skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are intentionally being disingenuous, now, because you're upset. That's fairly transparent in your reply. Multiple people have told you that you are giving legal advice, and suggested that you stop, and pointed out how I am correct, and yet you're sticking to your guns that I'm a troll.

I can't even begin to attack the amount of stupid in this comment, so I'm cutting my losses, adding your name and company mentally to my personal blacklist for doing business or hiring, and getting out of the thread before this consumes even more of my time.
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There is an army of senior citizens calling support everyday complaining about Rogue Antivirus's which say they are infected and to give them their CC number, as well as the popups/redirectors.

Nobody is worried about the things they cannot see, and the things which are not directly harming them.

It behooves us to focus on the things people do see, so that we do a better job of eliminating the malware that is giving them tangible issues.

I'm not saying 'Flame is a non-issue, suspend all analysis of it by malware researchers!'. I am saying, that for most of us in the AV field this is a hand-to-hand combat type of industry and we don't have the time or resources to get all academic and hypothetical. We need to fix real infections on real machines, like yesterday!
I wondered about generic tools, but didn't find any that would solve this. There's nothing special about my code - it's really just collecting data from the incoming POST vars, rearranging them and passing them along.

I thought it was interesting that the platform (AppEngine) enables simple one-off solutions like this - not everything needs to be abstracted into a ifttt style solution ...
There's a newer book (2011), "The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management" by Richard Jones, Antony Hoskins and Eliot Moss. I haven't read the new one, but it seems to cover a lot of the recent activity around Java GC.
> The idea that only lawyers can know anything
> about the law, and therefore nobody else can
> suggest avenues of investigation is shockingly
> elitist.

My personal experience is that disclaimers such as you gave have very little legal standing, and that what you said can be regarded as legal advice, regardless of the "if"s, "but"s, "possibly"s, and "maybe"s that you so carefully sprinkled throughout.

You certainly can share what you know about these things, but advice given to me in the past about similar situations is that by doing so you can be regarded by some as taking some of the responsibility for the advice you think you haven't given.

The law is complicated, and while you may share what you know, doing so can put you personally at serious and considerable risk. Further, it doesn't always make sense to those who have not studied it (and sometimes even to those who have), so while what you have said may seem perfectly sensible, a lawyer may disagreed strongly with several of your suggestions, and following them may put the person you are trying to help in more trouble.

So despite the fact that you are trying to help, and despite the apparent soundness of your advice, you are not a lawyer, and there are very likely to be implications of which you are unaware. I applaud your willingness to take on the personal risk of what you said, but I am concerned that you are not helping, and may be making things worse.

Edited for clarity
That's one thing I've never understood. Why is the power grid connected to the Internet? Does it need to be?
This should help:

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Unauthorized+P...
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Even given a very narrow interpretation, "here" and "near me" are basically synonyms. And as I understand it the apps are very equivalent too, they're selling the same product under a near-identical name.

"Red" and "Hat" are common words too, but you'd never get away with trying to sell a linux distro named "Red Cap".
Now I'm nostalgic for when I used to be able to listen and tell what speed the connection was going to be. And sad now that I've realized that I can't remember what 300 baud sounds like anymore.
True enough. I'm more concerned with the welfare of the person who blindly follows this advice, and the liability being created for people giving him advice is a close second.
I'm not sure what you're asking that isn't already addressed by the model rules of professional conduct. Read http://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibilit... -- it'll answer many of your questions.

Consider finding a lawyer like dating: if the first date (initial consultation, which is generally free) leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth, move on.
The ratio of write/read does not seem to be the problem. After a certain amount of write traffic the view indexing and storage problems appear - regardless of the amount of read traffic. More writing means more of 1. and 2. and the more likely the database enters the dreaded more-than-half full phase. I have cron job compact the database every 6 hours. (I'm the blog post author.)
Plus there's the fact that I wasn't giving legal advice, by any stretch.

Further, like you, I'm quite comfortable with what I've said, and I am supremely confident that no liability has attached to me in this discussion.

The claim that he's trying to protect me from such liability is a rationalization. His real intent is that he's offended that someone is talking about legal issues and he want's to shut it down.

If that weren't his motivation, why lie and claim I was giving legal advice?
>exploiting their countries.

any evidence for that? In my understanding the USSR was dominating eastern bloc countries, hindering their democratic economic development by enforcing archaic hierarchical undemocratic regime. Exploiting? I haven't heard about that. Countries were pretty autonomous in all things unrelated to ideology/politics.
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This is a really simple bit of code, but extremely useful.
What does "grandfathered" mean? Seen the term in a few recent HN posts as well, dealing with accounts at web sites where they change plans, etc. TIA.
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The recent followup "The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management" is much more up-to-date, but it has a bit less coverage of the more elementary techniques.
I hate Pearson products with a passion (save for a few imprints and assorted acquisitions). This is a great step though for both companies, so hopefully it works out for both. Pearson's online components has included some of the worst software I've ever had to deal with– maybe thanks to this, future students will never have to deal with it again. Udacity on the other hand has been great, so it's all very exciting anyway.
The source code is here, if you're interested: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/simplify/simplify.js

I'll probably package it up as a Node module so that it's easy to enable dynamic simplification of GeoJSON files. (A more efficient representation of shapes would also be helpful, though I like the convenience of plain text.) Or possibly a D3 plugin; it might be useful to extend the d3.geo.path shape generator to support more efficient dynamic filtering of points.
Amen. Talk about "running to mommy"
The power grid might not be connected to the internet, but, as the article points out, all it takes is someone with a thumb drive to plant malware.
once upon a time, I thought it might be fun to hack on the gazelle project and give back to the community. so I grabbed the source from svn, opened one file, and promptly rm -fr'd.

I have nothing against the UX of gazelle, but the code is very, very bad PHP
I'm curious why people are down-voting this. If people think that they are a bad place to work, etc, it's more useful to others to say so (even with a throw-away account), than to just down-vote the posting.
Sabotage: good.

Sabotage via infiltration of IT: good.

Sabotage via infiltration of IT via propagating malware: not so good.
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"In the case of Stuxnet and DuQu, they used digitally signed components to make their malware appear to be trustworthy applications."

How did they do this? This seems to imply that either

(1) the certification authorities or the (2) vendors of these "trustworthy" software applications were "part of the team".
Sorry, I don't think there are any telecommute options at this time.
Very nice, I love how clean the iface is. Adding imdb info to search results is very classy as well. Thank you!
I don't see any danger in offering "advice" whether it be medical or legal or computer as long as you don't misrepresent who you are. (In other words I don't even think you have to say IANAL you just shouldn't represent that you are if you are not.) Why? There should always be a general degree of caution and since there is no way to verify that someone is a lawyer or doctor (with a few exceptions such as grellas who openly posts contact info) the assumption should be that the advice is strictly to point you in the right direction and you need to pay someone in the end).

With regard for the reason for this "Ask PG" IANAL but I have plenty to say about this by virtue of the fact that I own domains and have successfully fended off Fedx and American Express as well as several other smaller companies. In some of those cases I've used an attorney and in other cases I have not. What I think about this does count even though I'm not a lawyer. Lawyers also keep in mind know the law but they don't think strategy many times which is also important.

As far as "liability" I think you are taking this to seriously. Do you really think someone is going to bring a cause of action against someone writing something on hacker news with the appropriate disclaimer (or not)? Why not a cause of action if someone gives bad advice on a backup solution? That's going to hold up in court? While anything can happen I think this is extremely remote. A comment on HN is not like writing a blog and pretending to be a lawyer.

Above opinion by the way is based on my 30 years in business avoiding all sorts of legal issues along the way.
Throw away your western bias and re-read tomflack-chan: "Those western schools don't have the prestige that the top Japanese schools do." : D
I think what you're missing is that he's not lying. What you're doing could be construed as giving legal advice, with the way US laws work. That doesn't mean he's right, but I doubt he's thinking "pfft, of course it's not advice", thus lying about it. You guys may differ in opinion, but he's not lying.

Honestly, you guys are talking (screaming) past each other on about a dozen things here. Please, step away from the keyboard. Cool down. Think it through and then if you want to from there, engage in a rational discussion. Both of you are doing a disservice to this thread.
Yea, if Steve Jobs hadn't played around with Blue Boxes, where would we be?
Vulnerability researchers in the 00's have not been particularly hindered by lack of access to source code. It turns out that when you actually start tooling up, having access only to compiled C code isn't much of an impediment.
"The current Udacity exams take about 10 hours of coding to complete..."

From the article: " For the first round of exams, programming will not be included."

I don't think you can demonstrate programming competence with a 90 minute multiple choice test, so I'm interested to see how they end up tackling that challenge.
"Stealing", as you call it, doesn't "hurt the creators of the material" any more than simply not buying does. In fact, if anything it helps:

Among Canadians who engage in P2P file-sharing, our results
suggest that for every 12 P2P downloaded songs, music purchases
increase by 0.44 CDs. That is, downloading the equivalent of
approximately one CD increases purchasing by about half of a CD.

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ippd-dppi.nsf/vwapj/IndustryCan...

You may say it's still wrong - and that's a valid opinion, 'though I don't share it - but "hurting the creators" is just false.
If you have heart issues and you have a period with no heart beat, even just seconds, the feeling of sudden silence is striking. I think it's likely that people just aren't aware that they can hear their heart beat all the time. It might just be me though, but I suspect not as I mentioned how quiet everything went to a cardiologist who didn't seem surprised.
How is it stealing if you're not taking anything away from anyone?
Awesome stuff guys. Inspiring to hear others put into eloquent words many of my own motivations for wanting to begin my personal coding journey.
Doesn't work in Germany, we've got 15-25ct deposit on all bottles.
"zience" or "empiric.al"
I like the 1080p indicator! It would be cool to add similar ones for other formats (CAM, SCREENER, 720, etc)
Very good friends, (less controversial) start-ups, that's about it.

movies.io is just a hobby.
VB.Net jumps to 12th place from 26th on TIOBE
This is a big jump for VisualBasic.NET.. What is driving this interest in VB.NET?

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
> acts of espionage

Are you claiming that stuxnet is not an act of espionage?

> Indirect means indirect

By your definition, embargoes are 'direct' because they are not levied against proxy nations.
I was using "bandwidth" technically, in the signal processing sense. The 5 days is a wavelength, as is (say) the month it takes a chip to get through Samsung's fab. Apple has a knob to control the latter signal, but it's too coarse (by literally an order of magnitude) to modulate the former. Ergo snitzr's supposition that it was Apple's agility and control over the supply chain that is responsible for the 5 day inventory size cannot be right.
Implementing a full-screen mode that only exists in 10.7 certainly isn't a showstopper bug. Even the original reporter (a Mac user) called this a "low priority". Saying LibreOffice "has not found its rhythm" and using a tiny feature request like this as an example is a bit silly.
Don't trust stuff you read on forums.
done. hopefully the inertia of your post generates enough momentum so that it makes a difference.. regardless, good luck.
>"There are three separate papers that have been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal but haven't appeared yet. Let's see what they say."

The metaphysical equivalent of an Encyclical. Swapping one group of experts for a group of experts with different training doesn't get one anything without the premise that the new experts espouse the one true view.
I thought all the major distros had obsoleted OpenOffice. Or at least removed it from the default set of apps for the bundled versions.
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Anyone using Nginx naxsi module to protect against this?
https://code.google.com/p/naxsi/
And then there was the Commodore 1670, a 300/1200 bps modem with auto-answer. Not only "with" auto-answer; with auto-answer on by DEFAULT, with settings in RAM, and with a computer that you restarted by hitting the power switch. In an era when most people had only one phone line.

A critical Commodore skill was the ability to respond to the 1670's answer tone by whistling a 300 baud originator tone, so the 1670 would "detect" carrier, then "detect" carrier drop and hang up the line. So you could talk.
"The unauthorized practice of a profession is prohibited by state laws."

"unauthorized practice of a profession" is not the same as offering an occasional comment on a blog. It's pretending to be a lawyer or acting in a way a lawyer would or charging for it.

For one thing it would be seen as de minimis not to mention the fact that there is no compensation for the service.

Think of it this way. You may need a license to have an office and offer therapy and pass some tests. But do you know of anyone who ever got charged with impersonating a social worker by offering advice for free to a friend?
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Do a search on twitter for whoshere. What a P.R. nightmare.

If they cared about protecting a brand name they should have chosen something more original than 'Who's Here'.
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It's anecdotal, so it doesn't carry much weight, but I have firsthand experience with comments such as those in that thread carrying legal consequences for people. I'm not legally permitted to discuss it beyond that.
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Unfortunately, we need precise stack and register maps because we have pointers into the exchange heap, which are collected eagerly. If the GC tries to follow those, then it'll crash. At the same time, we have to store a liveness-accurate stack map of those pointers so that they can be collected during unwinding.
Using map/reduce has taught me where RDBMS systems excel and what I've taken for granted. Its the simple master/master replication feature that is very attractive. RDMBS emphasises perfect consistency when eventual consistency is a better tradeoff for most webapps (IMHO).
You said something a long time ago that has stuck with me:

If you're willing to compromise your morals on something small, where will you ever draw the line?

I agree, this is sad.
> I don't think people are cognizant enough of the legal consequences and ramifications as a result of a seemingly-innocuous comment like this; that doesn't just go for the person heeding the advice, there is also, in some cases, liability created for the person giving the advice.

I don't think people are cognizant of the ramifications of wearing denim suits, but I think it's ok that they do it. Seriously, (most) everyone here is an adult, and fully capable of making these decisions for themselves. It's up to you how you choose to participate, whether in this context or any other.
This is the reason I won't be using it. I have a TPB Firefox search bar that I can type a movie title into, then press enter and get results that are sorted by most seeders. I then open a few of the top torrents and read the comments on them. Movies.io is pretty but I need to know what I'm downloading.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but WW2 was not actually an "ABSOLUTE WAR". Very, very intense? Of course. But not absolute.

For example during WW2 all of the major participants had chemical warfare weapons. Several, including Germany, had significant stockpiles. (Germany actually had the most effective stockpiles, though they seem to have not believed this at the time.)

The only significant use of chemical warfare was by the Japanese against other Asian countries that did not have chemical weapons. Nobody else dared use those weapons on each other for fear of the response.

And so it has remained. A lot of countries have chemical weapons. There have been a lot of wars between countries armed with them. There have been a number of threats that they would be used (for instance Iraq threatened to use them on Israel during the first Gulf war). And yet the only time they get used is against opponents who are not similarly armed. (For instance Iraq fought a bloody war against Iran without using chemical weapons - then used them on parts of its own population who they thought had been disloyal in the war.)

This fact gives me hope that we will continue to not use nuclear weapons as well.
I would tax buildings-activities for congestion. If you rent a building for residential use: no tax. If you rent it to be used as a Shopping Center: big tax. If on top of that, they don't have a big parking space: huge tax.
It's not that theoretical, the following complex program fits that description:

def IsProgramAVirus(program):
return True

But it's not particularly useful. In practice the false positive rate is extremely important, because if it gets too annoying users will switch it off.