skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first comment there (by Leslie Wheeler) summarizes the ridiculousness nicely:

"We may have an early candidate for Worst Illinois Senate Bill of 2013.

First of all, Illinois does not have jurisdiction over the entirety of the internet. Illinois has jurisdiction over Illinois. Geographical location isn't all that important to the web hosting industry - for the most part, a datacenter in Chicago is just as good as one in, say, Dallas or Seattle. This means that the only thing this bill would actually succeed in doing is driving internet-related business (both individual online businesses, as well as the infrastructure that supports them, ie, webhosting companies and datacenters) out of the state.

Good job representing our interests there, Ira.

More importantly, though, this is plainly unconstitutional. It's absolutely embarrassing that any elected representative of US citizens would suggest that there should be a host of state-defined rules that must be met before one is allowed to exercise their first amendment right to free speech.

Just for funsies, here's what SCOTUS thought of anonymous speech in McIntyre V. Ohio Elections Commission:

'Protections for anonymous speech are vital to democratic discourse. Allowing dissenters to shield their identities frees them to express critical minority views... Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.... It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation... at the hand of an intolerant society.'"
Actually $() is in POSIX (or at least, it is now).

You're right about 'source' though, shell scripts that want a semblance of portability must use '.'.
No, this is like your Macbook being able to make copies of itself, so that after you buy one, you've got a new copy every year for the rest of your life.

The degree to which a business model is ill-conceived imparts no duty to other actors.
1. Even Android 4+ devices that support Chrome sold in major carrier stores still have Android browser as the default (which means that most users will use it)
2. Even in Android 4.2 WebView is based on default browser, meaning that any hybrid Android app does not have WebSockets built in.

This is the main reason why WebSockets are not ready for production.
Sad. This had Thunderbolt hotplug working on my Mac at one RC and then it got removed and didn't get added back in. Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter does work, but it was kernel panicing yesterday on rc7. I'll have to see tonight if it's fixed.

To others, where would I report such an issue if it's still broken?
Yes a government response to this sort of guerrila warfare against unnamed attackers will be interesting. They cannot just create strong penalties as the attackers are beyond their jurisdiction. Punishing China for anything within their IP space is also a non-starter, something the authors do not mention.
So far you didn't argue again with the fact that DRM is intrusive, violates privacy and is analogous to police bot in your house, rather than to fence around the store. Dwell on it more, and it'll be pretty clear why DRM should be strongly opposed. Have a nice day too.

For a change, here is my favorite story about pitfalls of intrusive preemptive policing:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29579/29579-h/29579-h.htm
Good links, thanks.

I have to admit some bias in my original post since I'm indirectly doing some engineering work for McD's at the moment.

What's admirable about the corporation is that they seem to be constantly planning upgrades to both the facilities and the equipment inside it.

I also work near a number of their test sites so I'm seeing things that are continually being changed and played with. The drive-thrus in my area have leader boards to show which store has the fastest service. They've gamified fast-food!
This is a very recent report. Your comment is more than a year old. Are you asserting that nothing has changed?

Edit:
From the report in the article

"Our research and observations indicate that the Communist Party of China (CPC,中国共产党) is tasking the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA,中国人民解放军) to commit systematic cyber espionage and data theft against organizations around the world
"

They have a whole section devoted to backing this up.
Yeah, I'd like to know more about this. Should I be using it instead of EXT4 on my old, boring desktop SSD?
The forum / feedback system WORKS. It pushes sketchy / lower-quality products out and if anything, that's why I feel Silk Road is a positive change in the ever-dangerous world of drugs.

That said, there are many friends who I would hesitate to tell about the site; it's just too easy to get mixed up in more dangerous or addictive classes of drugs there.

Be careful.
Presumably you are either a dealer, or you have a gigantic drug habit?
Operation Crossroads
Getting closer to what I'd like (1080 resolution, SSD 128-512gb, No optical drive, Linux support for hardware, Thin profile, Quad-core, i7, Integrated graphics only, HDMI, USB3). The killer for me is it seems like there is no Non-glossy/anti-glare/matte screen option.
This looks really awesome! Completely certain I'll see you on Outgrow.me (I'm founder) very soon.
With a reasonably modern computer and internet access.
Never said that you were an American; only that your post reminded me of the American public education system. BTW, I also did not claim that tne American system is unique. It is only the one with which I am most familiar.

Otherwise, I think it's safe to say that you missed my point. I am not advocating constant aimless noodling. I am saying that we focus here entirely too much on the importance of rules and not nearly enough on the creation of new rules.

In short, perhaps you took my statement regarding "virtually no limits" a bit too literally. As it is, you present a false choice between rigid, highly structured, rules-based thinking and pointless meandering about without any basis in reality. Certainly you see a middle ground?

As for my initial read on your comments, what triggered me was your statement that one system (with more rigid rules) inspired more creativity. In my view, you can argue other merits of such a system, but creativity is exactly not one of them. And true creativity is what we are sorely missing in this country and the world.
Then there's a question about how many months or years it would take Nvidia to definitely write those drivers. But yeah, if Valve wanted to lead the development of a new ecosystem at any cost I guess they could do it.
Essentially, Samsung is targeting the one part of Nokia that has not already been ruined by Microsoft ...

"The Asha range of devices is one of Nokia’s most popular range of handsets. While not as fully featured as the current Windows Phone handsets, they are a cut above a regular phone, including a web browser, email client, and social media applications. Nokia’s strategic planning assumes that the Asha handsets will continue to be best-sellers."
Silk Road is very interesting from a design perspective, particularly the way it leverages different open source cryptographic tools to satisfy its complex security/privacy/anonymity requirements.

I gave a talk about this at the Oakland Cryptoparty back in October. The slides are a little patchy and based entirely on perusing the site (read: speculation), but it inspired a lively discussion from amongst all the participants. It seems there's nothing like illegal drugs and the black market to get people interested in learning more about crypto!

I'm planning on giving an updated version of this talk at "SF Cryptoparty II" on March 23rd (attend or sign up to talk! https://cryptopartysf.org/). I will definitely incorporate ideas from (and link back to) this article. Feedback appreciated!

Slides: http://garrett.im/static/pdf/silkroad_oakland_cryptoparty_sl...
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The linux-pci mailing list: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-pci
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I'd prefer to answer questions about SR, not about myself.
"I'm curious why you think the calls were logged."

This is not Tesla's first time dealing with the media. After the Top Gear controversy, I would expect them to be more circumspect.

"I'm unsympathetic to claims that he received bad advice from Tesla later in his trip"

It's not his car, and if he didnt obey Tesla's advice and bricked the car he could be liable for the damages (I discussed this in more detail in a nephew post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5240745)

"As several Model S owners have demonstrated [1], it is entirely possible to drive round-trip from Milford to Groton on a single supercharge."

Just like the CNN "test" the situation was much different, and the temperature played a significant and undeniable role, so that's an apples-to-oranges comparison

"Of course, none of this proves that Broder was malicious. It is still the case, however, that each time he had the opportunity to choose between following Tesla's advice or his own common sense, he chose the option that put him in greater danger of being stranded. "

You are choosing clever words here. He chose to follow Tesla's advice, and you can imagine the vitriolic reaction if Broder disobeyed Tesla's advice and ran into trouble.

The main reason my pitchforks aren't out is laid out in the parent reply: when you actually filter through all of the arguments, the essence of the dispute is the nature of the advice that Tesla gave Broder while he was on the road. And Tesla failed to present any evidence that Broder received different advice (other than Musk's claims, but he has so much riding on this and wasn't actually part of the conversation, so he wouldn't necessarily know what was said -- so I definitely believe there's a chance Musk is lying and there's a chance Broder is lying). As another person mentioned http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5240988 , I wonder if other customers get the same type of phone support

In general, I'm genuinely surprised by the extent to which HN treats Musk's words as if they are from god. He's a human, he has biases, and I wouldn't put it past him to improperly start a witchhunt against those who disagree with him or refuse to drink his kool-aid. Let's separate the fact that it's Elon Musk from the discussion of the facts of the trip.
Does this solve the problem of constraining root to the container?
Does the report detail how the IP space is tracked to a physical neighborhood? That's....sort of critically important here.
A large number of the people who would be hit heavily by these are already using in some form.
Resumonk - http://www.resumonk.com
>The funky Fn/Ctrl placement is a Thinkpad thing

Mac as well. Small Mac keyboards has this, big has ctrl in the "correct" position. On the Mac there is no setting "bios" or otherwise to remap it though.
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Heroku is a bit of a black hole with this kind of stuff. They shrugged off the legitimate concerns of a 20k/month customer. I certainly appreciate them publicizing the issue and starting a conversation.
It's amazing how often I am able to fix problems by simply trying all the possible solutions--often while colleagues are saying things like "stop wasting time, it can't possibly be that." But of course often it is "that".
Yep, he went to Chico from 1993 to 1997 according to his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianhall
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Both Mega and reddit have recetly announced acceptance of bitcoins for payment. Not saying that's the reason, but I'm sure it contributes.
Thinkpads, and any non-apple products, don't have logic boards.
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Here is a youtube frontend that was written with angular.js: http://toogl.es/#/browse

Sorry, I can't comment on the others.
Bitcoin enabled online gambling sites and mobile apps are also a way to circumvent the current online gambling restrictions, e.g. Seals With Clubs.
Yes, but I know of fairly successful meth addicts (who were corporate executives for years, and then eventually ramped down as they got older) -- and there are stories of people who took huge amounts of opiates on an ongoing basis while remaining fairly functional.

I think there are undoubtedly social costs due to legal drugs, but most of the harm done to highly addicted people is due to the drugs being illegal, vs. the drugs themselves.

This seems like it would be difficult to study without changing drug laws in two identical areas which happen to not have trade between them. Otherwise, shifts over time, or shifts due to national demographics, or something else could confound the results.
I don't know you, but I'm guessing you are somehow in love with javascript and invested in seeing it succeed.

The world is largely divided into two camps, the people who are in love with javascript and the people who think it is a sick joke. Those of us in the 'sick joke' camp would like to see javascript made optional to web programming, and not a part of our toolchain at all. If javascript is part of the toolchain at all, I will have to eventually debug javascript code, and javascript was written under the 'principle of maximum surprise' making it a very awful language to those of us who haven't based our careers on learning every single edge case (and every case is an edge case in javascript!)

The other half of the world is the 'javascript is great' people, and they usually learned to program with javascript or have spent a large portion of their coding career inside of it. They don't see what the big deal is, it's a perfectly good language, right? Well, it's actually a pretty gross language that has one amazing feature, it is available on every computer without having to install anything extra.

Please, let us have the OPTION of a completely javascript free web. The javascript fans can keep it, just give the rest us a choice.
I always think of Tim O'Reilly as an inspiring example of a Maker. Will I ever be anywhere close to being up there with him? No. Will I consider myself a failure if I'll never be a true Maker? No. But it doesn't hurt to go through life with the aspiration to be a little bit like Tim O'Reilly. Perhaps that will make me spot an opportunity that I would otherwise have overlooked. This quote by the man himself never ceases to inspire me: “Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.”
"I don't know if Nick succeeded, because in the middle of this I gave up and went to bed." - Not a good example to your holding companies :) What would happend if they all went to bed when something goes wrong :) Just kidding.
I found all my jobs on Craigslist . I love it just the way it is.

If those people are so frustrated with CL design they should make their own and build their own community.
I think mentioning the $50K figure invites some questions.
a good fit and some knowledge that a friend of mine is looking.
Justin, asm.js defines a `pseudo` bytecode. Which part of the spec isn't clear?

Think church encodings etc.
What types of items have you purchased, and what's the loss rate? Does it vary with types of products?

I have an HSA insurance plan where I effectively pay out of pocket, so I'm starting to get more and more tempted to buy non-US drugs for which I have or could get a valid US prescription. Not particularly drugs of abuse, but something like ciprodex (ciproflaxin antibiotic + dexemethasone (steroid) otic (ear drops); $140 in the US and $55 in Canada). Stockpiling some other drugs (tamiflu, etc.) might also be tempting.

The only drugs I see on SR seem to be psychoactive, either research chemicals or boring prescription psychiatric drugs like xanax or adderall.
Well, these aren't exactly about the site, but if you'll humor me, a couple of questions jump to mind:

Do you have purchases sent directly to your home/business, or do you attempt to obfuscate the delivery somehow? If so, can you share anything about the tactics you use?

What percentage of your purchases arrive as expected? Do you have any reason to believe that anything is being intercepted by Customs / Border Police / Whatever, or do you only buy from in-country sellers?

Also, have you happened to notice if SR sellers sell things like Clenbuterol, and others that could fall into the "Performance Enhancing Drug" category?
I've heard about the site and am casually curious, but how does the obvious security hole of eventually having a product sent to a specific real world address work out in practice? What is the genearl method for anonymizing this.... I'm sure it's a pretty basic question, but since you're here and all...
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Plenty on http://voicebunny.com/search
BTW, I will also take you up on your "magical thinking" comment.

In fact, removing limits is sometimes exactly what's needed to spark true creativity. Holding the rules of the current system in one's head can be terribly limiting while trying to create something new. It binds one to what is vs what could be.

One can always start with the possibilities and later apply known rules. Creation is frequently an iterative process. There are many thinking styles and what seems counterintuitive to you may be what inspires others. In any case, a system that is relentlessly focused on rules certainly could use some balance. There is virtually no emphasis on pure creation or even critical thinking vs. fact-based learning.
I frequently use modified versions of those keys, such as ctrl-home/ctrl-end to go to the beginning/end of the document or text area, or ctrl-shift-home/ctrl-shift-end to select to the beginning/end. That's already two or three modifier keys; I don't want to make that three or four.
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Lesswrong is a weird place. I can read an awesome, insightful article one moment, then something completely bat-shit insane the next.
Windows doesn't cost Dell money; Windows and piles of pre-installed software save Dell money. Shipping a version without Windows costs more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thums_Up

It was a local brand but was later bought over by Coke. Taste-wise, it's a less sweeter more fizzier, and a bit more acidic version of Coke.
It says the IPs were determined to geo-locate to the Pudong New Area in Shanghai, and jumped from there straight to the PLA Unit that happens to be in Shanghai.

No big leap, Pudong only has 5 million inhabitants, roughly the size of the Washington DC Metro area.
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I've never understood the cultural distrust of internal affairs investigations. Why do they have such a persecution complex that it's more important to them to protect their own than to get rid of bad people in their ranks?
I purchase mostly opiates, though I have occasionally purchased other classes of drugs as well.

I have been scammed a couple of times, but I have never lost a package that was actually sent by the vendor. I have a 100% delivery rate.

Every time I was scammed was the result of finalizing early. This is bypassing the escrow system and giving the vendor the money immediately. Usually new users are asked to do this, and some vendors require it. I've learned my lesson and never FE (finalize early) now.

You can find non psychoactive/psychiatric drugs, it just varies a lot and you need to keep your eyes open. Certainly the market for what you are looking for is smaller, but it is there if you are persistant about it.
From the article

"Mandiant discovered that two sets of I.P. addresses used in the attacks were registered in the same neighborhood as Unit 61398’s building.

“It’s where more than 90 percent of the attacks we followed come from,” said Mr. Mandia.

The only other possibility, the report concludes with a touch of sarcasm, is that “a secret, resourced organization full of mainland Chinese speakers with direct access to Shanghai-based telecommunications infrastructure is engaged in a multiyear enterprise-scale computer espionage campaign right outside of Unit 61398’s gates.”"
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. If drugs were legalized they'd start arresting us for something else. It has nothing to do with the crime rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration#Incarceration_ra...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_rate
He is also on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gwern
Essentially ...

"RDA Holding Co., publisher of the 91-year-old Reader’s Digest magazine, filed for bankruptcy to cut $465 million in debt and focus on North American operations as consumers shift from print to electronic media."

The dot-com boom foresaw this sort of event, as it was clear even in the 1990's that online media would eventually displace more expensive and non-interactive paper media.

What other dominant brands in our current world are due for eventual bankruptcy?
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I know it sounds logical, but it's not proven that we loose things that are not needed. You might _randomly_ loose features, but you'll also randomly acquire features. Especially intelligence is such a complicated trait, influenced by so many factors, that randomly loosing intelligence would be based on the random loss of a lot of factors, which is in my opinion highly unlikely.

Just look at all the vestigial crap we still carry around [1]: appendix, tailbone, wisdom teeth, inside corner of the eye, etc. We don't use these yet we don't loose them. And loosing these is propably much, much easier than intelligence, because the development of things like the appendix is controlled by much fewer factors than intelligence.

[1] Which might still have a purpose that we don't know yet, for example the appendix might be important in immune response: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-th...
Agree with you totally! I am not pretending to be humble..It is just there is not so good about me to brag about..I also want to add:

4) I have weaknesses too. If you know all of my weaknesses, you probably won't think so highly of me.
I have purchases sent to my home, most of the time.

I have never lost a package that was actually mailed, though I have been scammed a couple of times by vendors who never send anything.

I try to stick to domestic vendors to avoid customs, but sometimes it is impossible due to supply issues. When I am ordering internationally I stick to Canada if possible. I once had a package from India get stuck in customs for over a month. When it finally arrived it had been opened and retaped shut. However, they did not find the actual contents of the package, it was very well hidden.

I am not familiar with Clenbuterol but I did manage to buy some Provigil after reading this article (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/my-experiment-with...).
The Fn key is not sent to the OS at all, this would not be remappable via OS mechanisms.
>cuts down on the number of frivolous briefs.

Perhaps, but the Supreme Court isn't supposed to only serve those who can afford thousands of dollars of expenses, and I don't think using that is an appropriate filter of frivolity.
Ask HN: Why is it so hard to make good friendships in the Bay Area?
Not sure if it's just me or others have observed/experienced the same.

Just like many, I want to expand my friend circle beyond the typical high-school/college and work folks.

Am I doing it wrong? I usually meet really good people at meetups etc., present myself well, but either they get super busy on weekdays or lazy/shy to follow-up. Basically, they just end up being flaky even after exchanging numbers etc.

Curious - how are you expanding your network? Sonar, Highlight, Circle or Grubwithus doesn't seem to be solving this..at least for me.
This is on my list next time I do a laptop refresh, though that's a little ways away. Traded in a 13" MBP for an Alienware m14xr2 about 9 months ago, still very happy with the Alienware. Bit gaudy, but it is a solid case, two hard drives, and very snappy.