skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An example that comes to mind is when I was at university a fellow student built something that was effectively a speed dating type website for students.

He put out the code on the university FTP server so I got a chance to look at it. Plenty of stuff in there that could easily have been exploited, luckily the site didn't really take off and I was able to help him fix the vulnerabilities (at least the ones that I could identify).

If someone malicious had got into that , they would have been able to read a whole bunch of information including private messages sent between users, that could have been something that could certainly have had some bad effects on some people's lives.
While I do support public scrutiny of the obviously terrible process that led to Aaron's heavy-handed prosecution, I think people need to not jump to sexy, but obviously wrong conclusions, especially of they want to be seen as the side of logic and rationality. It reminded me of the whole SOPA debate, when so many were so quick to claim it a Republican scheme because its main author was a Texas Republican, and, I suspect, because of the whole Alaska Republican senator Ted Stevens "series of tubes"/net neutrality fight and from partisan biases...If the effort had been focused on slamming the Republican party, then SOPA/PIPA might have passed alone on its many Democratic benefactors, including Sen. Al Franken, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and Sen. Pat Leahy (nevermind the many Republican opponents, such as Rep. Issa and the Paul family).

As much as I'd like to say that the hacker demographic does a better job of researching the facts, it seems they're just as susceptible to emotion and bias...which is fine, it's just a blind spot to be aware of and to be willing to quickly correct.
One scenario:
Businesses use Office. Business are still doing their work largely on desktops but if there's an Office App for iPad some might be more likely to get iPads instead of laptops.
IPhone & iPad printable sketching templates (iPhone 5 included)
Group design and brainstorming works great on the paper. It is convenient to use iPhone and iPad sketching templates to think and collaborate on mobile user experience and user interactions within your team.

Here we share our PDF templates for iPhone and iPad UX/UI sketching.
I'll admit to a fair share of kneejerk annoyance to her writing and her attitudes in general.

But my sense of her article is that she's maybe a bit insensitive to the person who was his current partner, Taren. Some feelings aren't meant to be written down and shared with all the world to see.
>> while balancing the interests of researchers, students, libraries, and publishers

Almost all of whom got a sizable chuck of their money for doing research from the taxpayer.
So I don't know how long it will take but one of my side project ideas is to build an Instagram-like photo sharing social network that uses your Dropbox for storage. Since a lot of my ideas turn out to be unoriginal, does anyone know if this already exists?

All I can find so far are apps and IFTTT recipes to back up your Instagram photos to Dropbox, e.g. https://instadrop.appspot.com/. But what appeals to me here is the idea of decoupling the app (photo sharing with filters) from the storage (Dropbox). I think that might give users more control and create new possibilities.
Why do you need an icon? Google Translate doesn't.
With the help of Parse's platform and this anypic tutorial/template I went from 'I built a simple Ruby web service once' to having created a fully customized Instagram-like service in about three months of 30% of my time spent on development. In the end, virtually everything was replaced and/or altered.
Libell Duran Height Bio
He did return the data, in a sense. He gave JSTOR the hard drives containing the articles he copied and assured them that it was the only copy.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/us/20compute.html?_r=0

You're right in that return is probably the wrong word though, because it implies that they were "gone" in the first place.
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw
Why the Java Bug is a Big Deal
Clone (or pull latest) for all repositories under any GitHub account - shell
There are articles on the web about Instagram's history. If I recall correctly, a couple of people built the first version in a small number of months including both server and client. The server used Python, PostgreSQL, Redis and Linux.
Multiple registration of callbacks and "too many similar events firing" (and even circular event firing : event A triggers event B, event B triggers event A) can all be solved by using event filtering no!?

I'm not saying it's a good thing to work around the issue by using event filtering, but events filtering is a great technique.

You can also use your event filtering to "fail fast" during development: detect a duplicated event called back? Throw an exception / make your application fail.
The apple apparently did not fall very far from the tree.
We do all realize that there's a difference between breaking locks and trespassing, right?
IIRC Steve Jobs strongly denied the existence of a phone and/or tablet until ideas announced.
How Does A Car Work?
Report: NASA open source project slowed by commercial vendor
FTA: By targeting corruption and white-collar crime, the US attorney is restoring our faith in the system.

WTF? On what planet is Whitey Bulger either corruption and white-collar crime? He was finally found in Santa Monica with $600K and a cache of guns in the walls of a rent-controlled apartment.

As near as I can tell, she is a straight-up opportunist looking for political attention.
There is light at the end of the tunnel - or at least I hope. A few major private sector banks have moved away, I hope the public sector banks follow suite.
I'm OK with mentioning Betteridge every time this comes up until people stop writing silly rhetorical questions in their headlines.
Where to get 1099 forms for 2012
Before you make a bigger fool of yourself why don't you go and read up on what Aaron did besides the things you know about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
> Quite aptly, this link is behind a pay wall.

Not really: Open up a private browser (ctrl-shift N on chrome, eg) then paste the link.
Has anybody upvoting this actually read the article? It is just a database error for me. (originally tried to read it at around 9 points).
One thing I wish Aaron had done while he was alive was be as diligent as rallying support for himself as he did for the anti-SOPA efforts. For civic-minded people, it's almost always easier to drum up support for a cause than for yourself...still...had he been relentless -- he could've posted bimonthly updates on the case and made the top of HN, Reddit, BoingBoing, etc -- all of us would've had his case near the top of our minds. As it is, I can't be the only one who hadn't thought about JSTOR in awhile, and had assumed that his defense (given his skills and his alliances) was going as well as it possibly could.

A Redditor started the campaign to raise $700K for the bullied bus driver. How easily that could've been raised for Aaron
http://www.columbiatribune.com/wire/bullied-bus-driver-fund-...
Spend some time with the spiders of Mars and help science
I think you'd have to narrow it further than WWII. France was involved in colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria (the latter involved lots and lots of torture). England has participated in most of the US adventures and a few of their own (Suez, Northern Ireland, Falklands). Japan and Germany have kept their noses clean since WWII but that's partly a side effect of the complete asskicking they received in the war, rather than some innate cultural appreciation of peace and human rights. Up until recently France was conducting nuclear tests in the Pacific and their agents were apparently involved in the sinking of a protest ship in New Zealand.

England and Germany have much greater limitations on free speech than does the United States.
Added bonus: This makes the article potentially interactive! You may receive a knock in the night.
From the webcache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

>>>

Aaron was an activist, a champion, and a really smart guy who worked on things he really cared about. So much has been said about his life, his death, and his fight for research open access — and I’m glad to be part of this conversation. I’m very glad to have helped Eva Vivalt (@evavivalt) start the #pdftribute movement, to spread the word about putting academic papers online for #openaccess.

Late last night, I noticed that Eva was opening access to her papers online in tribute to the memory of Aaron Swartz. I tweeted to some people I know in Silicon Valley, and to some friends of Aaron’s, and then Anonymous picked it up — and we’ve now had millions of impressions and over 500 tweets per hour.

This is something we can do for the memory of Aaron Swartz, and to lead the way toward more access to the scientific process for everyone. As Eva says:

Where will this go? Well, maybe someone can scrape the pdfs together into a repository. Maybe #pdftribute can be a pledge to avoid paywalls in the future. Maybe we can push journals for more change. JSTOR’s gradual opening has been heartening, but there is still more to do.
http://google.com/search?&q=cache:http://sciencecitizen....
The article was just an elaborate summary on the title by @venturejessica

It was working at the time I posted and even 2 minutes ago but I am getting a "Database Error" just like you. Here's another link which confirms the title of the article - - https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/290387879602032640. If appropriate, I can edit to change the link on the submission.

Please advice, thanks.
Does your MS major matter?
In the Tech workspace, does it matter whether your MS is in Software Engineering or in Software Systems?
35 years for downloading something that is morally, and supposedly be free (funded by taxpayer money)? This is a big joke! I believe homicide cases dished out lighter sentences.

If access to journals, or more accurately scientific research, is to be restricted in such manner, then all government should stop funding/ providing grants for scientific researches, at least not from taxpayers money. These interested parties, namely the journals publishers, should come out with such funds as eventually they are making money from such works. It's ridiculous for the public to fund their business.

RIP Aaron Swartz.... you have make yourself heard, loud and clear, to the civil society.
Thanks! You sir, are awesome!
She must be fired for this prosecutorial overreach. Now.
This is a great control! thanks for sharing.
And then what happened to it? What did you do with it?
You think Aaron would have let the DA put him on some kind of suicide watch when he wasn't even in custody?

I don't think you're thinking this through. It's natural to be angry, but the DA didn't do anything wrong in relation to his depression, even if the prosecution was unjust for other reasons.
Alcorn McBride | Full-Time | Orlando, FL

Hardware/Software Design Engineer

We develop audio, video, lighting, and show control systems for themed entertainment. You'll find our equipment in the world's biggest theme parks, museums, and attractions. We're looking for someone with general knowledge of Digital Video technology and Video Compression. RTOS/Embedded software experience is ideal.

It's amazing to see the things our creative customers do with our equipment, and it's exciting to work on next-generation tools and hardware to enable our customers to create the "next-big-thing". You'll wear a lot of hats(today I'm bouncing between debugging a PC application and working on an FPGA design), but your primary focus will be on our video products. If you'd like to chat about it, my contact info is in my profile.

For more details and to apply, you can check out the job listing on our website: http://alcorn.com/alcorn-mcbride-jobs/
Myth-busting State schools vs private
> Particularly in the moment when the most high profile product of that zeal is that seems to have contributed to someone's death.

No offense to Aaron (who is by all accounts even smarter than I) but many, many people get charged with Federal crimes (even those with 30 year sentences) and don't go and kill themselves. Especially when they're as innocent as everyone describe him to be.

In some of those cases the defendant gets to use it as an opportunity to thumb their nose at the prosecution the entire way along (a kind of "reverse bully-pulpit"). It really sounded to me that Aaron had built a good case for himself once they dropped the trespassing charge, especially in light of everything that's come out since his suicide. So I don't understand it...
no, YOU'RE
MandarinTap - Is it Native? What is the tech stack? Questions answered.
No

Referer works for the 'end of the link' (the webserver serving the page)

Bitly and others provide statistics on the 'clicking' of the link, that is, the amount of people that clicked the link (usually published on social media, but not necessarily, by someone that's not the original content host). That's the impact they're trying to measure.

And sometimes it is the content host that published these links, because of a limited capability in deriving these statistics server side (even though Google Analytics goes a long way)
Academia.edu - Share research
Ah, sorry for my misunderstanding.

A researcher doing a literature review can easily get through fifty papers in a week. Most of them we scan to get the gist and follow up on the references looking for the few things we really need to read properly. This is a key research skill acquired by reading hundreds, eventually thousands, of papers. You get really good at it.

And that's just the papers you want to read. For each one of those I might download three based on a promising abstract to find the thing is irrelevant after all.

Thus an independent researcher with only public JSTOR access is seriously disadvantaged compared to a subscriber.
England and France ?
Lol
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23pdftribute&src=typd
Both of the people calling for the deletion of the article about Demand Progress are conservative/libertarian. One is even a member of American Legion.

This appears to be a partisan issue, but of course their calls for deletion quote Wikipedia policy.
Not sure if it's just me, but when I checked the petition about an hour ago, when I woke up, there were just over 20K signers, now I check and the number has gone down to 19,879.
The problem with Referer is that only the server/host get's to see it. Often people publish their stuff on other people's platform, and can't access the stats.
Ignoring the fact public domain gets complicated when you're an international organization (there's many journals which are public domain in the US but aren't anywhere in the world because of historical anomalies in US copyright law), JSTOR is essentially built on relationships.

JSTOR has access to the current archives of the journals because of the relationships it has with the publishers, if the publishers weren't happy with what JSTOR were doing they could just pull their licences for their current journals. If that happened JSTOR would basically collapse.

It just doesn't make sense for JSTOR to do it, when a third-party who doesn't have any relationships to the publishers could do it just as well (you can easily get physical copies of most historical public domain journals either via the open market or via libraries and scan them).
Sorry for the site issues -- please do read the cache below. And support #pdftribute and #openaccess!
As a "drop out" technical manager, I have hired about 50% with CS/CE degrees, 10% with non applicable degrees and 40% with no degree at all.
Nevermind, i see i was reading the wrong side of the numbers.
As seems typical for popular Twitter hashtags, it's mostly just people discussing the hashtag itself and relatively few links to papers.
Wanted to highlight that resetting the account is possible from the death screen, thanks, but resetting does not give me any tokens (I don't even get the default tokens associated with a new account)

Also, I am a bit unclear regarding the whole rewards/tokens system. Is there any way I can get additional tokens without paying for them? To explain myself so as to not sound liek a complete cheapskate, I live in India, and the USD-INR exchange rate isn't exactly favourable.
I imagine this is quite close to how PhoneGap apps already work, and how your browser already asks you whether you want to share your location with a website
To make things simple, when I mentioned it means a recurring model of payment.
As per my knowledge Windows is still dominating in market so a windows based desktop app.
Same here! Love the concept of own rewards! For example, your default rewards include 1 episode of Game of Thrones. Suppose I don't watch GoT (I do, but still, you understand the idea)? What then? Also, mit would be great if I could also specify the amount for each reward. I understand sometimes it may defeat the purpose, but still, IMHO that would be cool too
The New Heello by Twitpic's Founder Noah Everett
Apparently he broke very minor laws, though, that don't even imply any jail time.
This is the most bizarre article I've read in a long time as it does not reflect anything close the reality I currently live in.

I am currently seeking a job, and just about every place I went to interview has asked me to bring a dead-tree copy of my resume. If I didn't have a copy with me, the interviewer always had a printed copy so he or she could take notes on it.

Every place that I have applied has asked for either a .docx or .pdf.

At my last job, I was responsible for sifting resumes. Just about everyone sent me a .docx and very very few sent me a .pdf. I would posit that very few people actually know how to create a PDF.

I can't confirm this, but I am suspicious of anything that says markdown is commonly used and serves as a replacement for most people. I am comfortable enough in this suspicion that I will counter, without data, that the vast majority of people don't know what markdown is, much less how to use it.

The MS Suite is well superior to anything else out there that I have used. If you need a full document product that can do advanced layouts, there is nothing else that can replace it.

People don't use Power Point? Really? People don't use Outlook? Is this all a joke? Just about everyone that I have dealt with use these items, and no, I never worked at a Fortune 500 company.

So, why isn't there an Office or any other Suite on your iPad? Think about it:

I can type between 70 and 80 wpm on my computer. I can't thumb-type in a partial keyboard very fast at all. Could you imagine trying to read a spreadsheet on a tablet? I know you can, but I'd prefer to not bother discovering how much of a nightmare this would become.

This last point contradicts the above, but saying that X product doesn't exist on a device doesn't mean that X product is worthless or dead. I don't have Illustrator on my tablet, but I don't assume that there is no one using it at all.
I love this idea! The question is, is the law written in such a way that you could delineate the geographic and contextual boundaries to which it applies?

I have a sneaking suspicion that it's not so clear. I'd love to be proven wrong, though!
YouTube Deletes The Page of Syrian Revolutionary Group Jabhat Al Nusra
It's been said in the other threads but it bears repeating: while Ortiz is by all accounts an opportunistic US attorney on a mission to attain political office, and as such will always be part of the system rather than strive to change it, it's important to remember that the one pushing Aaron's case out of proportion was really Steve Heymann.

To a certain degree it's appropriate to question the involvement and lack of restraint displayed by powerful people running up the chain of command, but let's not forget that in the end it takes a malevolent executing instrument to make these things happen to victims who can't possibly defend themselves. This instrument is Heymann, not Ortiz.

Of course, judicial and executive malevolence and malfeasance don't exist in a vacuum. There are jobs that disproportionally attract certain kinds of people who are, for want of a better term, somewhat evil. We as a society encourage them (e.g. by measuring their conviction rate instead of how reasonable and just they are in office) and then we are surprised by the appalling nature of the system. We need to stop doing that, but I see no realistic way of accomplishing this with any degree of public support in the current climate.

At the very least though we should recognize that these "public servants" have way too much power and there are clearly not enough checks and balances in the system to prevent this kind of abuse.
It's a nice sentiment, but thanks to the Open Access movement, most recently published papers are already available online somewhere, and the people talking about #pdftribute are the people most likely to have already shared their papers. Important historical papers, even those that are now public domain, are still behind paywalls. As Aaron said, "even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost." [1]

Sharing your own papers is nice, but it's also safe. It's not really challenging the status quo.

[1] http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=cefxMVAy

Edit: I overstated my point. I don't know that "most" papers are already available; it certainly varies a lot by field. I kind of doubt that many #pdftributers are people that weren't previously sharing their papers, though.
I think until a system has been built up to manage this process, any postings will be more symbolic (as tribute) than of practical value. However, that's not to say that someone will see the need for something like this and build it. The inspiration has to start somewhere.
Even after using the incognito mode in Chrome the article is still is behind a pay wall for me. Probably, it depends on the location - I am not based out of the US.
Who is this guy? This trip is going to be more challenging than ascending Mt Everest. Unless this guy is an extreme adventure hiker, this is going to end badly or he is going to quit. I hope for his sake he gives up early.

If this were a trip planned by someone like Andrew Skurka, then I'd believe it, but this is a journalist with a crazy plan.
When does data access become data theft?(2011 article)
> Late last night, I noticed that Eva was opening access to her papers online in tribute to the memory of Aaron Swartz.

That's good, but why didn't she offer them on her webpage before that? At least in the natural sciences, that is quite common now. The ArXiv is also a very popular option by now that is accepted by most journals.

For a few months now, started by a blog post of Timothy Gowers, a large group of researchers has been pushing for reform too, and in particular has been pressuring Elsevier into making their content more accessible: http://thecostofknowledge.com/ .
you can create custom rewards and specify custom amounts. Here's a screen of these options http://goo.gl/1T3yu
The Cost of Knowledge -  Researchers Taking a Stand
Most people who murder get sentences of 30+ years, many get life and some get death.

I agree that 20 years is excessive for Gonzales, but it's not the same as (many) murderers.
This comes after wordpress and facebook shut down the page of Al Nusra, the page you tube shut down was for the supporters of Jabhat Al Nusra not an official page. The person may wonder why Google keeps the offensive Anti ISlam movie innocence of Muslim while shutting Al Nusra supporters page? why it is free speech to insult islam while there is no free speech to support the revolution against the terrorist regime of Bashar Al Asad who killed 60,000 civilians on Syria many of them women and children?
It is clear big companies google facebook and others are biased toward US gov anti islam and Muslims policies.