyes) approach: charging Aaron will instead set the example.

Edit: see @mbreese's correction.

Edit 2: looks like my comment missed some important pieces of the puzzle. See further down the thread.
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It's not that hard to come up with programming questions. It's harder to come up with relevant ones. What sort of algorithms do your devs actually use?

Do you need to know if they can write parameterized queries in SQL? Do you need to know if they can do simple web crawling or scraping? String manipulation? Or do they need to know how to do linked lists, hashes and binary searches?

I think you'd do better if, rather than making them redo old CS assignments, you focused on job-relevant tests.
People who feel they have to talk about themselves in the third person tend to be rather untrustworthy.
Amex + Facebook Likes + Social Graph (Screenshot of new Deal Platform)
Thanks for including the Opera browser!
I subscribed to the NASL stream and paid $25 and suffered a similar awful experience related to video quality. Any questions on how to fix it on their chat was met with anger from mods, with answers not to spam even though I asked once or twice the most, and now my comments are getting downvoted in this thread. I really liked Justin.tv and had intended on paying for more streams, but it seems like a big joke to me as far I can see.
RE: Any updates? "Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?"
I was just wondering if there were any updates on this thread here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2763932

OP set up an updated survey and said he/she would share the results in a few days.

I'm in a salary negotiation situation right now. I feel like this information would greatly help me out and I'm curioso to see the numbers as well.

Just making sure it doesn't die.