skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can always check http://isup.me/. Looks like it's down!
Traceroute to web.mit.edu (previously 18.9.22.69) dies after a Level 3 router in Boston. This isn't just DNS, although both MIT.edu and DoJ.gov are returning NXDOMAIN right now.

Justice.gov and USDoJ.gov are functioning normally, though.
No they don't, they wouldn't ask stupid questions if they did. They are playing a game. If they really want honest answer then the question they are asking is "Please tell me the reasons not to hire you so I don't have to do any thinking."
I'm not sure what is more disturbing; the fact that someone is capable of disparaging a human being who has passed away and is incapable of self-defence, or the fact that some people apparently agree with the diatribe as witnessed by the upvotes.

I don't know about you nor can I or will I speak on the behalf of the real Mr. Swartz, but I've thrown away plenty of opportunities, made plenty of mistakes and done tons of dumb things. I just hope that when my time comes those mis-steps aren't what I'm remembered for.
In academic writing, "TL;DR" is an "Abstract".

I'll start deriding TL;DRs as unnecessary when academic writing no longer uses the Abstract.
I'm surprised at the comments here. Cliched as this question is, it can help demonstrate your ability to identify areas for improvement and show how you're addressing them.

The best way to answer this is:
1) Identify: "Addressing large groups of people is something I struggle with"
2) Importance: "It's something I want to get better at, as my job often needs me to collaborate with a wide set of stakeholders"
3) Action: "I've joined the local Toastmasters/started presenting at XX user group etc"

It's not a negative question - it's a good opportunity to show your candor and dedication to self improvement and learning - something us developers do anyway.
Down here.

And here: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/w3.org
The question mark was unnecessary, yeah - of course I checked to make sure before posting
> There is no expectation of depth

There is in some subreddits. Not the big ones, but that's the point of having subreddits, isn't it?

Any time you want to generalize about all of Reddit, think of New York City: "There's no expectation of depth in New York City" just sounds wrong, doesn't it?
I did. He's obviously biased. He claims that Aaron "did nothing to cover his tracks or hide his activity." He tried to disguise himself when he went to retrieve the laptop. I think not clearing .bash_history or his browser history was just due to stupidity on Aaron's part, as he (again stupidly) didn't foresee that he would get caught retrieving the laptop.
Dying does not give you immunity from criticism.
Should read as:

"Specialized subset of designers and engineers share skill-base."

OP also misses the other side of the coin: design-lead tools like Bootstrap have made it much easier for engineers to design great looking apps.

It's convergence, not competition.
MIT's been having serious intermittent network problems over the past two weeks, although usually not a complete outage from all parts of the Internet (there were several points last week where it was reachable from Internet2 but not from a handful of residential ISPs). I have no knowledge here, but at this point I'd be more likely to credit some router somewhere sucking than Anonymous with doing anything.
arxiv is not peer-reviewed.
There are a couple threads on this already.

turntable.fm's "Ambient Chillout & Trip Hop" room is usually quite good.
He never physically hurt anyone?! His first scandal was for imprisoning and assaulting a woman, and plenty more of that followed. See Wikipedia for a quick overview:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Sade#Scandals_and_im...

Also, if 120 Days in Sodom is not a work of a diseased mind, I'd be curious to find out what you think is. I'm sure 32 years in prison sucks, but would most people get relief by graphically daydreaming about torturing their own children to death?
> You don't put your summary at the end of the article. You put it at the beginning.

On the other hand, if it's a personal story, I would rather have it at the bottom, so as to avoid tiny spoilers.
Ha, good point. Although I think what's happening is slightly more important than "specialized subset of designers and engineers share skill-base". I don't think engineers are changing as much or as quickly as web designers are. Bootstrap works for internal tools but if you want to make something consumer-facing it doesn't even come close to being adequate.
US DOJ site down
Save top story of HN on Instapaper account(ifttt Recipe)
MIT.edu Currently Down Following Investigation Into Swartz Tragedy
MIT Medical is available to provide members of the MIT community with psychological counseling. This is on pastebin because it is a copy of an email that was sent to everyone at MIT.
"I sometimes give smart ass answers to stupid questions."
A Man Who Gave Away His Home To a Family in Need
1) Getting followers/fans is not an accomplishment, unless you consider (say) Snooki "more accomplished" than your hero.
2) He didn't suffer because he stood for something, he suffered because he got caught, which he didn't foresee. Subtle difference. Too bad he couldn't handle it.
To quote you;

>>> It was only because this guy had academic and tech industry protectors who backed their precious manbaby that JSTOR and MIT were reluctant to pursue the issue themselves. <<<

I would argue that you are not a critic as the above statement is not a reasoned stance or observation; it is vitriol.

Giving respect to someone's life irrespective of the differences you may have had is not about right or wrong. No, it's more basic than that; it's about compassion.
True, but TLDR also tends to not show up in smaller subreddits (at least, the smaller ones I am subscribed to).
TLDR is the common man's academic abstract.
I got a McAfee something or other offer bundled with the installer. I don't know why Sun and Oracle did this, it gives the installer the look of shady shareware shit.
The traditional solution to large numbers of young men without mates is not repression (that hardly works, they'll rather run revolutions) - it's simply to pack them in colorful uniforms and march them to the neighboring tribe to look for mates and loot or die trying, both options "solve" the problem.
Sweet! I've used those links to make an RSS file containing the English language presentations. It's at http://dalkescientific.com/29c3-en.xml .

It's really nice that the final schedule is available in XML form. It was easy to pull out the various fields so that the RSS contains title, subtitle, description, dates, etc. I put my export script at http://dalkescientific.com/ccc_rss.py . "Share and enjoy" - I assert no copyright interest for it.

Both of these will be there for a couple of weeks, but they will disappear at some arbitrary point in the future.
> However, he paints the picture that porn has been with our society forever and that its effects are known and tolerable. I would argue that its widespread availability is an extremely novel phenomena and that its effects are unknown and likely harmful.

You haven't clearly defined what you mean by harmful. Does it ruin otherwise healthy relationships on a massive scale? Does it teach impressionable young men that all women want to fuck them, leading to violence? Those seem like typical charges brought against porn. Were they true I'd agree there would be cause for serious concern. I haven't seen the data to back up these claims. If it exists, let's see it. Porn is widespread enough that you'd expect the large-scale statistical effects to be manifest.
So instead of hiding from the word "suicide," wouldn't society be better served by destigmatizing whatever the victims of these "accidents" were going through so they aren't at risk when there is news of a self-inflicted death?
I'd say that was more "narrow minded prejudice" to dismiss an application you've not researched nor ran simply because of a tired old myth about an enterprise level language which is in wide scale production use on devices ranging from 'dumb' feature phones through to enterprise servers.

But really, it's your loss.
MIT's name servers are all on their own network? Seriously?

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mit.edu. 172800 IN NS bitsy.mit.edu.
mit.edu. 172800 IN NS strawb.mit.edu.
mit.edu. 172800 IN NS w20ns.mit.edu.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
bitsy.mit.edu. 172800 IN A 18.72.0.3
strawb.mit.edu. 172800 IN A 18.71.0.151
w20ns.mit.edu. 172800 IN A 18.70.0.160
We have tested and tasted too much, lover--
Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.
But here in the Advent-darkened room
Where the dry black bread and the sugarless tea
Of penance will charm back the luxury
Of a child's soul, we'll return to Doom
the knowledge we stole but could not use.

(Advent, Kavanagh)
Please, let's give Abelson the time to do his work. If he botches it you can call him out fairly afterwards, and I'm pretty sure you won't be alone. To do this beforehand is not fair to the man.
Does this mean that you have to pay someone if want to make absolutely sure that you're not breaking the law for some given action in California?
Still down, from Asia (Taiwan)
DNS resolution issue
This sounds fascinating. How did you prepare? What did you do for food and shelter?
It would just be a factor of two in costs. Surely you're exaggerating its effect.

Additionally I would propose that in some random subset of accepted plea bargains, a trial is forced and if the plea is consistently unreasonably far from the plea, there should be some negative consequence for the prosecutor.
"I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter. I didn't have time to write you a short one." - Blaise Pascal

Editing takes time, much quicker to slap a TLDR on top I suppose.
Yeah I didn't realize that initially either. JSTOR are actually the "good guys" in terms of releasing content to the public compared with the journals that they aggregate. You can argue that they should be pushing journals to let them open up even more, but at the moment a world with JSTOR is better than one without.
Ah, ok, then it certainly does make sense to repost.
I don't know about Minneapolis, but in MA you can withhold rent if the landlord isn't meeting their obligations. (Downside is making the landlord-tenant relationship more adversarial.)
I really can't believe what I'm reading here. You are either clueless or downright mean and I can't decide which. Please stop.
> Next time you see someone using floating point types for money

... apply that logic to their paycheck and let them deal with being underpaid by a bizarre amount because of rounding.

Or apply it to their investment accounts so the errors accumulate for a few decades.

Nothing like an object lesson to remedy bad behavior.
In case anybody is interested in a quick comparison to another non-profit with a similar mission, Archive.org spends 2% of their budget on fundraising.
Have you ever heard of prioritization? One of the factors of prioritizing is the 'time of completion'.
Yes, exactly.

The "TLDR" is all-caps, so it grabs your eye out of the wall-o-text that you may be skimming over, and says "hey here is my basic point". And maybe then you'll go "hey that's an interesting point" and scroll back up and read their lengthy argument, story, or whatever, in all its labrynthine discoursiveness.

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TL;DR: One sentence with a block of all-caps beginning it sure catches your eye at the end of a long post.
up in Ireland...
GPS glitch directs lost phone owners to retiree's Las Vegas house
It's not that uncommon if they're multi-homed.
Of course, I'm not saying that an additional external DNS won't be nice.
Narrow minded prejudice is probably accurate, yea. Guilty as charged.
Thank you for your input, Ms. Ortiz.
The donation would cover not only his own access, but access of others who may not in a position to donate themselves. It therefore only makes sense that many people would be more willing to donate than pay.
I can cut Oracle some slack when black hats can cut me some slack.
I live in a newish apartment building with good insulation. I always have to open a window because it gets so hot (after the turn on date of course, which was early this year).

Think of the poor college students in southern china who don't have heat at all in their dorms (the government, in their wisdom, said heat isn't needed south of the Yangtze). Every year more than a few of them die in fires using some haphazard electrical device to try and stay warm.
You mean the guy who wrote a 490 page book about one bloke blowing up a single bridge?

Oh yeah, totally write like Hemingway if you want the internet to pay attention.
I agree with you in spirit even though I would not call it mental illness. I would call it a deep unconsciousness, a complete entrapment in ones mind, a belief that one is in fact ones thoughts. He was liberated only at the time of his death. Many are stuck in this belief - I certainly was, and certainly at his age. I think therefore I am - nothing could be further from the truth.

That said there are many things being confused and mixed up here
- I and probably most on HN feel a sense of incredible loss; I did not know him personally but I wish I had, I admired Aarons hacking skills, his guts, his convictions, and his sheer brilliant intellect. He made the world a better place. I was looking forward to his next big thing.
- The loss to his actual friends and family; all we can do is express out heartfelt condolences.
- His work and your opinion of it - its unrelated to the above and seems insignificant in comparison.
- The governments actions; surely, the man has struck back, those actions were unreasonable, and despicable. But insignificant in comparison with our sense of loss. The government did not kill him - don't give them that victory. We can continue to push back and support open leaks, hacktivists, bradley manning, and so on. This is a fight about power, and its fought between the people and the corporations - even if not everybody is aware of it.
Swartz's trial was scheduled, approaching rapidly, and he had already apparently spent an enormous amount of money on at least two different firms. The trial was not something hovering nebulously in the future; Swartz's need for assistance was immediate.

I don't believe EFF's involvement or lack thereof speaks in any way to Swartz's guilt. I would say that this is the kind of thing you'd hope EFF would be right in the middle of. Were they?
Aaron Swartz: A Lesson
> Sure, you can write in something which has all the greatest features you love, but it will still be cross compiled to JavaScript, with all of its pitfalls right?

By this logic, no bignum library could exist because machine code doesn't have bignums, and everything gets compiled to machine code and/or run by an interpreter that's been compiled to machine code.
Do you actually have anything that actually addresses my points?
If I'm clueless, feel free to clue me in.
Epic 15,000km life-streaming walk from Beijing to London
This guy is going to walk from Beijing, China, to London, England, whist life-streaming his entire 15,000km walk over social media. His journey will take 3-5 years.
Show HN: Manage your aliases in the cloud
There are already places for open-access articles, mainly PLOS and arXiv. PLOS stands for Public Library Of Science and was create around 10 years ago. It has got quite popular among scientist, and it's peer reviewed. However, it charges the authors with a small fee, usually around $1000 per article. For some scientists this is a problem. Personally I think this is a much better and a more economic systemic model than subscriptions. The subscription model unfortunately is pretty nasty (http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=890), to the point that thousands of scientists, and among them some renown geniuses, have decided to boycott it (http://thecostofknowledge.com). And now, with the death of Aaron there is one more reason to make the research articles free to the tax-payers, who in fact already fund the researchers, but somehow have to pay extra to access their results.
I guess I wasn't clear.

They seemed to have a pretty strong case against him, which means ending up with a felony label was pretty much a foregone conclusion if it went to trial.

A felony on your record is indeed a big deal. However, when you have the connections he did, and the reputation he did, a felony is not necessarily a "destroy your future" type big deal. Plenty of tech companies would have still jumped at the chance to hire him, for instance.

He was going to almost certainly end up with the felony tag regardless of whether or not he took the plea. Taking the plea gets him out and lets him get right to building his life back, and working on getting his record expunged.

Going to jail for, say, 10 years, not only delays all that by 10 years, but also makes it much harder. 10 years is a long time in the world of internet fame. Connections and reputations fade.
A lot of these issues are equally applicable to integer overflow (termination of loops and the "real web application disaster"). As a result, this is a deeper issue that extends beyond JavaScript into most languages—in general, programmers have to be aware that numbers in the runtime model of a language may not always work like you would expect theoretical, mathematical numbers to work.

Of course, floating point imprecision results in more surprising behaviors than integer overflow on the whole, but the danger is still there no matter what language you use (not counting the languages with full numeric towers, like Scheme).
Don't bother reading this. You are not missing anything.
https://twitter.com/Join____Us/status/290623433191092224
Thanks, Sean. I was using London so my results would be comparable to the parent's.
"Installing this update will ensure that your Java applications continue to run as safely and efficiently as always." Thanks for the warning.
Confirmed?

https://twitter.com/AnonymousIRC/status/290625822983856128
This is not news. Why on Earth was this upvoted?
As a non-American I only have a passing understanding of SOPA - although I do know that it's scope would affect me here in New Zealand.
It makes sense, if taught properly. But I would expect this to be yet another thing taught with the "daddy knows best" attitude that speaks in simplistic absolutes to make sure they instill their desired outcome rather than share a proper perspective with plenty of nuance and hope that the children come to the same conclusions as the person teaching. That is a very dangerous road to take. It depends on the message being correct, and the child to never rebel from that message when they wise up to the fact they weren't given the full picture and never succumb to their desires.

For me, in this day and age, its really hard to say one way or the other. How poorly done and/or wrong will it be, and is having it done that way better than nothing? I can't know, but I suspect that with societal attitudes on sex, "some porn is fine, how much is too much is different for everybody and here's how to tell where the line is" is too complicated of a message to effectively communicate. If it is even allowed to be communicated at all. Don't forget widespread acceptance of "abstinence only" rubbish isn't far behind us, I'm reminded of this every time I visit family in the South and see the big labels on every gas station condom dispenser reminding me that the only real way to avoid HIV/AIDS is monogamy and abstinence before marriage. Whereas growing up in the North, we didn't even have those dispensers. I suspect their presence is related to the greater taboos about sex in those areas, but in the north I was never scared away from buying rubbers at the counter when I was young.
Not openly afaik, which probably translates into not at all. Maybe someone should go and ask them if they were and if not why not.

I offered to contribute to Aarons defense a while ago but he declined. That may have been because he knew that any help he needed was outside of my ability to render.

Be careful, you're associating yourself with a 'known troll'.
It looks like MIT hosts www.w3.org: http://bgp.he.net/ip/128.30.52.37
>> He's obviously biased

Judging by your throwaway account and incendiary comments, it seems you would know a thing or two about bias.

The expert witness cited established his credentials while presenting his viewpoint. I'm sure his assertions could be disputed, but he was upfront about his background and professional opinion.

You, on the other hand, are currently an anonymous Internet troll.
According to the information in the indictment[1], they first blocked a single IP, then a bigger block, and then finally all of MIT.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/bitbucket/Swartz,%20Aaron%20Indictment.pd...
In the Flesh: The Embedded Dangers of Untested Stem Cell Cosmetics
"Bootstrap works for internal tools but if you want to make something consumer-facing it doesn't even come close to being adequate."

Except that it actually is adequate, a lot of the time. Much like your 'designer-as-engineer' code is often adequate.

Same coin, different sides.
Hum, late summer/fall in Beijing is usually pretty good, so there wasn't much risk during the Olympics (it was easy to mitigate). Now winter is an entirely different problem, I'm just waiting for spring to come.
jacquesm is a long-standing member of the community and one of HN's greatest contributors (#4 by karma on http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders). Not a troll.