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I suspect that I'm not making myself clear enough.

I don't disagree with you that computer crimes are prosecuted in a crazy way and that it's unclear that the legal community has a technical proficiency adequate to make the sorts of fine grained judgements necessary to identify "good guys" from "bad guys" (and all of the myriad shades of grey) so they tend just to throw the book at people. This is less a persecution than it is a lack of understanding imo.

Regardless of all of that, what I am saying is that the sort of crime that Aaron Swartz was accused of is not the same sort of crime that defacing a government website is.

As a consequence the nature of the protest that Aaron Swartz engaged in versus whoever has hit this particular site are materially different.

So when people say that Aaron Swartz was persecuted, I am sympathetic, but I genuinely think that things got crazy out of hand and under other circumstances would not have (which is why MIT's role in this is one worth identifying and engaging with).

On the other hand, if someone were to say that going after the guys who hit the ussc.gov site is persecution? That's not persecution. That's going after someone who's trying to commit a crime and actual inconvenience (however negligible it is) to others.
It was ok to offer a discount for cash, but it was not ok to have a surcharge for credit cards - and now it becomes ok to have such a surcharge.

Yes, these things are mathematically equivalent. And yet, that's what the law said.
n for next match, N for previous match.

In combination with this it's almost as effective. Personally I'd use ctags and the http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/tagsrch.html#tag-comma... search functionality of the tags. But I'll give you that normal text searching in emacs is a tiny bit more efficient :)
Many friends and relatives of mine are teachers.

My mother fought both the district and the union. Her specialty was learning disabled kids. Non standard everything. In a world that demands standardization.

I'm very pro labor, pro teacher, but have many grievances with the teachers unions. Like every other self-preserving group (cops, gangs), they can't show weakness.

I get it. I have many union friends. They're assaulted from every side. All sorts of contradictory demands, without any concessions or compromises offered.

I believe in my heart the only way for teaching to be reformed is for the teacher unions to get out in front of the reform issue, instead of digging in. Like the french cliche, Do or be done.

Unfortunately, there are few professions more susceptible to fads than education. "Reform" for most teachers is "Been there, done that, it sucked. Just let me get back to teaching."

Meaning there'd be near zero consensus on a reform platform.
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nice post bro, are you on twitter?
If you are happy where you are right now (one has to be always, because the possibilities are endless); and if where you are right now is a sum total of everything that has ever been before (which it is); then how can you ever regret anything that happened ever before?
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Do you really think merchants who go through the effort of adding a credit card surcharge are going to pass up the opportunity to undercut the cash prices of the merchants down the street who skip adding one?
- Managing interests was a bit hard too find
- Adding an interest tag is not that intutive as I would click Submit button instead for hitting Enter key to make it a tag first
- Despite setting up a few interest keyword nothing gets found
Award a bachelor's degree based on knowledge, not credits - what a novel idea :)
Eugene Volokh's take: http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/25/man-who-took-off-his-shirt-...
If there was a programming language named Law it would be a freaky beast.
They already set aside huge swaths of the constitution for "national security".

I think their argument is "what's a little more violation?"

United States has had a very large constitution-free zone for many years - people who have been stopped for border-searches hundreds of miles inland already know this.

http://www.aclu.org/constitution-free-zone-map
We will fix nothing if we don't change the OS on that we are running...

OS = what we see(input) and what we do with that knowledge(output)

We can Install this software and this firewall and this make things easy tool but at the end we still are on the same OS.
It seems like an interesting idea. I don't have experience selling websites like this, but I know that ebay have a websites for sale section. It might be worth trying to sell it there??
I can't decide whether I should googleably post the name of the Uni, partly because, despite the negativity in my comment, I had a blast there. The campus was beautiful and staff and professors were very knowledgeable and helpful. I learned a lot, but unfortunately you didn't need to if you didn't want to. In fact, I seem to recall my classes were only a pass/fail basis as well, so a D was the same as an A.

It was in Cairns, which actually narrows it down quite a bit if you want to google it.
I was referring in particular to the "small schools" initiative: http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/18/gates-foundation-schools-op...
IIRC it is against merchant agreements (or maybe that was paypal). Just like asking to see a ID if the back of the card is signed. A lot of places do both because a) they don't actually read the contracts they sign and b) they don't care: the "small business owner makes up his own rules" attitude.

There's a grocery discount chain by me (Woodmans) that simply doesn't take credit cards because of the fees. If you want to pay by plastic you will pay by Debit Card with PIN. Walmart's discount chain (Sam's Club) has the same policy except for MasterCard.
Out of interest, are you from NJ (or another full-service state)? I noticed this a lot in NJ but not in Massachusetts. I think it's because in MA I have to go inside to pay cash, which is a much bigger hassle than simply putting my credit card into the pump.
That is because you are signed into YouTube using your Google account and not a YouTube account. If you create a YouTube account that you sign into using your Google account you would be prompted to update to Google+ but would not be required to.
Automated interventions should be tracked as data in the system, so you can set thresholds and create alerts and reports on them just like you can on anything else.

Sometimes things fly under the radar, though, and that's where the dashboard-style "situational awareness" UIs really shine. Typically the people asking for a "dashboard" are executives who really shouldn't care, who only need regular briefings plus an occasional text from someone in operations warning them of a major customer impact. The people who benefit from them are engineers who browse around the system looking for trouble or simply satisfying their curiosity. "The Foo servers handle the Bar requests. I wonder what their typical CPU utilization is. I'll go check one of them... click click click. Whoa, that memory usage doesn't look good. I wonder if it's always like that. click WTF is this erratic sawtooth pattern? Do the other Foo servers have this, too? click click click Yeesh, somebody needs to fix that." That's the ideal case, anyway, if you have a rich UI that is good at presenting pages of data in context that can be understood at a glance, with quick navigation to related data. If the engineer clicks the "CPU utilization" button and gets back a line graph and a table of numbers, with no other context, then the UI is forcing the engineer to have tunnel vision. It should be dashboards all the way down, until the engineer starts running custom queries that the system doesn't know how to provide context for.

But yeah, the chronic restarting scenario should show up in reports and hopefully trigger an alert. I imagine that routine interventions (such as spinning up extra servers for load) and troubling interventions (such as restarting a service) are distinguished in reporting.
>Why exactly does Earth itself have any intrinsic value greater than humans?

If you'd like to be arrogant about it then that's fine. However, we revolve around and are dependent on animals, insects and plants to provide us life.

>We evolved to expand; we're machines to replicate DNA.

You can expand as much as you want. Nature will fight back like it has with adaptive viruses and the Ice Age.

>You may want to save the environment so you can continue to live, but poaching elephants doesn't harm human survivability.

My comment dealt with saving humanity from humans. If you think it's fine to kill elephants while they hold a funeral then you've lost your humanity. Some already have. A bunch of 6 year-olds just got killed and NRA subscriptions went up during that span before any legislation.
So after 1 day of articles, barredo and SoftwareMaven did more investigative reporting than actual news outlets.
I'm a long time reader of HN and I would highly appreciate the support.
"Nefarious actors." Judge seems to be unfamiliar with the TSA itself.
I am from NJ :) But this is in Houston, TX -- No full service here.
Love what you guys are doing. Crazy quick turnaround on customer/developer support too. I found an issue in the python API and it was fixed and pushed within a couple hours.
Yep. Technically I could lie about all of that, but a gov issued ID is 100% factual and has my photo. Also, this suggests requiring a birth certificate in some situations which is even more extreme.
The prosecution wanted 6-7 years if it went to trial. According to Jennifer Granick the sentencing guideline (assuming trumped-up loss calculations) would have been on the order of 1-2 years. There were a couple of plea bargains on offer, the worst of which was 6-8 months.

If it came to the judge+jury deciding it would likely have been on the order of 1-2 years.
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Do you have a link that elaborates on N. Zaka's architecture?
Although technologically these are videos with a time limit, in terms of how people are using them, I think they're closer to the aesthetic of animated GIFs. If you wanted to recreate what people are doing with animated GIFs (short, looping videos), but with smoother playback, Vine isn't a bad approximation. I forget where I saw it, but someone called it "gifboom for adults" [1].

[1] http://gifboom.com/, a mobile app for taking short videos as animated GIFs, popular among Tumblr users
Sounds like http://reddit.com/r/todayilearned/

Basically, "I found an interesting article on Wikipedia".
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I think the app itself should be installable through bluetooth.
if another user doesn't have this app installed,
the app should be able to transfer its apk package to the user via bluetooth.
Those big companies wrap their purchasing of grain with their websites, services, and hedging. I wish you luck, but the bundling of services has been going on for years.
The Fed is using quantitative easing to lower market interest rates because their typical lever against market interest rates--the interest rates of short-term U.S. Treasuries--was already effectively zero.

They were already effectively zero because there has been such strong demand for U.S. Treasury bonds from customers both domestic and foreign, which was my point at the beginning.
In the past, the foundation has explicitly stated that they are not looking to fund clinics and specific work. While that kind of charity provides immediate help to people, it does not provide any long-term solutions.

Bill Gates does not have unlimited money. The $40BN or so they manage is not enough to really make an impact if they focus on immediate solutions like helping individual cases. They need to use the money to research better ways and change how governments handle things so that the overall system will be better.

While it's sad about what happened to your nephew, it's much more sad if such diseases remain expensive and difficult to treat and more people suffer in the future. Unfortunately, it is not worth unlimited amount of money to save one child's sight.

Do the math. If the Gates foundation spent $100,000 to help one person out, they'd be able to only help about 400,000 people. That, in the scope of things, is not a whole lot of impact. Their current plan will have far more impact.
This year, 2013 has a lot of good stuff in store us developers, and there are a number of technologies coming down the pipeline that have the potential to radically transform how we use and develop for the Web.
I'm wondering if there will ever be a way to categorize it by country or subject (/wtf, /aww). Also suppose some people will do vines stringed together where they'll tell a story via several vines. Surely some art will come of this.
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Its not only Hotel Tonight that does that, even priceline's negotiator, hotwire's hot deals and travelocity's last minute discounts. It wasn't something new that HotelTonight tried, but by creating an app for a narrow vertical 'discount rooms for tonight', they attracted lot of people's attention.
This article misses one interesting point. Tizen, Firefox OS, Ubuntu Linux and Open WebOS are all HTML5 based OSes, most if not all of the apps are web apps.

I doubt that companies with large investments in browser technology like Google, Apple and Microsoft could just fall overnight when the potential threat is something they help create.

Google most of all as they already have an HTML5 focus OS, how difficult would it be for them to make a mobile version or add compatibility with it's apps into Android?
We need Earth until we can survive without it. We're a long way from that point.
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I don't want any reforms that come from blackmail and extortion. Any good that they would do would be wiped out once the really powerful extortionists show up.

By all means, though, let's see what's in those files.
Thanks.

Yea, that was quite the leap. I see privatization equated with competitiveness all the time. (As those the bidding process isn't an insider rigged game, but that's whole 'nother issue.)

I'm pleased that charter school led to greater diversity and choice in your district. Like they say, YMMV.

In the reports I've read, charter schools have been selectively admitting students, cherry picking, excluding the low potential, aptitude students. Reinforcing inequity.

Whereas public schools have to take all students. Different rules, same scoring system. Very unfair.

In my district, we've had short-lived "magnet" programs and schools. They're hugely popular with students and parents. Teachers seem like them too. District administrators hate them. Non standard. Must be closed down. Taylorism redux.

Two of our low income high schools have hugely popular magnet programs. My friends that teach at those schools say that it creates a class (caste) system, like two schools in one. The smart, rich, mostly white students in the gifted programs. The rest in the remedial programs. The two groups rarely commingle. (I used to volunteer in the classroom, I've seen this firsthand.)

I find that so weird. So much wasted potential.

Whatever the current situation, there's huge money being poured into our local pro-charter school campaigns. So whereas our district foolish tried to culled diversity, maybe we'll eventually get it with new charter schools. That'd be ironic.

Thanks for replying.
Keep it simple until it has to get complex. Have all partners contribute cash proportionally to their share in the business thus keeping the split constant.
Such fun to watch these lil videos go by. I love seeing people doing creative stuff with it —- so many fun stop motion dealies, like this one: http://vine.co/v/b5lTOtK3ELU

Before this, my basic reaction to vine was: "Oh great, another social network." But… now I can see why it's exciting.

The potential here for the cross-section of tiny slices o' life reminds me of the potential that amazed me about Twitter, which led to me designing Twistori:

http://twistori.com
If we're going to use IRL analogies then what's the legal penalty for repeatedly breaking&entering 3-4 different times, and then for each time he broke the lock, { trespassing more a 100,000+ times, and stealing an item of little to no cash value 100,000+ times }?

People keep acting like this was simply and only about some JSTOR articles, but this was about more than that, he was on a network that he didn't have permission to be on, and used the cloak of that network access to grab things of little to no value without permission, and he did this over a long period of time.
The only measure of teacher performance is student achievement. But with so many factors beyond the control any teacher or group of teachers, it's patently unfair to judge teachers.

This is why you use VAM rather than simple test scores. You build a statistical predictor of how a given group of students should perform, measure how they actually perform, and the teacher's score is (actual - predicted).

The outsourcing of education is just a way to divert money meant for the classroom towards cronies.

Employees of public education system are the cronies you speak of. Consider the recent presidential election - the education industry funneled $21M to the candidate who wanted to spend more money on public education.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/select.php?ind=W04
"Micro$oft" in this day and age? It's time to move on. (Or at least update to something equally obnoxious but more relevant like "Appl€".)
And this is why I love the US and am a citizen! I can think of almost no other country where such a man would not have been arrested and had no legal recourse.
> The natural question I asked is "Why are you having kids you can't afford?" The question wasn't asked during the piece and it's something that isn't asked worldwide.

You are misusing the word “natural” there…

It could be from no access to contraception or abortion, either due to lack of wealth or social precepts? Social mores that disparage men who don’t have kids? Lack of biological and statistical understanding of how sex and procreation are related?

Even in the West, it was only until recently (the Enlightenment, maybe?) that the notion of “choosing to have children” even existed. It was either considered an uncontrollable instinct or something influenced by divine providence, with the actual question of sexual behavior being dodged outright.
Get the audiobook -- AUDIO BOOK -- of When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron. It totally saved my regretful ass. The thing about regret is your natural reaction is to run away from it, but that only makes it worse. And it makes you feel like a coward. So whenever you think of something you regret, whenever it pops into your mind, you start running, and that creates this unbearable vicious cycle. This audiobook is the first major step to breaking the cycle and eliminating regret.

This is always my go-to recommendation for friends who are hurting, and without fail, if they listen to it and try it, they tell me it's been transformative for them, too.

BTW, I had a LOT of things to regret (most of them a lot, lot worse than the list you shared with us… not to trivialize yours, but I was reliving the ways I'd hurt people badly and caused disasters that effected them 5, 10 years before).
> Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support.

Imposing arbitrary contraints is very common in poetry, which often requires the writer to use a particular verse form, and other creative endeavors[1]. So even if that's all they do, it could be worthwhile.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing
Someone doxxed her right here on HN and suggested it would be a shame if people were to do something bad with that information. There's far worse than can happen as a result of this mob than losing her job.
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That's an excellent point. Would you have any advice/thoughts on how to license software in those countries with the same effect as public domain, and also how to plan ahead so that it eventually becomes public domain?
Well, I can't think of anything which will convince people to moderate their opinions about computer "hackers" better than website defacements and threats.
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"No, no. It's all done with algorithms."
Yea, well, I really liked this, and I think it's something that I may go back to as a voyeristic peek into the lives of people I will never meet. It feeds these 6 second videos into my brain without me thinking or installing the google earth plugin. I have no interest in seeing 5 minutes of crappy video of someone's boring life, but a 6 second peek is pretty engaging.
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its a clever trick to "simulate" a feeling of "float:left",
how about doing away with the float:left completely?
"No, no. It's all algorithms."
Great job. Maybe you could also use Foodspotting api to get awesome images of food.
Manning is a Private First Class (E-3) in the U.S. Army, he's better off than someone in a ghetto I guess but he had no better socioeconomic standing than many other individuals who can commit computer crime.

His infamy is due to the particulars of his case and because the hacktivists have latched onto him as a rallying point because of the association with WikiLeaks.
Resources are depleted by rich westerners. These are not the people dying from starvation.
"Bill Gates is trying to solve hard problems and people here are complaining."

If you actually look at KIPP (the main education reform that Bill Gates advocates), it seems more like an effort to basically enslave low-income minorities rather than a real attempt to improve education. I think there is actually pretty good reason to complain about this.
...hugely popular magnet programs...creates a class (caste) system, like two schools in one. The smart, rich, mostly white students in the gifted programs. The rest in the remedial programs...So much wasted potential.

How so? It sounds as if the students capable of handling high level work are receiving it. Similarly, the students needing remedial help are also receiving it.

Would it be better if students who can't do long division were dropped in a calculus class, or students who are capable of doing calculus were bored re-learning long division?

What is the potential you believe is wasted?
I'm personally quite content to pay people to stay home.

I got to layoff the under performers on my team. Productivity soared. The whole time, it would have been cheaper for me to pay them to go away.

More seriously...

Humans are hard wired to punish cheaters. It can go wrong. But preventing it is also counter productive. My hope (optimism) is that with greater transparency, we'll have better feedback loops, to better identify and mitigate the cheaters.
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