skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you.
Though, it won't cause them to speak their responses in a southern accent either.
Or not. Doesn't be ashame, it works great (or at least it seems to work great). Meanwhile, upload to any server to give it a try. I really want to test it, and I think it should receive more buzz ;)
I absolutely despise crapware, google or ask toolbars, etc. that are bundled with installers, however if there is a market for it and there is no law against it, it will happen.

And once Google/etc. one day has everyone's credit card info and charges us more often, I could totally see items starting to be added ala Vistaprint (if you've used Vistaprint you almost certainly know what I'm talking about) like magazine trial subscriptions, etc.

The more the economy sinks and people are less willing to spend, the more crap will get dumped on us. Fact of life.
Oh, you MUST visit http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
[BACKGROUND INFORMATION]

When a person makes a claim like "All X's are Y's" then it is sufficient to provide a single example of an X which isn't a Y to demonstrate that the claim is false. The example is referred to as a counter example.

[THE CONTEXT]

The most reasonable interpretation of the previous commenter which I could identify was:

"When the public pays for knowledge to be created, it should be that the public owns the knowledge it paid for...[but it is expect that] the public that paid for it, [must] pay more and more [to use it]."

To restate this in the counterexample language

(1) 'All [things which the public pays for] are [things which the public owns]'

(2) 'All [things which the public owns] are [things which the public should be able to freely access and use]'

Which combine to produce the claim

(3) 'All [things which the public pays for] are [things which the public should be able to freely access and use]'

with "knowledge" being one of the things which the public pays for and so "knowledge" being one of the things which the people should be able to freely access and use.

[MY ARGUMENT]

In order to demonstrate the flaw in this claim as just presented#, I brought up nuclear weapons as a counter example. It is an instance of something which the public pays for but of which the public shouldn't have free access to and use of.

[MY POINT]

In order to maintain the truth of the claim the previous commenter must show that my example is not a counter example by arguing that the public should have access to/use of nuclear weapons.

Alternatively, they can agree that the claim as presented is false, and then perhaps provide a different argument for the conclusion that 'the public should get use of the knowledge created.'

---

I hope this clarifies the point which I am trying to make. Regretfully, the hyperbolic inclusion of nuclear weapons plays a key role my argument and so I did not remove it.

---

# I acknowledge that my interpretation of the claim may not have been what the author intended. Statement (1) seems to be strongly implied by the author, but (2) is inferred. The role of the questions in my original reply was to draw out a precise explanation of what ownership entails. But certainly in the case of "knowledge" the person want to be able to access and use the knowledge.
I know this is what people are saying, but is it actually true? I would imagine that if you can land a position as a technical lead in a small team within a couple of years, you'll be much better suited to lead a startup than you would be building your own products. Also some selection of business courses wouldn't hurt like marketing, business intelligence and networking.
His sentence was probably a lot lighter in in 1988 because back then the only stuff on the Internet was internal to universities/government/research and non-commercial by definition. I am pretty confident the judge, prosecutor, etc. had no idea what the Internets were and had no personal interest in it. There was probably no AUSA trying to make a name for himself as the world's authority on cybercrime. Etc.

More importantly, he was a super sympathetic defendant, not someone who had previously done virtually the same thing to the DOJ and gotten off scott-free.
It's a good idea. I'd say there are a number of options; at the very least a mirroring setup would be sufficient - I'm certain that there are people that are able to do this quite easily with wget.

Even I have servers that I'd be willing to provide that could certainly handle the load his now-static mostly-text sites. I'd even be happy to hold the domains and pay the registration into the future. I think Aaron already had a post about who would be handling his assets if he "got hit by a bus".
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I don't know. They already tried seceding without DC's permission, and that didn't work out too well for them...
Aren't all physical memorials, statues, plaques, banners paid for? Just like paying for the upkeeping of a memorial, I see no difference.
Westboro Baptist Church Drops Swartz Funeral Protest After Anonymous Vows Action
Yes. I have absolutely seen bugs caused by the wrong variables being assigned to. I've seen it especially with loop variables. jaegerpicker indicates that he's also caused bugs by assigning to the wrong variables.

Not sure what you mean about "heavy constructor/destructor use" requiring this style.
What about Chicago?
While the idea is novel, domains are virtual real estate. I don't think it's in anyone's best interest to retire domains/addresses. There are many more sane ways to make all of the content easily accessible indefinitely.
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9-year-old boy becomes youngest Microsoft tech specialist
Someone just has to keep paying for the domain and hosting and it will remain forever. This is proposing that we never allow these domains to be registered again, even if they expire
I assume you take your desktop and monitor on the subway with you too, right?

;)

I made it for me, then decided to hell with it, I'll submit it so others can read stories/comments too.
I agree with you, but I don't know how much credit she'd receive for merely trying to eliminate law.

We wouldn't need this massive, inconsistent, vague, and convoluted law system if we just followed a few fundamental moral principles. An analogy would be the overly-complex equations to support the Earth being at the center of the solar system. When the sun was rightfully placed there, the equations became more elegant.

A programming analogy would be to refactor similar laws into a more general form, follow KISS, use open-source software (free market) instead of reinventing the wheel (the type of wheel you'd find in Death Race 2000, btw), etc. But just like the programmer who gets job security from tangled, inscrutable code, Statists and lawyers do so from law.
This would be great, though you would need some way to tie people's accounts to their residences, which would require them to work with boards of elections give out the elections with the voter registration receipts.
Disbarring Heymann for misconduct would effectively end his career in law. That's probably the most that could happen to him (aside from SEO following his name for the rest of his life as an incredibly douchey scumbag).
Aaron Swartz: Unequal Justice for Web Activists vs Health Care Executives
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If you know bob, please put me in touch with the company he used. "This is not a joke".
It depends on what his employment contract said. If it said, "you're getting paid to make sure this work is finished", that's different from "you're expected to come up with an independent solution to your assigned work all by yourself".
I can verify that this process is accurate for US companies. I did the same thing late last year. Make sure you use Apple's form to apply for your DUNS number.
This response lowered my opinion of Lessig. Does he honestly believe this? In addition to the TOS, there were technical restrictions that Aaron evaded as well.
I don't think you've looked at what happens when rules like only 1/2 sentence plea bargains get implemented. Aaron definitely would have been looking at 17.5 or whatever as a plea. Look at the change to CA tax code. They didn't give refunds to the out of staters, they're going after in staters. When people demand arbitrary equality, the result is not turning the bad scenario into a good one. It's turning the good scenario into a bad one.
Of course, but then we ought to apply reasonable standards of trespass before we can talk of federal-level "breaking and entering". He was present as a guest on MIT campus and the trespassing charges had even been dropped.

Show me a university campus where the students don't poke around in unlocked basements and closets and I'll show you a worthless university.
It depends what you are trying to do exactly, but the excel add-in called powerpivot could be useful if you are trying to aggregate data and do adhoc analysis.

It is free :

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bi/powerpivot.aspx

I have analysed lots of BI tools, which could be useful in your scenario, but most require a bit of technical / database knowledge to iron out wrinkles.
I remember painting this on our schools tech room in high school (It was allowed, not vandalism). It's still pretty crazy to think that he was held for years without charges being brought against him, they really wanted to make an example. I'm glad he is free now and doing his own thing.

I wish 2600 was the magazine that it used to be, but I think the internet really caught up with it and made it non factor.
https://github.com/jquery/jquery-migrate/#readme
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No it isn't true. This is, yet again, a great example of American self-centered thinking. The rest of the world trains and hires many more MBAs than the top 5 could possibly put out.
I have to agree with this post to some extent. Years ago we had an MBA from a local university apply and it actually made a negative impact on the interview when we saw that on the resume- and this was for a business analyst position.

But, I think if you are geniunely interested in business, there is nothing wrong with getting an MBA anywhere. Just couple it with starting your own business. You don't even have to list it on your resume if you think it will hurt. Just be aware- it is NOT cheap, and you are lucky if your company will fully fund it; the last place I worked would fund only the cheapest in-state MBA program and they wouldn't pay for books or associated fees, so it would have been thousands of dollars a year out of pocket I couldn't justify.
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George Carlin also had something to say about "stuff".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
I tried to write a comment on Dave's blog but as a guest I guess he has to approve it first. I actually think Dave Winer is a lot to blame... he was what 50 being man handled by a 14 year old! And then slashing him for being precocious. Fuck you Dave... you have contributed fuck all to modern computing . World minus you == no different at all..! Bye bye murderer, your grave is ready for you.
My argument is that the public paying for a thing is not sufficient grounds for claiming that the public should have use of that thing.

Since knowledge creation and nuclear weapons are both examples of things which the public pays for, I defend the comment as it stands. The distinction between IP and physical property does not enter into the claim.
With the hardball already being played against Aaron, he'd probably be held for contempt of court for pleading guilt! He certainly couldn't have believed any of it -- all a lie, on its face.
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This is a vastly oversimplified conclusion that only serves the author's interests. Of course he's going to say the MBA degree is worthless unless it's from Wharton... he went to Wharton.

A recent survey of top MBA students found that 88% of graduates say they were happy with the investment they made. Having come from a school that's not in the so-called top 5 (more like top 10), the MBA has opened so many more doors and offered opportunities I never would have without a degree.
This. The law should be rewritten to prohibit prosecutors from entering into plea deals of less than X% of the maximum sentence they are prosecuting someone for, with the exception of plea/immunity deals that include providing incriminating evidence in another case or against another person. Not sure what X% should really be, but it should be sufficiently high as to prevent prosecutors from using the large delta between plea and conviction sentences as leverage. My initial thought would be 50%.
Or... just don't bother with an MBA in the first place. Talented managers are grown, they are not produced.

Rather, go get a skill that can be used to build something. If you're talented for management, you don't need an MBA - it will come as part of your experience and interpersonal skills. Everything important taught in an MBA program can be learned later in your career as a by-product of simply being part of a good organization.
(5) Apple provides the relatively simple service of looking up incorporation documents.

I can't complain about the speed in getting a DUNS number, since it was quiet fast. Being in Canada, I was surprised how fast they were able to validate my newly created corporation. But I am not sure why we're to believe that D&B have special abilities. Incorporation documents are publicly available.
I disagree with Granick that the problem is with the CFAA. The entire legal system in the US is badly damaged. Fewer than 1 in 50 cases ever goes to trial, for example: http://www.marcgalanter.net/Documents/papers/thevanishingtri... This is partly because of a preference for procedural rather than substantive rulemaking under the constitution.

I grumble about this too frequently already, so I'll stop here, but (re)cite two books I think make particularly succinct critiques: The Collapse of American Criminal Justice by Christopher Stuntz and Adversarial Legalism by Robert Kagan. In a nutshell, both argue that the fact-finding role of trial courts (civil as well as criminal) is seriously impeded by the ever-denser thicket of procedural protections, such that a case of any complexity is eventually reduced to a war of legal attrition.

Don't even get me started on the post-trial situation.
I've always wanted to get into web design, but every time I read an article like this, I get scared. Sometimes it seems like the web is
nothing but hacks piled on top of hacks...
It's very product specific. For example, I'm interested in music-making software so I'm looking at VST plugins. A web-based SAAS app might make more sense for other people, etc.
Biter. ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064673

Mainly linking because I took two other stabs at ways to address the prosecutorial issues here.
I'd agree with you, but shipping his token across sea is where he crossed the line. He went from finding a nifty way to do his job... but he also created a security vulnerability. I'd fire him for that alone.
I'd argue he's overlooking some schools. Notably Chicago and Columbia, but also Duke, Dartmouth, and Berkeley. I'd also say Rice and Texas if you'd like to work in energy financing, USC and UCLA if entertainment is your game, and regional programs your employer, should they be so kind, might help you pay for, especially if your background is in science or engineering and you'd like to rebrand yourself.

But the underlying point holds: It's not the golden ticket it used to be. It's primarily for consultants and bankers these days, and those aren't sectors that hire far and wide. They want brand names that'll impress their clients who probably attended brand name MBA programs themselves.
You go to jail once you're charged, not when you are convicted. My hometown is currently running into budgetary problems and has scaled back the court system to funnel more funds to the jail housing everyone awaiting trial.
The Internet Archive, probably. They have a long-term view toward preserving Internet content, and the resources to support permanent memorials would be negligible for them. It would be similar to a university library preserving the papers of an important writer. I can't imagine a more appropriate custodian.
I feel like this is the you can't have the same job for 30 years story told over and over again.

Yeah. New economy. You have to have skills. You can't just buy a good job.
If he's getting everything done to the extent that he's getting great performance reviews, what's the problem?
reading that piece made me think of an article that I came across a while ago, about a photographer who went around rural China convincing people to cart all their 'stuff' outside their home and would take a photo of it all...amazing to see their life possessions on display; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19648095
I think you make an important point that needs to be realized. MIT, like many other large institutions, is not a single entity, but a collection of many people. While many people have expressed their disappointment with MIT, along with statements such as "How could the university that hired rtm do this to swartz", we have to see that MIT is a big place with many people running different parts of it! While disappointment towards MIT and sadness over Swartz's death is certainly understandable/warranted, we should wait for Abelson's report before we heap scorn, jump to conclusions, and find something to throw on the stake.
Middle men only exist when they add value to the equation, except in extreme circumstances. People that want to do everything themselves can do so, but they may not have the resources (time, skill, or money) to be effective at all that stuff that would otherwise magically happen. I just submitted my first app to the App Store on Sunday (yay, review time!) and as I was doing so realized there was a ton of stuff I had never really considered.
was wondering why this is surfacing now myself ? I think I had just upgraded FreeBSD 2.2.2 to 2.2.3 when I first read about KM.. sigh* slashdot had KM headlining daily no need to relive the pre-google era on HN!
It was an interesting time. The internet was there but the phone network hadn't faded into obscurity yet, so phreaking was still a thing. 2600, Cult of the Dead Cow, Phreak and many more were fun sources for mischief and information. I can honestly say that they all greatly increased my interest in programming and computers, setting me on my future path for life.

There isn't a lot like that anymore which is a little sad, but I look upon it fondly. The internet had to grow up at some point I guess.
"Hiding his computer under a box so no one would see it."

That's always the part on TV where the defense objects to the prosecution drawing inferences or something like that.

Even if we saw him on authentic video placing a box over a computer, it's still something very different to say it was so no one else would see it.
"It's easy to idiomatically achieve vertical centering. http://jsfiddle.net/aMMxj/10/ "

that solution

1. only works for text, which is part of eranation's rant.

2. only works if you know the exact height of the container.

3. isn't even centered: http://i.imgur.com/lz8Mq.png
Knowing The Register, that's not shocking or surprising at all.
I think The Register might have had a valid scoop here because it's not like everyone reads Verizon case studies to get their news and it's similar to how the latest medical studies make the news rounds.

However, this is an absolutely horrible piece of journalism. What company is it? For all I know, this story could have been completely made up and it certainly lacked any sort of journalistic investigation other than to rip off the report.
Apache's MaxRequestsPerChild directive is not at all about limiting load; it says after serving N requests (or N connections in a keep-alive setting), the worker kills itself and another may be spawned in its place (subject to spare server/thread config). This mostly helps keep slow memory (or other resource) leaks in check by starting fresh every so often.

Did you mean to link to MaxClients[1]? MaxClients sets
the maximum number of simultaneous connections; any additional connections will be queued by the OS socket api (subject to listen backlog, etc).

I think waiting to accept sockets that you can't handle is a better solution than either accepting a socket to return an error message, or (much worse) accepting a socket that overloads your system. Unfortunately, sometimes it can be hard to set MaxClients to the right value that isn't so big that you get reduced througput, or too small that you don't use all your resources. (One thing that does help you get to the right number for MaxClients is to set MinSpareServers to the same value as MaxClients; you will avoid issues where MaxClients is too big and you start swapping during high load, but you don't notice it because things are fine with a small number of servers).

Sorry, that was way too much information.

[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_common.html#maxclie...
Steve Jobs wins: Dell to sell out, give money back to the shareholders
I've moved 7 times in 9 years and figure I've discarded, given away or sold over 2,500 lbs worth of stuff. Crazy when I think of it this way. Feels great.
360 days smoke free !!! fuck me fuck you.
I use Xubuntu, it's probably the best way to get the good parts of Ubuntu (the good package selection, proprietary software support, and OOTB hardware support) while also having a good UI.
He was also smart enough to have hundreds of PDF documents on his work computer proving the crime at hand.
It's "management" IF and ONLY IF his employers knew about it.

Otherwise it's fraud. He gave permission to access company resources and property and who knows what else without the actual owners knowing about it.

There is nothing laudable about his actions - frankly this is the type of thing I'd like to see "professionals" lose the ability work in the profession for.
It's blank for me in 3 different browsers, looks like some javascript errors.
Robert Morris's father was in a position to pull some strings/fund the defense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(cryptographer)
It's definitely relevant now that we've drawn attention to the draconian federal technology statutes. The Mitnick case is the best example of ignorant paranoia corrupting the common law precedent and the slack it's given to the justice bureaucracy. It would be an err to consider their acts morally or legally equivalent though.
Before you do, make sure you spend some time reading the analysis here and on reddit, and come to a solid conclusion whether this proposed change actually would have helped Aaron, or whether it's a feel good attempt to use his name for political gain.
Well, I find the timing suspicious.

I know that gun enthusiasts have been creating dozens of them as of late and as silly as some of them aree, they are meeting the 25,000 signature goal.

The "fire Carmen Ortiz" took less than three-days to reach fruition and now that the White house has devalued the 25,000 number, I hope the petition can reach 250,000 by it's end date to really send a message.
>Keep in mind that mental health can be a huge factor in someone being suicidal. In other words, they're not thinking straight, so it's fair to help them during that time.

Using the mental health angle to deny someone their most basic right is fraught with issues. Mental health is often defined in terms of conforming to the standard behavior under various measures. We define mentally unhealthy as sufficiently deviant behavior and use that as a rationale for restricting that behavior. This is a thinly veiled attempt at forcing conformity under a scientific premise. Unless one can be demonstrated to be out of touch with reality, we have no right to physically intervene with someone exercising their right to self-determination. If you believe this right has caveats, then you simply never believed in it to begin with.