skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Command line fu (http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse) already contains a pretty big collection of useful shell snippets, I'm not sure that making another website will help.

[edit] However, I have to admit that I prefer your design. :)
Anonymous Appears To Have Hacked MIT Website, Leaves Swartz Tribute
Overview video since site is down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9...
I would like to express my flat unhappiness at being linked to not-the-correct-page. Interstitial ad pages can suck shit through ten bricks.

I guess technically dzone isn't an ad page, but I can't find any content on the page other than ads and a top-10 list, so the difference to me is semantic.
Here is the link to the survey : http://j.mp/vDevSurvey
Link for the lazy: https://alias.uservoice.com/
I was instinctively looking for a modal window to close to make the colors vibrant again. It's a somewhat jarring experience.
While I am completely against the prosecution in this case, I think the reality is that there's no way you are going to make the prosecutors legally accountable. Maybe in civil court. I think the difference legally between bullying, as you describe, and what the prosecutors did, is that the prosecutors could argue they were doing a job they swore an oath to perform. Nevertheless, I don't know what the possibilities are but I hope there are civil ramifications for the prosecution and hopefully reforms and positions to be filled.
It is however generating conversation, which is a start.
InboxQ : Find people asking questions on Twitter about things you know.
They were both IIS boxes, probably unpatched for a while, judging by the original page: http://cogen.mit.edu/index2.cfm
Ahhh! Homestead. Thank you for reminding me. I need to check there for archives, too!
Obama's Death Star Response is Best Star Wars Tribute in History
Most industrial sized power plants have pretty similar efficiency levels. Maybe you'll get an extra 10% for a really good model, but the difference is not dramatic.

Pollution controls cost money, and some energy. They will only be installed if customers (or customers via the government) demand it.
>I wonder also why Aaron was so worried about being termed a 'felon'.

Convicted felons are stripped of a wide swath of legal rights; notably the right to vote. Additionally, unlike with felonies for crimes that violate state laws, there is no legal process for having those rights reinstated after the completion of your sentence for Federal convictions, i.e., you lose those rights for life.
Unfortunately, no pictures: http://images.google.com/search?q=thinking+machines&hl=e...

(I have nothing to add other than they looked amazing, in that 1980s way.)
Oh stop. 30+ years for downloading and distributing scientific articles that were paid for by public funds is cruel and unusual punishment. With your attitude, if the law on the books was to punish Rosa Parks with the death penalty than that's what she deserved and she shouldn't have "done the crime if she couldn't do the time." Come one, what pedantic gibberish.
This is a great site. I might post a few on alias.sh. A lot of them however are just cool commands you can run, not commands that are packaged into an alias.
I thought it was interesting how the images used are not hosted anywhere. Instead the source contains a base64 encoded copy of the image.
Video tutorial on how to rip and convert DVD to Xbox 360 with DVD Ripper
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I've been using gesture typing and regular typing on my phone and my tablet. The muscle memory from one has flown into the other quite nicely. However, something like this would require me to relearn how I type altogether.

Something that, as someone who uses their phone and tablet for valuable emails all the time, I don't have time for.
Unfortunately, as far as I know children of single-parent families do worse in education, earnings, the legal system, and in other ways, so the breakdown of the family has immense social costs.

You will notice that the upper class still marries before they have children.
They are not hell bent. That is an exaggeration. If all of their policies were enacted we'd still be much, much more like Canada than China.
Amen. Especially in a world with small touchscreens.
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This isn't surprising.

Apple is as much a fashion company as it is a technology company. And the thing with fashion is that no trends maintain coolness forever. The very fact that Apple is cool to the parents means that it won't be cool to the kids.
I'm glad too to see that it's getting widespread coverage. Most people I talk to aren't aware of what happened. I think it has been really positive how much support we have all been showing for his family and friends. It's sad that the rally of support had to follow such a tragic event.
He did not. He returned the data to JSTOR. Later JSTOR gave away much of the data themselves
Very few people understand how the academic publishing industry works, so don't be so fast to smack this person down. The fact is that the authors do all the content and technical editing work, and unpaid volunteers do all the peer review work, and depending on journal, either underpaid or unpaid editors do the coordinating between then, with the exception of very few top journals. The publishers generally do the typesetting, which is a minimal amount of work compared to everything else, and hold the exclusive license to distribute the work, which is essentially all the value of the paper. Most will force authors to give them the exclusive right to destroy people's lives for copyright reasons without the author's consent.
WSJ: Apple cuts iPhone 5 component orders in half due to weak demand
Suicide as an act of protest of brutality and injustice has a reasonably solid history of resulting in revolutions that toppled governments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Quang_Duc
If you've got iterators and a yield statement, like Python does, you can make the tree example look much nicer:

def in_order (self):
if self.left is not None:
for node in self.left.in_order():
yield node
yield self.node
if self.right is not None:
for node in self.right.in_order():
yield node

Unfortunately this is horribly inefficient if the tree has deep nodes because each iterator call recursively calls each level of the tree, only do just pass values back. If there was something like tail call optimization for iterators in Python, then this could actually be efficient. But there is not.

However it does show that, at least in principle, the external form of iteration can make the tree problem look pretty.

(Purists can claim with justice that that I'm cheating. The yield primitive allows co-routines to be constructed, which allows you to effectively flip internal and external. That is why it was one of the solutions to allow internal iterators to solve the interleaving problem.)
These kinds of comments prevent people expressing their feelings because of fear that every word, every technical detail will be analysed and if you are incorrect, someone will come down really hard on you and at the same time take away from the crux of the conversation. You may be right in the issues you point out but you are too harsh and not compassionate. A HN member has taken their time to share something personal, give them some leeway, be understanding and you can go one comment without trying to look smart.
Not to be mean about it but it doesn't seem like you know what the word "felon" means. If you are never convicted of a felony, you are not a felon. There are real legal implications beyond your sentence if you are convicted as a felon. I think you should look into the information, possibly on Wikipedia regarding this; it is very relevant and the fact that you think it's not is confusing to me.
What could Aaron have done differently not to get caught
Aaron got caught several times or a least his IP was blocked several times. Was he making too many requests at once? Could he have used multiple accounts?
This appears to be a variant of a technique known in the research literature as Quikwriting [1] (a type of FlowMenu [2]), which you can still try online [3]. There hasn't been much in the way of evaluation of Quickwriting, but one study found people's initial performance was around 4WPM, increasing to 16WPM after five hours of practice [4].

I haven't used 8pen's implementation (so I don't know how their version differs), but I imagine it has a similarly steep learning curve.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=288613
[2] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=354401.354778
[3] http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/perlin/demos/quikwriting.html
[4] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1028014.1028031
The book was not about blowing up a bridge.
Well, JSTOR settled with him, later released a lot of documents for free themselves, and have stated that as far as they were concerned the issue was closed.

Currently MIT is starting a self-investigation on how they could have done better, to prevent the crackdown that occurred.

So that's interesting enough. Neither party feels victimized, it seems.
It is by no means clear from reading this what the meaning of "necessary" is in context. Maybe it means "necessary to cover costs," but I can't tell from this post.
There are definitely cases where suicide for a cause has been an effective strategy. It's still tragic. I don't think it's a justifiable strategy (particularly in Aaron's case -- he could have WON his court case. Even if he lost, and spent a year or a few years in jail (potentially out on appeal), he wouldn't have been dead, and could have continued the fight.

However:

Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia potentially kicked off the entire Arab Spring.

There are ~500 self immolations by Buddhist monks in Asia who were part of getting the US to withdraw from the Vietnam war, etc.

Maybe a hundred Tibetans in protesting China.
You think being a felon is little more than being called a schoolyard name by the US government? Wow, this is a pretty childish understanding of the world. ... :(
Minor nit: isn't smallest integer not representable in JS -1000000000000000000000000000000000000 or something?
I can definitely relate to the author. I first found porn at the age of 14. I'm 29 now, and until recently, porn has always been something I've "struggled with".

I've seen several comments that have opposed what I would call the Church & Moral perspective on porn, without really having an example of what that perspective is. Let me put forth a few claims, so those of you who would disagree with them have something concrete to which to attach your arguments.

FWIW, I'm a religious person. I've been married for 9 years, and I've only ever been physically intimate with my wife. I accept that that deeply colors my perception of the world and this issue specifically.

Here are my claims:

- Porn is designed to be "used" by an individual to satisfy themselves sexually.

- Especially when encountered at a formative age (such as the author's and my own), porn greatly influences your perception of "good sex".

- Pornography and sexual intimacy are diametrically opposed.

- Sexual intimacy is more satisfying, on the whole, than porn.

- There is no such thing as "harmless porn".

Finally, a standing invitation. If you ever want more information on the mainstream evangelical Christian viewpoint on pornography, or my viewpoint specifically, feel free to email me at donspauldingii at googlemail dot com
This is a fantastic article. It brings about some important points regarding how free information should be and how much leeway prosecutors should have when deciding what charges to bring.
On a forum like Hackernews where the purpose of the entire thing is to gain knowledge and expand wisdom, it's perfectly reasonable to expect people not to post things when they have no clue what they're talking about. If the guy had posted an opinion based on fact, it would have been fair game, but this particular opinion was based on nothing more than colloquial beliefs which perpetuate fallacy.

In my opinion, he was right to criticize. If he hadn't, I'd be going around telling people about how my brain is becoming dopamine tolerant due to the bursts of it I get every time I watch porn. I'm glad I know that's not true.
I wish you would all read this brilliant speech by Andrea Dworkin. Try to keep an open mind for a seed of truth, even if you come from a very different place politically.

http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/WarZoneChaptIIIE.htm...

". . . if equality is what you want and what you care about, then you have to fight for the institutions that will make it socially real. It is not just a matter of your attitude. You can't think it and make it exist. You can't try sometimes, when it works to your advantage, and throw it out the rest of the time. Equality is a discipline. It is a way of life."
Note, the PACER incident is not the direct reason why Aaron was in the legal trouble he was in, that was his downloading of JSTOR's material, which under the law clearly illegal.

However there is widespread speculation that the PACER incident was behind why prosecutors may have wanted to throw the book at Aaron.
It's great.I'm not in the Xbox scene anymore but there is a huge lack in Xbox360 software that is not Windows only.

A lot of the use of tools like this comes from users who have "jailbroken" their console and can freely move games on and off the hdd. As most things are signed to the console or profile.

Out of curiosity what prompted you to make this? Was it just about learning QT or did you feel there was a need for multiplatform FATX explorer?
Did we watch the same video, or am I missing how this is terribly similar to Graffiti?
These guys don't mess around, do they?
Why Facebook will fail:  Its users are antisocial
What are you talking about? I have training in philosophy but I have no idea what you're talking about; I'm not sure what professional philosophers have to do with this situation at all.
My wife is a surgery PA and today one of the scrub techs asked her if she heard about the internet hacker suicide. She said her husband (I) was very disturbed by the news and that based on what she read, the prosecutors pushed the kid too far for something that is barely a crime. The scrub didn't know about the open case, just that it was some hacker who was depressed.
Find some decency. Your tone is appropriate for someone who is being argumentative or obstinate, not someone who has made himself vulnerable in a good faith attempt to help other people.

Your content was helpful and your points are important; you could have done the same without being mean.
They were also clearly incorrect.

No matter how hard their struggle is, it's akin to linking vaccines to autism - no amount of personal pain overrides factual inaccuracy.

It's an extremely important part of public discourse that incorrectness be called out, in a polite way, but clearly and forcefully.

This is akin to 'balancing' a debate about evolution by having an evolutionary biologist there and a doctor of theology there. Just because there is debate does not mean that there is not a clearly correct answer.
See Senator Lieberman's 2010 letter to Senate Appropriators for clarification (which I've updated my essay to reference):

"As you know, Court documents are electronically disseminated through the PACER system, which charges $.08-a-page for access. While charging for access was previously required, Section 205(e) of the E-Government Act changed a provision of the Judicial Appropriation Act of 2002 (28 U.S.C. 1913 note) so that courts “may, only to the extent necessary” (instead of “shall”) charge fees “for access to information available through automatic data processing equipment.” The Committee report stated: “[t]he Committee intends to encourage the Judicial Conference to move from a fee structure in which electronic docketing systems are supported primarily by user fees to a fee structure in which this information is freely available to the greatest extent possible… Pursuant to existing law, users of PACER are charged fees that are higher than the marginal cost of disseminating the information.”

Since the passage of the E-Government Act, the vision of having information “freely available to the greatest extent possible” is far from being met, despite the technological innovations that should have led to reduced costs in the past eight years. In fact, cost for these documents has gone up, from $.07 to $.08-per-page. The Judiciary has attempted to mitigate the shortcomings of the current fee approach in a variety of ways, including limiting charges to $2.40-per-document and the recent announcement that any charges less than $10-per-quarter will be waived. While these efforts should be commended, I continue to have concerns that these steps will not dramatically increase public access as long as the pay-per-access model continues."
OK, so relativism has self-referential problems. Fine. But what does this have to do with the price of tea in China?
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Could you stop shilling for JSTOR?

They are trickling a limited number of articles to users. You keep stating "much," what are you defining this by? Aaaron was reported to of downloaded files 24/7 for a few days. JSTOR is giving away how many articles per two weeks?

Your definition of "much" seems to be a .005% or less, yet you keep stating it like JSTOR has valiantly decided to keep other users from having to go the same route by 'freeing' up the data themselves?

Stop.
If he had paid attention when he read his Foucault, he'd be keeping quiet rather than wringing his hands and dissecting himself on a major website.
The really amazing thing about this article is that I'm supposed to care more about this guy's boner, and guilt complex, than I care about the systematic oppression and degradation of my half of the human species.

Really . . . What a wanker!
Out of curiosity, could anybody tell me more about Python's vulnerabilities? Python runs on bytecodes too, is multi-platform, so why aren't there just as many exploits since Python is older than Java?

Edit: Google shows 2.51M results for "Java security exploit" versus 5.03M for "Python security exploit".
That's a separate matter entirely. The point being discussed is whether Aaron did in fact violate the law. I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone here who believed Aaron deserved the sentence or the prosecution brought upon him, but personally I find it incredible how quick people are to absolve him entirely.
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One of the sort criteria is "highested voted".
Regarding Mr. Aaron Swartz, one hopes the Massachusetts Attorney's heavy handed actions will be the subject of a wider broadcast. Certainly, the attention afforded to Mr. Swartz by the DOJ (mind you, MIT long since has lost interest in the case) should now be focused, in the court of public opinion, towards the Honorable Carmen Ortiz and the choice to pursue this case, using extreme measures, leading to answers from a specific inquiry...namely: "Why? Why pursue an individual so harshly?" Insufficient answers from her or her office (apparently she's considering a run for Governor) should immediately result in her receiving administrative action, and the consideration for removal from office and disbarment.
If you think that the problem with the U.S. is that everyone is hopelessly enamored with Rorty or other postmodernists, then, I think maybe you are out of touch with "reality" just a little bit. :) I don't think the NRA is going to start quoting Derrida any time soon.
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I also used it extensively. There are options to make the center spot much smaller that make it far easier to type with.

Also, my major complaint (and the reason I use Swiftkey now) is simply that the built in dictionary is simply not good enough at predicting N-gram sentences that I use often. There are times on swiftkey where I just tap the middle suggestion to write a sentence (although perhaps that's more revealing about my low-entropy text messaging habits than anything)
A very similar service already exists on the deepweb, I'm not sure of it's success though, have only seen it while passing by.
Thanks for the responses so far, very useful. I'd just like to clarify a couple of details, in case it makes any difference to the responses. Firstly, the solution is based around a high level OO language, not raw C, so is based on a highly efficient VM. Secondly, it is targeted at the sort of device that might consider a Java KVM, so probably ~128K ram, ~512K flash, or thereabouts, might be able to squeeze certain configurations into less ram. The primary principle is to have the system running on device, and then be able to login from a remote machine and make code changes to the live environment. Please feel free to ask any questions, if I can, I will answer them.
The actual link: http://blog.knoldus.com/2013/01/12/akka-futures-in-scala-wit...
He is kind of a less radical version of Richard Stallman.
"The computer is electronic cocaine for people" says UCLA’s Peter Whybrow
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>Not surprisingly for government IT projects, PACER looks like most web sites did around 1994. It's actually not one web site at all, but more like one hundred, spread across different court districts and circuits in the country. The district-level courts each have their own custom version because judges demand custom features, and no one can refuse their demands. The appellate-level courts have an entirely different and separate infrastructure, written in a different language. (Technically-inclined readers, it's a Java applet. But really twelve different Java applets, depending on the circuit. No joke.) The Supreme Court, which can do whatever it wants, opts out of PACER entirely. Each level of PACER has separate login requirements, not to mention that PACER is separate from CM/ECF, an unbelievably badly-named system that actually lets you file documents, but under a separate login. What this means is that it is essentially impossible to follow a case from court to court, and if you even try, it is very, very expensive.

What. The. Fuck.