skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in this particular case you are right.
This case is interesting because Aaron is doing this as an "activist" and as such it becomes political-legal theatre. He is friends with a bunch of lawyers and legal researchers who are working at the intersection of IP rights and freedom of information rights.

If he was just some nobody kid in Schaumburg stealing PDFs from Motorola, he'd either be in jail already or slapped on the wrist and sent home. Nobody would have heard about it, and there'd be no internet dialectic about it.
What tech did you use? An engine? How long did it take, how many people involved, etc. Give us a mini-post mortem!
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I have no idea what you're going to do with a name such as overnight pets but to me it seems you're going to start shipping pets around, and I find this idea troubling.
When you can add the the total wing tuck, it will greatly increase the mobility.
She wasn't sentenced. The charges were dropped either because the city didn't want the negative publicity or because the case would not have held up.

http://moneyland.time.com/2011/07/15/charges-dropped-against...
What's up with requiring iOS 4.3? Might as well finally apply that update I guess...
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Given the high rate of deaths on the road, the fact that we still don't take wreckless driving very seriously is frustrating.

Accidents happen, but deaths due to aggressive driving should be treated like someone aggressively using a firearm in a populated area.
Check out the projects of the winner and seven other finalists at http://donorschoose.org/winner, and 25 additional contestants that wowed the judges and DonorsChoose.org staff at http://donorschoose.org/showcase.
I see little actual science on that site. What concrete claims there are appear mostly to be conspiracy theories and attempts at "logical refutation" that are extremely similar to the kind you'll find on holocaust denial sites.

Moreover, the "electric universe" hypothesis is well-known and widely rejected by those with expertise in the subject matter. We should not simply trust extraordinary claims by some shoddy website that does little to establish its credibility.
Do you really need all that personal info on the first page of the survey? You should at least say why you need it and what's coming on the next page. Why not explain your idea first?
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And doesn't the (alleged) fact remain that he continuously circumvented virtual and physical security systems in order to mirror a reported $1.5 million worth of assets in to his personal possession?

When you boil it down it doesn't exactly sound like he should be receiving 10 hours of commuter service because he ran wget a few times. MIT and DoJ are just supposed to -assume- that he has nothing but perfectly angelic intentions with $1.5 millions dollars of an asset that he secretly obtained? I don't make that logical leap with you guys. The facts will come out. He will present his case with his defense team, and hopefully justice will be done.
I think you mean give out a private key.
We don't really know if this was an "activist" crime.

It's very possible that he just intended to analyze the documents and publish aggregated results. If that's the case, I think this prosecution is a mistake; an extreme overreaction. Scholarly analysis of JSTOR documents is not a criminal intent. His actions may leave him culpable to a variety of minor crimes, but his impact on the social good is minimal at worst.

On the other hand, it's possible (though less likely, I think) that the intent here was to mirror JSTOR onto BitTorrent. I might sympathize with this goal, but I don't think its prosecution as wire fraud is an overreaction. I'll root for Aaron at trial, though.
Isn't this in the same vein as Ajaxterm/Anyterm? I suppose most uses of those (e.g. Slicehost/Linode) are behind SSL.
Re: left vs. right and deliberation: that seems reasonable. Also sorry about the mugging. :( Still though, that doesn't address the advantage Aaron has in MA in terms of friends and enemies. And as far as public support is concerned, you can be sure that a good number of the people that support Aaron have ties to MA or Cambridge. When we talking about a couple thousand people, that goes a lot farther on the local level than on the federal level I think. A speech by a group of MIT and Harvard professors for example might make a difference in MA but surly doesn't have that big of an impact nationally. Perhaps I am seeing differences where there are none though. ^^
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See also Sand Artist Joe Castillo

http://thegrablegroup.com/entertainment/sandstory-ted-active...
Interesting. People could use it to choose their profile pictures.

But it doesn't work: I get 404: Not Found after authorizing from Facebook.
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Yup - I have no zip code, I'm not going to give you my email, and suddenly I don't care. Note - I actually went to see if I could help, but it's really badly designed.

I recommend you learn about progressive engagement.

You would be much more likely to get responses if you made a reasonable landing page where the project is outlined and pointed us at that. Also better to ask for area, city, zipcode or whatever at the end, when people are already invested.
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I hate to be "that guy" here, ESPECIALLY on hacker news, but someone has to say it, and I'm probably not the only one with my head in the gutter, but the little cross-hairs on the rockets in your screenshots turn your rockets into penises.

And then the Rocket flying out of the big O like that....

Something just feels suggestive here, and almost uncomfortable. I'll give the game a try now and hopefully provide some real constructive criticisms,

EDIT: Sorry, I can't try the game, it requires an OS version I don't have yet. Keep in mind, LOTS of people never plug their devices into their computers ever, and are still running old versions of the OS.
Yes debate quality seems to have dropped. A few years ago HN comments would put a scientific article in perspective and add important insights. Now there are tons of comments with questions at a Physics 101 or Bio 101 or Astro 101 level.

(At least that's how it appears to me.)
You could also read 'Do More Faster' by the same authors as this VC book. I've read that one and it's solid.
He didn't do anything special to get into JSTOR. Essentially he was
web scraping with a bunch of different user-names and passwords.

What about trespassing in and tampering with MIT's network closet?
People like Galileo? Einstein? Maxwell? Crick? Pasteur?

I apologize for offending sensibilies here. For those that are actually intellectually curious, I ask you to read the data. Read the data. Read the data.
THEN make up your mind.
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What does that matter? If people know you by your screen name, that's a real name. Legal names are just nick names that are recorded by the government.
In the 1990's the scoring system changed for the SAT's [1]. For example, a 700 verbal for someone on their 40's would be roughly equivalent to a 760 score for someone in their 20's. Did the data used for the graph correct for this? Otherwise, I would have expected to see an uptick in the vocabulary size around the early 30's age range.

[1] http://www.greenes.com/html/convert.htm
Ask HN: How do entrepreneurs find programmers to team up with for startups?
I wanted to try to find out how startup entrepreneurs without a programming background (like myself); can find a programmer to team up with for a new start up. Do you find potential partners at events? Is there a website with a list of events that you can go to, to meet these programmers or other aspiring entrepreneurs with programming experience? Is there a network? I have the idea but getting the idea onto a website and making it work is what I’m having trouble with. Any help would be much appreciated.
To paraphrase Feynman, this might have some relevance to the situation:

"...he also worked with Shireen Barday at Stanford Law School to assess “problems with remunerated research” in law review articles (i.e., articles funded by corporations, sometimes to help them in ongoing legal battles), by downloading and analyzing over 400,000 law review articles to determine the source of their funding. The results were published in the Stanford Law Review."
You might be interested in this video, Alan Kay's Keynote in OOPSLA '97

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2950949730059754521

At the half hour mark, he starts talking about biology and programming, and the possibility of trying to design software in such a manner.
(Disclaimer: MS Employee) I don't think that the majority of people focus on gaming the system - the best way to game the system is still by doing awesome work.
Argghh! I knew I should have spent more time spellchecking. I guess that isn't my strong suit. After seeing it so many times I kinda blank it.. thanks for the heads up.
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The Founders Fund might be willing to fund you:

http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/founders-fu...
Then you don't do business in california for the time being until you get that funding to pay for all the paperwork.
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Hmm. What would you say about the Werkzeug debugger? It's been around a while but also allows in-browser console debugging.

http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/debug/
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A more tractable problem is genetic Acovea (Analysis of Compiler Options via Evolutionary Algorithm), a genetic algorithm to find the "best" optimization CFLAGS for compiling programs with gcc. Unfortunately, the Acovea project is no longer maintained.

http://web.archive.org/web/20101223023921/http://www.coyoteg...

I've been told that Intel's compiler performance team has investigated similar genetic algorithms.
An improvement from their last design, but i really don't think it matters. I've spent maybe 15 minutes total of my life on USPS's homepage. What they really need to work on is their package tracking[1], which basically has two states: delivered and not delivered.

[1] Well, and their shipping reliability. Sending packages USPS is about 50/50 for me as to whether it will arrive at all.

EDIT: The 50/50 thing is hyperbole. It's more like 1 in every 10 or 15 packages will disappear.
To me, there is no comparison. Inadvertantly capturing a few random packets from open, public Wifi signals while driving down the road? They changed wifi channels about 5 times a second. All investigations that I have read concluded that no meaningful data was retrieved.

And to compare that to specifically circumventing physical and virtual restrictions after warning the user against a set of actions? Where the target data was not worthless, as in Google's case, but worth over $1 million dollars?

I don't see the comparison.
You should try and get a prototype built through vworker, odesk or elance. However bad the prototype may be, you will have an easier time talking to developers if you have something working to show them rather than just an idea. Your idea is probably good but there are so many idea-people around that it's hard to be taken seriously. Good luck!
From the questions they're asking, my guess is that it has more to do with boarding dogs overnight.
My $.02 on the spike in hacking
This is my first app where I did it completely on my own (previous ones I just helped out). Hard to say exactly how long, since I ended up spending time on it here and there over quite a few months (like all my projects lol), but I would say probably 4 weeks hard concentrating work in total, at a guess.
My mistake. I thought when they announced there wouldn't be security updates for Firefox 4 that Firefox 3.6 was included as well. It turns out there is a Firefox 3.6 update planned for August 2011, but the prospect for updates beyond that is hazy.
My couple of years as a Spotify subscriber have radically changed my music listening habits. I used to buy records and listen to them over and over again. Now it's more about constantly discovering new music (eg. via Facebook links) and having a more casual relationship to it. I only buy the really important ones on physical media, usually vinyl.
Is that really a federal crime? the trans passing part? I would think that would be a rather minor thing.
There's a big difference between dressing suggestively and going around at a drunk party touching a bunch of men intimately, and then moving off with a group to a restaurant and continuing to drink and touch people.
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I believe his comment is justified for this particular article because the author specifically says, "The results are almost always incredible...And it works for everyone. Even if you hated school writing assignments, you will love Freewriting."
Sure, if you intend to just run the algorithm and check in the changes proudly proclaiming "it's fixed!"

A better use for it would be as an assistant to help you track down the root cause of stubborn bugs.

It's kind of like git-bisect in reverse.
It's time to have mandatory computer controlled cars.

Driving manually should be illegal unless done on a race track.
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I am the OP; i just removed the background... but is going to be back! (as soon as i figure out a way to make it consume less CPU... probably using canvas)
I have this idea in mind of a system where nodes are symmetrical and each node contains a vertically integrated stack, all within a single, evented process.

So instead of having asymmetrical services (database, web server, workers, logging, messaging) spread across clusters of symmetrical nodes, one would have all of these services within a single process on a single core machine.

Each node would be responsible for itself: from the time it boots to the time it dies, continuously integrating from the master trunk, accepting data partitions from other nodes, checking up on the health of other nodes etc.

One advantage would be that data and workload are evenly distributed, for example each node would have a few workers running which would only operate on local data. So all services would automatically be sharded, not just the database. If each node's workers only operate on local data this would simplify locking across workers throughout the system.

There would be no master nodes, rather replica sets, all multi-master similar to Dynamo. Expanding capacity across all services would mean booting a new instance in EC2.

Also, having the services vertically integrated within a single evented process would eliminate network overhead, deserialization/serialization overhead, parsing overhead, queue contention, locking etc.

Everything could be written in the same language, to make for easier extensibility, more in-house understanding of core components, and more opportunities to reduce waste.
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As a developer, you should know better than that.
IMO, the current price of a first-class domestic stamp should be right on the homepage.

On Google, in the suggested search box, if you type:

"how much is"

The first option to come up is "how much is a stamp"

I've performed this search myself many times because I don't mail letters often, but when I do, I go to the junk drawer to get a stamp, see a sheet of $0.42 stamps and wonder, "is that how much stamps are?" It's not. But to find this out, I had to do a search and dig.

HOWEVER, the first place I went was USPS.com, and since it wasn't right on the homepage, I went to Google instead of trying to browse around their site aimlessly.
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Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1886137 from October 2010.

Edit: submissions have identical URLs. Is there something wrong with HN's de-duping system?
Googler or not, it is sad to see a life being taken away that could have been avoided.
It bothers me no end that by just following basic rules and safety mechanisms, so many lives could be saved, but we still hear the same tragic stories day in and day out.
I've been surrounded with tragic news of accidents last week and also bothered that I might be a victim with no fault of mine.
To the "so what, he just trespassed. You don't get the FBI involved for trespassing."

If they just found him randomly wandering the halls where he should not be, obviously the FBI would not be involved. If they see him entering the network cages in order to mirror an asset worth $1.5 million dollars to his personal storage devices... I think they take the trespassing a bit more seriously and in a different context :p
Did they hire Apple for this?
There was a fascinating example of strong dependence on the initial problem specification in an early hardware-evolution experiment in the 90s. The evolved chip for an audio-processing task was massively smaller than the best human-designed chip, which turned out to be because rather than sticking to digital-logic design, the evolutionary process had taken advantage of electromagnetic interference between circuit components as a core aspect of the design (this was possible because the evolution was done on FPGAs, not in a simulator). But as a result, it only worked at the temperature it was evolved at!

One of the papers: http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ices96/pa...
Oh wow! I didn't realize you were listening here - how did you come up with the word groups? Are there statistically related "levels" of words (e.g. "if you know this word you're 92% likely to know this one, too?") In general, what kind of structure does vocabulary have?

(I immediately had my kids take the test when I discovered it last week - all in the interest of Science!!)
For your next trick, Steve, please invent a tablet that is a docking station for an iPhone. One device, multiple form factors. I'd love to snap my iPhone into the back of a 10" screen so I can watch a move or read the paper. When I didn't feel like carrying the 10" screen around, I'd just take the phone out and leave the screen behind. When I felt like doing some work on the road, I could carry the 10" screen _and_ a bluetooth keyboard. At home, I'd connect my phone to a big beautiful monitor and a full-size keyboard. Concrete steps toward that vision is your best bet for keeping me buying Apple hardware now that there are good Android phones available and good Android tablets, too (if not now then soon).

One device, multiple form factors. One device to manage content and applications on, one device to sync, one device to always have with me. Any form factor I want. Sounds like a perfect way to spend the dividends of Moore's Law.
Facebook privacy flub: Users' videos exposed
OP here. The 5ms interval is only used on old versions of Internet Explorer.

It uses getElementById to traverse the DOM and it is said to be the faster selector in javascript.
Where's the red? It looks cleaner but generic.
Even if the author fixed the line-height, type choice, text-shadow, background gradient, border-color and box-shadow, the resulting button would still have been done many thousands of times before.
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I suspect the reason the availability issue keeps coming up is that this restriction on research by third parties is considered a 'bad' thing by nearly everyone except the people benefiting from it. This 'social injustice' is a form of angst that keeps seeking expression.

To you point about the government using the incident to its own purposes, this is not new. There is a tremendous amount of heat (we'll call it campaign dollars ;-) being put on representatives to 'protect' copyrights. Jason's case is convenient in that there seems to be a lot of evidence that he did in fact work around the existing licensing schemes, and those schemes are based on copyright. Perhaps the government is hoping to get a published decision to establish some case law here, or perhaps folks can point to it and tell their deep pocket contributors that they 'really took it to this guy.'

Now that its out there and providing a nexus, it seems a good place to elevate the scientific research monopoly discussion.
How are you and/or your organization planning to use the components that makeup AmplifyJS?
Missouri attorney general to convene summit on phone hacking laws
Surprise! (you're relying on compiler-specific behavior)
Hello DoD? Yes, we've built the most revolutionary battlefield surveillance tool since the airplane. You want 4500 of them? Sweet.

Talk about hiding in plain sight.
And even that was a dupe:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1807527

And more such discussions: http://www.google.com/#q=yoshinorimatsunobu+site:ycombinator...
Our country is ruled by laws.

Our country is ruled by people. Laws are one way in which we communicate what is right and wrong, but they are imperfect and inconsistently enforced. Laws can also be changed, turning what is legal upside down for better or worse.

We are ruled by people, and we should never forget this. Laws are a convenient means of justifying the power of certain people over others; one which without substantial insight appears more fair than it actually is.

[ http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm ]
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Indeed that's what came to my mind. I mean it's freaking 2011, we are not supposed to be dependent on other' people's irresponsibility on the road when there are ways to reduce the risk. I know people will still find stupid ways to kill themselves, but at least take them out of the ubiquitous road network.
OP here: neither .live() or .delegate() do functions when an element comes to existence, those just bind events.

I used this a lot when developing a Chrome extension for Facebook because i can identify when an HTML element is created via ajax.
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Not to take away from the article content, but it is posted on "The Unofficial Facebook Resource".

I mean, just compare the time spent on what Google got right, verse what they didn't. And yet the conclusion implies that it doesn't even matter, because people won't bother with three social networks at once.
Thank you. I had no idea of how to take that step. I will look there as well.
| If they have their own bookstore they're trying to run why should they enable a competitor's in their own home?

If Microsoft spent so much on R&D for Windows 95 and IE, why shouldn't they build it into the OS? Why shouldn't they lock down their APIs to make it difficult to make competing products inside their OS?

Really?
They reward you for being negative here. Those comments float towards the top because they are upvoted.

There are some genuinely cool and thoughtful people here on HN but mostly I find the community to be dominated by pedantic one upsmanship types who aren't in the mood for humor or typos. Sad really.

And everyone here hates on Reddit but I love the community there. Usually much friendlier and less pedantic. And a much better sense of humor to boot.
I'm not going to equate my experience with everyone else but when I looked at why I switched from one service to another, it actually does relate to the strategies that 'don't work.'

Why I switched from Yahoo Mail to GMail: #1, #3

Why I switched from Digg to Reddit: #1, #3, #4

Why I switched from Facebook to G+: #1, #3, #4
As a human, you should know the limits of the human brain.

Driving is a task best suited for computers.

In a few decades, people will look back with amazement at the crazy risks people took by driving manually.
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