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Pic is of Rafael Reif, not Heymann.

Wow, I think there probably should be consequences for Heymann (and possibly Ortiz), but in one sentence you've probably given the best demonstration of why vigilante justice is so troubling.
Well, it is easier to copy and paste it once you know it ;)
That is the page I found before I commented, I am seeing on that page:

"Bank robbery carries a statutory maximum sentence 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Bank robbery while armed with a firearm carries a maximum sentence of 25 years."

It also seems, in addition to armed bank robbery being a crime, having the firearm during a bank robbery is itself is a crime, and the maximum punishment for having the firearm, but not the bank robbery itself, is life.

It seems you are practically correct.
And just like that, it becomes clear how Udacity can become a multi-billion dollar company. I hope their investors get rich, the World will be a much better place if they do.

I think there has been a lot of interest in the company lately. I put them on my linkedin under education and even though I use a lot of popular keywords, searching 'Udacity' is the #1 way people arrive at my profile by a wide margin.
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the torrent is just a fraction and it says so right in its title.
Hard to give this article the benefit of the doubt when it comes to get details and particulars right with this line:

> Aaron Swartz was a prodigy who developed the RSS system for disseminating updates on web-site contents

He worked on the spec at a young age. But he did not develop the system.
1k in counseling and coaching, 2k in myself (personal stuff, gadgets, etc) and 5k in promoting my startup on Adwords or FB ads
One of the shrewd Lifehack of 2013.
That's because liberal arts majors don't know how to calculate ROI.
I agree with you on the moral issues. I'm especially concerned about that kind of clique persisting across generations. This country worked too hard to get rid of royalty to let it happen again.

However, I also appreciate how valuable a good network is. People are social animals, and good networks allow you to cut through a lot of bullshit.

When I'm hiring, for example, the first place I always go to is my network. Placing ads is such an arduous and chancy process. If I can hire somebody who has strong recommendations from people I know, it's much easier and much more likely to work out well. Those people have collected information over time on things I can't possibly discover in an interview. And the social relationships provide a context that make the relationship more solid than one brokered via Craigslist.
Maybe it was the author's point, maybe it wasn't.

All I read is questions about why and context, like the author expect some kind of explanation.
She doesn't comment about the content itself, which is part of the whole closed-mind attitude of the article.
This was precisely what I was looking for before I upgraded to 3.6, thank you. I'm worried about switching to 3.6 now, I've invested a lot of time and energy making gnome-shell_3.4 usable for me. This sounds like it breaks a lot.
Unfortunately yes, and that is rapidly making our world a worse place to live. We keep throwing away stuff and making more, instead of reusing the old, thus wasting resources and unnecessarily polluting.
The first thing you should do is fork the repository and set up a remote for pulling in upstream changes.

There are a lot of useful libraries out there, but I find I occasionally need to make changes. Sometimes there are bugs; sometimes the maintainer has lost interest. I need to be able to pick up the slack when that happens.
So why is this Apple's problem again?
Examples? The only things I have to compile are python packages with c-extensions and the occasional small daemon like xcape.
If you want to get really technical, those are the federal penalties for armed bank robbery. Under state law, plenty of states have maximum sentences of life for armed robbery in general. Here's Virginia's law allowing a life sentence for armed robbery of anything (not just banks): http://law.justia.com/codes/virginia/2006/toc1802000/18.2-58...
"Salaries jumped: In 1980, the average officer earned $15,000 a year; today, one in every 10 officers makes more than $100,000 a year."

This means effectively nothing. First of all, 1980 dollars are not 2013 dollars. Second, you're comparing different measures: average wage versus top 10% wage. These are just vote-grabbing but otherwise meaningless statements.
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I really like your idea of "pricing" using multiples of the prison sentence if plea bargain isn't accepted. This forces market dynamics that the prosecution much consider. I don'w know if 2x, 1.5x or 3x is the right amount, but whatever the multiple, the prosecution knows that the accused is actually weighing the benefits based on the fact that they know they are innocent or guilty instead of treating their awareness of their own guilt as irrelevant, which is something a 10x multiple does.

At 10x, knowing that you are innocent is completely irrelevant to the issue at hand and it simply becomes a choice between the lesser of two evils, because a good is not a realistic option.
Is there any evidence that MIT's 'policies' were anything other than made up on the spot?

As far as I can tell it looks like "OMG! The attacker has changed his MAC address! We don't know how to stop him! He's stealing all the priceless research papers...call the DHS cyber-espionage defense unit for help! the packets are coming from INSIDE THE WIRING CLOSET!!"
But it really shouldn't be an issue in the first place, right?
Ask HN: would you pay $2000 now to host forever?
Someone posted earlier today and asked how hard it would be to make sure a site was preserved forever.

I ran some quick numbers and $2000 seems to be about what you would need to keep an average website (www.aaronsw.com for example) and its contents up forever assuming base needs and bulk registration renewals.

Would anyone pay this?
One or two succeed and tens of thousands fail. With MBA's, one or two succeed but only hundreds fail. I call that improvement. It's not guaranteed success but you've improved your situation. And failure does actually have real consequences.

This "I'm too dumb to know better, therefore I am better" idea is based on the few lucky people but ignores the huge amount of failures. Consider there may be ten thousand failures each year that you never even heard about.
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In your point of view, a reasonable point of view, yes of course. To an apparently unreasonable prosecutor though?
For 60k/yr paying a fee of even 1000 to get a DUNS number seems negligible ...
The law can't actually do anything about discrimination as long as there is a slight professional veneer to cover it. Don't want to hire old people? Want to fire someone who doesn't like your ideas? There is a standard stock of phrases like 'cultural fit' which are unimpeachable in almost any context, and once hired, almost everyone is or can be construed to be in violation of some regulation. As long as you use the right words, don't let slip any stupid smoking-gun memos, there is nothing anyone can really do because it is impossible to prove anything.

The best protection is to be able to change jobs, and to stick with environments which do not contain toxic people who abuse their power or want to hurt you.

If you are older and a company does not hire you due to 'cultural fit' then you are probably dodging a bullet. Forcing them to hire you wouldn't make things better even if it were possible.
The real mystery is why are there so many Apple fan boys in this thread?

The company's walled garden approach absolutely sucks. And there's nothing fashionable about saying so.
As someone with experience in several RAD tools, I never understood the design UI in code mentality.

Sure, you can control all your code, but there is so much time that is lost until the UI is finally ready, and than the marketing department wants it redone in one day.
Nice comment about ARC.

I think we need a few programmer generations until everyone is fine with some form of automatic memory management in all programming languages.
I believe I would, depending on the restrictions.
I feel like this whole conversation could have been averted if you had just given "Internet Values" a charitable interpretation. Why couldn't "Internet Values" have meant "the values we as a society have about the use and function of the Internet"? I'd argue that if you look at how people actually use the Internet, it's closer to how the founders wanted it to work than how the CFAA stipulates that we should use it.
> My understanding is you still need a username with fingerprints etc.

The fingerprint software (Lenovo's at least) scans all enrolled accounts. You do not select your user account - you just scan an enrolled finger and it figures out the correct user.

> Well at least in a corporate environment.

The original question wasn't asking about thousands of users but rather a small location (eg small office or a home). That said Lenovo's fingerprint software does support "enterprise" use where the signatures can be centrally stored and redistributed to relevant machines. Note that I would never use or advocate that.

> What if the fingerprint algorithm overlaps two people. You suddenly can access someone else account without trying.

Fingerprints are unique! The scanners are high resolution. Your fingerprints are always going to match your stored ones with the highest confidence.

> fingerprints burnt off/similarly damaged through chemo

You enroll multiple fingers. And yes someone with them completely damaged would have to revert to typing their password.

> Also an fingerprint attack without username simultaneously attacks all users at once.

You forgot the initial constraints. This is a local office/home where users have local access. Doing an attack via fingerprint is the hardest way of doing a compromise. As I pointed out you could just observe someone typing their password (directly or via a camera in the same room), you could plug a hardware keylogger in and no one is likely to see it, you could boot into a livecd and install attack software of your choice, and the list goes on. Heck you could probably just ask any of your family/coworkers for their passwords and they'd likely tell you!
Is the ground-breaking part the cost of it? I just think it sounds like normal online courses. Maybe I am missing something?
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In my opinion, your rage is misplaced and make you look as though you haven't thought things through at all. Do you really think it is just a case that writing an app will instantly lead to $$$?
No, but my phone has a more than capable browser.
Please, put your creative talent to good use on the web. Break free of the walled gardens that snarl and entrap you!
And clearly downloading anyone that disagrees.
> First off, you actually have a limit on how much an individual developer can make? That sounds crazy.

Yes crazy, but that's how governments work.
Here in Poland you there is a problem with this also. Most of the time you have to register a company to be able to do anything that is not "working for someone else".
E.g. when you put AdSense on your webpage and make some money you should do it under a company, not as an individual. Similarly with appstores.
Well put rant.

16 years after CSS was released unto the world, and it still lacks a decent way to center content. Makes me lose all faith in the W3C.
I would never pay a huge lump sum for a "forever" or "unlimited" service. Nothing lasts forever, nothing is unlimited.
He was also responsible for the absurdist witch hunt that resulted in the impeachment of Gray Davis.
I bet 'Bob' read the 'The 4-Hour Workweek'. His only problem was that he still had to spend time in the office … for Chinese contractors, this story is of course a great free ad.
Forever is a very long time. How forever is forever?
My favorite hack to avoid buying stuff that I really don't need is to photograph it in the store with my phone. I tell myself that I need to look into the product reviews when I get home to my computer, and the photograph is a reminder and documentation of the price and model. If it checks out ill come back and buy it.

95% of the time I've completely forgotten about it when I get home.

Also, obligatory Geeorge Carlin bit on stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLoge6QzcG
Actually, this is kind of funny, because last semester they ran their intro to circuits class as a "flipped classroom" of the edX 6.002x Intro to Circuits class. I guess they're trying to get a foot in all camps :)

(I happened to be somewhat involved with edX last year, otherwise I don't think I would have known about this collaboration.)
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I bet 99% of "hackers" (I'm using the criminal sense of the word, that I hate to use, btw) have psychological issues of one way or another and they are a suicide risk! The SS, prosecutors and whoever handles these people should fucking take that into account and put it in balance with the fact that they are a valuable resource to society! You may put a "criminal hacker" in jail for credit card fraud, but chances are, if he doesn't stay in there too long to get his brain "fried", he will grow up to become the security guy that keeps shit safe so you can keep online shopping 'till you drop!

I mean... these guys are a subset of what one calls "infosec field people" that are a subset of "IT people" that are a subset of "tech people"... the smaller the subset the less the chance that a member of it will be (1) "well socialized", (2) "psychologically robust" or even (3) "sane"... add up that they're in their 20s and... what would you freakin expect?!
Uhm, if it's not for the web, what's it for? Only for phonegap apps?
Thing is, introverts are vastly outnumbered in society. So while his statement is generalizing, it is a good approximation to Facebook's population.

So, for Facebook it doesn't matter. As they always do, first they create something that is seen as violating people's notion of privacy. Then they add some form of setting that allows the introverts and control-freaks like you and me that makes it enough for us to not abandon the site, but at the same time allows to still be users.

Also, there is something funny about how you mention not liking to be bothered by strangers in an Internet forum with 10^6 users, but I digress.
Of course states vary, so a comparison to federal penalties make the most sense. For example, it seems California caps robbery sentences to 9 years. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen... I don't know what they give for armed robbery though.

One thing seems fairly clear though: at least in many states stealing harddrives (without using a gun) is probably better than copying the contents of harddrives with a computer. The punishments we have decided that 'hackers' should get are out of proportion when compared to crimes committed 'in meatspace'.

For example, just since I'm already looking at the Californian penal code:

> (c) (1) Any person who commits rape in violation of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 261 upon a child who is under 14 years of age shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 9, 11, or 13 years.
Why? He's not a physical danger to anyone. Surely you can think of more creative and productive forms of punishment.
Hmm, I wonder, if they want to make money out of it as well or not. My question is why I would spend 150$ on a online course, that I can get on edX or elsewhere for free?

what is the catch :?
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Don't release it under the GPL. Due to Apple app store restrictions, GPL'ed apps cannot be distributed that way. It's probably best to pick a BSD or Apache style license.

Being an app developer is frustrating even on Android. Getting publicity for your app is difficult. Margins are thinner than you think because prices are low and your time isn't free.

My feeling is that the market is currently oversupplied with app developers and it needs to cool down. More posts like this would be good to counter the gold rush mentality of the past few years. There just isn't that much money in apps, unless you own the App store.

I also don't see learning Objective C as being that useful, unless you want to continue being an iOS developer... which it seems that you don't. Remember, your main career goal as a developer is not to paint yourself into a corner.
It's a for credit online course that's available for cheap and as a non-degree student (i.e. MOOC). So it's the first set of courses to try and bridge the gap between MOOC's and "traditional" online courses/degrees.
Honestly, I consider myself extremely introverted, and I do all those things to avoid talking to people, but I kind of wish I didn't. I actually like random people talking to me about random things.
You'd be amazed by what people will construe as a fraud worthy of prosecuting. Even the most socially accepted dishonesties all of a sudden become a serious federal crime when another crime is involved. A prosecutor will tack on multiple charges just in case they can't pin them for the primacy crime they believe the accused is guilty of. It's never about finding out the truth, but about finding the accused guilty of a crime the prosecutor believes the accused actually committed prior to reviewing the evidence and confirming that fight.

Or basically, "I personally believe the accused committed crime X, so I'm going to nail him regardless of the evidence. And just in case the evidence doesn't support what I believe or is inconclusive, I'm going to go ahead and charge him with several other crimes of little to no social consequence by themselves, since if I fail to convict of crime X, I know I can nail him for some of these minor crimes."

When prosecutors tack on every crime they can imagine, they are simply admitting that they simply want to put the person away at any cost.

That being said, without more details of what this alleged credit card fraud entails, I'm naturally skeptical of the charges. Wasn't JJ the guy who got caught, cooperated with the FBI and then was "thrown under the bus" so to speak by his handlers at the FBI?
> You Can Carry All Your Money In Your Pocket

With that headline, this looks like an anti-GoBank article. The though "carry all my money in my pocket" suggests to me that a mugger could grab my 401(K).

Sure, there are security features, but this is NOT a good pitch-line.
Don't think too many people are going to go for the idea of a certain type of criminal requiring certain special treatment...why couldn't rapists and murderers claim the same kind of social deficiencies?
They could use an open standard for international company numbers instead of a closed one, e.g. see http://opencorporates.com/
The release notes says Fedora 18 uses the 3.6.0 kernel. Yet on my F18 machine the kernel version is:

3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64
I think that the idea here is to prevent prosecutors from charging people when they only have a really shaky case then using the leverage of a small plea to force people into pleading guilty. If prosecutors don't want to lose cases, and they can't force people to accept really low pleas then they would have to stop trying to get people on really shaky cases.
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I wished that when I started out with iOS development, that I knew that to get success on the App Store, 80% is marketing, and 20% is the quality of the app.
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I remember being invited to visit the cockpit of a commercial airliner during a flight when I was little. On US airlines, at least, that kind of openness is a distant memory.

If you don't work in network security, you might find it unsettling to see just how much additional trouble a person can cause by having physical access to the hardware itself -- the cables and ports and LCD front panels and the like.

As an example, here's a dirty secret: in quite a few of the large, institutional settings I have had access to, the hash of the IOS enable password is stored on local flash inside the machine, and set to the same string across many core devices. This means that if you can compromise one switch (perhaps a small one in a basement closet), you could also have privileged access to larger switches deep inside data centers on the same campus.

Compromising the first switch is much easier if you can attach a serial console and reboot it at will. If I were serious about doing something like this, I might even bring an extra switch along to substitute in, so the regular users of the network would see no downtime.

Groups of switches inside a data center (when viewed with eyeballs) have a kind of tedious homogeneity to them. Generic faceplates all in rows, kudzu of brightly-colored generic cables fanning out in every direction, armies of green LEDs flashing with traffic, thick black ropes of power cables in back ready to wiggle loose from a stray nudge. Aloof. Opaque.

The traffic to and from each data center switchport, though, is often highly individual. Many times it is deadly dull for port after port after port. But sometimes, you see that you are watching a machine that appears to be processing payroll. Or saving a series of very expensive and proprietary chip masks to some huge file server. Or, best of all, you might see millions of rows of data describing those things and more, all being stored as tidy SQL.

So yes, I draw the line somewhere short of allowing homeless people into a space where they would be sleeping next to network devices with important roles.
Already discussed three days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5049881
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So after someone important to me dies, I can come over to your place and annoy you for a few hours? What exactly does that accomplish?

Lumping everything connected to 'MIT' together as the same evil thing is shortsighted and counterproductive.
I came here to say the same thing, I've been actively reducing my time on FB the last year. Now I will be increasing it further.
None of the interface elements in the builders work (correctly) in Opera. I certainly hope the generated html does a better job.
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Again, there are other statutes that make life in prison the maximum penalty for child sexual assault in California. The rape statute you quote expressly says that the 9-13 years you quote is stacked on top of the general crime of sexual assault of a minor:

>> This subdivision does not preclude prosecution under Section 269, Section 288.7, or any other provision of law.

>> 269: Any person who commits any of the following acts upon a child who is under 14 years of age and seven or more years younger than the person is guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child [statute lists all conceivable forms of sexual gratification] ... Any person who violates this section is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 15 years to life.

Section 288 adds yet more penalties for using force, being in a position of trust, etc.

You keep using examples of "hackers get stronger penalties than these other crimes" (bank robbery, child rape), but the other crimes consistently have life in prison as a maximum sentence if you stop to read the full context of the law.
It's invalid HTML and it's destroying the separation between logic and presentation/content.
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It's for credit. That's pretty much it. I can't think of any other reasons.
In all the teams I've worked on, designers have worked out pixel positions and text alignment by the time I see the mocks. I don't find much value in realtime feedback.

Nibs are handy if you're sticking to stock UI and stock behavior. Programmatic layout takes longer to setup the boilerplate, but once it's in place, I find it about as easy to work in code as nibs. With complex designs, I find it significantly easier to work programmatically.