skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swede here.

The problem in this case is not that Bergwall didn't have legal counsel. He had, and a "star" one at that. (Actually, the same lawyer that represents the women that Assange had sex with).

The problem is that his lawyer represented his intent rather than his innocence. When Bergwall stated that he did this or that to kill these people, and the lawyer represented this statement in court, there was no one in legal system with the intent to shoot down the claim that Bergwall was the murderer. It was not the prosecution's job; Bergwall himself argued that he was guilty; and his lawyer providing extenuating circumstances - more representing Bergwall's statements in legal language, than doing his utmost in getting him acquitted.

After all, Bergwall _wanted_ to take on these murders. They made him special, a target of much attention, and with that he got the drugs that he was after. It was not until a new head physician at the mental hospital were he was treated prevented prescription of the drugs Bergwall craved that he stopped confessing more and more murders.

Souce: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Quick-Making-Serial-ebook/dp/B0...

This is the book that turned the tide. The author is a journalist that really made a difference for how this all ended.
well if i remember correctly in the /build/ of this year I saw a part in which some of the microsoft staff were talking about xamarin and the integration with visual studio.
At the same time the CTO Miguel De Icasa is a microsoft MVP.

So maybe the idea of buying them is not so strange.
Not following your assertion. Suppose the reported size was always a random epsilon larger than the actual size. Choose epsilon so that its small enough to benefit from compression and large enough to obscure the BREACH. Why doesn't that work?
Every experience means a lot! People seem to be very purchase-friendly when it comes to mobile these days even though from a productivity standpoint, most work is still done on laptops/desktops. You need that larger screen, tactile input, etc., in order to complete complex tasks that involve switching among various tasks that require more than swipes and taps.
Exactly. There are lots of stories where I'm more interested in the comments than the article itself. Usually, the more mainstream the news source (TechCrunch, HuffPo, NYTimes, etc), the better the comments are relative to the article. Much of the time that value of the comments far exceeds the value of the article itself.
LOTS of phones allow a battery swap. As far as I know the only phone that doesn't is the iPhone.
This is incredibly scary. Will HD vendors start implementing firmware code signing anytime soon? Or will some enterprising hackers start working on an open source firmware implementation?
Of particular note: there is now excellent astronomy software which many geeks already have on their systems, which can be used to nail down dates from constellations fairly accurately. xkcd fans used Stellarium [0] to determine the epoch (at one point, picking out a specific day and hour due to the locations of Jupiter and Venus [1]!)

[0] http://www.stellarium.org/ -- which was forked for use in portable planetariums at http://digitaliseducation.com/products-nightshade.html

[1] http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/Astronomy#The.C2.A013291_Hyp...
Interesting perspective on the enterprise space. Where do you think we are positioned? Our product can be installed by anyone in the company, but ultimately we end up talking to IT decision makers. www.synergyse.com
Probably more accurate title: Americans didn't realize they smelled bad until marketers pointed out otherwise. If you've ever been to a part of the world where deodorant use is less common, you know its not a marketing-manufactured problem. The fact that people get used to it (like people get used to the garbage smell in New York) doesn't mean it isn't a real problem.
Global warming sparks fistfights and war, researchers say
I can't imagine that would work, otherwise every company would do something like that to get out of paying unemployment. Like... "We're not firing you, we are just going to pay you minimum wage now, and if you choose to quit, that's your choice."
I'm going to guess that this will actually convert better because it helps answer the most important question a user asks:

Did I enter my freaking CC number right?

For those hunt and peck typists, the larger size, the proper handling of spaces, and the ease of comparing to the actual card makes that so much easier, even for the average users.

I will note that the expiry and name input could be highlighter better - I missed the expiry until I accidentally clicked on it.

For those power shoppers who've memorized their card number, this will still work for them too.
You're confusing understandable with permissible.

I understand Nazi concentration camps. It was a manipulation of nationalist sentiment against an imagined internal enemy, conveniently one that could be dispossessed of a great deal of property, coupled with a never before seen combination of the pure survivalist id meeting modern state capitalism.

I understand United States concentration camps. While we certainly didn't starve, gas, or force Japanese, German, and Italian Americans, we did relocate large numbers of them to temporary camp facilities for the duration of the war. It was believed that recent immigrants and their children might harbor loyalty to extremely dangerous enemies and could serve as a fifth column in the event of an invasion. For what it's worth, despite the indignity and suspect constitutionality, that's a far cry better than most nations have acted in similar circumstances.

Both of those events are understandable, in that I can understand the thinking of the people involved. It does not mean I morally condone it. What I'm attempting to combat is the notion that all acts with which one disagrees must be the result of moral bankruptcy or internal failing.

Usually there is a logic, however skewed, behind even the most heinous events in human history. The first step to preventing those events is to understand that logic. Only then can we address the root causes of the problems we wish to solve.

In this case, I'm suggesting that the root cause was a panicked citizenry seeking shelter from a very real threat, not a government seeking to blindly expand its power. That's an unpopular opinion, but alternative interpretations lead to different actions.
I think a lot of us are calling that nature.
“Every tech programmer out there got the message: Take code and you could go to jail. It was huge.”
Oh GOD, you're right. Maybe it is all readying happening?
The Serengeti Lion
Perhaps it's time to go back to 'volunteer' mode and putting everything under open source. That way dedicated hobbyists might have the opportunity to take what Armadilo to the next level without dealing with NASA's bureaucracy.

Just a thought. I'm sure there's a reason it won't happen though.
"In my comic, our civilization is long gone. Every civilization with written records has existed for less than 5,000 years; it seems optimistic to hope that the current one will last for 10,000 more," Munroe told WIRED.

It's an unfortunate reality that a thoughtful person could come to this conclusion. But I feel compelled to disagree. We're on the verge of becoming a spacefaring species. And people like Elon Musk give me hope that we could very well still make it, despite everything.
JustHost was down as well. It came back online now.
And yet, if we actually decide to do Iraq-scale rebuilding of our inner cities you'll see people shouting "SOCIALISM!!!" Makes me wonder how we ever won the populace support to spend that kind of money on Iraq/Afghanistan. I guess probably because it was packaged as a threat "If we don't go over there they're going to bomb us because they hate our freedom". So perhaps one line of campaigning to get funding for social programs for inner cities could be "If we don't go over in inner cities to rebuild them they're going to start coming into your suburb homes and steal your stuff and make your life miserable".
There's more to the pressure cooker story
Great, now let's also talk about auto-rotating keys.

I think we should assume the NSA is cutting Fiber. My fear is they would sniff that for keys.

If even one person fails to secure keys, we all lose. Hence why I think rotating keys are important.
Fair enough. However for what is believed to be an acqui-hire and a team that has some lofty ambitions, I think the founding team and investors must have been happy that the team/product found a nice home.
Jailbroken iPhone users and N900 users would definitely agree that apt-get is a must have if you're a dev/geek.
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Probably. But only a small stockpile. A large, multi-year stockpile would be financially suboptimal.
I like how this comment goes from acknowledging that the author didn't know about an extremely basic and fundamental concept of statistics to a whole paragraph of (frankly weird) assertions about my character and beliefs. It's almost gymnastic.

I think one place to start moving forward is to acknowledge that you really have no idea what I do or don't believe.
This is very cool. I have a pile of dead and old hard drives. I should see if my local hackerspace has something that can connect to JTAG, and if so, see what secrets the old drives contain.
Looks like Google is taking a cue from the many apps that provide a similar service like Android Lost[1]. I hope this is useful for recovering stolen phones but I've read reports that even with the MobileMe location of an i(Phone, Pod) the police don't necessarily go after it[2].

[1] http://www.androidlost.com/

[2] http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-14/the-cops-are...
C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

an, duke
Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, 36:30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke
Dishan: these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in
the land of Seir.

36:31 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before
there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his
city was Dinhabah.

36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in
his stead.

36:34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the l

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show ball, Dishonor, easier, DIS Han solo, job ad/abs

han solo sees darth vador. Han solo shoots!
Well shit. Not all companies hire H1Bs just to reduce their operating costs. Sure there are some that may work that way, but given the current demand I haven't seen any of my friends from India working below market value.
I think the idea is you force a disk read or write operation by interacting with the system remotely (for example uploading a file or sending a particular HTTP GET request that ends up in the log), without having shell access or write access to /proc :)
This is my hope, we'll see how it works out!
I am a Microsoft fan. Any MS-Sql-Server vs MySql comebacks??
Fantastic post. Just saw an interview on TC talking about the two types of sales. I'll reach out to you to chat. We're definitely top down, but we're hoping to find ways to get our product in people's hands. We do the free trial and super easy sign-up, but we know that a sale always comes down to shaking hands in-person.

We're SimpleLegal. We developed software that reads legal bills and figures out what lawyers are actually doing. Simplelegal.com
Simple Goods + Zapier & MySQL
Wow, that's a very unusual case. I suppose the lesson is that confessions should always be investigated thoroughly for corroborating evidence. If a person committed a crime, they should be able to give details that only the criminal would know, or point in the direction of physical evidence.

Obviously the police don't like to do that, because it negatively affects their ability to close the case.

I've been thinking a lot about how many of the problems with abuse by some police and prosecutors, (many are good honorable people), result from optimization on the wrong metrics.

Police are measured by clearing cases, and prosecutors by convictions and guilty pleas. Surely there's got to be a better way to score their performance that encourages more just outcomes.
Is your Android emulator just too slow?
wfp doesn't store any user data
You, sir, are looking for the More Fields plugin (http://wordpress.org/plugins/more-fields/), and possibly the More Types plugin (http://wordpress.org/plugins/more-types/).

MF lets you add custom fields to any existing post type, and MT lets you create new custom post types (like, say, Music Events) that you can attach fields to using the MT plugin.
The article is misleading. He was not drugged by the police, and there was no force involved if my memory serves me correctly.

Thomas Quick as his name was at the time, was a man convicted for child molesting and armed robbery. The police then wanted to question him about other crimes.

He did confess to some crimes, and the investigators then started to press his doctors to give him more and more benzodiazepine (Valium and/or Xanax i think) when he asked for it. Presumably because they wanted to keep him happy, and the confessions to keep coming.

This so becomes a bad circle where he was "rewarded" wit more benzodiazepine for each confessions. Benzodiazepine are highly addictive, and some has claimed this got so bad that even other patients observing this practise wanted to confess crimes so they could get thus drugs to.
That's a constructive termination, and in theory your unemployment office would consider it to be such. I've only collected it twice, and in both cases the company that laid me off made ridiculous claims it was for cause, they seemed to be very savvy about the games some employers play.

But see jack-r-abbit in the other subtread, this will be done as a layoff in a soon to be dead company (which obviously won't care about its increased unemployment insurance payments) and an ... opportunity to join the other company, of course on their terms.
>To both our users and our clients, we’d like to recommend that you give Coderwall and Pitchbox a try if you haven’t already done so. Despite being a competitor, Matthew Deiters (founder of both companies) has always been supportive of and open to us, and we consider him a friend and, more importantly, someone who shares a similar vision. Coderwall/Pitchbox has a high degree of respect for developers and puts them first, and they also happen to be building something that’s pretty close to what we’d hoped Work for Pie might become.

This is a very classy nod on the way out.
2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Scheme Falls Apart
How do you track things you're interested in Excel? For instance, if you're into python, would you make a python worksheet and fill it with goals and things to read?
My knee-jerk reaction was, why didn't WD sign the code and use on-chip fuses and a secure boot path to verify the code before transferring control to anything outside their boot ROM? (Many ARM-based systems-on-a-chip are capable of doing this).

Adds cost, for one thing. But you can arrange for the unit to never run a byte of code (even one loaded from the platter) that didn't come from WD.
Advertisment + Shopping + Useful + Fun = Holy Grail. Someone at a Ikea needs a serious raise. Also I need the internet to hide this from my wife.
I do not have an experience in maintainIng and keepiNG services up 24x7. I want to know what I should expect to go wrong ? If I rent servers with h/w raid, is disk failure still an issue ?
You certainly can legislate to promote or inhibit social cohesion. (The family-priority structure of much of the US legal immigration system is one example of how you can promote it, and the poorly-aligned-with-demand per-country/per-category quotas and resulting huge immigration delays in legal, family-based categories are an even better example of how you legislate to inhibit it.) There's plenty of examples (on both sides, because US policy is incoherent as regards this goal) in other policy areas besides immigration.
I often read the comments first. Dessert before dinner.
I also use this plan. So far its been great.... However VoIP calling on a Nexus 4 is horrible. I believe this a codec issue? I just end up buying extra credits when I go over. Even with that it's been significant savings.
Anyone else feel like this post is simply a marketing scheme to sell a "make money in your sleep as a hacker" book?
My interpretation was that if you are reading HN in a terminal, you are probably procrastinating from work and therefore shouldn't get sucked in to the discussions that make this a great place.
> it's up to Goldman (and the terms of the license).

It is really up to the license, Goldman either selected licenses where they could legally avoid sending upstream changes or planned to violate the law in secrecy. If they did the latter on just one license, then he should qualify as a whistle blower.
I'd love to see that headline: Hacker Jailed for Not Updating Web Browser
NSA Whistleblowers For Dummies (A History of the Surveillance State)
I'm not feeling down on myself. I've done the exercise/meditation thing and, to some extent, still meditate. I've been through the jazz standards of overcoming these issues. I accept myself wholly, but also recognize that I'm not the only person in the world for who these solutions aren't the (complete) answer...as you said, when the level of stress/fear rises, things still fall apart for you.

Technical solutions haven't worked for me in the past, either, but they weren't developed for me. How did they fail for you?
I don't have a goal of passive income, rather trying to turn my personal obsessions into an actual business. The nice thing about the OCD approach is you're going to do that hobby anyways. Job gets demanding I just take a break from the project but still I get 100 new users a month, which isn't tough for a free product but using the google play store I have no hosting costs for my app. Plus 100 users a month builds out a base for me to market my much more complex commercial app to once I've competed it.
Aperture vs Lightroom for photographers: Why I prefer Aperture.
I've seen that phenomenon a couple times with people from Microsoft; I wonder if it's true of Googlers in some other way, too.
Well, they smelled like something (the article references men thinking that their smell was "manly" - I admit I still secretly think that), it's just that whatever they smelled like didn't have a negative connotation. Marketing convinced them that it was a bad thing and that they needed to fix it.

Anecdotally, deodorant was a rite of passage for me as a teenage boy. As an adult with an office job, I find a lot of the time I don't need it (just like it turns out to be not a great idea to wash my hair every day). Additionally, I feel increasingly leery about rubbing aluminum under my arms every day. Do I smell? I don't think so. Am I headed for an office intervention? God I hope not.
I used to do 30 - 50 tabs. Now I'm better: http://i.imgur.com/xhLmt2A.png - almost all are work related (except those with that orange Y favicon)

I discovered that 30-50 tabs wasn't conducive to working environment.

If there can be a solution - it's this: if a tab has been open for more than say 3 hours and it's been untouched (focus has not gone to it), it needs to be closed. I currently do this manually
A fascinating read, and an excellent piece of work.

It reminds me of a similar proof-of-concept hack on a common network card firmware: http://esec-lab.sogeti.com/post/2010/11/21/Presentation-at-H... (the slides linked from that page have a good more technical overview that the blog post).
re all the other 'not me's here:

I had no problem for about two months of almost daily use (train commute), then I started getting my HTTP browser pages redirected to a tethering upsell page. HTTPS still worked, as did e.g. imap, dropbox, skype, etc, but I haven't personally played with it enough to find out if it seems to just be the user agent. The HTTPS-everywhere extension will probably help significantly with this, if you're looking to evade, if that's all they're doing.
Goes back further than this. Listerine "invented" halitosis.

According to Freakonomics:[3]
Listerine, for instance, was invented in the nineteenth century as powerful surgical antiseptic. It was later sold, in distilled form, as both a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea. But it wasn't a runaway success until the 1920s, when it was pitched as a solution for "chronic halitosis"— a then obscure medical term for bad breath. Listerine's new ads featured forlorn young women and men, eager for marriage but turned off by their mate's rotten breath. "Can I be happy with him in spite of that?" one maiden asked herself. Until that time, bad breath was not conventionally considered such a catastrophe. But Listerine changed that. As the advertising scholar James B. Twitchell writes, "Listerine did not make mouthwash as much as it made halitosis." In just seven years, the company's revenues rose from $115,000 to more than $8 million.

from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listerine#History
True, I guess the Falcon-1 was their non-man-rated testbed.
Scary the naivete of a U.S. general who would make such a comment about shari'a. If he really believes such nonsense our defense strategy against Al-Qaeda will be similarly uninformed. The scary thing is that these beliefs are probably widely held amongst high-level U.S. military leaders. If you were to ask them what shari'a law is, they wouldn't have the slightest idea.
The man showed up to a civil affair in military garb and most likely, though we don't know, had some kind of muscle with him.

His point is already made without firing a shot at the hoi-polloi.
Wow, this opens up the market a LOT. Fortuitous timing for B&N's ailing Nook division?
@iSloth , can you please elaborate on issues you have faced ? and how you countered them . Thanks !
It's passive in the sense that once you invest in establishing a working income stream, it takes very minimal effort to maintain. I wake up and can do nothing to earn it, or work to grow it if I choose.
I want to, but my question got lost in all the comments last time around:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6103172

I would like a small list of materials that my representative could read that make my case much better than I could.
Ask HN: Worth spending $6000 on this domain?
We're a startup developing a video builder platform to automate high level production videos for small businesses. We currently own the domain promostudio.com that I bought aftermarket. Now we're considering switching it viddio.com because it's shorter, one word, phonetically is easier to pronounce, and IMO shorter domains look more authoritative and credible. Guy was asking $15,000 but got him down to $6000. I know it's pronounced "video" but it's spelled different but it doesn't appear to be a problem with sites like tumblr, flickr, reddit, although I realize they are on a different scale.

Is it worth it/that much better than what we have? Thoughts?
These aren't the message boards you're looking for.

Generally the news here is pretty negative when MSSQL is involved -- however there was a blog where someone deployed a C# webapp and was pretty gungho about MSSQL. I tried to find it but couldn't.
In other words tackle a really difficult problem that is aligned to your personal obsessions, such as in case A instead of doing marketing to fund movies, learn to develop cloud based video editing software to fund making movies instead because you have to make movies to test your edits anyways and that niche is extremely tough to code for so the competition while its there is very low.
ok - since you volunteered...

- How much of the VC funding decision (the one you quoted) is based on economic characteristics like growth potential or need for money? My impression is old enterprise requires more money to scale, and hence could have a bigger need for VCs. I could see the New model being more angel-friendly.

- Do you have any other observations on the revenue models as the driver? Old Enterprise needs bigger contracts.
I'd love to read more info about this!
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