skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he crossed the line of "merely mocking". Stating something so non-funny and grotesque shortly after a elementary school shooting on a public facebook page is idiotic. Not only is it stupid but he also a young white male (and appears to lack common sense) - why shouldn't it be considered a threat?

Edit - I never said he deserved jail time or the ridiculous bail. I'm simply stating that his words on a public medium should be taken seriously and looked into. I'd expect the same from bomb threats or other terrorist activities.

Devils advocate - if an American Islamist made a comment about bombing ______ but then stated "jk", is it crossing the line? What if they were radical?

It's a slippery slope and I'm not a judge. I'm simply stating that I believe he crossed the line and I'm glad someone looked into it. No, he doesn't deserve to be in jail.
In your comment about the child abuse scandal, you were replying directly to a comment about attempts to shut down the BBC News website; in that context, your comments are going to be interpreted as being about the whole organization, not just about a single issue. In that context, it's not justified to then dismiss counterarguments (for the continued running of the BBC) as unrelated.
The jury isn't charged with "having a clue." It is charged with deciding what happened and who to believe. The judge, the lawyers, and the experts are charged with understanding the problem and spoon-feeding it to the jury. The idea is that if you can't explain to a group of ordinary people why you should win, its hard to say that you really deserve to win. You can call the jury stupid, but stupidity doesn't bias a jury against you. And any other jury would have been just as stupid. With experts its different. You can accuse an expert of being biased or interested (because experts are usually in the same industry as the litigants). You can claim that you would have won, if only you had a different expert.
Not for the kind of applications that this framework is designed to build, so that statement is bound to attract a lot of crows.
Copyright law is fairly standard at an international level, DMCA is US specific, it's a layer on top of copyright law and isn't actually necessary in the majority of cases.

If you use a copyrighted material in a manner you're not licensed to do, you are committing copyright theft in most countries you'd do business with, and that is the legal infringement that would form your case.
Not a good idea to insult the countries your plane needs to fly over while you are asking for their permission.

Now, right after President Morales' plane lands safely in Bolivia ....
Who is "they"? He's the one who, somewhat hilariously, got a note about snooping his messages in his mailbox.
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It's one thing to run off a track onto grass, even if you're flipping and rolling at 180 mph.

It's another to make friendly with a tree at a 100 mph lower speed.

It's not speed that kills, it's the sudden deceleration at the end.
>"While government and large businesses often have 30,60+ day payment cycles, at least your contact will respond to you."

We'd be ecstatic with 30-60 day schedules and I wouldn't consider "Your services are no longer welcome here" to be a desirable "response".

>"This sounds like a different situation."

Obviously.
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I'm not too versed in Node frameworks : is Sails a direct competitor to Meteor ? If so how is it different ?
I've known one of those people that watch those cameras and I'd struggle to call him a pervert. He's was just normal guy who paid his bills by doing an incredibly dull job. All it came down to was making sure that when petty shit happens in the street (drunken fights, etc), the police and so on are called to the scene.

I'm usually someone that's very fond of privacy, but I'm not entirely sure I have any qualms with CCTV in public places and in fact I'd love to hear arguments against them.
While my view isn't exactly unbiased since I do work primarily in the land of .Net, I feel like the world has the tools to move past it. It no longer seems to do anything 'the best' and unless you really need cross-platform compatibility, there are better options.

That combined with some of the blunders associated with it's management and of course, Oracle being Oracle, it's not really as attractive as it once was.

That said, I'd imagine that it will still be around and popular for some time, but I wouldn't be surprised if it fades in popularity.
i remember seeing a few posts about Java 0days a while back.
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> "The whole situation is kind of unfortunate," said New Braunfels Police Lt. John Wells. "We definitely understand the situation that Mr. Carter is in, however he made the comments, and it is an offense. We have to ... protect the general public and specifically, in this case, with it involving schoolchildren, we have to act. We take those very seriously."

It's very tempting to start screen-shotting and reporting Xbox live (and all the rest) comments.

The police have said that they take it very seriously, and that they have to act. Perhaps law enforcement is not aware just how toxic some parts of the online community is, and how many people they'd be locking up.
> why shouldn't it be considered a threat?

Because no matter how shocking or unfunny you personally may find it; it clearly is not a threat?

What is his real crime here, be honest. Offending you?
http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

Some would argue python has entered into more of the mainstream now and the "python" PG refer's to in that article is probably different now (Go, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc. come to mind)

But the spirit of the article is still correct
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Could you not just refrain from writing a return address on your mail? Or instead, put down a false return address?

In that case there'd be no tracking of who is mailing whom, but instead just how many letters someone is receiving.
You are right. No white male has ever suggested eating babies as a form of satire before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
You're assuming that the oversight in the US is a complete sham. So far we have only Snowden's word on that - not documentary proof. In China and Russia, there is mo oversight at all.
This particular linked story really isn't very big news.
Ah great, so I can add keyboard shortcuts instead of fast clicking of ever shifting button locations and obscuring description labels.
Wrt suggestions: I recently became a contributing member of the EFF. This looked like the best move given the recent events.
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I've been not very happy with Gmail's spam filtering, though I admit it's hard to do right. But its false positives were the main reason I moved away from it. The last straw was when they spam-filtered an email from my landlord because it contained some Danish text in it (I live in Denmark!). I eventually found it in my Spam folder (which I thereafter had to check regularly) with the explanation that it was filtered because "It's written in a different language than your messages typically use."
They're in the process of updating the site, so the links will be fixed in the next hour or so. https://www.facebook.com/events/553989834652790/
Well, whenever you write non-trivial code, your code is going to have invariants. These invariants can be partially tested or they can be fully type-checked. The latter is better and cheaper, when available. Haskell makes the latter available far more often, so you don't have to pay for the former. This is not just useful for data structures, but code in general.
It's not as if Bolivia and the US live in a vacuum. The rest of the world can see what they are doing, and they might not be so impressed by it.
expressjs is a more minimalist framework, taking a lot more inspiration from sinatra than rails. This wants to be rails for javascript.

edit: Actually, just checked the package.json, and express is listed as a dependency, (probably for the controller middleware?) so in essence you're using both.
You are correct. The outer shell of the payload peeled off right before the payload, and I had mistaken that for a parachute.
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I would imagine the DoS is half of the benefit. The other half is manufactured reasonable doubt.

If a person were to send periodic letters with real and fake cryptographic messages to random individuals of importance, barring a warrant to read the contents of each letter, that would constitute reasonable doubt as to whether or not that person was legitimately communicating with another person of interest.
Assuming you are in the UK, late payment of an invoice incurs statutory late penalties. Further non-payment can be resolved by small claims court.

On rare occasions when I have been ignored like this, I have sent snail mail saying I will start charging late penalties - as I am legally entitled to - if I don't receive payment within 14 days.

I have never had to wait out those 14 days, so I can't offer anecdote beyond that.

Details: https://www.gov.uk/late-commercial-payments-interest-debt-re...
Are you still dreaming?

These EU nations, France Portugal Italy, you think they would ever give him asylum? Europe is the backwater of the world when it comes to freedom right now. These countries are puppets of US, no more no less than Manchuko was for Japan, Vichy France, Quisling/Norway for Hitler.

If anything, behind the scenes they are running to lick ass of US, running against each other to bring Snowden to their big daddy first.
Yet to our knowledge, the NSA doesn't have read access... until they did a few weeks ago.
Wow ironic sarcasm is punishable with 10 years in prison I didn't know that.
I can tell even without seeing the context.

BTW doesn't this violate freedom of speech? The kid didn't commit any crime he said some stupid things on Facebook as far as I know that shouldn't be a punishable offense.

Or are we becoming like the Minority Report without the time travel?
No. Just no. Market will regulate itself without a collusion.
Why does it matter that he's young, white, or male?

Most people agree that it's stupid and deeply offensive to make that kind of comment.

Where people disagree is with a $500,000 bond; and with a prison sentence; and with jail time; for something that's no more nor less stupid that the stupid shit children do every single day.

EDIT: For the cost spent on him so far we could have shown him his comment, put it in the context of a recent school shooting, explained that some people are scared by that stuff, shown him the costs and process involved in checking if he's a terrorist about to kill a bunch of children and EAT THEIR BEATING HEARTS, asked him to consider his language in public in future, and asked him to talk to the woman making the complaint so she can see he's not going to kill children and he can apologise for scaring her.

That way you get a young man who stands a chance at getting a job in future (because felony convictions tend to affect what people can do) and who doesn't hate law enforcement.

Obviously it doesn't work for everyone, and when it doesn't work you use further measures. Luckily, by doing a bit of triage you have less people in prison and more money to spend rehabilitating them.
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Perfect for making me click the back button when your landing page performs abysmally slow.
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Er, no. At the risk of getting all Primer on this, the hypothetical situation posed allowed for a history where Reader was never invented but somehow magically I retained the knowledge of how Google would have evolved in the (hypothetical-to-them) event Reader had been launched there.

Given that knowledge, I certainly wouldn't choose to build it in today's Google given I'd be armed with data suggesting it would not be supported. This point, while kind of mindless and diverting, doesn't seem very useful, though.

Actually, there's a bunch of causality minefields here; we should both be concerned that we could inadvertently violate Novikov's self-consistency principle. My conclusion is for us to back away slowly from the thread – I don't want either of us to accidentally become our own grandfathers.
Beyond the non-compete clause, there also is usually a "assignment-of-inventions" agreement. Which, to some degree, means if you are in a role where you might "invent" things, anything you think of while at the company is owned by the company whether you told them about it or not. The contracts can get complicated: if you have an idea completely unrelated to the company's business, and can prove you did not use any company or equipment or time, you might be ok.

Saying "I had the idea for Reader but I would not tell Google because they would ruin it, and I would instead quit and form my own company" is exactly what these agreements are aimed at.

http://www.contractstandards.com/document-checklists/inventi...
Don't assume that breaking into his CI instance is easier than breaking into the prod server. It's probably on a private subnet, in the first place.
> General purpose bytecode interpreter, even with JIT, cannot beat optimized thin layer of C code

Are you talking about the JVM or LuaJIT? The OpenResty benchmarks make use of nginx' Lua interface (along with other nginx modules).
My argument is that he is an hypocrite. I'm not trying to disprove his argument. In fact I agree with it 100%.
Piecewise, type-1, Wolter optics. From a useability perspective, I'd love the ability to either draw freehand lines, or splines. Also, a button / key to constantly keep the drawn lines visible would be nice. Amazingly cool little project though. http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgdwEuACQA+wBdAPsA/wAAXQD7AK...
You realize that making bail doesn't mean you don't have to go to trial, right?
Yeah, and collecting payment can be a long, distracting, and expensive process too.
The only way to stop this kind of thing is to restrict the size of your sovereign nation to a size where the citizenry can actually have some idea what their state is doing ... maxing out at a million or so, say: you dont see governments like Iceland or the Swiss cantons acting in this kind of out-of-control manner.
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This is what puts me away from using Qt for Android development.

One of the advices of Google IO this year was to try to keep applications small.

According to Google bigger applications are the ones that get deleted first when space gets short. Most of the time are never reinstalled.
If you think that the kid really presents a threat, he isn't the only one that lacks common sense.

Of course many people don't think his comment was funny, but dark humor's been around for quite a while, and many people do find similar jokes funny.

In the end, if the kid told a bad joke, that's not really grounds for charging him with a felony.
I built a system that generated IIS configuration XML files, and a script to apply/import them on any/all servers in an array. It worked, and was substantially better than using the supplied GUI, but still inferior to editing nginx conf files by hand. These days I wouldn't touch IIS with a [very long object].
I was wondering if all the people that finished the game in less than 4 hours in the other thread were cheating or if I missed something.
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Tell me what you guys thing! Any feedback is appreciated.
I love nginx! I've almost finished a blog series of running Mono on nginx on Ubuntu/Azure.

Awesome stuff!
Remember the rise / fall / rise of java thread a few days back ? Java is discussed on HN. You must have missed the post.
I don't know what his intentions were, adding "lol" or "jk" afterwards doesn't make it go away. Honestly, I do think it was a joke from a dumb kid. I don't think he deserves jail time but I'm glad someone took it seriously enough to look into it.
| We need a check on that power which is not
| technical but enshrined in law - at present
| those laws are being ignored.

We need to fix the problem of laws being ignored with another law?
The statement is correct and it can't be proven as incorrect: "Legal action is underway".
The domain is a variation and I am pretty sure you can't claim it as cyber-squatted.
Overall, it is a pressure tactic, with good chances when dealing with small businesses or individuals.
Wow, this should be top comment. Reading this in school was part of my public education.
I normally would agree with your low valuation sentiments, but the competition is really fierce (Roku, AppleTV, even Ouya) and I haven't seen more than one Boxee out in the wild.
This is not an ease of use problem. Using something like textSecure or redPhone is relatively easy and helps greatly with creating a private channel[1]. But there's still a huge marketing problem.

[1]There's still the problems of metadata and backdoors and of legislation around encryption.
Finally a meaningful statement. I couldn't agree more. However I think that one part of this involves recognizing that the Federal Government is not the US. We as people need to actually use the freedoms we have to build a society that people will want to emulate.

Somewhere along the way we stopped doing that.
Sweet. Although, frankly, I can't believe how much time I've sunk into this game since seeing it on HN the other day.

It would be nice to fix the end game and add better ways of fighting the infernal Ferral Beast. Maybe a laser rifle factory?
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And yet all the anthrax letters get through to their destination and they are clueless for weeks until someone says something.

Makes you wonder what they are really doing with all this data and with the Dark Star.
IIS 7.5 / 8 is pretty good. Some cool features in 8.

Anything below 7.5 I hope I never have to touch again...
None. BBC Worldwide is a separate entity that neither takes money from license fees nor produces anything specifically for license fee payers.
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No it isn't, that was going on all through the Cold War. It's just more efficient now.

This isn't just a government problem either; people in europe are at least as unhappy about firms like Google and Facebook warehousing their data, but at least over in Europe they have robust privacy laws that service providers have to comply with.

See for example these stories, in which (some) American users express puzzlement over Euros' insistence that they are the owners of their personal data:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3127185

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3867166

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3036157

There's a Facebook bias to these because those were the easiest threads for me to remember & get search hits on, but the principles apply to any firm that retains customer data. EU users have a legal right to demand companies divulge all dta stored about them, and insist on its permanent deletion - something that's not available to US users.

Now, you can hardly insist that governments be less powerful than the companies they are supposed to regulate. If you want real privacy, then you need it explicitly stated in law, and structured so that it can't be signed away in exchange for some commercial benefit, much the same as you can't legally sign yourself into slavery; such contractual arrangements are inherently invalid. This is going to require a constitutional amendment, because otherwise companies are going to defend their data hoarding and unilateral exploitation of said data on First Amendment grounds.
at a minimum you should scrape the jobs on the https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs jobs page
> adding "lol" or "jk" afterwards doesn't make it go away.

Make what go away? Even without those words there is clearly no threat. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs their head examined.

> I do think it was a joke from a dumb kid. I don't think he deserves jail time but I'm glad someone took it seriously enough to look into it.

So... you don't think he deserves this, but you are glad somebody is subjecting him to it? Come again?
Or an indicator of a non-deterministic test. Testing date manipulations with any "now" values can lead to fun like this. Add in timezones and the tests will pass in the US and fail in Japan.
Probably because owning a car means you can go anywhere your wallet ($ for gas) and time will allow you to go. Anywhere, any time, with very little hassle. Taxis come close to this, but only in and for (geographically) small areas/trips. Bicycles also come close. Other forms of transit are limited in terms of endpoints (*ports for planes/ferries, stations for trains/subways, stops for buses), time (dependent on the schedule), and may cost more.

Owning a car often gives you a lot of options you don't have without it.

Unless you live in NYC/similar.
If I were in the government of other countries, I'd be setting up more programs to woo technical talent from the US. In Brazil, Rio de Janeiro's Botofogo district is a prime location for tech talent to go to. It's an international city with a great quality of life that Americans tend to love. Berlin is another city that could be actively wooing dozens to hundreds of American developers.

Make it a no strings attached program. All you need to do is move to the country and work with software/hardware. You would be given assistance to either join an existing company or set a new one up. Your choice.
I think so; I've seen similar things, for sure. Obviously Haskell does have the ability to make this distinction; just (unfortunately) it's somewhat incompatible with the standard prelude, and thus common practice.
I consider the memory footprint even more important, though it is hard to find strong relations between APK size and memory use -- except for the "looks like the dev did not care at all" rule.

Regarding APK size, you can do miracles by using ProGuard (even with obfuscation disabled), though it will obviously fail for native code, like in the Qt case.
Except I've never, ever heard of this used to solve a crime.

Definitely never used in court or we'd hear about it but they probably wouldn't risk the constitutionality of that.

So they are just collecting it for the sake of spying on everyone. Lovely.
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That's a satire site.
Not quite what you're talking about, but there was recently a couple of posts by the 'binwalk' author about differentiating encrypted vs compressed data (presumed header-less):

http://www.devttys0.com/2013/06/differentiate-encryption-fro...

http://www.devttys0.com/2013/06/encryption-vs-compression-pa...
We would certainly like to include that configuration. If you have time and are willing to contribute, we'd love to receive that as a pull request.
i promise you one thing: eu soil isn't really better. they exchange (or at least want to and i don't see those fascists not doing it) air passenger data with foreign countries without your or my consent.
My whole statement was meant to point out that Europeans are also to blame for not taking responsibility for their own affairs; there are no free lunches anywhere. Taking all that money and using America's army has definitely contributed to economic growth in Europe. The cost of that is you have situations like what is happening now. My whole statement was designed to point the outrage that the OP had was misplaced.
I believe he's refering to this

# Create a new user
http://localhost:1337/user/create?name=Fisslewick
(or send an HTTP POST to http://localhost:1337/user)

From: http://balderdashy.github.io/sails/
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