skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Here you can see Mapbox Streets paired with this video from SkySat-1."
>How can they say it's the "first and only icon system created for the modern web"?

Because it's marketing, and they can say anything?
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Hm. I wonder if this question poses more harm than good, but I'll ask it:

Does the right to free speech protect in this way:

<a href="[not_protected]">[protected]</a>

?
I agree, maybe even less, especially when they have already collected 90K to create it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/207474036/iconic-advanc...
Reality check: The actual verdict will probably be much lower than 100 years, given that this is his first arrest.

http://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence...
I'm not sure, but if that's the case I wonder why Karpeles didn't go there (again presuming this attempt was made before the theorized 2011 theft).
The more awesome one was also a viral fake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhlpyP-2ooE
Was the commit that added the problem not this one? It adds the issuer_version and returns it as the value for the check instead of returning 0.

https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/12f135e099a57...

That was 2003-03-03, 11 years almost to the day.
It was founded by the inventors.
Did the portfolio work for getting a job? For some reason the games industry seems quite impenetrable to me, so I'd like to know what worked/didn't for getting a job in it.
Yeah, for those same reasons I much prefer using Scalding's typed API [1], which feels very similar to Scoobi. The tuple API shown in these slides is great for places like Etsy that already have a large investment in Cascading, but otherwise you're better off getting the added type safety and similarity to the standard Scala API.

[1] https://github.com/twitter/scalding/wiki/Type-safe-api-refer...
Wow, so now we should all start linking through bit.ly to circumvent direct links? (sarcasm...yet timidly true)

What I find concerning is his lawyer's argument, "Brown did not 'transfer' the stolen information as he arguably would have done had he embedded the link on his web page" ... does this mean for us webmasters, linking to a webpage (even as Google or Bing may do) would mean incrimination. I understanding hosting....but linking!!! WTF!
Wow, as someone who uses rubygems all day and is not in "US and EU only", I'm glad you're not involved in this project.
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Even worse, link's destinations are outside your control. The funny picture can be replaced with anything by the person in control of it. I have goatsed many people when someone embedded an image from my server. In that case it was visible. Changing what a page linked-to.shows is much more hidden.
A much needed addition to this awesome boilerplate, great job you guys!
I ask because it seems that we're moving in the direction of

<a href="[not_protected]">[not_protected]</a>

That said:

blah blah blah .... blah blah

Now if a crawler scans that, puts it into an aggregate feed and cites me as the source, and there's a hyperlink in there... That means trouble for everyone.

But really, if I give you some text and you copy-paste a substring of it into a search engine and get a Stratfor document, what's that mean?

Is it the function of a hyperlink + intent, or is it just the speech itself? Doesn't "speech" imply intentionality which itself is what is examined by law?
Some headlines from this website's Politics section:

"Texas Vote in Primaries Shaken By Tea Party Influence" -- ok, I buy that

"Michelle Obama Now Requires 26 Servants" -- A bit sensationalist and link-baity without more context, but I'd believe it

"Rand Paul Is The GOP's Early Presidential Front-Runner" -- Maybe, depending on who you ask

...scroll down...

"Obama Activating Secret 'Death Squads' To Target Gun Owners"

"Obama Family Discovered To Be Part of Secret Muslim Terror Operation"

Ok, this is no longer news, or even op/ed -- we're well into creative fiction writing at this point...
I think you guys are missing the use case where both parties are looking to not leave a paper trail. If I email IM or text you nothing but links to this service our communications, while happening over convenient networks, have no (theoretical) paper trail.
codeMagic.gr looks really nice. Emmet? Ability to code in SCSS and CoffeeScript? Yes, please!
What if it's a charge you know to be bogus, or that you really didn't do anything wrong? Would people willingly go to jail for a crime they know they didn't commit?

If it's hazy about whether what they did was a crime, that's a different matter though. And it's a little frustrating to see prosecutors trump up charges to get an easy plea bargain. Maybe there should be some limit between the max sentence and the min plea sentence, so that they can't throw 50-year threats around without at least a 5-year plea bargain.
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Thanks for this insight. You are right, it might send the wrong message but could also mean we pivot / go for that ideas which generates higher growth [1]. I guess it is a matter of communication.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
FUD.

This is a federal case, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (while now discretionary, see Booker) simply don't work that way. 100 years is the potential maximum he would get if the sentences were served consecutively, but at the federal level, there must be special circumstances to justify imposing consecutive sentences. Consequently, consecutive sentencing is the exception, not the rule, and is almost exclusively reserved for the most heinous crimes, i.e., rapes, murders, or high-level drug offenses. (Note that certain factors can also result in consecutive sentences, such as gun "enhancements" which can add 5-25 years to a base sentence.)

Edit: The above assumes the case even proceeds to the sentencing stage. Several US courts have already ruled that merely hyperlinking is not enough; there must be an additional circumstance to make the hyperlinking illegal. For example, if the information hyperlinked was clearly intended to be protected or private (i.e., Schwartz and the AT&T subscriber data), then dissemination of links could fall within the meaning of one or more statutes for unauthorized access.

A physical analogy to explain why this matters: a URL isn't simply an address; it is a path, and this makes all the difference. A p.o. address, for example, may tell you how to get to someone's apartment but it wouldn't tell you how to get up there if the front door is locked. A URL is more akin to giving someone an address and telling them how to get inside. (And for you nitpickers, in this example also assume that you don't know the person at this address; you simply know the URL.)
There was a very noticeable delay before things were looking correct on my iPad, too.

I initially assumed the page was broken on mobile.
How is that relevant in this discussion?
My gosh, I remember the first time I tried this out. On the one hand, it was refreshing to see over the command line, on the other, even then, it was pretty ugly. I thought it was a really bad combination of colors and ugly looking "widgets."
I would be surprised to see a security library developed with the bazaar model. It'd be difficult to assemble enough interest and capable reviewers.

In this case it looks like the GnuTLS bug was introduced and fixed by the same person, but I didn't go look to see how many others there were.
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I wonder, as the world moves to cloud computing, will there be much difference between "hosting" and "linking"? Documents are digital, but "digital" used to mean that the bits were on a device that you own, which is becoming less true with time. Does the location of bits on a harddrive determine guilt, or does the intent to distribute the protected information? If intent, then is linking intent?
It would be really interesting to see the bandwidth broken down by gem - I suspect rails would be at the top, but it'd be interesting to see.

If most of the installs are on servers, have you considered talking to server providers about setting up internal mirrors on their networks? That might save everyone a lot of bandwidth.

Of course, people shouldn't really be installing their gems from ruby gems on servers anyway, is there any way to prod bundler to make it default to package gems and do a local install where possible, rather than downloading them every time there is a deploy (the current default)? At present you use double bandwidth from people downloading once on their local machine, and once on their server to update.

Fetching the ruby gems index with bundler/rubygems still takes a while every time I bundle update, have you looked at optimising that part of the process further (at least it doesn't fetch a list of all gems now, but it still fetches a list of all versions of each gem doesn't it?), say caching older gem results? The list of gem versions available should not change for old ones, so you should really only need to fetch a very small list of latest versions. The memory usage and bandwidth usage is still quite high there.
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The same services that you would use had you logged in with Facebook or Google?
The Bay Area is a big place. You should be more specific, unless you allow remote work.

My commute to your location could be anywhere from five minutes to two hours, depending on what part of the Bay Area you're talking about.
Try travelling around the world a bit and see for yourself that there's more than to it than the "american brand" of Christianity. European Catholics are more "lightweight" when it comes to their belief and when science and reason contradicts religion they'll take the science/reason way in 9 out of 10 cases. Orthodox Christians in Eastern Europe and Russia have a similar mindset and and they also take things with a grain of humor (even more than a grain sometimes) and are ok even with making fun of their own beliefs :)

If you generalize a bit, you see that things went down hill since the protestants tried to reform Christianity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation , also, what I call "american brand C." is all a radicalized descendent of protestant reformation), had some mixed good and bad philosophical ideas mixed in with "faith", but mainly managed to take themselves waaaaaaay too seriously!

Mind it, I'm an atheist myself, but C. in not that harmful if not taken too far and it's sometimes good for humor ...now if only people could manage to also take Islam this lightly and look more at its funny sides :)
Why did it become socially acceptable for prosecutors to throw around 100-year threats, though? It seems like the only reason that's not a crime is because they're the legal system.

Maybe there should be a limit on the span between maximum threat and minimum sentence, so that 100-year threats can't be thrown around unless the minimum plea is at least 5-10 years. That would make a prosecutor hesitate to employ such a powerful weapon, because the defendant would be more willing go to trial in that scenario, which reduces their chances of landing that conviction.
Both cameras were installed a couple weeks ago and are functioning:
http://blog.urthecast.com/updates/urthecast-cameras-successf...

(Yes, you'd think they'd update their website.)
Chicago is the king of Politics and needless regulation. Cronyism isn't something talked about in back allay's, it's a legitimate way to get a job/win a contract. No one looks twice at that. All comcast has to do to keep Google out is tell Rahm that he shouldn't let it happen and BOOM - no google in Chicago.

It becomes especially obvious in the winter when you see only certain parts of the city getting cleared immediately after a snow storm, those parts are where the alderman of that neighborhood lives, or a friend of the mayor lives on that block (and they'll do that, just plow a single block). Th rest of the city is plowed as well but it takes a couple days as the plows first have to do their crazy routes to make sure that major donors are all taken care of. I didn't really notice this until our alderman changed (I guess I used to live fairly close to the old one). The new alderman lives nearly a mile away from me and thus my block is one of the last in the city to get cleared where as in previous years, it was done directly following major streets. (the streets nearest to her are all plowed and clear immediately, and they're of the same significance that my street is, so it's not like balance was suddenly restored, they just moved the favor elsewhere).

It's really the only reason I'm a republican: this city is all blue and completely corrupt, I don't at all understand how people look at Obama, or Durbin, or Pelosi and don't see someone who has no morals and is in it for I don't even know what (as Obama seems to not even care about the power his position offers).
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That's not the lawyers argument, it's actually the Guardian writer's failed paraphrase of a point they were trying to make. The government is relying on copyright law which traditionally distinguishes "in-line" linking from "embedded" linking. Since this is neither, their reliance on that is flawed... the writer of this article just didn't fully grok it. I recommend you skim the motion.
Yea like what does a score of 80 mean? Maybe company A really values free spirited people, a bunch of people rate them highly because of that, but the reader doesn't like that.

How can you make the scores more relevant to a new visitor? I'd personally like a little survey that asks me what I value in a culture, and then calculates a match based on what other people have seen.
It seems like the only reason that's not a crime is because they're the legal system.

Of all of the activities undertaken by the state, an increasingly high percentage fall firmly under this definition.
The article is a little unfair to Seattle. Note the alacrity with which the city clamped down on Lyft and Uber - clearly you can get some things done here if you know the right people.
To respond to your point, the statutes in question here DO in fact mandate consecutive sentencing. Look it up next time.

18 USC § 1028A, etc.

"no term of imprisonment imposed on a person under this section shall run concurrently with any other term of imprisonment imposed on the person under any other provision of law..."
I loved that book! It really managed to give a voice to the frustrations that I felt with my school, and how I was being taught. The on thing that I would like to emphasize though is that the book isn't advocating just dropping out of highschool, it is talking about replacing the school system's stifling attempts at education with teaching yourself what you want to learn. Make no mistake, you won't be getting out of work by dropping out, but you will be actually spending your time and effort on learning something important and helpful instead of wasting it on recieving a 'standardized' education that only exists to make sure that all the grunts have at least a base level of knowledge about 'stuff'. While it is much easier to just sit in school and be spoonfed information, it is ultimately a waste of your time. Your time would be better spent going out and learning about the stuff that interests you.
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It's a maximum potential sentence of all the charges combined, I think most smart people realize that. As another person noted the media does this to show the charges as excessive.
I have never been able to sigh into Flickr with anything other than by Facebook ID. All attempts by me/Yahoo to create an Yahoo ID that wasn't locked in some self defeating loop failed.

I've never been a fan of Yahoo or for that matter Hotmail; they force an ID on you which is then hijacked by their email servers to spam all your contacts...again...and again.

Why can't Yahoo just die gracefully ? Why do they have to inflict their death throes on Flickr Users ?
good luck to u.
>>> The effects of LSD on freeing people's minds lie elsewhere, not in making people aware of the governmental abuses of power.

To be fair, the poster before did make a statement about what effects lsd would not have.

I agree with you that it will be difficult to verbalise any of this. However, I would say that an increased awareness of power structures is a possible outcome of a psychedelic experience.
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My site serves 25 TB/mo, and it costs me $80/mo...

$60/mo for a dedicated server, $20/mo for CloudFlare. The dedicated server only serves 1 TB of it, the other 24 TB is static assets cached and served directly by CloudFlare.

Here's a screenshot of CloudFlare Analytics for the last 30 days: http://d.pr/i/6Z8S/5GU2Ni8t
I'm guessing you wouldn't have heard of Li, Todd, or Radtke if they hadn't committed suicide. In other words, a person's suicide may increase their newsworthiness.

With Bayes' Theorem:

P(suicide | news) = P(news | suicide) P(suicide) / P(news)

The statement "Suicides are more newsworthy than average events" can be mathematically stated as P(news | suicide) > P(news). Then the news media "amplifies" suicides by some factor k > 1, where k = P(news | suicide) / P(news).

I don't doubt that there are a handful of suicide stories out there that are actually successfully covered murders, but I think those represent a tiny fraction of the total. I really don't think there's an assassination epidemic.
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Since it can take a bit of time to read through the invoice, here's a summary of the bill:

CloudFront $1,071
Data Transfer $3,597
EC2 $2,184
S3 $ 228

While "bandwidth" costs equate to ~$4,668/month, only $1,071 is CDN (CloudFront), with the balance just raw Data Transfer.

Since lots of folks are commenting, and not everyone realizes the difference it's also a good time to point out the CloudFront vs. Data Transfer distinction.

Using Amazon's terms... Data Transfer means anything directly served/coming from EC2 or S3 (or a few other services which aren't relevant here), but NOT anything for CloudFront (which is, obviously, a separate line item, as shown above).

The bulk of CDN (CloudFront) usage ($735 worth or 69%) is US.

The bulk of Data raw bandwidth (Data Transfer) usage ($2,931 ~80%) is US East.
Urthecast says they'll be offering one, although I don't know what they'll end up allowing:
http://www.urthecast.com/developer

What sort of things would you want an API for?
Dear HN — if php blogging platforms are junk, what do you suggest?
Wordpress is too heavy. I think many want a very lightweight blog engine. They are just one step ahead of the curve in they don't want a shared solution because they want to control their own data. I don't trust my blog on tumbler or similar, they may take it down.

Requirements:
* portable, leaning me to think php is the easiest and most host friendly for free/cheap
* easy install
* no database for served files, fine for interim writing and working, SQLite for ease I would guess
* markdown
* template to make it look nice
* basic ability to add analytics, SEO, etc
* dashboard, stats.
* ability to take to pretty much any host
* handle a few hundred thousand uniques a day and don't have to worry, so HN/reddit can hit it without trouble. Do this on Apache without a CDN etc.
* maybe even work on S3 or a free Amazon instance. Good learning experience to get others to learn the AWS system controls.

Ghost was suggested here the other day. I looked at it and saw it was all node and JS. I knew I was I for a server side config night of fun.

Another was posted yesterday and was semi-bashed because it was php.

So what do you suggest?

I know there's lists and lists, but installing and testing to have them fall on your face is no fun. Some have zero pull requests/downloads.

Looking for a "I stand by experience" recommendation. And to be honest, I think done right, php is an excellent language for this. Simple blog, content is king, ability to grow into a full fledged business if your writing is that good.

Suggestions?
He's not the type to plead guilty. I think he's taking this to trial on the principle that he believes he didn't do anything criminal. Also, the defense has a very good case, and the government's appears to be full of holes.
Yes, but on the other hand: if you pay for your mistakes now, things aren't that bad because you haven't got many users yet. If you're in the need of scaling things up you still have to figure out how AWS works. Who would you rather offend by downtime: 10 users while you're starting out, or 10,000 paying users a little down the road?

I highly recommend getting started with AWS now. They have a free tier (1 year) which you can use. Heck, you could play around with it, just using it for the company blog.

AWS is great in terms of autoscaling. True, the I/O isn't great, at least for the free tier (all the more reason to start now, while server load isn't that big yet). I wrote a blog post on starting out with AWS last year, check it out if you like.
Yesss! I basically grew up on the Carmen Sandiago games. Time to introduce them to a new generation.
Wow. Searched for 10 well known companies and nothing. Pretty lame. Side project indeed.
I use Iconic on my personal website. It was easy to implement.

I have nothing substantive or critical to offer to this discussion.

My only contribution here is praise and thanks for an Icon Font library that I very much appreciate.
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Hah. Great article!

Also:

* https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup for decentralised and lightning fast email. Written in Ruby, very hackable.

* http://orgmode.org/ Although I'm a vim user, I use orgmode for: All my todos, clocking hours for clients, spreadsheets for my training, research notes, calendar, anything else that needs organising and planning.
It's not, and they don't. For non-heinous crimes (i.e., crimes that aren't rape or murder) prosecutors threaten the maximum sentence for the "worst" crime charged, and only that number, because any competent defense attorney would immediately let their client know that sentences wouldn't be served consecutively. This is true in most, but not all states as well. (For heinous crimes, the consecutive sentences don't matter; the defendant has already received a life sentence and the additional years are meaningless.)

This is also a legal ethics issue, since a prosecutor who fraudulently claims a higher maximum penalty during plea bargaining can be suspended or disbarred. Cops can lie to you--prosecutor's can't. They have sworn an oath (to the bar) to be honest in their legal representations. Prosecutors have been sanctioned, suspended, and even disbarred for being dishonest about sentencing because such dishonesty indicates moral turpitude that likely extends into other facets of their legal work.

It's the media that throws around the 100-year numbers by adding together all of the potential individual sentences. It turns out that journalists aren't very good at understanding technology, science, or the law.
Pleading guilty doesn't set a legal precedent.

If you're talking about piling on charges to make a plea deal look attractive, I'm pretty sure that's been done before.