skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here, I just can't make the time for Facebook. Heck, when MySpace was the place to be I started an account and was active for all of a week. Maybe I'm just too old for Facebook (28).
Seeking Help With A Math Problem
PGAdmin is unspeakably awful. I run a Mac and it was very painful going from the world of Sequel Pro (for MySQL) to the awful, awful, terrible pgAdmin.

I ended up buying NaviCat Essentials, which is considerably better but still not perfect.
A while back I backed an IndieGoGo project dedicated to bringing Smalltalk to the JVM: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/redline-smalltalk-v1-0

I really hope this project pans out, because I would love to be able to program in Smalltalk for practical purposes.

(In fact, even the thought of being able to write a single application in both Lisp (Clojure) and Smalltalk (Redline) is making me giddy. We're still a long ways from this dream, but perhaps it'll be possible one day.)
In the end the only thing that matter is what the Supreme Court says. The issue is getting this to them with standing.
Way fewer than 30% of visitors will ever click on an ad, and way fewer than 30% of visitors that click will actually convert after clicking (for non-CPC ads). So the question should be how many of that 30% that's using Adblock would have ever clicked on an ad or converted?
The Most Destructive, Unpredictable Force in Tech
There are currently many people who are engaged in moral activities that are considered criminal by the government they are ruled by. Not saying that DPR isn't a scumbag but morality is not the same as legality.
Silk Road Downfall: How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using curl in php?
WoW, spam is getting really subtle, at least for "non-westerner members".
Amid Silk Road uncertainty, Bitcoin value drops over 20% in 3 hours
In this scenario, the extortionist and the drug dealer are the same party. The goal of the scam isn't extort $500k. That number is as real as my uncle's Nigerian inheritance. The goal is to extort the mark of $150k, and make him a) maximally disinclined to attempt to tell about the scam (by making him complicit in a "murder", much like 419 scammers generally try to make the marks complicit in defrauding Nigeria) and b) give the scammers the opportunity to come after him again, in the future. (One possible scenario: the "hitman" "hired" by the "drug dealer" for the "murder" attempts to shake down DPR in the future, threatening to expose his involvement in the murder unless he is paid off. The hitman is still the drug dealer is still the extortionist.)

The game theory of scam artists is really simple: your expected probability of scam N+1 working goes way the heck up if you've successfully worked that mark in scam N. That's why you can literally find people selling lists of folks who've fallen for 419 scams.
If the guy had never talked to the press at all... you think the FBI and DEA would have just ignored a massive drug marketplace running essentially out in the open?
The alleged assassination transaction http://blockchain.info/en/tx/4a0a5b6036c0da84c3eb9c2a884b6ad...
Through the magic of Google Earth, if anyone wants to recreate some of the views, it seems to have taken off from the balcony off of the back of this building: http://goo.gl/maps/vauJZ
I agree with you on Red October, which is one of my two favorite naval movies. The plot is fairly compressed and "amped up" compared to the book, but it still holds up pretty well. I suppose the only thing one could wish for is that Harrison Ford, rather than Alec Baldwin, had been playing Jack Ryan.
A few comments on your summary:

Back in those days the serious CPUs were made from discrete logic, so both companies outsourced the construction of boards and I assume assembled them from there. ASICs came later (while I was at LMI TI consulted us about building a system on one or more of their gate arrays).

RMS did a bit more than copy new Zmacs features; Dan acknowledges "What he copied were incremental improvements: a new editor command here, a new Lisp utility there." and I e.g. remember something about a new condition system or the like.
By the time that interview was posted in August, the FBI had already imaged the SR server (in July).
I would totally expect that the $90 million is spread across and whatever they seize will be a small portion of what he has. The rest is available for him to fund his defense (he could make a deal with his lawyers to settle after the trial from these secure funds). On top of that, even if they pin a few charges on him and he spends a few years behind bars, that entire time his bitcoin holdings will be presumably appreciating in value, meaning that he'll be released from prison and could find himself still a millionaire or even a billionaire.
I remember reading that (probably on imgur).
I looked it up but first result wasn't promising:
http://wafflesatnoon.com/2013/05/07/doritos-powder-hoax/

I can't really dig too much deeper because I am at work but it really seems unlikely that they would pay for a powder that isn't needed.
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>I’d be happy with a lower spec phone that has a smaller screen running stock Android for around $250 but it appears no such thing exists.

I'm sure you can get a Galaxy SII or Galaxy Nexus for that price or lower on ebay.
Tom Clancy, U.S. master of spy thriller novels, dies at 66
I agree that the argument being made by the United States is based on the ability of the executive to classify things. What I wrote was that the bulk of the argument is dedicated to the preservation and extension of government power, rather than compliance with the constitution and laws. Where the constitution is mentioned in this document, the government is describing how and why its explicit protections of fundamental rights should be circumvented, in favor of the broad investment of power in the executive.

It should be noted that the government described no limiting principles which would constrict its ability to censor or otherwise coerce any person.
>He'll either plead it out and get fifty or fight it and get life. His choice.

If the federales have all of his assets, he ain't fighting nothing.
(disclaimer, I'm founder of Apiary, which started apiblueprint.org)

I'm happy that Mulesoft are getting on the "better, human readable API DSL" bandwagon. It's very important.

At Apiary we found that embedding one format (Markdown, for human-readable documentation) into another format (YAML, for structured parseable data) is hard for the consumer, tough for the text editors/IDEs/syntax highlighters and ultimately useless. That's why apiblueprint.org is PURE markdown, that displays well on GitHub, has great syntax-highlighting support in your editor - and is just as parseable (since we ship an MIT-licensed parser with it).

I wish we could've united on a single format, but I guess the stronger will win and a little competition is always good for the end-users.
What are the controls?? Where are the instructions??
I've used another site by the pagefair guys while running adblock and it didn't prevent me from using the site but rather asked me nicely to perhaps turn adblock off. But I didn't...
StoryCorps Interview with René Pinnell and Ross Ulbricht (aka: DPR) [video]
SQRL - Replacement for usernames and passwords
This sounds a bit too dumb to be the actual dread pirate roberts. Could he be the third owner of the site? IIRC the original DPR just set it up not with some ideals in mind, but just to sell drugs. Then he left it to the next DPR, the one they allegedly busted. Maybe the one they busted is actually the third one?
In my neuroimaging days we found a tight correlation between visual and taste regions, even when we were only asking about one quality and from only word stimuli.
Didn't SilkRoad transfer ownership some time ago?

The guy that got busted was the first one. So the second guy could still be out there, who would be able to post that image.
He possibly had those actions on record in his Gmail account, in which they would have easy access to.
It has been reported that the NSA shares data, including raw data on Americans, with Israel. Unfortunately, what you are concerned about has already occurred.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-p...
Tracking Costs of the US Government Shutdown
I agree with the general sense of your post, and its implications about current drug policy, but I think tptacek is right about what our focus should be in this specific trial.

To be intellectually honest about this specific case we're discussing, DPR did by definition commit most of the drug charges. Even if you believe the only morally problematic charge is 5.b of count 1 (that the defendant hired a hitman to murder a troublesome user--I do hope you find that charge problematic!), which is certainly only alleged at this point, it is fact that the Silk Road aided and abetted drug trafficking, which is criminal in the U.S.

So while I certainly agree that people need to be entitled to a competent defense (and I am glad DPR will have competent attorneys to dispute the murder charge), emphasizing the alleged nature of a criminal conspiracy that we realistically know to be largely true doesn't seem to be the best place to focus on rights of the accused. In reality, the vast majority of people wrongfully convicted are going to be the ones who can't afford competent defense. So to me this case almost raises the opposite question from yours: if the prosecution of guilty defendants is undermined by their being able to afford better attorneys than the government, and if the defense of wrongfully accused defendants is undermined by their inability to afford competent defense, then we've got bigger problems with the nature of criminal trials!
I don't have any good links or books unfortunately. There are a few people close to me that have a really great ability to empathize with others. They instantly understand social situations that will take me forever to get the dynamic. They respond to the needs of others much more quickly. I've tried to learn as much from them as possible - and often remember them when making decisions that have an impact others. But, I still have a long way to go.

EDIT:
I realized you are probably looking for that study. I don't think there is a free online version but you can purchase or read the abstract here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811912...
Trends in the developer education industry
This post from Ulbricht's Google Plus profile is pretty priceless.

https://plus.google.com/101844174649242995101/posts/bbhPuSJH...

(screenshot in case it's removed http://i.imgur.com/GjqdYDe.png)

It's hilarious that his tagline is "spunky, funky, not so chunky".
So if anything. What we are seing might be an improvement of the situation rather than a worsening. People can and do speak up and for each generation we will move toward a more liberal approach perhaps.
> big freaking enterprises don't use Ruby that much.

Of course not. Ruby is slow, dynamic, and uses a ton of magic. Ruby is inherently more suited to smaller developers, who can use it to generate code, run scripts, embed it in things, and make use of the magic to be productive (things like generating C++, Fortran, or HTML).
They provide an API for integrating credit card readers into Point of Sale Systems (POS) like e.g a grocery store checkout system or a mobile app to take payments when the card is present.

Besides user convenience compared to entering the credit card information manually the transaction fees for card-present transactions are much lower due to reduced transaction-risk.
Damn, and I was this close to ordering some LSD from SR a few weeks ago. I've never tried it and was thinking about giving it a shot. Guess it's a good thing work sent me out of town, and I decided to wait, then got distracted and never got around to it.

Still, this is disappointing. As a libertarian / ancap / voluntaryist / whatever-you-want-to-call-me, I totally support the Silk Road and other unregulated marketplaces.
Video Interview with alleged founder of Silk Road
One is answerable with fact. The other is unanswerable with anything but subjective opinion, and inevitably drags the ensuing thread into pointless back-and-forth over, in this case, particularly well-trodden ground.
I was speaking of women looking to date men.

In Silicon Valley, the guy they usually want is a hunky fireman of an appropriate age who possesses the build of a 20-something who works out constantly and has a portfolio that would give an East German Olympic weight-lifter a hernia. The woman who wants this man is in her fifties, but claims that she's in her forties, is using photos from her thirties, and really should be on multiple forms of psychiatric medication. She hates her job, wishes to get married as soon as possible, and rejects all the men she meets.
The caption for that photo says, "We didn’t include an embargo, but we should have…"
Remember when I’d never link to TechCrunch during the Arrington days?
Not On Steam Sale
It is only alleged that this dude is DPR.
Sounds like parallel construction.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...
Ancient supervolcanoes revealed on Mars
Yeah, I probably should have said communism. I only said socialism because I thought it would be received as less of an insult.

Anyway, thanks for listening. You could also argue that the source code was the means of production (of binaries, and then of work), which might be more accurate. I do not know much about Marx or the history of communism, but the focus on social concerns in the GPL is similar.
This comment feels really cheap to me. Two big issues:

1. Most people probably are not huge fans of this, but don't consider it a big enough deal to go to jail over it. I'm in that category (double disclaimer: not speaking in any official capacity for my company).

2. Even if someone DID think it a big enough deal, it's not easy to be a martyr. If it were, then presumably you would have already found yourself a job at one of these companies then spilled the beans. Considering you're commenting on HN, not languishing in prison, I can only guess that you find the prospect of such martyrdom much less appealing than your comment seems to indicate.
It could be any range of blogs; it's one of the most effective and least-used means of marketing.

Say I'm a bowtie company that sells to designers; I could look for all the fashion blogs by searching "bowtie" or "necktie," etc. Just generic blog outreach, whether it's little blogs or mommy blogs, would be very useful. Not only do you get some traffic from those blogs, but you get the link juice of some really good links.

It works manually really, really well.
Mobile web design: The reign of morons, indeed
This should be common sense, but as you stated, people seem to forget. We have supposedly spent a trillion dollars on the war on drugs, it seems silly for this guy to think he didn't warrant at least a multi-million dollar investigation.

From the time the silk road sold it's first product, it was only a matter of time before it's owner went to prison. If he were as smart as he thought he was, he would have gotten out of the business and the country shortly after he became a millionaire.
Thriller writer Tom Clancy dies aged 66
Why not just use Square in this scenario?
Not that anyone would do it this way, but that calculator got me thinking. Often I have heard home affordability expressed as dollars per month vs dollars financed. So for example this worked example of a $200,000 mortgage [1] has a $1553.45 monthly payment, so for each $1 per month you got $124.24 of house. Does that make sense?

If so, now consider that your $200/month electricity bill is the equivalent of $124.24 x $200 or $24,847 worth of "house".

Our actual bills were $250 - $300/month pre-panels and effectively about $15/month post panels. In terms of money returned by 7 years we had paid less in electricity than we had paid for the panels. But that discounts what $20,000 would have been worth if we had invested it (that is the 'do nothing' alternative since you aren't really considering putting that money under a mattress :-) And of course we also made our house more efficient which we would have gotten that pay back either way.

The only downside to our system has been trying to explain to people why it doesn't provide power when the power is off.

[1] http://hfa3741.hubpages.com/hub/How-Much-Does-a-200-000-Hous...
Well, I think I found the transaction in the blockchain. It's the right date and amount...

http://blockchain.info/en/tx/4a0a5b6036c0da84c3eb9c2a884b6ad...
Video Interviewing Platform HireVue Grabs $25 Million From Sequoia
Well, a chosen price is a limit order, which can go unfilled. If I order 1000 BTC for 0.01$ am I going to get filled? At current market prices no, because currently there is no supply of BTC at that price. A market determines the price. If a good is well defined a market will automatically be centralized. Gold and oil are extremely liquid markets traded on exchanges, that means traded based on limit order books.
IOS Developer Discomfort
Descent? Terminal Velocity/Fury3/Hellbender?
Requests for permission to be more transparent with users regarding the level of surveillance they are obligated to provide to the US Government.
Say you are a small retail chain that accepts credit card payments at the cash register, and you want to make things more efficient (Apple-store style) by also accepting payments via portable devices that your employees carry around.

You have a couple of options:
a. Invest in proprietary portable payment devices (what Apple does)
b. Sign up for a service like Square and invest in iPods or iPhones

Primary problems with (a) are cost and possibly an outdated interface. Problem with (b) is the payments are not tied into your existing infrastructure, and you have to live with Square's 2.75% fee, which may be higher than what you've already negotiated with your card providers.

With CardFlight, you get a card reader like Square's, but you can use their SDKs to collect and send payments into your existing card infrastructure. Square is ideal for independent coffee shops and the like, but if you're a small business with a few locations, something like this is probably the better solution.
That's eerie...
True but Oracle owns MySQL. If their flagship product doesn't have it, are they going to put in the effort to add it to their free offering?
Women in Tech: I can learn more. And so can you
Thats basically what made Hover a cool game, you "hovered" around the level. That was basically what made it challenging
While that would let you 'impersonate' a hidden service, you would have to hope the actual hidden service goes down because otherwise the HSDir servers will point requests to the proper host and requests will be encrypted to their key
Spend enormous amounts on their prosecution. If, indeed, these guys are such a threat to public safety and order that we need to put them away, then the cost is justified. If the cost is not justified, then the defendant is not such a threat -- in which case taking their money away is unjustified.

The real problem here is that the prosecution strategy is, "prevent the defendant from exercising their rights." That is why prosecutors typically pile up the charges, to scare people into signing a plea bargain instead of exercising their right to a jury trial. Basically, these are people who think the Ox-Bow Incident was a criminal justice field guide.
This. the title "Go better" turned me right away.
Would be very helpful in a team where most of the people are working remotely. Great job !
I don't think that an amount of money constitutes a spoiler, unless that very specific amount has something to do with a specific plot point. ("Ouch, my cancer! If only I had $80,000,001 exactly!")
So, instead of making a database connection through the internet, you tunnel it over http? What can you gain by doing that?
Nope. Never seen it used anywhere near startups aside from some DB diagrams.
Jesus dies.

The Zebra did it.
In their original motions, Google and Microsoft sought to publish on aggregate number for all the FISA process they receive. After failing to reach settlement with the Government, however, they amended their motions to see krelief that owuld present an even greater risk to nation security: the right to disclose the precise number of FISA processes they may receive under each separate provision of FISA page 3.

It's mirth on display in this stanzas, pure and simple, and it's immensely ugly and shameful: the Court is happy to defer from defending it's activities by instead highlighting progressiveness in the demands for accountability. Every inch more asked for is responded to by doubling the re-entrenchment of secrecy.
Congress responds to public opinion; and technology companies...
The article has been edited since it was originally posted. The paragraph in question now reads:

> “This is supposed to be some invisible black market bazaar. We made it visible,” says an FBI spokesperson, who asked not to be named. “When you interviewed [Ulbricht], he said he would never be arrested. But no one is beyond the reach of the FBI. We will find you.”
Rather, the type of person who was willing to engage in illegal activities while also doing a high-profile interview was unlikely to be the sort of person who was paranoid enough to cover their tracks (e.g., avoid re-using handles and other identifying information).
OK so he put out a hit on someone.

Bizarrely I'm actually more annoyed that he didn't accept an answer on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15445285/how-can-i-connec...
I keep forgetting that this discussion is iPhone-focused. At this point, I'm thinking about other systems too, such as ATM number pads or entry pads for security gate/secure door systems. What if each button on the ATM was also a very fast fingerprint sensor? (What if the ATM had a cleaning device built in?)
As the author of a comparable tool (TeamPostgreSQL), most of our users use an IP whitelist in their firewall to access the web client. Of course, you can also use the tool on your local network only as a substitute for a regular admin tool.
Note the above is not open source though it does have a crippled "free" option.
Interesting. I figured if I did a bit of research, I might find something like that to be the case.
It's a strange phenomena, and I'm not entirely convinced that it doesn't imply poor quality entertainment. Good quality entertainment is eminently re-watchable. How many times have I seen "Groundhog Day", or read "Lord of the Rings"? The fact that I know exactly what happens doesn't seem to diminish my enjoyment at all. In fact, it seems like with every re-experience I pick up some new detail or insight.

OTOH I can totally understand spoiler alerts with respect to sport and sporting-type events (like politics). It usually does seem to diminish the pleasure of watching a game when you know the outcome.
I used it for my book (Instant Postgres Starter) mainly because I wanted to show a cross-platform UI that would look consistent. Day to day I don't use it. Maybe if it was awesome I would but I don't feel hamstrung by the CLI tools--the opposite, really.
I am not sure what you are talking about. what does 'window decorations' mean?

Here is a screenshot of how my firefox23 window looks like under Ubuntu/KDE4.

http://i.imgur.com/KnLTDZJ.jpg
Genuine question: How much does the camera component on the Nexus 4 cost? How much more is the iPhone 5's camera?
Economist's View: How Bad Data Warped the Picture of the Jobs Recovery
Was Atlantis a decoy aiming Silk Road?
These numbers are over the lifetime of the site. I bet many of the bitcoins earned were sold/exchanged. It also includes revenue numbers which was paid out to sellers.
Was Atlantis a decoy aiming Silk Road?

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/4d0dd63edb6
"He was apparently really careful about connecting to the server. "

That is not, by any measure, careful. That's awful OPSEC, and what got him in the end. He thought Tor to be inconveniently "slow", and used VPN instead.