skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've never ordered anything from Silk Road, but one thing I'm surprised isn't done is using cheap/knockoff consumer products as a "carrier."

Some do. They package them in small consumer goods and that sort of thing. For example, the Australian vendor who was recently convicted was importing, IIRC, MDMA and the powder was being stashed in flashlights by his vendor.

> The other thing is, I'm not sure that the act of merely receiving illicit goods in the mail is adequate grounds for prosecution in the US. You can always claim that you have no idea where it came from or why it was sent to you, can't you?

It's not; something further is necessary in practice. Look up "controlled delivery".
Making Death Useful
So you capture our domains and list them out. Feature Request:
1. Public View of all domains
2. Set Price Temp/Contact -> Build a landing page for each domain and allow us to contact and/or showcase a price - look at http://domai.nr/ and have "Make Offer"
3. Recently Sold -> Showcase these URLs and Price
4. Project Name - Allow users to describe a project and let users submit names/domains they own and price

Just a thought
"It used to be that you were not allowed to use Office from Bizspark for tasks other than development for Office"

The BizSpark EULA has interesting wording which is a bit less extreme than what you are stating (this may have changed in the past few years; i'm pulling from July 2012 EULA):

"You may only install and use copies of the following Desktop Application and Desktop Operating System portions of the Program Software solely to design, develop, test and demonstrate your programs. [list includes the office suites]"

This lets you use Office in contexts other than pure Office development. As an example, for an analytics startup you can run your business in Excel to test against your platform. I use Excel in this way (it's easy to throw up an excel baseline for lots of tasks and compare it to my code).
I have to use Ubuntu at work, and Unity took a lot of customization to be workable.

Compiz regularly crashes, but thankfully it automatically restarts. Now I don't need to panic when the whole screen stops updating.

The "snap" window dragging feature is broken in the presence of multiple monitors; as you drag the mouse across the monitor boundary, the mouse pointer becomes momentarily disconnected from the window location, so that you are moving the window as if by a long invisible stick, not by its original grab location.

The overlay scrollbars don't interact well with Eclipse; JUnit running tests outputs file paths that Eclipse turns into hyperlinks, and the hyperlink mouseover stops the scrollbar from from being triggered when the pointer approaches the child window border. The overlay scrollbar thing doesn't seem to have been fully thought through.

Gnome-terminal is one of the slowest terminals I've ever used; it would literally slow down development by blocking on log-verbose tests. I've gone back to my old stalwart of rxvt.

I don't understand the difference between Windows key and Alt key command prompts. I've given up trying to figure out how to register my various user-directory installed applications with the taskbar thing. So I've stopped using both, and now I start all my apps from the terminal, with shell scripts to redirect output if they are chatty.

The Alt-Tab task switcher is broken just like the OS X one is, switching between its concept of applications rather than top level windows. This means alt-tabbing between Eclipse and Firefox would bring the Downloads window to the fore, leaving the actual browser hidden behind maximized Eclipse. Usability disaster. With some difficulty and playing around with preference managers that come with warning labels, I've rebound the keys to a slightly more usable window switcher.

Oh, and the fun I had when I tried to bind Ctrl+Alt+F12 to a command in Eclipse; took me back decades to switching terminals with Alt+F keys.

In short, Ubuntu Unity is horrifically bad. Linux is completely inappropriate for the desktop, unless you are so inept you only use a browser (get an ipad instead), or you are sufficiently skilled you think nothing of switching window managers. The trough in the middle is very ill served.
What is this "we" you speak of?
Unless you've got a lot of experience changing spark plugs on a 1996 Porsche 911 Turbo, I think that statement applies to both you and the GP. It's reassuring to think our problems are harder than those of other professions, but it's not always true.
Learning 6502 (the C64 is actually a 6510, but basically the same thing) asm will be absolutely worthwhile, not in the sense that it is a directly usable skill but in the sense that it will give you a greater understanding of the lower levels of computer operation which will help in all sorts of subtle and not-so-subtle ways when you are doing virtually any type of programming.

As far as ARM or x86 being more useful, I'd stay away from learning x86 (particularly modern x86) as your first assembler because it has evolved to be more of a compiler target language than a human-understandable assembler. ARM isn't as bad on this front (though it is ramping up in complexity lately). 6502, 68000 or MIPS would be my recommendations for a first-timer though.
Does the Feb 25th date also mean you can download the source then?
Direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0KbuE1z9_k
This seems very similar to Hadapt (http://hadapt.com/). Anyone familiar enough to comment on the differences?
SMART says the years-old, low-capacity MLC SSD in this computer is 5% worn out. SSDs in RAID arrays at work are getting a much heavier workout and handling it fine.

You can use smartctl or the equivalent to check the media wearout indicator to see how much the actual workload has worn out a drive. If your computer isn't constantly writing, you're probably fine--that is, your writes will last until you'd be upgrading anyway.

But, keep backups. Besides the many practical problems you can have (laptop lost! fire!), SSDs have firmware bugs every so often.
I had to wait 90 days. I open sourced an app because of this.

Are you paying them? I hear that when you are paying, it takes 1 to 3 days to do any change or inclusion.

http://eduardo.intermeta.com.br/posts/2013/1/17/wireframeapp...
Well, buying insurance to treat a pre-existing condition would be a little like trying to get a car accident covered by insurance after the fact, wouldn't it?
A minor point - Facebook wasn't targeted last week, they were targeted in January and it was reported last week. The timeline is important if we're going to be linking these together. I didn't see hack date info in the Reuters piece, did I miss it or was it not included?
1. The short range is a killer. You already need to know where the bad guys are, within an area of a few blocks. And solar panels with such small form factor are a joke in comparison with the energy demands of powered flight. (Sure, there are solar powered drones, but they need huge wings, perfect weather, and are little more than powered gliders.)

2. I didn't see any good counter-arguments there. Care to detail.

3. Explosions will alert the building's occupants, and you just sacrificed a complex, expensive device for a $0.50 mosquito net.
"Pushed" is indeed a poor choice of wording. But Bush would have had a hard time to get enough political support to invade without 9/11.
effective.
It's turtles (or you know, compilation) all the way down.
The more I hear from designers, the more I realize how much more thought I should be putting into design choices.
Is DUNS required to accept payments ?
Chinese cyberattacks - Hello Unit 61398
That's interesting, I didn't know that COBRA applied when moving off of a parents plan like that. As a general rule, COBRA will be a lot more expensive than an individual plan, unless pre-existing conditions are involved, especially if you are young. In all likelihood it will also be more expensive than a group plan in your case. I don't know how New York works, but in Maryland small businesses can enroll in a small group health plan. Costs are based on the average age of the employees in the company. Can pick the level of benefits. More expensive than an individual plan for young people, but the benefits are usually better and you have all of the standard group health protections.

I don't normally advocate this because I really dislike the "agent" concept in insurance, but a local insurance agent can probably help you pick the best option.
Wheezy: A No Bullshit Python Web Framework.
FWIW, Geography major student do have access to professional traffic simulation software (e.g., TrafficSim, SUMO, .etc) if they are interested in research topics related to traffic. I am not sure what algorithm Sim City uses, but I am assuming they are not as complicated as these professional software.

Perhaps that's the point of your suggestion, to lower the entry level to these field, or for a broader audience.
really?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/02/flying-robots-nano-...
http://epianalysis.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/usversuseurope/
Building an eCommerce Reviews Platform
Did my first one last November. It definitely takes a toll on your body. As for training, invest in a high quality foam roller and get "The Stick". Learn to enjoy the pain you inflict on yourself with these devices. They will help, and it hurts less the more you do it. Don't try to run through pain, well, most pain. That's your body telling you something is not right! Could be a muscle imbalance that can be fixed by stretching and some simple exercises. Find a good massage therapist and let them introduce you to a new world of pain. A good one can read your muscles like a book and tell you that your ankle pain is actually being caused by an unhappy muscle in your butt. Remember, the foot bone is connected to the leg bone, leg bone is connected to the hip bone. If something is wrong in one of those spots, it will propagate to other areas.

Probably the most important thing, don't be concerned about time. Just learn to enjoy running, and the faster times will come.
It seems that the NYT article misunderstands what online courses are for. The purpose isn't to replace four-year undergraduate college, but to serve the vast majority of people for whom that model is impractical. There are a lot of people who want to learn things who can't afford this American institution of playing aristocrat for the 4 years in which society judges them to be economically marginal.

The 90% attrition rate of MOOCs, by the way, is the result of a course model that's still being fleshed out and the fact that, absent a high degree of previous investment, social expectations and abundant free time, very few people are going to stick with a long-term program. Ten percent yield for a free MOOC is great! For my part, I think the question of whether these courses should be served synchronously (with schedules and deadlines) or asynchronously is unclear, and I'm not sure how the trade-offs of each will be balanced. It's an exciting space, though.

I don't think online education will replace the university, but it might replace the institution of four-year college. Academia brought this on itself. The majority of the leading professors have long held the attitude that teaching is commodity grunt work and research is what they really do. Technology is responding, by bringing teaching to the masses. If the result of this is that middle-class families stop dedicating 850 millihouses per student to tuition, then I can't see how that's a bad thing. I'd like to see undergraduate college live through this, but I wouldn't mind seeing it shrink back to something for people who are genuinely interested in learning the material, and something affordable for people of average means.
Just block the users you phish successfully and tell them their account has been hacked. Then they'll care.
Interesting tip. Thanks!

Note that you might need to create the auth subfolder using `mkdir ~/.ssh/auth`, otherwise it might throw an error on connection: `muxserver_listen bind(): No such file or directory`
This is the best Wikipedia-backed namex I've seen and I've seen a lot of them, worked on code for one, and even designed one. Awesome!
55,000-year-old 'urine layers' used to track climate change
There are ways of shielding those decisions from politics. Relying on appointed people is one such way. No shielding is perfect – but it’s better than nothing.
DUNS is now required for all developer accounts (business)
Because contemporary net/tech culture believes in an extremist version of "those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither" philosophy. Inside the tech community, reasonable proposals are shouted down as the first step on the slippery slope to big brother. Outside the tech community, nobody really cares because they don't intuitively understand the need for network security in the way they might understand the need for border or airport security.
It's a video game, folks. At best, it's psyops—what could be better than the enemy truly believing that you are all-seeing, wasting their time paranoidly looking around at pigeons and flies?
Just in case someone is wondering, we are not even remotely close to technology like this.
The control problem is very hard, but the perception problem perhaps even harder, Especially when most of the processing needs to be done onboard because you need the perception to be part of the control loop and work at reasonably high frequencies. Higher-level perception tasks such as identifying power lines or people are even further out.
Switching from Apache/Passenger to Nginx/Unicorn
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This is true of any cross platform language, the job of making the exploit work across different OS gets efficiently transferred to the compiler.

One of the main reasons I am worried if webkit becomes monolithic, zero day exploits, there will be no running away from it.
ok i read your blog. You mean required for apple apps.
I think that most people are aware of that fact.

If you do not have effective access to care until all they can do is give you a bunch of pain killers, they are effectively "refusing to treat people".
"This is the US government we're talking about, so I bet they will never get far"

Oh? You mean the US government that was the first to create nuclear weapons and land men on the moon?
What redirect loop?
Ha, 99 stores owes me 39 dollars. I'd rather them send it to the red cross or something. I wasn't even expecting there to be anything either. shrugs
What is the difference between Emblem and Jade?

http://jade-lang.com/
That's not the only conclusion, the average technophile user buys a new laptop every ~2 years anyway. When I heard about Chromebooks, I didn't worry about the 2 year limit on them at all. It's like saying "in 2 years you will still be able to use your Chromebook but you have to transfer most of your files to an external harddrive".
Civilized humanity? As in the opposite to fundamentalists?
Interesting, but I really do not like the implied HTML tags (+ blocking via indentation) going on there. Mentally parsing HTML isn't that bad for someone with a bit of experience. This would add a new wrinkle (i.e. friction) to design.
You have in one single post perfectly captured why Linux is both amazing and terrible.

(Amazing, because look what you've done! Terrible, because almost every other human on this planet could not accomplish your outcome even with guides and training...)
> Here is a video of KDE's

KDE commited suicide with 4.0. After that, whatever they produced was basically irrelevant, because nobody could take them seriously any more. Nobody is going to bet anything on KDE because of the fear that they could pull another "lets throw away a perfectly working 3.5 and rewrite everything from scratch" again. The same applies to Gnome also. Gnome could have avoided the fate by learning from KDE's mistakes, but they screwed up even worse, unimaginably worse.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, and so on. They are the picture-perfect example of the saying in effect. For all practical intents and purposes, KDE and Gnome are dead now.
I buy a new Office when a new version gives me something I want. I buy new PC's on an entirely different schedule.
$150 USD per hour feels very cheap for a criminal defence lawyer for someone charged with such serious offences.
Wow, I read 'Ember.js'...:)
We can't even build an amoeba, much less a mosquito. Heck, we can't even take an existing mosquito and make it fly where we want while transmitting video.
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You may think QnA == discussion, but the mods and general culture of the site say otherwise.

It's unfortunate, and the SE sites are notorious for being strict to the point of depression, but that's a discussion for another time.
No, I mean how could you possibly know if you paid for the service?

I'm not going to defend the US healthcare system, which is a charming mixture of the worst aspects of monopoly markets and socialism.
It's been restored, but see also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5246605
Report: You Do Not Use Facebook Nearly as Much as You Think You Do
sadly, EA is ruining what looks like an otherwise very promising game with DRM and DLC
Maybe I'm slow. Please point out the part of that article at odds with the opinion in the editorial? The only area of overlap I could see was this passage:

> Some students are also ill prepared for the university-level work. And few stick with it. “Signing up for a class is a lightweight process,” says Dr. Ng. It might take just five minutes, assuming you spend two devising a stylish user name. Only 46,000 attempted the first assignment in Dr. Ng’s course on machine learning last fall. In the end, he says, 13,000 completed the class and earned a certificate — from him, not Stanford.
same here, but use

nnoremap <Space> za
vnoremap <Space> za

also, for folding in general I'd recommend using

set foldmethod=marker

which has the benefit of making folds more 'transparent' in your code, and also persistent across vim sessions
I'm fairly certain it's because the Surface has the keyboard-kickstand thing. Ipad doesn't. A few Asus models do, and perhaps some others I'm not aware of, but given all the advertising of it the Surface is the most notable.
no kidding. The branding process was much longer than any of us expected (fellow Keen IO employee here). So much to think about, from Tshirts to favicon.
After Toyota axed their Toyota FJ40 Landcruiser manufacturing lines in Japan, they started building the Landcruiser under the model name "Bandeirante" in Brazil. Just a few years ago they axed the line again in Brazil. Maybe its time to open up the line again in Africa. That continent needs that vehicle, which has always been one of the most reliable you can find (a friend of mine has one with 450k+ miles on it)
Also, the link you cite can help to direct attention to a broader range of HN articles than the top-page can.
It was tongue-in-cheek humor.
At Stack Exchange, one of the tricky things we learned about Q&A is that if your goal is to have an excellent signal to noise ratio, you must suppress discussion. Stack Exchange only supports the absolute minimum amount of discussion necessary to produce great questions and great answers. That's why answers get constantly re-ordered by votes, that's why comments have limited formatting and length and only a few display, and so forth. Almost every design decision we made was informed by our desire to push discussion down, to inhibit it in every way we could. Spare us the long-winded diatribe, just answer the damn question already. - Jeff Atwood
HTML is was designed by people who thought of it as ink on the paper on a single page of a single column magazine. Everything else is stretching it. People abused HTML tables, then they abused floated DIV-s. First thing that has anything to do with sane, non-printlike placement of the contents of the document is flexbox, yet to be consistently implemented.

Delphi 4 (1998, that's around time HTML4.0 was published) had better layout facilities for designing UX than html had year ago.
If you are mostly healthy, in New York I would suggest a basic emergency care plan from Blue Cross and a membership to One Medical. The main reason for comprehensive health coverage at your age is if you have chronic conditions which require expensive medications. With an emergency care plan, you are covered if you get hit by a bus, and with One Medical you can easily pop in to see the doctor if you get the flu or just want a checkup for whatever reason.

http://www.onemedical.com/nyc
> Owning software is much less important to me than keeping my creative works safe.

I've lost so much time to MS Word version incompatibility issues, that I've stopped using it almost completely back in 1999. I've had to use Word occasionally at work, and had met some 2003<->2007 incompatibility issues as well.

If you care about keeping your creative works safe, then relying on any software you can't reinstall at will -- even if it is 10 years from now -- is the wrong answer. Seems like MS office falls under that "wrong answer" definition.

.txt, .html or latex files are the way to go. You'll be able to read them until the sun goes out (although perhaps the "blink" attribute won't be supported)
> All I am saying is if it is called "prisoner's dilemma", then no communication is allowed.

And I'm saying that, while that is part of one common description illustrating the game, it is not part of the logic of the game at all.

> The game's logic depends on it.

No, it doesn't. If knowledge of the other player's strategy is relevant, that means that you have a payoff matrix in which there is no dominant strategy (that is, a strategy that provides the best payoff independent of the other players strategy); it is the essence of PD that it has a dominant strategy of defection and that its only Nash Equilibrium is (defect, defect).

> And being able to talk to the other player means the two participants can agree on a strategy in advance. It's not "prisoner's dilemma" because there's no dilemma.

Which doesn't change anything, in fact, advance agreement is part of another common illustrative description of the game (and actually the better one, since "cooperation" and "defection" are more clear in describing the PD strategies if there is a an advance agreement on strategy to hold to or defect from.) The fact that even with an advance agreement the rational, utility-maximizing choice is to defect from that agreement is essential to PD. That's the dilemma at the heart of PD.

The key ways in which the example here is not PD is that there is no dilemma, true, but not because of communication alone (or even first), but first because the payoff matrix is wrong, so that mutual cooperation is the best payoff for all participants, and (defect, cooperate) is worse for the defector than (cooperate, cooperate). This makes (cooperate, cooperate) a second Nash Equilibrium, and makes it so that defection is not a dominant strategy.

This makes communication relevant for a single-iteration, isolated game in way in which it is not for a single-iteration, isolated PD game.
For what it's worth... I lost a lot of weight by eating the same stuff I have always ate, just much less of it. Cookies, oatmeal, chocolate, beans, nuts, fruit, etc.

Pre-historic or not, paleo is a fad. People with self control are going to lose weight no matter what method they chose. People with no self control are going to stay fat no matter what they do.
I find that ressources on open source governance is pretty scarce on the Internet and it surprises me that there is no proper "initiative" or "think tank" to develop this idea.
Similar syntax. Emblem.js compiles to Handlebars to make it ideal to use for client side templating and Ember.js
PCManFM file manager is ported to Qt
I've been hand coding HTML for years. Switching to HAML was a no brainer. We already write indented HTML, why worry about extra angle bracket syntax and closing tags? I'm surprised by the number of people who don't like using technology for what it was invented to do: make your life easier.