skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that he's fully ethical and it's our laws that are on the wrong side here. Pity the latter have the guns...
mod_python is kind-of a pain to get going actually, and recommended against these days.

mod_wsgi on the other hand... 4 lines in your apache config file. 6 if you're using a daemon process (which is better).
The papers are from JSTOR, not MIT. MIT pays for a subscription to JSTOR like many other universities do.
FTA: This is more than one hundred times the number of downloads during the same period by all the legitimate MIT JSTOR users combined

It sounds like he was using the majority of their resources. But maybe those servers serve lots of places, and they only mentioned MIT as an example.
He found ways to get around the (minor) protections put in place using a computer. That fits the colloquial definition of hacking. We don't own the term anymore - if we ever did.
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Well, I'm going to guess that the prosecution is putting that in there just in case they can get the jury to agree. They can claim anything they want, the jury has to decide if it's true without a doubt.
No functional programming whatsoever?

PHP 5.3, which certainly does provide that, is more than two years old. (And it also introduced late static binding and a few other tweaks and benefits to make its OOP significantly better.)
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But is it clear that MIT does not also store its research papers in JSTOR instead of making them publicly available? Reading the article I did not get that impression.
The key here, as it states, is that they "built their own framework/libraries"
In the end, isn't that what everybody is doing anyway?
Depends, the 1st generation iPod touch is stuck on 3.1.3 which means you lose out on the newer, much easier to use and less buggy APIs
Better, can you get it to be rebroadcast on a server? I'm sure that somebody, somewhere, is gonna be sharing this as soon as they get the world folder off that thing.
Is he in jail? For this? I'd be shocked. I think even Mark Abene made bail, and he reprogrammed telco switches.
Or she asked politely. I find that the younger you are the easier it is to get things.

When I was in high school I wanted to get into video games badly. I found someone at the local EA office, got to meet him, got introduced around, and even got his mentorship on a few projects. All of this, I think, based on the notion that I'm a smart-lookin' 16 year-old student.

Try getting that with just a phone call when you're out of school and in your 20s and 30s.
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Very good "Your browser is not compliant page." The Opera browser is CSS3, 3D Transform, Node.js capable. If you are doing certification using a browser check, do the following: Tell the user their website is not optimized for their browser, suggest the browsers as you have it on your site, then provide the user with the option to continue ahead with their current browser.

Here is a link to the logo so you can add it: (http://media.opera.com/media/images/icon/Opera_512x512.png)

Edited to be more constructive and helpful in addressing the issue.
Former Reddit Director & Harvard Fellow Charged With Hacking MIT Computer
Just out of interest ...

My life has been much, much better as a result.

How do you know this? You didn't live the other life, so you seem just to be speculating about how the other life may have turned out. You know know that the life you chose really is better.

Or do you?
This is great. I have been trying to figure out what a MVP is. Is a landing page with a description of your product and a sign up form considered a MVP?
I suspect this is a big part of the decision. It certainly would be if I were making the call ... if the UX isn't perfect, you're going to get idiots giving it 1-star reviews and generally complaining. I'm not sure I'd want to release anything that didn't have a standalone/offline mode for the Touch, just because I suspect that users operate them out of range from WiFi much of the time. (Or at least I see users playing with them where there isn't Wifi pretty often.)

Maybe someone will find an unofficial way of easily getting it onto the Touch ... that would make users who really know what they're doing happy, while also preventing the sort of people who are going to give it a 1-star rating when it doesn't work in the subway from installing it.
Nice idea and design, however chimps are NOT brown!
He is accused of stealing bandwidth from JSTOR, not the documents. "Theft of services" not theft of property. Theft of bandwidth is almost as absurd as theft via copying. JSTOR apparently isn't interested in free transmission of knowledge
Propaganda goes only so far; look what happened to the Soviets.
Thanks! Igor's email is actually quite simple. You take igor then add this @ then his surname and it all is ending in dot ru :) If it's all too complicated, follow us @nginxorg and I will DM Igor's contact. Alternatively there's an active list here http://nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
If he isn't, he will be soon.

I will be surprised if he is allowed into an airport.
You're assuming that they actually have real control over player performance on your particular hardware setup, when in fact they have almost no control over it. Go ask Adobe and Apple why flash video (especially anything that isn't h.264) playback occasionally (definitely if you're talking about pre-10.6) sucks on OS X.
This is true, but bootstrapped businesses with steady growth and a profitable model don't exactly fit the interests of venture capitalists, of whom the author of this article is one.
which is all true and good, but doesn't change the fundamental unfairness that it ranges from discouraged to taboo to say something like "Guy power!" or "Yeah, go men!"

how many bright men are internalizing messages detrimental to their education and career choices? maybe a little guy power would help them keep going in the face of subtle etc.
So the server stores a keypair for the given account, and the keypair is encrypted with the account password. The keypair itself, once "unlocked" on the client-side, is then used to encrypt/decrypt a nonce at login time.

The inherent trait of this approach is that an attacker gets everyone's encrypted keypairs "for free", and can brute-force away. My hope was that the keypair's own encryption is more resilient to brute-forcing than a hash.

But that's very much questionable.
Thanks for the reply. I had been thinking of submitting the NYT article but based on your response decided to hold off. Not sure I think that flagging it is the right thing but I don't want to pour gasoline on the flames.
> somehow "owns" its archive

It does own its archive. They just may not own the exclusive copyright to the contents of the archive... there is a subtle distinction.
39% of servers are virtual
The basic concepts of OOTB Minecraft include bugginess and poor performance. Don't be afraid to make something new.
Don't... need? What? ;)

So, if you already have hardware you like, use that and take the money as bonus. Or get a big monitor.
When I was younger, on a whim I decided to drive West until I got bored. I made it from the Atlantic coast of Virginia (Williamsburg, specifically) to Lawrence, Kansas (about 1200 miles - a little less than halfway across the US) before I got bored. I then spent the night in a crappy hotel, turned around and drove back.
Oh, you're trolling. OK.
My work dev laptop is bitchin fast, but runs slower than my 3 yr old personal.

Because of useless software (cya-ware) installed by corporate IT.

Useless anti-virus crap (ever hear of sudo?), ridiculous hard drive encryption, remote monitoring/management stuff.

Just working in Eclipse, I often wait every single keystroke. Yes, Eclipse is mostly a pig, and I've disabled/closed everything I could. But I have zero hassles working on my personal laptop, even when I have video (or audio) running too.
I am working on Opera, I tested it half-way but it has some issues I will have to work out before it will work perfectly.
Do you mean one of these videos?

http://mixergy.com/wufoo-kevin-hale/

http://mixergy.com/wufoo-sold-for-35-mil-heres-the-story-beh...
>>Dr. Cerf said. "This is just a reminder that women are fully capable of doing same or better quality work than men can."

I hope those those who needed a reminder about the capabilities of girls or women see this news.

However, (and I realize this will be controversial) imo this result doesn't contradict the general notion that girls (in mainstream American culture) are discouraged (by societal and cultural pressures) from engaging in science and engineering. Two of the three girls are Indian-American and these girls presumably don't face the same pressures that most other American girls face.

For that matter, I think that women in countries like India, China, Russia etc. are much more represented in science and engineering (in their countries) than native-born women in the US.
> Your payment processor isn't going to know how much anything costs.

So?

> You'll need some (server-side) validation logic if you don't want people buying new high-end smartphones for a penny.

That validation logic should be expressed in SQL. It's really really simple. If inventory id and price match in your inventory table, insert into your transaction table.

Again, see my original point. PHP is just the glue for the database.
I think 18USC1030 is pretty broad in its definition of a "computer". Back in the MBTA hacking case, MBTA claimed a magnetized piece of paper was a computer under this clause, and the first judge that looked at it bought that (sanity prevailed and that decision was later over-ruled). I wouldn't be surprised if they are considering the MIT network or at least the routers that were configured to prevent his access the protected computer in this case.
> Compare that to setting up e.g. Django or Rails.

Can't speak for rails, but for Django we're talking 15 lines and a pair of commands for a clean setup:

* Create a virtualenv with all your dependencies and your django application checked out (0 lines)

* Extract static files to whatever directory you're serving static files from (1 command in 1.3)

* Create your wsgi handler script (4 lines, because you have to setup the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE env)

* WSGIScriptAlias and the relevant directory allow (5 lines)

* WSGIDaemonProcess and WSGIProcessGroup configuration directives (2 lines)

done.
If i could guarantee you a million hits could you build the right product?
Worldwide pool fans: Hundreds of millions and growing

How can we distribute to them: A consortium of the top pool players in the world are looking to promote a good pool app. A simple 'flick pool' type game would be ideal. They already have some ideas around it. Again, I repeat, distribution will not be the problem as their fan base alone is in the tens of millions.

Why do they want to do this? Since tobacco adverts were banned, the money has started to go out of the game but the fan base is still there. Alternative sources of income would be welcome.

What they are looking for: Dedicated team to build it and together work out the split.

Opinions, whether good or bad, are welcome.
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That's a very nice idea, but it works only for 10% of the developers. Not all the developers are hardware geeks.

I usually upgrade my own machines, but I have to answer awkward questions from my managers ("why the hell do you need an internal 3G modem? don't you have the USB stick?" to "can you really have two hard drives in a 15" laptop?"). Sometimes I just buy the hardware and ask for a refund later, it's easier to prove that it's useful.
The reason why startups are more inclued to do so, is that extra hardware cost almost nothing, compared to salaries. The only reason not to is bureaucracy.
I'd like to see how an IDE would handle this.
Is there a way we can distill your point down further to an acronym that can be posted as the standard rebuttal to the gp's argument? It seems like we do this discussion everyday.
> A man page requires me to read the whole thing before I'm confident of what option I'm looking for, because it's presented as an unstructured list of parameters

Not necessarily. I can usually easily grep a man page for the keywords I'm looking for. Most users (even beginners) know how to search for words on a single long page of text. In fact, one of the users of my app (a content management system for biologists) has mentioned to me that he prefers to click on plain-text output instead of using default HTML paginated output because he can instantly jump to what he's looking for by using browser text search feature (I plan on providing a Javascript-based word lookup feature in the future to emulate this).
I have stated my honest opinion.

You are, however, free to believe that I was trolling. I can't stop you.

I invite the moderators to delete my account, if they believe that I am a troll. As things are, I merely refuse to go along with the herd-think on this site.
No, a great team with a lot smarts for using mobile location data for new and creative uses scores $350k.
I wouldn't want to share it like that. Forking the project continues the experience - albeit slightly different than originally intended. If it was uploaded somewhere for anyone to get, it would be no different than any other downloadable Minecraft world.

The cool part isn't the world - it's the legacy of everyone who's played before you.
Probably has a hard requirement for GPS for checkins, which the iPod doesn't have.
Every change of job I've made in the last 8 years has involved at least one change of language. In my mind a professional developer can pick up Perl or PHP or Cobol or Scala or whatever.

If somebody's got the attitude that 'Java sucks, I only want to code Ruby', that person's not a pro in my book.
In my opinion the new project view is very, very good. I also like that you can save multiple color schemes and switch between them, but it's a bit disappointing that the software didn't come with any presets other than the default. The lack of git or mercurial support is also a bit of a letdown, but with the new price currently $40 (down from $100) it's now on my short list of software to buy.
I've struggled with it and given up almost entirely because it's so hard to memorize. Surmountable with full time use, I suspect. Very inconsistent function names led me to either living from a reference book or constant Googling even when I thought I knew the name of the function I needed.
I'm using 2-factor authentication. Couldn't create an application password. Had to use my main pwd+token which is only good for 30 days. Shouldn't they allow the use of a 2-factor application password for an iOS app?
Darn. I was looking forward to all the new API changes with the major version number change.
If you are in the landing page business, then yes. Otherwise no.
That's good but it also makes it annoying to work with it. I prefer having good docs which takes me 30 seconds to scan and find what I am looking for than having the better code in the world so I go with CodeIgniter instead (the new version is pretty good).
More than likely, the document was written by the prosecutors office.

The procedure as I understand it is:

* Prosecutor assembles evidence, writes indictment.

* Prosecutor presents evidence to Grand Jury. This may include witnesses or documents.

* Grand Jury votes on if there is enough there to approve indictment

If they've got a computer crimes division, then they're going to have hacker types in the prosecutor's office to do this stuff and get the details right.

The indictment is going to be the most slam dunk part of the evidence that there is, as it's written by the prosecutor and there's no counter to it. If it doesn't look airtight, then it's probably a very weak case.

Though, looking at it here, It's not looking very good for aaronsw. The combination of mac address spoofing and a locked wiring cabinet show physical and electronic security that was bypassed, repeatedly. That's easy to explain to a jury.
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This is a very frightening belief.

How long until posting a negative comment to a blog is "unautorized access" to that blog? Gaining access was easy: all you had to do was type a comment and hit submit. But some Powers That Be decided they didn't really want you to post that, so now it's a federal computer crime.

Land of the free.
you're saying that girls don't 'come from a place' where they can develop math and science skills. it's not wrong to celebrate overcoming hardship. it's wrong to assume that the hardship of being a woman has been overcome as if there's something implicitly more difficult for _every woman_.
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If they used a red/IR LED pair instead of a single green LED they could sense oxygen concentration as well as heart rate. The absorption spectrum for oxygen-enriched blood is different in the two wavelengths. Toggle between the two LEDs fast enough and you'll only need a single light sensor, too.
First off, you're really defensive about some person's blog post. I mean, seriously. He's not working on your spleen.

Secondly, it's "lessons learned", not commandments. Just stuff he picked up whilst traveling, not universally-accepted, committee-approved advice for everyone on planet earth and those who aren't born yet.

Finally, what on earth does age have to do with conveying general observations? What would staying 10 years in Portofino tell me that I couldn't get from open exploration and friendly/social interaction in a few weeks? That they actually ship their sardines live from China and throw them into the Ligurian? Good to know, but I'm a traveler. Why do I need to know that?

"your open mind - isn't."

I don't think he conferred himself any type of honor or status about his travels that assumes he is open-minded, except to say "I had an open mind while traveling and learned some stuff. Hope you can appreciate it." He isn't bigoted against people who do or don't do anything from what I could read in that article. When he says "don't defer your happiness" he means just that: Appreciate what you've got while you're planning on attaining more if that's the goal."
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Do you really think that Fijian skiiers are analogous to women scientists?! That is messed up.

I don't think it's amazing for a woman or a girl to be accomplished in math/science, that's my point. It happens all the time.
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Have a look at http://swapped.cc/font-smoothing to see what you are getting into with webfonts.
What is the target market for this OS? I can't figure out from their website.
You really don't want to let go of this idiocy, do you ?

The examples I gave are ways in which the democratic process can be subverted. It's more than just whether you are black or gay. It's the very basis by which a citizen can freely exercise their choice.

If that choice can be interfered with then the whole principle of one person - one vote goes out the window.

If I know my vote will impact my personal future - that I, or my family could be attacked or threatened, or my career ruined, because of the way I vote - even if that is just a potential threat then I will not vote at all, or if forced to will vote safely with the herd.
thus demonstrating the conflict rather concisely. his/her* solidarity is taboo and you can attack him by saying he's just playing for the team _as if that's a bad thing._

would you do that to a girl? a more balanced equality would not qualify arguments based on group membership.

*just making a point with the 'her', I'm sure he's a guy, too.
So by many of the comments I am reading here, I get the feeling that you would all think me not a programmer's asshole because I use Notepad++ to colour my code. Guess what? Same shit, different bucket. Horses for courses, and without GUIs, computing would not be used by the masses. We'd be playing COD on our Xboxes only after typing LOAD "*",8,1. Ask Bill Gates about it some time.
Dated? By who's standards? Yours? The UN, NATO, Amnesty International and Sony all disagree with your assessment.
You seem to have a lot of comments for someone who doesn't even have a TV Drama-level understanding of the criminal justice system. You know that even people accused of murder are often free during their trials, right?
Is there a Less.app equivalent for Coffeescript? (http://incident57.com/less/)
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I'm unfamiliar with MIT's guest setup, but I assume they let you get an IP address, but before you can access anything, you have to acknowledge their terms of service / acceptable use policy. If you fail to abide by this, you'd be accessing the network without permission.

You're right that (as alleged), this would be an obvious attempt to circumvent access controls.

Given the way things are worded, I'm guessing that the MIT computer that was improperly accessed was a router or switch. Hell, just plugging into the switch directly could be construed as unapproved access to a computer device. I think the Federal law treats anything with a processor a computer.
You're cherry picking statistics: Do you think women are more likely to be homeless? Drug addicts? Do you think women are more likely to be the victims of a violent crime? More likely to be in prison?

I doubt the numbers will bear out in your favor on any of these points were we to check them.

So can we just agree that men and women have different strengths and weaknesses?

To clarify: I think it's important that women are represented in all professions (obviously software/tech is of specific concern) if only for the fact that diversity breeds innovation and discussion.
If you read the indictment you'll see that they very much are not interested in free transmission of knowledge.

They charge >$50k/yr for access: " For a large research university, this annual subscription fee for JSTOR’s various collections of content can cost more than $50,000."
Similarly, we started out in my cofounder's grandmother's house and ran our original site on a $20 shared host running a horribly unstable cgi-bin with perl. My cofounder took calls and fulfilled orders himself.
It's about time. That do remind me of Philip K. Dick's novel where the President is replaced by a computer program, tho!
I'm here for technical content. Occasionally that overlaps with politics, frequently there are other things that most technical people will be interested in, but primarily, I'm here for technical content.

This post should be of extreme interest to absolutely everyone, without exception. And it's exactly that complete generality that makes it inappropriate, in my view, for a technically focused forum such as HN.

My view is but one among many, and others may disagree, but if HN loses focus, it loses appeal to me, and to many of those whose opinions, ideas and comments I want to see.
https://plus.google.com/111499908439497508351/posts/dESepcDj...

"We discovered an issue with the version of the iPhone Google+ App that was on the App Store. When we launched, the App Store started serving a previous test version of the App which didn't have the stability and fixes that the latest version had. It started serving the correct version a little later. If you downloaded within the first 1 hour 40 mins, you may have downloaded the older test version. "
The examples I gave are ways in which the democratic process can be subverted.

OK, I finally see what your point is. I just disagree with it.
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A proof-of-concept thing I threw together yesterday. Let me know what you think!