skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're now the third lawyer I've seen on HN in the past couple days who has come on here and defended Ortiz with an argument that essentially claims that she did nothing wrong, that procedures were followed, that it's the system that's broken and needs fixing. That getting rid of Ortiz won't fix anything ("it's not the relatively simple matter of stopping overzealous prosecution in one agency".)

Those things may all be true, but what you don't seem to understand is that calls for firing Ortiz aren't about fixing the system. That's a bigger fight, a job that will take a long time. They're about punishment. With your narrow legalistic thinking, you seem to be incapable of recognizing that people have means of discovering the truth other than legal procedures. It's almost certain that Ortiz followed the letter of the law and the rules of criminal procedure, but it doesn't matter. She threatened a man, a man many here consider a hero, with 35 years in federal prison for allegedly committing a crime that, at most, prevented MIT from accessing JSTOR for a few days. People have decided, using means not codified in statute, that she has done a terrible thing and must be punished. It doesn't matter that the system is broken.

You lawyers keep saying that punishing Ortiz will have no consequence, because someone else will take her place. Well, people don't care. This is not about deterrence. That's such a laughably small part of it. Here are some other reasons for punishment, courtesy of Nietzsche

> punishment as a way of rendering someone harmless, as a prevention from further harm

People would certainly like to see Ortiz rendered harmless.

> punishment as isolation of some upset to an even balance in order to avert a wider outbreak of the disturbance

Who knows what some of the more unbalanced Anons will do

> punishment as festival, that is, as the violation and humiliation of some enemy one has finally thrown down

Yep

So you see it's not just about deterrence. The sad part, though, is that the one thing punishment will never achieve is to make Ortiz have a guilty conscience. She and people like you will never realize that she is a bad person and should feel bad.
I agree with the graffiti comparison. I think Graffiti is preferable, also, because its characters seem to be faster to draw than the 8pen (to this day, I still write my capital Es like I'm using my Palm Zire).
I'm sure you mean "fixded" ;)
I'd recommend that you quit the porn for awhile just to show yourself that you can. But to me it sounds like the issue for you is probably less about porn specifically and more just being inside, on the computer, and in your own head too much. Try taking a few days in a row to get up early and be outside, active, and away from the computer all day, ideally with other people you enjoy being around if possible.

Hiking, camping trips, road trips with friends, even volunteering are all things that can help you to clear out compulsive and destructive thought cycles and get a better outlook on things. The world is a really beautiful, rich, and incredible place--porn is quite empty and boring by comparison. Even in the realms of sexuality and eroticism, you can find a lot more potent and interesting forms of arousal out there if you open up to other people and new experiences. I'd guess if you could start to do that, the pull porn has on you would naturally subside.
How to make people fork your project?
Isn't an alias just a cool command with a shortcut? I agree that on the site it's just `command` and not `alias short_cmd=command`, but the idea is the same.
Are you defending the actions of this bitch?
A third factor is airborne sand/dirt blown from from the Mongolian desert, which ends up mixing with everything else: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Dust
160 Sites Of Serbia hacked by Anonghost
160 Sites Of Serbia hacked by Anonghost

http://pastebin.com/rAa9Hp5F
Haven't run it in production as yet. You can definitely run it in production if your not using the annotations/aop or sql profiling (i.e. using manual Step()). With the annotation/aop I'ld be wary of overhead it adds - I haven't looked at it myself. The SQL profiling again would need some investigation.

I've gained large amounts of benefit out of it in development of my startup Pocketbook (https://getpocketbook.com). Because of it's 'live on-page' nature you can quite quickly see 'intensive' areas that you need to look at.

I would class it as beta and have been using/iterating it for over 4 months. However - the initial code-base was seeded from gae-mini-profiler which already had some mileage. I've added the annotation and sql profiling and made it non-gae based so we can all use it.

I don't have any roadmap as yet - if people want specific features out of it - happy to help.
Wikipedia says Dwyer was convicted, but not sentenced, when he committed suicide. However, he was not yet removed from office, which is what allowed his family to receive the pension.
Ask HN: "Java security exploit" vs "Python security exploit"
Google shows 2.51M results for "Java security exploit" versus 5.03M for "Python security exploit".
Any thoughts about why so many news stories concentrate on Java's flaws compared to other languages? Is Python really more secure or better suited for enterprise development? Comments welcome.
I've heard this theory before, but I feel as if were it true we would already have a long series of old wives tales of how the 'studs' are always morose, and its better for newly weds to abstain on occasion rather than follow their flush desires.

The orgasms gotten through pornography aren't any stronger than those found 'in nature'---this isn't heroine.
Did we read the same article, mpyne? I'd say this is a textbook example of deceptive wall-of-text style concern trolling, and at the very least is not a very honest discussion of the topic or the article. You say, "But I worry about articles like this that have popped up in the aftermath, especially when they are so full of inaccuracies as this." Yet you introduce so many inaccuracies yourself.

Your response seems to misconstrue many things. Stamos specifically states he is correcting erroneous information being spread, but you try to disagree with these facts. You also suggest they are not relevant, even if they are in fact correcting a lot of bad information that is floating around.

You say it is irrelevant that "MIT runs an open network," but if exaggerated charges are being made, and he is being accused of maliciously hacking into this network, then it is relevant.

"MIT could have locked the network down, but didn't." you quote, though I couldn't find this quote, as a "poor excuse". Poor excuse to what? How can you even compare locking your car doors to a university library network in any way? This case seems rather far from grand theft auto, except maybe the similarly named game, because it's as equally over the top as the charges.

Then you "quote" another part: "MIT doesn't specifically tell its users not to do dickwad things to its network." I put quote in quotes because I failed to find the word dickwad. Did I miss this part?
You take a lot of liberties rephrasing and restating what the author wrote. It seems almost certain we didn't read the same article, or you are concern trolling.

To suggest he's engaging in victim-blaming here is ridiculous. The "victims" didn't even pursue charges, even though the government made it easy for them to do so. It is challenging to even try to claim there are "victims" here at all.

Then you employ more false quotations: "But he wasn't trespassing!". And in the next sentence, "the Federal government isn't charging him with such". Uh, OK?

I also failed to find the quoted parts. But to point out that trespassing charges were dropped seems relevant when there are people out there claiming trespassing---correcting erroneous information. Your car door suggestion, or definitely other people talking about "walking through an unlocked door", suggest trespassing.

You go on to say: I wonder also why Aaron was so worried about being termed a 'felon'.
Which seems to trivialize the situation, and suggests there are no consequences. Maybe you weren't aware that felons commonly have their voting rights denied? And that's just the start.

This is just outright stupid on your part. Are you even being serious?: Roman Polanski is still making movies; Aaron would have been just fine. But that was his choice to make. :(
You do realize Roman Polanski fled the USA at the prospect of serving MORE jail time than originally agreed to, and has not returned, and charges have not been dropped, and more information is available on his Wikipedia page. The USA is still pursuing him even though he has settled with the victim.
I hope that is 4sure.
How Google (and we) encourage suicide
The first link to "suicide" search results (https://www.google.com/search?q=suicide) to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide

It, unfortunately, has "Reasons" & "Methods" before "Prevention" and has no mention of why you shouldn't commit suicide.

At the bottom of the first page of the results, the first related search is "suicide methods" (http://imgur.com/7lJ02)

Further search for "suicide methods" results in the following first three links:

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

http://wantdeath.blogspot.in/2011/07/fastest-and-painless-suicide-method.html

and

http://frater.com/suicidelist.html

There is no mention of why suicide is bad and it just gives the depressed person a way to end his/her life.

Sometimes these links are enough to push people over the edge.

I don't blame only Google, but I think the entire web & the web community (with SEO, SEM, Wikipedia edits, etc) contribute a lot for this disaster.

Is there a solution that you can suggest?
One of the advantages of this site is that you can build a list of your aliases and then there are snippets that are provided to copy and source them into your bash aliases file. I guess the advantage is it allows you to a build a list on your own profile and easily sync them across machines. Does this site achieve that?
An alias is the sort of command you use often, or an interesting new way of using a command you use often (e.g. ls).

That's the difference.
What Would Democracy Look Like if it Were Invented Today?
Lol.. Not sure who downvoted, but the act of writing letters on the bottom of the screen to type it in for you = Grafitti.

It may be possible that the trees (not handwriting) are being missed for the forest (writing at the bottom of a touch screen) is nothing new.
What I meant is that porn is not a "thing" of Western societies alone, but something of all societies, I think it doesn't matter how much there is.
Really makes you want to hand over important technology-based decisions to the government and court systems, no?
Haha, I thought I was the only one who accidentally writes letters Grafitti style.

I was the worst at writing k's and x's weird.

At the time it was the fastest way to enter data, until the Treos and the original touchscreen/physical keyboard combos came out.
Still write some letters accidentally in Grafitti sometimes.

When I got my Galaxy note and tried out writing with the stylus -- it was hard to write normal english, grafitti kept on coming out
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This is the first article I've come across that includes statements from his GF. Instead of a private suicide, it is looking more and more like a public tragedy. The last few paragraphs show that he was not 'alone' in the forever-alone-nobody-loves-me sense. He had friends, loved ones, and a special someone who made him smile with tickle fights. Of course, none of these things really matter when you're drowning in the pangs of bipolar lows or depression but they certainly help alleviate some of the pain.

In the absence of the legal case, even the continual cycles of highs and lows is typical for many of us. But I have no idea what I would do if I was faced with financial ruin and a multi-decade no-computer-access prison sentence. My entire life revolves around computers and has done so for 20+ years since I was 10. I changed schools, moved away from loving family, left high-paying jobs, and gave up financial security just to continually pursue the singular passion of my life - programming. The thought of not being able to program is my version of hell. If you tell me I can't code for the rest of my life, I might as well not exist.

As irrational as someone else's suicide always appears, I fail to see a rational response to being in a situation where 10 years of imprisonment is the best possible outcome.
I switched to Swiftkey a while back and like it. The swiftkey flow keyboard is the best of both worlds, swype and the swiftkey.
Reactions from HN to Aaron Swartz legal defense fund last Sep
In China the trend is for wealthy people to buy home air purification systems. They breath the same air as everyone else when they go out, but at home it's top shelf.
Well, there is a difference between reading "the news" and reading a specialized website about stuff you're interested in. I would have heard about this from the various blogs I read.

I'm actually pretty informed about "the news" but I don't read any newspaper sites unless I get links to them, and I certainly don't watch TV news.

Part of the problem with that is some people might end up getting all their news from websites that feature crazy conspiracy theory stuff, like Alex Jones or whatever.
Samsung Flexible Display at CES 2013
or, in Python 3.3:

def in_order(self):
if self.left is not None:
yield from self.left.in_order()
yield self.node
if self.right is not None:
yield from self.right.in_order()
PACER was designed in the early 1990s, before the internet was popular, i.e., when AOL was the internet for most of America. Indeed, PACER is probably as old, if not older than, most HN users.

It has not been upgraded since then, largely because Congress has not provided sufficient funds to the courts for them to do so (appropriations in the past two decades have largely been reserved for operations or for courtroom construction, but not technological upgrades. Much of the money from PACER access fees goes toward meeting the shortful in the operation budget, because Congress in its infinite wisdom has underfunded the federal courts for most of the last two decades.

(It's wierd that I have spent most of the last two days defending the American court system...)
sure, but think back to the last election. 95% of the coverage was about stupid stuff like Mitt Romney's campaign manager talking about an "etch a sketch" or whatever.

Instead of looking into the details and explaining Romney's bogus tax plan, they just invite a republican and democrat on to yell at each-other to stay "ballanced"
Scala's futures are wonderful to use. There are two main benefits:

1. They compose, meaning you can construct a Future out of other Futures

2. They work with Scala's for comprehension syntax making them very concise to use.

We use them everywhere in Myna. The one downside with plain futures is it's very easy to forget to handle errors, so we typically have a Future of a Validation. In Scala 2.10 you'd probably use Try in preference. I talk more about futures and our error handling strategy here: http://noelwelsh.com/blueeyes/concurrency.html

Finally, if you use Node.js and think callbacks are the cat's pyjamas you really should check out a futures implementation (not necessarily in Scala). They are a much better abstraction.
I hope business people end up reading this article, it was well written and hopefully they will start to "get it".
MIT employee friends of mine have said to me exactly what rhizome is saying -- that the report won't be complete and comprehensive.

I'm withholding judgment, but if the report is whitewashed, it's war. But I'll wait until I have actual evidence.
The article cites PlainSite as a cost reference. That surely can't be the cost of a developer, server, bandwidth etc? Free labour? Anyone know more? I know that an enerprising hacker can do a lot, but setting up a system better than another that has a $25 million budget?
And would anyone care to guess what it should cost per page (ideally with some sort of cost justification)? 1c? .01c?
I suppose it's easier to hack into a site and overwrite the file with a big string rather than find a way to write the images to disk or what have you.
Actually, he already wrote the TLDR summary for you.

It was: "If you summarize your idea in your first sentence, writing "TLDR" is superfluous."

He wrote the TLDR summary, he just didn't preface it with TLDR.

That to me is the great thing about this article. He's following his recommended practice to illustrate the point.
Well, I think it depends on whether you count only "news" or if you count stuff like blogs or "social media". I'm very up to date (I think) on politics, but I don't feel like I need to read the NYT every day.

In the Essay Aaron isn't talking about just the concept of being informed about the world, but rather the up to the minute 24/7 generalist news stuff.

It seems like most major events have books written about them later. There were good books written about the Iraq war, for example.

I also think you could learn a lot more about culture by reading non-fiction books then by watching the news. I don't think I learn anything about culture from the news, other then which celebrities people are paying attention too these days.
I've never considered the waveform of a chord before, is the reason that some intervals sound harmonious because the period of their combined waves is short?
You're seriously proposing BYO security?

Immobilisers have dramatically reduced rates of drive-away car theft in Australia where they became mandatory a while ago. They might not be completely foolproof, but they certainly do stop the vast, vast majority of criminals.
In California, It’s U.S. vs. State Over Marijuana
Thread regarding the actual message from Anonymous.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5053359
Don't be afraid to ask for lots of paper. I went through one sheet per question on the analytic section.
4 black teens in NY went to prison for 2 decades after a white woman mistakenly identified them as her attackers. Texas has executed several innocent men. The South had a history of lynching black men without a trial, and letting whites who murdered colored folk (black or otherwise) free. People of Japanese descent were forcibly interned during WWII and SCOTUS upheld internment.

The American justice system survived all of this, and you think that Mr. Swartz is a "transforming light"? I'm sorry, but compared to these other miscarriages of justice, the Swartz case isn't even a drop in a bucket.
Samsung sells over 100 million Galaxy S devices
The problem, though, is that Fox news actually backs up the kind of stuff Limbaugh says. So people can "watch the news" and still see their worldview validated.
True, but as many others wrote here, you can correct another person and still be polite about it.

One of the things I love about HN is that incorrect opinions are quickly corrected by people in the know, often with providing proper citations. However, what is quite often missing, is civility. Moreover, in this case one should be exceptionally polite, given the very personal nature of the OP's post and the courage to attach his name to his writing.

I recommend everyone (myself included) to re-read "How to Win Friends and Influence People", even if they don't think they have a problem with being polite. I keep re-reading this book and everytime I do I see something more to correct (it has already heavily influenced the way I write e-mails to people).
I worked for a company that made scale models of the Eurofighter for (I think) British aerospace. We made full scale models of those pylon held fuel tanks. Made them to the specs given to us and they didn't fit when they arrived at some kind of arms fair. Much scrambling later the problem was found. We made the tanks correctly, but the actual plane had some kind of old standard built into it by accident.
More prosecutorial shady behavior by the federal government. Here they are prosecuting someone who did everything above-board and in accordance with state law, after the president has made it clear that this type of prosecution should be low priority.
Why is Map Reduce faster? -- A practical example of data joins
Congress wrote the law making those acts a crime and imposing sentencing guidelines, not the USDOJ.
You might like to check out this music synthesis library in Javascript: http://mohayonao.github.com/timbre
From what I understand from those much closer to him, the level and type harassment inflicted on him by prosecution played a significant role in his suicide. It is safe to say those closer to him know better than you or me or most people here.

We want to find a simple trigger and point to it and say "it was depression for sure" or it was just "facing 50 years in jail" or any other thing singular thing. But it was probably not black and white, and not simple one thing to point a finger to as much as we may try.

However it seems (to me at least) specific prosecution tactics have played a significant role in his decision. So I have no qualms saying they have some of his blood on their hands. Having to face 30+ years in prison, possibly abuse, rape and other things that come with it, not sure how clear I would be thinking even without a history of depression.
Here's the post: https://twitter.com/AnonymousIRC/status/290704903431655424.

Note that the URL is this: rledev.mit.edu/aaron.html That's actually a subdomain. From what it looks like someone (maybe a MIT student) came up with the subdomain and posted the site there. I doubt there was any hacking going on.
Yeah (I edited it based on wikipedia a while ago...).

I'd still say "accused", even though he was convicted, because subsequent evidence (and the fact that he shot himself in the head) largely points to him actually having been innocent.

The "criminal lawyer" Smith was to blame here.
Please do. I may try.
As long as people realize that porn itself is a caricature of sex, then it's fine. Usually sex is a lot more clumsy, and a lot shorter than any of the porn movies you find on the web. Guys with huge penises that take 45 mins to climax, women with huge breasts that love to get finished on, etc, is not how most of the world is. It's certainly exciting to see, but it's totally unrealistic.

It's sort of like martial arts. Real martial arts isn't guys jumping 30 ft at each other, or fighting 10 opponents at once, doing somersaults, etc. If kids go to martial arts training expecting this, they will be sorely disappointed. Most martial arts is practicing moves over and over again. It's tedious and boring for those that are expecting Jackie Chan or Jet Li. Over the course of many years, you can get to a certain level of expertise. But the martial arts movies are essentially a caricature.

Hopefully the kids growing up today realize this.
Thank you for sharing the original text. The page on mit seems to be offline now.