skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Emperor's Old Clothes (Hoare 1981) (PDF)
Yeah it gives them leverage to force a plea bargain. ie the same as when they extended the charges for Aaron to 13.

It's a tough one though because it works both ways. Remember when they put the mobsters away using Tax laws because they couldn't make any murders or extortion stick.

Unfortunately ethics isn't binary.
traffic and backlinks are a valuable commodity, that's why.
Thats the most stupidest argument I have ever read. Please consult a psychologist.
I can understand how people might expect different behavior in the Swartz case. But what in the behavior discussed in this article is other than exactly what you would expect? Of course she is going to prosecute a credit card thief who has stolen tens of thousands of cards. How does this stack up as added evidence against her?
again stupid.
This works great for web-services, not so much for government.

A government service needs transparency. 'You get a response after X signatures' is simple, understandable, and transparent. 'You get a response if you're in the top Y' is opaque; my petition was #Y yesterday, how did it become #Y+1 today when it's time for the official count? It was #Y at 7am, why did it suddenly jump to #Y+1 for 5 minutes at 11am when they were selecting the winners?
I've often thought that the Internet Archive would be a good entity for this. I would happily pay a large one-off fee to cover domain name renewals and static hosting in perpetuity. I don't know how such a fee would be calculated - the cost of 100 years of .com renewals at the lowest negotiable fee perhaps?
How do you write an opening sentence that makes me keep reading the next few sentences, really?

Microscopic attention span - that's what will characterize most online readers if you're writing something online. In this context, any thought of "literary value/quality" is useless. As opposed to the OP, most are writing for maybe readers that have not real intention whatsoever to keep on reading. I know people that when they see an email longer than 5 lines of text on their display from someone unknown, they just throw it away without bothering to read it at all!

The questions I'd like answered are:

- How can you write an opening sentence that the reader's semi-conscious mind decodes even before he decides to keep on reading or not (with a 90% probability of the second outcome), and makes him change his mind and keep reading instead?

- Should I just add a "TL;DR" section on top of every long article I write because most people will not read it anyway, and hopefully at least this short message will get across? Or will this be a spoiler and make all readers just scan the "TL;DR" and nobody will read the full article now?

- How to prevent the "scan to see how long it is and decide not to read it if its too long regardless of title or content" way of thinking of a larger and larger portion of the population (and not necessarily the most ignorant: a very smart person told me that we won't read something longer than a paragraph because "if you can't summarize it in a couple short sentences, the I'll assume you don't know enough about what you are writing for me to worth investing the time and attention to read it") So then, are we all condemned to write only "elevator pitches"?

- Will overdoing it by using interesting "reader engagement tactics" just make the reader believe that I'm actually trying to sell them something and stop reading because of this assumption?
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Seems like we need a prosecutor with the zeal of Stephen Heymann to go after Stephen Heymann. This guy's history has a smell. Two suicides? Maybe there's something more going on? Maybe not, but it's worth a look.
While I haven't done it personally, it is theoretically possible to use AT&T's new Call Management API (powered by Tropo) along with their MMS API to send MMS messages. I suggest you check out https://developer.att.com/developer/forward.jsp?passedItemId... for more info
He claimed he was innocent in his suicide note. Maybe a suicide note is a great place to lie in attempt to clear your name. But I think he's probably being honest to an extent.

Note that he was charged and found guilty of hacking NASA (essentially), but his suicide related to the identity theft.

From Wikipedia on the identity theft investigation:
"Though he denied having done anything, James—who was friends with some of the hackers involved—was investigated by the Secret Service, who raided James', his brother's, and his girlfriend's houses [...] they apparently discovered no connection to the intrusion".

The article goes on that he was mentioned as a conspirator in another defendant's case for the identity theft, but James hadn't (yet?) been indicted.
Cloudera isn't primarily consulting. In fact we have about 8x as many engineers in product development compared to consulting, last I counted.
I spent about 60 seconds trying to figure out how to clear the modal that comes up after clicking on "Button Builder". The "X" to close the dialog is so thin that I literally couldn't see it. That isn't good design.

Once I figured it out, neat tool.
You missed an essential point in the introduction of the review. Chomsky is not a hatemongerer: he is honest, hard-working and idealistic. It's just that the worldview underlying his arguments, the worldview that guides how he chooses subjects and supporting arguments, may be unbalanced and consequently 'wrong' in the eyes of many others.
iOS is fundamentally a business, it's within their rights to do as they please. It makes sense to make the most profit and that probably means moving from small iDev businesses to large ones (ie SEGA etc) that are happy to spend a lot of money pushing their apps.

I agree with you though and I think the hackers will move elsewhere. Im excited to see if people move across to android etc for exactly this reason.

iOS will taper off eventually but Apple will milk every cent before that happens.
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It always has been.
That's what you get for having elected prosecutors. But quoting the statutory maximum as a matter of fact for a soundbite and asking the court to impose it (which it seems they were not about to do) are very different.
Yes, that's an issue, but allowing prosecutors to force any conviction that they want to by escalating charges is too far from just by any standard. It completely sidesteps fairness.

Beyond that, one could argue that the federal government should not be addressing petty crime at all.
I'm kinda surprised that Mailchimp let you send sales email even though they said that it's not allowed. Check their guide: http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/is-my-list-okay-to-use-in-ma...
Even ignoring the sentencing of Socrates, Socrates refusing Crito's offer seems to me a clear cut case of suicide. He is offered a chance to avoid his murder and turns it down, in essence making the decision that his life will come to an end.

Now, Socrates of course offers a rational defence for his refusal to save himself so if we accept the refusal as an act of suicide we also accept that suicide can, at least in some circumstances, be the product of a rational train of thought.

Plato's accounts of Socrates offer us a superb platform on which to reason about this sort of thing. Helps to filter out a lot of the modern victim-blaming cruft that has built up over the past few centuries.
I quite like this proposal.
The filing mentions him entering the closet to swap out storage devices when one filled up.
For starters, do go through the iOS development by paul hegarty videos from here,
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application...

The 15 hours of video is the best investment of your time if you want to jump start into iOS development.
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Here's a quick tip: you can also disable arc for older libraries should you need to integrate them into your ARC project.

Just use the -fno-objc-arc flag (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6646052/how-can-i-disable...)
It would help Chomsky's case a lot if he identified a post-WW2 "good war".

It would help him identifying a "good war" if there were one.

EDIT: I'm not saying there's no such thing as a "good war", though I probably have a vastly higher bar for what might qualify for that than most. Instead, I'm saying that the "wars" the US has engaged in post-WWII have largely been motivated by cynical self-interest, and often at the expense of everyone involved, including — perhaps even especially — itself.
Yes, I am well aware. I don't think that is material to my point.
The problem with "Forever" in tech is that things change so fast that the only thing you can count on is that companies won't last forever -- even big ones.
A useful set of tools. It would be great to give the user some idea of browser compatibility, though.
sounds just like letsdateapp.com
Just some perspective here. A fellow nerd did more than six months in Tennessee for smoking weed in a public park. If six months was on the table I am not sure why he didn't take it. I would have.
Ok, thank you for explaining! I am not from the US so I didn't know it was uncommon with online courses for non-degree students.

edit: Although now that I think about it I should have guessed. Having a system with an expensive tuition to be paid by the student probably doesn't roll so well with pick-and-choose online courses for everyone.
I've been programming iOS for a couple of years now and some of those tips where useful to me!

Anyhow as we're contributing top tips, my one is 'Always run your app on target hardware.'

Don't rely on the emulators, especially if your're doing OpenGL work. You will only know your framerate by running your app/game on the real hardware.
Lame, You are mostly doing something wrong. When I needed a DUNS here in Norway it took me less then 48 hours at no cost, I just went to this site http://fedgov.dnb.com/webform
Ask the federal prosecutors in Boston - they have a lot of information gathered already.

On a not so sad note - writing a high performance fully async spider is a trivial task so it is just a matter of guessing the urls

http://www.jstor.org/stable/i40055831 - this seems to be the issue format just regex for them

there the articles url are in

http://www.jstor.org/stable/41237135 this format. So parse any page for those links and keep already crawled and html downloaded.
Look at it from the bright side: at least you have a stable target ;)
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Even compressing a "four year" degree into four years would make a substantial difference. At American state universities, only 31% of students graduate in four years.
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> downloading the entire contents of JSTOR so that you can publish it on a file sharing network and thereby destroy its commercial value

It seems implausible to me that publishing the contents of JSTOR in such a way would actually destroy any substantial amount of JSTOR's value. What university would actually drop their JSTOR subscription in favour of a bunch of unlicensed PDFs they torrented? JSTOR, in addition to keeping you on the right side of copyright law, gives you all their systems for querying their data, and keeps itself up to date.

Maybe a university in a developing country would drop their subscription, but any in the US? I find it unlikely.

Such a torrent would be far more useful to an individual who didn't have access to an organization that subscribed. However it seems these pay-per-download fees only account for a fraction of a percent of JSTOR's operating budget (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064408).

So it looks like there is some feasible harm there, but by no means destroyed commercial value.
There may be a problem, no matter which side you approach it from.

Suppose the prosecution makes an offer, they're willing to go lower, but only if they think the defense will accept. The defense then rejects the offer, perhaps with the implication they might accept a lower offer. If a lower offer is made, the defense can reject it but now they have less risk—since the offer was made the prosecution is bound to x% beyond that.

Some people might view that as gaming the system and I'm not sure it could be tuned to avoid that. On the other hand it might improve honesty on both sides of the table. The ratchet effect may keep the defense from being intimidated. The net effect should promote not guilty pleas among the innocent, but ideally it should not have that effect on the guilty.
Good for students in the short term; long term, it's strongly in students' interests for universities to get more money.

This is great progress, but it needs to be coupled with better funding for public universities.
Hey can you shoot me an email, you sound like someone I'd like to meet. Address is in my profile.
You can always support any position with ample evidence. The problem is balance. Chomsky doesn't cite the evidence that does not support him, even though there is always plenty of such evidence. This is considered normal, but it means you always only get part of the story, need to get the other parts elsewhere and then make up your mind. It's daunting.
I looked up its performance in ServerBear, In terms of SSD Host, IOPS is not that great. Bandwidth is also low. Both not much of problem since you are very unlickly to saturate those numbers in low end host. UnixBench is the problem I see. I would like to see higher Plans benchmarks. As we all know unmetered bandwidth, SSD, CPU Core are all meaningless. You could have a 1Mbps Port, Only tiny share of SSD Speed ( Are they RAID SSD ? ), Overselling of CPU resources etc.
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Rapists and murderers commit their crimes in the context of close interaction with their victims. Criminal hackers are the opposite. For most of them any form of social interaction, especially the forced one with the law enforcement personnel will be extremely stressful.

I think that even "basic interaction with the law system" would qualify as a mild form of psychological torture for hackers. Imagine keeping a drug addicted rapist in solitary confinement for a month with no drugs, in a windowless cell, preventing him from even masturbating or smth like that - I think this would be closer to the psychological equivalent of the stress "hackers" experience when interacting with the law system! (ok, maybe I'm exaggerating with this example but I don't know enough about drug addicted rapists' psychology to construct a better one)

Jonathan James wrote in his suicide note "Either way, I have lost control over this situation and this is my only way to regain control". For him, the lack of control and predictability of his future, induced by interaction with the law system was painful enough to make him commit suicide! People are very different and respond very differently to stress - my "basic family social interactions" may mean "psychological torture" to you! :)
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You could just start your own domain name registrar. Family can transfer the name after death or you could transfer there before you die. Add a small link to the bottom of the page to donate to support re-registering the name ad-infinitum. The registrar collects donations to keep it going. Maybe add hosting too. Unfortunately getting your own registrar company would cost $50-100K from what I've read plus $8K annual dues.
I would urge indie developers to also be learning a separate language and doing web apps so they have a way to pivot if the iOS app is unprofitable. Web apps seem like less of a lottery.
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11 paragraphs + code snippets just to say: "opacity" creates a stacking context. And a really annoying way of teasing and dragging the "observation" until the end of the article.
"The FBI admits to infiltrating & disrupting peaceful political groups in the United States.
The Womens’ and Civil Rights movements were among those targeted, with their members being beaten, imprisoned, and assassinated."

Really? Examples?
Could you explain your reasoning? I don't think that universities are a good way to provide education, but I'd like to hear your perspective.
For the same reasons mozilla.org is not firefoxbrowser.com
Alternatively you can also enable ARC for classes. This might be useful when you're working with a non-ARC project and want to include some ARC code. Use the switch -fobjc-arc to enable ARC for selected classes.

I'm currently using this switch to gradually migrate a non-ARC project to ARC.
Whoops! I definitely said SPDY and definitely meant the PROXY protocol (http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt)

You can setup stunnel to terminate SSL then append this line to the request that's sent to HAProxy, which will then add an X-Forwarded-For header from that info. This may be relevant to your interests, though: http://www.igvita.com/2012/10/31/simple-spdy-and-npn-negotia...
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Funny enough, me too.
On the other hand, one may enjoy playing violin in the subway. The money will then be very welcome but just a means to keep on playing, not a goal.
I'm not terribly experienced with Nginx, but HAProxy was (and is) a load balancer first where Nginx is a server with load balancing abilities (same as Apache can, though it gets less love these days). HAProxy has pretty powerful HTTP support and capabilities, however, so I'm not sure I buy the other argument in this thread.

HAProxy also allows you to modify balanced nodes while the server is running, and has fantastic logging once you get used to looking at it.
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Fantastic feature to show branches graphically in the margin as arrows.

Blindingly obvious, but still saves a lot of mental effort in keeping addresses in your head.

Haven't seen any "desktop disassembler" (that sounds furniture-related) do that.
Yes. Depending on load and services, servers require a great deal more in buffers and cache than your desktop. Figure out the memory allocation for a single TCP connection on a default Linux 3.0 kernel and multiply that times (at least) 10k. Considering you probably want greatly expanded limits and bulk transfer, you might want to multiply that times 10 or 100. That's just TCP buffers for active sessions.
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> Our fault, not theirs. They really are representing us here.

Why are you blaming the victims? It's not difficult to determine that the current penal system is ridiculous, and unlike us, it's their responsibility to do so. <hyperbole magnitude="a bit"> Instead, they focus on making copyright legislation to support corporate interests. And the courts focus on whether or not the 5th Amendment was a good idea after all. </hyperbole>

I agree with you completely that we should be doing more to advocate for reform, but it is far from being our fault.
That's not graffiti. MIT hackers commonly 'sign in' to places that they've found and gained entrance to. A wiring closet, frankly, is kind of a lame place to sign in at, but the steps under Lobby 7 or the steam tunnels or the little dome are far more interesting, for example.

It's actually looked down upon fairly heavily if a sign in is larger than a regular signature by very much - typically sign ins are lauded, graffiti isn't.

Just thought I'd clarify. :)
i've been using ember for some time now for a complex application and everything seems to be clearly separated. Easily integrated with jqm and generally its model and controllers can be used effortlessly by other frameworks as well. Actually the complexity depends on the context and kind of integration.
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No, not really. Sounds like you want to update the backend servers that your load balancer is proxying to while the load balancer is up? Can't you just create an internal network if you need IPs? I think this hinges on what you mean by the phrase "dynamic proxy"?
"destruction" and "stealing" are both words with a physical connotation, that is misleading when used in a computational/digital context.
I disagree. Everything that happens is relevant. The fact that we forget it is just the mechanism by which we are able to focus on the here and now. Stories and emotions are just the way to extend our useful memories. Our limits as entities don't say much about the nature of the universe. I choose to believe that time might as well be an illusion and our deeds might be considered to live "forever". This is just a guideline to help me lead the life I want.
Do any other software engineers here (who rent) have almost nothing outside clothing, laptop and smartphone?
Which is no surprise because pathogen is not "a way of managing plugins".
Somene tell this guy about display: table-* and flexbox please?
These rants are as funny as jokes about Macs mice having only one button.
Distributed denial of service attacks are very difficult to deal with (I have dealt with—read: suffered through—several each year for the past ten years on and off.) Often there is little to nothing you can do within your network to improve the situation.

It's an issue of raw volume, once the attacker(s) exceed your capacity you're saturated and dead in the water. At this point, the techniques that will help must be applied at a point where the pipe has greater capacity than the attack, and depend on the exact nature of the attack and so vary in effectiveness.

That isn't to say the situation couldn't be improved, but I think widespread infrastructural changes would be needed and isn't the kind of thing MIT folks could just work out and apply to their current situation.