skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those too lazy to read ukoto's post, here's the TL;DR summary:

We don't sell bitcoin; not like it matters anyways.

If that was too long, here's the TL;DR of the Bitcoin Foundation's response to California's Department of Financial Institutions:

You're wrong.

Of course, my point is that if someone is actually interested in bitcoin and learning the legal arguments behind it, don't waste your time with incomplete summaries; just read the actual letter. It only takes a few minutes.
Blazr, medical marijuana geosocial network begins private beta.
I read a Crooked Timber thread recently comparing the US's treatment of Latin America to the Soviet Union's treatment of the Warsaw Pact. The world made slightly more sense after that.

The US is intimidating. It has made all non-democratic forms of government illegitimate by waging wars of extermination against them, it is a quarter of the world economy by itself, its military black budget is almost certainly larger than anyone else's open budget and its open budget is greater than the rest of the world's military budget summed.

The US is the global hegemon. Russia, China and maybe Iran are independent of it. The US does not truly view the rest of the world as sovereigns but as subjects.
Contextual blindness, thanks.

EDIT: Audit results: It just uses the SJCL, looks good to me.
An interesting choice if he were seeking to flee (/defect, perhaps) to Bolivia, as they have an extradition treaty with the United States [1].

It's bilateral, but I wonder if the Bolivians would keep him after the US refused to send them their former coca-growing president [2].

[1] http://www.oas.org/juridico/mla/en/traites/en_traites-ext-us... [PDF]

[2] http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/09/12/why_did_the...
Why It Feels Like Your Phone Is Vibrating In Your Pocket When It Isn't
Jeez, and here I was hoping someone would have an answer ready to hand. Instead, I get 13 upvotes (at time of this writing) from people who are presumably wondering the same thing. I guess this might be something worth doing a bit of research and writing an article about. :)
Well, page 6 sounds a lot like the mysterious magic car openers the police have been seeing (compromise the CAN bus through wireless device exploits, use CAN to unlock the doors).

[From the PDF:] To be clear, for every vulnerability we demonstrate, we are able to obtain complete control over the vehicle’s systems.

The latest Fast and Furious movie employes magnetically attached exploit devices that lock the ABS system on a single wheel at speed, causing the car to immediately pull hard in that direction. With an available attack vector, it's depressingly easy.
I used to say that people were paranoid who thought the government was spying on them. So I'm not quite ready to dismiss this as a crazy conspiracy just yet.
I think OP is talking about the two sided exponential i.e. laplace distribution which is symmetric about its mean.
Any idea what the big story was?
Yeah, was thinking the same. At the end of the day any type of client-side javascript encryption is insecure since you'd need to prove the browser + runtime + js + algo are all kosher.

It's also sort of ironic that this extension is trying to protect your privacy against the same company making both the browser and the email service:)
This first question that comes to mind is what was he doing driving at 4:30 in the morning.

His friends describe him as a "grandma diver" so why was he driving so fast and blowing red lights on a residential street? Did he ever display this type of behaviour before?

Another question is.. how does a well made car burst into flames so quickly.
Nice.

Along similar lines, I believe that individuals can make decisions that go counter to the incentives provided to them.

But, when you take an aggregate of thousands or more of individuals, you can often predict accurately that the aggregate behaviors will align with the incentives in the system.

You'll find where there is accountability & consequences & FEEDBACK, then things improve.

This article is just one dimension of that larger concept on feedback & incentives.
Possibly was an actual plane malfunction according to another comment on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5981267)

Radio exchange at http://audioboo.fm/boos/1482009-bolivia-air-force-fuerza-aer...
Reinventing the Scavenger Hunt
http://talkwalker.com bills itself as the best free and easy alternative to Google Alerts. Just started using it a few minutes ago and so far, so good.
The people I dealt with we're all in the language technology field. They tended to be a bit on the older side, so maybe they wound up there before there were the kinds of research opportunities you get in industry these days.
I think given the fact that the US is literally Nazi Germany, it's pretty much assured that the US assassinated him for what he knew.

I'm so glad that these kind of pieces are being upvoted here so we can finally stop talking about all that technology bullshit.

Upvote on the left if you agree.
I completely agree, so please take this as an explanation and elucidation rather than a criticism: The concept of merely "demanding change" is unlikely to result in change, unless the term "demanding" includes actions that would result in significant disruption of economics and daily life (in which case that is an entirely different discussion).

The core piece in dampening a desire for change, in my thinking anyway, is the two-party system. Both parties are complicit and supportive of all this nonsense by an overwhelming internal majority. Outliers who join third parties are historically unsuccessful and outliers as candidates within the Democratic and Republican parties are rare. Even if you are lucky enough to have the chance to vote for someone radically pro-transparency or pro-privacy in federal election, the following still apply:

1. They are likely new, and years away from being in a leadership position of an important committee (where real accountability and change might begin).

2. They often fall into line over time. If they buck the party too often, too publicly and on too central of an issue, it is possible that the party will support them less in future national elections.

3. Any legislation they introduce, if acceptable at all, might well be diluted by amendments and through the committee process. Our congress appears slow and deadlocked because, it is in some ways designed to be. That is not me saying I agree with that design decision, but again just shining a light on the point.

The two-party system is a barrier to expressing (electorally) desire for change beyond a certain delta from the status quo. A multi-party system, though it might be fraught with other issues, would go some distance toward representing more varied sets of concerns.
That would be cool. I've been enjoying how much I can accomplish using VS Express for Web and Desktop. It is a little annoying having to install both of these, but beggars can't be choosers, right?
I definitely already feel some sense of pause.

I remember reading this article when it came out; does anyone know if there have been any further developments in the case?
Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. I wonder if his editor was in the loop.

I read it wasn't about Jill Kelly... doesn't really narrow it down.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/michael-hastings-ji...
Their slideshow div is blocking it, here are the links:

https://www.streak.com/about
https://www.streak.com/privacy
http://support.streak.com/
http://blog.streak.com/
https://www.streak.com/api/
Azubu shut down and is not a competitor. Twitch is the only name in the game besides some random european streaming sites like motioncreds
That's why you need to get the users to ask you to charge for it. Say, "Sorry, we have to shut down Google Reader because it's drawing needed resources from our other projects," or whatever. Then when people say, "NO! Please, just charge for it! I'd be happy to pay $20 per year for Reader!" you benevolently listen to the community and agree to transition to a paid service instead of shutting it down.
How does a 2013 model Mercedes Benz with a five star ANCAP safety rating (the highest rating you can get) scoring 35.51 points scored out of 37 (an Australian car safety rating for reference) with more airbags than wheels (8 airbags for those of you playing at home including a curtain airbag that drops in-front of the passenger and driver protecting the head and upper-body from impacting anything) crash into a tree without there even being another vehicle involved?

The car has stability control, traction control, ABS, EBD, brake assist and three-point pre-tensioning seatbelts. If you've ever driven a modern BMW, Mercedes or any other premium European vehicle than you'd know it's impossible to crash these things unless you honestly wanted to crash them. I am pretty sure it has been standard on most cars in this price bracket for a while now to respond to impacts by shutting off fuel, disconnecting battery terminals and unlocking doors. It varies from model to model, but most premium cars react to emergencies by cutting off as many points of danger as possible. Something doesn't add up here.

Was he drunk? Was he poisoned with a cocktail of drugs that perhaps made him lose concentration and crash into a tree? A new 2013 Mercedes don't just malfunction and crash killing its occupants so easily. They build these cars to withstand a lot of impact, this isn't the movies, new cars don't just crash and explode on impact. You hear of gruesome accidents everyday in vehicles, but you rarely hear of them exploding, mangling in a ball of metal and plastic yes, but rarely exploding. Is there CCTV footage of the minutes before he crashed showing perhaps what happened?

Perhaps a recreation of the accident might help shed some light on what really happened. A computer simulation I am sure would be more than enough, coupled with CCTV footage and you should have a pretty close to accurate simulation of how it all went down and how the car would fare.

If the FBI were interviewing close friends and family, someone needs to come out at least dispelling the suggestion he went crazy or was suffering from paranoia. Because at present, there's nothing to suggest foul play other than speculation. And as usual, we all point fingers and call someone crazy when they claim the FBI is watching them and after all of this PRISM controversy, claims like that don't sound as crazy as they once did...
while this story is about a week old and got lost in all this nsa nonsense, listen to what mr. hastings said before his death. even on tv.

i am german and i can tell you that a mercedes benz DOES NOT just blow up and spit its engine 100yd down the street.
the car wasn't even really against the tree...

sometimes you just need to apply a little grain of common sense, ppl.
And my comment on that same thread regarding the one who posted that link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5981395
Beautiful and made me miss my father. I am glad Lon Snowden can see how difficult this must be for his son.
The problem is, in not including the top 10 most populated cities in the US in things like this, they exclude a lot of the nation. This example in particular may not be great... but I am constantly seeing posts about new service X that doesn't include even the top 5 most populated cities... It's like excluding a large part of potential users. It's similar to releasing an IE-only site today.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/06/widening-th... Here was a VR pioneer, Jaron Lanier, talking about how our new communities online are really only serving the interests of a few at the cost of the rest of us. I had friends in the USAF who got off facebook years ago and told me to do the same because they knew what was going on behind the scenes. There are a lot of good people, meaning to do well with these Palantir type programs. I voted for Obama because he promised "transparency" and I am not against good programs that can help us all, but when you lose "transparency" perhaps that concentrates far too much power into far too few hands. I recently watched Dreamscape about VR dreamworlds, and the CIA guy tries to assassinate the president when he won't play ball on nuclear weapons. Reminded me of JFK's last speech about secret government that he was going to expose right before he was assassinated. The NSA types say they have to have their secrets, or the terrorists will maybe blow up a city with a suitcase nuke. That would be a tremendous loss of life, how do we balance that against losing massive amounts of liberty where power and control are concentrated into a very few hands that have the right security clearances? When I was a kid I watched this movie with martin landau called Access Code, where the CIA and NSA types built all kinds of secret technologies and systems, and then the AI programs came in and took it over, and all of mankind was made the slave to the AI. That is the real fear I have going forward, these non transparent systems being taken over in the future by AI that are beyond the control of any human being. That is a reason to make them totally transparent and remove power from the NSA or CIA.
If someone modifies the server side of gmail they can still snoop the email before it gets encrypted.

That and being non-standard, so basically forces users to use the same service and gmail
Re D of I: I'm honestly curious: is that true? Evidence?
I thought the best way to murder a person is to make him disappear and that should be pretty easy for an assassinate from the most powerful government. "Off the radar" would be convenient.
Or, his murderers sent it as a smoke screen.

It doesn't say "an electronically signed email" using Hastings' PGP key, it doesn't say it was DKIM signed.

telnet hotmail.com 25
MAIL FROM: micheal.hastings@domain.com
RCPT TO: wikileakseditor@hotmail.com
Subject: I'm going out for a walk

I might be some time. Don't come looking for me.

.
^D
> Who is saying people can't use the tools they prefer?

Isn't "the NoPSD Movement" basically referring to Photoshop?
If he was apprehended, his story wouldn't still be in the news. Cf Bradley Manning.
According to this article, "Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith has said that Hastings was working on a story on Barrett Brown."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218189/-HBGary-Pal...
My comment was trying to address where my impression of how your definition of capitalism and what I consider to be the commonly considered definition of capitalism differs.

If you want to try to restate/reword you definition we can discuss how it differs from my readings and sources or how my initial impression was incorrect if that happens to be the case. Then the consequences can be discussed if there is interest.
Having an extradition treaty doesn't automatically mean that the process will be successful or quick. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition So don't hold your breath.

> US refused to send them their former coca-growing president

Not a shocker to me. They refused Poland sending a guy involved in contracting mob hitmen on our national police chief http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mazur
Foul play is always a possibility, but it takes evidence to make it real. All we have now is a car crash, a reporter working on a story, and an email. There are lots of car crashes, and lots of reporters working on big stories--many on the same stories Hastings was pursuing.

We can't rule out foul play but I'm not ready, personally, to rule it in either. There's just not enough there.
I think given the fact that the US is literally Nazi Germany

Literally is metaphorically literally?

I hate it when people abuse language like that, even though usage dictates conventions.
For sure. And generally it is indeed very handy to have the Wikipedia result come up prominently. It's just interesting that a free, user-moderated encyclopedia as the world's predominant source of source of reference information would have been difficult to imagine circa 1998.
According to The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/edward-snowden-a...):
1.05am BST
Associated Press has published extracts from a statement issued by the Bolivian defence minister, Ruben Saavedra, who was also on the redirected plane.

It says the plane was allowed to land in Spain for refueling before flying on to Austria.

It describes the rerouting as a "hostile act" by the US
goverment:
This is a hostile act by the United States State Department which has used various European governments"
At the time it was widely reported that the story he was working on was related to a socialite from Florida named Jill Kelley, but it looks like that isn't true:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/michael-hastings-ji...

I won't pretend I read all of his work, but whenever I saw his name attached to something I was impressed. For example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3eKaXVe-7A
This email has already been in circulation for quite some time - nothing new here by the look of it.
> how does a well made car burst into flames so quickly?

I always wonder about this, it's not like a car fire is anything like hollywood makes it out to be.
As a first time entrepreneur, I raised about $25k for seed round, paying 10% (5% for the money, 5% for a 4-month service) of my equity to the incubator. Then after 4 months I raised half million USD for angel round, paying 20% of my equity. BTW, I'm in Beijing, China.

This is just a reference. It could vary greatly based on the background of your team, the maturity of your product, etc.
Sorry, I don't mean to be contrarian, but it looks active to me: http://www.azubu.tv/channel/index.do

Do you mean that they had plans to have a wider base of users and have restricted themselves to just professional players?

Edit: I stand corrected; I'm not sure why the site is up but Azubu seems to have been owned by criminals/a front for criminal activity: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=406...
Hmmmm, I wonder how strategic this claim is?

Perhaps they're just waiting for the state of California to declare in a legally binding way that Bitcoin is not a "separate currency from the USD". That'd be something a _lot_ of people would love to be able to promote and quote prominently…
Using tDCS to Supercharge Language Learning
They're still wrong because the foundation is not an exchange in the first place.
You're right, it is significant for generations to come. There's a big concern, though, that PRISM/etc allows mining a person's life history to filter out people of conscience, and ensure organizations filled with obedient worker bees. (They already do this, it will just be more effective by orders of magnitude.)

Donated to Ron Paul? Watched one too many Chomsky videos? Sorry, Booz Allen doesn't have a position for you at this time.
Only if your measurement is the number of products. If you were to represent each product as a point in a multidimensional space of features, and measure according to how well they were clustered, then the existence of Reader would improve the clustering of Google's products, helping to counter the existence of products like self-driving cars.
Haskell (and most of the other languages mentioned) is exceptionally clever. This, above all else, is it's downfall. For me, especially when tasked with building a high productivity development team, clever code is a ticking time bomb. It's easy to write, but hard to maintain and modify. It requires more mental ram to analyze any given piece of code, and is much more difficult for multiple programmers to contribute to. It's tiny, to be sure, but, again, I think that is negative, not a positive. Maximum clarity is not minimal code.

Go, on the other hand, is not clever. It's boring as hell, honestly. This is a Very Good Thing® when it comes to building out a dev team, and I feel, the single biggest reason Google put the resources into creating it.

As for the crashing, of course I see some dangerous areas. Educating developers on avoiding a small regions of pitfalls is much easier than managing a team of clever coders though.
Not to mention the US is also not metaphorically Nazi Germany. There's bad shit going on, but to equivocate the current state of the US to the Third Reich demonstrates either a supremely poor understanding of history, or hyperbolic melodrama, or both.
Google Reader Founder: I Never Would Have Founded Reader Inside Today's Google
The intention of this isn't to be the most secure solution on the planet - you're not going to be using Gmail if that's the case.

Instead we wanted to build a starting point that was A) easy to use, and B) easy to extend.

Our initial plan was to use a GPG solution, but that introduced a lot of complexity to the UX and also had other security holes. But the main thing is that if something is too complicated, it's not going to be used by the broader masses - kind of like GPG right now.

With this solution only the sender has to have the extension installed to send an encrypted email.
"hugely suboptimal political culture of the United States"

LOL! Well that's one way to put it.
Seems like it would be better to go with S/MIME or OpenPGP for this. S/MIME would potentially be able to re-use some of the browser's own code for handling certs.

Symmetric crypto (like this) is relatively easy to implement, but a usability nightmare.

A browser extension is still a lot better than a general webapp for security.

I wish someone issued "mail-from" auth personal certs for ~free to end users, integrated into apps for cert request/signing/etc. StartCom's StartSSL sort of does (for "level 1" personal certs), but their cert issuance UI is a huge pain. It really needs to work with the "I have no cert, I'm going to use an app for a specific purpose, I get a cert incidental to signing up for the service, I then can use the cert for other purposes", which none of the x509 crowd really support.

WoT on the certs would be cool too (which startcom is trying, but since it's a pain to use, there aren't enough people, so it doesn't work.)
We do a combination. We add a marker to the secure compose body (only compatible with new Gmail compose) and intercept the draft savings to prevent the drafts of the secure compose from going through to Gmail's servers.

You'll see that in the secured compose when it tries to save a draft it says "Draft saving..." "Save failed".

And un-secure composes and replies don't get blocked.
But, as stipulated quiet extensively, not under the jurisdiction of the California legal system.
We block the draft from going up to Gmail's servers. Gmail only sees the encrypted version of the body.
>I saw the best minds of my generation write software to surveil and control the other minds of my generation.

the joke here is that it is not limited to "other" minds. Being a part of controlling part of society, people frequently start to feel like they are above the control, not a subject to it. It is a very mistaken feeling.
As stated in [2], it's the current President who is coca-growing, not the former one they want the US to extradite.
The Guardian's "live blog" is the first place to look when Snowden news blows up.

NYT's The Lede Blog is also excellent (currently blogging Egypt news).

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/
Pretty sure the parent was being sarcastic.
Clearly the American intelligence services should act within the American constitution.
Or, an even less interesting possibility: Hastings might in fact have been under some kind of investigation; he might have not slept well the prior night; and he might have fallen asleep at the wheel. This is consistent with the facts of the case: the crash happened in the middle of the night, just after Hastings sped through a red light.