skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, it was very difficult. I guess this type of publishing is only common with games, but Chillingo does say they publish non-games as well.

http://www.chillingo.com/developers/
Largely because the targets of such over prosecution are either unsympathetic (drug dealers, gang members) or because people are quite happy to join the "string him up!" Mentality when it's a bad guy they can't identify with (bankers).
Plea bargaining is a form of negotiation.
Rule number 1 of surviving an internet storm: do NOT give extra ammunition to the enemy.
Hey now a modification where you need to slingshot the appropriate numbers into the correct position might have a market.

Think angry birds meets bubble bobble meets Sudoku.

I'll take 50% of the profits thanks guys
I'm surprised by the level of "human-ness" the statement shows. It would have been very easily for the office to take a more empty position a la "we have nothing to say - we were doing our jobs."

That being said, other than the unexpected personal touch, this is basically what we all assumed they'd say. "We're sorry. He broke the law - we were doing our job."

So in the end, this doesn't change anything.
The statement makes clear what I had suspected, as a lawyer, from the outset: Lessig, some criminal defense attorneys, and a few other parties have mounted a witchhunt that has little to do with the case in hand.

I should add that I'm not far from Lessig politically, and I don't have any strong disagreement with open-information advocates. But Lessig turned this case into something it shouldn't have been, and he benefits from that personally. Aaron's lawyer, a partner at a major firm, is using this case for his own personal publicity, and that is a shame too. "Follow the money" works for people who manipulate hackers too, not just those who oppose them.

I've noticed a lot of legal mistakes in this forum. To start with, the attempt here wasn't "victimless," and the law routinely punishes unsuccessful attempts even when nobody is hurt. "Computer hacker offered plea deal of six-months in minimum-security prison after seeking to make an expensive archive that generates significant revenue public" wouldn't arouse anger among anyone except extremists. It might arouse political disagreement, or even a small protest, but not a call to fire prosecutors. What it aroused before Aaron's suicide was a small effort to raise money for his legal defense, which didn't really go anywhere. If we're going to be rational, that shouldn't change when a defendant commits suicide while the case is pending.

There's other manipulative PR worth identifying. Aaron's lawyer said that he told the prosecutor his client was a potential suicide risk. How does anyone who reflects for a minute think that a prosecutor's office should respond to that. They did what they usually do, which is to tell the lawyer that they could revoke bail and monitor the client if that was what the client wanted. What else should they have done? Do we think all charges against suicidal people should be dropped?
Ask HN: Do I have to sell to my cofounder? What can I expect?
Our company ran low on funds about 4 months ago. We decided it would be best If I took on an advisory role and went to work elsewhere to cover my personal expenses. I have vested shares in a large portion of the company. We had raised a modest seed round from a few investors.

Recently my Cofounder who has been absent reached out to me and stated he needed to buy out my shares to help secure further funding for the company. I'm unsure if I'm obligated to sell to him. If so what can I expect from the sale?
Well it's a start, every revolution has to begin somewhere!

And if you are that sick of them, don't sign them. Simples.
By similar logic, quantum field theory is about 40 years old, so really there's no excuse to be ignorant of it, either.

I kid, but only somewhat. Relevancy (even if just perceived) and accessibility matter.
Some might argue that when you save a file that hasn't changed that should be a no-op. I don't think so, though. I appreciate a program that does exactly what I tell it to do.
"open, collaborative resource like WikiTravel should be owned by a profit-driven entity that had acquired it and was trying to monetise it"

Same could be said of StackOverflow and Github (Stack and Git weren't acquired, but are both VC-funded). Many wikis are profit-driven too. Open collaboration takes time and resources. Wikipedia shows it can be achieved as a non-profit, but I don't think it's surprising that it can be achieved by a commercial organisation too, as long as its open about it and respectful of contributions.
About as much as putting a gun to one's head is a form of negotiation.
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It really isn't. Talk to some lawyers. It's exactly what happens in criminal cases like this, and that's not obviously a bad thing. I'm glad lots of people are asking questions about the plea system, but it's worth getting informed before reaching simple conclusions.

What happened here was a proposal where the US Atty. would agree to ask for six months in a minimum-security prison (where Aaron could have, for example, read whatever he wanted and had debates with financial criminals for six months), would agree to let Aaron's lawyers present an argument for a suspended sentence ("probation"), and let the judge decide. The judge here has a kind of harsh reputation, but, from talking to local lawyers, it seems that that mostly comes from being pro-government. Aaron would probably have gotten six months.
Who was the victim?
I completely disagree. I had an incredible experience with DeveloperAuction, and am currently working at a company that made a six-figure offer through their platform. Not only did I get a sizable bonus, but they also supervised negotiations every step of the way, with Matt Mickiewicz getting personally involved.

They also sent me a gift basket, which didn't hurt.
Isn't it fair to hate it just due to the clunky interface?

Many times I find it difficult to select a subview under another subview. Or, when adding a subview, it is too eager to be the subview of a subview. Those are the tip of my list of grievances.

I use it! Sometimes it's simpler and faster to go with IB instead of code, and you are definitely right about maintainability. But I sure wish there was something as convenient that wasn't awful to use. That's actually how I feel about all of Xcode. (Yes, I've tried AppCode, I liked it even less.)
What I meant was that whenever I've had a LiPo failure it was always traced to something I did. I have never had a pack spontaneously fail in any way.
DO you think that plays against us?
The idea was to make sudoku FUN once again, by having challenges, "fight with friend". You see... making it different and enjoyable with everyone, even those who don't usually play it.
Just because sell-side analysts put out price targets on companies doesn't mean that they determine stock prices. The price of a stock is mostly (especially in the long-term) determined by the supply and demand for it.
Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich Gets an Expanded Role
"Maybe you'll be sitting across the desk from me one day and you'll get to work with an awesome team of talented engineers. Carefully selected."

What an arrogant prick.
It might also be good to list how to find some of the subscriptions that try to hide that you've signed up like a number of shady SMS services like to do.
I've made it a habit to ping and dig my servers before signing in to a new wireless network. Of the hundreds of coffee shops, trains, planes, airports, etc that I've done this at, there has only been one network that blocked/rerouted both ICMP and DNS requests: a university that shared its network security team with a nearby national lab.

However, exploiting these holes on a wireless network is incredibly easy to detect and block for an admin worth their salt. It's quite likely that at least a few of the networks I've been on would start blocking traffic from an unregistered device making tons of DNS requests.

That being said, just pay the few dollars they charge for access. If your time is money, this small fee won't be noticed. If you just want to be able to refresh Reddit/lurk on HN, maybe you should take this opportunity to get away from technology for a few hours (while sitting in an aluminum tube hurdling through the skies).
MIT, JSTOR, and publishers with JSTOR contracts.

Not liking the victim doesn't make them not a victim.

I strongly disagree with the grandparent comment, for what it's worth.
Thanks for the sharing.
I guess it's pretty much what you would expect them to say. I still don't think threatening to prosecute him with a charge that could put him in jail for multiple years for an act that should have had a maximum penalty of no more than 30 days is anything they should have done or been able to do, and the fact that they "offered" to make him a felon for the rest of his life and send him to prison for "only" six months if he would waive his right to bankrupt himself proving that he didn't do it is not exactly endearing. But it's what they do every day, so naturally they think it's normal.

I've already lost count of how many times I've said this in the last few days, but we need to fix this. These laws have got to change so that this can't happen.
I've found the price jumps around a bit - I don't know if there's some metric to it or what.
California Birth Index
Because people can feel there's something deeply wrong with this, but can't quite pinpoint what it is. They've forgotten that the whole philosophy of the Internet [SRC81] was to get rid of middlemen, not just to create new ones.
Wasn't the assistant of the US attorney involved in this case, too, and people asked him to be fired as well? I could see why he's defending the case.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-...
While it's not exactly to the point, this quote about English suggests that you're asking for too much rigor in its use, especially when arguing politics:

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

And were those NYC non-Irish owned than therefore banned handguns "grabbed" or not? The SKS situation: well, you could sell your's or move it out of state, but if you didn't they were subject to being "grabbed" along with you for a nice prison term.
You don't value based on a companies profits. You value a company based on your belief of their future profits.
Choosing between serving more time and serving less time isn't much of a deal when you think what you did was right and you are innocent.
OK, I agree now, thank you for the detailed explanation.

To summarize, you are saying that in my example, the programmer would almost certainly notice that it's a macro; at which point he would know to look at the documentation and it would still look like a referentially-transparent macro.
This is the statement I take issue with:

> 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.

Emphasis on the "at no time" part, which includes after the plea bargain fell through. I repeat what il said. Why so many counts?
Is there any way to get access now, having not been at Google IO and thus not been able to preorder? I have Android computer vision experience and some projects in mind, and I'd gladly pay the preorder price for access to one of these.
I'm an Australian based startup founder, I even bank with ANZ and this is the first I've heard of this program...
I agree that that's the right question. The intended "victims" were journals and JSTOR. I'm glad JSTOR didn't lean heavily on the prosecution, but they're not the only party who has a stake in this, and it's routine for government not to be simply a "victim's rights" organization that lets private people tell them what to do. Many small journals depend on subscription fees from services like JSTOR.

But look, I'm not saying the law is perfect. There are whole encyclopedias written on legal theory about people's responsibilities to follow arguable but imperfect laws, and that is a big debate. The essence of the case here is that a "long ranger" activist who acts to publicize a massive database does threaten a significant financial disruption to many parties, and that is "harm" even under JS Mill's "harm principle." It's not like possessing drugs (which of course people go to harder jails for 20 years for possessing).

If I am recalling correctly, a key point in the government's case was that Aaron was going to distribute the documents to the world had he succeeded. If so, they would have had to prove that beyond a reasonable doubt. If Aaron had a good case that he was just downloading the documents for his own personally curiosity, he would probably have won, and it would be easier to say the prosecution was overblown.

But all that seems to have happened here is that the government offered 6 low-security months to someone who the government believed it could prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, was intending to undermine the revenue model of a significant part of the world's academic infrastructure. That doesn't mean that revenue model is praiseworthy, but the law doesn't let you take matters into your own hands.

I don't want to sound dismissive, but the conspiracy theory stuff - that they targeted him because of SOPA or whatnot - is not something that anyone I know takes seriously. I am trying to say that mildly and respectively. (There are many harsher ways to say it.)
I fly virgin a lot. The gogo internet used to be $8 bux. Then $15 - last week it was now $20... for three hours.

You claim stealing is stealing, well to you, I say gouging is gouging and fuck them.
That's clever, but I'm guessing (maybe wrongly) that you'd wan't that baby raised in a belief system that says it will go to hell if it commits suicide. There's still no choice of whether or not to live. That's probably a good thing, but it's still technically opposed to choice.
Welcome to Hacker News, SocioTech. I see you joined when the Swartz case news broke and all of your posts so far have been to defend the actions of the prosecution while demonizing Swartz and his advocates.

That's fine, but why not take a look at the front page of Hacker News? As a tech guy and hacker, I'm sure there are lots of other topics that you as a new member would enjoy discussing and not just this single topic.
What do you think they should have charged him with, specifically?
Then justify the distinction of

Trespass: up to 30 days in jail and/or 100$ fine

!!!COMPUTER!!! trespass: Years and years in jail, hundreds of thousands of dollars fine, Federal felony.

Yeah. SOUNDS LEGIT.
If you steal something from someone then you'll have the item in question in your possession afterwards while the original owner does not have it any more. Access to the internet is nothing you can steal.

Of course that is no justification for using the provided service without paying for it, but it's fundamentally different from theft.
Wow. Sure sounds like the author had some bad hiring experiences.
Deal with it; we're social animals.

This makes a nice punchline for your joke, but the thing is -- we no longer have as much in common with a tiger in the jungle as we once did. While a social animal may want to spend time in-fighting in their pack to increase their status by winning petty fights and publicly rutting with the most eligible female, some small percentage of humanity has gained a touch of wisdom and tries to accomplish goals for other reasons.

Don't lump everyone into your 'social animals' tirade. People like the Dalai Lama have shown that you truly can rise above the petty politics.
They didn't threaten him with the maximum sentence allowed by the law. They also didn't duct tape him to a chair and electrocute him. The two statements are approximately as meaningful, since Swartz was charged with 13 felony counts and the maximum penalty for his case would have been longer than the base penalty in California for murdering a police officer during the commission of a felony.

What they did instead was threaten Swartz with a calamitous 6-7 year sentence if he exercised his right to a jury trial, demanding instead that he testify under oath that he was guilty of 13 felonies and accept 4-6 months in prison.
"While at the same time, his defense counsel would have been free to recommend a sentence of probation. Ultimately, any sentence imposed would have been up to the judge."

This was not negotiation with a gun.
The OP here
Yes, the Game is indeed free, but only with basic feature to get excited about the app. Then the user should upgrade to get access to the other cities and unlock level.

The real issue is not only the big 0 income, but the fact that after 3 week we barely pass the 100 downloads.
Google advertise everywhere that there are more than 1M new android activations everyday.... Those are potential users of any game right.

What is not quite right I believe is the discovery of new app on the market. It took us 13 days to start appearing on the 20th page of the search "sudoku".
A little awkward, but not too bad, even for an extremely introverted person like myself. Chances are the people who are there already were at one point in your shoes when they first attended. If you're nervous you can always post to/comment on some of the group's stuff, so that when you arrive you can be like "hi, I am username so-and-so" and they will be like, "oh, yeah! I saw your comment..." and so on. Not all groups are great, but my experience has overall been quite positive.

Also, it's pretty commonly understood that the site exists so that like minded people can find each other when they otherwise likely wouldn't have crossed paths, so it's a great way to make new friends (and/or social networks). If you still have some anxiety, I would suggest contacting the group admin and saying you're interested but a bit nervous about going to the first meeting. It does take a small amount of money each year to host the group, so the people in charge of it usually care enough to try to make people feel comfortable enough to come and keep coming. (I have a friend who runs a small meetup group for writers, and he's always extremely super thrilled when new people come out to it.)
'Aaron's Law' Proposed on Reddit in Honor of Aaron Swartz
"There's other manipulative PR worth identifying."

Yes, like the press release Ortiz issued stating that Aaron faced up to 35 years in prison.

Again, that number was not pulled out of thin air- it came directly from her office in an official press release.

This never was a purely legal case at any time. It has always, at all times, also been a case the prosecution intentionally made into a media case.
>I must, however, make clear that this office's conduct was appropriate in bringing and handling this case. The career prosecutors handling this matter took on the difficult task of enforcing a law they had taken an oath to uphold, and did so reasonably.

No, it wasn't appropriate. Both MIT and JSTOR had declined to continue prosecution. Her office over charged to force a plea bargain with 6mo of prison time and would have turned Aaron into a felon.

This is so much CYA bullshit from the government. It's time to stand up to these bullies.
So it's a ruse? What motive does OBL have to lie about here? I don't disagree that al qaeda has the unobtainable goal of creating a world califate, but I also do think that American policies could have been a factor in strategic decisions for where to attack. I also think the main line of arguing here is not about al qaedas long term goals, but the recruiting. Things like invading Iraq on false pretenses, abu garab, guantonimo, the cia coup in Iran. These things create anger in the arab world that al quaeda can channel for whatever goals they want. From his critics you would think chomsky consideres al qaeda and taliban to be freedom fighters. Which I've never heard. Maybe parts of the palestinian resistance, but that's another beast.
Patents aren't intended to protect an existence proof. They're intended to protect the underlying methods. If, after seeing a swipe-to-unlock gesture on an iPhone for instance, someone of ordinary skill can implement it without referring to the teachings of the patent, then the patent is bullshit.

(Of course, that's not the way it works, but it's the way it should work. Remember that patents exist to give inventors an alternative to keeping trade secrets. Something that would make a laughable trade secret should also constitute a frivolous patent claim.)
Why was jail time and a felony ever sought for in this case? Why not 2-5 years community service focused on computer needs in the community? He stays out of jail, doesn't get a felony and the community or government gets some much needed computer help <edit> while he pays his debt to society.</edit>

It's not that I oppose the fact that DA was prosecuting, it's how they were doing it. I see this as abuse of power by not showing restraint - but that's my opinion that a felony and jail time were excessive for the crime committed and the DA should have shown more restraint in how they plea barganed.
The "assistant" US Attorneys are lawyers, not what you'd think of as "assistants." The "US Attorney" is a politically appointed senior executive, while the "Assistant US Attorneys" are career staff lawyers. The "US Attorney" signs most filings, but the career staff does the significant legal groundwork on almost everything.
"personal financial gain"

No. You don't get it. Try again.
They weren't pushing for any penalties... yet. Sentencing comes after a finding of guilt.

They did announce that the maximum sentence was 30 years, but that's just the statutory maximum; it says nothing about the plans of the prosecution.
That was Volume 28, number four. Winter 2011-2012, Page 10 I believe titles " Mac Spoofing your way to free internet".
Mirroring the arguments about MAC spoofing in another thread, I have a question.

If I got banned from an IRC server, switched my proxy settings and came back on to spam a channel with "I Dunno LOL ¯\(°_o)/¯" Can I be prosecuted and sent to prison for it? After all, I'm "evading access restrictions" and every other ridiculous vague threshold for illegal activity Aaron was charged with.

The programmer/lurker in me would react by banning open proxies (DNSBL?) and requiring registration. Which is what we've been doing for decades. Would the federal prosecutor in you hunt down this potentially 10 year old kid and charge them with computer fraud to set an example?

I think the sane reaction to a security issue is to fix the issue. Especially in the cyberlibterarian utopia I wish the Internet was. If it was exploited with enough maliciousness, I can look the other way while the hacker is sentenced for it.

But for something this stupid? An open wifi network? An open closet? Aaron broke through no walls but made-up protocol restrictions. Where is the line drawn?
Why does it matter what the defendant thinks is right?
6mo in federal prison and labelled as a felon for downloading journal articles. You think that was a fair deal, and he should have taken it?
You think MAC spoofing and editing your hosts file to get around a paywall has gone mainstream?

I'd be astonished if there were two HN readers on most flights.
Sorry, but we're overstocked on torches and pitchforks and need to move them. Can you come back and be reasonable at some other time?
You have to have income before you pay any taxes. And you started the whole company with the idea that money will start flowing as soon as you write iOS apps...
OpenWorm browser (requires WebGL)
It depends why you distribute.

He says "key developers might be OK, cheap developers are not." And "at our stage of development we were better off with a smaller, locally-based team."