skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they need to charge him with something that they believe they can actually prove to the court. Furthermore, it is obviously in the interest of the prosecution to charge him with everything that they think they can prove, because if they pick just one and fail to prove it to the court they lose.

Suppose for example they think they can prove charges A,B and C, and say, each of them comes with a maximum penalty of 1 year. Even if they seek a conviction for 6 months they will put forth all three charges, after all it might turn out that the court finds him innocent of A, and if they didn't bring B,C the prosecution is screwed.
No, in this case, incompetent means "incompetent." Public defenders are often inexperienced and overworked, and are notorious for advising their clients to accept plea bargains rather than go to trial.
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6-7% would be pretty high for a mortgage these days. I was quoted a little over 3% a month ago, and my credit is not the greatest.

For student loans, I agree with you, and I'm putting all my extra money into them while saving the bare minimum for a bit of security if something bad happens.
sentenced to three years of probation, 400 hours of community service, a fine of $10,050

I dare to say Aaron might still be around if that was what he was facing too.

Or, y'know you could listen to charities who work with suicide and do what they request and avoid blaming a suicide on one external cause? Often it's more complicated than that.
I think it's called a ticket because having the ticket is what lets you travel. Stealing tickets is illegal because if you have the ticket, you can travel. If you have to be the person who bought the ticket in order to travel, you don't need a ticket, because you can prove that you're the person who bought it.
Sydney is choking from decades of mismanagement. Almost none of it is like the post cards.
The making of an expert
Designing a mobile app
The example in the article was people who liked the Facebook page "Porn films". Presumably there are people who liked specific actresses, etc... so yes it's still people who are not concerned enough with this being part of their Facebook profile.
Coincidentally, Aaron Swartz himself describes exactly his prosecutor's behavior:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis
There is an old RFC that explains the problem in very simple terms. Security need to be transparent, or it fails. If the user need to see and use security in order to be secure, the user will eventually do something to render the security ineffective.

If you got passwords, users either pick easy ones or write them down next to the device that needs them. If you require physical "key" items, user leaves the key next to the computer that needs it.

When designing a security system you need to acknowledge this limitation, and design the system with it in mind. Running between "something you know" (passwords) to to "something you know and has" (Two-factor authentication like password and phone), and now back to only "something you have" (an USB key) won't solve the problem.
Yubikey works well but its only valuable when more number of websites support it.

Similar project without the hardware is mozilla's persona, which is an open standard
if im not wrong and it is better than signin using fb or gmail,
as it wont be sharing any user data with website.
In addition, WireframeSketcher supports version control systems pretty well. It's the best tool I've seen for wireframing.
This would seem to assume that this is the only operation that hypothetical machine would need to handle.
As long as it is not implanted somewhere into my body, I will lose it at some point.

I would love to have some other solution but I don't see this as one. I grew up remembering passwords and I'm pretty good at it now.

But if you have something for under my skin, we can talk again.
And yet, they're both selling dubious solutions to problems they've invented. What are the odds?
Another issue with Facebook is that content is created for consumption by all of your connections. It's social preening. It's what you aspire to be, but wholly incomplete as a medium for search.

A few of the missing items:

-All the dirty stuff you won't show your grandmother. "Watch what you post" is part of raising kids today.

-What you fear. Do you post that you need an abortion or that you might have cancer?

-Gross stuff. Nobody posts that they have hemorrhoids. Or any number of things that you don't want girls you might date to see.

-Things we're ashamed of.

-Things that make us different. If you're a gun-toting neanderthal in SF or a gay man in the bible belt, you might not want everyone on facebook knowing that.

-Things the government will read. Reading revolutionary ideas, means of destruction, might be interesting and educational. However, posting on these topics or having a traceable record of them is a wholly different level. Think about prosecutorial misconduct.

I think FB will have a reasonable degree of success in search. However, it's badly gimped.
Not GP, but I also saw this.. Increasing the timeout to 0><10 seconds does give the expected output..

But shouldn't I see this from time-to-time with 1 second as well? Hmm..
Until there is independent 3rd-party verification that indeed the radiation dose is that what I get from flying for 2 minutes, I won't trust the TSA telling me so, or the company that is making billions of the machines.

Skin cancer, as well as various other cancers run in my family, I don't want to risk it.

Although, coming back from Europe to the US nothing says "Welcome to flying back to the US" than a grope from some security guy at Amsterdam airport that is paid to be there because the US initiated new rules requiring all flights to the US to have RapiScan machines for full-body imaging, or the grope at the first arriving airport with my connecting flight back to the city I live in.
The encryption is more interesting
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Much Modern Innovation Isn't
I really do not understand why people are trying to look at smaller issues such as who is right or wrong, whether she went back or not, whether its normal to follow such practices to extort plea etc.

I do not think (correct me if I am wrong) the laws ever say that lawyers have the permission to extort pleas even though that's what is going on everywhere.

And if as an appointed office holder and given such responsibility, you have to understand that nothing sort of extortion should ever undergo and if you could not do that, you are not fit to run the office. Simple. Period.

How hard is that for anyone to understand. Please don't give standard practices bullshit.
Something I should have mentioned yesterday: Manhattan alone, county of New York, has a higher poverty rate than NY state as a whole.

Urban poverty and inequality are inescapable facts in NYC.
pfft, you had blue? ;) I was happy to finally, one day, have a CURSOR! Oh crap, it blinks! Wow, high tech type!

Well, all this fun talk of SublimeText2, and my .2c .. I have been using ST2 for a long time now as an editor for MOAI, in which facility it really works well and .. well I've come to really love the editor, like love it, but am a vim user, 100%, and often get sad when I switch back and forth .. ;(

ST2, for MOAI and the Lua language, actually is really a sublime IDE experience, and imho the word sublime can be applied to this experience: I am using the same editor on both editor'ish platforms (osx, linux), and then building an app with its own language/VM wordspace that runs on .. everything .. iOS/OSX/Linux/Win/NCl/etc.

Right now in space-cadet mode, hacking on a laptop in some cafe, I sit in SublimeText2 .. hit alt-R, the MOAI app runs, its great, I commit to repo, the buildserver builds and runs the very same app on the nexus7, iphone5, pandora, osx, linux desktops, and various other sundry devices around the place.

In this capacity, ST2 has mastered my needs for integrated development. I guess I should learn how to read HN with it, next ..
Fox News, largely. You know how you see all sorts of ridiculous inaccuracies and jokes at Fox News's expense on the Internet? That's the most-watched news source in the United States.
Blocking the "Like" button should hopefully do the trick. In Firefox you can use Ghostery or RequestPolicy (stops cross-site requests unless you specifically allow them) for that.

I think it's not entirely clear that quitting Facebook will stop them from tracking you.
Bada outsold Windows Phone in one quarter in 2011.

Samsung didn't release a single new Bada Phone in 2012.

Windows Phone 7 had a horrible start in it's first calendar year for a plethora of reasons (at one point Windows Mobile 6.5 was still selling almost as much), but after Nokia started their development in earnest, sales have taken off (well, "taken off" relative to previous years)
That's a very slippery slope to walk on slippery shoes. Say someone breaks into your neighbors house and steals 10k worth of stuff. Oh wait, he shouldn't go to jail because it was a non violent crime. So he doesn't go to jail and has to pay restitution. Now he's pushed for money so your house is next, and this time you catch the thief. Who's to say someone that is willing to break the law and steal from you is not willing to hurt you to not get caught?

> Isn't her job to pursue justice? Nothing about this strikes me as just.

Her job is to pursue justice within the boundaries of stablished laws, which technically and pragmatically Aaron did break. She didn't create the CFAA and it's modifications via the Patriot Act and the ITERA. That is what we should be focusing on, not some witch hunt directed to a person who most invariably was just performing her job duties bound by the law she claims to uphold.
Can we get a link to the whole script?
Sorry, but I can't go with Linus on this one. The purpose of that press release was to educate the public about the case, including the crime of which Swartz was accused, and stating the maximum penalty for the crime is part of that. It does not imply that the maximum penalty is being sought.

Swartz was a talented man, no doubt about it, but he became a zealot, and zealots do stupid things. When he realized that he wasn't going to escape justice because ZOMGAARONSWARTZ -which is basically what JSTOR tried to do, and the Justice Department wasn't buying that because it would have been, in a word, unjust- he did something rash, and that brings us to today. He was not a saint, he was not a "light of the world, put out too soon", and he certainly shouldn't be elevated to martyr status.
Wow. Someone's mad.
Texas has really crappy Medicaid coverage, but is anyone here really going to base their decision on which state to live in based on that?
Their actions may be perfectly logical, if preventing terrorism isn't their main goal.
The Growing Adoption of Creative Commons Textbooks
Interesting, but I might be missing the relevance.
I wouldn't be so sure. I know a handful of passive aggressive people out there that would think this is a great thing to print off and post above their desk so they can point at it when someone breaks the 2 headphone rule.
As a non-scientist can someone explain how this would be delivered? How do you do gene therapy on a virus already in people? I guess more ignorantly, how does one deploy the cure to all of the HIV cells in the body in order to modify them?
> I will never understand why some people can't get this through their heads.

I enjoy working at a place where I don't have to worry about these things because I work with real human beings.
Vayable (YC S12) is hiring engineers with a passion for travel
ID person by his bio-field/magnetic field who should be pretty unique.
Any other password management and external devices will come and go.
Yeah you will still need username/pass for google I'm sure. Although they mentioned something about a ring? NFC maybe?

If you run your own server, though, you can set up challenge-response on the Yubikey which might make things easier by allowing maybe a PIN instead of a password.

Hopefully one day soon we will be able to authenticate with behavior; maybe a combination of gate/speech cadence/facial structure. Or maybe like a Rorschach test instead of username/password field :)
I'm surprised by the use of "potential" in the title. Most times we hear there is a cure and that we should all rejoice.
As Graph launch nears, Facebook quietly tweaks privacy policy
Good point, although it's still within the remit of a cheap SSD, e.g. the Crucial M4 can push 40k+ IOPs. My remark was more geared towards silly but awesome sounding statistics than anything else, it really undermines otherwise decent content.
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"The Great Wall of China had a network of high towers where news of attacks or raids could be passed down the wall by means of lighting a signal fire"
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-signal-tower.htm
It's been linked and discussed here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059044 Please keep in mind that the paper is about as old as I am (34 years) and some things have changed, most notably that germany now has a plea bargaining system, though it's quite a bit different from the american one. See http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/07/german-bu... for an overview (linked from the discussion).
How about:

no headphones, I can talk to you.

1 headphone, take it off: I require your full attention.

2 headphones, you're fired.
> If you require physical "key" items, user leaves the key next to the computer that needs it.

I would say for consumer it's already better than passwords. Biggest threats seems to be password-reuse (and hacked servers) and phishing.
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I would modify the above to:

"but aside from the fact that even violent video games are unambiguously protected by current first amendment jurisprudence"

You wouldn't have to go too far back for your original statement to be iffy or downright false; that said, I don't see this changing in the foreseeable future, but then again the Supremes are never entirely predictable.
Google:

site:http://www.justice.gov "if convicted, * faces"

57,700 results.

There are many things to criticize about the universe, but the standard form language on US Attorneys' press releases is probably not the biggest thing we should be worried about. Linus, as he often does, is speaking too confidently and too hastily.

And the press releases always state the statutory maximum, which as I and many others have explained, Aaron was never actually threatened with. His lawyers knew that. He had to know it. Lessig either knew it or should have known. The only reason we're talking about "35 years" is because of Lessig's irresponsible PR.

I'm trying to think of a hacking analogy. Imagine if you write a routine for loop with an int increment and someone, trying to understand the code, asks "wait, how many times can this run?" And you respond with INT_MAX. In most situations, that would be a misleading, borderline autistic response, with no relationship to the real world in the normal case.
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2 minutes assuming the machine is properly calibrated and doesn't malfunction.
2 Years of Entrepreneurship
Stil no Nexus 6?
There are plenty of workarounds. Anyway, like others I work full-time with Go and it has become an absolute non-issue for me. In 80% of the cases fmt is already imported, but in 99% of the cases I have a global variable log defined in every package anyway -- and if not I define it. (Working often test-driven, I avoid the issue totally by doing t.Logf.) So yes, every 2 months (I'm serious) I'm running into the OP's problem and it happens that I'm writing fmt.Printf("") -- but this almost exclusively happens on "Pastebin-projects".

There is great reasoning behind the concept of providing as few exceptions as possible to the users. Sometimes it means adapting your workflow/thinking, but I guess this is the case for every language if you want to become truly productive.
So If I outfit my home with these lights, (which are also functional for lighting?) I can leverage them to locate what? Anything with a camera?

The site is strong so I'm intrigued but I have no idea what a practical application of this would be. I take it you guys don't either? :p
Maybe so.
If you're tired of cPanel and looking for a lighter weight alternative, Virtualmin has served me well for the last couple of years and it's had IPv6 support since 2010.

The website doesn't inspire confidence, but the project appears well maintained, and even the GPL version (which I use) is very capable and has so far been rock solid.

http://www.virtualmin.com/
Aaron Swartz music video tribute by Nerdcore rapper Dan Bull
AT&T iPad Hacker’s Real Crime Was Embarrassing the Wrong People
I've found Go to be brilliant in some areas, but very irritating in others. I've lost the link to the talk where Rob Pike describes the reasoning behind the language, but once you understand that they are optimizing for large code bases in large organizations, a lot of these irritating decisions make more sense. In this case, the OP is running up against a trade-off in short-term convenience against long term code hygiene.
Only if you assume a generation is keyed on the "first" birth; it is matrilineal; that culturally child-birthing begins as soon as puberty kicks in (rather than being forestalled by social taboos or customs); and that puberty kicks in at roughly the same age then as now, even in an area of scarce resources.

I might think, off the bat, that 30 years is too high as well, but I also might assume they picked that number for a reason. Certainly, I'd like to know what it is as well, as that number is one of two key variables that creates the time-span value used for dating.
Why Linux is better
"Computer criminals" doesn't get us anywhere conceptually in this instance.

When people bring up Gates, Jobs and Woz, it's nearly always because they're huge successes, financially or otherwise. Gates and Jobs were both pro-copyright, pro-intellectual property. They built incredible businesses and were very successful. Far more successful than Woz, who was himself more successful than Swartz. If you want to relate these four people in a useful way, rank them in terms of how far left their ideas were on IP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Gates_Letter_to_Hobby...
http://www.slideshare.net/cloudera/hadoop-world-2011-advanci...
I guess the main motivation for this is Chrome OS.
Was surprised to find it so moving. Well done.
A simple survey of screen sizes
Not quite. I'm European. Most Chinese, like my wife, pride themselves on hailing from a nation of 1b+ people who share a commonly intelligible language - and rightly so in my opinion.
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Ah, I see what happened. You responded to my initial comment with:

> Firstly, although it is proven that there is an optimal (game theoretic) strategy to play (Nash) [...]

The reference to Nash here made me think you were claiming there to be an optimal strategy in the multiway case. I've been talking mostly about multiway ever since. I associate Nash equilibrium with multiway games and wouldn't use the term "Nash" to describe GTO play in a heads up game, even though a Nash equilibrium would be GTO. But maybe this is standard lingo?

Question: So is it the case that there are human players that are measurably better (in a statistically significant way) than the best AI players, heads up?
Well, they did.

If you travel around Europe you will see all the towers that Romans used to carry messages. Lots of them, specially in places like Spain or Greece with lots of mountains. In other places like most of France such a tower is far less useful as there are less differences in height.

Those towers were already being used before Romans took them, for example in the North of Spain they would be used to alert from Viking Invasions from sea, it will alert the "Castros". We are talking centuries before the Romans.

About complex messages being transmitted far away, look at the Silbo Gomero at the Canary Islands, it was used before the Spanish conquered the Islands in XVI century(we don't really now how much older than that was, but probably centuries):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlZh9I1pxj0
I didn't realize they could track you even when logged out. I only ever log into FB with Chromium Incognito mode, but apparently that's not enough.
"I don't know anything about your work Lisp compiler, but making code written in a dynamically typed language run as fast as code written in a statically typed language - outside of microbenchmarks - generally requires making a lot of assumptions about that code."

Lisp supports a system of type "hints" to deal with that issue; with SBCL, those hints can be treated as assertions or can be assumed true, depending on compiler options (the "safety level"). A common suggestion for optimizing Lisp code is to use type hints, and the difference is usually pretty significant. You even get some amount of static type checking from this, in the form of warnings about declared types not matching inferred types. It's not as powerful as the ML type system, but it usually gives you what you need in terms of optimizing code.
Then you are really are fucked indeed. As an example here (Estonia) state pointed lawyers are choosen from reputable offices only, and they are forced to do that.
My point is that he was not going to serve 50 nor 35 years. There is a lot of precedent already regarding "cyber crimes", and in most of them the served time is but a fraction of the maximum penalty. This happens each and every day and is the reason that plea bargains, judges, and juries exist.

On another point, you mentioned a plethora of violent punishments, which the topic at hand isn't. First it wasn't a punishment yet, second it wasn't violent, third it isn't unusual at all as it's the same process used for almost every criminal trial specially in an accusatory trial, and fourth cruelty is in the eye of the beholder. On this last point I'd like to make one distinction: cruelty is mostly referred to in two different contexts: 1) Physical pain: in which case there was none to speak of here, and 2) Disregard for the suffering of others (irregardless of physical pain): in which case she is both crueler than you and me because she prosecuted a bright young man with all means available to him to the point of having an influence in his death, and as cruel as both of us because we've all been in a position in which we have not cared about the suffering of another human being, either because you're (not directed to you, just trying to make a point here, don't take offense) not interested in middle eastern politics and international conflict, or because I didn't want to give my last dollar to that poor homeless man on the corner with arthritis.
Professions who help people just by listening. It has been shown that most of the positive benefit people experience from many of these therapies is just the fact of having someone that cares (or at least appears to) listen to your problems for an hour and provide support.
Although it's hard to argue about what a theoretical unfree society would have accomplished, we know the USSR had the M-40 system in the early 1950s. That was a full duplex radio data network for missile defence. Whether that would have morphed into the civilian Internet in the same way ARPANET did is impossible to say.

Which basic technology - other than the telescope - was missing from the Roman's knowledge that would have enabled a proto-Inernet?