skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I phrase the same objection in a more HN-y manner?

SSH terminals are high-sensitivity software. We frequently use them, with very sensitive credentials, to log into secured servers. There are two zones of trust involved: we trust that our local machine is not rooted, and we trust that the server is not rooted. The magic of SSL means that no matter how foul everything is between those two zones of trust, we can't get compromised.

If we embed the SSH terminal in the browser, we now have four zones of trust: our local machine, the browser, the SSH terminal extension, and the server we connect to.

This is a very scary broadening of our attack surface. While the terminal app siting on your machine is decades old and has been tested extensively, the browser extension almost certainly has not. The browser extension, in addition to possibly having vulnerabilities itself, is executing in the context of the browser. The browser is a very scary place to be, because its whole mission in life is connecting to the untrusted, infected cesspool of the Internet and then doing what the Internet tells it to. By grace of God and Google engineers, we generally assume that our browsers aren't going to crack out of the sandbox surrounding the sandbox surrounding the sandbox that all that evil Internet stuff is executing in, but we expect that, in the normal course of operation, those inner sandboxes are going to fall into the hands of the enemy, repeatedly.

It therefore seems to be an exceptionally bad idea to take our holiest-of-holy credentials and move them inside the sandbox, closer to the attackers.

This is particularly true in terms of a risk/benefit analysis, since the risks are incredible and the only benefit is "Saves you from having to do a single key chord to pop open an additional terminal on your machine."

This is moot if you have total confidence in the Chrome and Native Client teams to never have a mistake which lets someone, e.g., read arbitrary process memory. That's happened before -- Mark Dowd et al found it. That would be pretty sucky if it happened on a browser you logged into your bank, because the attacker can probably grab your cookie and banking session. It would be much worse, though, if it happened on a machine used by a bank sysadmin who unwisely decided to use a terminal within his browser, because why steal one session when you can just steal the bank? (n.b. Note how this is possible without causing Chrome to execute arbitrary code or defeating the OS's protections against Chrome doing stuff outside the Chrome-box.)
"...we would recommend to the judge of six months in a low security setting. ...his defense counsel would have been free to recommend a sentence of probation. Ultimately, any sentence imposed would have been up to the judge"

Little known fact here. When you accept a plea bargain you do not accept a sentence as part of that. Often times you agree to plea to lesser chargers which have a lower maximum penalty but you still run the risk of being sentenced to the max.

There is also the chance the judge will give a longer sentence with enhancements. It's possible you will have not been convicted, tried, or even charged for those enhancements. This has been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States. However that doesn't stop judges from doing it anyway. When you are crushed, broke, and in jail what are ya gonna do, sue?
You can disassociate from any network with the well hidden airport command:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport --disassociate

EDIT: and looking at the source, that's exactly how you're doing it.
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It makes a big difference. Four million is apparently the majority of JSTOR's database. Keep in mind that JSTOR doesn't own those articles, it just arranges approved access to paying institutions on behalf of the various journals which do own the articles. If Aaron had distributed them he might have damaged around a thousand different institutions involved in an important segment of the knowledge and innovation industry. You can argue that that industry should change but I am not sure I can agree that a brute force assault is a good way to create constructive change, especially in a relatively fragile and cash-strapped field like academia.

Anyway, I've used JSTOR a lot as a university student. It's a really good service. They don't create the economics of the journal industry, they just try to work within it.

And no, I disagree with you, Aaron's actions strike me as extreme and out of the ordinary.
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Thanks for the thoughtful response. My experience is with the New Zealand legal system so I should probably not be commenting on the American situation in the first place. I'm sure you know these issues much better than me.
Adding

"ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,

to the user settings fixes this.
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"I hold an MBA from both Columbia University and the London Business School."

If someones business (in software) needs to be 100% quality made, it needs to be native for that particular platform, using its native functionalities. Wether it's on iOS, Android or Windows.

For iOS, it's plugging into the notification centre, the ability to use the calendar as well as the address book. File storage, background services and etc.

'Mobile Strategy' is basically a strategy to be 100% quality on mobile.

It's not the end strategy, but if your customer base is mobile, then yeah, mobile strategy. Jeez, people like him generally don't grasp the complexity of software.

No one really has "ONLY" mobile, unless their business won't work on a desktop. Or they don't see any business value on being on the desktop.
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When I tried to do it, they added a £5/month thing to my account, but then also added a £5/month goodwill, so I wasn't paying for it. I have no idea what it is doing, but there is no filter anymore.
I had to phone a few times before it worked though.
3UK user here. Came up against this block for what I assumed was a relatively normal site. I phoned the company and had to jump through hoops to prove my age after being asked So, just to confirm Mr Buckley, you wish to access adult content on your phone?.

Eagerly anticipating the end of my contract next month.
My bad. Didn't see it!
Problem is Aaron wasn't the average kid. He had enemies, and he was a major annoyance to people wanting to tame the Internet.
indeed no isp or gov't should be allowed to censor any information, unless that information's critical to national defence or something (and even then, i would be really dubious of the claim). Whether it is porn or not doesn't even come into the argument, because the issue is not with the contents, its with censorship itself as a concept.
And so we continue failing to protect our freedoms, and slowly we remain in the path that will take us to 1984.
Wordpress is good at serving essentially static content so that part seems reasonable. The jQuery team is good with JS so node makes sense for building backend services. The service itself is not complex and probably doesn't have huge scaling concerns. Essentially performs a git pull when triggered by a webhook.
Who were his enemies? I'm interested. Do you think the US justice dept was acting as an organ of these would-be tamers?
If by mixing conventions you mean careless foul practice of trying to please everyone by partially satisfying all of their preferences which only ends up annoying them all, then I am certainly against it. But, if by mixing conventions you mean the joyous unsegregated joining of every person's vision into a creation that is greater than the sum of its parts, then I am certainly for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.
The browser is for documents that have ... many supporting files, a dynamic scripting language, access to native OS features, access to the GPU, ability to blit bitmapdata at highspeed, and more. "Documents" doesn't cover it ... I think its fair to say that these days the browser is for software.
Good luck with that. The only time I've screamed with rage down the phone at some poor customer service rep (who was just following the script given to her) was trying to end a 3 contract. They are bastards.
Can we please not Godwin this?
Not that the ISP should be doing this anyway, but it's worth noting that porn as political satire has a long history. The Marquis de Sade, for example, used to write stories featuring politicians of the day finding... creative... uses for the French Constitution.
In our opinion not, but the rules are that only money decides the rules.

And the rules are that other people are always to blame and that the law, no matter how corrupt, is the law.

The problem is that especially these people (civil cervants) are chosen on this fallacy, are only loyal to their families and peers, all others don't exsists or are there to pull a leg out.

There is a huge Us vs. Them attitude amongst most people (not all, gladly) serving any government.
The maximum penalty was not 50 years. There are several criminal laws that overlap, and on act can lead to a defendant being charged with several overlapping crimes. If the defendant is convicted for multiple of these overlapping crimes, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines call for just sentencing based on one of the violations. In other words, it is essentially max(), not sum().
As someone who isn't from the US, yes it is helpful, but that being said anyone who's used wikitravel/wikivoyage in the past would take one look at that page and realise that not many people visit and if they do they haven't found much to add to the site.

That's usually a fairly decent indication that there are better and more interesting places to visit.
What banking extensions do you use? The one I installed for my bank is a Chrome "app" but really it's just a link.
Statement Deconstruction

STATEMENT OF UNITED STATES ATTORNEY CARMEN M. ORTIZ
REGARDING THE DEATH OF AARON SWARTZ

As a parent and a sister, I can only imagine the pain felt by the family and friends of Aaron Swartz, and I want to extend my heartfelt sympathy to everyone who knew and loved this young man.[Sympathy - a good start but no apology.] I know that there is little I can say to abate the anger felt by those who believe that this office’s prosecution of Mr. Swartz was unwarranted and somehow led to the tragic result of him taking his own life.[Acknowledges anger and public feeling. No comment on their actions.]

I must, however, make clear that this office’s conduct was appropriate in bringing and handling this case.[States that they were correct to bring and handle the case. May be read as they handled the case correctly BUT does NOT actually state that.] The career prosecutors handling this matter took on the difficult task of enforcing a law they had taken an oath to uphold, and did so reasonably. [Claims the career prosecutors were reasonable. Were all involved 'career prosecutors' or is someone about to be hung out to dry? Alternative reading is that 'career prosecutors' is just trying to make them sound better.] The prosecutors recognized that there was no evidence against Mr. Swartz indicating that he committed his acts for personal financial gain, and they recognized that his conduct – while a violation of the law – did not warrant the severe punishments authorized by Congress and called for by the Sentencing Guidelines in appropriate cases. [OK. Then why would they (note Ortiz is not taking responsibility for this judgement) want to seek 7 years if it went to trial] 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. [not stated also admission of 13 felonies or that if he wanted a trial because he believed himself not guilty the appropriate sentence to seek would have been 7 years. Thats what you get for believing you have a right to a trial and not just doing what we say.] While at the same time, his defense counsel would have been free to recommend a sentence of probation. [Not stated: for 13 admitted felonies.] Ultimately, any sentence imposed would have been up to the judge. [Not our responsibility really.] 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. [We were really generous and told Mr. Swartz's attourneys that we intended to seek something between the maximum and ten times what was appropriate (by our admission) if he didn't plead guilty]

As federal prosecutors, our mission includes protecting the use of computers and the Internet by enforcing the law as fairly and responsibly as possible. [Sounds reasonable but does it match their actions?] We strive to do our best to fulfill this mission every day.[But we aren't commenting on the rest of our mission or how we have done matching this mission in this case.]
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What's really strange is, AFAIK, typing your name in an electronic document is just as legally binding as inserting an image of your handwritten signature, yet many companies won't accept this, and insist instead on an image of my handwritten signature.

Any lawyers care to clarify on the law here?
I just change the APN to 3internet from three.co.uk which gets rid of the censoring. Settings / Wireless and networks More / Mobile networks / Access point names on my Nexus S.

So far (nearly two years) no ill effects with billing, I'm on the one plan which allows tethering YMMV.

The only gotcha I'm aware of is that bits of three infrastructure such as the MMS server and I think the "mythree" stuff don't recognise the phone anymore but thats no big deal for me. So the couple of times I've received an MMS I've changed the APN back.
I understand you're going for the 'plausible deniability' angle, if that is not correct then please say so. The point is that we're all intelligent enough to see the difference between that and what actually happened and that you may want to use such a thing in a defense even if you know better. I certainly do know better.
> unsubstantiated hand waving about how the system is "bought."

On December 16, 2005, The New York Times reported that the Bush administration was spying on American citizens without a warrant. Most of the major Telecoms were participants in this massive, warrantless eavesdropping system. So the EFF and the ACLU filed lawsuits against these telecoms. Federal courts began ruling against the telecoms (Yay! Democracy in action!).

So the telecoms "bought" some lawmakers. In July, 2008, the senate passed H.R. 6304 which provided retro-active immunity to telephone companies that participated in the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program.

ie: This is not unsubstantiated. This is not hand-waving. The system was "bought".

Since then, congress doesn't even bother with immunity any more. Both Cheney and Bush have admitted on national television that they authorized torture. (Torture is still illegal in the U.S.: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2340 -- that's a specific law passed by a democratic system.) And yet no one was ever investigated or arrested or anything. Ho hum.

Obama now has a "kill list" that he personally signs. He can declare someone to die, without a court or a trial. That sounds like "monarchy" to me, not "democracy". ("Off with his head!")

Based on these and other events, as far as I can tell, at a federal level, we don't really have a democracy anymore. There's no democracy to uphold or respect. If you're a Washington insider, protecting Washington power, then anything goes -- spying on American citizens, torture, invading countries, killing people.

But if you threaten Washington power, then you will be hounded by prosecutors in the name of "justice". It's too bad Aaaron Swartz couldn't buy himself some retroactive immunity.
But unlike anyone else
O2 in the UK blocks craigs list...

It's a real issue that this stuff is blocked by default, especially when you sign up to a contract where I expect you have to be over 18 anyway!
I tried using ST2, but it lacks one basic feature that is essential to me. It will automatically update a loaded file with any changes made externally. This is fine, except when you don't want it to do this and then discover there is no way to toggle this behaviour.

It should just be a simple configuration option but until it is added then this is a deal breaker.
Is UK Map £7.99? I don't remember ever having had to pay for it, but maybe I got it in a sale.

The 1:25,000 maps, which seem to be the most detailed I can get (the UK Map one offers 1:25K and 1:10K) are £2.49. To cover Nottingham alone, that would be £9.96.
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I am especially concerned about the author's logic /q
When the police catch someone in the course of criminal conduct and intervene mid-way, the punishment is properly based on what the person was in the course of doing rather than how much he succeeded before he was caught.

Let's say I issue a manifesto where I support free food for all. Would me picking up things in a store mean that I wanted to steal them or give them for free? The association between the man's principles and his assumed purposes is in direct contrast with the other author's argument on fighting lawfully. Even if he downloaded one article he could share it. Should he not be allowed access to information just because he was fighting for freedom of information? Do laws now impose principles and beliefs? Or does a principle render us in self-imposed seclusion until the relevant laws change? Highly problematic and indicative of how prosecutors argue the cases. And this man is considered an expert?
You don't have to, but I'd appreciate it if you did. Being affiliated with a group doesn't mean you are in lock-step with that group or its members on every issue. People are capable of changing or expanding their views as they age. And finally, a cursory glance at the Joyce Foundation describes policies of gun regulation, not a tacit elimination of the 2nd Amendment.
Only to the extent that one would have to pay to enter the carpool lane and free drivers would be excluding those who have paid. Otherwise, there's no theft going on, but rather just a violation of any traffic laws.
Despite the website's protestations it worked just fine in Firefox.
Being a hacker doesn't necessitate being an asshole parasite.
Among other sites that are blocked is also reddit.com/r/sex . I cannot understand how preventing children to access educational sex-related materials could be construed as "protecting" them.
The problem with Bing is that you often need your OS maps in places that don't have internet connection. I'd rather have them already loaded on my device.
I remember reading (although I can't seem to find the reference) that there was an increase in med schools registrations when the tv show House began. If there is such an influence is there a way to use it for good purposes, like funding games and tv shows that could raise interest in issues, while still being actual games and tv shows that are worth playing and watching?
And then join up with who? All of the 3G operators have similar opt-out filters.

Orange makes you give them your credit card number. GiffGaff made me give them my drivers licence number.

I like that with GiffGaff I didn't need to talk to a person, just do it online, but in general you'll have to deal with this no matter who you sign up with.

I think even Imgur (Reddit's image host) was blocked at one stage.
My only question is, why did it take them so long to do this?
Like Philip Greenspun says, for all we know he wanted to do metaanalysis. There's no evidence at all he planned to distribute the files.
Aaron was founder of Demand Progress, organization that actually fought laws like PIPA/SOPA, and many other things, and the laws didn't pass.

This is a list of campaigns by Demand Progress:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Progress#Campaigns
From the article:

"So, to answer the question in the headline: No, Facebook won’t kill any of these companies, certainly not anytime soon."
My work mobile is on the EE network and doesn't appear to have any issue with adult content. The industry I work in requires me to access explicit content occasionally and I've yet to come up against any roadblocks with EE.
> This 35 year (or 50 year) thing mentioned in many blogs might be questionable.

It's not just in blogs, it is also in DOJ press releases attributed to Carmen Ortiz, linked elsewhere in this thread.
I meant generally. In an underage sex case, the state should always prosecute if they have evidence, even if the victim and guardians do not wish it.

If the victim and guardians in an underage sex case can choose to drop charges, then that effectively means underage sex is legal with consent.

With the Polanski case nobody is there any dispute that a true crime occurred?
I agree that the filters are overly broad, but in fairness /r/sex isn't just about education. There is educational material on that sub, but there is also "adult" content in the strictest sense.

I always viewed these filers as being in place for actual children (age 1 to 11), teenagers (12+) should have them removed. If I had kids I would have no issue with them watching porn (aside from 3G data usage) and I wouldn't want to accidentally stop them from accessing information on sexuality.

I think a lot of parents have this strange idea that if you stop kids getting at the information (or condoms) that that will somehow stop them from having sex (or doing other stuff). But the research and statistics are contrary to that.

Frankly my biggest concern would be so called "sexting" (i.e. sending erotic pictures or video to their teenage love-interest). Which unfortunately only education can combat, there are no workable technological solutions that I am aware of.
"I desperately wanted to launch a project I worked on for half a year..."

I empathize with this. I have paused my freelance activity to take the time to develop my own products on the next 6 months.

I have decided to focus on a single project each week, and to choose to work on a possibly different project the next week.

How do you choose your projects?
Ha. They're actually not contradictory, if you look at it like a lawyer. They never said to the court or to his lawyers that they'd seek maximum penalties. They said it to the press.

Jesus, that's slimy. I'd say Ortiz is still in denial about the fact that she just lost her chance at the governorship just for playing the game by the normal rules. Corruption sucks when it comes back to bite you.
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It looks like EE does have it. Maybe they just don't apply it to company purchased phones?

http://help.ee.co.uk/system/selfservice.controller?CONFIGURA...
These two links will clear up a lot of misconceptions you seem to have about this case.

http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/

http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-agains...
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