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It didn't work out so well for Curtis Green.[0]

> Starting in April 2012, a DEA undercover agent in Maryland (the UC), began communicating with Ulbricht about selling illegal drugs on Silk Road. That agent was one of several assigned to the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force. The UC claimed to be a smuggler who specialized in moving substantial quantities of illegal drugs. In December 2012, Ulbricht set out to find a drug dealer on Silk Road who could purchase large quantities of drugs from the UC and directed his administrators, including Green, to assist. Green assisted the UC to establish contact with a buyer, who was an established seller of drugs on Silk Road (the Vendor). The UC and the Vendor negotiated a deal for one kilogram of cocaine for approximately $27,000 in Bitcoin, a digital currency that has no association with a national government, is difficult to track, and easy to move online.

> Without the knowledge of either Ulbricht or the UC, Green agreed to act as a middle-man for the Vendor and take delivery of drugs. As a result, the Vendor provided Green’s address to the UC as the place to which the cocaine was to be delivered. On January 17, 2013, an undercover U.S. Postal Inspector delivered the cocaine [very highly cut] to Green at his residence. Shortly after Green accepted delivery of the cocaine, federal agents with the HSI, DEA, U.S. Postal Inspectors and the U.S. Secret Service executed a search warrant at Green’s residence and recovered the kilogram of cocaine. U.S. Secret Service agents also conducted a forensic examination of Green’s computers and digital media seized during the search.

[0] http://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/administrator-silk-road-we...
You probably want to start using a version control system like Github for case 1.
I'm sure Zuck and those like him would argue its because engineers over 40 just aren't a good "cultural fit" in today's tech companies.
Yeah, one of my favorite reasons why I like Pixar films is that their central conflicts are inspired by some deep-seated adult fear: fear of being replaced or forgotten (TS1-TS3), of children growing up and leaving (Nemo), midlife crisis (Incredibles), the fragility of newborn children (Monsters Inc), of change (Inside Out).

That said, I do think there are a lot of creative frontiers to be explored with material suitable for older audiences only. If they wanted, Pixar could make the most terrifying psychological horror known to Man, or a tragedy so heart-wrenching that everyone heads to the bars afterward.
Ask to speak to a manager or you're going to cancel your service. Then explain the issue to the manager. Make sure the manager understands failure to fix the problem will result in termination of your service. Also make sure to ask for their name or extension in case no progress is made.

If no progress is made - call a competitor. Explain your scenario and see if they'll:

a) Pay to terminate your contract (if you're on one), usually in the form of a credit onto your account and b) free installation (usually a given anyways)

Then call the manager back (this is why you asked for their name/extension) and cancel your service. Switch to the other provider.

I've gone from getting 20mbps and paying for 50mbps to getting 140mbps and paying for 50mbps. Without switching providers.

If switching providers doesn't sound nice (because paying for a tv/net/phone bundle or something) don't worry. They typically cave in after you threaten to leave and you can skip the whole "call a competitor" backup plan and you don't actually have to cancel if the plan fails. But it sure helps you sound more authentic when you actually consider cancelling and take appropriate action as if you were going to cancel.

This can also be used to get your phone upgrade earlier than your contract states. You just have to sound authentic about cancelling their service. A similar tactic can be used against branched/franchised entities by threatening to call corporate.

The managers will typically bend over backwards to retain you as a customer. Especially if you have history with them. No way in hell they want to lose a customer of the past 4-5 years because of some internet speed issues. They'll usually bump you up an entire tier without charge (and keep an eye on any price increase after 6/12 months...then call them out on it if it occurs).

Unfortunately I have a lot of experience in this area. As I refuse to let a company take advantage of me simply because others are complacent with letting the company take advantage of them.
Is it just me or do the three dots on the lower left do the same thing as the hamburger menu at the top?
Google's UX/design now reminds of MSN/Hotmail/Yahoo of 10 years ago. All the pointless image-heavy neutral visual noise. Why on earth are you showing me that waterfall background? I don't want your watered down elevator music.

Google needs to remember why Gmail, Reader, etc ended up destroying the aforementioned products in terms of UX, and change the direction it's headed at.
Anyone have any ideas on the computer vision techniques used here?
Cool! Might use this when I renovate http.sh
I heard a VC complaining about a pitch he had for an internet connected toothbrush for kids once. It would notify parents if it wasn't used.

I thought it was quite a good idea!
if solving one problem involves creating another, it's good to be cautious.
Keeping track and sticking buttons all over the place is going to be an "early adopter" feature. Once we get to an overwhelming number of "buttons" it will make sense just to put up a couple cameras similar to the Microsoft Kinect and use hot zone + gestures to do the same thing. RFID in boxed products might help out but the buttons will end up being a mess right quick.
No access to natural gas? I'm assuming you live too far from the gas lines to make a new gas installation possible?

That said, I had a instructor who's friend bought a house out at the beach 30 years ago. He didn't know what to do about heating.

He decided to put a large diesel tank on his property, and use that fuel to run a boiler. He installed baseboard hydronic tubing. He was very happy with the heating set up.
His previous system was electric, and his monthly bill was
outragious.(electrical rates really do vary from area to area.)

He also had an old Mercedes diesel automobile. One day he used the heating grade diesel for fuel for his Mercedees. His car ran fine. He was paying someting like 35 cents a gallon for gas. He used that car to commute for years. There are no taxes on the heating fuel, or at that time.

(That 35 cent quote is from a story told to me 20 years ago. I don't know if heating diesel was ever that cheap? I was told this story from a instructor who I don't completely trust. He tended to embellish.)

That said I always thought if I lived in an area where I couldn't use solar, or natural gas; I would definetly use a boiler, with propane, or diesel fuel? They make condensing boilers that are very efficient. I installed one and it wasen't that hard. I don't know if a condensing boiler can use diesel fuel, but I know you can use them with propane.

If you decide to do the work yourself; buy the third edition of Modern Hydronics. It's expensive, but go for it. Hole yourself up in a room for a weekend, and read that book. It's geared for large hydronic installations, but will handle residential installations fine. Hydronic heating is really under utilized, especially on the west coast. It's a great, energy efficient way to heat a home. I bought a fancy condensing boiler and happy with it, but I have a feeling I could heat a house with a water heater if your have enough baseboard, or tubing? And you live in a temperate climate?

Of course, hire a professional if funds are tight. Make sure the professional knows about boilers, and hydronic heating. A good first question for the contractor is what brand of 02 sensor he/she uses to calibrate the boiler. If he doesn't immediately come up with a answer, or looks confused--run. The second question should be "could you write down the what a primary/secondary hydronic piping configuration would look like?" Verify he knows what a primary/secondary system looks like, and why it's important.

Hydronic heating is vastly underutilized in the U.S., at least in California? I don't know why it isn't used in more situations? I guess engineers feel that if you are going to need air conditioning, why bother with it? I have heard incorporating air conditioning with hydronic heating is not that difficult? As to keeping zones at different temperatures, I did not find that to be a problem if you run your zones correctly.

(One other painful lesson I learned by relying on wood burning too long. Don't buy a cord of wood off Craigslist. I guarantee a guy will show up with less than a cord. If you are forced to use the fireplace; put a insert in.)
Wifi chips are cheap. So cheap, that I'd all but guarantee they're still making a profit on it, even at $5. You can get ESP8266 chips from people in china for about $2.50 each including shipping, and those will do everything these buttons do. Given Amazon's volume, they probably cost half that for them, so hacking them is pretty much free advertising.
Some comments:
-- If you're running a good company, then the resumes will be filtered by technical people, not HR. There really aren't too many of them (if you're big enough to be getting thousands of resumes, then you have enough engineers to do a first pass.) And don't just give the resumes to these engineers, you need to train them on what to look for.

It is already changing that Engineers filter the resumes and not HR. Good startups do this.

Hiring -- especially for a startup-- is absolutely the most valuable thing, and it is a valuable use of engineers time (but only have engineers who want to do it and care about the hiring process do it.)

"Before I share the actual results, a quick word about context is in order. TrialPay’s hiring standards are quite high. We ended up interviewing roughly 1 in 10 people that applied. "

A non-technical person (yeah yeah, I don't believe for a second she was ever an engineer, that's vanity talking) is eliminating %90 of the applicants and they think that's a "high bar"? No. That's randomness.

-- Top Company.

I love that she thinks having worked at a "Top company" like Amazon is an indicator of success. I pick amazon because I've worked there and its in the news lately for being totally poorly managed. That poor management means the engineering side of the house is a total and absolute mess. Bugs I fixed in 2006 are STILL BROKEN. Because they were regressed due to mismanagement. The QA team that was focusing on that area is totally disbanded. This areas of the site has not improved at all, and has in fact gotten worse over the past 10 years-- and it's critical- it's product search!

So, they will hire people from Top Companies (and put them thru the incompetent HR filter) over better engineers with good side projects.

Great.
Sweet, now I don't have to keep Chrome around for Hangouts on OS X.
It looks like much of code is some simple routines to find and replace elements. Might not take long to recreate it in pure ruby.
Ok, I'm game! Join me:

https://talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/_/g7qn5tqae6r63h7curf...

I've always wondered why it was so friggin' hard to start a hangout.
In a way this is a feature not a bug-- when an HR person whose job was created primarily to boost the number of females and minorities in the company to meet quotas is reviewing resumes and rejects me, she saves me a lot of time working for a terrible company.

I wish Amazon had done that to me.

Also, of course as you point out her definition of "Good" is based on whether or not the resume got past her arbitrary ill-informed ideas of whats "good". Self reinforcing.
I refrained from providing commentary on whether or not posting it a second time is "good" or "bad". While small, there was commentary on the previous link, and that commentary might be valuable to people. I personally think that Hacker News should have an integrated feature that shows "previous discussions" of every posted link. FWIW, reddit has that feature, and it is extremely valuable. (I provide this extra context, as someone down voted my attempt to be useful in addition to you providing a semi-defensive response.)
In fact, this is my favorite meaning of the word hack. It's turned into essentially a synonym for "programmer" as far as I can tell, but I always liked this classic definition of getting a thing to something other than what it was intended to do.
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i dont see an option for OSX hangouts. Where did you get it?
Extensive discussion 5 days ago (of a much more comprehensive article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045297
How to FIND MASTER CODE SECURITY SYSTEM: IS THE GUIDE a SCAM OR REAL?
Our lawyer reviewed it and made the following changes, https://dev.gitlab.org/gitlab/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/479/d... Thank again!
Awesome article and idea.

Would it be unreasonable to try to reverse or update the actual code on the hardware to get it to send a request to an arbitrary server instead? I'd love to team with a hardware person to cut out the layer of having to have a script polling the network to find the device. It's always been something I've wanted to learn more about. Or is that unrealistic?
It still requires a proprietary NPAPI plugin on Firefox, sadly.
Keen IO open-sources its Data Explorer tool for making quick queries
It looks exactly the same for me, too.
Yeah that would be nice ...

... but unfortunately impossible, as you are solving the halting problem.
The comparison is very apt.

Dabble is the main reason I don't have much hope for Eve.

Dabble was amazing, it did everything in the Eve Tutorial much better than Eve does, it didn't require installing anything on your computer, it looked beautiful, it was very easy to use, it had great collaboration, and it had a TON more features than Eve, and it had excellent customer support. Dabble is one of my all-time favorite apps and I think it's one of the best webapps ever. And it didn't succeed.

I guess it's hard to know what might have happened with Dabble had they not created a separate analytics tool that was attractive to Twitter. Would someone else have bought Dabble and continued to support it? What if it had been built on a more mainstream architecture? I always thought Dabble would have been sustainable as a small business. Something about recent history (i.e. LightTable) tells me these guys aren't likely to toil away supporting this for the next 10-20 years to earn a modest income.

I can think of at least three limitations Dabble had that some future version of Eve might not have:

1) There were only so many primitive operations (conversions, calculations, filters, etc) and so there were some "programs" that you couldn't create.

2) For creating a UI, you basically had forms and reports. They had a great implementation of both of those, but they were the only tools you had.

3) You couldn't see the code. Just as Excel has the code hidden in a cell somewhere, in Dabble if you had a derived field (some calculation) you had to click on the field to see how it was calculated. It appears Eve has or will have some way of graphing these calculations so a program can be "read" without clicking on fields to see their formulas.
There are other plants that are green that aren't non-native, aren't water hungry, and can contribute meaningfully to other aspects of quality of life (not just human life, but biodiversity as well)
I think they both failed due to high price and overshooting the hardware available at the time.

IMO NeWS had many of the same problems as HTML+JS today, in terms of forcing a frontend/backend split that are written in different programming languages. It's twice as much to learn.

AFAIK DPS isn't that different from today's widely-used Cairo/Skia/CoreGraphics/Direct2D APIs except it had a verbose textual encoding and an extra layer of Turing-complete programming language that you don't need but can allow weird DoSes and such.
Just wanted to chime in that I strongly dislike the new facelift to hangouts for Android. Loading images in the chat cause it to stutter pretty hard on my Nexus 5.
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A lot of technologies ? No not even close. More like 3.

GFS, MapReduce, BigTable were the key Google inventions that became the sparks that ignited the modern day big data/analytics revolution.
Every time someone invents another genre, 1000s of hours are lost to rewriting these pop songs – 'unrequited devotion', 'overdue break-up', 'manic anthem', 'bittersweet nostalgia', etc etc. And that's before people complain about the tired tropes and outdated attitudes their predecessors have accrued over time. More wasted time as people try to get to grips with yet another style of hipness, coded-language, and personalization to fit real world expressive uses.

I'm all for innovation and advancing the state of the culture, but there has got to be a better way of dealing with these basic emotions. All we're doing here is creating projects for those with time on their hands, frustrating those with none, and keeping the Record Industry in business.
Ask HN: If deep learning is so effective why dont Boston Dynamics robots use it?
I read your first sentence and was about to respond with a link to Goertzel's paper ;) As far as I know, no one else has worked on this (and at this point it's mostly a brain-fart idea from Goertzel).

This is a personal area of interest for me, but in a slightly different way. Modern AI and AGI research has shown that first-order predicate logic (which underlies Loglan/Lojban) is unlikely to be a complete formal framework for rational thought. I am very much interested to see what a language would look like that was instead based on, e.g., probabilistic graphical models. And then see that applied to human-machine communication.
Always had bad experiences with HR, with around 6-7 different companies. Talking with colleagues on the same industry and others found out that my experiences are not isolated incidents, but quite the opposite they've observed pretty similar things. And finally, have a few friends that work themselves into HR and outsourcing (for SAP & Oracle) so I can speak for that environment pretty well, it is a rotten field. And yeah I'm extrapolating from that.

I can tell you something, I probably talked about this subject at least 100 times during my "professional life" with many different people, I have yet to hear a good experience from someone regarding their HR department.

Mind sharing yourself which bucket do you fall into?
Is small cap conversion done for every word that's written in all capitals? The convention that I'm familiar with (I think from The Elements of Typographical Style) is to only set acronyms - that is, pronounceable initialisms like "NASA" or "PETA" - in small caps. All other initialisms like FBI or USA are set as normal-sized caps. I think the reasoning is that small caps are there to preserve the capitals but not disturb the flow of the text, since it's read as a word just like the words around it. Full caps do disturb the flow of the text because they are not words and not pronounced as words either.
What We Know About the NSA and AT&T’s Spying Pact
This seems pretty reasonable; "having worked at a top company matters" could speak more to the hiring practices of "top company" than to anything else.

A candidate who worked at a "top company" was (probably) already prefiltered by "top company"'s hiring practices.
Exactly. Facebook and Yahoo have contributed equally as much to the technology landscape as Google has.

And unlike Google they actually make it available to the public and then follow it up with supporting the projects.
Wow.... I got excited for finally a single place to go for hangouts (I was always confused at the best "launch point") and a better interface (chat on gmail hasn't changed in what feels like a decade) and lo and behold... It's a pretty launch interface but the SAME CRAPPY CHAT WINDOWS... I've always felt like hangouts was a horribly mismanaged product (starting and joining a hangout has always been a longer and more difficult process than it should) and this just confirms it.

There is SO MUCH potential and they've thrown it all away and not even for some gain. It'd be one thing if the interface sucked because of ads or something like that but no, it just sucks to suck. I continually have high hopes for hangouts and google does their best to dash them every time (Oh look they finally 'got it'... Nevermind, they fell flat on their faces again).
So five people work on a project with the goal of earning money from it and incorporating in the future.

The others might be your best friends but my advise is to setup a contract first outlining exactly who owns what in that project. Even if you verbally agreed on 20% each there will come a situation where you argue that one person spent more on postage and the other spent more on legal fees or yet somebody else put twice the hours in as the next. Or you worked from somebody's living room (kind of an expense). At that point you will argue about percentages again so better to have it in writing as soon as possible. Source: been there, done that.

A contract also helps establishing that work created for the project belongs to the full team. E.g. nobody can go out and sell/reuse the domain or logo without the other people's permission.

To break the ice maybe just point to the movie 'the social network' (the one about the Facebook where the Winklevoss twins didn't set a contract).
There's also this one, but still not $5 - https://store.particle.io/?product=internet-button
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Interesting. Can you share any more resources or thoughts on the ideas you mention? (Incompleteness of first-order predicate logic and a language based on PGMs)
Are you being sarcastic?

This is the same, rudimentary "interface" that has always worked in all the browsers. :/
I am aware that there are lots of universal window managers, but I just wanted something simple that would have a terminal API. This is why I've created termtile
Noted. And, yeah, that sucks... a lot. However, my habit of always composing plain-text messages and exclusively using attached signatures seems to have inadvertently shielded me from those issues. :) It has been more than a year since that article; I wonder if those bugs have been cleaned up.

This[0] seems to indicate that the only email client that has real problems with attached signatures is Outlook Express. I can't bring myself to care much about Outlook Express users. (Is OE even installed on Windows 7 and later?)

[0] https://www.phildev.net/pgp/pgp_clear_vs_mime.html
Google Hangouts now has its own website
The wifi and a tiny microcontroller are available for around $5 in single units these days - google "esp8266" - I'm only _marginally_ surprised Amazon can ship these for $5, but I bet they aren't making much (if any) loss on these at their volumes.
Exactly! As mentioned in the article, Alan Kay's vision of OOP was corrupted into the rubbish we see today in C++, Java, Scala, etc. Today's conventional OOP is nothing more than an extension to Abstract Data Types...useful, but not nearly as powerful as Smalltalk's "true" OOP (https://medium.com/@richardeng/getting-the-message-667d77ff7...).
See this repost for discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10075196
still no way to sort online, away and offline contacts like the old tried and proved chat interface. Pass
Wow okay, didn't realize that (was still thinking in extended-attributes SELinux land).