skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're not considering the full problem.

You are describing a particular greedy algorithm wherein each individual car gets home as fast as they can.
1) Car #1 gets home as quick as they can by following closely.
2) Car #2 gets home as quick as they can by following closely, given #1.
3) Car #3 gets home as quick as they can by following closely, given #1+#2.
...
Yes, given 1..N, the course of action which minimizes your own time is to follow closely. I agree. And people will probably act that way.

But that doesn't make it an optimal solution.
Consider that car #1 introduces several seconds of delay due to braking and acceleration. Then car #2 does. Then car #3. By the end, you've got hours of delay built-in.

Optimal is obviously hard to define. But most people would agree that it's not every driver maximizing their personal interests to a globally shitty end. Everyone following closely is the prisoner's dilemma where both betray each other.

Consider the following alternate thought experiment.
Flow of traffic is very much non-linear. That's what stop and go does -- it introduces cascading delay where there was none. Suppose roads are just 10-15% over capacity, and it results in a global average commute time of 1h instead of 45 minutes. This is not unrealistic.
What if every day, 20% of drivers leave 1h later, thus preventing stop and go and keeping commutes to 45 minutes. Even if you counted their extra hour as commute time, the average is still less 1h.

I'm not saying this is a good idea (though strategies like this have been used in some cities). I'm just saying that are ways to get everyone home faster than everyone maximizing self-interest [co-operative self-driving cars please!].
Cases fall apart if evidence is acquired improperly.
This has nothing to do with Cue/Greplin.
And that's only 6 pages... it looks like he printed it in 11 columns spanning 5.5 pages...
If the cost is too high, don't pay for it, but don't take the content as well. That's theft.

And I mean social contract as in a contract you agree to by simply being part of society that stands above law. Don't kill people, don't steal things, that kind of thing. Things you do and are therefore allowed to be part of society.
Current fellow here. If you have any questions about the program or just want to chat, feel free to reach out. me AT delian.io
(side note: it was VexXtreme, not jlgreco, that first mentioned Nazis)
Only if comes in the form of a "free" $9.99 PDF after defrauding affiliates. Netflix subscription optional.

Click here to order now.
So far all I'm seeing is the government saying that they think a guy who ran an underground drug network tried to have people killed. I seriously doubt they care that much about Bitcoin in this instance.
Woot woot go Delian go.
wow, just installed this on Linux, disabled the flash plugin and flash doesn't crash anymore yipiii :)

It appears that the flash testing site doesn't work with it though: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Now I have 0 Plugins Enabled in Firefox. It's perceived about 40% slower though. :/
As a first year Thiel Fellow(meaning I have been an alum for the past few months) I can safely say that it was an incredible experience and I would definitely suggest applying if you are eligible and on the fence.

If you are thinking about applying and have any questions I'm happy to answer them(cammarata.nick@gmail)
Did you watch the screencast to the end? i ran a search and got personalized results from all my web apps like Gmail and AngelList. How is this not like Greplin?
ah, how unfortunate! as a user, would love to see some / all of their stuff become open sourced, if possible.
Ah, we seem to have had the same idea. Beat me by a few seconds :)
by that logic, you should love reddit more - they have people are experts in all those things PLUS relationships, biology, animals, fitness and even modern pop culture, all rolled into one guy!
Was sad to see what happened to Cue. It's another example of a great idea with terrible timing. How do you compete when the biggest players in the game join the race?

Cheers guys, there was obvious talent on your team! Interested to see what comes next...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law
There is definitely missing information how the actual server was compromised. Without that, a lot of the evidence wouldn't be possible. It seems likely that eventually a SR type service cannot be stopped. The theory is there, the market is there, just the implementation remains.

(please don't raid me NSA/FBI)
Ah, I guess that makes sense. I just have to go with the live stream.
Thank you for helping me, this is great.
... And now we have a lead on a Breaking Bad replacement!

Get Netflix producing and Vince Gilligan writing and I will pay for a season upfront.

Please?
Gold Plating Blog - Gold Plating - Metal Coating Solutions
I hear typing gets a little slower when you're over 20 ;)
Ask HN: Best online course to learn coding?
Hey,

I recently quit my job as a marketing manager for a startup and have a decent runway before i have to start looking for another job. I'm interested in learning how to code (been waiting since i was 13) and was wondering if anyone has found an awesome online course.

Planning on learning Rails as it seems to have a huge amount of resources available.
OK, mild correction, the quote itself doesn't really contain those, but the link from which it was taken does.

Attrition is itself the "expert opinion" of Gibson's standing, here's their Wikipedia page for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attrition.org
I made it so that even the code is very hackable. Fiddle around in the source+console, and you can add your very own colors too!
Sad to hear, as I had discovered them recently and was interested in the problems they were tackling. I guess this isn't a complete surprise, with their Twitter account looking inactive as of late.
alleged whistleblower

At the time when Lavabit defied the initial court order, had Snowden been classified as a legitimate whistleblower (by the people who actually have the authority to make such a decision)?
HE WHO CONTROLS THE [STOCK] PRICE, CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE!
Why?

They were in my top 5 favorite startups. Were they killed by Siri and Google Now?
Yes. It's a multiplier of bad laws like Jim Crow. If these capabilities had existed at the time of Jim Crow, the damage that this would have done compared to what was done would have been far worse.

TBH, the fact that black people at the time were poor and had less access to ubiquitous communication probably protected them greatly.

I hate to invoke Godwin's law, but also imagine if communications for everyday conversations and the surveillance thereof had existed in 1939.
Lessons learned:

- Fewer people, the better.

- Trust is earned, especially in criminal enterprises, slowly.

- Checks and controls are important when participants are inherently shady.

- If you're the head of the world's largest criminal exchange, being extremely careful to ensure actual anonymity is difficult but required. One slip, and it's all over.

- Tor might help, but a distributed app (vaguely like BitTorrent) might be more "SWAT proof" than having centralized servers.
I don't want to be negative here. Before I say anything, can you explain to me how this is different than Yelp, Google Maps, Foursquare, etc in one sentence?
Real crews on the street do indeed pay hitmen. http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2013/04/04/suspects-in-duhre-m... the cost is $15k for a regular guy in the game and up to $100k for ranking crew members. They don't advertise on the internet. They are always ex cons and other crews will use them, they are completely independent and not loyal to anybody (surprise, no loyalty in the hitman industry).

This isn't the first time organized online crime has mirrored it's real life equivalents. There was that guy who designed ATM skimmer devices (Cha0) who kidnapped and beat a guy suspected of being an informant.

Interesting how fast DPR slid into gangsterism guess it comes with the territory of running an online cartel
Does it matter? he advertises that page on pretty much all of his comments.
Yes they were, and yes it was cool. Seems to be down now though -- part of the rather sudden Cue-shaped hole in the Internet.
I guess the phrase "prioritize performance" is maybe ambiguous. It's a language that cares a lot about performance, let's say -- sure, it uses dynamic dispatch for its method calls (losing a little speed compared more-static C++ virtual methods, which themselves lose a little speed compared to non-virtual methods), but the implementation itself is very optimized (there's some good blog articles describing the implementation, but I don't have them at hand), and you always have normal function calls as in C if you need maximum speed (as millstone mentioned). C really feels like a first-class language when using Objective-C, and C is a pretty damn fast language.

(As an aside, there was an optional GCed variant of objective-c around for a while. Not sure what the performance impact was vs ref counted.)
Thanks, the fact that it was so simple to make it do random things is great. Very fun.
Donated.

Normally I'm hesitant to post one word comments like that, but in this case showing your donation breaks conformity behavior in large anonymous groups like the innocent bystander effect.
Show HN: Clojure Cup Application - Focus on Coding
Did you bother with naming of your new project?
"Focus on Coding" can solve it.

It frees you from thinking about names, searching domains, and creating icons and logo images when you want to start new projects or services. You can input some keywords, then you can get candidates of names. After you select one of them, you can get a logo and icons. You can FOCUS ON CODING.

Please try it and enjoy. Please vote for us, if you like it.
Our team joined the 48 hour Clojure Cup hackathon and developed this application.
We are welcome to your feedback and comment for further development near future.
Quick summary of my early explorations:

* Building is relatively straightforward on an Ubuntu system. You'll need to install re2 from source, but that's about it.

* No configuration necessary to start playing. lmctfy just straight up mounts cgroups and starts playing in there.

* Containers can be nested which is nice.

* I really couldn't figure out useful values for the container spec. Even the source doesn't seem to have a single reference - it's all dynamically registered by various subsystems in a rather opaque way. I opened a few issues to ask for more details.

* This is a really low-level tool. Other than manipulating cgroups it doesn't seem to do much, which is perfect for my particular use case (docker integration). I couldn't figure out how to set namespaces (including mnt and net namespaces which means all my containers shared the host's filesystem and network interfaces). I don't know if that functionality is already in the code, or has yet to be added.

* Given the fairly small footprint, limited feature set, and clean build experience, this really looks like an interesting option to use as a backend for docker. I like that it carries very little dependencies. Let's see what the verdict is on these missing features.
Google: self hosted RSS to Email - in GoLang
I posted a few resources a while back, and I'm still a huge fan of Stanford's CS101 course: https://plus.google.com/112353210404102902472/posts/MVQXyw9E...
After hearing about this and Docker, I'm interested in learning more about containers from a high level point of view. What are they used for, beyond very slim VMs? What direction is the technology heading?
I think my points are valid.

What I mean by initial blockchain is that the initial bitcoin nodes you are talking to indeed represent the legitimate bitcoin network, and not a malicious network with an independent blockchain (valid and verifiable, but obviously would be shorter).

I think it would be straight-forward for ISPs to perform DPI and magically redirect and rewrite packets in order to have you on their bitcoin network with their blockchain. And you wouldn't be able to know if you had never seen the real blockchain.

If this is not possible, I'd be very interested to hear why not :)

A long time ago, I worked at a company that got its start doing exactly this for p2p networks in the early 2000's (and saving ISPs a ton of precious bandwidth).
google is probably holding the piece that competes with docker or openvz, they should have somthing like docker internally
Reading this comments constitutes an NDA signature:

Wrap a dating service around this and we can finally bring back the eugenics movement.

OkSuperiorRace.com?
PlentyofPerfects.com?
eSuperhumanarmony.com?

With your special financial contribution, we can make this dream come true!
In fact IE used to lose control, so it is disabled now.
Donated.

Like I said in the thread [0] linking to this crowdfunding campaign, I'm normally I'm hesitant to post one word comments like that, but in this case showing your donation breaks conformity behavior in large anonymous groups like the innocent bystander effect.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6486330
Yes, I do promote my startup whenever I can, but am always on topic. Why the negativity? Is it wrong to be vocal or do you feel like I'm dancing on Greplin's grave?
Cool! For me, reducing the pixelSpacing to 0 really helped make it more artistic.
Former NSA Honcho Calls Enterprise Security 'Appalling'
Thanks for the awesome replies. They were really insightful - specially the idea to have an all round team to work on this. Surely some food for thought for a tech-only company like us. If you ever come across a need for accounting / inventory type solution, do keep us in mind, this would be something of interest.
Why can't they open source their code?
That sounds familiar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI_JONTVVuE
It's weak, but you might consider strtok() to be less restful than strlen() because it isn't stateless.
How software is eating venture capital
Everybody reading this and saying 'oh! a statistician!' should remember that Briggs is also, among other things, a global warming denier.
What are some of the big successes by Thiel Fellows? Any significant exits?
Cdist 2.3.4 now supports postfix
You should start going to music festivals, raves, and you'll meet people who have access to it. It's much easier to find in real life than online IMHO.
Hi! I'm one of the contributors to Freeseer. Another contributor mentioned on IRC (#freeseer) that this was on HN.

Most of my contributions focus on the documentation (which is still incomplete, sorry) and on mentoring students who contribute to the project through programs such as UCOSP [1] and GSoC [2].

If you'd like to see some presentations that have been recorded with Freeseer, check out http://www.fosslc.org. In case anyone's wondering, Freeseer supports Picture-in-Picture (PIP) - it was added by a student recently!

[1] http://ucosp.ca

[2] https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/
Firebase Real Time Transit Data Sets
His alleged crimes spanned multiple jurisdictions, so they're allowed to venue shop. As to why they chose it, I imagine it's convenient for the attorneys or LEOs who worked the case.

If you read the complaint, they actually make sure to point out that agents had drugs shipped to that district to proves that it's valid.
I'm sure they do - but again google is probably holding a proprietary alternative to virtually every piece of software in the world :) Most of it is too tied to "the google way" to be useful to anybody else.
Yahoo dumps t-shirt bug bounty for $15,000 cheques
Seriousness aside, this would make one hell of a show. I bet someone is working on a script right now.
Hey Tom, here's a high-level overview of containers in general (and docker in particular): http://www.docker.io/learn_more
Looks more like a simple character attack than anything. Steve is prolific, experimental, and has been around a while, so it's understandable he hasn't done everything right, but I haven't found any other instances where he is considered a "charlatan" by other security professionals.
When I was out fund raising in 2000 the only person at any government agency who both understood me and provided any real help was Mahendra Ramsinghani who was then at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.
Lavabit got order for Snowden’s login info, then gov’t demanded site’s SSL key
Really? Dark gray until mouse hover makes different paragraphs glow???

web devs, whyyyyy
This story does not add up. It makes no sense, and I don't believe it.
Adding Vi To Your Zsh
Let's also be clear that he solicited not one but two murders, and deposited money into bank accounts for those hits. Those transactions probably made him easier to identify as well.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/feds-silkroad-bos...
Did you bother with naming of your new project?
"Focus on Coding" can solve it.

It frees you from thinking about names, searching domains, and creating icons and logo images when you want to start new projects or services. You can input some keywords, then you can get candidates of names. After you select one of them, you can get a logo and icons.

You can FOCUS ON CODING.

Please try it and enjoy. Please vote for us, if you like it.

Our team joined the 48 hour Clojure Cup hackathon and developed this application.
We are welcome to your feedback and comment for further development near future.
I've been thinking about making the switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL.

For database design/GUI work SQLyog has been pretty awesome over the years (auto-complete, drag & drop, tabbed editor windows, export query result to csv, etc.). Is there an equivalent for PostgreSQL?

When I hear web-based I think phpMyAdmin, which, while functional, pales in comparison to SQLyog (web app in question does look a lot more polished than phpMyAdmin)
Remember that this isn't an incubator, so a lot of them aren't making startups. For example, Dale Stephens is doing http://www.uncollege.org/ (Organization aimed at promoting lifelong learning through "bootcamps") and Laura Deming is doing http://longevity.vc/ (VC firm aimed at funding companies trying to solve aging)

I know of a couple of exits, but I'm not actually sure which are public so I'm trying to find articles.

Some of my favorite current projects are Charlie Stigler (http://www.zaption.com/), Dylan Field (http://figma.com/) <-- Look at TC coverage to see what they are making, and Clay Allsopp (http://usepropeller.com/)

Again, the Fellowship is not an accelerator, so judging it based off successful exits is a terrible criteria.
Reading this makes me glad I never had any dealings with this guy or his business.
Twenty readers who switched nationalities
> I have the same opinion on ATI, but on windows. I use radeon hd 6630M (switchable graphics), with drivers from 2011, because they never bothered to release an update.

Careful about tagging AMD on that. Mobile manufacturers often repackage the drivers and sometimes mess with the device IDs so you're stuck with their release of the drivers.

If it's an entirely stock chipset, any modern Catalyst driver will be able to talk to that card.
Who would benefit from a TrueCrypt API?
Awesome! pixelSpacing is now 0 for all. Thanks!
> What partners? The only ones writing AMD GPU drivers is AMD, and internal documentation tends to universally be crap.

Don't quote me on this, but it was my impression that vendors AMD's GPUs should have source access to the drivers.
In addition to MIT_Hackers comment, I had a smallish exit a year ago(we never did press nor really announced it). Other ones are private at the moment.
W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
Anyone know who to talk to about being a mentor?
It occurs in the federal court system as well.

Fed. R. Civ. P. 68(d) Paying Costs After an Unaccepted Offer.
If the judgment that the offeree finally obtains
is not more favorable than the unaccepted offer,
the offeree must pay the costs incurred after the
offer was made.
Email incoming. (Anyone else can contact me w/ email in profile if they would similarly like to know)
I think the whole story will have serious consequences for the poor BitCoin.
Current (2013) Fellow here: The Fellowship isn't just about startups and exits. As one of the fellows who is interested in entrepreneurship and is working on a company, I can say my main goal at this moment is to further develop the technology I am working on regardless of if it will make for a good company right now. A lot of other fellows are working on science for the sake of science, and shouldn't be discounted just because they don't have a profit driven goal.
Stories I heard on the matter were not on the internet -- next you'll tell me that police would never lie on the stand?

(really not hating on police here, I know it's a tough job)
Wow, sad to hear this. They had an outstanding service.

Until I read the message on their homepage, I never realized they had a premium service!
Bitcointalk.org Hacked
My side project is Salsa By The Bay, a guide to salsa dancing in the SF Bay Area - http://www.salsabythebay.com/
http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-74/pr...
As a long time redditor and current fellow, it would be great to talk to you sometime :)
Looks like Nick is reaching out, but best way is to get to know a fellow.

You get access to some pretty neat tools as a mentor and you also connect with other people in the network easily. All we ask in exchange is that you give us some advice jellybeans which we might like the color of.
When will all that hate for Flash finally come to an end? It's growing old and boring.
He was caught by not using TOR to access the server to admin it, he used pretty straightforward ssh and vpns, which are a lot easier to track. They had a good suspicion that he was DPR from looking around at forum postings and the like, and the server was just the final dot that was connected.
Apparently not, as he used Technocash to do it. He probably used fake ID to pay a bitcoin exchanger to send the money 3rd party.

It appears he was caught because he slipped up opsec confusing real and fake identities, he was being watched by homeland security because he stupidly tried to import 9 fake IDs to his residence, and he was logging into the server with a VPN, not SSH tunneled through Tor.
[parallel construction]

The real original evidence is not discussed. Only the (sometimes very "lucky") later stop, suspicion, search.
These apps are nice, but the best PostgreSQL editor and GUI I've seen is EMS PostgreSQL Manager, http://www.sqlmanager.net/en/products/postgresql/manager. It even has a pretty nice query builder. Though I believe it's windows only, and also costs money. I use it every day and vastly prefer it over every other tool I've used.
Much sadness. Greplin was an amazing idea, but the execution was a little off for them to reach mass adoption (although I think it was ideal for a niche group of people). I think they tried to change that with their pivot to Cue, but obviously it was not successful.

I'll certainly remember their programming adventure challenge fondly. I hope they at least open source that, if they can't open source other parts of their software for whatever reason.
Also I've heard that the game will cease to function when Games For Windows Live is discontinued in July 2014
Can I ask what it is that you don't like about the Facebook and Twitter apps?
Would that be a good thing if you were facing life in prison?
Cue (formerly Greplin) has closed
> I've met Designers that were awesome at Designing Stuff, but did not really have any interest in User Experience at all.

Those are artists (photoshop pilots, pixel pushers), not designers. Unfortunately the term is so banalized it lost it's meaning, but strictly:

Design (noun): a specification of an object, manifested by an agent,
intended to accomplish goals, in a particular environment,
using a set of primitive components, satisfying a set of requirements,
subject to constraints

If it's not solving a problem, it's not a design solution. That includes providing the expected/desired experience to the user, which is often the case.