skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well now we are getting into revenue models as it applies to creators/publishers/record labels/etc. For some bands, the only money they make is from merchandise sales, because the record label contract dictates that the CD sales go to the label. That doesn't mean there isn't money in the albums. Likewise, book authors may not get movie rights, but someone in the industry does. I'm looking at the equation from an industry overview perspective. The music industry sells music AND bands. (You don't buy merchandise because you like a song. You buy because you like the band.) the book industry sells stories and characters.

Actually, I'm selling myself a little short here, because I'm only considering the fictional book publishing industry. If we include nonfiction categories, the alternative revenue possibilities open up even more. For instance, book authors get speaking engagements with fees that would put some bands to shame.
The companies asked for declaratory judgement and the government responded.
The anti-spoiler crowd are pretty demanding. A large and vocal group fought hard to introduce prominent spoiler warnings on Wikipedia. There was a time when every other literary work there had a warning that the article might be discussing the subject at hand.
Tom Clancy can be somewhat spot on with "predicting" the future of Geopolitics. In the 2006 Ghost Recon game: Advanced Warfighter (took place in 2013) was about heavy US entanglement in Mexico. Mexican mafia are getting pretty strong these days in RL....
From the GP: "If that's the case, it betrays a level of capability that ought to be frightening for the operators of other anonymous Tor services."

Google searches and reading some public forum threads... Staggering sophistication!
He posted about SR on the bitcoin forums, even going so far to using his real email address on one of the postings.
Paul Graham and Steve Jobs are/were both fathers.
It is really impressive when you think about it; the level of genius that goes into tricking our brains to like this synthetic mush is astonishing. But only the same way that the porn industry is astonishing in some ways - both appeal to a desire and then over-stimulate, and both are on tenuous morale standing.
How much did these contractors have to spend on kick backs?
More like "You can't make much more than 80MM resisting the FBI while living a normal, above-ground life within the United States, unless you avoid associating your real name with your criminal-conspiracy-in-development on a public messageboard."
Personally I think WSDL is an eldritch abomination that I utterly loath - for the sake of "generating a client" you can end up with a opaque mess that can be very difficult to diagnose problems with - particularly when different technology platforms are used on the client and server.

I never thought I'd say this, but I actually had fewer problems with CORBA and ONC RPC based systems than SOAP/WSDL based web services. Probably because they were so limiting that the interfaces tended to be quite straightforward - rather than the baroque approach often favoured by "enterprise" web services.

I will happily sacrifice a bit of development time for something that is much easier to troubleshoot - give me RESTful web services any day.
I use adblock and Ghostery. Partly because I'm tired of ads but mostly because I'm tired of sites connecting to ten external services making pages load slower and sending my details to third parties without my consent.
We will find you. If you are high enough profile, and your crime happens to match the current set of prosecutorial priorities laid down by the administration, justice dept., etc., then we will find you. With reasonably high probability.

> users migrate to other, smaller but similar anonymous black markets

Not only will they find you, the FBI has clearly put an end to the online drug trade.
Huh? There's the great free PGAdmin which is WAY better than any of the web-based tools, and it has built-in SSH tunneling so it's easy to use against a remote server.
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I dox'd a guy once knowing only the day that he earned his pilot license and the state he lived in. (FAA publishes a database that contains that info).
I guess the code should be available in the future here:

https://github.com/pauvorg
That's an interesting argument. The manufacturing comparison is complex; perhaps not bad, but a bit difficult (for me) to catch the nuances of. I'm certainly not sure how it matches with the original concepts of Marx (which is what I assume is being referenced by "means of production"). I'll have to chew on it a while.

I still wouldn't call your conceptualization of Copyleft "socialism," because that (at least currently) has a strong connotation of government-involvement nowadays. I'd probably call what you're describing communism.
Does anyone else feel that "FriendlyChemist" was just a set up/honeypot? (Whether US agency or foreign/Canadian)

1. Canadian spies set up "FriendlyChemist", hack into another vendor and get extortion material on DPR

2. "FriendlyChemist" tells "RedandWhite" (obviously the same person/agency) to contact DPR

3. "RedAndWhite" extorts American based DPR to pay for a murder that mysteriously does not happen in Canada

4. DPR then (stupidly?) pays "RedAndWhite" for fake ID documents from Canada, which mysteriously get stopped at the border

5. US agency arrests DPR on delivery of Fake ID's

6. There is no chance of entrapment since:

- Based on the Nature of TOR, we can never prove that "FriendlyChemist/RedAndWhite" are a police force (karma)

- They are most likely not a domestic force, but were working covertly with US agencies (cannot be subpoenaed).
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How to design a great API:
1) Give me some very very valuable data that can help my business. (90% of it)
2) Ensure reliability and uptime (9% of it)
3) Make it RESTFUL and have good documentation (1% of it).
Where did the understanding that DPR is a pure freedom fighter come from? DPR?
> Remember that UK prices include sales tax @20%

Solar panels are charged only 5% VAT, not 20%.
I agree that that's a problem, one that I want to see get more play in the popular press so people will stop ignoring it. And I do, primarily via voting for candidates that never seem to win (I have few options in this region), try to do something regarding the prison system and would like to see many activities decriminalized. smokeyj's post, however, is somewhat hyperbolic in its tone and I wondered if they had anything else in mind. Reminds me too much of my "The South will rise again!" coworkers.
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> While other companies like Square and PayPal have provided businesses with the ability to collect payments with mobile credit card readers, businesses are reliant on the provider’s apps to process those payments. CardFlight provides its clients with card readers, and also gives them an SDK to build payment processing into their own branded apps.

Does Square have any future intent to allow this?
I'm not super familiar with this case or the ATT vs weev one, but I thought I read that the prosecution in the weev trial made the argument that accessing information in the open, like that of server logs is hacking? If that precedent was set, wouldn't that have an effect on when a warrant is required or no? Just curious
I guess it depends on how closely you look at things.
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I'm curious if they understood all these concepts when they created the chips or if they were developed afterwards and realized this is why we love them.
This thing? http://www.pgadmin.org/

This is why I hate using Postgres despite it being such an amazing database internally.

PGAdmin is everything that's wrong with database tools rolled into an executable.
I love the fact that significant portions of the document itself are redacted, including the headings of the pages.
Anyone else disappointed that the GPU documentation isn't somehow rendered in 3D?
I forget where I read it, but a while back Frito-Lay food scientists were actually able to eliminate the 'gold dust' from Doritos. Focus groups for the new chips -- that had the exact same taste and 'biology', just without the dust -- revealed that consumers hated them, because at some level we equate flavor with the dust (and thus lack of dust with lack of flavor.)
The content should be good enough that it can stand on its own instead of trying to be flashy. A simple doc and tutorial would have been sufficient.

I found the contrast of colours on the website almost unreadable.
So now the question will be: how many of the people who have used SR recently will be/have been arrestd, and how much of their bitcoin has been/will be seized?
Do you mean technically, in which case perhaps difficult, but if they've managed to track him down and take the site offline then it may well be possible, or legally, in which case surely it's no different than if a drug dealer kept his drug profits stored in gold bars rather than bank notes, and they'll still confiscate them.
> the FBI seems to have used good old-fashioned legwork to subpoena records and build a case against DPR.

That may be; or maybe they just Parallel Constructed a proper looking investigative trail.
Flight risk isn't the issue; the issue is that if you can "cheat" society out of $40MM and then outspend the DOJ 100:1 on your defense, the incentives are set (a) for you to seriously consider doing that, and (b) having embarked on any criminal conspiracy, to "go big" at all costs.
The biggest problem with PGAdmin is it prioritizes the least used features, pushes them in your face, while burying the things you probably use most.

It's about ten clicks to make a simple query. It's nearly as many just to see what columns a table has.

The same thing in Seqeuel Pro? Two or three clicks. Max.
How about they stop requesting and start spilling the beans? Or at least ensure that the relevant evidence winds up in the relevant laps of the relevant journalists. The White House can selectively leak whatever it feels is beneficial to them with impunity. I find it hard to believe that there isn't a single person in any of these companies that hasn't already taken action. Just wait and see I suppose.
Current version of pgAdmin adds support for connecting via ssh, though I haven't had cause to try using it yet.
The problem is subtler and worse than simple censorship. A person who concludes the "wrong" casual effect from the data is branded a racist or at least under suspicion. A person who concludes the "right" causal effect might face criticism but at least is not in danger of being labeled an evil person. Such a lopsided set of incentives creates a very strong bias. In my opinion this bias is much stronger than the bias ("racism") that it evolved in response to.
"Essential" services are kept running. Throwing people in prison for selling drugs is essential, as it turns out, as is making press releases about it.
In a year from now you will accept that they did you a favor, how unlikely it seems now.

Good fortune with the rest of your life.

You may have guessed, I do not use Facebook.
> I thought the whole point of REST is that it is discoverable at runtime.

Yes. This is about the kind of pseudo-REST that is sometimes called RESTful and has nothing to do with REST as it iis just a plain HTTP-based API.
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If the existence of the FBI is supposed to be a secret they're doing a poor job on that front.
It's one of my shortcomings that I just cannot get into the mindset of an FBI agent who is happy about this. How do you keep wanting to go to work and investigating this kind of thing?
So question:

If you were running a massive online black market that can be set up and operated from anywhere in the world and making 80mm in commissions, wouldn't it make sense to not only set up the servers outside the US but also fly out of the US to a country with no extradition treaty with the US and low law enforcement cooperation with the US. By doing so, they have committed all crimes outside US jurisdiction. Near as I can tell this means that no crime they are charged with should stick, however IANAL.

Can anyone elaborate if it is possible to manage a site like this in a way where all actions associated with its operation never constitute crimes prosecutable in the US?
Especially if you are a skim reader, that grey to bright colour jump just ma me loose my place, and made it impossible to refer back. Probably the worst document page I've ever tried to read :/
Even the FBI has to optimize their resources dude.
Thanks a lot! We really try to be as transparent as possible, especially with revenue, salary, funding and growth figures. If you have any questions, let me know :).
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Hi Thomaaas. I landed on a job position where I had to stopped using PHP and start to use Django. Not only that, but to use on Google App Engine, for what I had to use Django Non Rel fork.

My best advice is to get an aaccount on Digital Ocean (www.digitalocean.com) and reads the tutorials, they will guide you to install a Django App easily. I was just like you: I didn't like to set up envs and hostings, but it was easy after I did a few times.
Indeed, the FBI has been so successful in the war on drugs, they are now actually able to keep drugs out of prisons.
I have to admit, the first thing I thought about when I saw it was "phpMyAdmin" and "security vulnerabilities". I hope I'm simply being uncharitable, but I'd have to have a lot of faith in the product and the underlying stack before I let a web-based GUI anywhere near a production database.
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Right. That's enough internet for you.
You can't expect me to actually go to jail for what I believe in, can you? Clearly, I can do more from the outside asking for permission! And I get to keep all my money too.
A warrant for search and seizure of his computers and everything in his apartment? Probably not.

A warrant to keep "pulling the string", issuing subpoenas, and compelling production of evidence from those who might have it? Absolutely!
Thanks. I'm still in the phase where I can't build anything non-trivial, except for simple web applications.

When I'm ready, I plan to start studying these resources.
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We have a similar Html5/AJAX powered offering[1] as well though in addition to Postgres we also support a number of other database types (MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server). Looking forward to trying this out to see how it compares.

[1]: http://www.jackdb.com/
El Chapo to the FBI: "No you won't."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Guzm%C3%A1n_Loera
Unfortunately, if you try to make allowance for that, you incentivize scammers to say 'oops!'. To deal with this makes things a lot more complex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trembling_hand_perfect_equilib...
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Did you bother to research the FBI or what it does before you spouted this nonsense?
Congrats from ff, Tim! We're all looking forward to helping CardFlight grow.
I donate to Wikipedia, Democracy Now (http://www.democracynow.org/), and TVO (http://www.tvo.org).
Good, cheap, reliable? Not that I know of. Mounting costs are higher too; you something like a post in concrete to attach the panel, rather than just screw it to your roof.

People are still working on that sort of thing. An interesting system I saw a few years back was one based on the sunlight heating up a fluid. The fluid (maybe it was a gas) expands a cylinder that keeps the panel pointed at the sun. At night, the fluid cools, and the system resets to its default state, pointing east for the next day. So 100% mechanical, without any active control.
> > users migrate to other, smaller but similar anonymous black markets

They're not going to be very happy about it, though. They were on SR for a reason. With Atlantis shuttering the other week, that leaves just BMR (old, but full of scammers) and Sheep (less than a year old and tiny).
1. Static files are a bit confusing because they need to be compiled, but this can be done when you build/deploy OR dynamically. Read the official docs carefully to grok what it all means.

2. Heroku really is pretty easy. Once you structure your code properly, you add a Procfile that looks something like this:

web: gunicorn YOUR-PROJECT-NAME.wsgi

And it will magically do the rest.

Also, depending on your schedule, learn to do the sysadmin things, and get yourself a VPS with Digital Ocean for $5/month.
I wonder how they got the location of the web server. They started getting images on July 23rd. Once they had the location of the web server and were getting images (apparently every 6 hours), he was all but caught. I wonder if there was an exploit that revealed the IP.
The stasi are generally consider 'secret police' and they were also official acknowledged by the state. I've always understood secret police to refer to the methods rather than official acknowledgement of their existence.
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Great. Following.
> The tech to lend or entirely transfer ebooks is clearly there (some books can be lent once for two weeks), you are operating in an environment where the vendor does not allow it.

There's a mixup in terminology here. We're not talking about lending the medium the book is printed in. We're talking about copying all the words over to someone else's machine, maybe with a promise to delete it on your own machine. The thing is, the right to copy the contents of a book is restricted by copyright and can only be done with the permission of the copyright holder.

So let's rephrase this to be more precise:

> The tech to lend or entirely transfer the contents of a paper book or an ebook via copying is clearly there (some books can be lent once for two weeks), you are operating in an environment where the vendor does not allow it.

And yes, exactly. Both for print and electronic books, copying the words and sending them to somebody is not allowed without the permission of the copyright holder.

You don't have to like the system, I certainly have issues with the system as it's set up. But it's perfectly obvious that under any standard interpretation of the concept of copyright, it means that the copyright holder has exclusive rights to the copying of the content. Lending ebooks involves copying, therefore it must be licensed by the copyright holder.
The intelligence community works on the principle that it's valuable to have information that other people do not. If they outsource the spying, then other people have that information, right?
+ 1 for Digital Ocean. I was composing my reply while you posted yours :).
I'm a bit confused about what these guys do even after reading that article. Could someone clarify?
Reading it, they have some pretty precise metrics on user accounts, and insights into his messages, so I'm going with "it was all unencrypted".
Part of the problem is that these companies have a lot of incentive to remain on friendly terms with the government. Suppose you are a telecom company and you want to lay some new fiber -- do you really want to be the company that rebelled against the government? Would Microsoft, which was supposed to be broken up for antitrust law violations, really want to be a company that rebels against the government?

Sure, individual employees might leak the information, but they would being taking a great personal risk by doing so. Ed Snowden was not the only person who was aware of these programs and had a problem with them; yet he was the only one ready to give up his livelihood to leak the information.
I will miss his books, "Red Storm Rising" and "Clear and Present Danger" are both in my library. Some of his later books [1] suffered from too much detail, where I would have appreciated an editor with the guts to say "Tom, its great that this character has a full life history and several motivating events in their past, but we don't actually need all of that in the book to tell this story ...".

It's also sad to see a talented writer die at such a young age. Goodbye Tom, thanks for the great books.

[1] I am specifically referring to "The Bear and the Dragon" in this example.
Insider trading is legal for politicians and the fat cats, but if you dare do it, FBI is onto you.
I should point out that you're conflating anarcho-libertarians with old-school statist libertarians. Most people who self-identify as libertarian believe in a state to protect property, prosecute crime, etc.
I don't believe the proprietary model is fundamentally capitalist. Copyright is a monopoly that depends on law to manipulate people into giving up ownership. Even if your analogy did hold up, everyone already DOES own their own computers. Proprietary licensed software tries to convince you to co-opt that ownership, by giving up some control of your computer. Your mistake is in assuming that by default, control of your computer does not belong to you. It does, but you give it up when you fall for the proprietary trap. The reason why copyleft is set up the way it is is because it's an attempt to prevent anyone from using the code in question to take advantage of copyright in that manner.

I get the analogy but I don't think it draws a reasonable comparison because it confuses the software with the license. The confusion is understandable because proprietary companies deliberately spread it. They want to blur the line between software and license so people have a harder time understanding their politics. But like you said, the software is not the product, the license is the product. Proprietary licenses aren't about restricting someone's ability to sell licenses, it's about keeping you from using their sales pitch. Copyleft is about making sure that no one can stifle anyone else's ability to use a certain sales pitch.
I'm going to assume the FBI (or DEA) were going after Silk Road, interview or not.
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Yeah, I know what the FBI does, they are the people who pick through your trash in those big blue trucks. IIRC correctly they also invented the vaccum cleaner in the 50s because the director was getting his dress dirty cleaning the old fashioned way.
Some people[1] think drugs are bad, and want to stop people selling drugs.

Some people think the other stuff sold on SR is bad, and want to stop people selling that other stuff.

Some people just want criminals to pay the tax.

[1] I strongly think that legalising drugs, and treating them as a public health not criminal justice issue would help a lot.
If there are genetic components to intelligence, presumably you can't do anything about them after you've had kids so what do they matter?
Perhaps he is only opposed to a monopoly on the use of force. Violence for pay is just part of the market dynamic, right?
While I am excited to embark on this new path, I am quite frustrated as to why I can't get a download of all my conversations and photos, that mostly were solely on Facebook because that seemed like the most reliable hoster.
If nothing else, it's a brilliant PR move. You can read through even the SR forums and see people turning on DPR over the hitman claims.

What's interesting is that I don't see any charges listed in the indictment for these hitman claims!
Reminds me of the Obama speech regarding Syria:

I don't need Congress' or anyone's permission to strike Syria right now. But since I'm such a nice guy, I'll just go ahead and let Congress have a vote before I do it anyway, just for kicks.
Doubly dumb since StackOverflow doesn't even require an actual account to post questions.
I'm enamored with this service. I use google hangout to pair program all the time, but I love the idea of finding people on Github to video conference for rapid problem solving.
nope, walked right through the wall. Or fell, rather. I don't even know what 'stacked bounce' is.