skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My initial response to your comment was sharply negative. I guess I like some of the others here have a sharp reaction to PulseAudio. It seems like I've had this discussion a number of times:

A: No sound is playing.

B: Have you tried killing PulseAudio?

A: Oh nice, it works.

When I was setting up bluetooth audio recently, a lot of stuff on the web was steering towards Pulse. I held my nose and installed it and ran it. It was much harder to get any sound playing at all (I gave up, so I never did) than it was for me to just edit ~/.asoundrc to do exactly what I wanted. YMMV.

So, with that pulse-influenced bitter reaction to the comment, I took a deep breath and read it again, and I think your suggestion to just use a conservative distro is actually spot-on. And I realize that this clash has been going on in the Linux community for a long time. The kind of users who want to mess with stuff under the hood resent the attitudes of the "plebes" who think that if it's not Ubuntu's default install, it's not Linux. When I first started using Linux, the target of that resentment was Red Hat rather than Ubuntu. People hated the Red Hat defaults, people hated the poor dependency tracking of RPMs at the time, people hated that it shipped with a GCC snapshot that couldn't even build the kernel. But I think a lot of the ire was really that people thought Red Hat is Linux and Linux is Red Hat.

With that, my approach has just been to do my own thing and let the Ubuntu users worry about Ubuntu, otherwise just pretend it doesn't exist. There is a real concern though that some of these big changes that make a power user cringe will start to make its way into the more conservative distros, as popular distros tend to change people's mental picture of what "Linux" is, and software tends to be written to depend on stuff that's in the base install of a popular distro.
It occurs to me: a great tool of a "know everything" government is the ability to exclude dots, leaving the dots which merely need connecting. Just like the sculptor's aphorism "I just remove everything that isn't the subject, and there it is", a near-omniscient police force can address a crime by eliminating everyone it knows wasn't involved (by their near-continuous presence on metadata, cell tower triangulation, security cameras, etc.), eliminating everywhere it knows the remaining 'dots' couldn't have been, and eliminating every action it knows couldn't have been performed ... leaving a very limited "negative space" for the inferred suspects to operate in. A lot of data to mine, but given NSA-levels of awareness, NSA et al could respond (legally!) to requests for information with a vast list of who/what/where wasn't involved, leaving a conspicuous implication of the guilty.
Looks like any other day to me.
Banks beware - hacking 2.0 is coming to a mobile near you
Some books. For two weeks. Once. Far, far inferior to paper.
"I'd like to see how this seriously loaded ($90MM) guy progresses through the justice system"

It won't help him if the US can seize the money - they do so whenever possible, to prevent defendants from affording a competent defence.
The Hacker ethos isn't socialist by the modern definition (government-run/public services). It's more about keeping business decisions from affecting quality of engineering and user rights. That doesn't mean capitalism can't happen - or socialism for that matter - it just means there's ethical requirements which take priority.
I wonder what the goverment is going to do with all the sized bitcoins..
Great! You are my Hero
I just read through it. They introduce a lot of evidence from their forensic analysis of the Silk Road servers, but they don't seem to explain how they got access to the servers. Did anyone find that in there?
Sorry, forgot about this thread! We were first-to-market (may have had insider information about the Facebook Timeline launch...), and got on Mashable. Spread through the blogs and hit #1 on Google for "Cover Photos". We've stuck that #1 spot and it's where 80% of our traffic comes from.
How to use onboarding to make users fall in love with your product
His money is in bitcoins. Not sure if they'll be able to seize it but that would be an interesting situation in itself.
CIML Chapter 1 in Clojure (with tutorial, more chapters to come)
That actually sounds very good. A relatively easy transfer-of-ownership thing is what's missing for me in the ebook world. It would allow ebooks to be part of small office-based libraries, or lent between friends, these are good things.
Lots of snark here; very little thoughtful commentary.

If the document that steveplace posted [1] is accurate, the budget for this program includes things like the 800+ person call center to handle consumer requests, and the staff to figure out what kinds of health plans to offer in the first place. The line item for "technical" is $161M, which is only 23% of the budget.

I'm not going to suggest that's a low number for this kind of project, but then again, it's kind of hard to make it all about the horribleness of public projects when 94% of the technical budget is going to "contractual services". It looks like the software was mostly done by private contractors.

In other words: let's not allow facts and thoughtful discourse to get in the way of a good government bashing!

[1] http://www.healthexchange.ca.gov/BoardMeetings/Documents/CHB...
Apparently the FBI managed to track down the actual server running the site:

During the course of this investigation, the FBI has located a
number of computer servers, both in the United States and in
multiple foreign countries, associated with the operation of Silk
Road. In particular, the FBI has located in a certain foreign
country the server used to host Silk Road's website (the "Silk
Road Web Server"). Pursuant to a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty
Request, an image of the Silk Road Web Server was made on or
about July 23, 2013 and produced thereafter to the FBI.

This server image seems to have been the source of a lot of the evidence leading to the arrest warrant: the IP logs that matched his location, an account name that matched his StackOverflow account, and of course all the private messages and chat logs regarding his personal location (messages indicating Pacific time), operation of the site (payments to other admins), and the extortion attempt/attempted hit.

What the complaint doesn't specify is how the FBI managed to locate the Silk Road server. It's possible that they already had some suspicion of DPR's identity, and managed to bug his computers or otherwise track his activity well enough to figure out what systems he was logging into. But given how coy the complaint is about this, I wonder if in fact this is the result of a sophisticated analysis of Tor network traffic (possibly in collaboration with the NSA?). If that's the case, it betrays a level of capability that ought to be frightening for the operators of other anonymous Tor services. Anyone with more Tor expertise want to comment on how likely this is?

Edit: the excerpt quoted is from the (now unsealed) FBI complaint, first linked elsewhere in this thread: http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ulbric.... The whole thing is pretty interesting reading.
Adding a port knocking in front of your ssh server do not make the service unavailable to attackers. At best it deter some attackers, based on the same principal that some store owners puts up a cardboard box painted to look like a video camera. If the added "security" prevents most onlookers and casually would-be-attackers, then the cardboard box is indeed an excellent way to prevent the store from being attacked.

It is still however a cardboard box with paint on it. The effectiveness disappear the second criminals bother to test the illusion. What I then wonder is, did the store owner trust the cardboard box effect to the degree of not installing a proper door, lock and alarm?
That's a joke, right? SQLite isn't even in the same ballpark as MySQL. It has a thousand uses, but a replacement for MySQL it is not.
For anyone that's going to the SR URL -

Notice:

1. The SilkRoad Camel image in the background.

2. "THIS HIDDEN SITE HAS BEEN SEIZED" text.

These are not standard parts to the image, based on previous seizures. (though I'll admit those all were clear-web seizures that just took over the DNS and resolved back to a gov controlled IP hosting a image - here the image is hosted on-site).

So there is a chance that this is DPR's "dead-man" script running after DPR was not able to communicate with the site for X hours.

It's hard to tell if the actual site (with it's data) has been taken over or compromised.

There is also the possibility it's only the onion domain-name that has been taken, though I'm not sure how TOR/ONION works (if that's possible without access to the server).

In any way, I hope that none of you used a plain-text (vs a PGP'ed one) home address for your recent orders, nor have any tracking #s lingering in messages from the vendors in your accounts. If I recall correctly, messages are deleted after 30 days. But who knows what type of backups where maintained.

It will be intresting to see if -

1. There are admins that have access to the data + site that can get it back up and operational.

2. The forums (which are still working) will produce another site.

3. BMR (BlackMarketReloaded) and another one I'm not familiar with called Sheeps Market will continue to operate and/or pick up the majority of SR's business.

...and also if the DEA and FBI will go after the users (and not just the vendors) that they can find enough "conspiracy to commit" evidence on to make a point.
Why "Don't Be Evil" is Wrong for Startups
Mechanical turk is abusive. It bypasses the laws that were designed to protect the most vulnerable, and it will take some time for new laws to catch up that can regulate operations like mechanical turk. Just because new services and start ups have out maneuvered the law making system does not make those services ethical.

"Workers relying on such low wages and unstable employment are not likely to be able to educate their children enough to escape increasingly high rates of unemployment. A sustainable form of crowdsourcing will require forms of collective governance that mitigate the effects of market competition on those treated as mere links in a chain of algorithmic logic."

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/the-unregulated...

Workers will do jobs for as little as 25 cents an hour.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/22/americans-w...

According to the nytimes article, 70% of the workers are women. For me, the possibility of paying an american woman 25 cents an hour so that I can get some press coverage is disgusting. When we needed data entry done, we hired some of our out of work friends for about $12-$15 per hour. It served our needs just fine and cost us about $1500 total.

For fast turn arounds, I see why you would want mechanical turk, but planning ahead can give you the possibility of treating people ethically. I don't agree with any systems that perpetuate poverty. Mechanical Turk obviously provides a very valuable service to businesses however. Does anyone know if there any systems like mechanical turk that guarantee at least minimum wage is being paid to the workers?
Let's complete the effect shall we?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4

Dial it down to 240p for the true '95 experience.
That calculator is assuming $10,000 per Kw of capacity. Decent Chinese panels are $500 per Kw on eBay. Can the balance of system (inverters etc), permitting and installation be that expensive?
Did the original Hover used acceleration-based controls? I don't remember that; I recall it being much easier to control...
Lets say DRM video for arguments sake.

However there are other things, like webcam/device support, some audio stuff, filters that may be very slow on a canvas and hard to run in WebGL inside other panes (overlays etc).
Help us build a better marketplace - Listia (YC S09) is hiring engineers
Perhaps for a .ru site. What about my example of a perfectly legit library in the .uk? Or better yet, because they probably alter pricing to fit the market, if I borrow a perfectly legal ebook from a perfectly legit library located in Kenya where the publishers only charge the local library a tiny amount of money because the locals are kinda poor. And the library sends me a perfectly legal and legitimate official library card because cost of a beer in .usa buys enough rice to feed the librarian's kid for a month.

Note that its hardly illegal to borrow from a federated library or do an inter-library loan using p-books.

Also lets confuse the issue. Lets say the shady .ru site is in fact a perfectly legal genuine gov't supported library, although "everyone knows" this branch specializes in inter-library xfers and loaning out ebooks to mostly foreigners. This is going to be a complete mess to enforce and is not illegal in any way.

And realize any attempt to close this "loophole" is going to totally screw up foreign exchange students. Thats another excellent loophole, lets say I am now a official, govt sponsored and fully legally documented online student of the university of Elbonia, eligible for all manner of shared ebooks from the official perfectly legal and govt sponsored U. of Elbonia library.

Also I'm unaware of any recent "headline grade" prosecutions for downloading. Uploading, sure. I'm not offering to loan my ebook copy of Red Storm Rising to someone in .ru, I'm borrowing his copy. He's the one violating a copyright, assuming he is in fact violating any copyright.
A "compromise" might be allowing uploading of a PDF doc and allow the user to specify text boxes, etc. and effectively convert the PDF into a LucidPress doc that can be used from then on.

Just an idea. Thanks for listening
Awesome hack! Brilliant strategy and execution. I'll definitely use this for projects. Thanks for sharing!!!
So, the main complaint of the author (besides the pricing) is that e-books come with DRM. But fortunately not all, and DRM free e-books exist as well.

Reselling digital goods is a whole controversial topic. Since once you claim it all should be DRM free, you can't try to prevent cheating by controlling anything.
Ask HN: How to Save Startup Runway Cash as a Software Consultant?
What is the best way to save cash to later start up a company? as a software consultant in SF?

Let's say you have a good billing rate of $100-$200/hr and you want to put away as much cash as possible. It's clear you need to live lean, but what about other tactics or strategies?

I read online that you can set up an S-Corp and take a small salary, and then have larger pass through dividends. One article suggested that on $90k a year in billings you might save $6k in taxes, with $200k in billings that might add up to say $14k if I have done the math right.

Since this is a group of really smart people, what other Saving Hacks do you suggest to fiscally prepare to start a company?
PostgreSQL setup is as easy as yum install postgresql. You may have to tweak pg_hba.conf to get password authentication in some distros, but this is it setup-wise.

As for the parser being finnicky, that is a feature. Hint: an empty string in a timestamp does not mean midnight 1/1/1970. This is one area where mysql did more harm than good: getting developers hooked in sloppy SQL.
Accenture seems to be the biggest contractor - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2012/09/15/californias-st...
Two of those three examples are horrendous. The second sounds like it's trying too hard to sound "hip" while the third makes applicants complete a tedious puzzle to apply. Using programming puzzles at the interview is bad enough. Making candidates jump through all those hoops just to apply is insulting.
You can also read ebooks in a browser, so if you already have a computer, no new hardware.
That's a year and a half old info. It can't be a spoiler forever.
I'm going to disagree here. Music makers have a way to convey the work in slightly different mediums (CD sales and live concerts, not including externalities like merchandising and music licensing). Book publishing has similar paths to monetization. While a live book reading probably won't generate as much revenue as a live music performance, books can be adapted to the screen. The stories are now acted out in a movie. Granted, not all books get turned into award-winning movies, but not all bands become huge-venue concert successes. I think it's a fair comparison.
I'm old. When I say in the past, I mean pgsql 4 ;-)
Works fine on Chrome 29.0.1547.76 on Linux as well.
Or may be it makes a lot of sense? May be...

* DPR was ready to pay friendlychemist upto $150K

* BUT DPR was also afraid it'd lead to more extortion

* DPR knew redandwhite was same as friendlychemist or an associate of his

Based on these assumptions, DPR's move to pay redandwhite was really DPR paying friendlychemist while also communicating the length to which he is willing to go to deal with extortionists. So by going the path he went, he paid off friendlychemist and scared him at the same time.
You are probably on Linux. Some graphics drivers don't support WebGL so it's turned off.
Is there somewhere I can go to see an example of Pagefair in action?
It burns the eyes!

Also, put a simple example on the main github page and don't make me go scavenge through 8 links to find out what the thing is.
FAA panel: Wi-Fi use is safe during takeoff and landing
What has MS sabotaged in the web that would lead you to this?

If anything, MS made the current javascript ajaxy freak show.
His point is that ebooks and libraries are an unsolved problem. Fair enough.

But e-books are evil, an abomination and they price people out of reading? That is incendiary hyperbole with no foundation in fact. Incidentally, the guy is a lobbyist for libraries.

Yes, ebooks are different from paper books. They don't loan easily. They don't resell for charity well. They don't give a room that smell of paper, nor can you display them so house guests can see how smart you are. They do however have tons of other benefits. Things change. Problems appear, and so some people see an opportunity to write op-eds lamenting the passing of the world's glory, others try to fix them.

Libraries are a funny thing in a world where media is only artificially scarce, and the article doesn't even try to recognize this. If libraries allowed unlimited lending of all new books, nobody would buy new books because they can get the exact same experience from the library, so publishers obviously aren't going to allow that.
> When my internet service goes out in my home -- WiFi hotspot and no worries about whether I'm going to be throttled or hit an overage.

Amusingly, I've been getting pretty bad reception in NYC recently. Furthermore, in practice, I end up using way less than 2GB of data per month.

> Whatever new phone you get will be just as obsolete in two years as the GNex is now.

In two years, my Galaxy Nexus will be four years old. At the moment, I don't see a single Verizon phone worth getting (the are even issues with unlocking the HTC One on Verizon) and none on the horizon.
Why does LinkedIn do this? It seems so stupid and such a waste of time. Anyone know?
Systemic (not systematic) means "of or related to a system". This is not, strictly, governments. It can be any system from the ad hoc (Occupy movement) to the deliberately constructed (governments, corporations). It can be social systems, economic systems, anything.

Systemic use of force, then, is a situation where the use of force against some parties is inherently part of the system. Whether it be physical, legal with threat of physical, emotional force or violence.

If the particular economic sphere he's running in relies on violence (based on my experience in Las Vegas in the 90s, I'd say the drug world is one such system), then this isn't libertarian free market at its best, it's just the systemic use of force typical of the illicit drug industry.
CSS mainly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
Are you referring to the game being a mess at delivering the story? In fairness, that games aren't supposed to be replicas of the book, but rather set in the same style (tactical anti-terrorism and hostage recovery). If the game was supposed to deliver the same story as the book, you're right that it completely failed. I've played almost every game in the series and I've never seen the connection.

Rainbow Six is one of my top-ten favorite books.
Coincidentally I just open sourced some JavaScript I've been using to detect adblock: http://esd.io/blog/detecting-adblock-javascript.html

There's not much to it, but it's important to note that many ad filters actively try to avoids detection by whitelisting "test ads" or blocking externally loaded adblock detection code. That's why I suggesting inlining this javascript snippet but all of this, of course, is ultimately a cat and mouse game.
Small helicopter drone crash lands on New York city street
Perhaps the name was fake?
But he mentions "institutions" specifically in his diatribe, alongside governments. Surely he believes that a corporation or organization can be just as evil and dangerous as a government actor?

It sounds like he corrupted himself through his own institution, if the allegations are true.
That's a double edged sword, proprietary software moves much much faster which is why plugins like flash came about. They plugged the gaps required that the web working groups couldn't agree on.

If proprietary was such a big disadvantage why would it exist at all?
It's not as though Amazon is going and pointing a gun at people's heads and telling them to Turk or die.

If it's a bad trade for people to exchange their time for the low wage, they shouldn't take it.
Sounds like someone needs to create a straw man to justify their own views...
Aphorism: "If you owe the bank $100,000 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100,000,000 that's the bank's problem." As such, I'm sure there are a lot of influential people interested in keeping this guy out of prison.
Facebook Chat is down.
Seriously, I'd pay to use that if it were pretty cheap.
Tesla model S was the top selling car in Norway in September
Students Are 'Hacking' Their School-Issued iPads: Good for Them
How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using curl in php?
In the past MS used their usual sick lock-in tactics in IE. Intense competition forced them to reduce this idiocy. Unfortunately in other areas they still don't care. So I doubt you'll see OpenGL on Xbox or Windows tablets / handsets, until something will force them to enable it.
I'd venture a wild guess that DPR knew the two were the same :) He paid off friendlychemist "indirectly" but also communicated that he wouldn't mind extreme measures to make him disappear shall this occur again.
Not surprised. The CIA hates to have competitors?
The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks
So I'm not sure that there's a difference between "disrupting" and "competitively innovating". I don't know if it's as easy as your stating, because the F2P market is pretty wide already -- there are a ton of games that you can play for pretty much free in every genre online these days (and there were, when WoW came out, also).

Also, WoW's marketing was the only thing that was innovative about it, the game is subpar in just about every other aspect, IMO.
This is the Ubuntu equivalent of saying Windows 2000 is great in response to complaints about Windows ME.
What baffles me is why the FBI would shut it down and let this information out when they could have just sat there and collected information on crime after crime. Was the impetus because of the violence alluded to in communications? I know that if they are watching the mafia and they intercept a message about a homicide they have, in the past, notified the intended target.

Either way, intriguing story. If it's true he's really up shit's creek. And I have no problem with that, if it's true. An old 'hood motto: I'm not the law, break it, I don't care. But when you get caught, remember that I don't care.