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A better analogy might be that having stolen some magazines from a bookstore (a surprisingly large number of magazines...), the thief was charged with breaking and entering and safe cracking, rather than shoplifting.

And people that attach computers to the public internet absolutely do need to be treated as responsible for the information that those computers transmit. If they want to claim that they intend to limit access to the information, they need to take meaningful steps to actually put limits in place.

I don't mean to say that there should be no recourse in situations where intended access is exceeded, I mean that the bar for a 30 year felony needs to be a little higher than "we didn't intend for our system to be accessed in that manner".
True, but if you're independently wealthy, as he was, how much of an issue would that be?

If he had a start-up idea, would it stop his funding?>
> System that creates strong incentive for innocent people to plead guilty belongs to middle ages

Relevant discussion from earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5058703
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Since regular online dating is completely broken - this approach seems better but still doesn't get it quite right.

I actually think the situation is even worse with women in their early twenties (that they'd be even less likely to use a service like this). Anecdotally it seems women 28-35 are much more willing to try different methods of dating than younger ones (or are even looking to actually date in general).
The goal is to match non-competing businesses together in small groups. Not to just follow each others progress but to act as a sounding board/mentor to each as well to get over the whole "lonely at the top" feeling frequent among entrepreneurs.
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Chrome seems to be detecting TechCrunch as malware right now. Anyone else getting this problem?
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I don't see a really big difference between a PC and a phone. Don't see why one should be a walled garden and the other not.
Well it's crowd-sourcing using a specific crowd. And I think that a group of people getting together to judge the personality and looks of two mutual friends would be really quite socially awkward.
Yeah, the monetary poverty theory doesn't hold up when it comes to the case of poor Asian (or African) immigrants. Although it certainly plays some role when all other things are equal, I think the major issue to be tackled is the glorification of thug life and demonization of education in contemporary African American culture.
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Is there an underlying story / quest that your little guy progresses through as he gets stronger? I always thought that the story component is what helped make those old rpg's great. Obviously it would defeat the purpose if you spent too much time in the game vs. actually getting real life stuff done. But I think there can be a good balance where the "grinding" aspects of the rpg are replaced with productive life activities.

I think I would rather fund that development activity than an android front end.
Malware from ad company + bug in Java or bug in IE. You are not safe even if you don't visit shady sites.
To the defense of Apple: Can they respond to the WSJ or not?
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I'm sorry, but if you are arguing that Aaron Swartz did absolutely not break any current laws (whether you agree with them or not), then you are delusional, I urge you to read Orin Kerr's analysis of the situation, and refute anything he has stated, in a logical coherent manner, with solid evidence.

I'm sorry but I'm sure this man, his wife, or any of the prosecution team did not expect Aaron to commit suicide or was their intention. I'm sure they are just as upset as everyone else.

Try and put your emotions aside, and let your logic take control again.
You could certainly create such a plugin, however those who would have the most use for it may not be those savvy enough to find and install it.
Please please please create auto-subtitles functionality for VLC on the Mac. I switched from Windows recently and there's nothing compared to Media Player Classic for easy subtitles. Thanks thanks thanks.
At the startup talk this year Mark mentioned that he thinks there's still a huge space available for services based on meeting new people rather than connecting friends and it's a space they're not interested in.

Of course that tune could change if something started to take off.
Name Google's PC. The article may be about PCs, but the thread definitely devolved to talking about Android and iOS, and it's already been conceded that iOS doesn't allow third party apps. If I didn't know better, I might think you were trying to steer criticism away from Apple . . .
To be fair, putting a suicide risk in protective custody is a reasonable middle ground between not prosecuting suicidal individuals and, as was done in this case, leaving them to fend for themselves.
You are not mixing sponsored pages in with your content. Your content IS that sponsored page.
> How you government sycophants sleep at night is beyond me. Is there nothing the agents of the Almighty State can do that would make you stop defending them?

Wait, OK wow. I'm pretty sure I said it was a scandal, and a tragedy, and they needed to learn from it. I stopped short of calling for her to be fired because there are enough people pouring fuel on that fire. The changes that need to happen are far bigger than one person's job.

I'm also fairly sure that my comment simply explained why a husband of an embattled wife might choose to come to her defense in public. How you get from that to "government sycophants" is as beyond me as my ability to sleep is beyond your comprehension.

Finally, the irony involved in your baseless attribution of bad motive to my post when we're discussing a prosecutor's attribution of evil intent to what you call a 'TOS violation' is profound. It's a pity, because the first paragraph of your post contains a reasonable point, less the swearing.
But he is making a valid point. After all Swartz was smart enough to see what he was doing and hardly took any precautions to hide his identity on the laptop placed at MIT Campus. So obviously he didn't expect a life in prison, but in case he did expect no consequences, I would call him naive. Anyway, probably it makes sense to wait for this MIT analysis and other analysis of the case to decide whether the prosecutor did act irresponsibly...
But that's the truth. He is pointing out that 6 month in jail is not 35 years in prison as portrayed by many sources.
When it launched OpenCandy did this and all installs were opt-in only: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10094314-2.html

I'm not sure if that's changed in the meantime, but I recall it being a refreshing change from every other system which defaulted to automatically installing additional software rather than the user specifically having to choose to opt-in.
The things I want:

Let me install an older version of uTorrent.

Let me install Steam in another location, not default.

Current ninite installs all I need except those two.
Users are trained to just accept whatever in installers, however, while popups on first launch demanding admin passwords will often be treated with a little more suspicion.
I'll bite. What should a prosecutor do when the defendent is a suicide risk?
> In short, a person looking for Partition Magic in 2013 is likely to suffer from Dunning-Kruger syndrome.

I'm asking myself where I could have insulted you to provoke such a reaction.
I'd give him some lenience...for anyone who distributes desktop software via the web, there is a continuous battle against fake or wrapped distributions.
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What class were you in to be taught that incorrect stuff from your OP? I can't imagine those professors and doctors would let it slide if their children were being taught such nonsense.
You can use a native iOS implementation. I wrote a demo app over Christmas break using Pixate and it was so easy to style. The only problem was that including Pixate caused a crash when I tried to removed the camera view controller so I had to redo the whole thing native.

That's when I realized the power of Pixate. My code got a bit more complex having to implement the gradient layers, borders and background images in Objective-C. I ended up migrating it, but Pixtae was definitely a lot simpler.
He must get dozens of false claims of this as well, I'd have thought.
I agree with you. I have no better way of writing it.
This is not just about Aaron's persecutor but all persecutors behaving in this manner and I'm hoping she will be the first of many being taken out of office for good.
I disagree with this in so many ways; nearly all the excellent coders/hackers I know are heavily biased towards certain languages and frameworks. They have pet projects, are idealistic and often fussy about what they work with.

To hire a great hacker you need to have a problem they WANT to work on: something that hits right in their area of interest. And then you need to give them the freedom to do it in whatever way they want (cause they know best).
Looks like two great bloggers jumped the gun.
These guys are so scammy, their website is blocked at my office: "Malicious Sources;Scam/Questionable/Illegal"...
Not sure it would be my first choice either, but that's not a crazy statement. In a couple of decades, I'm confident there will still be well-maintained XML libraries for every popular platform.
Not quite. BNI is more for referrals and networking. The goal is NOT to network, but to form a closer, more intimate group where you can discuss things at a deeper level.

So a better analogy would be - rather than a networking event where everyone exchanges business cards, it's more like a small monthly breakfast meetup where small biz owners discuss how they're growing their business, cutting cost, tackling employee challenges, or whatever else.
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I'd like to know how people are solving this issue of storing local data in a HTML5 application and synchronizing it with the server, dealing with conflicts, specially in data-oriented applications.

Are there any open source projects that help with this?
Not only that, but how about trying either way, both within and from the outside. The bitter and the cynical can help from the outside too ;)
I'm sort of surprised it did not mention gethuman (http://gethuman.com/). Been around for some years now.
You could checkout http://appbodega.com. It's an App Store alternative and works as a standalone app that you need to install on your Mac. You can sell your apps via Bodega as a developer. Though you cannot "Buy and Sell" apps. I think most licenses for apps would normally limit resale of apps to another buyer. So something on the exact lines of flippa.com may not be possible due to license restrictions.
Be careful not to apply this to generally. American society is not like Norweigan society - we have a higher division between rich / poor, fewer social safety nets, and higher crime rates. Not only that, our prisons (because of how we run them) are basically places for criminals to mingle with other criminals and become better criminals. Not to mention we have a societal bias against anybody who came out of prison - for the aforementioned reason. We know our prisons don't rehabilitate.

I'm not sure simply applying the Norweigan solution would actually work here - there needs to be a more systemic societal change in order for that to work.

Having said that, consider me impressed with your society's level head.
I like the subtle Arrested Development joke on the front page. "Loose seal!!"
Are you saying women can't be overly clingy or frequently misinterpreting non-spoken communication?
Positioning? They are a "bad guy."
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Do we have to enter a credit card to use this code? I'd love to give it a longer trial, but don't want to store my credit card while I'm trying it out.
I agree with this assessment. Also, I am a man, and I think it's a bad idea, too.
The whole point of online dating was to be able to judge beforehand how awkward the situation would be.
It's very hard to duck out in the first few minutes ("Sorry, I'm not remotely attracted to you, but I'm sure you're a lovely person")
They definitely sort people into attractiveness tiers of some sort. You'll get a message mentioning that you're in the top half the first time their metrics indicate so, and it claims that this affects what members are presented/suggested to you. I'm not sure if this is based solely on the star ratings members can assign, or if they take other interactions into account.

I wouldn't be surprised if they do more subtle things with the same data as well.
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Aaron Swartz: Idealist, Innovator—And Now Victim
This should be titled "How to hire a programmer with years of experience using multiple languages" simply because the advice doesn't apply to anyone outside that demographic. It won't apply to recent graduates and it won't apply to someone who has spent the last 10 years using .NET (for example) exclusively.

Sure, if your loose definition of a hacker is someone with diverse language experience then it applies, otherwise it's nonsense.
Any plans to do a similar framework for Android?
If your opinion do you see management not wanting documentation? I have generally seen the exact opposite to happen (the managers want documentation, the developers think it is a waste of time).

But, to your point, I would not consider documentation a feature, just like I would not consider making a commit a feature, or talking to other developers as a feature. I think that some form of documentation is necessary (or you will regret it).

The hard question (in my opinion) is what should the documentation contain... I believe that answer involves getting the opinion of a coworker, to get a sense of what is-not/can-not be well explained in the code.
Between cutting edge Fedora and Bleeding edge Arch, my vote goes to Arch. It does take a long time to setup Arch but after that most packages can be grabbed from repo or AUR unlike Fedora that recommends manual compiling.
I'm actually in the same position: I didn't give any money to the guy's legal defense fund and I think any rational assessment of my budget and the merits of the case would result in the same decision if I had it all to do over. I don't think that is really the point, though.

There's a world of difference between choosing not to help someone or some cause when they need it - a choice we all make, passively or actively, all the time - and mocking them and encouraging others not to help. That's just kicking a guy when he's down. That's the part some of us find really objectionable.
And apparently the persecutor knew about the suicide risk: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/01/14/us-reddit...
Funny, the site is blocked at my office: "Malicious Sources;Scam/Questionable/Illegal"....
I'm jaded with almost everything - and I still respect the hell out of MailChimp every time I see something new from them. Great company.
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Sorry, I should clarify that the sycophant label was not actually directed at you per se, but at the larger group of people coming out of the woodwork on HN to defend this disgusting display of highly selective prosecutorial discretion.

I'm mainly looking at you, philwelch. Your defense of law & order has been incomparable since the beginning of this story. May your jackboots be forever bloody, good sir!
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>I'd be very surprised if they aren't using that data to match roughly equally attractive people.

I can confirm this is true. Last year, as an experiment, I made a dummy account with a picture of former NFL quarterback Kyle Boller but the same profile/personality as me. His matches are significantly more attractive than mine. He also received this email a few weeks after registration:

We just detected that you're now among the most attractive people on OkCupid.

We learned this from clicks to your profile and reactions to you in Quickmatch and Quiver. Did you get a new haircut or something?

Well, it's working!

To celebrate, we've adjusted your OkCupid experience:

You'll see more attractive people in your match results.

This won't affect your match percentages, which are still based purely on your answers and desired match's answers. But we'll recommend more attractive people to you. You'll also appear more often to other attractive people.

Sign in to see your newly-shuffled matches. Have fun, and don't let this go to your head
While perhaps great in theory, that absolute falls apart in practice.

I was accused of a crime, for which the potential punishment would have prevented my being an active father to my soon to be kindergartner. There was a significant chance given the evidence (basically a he said/she said) that taken to trial I would have been found guilty.

Given the probabilities and the risk, the rational decision for me was to take the plea, only to ensure that I could avoid terms that would have interfered with my ability to be a father.

When throwing the book at you is not an idle threat, and the result would effect other people, you quickly realize that you must consider options that are far less idealistic.
Well, all of the persons you cite belonged to unprivileged minorities, unlike Aaron, whose state of mind must have been quite different.
This comment however does not negate the fact that he was driven to his suicide by his prosecutors, for them he did belong to an unprivileged minority!
This is great if you have a smartphone and only want to date people that have smartphones.
I just saw this as well.
> I'm sorry but I'm sure this man, his wife, or any of the prosecution team did not expect...

> I'm sure they are just as upset as everyone else.

What makes you sure about those things? Do you have private information that the rest of us don't have? Based on the information in the press it sounds like the prosecution just didn't care, or worse it sounds like this is the way they act as a matter of policy.
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So true! All of those factors exert an enormous effect on the outcome of a student's education. Unfortunately (except for the school resources issue) they are all completely out of the teacher/school/district's ability to control.

Whenever teacher/school issues come up, it is important to remember that far beyond anything a school or teacher can do, the single-most important factor in a child's education (or their life in general!) is their PARENTS. If a kid has parents who value education, discipline their kids and make time for learning at home, that kid can do just fine no matter what kind of conditions they experience at school. Conversely, it takes a Stand and Deliver-style superteacher to be able to coax success out of a kid growing up in a home where education is not valued and productive personal habits are not modeled.

The biggest problem with education? There are far, far too many parents out there who have absolutely no business raising children at all. We require tests for people to operate a jet ski, but when it comes to absolute power and responsibility for a human child, anybody can do it! That's your right! Don't worry about saddling the rest of society with your child who doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of ending up well-adjusted, educated or successful. It's YOUR kid.

I understand that people who are struggling with extreme poverty are often too caught up with bare survival to find the time to focus on their children's educational needs. That is really awful and sad. It is especially sad for their children.

The fact is, as long as society is full of self-centered, thoughtless parents who either fail to understand the basic components of child-rearing or are too busy surviving to care, we will be plagued with students who are going to struggle no matter how great of an educational system they are placed in.

That being said, perhaps the only way to raise a generation of education-valuing, quality parents is to do what we can to create them. So maybe it is best after all to focus on what CAN be done - effective teaching methods for today's teachers. Hopefully a much-improved school system can help raise the prospects of children whose parents are doing nothing to give them a hand up. And then they in turn can become the kinds of nurturing, education-valuing parents that their own children deserve.
> OkCupid probably has a very good idea of how attractive a person

They do. They will tell you when they think you attractive. You get a message like "Congrats, you're in the top X% of attractiveness on OKC, we'll start showing you more attractive matches now." This is something only those attractive people know about.
aXriv is funded by Cornell.

How will JSTO be a "good faith steward" if they give all of their content away and make it available for free? They have to pay their bills to maintain the infrastructure to support all of this and pay their employees to do so. Charging for article access is how this is accomplished and how the company behind this allows the service to continue. There is a lot more money behind the operation that just copying pdf's to an s3 bucket.
Plus, books are really really really cheap. Go to any Goodwill or Salvation Army or Once Upon A Child and you will find gobs and gobs of books at very cheap prices. Yes, even undamaged.

We toss lots of books in the trash in America, not because we hate books, but because we make so many of them and then need to make room for the new books.

"Able to afford books" was once a status symbol. It's not any more.

See also: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/10/12/141265066/hard...
In all seriousness, this is Sherlock Holmes' method too. It's easy to make brilliant deductions when you are a character in a piece of fiction whose story has been completely laid out.
Only one of many examples of confusion on the part of the author of this gushing post.

Whether or not you prefer the appearance of using printf to streams, streams are objectively better even ignoring scale, because they are typesafe, where printf is the exact opposite of typesafe.
What if Microsoft exited the search business?
> Since regular online dating is completely broken

It is?
> It's killing the platform and there's nothing Microsoft can do about it.

They could have made a real Windows Store instead of a WinRT-only store.
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I believe it's because for most people who read the case, there's so much mud in the water, the first impression one receives of the case, is that Aaron was facing 35 years in prison, and 1 million dollar fine.

Especially non USA-natives who have no idea how the juridical system there works, for the first few days, I actually believed the above, that if found guilty he would face that sentence, I had no idea how plea bargains works there, it's been a frustrating experience to say the least.
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