skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It means that a high profile conviction such as this would have been a nice boost to their resumes, regardless of the particulars. The legal profession is somewhat unique in that being perceived as an aggressive, cold-hearted, and ruthless individual with the ability to squeeze out a win even when the facts and circumstances don't support a win is a positive thing.
Well that's just, like, your opinion man.
The current Australian government is a minority government, and they're getting a lot of legislation passed, though you'd never think so if you read the papers. 'minority government' is simply not synonymous with 'paralysed government'.

Also, given that Germany is the main engine-room that's keeping Europe financially afloat, it's clear that it's working there as well.
I think that's my biggest problem, my background is heavy on C/C++, and moved onto C#, Ruby, Python and Obj-C later and whilst I think Javascript is fine in terms of providing functionality for web pages, the language doesn't lend itself to a large implementation like NodeJS unless you're supremely well versed in it.
I only read this book last year, but it really is a cracking read
Regarding differences in easy accessibility of "materials" for different orientation persons, one interesting thing worth mentioning - unlike heterosexuals, homosexuals carry this "material" all the time with them - their body...
Your comment made me think of Telehack [1] and Textfiles [2].

"Telehack is a simulation of a stylized arpanet/usenet, circa 1985-1990. It is a full multi-user simulation, including 25,000 hosts and BBS's the early net, thousands of files from the era, a collection of adventure and IF games, a working BASIC interpreter with a library of programs to run, simulated historical users, and more." [3]

Textfiles is an archives of, well, text files.

[1] http://telehack.com/

[2] http://textfiles.com/

[3] http://telehack.com/telehack.html
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One man's "dark parts of the internet" is another man's "enlightened circles". Next.
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I agree that in this situation the laws on the books should also be under review. But prosecutors have some discretion as to whom and what and to what extent they'll pursue a case. Regardless of where they might be on a spectrum from noble, high minded civil servant to the most egregious political opportunist, a consequence to the prosecutorial action this case (public opinion, increased scrutiny, career consequence severe or light, etc.) could help establish an incentive for others in the future to act differently. Not legally binding, not compulsory, but just a element of "Let's not make that mistake again."
dagw has the best response to this below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5054382

I agree; it's a shortcut for people who know JS, not for people who are learning it for the first time. As soon as you need to use or look into the internals of a library that isn't written in CoffeeScript, everything's going to get unstuck pretty quickly.
> I'd contend that voting itself has failure modes, and that making it mandatory is asking for disappointment.

It has failure modes, for sure. There are no systems that meet all the objectives we want.

However compulsory voting tends to moderate politics towards the "median voter". In voluntary voting, only the most motivated voters turn out. Who are they? People with a burning, righteous indignation. Are their policy obsessions going to be about boring, middle-of-the-road administration and policy?

Experience says: not really.

> I'm not accusing you of this, but I find that many who call for coerced voting expect that this will turn elections towards the results that they'd prefer (their favoured party, in particular).

Definitely! In Australia the new Queensland government is proposing to drop the compulsory requirement. A cynic might suggest that this is because younger voters, who turn out at a much lower rate under voluntary schemes, vote for the opposition party.

> For many, it is the closest that one can come to a "none of the above" option that they might otherwise prefer.

In Australia this is done by casting an "informal" ballot. The main problem with NOTA is that you need rules to decide how to count NOTA ballots -- and what happens if NOTA gets a clear majority.
This is a lot of fun. Well executed!
> There are a lot of people there (fewer now) who don't belong there, but others I'd have to try hard not to murder, myself.

That's what makes (made?!) America so great in the eyes of many (myself included) that have never set foot in there, i.e. the concept that anyone deserves a fair trial, based on actual evidence, and that you wouldn't be f.cked up by the judicial system during the whole process (perdon my French).

That's what happened in Aaron's case, he was f.cked up by the system, at least that's how I see the initial threat of spending 35 (or was it 50?) years in prison for something that didn't involve murdering young kids and raping them after the deed. A judicial system that depends on threats (doesn't matter if they're implicit or not) gets dangerously close to pure dictatorship.
If the job of the prosecutor is to persecute someone, even after the "victim" resolved their issue with the offender, then they have a shitty job and should just up and quit.

There are better jobs out there: ones that don't destroy the lives of good people.
You can use the second command on your profile page.

source <(wget -q -O - "$@" https://alias.sh/user/7/alias)

This will source it every time you login. Otherwise you could easily put the first command on your profile in a cronjob to run one daily etc.
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"What is stopping you from learning and using C# today?"

I already have a bytecoded static boilerplate language from an unfriendly corporation that I can use. And it's GPL.
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$25 million is pretty cheap for a government system. In the late 90's the Canadian government spent about a billion dollars (probably ~900 million US$) building a database of gun owners.

Last year they ditched the database for ideological reasons (over the protests of the public security sector who were finding it critical for officer safety).

That's government IT. Spend absurd amounts of money building something that you could assemble for next to nothing using off the shelf parts, underfund the maintenance, and then throw it away.
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The sad thing is, I think all the big parties are the same these days. It's not even a case of voting for the "lesser evil", they're all equally bad just better or worse on different policies.

While I would never give up my right to vote and disagree with voter apathy, even I'm starting to question the point of it all.

I suppose I should at least be grateful that I live in a democracy; however I can't help thinking that it's all just for show and that us "little people" actually have no power nor influence what-so-ever. It's all the same shit but from a different parties.
We only launched this morning so they're all very new. We do have a voting feature on the full page view so we're hoping the poorer aliases sink over time. We also intend to make the voting more prominent.
Seriously, if you think this generation has a monopoly on glamourising the "live fast, die young" ethos, you haven't been around for very long.

But excellent attempt at using someone's suicide to vent a lot of your anger at today's kids.
I'm sorry, I'm a bit thick so I struggled to follow your forbite reasoning here. I think a translation will help thick people like me.

First, the discussion of the legal situation lacks any perspective

"Hey, it's ok that we screw poor/black people, and to be fair, it ain't gonna change; this time we screwed one of ours by mistake... shit happens, deal with it".

Second, and related, the message of Lessig and of many others seems to be [..] turn it into a discussion of my pet causes.

"Hey, let's make sure the death of a young man is as pointless and useless as possible. Please don't even try to use it as a way to help the causes he fought for when alive."

It is worth reminding everyone that a vanishingly small number of criminal defendants in the US commit suicide

"He should have lightened up!" - http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/

there is a significant overemphasis in the press of the "debate" among a relatively small but vocal community of people like, frankly, us.

"I'd rather leave control of mass-media to bankers, politicos, lobbyists and their friends, like it happens on every other topic. I'm scared I might actually have to, y'know, know what I'm talking about."

But that would be manipulative and shortsighted, and it is hard to see how it could possibly be a praiseworthy method for achieving social change.

"I am incredibly naïve about politics and I like being abused, please keep doing it! I've enjoyed the last 15 years like mad!"

Remembering people for what they were is a far better honor than remembering grandiose caricatures of them.

"Honestly, the guy was a depressed loser."

The response I urge for those who knew him personally is private grief and personal reflection

"Please shut up! I'm trying to think about the Golden Globes and Bieber's haircut here."

technology crimes are hardly the most important or most pressing piece of that puzzle

"It's all broken anyway, politics is hard, let's go shopping!"

It's easy for us to forget that just because it interests us.

"Shut up, just SHUT UUUP!"
Yes, but my own body is more like that of a Hacker News reader and less like a Calvin Klein underwear model. It's just not the same...
"BTW the EU isn't really a law maker as such. Our contract with being in the EU means that we implement the EU directives, but in theory we could refuse -- the EU would fine us and/or kick us out if we did this."

Incorrect. Directives do exist, and they are transcribed by members into national law. However, Regulations have immediate effect across all member states, no transposition required: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union)

Also, there is no mechanism in the current treaties to throw out a member from the EU - all members must agree for a member to leave the EU.

Fines do exist for non-enforcement of EU law though.
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He neither sinned, nor was he greedy.
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Nope feel free to create another alias. Aliases can be voted up or down so eventually over time the best ones will rise to the top. Also if you want it on your profile just add it.

We did think about this and plan on adding private aliases soon so you can add them without cluttering the site or if you just don't want to share. :)
I disagree. The post contradicts a lot of what we've been told were this man's accomplishments:

- He didn't found Reddit

- He didn't invent RSS

- He did more than just download too many JSTOR articles

Until I read that post, I believed all of those things, as that is what I have read so far.

Speaking ill of the dead isn't classy, but facts are sacred.
There are EU laws per se.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union)
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The Life of Aaron Swartz, Collected by: Internet Archive Global Events
> Harvard fellow uses MIT's network surreptitiously to violate the terms of service to download a nonprofit's entire database and then give it away for free, putting them out of business.

Do you notice the contradiction in 'non profit' and 'putting them out of business'?
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I believe in mandatory voting because pretty much everyone bitches about politics. If you're not willing to do the minimum of cast a vote (in Aus, that's one each of council, state, federal, every 3-4 years) then you don't really have the right to complain. You may not have a candidate to vote for, but you definitely will have one to vote against.

As for a 'none of the above', on a paper ballot, you can write what you want.

Of course, we have voting well organised - here you won't see queues of eight hours to vote like the debacle in Florida. This is despite mandatory voter turnout and paper ballots.

It's nice though, that you put an evil spin on mandatory voting by labelling it 'coerced'. I wonder if you call traffic lights 'coercion'? I personally think of it more as a citizen's responsibility, but I wouldn't try to colour it by calling it 'responsible voting'.
Redirects to this: http://blog.filipekberg.se/2013/01/11/c-is-the-past-the-pres...

Discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5042055
Thank you for the clarification. i didn't know that.

What justified to invoke felony in Aaron case ?
What constitute felony ?
(please note that my ignorance is becasue I'm not American)
For any place that's not New York, LA, or Silicon Valley, $120,000 is pretty solid money for a working professional.
The job of the prosecutor is indeed to continue the prosecution, even if the victim and the offender have resolved their issues. Think of a case of some victim being coerced to have the charges dropped. Would you prefer the prosecution to stop or would you prefer if the crime was resolved?
As the author, I've been amazed over the years at how well this resonates with people 25+ years after the fact. I continue to get 2-3 emails a week from people about how it affected them (unfortunately, about half of the emails also ask me to break into something for them).

It is difficult for anyone who didn't live through the BBS years to understand the feeling of no longer being isolated and alone. I strongly recommend Jason Scott's documentary 'BBS' (in which I'm interviewed) for a glimpse at a bygone era.
Mindless fanboyish evangelism. Flagged FWIW.
Sadly, I believe he's right. You can't start a company on a B1, and certainly not on the waiver. For example, Y Combinator involves setting up a company, and you can't do that on the B1.
1. C# is a considerable improvement over Java as a programming language. 2. C# has an open source implementation as Java does.
Even good people fuck up. Aaron committed crimes and got himself in trouble. Aaron then killed himself. There are many people who could have done things differently to prevent this from happening but why should we point fingers?
This isn't what the article says at all. It's two years to fix all the known security holes, not two years to fix the 0day.

"HD Moore, chief security officer with Rapid7, a company that helps businesses identify critical security vulnerabilities in their networks, said it could take two years for Oracle to fix all the security bugs that have currently been identified in the version of Java that is used for surfing the Web."
He is completely ignorant to the effects his government are having on many people, including with this. The traditional Tory voter are viewed as having little to no care for the working class too, which is why many Tories are viewed with disdain where I live.

Like I said, I've seen some great stuff for businesses but awful things happen to regular people e.g people who should spend their time recovering being forced into work and the VAT increase I mentioned.
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funny game, maybe add some optional hints, as it's not really obvous what one should do at first.
Anyone can upload their own memories of Aaron Swartz here: http://archive.org/details/aaronsw
Editing aliases could cause a security issue. Eg if someone is using your alias and you edited it to be malicious. We're planning on having private aliases which will be editable.

If you have a alias you want editing then send us an email from your email on your account and I can help you fix it up. admin at alias dot sh
I think you mean Python 2 for the SimpleHTTPServer example.
This looks like it was written by Alan Moore. Damn 1980s.
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No, he said he's not associated with the DoJ. Not that he had previous associations with the DoJ.
>under Massachusetts law, the potential sentence that Swartz faced was more than the maximum sentence given to a rapist who has subdued his victim with a threat of physical force, namely 20 years. If a firearm is added to the mix, but if the victim is not subjected to “serious bodily injury,” then the rapist can receive a maximum of 20 + 10, or 30 years.
It's not that JavaScript is a bad language, it's just easy to write bad code in JavaScript. I don't get it why most people coming from languages you mentioned like to bash JS so much, I used most of these languages in the past or use them currently (mainly Java and Python) and I like JavaScript the most. The problem is most people just don't want to learn JS, they write shitty code because it's easier and than complain how bad the language is. Sure, there are many issues with the language itself, usually because of how flexible it is, but for almost every issue there is a 'good way' of dealing with it.
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If you're a computer activist, 30 years is a long time. The computers 30 years ago were barely considered desktop computers. The first Mac was released in 1984, about 29 years ago. If you have zero access to computers for 30 years, it's basically a death sentence. I probably would've killed myself too, and I've never had depression before.
No objection to that, people are not completely rational agents. I was merely pointing out that suicide in this case is hardly a rational choice.
Australia also has a law preventing electioneering more than 30 days out from the election. Sure, the pollies are always jostling for media space and saying "we're better than those guys", but they can't pay for political advertising outside the electioneering period - if you're not interested in politics, you won't see much in the media in-between elections. This moratorium on political advertising is one of our most unappreciated laws.
I'm sorry, was JSTOR coerced into asking for the charges to be dropped?
I think the reason they only got 25% gain is because they already used Async IO with Ruby eventmachine.

Another reason might be, that their workload is IO-bounded, so faster VM like V8 doesn't help.
Consider: people commit crimes to get money to buy alcohol.

How can you consider that, without also considering that most people don't? Price does make a difference.
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When is the right time to pull the üplug from your website project?
Pot is illegal at the federal level (aka Congressional law). It's against the law to possess, sell, etc. So unfortunately the President is legally required to prosecute this.

...except when he decides not to defend a law[1] that he claims is unconstitutional.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act
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Maybe those kids are more important to Apple than many think, it's being reported the company has slashed orders the iPhone 5.

thenextweb.com/apple/2013/01/14/apple-reportedly-cuts-iphone-5-component-orders-from-japan-by-almost-half-on-weak-demand/
Face it, China and India are abusing this process. Per Capita is meaningless when a significant portion of your population has no means to contribute to the numbers other than to reduce the perceived impact.

I would love to see China's numbers when the population numbers are reduced to those who are living within the major population centers and not counting those in outlying areas who may not even have electricity.

So count people who have homes which are on the grid or its equivalent.
While I sympathize with the tragedy of Aaron's death, I have to agree that he is receiving a disproportionate amount of attention. Take away his association with the HN community and the Internet, and his case is not nearly as tragic as many others. Take the Guantanamo inmates who committed suicide. They were innocent and were imprisoned without any control over the situation. Aaron chose to break into the MIT network closet and JSTOR (though I agree that the punishment is way too harsh, there should be no punishment at all). But everything Aaron did was by his own choice. The people in Guantanamo didn't do anything at all. Their situation is much more infuriating, much more tragic, and deserves much more attention.
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Also, remember that back then it was way harder to get caught. We did stuff like wardial entire area codes with impunity. The general lack of awareness/focus on computer security combined with non-digital phone switches (oh crossbar, how I loved thee) made it much less risky.
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This is a fun post. I love stuff like this. I don't think, however, that it's a particularly good example of "good analysis" - this analysis is clearly done either by (a) someone who isn't fully aware of all of the various strategies and nuances of NFL football, or (b) someone who is aware of such things but was in a rush to get this post written. There's just too much missing information to draw any conclusions such as those drawn by OP.

A trick's play's success rate is based on many factors. Saying that the down number is the primary factor is like rating a woman's attractiveness by how smart she is. Such a rating would, of course, give you false positives and negatives because it represents only part of the whole. A trick play's success rate depends on down number, position on the field, the clock, defensive tendencies, score, weather, field conditions, player injuries, and more. For example, a flea flicker isn't going to be attempted as often in really bad weather, or when you are up by four touchdowns, or when the main player who is the ultimate receiver of the ball (the "flea", perhaps?) is out of the game due to injury.

So I like this sort of analysis but it's completely useless due to its incompleteness. But I still am glad OP shared because I like seeing all the thoughts, functions, and so forth.
Cocaine is not a synthesised drug - it's a plant extract. Amphetamine also occurs naturally in plants like Acacia Berlandieri, though it is synthesised when used for medical/recreational purposes.
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Hate to ruin your ad hominem argument, but many moons ago in a different place I was involved in activism that would land you in prison without due process.

And even if I didn't, it has nothing to do with rationalization of suicide.
I'm sure smarter men than myself believed the world is flat, or that leeching drained bad humours, lacking as they did proper knowledge or even a proper way of reasoning. But we do not lack for these things today.

The reason I sound sure of myself is because all of supernatural religion is impossible. It is all impossible. It is against every single thing we understand about the physical universe and, should evidence emerge confirming any of it, all we knew should be upturned - but that has not and will not happen because there is no evidence whatsoever. What would you do with a theory in total conflict with every other (working!) theory you have, and with absolutely no evidence in its favour?

Show me any evidence, at all, that any of it is even remotely possible, at all, and I'll promptly eat my hat, your hat, any other hats around, and join you at the altar. Until then, it's nothing but a bunch of ludicrous superstition.
The point of password managers and master passwords is not ultimate security (such goal would be futile). Instead the point is to bring major security improvement to the masses. Eg to the masses who are currently using a single weak password across many websites.

Sometimes you need to trade some security for convenience, or you will lose all security.

edit: In addition, to combat keyloggers (and other malware) you need either HSM or one-time passwords. In both cases you usually need support at the server-side. As such, combating keyloggers is really infeasible via password policies.