skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, weev is an idiot. Yes, weev is abrasive. Fortunately neither of those are themselves crimes.

Weev has always taken anything and turned it into drama. That's the whole Internet Troll thing. A normal defendant wouldn't, when faced with a chance to reduce his sentence by 1-3 years by "accepting responsibility", post something like this to the press. It basically screams "upward departure" to a judge, while at the same time rallying people on the Internet, which doesn't really mean so much inside a federal ass-rape prison.
I'm saying that long term people are better off not publishing with you and should just be cross-promoting within their own games or just using ads so they don't have to give you a cut.

Every time someone does publish with you they are setting themselves back because they are not growing their own portfolio of apps but instead enlarging your network at significant cost to themselves.
You know what would make this faster? If you ran your tests inside Heroku as well. Then you wouldn't have all the network round-trip time and you'd be test in the same environment you go to production on.
We will also be doing an event with Github cofounders!

http://github-onlab.peatix.com
The joys of having a Forever Project
Hah. PHP brain rot. But alas, I do know many other languages. I'm a professional programmer. I was just using that as an example I felt meaningful at introducing myself to other programmers. Your suggestion is a good one though-I do need to start playing more with my coding time.
"That guy got life in prison all for moving a knife about two feet in a certain direction! The system is corrupt!"

I wish people could be a little more honest in the way they describe computer crimes. He knew or should have known that that api was not meant for public use. He is being punished for using it despite this knowledge.
For the purpose of federal sentencing guidelines, this doesn't count as "acceptance of responsibility", right?
I read this and realised I had not yet managed to join the 21 st Century. yet here in the UK I am a supposedly cutting edge developer - open source, experienced et al.

I need to run faster to catch up - and the whole country needs to run like Usain
Because it's a click-and-point graphical 3D maze-like diagram thing.

If she'd piped ps through grep into kill then nobody would have ever mentioned it again.
Either ways, the solution should be to fix the security system and reward the whistleblower. In a few years, we are going to have millions of teenagers with the competence and ability to pull of what Hamed did. What then?
Oh.. thanks :)

Thought my email was visible.
Is it feasible to find superfluous statements?

Ex: A line of CSS that sets text color of li tags to something, but every li tag already would be that color because of a CSS statement for body.

I'm guessing it'd be hard to build something useful and correct, but I think it'd be an interesting extension of this idea.
It's still awesome even if it is a couple of years old.
What mostly strikes me about this post is how condescending she is about the people there. It's not only about the regime, but here post is basically belittling for the people there.

A gew gems of the post:

"How that squares with official NK agitprop that Americans are super-evil imperialist bastards is beyond me. "
Like every Korean over there wants to eat Americans for breakfast, sigh. Yes, their official pollicy is very anti-American, but has it every stroke her mind that they are also people? And that they can make the distinction between "the American people" and their government. Just as much as I hope that she can make a difference between a person and their leaders.

"When we asked how old Un had turned (29? 30?), we were told that "Koreans keep track of age differently" than we do. Alright, then."
This one kinda says everything about the author.

"No, silly North Koreans, you're under international bank sanctions."

All in all, whatever she writes down is an accurate observation, but I would have wanted the tone to be much different. No I mostly read this as a rant from someone who believes is superior to them. I would have liked it more if it was written from a more neutral point of view. But hey, it's the internet, ranting is what has to be done :-)

For what it is worth, I've been there a bit over a year ago and what she has seen (besides the official visits) is more or less the same as I have seen. So yes it is all fake of course. But I would definitely visit it again to see other parts of the country.
I think the moral of the story is - whatever you do anonymize your tracks and do not inform the authorities. There is substantial risk and no reward for acting otherwise.
Related: Check out MOST, "the world's smallest space telescope", developed in Canada and launched about ten years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOST_%28satellite%29
"Made it" to where? Paradise?
I don't see that in the comment on many websites. Just reams (almost literally) of Android users doing precisely what you describe.
East Germany was by far the most advanced and capitalist of the Communist states, and very close culturally to West Germany, but there is still the phenomenon of "Ostalgie", from Ost=East + Nostalgie=Nostalgia, yearning for the good ol' days of Communist suppression.

The movie 'The Lives of Others' was motivated by the filmmakers' desire to smack down the Ostalgie-types achieving popularity in Germany. It is common there to see shops selling East German themed stuff, and there is at least one chain of shops solely dedicated to East German paraphernalia. Polls suggest there is a real yearning in some areas to go back to the days where the secret police and rationing of basic goods were real things. It's bizarre.
And if weev had seen the exploit, thought to himself, "heh, that's funny," and not gone back, he would not be headed to prison. But, that isn't what happened.
You aren't seriously equating wrapping curl in a for loop to murder, are you?
Ah, so that means he wasn't even really "hacking". But I still think it is weird that the site calls it him "helping".
If you're interested in watching Physics lectures online, don't miss Susskind's excellent series of lectures from Stanford.

http://www.lecture-notes.co.uk/susskind/
There is a difference between being abrasive and openly declaring unlawful intent. While the latter is not (always) illegal, it is a legitimate factor for prosecutorial discretion and sentencing.
that reminds me my ex-boss tiring to hire me again and the of $4250, he cut back from our salaries, during dotcom bust. He promised to pay back when the time comes...
I've always wondered why films and TV series (with limited budgets) don't just use off-the-shelf screens from Windows, OS X, or Linux distros. Are there some copyright/trademark issues that get in the way? It seems like a lot of work to develop your own UI that will only be on the screen for a few seconds.

I did notice that in an episode of Homeland that Saul was runing Media Player Classic on Windows to watch a video from an SD card, with the titlebar blurred out (so the name of the app wasn't visible). Later, another character watches the same video but there's a total custom UI used to bring up the video. In the same episode.
I agree with you, and am sure if you could make large list of small developers that closed during any given period of time.

But there are downsides to the current trends. When big companies have to take bigger financial risks they are less likely to take creative risks. So while we are seeing really beautiful well crafted games, many are cookie cutter sequels and copies. The industry is large enough that there is innovation (and a vibrant indie scene), but I wish there was more interesting AAA stuff.
I think there can be reward in some cases. From what petition website says, he's received several job offers.
That's not even true here I'm afraid...
I've read the claims from both sides, I think that although he might have handled it more carefully, it was an overreach to expel him this way, I feel we should stand behind him. I signed the petition. Anyone with counter evidence, please step forward.
Historically societies have based foreign policy on equally or more ridiculous assumptions so I'm not so quick to dismiss the idea of fear, prejudice or historical animosity being a factor.

Regardless, you clearly were not making the point that no one has those faulty assumptions, you were pointing out that they were faulty. That was my entire point.
There are way too many zeroes in that number.
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This is weird, I can't see the article, refreshed many times. http://imgur.com/n7rlMvc

Chrome on Windows 7.
How about coding a very small mobile phone game? Do it for fun, not for profit but if you keep the content simple enough, you might just finish it. Even if you don't, it's a good way to fill in some of the time. It's just forcing yourself to do a little bit every week that's the hard part.
I've no idea. I can't find a single decent Mac / iOS client that's not based on Google Reader.
Couldn't see it either on Chrome on a MBP, but worked just fine on Chrome in Windows 7.
I think they mean startups that are in a later stage than what you are thinking (funded and growing). It's not like the founders are going to be the only employees for the life of the company.
Government is way too incompetent to prevent technical progress.

The real enemy of technical progress is natural complexity of things.
If what he says is a joke, and he's a troll, then he's also an unreliable witness. Hence why a trial is unnecessary to find out the truth? Because how can one know that he's telling he real story now?

Really, if you confess to a crime, and then turn around and say "ha ha, only kidding!" don't be surprised if people find it hard to trust anything you say.

Note: I'm taking what you've said here at face value and otherwise know very little about this case.
Actually read it. The guy is whining because they released iOS apps first, which is hardly surprising since there is essentially only two platforms to get right. It's very passive-aggressive, which is true of most posts like this.
Same here, I even switched to a Macbook with the same results.

Mobile seems to be fine, though.
Or it's more difficult to apply in practise than you believe.

Being able to create a duplicate of the database at a past date for debugging purposes would have been extremely useful in my previous job.
What a stupid article... Intellectualizing suicide - how much stupider can it get?
" But that doesn't change that there is a not-insignificant portion of comments that have let passion get in the way of reason"

Seem to me like you're doing something similar when you, instead of replying to the actual comments you think are wrong, starts a meta discussion on the spirit of the conversation based on your feeling. It's not very constructive, especially since it's hard to differentiate from someone using it as a rhetorical argument.
Why do you even ask that. Isn't it obvious from my post that I'm pointing out that overly charitable wordings are misleading? Do you honestly believe that someone could have the mental capacity to enter words into this site and be unable to perceive the distinction between these two crimes? Or were you just trying to score a cheap rhetorical point by intentionally misreading me?

And again, of wasn't just wrapping curl in a for loop. It was doing that with the knowledge that the target was not meant to be public, storing that information, and sharing it with the media.

Also, it wasn't murder, it was assault with a deadly weapon. The victim went on to make a full recovery but it was the defendant's third strike.
I'm presuming that was satire, although why he'd write something so easy for a trial prosecution to jump on is beyond me.
I'm working at a startup right now, and I think this is pretty accurate.

The freedom is nice (no hours, nobody telling exactly what to do every day). However, I will NEVER be able to have the passion for the product as I would if it was my own startup, this is just work to me.
If someone offered to pay you $200,000 now, but in return you have to be his slave for 32 years, would you do it?
Can someone clarify something for me? As I am no American, I try to understand, if making public the email-addresses of the iPad-owners was anything remotely illegal (AT&T wise).

If so, why didn't weev just show law-enforcement - maybe with press present? Why not stage it so, that it is a deal between you and a press-outlet, a live showing of the problem, with a DA (or police/FBI, what ever) present?

I know, it only works, if the API, making personal-email-addresses public was illegal. But if so, he would have shamed AT&T, he would have "normal" people caring, not only the internet-bubble and he would be relatively save in terms of legality. Or wouldn't he?
Let me know the day you feel you've had your fill and you're ok with pulling the plug, if not due to your body ceasing to function properly.
Out of curiosity, what is your work day like? Are you putting in something like a 9-6 as is common in the U.S.?
I switched for iOS to Android (a Nexus S) based on a lot of what the tech press and users were saying on forums and I have to say that it has been an awful experience for me. With Google dropping support for this model late last year, I will never buy a product that they or Samsung are involved with again.
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"...obviously handcuffing them" No more than the GPL does.
I'm from a developing third-world country. $4k/year is our minimum wage. It's hardly a fair price for 32 years of service.
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Everything you want to know about Facebook Graph Search
Every single piece I’ve read, seem to either misunderstand, or not care about what makes Graph Search different. So here I go, trying to explain what Graph Search really is.
The US survived WWII with considerably less damage and fewer deaths than other technologically-similar countries, with some of the best technology, worldwide influence, and a government system that encouraged productivity. This led to 2 generations of extremely high levels of prosperity relative to the rest of the world. As a result, we've had a period of time where working-class families were able and expected to function with one generation of adults and one generation of children in the home.

I already see signs of this "peculiar little historical blip" ending. I know a lot of adults who are married and/or have children who live with their parents or other relatives. I know a lot of grandparents who babysit their grandchildren multiple days per week. It seems to be fairly common among low income families, and I think it's becoming considerably more common among middle-class families.
Nah. Android fans are worse. Take a look at sites like The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget and the Register. I see the behaviour that you describe from Google fans far more of late.
The one thing they don't say in this article is that they will be even attempting to reduce the number of frozen accounts. Instead, just make it a clearer process to get out of.

If they stopped doing seemingly arbitrary freezes, this would solve both problems.
For those interested in philosophy, Albert Camus famously said "There is only one really serious philosophical problem and that is suicide" [1]. Basically Camus asked the question why shouldn't he commit suicide and then worked on finding a philosophy that gave him reason not to.

This comment may have no practical use to someone feeling suicidal, but those interested in a philosophical discussion of suicide should consider reading some of Camus' work.

[1]http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus
I know it's a bit off topic but it's even simpler than that with bash expansion:

wget http://example.com/?id={1..10}
If it ain't broke, don't fix it?

The only people that would benefit are people who have not yet learned hjkl, and those people have no influence. What are you expecting to be done, Vim wildly breaks standards, pisses off existing users, and changes the default key layout? Never going to happen, never should happen. First off, because it will piss off existing users for no reason whatsoever, and secondly because nobody in a position to make that call would make that call. Thankfully.

Distribute Vim yourself with these changes; see how far you get.
It's not just the blog article. It's also the attitude of people that will berate a youngster for being young and going out on a limb to show what they've made and making the mistake of telling us their age. That age thing is not a qualifier of pride, it's a guide to the mental state and the amount of experience the poster has. What amazes me most is that after seeing how one young developer gets treated that the next one still dares to post at all.

Danilocampos is exactly right. As far as career advice or tech advice, if you think I can contribute regardless of age feel free to contact me as well, j@ww.com . I can't promise to always be immediately available but I'll do my best.
try stumbledupon's paid traffic (www.stumbleupon.com/pd) program for really cheap traffic, if you want to keep morale up while the going is slow.
> there probably aren't any great fourteen year old developers.

We have at least one counter example here on HN.
Yes, I am. Whether or not I'm at step 6 is open for debate. Amongst people outside of my metaphorical earshot, preferably.
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THis is the bubble that we talk about. Products like the iPhone are for consumers. That's everybody. When it comes down to it, it seems that "hackers" are pissed that "normal" people are "getting" computing.
You should look into setting up a small vps. It would be far cheaper, you can run any services you want, and you'd control uptime of processes etc. it's really not hard, and it's quite possible to scale to millions of users a year on a small vps with some caching. Right now you're paying for lots of stuff you're never going to use, and underpaying for the stuff you need ( actual web server processes.) Heroku is not for you, and they're not going to change their policy on free dynos for you because you're trying to use the free trial of this for a real website, which is not going to work or allow you to learn about scaling a website.

This could be something as simple as them ignoring pings from pingdom when deciding to spin up workers, have you tried using curl to simulate hits? Heroku would probably be happy with you moving to linode, it suits what you want to do a lot more.

Re the image, if you're serious about learning about site optimisation, and dealing with load, yes it does matter, far more than your db until you reach much larger scale.
I see it as:

[] You feed in all URLs at once;

`urls = ["/", "/sign_up/", "/about/",]`

[] It pre-proccesses also JS files and tries to match CSS selectors as well. That would work for jQuery and Zepto!

`$("#foo").html($("<span>").addClass("bar"))`

Edit: Okay, that won't work for `addClass`! :)
Except that at the time, all the articles on HN news about Steve Jobs were intensely interesting to a large number of HN participants. Trying to flag them all was pointless, and as Wikipedia contributors would call it, POINTY (disruptive to try to make a point).

Clearly the moderators frowned on this sort of behaviour, so you lost your ability to flag articles. Like I say, don't do that.
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Couldn't get it to render in any Ubuntu browsers I tried.
Play Framework : Uploading a file to server
Casual will not eat core; they exist in their different places (phones are definitely perfect devices for casual) and you need original content (RPGs, strategy etc), but I think original content is not what drives the price up for the studios.
The whole package is what does that; Ultima can now be made by two people in an attic; that doesn't cost a lot while it's fun to play. The problem is that 'people' want a FPS with superior graphics and that whole package is very costly. For me (but i'm old), the great graphics, like 3d effects in 3d movies currently, wear thin after a few minutes of ooohhh and aaaah and then it's about gameplay. Something which a lot of AAA 'sell $100 million' games lack. Nintendo their strategy (lowish graphics, small teams) but with non-casual, original games would (and did in the past) work fine and would be profitable IMHO.
Dutch architect plans to construct a building using a 3D printer
Mastering the CSS rem unit: All units are made equal, sort of.
The intent is immaterial if the actions are not against the law.

If accessing published information (and incrementing a number in an url cannot be considered breaking in ...) is against the law, there is something terribly wrong with the law.

That said if he tried to use the data to extort money from AT&T that would of course be a criminal offense (even if the "intent" was robinhoodian).

To illustrate with an analogy:
If someone takes a picture of a hapless drunk girl dancing topless in a bar (AT&T), that is not criminal.
If this person approaches the girl and asks for money to delete the incriminating pictures, that is extortion.
If the person sells the picture to an interested third party, this might constitute the case for a civil lawsuit (see the texxxan case...)

In any case no special laws are needed for judging behaviour in the virtual world.
It doesn't necessarily; I think that varies wildly depending on the person. I'm a highly analytical person, for instance, and I immediately recognized each layer in myself. I'd be willing to bet, however, that there are plenty of people who'd read each item and deny their existence while experiencing each perfectly. I find myself unable to actually imagine this, but eh.
Holy crap. I had this same idea around the same time (Christmas break). Unfortunately I didn't get further than setting up the scaffolding and a name (NoClass), but I'm glad you did. Awesome and thanks!
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I always use a remote db for developing my site locally (eg: Heroku PostgreSQL). On my laptop I typically install my libraries (in a Python virtualenv), and do coding.
Aye, pretty much (9-5:30 with flexible start time). Thing is, I would probably work longer hours voluntarily if I could telework - give over half my usual commute time to a little extra.

But that's a different story...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092589
Ireland has (or at least had as of a couple years ago) some sort of tax loophole that allows international companies to dodge paying some taxes both in their home country and in Ireland.
The rewards game for first employees is perplexing. You have an order of magnitude less incentive than the founders who birthed the thing. Arguably, that's taken care of: you're on a real salary while they're making peanuts. You're also capable of moving to a new job tomorrow, while this is the founders' life.

But when an acquihire with retention bonus is almost equivalent in net payout to you as a successful acquisition or IPO might be, it is difficult to be super-invested instead of merely daydreaming and working toward starting your own company. At best you can hope to be flush from a quick and healthy payout, which might pay off student loans or capitalize the first steps of your own risky venture.

Is the game of Silicon Valley just to structurally encourage everyone to eventually devote their time to fully creating their own pet technologies and products? Who works for anyone else except for fools and transients?

(I'm currently a fool or transient.)
So does the interface. And how about a "notify" if someone responds to a message? What's up with the use of tables? How about Mobile?
On the other hand, it probably makes leaving Google for another company quite painful.