skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crime in question was accessing a computer system in an unauthorized fashion

Via a URL accessible to anybody? If I poke around on your website and find your /hiddenstuff directory, am I guilty of a crime?
I work in Ireland too (I moved to Ireland 3 months ago) and I work 8:30-5 with flexible start time, 8:30-4 on fridays, and I can work from home some days as well.
Great, great read.
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If it should be misconduct, then it is. And if it is misconduct, it certainly isn't serving justice, which founding principle is "innocent until proven guilty", and not "innocent until threatened enough to admit whatever guilt seems like a lesser evil".

This btw goes for Ortiz et al. too. However, since their pressure in Aaron Schwartz case is pretty well documented, and since they refuse to show the slightest hint of regret, their share of guilt in this tragic suicide is pretty clear. What's more, the continued threat that their twisting of the due process of justice represents must be stopped. And this should be a signal for the DOJ to review its prosecuting policies in depth, and remember justice in general a little more, as opposed to political maneuvering.
Out of curiosity (Not really knowing how things are in US)

- What typically happens after 12 weeks of paternity leave? Mommy returns to work and child goes to daycare?

- This article mentioned only women, what about men? Any father periods/leaves ?
at the same time this that is a great example of good criticism.
Wait, now its just for learning? I thought you were expecting a lot of traffic (hence all the addons you stuffed in). You need to scale those back and purchase a dyno. Problem will be solved and you'll pay less. Optimize only when you need to.
Maybe she hadn't used fsn ever but could tell from the file system structure that it was in fact a UNIX system. Then she concluded that she need to find the correct file - which is how UNIX does things.

I did find the scene ridiculous at the time but it was because I didn't know UNIX or fsn. Now I find it very plausible.
Well, they mostly sell individual pieces to individuals. Not to other businesses.

They may be more expensive than ordering a million widgets from BigBulkCo - but they're certainly cheaper than going to a retail shop.
> but his explanation doesn't jive with his actions.

I think it's perfectly congruent. An entity has your data as well as information on many other people. You come across and report a vunerability. You check that something was done about it. I see no holes in this (aside from the ones in Montreal college's security).
Forever Projects are like stars, we set our course by them but never reach them.

I am now creating my Forever Company - where I can work in a way compatible with living a life and still make a difference. Some people will join my journey some will leave as I change course. I cannot imagine finishing my Forever Company either. But I know the next steps.

Thank you OP - some good inspiration there
It's not red/blue. She's trying to build a political career in Massachusetts.
I don’t think that’s very prevalent. I see exactly the opposite. People telling users of Apple products that they are wrong. They won’t leave you alone.
Lease 2013, be the year of "shut up and work"
Testdownload:

https://mega.co.nz/#!h1IjjJRR!dv9lRUyCCmbkZ9drqnrw_y3GWYUPXS...

Screen:

http://i.imgur.com/4YrRPpO.jpg
Australian Pirate Party Gets Approved and Russians are Denied (Again)
A possible counterpoint: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11799236/should-i-use-px-...
This.

My father lived in various bits of East Germany during the communist era. He had nothing to say but good things about the situation, until he pissed off a couple of Stasi in the late 1970s that was and was deported to the West after a fairly light telling off (fortunately versus locked up). The main thing that pissed him off about this is that he had just bought a new Robotron TV that he spent two years saving up for and had to leave it behind. He is bitter about this to the day :)

If it wasn't for the Stasi, it would have been a modern Utopia. Stable employment, manufacturing oriented economy (value added everywhere) and could pretty much stand alone. They even pushed family values and equality for all over conspicuous consumption, which is pretty much the entire facade of capitalism these days.

This ALL went down the shitter at reunification.

Perhaps someone should try it again (without the Stasi that is).

Some Ostalgie: I have three bottles of Vita Cola in the cupboard (that stuff rocks) and a Praktica MTL 5 camera which I use regularly - I find these to be the essence of the good bits of the GDR :)
Good point, I wouldn't call reconnaissance hacking. For two reasons: 1) It's a passive method 2) It's not done on the attacked system.

Scanning is an active method and it's done on the attacked system. Web scanning is not the same as web crawling (downloading pages of the site). It include all kinds of invasive tests, like SQL Injection, XSS, command injection and other attack attempts. It can cause many kinds of problems, named here in this thread.

From security perspective, scanning is an attack. Everyone who uses these tools should be aware of this.
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I'd like to see a company like Google ditch the name 'Human Resources'. It's an awful term that, to me, sounds clinical and nearly offensive. Decades ago, that sort of department was once called 'Personnel.' I wonder why that name was let go?
Perhaps you've heard of this thing called 'movie previews'.
Well the AAA stuff does things right too. Look at Far Cry 3. It's hardly a indie game, and most people who played it loved it and found it refreshing.

Look at Witcher 2. Hardly a small game either, and they managed to pull off one of the best RPGs in recent history, with non-linear paths in the story.

Indie or AAA, there's crap everywhere anyway. There's a lot more people buying crap than ever, too, and that is exactly why crap endures : it's profitable. This would not have happened in the same way in the 80s/ early 90s when gamers were more of an "elite", educated and curious bunch of people, rather than the average Joe nowadays who buys Video Games just because they can.
I have one that reminds me to check-in to GymPact when I go to the gym, and then I set reminders like my example above a couple of times per week probably. I definitely wasn't intending to be sarcastic but probably could have expressed that better.
"Perhaps you can also talk about what it's like to have to do things you might find distasteful and work with people you might otherwise not choose, so the business can stay afloat."

Maybe the business shouldn't stay afloat, maybe it should wind itself down.

I say this as someone who was approached by InstallMonetizer in 2011/2012 to add IM to the installers of my Windows apps. I declined, of course, because I wouldn't want to trick my customers with the tactics that InstallMonetizer uses. Tricking customers with EULA-like 'offer screens' to install browser toolbars is wrong.

I would rather close down my business than treat my customers that way.
The letter says no such thing. I don't know why you've taken the trouble to post this falsehood twice in a short thread.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5096170
There is a book about this: The Imp of the Mind

http://www.amazon.com/Imp-Mind-Exploring-Epidemic-Obsessive/...
In the third paragraph: "Google calls its HR department People Operations"
Opera's WebKit-based Ice web browser coming to Android and iOS in February
As we saw from many and many articles, vendor disclosure often ends with threats, intimidation, your business interaction with them being canceled, and forcing you to sign a NDA on hostile terms.

Once you contacted vendor it's not safe to go the pastebin route. So it becomes an unfeasible solution.

On the other hand, try to "hunt down" a pastebin post original author. It would be the last of your worries.
I can't agree more.

I started my first project, Asturix, a Linux distribution, at age 12. I have found all kind of complications, most of them related with being young.

I live in Spain, where there are a lot of prejudices against youth. Also, the educational system here doesn't empower any "21 century" value such as creativity or inspiration. Fortunately, the situation is changing thanks to the media and other young entrepreneurs and I are starting to be famous in Spain.

On the other hand, working and studying in Spain at the same time is really, really, really hard. Oh, and we have a youth unemployment rate of 54%.

Right now I'm 17 and have founded a couple companies, what has been really hard due to legal issues - creating a company in Spain being underage is practically illegal.
I have also started an incubator for hackers from 12 to 18 so they can create their projects in a easier way.

This is a beautiful age for discovering your passion, but if people screw you out it can be a difficult one.

The talent is there, but we have to let it grow.
To be fair it wasn't rationing - that was a load of crap apparently. It was fixed prices everywhere. Butter was X marks everywhere and there wasn't the luxury of choice (choice was defined to be the enemy which I do sort of agree with - I spend way too much time selecting products versus using them).

The reason for Ostalgie is that if you didn't piss off the Stasi, you actually had a reasonable life. Also, since reunification, the West Germans have treated the East like a second class lepper colony and closed all their businesses down resulting in much pissed-off-ness.
I suggest displaying 24 items per page, so there is no blank spot at the end when it displays 3 items per row. 24 obv works great with 2, 3, and 4.
Some interesting journalism. Good.
Nintendo's strategy has limits: if they can't push enough hardware in the homes their sales will plummet. The WiiU is nowhere near selling out and we can already see it will not be like the Wii. The WiiU will not sell you any new experience, it's just more of the same old shit. People will get tired of it soon enough.

Nintendo still has an upper hand in handheld gaming, because that's become their core business since the GBA days. But who know what happens 5-10 years down the road?

Relying on past trends to predict the future is always doubtful at best. The market is continuously in movement.
Alluded to in the article is why 'px for everything', is not better than 'rems'.

Sure, browsers now scale everything up when users zoom, but that doesn't give me, the author, control. I don't have the ability to bump up/down all the text on the page by the same ratio at certain viewport sizes. If I wanted to do this, I'd have to rewrite every 'px' value.

The main point in that counterpoint is that 'px' give greater clarity when authoring CSS, which isn't truly. 'rems' also allow you to use one unit for everything. A 'rem' is a 'rem' is whatever I make a 'rem' in my html{}.

A 'px' is a 'px' is whatever a 'px' is at 96dpi. No matter what I do.
Seems to be a little more of a gray area, considering using is a service that IS publicly available and labelled as such. I don't find the two to be analogous, if that is what you are asking.
Very cool, I might be able to come!
> Historically societies have based foreign policy on equally or more ridiculous assumptions so I'm not so quick to dismiss the idea of fear, prejudice or historical animosity being a factor.

As a generality, sure. However, "fear of a united Korea" is not a driving factor behind any "Western" plot to keep them divided. It's preposterous to anyone who knows anything about geopolitics in the region.

> Regardless, you clearly were not making the point that no one has those faulty assumptions, you were pointing out that they were faulty. That was my entire point.

You're interpreting my post a little narrowly.

The "assumptions" are faulty to the point of being ludicrous. It's implied that no-one actually believes it to be true.

It's a bit like saying terrorists "hate us for our freedom".
I'm all for action but I think people are cautious for a reason.

There are approximately 20 million brainwashed individuals, a lot of whom have absolutely no idea what the rest of the world is like. They will defend NK to the death if they think they'll be killed not doing it.

If you go there and start a war, which is the only likely way to stop the oppression, do you think we can actually win it?

Incremental political change is the only way to go and the current leadership realise that, but if they change it suddenly, they'll all hang as well.

Don't forget the last Korean war killed a LOT of people.
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You have to say NO
Sellmapp - Buy and sell anything with people nearby
Do or do not. There is no try. ~ Yoda

I don't understand this idea of a Forever Project. A project/task is either important enough to do or it's a distraction in your life. Now if you're working towards that project because you don't have the resources, knowledge, people, at this point in time, you're making progress and that's a different story.
How is OVH for actually serving websites? I use a 8G dedicated server for a seedbox and PLEX. The servers in France were really bad for me in the US. But I just switched to the datacenter in Canada and it is working well.

But I am still weary about using them for anything serious. I thought they were just for bittorrent.

I use Linode for sites I actually care about.
You can try to call it an appeal to ridicule, but I too would like to see more companies and conferences trying to reach out to communities which are used to be denied and thus do not actively seek as much opportunities for the risk of failing. Reaching out is a positive thing to do to society. Its altruistic and can bring positive rewards in return. While I would not want to claim that other people must do it, the reaching out that the author did has an positive net effect on society and I assume the conference itself.

I did not include ex-convicts as a joke. Many people get locked up falsely, and even more get locked up because they enter a plea barging that they shouldn't have. Many of those has some kind of higher education, but is put in an disadvantage because of some real, or imaginary mistake in their past (like downloading a song at age 9). Assuming that those people can't do work beyond sweeping floors, or that they have nothing to contribute to a conference is discrimination without basis.

As to the young and old, I too would like to see less agism in the work place and conferences. Old grey unix neckbeards tend to only be acceptable in some places. In regard to the type of conference the article discuss, game developer conferences, I think old grey unix neckbeards and 14 year old developers are a rare sight and clearly underrepresented.

Pointing out that there is more than one form of group under discrimination is not an appeal to ridicule, and it does not lessen the acts done by the author in the article. Rather, the method used by the author is an effective method to address discrimination without causing further discrimination by the act of exclusion.
Well I have never seen anyone spending 3 hours in a row on Angry Birds. ALl these iOS/ANdroid games are for people who either have short attention span or who need to distract themselves for a few minutes in transports. Who believes these are serious games ?

Obviously serious games are those where you CARE and put dozens, hundred of hours of your life into. And releasing old games on new formats cost nearly nothing. If the industry was as dead serious as you think it is, they would be making NEW, ambitious games for these platforms and make big bucks out of them. But that's not going to happen because nobody will play games for hours and hours on these devices - that's not the right public nor the right place for it.

Big budget shit games are not dying. You are living blindfolded.
It does not seem to be possible to launch a spot instance of one of these... the web interface wont allow it, anyway... Still, about $3 per hour to play with a machine of that size should be interesting...
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I'm just wondering if they have any network security equipment at all, or have they been smart enough remove at least something from the list.

Check also all the forms they have available at http://idc.nic.in/services.htm I guess filled forms and some social engineering would go long way.
Can you imagine how weird I felt when I finished my "forever" project?

Ever since school I wanted to write a simulation tool similar to one I've used in school, which basically lets you write differential equations in graphical form, and integrates them for you. And back when I was in school, I didn't know a thing about differential equations, and it all looked like amazing magic to me.

And while studying physics, I learned about DGLs and Runge-Kutta integration, and then I "just" needed to manage all the data (do a topological sort on the nodes to evaluate all the formulas in correct order), stuff it into the Runge-Kutta solver, and graph the output. Yay.

I never got around to writing the graphical front end, but the all interesting (to me) parts of the program are there. Oh, and it's written in Perl 6, the programming language I help to develop in my free time. If you're interested, check out http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/physical-modelling.html

These days Perl 6 is my main "forever"-project, and it's coming along nicely.
What I've learned as a developer in the last ten years.
Read point 2: "On September 21, the IT Policy was applied and your network and portal accesses were suspended."

Read point 3: "On September 22, you admitted to these attacks in writing."

Compare the dates. According to the letter, his disclosure came after the account was suspended. Implying that they did detect the attack before he admitted to it.
A nod to the Forever War? :)

(Great book! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War )
there doesn't look to be any css downloading with the site.

interesting
> ever think about how long it took before we reached the modern consensus that non-property owners or women could vote, that slavery should not be allowed, the government should not be allowed to prevent inconvenient news from being published, etc?

Have you? Because it didn't happen by magic. They didn't blithely upend things; they argued from first principles and when the founding, axiomatic document listing those principles lacked the needed bases, they changed it through processes that were listed in that document.

If it's such a "clear violation", then you can dig through the case law that explores the many edge cases we've already encountered and cite them as part of a robust, not-easily-dismissed argument that this is a violation. Baldly asserting that it's a "clear violation" says nothing except that you consider your own, personal authority to be a sufficient claim.

Ortiz, and prosecutors like her, may be doing some really shitty things, but they do have this: when they walk into a courtroom, they actually deliver an argument that seems to leave a solid trail between the Constitution and the conviction of guilt. (And it's the defense's job to deliver an argument that the trail is not sufficiently solid.)

Yes. Overturn it. And do it in such a way that it stays overturned.
If there is a forever project, maybe you shd just get started on it full-time - it might be 'the one'

http://statspotting.com/2013/01/that-one-idea-that-does-not-...
Personally I get annoyed whenever I see product placements, like Macbooks, or iPhones, or Windows screens in movies, not to mention Google/Bing searches or Xbox/Playstations in futuristic settings.

Especially when I go to a movie theater, I go there to watch a movie that I pay for. I'm not paying between $7 and $20 to watch a commercial.
Take me as an example. My Forever Project is Physics. I have a degree in both CS and Physics. I made the decision years ago to work in the industry as a programmer, because it's more fun and pays better than being an academic, especially where I live. I'm not officially involved with my old University, but I still take part in their mailing lists, think about Physics in my free time, I even submit simple papers to journals [+]. I don't have delusions about being a good physicists or ever doing anything of any importance, but Physics still fascinates me, I like to ponder its problems and sometimes marvel at its beauty.

[+] http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4990

Edit: Btw. you are right in saying that these things are a "distraction in life", but I think it's a good distraction, like a hobby.
The Windows app culture has really deteriorated. Even Oracle has started distributing malware with their Java installer. Applications that phone home, reboot the computer at random times, and modify system settings are not only tolerated, but expected.

It's hard to imagine a real-world parallel to this kind of behavior. It would be like if rape was a socially acceptable form of greeting.

In the future, I think all of this will give Microsoft a perfect excuse to shut down the independent application developers and force everything through their app store. Companies that develop for Windows better start thinking hard about their relationship with Microsoft.
Also consider what's more important to you: six months in a country that has a great startup culture, or six months in a dirt-cheap country where cost of living is so low, you can spend more time working on your startup without worrying about the bills.

I will sing Poland's praises until the end of time, but it has all modern conveniences and is incredibly cheap to live in, even in the capital city Warsaw. (If you fancy somewhere a bit prettier, Kraków is even cheaper).

If you just need a bit of time to find you feet and get set up, I'd consider spending a few months here - the summers are glorious! - and then move to somewhere a bit more startup-y.
Sounds to me like something Ze Frank calls brain crack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8
My forever project is a cooking robot. I've been thinking about how I'd approach it for years, but never had the chance to make what I thought would be a worthwhile start.

The stars aligned this year, and I'm actually able to work on it now. This is the current temperature of my stove: http://dave-stuff.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
There are a lot of extreme sports that could look like people are literally trying to get themselves killed.
Regardless of what has happened to Atari now, the Company will remain the genesis of a lot of awesome things that has happened to the world since the inception of the company.
"Rare" is a relative term and is location dependent.

If I am an enthusiastic DIY'er, I want my parts now, not tomorrow.

Also I wonder where Digikey gets their "reliable" parts from.