skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, let's blame me for not recalling the details of the conversation. I'm sure what he said was correct, which probably isn't exactly what I posted.
so.. meta
Just a random piece of pedantry; the article states that Poland's LOT is the only european airline operating the 787 right now.

I was at Heathrow maybe 90 days ago and British Airways had a brand new 787 (Painted in fancy "Dreamliner" dress and BA logo) parked at a gate as if it was in use. Might be that they were still demoing it/showing it off deliberately but I had the impression it was an active aircraft.
Literally did this 10 minutes ago when connecting to hotel Wi-Fi.

`$ sudo ifconfig en1 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55:66`
Also, Aaron would have had to swear under oath that he committed a crime, something he did not actually believe

What about the evidence to the contrary? He was caught on camera covering his face with a bike helmet.

What constitutes a crime is not for the accused to determine.
Google's Flipboard's Like Product (with a closed list of publishers)
As I said, this isn't my area of expertise. The link I provided says "Distance is a prime concern when dealing with gamma rays, because they can travel long distances. Alpha and beta particles don't have enough energy to travel very far." What does this mean, then? I assume that the EPA isn't wrong about gamma radiation traveling further than alpha or beta; in virtue of what, then, does it travel further? I suspect that "energy" is being used fairly loosely, here.
787's no. First powered aircraft. Absolutely.
It did, until I tried it. Can't go back to Notepad++ after that.
Hey man, don't give up! Game dev is hard--I wish you luck finding a better market fit next time.

:)
Oh that's cool, I never knew there was an "All Desktops" option. Would have saved me a bunch of grief a few days ago..
Um, you are completely misinformed. See: http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/
Considering that patents can just be reassigned, it's almost irrelevant. Patent trolling is a no lose business.
I have the impression that he liked books as much as computers.
"As for the fetishization of 'democracy' in Kerr's post, sometimes elections produce good outcomes. But often the wisdom of crowds isn't so wise"

Well, yes, but that's why we do the whole voting thing again after a period of time, rather than just once. Democracy isn't a means to ensure bad decisions won't get made, it's a means to ensure they can be un-made.

"Many times, perhaps most times, the crowd votes after someone bold has already moved and shown the way. That's what Swartz was doing."

You missed the point of Kerr's argument, which was that what you describe isn't what Swartz was doing. You're describing a Rosa Parks strategy -- do the minimum necessary to break an unjust law in order to elicit punishment, and therefore draw attention to the law's unjustness. If that's your strategy, the prospect of going to jail isn't a defeat, it's a victory.

But Swartz, Kerr argues, wasn't following that strategy; he was doing something different. He did much more than the bare minimum necessary to elicit punishment, and his actions indicate that the prospect of going to jail represented an interruption of his plans, rather than the culmination of them.

Swartz was not acting in the grand tradition of civil disobedience in which one willingly draws punishment to bring attention to the unjustness of the law. In his own words, he didn’t want to “just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge.” Rather, he wanted to change the facts on the ground to make his preferred world a fait accompli. That is, he wanted to make the laws unenforceable, winning the debate unilaterally outside of Congress.

In this line of thinking, Swartz isn't Rosa Parks; he's Al Capone, if you can think of Capone's flooding the streets of Chicago with bootleg booze as a protest against Prohibition. Effective? Sure; the cops can't bust everyone if there's a speakeasy on every corner, and if the law is being routinely flouted by millions every day its absurdity is obvious. But because it involves doing much more than the minimum required to violate the law, this is something qualitatively different from civil disobedience.
Original author here. Thanks, nh, for sharing this.

To those wondering why you would use SpoofMAC when you can just do `sudo ifconfig en1 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55:66`, let me explain why I wrote this.

The main advantage of SpoofMAC is that it automatically disassociates from any connected Wi-Fi networks before it changes your MAC address. The ensures the MAC change will be applied correctly. The biggest annoyance with doing it manually is figuring out how to dissociate manually, which usually requires trying to connect to a non-existant network.

After I put the code on GitHub, a few random contributors submitted patches for features like random MAC generation, etc. <3 open source.

Glad that so many are finding this useful.
Viruses infect vital control systems at TWO US power stations
I see at least two problems:

- debugging such code is a nightmare(node.js itself makes it hard enough)

- static analysis of such code is not possible.. yet?

JS and programmers should target Java-like experience imo, static analysis, code assist, dependency check - all of it performed on-the-fly. We won't get it by creating yet another layer above main language, because IDE vendors simply can't cope.
Firebug like debugger for iOS's UIVIews
Facebook friends bash servers, storage, and racks into bits
You're assuming glass, as a product, makes sense in the first place, and that others will follow. Nobody knows yet, what Google has is a prototype, not a product. Remember the Segway? It was the future too.
Future of Search with Amit Singhal, Google Fellow
Without involving Ortiz, what could we do that would get as much press as this has gotten? If the media has no interest, your cause is going nowhere, and the media won't be interested without names and faces to talk about.

Besides, it is completely logical to believe she was overzealous and every other prosecutor is doing it. Just because everybody else is speeding, too, doesn't mean I won't get the ticket. Ortiz happens to be the one who got pulled over.

(FWIW, I'd much prefer we not have to drag her or, really, anyone down. She is a real person with feelings and passions, and is, as you mention, acting within SOP for her position. I just don't see a way to start affecting change across the country without going through her [I'm not convinced the change can happen even doing that, but we need to try.]. I'm open to alternatives that can realistically gain momentum.)
The math behind a tiled scrolling effect
I found a neat and simple way to create a tiled scrolling effect for building list UI components and moving space game backgrounds. What do you think?
Hmm, that link is having issues because ZenDesk is returning a bad payload. I'll fix it shortly.
I didn't think anyone could come up with a "petition" on this site that I would sign. I am delighted to be proved wrong.
Yes, we must keep fighting for open access.
It's not that their that much weaker. You have 60 days as an individual to dispute a debit, but it's seriously painful. You will likely have to go into a branch and fill out a physical document. In comparison, Amex has a link that says "dispute" next to each transaction.
Another reason to shut it down!
Speaking as the developer of the Git plugin on that list, the only thing I feel is missing from the API is a way to add colors or labels to filenames in tabs and the sidebar. Otherwise it's been pretty great.
What about the stupid newspaper that gets thrown in my driveway and then sits there and turns into mush when I am on vacation. Are those stoppable in any way? It seems to be some kind of local paper with a whole bunch of advertisements and coupons.
>"new technology" means something different to the public than it means to us.

Good point. Would be interesting to see with what frequency they get involved in these kinds of cases.
As an attorney I would like to give a quick two cents about the idea it is illegal, or volatile of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, to simply violate the terms of a websites terms and conditions or privacy policy. For example, if anyone remembers the Mom who created a fake MySpace profile spoofing her daughters friend, who ultimately committed suicide. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Megan_Meier . If this women was acquitted who clearly violated MySpaces terms and conditions which possibly contributed to the suicide of a minor, then this charge does not have much bite to it.

Nevertheless a law such as this would prevent prosecutors with ice in their veins from charging who ever the hell they want, because lets face it we all somehow or someway are violating a terms of service. As a lawyer I can say with comfort that the law is catching up to technology, but generally an existing law is expanded into technology, what is crazy here is that there is no equivalent pre-existing law to support this kind of criminal charge. In other words, imagine you violating any non-tech terms of service and it being a federal crime, for example it would be crazy to imagine paying your credit card late or returning a movie late (as if Blockbuster still exists) puts you in violation of criminal law. The closest example I can think of is lying on a mortgage application which constitutes fraud under federal law but that is obviously distinguishable, and at least a mortgage application will tell you lying is fraud I have never seen such a disclaimer on any websites terms of service (but who reads those anyway?).
Big organizations are almost by necessity not rule breakers, but just because you're not a big organization doesn't mean you are a rule breaker.
Swartz was first to point a gun (i.e., initiate force). No one forced him to keep breaking into MIT's wireless networks and its wiring closet, nor did anyone force him to violate JSTOR's rules and copyrights. He chose to do all of those things, and the government was merely doing what it's supposed to do: retaliate.
>It's the administrative system we've got, though, and we should be talking about how to reform the whole thing.

I completely agree. The whole thing with the prosecutors is kind of a "they represent the part of what's broken that we can currently see" thing. Fixing the laws and the system is more important than fixing a few individuals.

>Note how much Orin Kerr recently agreed with the points I made days ago here on this subject.

I think most reasonable people end up coming to largely the same conclusions about all of this at the end of the day... which is actually kind of eerie. People who are normally at loggerheads continuously, now getting along and working together.

It makes my brain hurt that it took for someone to die for this to happen and now I don't want to be happy about it even though it's seeming more likely that we may actually get something good to come out of this. I guess I don't know what to feel. So I just keep trying to figure out how to fix it and hope actually accomplishing something will make it feel different somehow.
You got me, but that's just one lone feature to build a platform around... and the technology isn't there yet.
Debugging on embedded using opensource tools #RaspberryPi #OLinuXino
OK so the way to deal with you is to lie on the resume and in the interview, and start cramming right before the interview just enough to keep fooling you. Got it.
You can simply paste list of things in it, copying is a good idea too.
I'd also add to the lisT: Automattic, Wildbit (half the team is remote), Teamtreehouse.com (studio in Florida, head office in Portland).

Funny how all of the companies we've listed (37signals, GitHub, Automattic, etc...) are products that I love (and pay for!).
In-flight fires cause many many crashes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airtours_Flight_28M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Airways_Flight_2...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudia_Flight_163
With Graph Search, Can Facebook Kill LinkedIn, yelp--even Google?
Free calls using Facebook via Messenger app
Additional remark to point 1):

Back then before Boeing got all the trouble they had with the immense outsourcing, this approach was seen as THE way to go in supply chain management for highly complex products. Some parts of EADS still used the B787 programme as a model of suppliers and contract management last year. After Boeing was obliged to buy out a couple of there joint-ventures and suppliers.

Completely agree on the fact that the Dreamliner wanted to much things at the same time.

I only beg to differ on the "not enough QA" part. I don't exactly know how Boeings QA looks like, but assume that aerospace QA is more or less similar in the western world since everyone is dealing with the FAA and JAA in one way or the other. And from my experience it's not "not enough" QA but the wrong QA.

In some parts of supplier related QA the point was reached where people cared more about paper work and certificates (to the point where the use of ";" instead of "," in a text field blocked whole deliveries for days) than the actual part. And further assume that the paperwork of what ever part in flying piece of tech that failed was ok. Downside is, the more time QA spends on paer work the less time QA spends on assuring the parts are good.

Not that this is a probale cause for the battery issue on hand, so.
If you are going to make that argument, almost all of Apple's income comes from the sale of a small handful of hardware products.
Network Vendors That Are ‘Locked In’
In some cases just fixing things may look like rule-breaking.

Imagine, you need to download a file from a server, but your wireless connection keeps dropping. You don't really know why. Maybe some problem on the network, or improperly configured web server. You don't know. What would you do?

Would you go, and start soliciting network administrators, or contact web server administrators? Probably no, right? You'll just try to fix things. Solve the problem, so it would work. You will try downloading from another network or another IP address. Tweak your download settings, and so on.

I think that's what Swartz was doing. Not breaking in, but just trying to make download script work. He didn't know that network administrators were trying to stop him. And he though that network problems that he was facing were just that - random network problems. Unreliable wireless with some bugs in the traffic management system.
This will greatly contribute to the decline of GSM and the rise of mobile data. Great move and good job by Facebook. I'm excited to try this and see what will happen.
This is the "everybody does it" defense. It won't work for criminal defendants and it won't work for Ortiz.
SSH client in Google Chrome
DNS tunneling is only good in theory. Ah, good old days. There was time (2003?) when I had a T-Mobile phone with GPRS and an IR port. I connected it to my laptop and discovered DNS lookups worked. Downloaded DNS tunnel sources, compiled and tried. It was not usable, way way too slow. The latency of the DNS server was the main issue. Besides, the tool was very crash prone. More of a proof of concept than real thing. I spent a few hours reading code and fixing bugs just to get it to the point where it somewhat worked. The DNS traffic used by the tunnel is quite easy to identify and probably filter out (the names looked up follow a specific pattern).

So, there was no need for ISP to get worried. Given how slow access would be and the skill level required to get it to work, it is thousand times cheaper to ignore the "security hole".

The Google app engine proxy looks more "useful".
Live streaming is possible, yes.
Whoa, whoa, whoa... hey, buddy, calm down. Some people liking the ol' multi-cursor does not scream volumes about about their programming style, or "mediocre" language of choice. You sir, are just being ridiculous.

I'll say this about multi-cursor, it is one of those things that until you have it, you don't know you missed it.

When I first tried sublime my thought pattern went "Wha? Multi-cursor? When will I ever use -- Oh my god how did I live without this!?"

Simple use case that comes to mind: quick refactorings. I'm a believer in self documenting code, so I'm often changing the names of my function calls as I get deeper into the domain of the problem. With Sublime Text, I highlight the function in question, spam `ctrl + d` a bunch of times to set the multicursors in position, and from there, I'm free to type away whilst the multicursors edit my entire document.
I take up assignments on odesk and I like this very much. In my experience the screenshots are only reviewed when the work expectations are not met - I don't think anybody looked at those in most of the work I have done so far (apart from the first couple of days).

Just the fact that they exits promotes transparency and fosters more trust.

Occasionally when a task I estimated to take 30 minutes takes 3 hours I don't have to offer an explanation.

The tool also automatically tracks time that I spend working on a project, submits time sheet / invoice at end of the week ...
That's the illegal part.

Do tell. None of what you describe is illegal in the U.S.
Professor Kerr says we should forgive the prosecutors because “they all do it.” This is hardly appropriate and a slur on the many professional federal and state prosecutors who do not engage in these kind of tactics.

The fact of the matter is that in the United States a trial over a supermarket slip and fall is more fair than a federal criminal trial. Federal trials are trials by ambush. A defense lawyer has no opportunity to depose the witnesses against his client and usually only learns of their identities after the jury is empanelled. There is no way to determine if the witness has lied in the past or has reason to tailor his testimony to the prosecution’s case. The war on defense attorneys in the 1980’s was successful. Now almost all federal defense attorneys are underfunded public defenders or panel attorneys. The prosecutor has the resources not only of his own office, but of investigative agencies as well. Panel attorneys have no one and not only that, often have to finance the defense out of their own personal funds.

It is a pleasure to try a case against a federal prosecutor who is fair and does not game the system. Based on the comments from Swartz’ defense attorneys, that was not the situation in Ortiz’ office.
If it's not nothing, what is it, exactly? Lori Drew? Worse?
Highly misleading title. Number of patents filed and cited is an outcome of many factors including innovation and company's focus on building a patent stockpile. Correlation doesn't imply causation.

Companies like Pixar have only about 165 patents yet nobody would call them less innovative.
even if he believed otherwise, and clearly against his conscience

So you're saying that a man who steals a car shouldn't face felony charges as long as he claims that his conscience is clear? The law must be objective, not based on whim.
For the tl;dr crowd:

A researcher used patent citations as a way to measure patent quality, used patent quality as a proxy for innovation, and found a decrease of 40% after going public as compared to companies that remained privately held.
She (along with Heymann) is an inveterate authoritarian who deigned to offer him a break from her ridiculously overcharged case, calling it a favor.

She's mentally ill, that one.
Graph Search's Dirty Promise and the Con of the Facebook "Like"
The entire thesis of why illegal filesharing is not theft is because it is a victimless crime (presuming the pirate was not going to purchase the software anyway.) Stealing bandwidth on an airplane is not a victimless crime, since it reduces the amount of bandwidth for everyone who has paid for it. This is a pretty elementary concept and I'm not really sure why you are twisting things around so much. It's no different than if there was a 10 gallon jug of water on a desert island and you were supposed to pay $5 to take a drink, and some guy comes over and starts chugging it down without paying. That person is stealing since they are using a scarce resource that others are required to pay for.
I am not sure. Working for an employer who is not able to select correct employee (beginning with recruiters) is probably a bad idea. That's a big issue of today corporate IT: clients/managers/recruiters dont understand the product they ask the teams to build, and as such, end up recruiting only on salary and dumb-cv criteria.
Calling bullshit on 'mobile strategy'
Which is why we need an Australian-focused HN-like community. The startup industry in Australia is just warming up, but there's nowhere to go to share information in the same way that US startups have HN, at least nowhere that I've found.
I hate the misuse of the pk ccTLD, though. In general I don't care that much, but anything related to nuclear technology related to Pakistan produces an automatic "reach for the safety catch on my Browning" stress response.
For profitable product lines, yes.
Voice input just isn't ready. Commands, yes. Anything longer than a short sentence and it's unusable.

That means this will forever be a Second device, either separate or connected to your smartphone.

Working speech recognition would be a major revolution, so would useful Augmented Reality, and so would combining them in a lightweight wearable mobile device... but none of these exist. Big jumps in technology don't happen like that, and certainly not all at once at one company.
Yes, I originally misread it, and edited my reply.
I remember Bill Maher being very critic of Obama, then completely switching into full Democrats-must-win mode because the Republicains were way worse =/
It doesn't say whether they are seeking 35 years. But this is from their website:

If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million.

http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR....
No, it isn't. The purpose of representative democracy is to add a layer of public accountability to political institutions, in order to pre-empt and suppress abuses of power.

The purpose of democracy is not to provide overriding legitimacy for any and every use of power, nor to create a nexus of external responsibility to which every question, irrespective of its nature or native context, can be outsourced without deleterious consequence.

Government is a single, well-defined institution within society, and democracy is a method for keeping that institution within its appropriate boundaries.