skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often suffer from a mind that won't rest when I'm excited about a project or software problem. Have been like that for 20 years now and have only found a cure in the last year.

I listen to an audiobook for 15 or 30 minutes when I get into bed. Gets my mind off everything and allows me to relax and fall asleep. Sometimes I really get into the story which can be another problem. But that is rare.
> Had Swartz been convicted and served his sentence, would the HN community at large care?

I would have. I totally misread the situation. I thought there was basically zero chance he would be punished so vindictively. And I had no idea that he was all this time in Kafka hell.

Had Aaron gone to prison it would have been a wake-up call for a lot of people, much as his suicide was — except that one could have done something about it. Actually, a trial and conviction would likely have become a cause celebre in the tech world.

And yes I know that people don't just kill themselves for one straightforward reason. It's still sickening.
It's a side issue, but how lacking in empathy must Ortiz's husband be to criticise Swartz's parents right now. He might be feeling protective towards his wife, but they've just lost their son. Words fail me.
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http://reviewtimes.shinydevelopment.com Looking like 6 days at the moment!
Agreed it's a pain and it should be fixed. It's worth pointing out that the H1B application process grants the right to work in US while the visa stamping grants the right to enter. Getting a visa is mainly based on a security assessment. They want to make sure you will follow the law (including leave the US when your visa expires) and that you're not a threat of any kind, my guess is that the local consulate/embassy is better equipped to make this assessment.
While there are many reasons to be careful when reading Chomsky, his description of the rationales/causes of 'war of terror' are quite consensual. They are actually boringly consensual, and it says quite a lot that they are not considered as such.

Thinking in term of good and evil is useless when thinking about world affairs. The US did not spend 100 of billions of $ and 1000s of dead American soldiers for Afghan Women rights (they had no trouble financing/helping the mujahideen when they were fighting against USSR). While the human rights situation in Afghanistan was (is) appealing, the US have no trouble supporting Saudi Arabia, whose record is significantly worse than Iran. The reasons for this situation are painfully obvious.

While terror acts on American are not US' fault, or 'deserved', they are certainly an expected consequence from the US actions (and their allies) in certains areas of the world. Particularly, it was a well known risk when the USA became more involved in Afghanistan in the late 70ies that it could have some bad consequences: it was deemed a worthwhile risk for USSR containment. I unfortunately can't find any reference right now, but there are top foreign advisers on record saying that 11th September was an acceptable price to pay to have contained the USSR 15-20 years before.
Why does atheism being the default setting on a human mean there can't be a wrong reason to be an atheist? That doesn't follow at all.
It's beginning to sound like you are talking about a specific situation where you feel you were wronged, because a girl actively lied to you about what she wanted out of the relationship. That sucks, but you should try not to generalise this to 'women are like x'.
And if this has happened more than once, then either you are consistently misreading social situations (feeling led on when the woman has no idea you are thinking that way) and /you/ need to fix that, or you are consistently trying to get into a relationship with terrible people (on the off chance women are actually constantly leading you on), and /you/ need to fix that because what you're dealing with there is not 'women' but 'terrible people'.
Can people in say, Saudi Arabia, sign up and petition?
> The independent Legislative Analyst's Office,

I have no knowledge of the LAO, but the federal CBO (which I believe has a similar function, and is supposedly similarly independent) continuously makes projections that are worthless.

One of the reasons for this is that their mandate requires them to assume the current taxation regime; which means that whenever you do tax cuts (e.g. Bush), you do them "temporarily", which means that CBO estimates will necessarily assume they expire. Then you extend them, and -- tada, CBO is never right regardless of how well they do their work.

Politicians hacking the rules they set themselves. If it wasn't sad, I'd say it was entertaining.
"and was told I need to wait another month"

"The source code will become public as soon as all drawing tools (those white boxes on the tool bar) are functional. This should take some days (around 20-40 LOC per tool) I’m also trying to clean some some mess (lots on unused assets, etc)"

I may have read this the wrong way, but it sounds like your app is incomplete and you've got at least another 20-30 days development to get things feature complete and thoroughly tested. Would Apple even accept the app to the App Store in it's current state?

If it was me I'd have plugged away at the red tape during those 20-30 days of development before chucking the towel in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket
Are you really implying that a prosecutor's threat to put you in jail for 30+ years wouldn't motivate you through emotions?
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Do the Java vulnerabilities piggyback off of JS somehow? Or did you misread parent?
Whitehouse raises petition signature threshold to 100,000
This is the definition of wire fraud:
(http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1343)

Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

JSTOR was in a different state. Swartz caused signals to be transmitted by wire for the purpose of an artifice to defraud. The indictment is specific and cites to statutory definitions of what constitutes criminal behavior.

As I've said over and over again in relation to copyright issues, maybe things like copyright infringement should not be considered crimes at all, but right now, they are. If the elements of a crime are defined as X, Y, and Z, and there's proof that someone engaged in X, Y, and Z, then that person has committed the crime n question. Now if you want to argue that the law in question is unconstitutional for some reason, that's fine, but that's something you do at appeal. the purpose of a trial Court is simply to establish whether a certain set of facts is true or not.
In Canada ours took several weeks. Luckily we prepared the submission ahead of time and discovered this was important, so we had one by the time we were ready for submission.

Having said that, the submission process didn't explain what a DUNs number was important for and it seemed like a weird thing to need...i share the frustration.
I think that's a really simplistic view of how government works. These are not simply problems being proposed. These require, in almost every single case, multiple departments working together along with (a) a lot of deep thinking by the parties involved, and (b) a measured response that must get run through no less than 20 people (my guess) before it becomes an "official response". You think they can achieve "more than one per day"? No chance.
California Republicans are essentially as bad as California Democrats, at least on the local level where Republicans sometimes win. I'd personally take Washington State Democrats over virtually any politicians in California. Politicians and voters in California are just terminally insane.
It seems like their goal is to maintain a threshold such that x petitions get responded to, where x is a number they can manage and afford. I highly doubt x is actually zero, so they will probably adjust the threshold in the future if needed.
The important stuff:

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF CERTAIN VIOLATIONS OF AGREEMENTS OR CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS, RELATING TO INTERNET SERVICE, FROM THE PURVIEW OF CERTAIN CRIMINAL PROHIBITIONS.
(a) FRAUD AND RELATED ACTIVITY IN CONNECTION WITH COMPUTERS. - Section 1030(e)(6) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘alter;’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘alter, but does not include access in violation of an agreement or contractual obligation, such as an acceptable use policy or terms of service agreement, with an Internet service provider, Internet website, or employer, if such violation constitutes the sole basis for determining that access to a protected computer is unauthorized;’’.

(b) FRAUD BY WIRE, RADIO, OR TELEVISION. - Section 1343 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the first sentence the following: ‘‘A violation of an agreement or contractual obligation regarding Internet or computer use, such as an acceptable use policy or terms of service agreement, with an Internet service provider, Internet website, or employer is not in itself a violation of this section.’’.

It essentially means that violating a TOS will not longer be considered "wire fraud".

The law, currently:

18 U.S.C. § 1030: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/47/1030

Summary: http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/tit...

18 U.S.C. § 1343: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/63/1343

Summary: http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/tit...
UIKit is designed to be built upon. A lot of Apple stuff may be a black box but it is designed to be subclassed. This is really an all or nothing affair. Either this works perfectly for you or you are shit out of luck and you have to compromise to fit inside their box.
Not thrilled about the increase in the number of signatures required, but I do like that they are going to release an API for accessing the petitions.
Is it possible to use Twilio SMS API to receive MMS message? Am I be able to receive SMS in backend and decode the data to get the link to the image?
Just because that's true for you doesn't mean it is for everyone. If an institution I'm associated with or deal with regularly is doing/has done something unethical, I have no problem with people inconveniencing me to raise awareness of that. I would rather support justice rather than convenience.

It's not like MIT has apologized for this, either.
Try to find an entry level job or internship at a startup. Check out www.startuply.com. Most importantly, keep trying, reading, working on projects, etc. Also, join meetups in the bay area that specialize in your core technologies like javscript and send an email to the meetup list regarding job openings. Best of luck!
You can raise limit all you want, you will not dodge issues we are interested in. Even if we have to make our website(s).

I've been thinking how to celebrate accomplishments of Aaron Swartz and I think being active on Demand Progress is a good way, for start. There are some other ideas, but ideas are easy to come by, I think joining and propping already working ideas is more important.

Just my 2c.
If only there were another platform to develop for.
woops, let's go with mis-read.
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Yes. Now that we're giving official responses on building a death star, it's just gotten too real.
You hit it on the head. We were also able to speed up time to market and provide them with more than just outsourced dev.
No practical effect for Aaron.

But there is always a next person to come along. It benefits them.

And there is a possibility that in the process of investigating someone will point out to them that PACER is breaking the laws that they wrote about how much can be charged. This might lead to more than symbolic reform there.
> Microsoft needs to fix their crap browser, rather than forcing every web dev on the planet to use nasty hacks and workarounds.

This is not a problem unique to IE. Firefox, Chome, Safari, and others all need shims/patches/etc too:

> But to the point about cross-browser issues, it’s a complete myth that today’s modern browsers have no differences. Look through the jQuery source code and you’ll see plenty of places where it has to fix, patch, and mask issues in modern browsers; those problems didn’t end with IE8. jQuery 2.0 now has more patches and shims for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox than for Internet Explorer!

http://blog.jquery.com/2013/01/14/the-state-of-jquery-2013/

So, how about we stop spreading myths and using vitriolic language, and provide constructive criticism and feedback so Microsoft and others can all fix bugs and issues with their browsers?
I also doubt it's true. Most kids seem perfectly willing animists to me. Not ascribing supernatural causes to things is learned, not built in.
I opened a company specifically for this (ipad/iphone development) it was my plan to leave my current company and build something less stressful. I reached a point where I'm no longer interested in building apps for the app store, apple asks too much and give us too little.

I posted on HN because most readers are also programmers and they are exactly whom will fork the project, etc. That said, yep, it can be considered a 'publicity stunt', but you make it sound as something bad. I really just want that those interested get in touch.
Claims of diatoms in a meteorite are almost certainly wrong
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I used to think that as well, but after much research and using it on multiple projects I find that not to be the case.
C reference for your desk (~200 lines)
position:relative is probably not that expensive, but the '*' causes very negative impact - the browser will scan the whole tree trying to match the rules every time the DOM changes.

http://minus.com/lyJrZzYj4bSoH
That's outside the limit of legal behavior. He's not saying it was the worst thing ever, just that Swartz's actions crossed the threshold between legal and illegal.
What if she gets fired and kills herself? Will they go after us?

It's a never ending war. We're all trying to punish people to give the exemple. Us trying to fire Ortiz is similar to Ortiz trying to prosecute Aaron Swartz.
I notice that eduardordm has not actually released this code on github yet. I'd forgive you Eduardo if you end up changing your mind....
Guess they realized that harnessing the power of facebook and reddit goes a lot further than they thought... social media fail?
This is why the Mac Gatekeeper is an awesome idea. Unfortunately they fucked up the implementation. Also they are the only CA so they can control who signs apps or not.
> I didn't consider that a person who has suffered through this very situation might read what I wrote.

That's par for the course these days.

> If the jailers know an inmate is suicidal (as Aarons would have if his lawyers told them) they are mandated by law to do everything in their power to prevent it. Right down to them being housed nude in a "rubber room" on 24/7 video surveillance.

I'm so glad to hear they had just the right environment for Aaron waiting to lovingly receive him. If my sarcasm is shining through then my apologies but I have a hard time dealing with all these well intentioned horror scenarios.
The page states that ARC is not yet ready, but keep in mind this article was written in Sept 2011.

I think ARC is definitely ready nowadays, given the number of libraries and projects using it.
This article doesn't even mention the word "plea" except in a pull quote. Please, don't bury the lead.
tl;dr

Dear America, shut the fuck up.
if you're interested in hacker stories there is one a bit less mainstream about Max Butler, 'Kingpin', it's a really great read (more like a criminal thriller than a nerd bio). long story short a very talented but very troubled white/grayhat hacker became a victim of the justice system and later on turned into a blackhat who got to the top of the cc fraud empire. he's currently serving his 13.
Hey Randy,

If your brother wants to get a good foundation in problem solving and some JS fundamentals, he should check out http://codehs.com

I'm making it to be a really fun, accessible entry point to learning how to code. We have a bunch of different modules that stress different concepts.

If he's already started learning, he might find some stuff a bit basic, but it quickly gets much more challenging.

Let me know if he gets a chance to check it out and what he thinks.

Zach
Long text for just a few explanation. As a developer I hate reading those kind of tips since it doesn't go straight to the point. Here's my tl;dr :

> the stacking order is the same as the order of appearance in the HTML

Actually this is false, as last in code is displayed on top

> When you introduce the position property into the mix, any positioned elements (and their children) are displayed in front of any non-positioned elements

Use a "position:" and it will go on top of div not using it.

> z-index only works on positioned elements

use "position:" to use "z-index" otherwise it won't work.

> ...

I felt like the rest was unnecessary unless you plan to play a lot with z-index. Then you can get a better tutorial/article/documentation on it.
It's a fact; look at this profile data for a simple test: http://minus.com/lyJrZzYj4bSoH

The '*' selector shoots up the chart, and for some reason the browser lays down a lot more rules then when it's absent. 2ms is not much, but when complexity increases it all adds up (games, client-side apps, etc).
Because it has a good point about a somewhat famous startup?
Maybe so. I am not confident that his conviction would cause waves large enough to really cause any sort of change though. I can't help but feel many people here would be less inclined to change their position (or even care enough to read articles about it) were the revelations not accompanied by such a tragic shock. Maybe I'm just being cynical because I found the dismissal from prominent community members so shocking and offensive at the time.

However I am certain that were he someone with even less celebrity who was interested in something more marginal than freeing academic works, getting convicted really really would do fuck-all for his cause.
Hah! It took me a moment to realize you must be talking about Robert Tappan Morris. I recall his full name because that's how you refer to convicted felons, which is exactly what he was when I read Cyberpunk as a kid. I certainly wouldn't have guessed tenure at MIT was what the future held for him. Funny world we live in :)
that's also the main rule of like... common sense -.-
Oh, no, sorry. That's probably because it's been on my mind as of late, I doubt Myspace would send a representative to compliment them on something as far from their demographic as HackerNews.
I stopped the development when I was told to wait (nov 26th).

Those are just scripts that render objects, the app is fully developed. In fact, they are PDFs drawn in adobe illustrator and just added to a JSON file. The lines of code are just stub classes.
You'll never be able to use `position:absolute` for anything outside of the context of an element's parent.

While true, I find that the instances that I need something to be absolutely positioned outside of it's context are few and far between. Also, it is quite easy to set position static on the parent elements.

Every new developer will need to wrap their head around nonstandard page flow

I work with a team that is on board with this, so it hasn't been an issue yet.

Also, refer to this: http://css-tricks.com/things-it-might-be-funuseful-to-try-th...
not changing my mind at all. In fact, I'm in rush to release it even sooner.
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How do you mean punished so vindictively? A 6 month stint in jail (reduced for good behavior) doesn't seem wildly vindictive to me. For the people saying he was facing a lifetime in jail - well yeah, if you add up all the maximum possible sentences and run them consecutively. But that hardly ever happens except in the most egregious of cases.

If he had lost at trial I doubt his sentence would have been much longer than a year or two. The indictment doesn't say 'he committed wire fraud, he must serve 20 years', it just says 'he committed wire fraud' - an offense for which the maximum penalty happens to be 20 years. The court decides what the actual sentence is after conviction.They rarely hand out the maximum and the statute does not assert any mandatory minimum (which provisions are unconstitutional now anyway, but that's beside the point).
> This cause is trying to change the access across the world for scientific articles and you're complaining for a short period

Many MIT professors make their academic articles freely available on their lab websites. As Anonymous continues to attack the MIT network, they are making it more difficult for members of the general public to access academic articles. This isn't about open access. It's about exacting revenge for Aaron Swartz's death. Unfortunately, it's targeting the wrong people.

> No argument why this form of protest won't work just it interrupts your current lifestyle.

MIT students would support an effective protest that interrupts their lifestyles, but attacking student-run websites won't work because the only people who suffer are students who have to clean up after you. The people responsible for Aaron Swartz's prosecution couldn't care less.
The LindowsOS app store was user friendly and based on apt/dpkg long before Apple got into the game.
Why not just say "We'll respond to the top X petitions per 30 days" then?
>And they are ignorant of Partition Magic's demise as a product. To boot, they probably have an outdated skill set in regard to Windows.

the great irony being that the solution would be to use a gparted live disc.
Interesting -- I am from Canada and AFAIK, even as a Canadian business, you can legitimately submit through the DUNS "US Government contractor" form for free.

I was stuck last year with a tight deadline for one of my enterprise apps (which needed the DUNS for me to publish) and I used this method; it cost me nothing and was complete within a few days.
If you already support the protest, then you're likely to be more forgiving of being inconvenienced by it. But if you don't, what happens then?

As for MIT's response, see http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/letter-on-death-of-aaron-... for something that suggests that something much more useful than a formal apology is coming. If you're inclined to be cynical about the inquiry that we've been promised, I highly recommend researching Abelson first.

Of course this is too little, too late for Aaron Swartz. But I couldn't have asked for an MIT president who presumably does not have the full picture to have made a more meaningful gesture.
While it may be politically advantageous that doesn't mean it's not a good thing. Remember, this "tough on crime" attitude is largely the product of public outrage at the spike in crime in the 1970's and 1980's. The drug war was buoyed up on a tide of "just say no!" moms and dads in the 1980's and 1990's.

Congresspeople aren't completely immune to responding to broad public pressure, if that is indeed what develops from this case.
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Wasn't the whole thing set up so the government could spam the signers - like every other petition site?