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OpenCandy is basically the only credible operator in this space.
Nice!Consider it a validation that it may not be a bad idea. And it is seen from the woman's perspective. good!

I feel the question phase may slow things because you need another round. Also the fact that she can select another set to choose, may cause her to keep going and not actually make a decision. As far as monetization, I (a man) would definitely pay for each time I am in a selection set. But I need to know that she is going to select one of us.
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Would you mind sharing your experience? I like collecting other people's CO stories, and I've never heard of another computer nerd doing it. If you prefer privacy, my email is mike@izbicki.me.

The NY Times did a write up on my court case: (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/nyregion/23objector.html?p...), and I've written up some of the testimony from my hearing on my own blog (http://izbicki.me/blog/category/religion/my-co-discharge).
I couldn't agree more.

Books are big, heavy and don't hold much value#. They cost a lot to store and a lot to move from place to place. I got rid of almost all mine, and now use the local library extensively, which is very enjoyable.

# Unless you have a signed first ed. or something, in which case you're collecting antiques, not books
Didn't appear to work for me, as I'd already (apparently) claimed a $1.25 free credit. D'oh.
You might be well in the running for stupidest thing ever said on HN.
warbyparker.com has a good take as well. I like the way mailchimp's report/page though. I sure hope that we would see more in the startup world.
Thank you for your positive comment. :-)
I also found this section interesting...and I didn't know about it before:

"Per amendments in the new “fiscal cliff” law, if you started or invested in a QSB between September 28, 2010 and January 1, 2013 and ultimately sell stock under the federal QSB provisions, you’ll pay no federal capital gains tax, and in some states, no state taxes."
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You seem to be reading something into what I said that I did not say.

It is my belief that MIT as an institution should have a policy on the appropriate severity of response to actions such as Aaron's. They need to for the simple reason that they have made a conscious decision to choose to make themselves a natural lightning rod for this type of incident. Therefore they help set the bar for what an appropriate reaction should be.

My further belief is that if this policy is set in accord with the bulk of opinion of MIT students and alums, then we'd have had a different result in this case.

This does not mean that they should be held to be at legal fault for the suicide. However if you have even a passing familiarity with root cause analysis you'll know the value of habitually fixing systemic issues you identify which are several layers removed from the ultimate failure.

I am cautiously optimistic that Abelson's report will address this issue.
What, that they had a human interest in Swartz while planning his blackmail? No, that's not at all plausible.

"Plausible" means "likely", not "tcuk positing something that can't be proved impossible".

The term you're looking for is "clutching at straws".
Why move them around when you could just borrow them from the local library?
Are you sure the problem is your programming skills, rather than, say, the way you manage expectations about your productivity? Or the way you present what you've done?

If it was an honest performance review, they should have been more specific than "not completing enough work." Consider pressing for details about their performance expectations, and then either work to meet the metric they name, or work to convince them that the metric isn't the best one by which to measure your performance.

It may not be a problem you can solve by just boning up on exciting new technologies. You may have to educate them on the merits of things you do that, in their opinion, slow you down-- like writing unit tests, automating builds, creating bug databases, or whatever.

This book may not exactly address the situation you're in, but you might have a look at Terrence Ryan's "Driving Technical Change", which talks about how to convince others on your team of the merits of different approaches you've adopted.
I've listened to and attended plenty of talks by Chomsky, and this "review" does not in the slightest represent Chomsky's actual thoughts on anything. This "review" is nothing but a caricature.

Furthermore, it is hypocritical; i.e., it is guilty of its own criticism by hating on atheists.
No the issue is that they decided to prosecute the case.
Oh, the first job as intern lasted a year, then my next (where people came to me for help) was for 1.5 years. I committed some code that wasn't the most efficient-- Like there was an error where a user didn't have a profile, so instead of going into the database and making every user have a profile, I added the code that checked if they had one, and if not, it created one. I did things like that. I left a console.log statement on one of the pages which broke some features for IE users for a couple days.

One issue, for sure, is I was intimidated by the guy who handed the project off to me. Nothing I did seemed to be good enough. I did a Model.object.get() to test if it exists instead of a Model.objects.filter().exists(). So my code wasn't extremely efficient. I don't think that that kind of the thing TERRIBLE, but it is what it is. We had a big argument about git workflow. I was making individual feature branches with ticket numbers that matched up with our bug tracker. When tested locally, I'd push to a staging server, test it there, then merge the feature branch into master, and push live. He said I was making it too complicated and that stage needed to be exactly like production. I'm used to stage being a playground. He told me that that was what local development was for. I thought it was easier to test the stripe webhooks on the staging server instead of doing some DNS crap so I could get stripe webhooks locally.

Ah, I also committed to the master branch code that had a template tag error. I corrected it after about 5 minutes (and nobody had triggered the error. I triggered it when testing some other push I had). I wrote it off as being human, but he wrote it off as being bad.

It sucks to think that a couple small mistakes early on means I get fired, though.
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Thank you, installed and working :)
It's way worse than that. Obama's track record on abusing DoJ power against citizens is well established. Indefinite detention. Whistleblower prosecutions. Bradley Manning. The list is not short.

It'd be great to see the president forced to disown Ortiz; perhaps it'd make the rest of the DoJ afraid he wouldn't back them up on their similar adventures. Realistically, though, this is not (yet) a large political threat to Obama.
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Their "Close friends" algorithm does a pretty good job already. And even if it doesn't I'm sure most people have already removed / added friends as appropriate from that circle.

Facebook also has a bunch of data on how often you've interacted with various friends there .. so that could be one data point. (How often you're tagged in a check-in / photo, how often you've liked a post made by someone else etc.)

Your Your mom / dad / school friends generally may not be a good data point, while your college friends might be.

It'll take a lot of beta testing and tweaking, but I think it can be done.
Male attractiveness is a lot more malleable than female attractiveness. Go to the gym, learn how to tell if clothes fit you and what colours suit you, always shower and shave, and get a decent haircut. You have now jumped 5-10% in attractiveness. Those are the biggest relatively easy gains. Posture isn't that hard to fix but it's hard to keep it fixed. After that there's the hard shit, becoming a more interesting, fun or rich person.
> But, most people on HN seem to subscribe to the politics that say a network boundary is like a "keep off the grass" sign at a public park, and that research articles aren't anyone's property at all. They are outraged that anyone would get in serious trouble for merely trampling on the grass and taking the fallen leaves on the ground.

OK, now I think I understand you, and unfortunately that means we're at an impasse, because you've imagined that we're making the most ridiculous argument possible despite all of the ample and articulate statements to the contrary. There is simply no way to have a sensible conversation with you if you're going to ignore all discussion of concepts like "reasonable" and "proportional" and instead conjure up some absurd caricature of the people you're talking to.

> I went to nerd high school, and what we knew about MIT was robotics, aerospace, etc, not hackers.

That's what hackers are -- robotics and aerospace and technology and knowledge and other "really cool shit!" enthusiasts.

> If you're the prosecutor presented with evidence of someone video taped accessing a restricted closet at MIT, you don't know that.

I'm not sure what I can say about a prosecutor that litigates a case without bothering to investigate the facts of the case, without sounding like a complete jerk. I will say that although Ortiz and Heymann might be described in many unflattering ways, I doubt either one of them could be said to be that incompetent.
> you can get an instant electronic copy or a physical copy in minutes, or at most a day (Amazon prime).

Even better: Request a copy from the local library, and you'll get it for free, and be rid of it when you're done.
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problems:

1. it treats data from all friends (presumably) equally. Presumably in real life you weigh opinions of different friends differently.

2. search can only take place on information that your friends are willing to share publicly (or at least with all their "friends"). Presumably in real life opinions you get from people you know will be way different if they know it is a private exchange.

3. isn't this all a bit high on the autism spectrum? The idea that to find out information about the likes and dislikes of your "friends", you log onto a computer and do what amounts to a database search, rather than just ASK YOUR FRIENDS ???
Quality rant :)
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Some have blithely said Aaron should just have taken a deal. This is callous. There was great practical risk to Aaron from pleading to any felony. Felons have trouble getting jobs, aren't allowed to vote (though that right may be restored) and cannot own firearms (though Aaron wasn't the type for that, anyway). More particularly, the court is not constrained to sentence as the government suggests. Rather, the probation department drafts an advisory sentencing report recommending a sentence based on the guidelines. The judge tends to rely heavily on that "neutral" report in sentencing. If Aaron pleaded to a misdemeanor, his potential sentence would be capped at one year, regardless of his guidelines calculation. However, if he plead guilty to a felony, he could have been sentenced to as many as 5 years, despite the government's agreement not to argue for me. Each additional conviction would increase the cap by 5 years, though the guidelines calculation would remain the same. No wonder he didn't want to plead to 13 felonies.

And:

It is also true that in my criminal law career, I found the U.S. Attorney's office in the District of Massachusetts particularly immoral. In one case, I was told that if my client failed to enter a plea that day, the prosecutor would supercede and add embarrassing pornography charges to my client's computer crime case based on materials allegedly found on his hard drive but never disclosed to me in discovery. Similarly, that office sought to imprison a man for collecting user emails to compile a list of best-selling books, despite the fact that the email collection would have uncontroverably have been lawful had it occurred a nanosecond later. (U.S. v Councilman).

So, as Granick explains it, it's worse even than we've been led to believe so far.

If you're charged with 13 felonies in federal court and manage to get yourself acquitted from twelve of them --- meaning, in essence, that 92% of the prosecution's claims about you were false --- not only do those acquittals not damage the credibility of the prosecution at sentencing, but because sentencing is based in part on "relevant behavior" not heard at trial, those 12 acquitted charges can come back on you.

But wait, there's more! Sentencing for fraud charges in general and computer fraud in particular is based on a lower burden of proof for the prosecution than conviction is. In sentencing, the prosecution need only establish a "reasonable" estimate of losses, backed by a "preponderance of the evidence". The prosecution is thus free to look at the "costs" of dealing with all 13 of the charges and to come up with some plausible story to turn a few months into years.

This is batshit. If you've committed a felony with a computer, you committed a felony with a computer; the idea that we should scale sentencing based on whether you punched the number "8" or "2048" into the for() loop that got you caught is insane. If crime victims need recourse to make themselves whole for the damages a felony caused, that's what civil courts are for.
> If these numbers are really all just meaningless and in "reality" he was really only looking at...a year? why is it that nobody, even sources like Lessig, seem to be saying this.

Because it goes in opposition to the worldview they're trying to push...? Everyone has a bias, you, me, Dr. Lessig, aaronsw, the prosecutors, EVERYONE.

It's like when the music/movie industry tries to claim that an illegally copied media file costs them hundreds of thousands in damages.

In this case you could theoretically get to 35+ by taking up all the charges, handing down sequential sentences (as opposed to the more-normal concurrent sentences), and somehow making all of those individual sentences go to the upper range of the permitted scale.

I and a few others have been trying to point out that 35 years in prison was never an actual option for some days now but I think it's kind of gotten lost in the storm...
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I use:
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The bs=4M is important, otherwise dd uses 512b blocks which totally kills the throughput to the flash which is erased in blocks.
"I remember vividly clutching at the door to my room, trying to hold on to something while the world spun around."

Some commenters treat this as if it must be hyperbole. But what Aaron describes is a typical reaction for someone who's just had their safe worldview shattered, and discovered that political reality is something far darker than they imagined.

There has been much written on the psychology of conspiracy denial, and the cognitive dissonance that keeps many corralled within the comforting (but false) narrative of the mainstream media propagandists.

One aspect of denial is a kind of self-worth self-preservation. To even contemplate that the world may be controlled by vastly evil powers, and that the historical fables we are all supposed to believe are actually gross lies purveyed by mass murdering psychopathic conspirators, one has to consider what that implies about one's self. To have been totally duped for so many years, by incredibly evil people... to have cooperated in their crimes, even if only by inaction... To discover that those one looked up to, respected, trusted with the wise governance of the state, are actually deranged elitist liars and criminals...

Most people simply cannot bear to contemplate such a level of gullibility and culpability in themselves. So they remain in vigorous denial. And in self defense, attack those attempting to enlighten them to the true state of the world.

http://everist.org/archives/links/!_About_Conspiracy.txt

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
-- William Casey, Director of Central Intelligence. An observation by the late Director at his first staff meeting in 1981.
I find your interpretation very unlikely. Especially considering that Heymann likely does not have authority to send Swartz to such a facility, but does have a convenient jail available.
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Everyone involved in the case had been made aware of Aaron's depression http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/he_ll_be_safe_in_jail_fed...

They knew that this (suicide) was a risk if they kept hounding the guy - yet the Prosecutors and MIT both kept going at it - for the sake of political gain (prosecutors).
Why? This is far from stupid.
I couldn't disagree more. These are MIT graduates, highly intelligent people, not some slack jaw locals.

They are fully capable to look at the issues and take moral responsibility for the University they are part of.

How can an intelligent person support a organisation by being part in it, then take no responsibility for what it does.

Yes I know the commoners do this all the time for their entire lives, but being better educated (However you do it) is about moving on from this simplistic me me me mentality and looking at the total issue.
Probably a good idea to look for a new CPA, then.
This book may very well have changed his life, but I suggest that discovering that there are serious problems with our society is not really that enlightening. Far more important is learning why and how we got here.

My view is that John Raulston Saul has identified the very essence of the beginning of this mess and the good intentions that started it hundreds of years ago in his book, "Voltaire's Bastards". Further, the identification of the fundamental (flaws/errors/oversights) that became a part of the fabric of our civilization now based on reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ralston_Saul
He was never in danger of being locked away for half his life even on the revised trumped-up charges. Please read http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5063435 as it's a well-sourced comment, unlike mine.
Not even close. https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
The biggest problem with I.P. is that those of us who understand that it is in no way "property" continue to allow ourselves to be maneuvered into using that term. As long as we continue to use the term "intellectual property" then the duplication of it will be called "theft" or "piracy". We must stop using these terms with are inherently wrong. The truth is that copying is not only the way that human society advances (you cannot have innovation without copying) but it is how humanity itself evolves. It is inscribed in our DNA and we would not exist without it.
I ran a quick search for articles or data to support pg's idea but couldn't find any.

I'm wondering if, on average, "rich" and "poor" people have a similar amount of stuff/junk, but the rich have higher-quality junk and more room to spread it out so it looks cleaner or more minimalist.
If Ortiz's husband feels it's unfair perhaps instead of the government firing her, she should be brought up on obstruction of justice charges totalling 30 years and then be offered a 6 month plea.

Perhaps it's time more senior prosecutors 'sent a message' to more junior prosecutors by putting one of them in jail for a ridiculously long time. Or perhaps sentencing some people to ridiculously long sentences while letting most others off scott free is a really crappy way to run a justice system.
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I don't think one needs an advanced knowledge of theology (or science) to reject religion: most of it just isn't relevant to the fundamental question "what makes us think God even exists, anyway?"

And more to the point, while I only have a general knowledge of physics, I can Google "how do we know atoms exist" and get a pretty convincing answer, and I can search for good arguments saying atoms don't exist and come up empty. None of this is first-hand proof, of course - but it would be pretty compelling evidence. Can the same be said for theism?
my rule to my family at christmas: don't get me anything i can't eat.

telling relatives "don't get me anything" never ends up working, so if they're going to get me something, at least it will be delicious.
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> yet the Prosecutors and MIT both kept going at it - for the sake of political gain (prosecutors).

Do you have proof of this, or is it just what you believe of the situation?
The local library doesn't have my collection of tech books (semiconductor physics, circuit design, math math and more math, physics, physics, and more physics...)
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I thought this was interesting. I have not checked any of his work, but he writes as if he knows what he is talking about.
Nope, it is literally calculated asynchronously. Look at https://github.com/lloyd/node-toobusy/blob/master/toobusy.cc... and lines 91/92 which sets up the background timer.
That's just not true. On Windows you only need to know how to click next and then look for the icon of the installed programme on your desktop.
If they seriously infringe on the rights of other individuals, then yes I think they are immoral. Putting your own political motivations (no matter how righteous) above the rights of others is a selfish act.
Can the same be said of your fellow-humans' inquisitiveness at a young, formative age?
Why not make the threshold dynamic?
Why the rhetorical question ?
There's a hockey stick growth curve for you.
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I watched a Jodi Beggs Ted Talk this morning "Context is King" she discussed how the human mind will attempt to alter its perception of its environment until things make sense. This altering is far less possible the more we make sense of the world and universe in which we live.

My guess is that now we've answered and explained scientifically much more of those questions which religion generally sought to explain, we're much less susceptible to fairy tales.
And unlike normal whistleblowers, he wasn't even aware of the contents of the vast majority of classified material he exfiltrated.

Even at the level of "oh those are just diplomatic cables", those cables could just as easily have been "we need to focus on these nuclear weapons assemblies in Fooistan next" and tip off Islamist elements as to where to find their first dirty bomb, as of gossip about Berlusconi.
"We were really hoping that you'd voice your dissatisfaction with government in a very limited way and over trivial things. Now that you're calling us out on real issues, we're going to make it much, much harder!"
* Click on the hyperlink for the line where the message was generated.

* Set a breakpoint.

* Refresh the page.

* View the stack trace(s).

Adding stack traces to the plugin itself would be difficult, since that's not standardized functionality and it would add quite a bit of bulk to the plugin.
When you say "because it is in my opinion that in fact X," what you've said is simply that "in your opinion X". I point that out because Aaron apparently had a different opinion that led him to make a different choice. I find it strange that posing a question which you and Aaron answer differently in order to probe your rational is "a total red herring".

I respect that you don't believe these laws are just. One such power that helps society push back against such laws is jury nullification - the right to for a jury to say "not guilty" regardless of what the law claims.