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Unauthorised access to the network is not illegal, just as unauthorised access to a building is not illegal if you don't break any locks to get in.

http://unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the-truth-about-aaron-swartz...
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eWAY: Security concern response done right
From a slightly different perspective here are the detailed and technical case studies from the movie's VFX designer Bradley "GMUNK" Munkowitz:

- http://work.gmunk.com/TRON-Opening-Titles

- http://work.gmunk.com/TRON-Solar-Sailor

- http://work.gmunk.com/TRON-Rectifier-Globe

- http://work.gmunk.com/TRON-Throne-Room

- http://work.gmunk.com/TRON-Fireworks

- http://work.gmunk.com/TRON-Portal-Climax

- http://work.gmunk.com/TRON-Board-Room

- http://work.gmunk.com/TRON-Disc-Game
http://emacswiki.org/emacs/FootSwitches :)
That's a very good way of putting it.

One thing people don't realise is that depression screws with your perception of the value of things, maybe a little, maybe a lot. Trying to logically balance things like a mathematical equation is not a useful way of looking at things when discussing depression.
Nobody necessarily expects YC to be a charity, on the other hand they have made significant PR and marketing capital on the basis of being basically a force for good in the world.

For example PGs own writings:
http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html
Classic straw man argument. Viruses are illegal in almost every case and thus clearly they should not, and will not, invest in viruses. Not that I support IM, but they are solving a clear and distinct problem: software is hard to monetize.
Sounds cool. I just added the License (MIT).
Ah then, more food aid to the government of DPRK will resolve the situation
I think this is probably true.

Empirically speaking, a lot of the guys who graduated with their B.Sc. in computer science with me saw their career paths as joining a big consulting company, working on the front lines for a couple of years and then getting into management and leaving the code behind for good.

In my PhD program, most guys in the lab saw the actual engineering side of things as a stepping stone to higher-paid positions in acadaemia.

Clearly a significant number of people with engineering degrees are engineers only by title.
Down for me both via API and web
Project mein CMS is top apple and android ...
Here's a good example of what they mean:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711

This is hard to read. I'd guess PG may have decided to keep it this way so users don't post too many (long) messages.
Maybe it's just the low quality of the article that leaves me puzzled, but the Gabrielle Toledanos argument doesn't make sense to me.

According to the article she says that sexism is not the problem, but perceived sexism. So women don't join the gaming industry because they think it's sexist.

Assuming she is right (I'm not saying she is), doesn't that make removing the sexist reputation of the gaming industry the main issue?
In other words, this is Atwood being Atwood: posting overly-simplistic, ignorant observations in a manner that manages to be only subtly wrong and hence dangerous. To a wide audience. That is receptive to his viewpoints.

It's harsh but over the last decade or so every, single damn time I read Atwood's blog I walk away shaking my head. The popular posts usually end up with him writing some sort of apology or retraction. Fortunately usually this is about something not nearly as serious an issue as suicide. (Though his posts on computer security are also notorious for causing proliferation of views that may actually cause real damage.)

When he posts stuff I don't think he intends these things but often I sadly see knowledgable people have to scramble and waste their time "cleaning up" after him by posting responses and getting those responses through the filter.
Technology will get you only so far. Really connecting with someone is between you and that person, even if mediated by technology.

Companionship, social relations are not the same as love and affection, though they are related. Love isn't really about mutual interests, though mutual interests can mediate that. Mutual interests make it easier for people to understand and be empathetic with each other, but it is well within human possibility to be empathetic with one another without mutual interests.

I make a big deal of this because, while technology made it easier to connect with other people, I want to make clear that technology is not a replacement for connecting with other people.
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The "C" (flat terminals) and "R" (straight vs not straight) in the THE NORTH FACE are different.
> stripped of the most fundamental citizenship right, the ability to vote

That is not entirely true. In the US, every state except Maine and Vermont prohibits felons from voting while in prison. Nine other states disenfranchise felons for various lengths of time following the completion of their probation or parole. Two states, Kentucky and Virginia, continue to impose a lifelong denial of the right to vote to all citizens with a felony record.[1]

However, it is entirely possible that he would never have been able to own a firearm or serve on a jury ever again. Everyone can probably form their own opinions on how much those matter to you.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_rights_due_to_felony_c...
Outstanding comment - balanced, thoughtful and carefully worded. Nicely done and I completely agree.
I didn't say anything about whether the decision was justified. I only elaborated on the reason behind it.
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No matter how "efficient" the VM - it poses a performance and storage impact upon the platform. For many embedded projects that is unacceptable overhead. For the few projects I have worked on, I've only used assembler and C.
There's two separate claims in Atwood's essay that I don't agree with.

First, a lot of social networking involvement is a waste of time and is emotionally exhausting. A lot of times it can be highly addictive and participation becomes dysfunctional. People quit communities all the time when they recognize that things are just not working out. There is nothing wrong with that and it's a good thing. When other members feel they have to defend the community to the point of attacking others just for leaving, using divisive and derogatory terms such as "ragequitting", then it is no longer a community or social board, but is a cult. Cults defame members who leave simply because they have left, which is perceived as an act of betrayal and heresy. Communities do not.

Second, Aaron didn't quit anything. He picked a meaningful date to end his life. Aaron was highly rational and carefully thought things through, it's clear in his writings. He knew he could have handled six months or 7 years in prison. This was an act of self-immolation, the ultimate protest of injustice. It is a time honored and effective last resort message used only in extreme situations of injustice, which is certainly the case of the judicial system in the US which has in recent years descended into a police state like system interested in power and control but not justice. Self-immolators almost never leave suicide notes. There is no need to since it is obvious to all why they have committed their protest. This is clear here, just looking around people are upset and they know and understand exactly why he did this and it has to do with the Federal Prosecutor, not a chemical imbalance in his brain. No one in Tunisia was talking about chemical imbalances in Mohammed Bouazizi's brain, it was obvious that his act was a protest as well.

Additionally, regarding depression, Aaron wrote he was glad he had insurance to allow him to see someone, and his family has stated Aaron has never been diagnosed with depression and was not depressed. Those claiming his action was because of suicidal depression have only weak circumstantial support for their case based on blog entries, and have to completely ignore all the circumstances of what was going on. Blogging that you sometimes feel depressed is not evidence of mental illness. Seeing a therapist is not evidence of mental illness. Occasional depression itself is not evidence of mental illness. It is a normal part of the human condition. Remote medical diagnosis here by the general public is similar to the remote lawyering in the commonly made but unproven claims that he did anything at all criminal other than misdemeanor trespassing. An indictment is not a conviction. Violations of terms of service do not rise to the level of criminality according to the Drew appeal decision, so the whole basis of the case is very questionable.
The only remaining competetive CPU maker out there will retire to technology services? It is getting hard to notice throughout the "lets run this tablet CPU as a server" but Intel has a huge advantage in process, performance and knowledge.

Right now, they only lack the humility to apply that to low-cost energy saving chips. I'm sure lost profits will apply the necessary pressure.
It's extra work. Also, rules breed cheaters and then people whining about the cheaters.
I used the name half of the email address in your profile. From there, I looked through the places that had that username. None of them gave very much useful information until I came to http://www.racjonalista.pl/index.php/s,47/k,32138 . From there, I looked up what PL represented, and it's Poland.

Addendum: Also, Googling your HackerNews username, on my second page of Google shows more .pl domains where that username is found.

The Internet can be scary.
More people need to think proactively like you. Just think, if HN created a design / strategy wiki so that the resourceful, intellectual minds here could collaborate on a rescue plan. The results could be amazing - and potentially historic.

What kind of wiki would be good for uploading technical drawings, member discussions etc?
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Twitter Status (via Tumblr) says:

> Some users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter.

> Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.

http://status.twitter.com/post/41136790651/twitter-site-issu...

Edit: Date on the post is Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:49:18 -0800.
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May not be the most sympathetic piece, but it nails the thing that has been nagging me: this reaction has been glorifying suicide. The suicide victim has been remembered in glowing terms much greater than he ever received alive and his "enemies" are having their heads called for by a large crowd. I don't know if any of it is wrong objectively but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I'm glad (and hope you're right) that he doesn't understand it, because to me that means he wasn't really that far gone. He's got one hell of an active mind, as evidenced by how prolific he is. I think he may have been having an identity crisis of sorts.
The text is not too bad. I was thinking more of the code examples such as thnis one: http://i.imgur.com/YBgOIpv.png
What a fascinating and engrossing read. Thanks for sharing.

What I found most remarkable was that despite NK's best efforts at total and complete isolation of the prisoners -- Shin was born into the camp and knew nothing of the outside world -- the human soul still inherently wants to be free. You can "nurture" a miserable existence all you want but it won't keep.

And in the end, what cracked the walls of the prison (metaphorically speaking) was an outsider with nothing more than stories.

No wonder dictatorships fear things like free speech and dissidents. Even the slightest hint of a better place (through words alone) can start the chain reaction.
If it makes you feel any better, this is the first time I've ever seen this before, so reposting isn't always a bad thing. Was an interesting read, love the effects in Tron and it's good to see some insight into it (especially those not on HN in 2010).
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I would never post an over-simplistic, ignorant observation in a manner that manages to be only subtly wrong and thus dangerous. I go for completely wrong!

http://raganwald.posterous.com/why-the-fuck
re 1:
free windows for personal use? the OS market is more competitive now, that should have an effect on price
I used to volunteer for the Samaritans (phone based suicide "hotline" in the UK). I cannot pretend to know the physical causes / manifestations of depression or suicide - but I do know that people I talked to, some whom I / we could not save, were intelligent rational people who could discuss quite normally and naturally ending their lives.

It is not quitting, in a rage or not, to take ones own life. It is rational, even if most people on the planet cannot possibly agree or follow the reasoning.
> Why run Windows when every thing except for corporate servers can be done on Android or Linux?

So.. everything?
He's saying he doesn't think Google Now uses much power because it doesn't shown up in the battery statistics, but he also says that GPS shows high usage. I was saying that Android doesn't report an app's usage of GPS etc. as battery usage of that app.
VMs are initially cheaper (say AWS), in the long run, your own server stack is if you can manage it for a reasonable cost. VMs are basically leases.
Extremely disappointed. If integrity in all aspects of a business is a lower priority than growth, then I don't suppose there is any difference between Wall Street and Silicon Valley investors anymore.

Questionable practices should be just that - questionable - and remain that way. This "ironing" over by stalwarts like pg poses the danger of this stuff becoming the norm over time.
I wish I could give you a single clear answer.

The EFF would be a reasonable recipient of your largesse:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/effs-initial-improveme...
Ha. Well, if its any consolation, I don't see that post falling into the "dangerous" category. At worst you get nowhere at best you convince people to go work on diabetes software. Worst case for some of Atwood's posts is complete security breakdown at your favorite startup whose CTO is an avid reader of Coding Horror.
So is your point that he was incorrect in stating that a lot of people post their age in order to get to the front page or that calling that action manipulative is wrong? The thesis of the post seemed to me to be if you make a product, focus on making the product better and everything else falls into place. Very fair bit of advice if you ask me. Furthermore, it states another related thing which is, how are you going to get any actual feedback when all the comments are either calling you an asshole or rallying around you, singing war cries. Now with regard to posting age, that's actually very variable why people do that, and from an objective standpoint I don't find anything wrong with that. However if what you're after is guidance then it's pretty obvious posting your age isn't going to get you much of that.
> VC is about funding the companies that could make a lot of money. When did we start expecting them to be the morality police?

Maybe they should start investing in private prisons and arms dealers. I hear they make loads of money.

To come down from that loaded statement, a good investment is different from a profitable one. Or at least, I'd like our culture to believe that.
Some discussion already over here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092097
I have often wondered whether it would be possible to have an emulator running on a PC and by keeping a before and after image, patching the memory of the embedded system to reflect the new contents. The existing debugger or a very simple small loader/patcher is all that would be required on the embedded system.
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ok. So I'm not "out of context." We just have different interpretations of the comment. I can live with that.
Google Now has been pretty useless for me. Its mostly an annoyance, I'm always having to dismiss its place suggestions and "Time to home/work" notifications.
Both of my children were extremely poor sleepers in infancy. My daughter still wakes up in the middle of the night. Everyone has this advice and that advice about how to get children to sleep, but none of it worked for us. In the end, we were sleep deprived for very long periods of time, and we both became very seriously depressed. When we started to sleep again, our moods improved.

It's ridiculous to toss guesses out into the Internet like talking heads on Fox News, but for the purposes of educating people who may find themselves in a similar situation, someone can easily become suicidal through post-partum depression, and it can affect both men and women. There are various risk factors, one of which is sleep.
I find it ironic that Atwood complains about martyrdom being effective, then turns around in the next paragraph and complains that Swartz didn't fulfill Atwood's idea of what 'activist' is.
That's a good point. I was told that you first have to get better enough to decide to get better completely, or something like that.

Depression is a tricky thing. The most valuable skill I ever learned is being able to mentally catch it early and reverse the thought processes before they become a problem.
If a war opened with a surprise attack against that artillery position, could the attack be strong enough to save Seoul?

Does this change if the attackers are allowed to use nuclear weapons?

(This is a strictly academic question. Nuking North Korea seems like a move that'll likely start a war that will end civilization.)
I somewhat disagree that this is "no worse than all the upsells people have to click through to register domains on GoDaddy"

Although admittedly I have no idea what GoDaddy's checkout procedure is like since I have honestly never used it, maybe it is especially terrible in which case that is not a glowing reflection on this software..

However, thinking of less technical users here.

When you are in the mode to buy something , you are probably prepared for an upsell at some point and know what to look out for.

When installing something on your computer, a less savvy user is likely not knowledgeable enough to understand the implications of something extra being installed on their computer with often full administrative privileges.

They are also unlikely to understand the difference between an extra system component that must be installed for technical reasons (.Net, DirectX etc) and some third party software that is completely separate and not required.
Vi Hart, who produces these videos, now works at Khan Academy. She's also one of the people to make tau (as an alternative to pi) go viral. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ
Logic is much more than classical AI. The logic culture in classic AI was very ambitious and that was one of the reasons it crashed and not due to fundamental flaws in logic.

Formal classical logic can represent all kinds of truths and even uncertainty with trivial syntactic mechanisms. E.g., "It is true that statement X holds with probability P." can be a syntactically correct statement representing uncertainty with certainty (there can be levels of statements with varying levels of certainty). Classical logic is extremely good at complex nested representations and the objects represented can be probabilistic statements. See the following paper for a syntactically classic FOL of probability (semantically it is a bit different from the standard model-theoretic approach)

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/halpern/papers/first-order_pr...

Of course, researchers who posit probabilistic models reason mostly in classical logic when they write papers explaining the math (other than for assumptions of course).
Something seems off here, reminiscent of Rupert Murdoch's testimony regarding phone hacking. Being troubled is easy to say, but the fact that a company he has invested in is engaging in questionable activities doesn't really jive well with PGs claims regarding office hours. Not to say that he isn't genuinely troubled, but I would have hoped YC would inculcate his values (which, if they did act in accordance with PG's stated views, would have resulted in a far different product)
Buy things and flip them. I assume this is your money?
socket activation is nice, but i dont think its intention is for something like this. if your app automatically quits after 5 minutes, and it takes a few seconds to start because initialization in node is synchronous, then this is just kind of weird

monit is great because you can get emails if your app goes down, it monitors files and all kinds of other stuff. you could easily use socket activation with monit so that a crashing node process drops as few connections as possible by passing along the fd to another node process, but then if you are going to do this you might as well use cluster and fork your node process.

tldr; many ways to skin a cat, but turning off your node process because it is idle is kind of weird because it has implications for the first visitor, and it shouldnt just be reached for as a standard way of running node
Bloggers put chemical reactions through the replication mill
An apache expert would probably prove me wrong, but I've found it quite simpler to use nginx to dispatch multiple domains to different backend types. For instance, I have a couple nodes, one wordpress blog and lots of small django websites.
This is an awesome idea. We're always kicking around shitty ideas for contests that probably won't deliver enough value to offset the cost, won't attract the right types of users or clients, and take too much effort. I don't know if this one meets all of those criteria, but it's such a cool concept for a young person interested in programming, gaming and startups, to bring them out to Palo Alto for their own game's launch party, etc. Anyway, kudos to the Make Games With Us guys. This is outstanding.
Donald Sherman orders a pizza using a talking computer, Dec 4, 1974
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In case you look at this, I have scripts[0] to do this. Email me.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5094367
What I found to be useful for this task is to have a mail dump share, and configure Mozilla Thunderbird to use the maildump location as place to cache all imap folders.

I tried several mail downloaders before, but they would always interrupt. This solution gives you visual access to your email as well as an offline copy.
I understand private offices don't always work into the budget, but I'm always surprised that the companies that have giant suburban office parks still don't give their developers private offices.
Agreed. It's linked at the bottom of the HS piece, but I really recommend checking out Max Chafkin's Inc. piece on Markus if you haven't already:

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol...
Let me try to explain what I understood without in any way taking up this position (I have nothing to do with the games industry).

She says sexism is a serious issue, BUT the problem in the games industry is not enough women to hire, especially in engineering. This is the bottom line for the article.

She doesn't at all say that perceived sexism is "the problem," I think that is your interpolation. She does say that if the reason a woman doesn't join the industry is because she fears sexism will limit her, that woman is missing out (implied: it's worth it, it's not that limiting). But nothing is asserted about perceived sexism having primacy. So it doesn't necessarily follow from this position that the main issue is to remove the sexist reputation of the gaming industry. But even if it were, you will see a different approach if the reputation is accurate vs. if it is overblown.

There are lots of reasons for why a demographic might be under-represented in an industry, which do not require that the demographic is being abused to a point where there is no point in their getting equipped to join that industry