skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if you interpret it the "band" as your internet connection and "width" is how much information can flow through the connection per time period?
MIT over the last few years, sadly, under the Hockfield administration, has screwed hackers over - no doubt about that. Numbers decreased because of that. But they increased at the same time due to the MIT blogs and better (sometimes unintentional) publicity of MIT hacks.

I honestly suspect that things will be better for hackers under Reif's administration. He does, in my humble opinion, "not suck."

EDIT: Also important of note is that Aaron wasn't a student at MIT - historically, MIT students were forgiven for things like hacking, but non-MIT students were typically handed over to Cambridge Police. Typically, when hacking with a non-MIT student, you would pretend they were a 'pre-frosh' if you could.
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Are you really stating that his feeling physically dizzy at comprehending something that changed his world view is a "glimpse into troubled mind"? Seriously?

Please, for all that is holy, unless you have a background in mental health, please avoid making armchair diagnoses. (Those that have that background are loathe to jump to conclusions, for example.) It's neither your place, nor your field. Don't do it.
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Then I would blame the story for being too easy to predict. I like stories where there are many loose ends and a variety of outcomes is possible, all making sense.
Indeed, I've always thought of them as a cunning way of soaking up some of the pressure.

The UK's version ( http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/ ) goes a step further as you have to provide your name and a full address, so regularly signing petitions will be giving the Government a nice set of data to mine to provide a political profile based on views on certain issues...

The site says "This information will not be used for any purpose other than in relation to the e-petition." but that doesn't fill me with confidence that they can't do mining...
cool. it would be nice if it generated some reusable SASS mixins, not only the generated css.
Spending 100k in an MBA seems better value for the money though.

(and as far as I've looked, they go to that value with everything included, tuition is less)
What does this have to do with what jamesaguilar posted?

> No. Surely, something else is broken.

Really? There are no other options you can think of? Perhaps the US is simply stricter? I quote from the article this image is from: "Still, it is the length of sentences that truly distinguishes American prison policy. Indeed, the mere number of sentences imposed here would not place the United States at the top of the incarceration lists."

So yup, the US is stricter, but it does not have more criminals, nor does it imprison more people.

> A graph showing a strange spike

There is no spike, this is the result of using a linear graph when it should have been a logarithmic one. (A very common mistake, and also frequently employed when trying to make a point without support in the data.) In this particular graph even better would be to normalize to the population level, but logarithmic is also OK. Either way, if you fix the graph you will find no spike.

This graph is better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._incarceration_rates_1... It shows an increase, but no spike.

So why the increase? And especially why has it slowed down? Read this and you shall know: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006368
That "spec" was a Working Draft in June 2012 and a Candidate Recommendation in September 2012. It's still not final. And browser vendors have implemented prefixed versions (even Microsoft!). I think it is reasonable to criticise the W3 for not finalising something we've been struggling with for over fifteen years.
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If you want a member of congress to act on something, you have to ask them. That's how the system works. If you don't put in the effort, their time is spent on the thousands of other people clamoring for their attention who were more motivated and passionate than you were.

Really didn't want to bring this up, but I actually floated the idea of the community pursuing a political strategy to help Aaron here on HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529907

The suggestion didn't get many upvotes, and was utterly belittled by one of HN's most prolific posters. Something to keep in mind before you ridicule the small number of representatives who are actually friendly to tech. (To be clear, I could have taken action myself anyway, and I didn't find the time. That's on me.)

It's really, really unfortunate that this is the top comment.
Yes, limiting yourself to the "top 5" (by what measure?) is a sure sign this makes no sense.

Top 5 MBAs by number of squirrels on campus?
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If the miraculous ABB breaker is like any of their other equipment, it'll be quickly deposited in the rubbish bin along with the sanity of most electricians once they start trying to roll any of this out.
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http://www.quietlyfabulous.com/2011/01/06/introverts-arent-a...

Here's the cliff notes:
“But in 1998, researchers were finally able to do what Isabel Briggs Myers could not: an actual population study. The study was based on a national representative sample – 3,009 randomly selected individuals – which, through weighting of underrepresented groups, was made to approximate the distribution of the 1990 U.S. Census. The findings were clear: introverts and extroverts are equally represented in the population.” (emphasis in original)
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This guy needs a new job as an outsourcing manager. That job is hard!
Every time I've seen someone mention category theory, it's to use it to overcomplicate something very simple.

class Holder[+A] is a declaration that Holder[S] is a subtype of Holder[T] whenever S is a subtype of T. If you keep that in mind it's obvious why you're getting a compile error. (To be fair, the article does explain this pretty well by the end - it's just got a lot of excessive complication in the middle).
For a moment here, I thought I was reading The Onion :) Anyone knows who is this outsourcing company? They seem to be doing a decent enough job.
This is a neat little technique and the fact that the developers did this puts nodes.js higher in my stack of "technologies to consider".

A harder problem is to solve the same "melt-out" problem for the entire gamut of servers that are usually found in large serving stacks (various web servers, relattional and nosql db servers etc). The users are usually not the developers of these pieces of technology and there's never enough dev-bandwidth available to actually implement self-tuning techniques like the one mentioned here.

For such situations I once came up with a "little" trick to limit the damage in sudden overload situation. It allows the admins of said servers to tune the threadpool and request queue lengths in an intelligent way (with the help of historical performance data that most shops should have). I mentioned it in this discussion thread here:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Whats-generally-used-methodol...
I would beg to differ. I much prefer to work with AutoLayout constraints rather than some custom XML layout like with Android or WP.
It may sensibly describe how someone feels, but how that person feels may not be sensible....
none of that is isolated to CA by any means
I have a ~2700 subscriber email list with mailchimp and i want to pay $50/m but not until they make a decent plugin that isn't beta with heroku.
i think that is exactly what i wrote.

"I have come to believe that most people can be talented at managing people if they want to be."

you can hate on me and hate on VCs all you want. that's fine. but please don't misrepresent what i wrote
> Software services are evolutionary

Sure, but changing the tech stack is much harder than rewriting some parts of it. And some setups are easier to adapt than others. Thus choosing the best available option when starting a new project is important, and the likeliness of the technology to be alive and well in ten years should be taken into consideration, among other parameters (your own experience, the current availability of good developers).

Moreover, the "trendiness" of a technology should be counted as a negative factor, because it would tend to be overestimated and cast shadows on potentially better (but less sexy) alternatives.
The guy should obviously start a software consulting company, as he seems to have some serious hiring skills :)
I must admit I've even considered outsourcing some small design/prototyping tasks to contractors. (I'm talking in the context of my day job at a big organization.)

Not with the objective of wasting my time at work instead, but to be able to do some prototyping on ideas I'd like to test, but for which I don't have the time. Higher-priority activities won't let me focus on these prototypes easily. In my view, it'd clearly be a win for my organization (and for me too, since I really want to push forward some of these things), but I do understand it'd probably be considered reprehensible.
I presume it's the only way for them to tell if you have actually registered a company in your country.
I liked going to HMV. I still do, pretty much every weekend if I don't have anything better to do - probably will until they close the one in the Trocadero. Last weekend I even brought something. That's probably an expensive store - but it's in a place where cool people gather, and it has stock that reflects their interests. It has probably the best browsable stock of any permanent shop I know.

WH Smith, OTOH, should be dead already. They hassle you to buy additional things at the checkout, which is unforgivable.
YMMV but when the presenter of the WWDC AutoLayout track had to dig into Instruments to find out why his layout was throwing exceptions I felt like I was watching some kind of really nerdy April fools joke.
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I thought four-year degrees taking 5 years was a bit ridiculous before I moved abroad... after moving to Holland I see that the US is just not competitive here.

In NL, University students complete a Bachelor's in three years, usually going on to complete a Master's in the following year, or a "Research Masters" in two years ("research" meaning you actually publish articles). Nearly the whole time is spent actually studying the subjects in your major.
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It was up about an hour ago when I read it. Hopefully it will be back soon.
It's a lovely tale but it stinks of fiction, it's a little too good to be true.
Not sure if they should fire this guy for being dishonest about calling other people work his own or promote him since he clearly seems to be able to get work done through overseas consultancy and get ROI from the money from his salary for the company.
Indeed, i'm actually doing some part-time programming on the side and trying to build my business out to be more consultancy-driven. It's so scary to hand out clients work and trust it in the hands of someone on the other side of the world. Especially if you have bad experiences in that regard. This guy actually found a reliable contractor, from China! And they can even be trusted with a secure token to the network which obviously has security at heart with physical tokens. Amazed :)
This is cool! A time saver!!
That kerning is making my eyes twitch.
After reading the article I wondered: Is that actually illegal?

Giving his credential and two factor auth token to someone is clearly an abuse of policies but what about the actual "outsourcing your own job part"?
I am tired of seeing the word hacker being abused like this, seriously in this article it refers more to a developer or coder than a hacker, sadly the word has lost a lot of its old meaning. Now everyone who writes code with some competence calls himself a hacker, IMHO it should be earned not self assigned.

Downvote me to hell if you want, but I had to get that out of my chest.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-f...

One fourth to a less than a half is not "vastly outnumbered".

PS
Or even slightly more than a half: http://www.thoughtful-self-improvement.com/percentage-of-int...
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I don't really feel that way, and it's not really something I've spent a lot of time looking into, but. There is one thing that bothers me and if you feel like talking about that that'd be cool.

Most of time there's some example of people making money with open source it comes off a little like "you can do open source development and have it play into this other thing that makes money". The other thing is often support or some "service" that people can use your product with.

And it's easy to see how that makes sense for something like a Linux distro (although you'd still ultimately want it to not need "service"). But, like, if I was Cosmigo and had made Pro Motion, I would not be sure how to go about it if I wanted to open source it and make money from that. Surely no one wants a pixel art tool that requires "service", and so on.

Might just be that I haven't seen the right examples because I haven't looked into it that much because I'm not actually that interested in this kind of thing. But yeah, it is one thing that has been bothering me, so.
Waste of resources is self-correcting. If we were ever to run short of e.g. aluminium, scrap prices would go up and it would become worth selling old things rather than throwing them away.
If true it's totally unethical but kinda cool at the same time. He should set up an agency and become a professional outsourcer.
Is this the same article that was deleted?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064586
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Balls of steel. To be fair, his actual programming skills probably suffered quite a bit though, so it might be difficult to get hired as developer now... but he should start his own business, clearly, or at least get hired as a manager.

It won't do any good to the argument that US developers are "inherently superior" though.
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That is being worked on: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-shadow-dom-20120522/:

"7 Styles

To enforce upper-boundary encapsulation, CSS rules declared by the document must not apply in a shadow DOM subtree, unless the apply-author-styles flag is set for this subtree. The flag signals that document CSS rules are applicable in the shadow DOM subtree.

Conversely, to enforce lower-boundary encapsulation, CSS rules declared in a shadow DOM subtree must not apply in the document tree."
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I'm doing development at a startup which means minimal funding and a $200 license. My main development system is running Linux and I do development of client side Android and iOS, plus server side (mostly Python), web, database etc. AppCode only helps for one of those, and would be more valuable to me if it ran on non-Mac platforms even just as a better Objective C editor.

Note that I do do iOS dev on a Mac but I use a combination of emacs on my Linux box using sshfs and command line tools over ssh, plus Xcode when necessary. The product is a library with no user interface so this is actually more productive.

In any event it looks like I should try AppCode. Hopefully it won't have the flaw that stopped me with Sublime Text 2. SL2 didn't detect when a file had been modified outside the editor (eg by vcs or different editor) and happily overwrote the modifications!

I had briefly tried Xcode refactoring before giving up and using search/replace in emacs. One of the curses of multiple languages, client and server etc is that names sometimes end up wrong and need fixing to match local conventions.
Uh, no? Why bother sending them to school then? This is not about beliefs, it is about science.
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>Sure Aaron built things but he also threatened to destroy JSTOR's business model.

Well, destroying someone's business model isn't, of itself evil. A business model doesn't have a right to exist for its own sake. For example, I'd love to see someone destroy the business model of patent trolls.

Not saying that JSTOR has an immoral or unnecessary business model. I don't know actually, but I'm just reacting to the idea that sometimes comes up that if there is a business model for something no one has a right to destroy it.
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Probably not illegal, depending on how he declared his income to tax authorities, but quite clearly unethical -- not because of the outsourcing per se, but because he didn't disclose it to his employer.
@gsg Would you mind sharing said emacs hack ;-)
it seems like it. i did not across that link before. if this article is not true then i should delete this link.

i cannot find the same case study they cited on Verizon.
Not to mention infract security by handing out credentials to the network of a 'US critical infrastructure company l' to a China based company. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some kind of federal law covering this. (Patriot act maybe?)
In any case he would be pretty lucky if he only got fired for this. I would have to pay a 10.000 Euro fine at least for disclosing company secrets. (Netherlands)
> they can even be trusted with a secure token to a government network

Well, you don't know that. For all we know, the Chinese government might have duplicated every bit of code that "developer" outsourced.
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Lets just sit back and revel in the irony of programmers discussing broad fixes to federal laws, based on insights from reddit comments.

To all the armchair legal experts of HN, here's a challenge: draft legislation that fixes what you propose and post it here.If you can't do that, you are not qualified to comment on the matter.

The EFF has addressed the technology aspects of this. You have ascended into general purpose prosecutorial reform. The legal profession has a vast number of incredibly intelligent people and the legal process has vast nuances, and to think you are an expert in the subject is downright arrogant.

You solve this problem by momentum and visibility, not tossing out arbitrary criticisms.

In the meanwhile, vote up the comment that urges readers to help get this passed.
He was found out in a security audit.

I imagine that allowing access to the company's systems is something that requires extensive vetting beforehand, given it's described as "critical infrastructure".
What's with the all caps in the title? seferphier, welcome to HN, but we don't editorialize or emphasize titles like that here.
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Aarows laws:

1) Thou shall not harm those weaker than you. See too big to fail for names to go after.

2) Thou shall protect and let them have freedom of choice and experimentation and broad access to knowledge.

3) If thou cannot avoid being bureaucratic in the age of information, take into account that time waiting for decisions is painful. See 1).

4) Thou shall avoid giving money and encouraging practices that lead to 1) either in your country or in other countries. A living creature is the same everywhere.
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The reality is that it is quite rare for a federal defendant to kill themselves. To have 2 of them (that we know about) stemming from prosecutions by one individual, I would have to say, is pretty remarkable. While it could just be a coincidence, the one common denominator in these two statistically rare incidents is Stephen Heymann.

We'll just call him "Suicide Steve".

On a somewhat related note, the callousness of the people that work in the MA US Attorney's office apparently extends to their spouses. The husband of US Attorney Carmen Ortiz posted on his (now deleted) twitter account criticizing Aaron's family for the content of his obituary (screenshot of his tweet here - http://imgur.com/IR5ah ).
For some context, this was the state of play in 2000 (http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/01/business/a-matter-of-degre...
):

"Consulting firms are especially hungry [...] consulting firms still hire hundreds of M.B.A.'s and say they would sign up even more if many of the most desirable candidates were not instead joining dot-com companies that can lure them with equity stakes."

"'Frankly, business is in some ways not that difficult to learn,'' said Rajat Gupta, McKinsey's managing partner. ''We can pick up people who have not studied business and can teach them, if they have the intellectual firepower.'"

"STILL, from some perspectives, these are not the best of times for the M.B.A. [...] many potential students [... are] eager to join start-ups. If Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos didn't need an M.B.A., some people wonder why they do, either. Also, with technology rapidly and fundamentally changing so many industries, other people worry that two years spent outside the work force is too long."

"Indeed, at a time when technology is changing the rules for many industries, the skills of scientists and physicians are especially attractive to consulting firms looking to develop new theories. ''Oftentimes, the problems they're trying to solve really do require a deeper level of analytical skills'' than many M.B.A.'s have, said Laura D'Andrea Tyson, the dean of the University of California's Haas School of Business..."
When you're poor you have to be more risk-averse. You can't afford to follow the recommendations of many people here and throw out everything you think you probably won't need, then re-buy the stuff you actually need. Even something trivial like the rotary telephone he mentions - if you ever needed a new phone you could get a new one for $10, which to you or me is nothing, but could be a lot if you're poor.

I'd also be interested to see better numbers, but the observation seems to make sense.
First of all, you can network via LinkedIn, Lunchmeet, attending conferences, founder dating services, etc. There's so many ways you can do it for much less if not free. Second, how many of the people you encounter during the MBA program will actually be of any use to you? I know you can't tell, but from my experience, you don't really need to network with everyone--it's often a waste of time. You just need to be introduced to the ones who matter in your industry. So if the real value of an MBA is the network, then an MBA doesn't really seem valuable at all.
If the model were to stay the same, I'd like to see something like stacking-context:break to start a new stacking context with the targeted element as parent, stacking-context:inherit for children. Same as we have now, but with the option for manual control.
RT is a Russian national news service. They're quite anti-US, anti-NATO, etc.

I actually quite enjoy the RT TV station - they have some rather amusing reports. However, like all stations, they have their bias. So it's worth noting that their reports against the US should be taken with a pinch of salt (much like how I wouldn't trust any reports from Fox News).
Sorry but it seems to be an inferior version of sites like, thefancy.com, svpply.com, nuji.com, etc.
I realize I might have singled you out too much for what I personally generally dislike about the "blogosphere"; I am sorry for that. It was uncalled for. It is not a bad article and you obviously have all the right intentions, if anything I do find the topic a bit boring in the sense that it does pop up here at least weekly and I have no hope any of this will ever reach the typical HR drones who should actually learn something from this anyway.