skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She can be technically telling the truth if the maximum penalty was 50 years (based on maximum possible value of damage), and they were only seeking 7 years.
These are all really cool, and I look forward to checking them out!

On a side note:

Does anybody know of a plugin for ST2, or another editor that works well for coding that allows for a semi-transparent/transparent background? (for Windows) I've been searching for the last few weeks to no avail, and was hoping that somebody here might have encountered something.
I'm not really sure what you are trying to point out here? Don't you thing that "very high" crime rate warrants warning?
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I like your use of the word 'only' there...
You are the first person to articulate exactly what I think about such things perfectly!

Give me PuTTY or SSH on a terminal any day over this.
At no time did this office ever seek – or ever tell Mr. Swartz’s attorneys that it intended to seek – maximum penalties under the law.

The absolute dishonesty of this statement has only further convinced me that firing this political appointee to prevent her from further harming citizens is the only appropriate action for our government to take.
well there are already a few apps such as musicaroid that searches Music and Video by using Yahoo Music(US) API, Google Youtube API, iTunes Store API. Than there are apps like Hound and Midomi where serach happens through voice & humming... and we can look forward to some great stuff when technologies like "Intelligent A.I. search' being developed by Ray Kurzweil at Google becomes a reality.
Yes just like their WiFi probing thing that they got in trouble for and blamed it on a rogue developer...
I usually use "repeat last change" (. key in normal mode by default) command in vim without a macro for the tasks like that. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Repeat_last_change

To do the task you mentioned in vim I would move the cursor to the first letter of the word Section in the first line. Then I'd insert "Class_" and go back to normal mode. After that I'd move the cursor to the first letter in the word Model in the second line. And then I'd press the dot key and do the same with the other lines in supposedly longer list.
already here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5071706
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Do the defendants in these cases understand how many years they are actually being expected to serve?

No. This is intentional.
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Several others did already, but here is a mirror in case the DOJ decides to take it down http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/07/Swartz...
Lapka: beautifully measure radiation, emf, humidity... around you.
Doh, sorry that should have been hello@draftapp.co
'Shazaam' iPhone/Android app does nearly that... it can identify the song by listening to a part of the actual recorded song. But it still can't identify the one that you sing or play on an instrument... I am pretty sure they'll be working on something like this...
"I think that some kind of criminal punishment was appropriate in this case. Swartz had announced his commitment to violating the law as a moral imperative in order to effectively nullify existing federal laws on access to information."

This seems to be the going mistake. I can understand if someone has the opinion that the case should be tried in court or even that the charges were correct. But stating that someone should be punished based on their previous statements is dangerously close to political repression.
Falling within the context of the video topic; is there any good software yet which will transcribe this video to 'readable' English? I would rather read it than listen to it.
how different is the actual security here from running chrome on a machine with the same private keys? is the sandboxing any less secure protecting extensions from each other as from the native os underneath chrome?
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Does it support REPL for various interpreters? (emacs has ESS for R, SLIME for LISP, surely others.)

I couldn't find anything about this in the docs (just quick browsing) and nothing was apparent in the menus after I've tried to install it. So.. just asking, not trying to start a flame war :)
Your suggestion is exactly the opposite of the information I'm looking for. I'm interested what's there in the code that they don't publish but that is behind the "download now" links, that's what 99.99% of people are going to use anyway.
Prosecutors (and lawyers in general) are all about drama and story. Everything is amplified. Reality is distorted. It's worse than cable television.

Ortiz framed a brilliant, selfless young man as a criminal who should be locked up behind bars. She and others inflicted mental torture on him until he couldn't bear to live any longer.

She is no doubt a wordsmith, but she is not a nice person, no matter what the gullible fools on HN say. She shouldn't be working with and against people anymore, or for the government.

To think that a carefully calculated statement could 'clear the deck' and make everything even-steven is ludicrous.
Tautology it is, I never knew such a word existed :)
Thank you.

Recently I started to learn more about "mentally ill" people and it have brought me to understanding that what they say is most sane thing I ever heard, they do not hide or pretend or make up story just to go on and work/pay taxes/watch another TV series.

They Say directly what world is afraid of, what everyone wants just to hide, put away. And they act upon it if you ignore it. And in a sense, they express all our problems we want to stash away. They will continue do so, until we take all the monsters out of closet and will have a good talk about it.

NOT leaving everything to mind numbing drugs.
First, I have a non technical co-funder and he's doing a lot of stuffs to get us traction.

I am not playing it defensive here. I've explained in a previous blog post where the game come from. I admit it should have been out a few months ago already. Nevertheless, what I tried to express in the blog post is my surprise/disappointment the results we are getting from our strategy.
For example of getting featured on two facebook page of more that 200k fans each and not get at least 1k download is still interrogating me.

And to come to the point of "providing what others are not providing", this is the whole point of the app. Our premises were:
- Sudoku can be fun.
- Sudoku can have nice design too with nice ambient sounds.
- You can build a fully featured sudoku game with all the above extras.

Now I know, one can say that it is not enough...
It is obvious from this press release from the formulation "faces up to 35 years in prison", that they are simply quoting the maximum penality for the charges.

The prosecutors press release says that they didn't intend to push for maximum penality.

These two statement are perfectly compatible with each other.
I like the fetch method too:
> name = details[:info].try(:fetch, :name)
> => 'Bob'
I like your scenario. I am curious though, lets say this issue went to court and the airline was charging the wifi 'thief' with stealing.

The case would only pertain to the single flight the thief stole internet access on. And on that particular flight, regardless of whether or not the thief paid or didn't pay he would be reducing the available bandwidth to other customers. Sure in the long run the airline can play with the pricing of their service to try and limit the number of active users on any given flight, however the price of the service would be locked for any single flight.

So doesn't kleiba's analogy of illegal file sharing still stand?
"Middlebrow dismissal" comes to mind...
xForms
Hi. I play a lot sudoku and I will not try your app. All the fancy you added to the sudoku game may be interesting, but the first thing I noticed is that your sudoku game is not ergonomic: on a touch screen, you MUST make the grid as big as possible. Personally, I use a sudoku game where I can put remaining possible digits in cases. If the purpose of your game was to improve my sudoku level, there would me more than 4 levels. I do not know who are your clients. I think that if I had a good free sudoku game (better than the one I am using), I would accept to pay (not too much) to have one more feature: the possibility to play a photographed grid.
How do we filter the quality of these plug-ins though? I hope that filtering comes later. I'd hope this is just the start and it doesn't end here.
And yet having the ability to look at source-code yields the greatest level of safety there is.

Apps without source-code cannot be trusted by default, unless you have a contract with the company providing it that stipulates a relief agreement that's reasonable for you in case anything goes wrong. And only enterprise software does that, depending on how you negotiate nonetheless, otherwise for consumers the EULAs are doing the exact opposite. And even with enterprise software guarded by good contracts, even then you need the source-code.
http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR....

Downloading four million files, apparently. And if by breaking terms and services you mean illegally distributing protected content and threatening the business model of JSTOR then yes, I suppose that is true.
Seeking the next CERN: Europe to award $1.3 billion to next-gen science projects
This article isn't about innovation.

It measures 'innovation' by 'quality' of filed patents.

It measures 'quality' of filed patents by how often each patent was cited in other patent applications.

So, the article actually finds: after going public, the number of citations on your patents drop.

Whether or not this says something about 'your innovation' is to be debated.
> no matter what the gullible fools on HN say

I agree with you on all the other points, but apparently you haven't been following this thread too closely.
3UK treats political satire as porn and blocks it
> illegally distributing protected content

Aaron never did that. He may have been planning that but nobody can say this for a fact.
Education startup Snappet is changing the way children learn
> "At no time did this office ever seek – or ever tell Mr. Swartz’s attorneys that it intended to seek – maximum penalties under the law."

http://watchdogblog.dallasnews.com/2013/01/read-the-full-cou... page 344

> Nothing in the wire fraud statute or the cases construing it provides constitutionally adequate notice that manipulating IP addresses, spoofing MAC addresses, and gaining access to a free electronic communications network (MIT's) for the purpose of accessing another website to download journal articles which are free to those with access to the website, and for which access MIT had already paid, constitutes a federal wire fraud felony carrying a potential penalty of 30 years.

> Defendant's research has located no reported wire fraud case which is even remotely comparable to this one.

The defence lawyers may have been talking in hyperbole but they had some reason to believe that it was potentially 30 years. Perhaps because they had heard nothing to contradict that impression.
I'm on 3 and it once blocked a page on the NME (New Musical Express) - I just thought it was a one-off and couldn't really be bothered digging into it. It appears that I was wrong.
Awesome! But I hope they have some plan to fix this:

"!Mediengruppe Bitnik ‏@bitnk
moving again. but: USER IS over daily photo limit: bitnik!"

edit: Nvm, seems it was only a photo limit on the pic.twitter.com service.
I do that with Sublime Text 2 using the vim plugin (vintage). I would've never switched from vim if not for this plugin. Now I have (most) of the best of both worlds.
This would discourage legitimate patent suits, while not particularly hurting one-patent shell companies.
Drexel University has wi-fi throughout campus. Its main wi-fi network, dragonfly3, allows any device to connect using WPA2 (with your student account as your login). But it also has dragonfly and dragonfly2, which are secured with only WEP, but only allow whitelisted MAC addresses to connect (to prevent strangers who have cracked the password from connecting). Each student has a customizeable list of up to only two MAC addresses, editable through a web interface, that they can keep on the whitelist.

When I was living in a dorm on campus, I had two devices (gaming consoles) whose OSs didn’t support WPA2, meaning I had to connect them to dragonfly2. These two devices filled up my whitelist. And occasionally, the dragonfly3 network signal totally dropped out while I was using that network on my computer, while the dragonfly2 network stayed accessible. So then I wanted to connect to dragonfly2 with my computer.

To do that, I had to log in to the web interface, select one of my other devices to unlist, and then add my computer’s MAC address in its place. If I had had SpoofMAC, I could have used it to set my computer’s MAC address to match one of my other device’s. Running SpoofMAC would probably have taken much less time than changing my whitelist through the web interface, and would have obviated the need to re-list the removed device when I wanted to use it again.
Shazaam doesn't do what I describe, it just tries to match part of a performance to the recording of that exact performance.

In my experience, it also doesn't really work.
I think those two statements are in direct contradiction with each other, and Aaron's lawyer is on the record that they were putting up a > 10:1 ratio for a plea bargain.

So they may not have been seeking the technical maximum but they were definitely beating their drums quoting that maximum where ever they could. Now that that makes them look terrible they're backpedaling on that but there is enough documentation out there to make this look like what it is: full-on damage control.

The Aaron Swartz story is starting to get some serious play in mainstream media and that is something that worries people like Carmen Ortiz more than anything else.
Mojombo open sourced mojombo/conduit 
"Blur the lines between github.com and your local machine."

This is showing up in my github feed, but the repo is no where to be seen. Anyone know what conduit is?
Before this statement was issued, I didn't think we should be chasing them down to make an example of them[1]. Now that she is dishonest and trying to brush everything aside as 'business as usual', I am changing my stance. She needs to go. Not to make an example of her, but because we should not tolerate such dishonesty and smugness in our federal court system.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5053980
100% agree. This whole "let's build another language/compiler" on top of JavaScript thing is starting to piss me off.

It's one of those things that just ends up in utterly huge amounts of excruciating pain with respect to performance, debugging, support, fungibility and value over a long period of time.
Downloading multigig torrents on a connection you are not paying for would fit the analogy just fine.
Use <C-v> for column editing.

Your example is not a candidate for a macro, a simple substitution is enough:

V2j to visually select the lines
:s/_/_Class_<cr> a range corresponding to the visual selection '<,'> is inserted automatically before the s

If you are comfortable with ranges, the operation can be done in one go:

:.,+2s/_/_Class_<cr>

Also there are already a few plugin authors exploring the multiple cursors idea, however gimmicky it is.
You have any proof for your statement?

This 35 year (or 50 year) thing mentioned in many blogs might be questionable. To be frank I feel myself a bit fooled by this information, reading yesterday that 6 month have been proposed to Swartz. When talking about things as serious as death, we seem to assume that every information is depicted really carefully, but this is far from being true.
Let me just throw something out there.

It's obvious that the investigation was a contributing factor to Aaron's decision to take his life, but to what extent? Was this at all investigated by the media, or have everyone just made the connection, because it was the easiest explanation?
CL has optional types and quite an interesting type system. Check out Qi if you want a Lisp designed to have a rich type system.
The crew haven't been trained on it yet so I don't think it was in service.

If anything it was probably a meet and greet where the executives (and staff) can walk around the cabin to get a feel for it. They run their entire operation out of T5 now so getting a an unused gate for a 787 wouldn't be impossible. Other airlines are still jockeying for gate space at T1-T4.
> That is why in the discussions with his counsel about a resolution of the case this office sought an appropriate sentence that matched the alleged conduct – a sentence that we would recommend to the judge of six months in a low security setting. While at the same time, his defense counsel would have been free to recommend a sentence of probation.

That is terrible writing. Ms. Ortiz should be doubly ashamed.
Hound is just "voice search" for songs: but I'd rather type than speak.

I had never heard of Midomi; just went and tested it. It seems to try to do what I'm talking about, but the "matches" seem completely random.

It may be that doing this is much harder than it seems; but what I'm talking about is really not about a specific performance, but about melodies (parts of melodies as sequences of intervals).

And it should work just as a text search engine works (matching a query to entries in an index); no special AI required for a first version.
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It was up last night. I guess he removed it since then. I didn't really understand what it actually did from the README, but it is certainly an intriguing tagline.
Or maybe they are depressed. Best thing to do with someone who is depressed? Call them rude and selfish, of course.
I've tried to like it and believe that instant feedback is actually useful but no. I couldn't.
Does anyone know of a plugin that allows Sublime to handle XML files correctly? By correctly I'm mainly talking about auto-formatting and generally understanding how XML is indented.

Thanks
That's a strange line of argument.

It's obvious that the communication to Aaron was "up to 35 years", he wasn't told "up to 7 years" or "up to 3 years", the communication he received was "up to 35 years in prison".

To argue that the prosecutors didn't intend to push to maximum penalty would be to do so without any basis in fact - it would be mere speculation and of 0 value compared to the recorded facts as they stand.
Microsoft's 13 worst missteps of all time
Might as well just take them off them, it's a lot less messy and it doesn't require anyone to choose not to be a douche even if it's the less attractive option.
Minor gripe: Your websites top menu has an item "Solutions", which then seems to have a grab bag of links which as far as I can tell only relate to the single solution (i.e. your main db product). It took me a minute to find the pricing page as a result of it not being a "Solution". Otherwise, if this was even slightly in my price range I would use it in a second, looks like an awesome product.
+1 for "us common folk"
It is a lawyer's statement. Absolutely true (probably) but completely beside the point because what they would seek in the event of a trial was still massively inappropriate (years of jail time).
False dichotomy: he's neither the Capone nor Rosa Parks. He clearly did not do it to benefit himself directly as Capone did.

Now let's assume for a second that booze is just as important as scientific research. He would be equivalent to an anti-prohibition activist that ran a boat to Canada to pick up booze, but only charged for costs of operating the boat and the purchase price of the booze (operating at no profit), and never drank any himself.

He would not want to get caught for two reasons: he would not be able to provide the booze to those who need it and it would interfere with his plans to run as an anti-prohibition candidate which he can't with a felony on his record.

Utility is discrete rather than linear here: the cost of going "clean record" to "petty felon" is greater than going from "petty felon" to "petty felon with another conviction" (non-violent felonies are usually not subject to three-strike laws).

So here's what I would find a fit punishment:

* Monetary retribution to MIT and investigating agencies (as well as JSTOR if they so choose). Capped as to be reasonable.

* Misdemeanor conviction subject to being expunged if his record stays clear.

* No jail sentence, but perhaps community service that involved tutoring jail inmates (it would give him a realistic view of what jail is like).

* Some form of supervised parole with the condition that doing what he did again would mean jail and a felony charges.

* No restrictions whatsoever on his speech, but he should he prohibited about talking of his exact punishment/settlement (so that it's imagined to be more harsh than it really is).

Overall, maintain high incentives for him to not break the law again and to instead use other means to change it.

That does have one problem, however: it does not deter others from doing the same. Yet, as far as I understand, there aren't that many people seeking to do what Aaron did: the intersection between "people willing to torrent copyrighted material that they gleaned by breaking captchas with a script" and "people strongly supportive of open access with no profit motive" consisted of Aaron.

What he did was rare and unusual, so punishingly him harshly would do little to reduce crime -- there's no one else to deter.
Yeah, browser-based technology is so unsecure and dubious, it will never catch on for anything security critical such as banking. </sarcasm>
Anecdotally, it works very well for me the last few years. On the other hand, Gracenote — which Path uses — has been terrible for me.

Does Shazaam not work well for you for a particular genre?
Yeah I was kind of wondering... What would RTM think? (Considering he's rarely if ever wrong. :) ) Anyway, I liked this article a lot too (one of the few to make the connection to him)...
Of course thorium reactors is not a proven technology but if there is a scientific consensus saying it is promising, I don't see why utility companies and civil nuclear reactor manufacturers try to make it viable. They have everything to gain, in my opinion.

Tldr of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50f73bbe983c81b86a00012b/thorium-reacto...
Anybody that does any kind of high volume crawling knows about rate limiting and knows that evading those rate limiting blocks is circumvention. Having a door slammed in your face then going around to find another door indicates that you know that door was closed because of you.
On the first page, it says:

Aaron Swartz
TERMINATED: 01/14/2013

It's probably just legalese that refers to the case being closed, but the placement of the all-caps word right under Aaron's name sent a chill down my spine.

Sorry for the off-topic post.
I like this one a lot: http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/index.html
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One quick question here - I notice that you don't mention that press in your app description or homepage?

As a marketing type, any time we get press my first instinct is to say "quick, stick their logo on the homepage! Social proof!". But I'm not a games guy - is there a reason that doesn't work in games?
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That is one very unfortunate choice of words and I have goose flesh just reading that line. Terminated indeed.
yup, it only matches the exact parts but that it does that very well, It even identified a very old and unpopular song in Marvadi language (a minor dailect of hindi, spoken in some parts of Rajasthan, an Indian state). that must mean that they maintain a very extensive database...
It's going to get opened...

You've only got to look at the xray image on the bottom of this site to see why - http://archive.is/lIwe8