skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is similar to asking why more waiters/waitresses don't use credit card skimmers.

I suspect the answer is similarly that, unsurprisingly, most hosting providers are in the business of providing hosting, as opposed to running a front for criminal activities. And that anyone caught running this criminal activity would likely be fired and prosecuted.

And of course that there is an inverse correlation between the type of person interested in petty theft, and the type of person with the skills required to do this and not get caught.
There are some advantages to adding the copyright, but none of them are legal... sort of.

The way copyright law works isn't black and white - it's more like a harsh linear gradient where there is a lot of space of black and a lot of space of white, but a sliding scale between.

When you put the copyright explicitly on your site, you are making a statement - that the contents of the site are, indeed, unmistakably copyrighted and should not be reused without proper permissions (or at all, in most cases).

While you receive copyright implicitly by law in the US, the severity of possible legal action is partially dependent on what a judge says makes sense. For instance, one could easily (albeit ignorantly) make the accident that something on GitHub isn't copyrighted because GitHub hosts a ton of open source stuff. If the copyright is explicitly stated, for a person to copy it would portray a gross disregard, and lack of responsibility and due diligence.

So, yes, there are good reasons to place a copyright symbol, but it doesn't necessarily change your copyright status by law.
I'd like to see some simulations of slab avalanches...The stuff with wet sticky snow looked okay but I think they missed the ability of even low density snow to act cohesively as slabs [1] (which leads to some of the most deadly avalanches). Need to review their math but maybe they only account for particle adhesion and not more crystalline structure (which would obviously make the simulation more expensive).

The woman walking (post holing is the technical term) looked off for the same reason...the snow didn't look slaby/crusty enough to act like it was.

[1]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4pGis30qlj0/TwcAGuSz8fI/AAAAAAAAAW...
Back when the whole Snowden/NSA thing blew up, people talked about switch to TOR all the time to keep safe. The problem is, you kind of have to be disciplined and commit to it...and even if that's the case, you might be exposed by uncontrollable environmental variables. The apparent problem in this case was that the student was using Tor at the time of the incident...and I'm assuming he was one of the very few to have been using Tor at that time, and he didn't use it all the time...which makes his Tor usage at the time of the email stick out.

Obviously, he should've just not done it from Harvard's network (and obviously, he shouldn't have done it at all)...but I think it's a good lesson when teaching others about security...know the conceptual limits of the black box you choose to use.
It's interesting how gold is getting compared to BTC, since really it's nothing like BTC. If gold goes up in relative value, then that creates a strong incentive for creating more gold mines, which then drives the price down. In principle nothing prevents us from creating technology to efficiently mine asteroids if that's what we want to do. So, the supply of gold is very much not fixed.

This is of course very much unlike BTC, which has a fixed number of coins at around 21 million.
Reminds me of this XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1105/
There was the case of a network admin who installed, without authorisation, some piece of distributed computing software on all the machines at his place of work.

This significantly raised the electricity bills, so he was caught and prosecuted for it.

Ridiculous maximum sentences for computer misuse are not a new thing. :-(

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/300

> A college computer technician who offered his school's unused computer processing power for an encryption research project will be tried next month in Georgia for computer theft and trespassing charges that carry a potential total of 120 years in jail.

> David McOwen was working as a PC specialist at the state-run DeKalb Technical Institute in 1998, when he learned about a project by the non-profit organization distributed.net that allowed computer users to donate their unused processing power to test the RC5 encryption algorithm. Noticing that many of the machines he maintained on the seven DeKalb campuses sat idle for long periods, McOwen installed distributed.net clients at several of those locations while performing a Y2K upgrade on the machines in 1999.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1782050.stm

> But the case never went to court as earlier this month Mr McOwen accepted a plea agreement to end his two-year legal nightmare.

> Under the terms of the deal, he walked away with probation, a small fine and community service.
Makes me want to go work on Self:

http://selflanguage.org/

Also, flow based programming is just Self without an image environment like some Smalltalk dialects. Or am I missing something?
OK, I just need an encouraging push, thanks!
I once recovered a commit that someone had staged and reverted.

Even though he had never checked in code it was still saved into the VCS. That is pretty powerful.
There's always an official good reason why some Tor user gets busted by the Feds, and it's never that Tor itself is pwned. It reminds me of Brits trying not to show that they pwned Enigma during WWII.

If I needed to be shielded from the Feds, and I depended on Tor for this, I'd feel increasingly nervous.
Github released a tool called "hub" that you might be interested in.

https://github.com/github/hub
This pseudo-Gini is meaningless, since addresses!=people. It is perfectly possible for the pseudo-Gini to increase even as the real Gini decreases: simply have Bitcoin further democratize and the new users keep their coins in convenient web wallets! Since web wallet services tend to consolidate their coins onto a very few addresses for their own convenience.
Yea but it's long term deflationary as well, the destruction of fees alone will probably match the 1% inflation thus eliminating it and growth in popularity would push it negative.
It came from a TOR ip.
He would have been on survellience video in both of those places
This is why I think Bret Victor's stuff, while incredibly cool and interesting, will have a tough time living up to his vision.
I wonder whether this is specific to laptops (running from battery or otherwise not grounded) or if it also works with properly grounded desktop computers.

My HP notebook from ~2000 had measurable (although very high impedance) 110V AC between exposed metal parts and PE in wall outlet when connected to charger. Modern thinkpads (and probably all non-Apple laptops sold in Europe) does not seem to have this problem as ground is connected through in charger, not only AC coupled to both hot and neutral.
> He would have had better luck cutting letters out of a newspaper, sticking them to a page and popping it in the post.

That would have required advance planning; seems he did this on impulse or, at least, not far enough ahead of time to use the mail.
Haha, this is a nice try :D
That's exactly why diesel locomotives have always been diesel generators connected to massive electric motors; the best of both worlds.
Those aren't go routines, there's a yield sitting right there. And there's yield/return in your second example, and there's the equivalent in the promises example.

This isn't a terseness issue; it's an error issue. Favoring yield/return and equivalents over sequential code in CSP is exactly the same as favoring goto over while, or goto over exceptions. Necessary sometimes? Yes. Something to be celebrated and preferred? No.

The trouble is, of course, that in Javascript runtimes the "yield" or equivalent is how scheduling is achieved, because there is no capacity for preemption.

Thus, Node.js returns us to the bad old days of Windows 3.1 and System 6, where one faulty bit of code grinds the entire system to a halt.

Edit: Go goroutines of course also have a cooperative scheduler currently, but at least the result of having it isn't baked into the idioms and language constructs.
Is Figaro even usable without Heroku? From what I understand the commands it offers are tailor-made for Heroku, and the main problem mentioned (secrets.yml not being Heroku-friendly) seems like specifically a Heroku problem. IMO I'd use Figaro for Heroku, and YML files for a VPS.
>> That's not how the economy works (international trade is different from local trade, you're not taking employment into account etc.), but for now let's just say that some think a regulated currency is better and some don't

Feel free to tell me why what I described there does not correspond to reality in any meaningful way. If you can't, then maybe you should reconsider your position on "regulated" currencies.

Also, you should investigate http://mises.org - they'll tell you all you need to know about economics. You'll find out that governments are always only a net loss on any economy.
Sanjuro's 'Assassination Market' thus far doesn't have any correlated deaths, and it's an open question whether it's real rather than a scam. (How could you ever tell?)
What is it about techies that they come over so smug when pointing out deficiencies in others?

Probably a response to the bold, did-no-wrong, we-worked-hard-and-that-should-count and generally arrogant attitude of the people they're criticizing.
A Company Is Sued Over Its 'No Bad Reviews' Clause
I know that's the cananocial example, but I've always wondered, wouldn't that 10% appriciation be coming from somewhere? Presumably from the growth of the economy. And if the economy is growing at 10% per year, we probably don't need your grocery store :-)

Please correct me if I'm missing something, I took macroeconomics in college but I've forgotten a lot.
Let's say an hour of my time is worth $20, which is what I currently make at my student job, so it's pretty fair to call that my going rate.

Could I learn to be productive in emacs in 4 hours?

I can't. I've tried.

SublimeText is like buying one more textbook, but one that I will use extensively in all my courses, unlike most of my books, that get little use in just one course.
French OpenData platform is now available in English
Sublime text is basically textmate with cross platform support. If you've never used textmate, you'll probably not get why it's so neat.

There are things that I can do faster in vim (like finding files with Command-T), but overall I find it's the right mix of vim and textmate.

I still find the package and snippet system overly complicated, and they still haven't gotten everything right from textmate; but overall a good text editor.
I very highly recommend contracting with a well-established company to attain the work visa, and freelancing with a few different companies to gain experience and perspective before signing on with a company.

I'd highly recommend against working for a company that doesn't value a subset of your skills more highly than the others; a somewhat specialized position will pay better.

I would also highly recommend that you work for a company (or many companies) with vision, mission, and values that you connect with strongly.
Except that in practice people tend not to perform steps 4, 5 and 7. They then commit non-working code and honestly believe that their commit is OK, because they saw all tests pass.
They did control for temperature. They mandated mice be kept between 20C and 26C, which is between 68F and 78F. Mice live in houses, that's the temperature of houses.

31C is 88F. It's not absurdly hot, but it's hot enough that it's surprisingly hot to me.
There's a list of IPs that TOR networks run on, so they could just cross reference that.
Well if that was the only concern that the police ever had, then I would say go ahead and talk to the police.

Don't break the law is fine advice, and really I don't think it needs to be stated here. Even so, even if you think you are following that advice, you should not talk to the police unless being in a jail cell is preferable to the situation you are currently in.
Figaro is certainly usable without Heroku. It added some Heroku conveniences later in life, but is built to simply populate ENV while keeping source control clean.
These tools will have to be updated to emit binaries with load commands that link against iOS 7 versions of UIKit in order to be in compliance. This is similar to the regulation change in March 2013 that mandated support for iPhone 5's larger display dimensions.
I'm sure the legal ramifications for him will be much greater than the moronic "pranksters" who pulled stunts like this at my high school in the late '90s.
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So you didn't read the article, right?
Well if you are after regular Joe to donate then USD. Most people outside of tech still don't know about or understand bitcoins.
They are banned because it's the Science forum, and the scientific consensus is as much in favour of Global Warming as it is in favour of Special Relativity. The climate change deniers do nothing but add noise.

Now, politics is a different beast altogether. It has nothing to do with observable reality and everything with who you know or can get to float your boat. Anyone who does not believe this is advised to read Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses and then come back. Climate change deniers are playing politics. That, or they are being played at politics.
tor exit nodes are easy to identify, if they had the co-operation of site.com then they'd not see the location, but they'd see the exit node.
I'll second you opinions. What shocked me was the number of simply broken things.

The keyboard is unreliable, which is unforgivable; it would hang and catch up, or just miss key presses. Worse, the unlock screen would have a landscape keyboard sometimes, despite it never leaving portrait. I literally just rotate the phone while hitting the lock button until it straightens out. It's like resetting an Etch-A-Sketch.

And don't get me started on the home button's behavior. The face has a //single button// and it's unpredictable. No idea if it's alt-tabbing or showing desktop. I suspect there's subtle and clever timing going on, but with the system overloaded/out of memory (apps are constantly resetting), I suspect iOS 7 can't manage (yet).
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Because after a little bit of time has passed, I no longer remember where the file was at. If I can not remember enough, I can not intelligently undo actions.

I use undo to to specifically undo a specific action. Beyond that, I am looking at writing something new to deal with what I am trying to have the file/document/program do or say.
Many hard drive failures are caused by its PCB and can be easily solved just by replacing it with a new one.
Finding a Matching Hard Drive PCB: http://www.hddzone.com/conditions.html

For physical problems: http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Physically-Broken-Hard-Drive

I assume you already knew this, as you keep them on your freezer... and that this may not be applicable to your case, but this could be useful for other people anyway.
It produces smart and not-so-smart graduates just like any other school. There are benefits of attending Harvard other than intelligence and education.
Every nonprofit's paper financial disclosure, made searchable
Or he could have simply said he was browsing Silk Road or something. There's a whole world of Tor users out there, and many Harvard students use the Internet other than through their wireless.
Depends on how low the pay is in Tijuana; the rent down there is much much cheaper too.
As an aside, do we think that as online courses become every more prevalent that we will see an equivalent of this in the form of DOS attacks?
every comment you have made in this conversation has been insult and dull sarcasm. no insight has been provided. I am no supporter of hellbanning, but I cannot fathom how, given this site's heavy use of moderation, you are still allowed to comment.

I know I have made no friend from you with this, but I hope you reevaluate the content of future posts.
These days those legal ramifications can be quite severe even on the high school level.
Just like the idea of "teach the controversy," giving legitimacy to ridiculous ideas gives the impression that either side is equally likely/valid. Really it just wastes people's time.
Is it possible to root it and install CyagonMod + Google Play Store + Google Apps?
Good to know. I suppose for all cases where I'm deploying to non-Heroku servers I'd probably still use secrets.yml just because it's built into 4.1.
Needs work

- I have a sea of successful logins. Finding a bad one in the past looks hard.

- Location info for successful logins just says "United States", and should be more detailed up front.

Otherwise, a nice feature.
Yes I'm just a rube who couldn't possibly understand why your opinion is the only right way.
Stupid stuff. I thought it'll feature Satellite phones.
Eerie Eastern European War Memorials Look Like They’re From Another Planet
Not disagreeing with the memory point... just pointing out that a 12 core processor would, most likely, not be sufficient to the cause in 3 or 4 years if your memory needs grew that much. So wouldn't you buy new machines anyway every 4 years if your department were doing that sort of work???
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Tijuana. Is there any question?
They'd likely ban someone who believes in a flat Earth, too. Climate deniers aren't interested in adding to the discussion beyond reposting the same debunked arguments over and over.
I'll have to double check, but I believe we keep our mouse room at ~25ºC (+/- 5%). 31C for housing seems very high and probably well outside mean temperatures for native habitat
There's an OS X app I found not too long ago that helps immensely with checking the deployment target against the actual APIs used in order to make sure you correctly avoid unavailable stuff: http://www.deploymateapp.com
Of course it does; or it can, at least. We invented SSTs but still plod about on sub-sonic airliners, for instance. The key isn't whether a particular technology is the latest and greatest, it's whether it's the latest and greatest that can economically be used.
Apple does at least allow download of the last compatible version for iOS apps.

Unfortunately this also puts developers in a really tough spot if they have a large number of iPad (or other users of obsolete devices) as they are unable to ship updates to that obsolete version and they are forced to either disable this download completely abandoning the customers or have it available and be unable to make any bugfixes or other updates
So are you saying that Bitcoin is actually relatively traceable by law enforcement or the tax authorities?
Yes, it is, in a casual conversation. Not on HN. By the way your verbose definition of "nobody cares" would still be a gross exaggeration as OP didn't provide any proof that a substantial, probably majority of population do not differentiate between TED and TEDx.
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Your judgment is based on a sample size of 1.
> For instance, one could easily (albeit ignorantly) make the accident that something on GitHub isn't copyrighted because GitHub hosts a ton of open source stuff.

"Open source" stuff is copyrighted. The only thing, in US law, that is not copyrighted is material that is either (a) not of the type of material subject to copyright, or (b) for which the copyright has expired, or (c) produced by the US government.
A/B test it and let the data decide
Next, please: ban creationists.
Why didn't he give an example? He said they just talk without backing up their claims with substantial data, yet that is exactly what he did and we are supposed to take his word for it. (Even if I do believe him)
Burning the resulting synthetic petroleum is still highly inefficient; you're only going to get 1-5% total efficiency with most of the energy being converted to waste heat.

I could see this being used to generate fuel on-site at remote airports or places where its difficult to truck liquid fuel, but electricity is still going to be the way to go. Its just too easy to move it (with HV transmission lines) compared to large amounts of liquid fuel.
Obligatory:

"Welcome to the Desert of the Real. We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.”[1]

Also:

http://sysopmind.com/singularity/aibox

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_experiment

[1]: http://www.philfilms.utm.edu/1/matrix.htm
It's been a while since I was in the network security and monitoring world so I'm wondering what this monitoring software looks like. It sounds like it has the capability to keep a historical log of the type of traffic associated with each wifi-authenticated user. How detailed is the traffic analysis? How is the data recorded and for how long?
Interesting. I'm in Colorado and last night I got regular (once every half hour) logins from "Exchange ActiveSync" in San Francisco.

Is it possible one of my (many) Live apps is doing this through an endpoint there?

[edit] I don't think justsomedood's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6928806) applies to me , all my devices were on my local network last night. It's a good thing to check though!

I've just enabled 2-factor auth, so hopefully I've removed the issue.
Makes sense, now that it's the new convention. Thanks for the comment!
For as long as high unemployment results in a lack of competition for labour, and for as long as welfare is insufficient to cover a person's needs, people are obligated to take whatever employment is available.

People are obligated to take employment even if that's at a far lower wage than the value of what they are offering.

I am satisfied to describe this type of employment as exploitation.

If a corporation makes an increased profit only by using the fact that its employees are in a very poor negotiating position and cannot refuse employer demands, I would be satisfied to call that unethical. Normally, people would call sweatshops unethical - on the same basis. I believe that corporations and already-wealthy shareholders both shoulder moral responsibility for that.

Current economic conditions have converged to a point where [minimum wage] employees have almost zero negotiating position.

I agree with you that this needs to be better addressed by politicians - partly, but not only, in the tax/benefit system - but I don't observe that it is being addressed.
Doesn't that effectively do:

unlink(filename)
create(filename)
write(filename, random)

?
Though something that opens the file in append mode then seeks to 0 would probably overwrite the same HDD locations.
That's because Mexico City's murder rate was so bad that the country plowed an avalanche of money into it, resulting in the world's densest police coverage; it also assumes that murders in Mexico City are reported as reliably as they are in the US, which is a dubious proposition.

Mexico's various other cities are world leaders in violent crime; Juarez has a murder rate over 147/10k, more than 10x Chicago's, and that again assumes that everything is reported in Juarez, which is extremely unlikely.

For whatever it's worth to you, neither NYC nor Chicago makes the top ten for the US. Chicago witnesses an astronomical number of murders, and is for that reason a national disgrace, but the rate isn't anomalous for the population. Chicago is a huge city.
Heathkit as a startup (Heathkit FAQ)
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I've been investing long enough to know that:

1) if a disruptive tech has plenty of personal intrigue and
2) plenty of brilliant people herald it

then buy the crash.
I use JSHint Gutter and configure it to run on every save. It's really great.