skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Now you've got me wondering whether the apparent disparity between manufacturers claimed MTBF and what we see in failure rates in the real world, might plausibly be attributed to mysterious government agencies coercing data center owners into unexpected-but-plausible downtime. (four or five nines of power uptime might just mean the FBI/NSA need to batch server imaging and grab a whole bunch in a particular data center at once)

It's far more likely that people are idiots. How many hardware techs do you know who even own an ESD wrist strap? I get actively ridiculed when I pull mine out.

Next, the SLAs claimed by datacenters are usually bullshit on multiple levels.

First, the penalty is usually "we will refund you for the time you were down, if you ask." - which is fine, but a 5 minute power outage can be brutal to clean up after, while 5 minutes of your monthly bill is hardly worth asking for. I'd be happy to give people a 100% sla on those terms. I mean, obviously, the service isn't going to be up 100%, but the penalties are so low that who cares?

Then, well, even if the facility doesn't lose power, there are a hundred different ways a server or a rack can lose power.

Hell, even I let a guy into my co-lo who plugged in one of those ancient computers with a manual 110-240v switch. (everything made in the last decade auto-switches.) He plugged it into my 208v power, with the switch on 110, causing the fuses on my PDU to blow (and taking out the whole rack)

And power cords. Especially if you don't have dual power supplies, power cords get bumped. The mark of a honest sysadmin is that s/he admits it when they bump the cord[1]

So yeah, while it /could/ be the FBI, the vast majority of the time, well, someone fucked up.

[1]http://blog.prgmr.com/xenophilia/2013/06/more-downtime-on-ja...
For me it was a first name (unusual) and two schools attended (this in the days when universities were much more liberal with posting their student directories.
Damnit, you're on to me, aren't you.
You can't just put a fucking breaking bad spoiler in your comment surrounded by pretend markup like that. Jesus christ.
We're busy building http://www.Zulimwatersports.com an online ecommerce solution for surfers and paddlers.
Absolutely. There's a deep kinship between them. Prolog can also be used this way, though it doesn't support images, it's a homoiconic language and it's very easy to read and write terms from files.
Hi sehr, I have just checked is online. You can also see the vimeo demo: http://vimeo.com/75747076

Regards!
I happen to know where the bad pixels are in one of my digital cameras. Not sure of the other.

Even when I take photos of interesting stuff, I'll find an alternate source rather than post mine.
Tor project blog: Tor and the Silk Road takedown
Limited liability enables the sale of corporate equity. Without it, purchase of an ownership stake in a company incurs potentially unbounded downside risk. So, in addition to "encouraging entrepreneurship" (which I agree is a nebulous benefit), limited liability also helps distribute the benefits of industrial capitalism to e.g. pension funds.
JK Rowling's dox was a result of a member of the publishing house's solicitors telling his wife, who then told a close friend who provided the initial leak on twitter, which gave the newspaper breaking the story enough to go on to start drawing those conclusions.

Found the BBC story about this, if you're interested.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23366660
Seemingly Ordinary Man Who Allegedly Ran The Internet's Biggest Black Market
I feel is something missing in that algorithm of check.
And... Not all services are web, not all web services are public (so mobile app will not be able to open url), and U don't understand why bots will not scan that QR.
Looks like you are smart enough to work at a startup!
I use my Android like that. No need to have radio active when I'm near a desktop or laptop computer all day. I still use HDSPA+ when I'm outside for lunch or wifi in the evening in bed, but I turn it on/off at those times. No need to drain the battery all day.
...and not use that camera for anything other than posts made with that identity.
Google maps doesn't play nice
It used to be that the working class was the middle class.
If Jamie's post had been about literally almost anything else web related, I would concur.
There are two other web frameworks in use, and I think one of them is more about generating clean URLs. Illiad?

I love the idea of Smalltalk, but it also never stuck for me. I think I just prefer to learn from books than through milling around in the image. All the great minds in Smalltalk seem to be self-driven autodidacts. I'm not.

I'm pretty good at Haskell and Prolog though, so I think it works out in the end. I'm also not good at Lisp or Forth. :)
Can some please find out what Billy Ray Valentine thinks about the nature vs nurture debate?

Hold up! Hey, who's been putting out their Kools on my floor?
Within a month, Lavabit still had not complied to the court's satisfaction—in fact he handed over pages of the key typed in 4-point font—and Levison was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for each day he did not comply. On August 8, he shuttered Lavabit entirely, destroying the company’s servers.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/lavabit-defied-or...

just in case you're wondering (I was)
Was this article written by Dr. Harkonen's publicist or something?

The case seems pretty clear: he knowingly misrepresented the results of a drug trial for the financial benefit of his firm and, by association, himself. He did this at the possible expense of critically to terminally ill patients, and at the further expense of the scientific and medical integrity of his research. And he received 6 months of house arrest at his cushy, 3-story San Francisco home as punishment. Forgive me if I don't strain myself reaching for my violin.

I sincerely hope this piece is not representative of the journalistic integrity of the Post under its new ownership. The article's blatant slant, its casual blending of editorial opinion and facts-based reporting, and its weirdly patronizing tone (ex: "the so-called 'p-value'") do no justice to the reputation of the newspaper.

The author opens with a rather silly rhetorical question, one with an obvious answer:

"Is it a crime for a medical researcher to hype his results? To put a heavy spin on the findings when there are millions of dollars, and possibly lives, at stake?"

Yes. Yes, it is. Especially when there are millions of dollars, and possibly lives, at stake. You don't get to cut corners in the scientific method because you think you're on to something.
SQRL doesn't require a password for each site. The password protects the master key, which is reconstructed before the site-specific key is derived.
Feds: Silk Road boss paid $80,000 for snitch’s torture and murder
Holy shit.

He paid $80k to an undercover cop to have someone else killed.

Incidentally: Thomas Ptacek's First Rule Of Internet Violent Crime (based on something like a decade of news stories):

If you ask someone you meet on the Internet to accept money in exchange for killing somebody, and they say yes, THEY'RE A COP.
Brilliant stuff.

Personally, I can't wait until projection mapping gets interactive, so that we can influence (to some degree) what is seen on the side of buildings, or installation art etc from our smartphones.

Some sort of turn-based control would need to happen, or some sort of design-allowance for multiple users to influence the visuals.
Do it by hand and I'm impressed :)
If the FBI systematically performed traffic confirmation on the Tor network, this would be a rather sloppy sources and methods cover, as they would eventually be forced to disclose the existence of the traffic confirmation system.

If the servers' IPs were obtained as a result of a passive traffic confirmation system that breaks Tor's anonymity, I would expect a detailed parallel construction to demonstrate an alternate explanation for how they unmasked the servers.

Any defense attorney worth his salt is going to request the evidence relating to the method of de-anonymization of the Silk Road servers. If a traffic confirmation system was used, the prosecution would be forced to disclose that to the defense, which could very well raise a solid argument that it violated the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights.

My guess is that the FBI used the gmail account information and early public silk road advertisements to obtain a warrant from a friendly judge to remotely monitor DPR's computer, and waited until he connected to the server. It's also possible that they exploited the web server, as was the case with FreedomHost.
Seems likely to me that NSA found the server and imaged it. FBI's job was pretty easy after that.

Someone asking for help on the bitcointalk forum for a new venture? Happens almost daily. Someone asking a question on SO about how to access Tor? Ditto.

You don't discover who "Dread Pirate Roberts" is from this. But you do discover these types of things pretty easily AFTER the NSA tells you who DPR is.
★★★★★ for $400. Raul will rate apps for money.
Nope, the batteries were definitely involved.

http://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-s-fire-involved-batteries-fi...

Reality can be annoying sometimes.
He could not have possibly given you a more exact and clear response to your request for clarification.

I was previously giving you the benefit of the doubt and leaving myself open to the possibility that you simply had not seen it (since it is technically in response to himself) but if you really did read his response, then continued to misrepresent his comment that way, then you are doing nothing but shitposting.
Perhaps http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians-...
Already been done. Remember Stuxnet?
It's interesting to apply that same logic to Lavabit itself. Perhaps, knowing the Snowden was the target of the subpoena, the Lavabit founder thought of himself as a member of a modern day underground railroad, intentionally disobeying the FBI to give Snowden time to find safe passage.

When Lavabit first shut down, they claimed that they have no problem complying with individual court orders, but refused to be complicit in crimes against humanity. Perhaps they protected Snowden to enable him to publicize those crimes, and that if the target was a serial killer, Lavabit would have complied.
I hate post like this, no one cares how long your phone last when you never use the thing. At least once a week theres a post like this over on /r/android & /r/nexus4
It's tough, but it's good to have others to look to. Thanks for the reply.
It wasn't a quip that I made up to score points. I think it does undermine legitimacy of those making rules when it takes them 10 years to admit that they were wrong.

The problem is that it's something very public and that everyone already knows it doesn't cause problems. There are all kinds of electronic devices which don't have an "off" button. Do they somehow magically not create EM interference? Tons of people have been ignoring the rules for years and it's taken years and years for the FAA to say "well you know maybe it's OK"

The problem there is that there are all kinds of nutjobs out there who use this kind of thing to promote their own crazy theories. And because the timeline to go from most people understanding empirically that electronics don't crash planes to the FAA admitting it was so long, it lends credence to the idea that any rule could be bullshit. If it takes 10 years to find out that something was overly cautious, who's to say it might not take 20 or 30 for something else? Those arguments can be very persuasive to people already inclined to be skeptical.
Batteries Burned In Tesla Fire, Firefighters Say
The API Economy
Only the American people?
NSA director admits to misleading public on terror plots
You can see how he did it on the court documents (it's attachment A on page 145-150).

He might have done some less efficient encoding, like Base-16.
> I can't murder your sister if you don't have a sister.

But I believe you can conspire to murder my sister, even if I don't have a sister.
Li-ion batteries catch fire sometimes. So do gasoline, hydrogen, and any other fuel that could reasonably power an automobile.
Technical crypto spec?
Kinda silly given they tell you the base...it'd be cooler if they didn't give you the base and you had to play with it until you had something that fit the phone numbers in the area that the company is in

Also, where's the startups in Brisbane anyway :-/
IIUC, the diff b/t go and most languages is that go spawns threads through a slicing mechanism to leverage multiple cores, right?! That's why the go version speeds up when run on multiple-core systems...right?

So, I added pthreads to the ray-tracer program:
http://pastebin.com/6V5JYyZG

Included in the paste are the execution times on my lowly dual-core laptop. Spawning more threads speeds up the program. I would be curious to see how it scales to more cores on modern CPUs. If you have a chance, won't you please give it a try on your system and let me know how changing the number of threads affects execution time?

For anyone who wants to try pthreads in C, the simplest example and progressions I could find were here:
http://cs.gmu.edu/~white/CS571/Examples/pthread_examples.htm...
"All indications are that the fire never entered the interior cabin of the car."

Oh give me a break. I'm a Tesla fan overall but their PR is very manipulative sometimes. If you were stuck in that car you'd probably be dead from the heat of that fire. The guy in the video even said he could feel it from a hundred feet away. Good thing the occupants could get out.
I use TeamPostgresSQL daily. PostgreSQL studio looks nice as well, haven't downloaded it yet.

Are you still actively developing TeamPG? It's pretty complete, but if it was open I'd chip in!
Why would they show their hand before they need to, and give more opportunities for poking holes in it?
shoot me an email at jesse@getclef.com and I'll send it your way
Is there a bug in HN right now? Why is this story which was posted 4h ago ranked #7 with 436 upvotes, when U.S. Opposes Tech Companies... is ranked #6 with 169 upvotes while it was posted 8h ago and the Google acquisition of Flutter ranked #3, also posted 4h ago, whereas it only has 96 upvotes.

Did the HN ranking algorithm change or did I miss something?

Here the screenshot http://imgur.com/7Yh9XB2
I'm not going to disagree, but I think it's important to note that Honest Feedback is unfiltered. So if they think it "sucks" then they should be able to say that it "sucks" and this shouldn't reflect badly on them. If anything, the person receiving the feedback should be thanking them for investing the time to even provide feedback (instead of bouncing and moving along, never to be seen again).
Prismic.io
Technically that does not imply that all customers are criminals.

Consider this transformation of your quote: "It turns that a bar serving beer to minors carries real risks and isn't terribly lucrative"

Now, this doesn't imply that a bar in only serves minors, though it does imply that the bar knowingly served minors (possibly among others).

(This said, the quote is obviously a rather inflammatory way to describe their business, and Snowden was plainly not a member of some sort of "criminal class" (whatever that is).)
Are you using the dual core evita or the quad core international version?

Strange, but im on 28/9 build of cm10.2 and I barely last 3/4 of a day with half my radios off.
I completely agree that the key question for SimplyInsured is how much value they can add once the decent exchanges are up and running. That's why I'm surprised that they've been focusing on California rather than Massachusetts.

Yes, California is a much larger market, but the Massachusetts exchange has been up and running for years. Given that, it seems obvious to me that, for now, Massachusetts is a far better proving ground than any other state for a health insurance business.
If I baught a second hand iphoneI can be fairly confident it will get updates for three years.
WRONG.

It would be the equivalent of opening ALL the safety deposit boxes.

Using a hammer to thread a needle
I agree that they needed the additional study (which is underway, I believe). However, I think it is important to realize the cost of another study of that size is very expensive and often small vaccine companies can't afford unplanned major studies without going back to the financial drawing board.
The Academic Moat
Racket on Android
Kind of like comparing a Ford with a nicer Ford, but the nicer Ford is overpriced.
You're probably right, there's definitely a spectrum of libertarianism.

And it's not as if libertarians are entirely crazy. It's healthy to have some baseline skepticism towards authority. But it's also healthy to have some baseline skepticism towards market solutions. As usual, the best answer(s) are somewhere in compromise and in the middle.

I guess that ideas like the "non-aggression principle" are so alluring to some because they have a sort of superficial "intellectual purity" which that kind of compromising answer lacks.
Thanks bowerbird! My intent wasn't really to get into that space - I created that for "my need" and shared it. I wasn't aware of the awesome features that "multimarkdown" has. But you have given me good reasons to explore further and get into that space.
No one is mentioning the elephant in the room, which is that with declining online ad revenue, and now that sites have just about reached the limit of how much advertising they can put on a page layout, they have resorted to "Subscribe to my newsletter" popups, and the one that irks me almost as much, the unmoving bars at the top and bottom of the page to try to keep the user on the site, by providing ever-present links. (Damn you google news,mail,blogger,etc!)

The things jwz is complaining about aren't just a problem for tablet browsing, they are a problem for all browser types.
I guess the government could argue RICO at that point against the lawyer, but I think that still wouldn't abridge lawyer-client confidentiality. Maybe it would.

Then the lawyer couldn't delete the systems like Lavabit did because the government would have confiscated them as evidence of the conspiracy.

At that point, however, the 5th Amendment should apply, because the server provides evidence of a conspiracy the lawyer took part in, providing the encryption keys would also be providing evidence of the conspiracy; requiring the lawyer to testify against himself.

Some judges have tortured the 5th Amendment worse than this, so it's not entirely foolproof. Still, it's unlikely other lawyers would take this sort of abuse standing down, nor would the general public.

So even the most extreme legal logic I can think of would be unable to penetrate this arrangement, providing the computer security and encryption was all top-notch. Disclaimer: IANAL, though I'd be willing to be the IT employee for any legal firm that wanted to construct such a system.
So, it's a language for doped up hippies. That's what I got out of that. I recalled Jerry Garcia's stories about scuba diving and how it was better than LSD.

I have no clue what it means to live amongst your objects and touch and feel and turn and taste them. That article didn't really explain what that means, but I'll take him at his word.
Or just switch what tests you're using. You could keep alternating between 2 tests and have 20% performance improvements year over year on the exact same hardware.
Ask NH: Does the government shutdown cut funding to spying programs?
Just wondering if anyone knows if these sorts of programs will be shut down. Seems to me like it should, but the fact that those programs exist at all make me doubt whoever gave them the budget in the first place.
Many players in my neck of the woods use Ankers. I find I can get by with just my Note II.
He also logged into his servers using clearnet/vpn they could trace. He had a degree in physics and a masters wtf was he doing playing gangster ordering hits and still running that site. Should have cashed out and fled to Brazil
You can also type the following in your JS console :)

parseInt('1bp49b', 36)

"The only problem is it's so tough, no one has managed to crack it yet." is very silly
who is "Trenz Pruca"?
donated - lets give this guy some help
Second: "The indictment isn't the first court document to level chilling murder-for-hire allegations against Ulbricht. A separate 39-page criminal complaint claims that two months later Ulbricht ordered a $150,000 hit on a Silk Road user known as FriendlyChemist."
Jesus christ at the amount of posturing in this thread. I don't really even know where else to go with it...
No, this is wrong. The author's code is licensed to the author under a "license" that allows him to do whatever he wants, since he owns the copyright.

Just because he chooses to extend the LGPL to others doesn't mean he is himself bound by its constraints.

In the model you're proposing (where things have one and only one set of copyright terms that apply to everyone), how would things like Libreoffice be offered under multiple licenses simultaneously?
I got the opposite impression. In fact, I think this may be the best medical statistics article I've ever seen in the popular press:

But there was a problem. This mild-to-moderate subgroup
wasn’t one the researchers said they would analyze when
they set up the study. Subdividing patients after the
fact and looking for statistically significant results
is a controversial practice. In its most extreme form,
it’s scorned as “data dredging.” The term suggests that
if you drag a net through a bunch of numbers enough
times, you’ll come up with something significant sooner
or later."

I don't presume it has anything to do with Bezos, but if it does, I hope stays on a buying spree! I was inspired to find out more about the author: http://www.washingtonpost.com/david-brown/2011/02/28/AB2Y0sM...

It turns out he's a part-time journalist and part-time licensed physician: "He works four days a week at the Post and two-thirds of a day at a general internal medicine clinic in Baltimore supervising third-year medical students."

I also didn't find it biased toward Harkonen at all. Consider the closing:

InterMune did run another trial. It was big — 826
patients at 81 hospitals — in order to maximize the
chance of getting clear-cut results. It enrolled only
people with mild to moderate lung damage, the subgroup
whose success was touted in the press release.

And it failed. A little more than a year into the study,
more people on the drug had died (15 percent) than people
on placebo (13 percent). That was the death knell for the
drug.

It even links to the actual study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19570573?dopt=Abstract

I don't know if I've ever seen a major newspaper link directly to a primary scientific paper as a source. I encourage you to read it again and see if your view changes. I've read it twice now and think it is an absolutely stellar piece of science writing, worthy of a Best Science Writing compilation.
How would this not lead to a significant mouth-feel change?
He wouldn't even need to keep it secret. It's completely legitimate to say "We were trying to prove XYZ and didn't, but the data does hint that ABC might be true. Let's do another study looking specifically at ABC."

This is how a lot of Science gets done.
He paid for it, but for what it's worth, it did not happen. Certainly not a good idea regardless...

I do wonder about the name Dread Pirate Roberts though... I feel there has to be at least one other DPR.
Atlassian taps crowdsourcing, open source for charity
Voevodsky’s Mathematical Revolution
proud to help fight the good fight Ladar - thank you for standing your ground!