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"More importantly: I'm unclear on whether its author is US Attorney Carmen Ortiz or her deputy AUSA Stephen Heymann"

Ortiz would have gotten all the positive, "tough on crime...saved us from big bad person...," press so let her get the other side. The buck stops at her, it's not like this wasn't a famous case, that she was unaware of it.

However, if MIT (the "victim") had publicly said to forget it, USDOJ, politically, would have found it almost impossible to continue the trial and waste considerable resources.
Another Thoreau quote, also from Walden: "And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter -- we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea."
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Try getting them in bulk for free, so you can republish them.
Or not through lexis/westlaw's website, for free.

(I'm cheating a bit here, I've actually been a part of fighting this fight for a very long time.)

Note that these exclusive contracts are also longer term than one would think.

Numerous reputable folks and and reputable companies have offered to host the opinions in bulk, for free, at no cost to the courts, as well as providing search/etc. However, the courts hurt for real budget, and they all see selling these contracts as a revenue source.

(I'm generalizing to both state and federal courts here)

In the case of PACER (you may remember PACER from stories about Aaron Swartz :P), it sadly makes up for a lot of budget shortfall in the courts. PACER's revenue is > 100 million a year.

If you want to hear the long sad story, you can probably find a number of writings by Carl Malamud talking about it.

If you just want to get angry, it would suffice to check out the lawsuits over trying to claim copyright in the page numbering between westlaw and lexis, etc.
No one is denying that he did download those documents. What is mostly likely getting you downvoted is your assumption that his acts are felonies and that he would have been found guilty. That is debatable and why it would require a trial. That's why I would suggest not labeling someone a felon when no jury has had a chance to decide.
Typically someone in AA will say that they're a recovering alcoholic vs an alcoholic. There is a distinct difference.
I'm not making any judgements on your own addictions - I'd never be that presumptuous. To be honest, I've only begun to look into AA's culture and theories. I feel it's an understatement to say that it's not perfect. Half of the steps specifically mention god - that does not sound like me like a necessary (or even helpful) part of treatment for alcoholism. People have also pointed out similarities between them and cults (which I have begun to see in the members that I know).

I don't know how I feel yet about the idea that someone is always an addict. I do know the fact that AA believes and teaches it is absolutely no reason to consider it to be factual.
The average American isn't dead, so obviously you didn't say what you meant, if what you meant made sense.
Known? I'm flattered. I do have some comments downvoted from time to time, but I can't control that.
Don't despair; HN will return to its usual NorCal Celebrity News in several days.
After trying most Android keyboard, I think the best and easiest way to write is using progressively-learning-predictive-technique like in SwiftKey.
Coal can be burned fairly cleanly, but requires modern equipment not the likely Soviet designed plants they have.
Guys, you killed their site.
I'm just getting "This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later." on all of the links.
I would down-vote you if I had the karma
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Over Quota

This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.

Anyone care to share the direct YouTube links?
I think actually very few web designers came from print, as you can tell by Photoshop as the tool of choice. If they had come from print design, they would have probably used Illustrator or some other vector based tool.
I think this would be like relearning touch typing. I don't think the time investment would be worth it. And, thumbs are not dexterous enough to make large words through this system without it getting annoying very quickly.
As a french canadian I find it delightful :)

Merci Pauline !
its aweful...dont even bother unless its free
Hey thanks! When I was about 13 I started working on a similar app in C# [1] which was REALLY popular, but the code base was sloppy and I didn't really know what I was doing. I made this utility because there is currently no cross-platform solution, and since it's written in C++/Qt, it will work on most platforms.

http://clkxu5.com/about-party-buffalo/
perhaps you could do something along the lines of GWT and port your app over to use html5 tech. It was done with quake as a demo, and it works reasonably well.
At the least, there would still be criminal penalties for fraud, identity theft, misappropriation of trade secrets, blackmail, espionage, sabotage, etc.

When practically everything is a computer, having laws that specifically target computers seems unnecessary.
There is that implication as well. There is also the implication (Turing again being used as the example) that only a famous person who contributed greatly to society is worthy of "forgiveness", and the government doesn't need to bother acknowledging that other "regular people" harmed under the same unjust law.
The issue for that is that there's nothing to pardon, aaronsw was never convicted, which means the case will be thrown out.
Most of what you're saying about AA is false. 4 of the 12 steps mention God. And if you look deeper into the material, God is in reference to a Higher Power or "Power greater than ourselves."

Some examples of a Higher Power can include: a sponsor, the group in general, a (big G or little g) god, a door knob. The principle is about believing in something greater than yourself.

edit: AA has its roots in Christianity, however being in AA doesn't mean you have to be a Christian or a theist.
First of all it depends on the type of business if the .COM is important. You are starting a "security product business" but who exactly are you targeting?

If you are selling to the "general public", or even large organisations etc then the .COM should be your only choice.
Consumers have grown to believe that all .COMs are reliable and trustworthy - which is something you want your brand to leverage.

Having said that .COMs aren't as important as they once were and if you aren't targeting the "general public" then you can consider an alternative domain such as .ly etc
It's not just meetings, it's everything. Let's say you run a chain of stores that you all want to be open the same relative times. How do you list the hours on your website? With time zones this is easy, you just say "all stores open 8am to 9pm M-F", or what-have-you. Without time zones you have to specify the UTC time for each store or for each region. E.g. Stores in California open from 16 to 05 UTC, stores in Texas open... And now you see another problem, because now a time during the day locally is running over into night. So how do you specify the hours you are open relative to the days of the week? Are we using local days of the week or UTC days? So now if you are closed on the weekends locally that translates to the last day being open on Friday/Saturday (UTC).

Now let's say you want to buy a ticket for an international flight. You're only going to be staying for a few days so you need to plan the time of day you leave and arrive carefully. For example, let's say you want to fly somewhere for the weekend, you want to leave in the evening on Friday and begin your return in the evening on Sunday. Now you need to translate between UTC and local time and days to figure out which flights you want to take. Or, say you are taking a very long trip, from the US to Australia perhaps, and you want to arrive in the evening so you can eat dinner then go directly to bed. That too requires complex figuring if you don't have time zones.

Or, let's say you are a service oriented company and need to provide a response-time in your SLA, measured in business days. Well, do you have to introduce the idea of "local business days" now? How do you list local holidays? "Offices closed from 08 UTC Dec 25 through 08 UTC Dec 26"?

Ultimately you end up needing to have some sort of additional resource which tells you things like the local time, the local day of the week, etc. And that merely duplicates all the work we've already done with time zones. If you want to simplify time zones, that's a worthy effort, but getting rid of them is not the answer.
One fiber can carry many more lines than one thread of copper, right?
It is now. Wasn't that the whole reason aaronsw liberated PACER? (I honestly still don't understand all the parts of the federal court publication system; PACER, the commercial stuff like Lexis/Nexis, physical records, aaronsw's actions, etc. -- there are a lot of fairly undocumented parts)
I think you are looking for SMS Micropayments. There are a few of them, but they will give you a really small percentage of what your users pay in the SMS.
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Someone who is not convicted cannot be pardoned.
Let me guess, you have an engineering degree and think you have studied more than any developer.
> Issuing a GET request to a web server is not, and should not be a crime.

A DDoS is also "the Internet as it was intended" by your logic.
VS2012 is actually the IDE I was thinking of when I said VS C++ support is inferior to C#'s. While there is intellisense, it does not display any documentation. The closest thing it offers is variable names for a method's arguments.
while you might be sarcastic, this actually does exist: http://jsjvm.org/
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Having just been called a 'known troll' myself (see this gem: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5052367) I think this label has been thrown around way too lightly of late.

Rhizome has been around for a while and I don't think he's a troll, merely too upset to see things clearly right now.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rhizome

He's been here almost four times as long as you have and I remember lots of good stuff from him.
Back when I was much younger (CDROMs had just become accessible with read speeds of 150Kb/s) I had an idea to publish volumes of case law on a CDROM. After seeing no technical reason why the idea couldn't work I hit a brick wall. Turns out the case law is free, but the pagination is copyright. Case Law is cited by the page number and without that common 'index' the citations are meaningless. At that time I was convinced that things are broken to the advantage of those who profit/monopolize a product or service. This was in the late 80's, and my drive to disrupt didn't exist.
Had fun figuring out where mine and my wife's hearing fell off. Now I know where to put it when I want my kids to bugger off. :)
The site is back up
I do this when I'm not confident I set up the experiment correctly. If the A's differ bit quite a bit, it's more likely I made a mistake than there's is normal statistical variance. I make mistakes daily.

I think that's pretty sensible reason for A/A/B testing. Or A/B/B testing. Whatever you like.
".com is the best for exposure on Search Engines but what they don't realise is that because of this EXACT reason is that Google puts .com to the top"

This is wrong.

Domain extensions do not have an effect on how your site ranks

The .COM extension is considered a "global" domain thus when ranking in search engines (without telling them who your website is targeting via Webmaster Tools) it will naturally rank higher on a general basis.

For instance if you have a .ly (or any other country specific) domain extension without setting your global settings, search engines such as Google and Bing will consider that website to be useful to people in Libya (yes they do consider language too). Likewise the .ly will struggle to rank (compared to the global .com) as it is considered to be a Libyan domain unless you tell the search engines otherwise.
$971? Are you fucking kidding me? It took me less than $200 to outfit my kitchen, and that includes a breadmaker, a rice-cooker, as well as things to eat the food with. Most of this was scavenged from estate sales and thrift shops.

This MVK post goes completely against the whole "minimal viable" spirit, which _should_ be self-explanatory: only what you need. This kitchen getup is certainly viable, but it's anything but minimal. This is more like the "I have $1000 and want a fancy ass kitchen" viable kitchen.
And yet what alternative is there? If you follow the news you're placing the same trust in journalists.

To become a truly informed voter, not relying on others' summary explanations, would be more than a full-time career.
Cache, since it's down: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.8p...

This is genius as an idea, but I don't know if it could ever catch any sort of momentum in the market. It seems like it would take a long time to become fast at it.

A comparison to keyboards comes to mind - the keys on a keyboard really seem arbitrarily placed (though I am aware of the historical origin of QWERTY). Many people type slowly on keyboards, and it takes a lot of using one to get good at it. However the keys on a keyboard are labeled, so there is a lower threshold for newbies. Imagine what someone would look like typing on a blank keyboard. Their fingers would seem to be flying around at random.

People would be afraid to try learning it. That's what using 8pen is like.

And the problem is, there's no way to ever label all the loops and have them be visible.

It also seems like it would be easy to miss the center circle sometimes when closing a loop. I wish I could try it but I don't own an Android device.

Also, OP are you Gabe Newell or a different gaben?
>Most of what you're saying about AA is false. 4 of the 12 steps mention God. And if you look deeper into the material, God is in reference to a Higher Power or "Power greater than ourselves."

>Some examples of a Higher Power can include: a sponsor, the group in general, a (big G or little g) god, a door knob. The principle is about believing in something greater than yourself.

No, it is not.
Four of the steps use the word use the word "God", 1 uses only the word "Him" (and that obviously refers to the same thing), and 1 uses the word "Power" (notice the upper case).

The claim that these are intended to be anything "greater" than yourself such as a sponsor or the group clearly is not what is intended (and, from what I have heard, not what is taught). I don't know what the hell your door knob comment is about - I assume it was for comic effect.

http://www.aa.org/en_pdfs/smf-121_en.pdf Read the steps. A sponsor is not going to remove our shortcoming or character defects. We don't pray to the group so that we might know their will. You're either ignorant of the actual teachings or being extremely disingenuous.
This could be any number of dot bombs from the late 90s, however its still incredible...

- Insisted that each office be painted a different and specific color.

- Huge open spaces were created to stimulate idea sharing and creativity.

- A plush cafeteria was put in, complete with a gourmet chef.

- Couches were scattered throughout the offices so that researchers could take naps or even sleep there overnight, which many of them did.

- The soft-drink machine was wired to a terminal. Researchers who wanted a drink simply typed in their choice.

- Commuting in an antique fire engine.

- Handler had every surface on the new floor repainted a slightly different shade of mauve. When it was done, she wasn't satisfied. So she had her researchers and scientists paint it again.

- An enormous marble archway installed in the atrium

- She commissioned a $40,000 logo design for a CM-5 sweatshirt and then rejected it.

- While the company was sinking, she focused her attention on putting out a cookbook with recipes from the company's now-infamous cafeteria.
The testimonial was after 2 months, which is about the longest I've ever restrained myself personally and frankly, by that point, I thought about nothing else. I felt like a stud alright. Everything was hyper-arousing. It just wasn't sustainable for me. It was fun, but I probably would have been arrested for public indecency if I tried for 3 months.

I think it's necessary to learn to live with and love your lusts if you want to be in control of them. "Know thyself."
8pen has been around for a while, I remember using it in 2010.

I think if you get use to it it might have promise. Myself, I can type fast enough on a QWERTY layout (even on a touchscreen) that any of these fancier input methods just slow me down and annoy me.
> The people that he supposedly hurt said that they don't care, and to leave him alone

From the perspective of the state, that matters only as far as the details of "Can I still get the evidence needed without victim's support" and "How should I prioritize this case from here?"

Often going through with a prosecution is just a further hassle for the victim (a process of "re-victimization"). In real life sometimes the trial would reveal further unpleasant things about the victim to public view. Maybe the victim wants to take care of it themself. Maybe they genuinely don't want any consequence to befall the suspect.

But the responsibility of the state is to society at large. A prosecutor wouldn't refuse to charge a serial rapist that they had enough evidence for even without the victim's support, because of the risk to society if the serial rapist were allowed to go free.

While Aaron was charged with far different things, he had shown a propensity for flouting the law on this particular topic, and escalating each addition time he did so, so it's not really that surprising that the D.A. would decide to continue with the case, especially given that they still had some of the other 'victims' supporting the prosecution.

I say this all as a proponent of Open Access (certainly would have been nice while I was in college instead of having to use my university's proxy servers all the time). But the D.A. doesn't get to decide which laws are on the books and which aren't (as others have mentioned, this is how white people were mysteriously never charged of racial crimes in the Jim Crow-era South).
I don't know a lot of people running Ruby services on top of Windows ...
Did MIT and JSTOR really have no posted TOS? That is not my recollection of MIT wifi.
To all those commenting on Beijing pollution: have you ever been in other Chinese cities? I have been in Shijiazhuang, Chengdu, it can be much much worse. I would like to see air quality index from these places...

But anyway Saturday was nasty in Beijing, it I have no idea if it is psychosoma or real, but I still have the smell in my nose, and headaches.
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Wow, I think the new profiles on github are a definite improvement for this kind of situation. :D
True. Improper legal term aside, I imagine that what they really mean is "issue a formal apology for this aggressive and needless prosecution".
When my computer is not connected to the Internet, I don't have my Wikipedia with me. But when I bring it near my wireless router, suddenly it's all accessible again!
Remembering Aaron Swartz: Commons man
Mentors Thoughts Week 40: Being Open to the Universe and Not Saying No
Thank the maker the justice system does not work the way you think it does.
Out of curiosity, what statistics are you referring to?
He never specified a time frame--Watching 5 hours of TV will kill you over x number of years (also it's clear he meant the resulting inactivity will kill you).
Bitcoin online gambling: Tossing a coin
my friend and I are building an online gambling site for bitcoins. This is our first toy iteration http://www.mangofuzz.com. What do you think? We are deciding what would be the next casino game to implement.
I'm reading the Power of Habit and the author mentions AA. According to the theory of the book, for habits (drinking) to change permanently, people have to believe in something. According to the author, that ingrained belief of AA is what makes it work for so many people, but as mentioned, you can ignore god in the steps and replace it with something else (family, sponsor, local communities, etc).
Even now, when service is back, the most recent entry on 3down is from December 31.
Tutorial video and app download at this address:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eightpen.a...

Definitely won't take the place still in my heart for Graffiti ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS) ).
You know, I think you're on to something here, but I believe that on forums such as reddit, the tl;dr is usually read first anyways. People seem to skip to the bottom of a long post to see what the conclusion is.
I was very surprised to see that when mit.edu went away, we also lost emergency.mit.net.
I have no first-hand knowledge of the case, nor am I a lawyer, but Aaron's notoriety and access to a number of gigantic online megaphones could have prompted the judge to issue a gag order "to avoid tainting the jury pool" or something like that.
Interesting tangent, as someone who was fluent in Latin many moons ago (could speak it at an English conversational pace), I literally had to force myself to ignore your filler (which includes several Latin fragments).
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I can highly recommend Angular. I used Ember for awhile (built minutefavors.com on it so I did get some decent real world experience) and was a fan until finding Angular. Angular just makes a lot more sense to me and I can get more done with less code.
From what I have read, USA was kinda similar, especially int he pre-EPA days. I have to wonder if today's cancer rates are in large part from that, seems like everyone has /has had a relative with cancer.
MIT should have a twitter, right?
Apple is done, say teens
TS;DR.
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The system is set up to push people toward plea bargains. Even an innocent person charged with first degree murder and facing 25 to life would consider a plea of involuntary manslaughter with a sentence as short as 3 years. Over 90% of trials in the US end in a plea bargain...I wonder how many people take a plea when they are innocent.
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It is ironic that 'news' of his death has attracted attention to this article.
The response the OP mentioned: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/our-states-remain-...

The secession petitions are even more ridiculous when you realise that it only takes 25,000 signatures to get a response (Louisiana, the least populous state on the list, has a population of a little over 4.5 million according to Wikipedia) and the signers didn't even have to be a resident of the state calling for secession.
Just because porn existed doesn't mean it was a "staple" of society. It would have been too expensive for the average person to afford.

Even 20 years ago porn was too expensive for the average person to afford very much of it.
I am Aaron Swartz