skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ortiz today:

and they recognized that his conduct – while a violation of
the law – did not warrant the severe punishments authorized
by Congress and called for by the Sentencing Guidelines in
appropriate cases.

Ortiz on 9/2012, adding 9 counts to the conduct that we learn "did not warrant...severe punishment":

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/aaron-swartz-felony...

Federal prosectors added nine new felony counts against
well-known coder and activist Aaron Swartz, who was charged
last year for allegedly breaching hacking laws by
downloading millions of academic articles from a
subscription database via an open connection at MIT.

Ortiz today:

Ultimately, any sentence imposed would have been up to the
judge. At no time did this office ever seek – or ever tell
Mr. Swartz’s attorneys that it intended to seek – maximum
penalties under the law.

And here is Ortiz in her own press release telling the entire world the DOJ is threatening Swartz with a maximum penalty of 35 years and $1M in fines:

http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR....

AARON SWARTZ, 24, was charged in an indictment with wire
fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information
from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a
protected computer. If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ
faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three
years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a
fine of up to $1 million.

It is completely disingenuous for Ortiz to maintain that 35 years/$1M wasn't the threat on the table, that we are rubes for thinking that this sticker price was material. That sticker price is exactly what gave her leverage over Swartz, leverage to make 6 months in federal prison and felon status (not to mention legal bankruptcy) seem reasonable by comparison!

Ultimately, any sentence imposed would have been up to the
judge.

Exactly, and this is why this random variable was so intimidating. Do you take a guarantee of 6 months in federal prison and permanent felon status? Or a risk of 7 years, or up to 35 years, plus total bankruptcy if you really try to fight?

"Ultimately any sentence imposed would have been up to the judge" and had the judge thrown the book at him Ortiz & Heymann would have washed their hands: "Oh well, maybe the judge shouldn't have given him 8 years rather than 3, but that's what he gets for not plea bargaining." This of course disavows Ortiz's and Heymann's own complicity in drumming up PDF downloading into a federal case.

This woman really feels like her office's actions were justified, and that's the scary part. You get a sense of what Aaron was up against. She needs to feel what it's like to be in a no-win situation herself, with the choice being resignation or getting fired. That is only way that prosecutors across the land will get the message: that this was wrong.
The return flight was cancelled:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/LOT4/history/20130117/035...
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IMO, the easiest way is to borrow from a bank.

If you're in the EU the EC give out startup grants. In Scotland we get them through our local Councils.
Kerr does a textbook analysis of the facts, ignoring the particularities of this case. Not one but three (!) lawyers picked up Aaron's case, and all three failed to reach a plea bargain -- clearly the prosecution was more "motivated" than usual. Given this fact, the fact that in these circumstances a bargain is not actually binding for the judge, and the other fact that there was no interest in keeping Swartz happy post-sentence (no co-conspirators to turn, no further loot to recover etc), you can see why Swartz would not agree to just put himself in the hands of a Justice, and why the "six months" scenario was actually fairly unrealistic (and still disproportionate, regardless).

I also disagree with his view that (I paraphrase) "we shouldn't criticize special cases, we should criticize what goes on every day". Yes, we all agree that you shouldn't "be good" only at Christmas, but the reality of this world is that legislative bodies quite often (if not all the time) will only act on the impulse of particular cases. This is what is happening now, which is good. Also, I'm sure that not "every day" prosecutors callously dismiss proven suicidal tendencies in pursuit of career-enhancing convictions, if anything to avoid ending up in a mess like this -- except for Heymann, who clearly won't give two shits about the wellbeing of young hackers. One case is a mistake, two is a pattern, and Heymann and his boss should take responsibility for their behaviour.
Ask HN: Was Hacker News "better" in the "early days"? If so, how?
Sorry for the overuse of quotation marks... I've only been reading Hacker News for the past year or so and I really enjoy reading it. From time to time, I'll see a comment complaining that Hacker News is not what is used to be, that is has turned into something trashy, that discussions used to be more intellectual, etc. For you long time readers/contributors to HN, I'd love to get your perspective and thoughts on how HN has evolved. Thanks!
>>This isn't really about taking from the big, bad corporations. It's about taking from your neighbor. It would be great if we had in-air broadband, but until that day, we'll have to find some way to regulate the use of a limited resource to prevent it from becoming over-saturated.
If GoGo allows this to continue, it's also about them not prioritizing their customer experience very highly. I've long felt that they should be tuning their firewall to eliminate or minimize unneccessary traffic. I'm not sure what their SLAs are but I've flown enough to know that on any full daytime flight, the intertubes feel very full. If, for example, 1/4 of the passengers forget to put their mobile devices in airplane mode and their devices are conversing google services the entire flight (even though they never purchased or activated GoGo) that alone will likely gobble up a noticeable portion of bandwidth.
It's a word coined by pg that's sort of a term-of-art for the depressing tendency of the top HN comment to be something which pooh-poohs the company/topic/idea in the submission, doesn't add anything to the discussion, but (crucially) is worded convincingly enough to not just end up on the bottom of the thread.

e.g. "Lol that suckz because Google can steal ur passwerdz!" would not end up at the top of the thread. We wouldn't be terribly worried if someone actually said "Wait, I just audited NativeClient and it turns out you can achieve arbitrary code execution. Maybe you should avoid this software." The danger zone is comments which sound like the second but, on reflection, only tell you about as much as the first.
> outright termination.

Can we change that to 'being fired'.
One important property of face-to-face meetings compared to Skype chats that looks like nothing has mentioned before is the sense of responsibility.

It's far easier to turn off Skype for a day or two and give some crap excuses for whatever went wrong rather than look into persons eyes and talk about it.

Obviously it's not a perfect scenario and we expect those things not to happen but well, the world is not perfect and they do happen.
I think you fail to explain why one precludes the other. (WRGT ads vs a user's best interest). And I also think that you're overly focused on the monetization aspect of current search technology. Which neither search in general nor Google in particular are tightly coupled to. It's simply the best practical monetization method at the present time.
I don't install apps that have a banner that says 'FREE' in their logo. I always suspect these games to be of very low quality (I have no clue if that's true of your app as well) and that they are packed with micro transactions.
This is how I see it from my user's point of view.
Wordpress is good at serving static content? Web servers are good at serving static content. Wordpress is a huge, monolithic CMS with vulnerabilities appearing frequently, thus I would call it rather bad at serving essentially static content.
> If you make them crush their self-confidence and make them feel like shit, they learn their lesson. They lose that blithe self-confidence and begin to realise they have to play by the same rules as everyone else. And then, they will hopefully turn into constructive, positive-minded members of society.

I don't believe there's any evidence at all that this on average has the intended effect. If there is, I'd love it if someone has a reference.
As I read it the whole SSH client is an OpenSSH port running in the NativeClient sandbox, which does make it safer in terms of SSH client exploits, in the sense that the exploit doesn't give you immediate control of the local machine.

Secure Shell is a Chrome Application that combines the "ssh" command (see http://openssh.org/ for details) ported to NativeClient with the "hterm" terminal emulator to provide a secure shell client for the Chrome browser.

http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromiumos/platform/assets...

I'm not familiar enough with the multiple sandboxing levels of Chrome to judge the risks of one malicious website accessing the memory of the Secure Shell extension. I guess you have a point, although I would expect the "each tab in a separate process" model to mitigate this concern?
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well I'm using Notepad++ atm and it's fast as well. It also has the awesome feature (Opera also has it) that you can close tabs by doubleclicking them. Once you get used to that it's extremely hard to not use it everywhere..
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The use of passwords in a technological evolution - Hacking News
GiffGaff has been doing this as well, couldn't access reddit, 9gag or any of the sites that "might" have adult content. Had to go to my account settings and input my passport number to get the access unlocked.
I've always thought it funny how porn is 'mature' content, but the people who use it are considered 'juvenile'.

I've always wanted to hear the voiceover in a cinema say "This film is rated for mature audiences", and have the film be a political thriller of which juveniles wouldn't understand the politics...
Doesn't AppleCare cover a bit more than simple warranty?
Online banking isn't security critical.

The banks operate on the assumption that their user's machines will be compromised and have undertaken plenty of steps to manage their risk e.g. two factor auth, transfer limits etc.
If by respect for designers you mean feeding the ego of so called "creatives" while indulging in endless bike shed meetings that achieve nothing then I surely disagree. Better lipstick will not make your pig taste any more or less like bacon.

Good designers don't fall in love with their work. At least, they don't when under corporate constraint, because they know perfection is neither possible nor desirable.

I don't think designers are worse when it comes to bike-shedding than anyone else. I've had more problems with product managers and arrogant bosses when it comes to that.
Engineers are a respected class in California?

Hell's balls, I need to move.
I wonder where Ars Technica gets their information from...

"If convicted on all charges, he could have spent more than 50 years in prison."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/internet-pioneer-...
> I hold an MBA from both Columbia University and the London Business School.

What's this ad hominem crap? The guy can't have an opinion on this because he's an MBA and "generally [can't] grasp the complexity of software"?

There are a ton of mobile apps out there that don't have any desktop analog and this guy is suggesting that's a poor strategy, just like having a desktop website with no mobile interface is a poor strategy. And what the heck does any of this have to do with whether or not you use native code?

It's a fallacy to state that software needs to be "100% quality made". What does that even mean? Bug free? Sure. Super pretty? Maybe? Native over web? Now come on...

> No one really has "ONLY" mobile

Path, Snapchat, Color, Flipboard, Pair, Yardsale, Rumgr, etc. All apps with little or no desktop web counterpart. The last two have to do with selling and require a large network effect, and yet they are both only available on mobile, and even worse, only on iOS; a perfect example of how a narrow "mobile only (ios first)" strategy can detract from your product.
I think the term respect is used loosely here. Sure, everyone should be treated with the same respect, but I feel like they're substituting it for admiration.
"He broke the law. Which means he is a criminal."

I've refrained from posting here as I'm in the UK, not my issue &c but I do work with young offenders and adults in retraining &c.

'criminal' is not a 'type' or irrevocable condition. It is a social status that exists in the mind of people and state records, especially in this case with little measureable damage to anything or anyone.
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More true than you might guess.

http://www.mainjustice.com/tag/carmen-m-ortiz

A sense of pride has long been important to Ortiz who “knew
all along [she] wanted to be a lawyer.”

“I never thought about doing anything else. Maybe it was
watching trials on TV, and thinking it was exciting to be
in front of a jury arguing a case. That fascinated me. (At
George Washington University Law School)

Read it in context if you want.
Well, he prefers Python (https://github.com/alex). Perfect, I'll keep making my rubies shinier :)
It has been my experience in agencies that designers are often the guys running the show at larger companies, with development often viewed as a commodity that is nice to have in-house, but could be traded away to another agency with little difficulty.

As an example, a guy I know that is now a director at a London based agency is hiring a Head of User Experience/Design, and a Head of Development. The design role requires many years of experience with large brands, leading projects, experience working with board members/multiple stakeholder environments with a salary range from £65-80k a year. The development role requires the same amount of experience as a developer; leading projects and people, but has a salary of £50-65k. This seems fairly common across agencies in London and with the pay scale lowered seems about the same in cities like Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham, etc.

A company like Airbnb is going to be entirely different from the norm, but this is already common practice across many other agencies. The rise of Apple has done a lot for creatives, possibly a lot more than the technical might of companies like Microsoft and Google have done for developers.
Or perhaps it's just on their 4G?

EE is branding confusion hell. They're a result of the merger between Orange and T-Mobile, but depending on situation you'll either have them treat you as an "EE customer" or as a T-Mobile/Orange customer. The only ones who are "only" EE customers in their eyes appear to be 4G users.

My contract was entered into with T-Mobile, and is a personal account, and I have never seen a block, including testing just now with obvious candidates.
Not at the federal level.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/14/us/14defenders.html?_r=2&#...;
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for the alternatives (Churchill — maybe with miswording).
I spent a few months doing general customer support (not technical) for a telco/isp. We had two isp products, a general one 'foo' and a rural-oriented one 'bar'. We could see the homepage for 'foo' and it was helpful in getting customers to the right spot to login (but what they saw after that was a mystery). No dice with 'bar' - our own product. I emailed the management saying "please whitelist 'bar', it's not like we're going to waste time looking at it, and it improves the service". Management droned: "That's not our decision, it's IT's".

I emailed IT with the reply and said the same thing to them. "That's not our decision, it's Management's".

Ah, the life of a drone. Can't say I miss it. The same place had an email quota so strict that I couldn't keep more than 2-3 weeks worth of emails. It also made me a lot more forgiving of callcentre drones.
Thanks, that will be very helpful.
Do you really think open source and security audits actually means much ? You only to have to look at Java and Windows to know that security exploits can exist for years sometimes decades without anyone noticing them.
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I've been on it for about 18 months and I think it's great. There are some problems (e.g. the pages for purchasing the monthly package occasionally don't work, and it seems to have forgotten the fact that I've got my purchase down as recurring at least once, meaning that it ate into my credit).

But for the saving compared with most networks, those pains are almost irrelevant and you can get even more money off by referring people - it's £5 back for everyone who you get to sign up.
You can use the `with-type` form to embed typed expressions in larger untyped modules in Racket. Also, submodules let you accomplish more of this as well, without needing to put your modules in separate files.
We have all seen these browser sandboxes before. And guess what:

Java and Flash are two of the most widely compromised pieces of software in history.
I think being an a abortion provider in countries where it is illegal is a totally valid form of civil disobedience, with the goal being to successfully provide services, not to be caught and convicted.
Really gives you an idea of how small the community of active developers really is.

I wonder how many of those people actually have repositories they are active in?
Hardcore Chinese grandpa maxes out six World of Warcraft characters
When you were young, did your grandparents ever yell at you for playing video games and send you outside for some exercise? Well, this retired Chinese grandpa would probably be okay with your gaming habits, given that he has six level 90 World of Warcraft characters.
Show HN: Greater Peace of Mind Guaranteed, or Your Money Isn't Refunded
I do not think, showing me ads is a problem for me when I am using a free service. It is finally my choice to click them or not...
And their abuse of the Safari Do Not Track setting.
Manti Te’o Teaches a Lesson About Due Diligence
Fortunately, you can write a sound type system for a Lisp without needing to verify individual macros. That's what Typed Racket does, described in this paper: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/pldi11-thacff.pdf

The basic idea is to first expand the whole program (really the whole module) and then to type check the fully expanded code, which doesn't have macros.
Unless you can improve on the silence, don't open your mouth...

Well said
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That's a question you'd have to ask his lawyers.

If you look at other cases, from the Pirate Bay to Wikileaks, you'll see that there are always options. Aaron didn't see any. I'd find it almost disgusting to make a judgement. Abstract reasoning can completely break down when you're facing a concrete, threatening situation. And the prospect of becoming "some kind of folk hero" may look very different if that's supposed to be you.
Robocallers stand out in a troll through Chinese cell phone records
I'd very strongly disagree there. Read the history of Google, and you'll see just how many people they pissed off in scraping the web. Launching snippets risked "copyright infringement" on a massive scale. Google Books: ballsy scanning without permission, opt-outs for individual authors. Google Maps Streetview: ditto. Gmail: ballsy advertising based on machine learning with individual messages.

Talk to anyone there in the days of Early Google. They were all about breaking rules.
I think this is a correlation/causation problem. Almost no companies have managed to keep its culture of innovation intact after going public, ergo going public implies death of innovation.

What I think is missed is that most companies fail, culturally, before they go public. However, when they're ramping up to IPO, they're putting lots of lipstick on the pig, and no employee wants to say anything contrary for fear of getting canned before a major cash-out.

Innovation requires freedom to fail without losing professional status. It requires autonomy for the kinds of people that, in a big company, the CEO will never have heard of. It requires open allocation, at least for the people who are expected to be innovating. See: http://www.quora.com/Software-Development-Methodologies/What...

Most startups begin with a constrained open allocation. You can't work on "whatever you want" because it's driving toward MVP, product-market fit, and profitability... but any work that is part of the company's mission (and there's plenty of work to do) is fair game for anyone. So the division of labor is pretty much rankless. However, at some point between 15 and 200 employees, most companies close up their project allocation, which means you need to play politics to get assigned to real work.

Innovation dies when you go to closed allocation-- you get a caste of entitled, permanent managers who control the division of labor, and use that control toward their own ends (including self-perpetuation). Now, the focus of the individual people is on (a) controlling the division of labor, and (b) getting what they can in terms of job titles in event of exit. The environment becomes so political that people can no longer do real work without shutting themselves away, which usually leads to getting fired.
It does indeed, it gets you additional support, coverage for repairs arising after delivery and so on. Apple even has a handy chart: http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/
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The block only applies to PAYG packages (at least on Three). When I switched to a monthly contract the censorship went away.
Do you take a guarantee of 6 months in federal prison and permanent felon status?

This was never a guarantee. As she said, the judge makes the final determination. The DA's suggestion has a lot of pull with a judge, but the DA can't promise anything.
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Heat generation + cardboard = fire hazard?

EDIT: Would that ever get a UL seal? I wonder!
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They both ended up on the front page, the latter today. And most people agreed that they were excellent analyses.
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Ah, I'd assumed putting in the body wasn't practical and that everything would be using links.
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That speech was simply amazing.
Just because it is a school for boys doesn't necessarily mean that it is "all male" - they might have female members of staff.