skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is you still need a username with fingerprints etc. Well at least in a corporate environment. So they don't change the original question

What if the fingerprint algorithm overlaps two people. You suddenly can access someone else account without trying. IE fingerprints burnt off/similarly damaged through chemo.

Also an fingerprint attack without username simultaneously attacks all users at once.

Not saying with the right tech a fingerprint might be good enough without a username, but my understanding is it's not done and whether it can be is a similar question to the original question.
No, the _maximum_ sentence under the Constitution and the statute was 35 years. The sentence he was likely to receive was 6 months if he took the plea bargain (and there are rumors that a no-jail plea was considered), or less than a year if he went to trial and was convicted.

There's a huge difference between the statutory maximum sentence and the sentence people actually receive. Shoplifting is petty theft and in almost all states that's punishable by up to a year in jail, but most first-time offenders get off with community service.

Aaron was charged with wire fraud, which covers crimes ranging from skimming a few bucks off a credit card reader to trying to take down the stock market as a whole. The _maximum_ sentence Aaron faced was 35 years, but there was no way that any judge would ever sentence him to that.

In fact, the United States Sentencing Guidelines [1] were introduced about 20 years ago to make sure that judges were issuing sentences that were proportional to the crime committed. In short, the severity of crimes is ranked on a scale from 1 to 40+, and the criminal history of the defendant (i.e., how many prior convictions) is rated from 1 to 5. From those numbers, a sentencing range is calculated.

Here, the crimes Aaron was charged with are a severity of 7 (of 40) and he has no prior convictions (so he's a criminal history of 1). On the big old matrix [2], that's a sentencing rage of 0-6 months. Even if you assume he picks up a few more points along the way, he'd have been looking at 4-10 months. Judges can only exceed the Guidelines in extreme cases and most sentences higher than the Guidelines are struck down on appeal.

For the gory details, see here [3] where the full Sentencing Guidelines analysis is performed.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Federal_Sentencin...
[2] http://www.ussc.gov/Guidelines/2012_Guidelines/Manual_HTML/5...
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5063435
Simplicity is not innovation - why I reject simplicity
In the US a sole proprietorship is a business. A sole proprietorship is the most common form of business in the United States. Sole Proprietorships do not require LLC or C corporation filings. Often but not always they require a business license. If one does not have business partners and is running a software company, the sole proprietorship is the most sensible form. Note that LLCs do not protect the actual developer from liability from his errors, they only protect the partners from liability from errors they themselves did not personally create. To protect oneself from ones own errors, businesses should acquire E&O insurance. Software development businesses that do not have E&O insurance are putting themselves at risk.
It's not, but I figure I may as well highlight that even if you rob a bank with a gun your maximum sentence is less than 35 years.
I'm not sure I'd worry about that... if the proposed laws were worse, then I think you'd see another SOPA/PIPA style reaction.

And then you have to consider the chances that a response from the administration will actually start an investigation / reformation.

For better or worse though, I guess I'm willing to see where it goes.
I think I got your point. I just approached the problem from the other side. I think limiting a prosecutor's ability to bargain would be easier from a legislative standpoint than getting involved in sentencing, and more effective since the sentence asked by the prosecution is really just a recommendation. Either way, the important part is ratio of sentence to plea bargain, if I understood you correctly.
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Ask HN: Which Bay Area companies are hiring summer high school interns?
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Are there any companies in Bay Area that are hiring high school students for summer internships?

Thanks
A lot of Apple stuff may be a black box but it is designed to be subclassed.

Aside from a small number of top-level classes[1] UIKit isn't designed to be subclassed. When you subclass things like UIAlertView, UIButton, UISwitch, UITextField, UIWebView… etc, you're in for a world undocumented gotchas and spending hours to do small simple things.

1. UIView, UIControl, UITableViewCell, UIScrollView, UIGestureRecognizer, UIViewController, UIApplication and maybe one or two other classes.
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The "evidence" is bullshit. Look at exactly what is said.

AS, for all of whatever it was good that he brought the world, was mentally ill. For whatever reason, he did not receive the help that is freely available in our society. (There was a lot more available before Reagan cut it to shreds, so he could pass on big bucks to his rich cronies, but I digress...)

THAT is the true tragedy here. Depression is a totally, totally fucked up brain function anomaly. People who have not experienced it are simply clueless and should STFU. The REST of you: get help. Get Help - Now!
I'm surprised at New Zealand's stats. How on earth did that happen?
>Somebody who is a danger to themselves is legally supposed to be locked up, typically in a psychiatric hospital. Jail would have been the second best place he could have been.

He wasn't exactly the reckless insane type. Some people prefer death than jail, and it seems reasonable if you're able of empathy and really consider what a person goes through in jail. It's a matter personal freedom and it should be respected, otherwise one might be implying death was too good for him.
Prosecutors will go for very low plea bargains if their case is shaky, with huge penalties for not accepting the plea, so many shaky cases never make it to trial. By reversing the situation you end up with half of the maximum rather than maybe 10% of it, in effect most plea offers would increase rather than stay at their current level and many more cases would have to be tried.
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That's an interesting theory. Do you have any evidence?
Bitdeli co-founder here. We have missed GitHub's traffic graphs ever since they were removed and we know we're not alone[1]. That's why we decided to offer a free Bitdeli account to anyone who wants to find out who is viewing their repos.

The free account also works as a "sandbox tier" since you can try out all our features for custom analytics with familiar data from your repos.

Thanks to everyone who suggested this earlier[2]!

[1] https://twitter.com/mbostock/status/207871372746162176

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4852490
Do you have a non-Apple-specific suggestion? We do cross platform development, so Cocoapods aren't an option.
The fact that Aaron faced jail time that was appropriate only for people who maliciously defrauded others to the tune of billions of dollars for personal benefit is the problem. The fact that the only way to receive a fair sentence was to give up the right to a trial is the problem.

If the outcome of a trial was potentially 6 months in prison then the likelihood he would endure a trial would be far, far higher.

Instead the criminal justice system was abused, and a disproportionate punishment was put on the table to scare Aaron (as it has been used to scare so many other defendants) into taking a plea bargain and give up on having his day in court.

That's a perversion of justice and something that we should in no way be comfortable with.
> anyone who's ever been convicted of a computer crime, even if that crime involved the mass theft and subsequent resale of credit cards, is a newly minted hero of the cause of openness

Specifics? I don't recall seeing this, but maybe I'm just unobservant.

> The law cannot hope to capture every possible nuance of all conceivable offenses

On the other hand, the point of having the law instead of The Decider is that acceptability of a particular behavior can be reasonably foreseen. And for the long standing laws most everybody now thinks of as self-evident (murder,rape,robbery,etc), this is basically the case. But the problem with many newer widely-scoped laws, especially federal ones, is that they're highly vague and allow so much leeway, the question becomes quite unanswerable. Are these vague laws primarily used to punish bona fide criminals? Yes. But when we fail to examine the law for what it conceivably could do and instead take comfort in what it usually does, when we fail to stand up for injustices against people who are ultimately not very nice, we set ourselves up for exactly what happened here - a grave injustice against an unlucky blatantly-undeserving target. It's simply the only thing remaining that provides any check on the expedience of the Deciders.

I unfortunately never interacted with Aaron. I identify with a lot of his optimism, even while feeling older than his naivety. I think we've probably had similar principles offended in this case. It just took a tangible incident with high wtf-levels to offend yours, where as mine go off for hypothetical possibilities and run-of-the-mill wtf-levels.
Unfortunately I agree. It sounds like a frustrating process, but people LOVE to hate Apple these days. And Apple is letting it happen. When you stop innovating and creating things people love, you allow yourself to take jabs. Maintaining and monetizing the hell out of what you already have seems like a good idea on paper, but it doesn't seem to be working out so well for Apple at this point.
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I haven't but I did look at the page as it was linked in the article. I never saw any mention of code formatting. An example of what I expect is like the Eclipse Source > Format option which will go in and make everything consistent including making lines less than 80 chars, adding space around operators (I never put in spaces which goes against almost every style guide), ensuring the arms of if/else always have braces etc.

I actually do most of my iOS development by running emacs on my Linux box and using sshfs to access the files on the Mac. I use command line tools for compilation/running/debug. I did originally start out using Xcode but it gets in the way of the coding. (My work involves a library that functions in the background and has no user interface.)

AppCode hasn't seemed worth the effort to investigate and $200 is rather a lot to spend on a code reformatter. (Also only running on MacOS makes it significantly less useful to me.)
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The internal combustion engine contributed to a significant increase in the freedom of movement of individuals.

The Internet provides a similar boost to the free flow of information, spreading it further than it would otherwise.

Both of these outcomes have political implications, and I would go so far as to say are nearly inevitable emergent behaviors of the two inventions.
The Iliad is one of our oldest pieces of narrative writing in human history.

It's about a war.
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Is it ok to have underage sex if you get the consent of the parents, then?

I think that Polanski and this case are so opposed in their has-a-crime-been-committed angle that they are worth comparing.
You can use the Xcode "Run Script" build phases to automate the code format if you really need it (with Uncrustify's --no-backup option).

I agree Xcode should have this feature by default, but speaking for Uncrustify - it is reliable and always produce consistent output format. Anyway, it also took me more than an hour to configure it :)
And if you want to switch from a different app into the other Chrome window?
> It's worth it for the refactoring and #import management alone.

That is something Eclipse does out of the box! Apple really disappointed me with Xcode - it is actually less usable than Eclipse in my experience. This is not praise of Eclipse - it has many issues!
It's a different kind of network.

The people you meet at conferences are not likely to be highly placed, and you will not have a particularly strong bond with them.

Spend 2 years in a highly-ranked MBA program, though, and you will develop deep, long-lasting bonds with people, many of whom will end up in important positions.

It's the same sort of deep connection you get from being, say, an early participant at an important company. The PayPal Mafia [1] are important partly because they are smart individuals, and partly because they're part of a well-connected network.

I hear you also get a similar effect from incubator programs like Y Combinator: it builds bonds that last.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
Any discounts if I buy for an entire year or two?
So it's "breaking in" if it helps the prosecution's case, by definition.

What a weird system.
Because there are a lot of pieces to running a business that fall outside of your innate capability, and your network allows you to draw on others for those capabilities.
My experience is all pre-autolayout, which is very new. It sounds like I definitely need to take another look for future work.
Why would a porn site ever choose aaronsw.com as their domain? We aren't going to run out of strings.
I would agree that it is somewhat unlikely that he was innocent, but it is far from impossible that he actually was.

There are people who will try to root your computer, and who prefer to do their bad stuff from someone else's computer so that the heat won't come back to them. If you hang around with the wrong crowd and don't know what you're doing well enough, the odds of this happening go up. Suppose that this happened to him the first time around, and the forensics were done poorly, so he took the fall for someone else's crime. Then it starts happening again, and he knows he won't be believed because he wasn't before.

I would rate this scenario as unlikely, but not impossible. However plausible enough that I don't accept the clearly in, "He was clearly someone..."
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I've tried to find some sort of backing theory to CSS, but I've only found references to authors, not rationales . You would expect it to be founded on some solid typesetting theory. It would be very interesting to hear how the authors reasoned. I personally find that it seems really flexible, but anything that you want to acheive is hard or inconvenient. So what is the flexibility good for?
Any attorney Aaron hired would be able to read the sentencing guidelines manual (it's published in a convenient softcover version that any federal criminal attorney has on his/her desk) and inform Aaron that the maximum realistic sentence was less than a year, and that as long as the sentence was on "Zone A" on the chart I provided, the judge would be free to give probation with zero jail time.

The maximum sentence was 35 years because that's the maximum penalty for all forms of wire fraud. The prosecutor is constitutionally required to inform the defendant of the maximum sentence. If you ever sit in on a plea colloquy you'll hear the prosecutor tell the defendant the maximum sentence and the defendant acknowledge the maximum, even if everybody knows that the sentence will be time served, or probation, or just a fine/restitution.

I don't know why Aaron's lawyer dropped the ball on this.
You can't push your modifications to a submodule you don't own.

Also, you can only remove a submodule manually. There's no option to have git do it for you.
Certainly has some of objdump's quirks. 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 => lea 0x0(%edi,%eiz,1),%edi.

I was half expecting a disassembler written in Javascript.
Maybe it's late, maybe I'm just slow, but it feels like your argument is jumping around, so I'll just ask: What are "Internet values"? Are you saying the phrase is meaningless because the Internet can't have values because it's just some hardware and algorithms; or are you saying that "Internet values" can theoretically be anything, but what they happen to be are the current laws regarding Internet use in the United States, which means that "Freedom of Information" is not an "Internet value"; or are you arguing something else?
Completely agree. Anything 100 level should be brought online first; I could see this compressing a "four year" bachelors degree into two years.
That's simply not true. "Possession of a firearm in furtherance of a bank robbery carries a minimum statutory sentence of five years in prison and a maximum of life imprisonment consecutive to any other sentence, plus a $250,000 fine."

[1] http://www.justice.gov/usao/ncw/pressreleases/Charlotte-2012... , among many other sources.
It's certainly better than anything I'd thought of, but I don't really think of WtP as a user-based site in the same way that Digg is/was. People don't, I suspect, sign up for an account and then regularly visit and choose which petitions to sign. Rather, someone starts a facebook campaign, people go to the site, sign up, vote, then forget about it. I'm guessing regular emails from WtP inviting someone who once voted to ban abortion to come back and vote on a random issue probably wouldn't work out very well.

The site could, instead, be turned into a more community-oriented place, with discussions on the proposed petitions and a sense of being part of the in-crowd when one you've talked about gets answered.

In fact, this is starting to sound an awful lot like Wikipedia, with the same kinds of drives and motivations. Create a set of guidelines for community interaction and petition content, then let "contributors" monitor proposed petitions, cull the obvious crap, improve the writing and cases cited, then publish them to the "new" page. You could have a couple of White House interns be mods and settle any disputes between members.

I'm just brainstorming, here. In reality, it seems like an idea that's nice in principle but unworthy and unworkable in practice.
Deliberate openness is irresponsible now?
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couple of years is enough to get you the full "prison experience"...
alleged credit card fraud is different from Aaron's case I would say.
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That's not a crime that will typically get you threatened with 50 years in federal prison, no.

We can't expect our 3000 year old "tresspass" and "stealing" concepts to work well as metaphors for information systems built specifically to copy information at the rate of thousands or millions of times a second.
In a word? Yes. Providing the illusion of listening is actively deceptive, whereas not having the website won't trick people into thinking they're interacting with their government.
Actually running uncrustify isn't a problem - I intended to make a shell script. What I wanted to do and have just work (HN won't let me use a literal asterisk so I used STAR):

uncrustify --inplace STAR.h STAR.m

I ended up having to download configs, deal with differences between the versions of uncrustify and configs, work out how to do inplace, get confused when it did it sometimes and not others, go "holy cow" when git showed all these extra files appearing (uncrustify does some sort of hashing scheme to avoid processing files seen before), trying to work out which files I could get rid of, finding it had put reformatted output in files with different extensions, trying to figure out what had happened, finding out that it doesn't autodetect headers as objc etc. And suspecting it may have problems if directories/files have spaces in their names.

I know it can work. I just don't trust that it will always work.
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More to the point, rprasad is making sweeping statements of fact, along the lines of, "Anyone who commits suicide before trial must be guilty." I'm making what are clearly statements of personal opinion, along the lines of, "Here is a scenario where I can imagine the stress of a legal case tipping a depressed person over the cliff into suicide."

Strong claims require strong evidence. I'm making far, far weaker claims. The burden of proof should squarely be on rprasad.
Isn't that exactly what a grave site is? Real estate permanently set aside for a deceased person.
you're forgetting that you learn about 100 other people's careers and industries, Wisdom and Insight of profs that tell you what isn't in the book, and the book knowledge, which I feel certain anyone focused full time on a startup doesn't have time for. People have been ripped off for hundreds of thousands of dollars before for simply not understanding basic accounting.
"I want to switch apps" = "Alt+Tab" ?

Even better with the previews because I can hit "Alt+Tab", see that Chrome is selected, keep Alt held down and then "Alt+`" to the right window.
It would be great to be able to paste a url to others of a work-in-progress pastebin-style dump of something I'm commenting or reversing. Also, symfiles.
Here's the announcement by Sebastian Thrun on Udacity:

http://blog.udacity.com/2013/01/sebastian-thrun-udacity-anno...
Regarding pushing modifications: Why not fork the submodule to your own remote? That's what we do.
I thought an LLC basically prevented someone from seizing your personal assets if they sue your company. They can only get the company's assets in a lawsuit.
Is manager/maker really the only way to scale things? Instead of the maker founder becoming a manager, how about the maker founder getting "assistants". For the management parts, it could be similar to a traditional secretarial role, and for the making part, it would be along the lines of master and apprentice.

Apart from these, there are certainly other ways to organize, if efficiency is not the key thing. If the bottleneck is "try out lots of cool things, and see which one sticks", such as a research department, then it could be organized more like a cooperative with individual makers. There would probably need to be some selection of things to include in a next release if it is a manufactured product, but on the web, that might not even be necessary. Sure, integration would be a mess, but in some cases, that is not so important.
I think this whole thing has become a meme now and people are starting to believe what they want to believe.
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It's pretty straightforward to check if there are people in your TV box or not. Doesn't sound like a reasonable (or valid) position.

What about Santa or the Spaghetti Monster? Do we have to be (or claim to be) agnostics about everything we can't prove it doesn't exist? There's no need to prove these things because there's no good reason to believe otherwise. And no, just feeling you're right and visions don't count.

TLDR: Burden of proof is on religious people, not on atheists. Thus, agnosticism seems like an unnecessary compromise.
You won't get rich, but at the higher levels, you can make a pretty good amount of money.

GS-15 starts around 120k for base pay, if you are a "research scientist" there's an identifier that can add 80-100k. The cost of living increase near the NSA hq is about 21 percent of base pay. I hear there's levels above GS-15, but I've never seen the pay chart for them.
I'm saying "internet values" is meaningless, fluffy terminology. Some of the people who created the internet might have had certain values, but that doesn't make them "internet values" any more than whatever believes the inventors of the transistor held makes them "transistor values."

That is not to say that we as a society don't have values about the use and function of the internet. But we get to decide what those values are, not the people who happened to create the hardware and the protocols.
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