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After attending the closing arguments, I wrote an article: http://indyreader.org/content/thoughts-attending-bradley-man...

The prosecution claimed that using wget was an unauthorized access under the cfaa because, direct quote I wrote down, Manning was: "only allowed to view one document at a time using a web browser."

To emphasize how scary hackerish wget was, they said that someone: "could not see wget from five feet away. It is a command-line program...it can run in the background."

To talk about how Manning was clearly a hacker, they explained how he:

* "used wget to create functionality that did not exist";

* "had to program wget—wget did not have a GUI, therefore it was not as simple as double-clicking"

* "had to research how to program wget" (by which they meant forensic evidence that he had consulted the wget man page!!)

They also mentioned that there was forensic evidence he had searched google for "computer programming".

That's just wget. In addition, they claimed that writing a VBA macro in Excel to bulk download contact info from Outlook was also a CFAA violation, because Outlook didn't offer a mass export function, so writing a VBA macro (in another part of the Office suite!) was a CFAA violation.

Yeah, scary stuff. Manning was convicted of the CFAA charge by the judge.
The unreleased MMOs you can play early today
I haven't clicked through, but only the government (via prosecutors) can charge anyone with criminal offenses.

Additionally, while private people can suggest charges or report crimes, ultimately they have zero say one way or the other if charges actually get filed.

See also: Apple/DoJ/Gawker, ATT/Apple/DoJ/weev, JSTOR/MIT/aaronsw
Does it get more obscure than _why's printer spool documents a couple of months ago?
>"If I defer task X, will it become easier later?"

Delaying pain definitely creates more. Luckily for me this only extends to what's in my fridge:
http://blog.ideasthenlemonade.com/post/54016639958/delaying-...
But what good is a box without any IO? You can just plug it to power and watch it heat up. You don't need an AI for that, you can achieve the same effect with a rock.

OTOH, if you want to do anything useful with an AI, you need to provide it with data (input) and a way to show result (output). And with sufficiently smart AI, per [1] and [2], at this point you're fair game.
That video is right up there with knowing about 83b elections as some of the most valuable information one can possibly possess.

I rewatch it annually and send out mass emails to all my friends and family when I do reminding them to do so as well.
How does it add to the local talent pool? The visa is given to the company, not the programmer, so it's not like the programmer can suddenly work for another local company.

I'm interested to hear your argument about adding to the local talent pool and how you would have just "walked next door" unless the next company had an open h1b position.
Having just graduated from a UK degree in CS i can im not surprised some people cannot do simple tasks like that. University doesn't really prepare you for a certain language or skill, its up to the individual to take that bit of knowledge and apply it further - (in there own time)

Personally i gained more in my own time / placement however university gave me the tools and direction.

I would recommend finding grads that have completed time in industry, the difference between those that did and those that didnt shocked even myself on returning for my final year.

I *would expect to grad to be able to throw and exception and catch them tbh.
Because it was approved by a judge, and is therefore legal prior restraint.
It... actually is pretty much that.
Usually when people talk about Linux, they don't mean the kernel. They mean the kernel and GNU, so Android does not count.
Hey there. I thought i'd be the person to point out since it seems like no one else has.
I suspect you were downvoted because you didn't follow syntax.

See the rules at the top about listing whether you are seeking work or not, which should go something like

[SEEKING WORK] User Interface Designer, 5 Years experience.

Also, probably best to explain further about what you do, and why people should hire you before asking them to visit your site.

This criticism is well-intended, so please don't take it the wrong way. You seem pretty talented. I wouldn't want to see that go to waste. :)
Your DOB and last 4-5 of your SSN matched someone else?

The reason I ask is because rules like this are often used to de-duplicate records. It's not perfect but it is useful, especially when trying to integrate data from more than one system. It's also used quite a bit in fraud detection etc. to find connections in the data.
I could write more but I don't want to. Whether Ubuntu is the best Linux distribution or not is debatable, whether Ubuntu has made or not made significant contributions to desktop Linux is also debatable, saying otherwise is ludicrous. Preference of one distribution over another comes down to personal taste, individual experiences with hardware support and individual experiences with the maintenance of the system. However the marketing effort Ubuntu made is undeniable, I don't remember any other distributions that made such commitment to promoting desktop Linux.
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers (no OCR involved)
There are many perfectly usable, free, desktop environments to choose from on GNU/Linux. I just can't take complaints like this seriously.
SEEKING FREELANCER - LaTeX nerd, remote is fine (I'm based in the UK)

I've been tearing my hair our with a LaTeX template generator and builder. I need help, while I still have some small coverage of my head. I'm looking for someone who knows their way around LaTeX, especially if they have worked with complex nested tabular layouts, UTF8 issues, and so on.

Email me at dave@addedbytes.com for more details.
Is there such a concept in the UK?
Our latest development process increased the quantity & quality of our code.
Side question: how do these people with "only the vaguest interest in his fellow human beings" end up with a wife and three kids? It seems to be a common theme amongst articles like this. They always paint the hero-programmer as some kind of rainman figure and then it turns out he has a loving family. Just the usual fictional press nonsense I guess.

EDIT: should always read on before commenting:

"He married a girl and manages to have three kids with her before he figures out he doesn’t really know her."
I see.
Have you considered changing the value proposition to focus on the problem you're solving as opposed to the actual solution you deliver?

Just a suggestion.
The Benefits of Child Labor.  No, seriously.
Consider the readership that xkcd appeals to...
Saks, originally Proffitt's Inc., was founded in Alabama. They acquired a NYC-based company called Saks Fifth Avenue in 1998, and renamed the company to Saks Inc.
If you can order from Taobao (China) directly, here is the device I bought last week: http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.27.Op5P4y&id... (not affiliated, around $0.8 USD).

Another added advantage in using the device is it can double the current output from my Macbook Air USB port, i.e. from 500ma to 1000ma, so now I can fully charge my Samsung S4 within 4 hrs (as compared to 7-8 hrs previously).
The only way you're going to get a presentation of the government's case is from the court transcript; the prosecution isn't writing articles.

So the court is not releasing public transcripts, but some people organized to crowdfund an independent court recorder.

So here's the prosecution's closing arguments; they are VERY long and repetitive (I was there watching in person, I haven't yet read the transcripts) but burried in here is where you're going to find the prosecution's own presentation of their argument.

MOST of the CFAA stuff is probably in the afternoon session, but there might have been a bit at the end of the morning too.

(AM) https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/sites/default/files/07-25...

(PM) https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/sites/default/files/07-25...

try searching for 'wget' in the PM one. i also recommend searching for "VBA", that part was bonkers too.
I'm not fammilar with British law, but it might be legal prior restraint. Once they publish, they cannot unpublish; and the arguement for censorship is strong enough that the court decided they should wait until a decision is reached, otherwise it would be pointless.
You are wrong. Once you have an H1B -- you do not need a new H1B visa for a new job -- it can be transferred easily to your new employer. There is a grace period of about one month ( maybe more now) and you new employer has to file your paperwork within that time. Been there and done that !

edit: what I meant by transfer is that your new petition is not subject to H1B caps and you don't have to appear before a US embassy right away as one has to for the first time.
How does this case not violate the eighth amendment? Or if not that, basic fucking justice and morality. He's lost everything, spent a year in prison, was acquitted of federal charges, and now is being charged by NY State? The justice system is seriously broken.
Host your own social counter servers
Just want to second the mindfulness meditation suggestion. On it's face, it sounds like new age nonsense, but it's really a mental discipline where you practice keeping your attention in the present. Not thinking about anything is very difficult to do:

http://ideonexus.com/2012/08/27/the-science-of-mindfulness-m...

I also recommend adopting an exercise routine in the morning. I find myself much more productive and focuse during the day if I've gone for a 5k run first thing when I wake up.

Also, consider installing parental monitoring software on your computer. I use the Nanny for Google Chrome plugin to block access to news and other time-wasting sites during the day or limit myself to 10-20 minutes of such sites a day. It's easy to get around (I turned it off to post this comment), but it serves as a reminder to stay focused:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nanny-for-google-c...

Good luck, and don't beat yourself up over this. Perpetual distraction is something I think we are all wrestling with.
That's not called 'sanitizing', it's called 'escaping' and 'encoding'.

The byte sequence I need to store to communicate the name "Kei$ha O'Shaughnessey, Jr." in a UTF-8 JSON string literal, a UTF-8 HTML attribute, a UTF-16 bigendian CSV file, or an ISO-8859 SQL parameter, are going to be different - but so long as all the characters I need to pass are representable in all of those domains all I have to do is perform the correct escaping and encoding. At no point do I need to 'sanitize' the name. It's a name, it's not dirty.

If there are characters there that I can't represent in the target domain, then I need to handle the loss of information.
I'm going to go ahead and file this away as an example of how needless complexity can bite you in the ass. In this case, almost literally.
Personally I would go with Lisp. The symmetry between data and executable code affords flexibility beyond compare. You have a first class suite of tools with Emacs + SLIME + Paredit. You have native deployment on multiple platforms to boot. Can't go wrong.

If you prefer static typing I'd choose C++ over Go. Good old C++ may not be the flavor of the week but it is almost as dummy-easy as Java if you use smart pointers and RAII. It has excellent generics support, something sadly missing from Go. Great mutli-platform native deployment.
This looks like it would do what you want:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/david-toledo/the-practic...
http://healthland.time.com/2011/10/17/study-1-in-6-cell-phon...
> Also, Elon has called Hyperloop 'another type of transport', i.e. nothing like we already use, whereas I would say this idea is just an aircraft with a new type of launch system; not as different as Elon suggests it will be.

I'll stick to my reasoning [1], firmly grounded in poesy, and proclaim this the strongest counterargument (slightly rephrased): Elon is simply too proud to call such a system a 'fifth mode of transportation'.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6117114
Perhaps because even the members of Hacker News live on planet Earth, and this sort of thing affects them, too?
We Can All Resume Googling Backpacks And Pressure Cookers
Employer called police re: pressure cookers, backpacks
Facebook's Mobile Strategy: Inspired by the 1930s?
By the transitive property, and assuming Linux doesn't suck for your purposes (probably a fair assumption), you want Linux to succeed.
Because he pumps a load of cash into it and isn't afraid of new things?

I don't actually like many of the new things, but you can't fault him for having a go and getting some decent results, and (X/K)Ubuntu always looks pretty polished
I agree that he should have done more research before jumping in. A quick Google search for animations of simple two-stroke engines would probably help him get that working in fairly short order.

I disagree, though, about needing to go crazy with the craftsmanship. I mean, if the purpose of this is to build something experimental, or something that could be used to illustrate to kids how an engine works, having it NOT be craftsman-like might help demystify the whole thing.

I really like that he has built it onto a piece of plywood. It reminds me of those old electronics builder kits you could buy at radioshack. Would you want to actually use one of those as a real radio? No. But building a simple radio that actually functions where you can see all the pieces really helps to make it real.

So, from an educational perspective, I think the simplicity of it is helpful.
Thank you, I should have mentioned that Mindfullness is an evidence based therapy for a bunch of things (depression, anxiety) and has also been shown to improve concentration (especially in heavy multitaskers - I believe the study was personal assistants.)
Yes, but they moved to NY in 2007. It’s not an Alabama business. And of course, the name ‘Saks’ comes from the company founded in 1867 in New York City. There isn’t even a 5th Avenue in Birmingham, Alabama. (There's a 5th Avenue in Birmingham, England though)
I hate to recommend this, but my Macbook Air runs Ubuntu pretty much perfectly, and pretty much out of the box.
You still need to get the WiFi itself up to 1Gbps. Seeing as Wifi Chips still have not exceeded 54Mbps, it seems like the barrier is in the air, not in the connection.
My kudos to you!
From the article:

"He didn’t fully understand how Goldman could think it was O.K. to benefit so greatly from the work of others and then behave so selfishly toward them."

I don't think he understands Wall Street.
Yep, I meant Sweden
That's the answer I expected ^_^
if im an anti-american granola eating hippy (yum granola!) - then you´re nothing more than a stars and stripes boxers wearing nut - who´s gone off on a tangent about politics - the idea was just to point out that theres a very big difference between something thats generally a positive thing - and something that obviously was in a very gray zone. Don´t get your panties up in a bunch and get all ad hominem - the point wasn´t to bash the US - the point was that the poster before me seemed to make a very skewed comparison that just didnt make sense.

also for wanting to keep politics off HN - you failed pretty badly at that mate!
> I've been out of the loop for a while.

I see what you did there.
Interview with Apigee CEO Chet Kapoor on $35 Million Funding Round
Work now: high pay in a great market, great resume experience, open doors for other opportunities

College: losing money, boring classes, possibly jobless upon graduation if there is a bust in 4 years. But you get to meet a lot of girls.

Btw, save your money... it's not always easy to make it.
man you just love yourself some tangents dont you?
WATCH: What would the world be like without mobile?
But then you would be assuming that they are both straight.
The problem with this explanation is that checking more often the state of the quantum state makes it decay more "slowly" it doesn't stop it totally.

> ... Check on it after three seconds, and it probably will have decayed. But, Misra and Sudarshan argue, check on it three times in one second intervals, and it will most likely not have decayed. ...

Let's invent numbers for an example, with 3->5. It you check a system after 5 seconds the probability that it has not yet decayed "is" 1-0.05 . It you check a system five times in the 5 seconds interval the probability that it has not yet decayed "is" (1-0.002)^5=~1-0.01 . The measurements makes the decay probability smaller, but it's not reduced to 0 as the article try to induce, to make it similar to the Zeno paradox.

The important point is that at the quantum level every measurement changes the system [1]. So the result of the experiment is affected by the measurements. (At the classical level, some measurements are negligible, and it's safe to ignore them.)

[1] of an operator that doesn't commute with the Hamiltonian of the system
You have not explained how Android is relevant to a conversation about desktop Linux.

>Smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices is the future for Linux and computing in general.

Even if that is true, it does not automatically make Android relevant to a conversation about desktop Linux.

Will you concede that at the current time, essentially no one uses Android as desktop OS?
I'm pretty sure that:

1) They should not teach these maps in school

2) All of these were taken from http://reddit.com/r/mapporn
Yeah, the technical arguments are all stupid.

But as a military soldier they could almost as easily have charged him with simply downloading information without authorization, wget or not.

Classification requirements have 3 elements:

1. A valid security clearance for the information to be obtained.
2. CO's permission.
3. Need to know.

They wouldn't even have to bother with wget at all thanks to 2. and 3., except perhaps to make it more clear that Manning failed 2 here.
http://www.immihelp.com/visas/h1b/h1-transfer.html

This seems to contradict what you're saying.
"In the Manning case, the prosecution used Manning's use of a standard, more than 15-year-old Unix program called Wget to collect information, as if it were a dark and nefarious technique. Of course, anyone who has ever called up this utility on a Unix machine, which at this point is likely millions of ordinary Americans, knows that this program is no more scary or spectacular (and far less powerful) than a simple Google search."

Clearly he has never used Wget. It is dark and nefarious and riddled with confusing options that should have sensible default combinations. There's dozens of rules you must follow when using certain parameters, and no simple "turn on all the sane defaults for downloading a website" option. Example from the man page:

Note that Wget will behave as if -r had been specified, but only
that single page and its requisites will be downloaded. Links from
that page to external documents will not be followed. Actually, to
download a single page and all its requisites (even if they exist
on separate websites), and make sure the lot displays properly
locally, this author likes to use a few options in addition to -p:

wget -E -H -k -K -p http://<site>/<document>

And that doesn't even handle more than one page, recursion, 3rd-party-site recursion limits, timeouts, SSL, cookies, forms, user agents, etc. If it's a choice between using Wget and being waterboarded, i'm not so sure I would choose the former over the latter.
An H1B is transferable to a different company. It is not that hard to do. Of course, if OP was applying for a new H1B, it gets harder.
> It's inefficient to do 10+ cans per person.

I don't understand how you can make this claim when it has so obviously worked to great success for Sweden. The evidence shows that they are the best at managing their trash; why shouldn't we learn from them?
A right he did not exercise
Two Stories of Passive Income Excess
Where does it say that the author set out to (or did) "undermine the efforts of local talent pools"?

From the pic, it appears to be an otherwise lily-white company. Presumably if they had found the right domestic hire, they would have made it, rather than jump through all H-1B hoops described. He must have been a lot better than their other options.

If this hire pushes local talent pools to work hard and do better, isn't that a good thing? If local talent pools expect to get through life on their trust fund, or get a job simply because they're white and US-born, that's not a formula for long-term success (for the country).
entitled much?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=javascript+graph+visualization
Won't they? At the very least, the code examples, structured nature, emphasis on async programming and a lot of other things will make jQuery devs become better jQuery / front-end developers.
I was on a jury for an arson trial, and the deliberations were pleasant and rational and focussed on the evidence and what it meant without anything like that.

Some of its probably the difference between murder and arson without personal injury in the mix, some of it is probably the luck of the draw in the jury pool. How a jury worked and how juries work aren't really the same thing.
Alternative link: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/germany-nixes-sur...
Apparently you've never tried gentoo.
H-1Bs are transferable. There are in fact many companies who specifically mention they will hire H-1B transfers, but not sponsor new applications.
> But as a military soldier they could almost as easily have charged him with simply downloading information without authorization, wget or not.

They did charge him with various "mis-use of classified information" violations -- he pled guilty to most of them. The CFAA charge was an additional charge, carrying additional potential jail time, and it's one of the ones he was fighting in court (others he pled guilty to).

That's why they were 'bothering with wget', specifically to try and prove the CFAA charge (which he was convicted of) -- it was specifically about 'authorization' under the CFAA, not about COs permission under any rules or regulations related to classified information.

And regardless of what you think of Manning, it's the CFAA stuff that's scary for the rest of us computer programmers.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/chrysler-halts-production-o...
simply because we're rooting for our home team

It would be good for Linux to succeed just to have competition- even if there was a better (for me) OS I would still want Linux to succeed so in the distant future I will still have a choice and an even better OS spurred on by competition.
Are you sure about that? Do non-Americans have the same rights as Americans? Can they refuse to talk to the police, refuse to let the police into their home without a warrant, have an attorney present, ...?
The idea that H-1B workers are paid less is idiotic. Especially if the employee is from Harvard.

You may be saving tens of thousands of dollars if you outsource the job, but hiring an employee to work in the USA is different.
> "I think the personal experience of 'everyday citizens' is enormously important in understanding issues of privacy and (self-)censorship."

Which is what I said.
"The writer's burying what should be a relevant example of "why even innocent people shouldn't like this NSA spying/profiling""

Her experience should be the center of her article. I'm talking about her pushing a silly theory that the NSA is doing a web search dragnet in an attempt to make her article the center of a fork from the larger story of NSA spying. And as the theory is generally silly, it simply distracts and detracts from the root NSA spying story, instead of reinforcing it and adding a direct human/emotional anchor for it.
While I'm a capitalist, I wouldn't conduct business with Goldman. They have a history of screwing the market (semi-ok), screwing their customers (not ok), and screwing their employees (not ok). And then blaming everyone else. I expect a certain degree of ethical behavior.