skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, editorailized headlines are not allowed by site rules. (EDIT: The headline is now changed. It previously read, "Change your IP, go to jail" or something like that.)

Anyway, Craigslist told 3taps in a legal notice: "Don't abuse our website." 3taps did anyway. IANAL but this appears clear from the second and third quoted paragraphs (and Orin Kerr, a noted expert on these things, seems to agree):

The banned user has to follow only one, clear rule: do not access the website. The notice issue becomes limited to how clearly the website owner communicates the banning. Here, Craigslist affirmatively communicated its decision to revoke 3Taps’ access through its cease-and-desist letter and IP blocking efforts...

You might as well say, "Enter a building, go to jail"... if the door is a side entrance to a privately owned public space (such as a shop) which has banned you from their property. That is how the judge sees it.

I personally have some sympathy for 3taps and I expect most of HN does also. The open Internet is not like any old public space. But the ruling doesn't threaten to ambiguously target people who just change an IP to get around an ordinary IP ban.
Cheesy, yes, but I thought that video was actually very interesting. "Ma Bell is listening in" indeed.
you have to delete local storage too.
If you think this was rough, watch her attempt to interview PG: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/71010068-y-combinator-founder...
"The SSL alarm is down, back up the redundant firewall so we can override the EXE bus!" Nonsense. but the idea of SSL alarms would be good.
> you would be quite foolish to choose anything but the JVM.

Do you have technical reasons for saying that, or only political ones?
It seems that every new company is so reliant on technology it could be considered a tech startup. Where does one draw the line?
True, but I think we mean the likelihood being sued.
Citizens of many countries don't need a visa for business meetings in the US, or even to do work for a client in the US if you're employed by a foreign company. For example, I was a British citizen working in the UK for a UK company. I spent two weeks in the US working at a client telco's testing lab. I used the visa waiver program.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/c5TPI5Y6Gl...
I find it hard to follow the whole rant, but in essence he seems to agree that the current USA isn't a functioning democracy?

I'll look forward to the day when the 45 year lag in opinion allows the 60s and 70s anti-war movements to catch up with US policy. Imagine, a world in which the US isn't invading anybody.
https://twitter.com/20committee

John Schindler is a homophobic and transphobic scumbag who recently joked about Greenwald being trans like Manning.
I'm sure you can say the same thing about the Russians and the Israelis, no ? Oh wait, you can't.
Still, he was contacted. It's amazing that the owner of Lavabit can't even talk about what he can't talk about, yet Greenwald gets a mysterious phone call letting him know Miranda is in the process of being questioned?
As a ham operator, there are standard phases and exchanges that make contacts easier. (Especially in a contest.) After time it becomes second nature. In "normal" or "ragchews" exchanges with older hams, you may have to brush up on medical and anatomic words and phases.
Really? I have been an on-and-off sysadmin since college. The "public folder" for sharing data on the Windows operating system is accessible via the %ALLUSERSPROFILE% environment variable [0], and has been so since Windows XP. That means at least 15+ years now. On OS X, there is /Users/Shared, but I am not sure how old this convention is old enough for me to presume it started with the earliest versions of OS X. Unix has been way ahead of the game, but in different variations, and if you include/exclude Linux as standardized, you can read the FHS standard regarding where files ought to go.

Having said that, this does not mean these folder arrangements detract from your argument. Windows was not originally designed to be a multi-user/multi-tenant system, and evolved from a one-user turd to a multi-user turd (albeit a shinier, polished, more refined one). OS X roots in Unix dictate it should be better but it is not. Outside of Windows, it is largely software developers obvious intentions or programmatic error. In the case of Windows, there later turn around was not honored by developers, some long gone (out of business or not interested), who refused or continue to refuse convention regarding standard, like the All Users Profile. Windows has a lot of indirection APIs that layer over the OS so people can write to the same registry and file locations they should have not been using for 10+ years, that are in system-file only resource areas or require admin privileges to run and access system features they most certainly do not need. iTunes, as a different kind of example, regardless of OS, is a trend of a-hole software companies dictating how and where you use data you own. You can move a iTunes library, but it is annoying and DRM means the benefits are useless anyway. It is not like you need an exclusive lockfile to play a MP3, you need to buy into their exclusive ecosystem of garbage and put a lockfile on all of your computing choices. But that is another topic.

Point being, only Unix was designed for multi-user tenancy. I am not saying well, but it was made for by large corportations and research groups to share data. The others were modified later to do so, and at a cost, as developers out of the game or too disinterested to pivot ignored/ignore these changes. The end user does not care, so why follow the rules? I get your point, but I think it is wise to assume this issue is far more socio-political then technical.

We are humans, we no likey sharey.

[0] http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-variables.html
Medium is awesome because it allows your work to be edited by others while you write and you are forced to put thought into it.
Empathy is a very specific trait that evolved in humans, it would be unlikely that the first AI's would have it, and if they did, it wouldn't likely be exactly the same as the version humans have. I expect the first AIs to be psychopathic/amoral, or else have an entirely different moral system than our own. The first is scary enough, the second could lead to very disturbing dystopias.

For example, the AI force feeds everyone happy pills to maximize happiness. Or kills everyone to stop anyone from ever suffering again. Or maybe it values lots of beings and so forces us to reproduce as much as possible. All sorts of disturbing worlds are possible if the AI doesn't have exactly the same values we have. And we don't even know what our own values are.
This annoys me so much about PostgreSQL. Why not have useful defaults?!
I don't understand. Does the article say that changing your ip is wrong and precedent-setting as such. Has Aaron, with all respect to him, left us ironically with the tyranny of true names? Legal precedent nationally across the US?
Using a workaround for buggy or misconfigured hardware is very different from "these guys told me to stop using their thing, but I can circumvent the measures they put in place to stop me."

EDIT: related quotes from the ruling

"Craigslist gave the world permission (i.e., “authorization”) to access the public information on its public website.... it rescinded that permission for 3Taps."

"3Taps had to circumvent Craigslist’s IP blocking measures to continue scraping, so it indisputably knew that Craigslist did not want it accessing the website at all."

"3Taps’ deliberate decision to bypass that barrier and continue accessing the website constituted access “without authorization”"
Divine law is that you do an offering before consulting God. God does punishments, though.

You seem confused who who's ... not honoring the Sabbath is punishable by death. You just have to do 12 hours of worship a week.

God says...
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As much I like mattt's work, I dont understand, why is this needed. brew install postgres is just as easy and in my experience Postgres.app is not well maintained and uses an older version.
Same reason I use it. Our office insisted on using Google Apps, and this is the only way I can manage multiple email accounts effectively (using Chromium though; I do not use Chrome, because I do not trust their "only so much source" approach, and thus use the free bits only).
Startups aren't for everyone
[video] Hacking, Surveilling, and Deceiving victims on Smart TV
Hmm well the implication made sense to me. It would have taken a few seconds to see that these people weren't friends. And all the engineer had to do was ask at least one question to probe for more information instead of a dismissal.

Edit: I'm sure Facebook engineers have something a bit more advanced that this:

https://www.facebook.com/zuck?and=khalil.shr

This link works if they know each other. Try going to your profile and adding ?and=zuck for instance
One does not. Software will eat the world.
Native brazilians in the Xingu still use something similar for storing songs, like partitures.
20g fat (5g saturated), 27g carbs (14g sugar), 10g protein.

Not that great for a "protein" bar.
It requires using special command-line flags (default behavior of Firefox prevents running multiple sessions concurrently, on purpose). It is also, performance-wise, was not so good.

I am a diehard Firefox user, and I only use this crap feature on Chromium anyway. Firefox is what I use for my personal lif, as it is in my opinion a better browser, but a more trustworthy org. Chromium/Chrome is for work, and I do not entrust Google for anything more than that these days
Not in theory, but yes in practice.

For just one example, Go produces static native binaries, while Erlang produces bytecode for a virtual machine. But the Erlang virtual machine is tiny and it's standard practice (with tool support) to ship it with your application as a "release", so either way you get the effects of having one self-sufficient blob of code in a folder that you can "just run" without having to think about runtimes or libraries.

What I would say is that, for every IO-bound highly-concurrent C++ project Google is rewriting into Go, the same project could have been rewritten into Erlang, and they'd see most of the same advantages relative to C++: better, more transparent concurrency; "batteries included" for solving various client-server and distribution problems; being able to just drop a code package on a server and run it; etc.
> 90% of Chrome users don't even install an ad blocker

You say that like it's crazy.

I don't install an ad blocker because I don't mind sites earning money for their content.
Who knows? Some little mom-and-pop juice-bar, probably not. Megalocorp like Starbucks with millions to spend on such a project, quite possibly.

After all, birth-date + gender + zip-code is enough uniquely identify 87% of the population - what's the chance that I've inadvertently let slip some information in addition to my name? Maybe gender, plus first name plus zip-code of the point-of-purchase is similarly revealing? The thing about privacy is once you've lost control of it, you can never get that control back so staying vigilant is important.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/22/how-just-a...
You're taking my comment about Nancy Reagan out of context and putting words in my mouth by characterizing it as propaganda. The sentence before that was "It's phat to blame the prison industrial complex, but they're just taking advantage of the Puritan strain in American society."

I don't think "Just Say No!" created the demand for drug prohibition nor do I think it is propaganda. I think for most people who push the message, Nancy Reagan included, it is a genuine and organic sentiment, consistent with Americam Puritanism. When I say my mom and others "bought in" to the message, I don't mean that government propaganda convinced them to believe something they would otherwise not. Rather, I think what you have is a group of voters with Puritan tendencies and authoritarian dispostitions who "bought in" and got behind a program that plays to those characteristics.

I think chalking it up to propaganda is short sighted, because it punts on the issue of how to convince the electorate. It makes it seem like if the propaganda went away, the drug war would go away. But the fact is that my mom and many people like her believe its the governments job to keep people from doing harmful things to themselves. They see drugs (along with alcohol and sex and a raft of other things) as something the government should regulate for the betterment of society. The culture associated with marijuana use, which is in many respects antithetical to what tjhey think is healthy for society, reinforces their belief that it should be made illegal, for people's own good.

Look, we live in a country where until recently I couldn't buy beer on Super Bowl Sunday in downtown Atlanta. A place where you can be arrested for walking down the street with a cup of beer. It's not big money and the DEA perpetuating that status quo. It's grass roots. You think the voters who passed blue laws all over the country need propaganda to decide people shouldn't be allowed to get baked?
"... born out of a frustration with other protein bars." That's a pretty low threshold for frustration, I'd say.
Bash Performance Tricks
This feature has a terrible name.

"Superuser" is an existing term for a user with more privileges than a non-superuser.

"Supervised user" is Chrome's new term for a user with fewer privileges than a non-supervised user.

These two terms sound nearly identical but mean opposite things. I'm surprised Google apparently didn't think about this when they named the feature.
There is an option for click-to-play in Chrome privacy settings, no need for a separate plugin, it's already baked in.
After hearing how Solaris support when down the drain with Oracle stewardship, I'd say staying away from anything Oracle sounds reasonable. At least if it isn't under something like GPL with a patent grant.

(Yes, the fact that they screwed minor Solaris customers does not translate to them suing over IP -- but then again, they already did the last part to).

Oracle is probably a great company to invest in; they make a lot of money -- but that alone doesn't make them a good stakeholder in your core business. I wouldn't want to partner with McDonalds either.
I've always felt that computer chargers and cords would be one of the things that our grand children will laugh at us for.
How I [almost] hacked my Sasquatch2013 ticket
Warby Parker - 20/30 Vision
Meanwhile, here in Australia:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-29/geo-blocking-mps-commi...

"A federal parliamentary committee has recommended that consumers find ways to lawfully evade technology that allows IT companies to charge up to twice as much for their products in Australia."

" … said the report had made 10 recommendations to lower prices, included educating Australian businesses on how to bypass geo-blocks."
So what's your alternative if every single one of your neighbors is a serial killer?

Like I said, I share your concerns about PRISM but singling out Google seems like losing the forest for a tree when we have abundant evidence that all the US tech giants have been forced to comply with NSA requests.
This is a theory only and it relates to rdtsc (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6234271) reply which is inline with my own thoughts:

9/11 and the lack of civilian resistance to a lot of the government actions which followed has (IMHO) shown that they can push the envelope and encounter no outcry. 'They' have continued the push ever since.

I would love to be corrected on this, but I can't think of another modern era when so much obvious, unscrupulous actions were taken by authorities and yet no grand resistance was put up.
Same here. Also, cheers for "nerdsniped." I'd never heard that before.
Ask HN: Ace of spades, jack of all trades or something else?
Title explanation: I know we, as developers, are a very heterogeneous group of people and, as it, we adopt different strategies to be successful in our profession.

So, which is your personal strategy about improving your knowledge and skillset?

Are you an ace of spades, like a guru on a single platform/os/language and stick to it? A Jack of all trades, open minded and trying to learn all possible (and mainly useful for your situation, place, job, etc) languages but not mastering any of it? Or just something in the middle like a person with a very strong knowledge in one field and an handful of other skills?

Why did you choose that strategy and which is your current skillset?
First, I never realized I had no idea what PG looked like.

Bub wow are you right. She is really pushing a possible story with each question. It's interesting she seem to be getting facts wrong. She isn't stepping over PG though, so that's obvious just trying to keep Woz on topic.

The guy who joins in (wasn't watching at the moment, so I missed his name), he sounds like he's genuinely interested in what PG is saying. He's not as polished, but he's doing a better job.

Edit: Just finished watching it. The other gentleman is Cory Johnson, and he's a very good interviewer. He continued to outside Emily Chang throughout the video, asking insightful questions in response to what PG said.
> "Does the article say that changing your ip is wrong"

No.

The article says that circumventing a measure which you know was put in place to keep you out (in this case, an IP ban which followed a C&D letter) means you are intentionally committing "unauthorized access". Changing IPs just happened to be the method used to gain said unauthorized access.

If you tell me I'm banned from your store, and then I shave my beard and change my shirt specifically so you won't recognize me when I sneak back in, that would likewise be "unauthorized access". This doesn't mean shaving and changing my shirt is wrong, just that doing it for the purpose of accessing something the owners have told me not to access is illegal.
IANAL too and I support Aaron 1000% but the outrage just misses the basics of Anglo-British law.

I am sure that court would hold that [throwing your bubble gum on the side walk] would constitute "Access Without Authorization" if it believed that this act was done with that intent. Because our legal system is ultimately about intent, not action. If [throwing your bubble gum on the side walk] is done with the intent to murder, it would constitute attempted murder, etc...

Edit: All that said, the bigger questions would come down to "the legality of the shrink-wrap-license" (now featured as the "click-through-but-unread-license") question.
Looking at everyone's enthusiasm sharing own extensions we should have a weekly show our projects built in the last week thread. I've seena couple, but I think it would be awesome to make it regular and habitual, if only to propagate the makerness aspect of our group.
Python vs Go - Requests per Second
Wow. Thank you for digging up that crap. I expected that a holocaust denier would be odious and vile, but I didn't think he'd actually write about Jews ethnically cleansing white people. That is...just wow.
Not really, since I am not an IT guy. Using the law like that means that I have to rely on:

Not accidentally breaking things.

No misunderstandings with the real IT folks.

Some petty asshole in authority who doesn't like me not wanting an excuse to cause trouble for me.
First off, those two things aren't even in the same jurisdiction.

But, you know that can go both ways. Maybe the caller was sympathetic to Miranda's situation but his hands were tied by the bureaucracy and all of his fellows who were less-than-sympathetic? By alerting Greenwald he let someone else without anything to lose take action. Maybe the reason he wouldn't give out his name is because he didn't want to face internal reprisals, but he had to give his serial number because of policy so he went by the book.

I'm just saying that with such little information we have so far, it is a real rashomon situation. Also, hanlon's razor.
Ahhh, the days before a $250 quadcopter existed to provide a plausible attack vector.

I wonder if Navy personnel are flashing base64 (base36?) encoded GPG encrypted Morse code messages to each other?
It's disappointing that most of the discussion on this post has entirely missed this crucial fact, and assumes we are talking about mandated cameras.
An enterprising jeweller could draw inspiration from this to create necklaces with hidden messages for us nerdy types to buy for partners. Cord, wool, silver thread, wires, etc.

They could also do a range inspired by the pulsar distance/frequency depiction in the Voyager Golden Record that describes our Sun's location. I've always thought that was quite cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Voyager_Golden_Record_Cove...
If you have no problems spending a bit in license the good solution for you can be using Xamarin.ios and Xamarin.android. Obviously if you know at least a bit of c# (but i think any developer can learn it very fast)

With it you can target both ios and android using a single language and the (almost)full .NET framework, recycling a lot of code and also, in the future, you will easily develop also for wp and w8 still recycling code

BONUS: xamarin allows for native ui development.
> Wikileaks has some of the shittiest OPSEC ever (as the Manning events showed)

I still have some hope that they are at least capable of learning from their mistakes.
work_mem is a per-sort setting. So if you have 20 users connected, running a single query with 4 sorts each, that's 80 x work_mem. If it's set to GB anything, that's going to get out of hand very fast.

I recommend this guide.. it's a good start:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Serve...
The leader of the Scottish Conservative Party is a lesbian, the Conservative government just pushed through same-sex marriage legislation. I don't think the idea 'gays are wrong' gets you very far in the UK any more.

The only prominent politician I can think of who pushes that line is Nick Griffin, and he's literally a nazi.
The Cruise. Preview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31199urdlAE
For my Mac, I typically use the enterprise graphical install[1].

If you're comfortable with command line, you really can't go wrong on most Linux flavors with the great documentation on the project website[2].

[1] http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdow...

[2] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/install-procedure....
As an Indian who has lived in all major cities (IT hubs) in India & some cities in China, I am now at conclusion that English is "The simple easy-to-learn" language for the masses (if others stop being pedantic about correctness of others).
Also structure of republic of India will fail apart if any regional language is forced on others. This will not work. I suggest when you look at India look at is europe on a large scale. we certainly have more languages ( both written and spoken) than europe and varied ethnicity & unfortunately misplaced pride on accidents of life ( religion, cast, language, parents, region, past etc)
Please see this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6235004 (JshWright's comment, buried down in the comments)
The camera was a personal camera (Like a GoPro), not an officially provided one.

I think this completely validates the fire chief's actions.
Agreed. He doesn't have any pretensions and he does seem absolutely genuine.