skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, especially not on a webcam page easily accessible from your phone so you don't have to carry it around. I sometimes wonder if I advertise this as a service how many people will mail me their tokens.
In my experience, it's extremely basic. Yes, it can rename a function or variable, but that doesn't compare to AppCode.

AppCode can do both of those. Want to add a new parameter to a function? AppCode can do that, and put in a default value for you everywhere. Signature modifications are a snap. Plus it searches for possible references to the function you're modifying and can suggest fixes for them too. That alone is with the $99.
Wondering what the massive, yet brief, spikes in Guangzhou are...the ceiling of the Hazardous category of the AQI is capped at 500. That would mean that readings like the 1/12/13 of 827 are quite literally 'off-the-chart.'
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> That's precisely what Swartz's defense team has pointed out

Perhaps Swartz should have chose smarter lawyers then, because he wasn't charged with "hacking" but with "intentional unauthorized access" and other similar things.

It's not as if he accidentally logged onto an open Wifi and accidentally downloaded terabytes of information from JSTOR, they specifically blocked Swartz's machine multiple times. They may not be trying to keep everyone out but they were definitely trying to keep Swartz out (and they didn't even know it was Swartz until he was arrested).
> The answer already exists. Chorded, handheld keyboards.

This answer has existed for over a decade; the fact that it hasn't come to pass means it's not the right answer. I had a Frogpad with my wearable, for example. Carrying around an extra piece of equipment is a pain in the ass.

I'll quote myself here:

> Another device to carry in your pocket solely for input
isn't going to improve that, it's going to make that worse.

> It's awkward to whip out a keypad to enter a new appointment or type a note compared to writing it on a piece of paper. I think the only general incentive to carry a dedicated input device around would be universal applicability: that keyboard would have to be good for every device out there, including ATMs.

The bit about automatic privacy and rights granting is interesting, but these have to be explicit social behaviors, not things your computers do behind your back.

I do agree with the driving bit: forcibly not letting people do something stupid is alright with me.
Well it doesn't matter how "easy" it is to do. It also doesn't matter if the password was just "password" or if the door he broke into had 1 lock or 500 locks.

Also the prosecutor is typically going to overstate the charges and the defendant will understate them. In this case the prosecutor went for 35 years and the defendant went for zero years (not guilty). This is where the judge comes into play. If Aaron shows that he changes his MAC address every morning then that charge will likely be dropped. If it's found that he only changed his MAC to bypass a restriction, it could be seen as concealing.
I wrote this post almost 2.5 years ago - happy to answer any questions here.
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Apple offers installment payments to Chinese customers
All this because he didn't knew better to route vpn through local box... ccc.... I am sorry for the guy, but the way some corporations were, I thought I could easily get away with same.
Fedora Linux Lets You Choose Your Own GUI Adventure
Analysis reveals they got over half their first 2K users from right here.
Thanks Valve, Another Game Comes To Linux
Should programmers be unionized?
This product reinforces a mindset that I find harmful.

Where I work, teams of developers are responsible for products -- we all own the quality and robustness of our product's code. If the application is broken, why would you only email the person or pair who wrote the particular line of code that excepted? Am I supposed to pretend broken code is not my problem unless I personally wrote it?

Development is a collaborative activity. If a product is broken, the whole team needs to know, so the whole team can fix it.
One of my professors called this "active lazy."
Yeah actually the relevant line got weeded out as I progressed with editing, research and more editing. While suggesting to 'know', I got to know it myself too.
One of the problems with democratic processes is that they're democratic.
Languages exist to solve certain classes of problems. PHP, for example, is primarily designed as a web language. Learning ANY language designed for other uses will teach the developer something new. Once you have learned something like Python or Ruby, learning C would probably be the next logical step.
Is really such an unlikely reality?

The general public is quite ignorant about technical matters. This becomes evident when, just as a trivial example, you complain about technical inaccuracies in a hollywood movie. You'll immediately be told in no unclear terms that the general public neither knows nor cares.

People attacking that which they do not understand is just as old as recorded history. I'll take that phenomenon as just an axiom of human behaviour.
Yeah, most developers and most outsourcing companies trying to repeat his trick would be quickly fired even without the VPN fuckup.
Ex-CEO Sculley says Apple needs to focus on cheaper iPhone
Make sure it has low entry level and when it's easy for him make it even lower because he obviously knows how the game works already.

Ask players to promote the game on sites like reddit and youtube etc.
I find that more of a negative interpretation.

The easiest way to avoid responsibility is to not talk about the issue all together. Here he managed to outline the positives and negatives of both cases. If his view of whiskey's positives and negatives line up with yours, perhaps he understands and feels about the issue the same way you do and might make the decision that you would make in the same position. If not, you actually don't like his stance on the issue.

I think it's more interesting to consider the concept he isolates, though, and it's bothersome that we can so cleanly map the concept he considers to issues we have today.
Would absolutely love to see or hear more of your growth stories!
I live/work in Boulder and am definitely interested.
My View: X Internet (2000)
Scaling a Real-World Node.js and CouchDB App
Bring back the Windows 8 Start menu, say 1.5 million Pokki downloaders
It wasn't just that he made unauthorized access to the network; it was so that he could download millions documents that JSTOR sells a subscription to for tens of thousands of dollars a year.

You can't ignore that. If he had trespassed into JSTOR's offices to grab the same information, it wouldn't be a $100 fine.

(Ob: I'm not saying justice would have been Aaron sitting in jail for 7 years.)
For the second paragraph: Imagine a man warped out of the past somewhere into the future. His clothes look funny and any interaction he makes with people draws an odd response. Some give him money, some people say "no thank you" for some reason, and so on. He can test this, he can see that nearly everyone behaves this way. So he assumes this is simply how people here behave.

Later on, something happens that forces him to wear clothes like everyone else is wearing. And how people react to him changes completely. All his testing proved that people react one certain way, but he didn't understand why so he didn't realize what his testing had showed was actually just a small subset of the actual behavior and was actually an extremely rare case.
If it's anything like Android, which seems likely, then the ball is in their court.
I moved off that page after half a second. Why?

Because its invasive. I had my volume off on my computer because I need silence at this very moment, yet these bastards turn my local computer's volume up. I mute again and the volume turns on again. This is the most blatantly disrespectful practice I have ever been exposed to from an "honest" site.

Two things I can't stand:

Music. I tend to have my own music in the background. If I really need to listen to the website, I will turn on the volume myself.

My Desktop is MY DESKTOP. I did not give this website permission to turn on the volume on MY DESKTOP! I don't care how honest your company is, this makes you look like a virus, and if you aren't pushing viruses, I can't think of a more clear and blatant disrespect to the users than this. Did they ever think that someone has a sleeping person / baby nearby? Maybe the person is at a library. Regardless if the person has any good reason, DON'T TURN ON MY DESKTOP VOLUME.
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>What interests me more is why does this stuff keep happening in Apple’s name?

It's very similar to politics. Apple are the Republicans of tech in that every minor story is major news, all dirty laundry aired by journalists, bloggers, and tweets, and mockery where possible.
Try the "Custom range..." under "Time".

https://www.google.com/search?q=special+education+spending&#...
The author forgets one other factor that has become significant: the death of Steve Jobs.

So it's the "law or large numbers" and the "doomed without Steve" arguments that impact the news of Apple these days, but hopefully some of that will fade with time.
I wrote a blog post about how to get around this here:

http://www.zachbruhnke.com/how-to-get-a-duns-number-for-free...

its currently somewhere on the New page, upvote it if its useful
So. Many. Blurry. Photobackgrounds!

They are nice and all, but most of them are almost copy-paste jobs of each other.
“Aaron's law,” Congressional investigation in wake of Swartz suicide
Well, is the laptop on the chair Aaron's or part of the official setup? Cause if SOP was "random laptops plugged into the switches", his setup wouldn't really stand out very much.
Agreed. Some of my best converting work is considered ugly. Though money in the bank looks better than color in thy pixels. As always, test, test, test!
This immediately made me think of abortion and the terms pro-life and pro-choice. I am both pro-life and pro-choice by the literal meanings, but many in the "pro-life" and "pro-choice" camps seem to use their terminology to paint the other side as bad (i.e. the opposite side is "anti-life" or "anti-choice" by default, even though that's not necessarily true).
This may just be me, but 14 days seems kind of strict for the type of projects it is for and given the learning curve of all the parties involved like someone else mentioned. It could take two weeks before everyone on my team has even had the time to go over it. If there was a file or size limit, it might be more friendly.
>I give up making software for you app store. Your DUNS number requirement was the last straw. I’ve been waiting 2 months for this number and was told I need to wait another month (60 working days total) unless I pay a substancial amount of money. So, please, GO TO HELL.

And yet tons of other developers and companies seem to do just fine in the App Store, without juvenile crap like this.

A rant like this coming from people that have been seriously screw by Apple, I would understand. But you don't even have the app made yet by your own admission.

You have a half-finished app, that "you learned Objective-C while building it".

And somehow it's the DUNS that slows down your path to world domination and profit?

Why do you need a DUNS in the first place? An individual doesn't need one, and a company knows better than to blame another company for something a THIRD company handles and that even the government makes a requirement to do business with you.
Thanks for your argument, I'm sure you've enlightened everyone who's had the pleasure of reading your post.

You're the whatever wing Sean Hanity, and I don't mean that as a compliment.
Not what the contract says, nor how it works in practice. If I did the work in half the time and left early, I'd be fired. But conversely if I don't get the work done it's not a problem as long as I'm there for the hours.

I can forsee replies telling me to get a better job, but my experience is that most jobs are like this, even at trendy tech companies. And it's not a bad bargain all told; my employer takes on all the volatility, I can plan my time with knowledge of how long my job's going to take, while from their side the variations in productivity probably average out over x employees.
We'll let you off the hook if you pay us $200 of the $2000 that you may or may not actually owe us. And just in case you've missed it, there are four snipers at the top of the roof. I don't know what they're doing there, but thought you might wanna know.
Recruiting nerds is different than other people. We foolishly live in an idealized world of meritocracy; for example, where the best algorithm is the fastest or cheapest.

As many know, the real world is not a meritocracy. This tension makes it difficult for some people to relate to us and motivate us.

So my advice would be to highlight the merits of a position, team, technologies, or plan when recruiting nerds. Also peer recognition (chance of being perceived as having merit by our cohorts).
I'm beginning to wonder if all the people preaching this 'Aaron died for your benefit so now you must suffer' line are Catholics.

Taken to the extreme, this line of reasoning is what makes certain terrorist groups think killing random civilians is acceptable. After all, if you're a citizen of a country then you should be held personally accountable for all the perceived crimes perpetrated by your government, right?
At least half the people I've seen on Hacker News doing startups want people to relocate to NYC or SF. Apparently lots of folks think face to face / butt in chair time is important for "team building" or something.
Not just that. Real criminals would find a way to force others to take their place.
Oracle Patches Java Zero Day Vulnerability - Hacking News
Why should a representative care about the opinions of people who aren't voting for her or contributing to her campaign? There are lots of opinionated people on the internet.

I simply picked the board of elections because they already are entrusted with the capacity to verify that a certain person lives in a certain ward or district. I suspect zip codes would not be fine-grained enough for local government fora, where this would be most useful.
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@bad_user

I definitely don't think he was implying that the law be selectively applied to different people. However, law is not black and white. Law interpretation is up to a judge (in countries with a Common Law system) and is based on precedent. AnthonyMouse was simply saying that if the application of a certain law in a certain situation is ill-fitting, the judge/attorneys have no reason to pursue those charges.
This article is the opposite of what I think it should be.

>I think the right answer is that Apple just fails to pass the gut test for most people.

This is no surprise. Apple holds no significant monopoly so AAPL is volatile. The stock is ripe for manipulation with a P/E that is far lower than many other tech companies while almost one-third of the company's value is in cash on hand.

The bigger issue for me is why this story has been so well covered by Daring Fireball, The Loop, MG Siegler and the rest of the Apple blogosphere? Do they really believe that they will affect general opinion of the stock or force an investigation?

What screams out to me is that this is about favoritismm but coming from intelligent people whom can deny it in a way that sounds reasonable to the average person.
>Perhaps your system goes down and you need it fixed ASAP

So you're saying, all this person is hypothetically doing is sitting around waiting for something to break, presumably at night? You don't think the company would delegate other tasks as well?

>Likewise with mentoring/helping other staff, sometimes this is just far easier to do when you are physically present.

That's not benefiting the company in any way? How is that just "your time"
Is there any public information if they are paid by Facebook or if anyone on staff /owners of TechCrunch own any Facebook shares?

I'm not sure if manipulation of stocks is legal like this or not - though it certainly would highlight why high viewership media are valued so highly by less-than-honest people.
Yeah, because the world is like a Batman comic, right?

When "good guys" screw up, they must take the same responsibility they ask of "bad guys". When "good guys" resort to bully or torture weaker opponents, they are as bad as anyone.
Good point. But these are not order forms. They are contracts. People hate contracts. Having them filled out makes the whole process go smoother. If people have to fill it out themselves, then the transaction time increases (not good for closing), they lose their patience, might change their minds, or just downright decide against hiring you (because of your hair/teeth/something you said). A pre-filled contract saves you a lot of time and makes you money.
It works for products and services. Both digital and analog.
Seems like a great app. Basically a timer with a heart rate tracker.

Since the most important thing in meditation is respiration, and being respiration deeply connected to your heart rate, I think it could really make a difference in peoples lives.

Would love to give it a try. There are plans for an Android version?
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They're just getting over the top in their claims now though.
In general yes. However in practice employers expect total dedication and focus, deliveries while _at the same time_ counting minutes.

Employers are a lot like women. They have a hard time making up their mind about what they really want. Everything being the default answer.
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You're stating as fact that this kind of reporting happens to Apple and not to other tech companies. But that has hardly been established. I often see dubious news stories about several of the companies on your list, and back and forth discussion about those stories. So I'd add a fifth explanation: You're seeing lots of these stories because you're following people who blog about Apple. If you're bored of bogus Apple controversies and want to see fewer of them, just stop reading the blogs of Apple pundits.
This argument goes towards the DMCA, as well as what is considered under the CFAA..

"Intentionally accessing a computer without authorization to obtain: ....Information from any protected computer."

What does 'without authorization' mean, and what does 'protected' mean?

Does without authorization mean you violate a click-through license? Or is there some nebulous authentication chit you are handed? Is it a felony to fake your name on a website demanding your name?

And with that keyword 'protected', how do we know it is indeed protected? What steps one must take to protect, and what steps one must go through to understand that it is indeed protected computer/data?

In other words, we are all felons-on-standby. The laws are so vague as to entrap all by default.
Unless you were planning to not attend MIT in the first place, I would absolutely not recommend this. Its not worth compromising your future to send a message.
That seems really cool. Android? Btw meditation is really important. More people should do it.
This essay of his is the closest I've found to a summing up of his perspective: http://bostonreview.net/BR30.3/chomsky.php

The second paragraph was me trying to, very briefly, sum up the consequences of positivist epistomology. The alternative that Chomsky proposes is that observational knowledge can only describe the things that are true given the process that generates the interactive behaviors we observe. This applies to everything from humanities and linguistics to physical interactions (which is why people have such difficulty explaining quantum physics). Consider, for example, the idea that computers think in zeros and ones: it is usually plenty accurate, even though it is really an abstraction of high/low voltage signal. But if we encounter random bit flips it may be helpful to know that actually we are working with high/low signal and so a cosmic ray interacting with our RAM could produce a flip. Equally, we write programs in higher level languages without worrying that loops aren't an inherent property of the computer. "Loops" aren't a lie, but they also aren't a fact: they are useful knowledge.

Most knowledge falls into this area, of being the product of current, generative interactions. In this world it is possible to say that some statement isn't supported by evidence, so we can still have science based on falsifiablity. We can even fully describe the observed behavior of some system under a set of conditions. That knowledge is likely to be useful, even. But it is incomplete, and shouldn't be elevated to a place of infallible "fact" lest we miss the additional capabilities we might acquire by manipulating those assumptions.
At least one court, in US vs Lori Drew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Lori_Drew) has determined that violation of terms of use does not qualify as "unauthorized access" under the CFAA.
Insider here. Almost all legal representation and interactions of the Institute flows through the Office of General Council.
Just to point out that if a law is unjust, the prosecutor may have a duty qua prosecutor but qua human being he has a stronger duty to stand against that law.
Yes, it may be dangerous but the slippery slope is exactly that: 'as it is my legal duty, I shall try to make as much harm as possible'.
Conscience does exist...
I'm already a heavy user of hellofax/hellosign but this falls into the "Fucking Awesome" category of new things for me. This is just WAY better than having to download and drag and drop into hellofax then email from there which I honestly already thought was pretty easy.

My only wish now is that you guys would come out with an API where I could incorporate hellosign into some of my applications that require two parties to enter into an agreement.

EDIT: Oh and congrats on the google acquisition because I'm sure its coming
Here is something I wrote to help startups write a good call to action. Hope you find it valuable. Its from my Marketing Bits series.

https://github.com/orangethirty/marketing_bits/blob/master/t...
I haven't given this all much chance, but the OP's argument is basically that the current legal view of MAC spoofing is flawed in two ways, which no one seems to be addressing here. It is not an actual means of identifying an individual and it is part of ensuring a reasonable amount of privacy for the user.

It's more akin to wearing a fake mustache, than using a fake id.
This is really cool - it was one of my most common use cases for using HelloFax.

With that said, I still use Preview now to do all of my signatures - I find it really easy to just fill out forms and sign with Preview. If I'm not on my machine, though, and need to fill something out, this is great.
Say I am not allowed on your premises, and I wear a fake mustache in order to get past a mechanism you put in place to stop me (such as guards with my picture), and I get charged with fraud for deceiving your guards because I gained access to something valuable.

This doesn't mean "oh noes! fake mustaches are against the lawz!!!11 they are going to lock up all the actors!"
“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” - Robert A. Heinlein
A frogpad like keyboard isn't exactly what I was referring to. Maybe I should have clarified in the article, but I meant the kind that strap on to your hand. With advances in technology it could be easy to make that smaller and less obtrusive than they have been in the past. As someone who had a wearable I'd love to hear your thoughts on Glass etc.
Razing skyscrapers from the inside
Is the API Landscape Broken?