skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Wikipedia:

The site's terms of service had said that they prohibited the sale of "anything who's [sic] purpose is to harm or defraud."[15] This included child pornography, stolen credit cards, assassinations and weapons of mass destruction.[22][25]

And:

A sister site called 'The Armory' sold weapons (primarily guns) during 2012, but was shut down due to a lack of demand.[26][27]
I think he meant Facebook's privacy policy, not NSA spying.
See http://www.otoy.com/130501_OTOY_release_FINAL.pdf, linked from https://brendaneich.com/2013/05/today-i-saw-the-future/. Watermarking is possible via GPU clouds, OTOY has demonstrated this. The acceptability of it in lieu of DRM came from a Hollywood 6 member. I can't say more, but there is hope.
Any ideas about the cost in Austin, TX. And what about Thailand?
I guess the point here is that Enterprise Linux represents a significant share of the market and if Docker doesn't work on it then it can hardly be a standard. With Red Hat behind this project it's a significant boost to Docker becoming a standard around Linux containers. Does that make sense?
The slides were from over a year ago, I'm sure a lot has changed since then. Also the timing of this is very suspect, obviously it's been in the news and the Guardian either want to run with this new line brought on by the Silk Road "bust", or they just want to "soothe" (take as you will) our worries with the network.

Would also love to know more about NEWTONS CRADLE, anyone heard of anything more specific?
Partly because few if any static generators talk to clients over a TCP socket; mostly, I suspect, because people tend to hear "static site generator" and immediately think "oh, boy, here's another goober who's going to try to push his bizarre little pile of shell scripts on me."
There's alarm apps that will let you set your alarm based on sleep cycles. If that doesn't work, you can try various sleep measurement devices to wake you up at the right time.
Push to production? Take three seconds to set up a bitbucket repo and work from that for half the day?

Basic problem solving would have caused you to lose about 5 minutes of work instead.
'Educational reputation', as any reputation / keeping up with Joneses / holier than thou race - it is a zero sum game, where rank matters but the absolutes don't.

If at some point we find out that gemstone prices are rising because people are competing about who will wear the biggest gems - then gem prices aren't a problem that needs solving but just a posturing/signaling game about who can waste the most resources.

If 'educational reputation' bubble bursts, then noone loses - if we can get good mass scale education without the reputation, then we get the societal benefit of education anyway; and the brand on the sheepskin is just analogous to the posturing with huge gems, people will compete on outspending each other to get the prestigious title, but that's okay.
Isaac Asimov type robots, not necessary anthropomorphic, minus the sentience / self-awareness crap.
"Build on request" is a good idea. We do something similar in our stack: tup[0] as the (insanely fast) build system, and developer VMs run mitmproxy[1] on port 8080 which runs tup before every request.

I prefer this style of a setup to coupling them together a-la Harp. If the webserver doesn't work out, I can swap it out. Same with the build system. Tying them together makes me antsy. And for good reason I think: since 2004, we have switched from Apache -> Lighttpd -> Nginx, and have switched from custom shell scripts -> Make -> Tup (with some fabricate.py, and with calls out to other build systems like Leiningen)

[0] http://gittup.org/tup/

[1] http://mitmproxy.org/
> Is this just a crusade agains DRM as a whole (good luck with that)

Like the crusade against DRM in mp3s? Which succeeded.

Or the crusade against DRM in ebooks? Which is making progress.

Or the crusade against DRM in broadcast TV (the broadcast flag)? Which succeeded.

The history of crusades against DRM is that they succeed. It's baffling why some people are giving up on fighting web DRM so easily.
The value of MongoDB is how much Larry Ellison is willing to pay for them. That is that.
As evidenced by the claimed electrical efficiency, it's a lot less wasteful than bringing in hot outside air and air conditioning it.
Exciting to think what this might mean for RethinkDB some day. :)
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NSA tried and failed to compromise Tor, some users still vulnerable
I'm curious what you're moving to.
s/delectation/regurgitation/
But all chemical truthing methods would invalidate your mechanical truthing methods...
Most of what the government does is wrong, or at least terribly inefficient, so the less they do the better.
There is also the issue of manipulation of the betting market, which I've already mentioned. I still think this would be worse under futarchy as well, because it eliminates the middleman, as I said before.

But also, the vote on the measure of national welfare would be just as susceptible to manipulation as votes for elected representatives are under our current system, because voters would still face the rational ignorance issue: even if we assume, for the sake of argument, that it is possible to find a single measure of national welfare, it simply would not be a net benefit to most voters to learn enough about the various aspects of national welfare to be able to cast an informed vote on what would be the best measure of national welfare. So most people's votes would be determined the way most people's votes are determined now.
I like to say that in Lisp terms, open source and free software are EQUAL? but not EQ?. That is to say, they refer to the same thing structurally but arrived at it via different means.

Indeed, open source is pretty much just marketing gloss over free software. Eric Raymond, the popularizer of the term open source, is remarkably similar to Stallman in terms of his ethical perspective on the matter: he feels that proprietary software is just plain wrong and that conditions under which proprietary software are abusive to end users and developers alike. But it was useless to try and sell that to businesses, so the OSI focused on the pragmatic (read: bottom-line) benefits of open source software in order to get businesses on board.

I'm not sure yet which is the better hack: RMS turning copyright on its head to ccreate copyleft and the GPL, or the OSI turning marketroid cant on its head to make free software buzzword-compliant. Both of these are culture-jamming of a scale and potency that Shepard Fairey can only dream of.
You bring up some good points, and we're always improving pages like these (the 404 itself has gone through a few versions this year already).

I don't think the answer is forcing the canonical URL on every page request, though. I think it's important to retain branch names instead of the full sha. I find this, for example:

https://github.com/holman/dotfiles/blob/master/osx/set-defaults.sh

…far more usable and meaningful than this:

https://github.com/holman/dotfiles/blob/0fe9e9963b2389eae4c9de49a4873bd819e19067/osx/set-defaults.sh

It'd be great to be able to support file renames and deleted branches better in the product, but that takes some time to build out. Hopefully we can do better with that in the future (and we have been working on things like this recently- supporting repository redirects was a huge one, really).
I wonder, if you flag too much, do you get a 'querulant' flag yourself that makes the site ignore your flags? :-D

I would totaly implement something like that if I were PG. Seems to fit the mindset of HN, as it also uses hellbans.
I don't really want I inhale air that has been washed over a room of hot circuit boards. It likely contains flame retardants and plastic fumes.
That Schneier article [1] is very technical and reveals quite a lot of interesting information. It was immediately flagged off HN front page by the flagging brigade [2]. It's highly recommended reading, though.

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa...

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495771
Nitpick: on the harpjs.com site, under the "The beloved Layout/Partial paradigm" header, you have "orginized" instead of "organized".

Looks like an interesting project, though!
Ask HN: Do programmers want to use their skills to make 3D models?
I was wondering how many programmers would like to use their skills to be able to make 3D models--either for indie games or for 3D printing?
As a programmer myself, I usually have to depend on industrial designers or 3D modelers to make models for me. However, with OpenSCAD I'm able to make things that are 3D printable and usable in games. Do other people want to learn to do that as well?
It means that for black markets transactions, which are made illegal by the state and thus impossible to discuss in the open, more peaceful ways of settlement (e.g. arbitration) are not available.

This implies that instead of a doctrine of proportionate response, you end up with a binary system where you either get away with petty theft until you don't, because the guy you steal from has had enough and wants to end you.

In concretu: If Silk Road was legal, the owner would have reacted with a lawsuit in the court system. It's not, so he had to resort to violence.
If we supplant all street markets for drugs with online ones, will we be trading drug/gang/gun related death with a higher incidence of drug related deaths from overdose/drug abuse?

I'd imagine there would be net less deaths in a world where Silk Roads were allowed to exist. Thats not to say that drugs should be made legal, but we shouldn't wage a 'war' on them. I know drugs aren't safe but the last time I checked, wars aren't either?

And theres no way sites like Silk Road aren't inevitable. Its a more attractive approach to being a street dealer and how many street dealers are there in the world?

I'd imagine in another decade one of the thousands of SR copy cats will have (likely accidentally) made all of the right decisions with respect to anonymity and be the defacto online drug hub.

Reminds of the opening scene of Layer Cake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5tzSks5lTI
Silverlight is going away regardless--it's already deprecated by Microsoft. Just as Flash has been deprecated by Adobe. We don't need to do anything to ensure that they go away.
Adobe attack leaks credit card details of 2.9M customers
As an aside, I once woke up to find my shiny new checking account (opened the day before) had a balance of $10million. At first I was all kinds of tickled, but then I realized the number was red.

Turns out Chase couldn't verify my address (I'd just moved) and their method of getting me to come in was to put my account $10million in the red. Admittedly, it was quite effective. I came in the same day and closed my account.
That Schneier article is a must read with lots of technical details.

Anyone know how to start identifying the FoxAcid servers and calling them out?
The GPLs are meant to be poison pills. That's what they are for. Mongo's use of the license this way is standard, then in addition they allow you to buy the antidote.
When will everyone get off the bandwagon of referring to anyone that's willing to actually stand for their beliefs counter to U.S. interests a terrorist? It's gotten to the point where the word terrorist just makes me roll my eyes and say "whatever", I'm becoming desensitized to it, just like most of the UK did growing up in England during the height of IRA campaigns. After a while, it just became a tedious pain in the ass and everyone switched off.
The replicators were worse than the terminators....
Companies can obtain market exclusivity without a patent. In the US, the FDA assigns 5 years of market exclusivity based on a NDA approval. If it's an orphan disease, it's 7 years. You can also bump up the exclusivity by 6 months if you get approved in a pediatric indication.

That said, there isn't much incentive for a company to do this. Let's say a company spend $200M getting FDA approval for melatonin. Considering the huge population that it would be used in, the FDA would require a very large trial to determine safety. Once launched, the drug company would need to recover that cost plus a profit, so suddenly melatonin goes from a few pennies per dose to several dollars. The push back from the public would probably kill any chance of making it a profitable venture.

What drug companies did do was create melatonin analogues. Rozerem by Takeda is a great example. It hasn't done that well.

As for omega-3s, GSK did get Lovaza approved by the FDA although they did have a patent on it (a specific form of omega-3s).
Bitcoin, but you knew this right?
I feel like there are four stages of company development that need distinct sets of people.

1. Pioneers who can survive and search for a successful direction.

2. Generalists who can take that direction and establish a foundation.

3. Specialists who can take that foundation and build something that can succeed on a large scale. (I don't like the Specialist label, but I couldn't think of a better one.)

4. Optimizers who can grow and refine a large-scale business.

Many companies (Microsoft, for example) make the mistake of promoting themselves as a stage 1 or 2 company when they function like a stage 3 or 4 company. They keep looking for Pioneers who are going to be unhappy and quit after a year when what they really need are Optimizers.

It's not that later-stage companies can't benefit from having and keeping Generalists, it's just that the company is too large to be doing the things that Generalists enjoy. They don't need somebody who can build a server one day and code a new contact page the next. They need somebody who will spend six months working on a project that makes a certain kind of transaction 10% faster.
Another similar site is http://wakerupper.com/
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Don't we all know, that Tor is low latency solution and therefore directly voulnerable to statistical correllation attacks?
They are doing this all the time. They are buying exploits and keep them locked up, they actively backdoor software and hardware.

Basic statistics tells us it is pure insanity to compromise our security for the noise that is "international terror".
Soviets were not some bogeyman. They were real, their spies were real, and the international communist movement they sponsored was real.

Rosenbergs and others did spy for the Soviets. They did successfully transfer secrets related to the atomic bomb. And they were ideologically motivated.
Just thinking out loud here...

Can anyone think of other cases where science is used to predict the future of complex systems more than 2 years in advance?

I'm not talking about moore's law, but statistical models used to predict the future. How many solar flares will there be in 2020? What will the DOW be in 2050? How many democrats will be in congress in 2021? Stuff like that.

So far, the only ones I can think of are models that always spit out the same message... "The earth is dying and we're at fault."

I'm just curious if anyone knows of any predictive models that weren't created to scare the shit out of people.
They'd likely need the SEC to perform it, but what you're describing is called a "Reverse Merger".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_takeover

Lately, they've been the mechanism for numerous chinese pump-and-dump frauds like those exposed by John Hempton and Muddy Waters.

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2012/12/fushi-copperweld-c...

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/chinese-reverse-merge...

But they do have a legitimate function for honest companies.
There was a study by Kripke showing that many sleeping pills, namely benzodiazepines, tripled your likelihood of death even if taken very infrequently.

Zopiclone is not a benzodiazepine but I don't know if it has been studied in a similar manner.
Silk Road actually made buying and selling drugs safer (as I do), shutting it down has made the whole business less safe at direct risks to citizens of many countries

I got his point correctly, that's why I said it isn't up to the FBI to choose a safer way for people to buy/sell drugs. That it's not their mission. Congress of course can change the laws
hahaha, nice
The only explanation that ever made sense to me for that transaction was that it was to make them more attractive to their potential purchasers - MySQL was a very strange acquisition choice for Sun but for Oracle and IBM not so much.
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The question is why they felt they deserved a tax break in the first place. They even threatened to move to Australia at one stage.

We're not talking about small businesses, strapped for cash, struggling to make ends meet, asking the city for some help so they can keep the lights on and people employed.

We're talking about well-funded companies, with an army of lawyers and accountants, deliberately bullying a city, to eek out every little advantage they can.
If you're having issues with scaling and performance, you're most likely using MongoDB the wrong way or for the wrong reasons.
Too bad it isn't on a real exchange and easy to borrow...you could short the heck out of it or even buy options to make a fortune when it goes down.
It's all part of the theatre and propaganda. Make the weak minded believe that everyone's the boogeyman. At least people on the internet can think critically and say "Er, this doesn't sound right"
It's very unlikely that you will become dependent on Melatonin, it's simply not addictive. It isn't a sleeping pill either, it mainly supports an existing sleep disposition. If you don't want to sleep, you won't sleep.
Harp does work great as a Static Site Generator but the reason why we avoid that term is that there have been several cases of people using Harp as a SSG by running the compile step each time they save a file. This is how they expected it to work (likely because of their experience with Jekyll). It has even gone so far as someone requesting a way to "preview" the compiled output not realizing that not only can harp serve a preview, it removes the need to generate the compiled output all together.

It really comes down to the mental modal of how people look at the tool and how they expect it to behave. Avoiding the term SSG has helped with that.
Here is the direct link:
http://www.dcc.ufrj.br/~fabiom/lua/
Give melatonin to the kids.
> Link maintenance is hard; the web doesn’t just automatically stay intact; it requires effort on your part.

This sounds all well and good in theory, but - commercially speaking - becomes very impractical for many businesses. I'd be really curious what the ROI would be on a more rigorous link maintenance practice. My general impression is that it's simply not worth it.

> I should switch it to Apache so that I can get a 404 page, but I haven't got round to doing that.[1]

Interesting comment from the OP, whom I suspect also recognizes (quite possibly like GitHub) that the time it takes to do this type of stuff hardly outweighs the benefit.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495675
How do you define 'freshness' with regard to Melatonin? How relevant is the date printed on Melatonin bottles?
I miss my WakeMate!
I'd agree. Open source businesses have never been able to extract the value that closed source business can. Imagine if Oracle made their database open source; a dozen repackages would pop up, and Oracle's revenue would drop to a fraction of its former level.
Your competition: "Our strongest competitors are customer apathy and DIY solutions that are cobbled together."

the fact there are no competitors gives me pause. That's actually not a good thing.

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"Assuming we obtain 4500 customers within 5 years, charging an average of $1000/mo, we expect to earn $54M in annual recurring revenue from our products and services."

- this is waaaaay too unrealistic IMO. Any company willing to pay $1k per month for this would probably just build the feauture themselves, no? I don't think large companies are your target market.
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- dejamore: I love the video
- dealonaire.com link didn't work
Hi! Genetic engineer here. Your idea of "trivial" is weird: we have no way to replace chromosomes, or even edit them. All we know how to do is add things.

The idea is fascinating: although you're getting downvoted for saying "master race", the notion that the vast majority of random mutations are "bad" while the DNA we hold in common is "good" holds a lot of water. We have no idea how to edit our own DNA, however. We simply can't do it yet.
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I would be interested in analysis and discussion of this quantitative analysis.

I'm not sure we can say that youth wanting to move into cities is the main reason for rent increasing. That would seem to make a complex market far too simple.

A counterpoint: http://www.businessinsider.com/trend-reversal-young-american...

The article is 2 years old, but cites 2010 US Census data which found:

The article observes that 25-34 year olds were also flocking to cities in the 90's, based on data from the 2000 Census. However,

"In the last ten years, [the 25-34 year-olds from 2000's] presence grew 12% in the suburbs and shrunk by 22.7% in "historic core cities," like New York and San Francisco, according to Joel Kotkin at Forbes."

This may suggest a nuance, where urban areas are attractive to people with little relative wealth (can always find "cheap" apartments) and exploratory social lives (not yet married / having kids). And it suggests that the drive isn't necessarily novel.

But given some money and changed social needs, the same people end up moving out to where they have more space and greater comforts.

Even here in Germany, the same trend is evident -- lots of young and old people in the city centers, and a lot more families and middle-aged people out in the lower-density areas.
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Your folks were wrong. They lock on the collection and only on some types of queries.
80k for a developer in SF? I don't know how accurate that is right now
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The idea that we aren't naturally born anonymous is a little frustrating. We aren't born anonymous to everyone but we're born anonymous to most people we don't have a personal relationship with. Those we have personal relationships with have more reason to not do us harm than some organization on the other side of the world.
This is an excellent post and it's a shame it seems to be getting flagged.

Not only does it address problems in diversity in technology, but it provides concrete, repeatable steps to help improve the situation. It sounded like the hackathon was better for all involved, and not only the people they sought to include.
The lack of appreciation between people is probably a sympton of a deeper problem. Perhaps the environment is toxically competitive and forces people to play down other people's contributions. Maybe there's a lack of leadership which means that the different parts of the team aren't working together positively or maybe the people there just aren't very good. It's not about a pat on the back either, people that respect the people around them don't need to engage in empty gestures of gratitude, it comes through very naturally.
dude, awesome feedback. thanks! Especially re dealonaire.com. We'll fix that ASAP.
I'm sorry to hear that. I guess experiences affect people very differently.

Maybe give NLP a shot?
Redhat? 8.54BB market cap.
Nice website! It's a great interface for the FDA collected data.
New technique identifies novel class of cancer's drivers through 'Junk DNA'
U : Unclassified,
S : Secret,
SI : special intelligence (an SCI control marking),
REL : marking that designates release

There's a bunch more too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Informa...