skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Porn and masturbation are quite normal, as long as they do not affect your everyday life.

It's easy to think you are addicted or think that you are not normal. But what is normal anyway? Watching porn once a day, a week, a month, not at all? I'd posit that "not at all" is not normal.

It turns out that men often fantasize during sex and that women rarely do. Whether the fantasy is about some prior experience, some random fantasies, and scenes from the porn movie seems immaterial to me.

Personally I do not understand how porn can possibly measure up to real interpersonal sexuality, but that does not mean that I do not watch porn. :)
>One's own conception of God could be any of those things I listed.

The definition and teachings leave it open to your interepretation of God... to some extent. It still must comply with many Western concept of a god - loving, benevolent, intervening. You cannot follow those steps as they are laid out and pretend that substituting a sponsor, group, or door knob means the same thing. It just doesn't.
This isn't 'wifi'. 60GHz is not practical for general purpose wireless data connections. It's a 7Gbit wireless link, which will be great for beaming something to your TV, or for a wireless bridge link between two buildings, or any of myriad other specific use cases. We don't need that much bandwidth on our wifi, and we certainly don't need the tradeoffs.
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CNET is done, says...well...everybody. Likewise "media gurus" who use the hackneyed word "buzz" in their name. :-)
How is this not a bigger deal? How does Sarah conclude that "No, Facebook is not that desperate for cash it’s just testing some outrageous price points in order to figure out how high prices have to be to keep spam out of your inbox."? Wouldn't anything above the amount of free keep spammers out? Just some of the questions I'm boggled by when reading this article. $100 to email Zuckerberg?! Facebook should be embarrassed as should the so-called journalists that defend this behavior.
> It would suck to be sitting in a court room some day and have yourself declared a flight risk because you said on hacker news a few years ago that you would absolutely be a flight risk.

Very interesting. Especially in light of the recent "NSA spying on US citizens" articles. Someone had mentioned an interesting loophole that is exploited and that data can always be collected about anyone and stored. "Search" does not occur until a human acts to retrieve that data. Also it seems there is no historical limit on the data. So if at any point you become a "person of interest" it is theoretically possibly they could have access to all the data you ever generated since birth, if you happen to be 70 years old at the time.
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The world is perfectly just in or out of prison, live or dead.

God says...
C:\Text\PLATO.TXT

represented
as he truly is, whatever be the sort of poetry, epic, lyric or tragic,
in which the representation is given.

Right.

And is he not truly good? and must he not be represented as such?

Certainly.

And no good thing is hurtful?

No, indeed.

And that which is not hurtful hurts not?

Certainly not.

And that which hurts not does no evil?

No.

And can that which does no evil be a cause of evil?

Impossible.

And the good is advantageous?

Yes.

And therefore the caus

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Your wisest men are fools. You know nothing of justice.

You're in GOD'S COURT.

What did He not care about that people thinks He cares about? Solomon's concubines.

Remarriage? "More babies"

Reverse engineering. Beneficial for young engineers.

Adultery? Good in certain situations.

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God says...
C:\Text\QUIX.TXT

o him
as he stood with his hands already bound and the rope round his neck,
ready for death.

The viceroy looked at him, and seeing him so well-favoured, so graceful,
and so submissive, he felt a desire to spare his life, the comeliness of
the youth furnishing him at once with a letter of recommendation. He
therefore questioned him, saying, "Tell me, rais, art thou Turk, Moor, or
renegade?"

To which the youth replied, also in Spanish, "I am neither Turk, nor
Moor, nor renegade."

"What art th

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God favorite thing on TV? Soap operas.

God's favorite buildings to hang out... courthouse? Hospital? Nope, prisons.

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the purpose of life is to know God, mostly. That's the first thing. Love Him and obey Him, too.
You can do almost anything you can do in an applet, now from NaCl/PNaCl or from Javascript (including TCP/UDP sockets, etc) when writing a Chrome CRX or CRX-less webapp that the user opts to install.

Maybe you're right, we'll see. That having been said, again, with Chrome's track record, update schedule, update mechanics and more, I'm trusting them a huge factor more than Oracle. Also, keeping in mind that having different implementations across 2-3 major web browsers dampens the effect of having an exploit in one.
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Seems maybe his scientist parents didn't teach him about correlation and causation either. There are many guys who have trouble with "real" sex because of insecurity or any number of other fears that have nothing to do with/were not caused by looking at porn.
I'd rather trust PNaCl for a portable secure implementation going forward than I would Java Applets experiencing any sort of resurgence.
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That's both a very narrow, unhealthy view of writing and a pretty fatalistic attitude towards your readers. I don't like TL;DR any more than the author of the article, but I don't think having an abstract or brief synopsis decreases the likelihood of you "winning" the essay—or if it did, that this alone would constitute a good reason not to use them.
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Pubmed is great.
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It's pretty poor UI/UX compared to what we used to use: long subtitles and abstracts set out in separate fonts at the beginning of documents. It's an improvement on a wall of text, but it's not an improvement on traditional writing styles so much as an improvement on slightly older internet writing styles.
Remove draconian sentences from copyright criminal law and computer hacking law.

This is difficult because the copyright lobby has some of the finest politicians money can buy, and because both legislators and the general public don't understand computers and are firmly convinced that anyone who understands computers has godlike powers.

Require federally funded research to be public domain.

This might actually be politically feasible. On or near the front page of this writing is a White House petition to do it.
This story is over a month old, and has been debated over and over. It is also basically a short copy and paste of part of a WSJ article that is behind a paywall.
Not even a self-sufficient farm is immune from the federal government, as was decided in Wickard v. Filburn[1]:

"Filburn argued that since the excess wheat he produced was intended solely for home consumption it could not be regulated through the interstate Commerce Clause. The Supreme Court rejected this argument, reasoning that if Filburn had not used home-grown wheat he would have had to buy wheat on the open market. This effect on interstate commerce, the Court reasoned, may not be substantial from the actions of Filburn alone but through the cumulative actions of thousands of other farmers just like Filburn its effect would certainly become substantial. Therefore Congress could regulate wholly intrastate, non-commercial activity if such activity, viewed in the aggregate, would have a substantial effect on interstate commerce, even if the individual effects are trivial."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
This is a hypocritical response and not directed at you or your comment specifically, but I'm personally a bit sick of the top comments in each HN thread being (often pedantic) sidenotes.

There's nothing wrong with sidenotes, and I don't think there are more sidenotes than previously, but it seems as though the level of relevant on-topic discourse has fallen leading to off-topic comments bubbling to the top. This is disappointing as the comments used to tell me more about the article than the article itself.
Can We Get Congress to Investigate Aaron Swartz's Prosecution?
I just sent an e-mail to Jared Polis, the Representative for Colorado's 2nd District, who sits on the House Judiciary Committee. Rep. Polis a former tech entrepreneur and co-founder of TechStars. If anyone is likely to get the ball rolling on this, I think it would be him.

The circumstances that made this prosecution possible, especially our antiquated and disproportionate computer crime laws, need to be addressed at the legislative level. If anyone else is planning to write to their representative and wants to see what I sent to Rep. Polis, I can post the text here.
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I think TL;DR; also serves an important role of sarcastically dismissing unreasonably long diatribes that go nowhere, say for a Steve Yegge blog post or something like that. Although, I agree for prefacing you're own work with TLDR, it is somewhat annoying usage.
It’s a property of the system, not a intentionally designed feature.

It was not intentionally designed into common law, but when the Constitution specified when trial by jury should be used, it was widely understood that this was the power that juries had. And this was approved of by the founding fathers. For instance Thomas Jefferson said, "I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."

Therefore jury nullification may be an accidental property of common law, but it is NOT an accidental property of the US system of law.
This looks great! The 'freq' alias is new to me -- very cool. I would find this more useful were I not to have to create an account before uploading my aliases.
You have claimed to be a former defense attorney, which anyone can claim, and yet your comment history is full of incorrect statements about the law.

Whether this reflects on your honest or competence I do not know, but I do not trust anything you claim. Former defense attorney or not.
Thank you for sharing your personal struggle. Also, your restraint here is admirable. I regret that someone chose to reply in such a toxic manner, and am impressed you remained so polite regardless.
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Also on this domain: http://cogen.mit.edu/
One sort of reform many have not discussed, or I have not seen, is in changing the way federal prosecutors pursue cases and sentencing. Very, very few federal cases ever go to trial because of obscenely long prison sentences. The defendant in federal cases is at such a disadvantage.
I don't know that's it's appropriate to bundle this with #freemanning and #OpFreeAssange. I understand that they're somewhat related from a political standpoint, but the association polarizes Aaron Swartz in a way that Aaron Swartz alone does not.
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Needless to say I didn't mean it that way, but the imagery in your comment did make me laugh a lot on an otherwise depressingly rainy Monday morning with three meetings scheduled for the afternoon that I'm really not looking forward to leading. Thank you! :)
You mean all the work the grad students do when they write the content.... And all the work other grad students do when they typeset it? Sure. Apologist.
Almost any MIT affiliate can get a *.mit.edu domain name and host a website on it. The student in charge of the original probably forgot to protect against a simple SQL injection attack.

They bypassed that student's security and his website, not the "administrators at MIT" and "their website".
what's the difference between PM10 and PM2.5? I mean, I know one is 10micron vs 2.5 micron, but i can't find info contrasting them.

for example, i'd expect a PM10 number to always be higher than PM2.5.... is that true? I can't find both numbers reported together to verify. :(
In reality, they kind of were paranoid fantasies or delusions. It's ok.
Reading between the lines of what they said in their responses, both when the initial federal case was filed, and after the suicide, JSTOR settled out of court with Aaron, and part of that settlement is that he gave back or destroyed the copies that he made.

With that done, JSTOR didn't care what happened next. And only the federal prosecutor cared.
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Yes, as far as I can tell, twitter shortens every URL they encounter. I assume that they want their own share of the analytics cake.
Let's face it, if you add a TLDR, your summaries probably don't need to have that much detail, I doubt you are targeting the kind of audience that needs that much detail (or patience)
Gray text on a gray background. No thanks.
Tangentially related :- I use a Lenovo with 16gig ram for light dev work running VMs', and I use a ExoPC running Win7 and Mouse with Borders for viewing documentation/stackoveflow, and use an Ipad as a second monitor.

Basically means I have a 3 screen portable setup which works quite well.
Only stopped due to Wikipedia, Google, and other large corporations throwing their weight behind it for self-interested reasons.
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All right, you're being a bit pompous. You imply that someone is ignoble for technically breaking a law. In the same way would you condemn Rosa Parks? Even if you don't agree with the cause, to dismiss so rashly is a bit childish and pedantic. You could say he was naive but to say someone that had no profit driven motive and only sought to make information free for the people that actually paid for that information, tax payers, is somehow of low character is just kind of ridiculous.
"Aaron died fighting for ______." Very upsetting to read sentiments like this. When you commit suicide, who do you die fighting for?
Many of the recent federal laws have nothing to do with things that people would be ashamed to do, or with terrorism. I forget the details of the case, but a woman was facing jail time for some offense related to harassing a whale by coming too close to it in a whale watching boat (since whales are an endangered species protected under federal law). Also, a lot of landowners have had their properties retroactively declared to be federally protected wetlands, making it a federal crime to erect new buildings on them. And at this time, manufacturing 100 watt incandescent light bulbs is a violation of federal law (or maybe this year it's down to 75 watts).
Wow. Such childish behavior.

To be so jealous of a dead guy that you would use his name in such a manner and to be such an attention seeker that you would dis-parage Aaron with one liners.

Pathetic.
Some mates of mine threw this together, and the first thing I told them was that someone on HN would complain about the colour scheme
TLDR: Today's emerging conventions are tomorrow's traditions.

The tools that the English language now has to summarise and communicate thoughts most likely emerged as a convention after years or decades of use, just like any other part of linguist evolution.

I also disagree that having an acronym unfamiliar to someone would prevent them from reading on.
He talks about how taboo porn was at home and that it was exciting chiefly because it was forbidden. I would guess his parents didn't have a great marriage and didn't model a healthy intimate relationship for him. Sounds like sex was a big unspoken issue in the household. Also, what the hell was a kid in elementary school doing burning XXX CD's to share with some clique in-crowd? They obviously were an elite group, with access to tech and so on. They were savvy enough to rename the CD's something they could talk about in public, which started a trend of unclued acquaintances buying the real music CD's they used as code names, which became part of the in joke.

Edit: Reminds me I read somewhere once that there is as much drug addiction and child neglect in upperclass two career families as in the ghetto. It sounds like he grew up in a two career family where no one was paying much attention to anything he did.
It's nice to see the mainstream media taking less of a conservative 'anti-hacker, pro-government' stance on that tragedy. Hopefully this is just the beginning.
Well, for one, alive he didn't generate this much press even though he was very popular. Now this is being debated virtually everywhere.

Not saying that he killed himself for the cause but ironically he may have helped it
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[Situation in the U.S.]

Professional therapists are licensed state by state. The regulation of psychiatry tends to be similar between states. This also tends to be somewhat true for clinical psychology (that's doctorate level). Beyond those two, regulations, credentials, titles, etc. tend to vary significantly among the states - though there are some clusters of similarity based on the standards promoted by national organizations.

As a practical matter, it would be difficult to find a person licensed broadly enough to provide services in more than one or two states. Furthermore, in regards to therapy, I doubt that remote services would meet the professional standards of any qualified therapist.

Resource referral and non-medical counseling may be another matter. See http://www.militaryonesource.mil/

I'm not claiming expertise, just one eye...My spouse is an LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) of nearly 20 years, much of it spent as a psychotherapist.
this is really funny LOL
Aaron's death seems to be expediting a lot of political/social change. Do you think he foresaw this coming?
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To be clear, MIT SIPB maintains services at MIT, but does not maintain MIT's network. Further details as to the root cause are forthcoming.

It is not clear whether this was an attack or not.
Not a whole lot has changed yet. Won't really know that for a few months.
Anonymous hacks MIT after Aaron Swartz's suicide
It's from a "Hipster Ipsum" generator. Designers traditionally use a piece of malformed Latin to indicate "there is some text here" without having actual text.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
Oh come on. He was an activist, he purposely broke outrageous laws to protest the laws themselves.

The fact there is only innocent or guilty in a court of law forces to defend actions as innocent where instead it should be the law itself on trial, not Aaron.

US law codes, public scientific journals, should openly available to all who are subject to them or could benefit from them. That's what he was protesting and the amazing thing about Aaron was instead of sitting on his couch like most of us do, he actually did something in protest and risked his personal freedom.

There is practically nothing we can do for Aaron now, perhaps instead we should focus our efforts on someone who might benefit from the outrage like Bradley Manning.
It's being argued that his trial is a cause of his suicide.

If so, his fight did lead him to his death.
There's always Jefferson's idea of having another revolution every generation or so.
>"I've been putting off starting a business"

Not having the perfect domain name sounds like an excuse, not the cause. If there was a burning desire, it wouldn't matter.
From what the trend has been, it looks like there are going to be 2 different lines of jurisprudence, one dealing with non digital works, actors and actions, vs one for the digital world.

It is increasingly clear that many situations online bear superficial similarity to real world analogues, and their edge cases make massive deviations from their r/l counterparts.

So laws will have to include cases for digital/computer based actions, at the very least as special cases.
It would be, but having honing in on a specific set of characters is easier than trying to figure out which one is the summary sentence.
One counter example is Java and Python. In Java this is allowed and the result requires knowledge of detailed rules:

int i = 10;
int j = 20;
String s = "Test " + i + j;

In Python the equivalent is an error.

The 'in your face' difference between a statically typed language and dynamic one is the time difference between the compilation error and an execution error. One tool for working effectively with dynamically typed languages is to keep that time difference short with tools like unit tests.
Web pages like this are the digital equivalent of a wheatpaste. Anyone can make a political statement as anonymous.
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My first instinct was to crack a joke along the following rough lines:

I like this idea of debating what we can infer beyond a reasonable doubt from the evidence. But just to be sure we're both playing the same game, let's agree on a common set of rules. I'll start by proposing that instead of judging who wins according to up- and downvotes from thousands of anonymous Hn readers, we pick twelve reasonable people to read the evidence and listen to our arguments We can appoint an experienced referee to keep us on track and instruct our panel of twelve. Your turns. What other rules should our game have?

Snark aside, I'm uncomfortable arguing someone's guilt in such an unstructured fashion. That's what our courts are for.
Both rledev.mit.edu and cogen.mit.edu are MIT departments (one the part of MIT powering much of campus, one a laboratory doing electronics). It wasn't a student's bad security.
Don't want to sound like a dick or nothing, according to this article CNET has no credibility at all.
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Surprised they didn't put some of the tasty new Java exploits on the page -- the gift that would keep on giving.
He might have been referring to http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/babyshoes.asp
See cogen.mit.edu for an identical note. It appears cogen was running IIS.
>Aaron, we will sorely miss your friendship, and your help in building a better world. May you read in peace.

"read in peace" where we'd expect "rest in peace. I'm guessing that this expression was intentional, given that Aaron was a voracious reader, and considering the eloquence of the postscript[0].

This is the first time I've read any message from Anonymous (and my understanding is that there is no "one" Anonymous organization, but rather a loose collection of fragmented groups), but I am quite impressed by the author's command of the English language.

[0] Postscript: We tender apologies to the administrators at MIT for this temporary use of their websites. We understand that it is a time of soul-searching for all those within this great institution as much — perhaps for some involved even more so — than it is for the greater internet community. We do not consign blame or responsibility upon MIT for what has happened, but call for all those feel heavy-hearted in their proximity to this awful loss to acknowledge instead the responsibility they have — that we all have — to build and safeguard a future that would make Aaron proud, and honour the ideals and dedication that burnt so brightly within him by embodying them in thought and word and action.

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edit: it also seems that the closing line, "You were the best of us; may you yet bring out the best in us." is an original phrase by the author? (a quick google search didn't yield any prominent matches) It is a beautiful line.
The indictment alleges he shielded his face with his bicycle helmet: bottom of page 8 of https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/217117-united-states...