skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised there are no virtual cemetaries. A company (a known Internet entity like Archive.org, WikiMedia or W3C would be best, not a startup that will pivot away in 3 years) could offer for a fixed fee to take your blog, freeze it in time, and publish it online forever.
You & I don't disagree that Swartz's actions should have been subject to criminal charges. We depart at the need for time served in prison. In its context: an act clearly intended as civil disobedience (though perhaps intended anonymously) by a first time offender with no commercial purpose, minimal damage, minimal attempt to evade detection and thus obstruct investigation, no co-conspirators, and involving no critical information systems or protected information of any sort should have been acknowledged by the prosecution as one not meriting prison time. The offer should have been "take a felony conviction and we'll argue for a suspended sentence; go to court and you risk doing time in prison".

You know what I bet happened here? Aaron hatched this plot assuming that the worst thing that might happen is that JSTOR might have sued him. After all, what was he really doing? The same set of actions from his own network would have been mere copyright infringement. He wanted to make it less likely that he'd get sued, so he did it from someone else's network. That was dumb, but does it really transmute a tort into a felony?
What is the purpose of posting this? My cursory looks into Chomsky's writings showed me there might be a serious intellectual honesty problem with the man, but I admit I haven't bothered to look into it deeply. So is posting this about praising Chomsky and by extension Aaron's admiration of his book, or is it a sly low blow against someone's impressionable reaction at a young age, after that person can't defend themselves? The answer depends on what the poster thinks of Chomsky....

Anybody care to comment on the validity of the following? The first followed from reading the comments in Aaron's post.

http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/wma.html

http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomskyhoax.html
You should be experiencing frustration, not anger. The anger indicates that you have unreasonable expectations about starting a business.
> Download Equipment Allegedly Stored in Building 20

I assume this is a typo? or is there a recent renumbered bldg?
If you can’t get into a top-five MBA program, don’t even bother

In 2009 I had spent 3 years out of school in a multifamily commercial real estate brokerage role. (We closed transactions above $5M, average around $25M). It was hard to make great money due to transaction volumes, but I made enough money to rent an apartment and buy beers every now and again.

In 2012 I made more than 5 times what I made in any year from 2006 to 2009.
The difference was attending a program ranked 24th in some ranking systems and north of 30 in other ranking systems.

About 50% of my current coworkers went to top 10 schools. The others went to elite undergrad programs and a few went to programs like mine.

If you want a great job out of an MBA program, you will need to do the maximum, practice interview skills and network well. You also need to be willing to tell people that the job they are trying to place you in is below you. This happened all the time, Target actually tried to recruit floor managers at an MBA career fair. I looked the lady straight in the eye and asked if she had any real jobs. Next thing you know I have someone’s card at corporate.

The company I work for now tried to put me in a fairly basic role, I said don't bother and I am in a much, much better role now. You have to be confident that a ranking next to your school name is bullshit.

A top 5 program makes things easier, but even if you get in, you will still need to work hard. I heard the CEO of Carlyle Group speak on our campus, he said “Nothing great ever gets accomplished between 9 and 5”. You can bet that I worked hard, took extra classes, attended EVERY social event, attended clubs, participated in the on campus investment club, went to the VCIC International competition, worked for the on campus angel investment network etc.

I didn't get a lot of sleep and I probably drank too much coffee, but I had a great time and I got what I wanted and needed out of the program. Not just in a job, but lifelong friends and an amazing learning experience.

-I'd say 60-70% of my classmates ended up substantially better than when they started. The ones who didn't do as well were either international students who couldn't get visas or the ones who worked the least and were least dependable.
I never heard of tumbleweed from suse, time for more distro tinkering!

I don't have too much against AppArmor, and it is easier to configure, but I see selinux as a project with more momentum behind it. AppArmor has switched hands a lot recently.
yes - http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_...

there are other community-driven sources - like RubySpec [1], etc. but this is the (expensive!!) ISO standard.

FYI - I had intended it as an example. I'm really interested to know if the most effective way to work with CSS is to understand its spec... which is not the way it works with most programming languages.

But perhaps CSS is more similar to a rulebook (declarative) than a language.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubySpec
You should really just read the account in the indictment, it's quite accessible: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/217115-20110719-schw.... I think many of us would take issue with how the indictment derives appropriate charges, but the factual account seems relatively straightforward and thorough.
What did I say? Did you really think of me as someone who thought it was important to be forthcoming with surveillance cameras?
Norvig has written criticism about specific ideas that Chomsky uttered in some convention (which are also reflected in some of his written works on natural languages and their computational models).

But Chomsky's contribution to linguistics in general and computational linguistics in particular goes well beyond anything like that, e.g. [1]. I'm not sure, but I suspect that linguistics and computational linguistics where unrelated fields before Chomsky tied them together.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy
I fail to see a problem with voicing your opinion to an elected official, even if that person is not representing you. Especially when one state making a decision can set a precedent for others.

Although I do think that the votes should be tied to location, even if other locations are allowed in. I think a ZIP code is enough here; it's a letter, not a vote.
An offense worthy of a year or more in prison? Indeed we'll have to agree to disagree. Moreover, there's a distinction between principled activism and garden-variety crime, the ability to observe which is surely one of the criteria for a civilized society.
Commonly held "false" physics beliefs that are actually true
Welcome to my world.. a place where I'm more or less convinced that every mainstream news report is more lies than truth, carefully shaped and spun to support some not necessarily evil, but definitely manipulative agenda. And the worst part is, even though you're reasonably sure of it, you realize that most people around you are either more invested into this invented narrative than you are in your "maybe real" one... or they are just apathetic to the whole thing and even if they did care they can't be bothered to put in the effort and imagine the consequences of every society running what's basically a global public opinion manipulation engine.
I have used backbone and angular, created a small Quiz application in both the frameworks.

I would say with Angular, what you write is not javascript , it is Angular JavaScript, which gets compiled into javascript on running over compiler. Having been worked with GWT for many years, I am disappointed with Angular doing the same mistakes of not allowing the developers to think in terms of Javascript. But in terms of the framework, which they had brought in.

However, Backbone gives me lot of freedom in customizing the app by adding Javascript and using its model view observable logic. If i find any shortcoming in backbone, i can see a plugin available in the Community. Which is really great.

To conclude , If your are experienced JS developer (JS ninja), you will love backbone. If you are intermediate/beginner JS developer you will love angular.
However, this is just my perspective.
The thing I have missed the most with Objective C is the lack of a code tidy/formatting tool. All Xcode can do is alter the indent on each line which isn't useful. Regular indent etc do not support the language. There is an uncrustify tool in various SO answers but it is a good example of how not to do things (eg by default it does nothing - there are no presets, it is very flaky).

I wish Google provided tidy tools with their style guides, or Apple did something with Xcode.
takedown.com, the prosecutor's site documenting the arrest of Kevin Mitnick, was the first web site I ever saw that made use of frames (when viewed in Netscape 3.2 iirc?)

At the time, I thought frames were amazing and started making a bunch of web sites with frames. Oops.
Alleged hacker.
This seems like a better one: http://politics.slashdot.org/story/13/01/03/1833222/why-we-t...
Lots of places are unlocked that you're still not supposed to go into. How hard it is to get into somewhere you're not supposed to go is completely irrelevant, as is how hard you have to work to evade someone trying to get you off their network.
CocoaPods (http://cocoapods.org/) is a really easy way to integrate 3rd party libraries into your iOS and OSX projects. It follows a similar pattern to bundler for ruby; you just specify a library by name and a version number in your Podfile and CocoaPods handles the rest.
Another suggestion is to use categories on Cocoa classes for operations you do often. It cuts down on code duplication and makes your code more readable. One I use in every single project is a category on UIView allowing me to do such things as 'myView.x = 5.f' instead of pulling out the views frame, updating the frame and then setting the frame again.
I also agree with the other commenters that IB should be utilized when possible. It makes iterating on UIs much faster, easier and less error prone.
+1 for using blocks though, how did we ever get by before?
Yeah, Obama's shiny happy image has enabled the Democrats to get through legislation that would have created an uproar had it been pushed through during the Bush admin. Sad.
That's Rafael Reif, current president of MIT not Heymann.
I think you can demonstrate it in obvious cases: "what color is the sky"? "Potato". Barring cases such as these we would err on the side of allowing one to exercise their right to self-determination. Using the nebulous "depressed" definition as a justification is absurd. Sure, do everything you can to convince them that suicide isn't their only option. But ultimately you must accept that it is not your decision nor the state's.
Great tips!! I really hope I have read these tips before I start my last project, which I spent one night to make it localize...
The issue is proportionality. I agree that Madoff is in jail, even though his crimes are not violent.
Breaking into a supply closet is not a fact that helps establish any element of tax fraud.
Good article, I like these because there are a lot of things I wish I knew when I started iOS development as well 'back in the day' :) Couple nits:

-XIBs are awesome and you should strive to use them, falling back to layout in code when the XIB fails to meet your requirements. Though I'm also finding storyboards hard to swallow for complex projects.
-Blocks and GCD are great tools but with great power comes a lot of complexity and consideration, they could easily get beginners in trouble. I ain't saying don't use em, but There Be Dragons Here.

Bravo on bringing up Singletons, thats something I only recently discovered and wish I had sooner. Also, I feel like a primer on delegates, protocols, notifications and selectors: when to use what and why, would also go a long way in the beginning.
Kevin owes me $500.
Show HN: Konvention - Let's all do it the right way?
So I've recently finished an app that I think might be really helpful and I wanted to get some feedback on it:

Here's the pitch (and I say "pitch" lightly, I can already hear people hovering over that back button):

Let's put all the best ways to do things (at least relating to software to start) in one place.

Yes, stack overflow is pretty wonderful for finding certain things, but I think there's something to be gained from a purpose-built database JUST dedicated to how to do things the right way.

I think that with a good enough collection of things, we can greatly reduce the time one spends in beginner stages of programming (the point after which you've read the book, if people still do that, and you've written some small test code, but don't know the way you "ought" to be doing things)

Love it? Hate it? Both are fine, I really just want some feedback, been working on this for a while, think it's at least at a point to be shown -- I'm most likely going to build it myself (worst case), because I think it'd be useful for me, personally (I <3 code that is beautiful both in form and function)

Oh btw it's not open source, I do use git, but I'm hosted somewhere else... Might open-source it later but right now, I know there are some bits of the code that could be better, so I wouldn't want to make someone read those bits yet.
I'm sorry if I sound callous, but I think the only notable thing about this particular article on the subject is the atrocious wording of the title.

EDIT: sorry, only now I realized how old this submission was. I didn't take into account I haven't checked HN for a good couple days.
"A recent survey of top MBA students found that 88% of graduates say they were happy with the investment they made."

Funny, that's what all the unemployed liberal arts majors who spent $100,000 in student loans on their college degree said too...

Accepting that you've made an extremely bad decision and are now condemned to indentured servitude for the rest of your life is way too difficult of a realization for most people to handle. And so--they say that it was worth it, and encourage those who are younger to follow their paths, not realizing that this cowardice is not only what perpetuates the cycle, but allowed the runaway degree inflation to flourish in the first place.
And in doing so, continued to harm her and her family, decades after the event. Polanski was another example of a prosecutor seeking a scalp for career furtherance.
I think there is 2 things:
1) really great book with really great ideas about love, forgiveness and dominating of wisdom (new Testament);

2) greedy clergy which are trying to "explain" that book in dimension they want, to get frightened people and control them, like old shamans. Not all of them are greedy, but still it's my opinion.
Yes, my app was having longer response times (sometimes quite a bit longer) but it wasn't "down". A couple of people noticed the delays but as far as I can see no major effects.
The SAMSUNG EcoGreen F2 HD154UI hard drive pictured is 1.5 TB.

The alleged JSTOR archive torrent making the rounds is 35 GB. If Aaron went through the trouble of getting a HDD 1+ TB, it means the JSTOR files probably amassed to a size indeed to the tune of ~1 TB, (at least, if he in fact did have accurate foreknowledge of their true size).
Anonymously downloading the entire contents of JSTOR so that you can publish it on a file sharing network and thereby destroy its commercial value is not principled activism; it's ends-justifies-the-means activism.
There are side effects to this though so check up on them first, one of the most annoying is actually feeling sleepy during the next day.
Bad Economy Has Young Europeans at Home
I see what you're saying, especially as a general ask-and-ye-shall-receive rule, but something determines what the statutory maximums are even if it takes a while for that feedback to occur (average sentences being too short due to prosecutor laziness, jail overcrowding, general outrage, etc). It would also have shattered the illusions of those who condemned Aaron's actions but thought he would end up with a slap on the wrist.
I don't understand what they're apologizing for? It had a big yellow banner that said "sponsored content".
a "martyr" for why Congress should limit the discretion of prosecutors.

Not going to lie, that sentence chills my bones. Lack of judicial discretion got us minimum sentences in the "war" on drugs. I don't have much faith that lack of any prosecutorial discretion will turn out much better.

This is a power grab by congress, nothing more.
> Funny, that's what all the liberal arts majors who spent $100,000 in student loans on their college degree said too...

Is that true? I would be shocked if that were true.
Harvard, Stanford, INSEAD, London Business School, UPenn, UChicago, Columbia, Northwestern, Duke, MIT <let's stop here>

Which were the top 5 again?
It changes by year and publication
You won some jury trials once, good for you.

But I didn't say "jury trials are patently unfair" or even that trials in general are impossible to win.

Aaron was weighing a guaranteed felony record and 6 months in prison against 0 (if acquitted on all 13 charges) to 50 years at some unknowable probability.

Clearly the prosecutor wanted him to think that invoking his right to a trial was a "bad bet".
which begs the real question - why is "networking" so important (i mean, i know its important, but how come many things hinges on you knowing the right person, instead of hinging on your innate capability instead)?

I don't like the sound of an elite clique forming that excludes those who are unable to pay or for some reason can't participate in that clique, and this is prevented from roles such as CEOs/upper management.
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> Which gives me another idea - fungible jail time. I'd have spent a day in jail for Aaron.

Not a good idea. Well connected people will get off lightly.
Only if you think the possibly superior pay and a their presence on your resume to be of value. Personally, going through that gauntlet only to be assigned to something of little interest and less value to society isn't.
Living in denial and rationalizing obviously irrational/destructive choices is one of the things that bothers me most about humanity. When we finally go extinct, this will probably be a major if not THE major reason why. :/
The Hacker Manifesto (1986)
Wish this article was around when I started. These are all things I've learned to use and embrace every day. Great tips!
"related conduct, even aquitted conduct, is part of the sentencing calculation."
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100% agree. IB makes for faster development time, easier maintenance, and it's way better for auto layout if you're targeting iOS 6.0
"If the jailers know an inmate is suicidal (as Aarons would have if his lawyers told them) they are mandated by law to do everything in their power to prevent it."

There are a lot of wonderful resources about the American prison system that you should explore. You could check out prisoners legal services to start and see the ongoing case histories they are dealing with to get a partial view of what life is like in prison in America.
It's worth reading them all--in order is fine, so start with #1. There is no rush; they've been around almost 250 years already.
Supporting evidence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Rafael_Reif
No, I hadn't. It's your emphasis and attitude that come across as completely different. I kept trying to tell ya, the legal machine looks a lot different when you examine it as if you're the one at odds with it.
> To other child post: FUD. What the heck does NY have to do with the federal constitution? It takes 3/4 of states to pass a new amendment, so it's not like NY can do it on it's own. The second amendment limits the federal government from passing certain kinds of laws.

This is completely wrong. Not just for the second amendment,
but for pretty much every other Bill of Rights amendment that guarantees a "fundamental right" (including the first, which begins with "congress shall pass no law").

Whether or not you like the idea of private gun ownership (if you don't, you have a lot of room to argue about what is protected under the second amendment)[1], doing away with 14th amendment incorporation would be a horrible idea (Remember Jim Crow? Remember when women could not obtain an abortion, period?)

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Ri... -- The doctrine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_v._Chicago -- The ruling that incorporated the second amendment. Interestingly Justice Thomas' opinion (in favour of McDonald, but opposed to due process incorporation) is interesting in that it demonstrates an originalist constitutional view (opposed to the view everyone else uses) which is typically associated with conservative politics, despite the fact that joining the majority in a "due process" incorporation would mean probably mean less gun-control laws (a typically conservative opinion) than in using "equal protection" incorporation.

tl;dr 14th amendment incorporation is probably the most important evolution of US constitutional law in terms of expanding actual civil liberties as experienced by US citizens. It is not okay to be ignorant of it.

[1] Second amendment as an individual right is fairly new: first such reading in 2008 (Heller) as opposed to 1919 for first amendment -- despite, of course, both amendments dating back to the 18th century. As a result, there's not much good case law on books: it's very hard to argue a second amendment case from a criminal trial and yet it's also hard to find civil litigants with standing to sue such as Heller. It's safe to say that complete weapon bans or bans that make self-defense impossible are unconstitutional and that bans on fully automatic weapons (like the 1934 National Firearms Act) are constitutional. However, that's not where most of the debate is happening, so a clear standard has not yet evolved (but there are more cases working their way up through the federal courts).
ODA - Online Disassembler
Which is why they're working on a more intelligent feed http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerbergs-right-hand-m...
I was a bit shocked to find out the several engineers I work with had never heard of Kevin... kids these days, right?
Ask HN: How many side-projects did you start but no longer want to work on
I started two last year, and gave up one of them. I am feeling/seeing that other people have a similar situation, so I started another project (ex-prj.com) few days ago to collect project people no longer want to work on.
I was on the 2011 Silicon Valley bus, it was an amazing experience, I think everyone with a little experimenting spirit should try it once :)

Our team made it to the finals, though haven't won. I still keep in touch with at least a dozen people on a regular basis, across the globe.
It really comes to a thing that my folks taught me about money. Don't buy something unless you've wanted it three times

--- Larry Wall
Two weeks after the Secret Service raided his house in conjunction with the investigation led by Heymann into the theft of tens of thousands of credit card numbers, James was found dead.

Innocent people do not kill themselves when confronted with the possibility of a trial. They kill themselves after they have lost at trial. This other hacker (Jonathan James) didn't even wait until they pressed charges.

It's not a matter of the prosecutor being overzealous. It's a matter of hackers being far more susceptible to suicidal tendencies than others in the face of extreme social conflict.
Ask HN: Google Glass hackathon project ideas.
I just registered for the Glass Foundary on Jan 28-29th and wanted to get your ideas on some cool stuff to hack on. Thanks!
Could FISAA Extension Stunt Growth of US Cloud Providers in Global Market?