skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) Previous coworker. Big mistake. Not everyone is discipline enough to be a cofounder.
b) No, it would likely fail if it continues down this road.
The 6 month offer was in exchange for bypassing his right to a trial and being stuck with a felony conviction, to say nothing of spending half a year in prison. This all under duress of spending over a third more years in prison than he had lived to date for a crime roughly on par with running black squares off the school printers.
I've successfully installed the last two Fedora versions by DD'ing the ISO to a USB stick.

Pre-F18, it was worthless to do this for anything but the net install image, as Anaconda wouldn't locate packages on the USB stick. I don't know if the F18 Anaconda fixed this or not, as I used the net install image.
There is a value in social services "smoothing out the details" for a user. Naturally, this step requires the user to feel comfortable about entrusting those decisions to an app and it remains to be seen if people want to do this with dates.

The horror stories (which are always smirkingly relayed - nothing tragic) I hear from girls about OKC messages don't exactly give me confidence in this part of the company's hypothesis. I would be happy to be proven wrong, however. In the end, even ChatRouelette attracted a wide variety of people (for a very short time). Maybe there is an opportunity to use a Chat Roulette/Airtime interaction as the precursor to a (not-so-blind) date.
Six months plus a felony conviction that follows you for life.
I like Columbo's method: just know the answer ahead of time.
For better or worse it's only dead in the same sense that the "relational model" is dead - as a research topic. It's certainly alive in the real world where it's more properly used as an interchange format. E.g. The IRS's MeF[1]. It's also finding interesting adoption in other industries[2].

1- http://www.irs.gov/uac/Modernized-e-File-(MeF)-Program-Infor...

2- http://www.service-architecture.com/xml/articles/oil_and_gas...
Details about the Boston hackathon mentioned in the thread (supposedly around 01/26), please.

Update: details from hackerspace: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg...
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Aaron Swartz, Carmen Ortiz and the American System of Justice
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This breaks the paradigm of boring reports. The interface is fabulous. Clear and Concise.
I've been using angular for around the same time-period as you.

As a designer, the initial data-binding and directives felt like I was performing magic, although there was a steep-ish learning curve as soon as I left trivial examples.

I feel like there is a lot of momentum building behind Angular, and is a great model to start thinking about now for when browsers support web components (https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/explainer/...) (what will that be HTML6?)

For someone coming to Angular fresh (with only some basic jQuery knowledge) I also found it easier to learn/work in coffeescript.
They would need one HELL of an algorithm to pull this off.

I tried OKC. A few good dates, but also several women who were 20-30 pounds heavier than their profile pictures.

I've talked to women who use OKC. In the first week, any reasonably attractive woman gets 30-150 message, 95% of them creepy/lame/from old men.

You can still find good things on OKC, but you need to learn how to filter. Women set up harsh filters against the flood of spam, and men have to learn i. How to get past those filters ii. How to tell if a woman is really herself

Women face more risks than men. Most men aren't crazy. But all it takes is one crazy man to really mess up your life. And crazy men are more likely to use something that lets them bypass traditional filters.

Meanwhile, this lets women that won't get hit on in real life bypass the filter of physical appearance.

If this could be made to work, it would be incredibly popular. But it has a ton of hurdles. You'd have to evaluate safety and attractiveness algorithmically, or you'd end up with a ton of lame/scary dates.
Good sharing, better if it was free.
It's a tradeoff. 6 months? Probably manageable. 30 years? No, thank you.
I'm a little scared to post here, given how abusive HN has become over the past few days.

As someone who's been reading Aaron's writings for years, it's clear he was a student of civil disobedience. It seems like the JSTOR act was a deliberate act intended as a statement of civil disobedience, given the little I've read here. My facts may be wrong here.

But if that's the case, going to jail seems like a common component of civil disobedience as a way to demonstrate how unjust a law is. The men I'm certain Aaron admired -- MLK Jr, Gandhi, etc. -- all served time in jail as a mechanism of galvanizing society around the injustice of the laws they were fighting.

I ask this as a legitimate question: Did Aaron not expect to go to jail for an act of civil disobedience?
> Presumably ﻿﻿﻿﻿XML is good ﻿﻿for "interchange" but I've never found that to be the case. JSON seems ﻿to do just fine. :)

It's not; they are as well many rants about using it as a data interchange format, 'cause pretty much everything, from S-expressions to JSON, is better at this task.
I met one of my co-founders at an Apple store many years back.

I worked at one for about 2 years and he came in looking to purchase a laptop for college. We started talking about business, design, and many of the things we felt Apple was doing right. I'm not sure how long we spoke, but it was definitely a good hour. After speaking for such a long time, we ended up exchanging emails.

Every once in a while (few months or so) we'd touch base with each other just to see how things were going. I had been working on my own business, while he was working for some bigger corporations like Reuters. Months and months would go bye between conversations, but there was always this feeling that we had about working with each other. He, being a developer, and me being an entrepreneur, we kept talking about the idea of working together, but nothing really came of it. We did do a little podcast that a lot of people listened to (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/business-and-motivation/...).

Anyways, our personal conversations went back and forth for years – almost 5 to be exact. And then one day I approach him with this idea that I already started. He had become a much better developer and quite frankly, through our conversations he came off as a real hard worker. Someone who wants to make it. He even helped me with some things for free which was really nice. That combination of hard work and him being a developer was almost too good to be true. We chatted on the phone a bit, and then I flew out to NYC (where he lives) to meet up for the second time in 5 years. Things went well. We talked a lot and he introduced me to an amazing designer who has also ended up being the 3rd co-founder of our company.

Now here we are about 6 months later and we've been working really hard on rebuilding an idea that we think is going to be really great. It's not out yet, but I'll keep you guys updated when it is (within the next 6-8 weeks).
life imitates art?
I hate to say this, but Facebook already has all the data they need to do this. And now that you've mentioned it, it seems like a no-brainier for them to implement.
What will be really revealing at least for me is how Lance Armstrong talks about the team-mates (and others) who "outed" him for doping over the past years. If his mea culpa is genuine, and not just a carefully choreographed publicity production designed to benefit him personally, then he will refer to his (ex)team-mates and (ex)friends with humility and acknowledge that they were right, he was wrong, that they deserve our respect (and his) and that he deserves our contempt (and theirs).

On the other hand if he remains defensive when asked about the people that "outed" him that will reveal (at least for me) that nothing has changed, that he is merely engaging in a new form of self-serving behaviour.
Plivo (YC S12) Launches the first SDK that connects WebRTC And SIP
What underlying hypervisor/server technology is this service using? Looks really interesting... I'm using Rackspace Cloud Servers now. It's been Great! But gets expensive fast if you have to scale...
I once wrote a python script to poll through the pages and save the HTML. I know of no other option.
Arch? Don't know if they support SELinux, but they use SystemD and are rolling-release.

For me, the 6-month release cycle is a major reason why I am using Fedora rather than Arch. With a rolling release, I am constantly distracted by monitoring what is new; 6-month releases allow me to batch my curiosity into 1-2 days of heightened but less prolonged distraction.
Not every. The ones that are distributed with the OS X base install usually are dynamically linked against.

My current project I'm working on links against the standard Cocoa frameworks, zlib, Core Audio, Audio Unit framework and the Accelerate framework. Yet the Frameworks directory in the app bundle is empty.
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Forgive me for asking a possibly stupid question, but google is failing me: what is a "CPA offer"?
Normally white collar non-violent criminals are placed in a slightly more "relaxed" environment. He is more likely to be sharing a cell with a embezzling accountant than Grand Wizard of the aryan nation.

Conrad Black managed 37 months whilst in his sixties.
Her husband is just wrong. The only deal on the table was plead guilty to all 13 felonies and get "possibly six months but up to seven years" - the prosecutors would not negotiate with Aaron's lawyers.

http://mashable.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-plea-deal/
"Ok, Tom Dolan, we'll offer you a deal. The entire internet will leave your wife alone and stop saying nasty things about her, if you agree to plead guilty to possessing child pornography and serve 6 months in prison."
One thing: Gnome 3.6 is moving farther towards making use of the application menu. Good in general - it was stupid in 3.0 - but it plays very poorly with focus-follows-mouse.
Personally, I think Grouper's model is more likely to be successful.

They take a group of three friends and pair them up on a blind group date with another group of three friends. The safety in numbers aspect is, I think, a smart addition.
We could add the most common mirror sites as exceptions, you could add your own, and of course you can always toggle it on and off?

I think that may make it useful enough...
>My favorite writers get to the point quickly and effectively.

It's not so simple. If the reader is interested in comprehending a large amount of technical or objective information quickly, then yes, by all means, start with the point, hold no cards above the table, and get to it.

But even this article demonstrates that sometimes, a different approach is appropriate. "When I was a 25 year old editor" -- what the hell is a 25-year old doing being an editor of a paper? What kind of a paper is this anyway?

That - strikes my interest. That makes me want to continue reading. It draws me in. This is why I read - to shed the dust of everyday life - to be drawn in and whisked away to a fantasy world much more exciting than my own life.

The way to start a chunk of text is to be keenly aware of who your audience is, and what they want. And, equally, the way to begin reading a chunk of text is to either adapt to the the mold of the intended audience or simply reject the writing. It's not valid to say that starting a book in a coy, crafty, inviting way is somehow illegitimate because it doesn't get to the point right away. Some people prefer and enjoy that type of opening.
The only point I was trying to make is that test scores do not necessarily define the success of a teacher. I suggest, to be able to apply scientific method and get meaningful results will require far more data than is seemingly being collected.
Why Write Your Own Book When An Algorithm Can Do It For You?
> but he is at least trying

I agree with what you said with respect to the state of mind he must be in but you'd think an IBM exec would realize that there's nothing he could say that could possibly help.

He's making public ass out of himself exactly when his wife's career is vulnerable. That won't help her and in the long run I can't see it doing anything good to their marriage.

WRT the six month "offer," Lessig pointed out that Aaron wasn't willing to accept a felony conviction. The "punishment" for being a felon lasts for years and years beyond the prison sentence so it's easy to see that a felony + six months is way more than just six months. But it's easy to see why Ortiz was sticking to the felony charge. If Aaron had gotten a misdemeanor then she couldn't have boasted about "convicting" a "dangerous hacker".
Six months in a minimum-security, white collar prison over an act of civil disobedience would not be a bad deal to take. The felony conviction would be the problematic part.
Isn't that illegal? Or has that been turned into a states' rights issue and been made legal by the Alabama legislature?
It's humor via hyperbole. Compare to the common hacker usage of "evil".
The best response is buried in http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/15/humanity-deficit... in the paragraph:

"The thing that galls me is that I told Heymann the kid was a suicide risk," Good told me. "His reaction was a standard reaction in that office, not unique to Steve. He said, 'Fine, we’ll lock him up.' I'm not saying they made Aaron kill himself. Aaron might have done this anyway. I’m saying they were aware of the risk, and they were heedless."

If there is ANY truth to this at all, then firing the prosecutors is not enough. They had a prosecutor who was dealing with a suicide risk, who had triggered a previous suicide due to being overly aggressive, and the standard response was to offer to lock the person up??

That's manslaughter in my books. And if the system had justice (it does not) it would be so prosecuted.
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Six months plus a felony conviction that follows you for life plus being financially ruined by the two years in the case.
A bit of a derail, but I have to ask: since Carmack has been big on rocketry for years now, is he in any way associated with Elon Musk's Space X program?
> "You'd have to evaluate safety and attractiveness algorithmically"

OKCupid already does this (the attractiveness part), and I have to say, they do it startlingly well. Attractiveness is crowdsourced, and this is present even in the default (non-blind) experience. Ever wonder what that "Special Blend" default search results sort option is all about? It's actually weighted by the user and your own attractiveness.
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People are fucking nuts when online dating.

I don't disagree, but I think that people are nuts when dating, online or off. I'd argue that it isn't optimal to spam as many people as possible with 'sup'- most (female) profiles on the site say "don't message me just saying 'sup' or 'you are hot'" for exactly that reason.

I think online dating allows people to be slightly more obvious about judging people the way that they always do.
I really appreciate the way you're saying it, but I still think you're reading things into my words ("everyone sucks at measuring things" was not even a hidden premise). Worse, you're not acknowledging the evidence mentioned in the study.

The study attempted to control for things the teacher's couldn't control. They're actually being differentially judged on the parts of education that they can control.

These lines from the article fly in the face of your entire argument: "They also ranked the teachers using a statistical model known as value-added modeling, which calculates how much an educator has helped students learn based on their academic performance over time".

You would need to address them directly in order to mount a credible counter-argument.
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Does anyone think of Documentation as a feature? When documentation - which is typically not the most fun bit of a project - has to be fought for by the developers, to have any more than the most basic hand-wavy guide to what's going on can seem an unnecessary luxury...or so management may think!

But then do I make it a point to make sure my code IS well documented? Maybe another resolution for this year..!
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Great Thanks everyone! It seems the consensus is it is perfectly fine.
I agree that the problem is that when most people think 'documentation' for software projects, they think of comprehensive documentation - something that is not only very hard to do, but also almost always a bad idea.

I also agree with something that is implied in the article - that documentation should be of multiple types: including wiki and UML, but also unit and integration tests.

The part that I find interesting, is that the above results in three things: Be open to the fact that each documentation type might have diminishing returns, so as developers we should not be religious about just UML or just unit tests, but be make sure to have multiple types of documentation. Realize the obvious that that documentation should not get in the way from the project responding to customer needs (i.e. code base being agile), and therefore the documentation must be ideally as less as possible. And that finally, there needs to be a way to find the right type of documentation when you want it.

I think the last part is a field where there needs to be research. Getting it correct has been one reason why unit tests have worked so effectively. We need more people thinking about this part.
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This one needs a post of it's own, not to live under some thread.
Do you currently only have the New York region or are there other regions available as well ?
Didn't Ms. Ortiz argue that she cannot comment on Swartz's case because of the respect to his family? And now his own husband breaks the silence? Isn't this all superficial and for their own profit?

So, here was a trade: 6-months in a jail for breaking Swartz's own sense of what is good and what is not, something he believed in the most, free knowledge. Obviously, this was out of question for Swartz. He simply couldn't agree for it!

I admire Swartz even more for doing what he did. He did not have any other options left, as he symbolically writes in his last post about Dark Knight.
I had a project where I used an xml column[1] in MSSQL2008, since we had variable schema data and didn't want to store it vertically (one row per value), and definitely didn't want to alter schema on the fly. While I wouldn't necessarily recommend doing what I did, I don't see anything wrong with it and it solved that specific problem rather eloquently. We got the data out just fine with XQuery.

Believe it or not it was extremely fast...but only after playing with the xml format for awhile and making sure the indexes all fit nicely. You can, almost surprisingly, index specific XML fields inside of xml data-type columns[2].

I can almost hear you all cringing after reading that :)

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190936(v=sql.90).a...
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191497(v=sql.90).a...
VLC is open source. It would be trivial for a rebundler to remove that warning. If they are violating the license already, there seems to be no impediment to changing the code for personal gain.
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The horror stories aren't exactly a raw result of what happened. Many of the stories may be inflated or have biases that you don't know about.

So many of the profiles on OkCupid are:
1. Fake [a girl is testing the waters to see whos on there, or it could be a guy seeing his competition]
2. The girl is using it to boost her self esteem [lots of messages about guys complementing her are going on] Also, online dating [in her mind] may be "below" her.
3. Theres a low noise to signal rate. Guys learn very quickly that girls are very selective, and sometimes random about the messages they reply to. [There are a few possiblities for this]
4. Also there are girls who troll OkCupid. [They have no interest in dating or they're wayyyy over protective (practically requiring a background check before meeting in a very public place)]

So when you hear "stories" you have to be a little bit weary of the storyteller. [Even if you believe that the story teller is honest and good.]
I think the top-voted answer here is totally off.

In c2008, during college, I worked at IBM on mainframes for internships and co-ops. I worked on the Omegamon products on z/OS. Later I worked at Fidelity, where I was minimally involved with mainframe programming.

First, mainframes are awesome from an architectural perspective. As one example: when you run a program, you must (I'm simplifying a bit) specify exactly which files it is allowed to access. Moreover, when you create those files, they aren't allowed to grow infinitely - OS will enforce a maximum rate at which a file can grow, and a maximum file size.

Or, mainframes have been doing virtual machines for decades. In fact, the only sane way to run a mainframe is to slice it up and run VMs on it. "zVM" is written in assembly and runs z/OS VMs. Nowadays it also runs RHEL VMs. I hear they're putting Intel CPUs in mainframes to run Windows VMs too.

There's more, but I just want to illustrate that the granularity from a security perspective is fantastic. There are tons of technical and features that, in my view, would be very interesting to the computer crowd.

So why aren't young people interested?

First, nobody knows what mainframes are, except that they are dinosaurs and old and slow and whatever. Sun used to give universities pallets of computers running Unix - so guess what university students learned! IBM is trying to bring awareness with their Master the Mainframe competition (which is fun!) or sponsoring Senior Project courses throughout the country.

The OP is right that mainframes aren't available to learn on. And they're so different from the concepts we are familiar with that it is difficult to jump in. "Learn z/OS The Hard Way?" "Codecademy: OMVS Edition"

Do realize that every time you swipe your credit card, you are very likely hitting a mainframe in a bank somewhere. Talk about throughput.

The OP is correct in that if you're not working for IBM writing their mainframe products, you're probably at an awful soul-sucking bank writing COBOL. And really, the COBOL itself is probably not as bad as the fact that nobody knows it and these banks are notoriously bad at documentation or mentoring young people to bring them up to speed. Honestly working at a bank sucks. But banks user mainframes, and banks == bad, and mainframes == slow (somehow), so they are a no-go.

If you do work for IBM on their mainframe teams, those guys are honestly the smartest engineers I have ever worked with. They're all, well, old, but they know C and assembly (lots of mainframe software is written in those languages) inside and out. They understand networks. How to increase throughput. If your webapp crashes, nobody cares. If your bank's mainframe has a segfault you are fucked.

But then you are working in a very specific part of a very large company. Many young people work at IBM and are content there! They recruit heavily from my alma mater. But perhaps the types of young folks who are on HN, stackoverflow, etc are not really interested in working at IBM, much less learning about an esoteric technology. It will only keep you employable in a narrow (and soul-sucking) part of the industry.