skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sentence do you think Aaron should have been facing in court? How about someone who roots and wipes a multiuser box for revenge? How do you discriminate between the two?

I've got a hard time trying to come up with something "right" because it doesn't feel like Aaron's access should really be a crime at all, and JSTOR can go for civil damages or criminal copyright infringement. And it also doesn't feel like we need a law to punish someone for using a computer while defrauding a bank, because we've already got a law for defrauding a bank that even gets applied when you do it in person. And to the extent that one can cause purely virtual destruction (and hence not have any physical world laws apply), that should be the thing that is addressed as the primary crime, instead of having a lone charge of something that is usually bundled on top of other crimes to punish harder.

What about punishment of cracking applying solely to damage done to the cracked systems (either categorically or monetarily, and possibly including something like your tests)? This would also put someone who successfully tries an sshd exploit and then emails the administrator completely in the right - something we've never had. What scenarios would this leave completely unpunished (with no applicable laws), and can those just be fixed with similar categories?
They do have science on their side: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17619-its-true-all-the...
What, you mean "issue 9" isn't a catchy enough name?
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The payment is just acting as a low level barrier for initial contact.
It's television.
This sounds absolutely terrible. Hopefully they've made significant changes, but the stuff included in the OP's link fits with the story beats mentioned in my link below.

From a review submitted to AICN:
"If this script is unchanged as HBO begins production, it will be one of the worst pilots HBO has ever aired. The draft I read is dated mid October, so God willing Mike Judge (and other writers John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky) get their act together. Frankly, I had to re-read this twice to really take in just how God awful it is.

Even shorter review: Mike Judge drives through Silicon Valley. Once. He then fills a script with uninteresting stereotypes. It is not funny. At all."

"This isn't Office Space humor of reality/biting sarcasm. This isn't Idiocracy humor of the absurd. It's like a drive by concept, that in execution lacks any semblance of humor, because the world they've created isn't believable and the characters they've populated in it lack any semblance of reality."

link to full review: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/60283
If.you're a fan of Kayak explore you might find http://tripcommon.com interesting - essentially aggregating deals like that but for multiple people coming from different origins
This is kind of scientific from an evolutionary stand point. The company is allowing males to setup a mating ritual display to appear more desirable. I don't know if its scientific, but my fisrt hand experience always had me being more desirable to the opposite sex when I was in a relationship. Now that I wear a wedding band around my finger, I could swear that the effect has increased. Which is quite funny at some times, but very uncomfortable at others.

But I wonder what purpose in the evolutionary side of things does the company play? Are they doing like some species that help others mate through their own mechanisms? Or am I just too tired from programming all day and writing endless babble?
Note that Deepak Chopra, the CEO of OSI Systems (the scanner manufacturer in the article), is not the same person as Deepak Chopra, the alternative medicine doctor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra_(disambiguation)
Goroutines are extremely lightweight. It is common to run hundreds of thousands of them on one machine. (The main reason for that is goroutines start off with a very small stack and extend it as necessary)

It is up to executorService to decide how many threads to use to execute those tasks. But they will be executed in threads. So you are unlikely to have more than a few hundred(maybe a few thousand?) of them around at any time.
ARM backers jump on Facebook’s server bandwagon
Lisp's problem has not been a lack of visibility, as a web full of smug Lisp advocates demonstrates. I've personally been hearing about how amazing it is, how everyone writing Lisp will be incredibly productive for at least 15 years — during which absolutely nothing of significance written in Lisp has shipped even while some ideas developed or popularized in Lisp have spread to many popular languages.

Almost every single time this has come up, someone has cited drawbacks: lack of a standard high-quality implementation, limited libraries and, somewhat less universally, highly idiosyncratic coding styles hurting interoperability.

This generally gets a mix of dismissal or vague promises that it'll get better real soon now. Meanwhile, the only claim Lisp has on mainstream status in 2013 runs on the JVM so it has credible tools, performance and libraries. I would argue that this is neither coincidental nor caused by lack of unidirectional advocacy.
I still haven't figured out which mountains I'm supposed to be viewing in Mountain View.
I work in a GIS shop, and I do mapping and location based stuff on the side. I am a fan of Postgres. MySQL may have some spatial components, but it's like saying that you're a pro painter cause you bought a $200 paint sprayer at Home Depot. MySQL does have cluster/replication support, but their bolt on stuff feels, well.... bolted on! Every time I use a new Postgres feature, I feel like it was actually developed. (hstore is the newest thing I'm working with)
Definitely working on this. The function I had wasn't lining things up properly, so I may have to change the framework of how I'm doing it to get it to work. It was super buggy and I didn't want that clouding it up for initial release.

It'll be in v1.1
It was the price that made it special. There were (and still are) dozens of boards just like Pi's with better specs but they all cost around $100.

There's a certain price at which something becomes "consumable" and you can buy one for each project instead of buying "the one" that gets moved from project to project. That bright line makes all the difference.

They are damn lucky they started with the $35 one and not the $25 one like they planned. It would have been (will be) much harder to keep up with demand when they become the same price as Arduino.
Is it productive to society to convict someone of, say, "hiding one's identity in furtherance of a computer crime" (or the actual legal equivalent of those made up words I just typed) if that "computer crime" wasn't proven?
Among PUA circles, this is known as preselection, an effect where women become more attracted to men that are already "chosen" by other women, so they may be onto something.
He claims he was duped. There's not evidence he faked the death or knew his girlfriend was fake.
I love it. I encourage their presence at NFL games. I hope they give football fans a full body cavity search. Let Joe Sixpack endure their absurdity and maybe we'll actually see progress toward ending the TSA.
Just because they say they want to monitor Amtrak doesn't mean they can afford to. There are too many stations and the mode of travel itself doesn't lend itself well to surveillance (you board and leave as you please). I'm not saying they couldn't, but it would be a massive undertaking. At best, they could lock down major stations like DC's Union or New York's Penn, and it would all be a joke anyway because a "threat" could've boarded at Wilmington or Ticonderoga.
http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp
Admittedly I don't know a lot about the NFL, but I was fairly sure it was a sports league. Can you explain to me how it has become a mode of transportation?
"Due to a loophole that allows them to secure any mode of transportation, TSA is expanding its presence and showing up at NFL games"

So an NFL game is now considered a mode of transportation?
Also R$39 is actually only $20. Brazilian Real is R$2 to US$1.
This is so sad that the website will prob. be profitable soon by all the buzz.
Nice job, here are my suggestions:

1. Top orange bar is way too thick, especially since it stays fixed and does not "scroll away" after paging down. We don't all have iPhone5's.

2. I agree with others who have suggested making it somewhat easier to hit the "go to comments" and close story buttons.

3. Sharing! Would like to be able to copy link to clipboard, post to fb/twitter, send to instapaper/readability/pinboard/delicious and last but not least, email.

Looking forward to v1.1 !
I'd say that name is just a little too similar to chpwn's HN client, news:yc.
Just so you know, I'm one of the authors.

I agree with you 100%.

Unfortunately, the tool we used to format the book doesn't do this for us, so we either have to use a third-party product to do it manually OR write a Python script to generate the bookmarks.

We intend to start working on the Python script tomorrow, and I really want to get it into the BETA release.

Thanks for the feedback!
To clarify, by your own assertion, the CFAA isn't necessary to address specific claims of damage (you have suggested copyright). Removing it would place the justification of damage (for example, copyright) back at the center of the debate, where I think it should be.
You don't blow your money on expensive vacations and new cars. Don't pay retail.

My wife and I are in our mid 30's, put away about 15% of our income and have defined benefit pensions that we contribute 7% into.

It's totally doable. Last year we spent two weeks in Hilton Head and paid about $80/night, we drove from New York to save about 80% vs. flights/car rental. We live in the city we work in and I commute via bus.

It's also totally worth it. We're living we'll now, and will be able to retire in our late 50's with a paid off house. I will not be the guy in his mid 60s trying to hang on to his job.
Our publisher, gumroad, uses Stripe to accept payments. If that doesn't work, we're looking into PayPal, but that might be a few days.
Finally a simple product idea that I am jealous I didn't think about it first. Any HN reader could have thought about this, and many could even implement it in a weekend, yet it was these guys. I salute the open mind, and the entrepreneurial spirit.
DuckDuckGo URL: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test
In similar situations charges could include vandalism, losses resulting from disruption of service, etc, but in the example you have given most likely reckless/public endangerment and direct damages associated with creating or repairing the state of the system; the specific statutes would vary by jurisdiction and case details, but the CFAA doesn't say anything important that hasn't already been accounted for. At the moment people are saying "you can't do this to my data," when they should be saying "you can't do this to my body and my physical property," independent of how. The Internet is just one more way of reaching out and touching someone. People already know the effects that are worth preventing and admonishing. Copyright infringement is one effect being discouraged, not because the data are holy but because of hypothetical financial damages. Whether hypothetical damages are or aren't valid should be discussed directly, without vacuous TOS wrappers and ministrations about the moral uses of data within a network.
Try running it whoutt JS enabled. Nothing says quality like three levels of nested scrollbars.
I guess I see my work desktop as exclusively for work-related activities (plus Facebook and HN). Whereas a work-issued laptop could be a mix of both. I noticed a similar trend in those around me. Don't really see people organizing their photo library on their workstations...
I'm female, but I pretty much just read HN, don't really post much.
Two bills target video games following Sandy Hook tragedy
what produces a money trail? If its all cash, its elusive as drug money. All kinds of things are sold for cash and never reported. You've probably left tips that weren't unreported.
Naked doesn't bother me, it's the radiation from x-ray based scanners.
Ah, you must be talking about the [http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/109/1625196/restaurant/Hot-Choco... chocolatier). That place is amazing. I will definitely drop you line!
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82% of customers happy to buy smartphone without charger to reduce e-waste
TouchEffects
Looks like the cousin or the college friend of some Congressmen is about ready to start a company that makes "new and improved body scanners".
Like a load of "mobile optimised" websites it only gives the smart phone user 5 or so words per line of text. Amazing when you consider my first Internet capable only had a monitor with a mere 60 thousand extra pixels compared to my phone.
People singing a song is not necessarily a public performance.
If you can afford tickets to actually go to an NFL game, you're in the same elite as air travelers if not richer.
I live in the Tenderloin, and it's not that bad. Sure there are a lot of homeless people and drug addicts in the area . As a 24 y/o white male, I have not felt threatened by any of the "sketchy" people here. In fact, most here are very polite saying "excuse me", "be careful with leaving your phone out", and "do you need help with that?". San Francisco is just a friendly place in general. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_r...

Basically the tenderloin is the ugly model. Yeah it's the worst model but still a model. And since the price is half of anywhere else in the city, it's worth it.
Correct Link: http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/110861/how-olde...
OK, I apologize then. That is a different screen from the one I found to sign up at, but I see that my screen also has a checkbox at the bottom.
What about all the startup-type weebly guys that worked for years and years and just never made it?

That quote is just survivorship bias. It also has a whiff of a "blame the victim mentality" embedded within it.

Persistence is necessary for success - as is being alive.

However neither condition is sufficient.
I misread you as running the original method on the proxy object. But if you don't, aren't you missing methods you do want to track called from methods you don't?
Except ECMAScript isn't correct either. ECMAScript is the name of the standard. Each browser implements a (different) subset of it. JavaScript used to be what Mozilla's implementation was called; Microsoft implemented JScript. ActionScript, the scripting language used in Adoble Flash, is also an implementation of ECMAScript.

Modern browsers implement ECMAScript 5; older browsers and AS 2.0 implement ECMAScript 3. ECMAScript 4 was scrapped, but AS 3.0 still implements it. Wikipedia, as usual, has all the gory details if anyone is actually interested http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript
People without assets buy things all the time.
Agree that work plays a huge role in relationship breakdown. Even if you you can't see how, and you feel you're being rational.

When you remove yourself from a stressful work environment, it soon becomes apparent that your attitude toward everything is being influenced.
That's probably pre-financial crisis portfolio returns.
Okay, a few thoughts on the design:

- Hidden side menus are a great solution when you've got a lot of items to display, otherwise use a tab bar. I know sliding deck menus are stylish and all, but tab bars are always going to be faster to use if you have five or less options.

- I'm seeing a lot of sub-44pt controls here. Things like the 'go to comments' bar and some of the sidebar buttons are hard to hit due to their small size.

- The navigation bar here is far too prominent for something that displays such little information. You should really stick to a 44pt navigation bar with a title that actually adds context to what's being displayed.

Otherwise it's a nice looking app, congratulations on launching it!
If Linux kernel code looks like UNIX C code from 25 years ago, I'd argue it is C which hasn't aged well.

C++'s true merit lies in its flexibility to evolve with the latest understanding of how to write good, abstract code with little runtime penalty, IMHO.
I would really like to know the answer to this. If they are just turning around and hitting USPS data for this, then last I checked, they are violating the TOS. Even if you have your own account, you can only use the address validation IF you are also going to ship to that address with USPS.

Perhaps they are using some other address validation service/data that allows for it.
Jumping straight to "from an evolutionary stand point" in these sorts of things is just gross. Evopsych is pretty much BS anyway, and seems to find the most play in circles that enjoy spouting off about how women are this way, and men are that way. The New Yorker had a good article on it.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/09/17/12091...
NY is a funny animal when it comes to roads. Upstate, the thruway, state highways, and interstates are pretty good. The State and Feds fund this.

County roads often suck because the counties are broke for a variety of reasons. City streets are awful because the state doesn't provide any aid -- although "towns" (some of which are bigger than cities) do.

The other thing is related to NY being ahead of the curve on highway construction. Many of the "expressways" and "parkways" in the NYC metro area are ineligible for federal highway funds because they connect toll bridges, but don't receive any toll money.

Massachusetts has a road system designed by masochists who didn't drive. No amount of money could fix it.
That script just reminds me this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzNRUkl9BoY&list=PL88631E...

How I love the Valley.
You are not entitled to verbally abuse other people, and this is not changed by waving your hands at the "real world" or how you are supposedly doing me a favor by explaining that you are not the only asshole (I am likely older than you).

Anybody of any age with a sense of self-worth and morality will not work in the kind of toxic environment you are defending as necessary. Utopia doesn't exist, but avoiding people like you is all too possible.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof and the onus is on Lisp advocates to explain why there are so few real-world Lisp success stories. Calling everybody else stupid isn't good enough."

You seem to be suggesting that some technical shortcoming of Lisp held it back in the real world, while C and C++ had technical advantages that led to their success. I think the history of Lisp and the history of C tell a much different story.

While C was becoming the language of choice for OSes that ran on low-end computers (especially Unix), Lisp was confined to very expensive computers that were being targeted at a market that ultimately failed to materialize. C became popular by riding on the coattails of Unix, not because it is a great language or because it could compete with other languages on technical features, and C++ road on the coattails of C (maintaining some amount of compatibility etc.). Lisp, meanwhile, was held back by bad business decisions; no amount of technical superiority could have saved Lisp from the AI winter. By the time you could really talk about Lisp running on PCs or cheap hardware, it was too late: C was already widely used and there was already an enormous volume of C code that people were working with.

It is interesting that you mention ITA's use of C++. The big reason for that was the poor scalability of CMUCL's garbage collector, which they did not use at all, opting instead for memory-mapped arrays (hence C++, which was used to handle system calls and deal with pointers). Had ITA been developing for an OS written in Lisp (not unprecedented), C++ would never have entered the picture; but ITA was developing for an OS that exposed a C API and a C ABI, and using C or C++ to deal with system calls simply made the most sense. I suspect that if they were to try again today, they would use far less C++, if any; today's Lisp compilers come with (non-portable) extensions for POSIX system calls and for dealing with pointers, as well as disabling the garbage collector globally or on specific objects. It is not that Lisp itself was slow; just a specific feature of the Lisp systems they were using, and poor support for disabling or avoiding the use of that feature.

So which is more likely: that C and C++ are the best languages ever developed for the kinds of programs they are used for, or that they were just in the right place at the right time?
Why I like this so far:

- It's the closest Alien Blue:Reddit that I've seen for HN

- Opening web pages within the app is much more comfortable than the standard way of doing so, which is terrible in my opinion

Great work!
It's easy. Call it ... CoffeeScript.

/ducks
To improve on nivla's answer, you can right click on almost any input field and select "Add to search bar". This will build the appropriate URL, based on the text field's name attribute and the action of the form which posts the field.

So if I had a form on "example.com" which had an action of "/do-search", and finally, a text input with a name of "query", then the URL it will add is:

http://example.com/do-search?query=%s

Saves you having to inspect the URL yourself to figure out the parameters.

Then you can go to the settings page nivla mentioned and make it the default search engine, so that any non-url's you enter into the omnibox are redirected to the %s in the URL above.
> my first hand experience always had me being more desirable to the opposite sex when I was in a relationship

But it's not necessarily the case that this is due to others thinking you're in a relationship.

I suspect at least a large part of the effect you describe (which seems to be pretty well-known) is because people tend to be more relaxed and confident when they're "out of play"—the pressure's off—and ironically that tends to make them more attractive....
Twitter allows nine new companies to join Certified Products Program
I'd lie if I said I wasn't inspired by Alien Blue, it's by far my favorite and most-used app on my iPhone. Thanks for the kind words!
I have encountered huge bugs with USB in the Pi for things as diverse as wifi streaming, network HDD sharing, bluetooth, webcam snapshots, and microphone access. I keep reading these rave reviews about the Pi and wondering: is it just me or is this thing practically worthless for anything outside of AV playback (for which it admittedly works well, at least for hardware-accelerated codecs)? What are you doing with your Pi that makes you so happy?
UK Daily Mail interview with Aaron Swartz's girlfriend
Probably not. The buzz will work against them and get Facebook Site Integrity working hard to remove fake accounts.
Slony has been around since at least 2004.

It was included in the Postgres source code repository.
I always considered that to be a pretty official solution.
Is this normal for Daily Mail coverage? It seems fairly ghoulish, but also includes some relevant details (hence, I submitted it).
Austin has some successful startups, but they seem to be largely enterprise focused.

And? Is that supposed to be bad or something? I don't know about you, but I find consumer webapp startups to be dead boring. Who cares about building yet another way for people to share pictures of cats doing stupid shit, or whatever? At least with enterprise software, you're doing something that's actually improving someone's productivity, helping other businesses grow and prosper, etc.

Disclaimer: I am the founder of a (non-SF based) enterprise focused startup. So, yeah, I'm a little bit biased. :-)
The same should really apply to people interviewing for jobs. It's not too hard to find companies with bozos, including bozo interviewers.