skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The indictment asserts that Mr. Swartz intended to distribute the files downloaded but did not substantiate this claim. I wonder what proof they have of this? (There are, of course, a great many laws dealing with probable intent that need only convince a jury of said intent without demonstrating it's validity.)
Perhaps they just have some special arrangements for people entering (big) contests.
> Families are free.

Ha. Hahaha. Hahahahaha.
33. Swartz intended to distribute a significant portion of JSTOR’s archive of digitized journal articles through one or more file-sharing sites.
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See http://cl.ly/0J082m04082N1G3C1C2o

For 5 or less tabs it requires two tabs to browse between tabs, vs. 1 tap for a bottom tab bar that is persistent.

Also as mentioned in the talk the user has just arrived from a launcher, which is why it's poor design to show another one.
The man is a heroic martyr, who risked everything to set knowledge free. (Knowledge most of which was produced at the public's expense!)

He may very well die in prison.

Or perhaps he will be forced to publicly recant and merely be forbidden from using computers. I hope that in the latter case he will have the good sense to emigrate.

One day, his tormentors will be harshly punished. Unless, of course, "the future is a boot stamping on a human face — forever."

"Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lulu_of_the_Lotus-Eaters)
Where are the API specifications for developing on top of google+?
Obligatory 'this is a first release' disclaimer :D
Yeah, I was laughing about how an Acer laptop took down their service and did damage to their network. If I was JSTOR, I wouldn't prosecute just because it makes our company look ridiculous.
Finally, a few months into the job, I wrote “break” where I meant “continue,” and caused our payments servers to shutdown one-by-one over the course of several weeks.

So, they don't write tests at justin.tv, and they don't do automatic deployment? Sounds like a great place to work at...
Can't find where huddle messages are stored on the web interface !?
"Does anyone think it's odd that an Acer laptop could write these files to disk faster than JSTOR could serve them?"

Nope. I bet the JSTOR servers are serving many concurrent requests. If he had the servers to himself then yes, that would be surprising.
It's still less familiar than the bottom tab bar which is optimal for 5 or less tabs. (fewer taps required to browse between screens).
Oh, so some articles are available to buy, and the subscription includes those and more? I thought the subscription was the subset.
When thinking about bubbles, I like to turn the question around and ask myself: Is it possible to grow for many years without any bubbles?

I would say no. And that is why while I suspect what we're in is no where near as big as the .COM bubble was, the road ahead is also not smooth. But then gain, ups and downs are also nothing new or worth worrying much about.

The very early stages of .com 2.0 produced some of my favorite startups. And the most optimistic part of me is curious about what great things will rise form the ashes of this/next bubble.
IANAL, but legally speaking unauthorized access is a crime regardless of how easy it was to gain access.
Even with some of my more obscure projects on Github (like a ZNC module that sends IRC notifications to my phone via Notifo) have garnered some observers, forks, and pull requests with features or improvements that I probably never would have gotten if it had either been on my own repo hosting.
33. Swartz intended to distribute a significant portion of JSTOR’s archive of digitized journal articles through one or more file-sharing sites.

How do they know this? Has he said something to that effect?

--edited for formatting.
It is not impossible to imagine a code of morality which views his alleged actions as ethical.
> Does anyone think it's odd that an Acer laptop could write these files to disk faster than JSTOR could serve them?

Why would that be odd? SATA = 3 Gbps throughput with minimal overhead, Ethernet = 1 Gbps with lots of overhead (IP headers, Ethernet headers, HTTP headers)
I heard 1.5 million.
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I wonder what they'll push for. He sounds pretty screwed if this evidence pans out. Looks like he could even end up with a few years' time if the prosecutors want.

1. Wire fraud maxes out at 20 years outside of a presidentially-declared emergency. No fine cap, it seems. http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/18C63.txt

2. Computer fraud under 1030(a)(4) caps out at 5 years with no prior offense, no fine cap. http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/18C47.txt

3. 1030(a)(2), (c)(2)(B)(iii) looks to be another cap of 5 years. Ibid.

4. 1030(a)(5)(B), (c)(4)(A)(i)(I),(VI) looks like another cap of 5 years. Ibid.

IANAL, just trying my best to read the code itself.
The repeated use of "stole" in the indictment is interesting, even beyond the usual metaphorical usage to discuss copyright infringement.

In this case, the indictment alleges that the documents were stolen from JSTOR, which does not even own them! In the vast majority of cases JSTOR scanned documents whose copyright is owned by someone else, and acquired or was donated a non-exclusive license to distribute copies via its service. In many cases the documents are even public domain. The indictment continues the theft metaphor by discussing the effort and expense JSTOR incurred in scanning the documents, and the alleged attempt to render this less valuable by redistributing "its" documents, analogizing this to the loss someone suffers in a theft.

But effort expended to build a private repository consisting of copies of things you don't own doesn't give you ownership of the result, any more than Google Books doing the same has given them ownership of the documents that they've scanned. If you scraped Google and "stole" their scans, you would be violating Google's Terms of Service, and Google might indeed feel subjectively like you've taken something of value (their exclusive access to this repository of scans), but I think it would be a stretch to say that you've "stolen" "their" documents.
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HE MAY VERY WELL DIE IN PRISON.

Can we be done with this thread? I know for a fact that I am not the only one who has flagged it. No good can come of this. In a likely worst case given who we're talking about, Aaron will be prodded into commenting publicly on a criminal case.

FLAGGED.
Make your webcam a motion detection camera.
Wow! Everything looks amazing. You really did a good job trying to make it look good. Unfortunately, it's not something I would really use.
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It's actually not as bad as that anymore. Adobe CF has traditionally been pretty poor (though it's better these days) but there are great alternatives now (Railo is a top notch open source alternative).

I wouldn't ever expect to convince anyone who had ever worked on an old CF site to move back to CF ever again (believe me, I'm still scarred from it) but it's actually pretty good these days (Railo, that is).

My experience isn't limited either; Rails, Django, Flask, .Net (Umbraco), CodeIgniter, Drupal to name a few. They all have their warts. I hate to say it but in my experience Railo (CF) is way more performant than any of them.
I think both of your options are horrible,

I can say much the same about your options. Granted, child slavery is worse than child labor. However child labor is still not acceptable. And if a company like, say, Nike was to use that as an excuse for having their shoes made by child labor, I'd find that unacceptable.

...and specifically selected to be offensive.

Of course. That was the point. Your argument is of the form, "We should accept A because if we don't then some people will suffer B, which is much worse." I just substituted a different pair of A and B with a relationship that is just as clear as the relationship between the things that you were describing.

The logical form of the argument is unchanged. Yet your immediate response is that both are unacceptable.
The bothersome part is all the unorganized comment drivel under the main post. What's the point? Just because you can be heard doesn't mean you should be.
Interestingly, while the Grand Jury Indictment does discuss evidence for many of the other accusations, they do not discuss any evidence for this intent-to-distribute claim.
It is a long bet, but I think the inherent advantages (in both improving search quality and in declawing Facebook) for Google of making the social features commodity will lead this to happen. It needs to happen slowly, as there are lot of unknown unknowns. The first release of the G+ API will set the tone.
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Let me humbly suggest this video: http://vimeo.com/17513355
Definitely true -- I thought it was a relevant bit of information so I quoted it.
That is a great resource halostatue, and they do a great job of explaining the revenue per device figures for iOS.

Compared to this article http://aseidman.com/2010/05/65000-new-android-devices-ship-e... which estimates that each iOS/Android user is worth only $2.64/year/user. Though I'm not sure I trust the authors methodology, and that number seems extremely low.
heart rate straps like the polar or garmin attach to the chest and require skin contact. This is not always desirable if you are, say, sharing the sensor, or engaging in casual (not athletic) use. Your BOM above does not account for the heart-rate strap signal receiver. 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.
(full disclosure: I'm one of the Pulse Sensor Creators)
The Pulse Sensor outputs analog waveform based on blood oxygen content with some people the waveform shows systolic and diastolic components. Heart straps will only send out one ping per beat.
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. But for that it's applicability is very unlimited indeed. Specially if it's coupled with ANT+.
First we complain that we cannot record police officers without getting arrested, now we complain when they document there action for all to see. :/
It isn't breaking and entering if someone repeatedly trespasses somewhere (say, banned from a store) even if they change their clothes to avoid detection.

It might not be breaking & entering, but it's still trespassing, which is a crime.
What's the point in having engineers who can't engineer because their tools are inadequate? Would you hire a carpenter to work on your office who offered to give you a 2% discount, because he has to stop several times a day to fix broken tools?

I find it bleakly amusing that so many blue-collar companies have no trouble putting a $10/hour worker in front of a $100,000 machine, while white-collar companies will do anything to avoid putting a $50/hour engineer in front of a $2000 machine.
> we should not be judging the sentience of creatures by the degree of ignorance we have.

Considering that we're usually unaware of our degree of ignorance about nearly everything, this evaluates to "we should not be judging anything since we may be ignorant about it". Which is obviously bullshit, because it would just put us in a deadlock about any decision.

And I'd probably be fairly shocked, and then I'd hope that I didn't do anything to piss it off, or to infringe on any rights I would presume it to have - which I would assume to be the same ones that I have.
I think the parent was just disappointed at using "hacking" to refer to something as mundane as getting guest accounts to the network.
They're not out yet. I'm waiting eagerly to see what degree of openness they offer. My bet is that in this first release they'll offer a compromise between openness and Google's desire to keep Google+ a service that works well for its users.

To me, that's the biggest challenge in an open interoperable social layer: preserving a good user experience.
He posted on his blog yesterday that there would be a "major announcement" on blog.demandprogress.org today, but nothing has been posted.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/updates
V6's assembly version also does less. The reason GNU's is so complex is because it has a line-numbering feature (cat -n) not supported in V6 or V7, and also tries to read and write large chunks, to avoid overhead from calling stdio functions in a loop. It also tries to take advantage of non-portable extensions where possible, but fall back to portable code when not supported. Yeah, it looks a bit complex at first, but it's not really that bad if you actually take the time to read it.
This is the most technically competent charging document I've ever read. I guess there must have been some hackers on the grand jury.

Paragraph 35 & 36: which "protected computer" on MIT's network did he access? Certainly they're not trying to claim his laptop was a protected computer? Are they talking about the DHCP server or whatever registration frontend MIT has for the DHCP assignments? I have trouble with the concept that a violation of a computer use agreement (when there are no operative security barriers in place) constitutes a violation of the computer fraud and abuse act. Then again, I've always thought that act was vague and therefore overbroad.

Obviously what he did was bad in some sense (at least from the perspective of JSTOR and MIT), but even if it should be a crime rather than a civil dispute or internal disciplinary action at MIT, I don't like the fact that just about any misbehavior on the internet becomes a federal case because the probability of no interstate resources being used is very low.

Finally, I take issue with the notion that someone who is accessing a service through a public interface is criminally responsible for downtime if too high an access rate causes service degradation or an outage. The claims that JSTOR's servers were overloaded and (one?) even went down at some point are clearly there to set up a later claim of damages. Haven't they heard of rate limiting (in this case, since it was a rogue laptop stashed in a data closet, rate limiting by IP)? That wouldn't work against a concerted denial of service attack, but this was no denial of service attack. JSTOR seems to have been relying on manual intervention to stop article leeching that could lead to a (partial) outage. That's naive, and not a good idea.
Things are not quite as wild-west at Justin.tv as they once were. We now have QA (Thanks B!), monitoring and deploy management.

I think most small teams start with minimal qa and testing (not the recommended approach) and thus things like this happen often. Rapid development becomes blitzkrieg.
It's funny on multiple levels. Physically abusing testicles and the Ruby on Rails reference being the two obvious ones.

If you change the name as you suggest, then it's significantly less funny. Funny is an important component of fun.
Thanks - appreciated!
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The economics in the article are faulty because they do not include the considerable amounts of staff time entailed in swapping coumputers out. Those include not just the obvious time spent acquiring a computer such as determining what is available, comparing specs and pricing, ordering, receiving and physical installation, but also all the productivity losses which configuring a new computer entails - e.g. installing and configuring all the various pieces of software for the new OS installation which invariably accompanies those Macbooks which the author advocates (the same would hold true for Windows machines as well and even the drivers on Linux would have to be tweeked for new hardware). And lest we forget, there's handling and disposing of the old computer which also takes time.

It's the sort of thing which can easily consume 40 person hours - even without the considering the inevitable time lost playing around with the new toy.

Finally, there's dealing with the inevitable pissing and moaning which accompanies any change - some people just want their damn computer left alone because it works fine, thank you very much. Other's wanted the 15" MBP not the 17", while the OSS fanbois cannot believe that they were once again thwarted in favor of commercial software.
I get a 403 from MIT.edu so here are 1000 downloads of the pdf http://lts.cr/i/21cc51
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It's in and out, thanks for the link.
Or just declare a large static buffer.
PHP is very easy to read, very easy to pick up. However, it is full of bizarre edge cases. It seems like every function definition is followed by at least 3 comments saying "Just so you know, you will try to do this - > PHP actually does this."

Alternately there are 5 comments showing boilerplate for the most common use case, and none of them are quite what I'm looking for.

Compare to Python, 9 times out of 10, the boilerplate 4-line example (in the primary documentation) is exactly what I'm looking for.

I think PHP might actually have a good language lurking inside of it, but someone would need to rewrite most of the standard functions and classes by going through the comments on their documentation and asking "Why doesn't this function solve the problem this bit of boilerplate solves?"
That's fair, I was just refuting what your comment implied, that it was an unethical action.

(I understand that you may not have intended to imply it. Just wanted to put that out there.)

So since we don't disagree on that: Do you think what he did is ethical?

edit: also, boston.com says he "is a fellow at Harvard’s University’s Center for Ethics". A quick google says that he was at least as of October 2010:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=swartz+ethics+fello...
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Sure, I speak fluent Japanese, and sure, I can teach what I know. I'm Australian, but I've been living in Japan for 10 years. I'd be happy to introduce you to anyone I know in Australia, but unfortunately I'm a bit out of touch with Australia these days, having lived overseas for so long.
Huddles are even more confusing here - when I target my "Friends" circle, it populates the field with specific the names of everyone in that list, including people who aren't in Plus yet. Are they going to get an annoying nag e-mail that I do NOT want to send? I don't know, so I'm not using Huddles yet.

This problem is arising frequently for me with Circles - I'm not exactly sure what the impact will be beyond blanket posts to Friends and Public.
Can you do a full breakdown of how this was built? Love the page flipping transition!
This all hinges on what he was going to do with the documents. If he was looking to perform some large-scale analysis (such as he has done before) and publish the results academically, then this would fall under the academic mission of MIT, and therefore be legit. But if this were the case, why go through the hassle of hacking the system? Why not just ask JSTOR for cooperation? Or maybe he did, and they rejected it?

There has got to me more to this story, because I just can't for the life of me believe that he would download the documents to "free" them on internet (as is alleged).
Yeah, that bothered me too. Especially on page 14, where they demand that he give back the "proceeds obtained." How is that going to be determined in such an unrealistic sense?
Looking at those charts, it looks like he could have claimed the same thing 2, 4, and 6 years ago and would have been wrong each time.

Things never fell back to the 1994 level. In fact, it looks like they didn't fall too far below where they're at now.

I was a lot more worried about a tech bubble -before- I saw those charts.
I think within 10 years we'll either be using dumb terminals using cloud servers for processing (streaming video ala OnLive), or we'll be using dumb terminals using our phones as the CPU (and using cloud storage).

Either way, lots of dumb terminals where you can just sit down anywhere and have access to your entire computing environment instantly.
Nothing you said there is really bad.

>Is this evidence?

Could be. Notice the time stamps. Nice to have exact times logged on something you don't own.

>Useful?

Kind of works as a radio scanner. I would say neither useful nor not useful.

>Or is this community outreach and warnings to criminals, that the police are on their way?

Really? You seriously wrote that. Grasping for stuff to get pissed at aren't ya.

>And the added distraction of tweeting whilst working?

Now you are just making yourself up set. The supervisor probably allowed this. With an app it takes no more than a few seconds to send a tweet.

>Live police copcasts?

We all complain that there needs to be transparency, yet when a way to provide it appears we seem to mock it. Can't please everyone as they say.

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@Freeman0032 Hopefully the use of Twitter will allow us to reach new audiences and communities with key crime prevention messages and news.

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Which of the HN guidelines does this violate?
The founders didn't design things they way they did because they traveled by horse (and I highly doubt it took a week from Monticello to Philadelphia), they designed things so that only the most capable citizens would be elected to leadership. They say this explicitly in the Federalist Papers (ok, maybe that bit was Hamilton, but still). They rejected direct democracy: by framing the nation as a "republic", with the assumption that only landowners would vote, through the electoral college, through the creation of the Senate, and by vesting remaining powers to the States. The term "democracy" is hard to find in American political discourse prior to the McKinley administration (the start of American imperialism) and didn't really get going until Wilson (entry into WWI). The most populist Presidents (Jackson and Bush II) have notably been among the worst.

Then again, if this tool really scales to 300M people, what's to stop the delegation of votes from leading to the same representative power structures and coalitions (which have more to do with game theory and human psychology than the prevailing mode of transport)?
Should we build buildings with primitive tools that we used hundreds or thousands of years ago? I mean, builders back then built things just fine, we're so spoiled with our power tools and motor vehicles.
They are talking about theft of services, not copyright infringement. In any event these charges are going to be very difficult to beat since they're federal, even though there are some obvious holes in the indictment. It will be almost impossible to get any of the evidence thrown out even if there was an illegal search and seizure. His best bet is probably to get the Harvard legal team to go to bat for him, although it's difficult to say how likely that is.
From Openness to Abundance
/bin/echo on debian sid (x86):

13 .text 000028dc 08048b90 08048b90 00000b90 24
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE

/bin/cat on debian sid (x86):

13 .text 0000775c 080491b0 080491b0 000011b0 24
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE

That's 12kb and 32kb, respectively. It may have been a lot back in the day, but it's plenty small enough on today's systems.
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The presence/lack of a camera and th compass are differences between iPhones and older iPod Touches.

The "nearby" and photo features seem pretty baked into the Android version. It just may not be worth the wait to condition those features and start the QA process for v.1
First time I've ever actually laughed on Hacker News.
> no operative security barriers in place

I don't know... Even if my front door was open, you still aren't allowed to enter my house without my permission.
Medium chill