skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But at this point the content has not been deemed illegal, no court has ruled as such. So the hosting provider has no obligation to remove it, doesn't matter how immoral it actually is.
another example of taxpayers money well used ...
Gold has the value we all say it does, just like paper.
[IANAL]

In common law "guilty man" has already been convicted. It is the accused who plea bargain.

[/IANAL]

But I will take a bite at your idealism and for the sake of conversation presume you are speaking of morality and forgo debating whether there is a persistent nexus between one's legal and moral responsibilities - the heart of the Swartz tragedy.

When our guilty man bargains in his interest, it is an individual choice. When the government presses for plea bargains in order to reduce the number cases which go to trial, it is a matter of policy - a policy based upon facts unrelated to the guilt or innocence of the guilty man. The policy treats the morally innocent and morally guilty identically. This should give us pause.

Our very notions of moral justice require its agents to treat the morally innocent and the morally guilty differently. An agent who treats the morally innocent and morally guilty identically cannot be dispensing moral justice. As such an agent, the government is neither moral nor immoral. It is amoral. The facts of the case cease to matter. Convictions justify the means of coercion.

I am willing to accept that some may see this as an "obvious benefit" - e.g. Thomas Hobbes accepted the amoral government as the least worse among the alternatives and with such a sovereign, the morally guilty man bargaining for a lesser sentence is always just:

"A Mans Covenant Not To Defend Himselfe, Is Voyd."

Of course, given Hobbes view of morality, we may be better just sticking with the legal sphere:

For Morall Philosophy is nothing else but the Science of what is Good, and Evill, in the conversation, and Society of mankind. Good, and Evill, are names that signifie our Appetites, and Aversions; which in different tempers, customes, and doctrines of men, are different...
Sony fined 250,000 pounds for 2011 PlayStation data breach - The Hacker News
Big blow to Cisco
Yeah, but, never sell entirely for stock. There is no pain at the other end.
Interestingly, if you try to browse far into the results, Google decided it actually only has 73 to display (after telling it to include ommitted similar results).
That's probably illegal not only in the US.
So... Where's Ang Cui at?

In case you guys haven't seen it, Ang Cui is the guy who did the Cisco hack last month and he's also the guy with the coolest resume on the planet.

He actually found a way to compromise printers during the print process, so by printing his resume, he pwns your printer. This seems like a bull in the china shop situation for that code.
anything ever copied, scanned, or sent on that thing is in there somewhere

I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find out my MFD has more persisted and recoverable in it than my first guess of how much it has (nothing), but it certainly doesn't have every page that's ever gone in or out of it.
Is there any way to put this on a map?
Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Murder rates have declined comparable amounts in lots of cities that aren't systematically targeting minority residents for harassment.
I always just rip through these things and then try to figure out how things work later. The trouble I've had with these is that it lacks context when I'm not actually trying to do the action it's calling for. I may not be the average user though.
Sounds interesting. Can you give any more detail? What data sources are you using? I know that trying to get data from my bank is like getting blood from a stone!
If asserting one's rights is punishable, then they are not rights.
G-WAN vs Nginx
Me too. And there are some where I'd really like to eat more often. I don't mind going to the movies alone, though.
This is possibly the worst - but funniest and most innovative - idea for a dating website I've ever heard of. The signup button didn't work in Chrome, so I had to get the signup URL from your HTML code. Just signed up now, will venture into the void.
Better yet, print a QR code, they can just scan it with their iPhone.
RxJS-Splash - Push-based MVVM DOM bindings for RxJS
This is what you're talking about.

And for those that haven't seen it.. do yourself a favour and sit through the entire hour-long video; you won't regret it.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/hack-turns-the-cisco...
Connections are the biggest benefit you get out of an incubator
I'd hate to be at the top of that google search result!!
A ridiculous imposition. To you it is different in a bad, dumb, modern way.

Why can't people express their opinion?
Why do you care so much?
In one word? Apathy. Too few people are really invested in SF. If you're a resident of SF, you're busy working, partying, etc. Things aren't too bad and the money is flowing easily, so you don't care.

Things could be better if there was more home ownership and people put down roots here.
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Works for me on Mac/Chrome 24.0.1312.56.
Or the big boogy man from the crisis, credit default swaps. They're complex financial basically insurance that you can take out on any asset, even one you don't own. Many institutions saw the chance of these securitized mortgage assets failing as so remote that they'd sell credit default swaps for fractions of a penny on the dollar on their coverage. They were cheaper and more predictable then shorts and when the crisis hit if you held them you made a killing. Of course a lot of that killing came on the back of the U.S. taxpayer. The number of credit default swaps that they sold were what almost killed AIG, so the government stepped up and covered almost $14 billion of their losses.
Philadelphia is so much worse. Bigger, poorer, more corrupt. There is good reason to believe that the political "ruling families" trade off power, and pay each other not to run.

Here's an example: City infrastructure like sewer pipes and water mains are owned by a private company, who doesn't appear to ever do maintenance. And when the 100+-year-old pipes inevitably break, causing sinkholes in major roads, the city pays the company to "fix" them. Which is why a major intersection 3 blocks from my house, in one of the busiest & most touristy parts of the city, has been closed for 4 months aaaand counting.

Also… Public transit? Ha!

School funding? HA! There's an epic budget shortfall for education but city hall is spending something like $40-50 million to build a park in front of city hall: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/Bids-due-...

Comcast and other major corporations pay zero taxes.

Still a better place to live than SF though, if you ask me, but I avoid all talk about politics like the plague, and I take taxis and donate a car payment's worth to local DonorsChoose projects every month.
I'm sure the Thais are absolutely wonderful, but do you really think that in the USA or France or Egypt people would just let you lay on the ground in pain with a broken leg?
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There was a "police camera action" footage of a UK nightclub and a man leaping up and slapping the bouncer 6 or 7 times because he was not allowed in - on the eighth leap the bouncer simply punches him once to the ground.

The voice over explains that police had reviewed the footage, and whilst commonly prosecuting bouncers for ABH, this time declined to press charges.

Its probably not at all the same :-)
FYI, was testing your submit form from an iPad and struggled to submit something because the validation is case-sensitive, so Https:// doesn't validate because of the uppercase H the iPad automatically uses.
I disagree. I travelled with one of my best mates driving through the States. He ran out of money half way and went home. While it was fun with him, it was really no different to being at home, we'd do the same things, except in a different country.

It wasn't until he left that I actually started meeting tons of other travelers. I've met many who are still friends many years on, albeit all around the world. I got to share experiences with new people and saw things through different eyes and cultures.

I think travelling on your own teaches a lot about yourself, and it drags you out of your comfort zone. No one wants to be that lonely guy behind a book at the hostel bar...

As for travelling in Thailand alone, I did that, and met some of the most fun people on my trip. The thing is, a place like Thailand is no longer a strange and distant place, it's full of travelers and backpackers doing the same thing you are. And there are few things cooler than traveler's karma, get a favor and then return one to someone else...

Doing things yourself isn't as lonely as it makes out to be...
The problem isn't rail. Chicago and NYC have perfectly functional systems built on rail. The problem is that the rail doesn't go anywhere you want it to go.
The topology optimization space at the Ecole Polytechnique has some nice resources on this
http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/~optopo/index.php
The homeless problem in the city is freaking insane, and I'm sorry to say, but the more they spend on it, the more they simply attract them from other places.

My mother is a chronically homeless drug addict. Obviously, despite attempts from my family over the years to help her, she is beyond our help. Money is poured into drugs, she refuses to work, and her mental illness contributes to the problem. One thing that she, and many, many homeless people I have encoutnered in my visits to shelters, are good at is finding cities that offer handouts and finding a way to get to these cities. My mother is a member of an entire counter/sub/culture which bounces from city to city, moving when the city's time limit on free handouts runs out. When conservatives criticize welfare dependency, this is what they point to. I don't agree with them, but this is a real problem.

San Fran draws homeless drug addicts like a moth to a flame. As a city, the thought is that these programs are a compassionate thing to do. Enabling drug addiction is not compassionate to the homeless, and it certainly isn't compassionate or caring to the citizens of the city who have to fund this ridiculous garbage. When you provide a soft landing to drug addicts, you are enabling them.

Its not just the Tenderloin. My first time in the city in many years, back in 2004, I got off the BART with my brother, who had never been to the city. Literally, within minutes of us arriving near Fisherman's Wharf, (I wanted to show him some sights) a drunk homeless man attempted to punch me in the face. He was much smaller than me, so it wasn't dangerous, but it certainly would have been bad for a smaller person or a woman.

My niece is in fashion school in the city, and has been groped and grabbed by homeless on multiple occasions. It is out of control, and it gives liberalism a bad name.

Are conservative cities assholes to homeless? Yes. Do they treat them like human beings? No. Do citizens of said cities get harassed? No.

Many cities have a middle ground, such as having zero tolerance for homeless intimidating/touching citizens. If you touch, you are no longer welcome.

There are many who would call me heartless. But when a mentally ill/drug addicted person becomes a predator, and attacks a loved one, they quickly change their tune, especially when they find out that the predator was attracted to their neighborhood by handouts purchased with their own tax dollars.
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oh man—good catch! Ill fix that asap :)
A tasty step-by-step guide on creating an inbound voice app with MVC.NET
This documentary implies that applicants were submitting fraudulant applications, which is not true. Most people (including the Frontline producers, apparently) still do not understand who was defrauding whom here.

If you apply for a loan and misrepresent your financial situation, this is not fraud (which is a crime) it's a lie, and lying is NOT a crime. You can say you're a teacher making a million a year and what's supposed to happen is the application should be denied (and may be your credit score might suffer).

It is the responsibility of the bank, not the applicant, to make sure that the applicant can repay the loan. Issuing a loan to someone who you know is misrepresenting one's financial situation is fraud and a crime. When such a loan is issued, it is the bank defrauding the applicant (not the other way around). It's essentially loan sharking or extortion, which is a felony. In doing so the bank is also failing in its fiduciary responsibility to the depositors, which is a (separate) crime as well.
"You like us…you really like us!"

The problem with this statement is that the survey is based only on SO users. Non-users cannot comment whether or not they like the service.

Sincerely,

A StackOverflow non-user
Good luck building them. Many of the code dumps are incomplete (like dyld and ld64). They reference private apple headers and won't build without them. Granted, they can probably be hacked to build in some cases and having the source just for reading is still nice.
This breaks down when it comes time to make reservations and other arrangements where money becomes involved. I've found that asking for a deposit on things like lodging and tickets really weeds out who is serious and who is not.
It was never a secret. Everyone knew values were out of whack on housing and people were taking out mortgages to high. But the sound of a few tiny whistle blowers is nothing compared to the collective will of the American people to buy bigger and better homes or make a quick buck.

This was a lesson we needed to learn as a nation, not one we just need to blame on bankers. Many people participated in the fraud, many banks were complicit with the fraud. That means we should be locking up home buyers right along with the bankers. In fact many of the people interviewed here as whistle-blowers went on being complicit with fraud. None (except the one executive) quit their jobs or even protested in a significant fashion. They all just kept doing work they knew was wrong.

Disclosure: Im an ex-Journalist and an ex-Banker.
Very cool looking, but it does not return the best prices for the searches. I compared to hipmunk (which doesn't always have the best prices itself) and found significantly lower fares. Keep at it, guys!
Thanks for this - I'm very much an ambivert but never heard the term until today.
Twisted Vine: As Twitter Pursues Amplifiers, It's Becoming Noisier
You're saying this like it's a joke, but it's not funny.
You're right - they haven't figured out how to sue everyone at once so people are indeed outsmarting them by clicking links on TPB proxies!
Sera un suicidio?
Hackers y académicos iniciaron una campaña cibernética apoyando el libre acceso a la información en Internet y pidiendo reformas a las leyes de delitos informáticos en Estados Unidos, tras el suicidio de un programador y activista de 26 años.

Aaron Swartz fue encontrado muerto en su departamento de Brooklyn el viernes, tres meses antes de que comenzara un juicio en su contra por hackear los servidores del MIT y descargar ilegalmente 4,8 millones de documentos científicos y trabajos de investigación de la web JSTOR, un archivo online al que se accede mediante suscripción y en el que se incluyen las principales publicaciones académicas de Estados Unidos.
Syncing Backbone Models in Real Time Over Socket.io
Apologies, I butt-commented!
Yes, DigitalTurk, locals everywhere seek out the "cheap, dirty places" to eat. This attitude reeks of pretention and adolescence.
Can startups fight unemployment? Introducing Work for America
I rather dislike recursion, I find it to be the remedial hammer of software development. Sure there are some use cases, but most problems are solvable in a more efficient manner, such as the use of formulas. Even if a formula is not viable, there are other methods that produce better maintainable code. I label recursion as 'use as a last resort'.
Not sure what version of Ruby 2 the author is using here, but sadly the latest release candidate defines the using method only in the main scope; it's not available in a class definition, where he calls it in his example.
Mark MacLeod leaves Real Ventures to join Freshbooks
I am reminded of this internet gem:

http://www.lolwithme.org/wp-content/uploads/FedoraSucks.jpg
Is Tokaido (rails.app) Dead?
Beware The Big-Data Campaign
Any time Apple does anything it pretty much gets reported. I imagine most other major companies don't care or their supply chains are ignored by the average person. For example, do you know where your television was made, by what suppliers, and how old they were? Me either.
The first few hits didn't seem to work (perhaps they have noticed a few external print requests...), but skipping a few pages found plenty of working links.
Exxon Surpasses Apple as World’s Most Valuable Company
In the US, this will get you arrested, you will have a huge fine and probation, and prison time is not off the table.

I'll refer you to the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, which does not just govern unsolicited e-mail, but all commercial mail which the law defines as electronic communication (bulk faxes, etc.)
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HN can be quite philosophical at times, and that is exactly (or "to a certain extent") how an unknown number of people like it. Insofar as my search space is concerned, the probability of having the weighted scores of advantages two persons travelling outside their home city boundaries, provided that said destination is not been previously traversed, then the results of said traversal for the first time outweighing that of doing so alone has been unity for all measurements that I had taken.
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Some of the IPs are registered to large US universities, who list abuse/tech support email addresses in their records. I've already emailed several with a headsup and had a couple of "thank you!"s in reply.
This is great! I removed Ace because it was too heavy for my purpose.

Indent Issue:

Type in at least 3 lines, highlight the middle lines using shift+down-arrow, tab(indent), notice the line below the highlighted lines indents too.
First Round Capital's Year in Review
Smells like a bullshit paid article.
You are not being nit-picky; you are being ridiculous.

You are replying to a comment which clearly states "I loved Black Mesa," and then go on to suggest that he enjoyed Black Mesa.

The general story, setting, and level layout are a tremendous amount of what would be considered a single-player, narrative-driven, FPS experience.

All that's left is the level of difficulty, and the feel of the code, as seen inside a particular engine. It's fine that you feel these are important aspects of Half-Life, but, when people wax nostalgic about this game, those who loved it remember their reactions to the setting they were in, the feelings they had inside the narrative, and the difficulties they had with particular aspects of the level design.

These are the things that were translated well, in your depiction. I haven't played it, but I suppose we can take your word for it: the team that made Black Mesa did a good job of replicating the Half-Life experience.
First let me say that I really don't want to be mean here: I'll try to do constructive criticism.

I've worked professionally in the video-game industry and I must say that I'm a bit disappointed by all these blogs / videos trying to promote tools and/or languages by using very poorly conceived games.

Take ChromaShift for example: it's terribly bad. We're in 2013 and the thing draws less "pixels" and yet is slower than any 2D scroller from the 80s running on a C64.

Sure, it was done in 48 hours and kudos for that... But back in the nineties we'd enter 48 hours or 24 hours "demo" competition and come up with stuff incredibly better looking than that.

The author of ChromaShift made a talk about the "Component Entity System" he's using.

And that's where the "suspension of disbelief" simply doesn't work for me: everytime he shows the game, it's freakin' ugly and slow as molasses.

Then comes the disappointment: if you want to run at a reasonable framerate you, of course, need to perform quite some logic in about 16 milliseconds (the author correctly mentions it in its talk).

And... Drumrolls: simply "iterating" over a seq made of a hundred elements in Clojure apparently takes more time than that. Not to mention that if you create objects at every frame then at one point the GC shall have to kick in and your real-time performance will suddenly drop (the author says that in the talk I watched about CES/Chromashift).

But why oh why use a language that is very arguable not meant to write video games in (Clojure) to... write a game in it as an example of what can be done!? (or as an example of how powerful an IDE supposedly is!?)

The "problem" is that they're talking about that "CES" as it was the one way to create games. But how many games written in Clojure have been shipped? Heck, how many games written in Clojure are even playable?

There are, today, lots of people writing games (either professionals or amateurs) and selling them (or giving them away for free).

And not a single one of these game is using that "Component Entity System". And hardly any of them is using Clojure (there may be one or two exceptions but that's about it).

And every single of these real games (even the simplest smartphone game) is looking better and is more responsive than the poor examples we see in Clojure talks.

So how are we, Clojure believers (I'm a big Clojure fan and investing lots of time and energy learning it), supposed to take any of this seriously?

Once again, I don't want to be mean: these guys are typically good programmers but, to be honest, they don't know anything about game programming and that is a bit saddening.

EDIT: I won't even start talking about the "quality" of the "text editor" part of Light Table. I like the concept of LT but I do wan't a client/server mode where I can plug in vim or Emacs (or Sublime Text 2 or whatever) as my text editor. Otherwise I'm never going to take LT seriously.
Silly gits upload private crypto keys to public GitHub projects
The graphic is more US Centric, but at the bottom they link to the raw data:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=vU4rF_2bPVQaftSo1s69...

This breaks down some major countries/regions of the world nicely. (e.g. US 37.7%, 'Other Europe' 16.7%, UK 9.6%, India 7.6% on down)
Those poor IT Support guys that get a call because their small business clients network is going down due to everyone hitting their printer(s) at once because they show up on the first page :-\
People like to be lead. Making decisions is somewhat mentally difficult/draining and people like to be told what to do (I've noticed this in areas like social settings and designing landing pages).
You are typing this on a computer?

Computer electronics have more gold per ton than a gold mine, because of golds physical conducting properties.

So gold is needed to make efficient computers, which can again be used to produce real value in terms of production. I think that is fair to call that intristic value.
I mean, you're justified in a way. I don't think it's fraud though. Consumers are equally complicit.

What I mean by that is that as the buyer of a product, you usually would go out and read the reviews, kick the tires, etcetera. At this time, many buyers of investments didn't do that at all.

Our sales guys didn't understand the product for sure, but if they had a customer who asked the right question they would have arranged a conference call with me or a colleague, no issue. That happened like, one time.

I think the concern that my firm had at this time was principally related to the likelihood that emails like this would hit the public domain at some point.

Edit: shameless plug. My stealth mode thing should change this a little bit (for certain investors).