skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's different for white collar crime. People stealing cars likely don't have much going on in their lives, and joining a gang might look to them like a viable way forward.

Martha Stewart was jailed for insider trading. Before, during, and after, she has a much more comfortable option for her life than to join a gang.
Here's what they have to say regarding browsers: https://mega.co.nz/#blog_1

Basically, only Chrome seems to be supported because it is "the most advanced browser currently in existence"
I really like it. The constantly increasing social pervasiveness is inevitable and I've made my peace with it a long time ago.

I understand why it took them this long to come out with something like this. For this to work, you need massive amounts of data, something Facebook has plenty of after receiving a firehose of data for so many years.

Google has failed in social search, because (ironically) they had the search first, but not the data. IMHO this is exactly what they were afraid of and the main reason why they keep pushing on G+ hard.

Most importantly, Graph Search finally "captures the intent" - which made Adwords so good - that FB Ads was badly missing. Expect to see their revenues soaring in the coming years.
And in a few years from now they will be complaining again that Google is "blocking" their browsers, by not supporting their standards.
Horrible site. Ignoring the fact it doesn't work in older versions of Opera, it's like early 00's and full-flash sites all over again.
"This is when depression sets in. All of a sudden you see that you are not all-powerful, you can't handle everything the world throws at you."
Let's see.
To the businesses, MS has nothing substantially new or exciting to offer.

True, desktop usage will probably remain about the same (with a slight decline), but meanwhile, the mobile computing world is growing rapidly, with MS being largely out of the picture.

Desktop OSes will continue to sale, but they become day-by-day a very small fragment of the OSes out there.
Win7 is a great OS, but I'm sure various alternatives, coming from the mobile world and leveraging their success there, will try to replace it.

I love Windows (7), use Visual Studio and other Microsoft tools daily, but this has nothing to do with the real changes that occur in the tech world.

MS bet wrong, and as occurs in the free market, they'll lose.
You either have to find a pain point or just jump into a saturated market with a better product. There is always room for something polished.

For years I've been jumping from wpengine, to posterous, tumblr, blogspot, trying to find a blogging platform that suited my needs. I never liked any of them. So last week I was listening listening music on pandora and heard about squarespace. And checked it later.

It is GREAT and cheap. I signed up and I'm a paying user.

The problem I have with pain points is: they are usually already covered or are in a such niche market that are not viable.
Nice! Keep 'em coming! :-)
> [can] we can put North Korean apps on Android Market?" Answers: soon, and No, silly North Koreans, you're under international bank sanctions.

This is not rally true, Iran is under same sanctions and you can see Iranian apps on App Store and Play Store.
His point is that the scholarly articles (like diamonds) can be easily tracked, and therefore determined if illegally sold or not. Since legitimate buyers - University professors, etc - want to be sure they are on the up and up, the won't purchase illegally obtained goods. Therefore, there would have been no buyers for the articles "stolen".
At least, your data won't be visible to Mega or the Feds.

And if they get raided, the Feds won't have shit against Mega or you.

About the backup part, they have servers in different countries, so it's safer. Personally, I wouldn't rely on any service alone, I always have an extra copy somewhere else. I do the same with my emails for example. If tomorrow my email provider shuts me down, I will lose at most ~12 hours of emails. All my other emails are in my PC and in Dropbox (encrypted, obviously). Next, I sign up to a different email provider, change my domain DNS, and keep receiving emails normally like if nothing happened.
I wasn't talking about exploitation. I was talking about respect for intellectual property, a topic you brought up.
Forget 'Idea guy looking for developer', think Business Product Responsibilities
Why are you suggesting software you don't even know the feature set of? Your second statement is factually incorrect.

Yes, I use Readability. What does "preferred font" mean to you? The aforementioned software allows for a fixed set of fonts that correspond to color themes.
> Heymann responded by saying “Fine, we’ll lock him up.”

Cruel and barbaric. This comment is horrifying.

Many people commit suicide in prison. Being under suicide watch reduces, but does not eliminate, the risk. (I know someone who was under "level 2 observation" (a member of staff within arms reach at all times) in a MH hospital. They managed to self harm so severely they needed to be transported to a general hospital for several surgeries.)

America sends many people to prison. America has awful mental health care. The care for people with mental health problems is so awful that prisons are often the largest providers of mental health treatment.

"Prisons are the largest providers of mental health treatment" should be a statement that we should only read in dystopian science fiction.
Mother Theresa once said that when she looked upon the many she could do nothing, but when she focused on the one, she could do something.

The same applies here. Someone needs to be held accountable. Change needs to start somewhere.
Why? Skype in china? Xbox live ads? Scroogled (and other anti-google campaigns)? WGA? They've done plenty of questionable things which are shady and violate privacy.
Yeah, I realized the coincidence after his Web page loaded and I was immediately given a headache by yet another serif font.

It kind of does feel like the world is throwing "everything" at you when all the books are rendered in fonts that give you headaches. All the Websites too. And the Newspapers.

That personal point aside. Inline styles are well known bad practice. It's a shock to me that this is being argued on Hacker News.
This was a very good article to read. Very thoughtful. It does somewhat hit a nerve for me too. Ever since I started digging deeper into the complexity of computing I've felt a bit dumber every time I learned something new. It's just staggering how complex those things are. It somehow makes me, my knowledge, feel insignificant. I know my way around software design. I can definitely write some good code. I know some of the theoretical aspects of computer science. In theory, I should have a grasp of all this and I probably do. Somehow though, I feel as if there was just so much more to know that declaring myself as "good" at this feels wrong. I've come to terms, that the Dunning-Kruger effect is a powerful force. The more I learn, the more I realize how much there's left to learn.
Because they only committed economic damage against you. It doesn't make sense to send someone to jail who only committed an economic or property crime because:

They stole from you and harmed you economically.
If they go to prison your tax dollars and the tax dollars of others must house them, pay for their care, etc so they are further harming you economically.

It would make more sense to have them provide restitution to you in some form. They should have to pay for:

Damage to the car (if the car still exists) + cost of you not having your car and any sort of issues arising from that (i.e. you were on your way to an interview, you came out of 7-Eleven and your car was gone, you missed your interview and now have no job, or some such) + interest on the previous two things they should have to pay for

If they destroyed the car in some manner then replace the first part of the equation with the cost of a replacement car of equal value.

Prison should be used when someone can cause harm that is permanent such as murder, rape, etc to prevent them from doing it again to someone else. If they harm is just economic in nature then that can be rectified and there is no sense in making everyone pay to house someone who did no permanent damage.

Further more as pointed out below, going to prison tends to make people come out worse criminals.
This is an AWESOME idea. It needs a little design help, but this is something I would use every week before going to the grocery store, then forking and revising as I change recipes after making (which I do).

In fact,I could see this getting people to make more food at home instead of eating out.

Get someone with some design chops to make a badass logo, a little bit more beautiful site, and get a lot more friends/family users. Great idea dpick.
A Useful Critique of PSR-X (PHP)
"Mega rocks with Google Chrome"

"Warning: You are using an outdated browser, which adversely affects your file transfer performance. Please upgrade to Google Chrome."

What is this bullshit? I'm using the latest Firefox. You are concerned about privacy, but you want to force me into using a propietary browser?
Aston Martin celebrates its centenary with a stunt in Dubai
Eventually everyone wants to eat more than Top Ramen...
I highly recommend CoSupport (http://cosupport.us/). They were great to get up and running with, and do an incredible job of fielding the simpler requests and learning from you for the more challenging ones (eventually they can even help with those).
No-one got hurt. No damage was done. If I have to chose between "prank" or "federal crime" I'm going with prank.

'Pranks' have a history in political activism - see La Barbe or Pussy Riot or others.
Damage limitation action stations:
1) Protect and support Ortiz
2) If the going gets tough, throw Ortiz to the wolves
3) In either case, 'problem' solved, resume business as usual
For what it's worth, I also have a much bigger problem with commercial copyright infringement than non-commercial copyright infringement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5084439

I can see how the Daft Punk thing would get on your nerves. It seems like all this man does is use people.
Issa is corrupt as hell. I mean, he has a business empire that he runs from a different part of the floor on which he has his CA office. Even by the shady standards of Congress, this is pushing it. But he was on the right side of SOPA/PIPA, and he was there before it was the safe, obvious place to be. He's got brass and he's very aggressive. If I were Ortiz, I'd take him seriously.
Heh, interesting that the site so proudly says "Made in New Zealand" despite the fact that New Zealand raided his home.
I agree that the lionization of Aaron is maybe getting a little out of hand. He was an accomplished and notable young person, few would deny this, but let's keep it realistic.
I don't know. But I happen to know that the javascript tokenizer matches the longest possible substring. Therefore it takes '++' from '+++..', not '+'. It's not about precedence.

EDIT: Yes, the assignment operators, =, += etc., evaluates right to left.
"One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong."
--http://halfhalf.posterous.com/dont-work-be-hated-love-someon...
I will check the movie out, well, I only said what I said, on a "what if" basis.

A. Indeed they have a idea of how he did it, but not exactly how, 7 years without getting caught is not something, you can only pull off with the little bit of sophistication you described.

B. He is being forced partially, from what I read, he has been given a lifetime ban from all competitive sports, unless he confesses it under oath and names accomplice.

C. Indeed its valid, what you said about Goerge Hincapie, but it is as same as saying, "You are a criminal if your neighbor is a criminal"

D. What I meant is that, that it was not UCI that were actively pursuing the case of Armstrong at least until 2009, but, it was reopened in 2012, after Times published a extract of a book written in 2004, which contained statements of Lance's ex-masseuse, who made these allegation without concrete proof herself, and was fired EARLIER for reasons unknown. The second big statement was by another Ex-employee, his personal trainer.

Check the Lance's wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Armstrong
> Megaupload was selling access to content

Google and Co is also selling... your content whenever is legal or not
Consider the case where the grad student, acting alone and not as part of an officially sanctioned project, invented something awesome using some resources from MIT like an internet connection and lab space. How eager do you think MIT would be to say "well, we didn't endorse anything you did, so you own the entire IP rights to everything; we want no piece of your new startup" ? Or the student discovers a flaw that gets a lot of press attention; how eager is MIT to feature the work saying they supported it, as opposed to saying "it was all unendorsed." Hint: both of these have happened many times, you can look up the relevant MIT policies, and you can ask people about how it went. MIT benefits immensely from "unendorsed" (i.e. implicitly endorsed after the fact) activities conducted on its campus.

Do you now see why it's ethically questionable for MIT to try to wash its hands off when the same researcher's exploration incurs some legal costs?
What Nic Ferrier will be doing with Emacs in 2013
Thanks. How do you get involved in an industry?
The easiest way to be born a genius is to become rich or die.
Interesting note -- the WSJ editorial report (a Fox show I doubt most HN folk regularly catch) had a segment on the Swartz case. One editor (Joseph Rago) came out strongly in his favor, speaking out against Ortiz and prosecutorial overreach.

I think it was Sun Tzu who said, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". It's important to realize there is still a strong strain of libertarian thought on the right, that is supportive of civil liberties and is concerned about the ever-increasing power and overreach of the government.
Thanks! What were your pain points, and how much do you happily pay?
Cost to enable side-loading on a Windows 8 device
Exactly. I can't believe that Aaron would have been able to sell them, even if he had intended to. And I can't seriously believe that he ever intended to, or that the prosecutors could have truly believed that he intended to.

Yes, they are doing that themselves. But hopefully not for much longer if the internet has anything to say about that. I applaud all of the scientists who are working hard to make their research more open.
> No-one got hurt. No damage was done.

If a burglar is sneaking out of a house with a sack of stolen goods, and the police catch him and return everything to the owner, you'd still consider that a crime, right?

If so, then you agree that situations where nobody is hurt and no permanent damage done can still be crimes.
> weird assumption that it's somehow safe to give access to your system for a user, but not for a robot.

Nice point.

> If the only thing stopping people from messing your system is automation, you should rethink it from the get go.

Are there systems that can't be abused through automation, or where that's much less of a concern? (Serious question, not intended as snark.)

Maybe throttling activity is a better approach... it's volume that is harmful to the system, not interactions with programs per se.

Don't know how you throttle spammers distributing activity across a number of accounts and IP addresses though...
I understand your point but I don't think it is really a question of "enough" per se. The parent was saying "wow" as if it is just crazy talk to think you would need more than double the average where the average is brought down by people in extreme poverty. I don't think it's fair at all to imply that is somehow expecting or desiring some posh luxurious, whatever "bad" adjective is preferred, lifestyle. Let's be honest, if you have a family, you have desire for a middle class lifestyle, saving retirement, college funds, unexpected expenses, etc, $75K is not some amazing sum, even if you live the South East with cheaper living costs. Let's just be honest about that!
I agree with your point, but treating the symptom must be done in such a way that the problem is still seen to be a problem. Another case in point was when the banking collapse hit, 'leaders' blamed things like 'excess greed' and so on, and dodged the real problem (IMHO).

I'm afraid of throwing Ortiz to the wolves, washing our hands and saying, "Well, that's that."
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Actually, it's pretty easy to setup such a system if you have the "right" tools. The most famous tool, Tweet Attack (link, but I am not affiliated or anything http://tweetattackspro.com/) can reveal itself super powerful. You can create a lot of accounts, make them chat together, tweet naturally as well as mentioning people, auto follow/unfollow.
Those tools are really popular and if you know how to search you would find a lot of these kind of accounts.
But don't worry, Twitter is aware of that and works to get all these accounts down. All the spammers get their accounts deleted pretty fast now, unless they are very careful.
Channel surfing. Someone should make a system that creates a channel guide with various "channels" playing different streaming content available. That way you can surf channels and find something without actually seeking out individual films/shows yourself. Replicate the cable experience.
Thanks for highlighting that; I read the article and felt that this paragraph stood out for the right reasons.

I've read some negative comments about the article, which surprised me; as this paragraph proves, the article isn't painting Ortiz as a rogue exception to the rule.
Which statements, specifically, do you see as being unrealistic?

Edit: I'd like to know what the downvoter is thinking, too, but I wonder if I'll get any answers.
Teleogical thinking is a problem when we ascribe motive and direction to the unthinking universe.

But the changes in human societies that are commonly called "progress" are the result of purposeful decisions by individual human beings. So it's not unreasonable to perceive some cumulative teleological direction.

A useful way to think about progress is as a comparison relation between two states of the world. It's probably impossible to establish a total order (in the mathematical sense) between all states. This is the part of "progress" that's open to debate.

But it's very clearly possible to establish a partial order. Decreasing child mortality, decreasing starvation, decreasing violence -- all of these are things that are hard not to call progress.
I have no idea where QR codes came from and why they are so prevalent either. I have never seen anyone I know use them, and I have never been told how to scan them. What is the "official" app everyone uses to scan these things?
Everything a hacker needs to know about getting busted by the Feds (1997)
Can you go to google.com/somethingyouwantforfree and just download it?

No, no you can't.

There is a wildly obvious difference here and unless you're being deliberately dishonest, you'd have to be a complete idiot not to see it.
What is the point of having a touchscreen on a laptop?
Lots of interesting information. However, I think you over-reacted about Fortran. After reading the parent comment and your comment it seems both of you are saying the same thing: Fortran has the advantage of having no pointer aliasing.

Regarding unification based algorithms, do microsoft use any of it in their F# compiler. I ask because they have time to time tried to say we wont sue you for F# technology. Dont know how much of those sweet nothings are binding. Given your knowledge about compilers and legal systems I am very curious to hear your opinion.
http://thehackernews.herokuapp.com/
The domain they lost was http://me.ga/
I only partially agree.

My personal belief is that when prosecutors know that there is a chance of cases blowing up and destroying their careers, as is happening here, they have an incentive to be careful. And likely will be more careful for some time. This is a good thing - even if it helps much less than fixing the system.

That is why in many, many corporate cultures there is an effective policy of responding to problems by publicly identifying a scapegoat and throwing the book at them. It is an easy action that makes a marginal difference for a short time.

So this is better than nothing. Unfortunately it is not very good. First of all the deterrent effect is only temporary. Secondly you get two-tiered justice where defendants who seem likely to have the potential to raise such a firestorm of protest are more protected than defendants who don't. Thirdly the identification of a scapegoat relieves pressure to come up with a better fix.

Therefore I am modestly in support of the current corrective process. I would like to see something better. I will encourage better things. I know the shortcomings of scapegoating. However it is better than nothing. If this is all that this case is likely to achieve, it was still a somewhat useful response.
You've got Stylish, right? Add a new rule for readability.com:

* { font-family: "Eulexia"; }

And you can add extra rules to change colors, etc., if you want.
Wow is indeed the best way to describe this project!

From what I see, the main work horse is this 250k "binary":
https://raw.github.com/manuels/pdftex.js/master/release/pdft...

This webworker script in combination with a .fmt (latex format file) generates the PDF. All in JS. @manuels__ this is awesome!
An Open Letter To Pirated Artists
Can you turn off rate limiting so we can read the story
Someone needs to be held accountable. Ortiz is someone. Therefore...
How about taking votes on movies we'd like to see made?

[My entry: Consider Phlebas]
Call it a peaceful, selfless and courageous act of civil disobedience.
Yeah, it's Don MacAskill, CEO of SmugMug.. I'd say it's in pretty good hands.
My goal is modest. 500k a year profit without employees would be adequate.

A) Maybe I am dumb, but it doesn't sound at all modest to me.

B) It sounds to me like you are lazy and expecting someone to hand you a get-rich-quick scheme on a silver platter. Most folks who make that kind of money actually work for it.

C) It sounds to me like you have it completely backwards and are in no way looking to add value, you just want money. It generally doesn't work that way. Even after you figure out how to do something of value that people want and/or need, figuring out how to monetize it can still be a separate challenge.

D) Given the above, I will suggest that buying lottery tickets would be a better bet than trying to start a business.

But feel free to prove me wrong on all counts. I have no problem eating humble pie.
Some delegates to the ITU-R process have argued in the above fashion. Other delegates have come representing countries which want UTC to remain as a valid count of days in the calendar (for 86400 SI seconds is not the same as one rotation of the earth). For over 10 years these two viewpoints have been at stalemate with no progress toward any compromise that might alleviate the problems that POSIX systems face at each leap second.
Man, this makes me want to come back to Emacs :-)
That loading/cloud symbol reminds me of something... (https://stripe.com)
Permaduino - Turn arduino projects into permanent “things”