skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, much of the discussion has suggested that a MAC is an identifier, and any alteration of this identifier is criminal. This should not be the case.

Who specifically has suggested that it should be the case? You're constructing a strawman or not reading what people are writing.

The criminal act is continuing to do something after you've been told to stop.
But he would have had those companies sign an NDA (in theory) so they are in effect umbrella'd into his.
Am I the only one who has never had to sign a document being sent by email? This is a non-issue for me but still nice.
That's the other thing that's critical: he's being blunt because he knows that he has just enough to make him actually a fit for the job on paper.

I bet plenty of blunt begging letters from people that don't have an internship from Merrill Lynch or a "near perfect GPA" get even less consideration than the majority of candidates that don't realise their internship and captaincy of the lacrosse team actually doesn't make them stand out from the other candidates from better schools.

"My grades suck as much as my school's reputation but I don't mind toadying to be a really well paid barista" would go in the bin too
In the world of travel guides, mostly accurate is pretty much the gold standard.
Actually, DeveloperAuction is moving into other cities soon enough. After speaking with the team a bit, I got the impression that they see Silicon Valley as the testbed so they can perfect the process before taking it more universal.

I'm not really sure why this is so hard to see, the auction model is so weird, of course it'll take some time to figure out the kinks before "going global".
Note I said presentation logic, not application logic. Deciding when a button should grey out etc. is presentation logic. Its the kind of thing you fiddle with after you have your basic system done. I don't believe these minor look and feel stuff should be in the same boat as business application logic.
Note you said fighting with content, presentation, and logic. In desktop apps MVC architectures are trivial to implement, no framework necessary. HTML JS are the things that are fighting you. In angular it doesn't. Complex presentation goes in directives (custom HTML tags! Woo! OO comes to HTML). Trivial boolean stuff can stay in the HTML. Business logic goes in the scoped controllers (woo, encapsulation made easy in JS).
The charges are most likely not for how he did (spoof MAC addresses), but what he did (redistribute material he obtained without permission). A crime exists if it can proved there's intention.
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Excellent! I was already tinkering with building an app to monitor heart rate using this exact sensor. Now I don't have to finish the app.
So engaging the system would have resulted in an outcome that is worse than what actually happened? I don't think so.

It's a false choice. You can engage the system and change it at the same time. Of course you can.
One step at a time. :) We're working on international, H1B, and other geographies soon.
Do young people really have an over-inflated opinion of themselves?
This is not surprising. Unless I'm way out of touch with modern finance, it would be much more difficult to objectively measure a candidate for a finance position than for an engineering position.
Is it safe to assume that the developers have forgotten that there's a very big world beyond the US borders? The title doesn't say so, the blog post doesn't either, and the website makes no reference to the countries supported. But as the API doesn't take a country field, it's the only conclusion I can come to.
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I may have misunderstood your original post; I thought you were one of the developers of hellosign, who also happened to have a previous product that was marketed similarly. Looking at hellosign's About page and comparing it with the page you linked to, that does not appear to be the case.

I still think an answer to my question about hellosign's business model would be of interest for this thread, but obviously if you're not involved with hellosign you can't give that answer. Sorry for the misunderstanding on my part.
That, and cars are interchangeable standardized goods. Programmers vary widely in ability. The process's closest analogy is buying a home. You want to take a walk through, compare multiple properties, get an inspection report, have everything tidy legal-wise, etc.
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There is plenty of evidence of what happens without government, effective replacement of government services does not happen. Any argument based on that premise is clearly wrong.
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IDEA: Stripe + EasyPost for an EBay that doesn't suck or price-gouge. You put stuff up for sale/auction, the payments go straight to your Stripe account and shipping is calculated/charged fairly. Emulate AirBnB for handling trust issues (reviews, email/phone verification and social graph connections).

Start with a niche like used Apple products.
I just bought this and will try it out tomorrow, but I'm a little disappointed to see that viewing previous sessions requires that I create an account. Does that mean the only way to track my progress is by uploading my data to your site?
Someone on twitter asked me about that convention too - the best explanation I could find was that it's from C, where the compiler will warn you if you have a plain `if (foo = "bar")` in case you typo'd it. But putting double parens around it makes the compiler stop warning you, as you've intended the code to be that way by using a double parens. - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3323257/double-parenthese... was the explanation I linked on twitter about it.
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Love love love it. I'm addicted.

However the colors are distracting. The layout, in-page loading, big thumbnails, infinite scroll, is 100% wonderful. But by making the heading titles all different colors and background of the blocks all different colors it makes it harder to skim through article headlines.

If ALL of the headlines were black colored, and all the backgrounds very light soft subtle pastel colors, I think you'd have that problem solved.
Hi Steve, many thanks for taking the time to have a look and provide feedback. Excellent point on the login confusion, I'll have to address that as others may also have this.

With regards to the behavioural patterns on initial viewing, I definitely agree and this is something we're planning, just need to get it done :)
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For CSS/HTML, things like Firebug and Webkit Inspector can help massively too. You cut out the edit-save-refresh process across two applications out. You can usually cycle across available properties and their valid values too, which makes it even better for learning.

Seeing things in real-time as opposed to refreshing over is a much better way to learn, based on my experience. It's a shame we can't do this with more stuff.

I guess, in general terms, anything that cuts the time between writing code and seeing results will be a great help to you. Not only that, these tools will stay with you as you progress past a beginner stage since they'll always provide that efficiency boost.
"Stirring debate" is nowhere to be found in the criteria for submission.

The following sounds a bit rude, but mostly I just like the sound of it, and I'm writing it with a smile, rather than actually being worked up.

You know two things about my life and political involvement outside of HN: jack, and shit:-)
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"In my free time, I enjoy huffing paint, freebasing coke, and shooting heroin while driving along Interstate 5 at twice the legal limit. I also enjoy canoeing."
The car mechanic analogy is an interesting one that I came across while touring universities to find one that I liked. A parent at one of the Q&A sessions asked what the difference was between Computing and IT (in a UK education context). The degree director replied that an IT course is like learning to drive a car, whereas Computing is like learning to be a mechanic.
(Context: IT classes pre-university used to consist of learning to use Word, Excel and Powerpoint.)
So I suppose whether the analogy works depends whether you want your programmer to find and plug a hole in your exhaust pipe, or to work out how to make a more efficient catalytic converter.
I'm not convinced even then you've committed a felony. Your access to the cable network, assuming your bills are paid up, is authorized. They'd have to demonstrate that your decision to change your router's MAC was intended to defraud them.

Setting up four different laptops all with the same MAC, so that either you or your three neighbors could share the connection, is probably closer to the kind of thing that would land you in jail.
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That doesn't stop you from accidentally pushing it to GitHub though.
Demand Accountability of Prosecutorial Abuse in Case of Aaron Swartz
please sign the two petitions in this article in support of Aaron Swartz
That is the drinkER, not the drink.

mathattack was focusing on the programming language. To parallel the whiskey morals they need to focus on the act of programming, or on the programmer. Not the language.
You're right, I should be more clear. What I meant by that is that there's no clear explicit reason why he's interested in investment banking rather than marketing, consulting, publishing, advertising, whathaveyou.
Bring papers, proof and Science and we talk.

Why would anyone even take the time to bother? You've already decided that psychology isn't a sufficiently hard science.
This part was golden:

Agency : How much did you pay for your last rental car?

Applicant : I don't see how that matters. What are you charging?

Agency : We like to know what you paid before so you get a fair rate.

Applicant : I paid market rates.

Agency : Sorry, we must know how much...
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Yes I did find a job with DA! I just moved to SF on Sunday.
I have a few years of experience as a developer (cofounder/employee) and a few more as a contractor. I also have a number of personal projects and contest entries.
In my opinion you should just do it® - you can't be any worse off.
There also seems to be no way to delete an account.
Sorry about that. We'll add a link soon. In the meantime use this url while signed in: developerauction.com/users/unauth/github
Hi Jimmy, thanks for the heads up. I'd be interested to know what you would consider to be a fair price for the features we are currently offering?
The ol' Hans Reiser defense. I'm too smart to get caught if I were guilty, but you caught me, therefore I must be innocent.
Interesting article. I'm wondering, so all apps route through a single collection of load balancers, or are they per-app? Seems to me like a possibility to cut down on config turnover requirements if you were still using a stock nginx config would be to give each app their own LB cluster and thus changes (if they are actually needed) would be minimal. You'd incur additional memory/cpu requirements for each I suppose which is a trade off and perhaps there's something else I'm missing with the environment that would keep this from working.
I am not really sure why this kid is so proud that he can shine shoes and fetch coffee. The whole set up of investment banking is disgusting. He guy is basically saying he is willing to be a bitch for little to nothing.
Some worldwide community already invented a stable and maintained, production-compatible, free and open source cryptographic digital signature, with public-key infrastructure & certificate authority ? GPG/PGP & Web of trust concepts are so 2000-and-late! Let's SSAS all that open stuff & fuck the market with another new (temporary) "free" app.
Paraphrased: "There's more than just Silicon Valley! What about the Bay Area!?"

Seriously though, I don't see anything wrong with concentrating on a specific location and expanding, Facebook style. I'm not sure how well this would succeed in places like London, but I guess competition is good.
The Tech's editorial about Swartz and MIT
I will give my standard response. Downvotes happen for all sorts of reasons - I've downvoted stuff because I was being an asshole. It happens. I have bad days. Occasionally, I will respond to a comment I downvoted. In those cases my response will imply that I downvoted. But usually I don't respond because any response would be mostly unproductive.

I've also been downvoted more times than I care to remember. Someone might say I shouldn't care. They would be wrong.

The healthiest way to look at downvotes isn't to ignore them. It is to treat them as editorial feedback on the quality of my post. Maybe my point wasn't communicated clearly. Maybe my assertions are unwarranted based on the support I offered. Maybe my tone is corrosive to the community. Maybe even my idea is stupid or flat out wrong.

There are a few options. Sometimes I just take the hit. I said what I meant and mean what I said. Sometimes I will edit my comment - rewriting is writing. I don't usually mark my edits unless they make the discussion confused.

And sometimes I will recognize that my comment is lousy and delete it.

Those are the things that are within my control.

In the end the best response to downvotes is to write better.
There is this:

http://sql.learncodethehardway.org/book/

but I don't have any personal experience with it besides just browsing it when it was first announced.

http://use-the-index-luke.com/

is a good resource once you know the basics.

Honestly, you just need to write a lot of SQL to get better at it.
Thanks, this is helpful.

However, I would think the same logic would apply to "Many people have been inappropriately prosecuted in the past (e.g., convicted of murders they didn't commit) yet did not commit suicide."
I used to receive renewal confirmation and acceptance of price increases for five figure licence agreements between big, traditional companies by plaintext email saying "I accept". It was treated as legally binding (though we did want bona fide signatures for the initial agreement)

Some universally accepted unique private key is probably the way forward here...
There have been a few articles:

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/01/mba-startups-st...

It anecdotal, but I've also met several recent grads who are starting something up, have been working on pitches, or who waited until after graduation to try to find work at a startup.
If ndas worked that way there'd be no point in ndas.
Clustrix is legit. Running it in production now (on their all-SSD hardware, not the new AWS version) across two physical sites. Functionality is sufficient, performance is admirable, support is top shelf.

Their bet was contrarian: embracing SQL -- specifically MySQL wire & dialect compatibility -- at a time when the open source options were trending toward NoSQL.

For funded start-ups with a calculable data-to-revenue ratio, Clustrix buys you the option for arbitrary future expansion while retaining the functional benefits of the RDBMS stack.

Once your product succeeds to a level where daily operational reporting is necessary, you'll appreciate the ubiquity of SQL: analysts and off-the-shelf tools all speak SQL without the overhead of glue code, data staging, or ETL.
I like the differently colored blocks. It makes it easier to distinguish one article from the other, something I have a problem with on most sites (including this one). I would prefer a more coherent color scheme with some meaning behind the color (different shades of red for different shades of tech news, for example).
I know many companies that offer visa assistance. Some of which offered jobs to friends. Not every company/startup is willing/prepared to do the work necessary though.
No worries, thank you for taking the time to give us feedback!

We'll update it so that the trial is increased to 30 days to give people more time to get a feel for the product and anyone who has signed up prior to this will have their trial extended to make up for the difference.
if by "regex nightmare" you mean "regex" then I am opposed to it!
"That's not BDD, that's just Cucumber"
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I can see that if you were getting dozens or hundreds of applications for a role you'd have to be pretty brutal about who to cut before you even spoke to them.

I've never had that luxury, though. Any job i've been involved with advertising has had trouble attracting many applicants at all.
API in XML-RPC?
They want to keep this focused on dismantling intellectual property. For that, they need a martyr, and Swartz's mental illness hinders their narrative.

Ever hear of "never waste a good crisis"?
We are talking about tens of thousands of people blaming her to be a major factor in someone's death, and wishing to force consequences on her without there being an opportunity for her to make her case.

I have never met either Aaron Swartz or her, but I do know that both, the prospect of a ruinous trial as well as the prospect of being blamed for someones death and being publically shamed out of my position by an angry mob would put me under a huge amount of psychological pressure.
Thanks for this bockris. I used LearnPythonTheHardWay and it was great. But that was when I had more time on my hands and could actually sit down and do it. Now (unfortunately) I need something actually force me to attend and practice. I agree, just writing a lot is the best way to do it. I don't get enough practice during my day, and want something that can help me do it more. Basically trying to force myself to do it by having some sort of commitment that is not arbitrary.
Yeah, I concede mine wasn't pixel-perfect.

To continue down this path of the "natural" way to vertically-center, font-size must also be explicitly set. This works http://jsfiddle.net/nJy8t/3/ . Though it's certainly not without it's flaws (we lose font-size cascading).
Please sign the two petitions asking the White House to hold the prosecution accountable.
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I find that analogies are a poor argumentation technique overall, even if they are not hyperbolic. It's always possible to find similarities between wildly different and even opposing ideas. The details matter.
This project reminded me how handwritten signatures are stupid and yet we still use them in 2013. Looks great but probably if you sign something, that document is important and if this project is backing up docs at its own storage, then I must fully trust their privacy policy.
We just launched this and I can answer questions if anyone is interested.

MajorApi is a RESTful wrapper around QuickBooks. QuickBooks is notoriously difficult to work with. Yes, they do have some REST APIs you can use with their IPP platform, but for developers making custom QuickBooks integrations you're almost stuck using WebConnector.

WebConnector requires you to write your own SOAP server which is not fun. We've written a nice REST service on top of this, so all you have to do is download the WebConnector software from QuickBooks and install the .qwc file we provide, and you can start sending customers and invoices to QuickBooks in under 5 minutes.

Let us know if you have further questions. Thanks!
That's not a bad idea at all. But it's unlikely to be very useful for specialized work, unless the insurance is highly specialized, and in that case it is likely to be as expensive as malpractice insurance.
true but i would hope we all know what hes getting at. And by the way its hilarious because anyone who has been a contractor and gone through a staffing firm knows EXACTLY that same situation
But it's for only rails applications? Only for web applications? Only for ruby applications?
Why do these cloud services seem to have so many more issues than the dedicated servers at my host?
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Agreed, I'd go as far as to say that not everyone is located in the USA :)
MAC addresses should generally be globally unique. You can change it, but they are not meant to be shared. Bad things happen when MACs are not unique.
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Swartz was not running an automated MAC randomization system.

His defense team vigorously contested the searches of his home, office, computers, even the netbook found in the closet at MIT under the aegis of his expectation of privacy at MIT; his team also attempted to have wire fraud indictments dismissed by challenging the notion of IP and MAC address "spoofing" constituted false statements. If Swartz had been continuously "spoofing" his addresses, he surely would have raised that point. Instead, he appears to stipulate that he was altering his addresses to bypass the authorization controls at MIT.

I wrote the first line of this comment a couple hours ago because I remembered reading this on Sunday, but it took me a while to track down the exact filing.

https://ia700504.us.archive.org/29/items/gov.uscourts.mad.13...
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Interviewer#3: How long you been driving your 2010 Escort?
Applicant: About 3 years.
Interviewer#3: Sorry, but we are looking for someone with
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least 10 years.
I've used Adobe Acrobat Reader in the past to sign documents, it's also free and many people already have it installed: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/features.html#categoryl...

I guess this is cool because it's "in the cloud".
I think where this could save more time is if you thought about ways salespeople could close sales easier, since they require signatures so frequently.

If this product is just for me (i.e. the person who installs this extension) then it's only going to save me time. How often does the average Google Apps user need to sign something? And how often does a salesperson require a signature from somebody using Google Apps?

Just was thinking about where the real pain/problem exists here. And by that, I mean that it's important to consider where does the problem occur the most and have the most impact.
Heroku's complexity is not just hardware, it is software: tons of software written in a variety of languages. It will have many more moving part that a typical dedicated hosting provider.
"E se me nona gavesse e rode sarìa na carioea", as they say here in the Veneto, which, literally translated, means "if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be be a wheelbarrow".
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ParAccel, Neteeza, Greenplum and Vertica all owe some measure of their roots to PostgreSQL (the GP binary is still called `postgres`).

Development of parallel query execution in PostgreSQL proper has been stagnant for quite a while unfortunately: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Parallel_Query_Execution
there's a fine line between fighting bullying and bullying the bullies.
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That's why I signed as well. The point is that firing should be on the table as the first option. The public needs a DAMN good reason not to fire this prosecutor.

I think we're all well aware that she's probably not the worst prosecutor in the govt. I'm sure others have caused as much harm to those without the fame and network Aaron had. However, these are the people we entrust to uphold our laws, and we need to hold them accountable to justice, not their careers.

Hopefully this is just the start.