skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think he kept a head count and had set a limit beforehand based on the expected prison sentence? According to himself, he didn't expect to get out of there alive, and was prepared for life inprisonment if he did.
Encryption software is not something to be trusted; it's use is to be regarded as a necessary evil, likely to fail without warning, and prone to catastrophic failures in two modes; that of being completely ineffective and that of being all too effective. People are not good at Key Management, and if you ever think that you have learned how to be good at Key Management, that is the day that you will screw it up royally.

That said.

1. Generate private keys on a host that is fully disconnected from the network using an OS image dedicated to that purpose.

2. Make backups, on paper, keep them in separate locations, take reasonable precautions to make sure that root keys are recoverable. Be aware of how this compromises your security, and what tripwires and alarms you need to have in place to deal with those vulnerabilities.

3. Do create intermediate signing keys, you shouldn't need to open the vault to create an email alias or process a new hire.

4. Do re-key on a schedule. Do not generate fresh keys ahead of time.

5. You are not MI-6 or the NSA, you will screw it up. Have a plan for when that happens.
On your first point, as a non-expert in law and law history, I wonder to what extent these differences in trial procedure are rooted in the difference between common law and civil law.

To add to the examples, I'd say that France and Italy have procedures very similar to those described as the German system, and indeed all have a civil law system.

However, the link does not seem that obvious : the way trials are organized is not necessarily dependent on the way law is built.
Of course, we don't know if zaru is actually the rightful owner of the account. He could be trying to convince us (and Twitter support) in an attempt to take over the account...
It could also be that the Secret Service swallowed the "copyright math" bullshit, and treating is as a case of significant economic impact.
I've heard of a proposal to replace income taxes with consumption taxes.

This way, the government wouldn't have an excuse to poke its nose into every citizen's private finances.

Unless you're running a business, paying your taxes is dead simple: When you buy stuff, pay the price that comes up on the register.

Of course, it punishes people who save money, because anyone with savings at the time the law changes would be taxed twice: the (pre-change) income tax they paid earning the money, and the (post-change) consumption tax they paid spending the money.

You'd think it'd be political suicide to propose something like this (and, indeed, despite the IRS's regularly topping the list of most-loathed government agencies, the consumption-tax proposal has remained well on the fringe). But consider: The US government's inflationary fiscal and monetary policies punish savers, too, and they get away with it. Clearly, living within one's means is only for losers.
You don't generally need a new law to pay for a bridge, just vote on the legislature.
"By default, you can initiate a password reset by entering only your @username. If you check this box, you will be prompted to enter your email address or phone number if you forget your password."

If you're able to get back your account, enable the "Require personal information to reset my password" option in the twitter account settings. Because you didn't have this option enabled, when your email was compromised all's they had to do was know your twitter username and do a password reset by email.
No, the point is that choosing to speak to the police, and then going silent, can hurt your case. If he had refused to speak to the police from the get go, then none of the evidence of him being deceptive would have been admissible in court. In fact, the officer wouldn't have any evidence of deception, because he wouldn't have talkedto Salinas in the first place.
IMHO, people will feel that they "own" the product when they'll really _own_ the product!
I mean, when they'll have some freedom in how to do their work, when they'll be sincerely requested their opinion before taking decisions and when they'll participate in the financial benefits and risks.
If you pay a fixed salary to someone to do the work you dictate him, you'll have a subordinate, not an associate. Just to be clear, I don't consider wrong or reductive at all to offer a fixed salary; it's just that a co-founder and an employee are in a different situation: a co-founder shares your goal (success for the company), while the employee has his own goal (more money and better conditions for him) which only partially are based on the overall success of your business.
I would respectively disagree and so would many design schools.

Design as the original poster is talking about is essentially about communication and although Typography is one of the essential skills needed, it is not the only one.
please do not encourage doing "instead of waiting for the reply from Twitter support I will post on HN too" posts. this is just noise, nothing interesting.
A Facebook search engine would be cool, but I don't think it's coming any time soon. I heard someone suggest they could have 20% search engine market share overnight with their 1 billion + users. What do you guys think?
Exactly like discoverability of APIs, or the documentation of a library.
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Call me obsolete, but I still prefer RAII over GC.
it is not. Germany does have plea bargaining nowadays.
Just a heads up: here's a course taught by Robert Morris that goes through a lot of great stuff:

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/
If correct, that's pretty damning for MIT. Think of all the hackers that will think twice before applying now.
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QE only affects reserves, if anything it decreases net private assets as it takes interest bearing assets out of the private sector. Credit creation for bidding up existing assets is where the instability comes from.

Tighten regulations and increase net private assets through fiscal policy; preferably as diffuse as possible, e.g. full payroll-tax holiday.
Growing up, many of the kids I knew had divorced parents, who were often remarried.
I initially replied to a comment, but I'll post this as a direct reply: Robert Morris teaches a course on Distributed Systems that covers a lot of great stuff; a lot of which is available online:

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/
There are limits to plea bargains in the UK. One such limit is that a bargain can only be made if prosecutor and defendant agree upon the defendant pleading guilty on some charges while the remaining charges are dropped. Moreover, the court still has to decide on the appropriate penalty (considering only the charges that haven't been dropped, of course), that is there is no binding agreement on penalty between prosecution and defendant.

Plea bargaining does happen in the UK and can be problematic in those cases but it's nowhere near as excessive as in the US.
The 'hamsters' run the system.
The original title of this was actually something along the lines of "MIT rejected offer for no jail time for Swartz." Unfortunately, a mod changed it, meaning that finding out the reason I posted this takes some digging.
very interesting indeed. i hope the community manages to keep the devices alive - they clearly have some ardent fans.
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An easy to follow design course for hackers who do amazing things.
Agreed and also the related petition to fix the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reform-computer-fr...

Also, here is the eff form to send your representatives a letter:

https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KE...
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I think and hope that twitter has a history of changes in the account. So that they can find the takeover.
The adversarial system and principles like "being judged by one's peers" are deeply ingrained in common law systems. Generally, the underlying ideas are good as they're meant to limit the authorities' powers to bring people to trial.
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Let's suppose hypothetically, for the sake of argument, that numerous careful, politically neutral scientific studies have been conducted, and they reveal that children who grow up in two-parent homes have significantly better outcomes -- fewer suffer abuse and neglect; on average they get better grades; they have more education and get better jobs; they live longer, healthier and happier lives.

Let's suppose these studies correctly controlled for all conceivable other variables like race, income level, education, profession, etc.

Don't we owe it to those children to make sure that as many as possible are born into two-parent families? Isn't a financial incentive to marry a great way to balance society's interest in maximizing the well-being of its future citizens in this way, while still allowing its citizens who desire alternative lifestyles the freedom to do so?

I have no idea whether real studies have been conducted that are similar to my hypothetical ones. But based on personal experience and anecdotal evidence, and without knowledge of scientific evidence to the contrary, it seems reasonable to me to assume that heterosexual two-parent families generally have better outcomes.
the article mentions bifs. (and i don't think benchmarks are very clear between akka and erlang. erlang is a proven technology though.)
Being a federal prosecutor isn't just a job, it's a privileged position of power. It's not someplace where you bumble through law school and wind up arguing to put people away for life; all of these people competed to get where they are now. These are people who went to elite law schools and worked hard at being the sort of people that rise up the ranks in a federal D.A.'s office. And one of the things that goes with the unbridled power to decide who to indict and what charges will be brought; is the responsiblity to use that power appropriately. Anyone who does not understand that responsibility should not be allowed to pass the bar, much less be handed the power to ruin lives with relative impunity.
You !== Your Brain. This is not the kind of thing that science can "discover" and "more evidence" doesn't change that. Freedom of the will is a concept that also is embedded within our cultural gestalt/framework.

We may _decide_ that such neuroscientific conditions, as evidenced by fMRI for instance, say that our will is not active in certain circumstances, but deciding that isn't so clear cut. We may not have free will under most conditions, but the onus is on the neuroscientist to demonstrate what those conditions are. That said, most personal agency is a feature of systems much more higher order than the brain. "Luck" is a prime example where we often attribute agency regardless of any physical conditions having taken place.

>His experiment showed that the neurons lit up with activity as much as 1.5 seconds before the participant made a conscious decision to press a button.

Hume's skeptical argument applies here as well. Correlation doesn't imply causation, etc. And you need at least to prove this much before one can get an identity claim. But again: You !== Your Brain.

Even if true, as I said earlier about the cultural gestalt: The idea that one does not have free will entails that one is reducible to one's brain; and this is absurd, on its face. Moreover, natural language itself does not suggest this at all, and in fact suggests the opposite.
And you sir, leave punctuations within quotation marks where they do not belong and use serial commas. I believe I need to read no further.
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happy reading:

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Another point I wanted to make, but couldn't articulate because 3am is not my neuron's best friend:

The fact that you're experiencing or you've experienced depression in the past doesn't mean you're inherently broken.

As for suicide, most people have an acute and a chronic stress threshold that can lead to a so-called "major depression" episode.
Total guess: may be if both "victims" signed off on an agreement(whether it had legal standing or not) it would make it significantly more difficult for the prosecutors to move forward with the criminal case.
We assume that your are a web developer, you have an idea and have it implemented. you sell or are not! I really need hundreds of thousands of dollars?
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The copy that I kept staid with me through two HDD meltdown events since the 2000's, when I first read it. It isn't about me, or of my direct experience. But it is about people like me, and exhibits an emotion that looks exactly like it was ripped directly from my brain, I can almost feel the static when I run my eyes on it.

Thank you. If you read this I will cry.
The question that comes to my mind is, which of the following situations is true?

A) Marital status is an input to the insurance model. If all other inputs but marital status are changed, the model outputs different values, and the marriage is lower.

B) Marital status is correlated with other factors, which are input to the insurance model. For example, it is quite conceivable that individuals who are either very young or very old are likelier to be unmarried, and also likelier to be higher risks for many types of insurance (e.g. a young driver is risky due to inexperience, an elderly driver is risky due to declining faculties and health problems that interfere with driving).
He details it further in his message.
Thanks for not taking my anger at this personally, I was being out of line. But to think that just one gullible person might fall into the clutches of Scientology because of this, really does bother me. I know they might follow up on all this with an editorial or something, but I would be surprised if it was an equally strong criticism of Scientology as the ad and the comments to it was praise of it. So I don't see the potential damage being undone. Trying to get away with something like this, to me marks any organization, unless it expels its elements which lead to those decisions, as utterly poisonous. And maybe they really cannot learn, maybe we have to play natural selection, instead of being understanding and patient and whatnot. But still, thanks for a level-headed reply to a kind of BS post, I'm just not editing it because I think that's lame; but I regret having it phrased that way, and being so full of myself when it's not really about me at all.
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> If he knew he would get 20 years per person would he have murdered anywhere near 77 people?

"In for the penny, in for the pound"?

If you get 20 for each, then after the 3rd or 4th you may as well go for as many as you want. Larger penalties don't discourage that sort of event at all.
the factor of 34 is. (and that there is a program with only factor 2 suggests that as well.)
On a first look seems too tedious and too theoretic. "What is Design?". Come on.
It's a longstanding legal debate, but in practice victims' opinions have a significant role in many plea bargains. Part of it, as far as I can tell, is that the U.S. doesn't have a purely protect-the-public conception of what the purpose of criminal law is, but also has a strong undercurrent of retributive justice. It's pretty common to hear people talk about a trial helping victims "achieve justice". So it's much easier for a prosecutor to sign off on a plea bargain if the victims support it than if they don't, even if their opposition wouldn't have legal standing.

And more recently there is some weak legal standing for victims' opinions on the matter. A number of states, and the federal government, have enacted "victims' rights" laws giving (alleged) victims some right to have their opinions heard in a case. The federal version [1] confers two rights relevant to having their opinion heard (though not necessarily followed) when negotiating plea bargains: 1) "The right to be reasonably heard at any public proceeding in the district court involving release, plea, sentencing, or any parole proceeding." and 2) "The reasonable right to confer with the attorney for the Government in the case."

[1] http://www.justice.gov/olc/2010/availability-crime-victims-r...
alright then!
[Repeat] We assume that your are a web developer, you have an idea and have it implemented. you sell or are not! do you really need hundreds of thousands of dollars?
How do you know that your PC was not compromised?
This is much, much bigger than HN alone.
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There is one thing only revealing information about your legitimate users under warrant or court order. It is another to restrict yourself from providing information in the event that you have been attacked by someone who is not a member of your organisation.

Note that this does not mean that judgement should not have changed their behaviour in this case but that a rules based prohibition on voluntary cooperation seems like the wrong argument to me.
You could both be right. Perhaps fathers, being usually the better-off partner financially, often get lawyers when it comes to something as important as custody for their children. And perhaps those lawyers usually tell the father they have a snowball's chance in hell of getting custody unless they can prove the mother's unfit, and the father usually decides not to contest custody to save everyone's time and money, unless the mother actually is unfit and thus the father has a very good chance of winning.

Result: Usually the children go with the mother. But when custody is contested, it's often because the father has a strong case, and so fathers usually win contested cases.
That's what the Model Penal Code attempts to do, as the Uniform Commercial Code attempts to do for commercial relations. But different people have different ideas about what the model template should be, and the 57 varieties of US law reflect the different concerns of different people at the time those laws were made - in the case of the CFAA, owners of large expensive computer infrastructure.

It is all fraud.

I envy your certitude.
And by language.
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Shame that this will be ignored, utterly, by the administration.

Sadly you're all mistaken if you think the status quo will change through anything other than an overthrow of your entire, rotten-to-the-core system of governance.
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It won't change anything. Ortiz will probably get promoted over this. Corruption and incompetency are rewarded in America.

No, really, I'm not kidding, so I'm not sure why you downvoted me. She's the favourite for governor of Ma.

If you run a bank into the ground, you get a smile and a handshake, and a big fat cheque.

If you start a war based on lies, you get given a cushy retirement and immunity from prosecution.

Your American dream is dead in a ditch. You just have an American nightmare, and you desperately need to wake up.

So it goes.
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Trick question: why is it bad to preface trick questions by "trick question:"?
They're people, but they're people without morals or scruples, who would happily sell another person's existence for their own financial gain.

A bit like slave traders, really.
I was searching for some methods to get a fingerprint for an image and this was basically the only lib I found. Otherwise, most often, I got recommendations about using OpenCV and collecting SIFT/SURF (and maybe other) features - although I never saw a ready and working implementation.

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In a sense talking to the police is always a prisoners dilemma - the "don't talk to the police" strategy is equivalent to defecting, and being a helpful citizen is analogous to cooperating.

Statistically it's not in your interest to talk to the police. Talking to them might help them catch a crook, but the payoff there is nothing compared to the shit it might get you into. On the other hand, an effective police force is a good thing in society, and the effectiveness of the police is markedly increased with a cooperative citizenry. So if you could have your way you'd like everyone to talk to the police except for you, but the Nash equilibrium is nobody talking to the police at all.

I think that being able to put immediate self-interest aside and "cooperate" in PD-like situations is a large part of why our societies aren't god awful. Pocketing your trash instead of throwing it on the street, helping someone pick up the papers they've dropped, holding the elevator... they're not universal cultural norms, none of them "pay off", but we do them and life is better because we do.

As far as societies go, citizen self-interest is a loser's game. I haven't figured out my position on this yet, but I wonder whether we might have a moral duty to talk to the police, provided the aggregate good to society (of 1. cooperating in this instance, and 2. maintaining the "culture of cooperation") outweighs the personal risk.
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It is quite different though: http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/07/german-bu...
And don't forget the check the discussion about Carmack's comment from yesterday http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5055808 .
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