skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Graffiti carries a maximum of a one year sentence. See the update from the City Attorney:

1. This is a graffiti case where the defendant is alleged to have engaged in the conduct on 13 different occasions. The trial judge has already held that, under California law, it is still graffiti even if the material can be removed with water. Most graffiti can be removed. Also, the judge and a different pre-trial judge held that the First Amendment is not a defense to vandalism/graffiti.

2. The defense is trying to make this case into a political statement, which it is not. This is just one of some 20,000 criminal cases that are referred to us annually by the police department. We have prosecutors who decide whether to issue cases. They are professionals. The City Attorney was not involved in deciding whether to issue this case as is typical practice in prosecution offices for most cases. He hadn't heard of this case until it was in the media.

3. The defense is whipping up hysteria about the prospect of 13 years in custody. This is not a 13 year custody case. It is a standard graffiti case compounded by the fact that the defendant is alleged to have done it on 13 separate occasions. Because there were 13 different occasions when the defendant allegedly engaged in the conduct, the law requires them to be set out separately in the complaint. This increases the maximum sentence, but it still is a graffiti case and nothing more. The courts routinely hear graffiti cases and handle them appropriately using judicial discretion.

4. It is not unusual for victims to contact police or prosecutors about a case. Our prosecutors are trained to focus only on their ethical standards in deciding whether to file a case.

5. We prosecute vandalism and theft cases regardless of who the perpetrator or victim might be. We don't decide, for example, based upon whether we like or dislike banks. That would be wrong under the law and such a practice by law enforcement would change our society in very damaging ways.
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This seemed like a key omission when comparing IIT to Harvard. As for self-selection, it seems that developed countries have more options for viable education, and a more independent youth at that age, thus it becomes possible for future students to spread more evenly across the system. Not something that's possible at this point in the developing world, where these kids carry a much bigger weight on their shoulders.
Let's assume Netflix can't operate without some form of copy protection on their streaming videos.

Can someone explain, clearly and unsensationally, why this is ok when done with plugins like Silverlight, but not ok when done using DRM in HTML5?

I'm actually looking for an explanation.
You can't hide a key for long. And you can't encrypt a key without another key.
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Human enhancement: does nature know best?
No, I don't want anybody to give a damn about what percentage I belong to, just as I don't give a damn about what percentage they belong to.

The basis of a lawful society is that the law gives people incentive to obey it, by punishing people who disobey. It makes the individually pragmatic coincide with the greater good. I never said that disobedient individuals will not be punished. I only said that they have the right to try not to be punished (as in Hobbes's example of the death penalty). But in the end, what they want might not matter because the state is vastly more powerful than any single individual. An important feature of a lawful society is that the law tends to win. But might doesn't make right. The Mafia always tends to find you in the end.

What happens when everyone willingly defies the law and gains the power to evade punishment? Anarchy? No, just a momentary revolution and then back to order. For most people, extreme disorder just isn't a rational choice. Political instability causes stock prices to go down, right? Who wants that? So there will always be a (more or less) lawful society, regardless what anyone thinks about its legitimacy. Anarchy is a fictitious threat that friends of the establishment tend to wave in the air when they feel threatened, that's all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
It doesn't accept, not sure what the queue length is, either 100 or 1k as a guess.
You should only be able to use the "principal" pun once per article.
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We don't know the edge yet. we are discovering it. It's a frontier. So how do you cross something that you don't even know the size of. All the announcements are of different definitions of the edge. There are many edges.
Yes, C, my own implementation. What is the "right" stuff for low-latency high-contention message passing?
I think it offers the same functionality: you can create new types from any source you want. This includes everything from automatically parsing and loading database model files in your path to adding structural subtying as a library feature. It also integrates with the tooling, although I only ever used it from Emacs and so didn't see that myself.

The API for actually using the open type system was quite awkward and undocumented back when I used it, but it's probably improved by now.

My main language is probably Haskell or maybe OCaml. We don't have anything quite like that, but we can get quite far just with Template Haskell or Camlp4. E.g. I'm sure I could implement the regular expression example with a Template Haskell quasiquoter. Maybe not quite as slick, but certainly serviceable. I also don't know about tooling support because I'm still using Emacs for everything :P.
A booming sector in the U.S., a huge opportunity outside the U.S.
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> Firefox's declining market share over this period is very good evidence

The only evidence we have is that Google's marketing team has been very effective at advertising Chrome. :-P

> Many of us long-time Firefox users have actually found the past three years to be the worst so far, in terms of design.

I'm not sure why you think you can speak for many Firefox users.

> rush to copy Chrome in appearance and behavior

I'll quote myself from a different discussion [1]:

Outside of manilla folder-like tabs and a panel menu, Chrome is given far too much credit in innovating the direction of browser UI. Tabs on top is an objectively better UI choice [2]. The download manager is an original Firefox design [3] and almost anything else that other browsers have adopted (tabs on top, start page tiles, etc) is all from Opera.

> now it's declining because it's providing a worse experience, and the recent changes clearly haven't been helping the situation.

FWIW, Firefox has held steady over the past year hovering around 20% according to Net Applications [4], and they even had a small uptick in the past month. In any case, I am confident Firefox lost users because of Chrome's superior performance and snappy behavior, not because of UI changes. I think projects like MemShrink [5], Project Snappy [6], and the revived Electrolysis [7] will go a long way towards improving Firefox's performance. Will those changes be too little too late? Who knows. Will the upcoming Australis design be the last straw if your theory holds true? That's up for debate.

I've recognized your handle on other Mozilla/Firefox related posts on HN and your comments seem to be universally negative [8]. Have you had a bad experience with the community? I understand strong dislike for a company or product, but it just seems...difficult to hate on such an underdog like Mozilla. :-P

/says self-declared Mozilla fanboy

[1]:http://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1fhgak/mozilla_plea...

[2]: https://blog.mozilla.org/faaborg/2010/06/24/why-tabs-are-on-...

[3]: http://limi.net/articles/safari-downloads/

[4]: http://www.netmarketshare.com/

[5]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink

[6]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy

[7]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

[8]: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=firefox+P...
Unfortunately, the damage is already done. MSM has a much wider reach than WL's twitter, and the net effect of this "FBI press release" picked up and run as journalism will be that fewer people will trust WL to not have internal government moles and be able to protect source identities.

Now that they're helping Snowden, they are whatever the military intelligence equivalent of Scientology's famous "Fair Game" policy is. They can do whatever they want to smear and discredit them, insofar as they don't get caught with their hands dirty. Unfortunately, for these people, the delusional ends justify the underhanded means.
> I'd love to see some statistics on what kind of effect a half hour per employee per month does for overall happiness and employee retention.

I would too, and here's some anecdata for you: one of my old bosses would conduct weekly one on one meetings with all of the developers on his team (anywhere from 4 to 8 of us at different times) and I'd have to say that personally they were some of the best manager-direct experiences I've ever had since.

One on one meetings are one of the most important tools out there for helping organizations build relationships with their people, helping them produce more results, as well as increase retention.

Anybody interested in starting them at their organizations should check out the manager tools website. They produce several weekly free podcasts as well as offer other products and services.

https://www.manager-tools.com/docs/Manager-Tools_One_on_One_...

http://www.manager-tools.com/2005/07/the-single-most-effecti...
"Students pay subsidized tuition at a fraction of the real cost of their education. The Indian government subsidizes over 80% of the costs of the IIT, with alumni donations only accounting for under 3% of the system’s budget. “While the total government funding to most other engineering colleges is around $2-4 million per year,” a critical article writes, “the amount varies between $18-26 million per year for each IIT.”"

I dont get why the Indian government will spend millions on subsidizing and educating its students and then allowing them to migrate to USA - if that occurred in the USA there would be an uproar on why the government is using the tax-payers money to fund another country's workforce. Something the Indian tax-payer needs to think about, eh?
JIT? ...as soon as I get over my perfectionism long enough to finish the parser :)

I'd enjoy being on a project like that. Can I send you an email?
It's simply useful in this case since it's the 4th of July, and people are protesting to protect 4th amendment rights. But yes, I generally agree with you.
Bing map link:

http://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=t7w5h9m5bpv2&sty=b&lvl=18
Content publishers tried to get DRM into broadcast television (the "broadcast flag"). They failed, and now they broadcast everything in the clear. In that case, there was a bunch of push-back against DRM. But Netflix and Microsoft aren't pushing back against web DRM; they're just rolling over and implementing it.

So digital broadcast television started with publishers demanding DRM, and then giving up on it (and realizing that it wasn't actually necessary). The exact same thing happened with music. And it's happening with ebooks too. But for some reason, you think that web video is different? And you advocate giving up on it without any real fight.
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Seems like my memory is playing tricks on me. I thought I remembered Jobs crediting Ive with the look of Aqua during the announcement.
Most of that is true, but I'm somewhat skeptical of #5. A lot of people write on sidewalks with chalk, and most are not charged with vandalism. I wrote on sidewalks with chalk when I was a kid, and not only on the sidewalks in front of my parents' house. Technically, I got away with a crime. It's not a huge stretch to suspect that the reason for the prosecution in this case is the contents of the chalked message, rather than the mere fact of chalking.
I might have to look into this visual studio plugin, thanks.
This is shameful..

I've been caught by cops twice with chalk. In Berlin I drew a silly heart flying above clouds. at night while talking on the phone and paying zero attention to anything else for like an hour, as somone taps me on the shoulder and says "don't be scared, plainclothes police". I told them what it was and that it was chalk, one tested it with his finger, and then when I took a photo of it he even said "oops sorry" for having smeared it a little before I could take that photo. Friendly doesn't even come close to describe it, it was unreal. They said I should wash it off, because if it was still there the next day, the owner might complain to them and then they would have to act. They also asked why I did it, I truthfully answered "heartache", they wished me good luck and we parted with ^_^ faces.

The second time was in South Germany, in a rather rich little town, where I basically attempted to fill out with chalk a red heart outline someone else had sprayed there (onto a the wall of a small bank, too). They were all "well well well, look what we have here", and even took my chalk to "send it to the state attorney's office for analysis". But 1-2 hours later they called me up and asked the same thing the Berlin cops asked of me: just wash it off and it never happened. I guess they realized that in this case it just wasn't worth the paper work, or needlessly mean - but their first instinct was of the stereotypical bored police who found someone they could have authority over.

I get that a heart is different than words (though it really depends on the words, doesn't it). But still. It's chalk... CHALK! Is it a wonder we can't have nice things, when people are afraid of chalk more than of locking someone up? Seriously, wat? Even the silliest Javascript quirks make perfect sense in comparison.

And to think, I actually tried to encourage others, for a while I was convinced everybody should carry chalk with them and paint little things everywhere. Oh well, don't try this in police states I guess. Oh, I know, people like to say it's not their decision, it's the law, yadda-yadda, but that's just not true:

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. --- George Bernard Shaw

The same goes for rather innocent people, and prison or fines instead of death. Saying it's okay per definition because it's on the law books doesn't make it okay, it makes you a you-know-what.
It's WWDC, and from that point of view we got a new iOS, a new Mac OS X, and new Macbook Airs. That's not bad by WWDC standards.
What is even more depressing is this:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/exclusive-documents-illumi...

I wonder who gave buzzfeed secret documents to make Ecuador look bad? Sigh..
The good part of the story was Ecuador's response.
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Good grief, I always forget how misleading the WSJ is.

"Gov'ment causes those poor helpless colleges to overcharge."

Bullshit.

The growth in the cost of college is tied to big fat administrator salaries. It is control fraud pure and simple. To paraphrase, the best way to rob a college is to run one.
That's exactly what I was getting at.

But also making a more general point against those kind of threats.

How am I not getting it?
Perhaps someone ought to add session ticket support to OpenSSL for using some of the latest fast in memory-only databases.

If I were a company which made such a database, I'd think that kind of project would give me very good exposure.
Actually building and running the thing, though, seems to be quite tricky - app engine forbids importing syscall, but half of the dependencies of this app seem to import syscall.
Obama Administration Collected Americans' Email Records for 2 Years
Senate Approves Overhaul of U.S. Immigration Laws
PayPal looks to conquer space (payments)
How Far Will Browsers Go
Christ on a cracker. This is exactly what I've been hoping someone would make. Loaded all my feeds, without crashing. Keyboard shortcuts and working folders. And everything happens when you click on it, not 3 seconds later.

Where do I give you all my money?
Google is developing an Android-based video game console
So you're saying if we didn't have government guarantees on student loans or any other form of government subsidy, banks would just give 20somethings who want art degrees $200,000 completely unsecured?
Edward Tufte forum: iPhone interface design
That's precisely what he argued though: "A 2010 study by the Goldwater Institute identified "administrative bloat" as a leading reason for higher costs. The study found that many American universities now have more salaried administrators than teaching faculty."

What's more he doesn't propose eliminating federal aid or loan guarantees, he advocates letting you discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy and putting colleges on the hook for some percentage of that default.

Sounds like a great idea to me. Schools that equip their students for well-paying jobs have nothing to fear, but diploma mills out for easy loan money will suffer.
"That s— is classified for a reason. It’s not because ‘oh we hope our citizens don’t find out.’ It’s because ‘this s— won’t work if iran knows what we’re doing."

People change, but Snowden isn't one of them. Everything he has released so far has nothing to do with Iran, and is exactly the "we hope our citizens don't find out" type of thing.
I don't think they are condemned to mediocrity just because IIT didn't select them. You will find far more non-IITian indians making impact in the world if you look for them. Just like not all fortune 500 CEOs come from Harvard, not all great engineers and scientists come from IIT.
I don't know enough details to actually judge the judge one way or the other, but in theory it would be entirely appropriate for a judge to say this if the first amendment was not relevant to the defendant's guilt or innocence and bringing up the First Amendment would only confuse the jury.

I am not a lawyer, but if the judge was wrong that the First Amendment is not relevant to the crime and the law Olson is being charged under, then the defendant should be able to make that case in appeal (i.e. that the defendant was guilty of the crime, but that it is unconstitutional for this to be a crime).

It is someone of a legal philosophy debate: is the role of a jury simply to return a verdict of guilty or not guilty, or does the jury have the right to decide on the law itself?

In modern legal practice in the US, the law itself is not argued before the jury. What the judge seems to be doing here seems to be standard legal practice.
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They didn't shut the service down, they wiped the server. They could have suspended it and given me a few days to restore. This is sort of like "I didn't pay my phone bill on time, so my carrier removed my phone number".
How does that help get us closer to our Constitutional rights again? The Fourth Amendment (with its strong emphasis on the right of a person to be secure in their own home i.e. property) is contradictory to the idea of communal ownership of all property.

As far as ownership of business property, you could form a co-op or other employee-owned company structure today if you wished.... but the government won't force you to structure your business that way, either.
I hear you on that, but a suspension would have been more reasonable. Suspend the account and give me 3 days to repay or something. It's good business for them because they would keep me as a customer, and its a real alarm to me. They did not mention deleting data anywhere.
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Assuming 3:1 compression our 1 zettabyte (or 1,000,000,000 terabytes) of data becomes 333,333,333.33 TB.

Using a nice IBM 4 TB tape we need 83,333,333.33 tapes for 1 zettabyte.

I still find the 5 zettabyte figure hard to believe.

But searching for tape does start producing a lot more government-like language and documents. Knowing that there is a "Summary Of Non Confidential Information On U.S. Magnetic Tape Coating Facilities" makes me want to read the confidential version.
Maybe it's always been this way and I am just realizing it, but MSNBC has went to hell. Like you said, Chris Hayes is one of the only progressives on mainstream TV to actually standup for Snowden. Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnel, they're nothing but Obama apologists. I hope that Chris maintains good ratings because television really needs him. I've been watching way more independent sources now such as Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. Really great program and they have a podcast.

Edit: For those who haven't seen his program, here's Chris Hayes at his best. (From today, June 27th, 2013)

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-hayes-absolutely-nails-hypo...
It is criminal that serious student-loan reform isn't on the table. As a recent graduate making monthly payments towards a 5-figure principal, I say fuck capping the interest rates. Please cap tuition and fees.

Don't give me that BS about how universities need the money.

During undergrad, I squatted in a 600 sq. ft. apartment shared with 3 other people. I seriously doubt my health is unaffected by the mold, mildew, vermin, etc. I had to live with every day.
Across the street was the president's mansion(!). He had a team of gardeners, fountains, a gilded mailbox, and some pretty nice carS in the driveway. His army of administrators never worked a minute after 5:00, as evidenced by the steady stream of Bimmers, Benzes, and Lexuses that poured out of the administrative building's parking lot every day at 5:01 pm. Oh BTW, their building was the only one on campus with glass doors, bronze handles, oak furniture, marble floors, etc.

Trim the fat, and make the university answer to a more sane market force.
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Most banks/credit unions that aren't giant or don't have old legacy systems tend to use outsourced core software from one of a few vendors, like Jack Henry or FiServ. Banks/CUs can outsource their Internet banking for roughly $1/ account per month for a hosted solution.
Suspension is temporary. Termination is permanent.

Suspending = we're freezing your server until you pay.
Termination = we're deleting it permanent.

There was no reason they couldn't suspend it and let me know. Termination was going too far.
…and that's just for the Solar system, an incredibly busy region by space standards.
You know what? Let's get together and do something about this. Precisely what, TBD at a meeting: http://www.meetup.com/Hack-Government-Bay-Area

Join if you're in the area, start a parallel group otherwise.
No, for me it would have to be Daniel Suarez' Daemon. Then I could skip over the forgive part, since many alphabet agencies may be rendered obsolete... And all spammers would have ceased or been desisted.

Good story, if you haven't yet read/heard it.
Nope, no snapshot.
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This sounds like a red herring to me. Why did you just stop at 50 years? Why not go all the way back to the first recorded instance of slavery? That would make your argument even stronger.

Fact is that the reversal of anti-GBLT laws accelerated immensely in the last few years -- maybe even just the last decade. We're not talking 50-year scales for major societal changes anymore.
We guess Sparrow (acquired by Google now) just started a paper plane trend!
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