skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. MIT is one of the three global hosts for W3C and the one handling North America. They host us physically (W3C has office space as part of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab) and they host our machines and network.

It may be folks in other parts of the world can get to our servers in other parts of the world, or maybe there's a single point of failure in the current configuration.
Maybe he should be an exhibitionist.
justice.gov is not down
This post is from October 20, 2006

Twitter did not exist then, so I think it is obvious to the people who read this website how a tag like that would be there now.
Aaron Swartz/Christopher Soghoian email re: Amazon and subpoenas
I can't believe how much negative feedback there is for this question, and I'm even more surprised at how rude the suggestions have been for responding to this question, like walking out, or making fun of the person asking the question.

I've had to do a couple of interviews in my time, and when I ask this question, it's usually at the tail end when we've evaluated their technical skills and we're convinced they have the chops for the job.

So now all I'm evaluating is if they'll be a good cultural fit and when I ask this question, I'm not really evaluating what their responses are, I'm evaluating how well they respond to it.

If someone responds by storming out, then obviously they aren't going to work well if a team or programming problem comes up, which is a little out there which they don't like.

If they read a prepared textbook answer, then I know they like to be over prepared, which might be a good / bad thing depending on the position they're applying for.

But if they chuckle, then think about it for a bit, and give me an honest answer, it tells me that even though they have come up against something ridiculous, they're willing to give it an good go and try their best to work the problem (which I think is a good trait to have, especially in an engineering environment).

Interviewing is a lot more than giving a correct answer, even more so when trying to figure out if someone will be a good cultural fit or not.
Nothing easier than Linux. 1. Download zip archive 2. Install into $HOME. 3. Switch symlink from old version to new. Done.

I have 3 different JDKs installed at the moment.
Nick Bilton also wrote on this topic today -- it seems shortsighted. This comment [1] sums it up:

"Maeda's observation about user-facing design isn't going to last very long. Mark Weiser's long-predicted age of 'quiet computing' wherein a computing systems know enough about individuals and groups to act automatically on their behalf (and therefore, requiring no user-interaction) is incrementally coming to pass. Such systems are dependent on instrumentation, granular data collection, and high-volume analytics.

...

While design is important right now, its ultimate successor is intelligent invisibility. That profound advance is almost entirely dependent on the hardest core science and engineering."

Take Prismatic [2] for example, one of the more interesting new apps from 2012, one of its primary features is how little user interaction it requires to generate a personalized news feed. Other apps in its category have nice design but require much more user interaction to setup.

"The best interface is no interface."

[1]. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/disruptions-design-...

[2]. http://getprismatic.com/
Also inaccessible here in GB.
Ask HN: website / mobile app for algorithms practice?
I'm a casual Chess player. When I don't have time to play a full game, I like to open this app I have called tactics trainer that just loads a board and asks me to find the right sequence of moves. If I get it wrong, it shows me the answer right away. It lets me practice chess without the actual time commitment of a full game.

In a similar sense I'd love to know if there's an algorithm site (preferably an offline phone app!) that presents a problem, project Euler style, and then after you've given it sufficient thought you can click on a "solution" button which will have some text, maybe a diagram or whatever, explaining the solution.

Here I'll give you guys a little teaser:

Q: You have an array with N elements, each of which are integer numbers (from 1 to 1 million say). Each of the numbers is repeated twice except for one of the numbers, which occurs only once. Using constant-sized memory, find out which number is only repeated once.

A: I'm sure HN will solve this one.

So, have something good along these lines for my commute? Cheers.
I have Java applets that can record and analyze audio and catch MIDI events from any browser including Internet Explorer (any version you're likely to see, really, probably including IE5), as long as Java is installed....

At some point I'm going to have to bite the bullet and switch everything to HTML5, but applets are failing faster than cross-browser native power is advancing, sadly.

I'm close to being able to do pitch detection in the browser (it's just a question of getting the code polished & integrated into features, not any tech hurdles; it already works), but that'll be toast for at least a few years if I switch.

And I doubt MIDI input will ever be browser-native; I've never even heard whispers about it....

It's a frustrating situation; I just wish it didn't seem like Oracle was so actively hastening the death of the applet.
I dont think it makes it better or worse at all, with the exception of certain girls who like to watch it to get in the mood in which case its certainly a force for the better.

Putting the "its not good for you" label on it also makes it immediately more interesting than it should be. Increases the guilty pleasure and so on.

The guy in the article - maybe he would have erectile problems never having watched porn too. Performance anxiety is normal.

One thing I am sure about: The cure for bad sex is lots of sex.
So stop feeding the troll. Downvote and/or flag and move on.

(I am suggesting this for everyone, not just you. Nothing personal. I am replying to your post because you summed the problem up so well.)
If anyone's interested - this is the original project this is based off of: https://github.com/jriecken/gae-java-mini-profiler
The IMF Admits It Was Wrong About Keynesianism
Just assume those Chinese elites you mentioned don't care other people's health (since it's costing them money). But how about _their_ (or their family's) health since they also share the same air?
I register on competitors site to get white papers, demos and so on. I use real contact info, and if there is an extra info field I explain exactly what I'm doing.

I often get sales calls from them, and explain to the sales guy. They usually get a laugh. More-so when I was a CTO.
The growing scholarly digital divide: In memoriam Aaron Swartz
this "they killed him" discussion makes people argue about another matter, when the main question to discuss is the absurd of the sentence...
To be fair, he is clearly talking only in the context of web design and development(engineering).

I don't think he is shortsighted per se, only overreaching with his post title.
How big does my project need to be for me to unit test it?
Nope. Sex gets better and better. Unlike drinking and drugs.
So they're like the Amish (living without modern conveniences)...

In all seriousness, there's definitely a "born-again" feeling running through both sites ("not that there's anything wrong with that!"). I don't consider porn/masturbation a moral issue, so I notice that it's often portrayed that way ("you'll go blind/to hell"...)

For people with addictive personalities, finding self-control can be an especially good thing, and refraining from sex in general certainly has a stimulant effect: it will ramp up your sex drive (for example "curing" ED... because, you know: blue balls), and it can have similar effects to extreme exercise. (Don't be surprised by the mood swings.) I don't know if I'd say that a self-imposed state of extreme sensitivity resulting from sexual sensory deprivation is any more natural or unnatural or especially useful than the other. In the short term, you may smell nicer to ladies (if you're a male) because you are giving off the right stuff. In the long term (from my own experiences) one has a tendency to act like a Neanderthal, even thinking about sex more than "usual" as a result of deprivation. I think people's leanings towards extreme "resolutions" say more about the cultural values that lead them to see just how long they can hold their breath (or not masturbate), as opposed to the effects of that restraint. Basically, I think you get these behaviors and experiments in self-control when young people can't think of any better way to get laid or stop procrastinating (compete in a world they are still new in). Sometimes people try getting an edge by edging, literally.
More interesting to those of us who take great delight in solving harder problems.
I can't even ping them. MIT has huge pipes to the Internet. Someone has to be throwing a lot of bandwidth at them from very very close to choke them off, or has specifically attacked their routers.
Yeah, I clicked okay on McAfee Installation, and he showed up 45 minutes later, with a teenage hooker and a ton of drugs.

He had good booze, but otherwise, sort of an asswipe.

Sent the girl home with a police matron.
Summaries usually have more detail. A TLDR is closer to a thesis statement, but somewhat more flexible/informal.
Hi there! We know MITnet is down, and we're pretty sure its an issue with BGP. We've been having issues periodically over the past few weeks, and this is almost certainly not the result of an attack, just network misconfiguration.

-- Luke from MIT SIPB
There is NO reason for thinking that someone who walks away from the "weakness question" would walk away from difficult or tedious work.

That is a dishonest rationalization that you have bolted on to hide your real motives.

You want to know how much the candidate will take bullshit from YOU. And that is why you ask the question.

It is a useless question for any other purpose, such as assessing talent.
If you cant even read an article about porn then you certainly have bigger problems than the author of said article.
So your ad hominem attack proves your point how?

Your response is neither relevant or useful.

Kindly go troll somewhere else.
I find it odd that, to my knowledge at least, no one on HN has so far noted the connection between Aaron's activism against the US government re: SOPA/PIPA and his terrible treatment by them. Surely it's one of the reasons why they went after him.
It seems that there is: http://yourbrainonporn.com/why-do-i-find-porn-more-exciting-...
I agree. It's not an unreasonable thing to have to bring to the government's attention considering how quickly technology allowed for these advancements to occur.

It is ridiculous that the response is taking forever and that they sought time to tell people why the death star isn't going to be built.
I don't want to discourage you from supporting MIT, but look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._LaMacchia
Heresy!
Kidding, actually the world definitely needs more of both designers and engineers.
Computing power+programmer=problems getting solved, well that's the theory anyways.
An Aaron Swartz Reader
Ignoring most everything going on in this thread:

I'd be very interested to see citations for this evidence that Aaron Schwartz did try to disguise himself, and the details of that disguise. That evidence does change the discussion, and it is important that we see what you are talking about.
I'm a designer - by formal education and by thinking style. I graduated with a BA in Art. By trade, however, I'm a developer. I get paid to write, formulate, and conceptualize iOS Apps and how they connect with Android, our web services and designing the experience for the easiest use and most pleasurable use. I've never taken a CS class besides the one all undergraduates take (ala "This is Word and Excel, today we're doing sums").

All of this is besides the point, but hopefully it'll illustrate why I hate arguments from both sides of the fence about visual design vs engineering. Engineers tend to think visual designers can't possibly code/build like the engineers. Because they went to school and put in the time, that this knowledge is somehow inaccessible to designers - and that's the way it should be. Flip the coin over and you have very similar arguments. Designers tend to think engineers will never be able to realize aesthetics in their own work, to intuit the feeling certain colors and ratios of visual elements have with each other that leads to the ill-defined "pleasure."

Both are wrong, very very wrong. All of this knowledge is accessible to everyone - if you work towards it. A designer can learn to intuit which data structures are necessary to build this/that app, thinking about scalability to infinity while maintaining practicality in the small-scale, before writing a line of code, in the same way an engineer can learn WHY aspects of design are beautiful, and how this beauty is relative to the system (aka the painting, or all of the songs of an album) as a whole. These are trainable things. But you just gotta' get out of your comfort zone and preconceived notions about both design and engineering.
There are some obvious spelling errors in that story. I know it's the Daily Mail, but surely they can spell check their stories.
Connecting: A short film on trends in UI, Interaction, & Experience Design
Just because a problem is technically challenging doesn't mean it's overall a more important or harder problem than one that only requires basic CRUD functionality. Airbnb is a great counter-example.
Throughout the history of computing, the number of problems to be solved has grown faster than the number of problems solved. It's a safe bet this trend will continue as we enter the age of ubiquitous computing.
Yeah, but all those reports are freely available online from the courts websites. The publishers just publish them in paperbound form.
I made a quick fork to add audio to this using the Web Audio API (webkit only, tested on Chrome and Safari).

http://acarabott.github.com/teoria/
FWIW, its more complicated than automatically updating to the current year so doing it manually is actually decent practice. I don't know if there is law that has since settled the matter, but in the past an organization I was at was once advised against automatically generating the mark on retrieval because the mark is supposed to reflect publish date.

Easy example: If you die, and someone pays to keep your personal website online but makes no modifications, your works will eventually fall into public domain (ignore temporarily the likely changes to copyright law), if you're automatically updating copyright dates you're misrepresenting the copyright status of your works.

We use source control and database timestamps to programmatically help determine the correct date(s) to display, but it is still partially a manual process.

A quick google over to copyright.gov

Omission of notice means publishing without a notice. In
addition, some errors are considered the same as omission of
notice. These are:
o A notice that does not contain the symbol © [...]
o A notice dated more than one year later than the date of
first publication
I might add traumatic to that little list, having just read A Farewell to Arms.
To get it up. :)
It's also known that Anonymous can either use their own botnets or purchase access to botnets by the hour to conduct DDoS.

http://jesterscourt.mil.nf/2012/09/27/anonymousqassam-pay-pe...

> So what is Multiboot.me? Well it’s a Pay-Per-Minute DDoS system that has been used by Anons (and others) to down US and other sites since LOIC got rumbled and DHN got pwned.

In addition, not all DDoS involve LOIC style attacks. It can use other types of exploits.
just the TC article: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/13/mit-edu-doj-gov-w3-gov-all-...
Because a lot of the points given also apply to Python & Ruby.

Like what, exactly? He even has a slide which says this about Node.js: "there is no problem." If there is no problem, then what is he trying to solve by creating a new language? I am confused.

The author of the talk (Stevan Little) is the creator of Moose (http://moose.perl.org). I think what he maybe striving for is a Moose implemented on a modern future proofed VM (full threading/multiprocessing, etc).

Moose is cool and all, but it basically just brings Perl up to the same level of functionality that other languages like Python and Ruby have right out of the box. Using the JVM seems like a particularly unfortunate choice since it has such a long start-up time and traditionally Perl scripts were for quick and dirty jobs.
More interesting to some engineers of course!
Confusing timing eh?
> That is a dishonest rationalization that you have bolted on to hide your real motives.

Wow, personal attacks already. I'm an engineer so interviews I've done have been to find engineers to work with, not to boss around ...

> It is a useless question for any other purpose, such as assessing talent.

As mentioned above, usually when this question comes up talent has already been assessed and we're just looking for cultural fit.

It's actually a lot harder than it looks to asses if someone will get along with you, so sometimes asking "out there" questions are a good way to tease people out.
According to this[1], it's just networking issues.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5052903
What are you talking about? The requirement would be that the articles be published in open access journals, or else published elsewhere after being published initially in closed access journals.

The high prices you linked too aren't an impediment, they are THE REASON TO DO IT.

Also, when it comes to tax payer funded research, it's already, you know, funded.
The Secret Service was originally created to fight counterfeiting, not protect government officials. And they are also currently tasked with investigating financial crime and major fraud in addition to protecting high-ranking government officials. I'm guessing the fraud charges brought them in on this case.
Good for them, but unless this thing has a reasonable profit margin Nokia still might not live to see 2014.
Naruto Shippuden 297 Vostfr
The problem with this theory is that when a person who follows the news hears a few minutes of Rush Limbaugh or reads something from naturalnews.com they realize pretty quickly that it's bullshit.

The people who fall for that stuff always seem to be uninformed about current events or get it only from warped sources. You can extrapolate that to nazis or communism or wherever but the bottom line is an uninformed populace is easy pickings for ambitious bad guys.
Not all the sure about the source as a reference, but Urban Dictionary got TLDR in 2003. Reddit is 2005ish I think.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tldr
IamA a Microsoft employee who has worked on Windows 7 and 8
Dear god, we have an Internet, use it to do some research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service

The Secret Service was established to fight counterfeiting and had been a branch of the Treasury Dept until recently. Fraud and cybercrime are among the things they cover and not all of these crimes are movie worthy
It would seem to me that the caliber of those that support him and speak for him are of a different type than those that support and follow Snooki. The ones certainly that are speaking up for him now and have given him respect are certainly ones that I respect.

And I know him as much, or as little, as you, so I don't idolize or hero worship him -- I'm fairly new to this whole conversation. I wouldn't presume that he would be my hero any more than I would assume he is your nemesis. I'm just not as ready to denounce someone I know so little about. I am not saying that your points are incorrect, it is just that they don't acknowledge that those that DO indeed know him well have chosen to put their faith and support in him, regardless of whether or not he was as unaccomplished or as malicious as you say he was.
How To Create Nonreaders
"Designer Eats Engineer"

"... I don’t think designers are going to replace most engineers"

Did you the write the title or the conclusion first?
Yup, MN has that, but the more you complain and fight with a landlord, the more likely they nail you on some technicality, and there goes $100+ of your security deposit on move-out. Then, even if their claim is clearly bogus, a court victory's far from assured and the filing fee would be almost as great as the amount you lost.

Maybe I've just been unlucky but the housing law story in MN seems extremely unfavorable to tenants. Washington, DC was much better. I heard it has tenant-friendly laws but I never had to test that.
Can you provide a link? I am not a lawyer, but I have seen http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions-slip.htm which provides a link to the LexisNexis website for opinions from 1850 - Present.

The LexisNexis website also states "There is no charge to search, retrieve or save documents from the California Official Reports Web site, and there is no copyright on opinion text. The site, however, is for personal, not commercial, use."

From this, I assumed commercial use would require purchasing or licensing something from LexisNexis.
I love the idea of members of a community reaching out like this to other members, shows the care that goes into this and the passion that you people carry.

Is a hackers' depression in any way different to the depression of a non-hacker? I don't think so, which is why I think that the usual helplines are sufficient (but others will probably differ).

I have another caveat: If you think of helping depressed people directly, think of yourself, too. People working at helplines have direct access to counsellors, which you don't. It might be that someone contacts you and then drops off the grid, having possibly committed suicide - could you live with that?

You might have pushed this person over the edge by a wrong remark, and you will have no idea which it was. You will fuss over your logs looking for any remark that even remotely could be interpreted as wrong, maybe a joke that could have been misinterpreted? You will never know (I've been in a similar situation). So please think of your own mental health, too.
How to use Twitter Auto Follow to validate startups
"I am addicted to porn"..."I would look about once per week"

It seems odd to me that being addicted to porn would go with only looking "about once per week". I think I understand how this could still be technically an addiction, but compared to other addictions and - I imagine - especially porn addictions, it seems rather bizarre. Certainly if pornography was only being consumed once a week then the rate of let's call it "stimulation inflation" can't have been that high, or can it? Could you elaborate?
Ask HN: is having the .com domain for your business important?
I've been putting off starting a business because I can't find a name that I like with a reasonable unregistered .com domain that I can use. For example, if I wanted to use "perplex" as the name I'm looking for perplex.com, perplexit.com, perplextech.com, perplextechnology.com, etc.

Nothing seems to be available, but I have noticed a rise in new startups liberally using boutique extensions like .ly and .io, and am wondering whether this will make any discernible difference to my business? I'm starting a security product business, which I suspect is important.
The high prices are the costs to publish articles in open access journals. Somebody has to pay the costs of publishing, and it's currently either subscribers (traditional journals) or authors (open access journals).