skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you mean "no longer beholden to the people"? If nobody votes for them, how they get into the office? If people vote for whoever their union leader or "community organizer" or local party hack tells them to vote for - they shouldn't blame "the wealthy" when their lives do not improve. They should blame themselves. Congress approval ratings are in the shitter, yet the chance of an entrenched incumbent to be reelected are still high - even those in the middle of corruption scandals and bribery investigations. Same people get reelected for years, especially in mono-party environments. And people who elect them always blame somebody else for the inevitable failure.

>>>> And you say voters want more people in jail?

If they didn't, politicians would be afraid to talk about more restrictive laws and more criminal prosecutions. For example, racism is despised by a large percentage of US population - at least open, overt racism - and show me one politician that is playing on the national scene and is openly racist? Does not happen. Did the wealthy do it? Nope, the people did. You want to make the problem of over-jailing become better? Make politicians supporting jailing people for minor offenses as popular as racists. No wealth would help them then.

>>>> marijuana was legalized in 2 states this time around.

Yet in California, where anybody can see that anybody willing can smoke like a 19-century locomotive 24hrs a day, legalization proposals still fail. I do not blame abstract "the wealthy" for it, I blame specific people of California being stupid.

BTW, I never said it is "simple". It is insanely complex and insanely messed up, and I have no slightest idea how to fix it. But I know one thing - blaming abstract "wealthy" for problems caused by regular citizens being stupid is not going to fix anything. Adding more stupid to the stupid doesn't make it better.

>>>> The statistics are quite clear regarding the increase in lobbying efforts by the wealthy and by large corporations during the 70s.

So what? Of course, lobbying is the most profitable investment in the known universe. Of course, there will be more of it. But try to think why it is profitable - who gives the politicians the power that they are selling and lobbyists are buying? The answer is - you do. Take it from them, and they'd have nothing to sell, and corporations would have to go and sell directly to you. Less profitable for them (wholesale is always cheaper, and buying power wholesale is not an exception), but better for you. The only thing you have to do is to get rid of the idea that you should give power to politicians so they solve your problems. If you can't - read your book and see what happens. The choice is yours.
Why would the secret service be involved with this? Is it common practice in similar cases?
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Most people do have a desktop. They've invested years of time learning Windows and have applications specifically written for it.

And then BAM... Windows 8! Good one Microsoft.
You're conflating two very different things. This was no case of overzealous prosecution based on vague laws for the kind of activity that everyone does every day. Swartz purposefully accessed a protected computer network without permission, and purposefully copied a huge number of documents which he had no right to copy. He did all of these things willfully, with no defense that he was incapable of understanding the implications of his actions. It is disingenuous to say that breaking into MIT's network to download millions of documents illegally is no different than the kind of activity that you and I might do every day that "technically" violate various laws.

Now, maybe you think "breaking in" to a poorly protected network should not be a crime. Maybe you think mass copying of copyrighted materials should not be a crime. But if you take action like Swartz did to protest these laws, you are engaging in an act of civil disobedience and inviting prosecution. And sometimes that's justified, but being prosecuted is part and parcel of civil disobedience.

The rhetoric around this unfortunate incident borders on intellectually dishonest. Our democratically-elected Congress has passed laws, and under those laws breaking into a poorly-protected network isn't any less "hacking" than breaking into a poorly-protected house is trespassing. Those laws also say that scientists own the copyright to their papers, and can license them to distributors, even when their research is paid for with public grant dollars.

The prosecutor in this case pursued her case according to the law. Not some technical "letter of the law" definition of the law, but in response to exactly the kinds of actions the laws were designed to address. Our democratically-elected Congress chose to make those specific things that Swartz did illegal.

That doesn't mean that no one is on the hook. But it's not the relatively simple matter of stopping overzealous prosecution in one agency. The techie community has a far bigger task: convincing elected officials and those that vote for them that there are degrees to "hacking" and that publicly funded research should be freely available. That's the root of the issue here.
As the author of the petition, the most I hope for is that it reaches the threshold to deserve a response. I do not expect Ms. Ortiz to lose her position, although I clearly do think that such an outcome would be salutary for the legal profession as a whole and the current DOJ in particular.

However, even if that came to pass, she would still be a top flight lawyer with a broad set of connections; at worst she would move on to another position.
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No, I had one for a while. I wrote several drafts of a book, but never got all the way through the publishing process. Life always got in the way of following through on publication.

The trip was 1998-99. With the advent of e-publishing, I have it on the back burner to publish the account in the next few years. I'd like my kid to be able to read it someday.
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I want to see the sites I go to and my browsing paths visually. I want to see my ADD in a graphical form. Is there a chrome extension or desktop app for this?
Don't allow your team to just go through the motions
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Android was ported to x86 (at least Intel Atom) in version 4.1
tubbo, you appear to be hellbanned. Here's tubbo's dead post:

> If you read Aaron's posts, you'd know that he also dealt with some heavy depression. Typically, depression gets worse as stress increases (like in a matter of you having to go to court, I know mine did when I had to at one point). Also, a lot of people with depression develop thoughts of suicide and the notion that it may be the only escape from the pain. So I wouldn't call Aaron's case "textbook suicide". One might reason that had he not been subject to such stress by our justice system his suicide would be delayed if not prevented, but I wouldn't go as far as saying he died knowing he would be a "martyr". The chemical imbalances in both of these young, energetic minds' heads simply cannot be ignored.
The very first line of that article says no, hammers don't cost the government $5,000 (at least not normal ones).
Yes! I usually run on a closed track on the local gym, but recently I've tried trail-walking through a forest. It's incredibly calming to be amongst trees and away from civilization... and later, when you come back home to a warm dinner, you realize why you want civilization in the first place :) (i.e it makes you aware of things you usually take for granted)
I'm reminded of a saying, "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." Well, "..what they must" is a strong phrase, but you get the idea. The general population isn't bothered about these kind of issues. The best they can do, if they notice an issue, is post their views on internet or express some strong views to their friends. If we need to clean shit, we need to go to the top and change it. Sadly I too don't see this happen anytime soon.
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Apple TV with Siri, Macbook Air with retina display, iWatch to compete with fitbit and such
As i arrived in beijing today, i looked out the window and saw the sky completely gray. Having spend two years in Beijing, this site is not uncommon. I remember in the summer of 2010 some days the air was so thick you could not see a half mile.

But today, the air is really bad and even in my apartment now, i can smell it. The best i can describe the smell is that of a campfire.

EDIT -> A campfire that someone threw a plastic bottle into.
I was on the fence on publishing my work in a peer-reviewed journal or doing it online (I work in sports science). Aaron's death has firmly moved me to the free information camp.
Completely untrue in my field (biomechanics/kinesiology).
It's uncertainty about the right values that permits the false ones to prevail.
I saw the pictures taken in Pittsburgh in the 1950s, where they had to have street lights on at noon in winter. I also saw the soot-incrusted facade of the Pittsburgh Carnegie Library before it was sandblasted clean in the late 1980s.

(By then, the steel mills, and the respective steel-worker housing, were a heartbreaking ghost town for miles along the Monongahela river.)

There are also the stories of the London "fogs" (really bad smogs) in the late 1800s. Coal is better than no power, but it has nasty consequences. Getting past it is tough, and it takes time and investment.
This is an accordion: http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/navigation/accordion.ht...

Which brings up the fact that Yahoo did give us an organized Design Pattern Library replete with nomenclature, descriptions, and examples.

http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/
This is because the prosecuters are not human, they are preditors going after the weakest in society, it is much easier to score on their carreers than taking on the stronger.

Here in Europe we know very well where this all leads to, my ancestors have lived through it numerous times, the last time in the 30's and 40's.
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We were getting pretty frustrated with the fact that we could not find out why people followed us on Twitter. Two weeks ago, we decided to built it. So meet: Why-follow.com. Still miles from perfection and BETA in every pixel. Feel free to critique. Stack: Java Tomcat - Bootstrap.js - MySQL running on AppFog.
Computers are superfluous. You can live without them. Yet we prefer to deal with them and take advantage of their benefits; the same can be true of Twitter, Facebook or feeds (though I only use the latter).
Thanks for sharing this! I will definitely have a look at your code for inspiration later on, since I'd like to use Go to read 1-wire components (like the DS18B20 temp sensor) through a LinkUSB device, without relying on OWFS.

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/products/381

[2] http://www.ibuttonlink.com/products/linkusb

[3] http://www.owfs.org/
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Suicides in general were not reported very widely. It wasn't that long ago that a suicide was considered deeply shameful for the entire family, so they were usually kept quiet in the same way that an adulterous affair was.

It's still par for the course, at least where I live, for media to use the code "Police say there were no suspicious circumstances" instead of baldly reporting the fact of a suicide.
For accuracy's sake, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't need to "break in" to MIT's network. It's entirely open, no? At least last I was there.
I like the gpg signature of peer reviewers part. It would both lend credibility to the paper, and leave a trail of reviewers. It would lessen the chance of a reviwer not taking their job seriously.
You help Academia grow by increasing the userbase, forcing users to log in puts up a barrier where none is needed. People come to academia.edu (to which I'm sympathetic, I submitted the link) for the papers, not to make an account.

Don't put yourself before the content, that's the same mistake everybody else is making in this space.
I am not sure i would consider this good news and if the past 50 years are any indication, China is not going to take action based on the will of the outside world
Yes, I just checked this. They get indexed by Google, but as HTML. There is no PDF link because it's behind a registration-wall, which is still a good reason to put the PDF on your personal homepage or arXiv instead.
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>Now, maybe you think "breaking in" to a poorly protected network should not be a crime.

No one is saying that. If he was hit with trespassing then it would be a different story. He was political target hit with the worst laws they could find that remotely applied to his case.

>The rhetoric around this unfortunate incident borders on intellectually dishonest.

The only dishonesty I'm seeing is from the aspie "law and order" types screaming "off with his head" because they can't fathom that our world is far from black and white.

>The prosecutor in this case pursued her case according to the law.

This is such a dishonest statement I'm not sure you really understand how the politics of prosecution work. Just the idea that Ortiz and Heymann had no choice but to hit Shwarz with these specific set of charges is absurd. Railroading happens, accept it. Your black and white simplistic worldview only exists in your head. Reality is messy.
Thanks for those links. I have the ypatterns bookmarked.
Not very helpful when there is very little indication of what each link is or if it is a duplicate and the tweets are truncated. How is this more useful than searching twitter?
And this is the problem with analyzing things in isolation.

Tell me, what do you think the next step will be after they shutdown?

People need that energy after all - it's not like people will just shrug and go "oh well, no heat for me".

You will actually end up making things worse, under the guise of making things better. Just like a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, an analysis in isolation is worse than useless - it can actually cause you to promote actions that result in the diametric opposite of what you want.

You have good company: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5051285 did the same as you and was rightly skewered for it.
Tweets are so short to begin with, why on earth are you truncating them? It's unreadable nonsense.
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State agencies may be immune from prosecution for environmental crime and have no incentive to account for payment of legal damages. Additionally, they may be immune to demand shocks and have no incentive to account for consumer boycott over harmful business practices.

Small changes in incentives have large effects:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/09/09/129757852/pop-quiz...
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JSTOR and friends ensured harsh charges are brought against him and then pretended they are not interested in prosecution.
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Swarz evaded MAC address bans by changing his MAC address. Also, at once point, WIFI guests needed to agree to terms on a captive portal IIRC; this may not have been the case when he was active though. Finally, no one had blanket permission to plug arbitrary devices into the network. Physical access has always required permission, and, IIRC, agreeing to terms.

Finally, just because a network is open does not mean you have permission to use it.
Inertia doesn't last forever, neither does lock-in. Microsoft was in a classic catch-22: if they don't modernize and shake things up they will lose their lead slowly but surely. If they do they risk alienating their existing users in the short run.

For all of its annoyances, IMO Win8 was necessary. The problem is that they went overboard - the whole OS is just one gigantic pain in the ass for keyboard/mouse users (aka almost everyone), but pretty great for touch users (aka a small portion of everyone who bought a Windows machine in the last 3 months).

I wouldn't count Win8 out just yet. MS seems to be expecting that laptops/desktops move universally towards becoming touch-enabled, at which point Win8 makes a lot more sense. This is a future that's not certain, but quite likely if MS plays its cards right.
From what I understand, he committed a felony and would most probably have been labelled a felon either way. I don't see this as a reason to tie up government resources in a trial whose outcome is basically a foregone conclusion. I do not endorse what he did being a felony. But that issue is only marginally relevant to the discussion of the prosecutor's behavior.
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Ummm... no. I am not going to dictate a spreadsheet worth of data even if the voice recognition were 100% (which it's not). I'm not going to try to dictate an IM in the middle of a meeting. I'm not going to dictate anything within listening distance of my boss or a customer that might be less than complementary. And so on...

I think when we get fMRI sensors that fit on our head and we can "think" a sheet that's a possibility. But I see no business situation where voice beats typing when I have both available to me.
The problem lies in Democracy, it is not for nothing that it is called the least worst ruling system.

The difference between most democracies and dictatorships is that a dictatorship is despotism by minority and most democracies despotism by majority, not often are democracies systems of fairness.
// Scheme
(print (* 1000000 8.2))
> 8199999.999999999

// Python
>>> 1000000 * 8.2
8199999.999999999

//PHP
> 1000000 * 8.2
> 8199999.999999999
Interestingly, GWT gets around this problem entirely by having the 'long' datatype be created as two 32 bit numbers. Slows down calculation a little bit, but you get the correct values always.

https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/latest/DevGuid...
> No one is saying that. If he was hit with trespassing then it would be a different story. He was political target hit with the worst laws they could find that remotely applied to his case.

He was hit with the hacking equivalent of trespassing. The point is that the fact that the network is unprotected or poorly protected doesn't make it any less "hacking" than the fact that property is unprotected or poorly protected makes it less "trespassing." What matters is whether Schwartz had permission to access the network for the kind of activity he engaged in, and he did not have such permission.

> No one is saying that. If he was hit with trespassing then it would be a different story. He was political target hit with the worst laws they could find that remotely applied to his case.

The aspies here are the techies who can't fathom why someone might characterize Schwartz's actions as "hacking into MIT's network to steal millions of scientific documents" and do so in good faith. It's aspies to not see how most people would see the situation that way, and rage at the prosecutor instead of acknowledging the larger task of changing people's views.

> Just the idea that Ortiz and Heymann had no choice but to hit Schwarz with these specific set of charges is absurd.

I didn't say she had no choice, I said her case was within the scope of the law. This is not a case where a prosecutor stretched obscure statute to railroad an innocent victim. This case was based on laws that proscribed exactly the kinds of activities the defendant undertook.

My point is that there are two very different kinds of "injustice" and people are confusing them.

In some cases, prosecutors charge defendants with completely tangentially-related laws in order to railroad them. But in this case the laws were on point. The real injustice is that the laws regarding "hacking" make no distinction between something like what Schartz did, and Russian mafia hacking into Bank of America's network.
How about expanding the right to council to equivalent resources? That way if the government spends a million trying to convict someone, they have to make an equivalent level of resources available to the defense.
You should look up Godwin's law. Once you understand it you'll also understand why few thinking persons will take your comment seriously.
We've been hacking away for past few hours. I've not yet had the time to look into the links etc... so data is still scarce.

As for 'How is this more useful than searching twitter?', I think it's nice to have everything in one place and listed. We're collecting data which we can manipulate it at a later date when we have more time. As I see it, gathering the data, then analysing it is far better than coding everything, having lost lots of data and only being able to analyse a small portion of it.
Dynamically typed vs Weakly typed languages aside, you still only have one choice in the browser. Sure, you can write in something which has all the greatest features you love, but it will still be cross compiled to JavaScript, with all of its pitfalls right?
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"No Comment" will say a lot to many people.
BinaryRage - the ultra fast .NET key/value (object) store...
I can't use my internet banking without java
"Better than no apps at all" hardly wins the desktop market -- which is what we are discussing here...
# Ruby 1.8.7
1.8.7 :022 > 1000000 * 8.2
=> 8200000.0

# Ruby 1.9.2
1.9.2p320 :001 > 1000000 * 8.2
=> 8199999.999999999
No, it's not with democracy, it's with the values of the populace. If you have a predominately good people, then many political systems can work; if you have a predominately duped and corrupt people, no system can work.
Well, we can't all be math gurus :p

But it really does work that you figure out a group of people with a need, and then fulfill that need the way they want. BingoCardCreator is a good example of this. There are countless opportunities if you just find them, and even having competitors in the space is not an obstacle - everyone does sales anyway.
The prosecutor was seeking jail time.
You can't have a "track record" of something after doing that thing only once.
The problem in this case is not floating point approximations. It is that some functionalities (parseFloat vs parseInt, ++, 45.0 being printed 45 in most browsers) makes the user believe that JS has an integer type.
Those titles seem like the kind of thing were the holder has pretty much nothing to do with day to day operations of the organization.
Yes, because people who call out racism are the REAL racists.
The users was loading custom ROMs onto their device, something went wrong, and the phone displayed an error which it would otherwise never have shown.

Not really much of a story, more an opportunity to poke fun at Windows.
But in this case the laws were on point.

Indeed. Perhaps it would clarify things if people who object to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could stand up and say "the CFAA is wrong and should be abolished; there should be no criminal penalty at all for unauthorized access to a computer system"?
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Is this in the JS standard, or is this in just some implementations?
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That is why we have so many problems in the world with this.

Reality does not care about godwin.