skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>(Google didn't start by presenting themselves as Googlebot... They committed your definition of fraud.) //

Can you expand on this. It appears you're saying that Google spoofed the origin of their traffic in order to crawl sites? Can you back that assertion up?

If you allow Googlebot access using UA then someone identifying as Google in order to gain access they wouldn't otherwise have is clearly unauthorised. We all know this. It's not something [on it's own] that warrants prison time of course.

Fraud is gain by deception; simple. If you have to change your apparent identity to avoid being prevented in your acquisition then it's fraud.

>MAC spoofing might help demonstrate mens rea to you, but that is far from universal. //

Come on lets be adult about this. Are you really claiming that people don't change MAC address in order to avoid being identified with previous use under a particular MAC address, that it's not solely to mask identity. Masking identity is of course not normally and generally a crime in itself.

So then that repeated use of a service restricted by MAC address, after the intermediate application of MAC alteration doesn't show direct mental application (mens rea) to the task of attaining further access than that which has been authorised ... look I'm not saying he was morally wrong. But aaronsw certainly knew he was acquiring unauthorised access; if it were authorised he wouldn't have needed to hide equipment, spoof MACs, alter IPs to avoid IP blocking and such. He knew and I warrant you do too.

It's a shame in many ways he didn't pull it off.

>I could just as easily argue it's fraud to restrict any copying via a network that functions for that purpose. //

Where is the appropriation by deception in this?
I occasionally check in on and modify the WikiTravel page for Singapore (e.g. to warn about scammy shops here), and when I heard about the impending launch of WikiVoyage, I switched over right away. It seemed odd to me that an open, collaborative resource like WikiTravel should be owned by a profit-driven entity that had acquired it and was trying to monetise it. The lawsuit from that entity was the rotten cherry on the top.

Congratulations to Wikimedia, the WikiVoyage team, and jpatokal (and thanks for making the Singapore article so comprehensive and accurate). I hope the migration is smooth and the SEO quickly works itself out in WV's favour. I for one will be linking to it whenever I have the opportunity.
While this is funny and poses an interesting question I have one problem with this. To my limited carpentry knowledge, Walnut and Oak are much more interchangeable than something like Rails and PHP. Techniques change much more when using two different stacks than using two different types of wood.
Neat, thanks for the link!
Nah, they had their party, we just want them to go away :-)
The prosecution is not responsible for his death.

That he took his own life is regrettable, but please be real about what happened here. No one decided to take his life but him. Plenty of people are prosecuted and don't choose to take their own lives, and he didn't die in custody.

I've read about what he did (http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/). No one decided to take those actions but him.
The Most Heartbreaking Story Of The College Football Season Is A Hoax
Some have said that this article was planted to manipulate the stock in advance of earnings.
I'm only counting "Western Europe", excepting the former East Germany, west of the old Iron Curtain for a whole bunch of reasons.

Where do you get 85 school shooting deaths (?) in this century? VT 32 + Newtown 24 = 56. (In all cases I do not count the shooter if he died.) Plus I'm also pointing out that there were a lot more school shooting incidents.

It's too late for me to go into spree shootings, but ... when I just added up the deaths for Europe from my list, I got 157.
The major problem is that this sort of violence is actually, contrary to popular belief, fairly rare. So, that being the case, I don't how you draw a significant link, where would the numbers cone from? The last I checked the play these games and watch movies all over the world.
From an interviewer's perspective, that answer wouldn't really help me gauge your familiarity and depth of understanding with regards to the JVM (which is, presumably, something I'd be very interested in knowing).
Wow, just realized I've inadvertently Godwin'd this thread (when citing someone else, nonetheless, but still...)

The problem is that platform being advanced by Obama and Biden has been authored well ahead of time by gun control organizations. Before you call me a conspiracy theorist, I'll state that this is not a conspiracy if they're out working in the open about it; nor is it wrong for a President to call interest groups for policy advice. The real problem is that these interest groups are actively advancing an agenda that goes far beyond "Assault Weapons" or what most Americans would be comfortable with.

These organizations don't say "we will go out and confiscate most guns", they say "let's ban dangerous weapons and have mandatory buybacks", but then "British National Party" doesn't call themselves "National Socialist British Worker's Party" (ditto for "Golden Dawn" in Greece, etc..)

tl;dr It's right to call this a gun-grabbing agenda, even if the Obama had campaigned on the premise of "I won't take your guns" and said that he thinks that "second amendment recognizes an individual right".
I saw the same when I blocked it phoning home. After allowing it to phone home once it now counts down as you'd expect.

Void_, what's the phone home actually doing?

ps. Nice, simple product. Are you going to build this out to include some of Zone's functionality?
This strikes me as something that would be better as an iPhone app. Still, seems like a great simple app.
You know what, you're right. AND I just realised that now Plex is able to AirPlay from an iOS device to an Apple TV. I think my problem is actually already solved...
Oh man, I also work from home and sometimes do feel lonely. So hey, shoot me an email (on profile) and we can talk about whatever. But dont worry. Shit like this happens to a lot of people and it will get better. I'm also a python guy , by the way. Get in touch!
Visual representations of Facebook et al.
What type of app is it?
>Internet access is only required for most tasks due to people's laziness of using webapps.

Laziness? How is it laziness if the best app for the job happens to be a web app?
Somehow you've read my mind.
The eminently qualified Jennifer Granick calls it "a great first step" https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/01/thoughts-zoe-lofg...

See also her writings over the last few days https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick
There's also OpenDylan (http://opendylan.org/) and we're even considering adding an s-expression syntax back as an alternative...
I'm sorry, but the whole "it's all a conspiracy to keep Apple down" line is ridiculous: The market is highly adversarial, and if anyone were "keeping it down" artificially, they would have their lunch eaten by those looking for value.

As one of the most held equities, AAPL isn't an easy asset to game.

Apple has enormous, historic profit levels, and are sitting at an incredible altitude. If you really can't see the risk factors there -- why people might be skeptical -- especially given some broad shifts in the market (where competitors have largely kept up and are forcing Apple to iterate much more quickly, and to start to introduce products that compete against themselves, both of which threaten Apple's unprecedented profit margins), you aren't looking at the market rationally. Assuming that anything is a sure thing is just ridiculous.
Ok thanks!

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-over-9000
If the market were perfectly efficient—and we know it isn't—maybe. Wall Street is (IMO) a trailing rather than a leading indicator and is more indicative of a herd mentality than innovative thinking.

But what do I know? I only have a few thousand dollars in mutual funds through an RRSP and don't do financial software development.
1+) The 787 was three BHAGs[1] in terms of...

a) Fuel economy: drove the primarily composite structure (causing much angst during development), drove using the lighter weight lithium batteries which is the current issue, etc. A 20% fuel improvement is incredibly ambitious goal (I say is because last I heard they were still falling short, although still remarkable at ~15%(?)).

b) Cost (sharing): drove the huge number of outside contractors, all or most of whom invested a substantial amount of their own money in the pieces parts that they designed and built for the 787.

c) Schedule. Total miss. The schedule was predicated on no major problems... in hindsight the (a) and (b) BHAGs guaranteed the schedule miss.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hairy_Audacious_Goal
You could also change your user agent to that of a mobile device and pay $5. Dishonesty is always an (unethical) option.

The technical complexity of getting a seamless Wifi connection 30,000 feet above ground warrants its $12.00 in my opinion.
"knock up a script that would download them all"

That doesn't seem to end well for people lately.
Maybe I'm over-simplifying things, but it seems to me that it's obvious that Apple is doing very well, and there's no money in stating the obvious.

So "experts" are simply embracing the whole "Apple is doing bad" meme out of contrarianism, just to have something to say.
Thank you to everyone who chimed in on this conversation. Apparently, the right person noticed. My suspended YouTube account has been reinstated. If you want to check out the web series, now you can. http://cwatf.com/
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4666
The Joyce Foundation's support of gun control, greater than any other single source (although Bloomberg may exceed them sooner or later) and Obama's board seat on it are matters of public record. I don't have to go any further than that.
> How many politicians want to outlaw all abortions unilaterally, whether openly or secretly?

Many politicians are openly on the record as wanting to outlaw all abortion, even when there's a danger to mother's health, and even in the case of rape or incest. However, they've missed a minor detail: 54% of Americans are female and they just lost an election over it.

Unfortunately, while I'm happy that they're starting to realize that "this shit won't fly" so to speak, I'm scared that this position has become tenable: when I first took an interest in politics (~1998) "pro-life" position was explicitly defined as "opposition to abortion _other than_ when the mother's health is at risk, or in the case of incest or rape". That simply was not up for debate (the big debates were about parental notification, third trimester abortion, etc...).

Quite frankly passage of the "Partial Birth Abortion" (which defined this in explicitly moralizing terms and likened a different procedure to infanticide, as well as excluded provisions for mother's health, rape/incest, et al) is what I personally think made this tenable. When the distinction between "abortion" and "ALMOST infanticide" has been made using a non-scientific criteria, the gates to encroachment have been opened.

Likewise, the difference between "a military weapon that doesn't belong in our home" and a "grandpa's hunting rifle" is purely cosmetic, you can start arguing that "grandpa's hunting rifle" doesn't belong in your home, either.
Exactly this.

We are a distributed company at The Hybrid Group (http://www.hybridgroup.com). There are a few challenges that exist for distributed teams/companies, if you can call them that. If anything, it may make sense to call them best-practices.

1) Communication is absolutely vital. We're on Skype consistently.

2) Standups (short) are absolutely vital. We have one every day for each project.

3) Getting together physically/seeing each other on video is important to reminding each other we are humans and not avatars. We have a weekly co-work day (opt-in).

4) Same timezone. We all work in the Americas. +-3hours timezone. Otherwise it is too difficult to stay in communication which is #1.

It's nice having the luxury of not dealing with traffic and working in physical isolation. Distractions are plenty just with the internet, combine that with a physical workspace and you have a can of worms.

Being distributed is working really well for us and it's a core piece of our culture.
You might find this interesting: https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/blob/master/.xsessio...
I've just been re-reading How to get rich by Felix Dennis and this quote springs to mind:

> But a public company exists only to boost its share price, and its share price is determined, incredibly enough, by 'analysts' - spotty-faced youths who live on another planet where growth-at-any-price is the only deity one is encouraged to worship. Medium- or long-term strategies were for wimps and amateurs, in their estimation, This quarter's results, this quarter's growth, were the only things that mattered to them. It almost seemed, at times, as if profit was a dirty word. If we were making 'profits', asked the 'analysts', weren't we in danger of 'wasting' money that could have been invested to produce more 'growth'?

I thought it ridiculous when AAPL rose above $500, presumably because a mobile phone company is now the most important thing on earth; I find it equally ridiculous it's back under it now, for unknown and unknowable and probably nonsensical reasons. The madness of crowds...
Almost certainly won't work in this case. All corporate formalities are followed.
They aren't shams, only shells.

Don't take this the wrong way, but don't you think they thought of this when they set them up?

Patent trolls may be dicks, but they aren't stupid.
This article is clearly dated and irrelevant.

Rock 5.1 hasn't been used in years, its all about that PetrifiedWood 7.2
yes :) I was replying to "Maybe I was mistaken in my recollection"
Obama had better say the latter after 9 out of 9 Supreme Court justices said it in Heller.

That was one massive investment by the Joyce Foundation that went spectacularly bad....
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It's definitely worth studying. I'm not sure I've seen any real data on the subject. Just lots of extreme opinions from people convinced they do cause violence and those who believe they do not. Chances are the truth is somewhere in the middle. My guess is they will conclude there are certain individuals with existing psychological problems who are very influenced by video game violence. If they can be identified it may be possible to educate parents about the risks. Are there any doctors who are even looking for this type of thing now? Does a doctor ever suggest to parents they should limit exposure to violent video games/entertainment because their child happens to be in a high risk group? Maybe they do I honestly don't know.
>But it could just mean adjusting ratings and making sure that proof of age is required when purchasing classified content.

For the government to do that would entail amending the constitution, since SCOTUS has already ruled that doing so violates the First Amendment.
Thanks! I read the MLPolyR paper when it was posted on LtU, but I found it a bit hard to digest, and the link to your article is also purple so I guess I read it at some point :)
I took it more like walnut/oak, codeigniter/symfony
Who's pocket are these researchers in though?
How to deal with windows won't start
The ntlddr is the files that systems uses to boot. And if they are damaged or deleted by unknow reasons, a warn like "ntldr is missing" would come to you and arouse your attention. That means you can't use your computer as usual unless fix ntldr error. The article will help you solve out fix ntdetect failed error if the problem occurs to your.
I'll be very interested to see if the premise of topological data analysis holds. That is, does it actually point you to the most salient features of a given data set.
First it's obvious (but hardly anyone ever cares about it) that that such trivial things are still issues just show how much our diff tools are still in the stone age (for a start they should be able to figure out that the two source file: one with the ending and the other without are semantically identical)... But I'll bite.

First the parent mentioned "if you're on Unx". What makes you think you* are the one correct with your text editor's behavior and that the traditional Unxy way of doing it is not correct? (and OS X is a Unx variant).

Then it's trivial to modify Emacs so that it exhibit the behavior you want. Is it trivial to modify Sublime Text Editor 2 to that it behaves on Un*x like vim and Emacs do?

I'll never ever understand "programmers" who aren't using a programmable text editor.

But I don't care: time is on my side. Emacs was there 35 years and still shall exist long after all these glorified Notepad shall long be dead ; )
not a high-quality source

Amy Goodman is a well regarded journalist. She's won a Polk and a Robert F. Kennedy Award. Cohost Jaun Gonzalez has won a Polk twice for his work at New York Daily News.
Burled walnut vs. oak vs. pine vs. poplar is more like Oracle vs. SQL-Server vs. Postgresql vs. MySQL vs. Sqlite.

Rails vs. PHP is more like nailguns vs. rocks.
If you're interested in what modern day philosophers think of signatures (spoiler: they also think they are strange) check out Limited, Inc. by Jacques Derrida.
Discreetly ;-)

Seriously though - I've had to do this a few times. What exactly are your concerns?
> and I can't possibly believe they were for Polish Jews

Well, maybe police all over the country discriminated against Jews when making each decision, I don't know, but no difference between non-Jewish and Jewish Poles regardin gun ownership law. Antisemitism in pre-war Poland was very different from that in Germany (antisemitic party was always second in elections, for example, ruling party and Piłsudski (the guy in charge) weren't antisemites, and even the antisemitic party never proposed killing Jews as a solution). But that's another subject (yes, there were a few laws discriminating agains Jews- the most famous is quota on places on university for Jews).

> Our recent difficulties in the Middle East would seem to argue against your assertions.

The difference in army budget between ME countries and USA is orders of magnitude. And still rebeliants needed help from regular army in many cases.

> Guns are really useless against the agents of the state, no matter how expensive they make genocide or mass deportations or executions? I mean, does any state have an infinite supply of thugs?

According to [1] the second country in the world by number of guns per citizen is Serbia. Incidentely - Serbia had genocide not that long ago. Third is Yemen, which also had genocide. Fourth is Switzerland, which, exactly like USA, wouldn't have problems with genocides even without mass weapon ownership.

My conclusion is - in poor countries gun ownership don't prevent genocide. In rich countries genocides are prevented by government, and if government want to do genocide, guns won't help, cause government is rich.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_co...
When Exercise Is Too Much of a Good Thing
A reason it might not be allowed is due to fire risk - anything operated from batteries is supposed to be turned off, and with the battery terminals isolated ... these are guidelines from the postal services ...

http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/ship/packaging/gu...

http://www.royalmail.com/despatch-inward-mail-services/hints...
Looks like it indeed. But the An-225 will never be produced in the same numbers as the A380 will be.
If i'm not mistaken, it is the lack of inserting a newline on sublimes part that is to blame here. It doesn't just break vim, but other software such as cat, git, etc.
I feel like this joke quote provides some wider context

"Scientists baffled by Canadians' ability to watch movies, play video games and not shoot each other"
Copyright infringement is theft. At root, all property is intellectual property.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/patents_and_copyrights.htm...
Two Startups in 9 Months: Lessons Learned as a Technical Co-Founder
I think your PhD chemist needs to rethink his theory.

Lithium oxide is not the same as lithium metal. Lithium metal reactions with water to create hydrogen and heat, but lithium oxide is a salt. It generates no hydrogen when it contacts water, but it might generate some heat.

Carbon will react with hydrogen to give you methane, but not with the conditions inside the battery. You need a ton of pressure, heat and some catalyst to do that.

After reading the wikipedia article, apparently the cathode can actually produce oxygen which may explain the bursting of the cells.
Moral of the story: lie.
That's an interesting line of reasoning, and not one that I had considered before. Thank you.
I'm certainly not Stallmanesque and I've got money -- in fact, I'm a registered owner of Sublime Text 2, but there is at least one real-world practical way in which ST2 being OSS would be preferable for me. I increasingly do my coding on ARM-based Linux devices as opposed to x86-based ones and ST2 has no ARM build, and repeated requests asking for one are, as far as I've seen, summarily ignored by the author.

If ST2 were OSS I could build it for ARM/Linux myself, everything it relies on is already available on those platforms. But it isn't, so I've had to quit using it and recommending it to others.
It was great to work with Hartley on the second project in this article, Mvsic. Too bad things didn't work out, but so many lessons learned.
>are you actually asking?

No, it was rhetorical. The point is the charge that MAC spoofing was relevant to was unauthorized access, but if MAC spoofing is sufficient to prove "unauthorized" then MAC spoofing would virtually always be unauthorized access to whatever you're accessing with a spoofed MAC. That interpretation would make MAC spoofing illegal without any underlying crime.

>when the charges are federal crimes, prosecutors decide whether or not to press charges. not wanting to press charges does not magically make criminal acts not criminal.

I'm not sure that's always true. If one of the elements of the crime is that what the defendant did was unauthorized (as was the case here) then if every victim authorized the behavior that element of the crime wouldn't be satisfied, no?
According to the author, Apple invented mobile computing with the iPad. Wonder what label he gives to people using laptops on the road etc.?
How to build awesome habits?
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