skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, I can see this pounding JSTOR's site. I'm sure US Attorney Carmen Ortiz will think this is a DDoS attack because JSTOR can't handle the traffic generated by everyone going there.

I'm sure she can rationalize that as a terrorist attack on essential infrastructure, so let's round it up to 170 years in jail for the conspirators. Let's assume every one of those connections would have paid $200 for an article,so that's $50 million in damages. Right?
I was an orphan from age 11, dad had a bad heart.

But if you look at the conditions that existed up until say the 1950s work was mostly muscle powered, ie being able to lift 50-100 lbs all day was expected at work and there was much less office work to be had. That meant that men being bigger and stronger had a big edge so they worked and women took care of the house/children, this was also a full time job that just took less strength to do. Doing laundry, cooking and cleaning by hand is a lot of time. So since this guy now had to feed 2-7+ mouths on one check he was cut some slack.

and up until very recently the atomic family was odd, why would you abandon all your relatives(ie the people who will help you) with out a very very good reason.
But what about us truly paranoid? You should look into getting together with some sort of independent offshore hosting facility and running some remix overlay network services. I could totally put you in touch with this guy...

Seriously though, congrats on the launch.
> Many are the result of partial or complete university funding.

The universities are not paid by the journals, — quite the opposite: they pay handsomely for access the work of their own researchers.
This has been repeatedly suggested, but given all the fuss from the religious right over giving others equal rights, the uproar that would be caused by attempting to take rights away from them would be enormous, and political suicide.
This is a sentiment that I have shared for a while now, but I have never been able to express it so clearly. I am glad that I am not the only one deeply bothered by Godwin's "Law".
I might be missing something, but how are the articles being liberated? I don't see any downloadable articles at archiveteam.org at all. Is the idea that they're going to be made available as a torrent or in some other downloadable form at a later date?
Immigration rights are not tax breaks, and they are a hugely valuable benefit of marriage. Marriage gets you a green card within two years; attempting to do the same as, say, a 25 year old with a bachelor's degree could take upwards of 7 years. (Marriage is also much cheaper)

There's other rights, like hospital visitation, legal indemnification, etc. that also don't fall into that category.
Well Sun did learn from it. They started adopting x86 and Linux initially. But then they realised they'd only make themselves obsolete by this and stopped this. They released OpenSolaris to push Solaris against Linux.

SGI had a lot of problems. I mean they even started selling Windows NT workstations at one point.
No, I've just been on the Internet long enough to know that I have better ways of spending my time than trying to hold a debate with a person who calls me an idiot.
As with almost all publications, especially those with a deep print legacy, there is an old-biz back-slapper expectation that whatever you did last year that you copied makes you a genius. And you need to meet and beat at X% quarter over quarter. You'll have about a 6-month sliding window of wiggle room before you start notice the raised eyebrows of surprise when people see you in your cube.

After a few gimmicks run their course (e.g. using teams and friends of teams from The Atlantic to "digg" stories on HN for you to uptick visits while pages per visit plummet) in about 6 months the entire sales and/or product teams perform brutal "reshuffles".

For those in the vicious swirl, it is common practice to have a nicely fleshed out LinkedIn account at one's immediate disposal.

The sad irony is that it is the print medium and its advertising legacy (much like TV) brings in much larger sums of revenue overall. But the overhead costs overtake it dramatically. These days it feels very much like vinyl: better quality, but the law of diminishing returns is in full swing.
In Australia married couples file their own tax separately.

One income supports 5 people in my case, but I am taxed the same way as if that income supported one person.

No system is perfect. The US system much better recognizes capacity to contribute taxation.
I feel kind of hollowish about this - I'd wondered at the time why Aaron chose such a direct method that was sure to piss off some people and get him burnt in some way. But everybody's got their own methods and goals, and he succeeded at the social goal of rallying people to his cause (something a purely technical solution has a very hard time doing). But now seeing an implementation of a tool that would liberate the same articles, a bit slower, but without him having to pay the ultimate price? Sigh.
How to change "Boss will catch you" mindset?
I manage around 70 people in very high level. There are managers who stands the floor to get the actual work done. I just go on daily meetings, just once in a day to understand where a job stands and give them directions.

When I walk around floors, recently, I started hearing "do that way, steve will catch you." I think this statements are not healthy. So my team is working properly just because I catch them in review calls. This isnt correct, right?

I am sure I listen to them when they say things sensible. I made sure I never run beurocratic team management. Is this is normal? How can I put the "I too own the product" mindset in my team just not because team is performing that their boss asked them to do.
The Atlantic has had a consistent subjectivist and egalitarian-nihilist bias, to the point that I don't read them unless I want to debate and argue and grind my teeth.

So, this isn't as far out of character as everyone else seems to think.

I don't understand the connection between Scientology and the other stuff I mentioned, but even before this, it could not be said that this publication had integrity or practiced honesty.
Welcome to the new Myspace - The New MYSPACE is now open to the Public
I agree with that, but I'd also say openness mandates should be added to every entity that takes taxpayer funding, including, for example, Lockheed, SpaceX, and just about every pharmaceutical company.
Your own profile provides an excellent example of this phenomenon -- you have a "must-read list". Valuable contributions from the past mean certain people get noticed more in the present.
The Tampa Bay Times has a good long-running series on Scientology as well: http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/
It's not easy to check: PACER does not provide that sort of functionality and the courts have not bothered to record death of defendant as a data field. You're welcome to attempt this project by hand; it will probably take you the rest of your natural life.

PACER was designed and implemented in the days when AOL and Compuserve were the Internet. It doesn't have an API.
You know, you have a good point. Now what about this family's children? Perhaps they will qualify for half of Medicaid and half of a food stamps subscription while they're attending their $30,000/yr preschool.
Came across Ciphergraph (http://www.ciphergraph.com/) at Microsoft accelerator demo day on Jan 11th (http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/accelerator/Accelerator_compa...).They offer solutions in cloud security. Their VPN offering looks similar to CryptoSeal. Good that consumers have more choice in this space.
Some rejoinders to myself:

1. Personal information isn't the kind of information Swartz was attempting to liberate. It was publicly funded academic research behind paywalls. There is no principle of symmetry to appeal to. (If I am incorrect and the intent was that "information wants to be free," then symmetry holds: one cannot consistently be free with the information of others and prefer the exiguous disclosure of one's own.)

2. The government has systematically violated the laws it was accusing Swartz of violating many times over. (An inadmissible legal argument, I understand, but historically valid.)

3. His assets may have been frozen.

4. The disproportionate legal action against Swartz is an indication of the government's cyberspace vulnerability. It is also an indication of the imprecision of the law as it is written.
I think our disagreement boils down to one thing. You believe our legal system could be fairly and justly encapsulated in a document perhaps the size of a dime novel, if only people had the forethought to make laws the way programmers (that godly race) write programs.

Yes, I'm being a little bit snarky. I can't help it. Besides the part where the real world is infinitely more intricate than a computer, software projects routinely fall into exactly the sort of chaos you are saying a pragmatic "boolean" approach to law would avoid.

There's an effect whose name I cannot remember that people in tech fields are particularly prone to fall victim to, wherein an individual wildly underestimates the amount of difficulty and effort required to tackle fields which are not his own. I believe you are falling victim to this effect.
Overall, university research is about 50/50 split between public dollars and private dollars. Coincidentally, Chicago's CTA receives about 50% of its operating budget from taxes. Should I get on the next Metra train and refuse to pay the ticket price?
> Have you been in prison?

I've been in a submerged metal tube for some number of months. In many respects it's a worse environment than prison (though I can at least vouch for my fellow "inmates").

No email, no internet, no sleep, the stupid periscope watch with hydraulic oil dripping on your face.

Of course, I chose to do that. I would think that aaronsw knew that some nominal prison term would be a possibility of the choices he made, but I can only speak for myself.
We're actually looking at hardware tamper-resistance (HSMs, Intel TXT, etc.)

We got started looking at how to make "trusted clouds", using DRM/tamper-resistant tech. The problem is building that in a way that anyone could actually adopt is really hard, so we figured we'd work on some related, easier problems, where we could build some of that tech internally and use it where it makes sense, first (key management, etc.)
No I am saying that under the social system in which marriage was formalized it was expected that people would have kids because there was no birth control and people like to have sex, kids were pretty much assumed as a general byproduct of marriage. And for the vast majority of the couples it was true so the barren were rounding error and were not considered as a separate case.
The journals don't charge for the content. They charge for the task of curating and editing those articles. It's actually a lot of work to turn the incomprehensible gibberish that researchers pass off as a first draft into something consumable by human readers.
ggplot & R aren't really for "out-vizzing" anyone.

While d3 is a great tool for analysis as well, it's more for presentation than exploration, I think.

R and ggplot2 are for exploration & analysis, with the added benefit that ggplot2 makes wonderful plots fit for publication. They're quite beautiful, and well done, but not creating interactive, shiny visualizations.

They all have their place in the ecosystem.
University Hacker Olympics
Customer Trust
I fail to understand how a for-profit corporation that sells your privacy to the $500 billion advertising/media/branding industry is a better steward of this information than a not for profit organization that simply charges a fee for their services.
Simple Session-Sharing in Tomcat Cluster Using the Session-in-Cookie Pattern II
Unfortunately, you are treading extremely close to saying "high IQ = mental illness". I don't think it has to be that way or should be that way. If I live another fifty years, hopefully I can make some headway on changing that general status quo (edit: I mean the very common view of "there is a fine line between genius and insanity" and the high social stress so many intelligent people routinely endure, yes, at a cost to their mental health).
GAS: Getting profile information for users in a Google Apps domain :
I can certainly see the site being impacted by a large number of concurrent visitors. The service embeds each PDF with the current datestamp, so every access is taking more server time than bandwidth.

The response time on an example PDF for me was around 10 seconds.
As true as this is, there will always be some cost. Whether it's a teenager who just cleared their history after some lewd excursions or a company director after power cycling her iPhone, not every cache will be warm. Since sites that require jQuery tend to depend on it to work at all, we do put considerable faith in that HTTP request going flawlessly for our fast page start. Of course there are a host of reasons why we would do this, but I think it's worth being aware that, as the saying goes, you don't get for nothin'.
This is a great list.

From a pure graphic design standpoint, I would recommend The Elements of Typography Style to any developer, as well as Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton. A solid understanding of typography is maybe the most important, and definitely the most immediately useful, facet of design.

Interesting point about Muller-Brockmann as well. It's essentially a collection of case studies about working within constraints.
This is a really nice Streisand effect for Hopper.

What is wrong with autoskip? If you can time-shift your show, why can't you skip around it however you like?
WoW! this is cool!
Typically advertorials use a distinct font and possibly rules (as in borders, lines) to differentiate itself from straight editorial. Sure, we know the difference. And yes, it actually does feel different, and yes that matters.
The Atlantic suspends the Scientology advertorial
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>Comments cannot.

I disagree. While the comments won't break your code, they can certainly ease the introduction of bugs, and cause cognitive delays when they're wrong or out of date.

Comments need as much care as the code itself, with the DRY principle guiding when they need to be pruned.
It seems that in many cases the documents were produced with US taxpayer money or are in the public domain for other reasons. So in those cases requiring that readers agree to a restrictive license is not making it "easier to access documents" in the long term.
I've been meaning to make a Chrome extension for SelectorGadget (https://github.com/iterationlabs/selectorgadget/) but haven't had time. That might be a fun project for you.
It's true that long-term the government shouldn't be investing, but it can sometimes help to get things going. Israel was successful in this regard - it gave some funding in the 90's and then got out of the way. The questions is if Canada really needs that same boost.
Y Combinator invests in pay-per-install installer piggybacking bundling firm
Interesting.... in the last minute I (coincidentally) watched as they pulled down the page and replaced it with:

We have temporarily suspended this advertising campaign pending a review of our policies that govern sponsor content and subsequent comment threads
Lessons from Kafka: Aaron Swartz and Prosecutorial Overreaching
I think it's some sort of postmodern Gödel sentence formally demonstrating the inability of brogrammer culture to reason about anything.
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"Subsequent comment threads"? You don't say.
Well for a legal prosecutor "legally wrong" is the point that matters (and it's this way for a very important reason).

Likewise the state prosecutes in some situations even if the "victim" doesn't want to press charges, as the responsibility of the state extends far beyond just the party that was allegedly wronged.

I've mentioned it elsewhere but it's well enough to reiterate: Even know we know that there was a plea offer actually on the table for a 6-8 month prison sentence, even with the failure of the legal fund drive for Aaron. That is not "serious time", is well in line with first-time offenders where the offender doesn't cause major damage, etc. Aaron didn't want to accept the offer because he would still be a "Felon", but that was his choice to make.

And also, as I've mentioned elsewhere, many, many people have faced Federal charges and not killed themselves. It was only 50 years ago that poor sharecroppers were having fire hoses turned on them, flaming crosses, and being strung up and killed for simply trying to be judged on their actions.

So I would like to think we can maintain perspective on what types of government abuse might reasonably lead to someone taking their own life, and then look at what was going on here, and honestly compare.
It was a great article but this sentence had me a bit confused:
"Well, a typical machine at the end of 2012 has 24 GB of memory, you’ll need an overhead of 4-5 GB for the OS, another couple, at least, to handle requests, and a tweet id is 8 bytes."

My Desktop has like 40 chrome processes, is running GeoServer on Tomcat (currently idle, but whatever), and the entire Unity desktop environment. I'm currently at 2.7GB. What kind of server OS needs 4-5GB?
No, let's not do this. We don't need the scientific literature fucked as badly as Google fucked the USENET archives.
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It seems to me that part of the problem is that people are attempting to fix education at a level higher than the school itself.
In other words, by adding regulation at a State or National level, you disregard the skill of the people running any particular school - the principal of the school and ancillary people in place to govern that single school.

I know one data point is not science, but serves to illustrate my point. My brother-in-law is a successful businessman to the degree that he no longer has to work, and mostly doesn't. His children go to a small, non US, school, which is autonomous. It is governed by a small school board (who do not govern other schools.) The board has accountability, but is largely autonomous.

So, one of the subjects the kids can take is Business related. He looks at the cariculum, and essentially volunteers to teach it. Of course being successful in business doesn't imply he can actually teach, but it really easy to find out, and guide him, improve him and so on.

He has enormous credibility with the students (since they all want to retire young as well) and he brings a wealth of information and experience to them which is not in the book. He might not be the perfect teacher, but if the kids WANT to learn from him, then he hardly needs to be.

This year he's piloting a program that will see all the high-schoolers (14 years old and up) start and run a real business. Real in the sense that they get investment from outside, by pitching to investors - real in the sense that they will be registered like any other business, pay taxes and so on. Not all will go on to be entrepreneurs, but any that do have all the skills before finishing high school.

Oh, and of course, he's only teaching a couple periods a day. It's the perfect marriage of skill, availability and willingness to pass it on. And it's only possible because the local school governance evaluated him, recognized the value, and we're able to creatively use that value.

It's impossible to replace all the teachers with people like him. And it's impossible to replicate him at other schools. Bt running a school is hard enough, without having them conform to some national ideal of what someone thinks every teacher should look like.

If we trust our principals, and local school committees, then ultimately they are motivated to do the best they can for the children, with whatever resources they have. Sure it's not fair, some schools will do better than others, but at least they can do the best with what they have.
Yeah, I really like it.

It's a nice little oasis of Functional style in an otherwise pretty un-Functional language.
Express with Node
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I'm hoping that it's not a national version of the PMP program that PEI had (and may still have) a few years ago, and will be spread out to those needing funding instead of folks that know the right people. But you're right it's got that slightly fishy smell to it. Guess the only way we'll know for sure is if we see all the money flowing into Conservative held ridings and/or associates. It'd be great for my current employer (startup out in the middle of nowhere in a Conservative riding that is getting government grants), but it's not the way it should be done.
This just takes money from taxpayers who won't see a dime of the upside and gives it to VCs so they won't have to risk a dime on the downside. Why is this a good idea?
Either Qalb, Alb or Galb.

Depends on the origin.
Hmm. As a fiancee visa recipient (now Lawful Permanent Resident) who is necessarily familiar with that area of immigration law, your proposal is probably more interesting than you realize.

US Citizens who wish to petition USCIS to grant permanent residency to their fiancee or spouse must, as part of the petition process, sign a form that creates a legal contract with the US Government that the US Citizen sponsor must repay any means-tested social benefits the beneficiary receives. This is in addition to the filing fees incurred as part of the process.

Given that this bond must be created as part of the process, I could see your proposal as potentially being OK, except that USCIS would have to set up rules to limit this ability if the sponsor fails in their implicit duties to get the beneficiary on their feet. Basically, I see it as potentially being a privilege, not a right.
Petition for MIT to Apologize for Aaron Swartz
From the article:

The Pentagon says that although the military suicide rate has been rising, it remains below that of the civilian population. It says the civilian suicide rate for males aged 17-60 was 25 per 100,000 in 2010, the latest year for which such statistics are available. That compares with the military’s rate in 2012 of 17.5 per 100,000.

The quote "Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan" sounds shocking, but it's pure yellow journalism. The United States armed forces are vast, employing 1.4 million active duty personnel. By the end of 2012, there were only approximately 68,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan.

This is a shameful piece of journalism, authored by someone who is either innumerate or utterly cynical. There is no excuse for misrepresenting data in this manner.
What should I read next?
Nginx has also formed the basis of CloudFoundry's routing tier, and this cloudfoundry.com and appfog.com. Nginx load balancing can be very simple, but you can customize it to your heart's content with Lua [1].

You can also use it for your application tier with Passenger, [U]WSGI, FPM, FCGI...

[1] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release/blob/master/jobs/...
Memory profiling in Chrome dev tools