skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From here in the Midwest USA, here's the last few lines of "mtr mit.edu --report":

16.|-- ae-1-8.bar2.Boston1.Level 90.0% 10 83.3 83.3 83.3 83.3 0.0
17.|-- ae-0-11.bar1.Boston1.Leve 0.0% 10 84.5 84.0 82.5 85.0 0.7
18.|-- ae-7-7.car1.Boston1.Level 0.0% 10 83.1 83.9 81.8 92.9 3.2
19.|-- MASSACHUSET.car1.Boston1. 0.0% 10 85.1 83.7 82.3 85.1 0.9
20.|-- DMZ-RTR-2-EXTERNAL-RTR-1. 0.0% 10 89.9 88.8 86.1 94.2 2.9
21.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

(the full name for the last listed host is "DMZ-RTR-2-EXTERNAL-RTR-1.MIT.EDU")
> design-lead tools like Bootstrap have made it much easier for engineers to design great looking apps

using a css framework has nothing to do with design, it's an implementation detail. using a preconfigured theme doesn't make it designed (for sure doesn't make it designed well).

//edit: reworded it.
Being truthful is a good thing in interviews, you're there to judge fit as much as they are. Hiding things helps nobody since the relationship will just blow up 3 months down the line ... do you really want to waste 3 months of your life in a job you don't like? Of course not.

Therefore, the only real answer is "I don't like bullshit questions."
They had the Olympics in August, which normally isn't that bad. If you ever want to visit Beijing, come in fall, and avoid winter.
Engineers are solving other problems, but engineering did not get easier
*Well you edited your text to be more specific, so I edited mine :)
http://leanca.mp/2012/12/leancampers-london-guide/
http://startupdigest.com/london/
I am surprised by all the "If they ask this stupid question, you don't want to work for them."

It is hard to say why any potential employer might ask this question, but if it were me, I would be looking for some indication that you have an understanding of your own limitations. A stock answer or an attempt at redirection would not impress me. Of course, I don't expect you to incriminate yourself.
So the two options were:
1) Plead not guilty, case drags on for years, costs $millions to defend, get convicted, serve 2-3 years in jail, unable to fight for something you believe in during that time

2) Plead guilty, case is over quickly, not expensive to defend, get convicted, serve 2-3 months in jail, get on with fighting for something you believe in

I would say option #2 is "worth considering".
"Legal defense fund" is a fairly standard thing to have. And lawyers usually are happy to extend credit to people like Aaron and wait to be repaid later.

This doesn't eliminate the fact that trials are extremely expensive, guilty or innocent, but it slightly ameliorates it.
Rejected from the Mac App Store for checking for updates
PLoS is.
What a thoughtful and reasonable rebuttal. I am now completely convinced that I was wrong!
Silly me, and I didn't even notice your nickname. So it's 'mean' after all, and by the looks of it not just a little bit jealous.
You don't have any points, just bile.
It's worth pointing out that he wasn't a student or employee of MIT. Yes, he was a member of the hacker elite, but I would imagine any institution would be less likely to protect someone it can't internally discipline.
I never saw that initial post or the Ruby versions until, this looks really cool, I'll probably be trying it out in the next couple of days, thanks.
This is one of those things that for the life of me I don't understand why we have to petition our government. Why in the heck wouldn't you set it up this way to begin with?
And when she asks "Do I look big in this?", you scream "You have a fat ass!"
Depends on your work. For instance, if you have a good software design a web application, you can code it with heavy metal music because listing metal music with programming is improving the velocity of coding.
He added that line to all his blog posts when he redesigned his blog years after this was originally posted
Well, I guess plugging Heroku to Stripe has "nothing to do with" engineering as well.

But, for the sake of discussion between rational people, we should bypass excessive pedantry.

EDIT: -- I see the comment above was modified to add the emphasis and ", it's an implementation detail..."

Please don't fixate on the one example provided. It's a tool that greatly aids design. Starting up a Heroku instance with a CMS isn't engineering either, but that's Not The Point.
Looks like it (also http://bgp.he.net/ip/128.30.52.200). Collateral from Anonymous apparently taking down MIT, I guess
MIT owns the entire 18. /8 subnet.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addres...
Exactly. CRUD web apps with tens of thousands of users are now trivial from a software engineering standpoint. More interesting challenges lie elsewhere.
Ah, thanks (I didn't read it that closely). Having your entire netblock blocked from an important service definitely is more justification to bring in the SS, since it's actual ongoing harm to you.
Nope, all the tweets have come after the sites were already down.

Typical Anonymous/Lulzsec DDoS operations doesn't work like that, they need thousands of participants before it'll have any effect. If it was a public DDoS like the operations that took down DoJ about a year ago you would expect to see thousands of tweets about it and a lot of IRC activity.
MIT president orders review of Aaron Swartz episode
If you condemn my assertions because I'm anonymous, then you must condemn Aaron's actions for the same reason, for he did them anonymously also.

Incidentally, the "expert witness" said a bald-faced lie, that Aaron did not try to hide his tracks. It is not a "disputed assertion."
A cool thing about Aaron's activism was that it involved building things, circumventing censorship, and spreading information, rather than sabotage and denial-of-service.
I appreciate the depth of your response but will have to say that that is a vast oversimplification of the debate over off label marketing and prescribing. The overprescribing of powerful narcotics and antipsychotics to those who didn't need them (but from which doctors and the reps they worked with profited from) has been harmful, to say the least.
Reread the comment :)
It's a BS question, but one thing that has always served me well is to choose a weakness that isn't fatal and is relatively easily remedied.

For example, if you're apply for a job where you have no direct reports, your weakness can be "I don't have that much experience in formal leadership, but I've had numerous examples in my past of informal leadership in teams, so I'm confident that given the opportunity, I could quickly come up to speed."
> So you come to associate arousal with this guilt

That's part of the puritanical and (maybe any religious) mind control. People need to feel guilty so they self-police themselves, and it also has to be something that is common (such as sex) so everyone is always guilty. Guilty people are vulnerable and easily controlled.

This has to be planted early in the childhood, then it sort of becomes automatic and not that easy to unlearn. Even rationally if some admit there is nothing wrong with this or that, they'll still feel guilty -- it because it becomes part of their personality.
I know this is outing myself but this is my personal experience. I won't post anonymously in case anyone wants to contact me. I came to the realization about 2 years that I am addicted to porn. For anyone out there struggling with the same thing, it can get better and yes, it is probably having a negative influence on your life. Previously I would look about once per week but in the past 6 months, I have probably viewed only 3 or 4 times and am hopeful going forward that I will never view it again.

The difference between internet porn and porn from the past is just the abundance of new material that there is. Each time you view something new, your brain gives a hit of dopamine. In fact, porn addicts are not really addicted to porn, they're addicted to the chemical sensations that their brain provides. At the basic level, it really is not much different from any other addiction. Old, offline porn is different in that it gets stale pretty quickly. There are only so many times you can look at a magazine or video without it getting boring.

The problem with this is that your dopamine levels get out of whack. You need a higher and higher amount to feel satisfied. This is how people get roped in. This also caused normal, life things that were once enjoyable to become less so, such as hanging out with friends or programming. Life just becomes more dull. In fact, now that I have learned about this, whenever I see a post on HN about how someone has lost their interest in programming or other activities, the first thing I think of is probably this person has a porn addiction. It's not a far stretch seeing as how most of HN is young men. Having drastically reduced the amount I see, I have noticed many benefits in my life including better health and ability to focus better.

Porn, like other addictions, are also a way of masking stress and a way of distracting yourself from negative emotions. Dr. Gabor Mate has done great research linking addictions of any kind to stresses in the body. Porn gives a way to temporarily release the stress but puts the person in a vicious cycle of causing more long-term stress.

Personally, I use the recovery information from http://www.feedtherightwolf.org. It has been the only thing I have across which can really break the cycle.

As someone else pointed out the videos from http://yourbrainonporn.com/your-brain-on-porn-series will really help you understand what is going on in your brain.
It must have been difficult to write the counter-point to all the eulogies popping up. I appreciate that someone did it here, just as I was grateful to see a few counter-points pop up after Steve Jobs.

From what I've read in the positive eulogies, I'm sure Aaron Schwarz would have appreciated a balanced conversation about his life.
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> So this aspect of music we can attribute to innate psycho-acoustics or even physics rather than cultural bias.

It's inextricable from cultural bias, though the physics obviously plays some role. The cultural bias comes into play more strongly around the question of how much dissonance is "good" vs. "bad", and how the more dissonant bits should interplay with the more consonant bits of music.

Certainly, "more consonant = better" isn't true in any culture I can think of.... Imagine an orchestra that tunes up, then they all play the note A in various octaves for 3 hours.

Possibly also worth mentioning that this isn't quite correct:

> The traditional classical Western twelve-note scale consists of the 12 simplest frequency ratios

You're thinking of the major scale, maybe? The ratios for a tritone, major 7th, etc. are more complex (and not the first 12 simplest...) and if you try to actually come up with ratios for an even-tempered scale you're really in trouble.
That biggest problem you find is your own creation- it is a result of assuming that "TLDR" is the same as "summary". While it may have the same literal meaning, clearly it is not the same as "summary", because you find it to be used differently. This is because it has a different purpose in discourse. Most synonym pairs are like this; you think they have the same meaning, until you do a corpus analysis and discover that they're used totally differently in practice. Truly perfect synonyms are extremely rare.
Honestly? I'm a bit speechless that someone would behave in such a manner. I do not wish to engage in a conversation with you as what you are doing simply isn't humane. Neither can I or will I speak for Mr. Swartz, as I did not have the fortune of knowing him.
You would have to hire a lawyer in any state due to the sheer number of laws; this seems to say in CA that lawyer also has to buy public domain papers from a private entity.
I think you missed some sarcasm by the previous poster
There is just something really wrong here, and even if it may appear cliché, it is really not cliché. There is a great confusion between sex and desire. Making love with someone is not about having sex, it is about desiring someone. This works only if you share a real intimacy, i.e. if you let this intimacy exist between you two. The arousal doesn't come from sexual prowesses, but just because you desire that specific person you share your intimacy with.
After, sex for sex, is always about fantasies, power... in a word, "fun" ( even when it's not fun ;) )
And then there is hygiene, just bodily functions. Like masturbation.
Sexuality is wide, wild, and complex, it's the mirror of our inner world. Porn is just a business around it.
More interesting to whom? CRUD apps are still capable of creating massive value for users by solving overlooked problems. It's a big deal that designers can now build them without the help of any professional engineers.
What is/was w3.gov? Google gives me nothing useful.
Found: Blueprint for a computer-literate India
I think Lawrence Lessig knows a bit more about this, one line in his piece stuck out for me, it reads:

"yet unable to appeal openly to us for the financial help he needed to fund his defense".

I'm not sure what the background on that line is but it definitely makes you curious.
I second "writing a thumbdrive from scratch"! There's much more to it than it sounds like. Travis talks for example about the possiblity of the drive being able to fingerprint the system it's mounted on, recognizing it's 'home' machine. From there he suggest counter measures like recognizing an indexing process by the read patterns and have the drive erase itself, or giving a different checksum every time the content is hashed.
Recent designers I've met around NYC have been novices, jquery dependents, and people who took a 12 week how to code ruby class and somehow got hired. To me a designer is someone who can make a site look good in photoshop and then hand it off to be implemented/coded. Designers who code, but who are not 'coders' scare the crap out of me and I avoid them like the plague. Web 'apps' today are that, apps, making API calls, binding data, and managing state - along with profiling for speed, memory, and where resources are loaded from. It's just like any other GUI of the last 20 years. Sure there are UI designers, but they typically aren't coding it together, but I guess the short supply of programmers has exacerbated the situation.
Oh fuck no. 1. He recognized it 2. Whatever Aaron's activism methods was is no necessary relevant for the ddosing protestors
For quite some time now, the development of software engineering has been making economically viable for some programming tasks to be preformed by Technicians, this is not new. But it is nice to see people starting to accept this.

And this is very, VERY, healthy for software. Technicians are not Engineers (as in, rigorously trained in science and math with a practical focus).

It means that more people can become Technical Programmers, and Designers and Engineers can stop worring about implementation details and focus on innovation and value generation.

PS: Or, both can be good Technicians, besides being Designers or Engineers. As somebody said, a shared skill-base. The problem is thinking that Technician is the only role for the Engineer.
Because before you set it up, you don't know there's a problem. Sure, you can say that everyone should get access to the research from the start, but when the framework for federal grants started, the cost of distributing journals was tied to shipping physical copies. No one had to think about whether or not you could legally share it because you had a much higher barrier in the logistics of sharing it. Now those things are still around through organizational inertia. The companies that existed to fill the (necessary) service of printing and shipping all these things don't want to become obsolete. It's not a good reason to keep it around, but it's why you need more than zero effort to change.
The headline should be w3.org. The website for the World Wide Web Consortium.
Depending on the person and amount of use, I have heard it usually takes from 3-18 months to fully return to normal.
> I'm sure Aaron Schwarz would have appreciated a balanced conversation about his life.

I'm sure he would have, but this isn't it. Unless you've forgotten to include your sarcasm tags.
Thank you! Finally, someone that gets it.

I wish people would actually engage (reply to my points) instead of spewing bile at me, though. :/

Edit: Like jacquesm, apparently.
The best way to "celebrate his life" is to fix the insane system that intimidated him with a 35 year sentence for the "felony" of downloading PDFs.

The justice system is doing a little more than "pointing fingers":
http://www.forbes.com/sites/harveysilverglate/2013/01/03/bla...
http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2013/01/...
w3.org is hosted at an mit.edu ip address. Could just be an unintended side effect.
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MIT.edu is down. Let's see what comes next.
I find that its hard to communicate with young people about the weird way in which sexual climax is plugged into your brain. Through out history people have have exploited that link and human physiology as a tool to control people.

Growing up in Las Vegas I had a pretty unconventional view of sex, and was completely caught off guard by the emotions that came with my first actual sexual experience.
If I ever had to face the feds for something like this, Elliot R. Peters would be someone I'd want on my legal team. When he says he thinks the case would have gone well for Aaron, I believe him.
Very disappointed if it's DDoS. This doesn't feel like the time for it.
Boy needs to grow up, thats all.

Porn is porn, masturbation is not sex, its not the same thing, and its not even close, porn is just a masturbation aid. I suppose it could also be useful in some very limited way to figure out if some weird kinky stuff turns you on.

What I have learned from porn: The vast majority of it is comically bad when it comes o depicting what actual good sex is like. I sometimes wonder if people think this is real and feel a little bit bad for them, same as I feel sorry for people who think WWF wrestling is real. Lots of real world sex with different partners will get you over it quick.

Porn is to sex like WWF wrestling is to fighting.

For those dudes who actually want to get seriously into it theres a vast body of literature, tantra, deida, and I also like the tao of sexology.
Certainty about the wrong values has caused its share of bad values prevailing.
Yes. And it's one that's completely okay if handled correctly, like any fetish.
If you don't have decimal types, then use fixed point. Or in simpler terms store cents (as integers) not dollars (as floats).

Then add a decimal point when you display.

If you are dealing with stocks or interest I suggest storing tenths, or hundreds of a cent to avoid rounding errors.
It's like James Bond going after Jean Valjean...

I find it surprising they get involved with this. I'd assume they get involved in matters of national security, if they suspect him to be part of criminal organization of some sort or to be a spy.
Or maybe somebody who is very influential asked them to...
I don't like conspiration theories but their involvement with this sounds off to me and deserves at least clarification.
For sure. Not everything has to have a "call to action". Seems like it was more a prompt for discussion. Appears to be working.
Lack of both --- the nameservers are unreachable, but so is everything else. (MIT apparently hosts its own DNS, but attempting to ping internal servers by IP address, bypassing DNS, also fails.)
It's easy to find examples of novices in any field - to me what's more interesting is looking at what the experts are doing. The folks I'm thinking of are both excellent visual designers and excellent backbone hackers. This is what's new and interesting to me.
It's W3C (WWW Consortium).

Also Google has a neat cache feature for instances like these. Just do the following search:

cache:w3.org
Ask HN: What is/was your most ambitious startup/product/service idea?
The actual library does look like it does quite a bit more than waveforms -- it's mostly focused on relationships of notes (in scales, intervals, etc.), and perhaps only secondarily on frequencies. Interesting!

I have done similar work in Java -- built a library exploring note relationships, and also handling basic notation display -- but one of these days I'm going to need to migrate everything from Java applets (I know, I know) to HTML5, so I'm collecting these kinds of resources that may prove useful....

The name selection isn't great, BTW... there's been a well-known music theory website at teoria.com for more than a decade. It's a generic term (just "theory" in Spanish), so this likely isn't a legal issue, but that's going to make it quite hard to find this in Google.
I think the patronizing tone is well-deserved in the second "carry on and say.." portion. Here's a shorter honest (from me) answer that resembles rikacomet's first section I would probably give at first (after all, good companies can still have crappy hiring practices): "I don't know you well enough to reveal that information." If the interviewer persisted, then I'm with the rest of the group here who are done with the interview at that point, screw how good the company might have been on the inside.
I imagine that, aside from porn (and maybe even including it - or most of it), our modern sex lives are a faint shadow of what our prehistoric ancestors got up to.

Look at what the bonobos do with each other - and we're more creative.
I think the question is not designed for engineers who work with computers and do not need to sound right but instead for salesmen and other professionals who work with people and need to sound right.
Before MIT Cops Arrested Aaron Swartz, Secret Service Took Over Investigation
Lets cut this BS argument short: Who is driving a car?

I thought so.

There were no cars, planes, or McDs in the Savannah either yet somehow we cope with those things. Personally I dont think porn comes close what the Romans were actually doing...
Did doj.gov ever exist? It's not resolving for me. The Department of Justice is at justice.gov.

Edit: The article says it redirects to justice.gov.
"my points"

Your points? You choose a username of a deceased person to disparage them and then expect to be talked to with civility? You are an archetypal troll.
I'm sorry, but NYC isn't about as "first world is it gets". From the power, to the plumbing, to the buildings and sewers, and even city-scaping, it's decidedly antiquated compared to many Western Eurpean and Asian countries.
Don't know what you're arguing here, I'm simply saying its absurd to say Ortiz's office isn't tackling white collar crime merely because her most media-worthy case is the Whitey Bulger case at the current time...and this is understandable given Bulger's prominence in Boston history. It's a case that also threatens to expose the FBI agents who may have helped him. This is hardly an easy or trivial case
The profiler of the x origin should always be left alone. Why does Java not understand ? Yuck, yuck in the most ways. Yes ?
Quite neat and interestingly,

cache:doj.gov

Throws a 404 error.
No way! You can't approach this question from a 100% logical side like a robot, it has to involve some of your emotional consideration.

I answered "I'm lazy" when I was a youngin. The guy asked me if I wanted to rephrase. There's no benefit in saying what I said, I could have said "I have a problem breaking down large tasks into pieces" and said the same thing a bit smarter.
Porn is not bad as long as you keep in mind that its a bunch of BS. If you want sex better to spend your time on adult friend finder or similar. Or make a lot of money; theyll never admit but girls like money.