skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The basic definition of theft is given at the start 1:1 'A person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it; and “thief” and “steal” shall be construed accordingly.'

> You might immediately say that this discounts the possibility of the original owner committing theft, but 5(1) partly defines 'belonging to another' as:
'Property shall be regarded as belonging to any person having possession or control of it, or having in it any proprietary right or interest (not being an equitable interest arising only from an agreement to transfer or grant an interest).'

Nothing dishonest about it. Plus using the logic of your argument the shop owner is also violating that 1968 law. So arrest them both? Or was the shop owner not "dishonest" enough but the person who originally purchased the property and wanted it returned "dishonest?"

Seems like you're using a double standard here.

> So, the computer appears to 'belong to' the pawnbroker, as 1they have possession and control of it. But let's look back to 'appropriation'.

All the appropriation clause indicates is that if someone purchases property in good faith they effectively aren't a thief under the law. But all that means is in our scenario neither the shop keeper OR the original owner are thieves.

In the UK, and I know this for a fact, if property is recovered it is returned. You aren't charged for it. I know this because someone recovered stolen goods from a CeX store (which is kind of like a Cash Converters).

Simply bringing up the appropriations clause doesn't prove (or disprove) that the original owner would be considered a thief since you're misusing the law anyway.

> The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 gives provision for 'Low value shoplifting', this item is less than £200 so would be treated as such. However, this is just about whether it should be dealt with by magistrate or crown court, and requires an offence under 1(1) of the Theft Act.

Doesn't apply. You cannot shoplift your own goods. Just like the hat or coat you had on when you entered the store isn't "shoplifted" when you left the store wearing it.

You cannot steal your own property.

> Do I get my D.Jur?

Grow up. Your post was good, that was immature.
Yes, it is still possible to make money, even a lot of money, writing an app but that doesn't mean early adopters didn't have a big advantage. Market vacuums will always be filled and the later you arrive at the scene, the higher the probability you will have to rely on hard marketing work to be noticed and stand out in the overcrowded application markets.

The good news is that:

a) Persistence and hard work will usually pay off in the long run (assuming your product does indeed provide some sort of value)

b) There will always be new vacuums. If keep you a close watch on developing trends you might be able to climb on the tree when it's still young and sit back while it grows, instead of spending your resources building giant ladders...
Incidentally, someone is working on Go bindings for the OS X Hypervisor (https://github.com/penberg/go-osxhv).
What's exactly the difference between cookies and session identifiers exactly? There's no law requiring you to send kilobytes of cookies (news.ycombinator.com gets by with a 22-byte cookie). Of course the way HTTP cookies handle ambient authority is rather imperfect, but that can be solved within the system.
Well, discussion forums incite somewhat different types of posts than news sites (which are the primary case for peer-vote moderation for whatever reason). And top-down moderation is also quite different. So yeah, I agree those don't have that specific problem.
I've only heard rumors of its code name: Vanadium (but would love to get confirmation of that). Would be great to get this open source -- the world could use KVM + not-QEMU. Speaking for us in SmartOS, we didn't like where QEMU was headed, and we have essentially forked it for our KVM implementation -- we would love to explore Vanadium, if that's even what it's called.. ;)
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I dont care about IETF or HTTP/2.

Ill just keep using HTTP/1.1. It works on my computer.
We have 18 in the home that are connected to the wifi router.

It has increased in the past 5 years considerably from about 3-4 before.

In the next 5 years or so I would expect that number to jump again, maybe 2-3x.
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You can protect your name even while being open source and free.

This is why I use the zlib license.
That hasn't been true for the vast majority Enterprise environments for the last decade or so, and even before for places which dumped the the Windows 9x lineage earlier.

Even home users on anything beyond XP rarely run with default Administrator privileges anymore, although they're still a click away for most users, through UAC.

Curiously enough, while Linux power users frown upon running as root, in Windows it's usually the power users who choose to disable UAC, although it's less bothersome than sudo (no password needed).
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Gaymer culture is on the rise and our band is loud and proud! There is even an upcoming Gaymer episode coming up on HBO's "Looking".

http://youtu.be/p803oLMChYk
I find it somewhat hard professionally to get a role doing other stuff - I have brought up to multiple companies I have been at that I would like to do server-side work and work with other domains. Almost none of them initially take my wishes seriously, simply because they would likely have to hire 5+ developers to replace my expertise & productivity with Angular when I am on a roll (or maybe 2+ normal senior engineers).

Other companies aren't comfortable enough to allow me to do backend work when I apply, even if I have had non-professional experience working with [insert tech], or they would likely come with a drastic pay cut - I believe it is because I have become uncannily good at what I do on the frontend. Instead, I have focused more on moving up the ladder with other skills since I recognize that being a one trick pony sucks - I have leveraged my expertise to become a senior/lead engineer, that way I am shielded from that problem somewhat. A part of me does wish that I would be able to get more experience using other languages, technology, and domains within web development, because I like writing code & solving problems. This is a hard problem to me, and I have been taking the time to think about how to approach this in the back of my head.
Note for SSD owners: At this time, only FreeBSD's ZFS supports TRIM on SSD's.
That's making an assumption that they will send back the A/AAAA records. Empirically, you might be right, but it's a recommendation, not a requirement, in RFC2782. (Not sure if there's an RFC that supercedes that particular point.)

So, either you hope the server responds with the A/AAAA records in the additional section, or you have to query for all records on an RR, or further still, do multiple queries. What happens when your SRV records point to CNAMEs? Do most DNS servers that support sending back the A/AAAA records in the ADDITIONAL section also support resolving the CNAMEs before populating the additional section?

There's a few other things, too,, like having to make interesting tradeoffs on TTLs: if you have low enough TTLs to support using DNS as a near-real-time configuration of what web servers to use, what happens when DNS itself breaks? There's some operational pain there, to be sure.

This is all to say: there's clearly a lot of angles to something as simple as using SRV records in lieu of A/AAAA/CNAME records, and we're here, right now, talking about this, all because of the rushed design of HTTP/2.0, which is a protocol unto itself. It's not surprising that a standard that went through so quickly managed to not include something, like SRV records, which have been in a weird state of existence since their inception. To think it would be so simple, so easy, seems incredibly overoptimistic.
Oh it gets worse.

I joined during the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, and my entire department was put on a hiring freeze, despite having plenty to do and legitimate need for more people.

So we toiled for two years under a hiring freeze as work piled up - but that wasn't even the biggest problem.

As soon as the hiring freeze was eventually lifted, all the managers went nuts with hiring - I suppose in that kind of environment you hire as many people as you can get your hands on since you have no idea if you'll be allowed to hire later. My team of 3 engineers ended up interviewing for 7 open positions at the same time.

So in a given day my schedule would wind up being: 4 hours of interviewing, 3 hours of meeting explaining to people why dev work wasn't getting done, and 1 hour of real work (which wasn't really productive since it's scattered throughout the day).

I decided to get out of that place pretty quickly - so I suppose a team of 2 engineers ended up interviewing for 8 open positions...
I happily use Webpack and NPM and have no problems with it.

NPM is in fact fine for frontend package management, it's not just about being able to use "Node land tools". All my frontend deps are on NPM, I published some NPM packages myself, and I don't even use Node.

Yes there are small issues (like wanting to be able to specify non-dupe requirement for some libraries) but overall NPM works fine for frontend. Much better than Bower if your app is moderately complex.
The difference is who makes the decisions: session id is controlled by the client. cookies by the server.

FaceBook, Twitter etc. track you all over the internet with their cookies, even if you don't have an account with them, whenever a site puts up one of their icons for you to press "like".

With client controlled session identifies, uses would get to choose if they wanted that.

The reason YC gets by with 22 bytes is probably that they're not trying to turn the details of your life into their product.
Another great rye you might try is "Rittenhouse Rye 100". It's great neat or with a splash of water/1 cube or in an Old Fashioned (I always use rye in my old fashioned's).
Good. Compute engine is crazy fast because all of the hardware isn't over allocated. Go ahead and use Amazon, I hear good things. :-)
I tried it as well, had the exact same reaction. And I'm a privacy advocate as well...
> I can send someone an EXE that they can double click and install and I'm in. On Linux, that's much more rare of an occurrence.

I can do that with linux binaries too? The difference is that a Windows user is more likely to install untrusted software.
Can you send/receive email from non-Freenet Internet addresses, while maintaining anonymity? That would be a killer feature.
Ask HN: How did you land your first PM job?
The article says free with IAP is making much more revenue. You'd probably be wise to try that with yours.
It requires threats of violence which nobody has suggesting using.

I find it very interesting how people cannot stay on topic. The topic is: if you walk out with it, is it legal.

But yet all people want to bring up is things outside the scope, like threats, violence, breaking things, and so fourth.

Where did these things come from? All I see people keep saying is "that isn't legal" but when did anyone in this entire discussion suggesting using such things?

Honestly it just seems trolling to bring it up at all. Why not point out that murdering the shopkeeper and emptying the cash register isn't legal either, if we're just tacking on random escalations that weren't suggested? Makes about as much sense.
London on the whole gets by with a pretty light police presence. The police generally don't get involved with parking and most traffic violations - we have cameras and plenty of traffic wardens who put tickets on your window but can't arrest anyone. It seems to work quite well on average. Policing in the US kind of freaks me out.
This was a good comment that I can agree with. I'm also genuinely curious what the reaction/outcome would be if de Blasio would be less apologetic and slightly more confrontational with the Unions. Or even if the governor spoke out more.. Maybe confrontational is the wrong word, but rather something more "truthful" as your post is suggesting. I wonder what it actually takes to make a major cultural shift in the police force.
>The USA had the most crime, and the USA has seen the biggest decrease. No one knows why.

Some have proposed that outlawing leaded gasoline has led to less lead poisoning in children, thus less aggressive behavior in adults and subsequent decreases in crime.

NBER paper - Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime

[1] - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13097.pdf

MotherJones story

[2] - http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...

Links to criticism of the story above

[3] - http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/lead-and-crime...
The question was asked to CIO's to "name their preferred public cloud provider". It's not clear to me what preferred means here. I'd bet a large number of them still have a large amount of on-premise. Does preferred mean the vendor with the highest compute workload, or the one they would pick if they were to move to the cloud?

I have to think that it would be the latter, because moving that much compute workload off of Google's Cloud between 2014 and 2015 would be a big effort.
Piggybacking data on PGP key servers
While the article was informative, it'd be a lot more interesting if it went into the reason people prefer AWS. Does anyone care to comment why they or their company decided to use AWS over competing products?
I'm working on implementing the JVM in Brainfuck
I don't care about trophies, certificate, gift cards, etc. What sounds most positive to me about your internal hack days is your effort to productionize the efforts. That means you actually realize that all those smart, ambitious people you hire might actually have good ideas.

I recently left an NYC ed-tech startup that would have 'hack days', but during the hack days there were games, distractions, and once even a live band. Now I like parties, but it indicated to me that the non-technical CEO was allowing the hack day because Facebook did it, and he viewed it more as a recruiting effort than something he took seriously. I won one of the categories once and received no followup whatsoever, and the impression that I got was that if I wanted to work on it nights and weekends after the fact, then maybe it would be considered. Lots of people did do 'real work' during hack day, and most of the projects were fluff or things that were obviously going to be on the product roadmap anyway. To me, the entire thing was a waste of time, which is unfortunate, because I really wish more companies looked for creativity out of their engineers. Many companies (especially NYC ones) will begrudgingly pay you for your coding skills, but then put you at the whim of a product manager with no experience building anything. I always say that if you think about why designers/coders learned these skillsets, it's often because they are extremely interested in the end-products and that's what motivated them to learn to build products in the first place, and so to totally ignore their input and put them in pure heads-down coding roles is really unfortunate. This blog post indicates to me that you're not that type of company.

As for external hackathons, to me they are a waste of time as a coder because nobody actually checks that your implementation works. And worse, they hire people like journalists to judge (looking at you Angelhack). What that means is that the 'hackathon' really turns into a 'pitchathon', and the winners go to the best designers (which I can at least respect), or slide decks and charismatic pitches (which I don't). Getting the judging right so that time spent actually coding is valued is really difficult, but something more hackathon organizers should consider.
> A bit part of the "broken windows" theory is that small crimes, such as graffiti, created an atmosphere that allowed worse crimes to happen.

I've always been confused as to why the broken windows theory presumes that the window is broken because of malicious action. It seems obvious to me that the window was broken accidentally, and as such, the correct response (in police action and otherwise) is to repair the window. Full stop.
Github has a legal team. They should sue.
I bet most of the content must have been Paul Revere's idea.
I think Google's history of shutting down products would keep me from picking Google Cloud for a major project. If Google Cloud continues to lag behind the market, you have to think they will shut it down like Google Reader, Google Wave and a number of other products. Even if Amazon isn't perfect, I feel like AWS will be around for a long time.
My mother is a mainframe person. She was back in the 80's, she was in the 90's, she was in the 00's and she is in the 10's. The difference is as the supply of mainframe people goes down, her pay goes up.
Another neat approach to dealing with multiple comparisons is Bayesian hierarchical models. Instead of correcting significance thresholds after the fact, all comparisons are represented as parameters in the model from the start. You would still need to 'preregister' segments as you suggest. See Gelman's paper, http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/mu...
It's un-enforceable as well unless, ultimately you'd end up needing to police the consumer.

This sort of misguided action in today's technology culture will just result in an exodus of hardware manufacturers + technology service providers and shrinking demand & trust for US based technology.
This is already happening to some extent, illustrated by the boom in ASPs & Cloud computing occurring in Germany, elsewhere in Europe and to a lesser extent in Switzerland.
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That's an argument against showing scary warnings on self-signed certs, not against SSL. It would be nice if there was a httpr:// scheme that would be like HTTPS but without certificate checking.
People have been saying it's impossible to make money since they invented currency I'm sure. That's why everyone with an idea and some programming knowledge isn't a millionaire. It will always take passion, hard work, and business sense to be successful.
Pumpkin pie would probably be a better candidate as an iconic American dish, since pumpkins are at least native to North America. Pumpkin pie is good, but I do favor Apple.
You do need a good alternative systems of course. But once those old e-mails isn't around anymore you would have to use the other system to still have access to the data.

I'm not even sure current e-mail systems are such a good tool. I would think chat for internal things and some CRM type system (leveraging e-mail) would be better. But yes as you said, easier said than done.
Thanks for that link. For a long time I've toyed with the idea of a dedicated video card (as in business/greeting style); brings video to the self-containment of a book: immutable physical instance of content, including the reader/viewer. Still a bit aways from what I had in mind (think: little larger than a credit card, cheap) but well on its way.
Potato, wheat, rye, and other vodka bases are definitely distinguishable. It's not 100% ethanol post distillation. Vodka just takes a lot less of the heads and tails.
From one of the leaked Snowden powerpoints, Qualcomm is listed as an 'NSA Strategic Partner':

http://i.imgur.com/V211k8o.jpg

The NSA defines these relationships as, "Unique key corporate partnerships to high-capacity international fiber-optic cables, switches and/or routers throughout the world"

It's worth noting that Qualcomm was founded 30 years ago specifically to provide communications equipment to the pentagon[1]. Also General Scowcroft, George HW Bush's Assistant for National Security Affairs, is a current board member.[2]

[1] - https://www.qualcomm.com/company/about/history

[2] - http://investor.qualcomm.com/directors.cfm
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It has not been demonstrated that there is a lack of enforcement for serious criminal activity.

What has been broadly noted is that violations that generate money are not being enforced.

That part about "generating money" is the crux of the strategy we're seeing.
It's mostly easier to read because it no longer deals with error cases. All code becomes easier to read if you ignore errors.

I can make my code arbitrarily short if it doesn't have to be correct.
It will be interesting to see how this balances out. Fewer arrests, fewer court cases and fewer people sent to jail. All of which, especially the jail, are expensive...
No, this is actually a very important point for me.

If HTTP/2.0 had done this right, there wouldn't be a need for your employer to trojan your CA list so they can check for "inappropriate content" going either way through their firewall. (Under various laws they may be legally mandated to do so, flight controllers, financial traders etc.)

But because HTTP/2.0 was more about $BIGSITEs unfettered access to their users, no mechanism was provided for such legally mandated M-I-T-M, and therefore the CA-system will be trojaned by even more people, resulting in even less security for these users.

Likewise, pushing a lot of traffic which doesn't really need it onto SSL/TLS will only force NSA and others to trojan the CA-system even harder, otherwise they cannot do the job the law says they should do.

As I've said earlier: Just mindlessly slapping encryption on traffic will not solve political problems but is likely to make them much worse.

See for instance various "Law Enforcement" types calling for laws to ban encryption or Englands existing law that basically allow them to jail you until you decrypt whatever they want you to decrypt (never mind if you actually can or not...)

Edit to add:

The point about $BIGSITE is that everybody hates it when Hotels, ISPs and Phone companies modifies the content to insert adds etc. Rightfully so.

Any proxy which does not faithfully pass content should be forced to need the clients accept for its actions.

But since such proxies are legal and in some cases legally mandated some places (smut filters in libraries & schools, filters in jails. Parental controls at home, "compliance gateways" at companies) trying to make them impossible with the protocol just means that the protocol will be broken.
I have a (at the initial release, and possibly still) "state-of-the-art" Brainfuck compiler to C [1], which can compile a "Hello, world" program into a single `puts` call.

Some ProTip(tm): JITing Brainfuck doesn't fare a lot; for example, resetting the cell is an O(n) operation in BF, so JIT alone doesn't reduce this into O(1). Some kind of scalar evolution has to be implemented to reduce this O(n) factor. More sophiscated liveness and range analysis might be required to go further (esotope-bfc didn't get there, anyway).

[1] https://bitbucket.org/lifthrasiir/esotope-bfc
Can someone explain what this is suppose to mean? I know there were attacks in Paris.
I wonder if the debate in the media will focus on religious fanaticism or if they'll start victim blaming by arguing that Charlie Hebdo was asking for it, being provocative.
Sure, but Linux can also generally run much more efficiently than Windows. I think having Linux on the cheap version could conceivably be both a cut in licensing fees and also a way to make economy hardware specs viable.