skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>The investigation protocol was 'leaked' on Wikileaks in the begin of the trial. It is in Swedish but the logs are, imo, pretty convincing, suggesting that he was the one/one of the people behind the hack.

Agreed on this point. When you consider he was a major meth addict at the time, being careful isn't something you consider when you're in a drug induced haze.

Not sure how jails in Sweden work, but why appeal it? He could probably be out in 18 months or less with good behavior.
I posted this in part as resistance against the silencing aspect of anti-conspiracism

There is less resistance today than at any point in human history. Post a Youtube video with some cleverly cut news stories and you can have everything from the imminent collapse of the United States to the silencing of journalists by the CIA.

We need more skepticism about these conspiracy theories because there's more ways to propagate them than ever.
This sounds like about the same situation as in Canada, for what it's worth: metric for everything except human measures (weight, height, clothing sizes) and some cooking.
The Second Amendment and digital "arms"
The problem is strong antibiotics are often needed for severe infection outbursts and there isn't enough time to perform blood tests for alergic reactions.
JangoSteve,

Good point, I guess I should have talked about that more. Pingdom is free for 1 check, so we use that to ping our uptime app and alert us if it goes down. Uptime then pings everything else in our stack.

Using heroku for the open source stuff just makes sense because we don't need addons and we don't have to maintain that infrastructure too - just our main app infrastructure.
Silver bullets that kill bacteria, not werewolves
6 months ago on HN

http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/platform/coro...
EBay’s Paypal: China Payment License In Sight
I'm surprised that no-one here appears to have mentioned the option of monetizing such an app by in-app upgrades. In this case, adding videos (like Nike Training Club [1]) or other extra content would be an option.

Isn't that the standard approach App Store for making money off free apps?

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/nike-training-club/id3015214...
Gold and Pepper Italian cuisine garner publicity from Deco Drive
Gold and Pepper Italian Cuisine “Gold menu” is attracting local attention as it evolves from Its “Evolution of authentic Italian specialties” into a delectable locale for blossoming master chef, high-end dining and down-home cooking.
Pretty cool - thanks for sharing.

I've always wondered why this information can't be kept in your browser and be shared through that. That way the data is kept locally without even needing to rely on any 3rd party service.
Using this with archival grade DVD-Rs would make big science much cheaper, accessible, and reproducible. Imagine the LHC fitting all their data into a briefcase, and just sending it to whoever asked for it. Of course, the real problem would be writing bandwidth.

Using archival grade media and write redundancy + ECC, you could decrease the size of what you put on a disk to just 10TB and probably hit a sweet spot between massive amounts of storage, exceptional reliability, and increased bandwidth.
Silex and Laravel don't really serve the same purpose. I think both have merits, and it's hard to say a micro-framework like Silex is "better" than a full-featured framework like Laravel, unless you're applying a specific context..
I'm actually working on a letter to encourage my city to make the transition from Windows to F/OSS.
This is obvious security snake oil. The FAQ makers it clear it does nothing to thwart PRISM etc.
Yes, if the server is compromised before a recipient reads a particular email, that can allow the attacker to read that email. However, all emails that are read are deleted from the server and unread emails are automatically deleted after a certain number of days. So, if someone was to compromise the GhostMail server, he/she would only be able to read a paltry amount of messages.
Yes. There's even a TV show named "Spooks", though they renamed it for the US/Canadian audience.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160904
Video on Instagram
I also hate how it makes it seem like a new post, but then you click through and see the same comments.

I hope it's automated, otherwise someone is wasting a lot of time on busywork. It's like that guy who reformats all your code just because.
Is something like this an accepted tradeoff when using fertilizers for farming?
Harvard's Data Privacy Lab runs a simple "identifiability" web site.

Submit your DOB, sex, and zip, and they'll tell you approximately how unique you are therein, based on Census data.

http://aboutmyinfo.net/

Giving stores a false but consistent zip doesn't help, but using a new one every time might. Or, if we could all agree on a false zip to use, that would skew the data away from Census-based estimates. However, with DOB and gender data, it might just ID us uniquely within the adopted HN zip code.
The idea of cloud storage or streaming audio/video sounds even less enticing.
Also for height, quite oddly.
Successful Companies Sell a Vision Not a Product
At the end of the day is though whether Photoshop costs $60 oor $600, I think most students/hobbyists will pirate it anyway.
Buy it from whom? Who is going to sell BTC for USD without some confidence that they can actually receive the USD from MtGox?
probably not what you're looking for but maybe slim framework?
http://www.slimframework.com/
Not to be "relevant xkcd guy" but here's the relevant xkcd for that:

http://xkcd.com/869/
So the takeaway from this is if you find yourself in a nursing home you better keep on trucking as fast as you can or the doctors will give up on you.
You may be right, it was perhaps unnecessary.

However, once you've read a few threads on anything TPB related (though this one is rather tame), it is striking how extremely paranoid comments are. Everything is somehow politically motivated and instigated by USA/MPAA. I am simply very fed up with anakata getting a free pass from people just because he founded TPB and got sued by MPAA and friends.

I don't think people who hacks into government databases and leaks secret information, that could put people at risk, should get any praise. Regardless of past achievements. Nor was there anything substantial evidence that this was a political trial nor that it was related to copyright infringement.
Lumosity Mobile iOS app
Facebook's Big Mystery Announcement [LIVESTREAM]
If that's true, what's the longterm viability of the market as a whole? Intuitively for dev services to succeed here it must be true that [shrink-wrap app model profitability] >> [service model profitability].
> the Hitler Youth where kids learned discipline, healthy living and love of the outdoors

Yes, and too soon a lot of "healthy living" "outdoors"
had too many single girls 15 or so coming back pregnant, as
"Hitler's brides" and had to be throttled!
Introducing Video on Instagram
CEO spouts off a lot of words to say "we're cloning Vine"
Startup launches tech to help young people plan their future.
gov.uk uses _anonymizeIp[1] so you do get some privacy there.

[1] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
I have cancer, but don't call me brave.
> I'm not saying you're wrong, just that your point isn't really about what is or is not constitutional, but rather that interpretation has rendered the constitution meaningless so anything is constitutional now.

Except that that's clearly not the case, as plenty of things remain prohibit by the Constitution, as we see the Supreme Court finding as recently as today [1].

Sure, the interstate commerce power is generally interpreted in a fairly broad manner today, but that is very different than "anything is constitutional now".

[1] http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-9540_8m58.pdf
Already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5913270
I totally get the use-case. As the author of Perl's DBD::SQLite I know exactly how high the demand for this sort of thing is. I think it's a great project and wish you luck with it. (and if you ever decide to lock the files, I'm also the author of node's fs-ext library which provides flock() support).
Antibiotics are a recent human invention, so it isn't surprising that resistance to them is still increasing. Silver, on the other hand, has been present in the environment since before bacteria evolved. If there was an accessible pathway to silver resistance, it would have been found in several billion years.
Plans to monetize the free version?
imho they're just serving up a compliment sandwhich of sorts: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=compliment%20...
They were doing this long before Obama even ran for president. I remember first hearing about this in the early 2000's
That is an issue with any storage media where storage density increases relative to size.
The exchange between Antirez and aphyr following the post about Redis sentinel is a fascinating comparison between two engineering approaches. Antirez makes a qualitative argument (http://antirez.com/news/56, especially http://antirez.com/news/56#comment-910996445) about the behavior of the system in some 'real world' where complex network partitions are rare. On the other hand, aphyr made a much more theoretically sound argument (including using TLA+ to demonstrate the validity of his argumement) in his post (http://aphyr.com/posts/287-asynchronous-replication-with-fai...).

Despite having a huge amount of respect for Antirez and Redis, I strongly believe that the approach aphyr took is the one we are going to need as we build larger and more complex systems on unreliable infrastructure. Our engineering intuition, as excellent as it may be for single-node systems, almost always fails us with distributed systems. To get around this, we need to replace intuition. The tools that aphyr uses, such as TLA+ and carefully crafted counterexamples and diagrams, are an extremely good start in that direction. Getting a computer (in this case TLA+'s model checker TLC) to exhaustively test a design specification is very powerful. Comparing those results to the ones that we expected is even more powerful.

The comment made by Metaxis (http://antirez.com/news/56#comment-905001533) on Antirez's second reply is very good. Especially:

> I think your attempt to differentiate formal correctness and real world operations is deeply flawed and amounts to asserting anecdote - that what you have observed to be common makes for good design assumptions and better trade off decisions.

> Allow me to counter: Real world operations will inevitably tend to approach formal correctness in terms of observed failure modes. In other words, over time, you are more and more likely to see edge cases and freak occurrences that are predicted in theory but happen rarely in practice.

This closely matches my own experience. Just because I don't believe a network can behave in a particular way, doesn't mean it won't. The real world is full of complex network partitions and Byzantine failures, and our systems need to be safe when they happen
Building a Simple Video Chatroom with Flask and OpenTok
It's agonizing to me that some of these government bids (my experience is in the US state of California) are required to take the lowest bid that meets the requirements unless they can clearly justify using a more expensive one. Of course, if they put out a general request they would end up with a terrible product, so they tailor their request to the company they want to hire.

Even then, the companies aren't really rewarded for doing a good job. They're rewarded for doing a minimal job that barely meets the requirements and using as much money as they can.
I agree. The idea that a submitter might add some value to the summary through a better title doesn't seem strange for a site that is based around the idea that its members add value through collection and commentary upon those articles. Why is this one piece of data sacred?
How to be a designer in 10 years
A Case For Startup Immigration Reform
Shhhh.. lest people be reminded that the government's claim to power is arbitrary.
Well, yeah, since its negative news for the expected future value of USD balances currently held on Mt.Gox, the natural result is, at least in the short-term, a drop in the value of USD on the Mt.Gox exchange, which, ceteris paribus, implies a rise in the BTC:USD exchange rate on that exchange.
Google decides GPAs are worthless, gets smarter
A little discouraging that everyone immediately jumped to believing that LinkedIn had been hacked, but I hope that's a greater indictment on the trust in LinkedIn than necessarily this community's ability to remain objective on these kinds of news breaks.
I'm looking into starting a nonprofit organization to help sustain developers to contribute to open source.
> or if it was some random user who recently acquired the correct amount of karma

I certainly hope moderatorship isn't granted based on a karma threshold.
This topic/discussion reminds me of a movie I saw recently It was called "That guy...who was in that thing". It is a documentary about working actors. Not Big time superstars like Tom Cruise, but the small time 'character' actors.

Anyways, there was one part in the movie where they start talking about auditions. All four or five of the actors they were interviewing for the movie unanimously spoke badly about the typical audition process. Some quotes taken from memory:

"I love acting, but I hate auditioning"

"You've seen my demo reel, you've seen me when I was on Star Trek, you know I can act, then why not just give me the part? Why make me go through this tedious audition process"

"90% of acting is reacting. You can't fully demonstrate your full acting abilities when you're standing in front of a panel of producers 'acting' out a scene that consists of 5 lines of dialog"

What the actors were saying about how they hate the audition process reminded me a lot of my frustrations surrounding hiring during tech interviews. Making an engineer do puzzles like FizzBuzz is a lot like making an actor act out a 20 second scene without any time to prepare or a proper "scene partner" to act alongside of.

I wish I could like to a youtube of the movie, but I can't find one. Its on netflix though.
An often overlooked point is that "Getting rich quick" is often portrayed as a crass and shallow pursuit, whereas in reality in the US, it translates into:

1. Good healthcare.
2. Freedom to live in a peaceful safe neighborhood where you can have a family.
3. A reasonable education for one's children.
4. Ability to choose what projects to work on.

Why is anyone surprised that these are the priorities of entrepreneurs, when they correlate directly with basic human needs - safety, shelter ability to reproduce and freedom of choice. Few people will focus on the self-actualization of a truly world changing project until they have obtained some security for themselves and their families.

Jobs, Musk, Gates, Thiel, Google.org etc. are all good examples of this. (I.e. they got rich first, then they launched ambitious projects)
Pretty sure Walmart is doing that.
There are two kinds of hard though - there's the hard that's hard just because it's boring repetitive work and there's the hard that's hard because it's complex and beautiful and requires an investment in thought and background that not everyone has.

And if you're eliminating the former kind of hard without increasing the latter, then your interviews should get easier. Heck, for people in the latter group it will get easier even if you decrease the former and increase the latter, to a point.

Just because you're not lowering standards doesn't mean your interviews aren't getting easier.

Which is also a thing with exams now I think about it - just because your exam's hard doesn't mean it's worthwhile.
Yeah, Walmart is infamous for restricting people to part-time hours so they don't have to provide benefits.

But of course this is a Forbes blog, and who knows what the political slant of the blogger is.
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/silver

Colloidal silver has been shown to have antibacterial properties in vitro (in a petri dish or test tube), and in fact it is still used by NASA and the World Health Organization as a drinking water disinfectant, but no evidence has ever shown it effective in vivo (used internally in a living being).
As people have said, there is always a way from someone to intercept a message. An organization can, at the ISP level, intercept all images that you access in your browser and then perform OCR on the images you receive to extract the message. So there is no foolproof solution here. However, this is simply a service that allows you to send "read only once" emails, with no SMTP records of the message on any servers. It has a certain level of protection that I feel some people will find useful, in the same way that some people really value off-the-record gchat.
This. I work in retail and have for a while. My mother has for most of her life, and this practice is not new for the retail level of the job market.
Do the brackets in the text mean they weren't quite finished editing before it got published? Or was that on purpose?
This, seconded by a current firefighter / paramedic.

Any fluid leaking from the vehicle would cause us to charge a line. And was needed for suppression on multiple occasions.
How does the PHP project adopt PSR-0? PSR-0 is a standard for programs written in PHP; what would they do to adopt it that is in anyway better than the current situation?
Hardly shoe #1, more like #8 or #9. With the take down of Liberty Reserve, the killing off of a number of exchanges and interfaces to exchanges, its pretty clear the US Government at least has decided to focus for a time on the financial infrastructure which underpins a big chunk of Internet criminal activity. The privacy advocates are getting somewhat caught in the crossfire.

As a company that works with internet advertisers, we see the shadowy parts of the web shimmering there on the periphery, lots of people are trying to scam Google out of some of its advertising revenue, it is a full time job to identify and quash fraudulent traffic here at Blekko, I know from experience that there are many folks at Google that do nothing but that.

But more than that, it says that these activities have reached the nation-state level of attention. Which puts the global losses in the 150 to 200 billion dollars annually.

The effect of that is what Patrick experienced where regulators start effectively 'regex' banning types of activities that are associated with these activities. It's a cold compress on an arterial bleed, not a solution but something to stem the blood loss while other measures are being taken.

It is really all about cash though. When crime doesn't pay, people don't do it. So focusing on making it hard to get paid is the strategy it seems to work on Internet criminal activity. If I had to bet I'd say that someone in the Treasury department has a goal of (ideally) making it impossible to use BitCoin to facilitate criminal activity, through a series of regulations requiring transaction reporting and verification, killing off exchanges that don't do that, and pressuring partners to do the same.
Perhaps you should provide an option to have the db itself running as a child process (via cluster), and CRUD statements are actually proxied to that process (via a Unix pipe or socket) instead of updating the data directly in the process' state. This would work well as an extension.
Also note that drinking one of small beer or coffee (substitute tea to taste) was a great way of ensuring that your fluid intake wasn't contaminated with viable cholera bacilli. Adding alcohol or boiling water would kill them before they killed you. Which, before the discovery of the germ theory of disease and the development of sewage treatment farms, was pretty important.
Thank you for this! Love seeing another Hamilton web company on HN.
Accepted by who?
Instagram launches Vine competitor (15 seconds, 13 filters, plus editing)
Certain permissions are, like when you get over 500 karma for example as you should soon: you will notice a downvote option beside comments that are not a directly reply to your own.
What you ask for requires sweeping structural changes, which itself requires cooperation between a bunch of mutually-antagonistic parties, and all of that happening under the watchful eyes of the entire world who are more than happy to lace into America for the slightest fault they see.

It certainly helps that Americans are so seemingly genetically suspicious of government that even government workers despise the government (usually not their little enclave of it, but even that is not a hard and fast rule).

In short, despite all the whining on HN about how the people are just sheep, the people themselves are the reason your part of the plan is the most difficult part. The fact that you had an NSA contractor leak TOP SECRET data at great personal risk over an automated warrant compliance system should indicate that.

Likewise it was not very many years ago when some of the same senior intel community personnel that HN feels are all enemies were threatening to resign and cause a huge political explosion due to how Bush wanted to implement a program that would have benefited the NSA.

When we lose the people we'll have real problems. But if we lose the people those problems will be far, far, far worse than simple surveillance.
20 bucks says Soylent is a viral marketing campaign
Jail in Sweden is... well it's not like being on the outside but it sure as hell isn't an overcrowded California high security state prison [1].

[1] http://gizmodo.com/5881212/the-pirate-bays-founders-are-goin...
Vine didn't invent mobile video.
Although building a company on the heels of the open source community flies in the face of the its spirit

No, this is false. Free as in speech vs. Free as in beer. Make all the money you can, just keep the software free (as in speech).
Walmart is turning walmart workers into temps, not Obamacare. What an awful title from Forbes.
Yet another example where perverse incentives lead to unintended effects.

The problem with Obamacare is that it doesn't address the primary problem: health insurance is tied to employment.

Until we get past that we are going to have a broken system where the customer is not the customer. The insurance company and then your employers are the customer.
'Cinema' seems like it is going to be a game changer
I agree except I must point out that the Constitution was an agreement amongst the states, not an agreement with the people and the government.

The rhetoric of "the people" is extremely deceptive. Me, nor my forefathers, had their opinion represented at the constitutional convention. The people in "... a statement of intent about what the people will insist upon" is solely people who were at the convention.
And was doing it long before obamacare.
Summary:

15 seconds of video with 13 custom filters

You can choose the cover frame.

Available for Android/iOS.

Can view on web as well.

New feature - 'Cinema' - cinematic stabilisation.
Presumably that set of opinions is meant to make the point that the Supreme Court is still ruling things unconstitutional and therefore some things are still unconstitutional. This is true, but irrelevant.

The point is that if anything can be ruled constitutional, then the ruling something unconstitutional is merely a tool for the federal government to use to regulate the states and lesser courts, not any kind of protection against the power of the federal government itself against the rights of the individual.
From the video it appears/appeared that the capture interface/method looked to be the same as vine. Not sure who else did that before Vine.