skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's kind of sidestepping my point. He said two things:

1) There was a rape accusation

2) The accusation was made to discredit Assange

My statement that "the burden of proof is on the person claiming it" is relevant to both parts individually. Neither the rape accusation or the discredit argument have been proved, therefore judgment should be withheld on both. Just because the second is a claim that hasn't been proven, doesn't mean the first is true.
Your second example is a fallacy of circumstance. The virtues of recycling should be examined on their own merits, not based on how well an individual adheres to them.

I can provide empirical, qualitative reasons why recycling saves energy. Does the fact that I chucked a glass bottle into a trash can invalidate these reasons? No, it just makes me a hypocrite. It calls my character into question, but my facts stand apart from that. Thus, it is still an ad-hominem argument.
Yes, it seems that the mobile site is not made properly. Try the full site.
> This is a PR campaign by the Obama administration to justify cracking down on Bitcoin and Tor.

If the US government wanted to "crack down on Tor", they could just stop funding it; the US government created Tor, and has always been the main funder of Tor development.

> Until DPR has tried and convicted we should assume that all reporting on this criminal investigation is lies and slander.

There's healthy skepticism, and there is credulous conspiracy theory. You seem to have opted for the second.
Without limited liability, if Lodsys wins, you lose your house. That should make things clear enough.
Other incubator. 2012-2013. Came in with B2B enterprise software (invalidated that), and came out with a consumer subcom startup. Bootstrapped that to 6 figures in 12 months. Growth plateaued, but it's a going concern (~$7200 MRR). I spend about 5 hrs a month on it now.

My main squeeze is http://featurekicker.com -- software that helps teams “make something people want.”

With FeatureKicker, you can quickly add a button representing a new feature on a website. When a user clicks on the experimental button, our tech opens a modal window and gets user input on the new feature.

You can also get feedback on existing features of their website, so they can improve their product.

Any and all feedback is welcome...
Out of Z types of people in the World, Y don't know anything about Base-36.
About the eggs...it sounded really interesting and I was trying to understand what the reason might be for it. I didn't see anything in my searching.

I tried doing "v United Kingdom" but that wasn't helpful. Maybe knowing the city or region would probably narrow it down.

EDIT:
I found this article[1] which I think clears it up for me.
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3022090.st...
Apparently an exploit in the forum software.

Bitcointalk hacked

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1nmdq4/bitcointalk_...
Mind giving a quick explanation as to how/what rules you use?
Video of bitcointalk.org forums hack that happened tonight
At the same time, so much recent tool development has focused on virtualization. Vagrant, chef, puppet, packer, ... and yet, Smalltalk has decades of experience with whole virtualized machines to we can study.

Perhaps systems like Smalltalk still have something to teach us?
It makes one wonder how the conversation went about scheduling this.

Are pop culture events a consideration to get favorable results from judges and grand juries?
I quit my job to follow my dream, and now I am going to get paid for it…
I'm pretty much in favor of drug legalization, and I believe that the vast majority of people imprisoned on drug charges should be free, but it does not follow that everyone who distributes drugs is therefore innocent. To the contrary, practically everyone involved in large-scale trafficking is human scum. That's part of the reason I support legalization, to put these fucks out of a job.

So, yeah, I don't trust the government much, but I still have no trouble believing that a drug kingpin, online or off, is a murdering dirtbag.
Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained.
Why would DPR hire a smuggler?

Why would DPR delete the photo evidence, but not the chat log evidence?

Are there transactions in the blockchain that represent the payment? Can we find them?

Is this part of the story something that can feasibly be made up after the fact?

Was SR a voluntary exchange with no victims, and for DPR to do real time, would some charge like this have had to have been found?

Edit: I'm not necessarily saying I believe he's innocent, but this part of the story seems so strange to me that I really think these questions are worth asking.
Lmctfy: Google's Linux application container stack
Tesla car fire worries investors
Combining this with the other alleged hit dialog, it paints a picture of a rising criminal's initially uneasy embrace of killing, followed later by a scene where he's literally haggling with a hit man over the market rate for murder. It definitely shares the show's theme of gradual moral acclimation.
Decoupling Backbone.js Applications with pub/sub
Cognitive bias is human nature. The example I read is you'd get many more lawyers working pro bono for charity than you would offering a low wage. This of course extends to our perception of other people doing it.

I for one think we should remove minimum wage entirely but give everyone adequate food and healthcare. If people didn't go bankrupt after a serious injury and had enough food to wait out crappy offers, an appropriate wage would appear naturally.
I think you're getting hung up on their use of the word "hide." What they're saying is that the first study could have been disregarded except as a good reason to run the second study. Of course, that later happened, and the effect disappeared - but maybe it wouldn't have. That's how science works.

I don't thing that you're disagreeing with them, just reiterating.
It would be nice to know if I should get a Bronze HSA or a Gold PPO based on 1) my medical billing history for the past 1-3 years 2) my past and projected income 3) potentially, my current medical status and good projections about that.

The weird thing about ACA is it essentially turns this into a relatively low range problem; I'm going to be spending $200/mo to $400/mo in premiums, and I'm never going to be out of pocket more than $6350 on top of that. So even if I do exceptionally well, it's maybe a $200x12 - $3300x0.35 (tax savings on HSA) cost vs. a $400x12 plus epsilon cost vs. ($200x12 + $6350). Which isn't enough to really care that much, since most likely it's within $1-2k/yr regardless of which plan I pick. And I doubt your picking would be that much more accurate than a general WAG based on "do I often go to the doctor?"
No, of course you wouldn't hire a nanny who doesn't spank if you require them to spank your child under certain circumstances. You're talking about dealbreakers, and that is something that should be brought up as early as possible in the interview process. For both nannies and knowledge/technical workers.
Dread Pirate Roberts - The Indictment
>> Are you really gonna take money from people helping you in private beta

Those are early adopters, not volunteers. They pay to have their problem solved. If they're not happy to pay 5$ for it then it's either not the right customer or not a real problem.
Don’t be (just) a polyglot programmer
2x outlandish score multiplier, though as you note it works better if your name is already recognized.

If a friend emails to suggest going out to dinner, I might reply "My name is Ted Unangst and I approve this message", aping the words at the end of presidential candidate commercial. My friends don't actually need to be told my name; it's just funny.
This is done just once in order to finish calibration. It shouldn't be done more than a few times if possible.
> After having seen the photo's, the undercover agent thought he would send the money non-anonymously

"Oh hey, you're a violent thug who murders people for money? I'm a random guy running a billion dollar underground drug marketplace. Here's my contact info..."

After seeing the photos, I'd be absolutely sure to send the money anonymously.
Do you enter the identity password each time you scan a qr code? If not, it's still one factor. Even if you can enter it each time you scan, it's still only on the phone, making it the same if not less secure than doing it all on your desktop.
They do get caught, once in a while.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2435718/Ex-Army-vet-...
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/09/27/3655150/police-hollywo...
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newss...
That's actually one of the reasons the story doesn't add up for me. It just doesn't seem like reasonable behavior for a bright guy. Plus, the whole thing is just too neat. Reads like it's straight out of Hollywood.

Odd too that the other alleged ordered hit hasn't yet been verified by authorities, but the details around it are supposedly so well-documented and clear. So, we have all of this specific info about it, but somebody's not willing to sign off on the allegations?

I have no hard facts with which to contradict the story here, and this is certainly not to proclaim anyone's innocence. Only to say that something feels off with this.
I was really excited when Induction (http://inductionapp.com/) was announced, but I don't think there's too much development for it. The interface is probably the best I've seen, but functionality is fairly sparse. pgAdmin3 has been my go-to app, but I'm excited try out PostgreSQL Studio!
This is very interesting. In most papers I read during uni, the p-value was always set to 0.10. But I suppose it makes sense to have a more rigorous null hypothesis testing when you are talking about saving lives. I'm curious to see, on the whole, if all researchers in pharma try to move the goalposts like this guy did.
Drugs aren't the best example since they are inexpensive (at least the ones I've purchased). But if I had a more expensive surgery where I was on the hook for 20-40%, I might be incented to negotiate or shop around. And you'd certainly think the insurance company would be highly incented to negotiate.
>Thomas Ptacek's First Rule Of Internet Violent Crime

What are rules two through six?
Thank God R.A. Fisher still had all his toes when he invented the concept, or we could have been stuck with a P-value threshold of 0.052631579...
The laws of branching (part 1)
Trivial puzzle, but I have no desire to ever work for BigCommerce.

require 'sinatra'
require 'twilio-ruby'

ACCOUNT_SID = "Your SID"
AUTH_TOKEN = "Your Token"
BIG_COMMERCE_NUMBER = "+612#{1bp49b".to_i(36)}"
APP_URL = "http://path.to.this.app.com"
YOUR_NUMBER = "+61211111111"

get '/' do
twilio = Twilio::REST::Client.new(ACCOUNT_SID, AUTH_TOKEN)
twilio.account.calls.create(
from: YOUR_NUMBER,
to: BIG_COMMERCE_NUMBER
url: APP_URL + "/give-me-a-job"
)
end

get '/give-me-a-job" do
r.Dial callerId: YOUR_NUMBER do |d|
d.Number(CGI.escape(YOUR_NUMBER))
end
end
Fontello got custom icons (as SVG) upload
Open source icon font compiler :D got custom icons uploader.
I think Lavabit's owner and Snowden are suffering consequences for the choices they've made; more than they should be. I'm happy to ease that pain in whatever little way I can.
Did anyone actually call up and checked if that is the solution? The base 36 thing was also the first thing that came to my mind, and after evaluating the number, I saw that the start is 8..., quickly checked the australian number codes and saw that sydney is indeed +61 02 8..., so for me there's a chance that's the solution. However, since it seemed kind of trivial to me, I thought maybe it's a prank of some sort...
Got bored, solved it in 3 seconds, called the number and left my name.

Not really a complex puzzle by any means...
> you never hear about any hitman getting caught.

I've heard several.

Just in the past week:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2435718/Ex-Army-vet-...

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/09/27/3655150/police-hollywo...
As someone that served on a federal grand jury, no. Well, at least not vocally, I presume people internally weren't basing their votes on pop culture but saying something else out loud. Then again the strength of most cases that make it to the grand jury, from what I saw, are fairly strong, and the burden of proof is lower (since indictment != conviction). If the case is weak the ADA's wouldn't even bring it to us.
Canadian Interac e-mail money transfer system meltdown
Interac is the name of the debit card system in Canada and over the past few years they have added an an email money transfer service (run by Certapay, branded by Interac). They don't ever hold any money, but rather, initiate transfers between banks. Transactions usually complete within 1-4h of sending the money.

The system went down on October 1, came back up October 2 (briefly), and has stayed down all day. It might be coming back up now. Customer complaints are high and there is evidence of some very stressed out developers.

There are many developer reveals in the twitter feed right now. Here is one example:

"No precise ETR yet but efforts continue to deploy a work around solution. Hope to make available this evening." (4:51 PM - 2 Oct, 13).

Work-arounds are never fun. Good luck to whomever you devs are working on this. Crisis dev for banks. Stress.

In the meantime, there is some interesting info about how this system works in the feed that people here might be interested in:

https://twitter.com/INTERAC
Unless it is a bank cheque, I don't think you can fit $65M in a briefcase. If we use breaking bad as reference, we'd need 6 of those 55 gallon barrels to transport $65M in cash, or a really really large cardboard box.
I have found 1Password to be pretty hellish, and I don't even consider not using a password manager an option anymore. So clef and SQRL sound great to me.
In reading this I am not sure if it is specific to web services or could be used for any business with customer service needs.

Is it basically a light CRM that is built to work with Gmail?
Binary crypt(3) strings
That someone evaded having evidence be brought against them does not qualify as evidence having been brought against them.
There is a great wired article [1], which outline how Google uses orchestration software to manage linux containers in its day-to-day operations. Mid way through the article there is this great diagram, which shows Omega (Google's orchestration software), and how it deploys containers for images, search, gmail, etc onto the same physical hardware. There is an amazing talk by John Wilkes (Google Cluster Management, Mountain View) about Omega at Google Faculty Summit 2011 [2], I would highly recommend watching it!

By the way, one of the key concepts of containers is, control groups (cgroups) [3, 4], and this was initially added to the kernel back in 2007 by two Google engineers, so they have definitely given back in this area. I know all this because I have spent the last two weeks researching control groups for an upcoming screencast.

I am happy Google released this, and cannot wait to dig though it!

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/google-borg-twi...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZFMlO98Jkc

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups

[4] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
This is what people said about Hans Reiser.
IOS App Anatomy
Out of all the threats you mentioned, the NSA is the only one that can imprison me if it decides I've done something it doesn't like. The worst part is that the data they're collecting can be used retroactively X years down the line if the government so chooses to. And this herein lies the danger. You may trust your government now to use the information they gather legitimately, but do you trust it indefinitely? You shouldn't in principle, even ignoring all the practical reasons that the government has shown itself incapable of using such power only for good.

BTW, it has been revealed that the government stores information indiscriminately; but only through a court order or some other "probably cause" will they actively search the records of an American communicating with another American. This information is also stored for X amount of years (i've heard various years cited, from 2 to 10). Using encryption also flags your communication as "potentially foreign" and thus open to analysis. It was also unclear from the articles I've read whether internet metadata is covered under privacy laws. Massive amounts of information regarding individuals can be mined from just web addresses. So yes, Americans are targeted in the laymen sense of the word. Sure, the NSA has legalese that they use to justify how their actions don't target Americans, but its pretty transparent.

So yeah, go ahead and worry about the threat of someone finding an old address of yours. I'll continue to worry about the orwellian surveillance state that is being constructed right before our eyes.
I'm not saying that DPR is innocent, on the contrary. I'm saying that the government will be using this as an opportunity to shout from the highest mountaintops that decentralized systems of currency/information transfer is dangerous.

Of course, those doing the shouting will be the mainstream media -- mouthpieces of the government.

Criminal investigations are one thing, but guiding and manipulating the general populace is something else entirely. Tomorrow we will definitely be seeing lots of news about DPR, Bitcoin, Tor, and drugs -- this situation will be spun to high hell, both for supporting decriminalization and undermining it.
"sheer"?..."shear balls" just sounds painful
In the complaint filed in SDNY, the FBI spends a couple pages detailing the reasons that they believe Silk Road only had one owner, and why the "sale" was just an attempt to confuse people.
Cardio, Beware of bathrooms, Seatbelts, Double tap, and No Attachments.
Developing Mobile Apps with Cordova CLI
food production, healthcare
Did you miss the part about how the indictment said the opposite about Bitcoin?
Or no one has cared to try... Being able to identify a base-36 number isn't a good measure at all of being a good engineer, obviously. Google used to do something similar to this and then stopped once they figured that out.
> I see no suggestion of equivalency

Well, there were zero mentions of Nazis before we started. Then you brought Nazis into the picture. I can imagine, based on how you've brought up a completely unrelated topic, you must be drawing some sort of comparison. Otherwise why mention them?

Even if you're not saying they're identical, they aren't even on the same order of magnitude. Compare this to Soviet surveillance, or some other oppressive regime if you must. Don't bring the murder of millions of innocent people into the discussion just to prove a point. It trivializes a horrible event.
Cue is Shutting Down
I would guess that they take the rap not "as part of the job" but simply because there's no dilemma in the first place. Imagine the required scenario: a cop telling an admitted serial killer "Look, you're a small fish. If you can give us someone who's really worth our time, we can make life a lot easier for you."

First of all, that already seems like a dubious proposition. Really, they're going to give him immunity for all the people he murdered in exchange for information and cooperation? I guess maybe, but they sure as hell aren't going to publicize that fact.

But before you even get to that point, the cops have to find a suspect who admits to being a hit man. If I were a hit man, probably the last thing I'd say to a cop upon being arrested for murder would be "Oh, don't worry, I do this for a living." If you look at the risk and reward, the almost certain odds of being charged with even more murders are going to outweigh the slim odds that the cops want to lighten your sentence in exchange for cooperation.

So the only group of hit men that leaves who might be willing to confess are those who are already serving life sentences, or are on death row. But we have to filter the life sentences down even more to life without parole, since I think admitting to a past career in assassinations might look slightly iffy to a parole board.

If you have life without parole, I can still think of plenty of plausible reasons that you wouldn't want to admit to being a hit man.
That's sounds great. Google had also just launched a short course to improve your Analytics skills:
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2013/10/analytics-academy.html
When I was a freelance web dev, my first client was a former colleague.
Thought Leaders in the Sharing Economy
Another article on this story says that the cops seized $3.6 million worth of bitcoins when closing Silk Road. Wondering what they'll do with all these bitcoins... selling then to crooks or twins?
It should also be used against them in a criminal case for extortion / protection-racketeering.
>I don't really understand why this is such a big deal. A quick search shows a multitude of tutorials on how to use a nunchuk on the PC with an Arduino. Following a tutorial isn't "hacking," and besides, the article makes it seem like the kid figured out how to do it himself, which I kind of doubt.
I think it's really cool that this kid is interested in technology and that he is participating in this program, I just hate Wired sensationalist journalism.

This sums it up perfectly.
So do you, or do you not, believe that there was a rape accusation?
Computer scientists develop new approach to sort cells up to 38 times faster
Great some competition for Docker! Which is good news for everyone (esp. Docker) Containers are the future of hosting web-apps in my opinion. They more implementations there are the better.
Take out the second sentence and you're good. Otherwise you're guilty of a little hearsay yourself.
Spot: Share experiences where and when they happen
> it is not recommended to run lmctfy alongside LXC or another container system

I guess this makes it a choice between this and Docker.io, unless it becomes a docker backend.
A comment so insightful that you could use it in response to anyone who disagrees with you! Kudos.

But, yeah, I get it. You're an authoritarian through and through, and you want to make sure others know who's boss.
See the problem here is that a compromised fingerprint betrays more resources than the system it was meant to protect.

Your iPhone has a picture of your fingerprint inside of it now. It's just a picture, and it's likely a very good picture at that.

What happens when I swipe your phone for a second or two, plug it into my machine, and download the high-resolution picture of your fingerprint?

Do you use a fingerprint lock at home? If so, I've just broken into your home.

Do you use a fingerprint lock for the datacenter you administer? I've just gained access.

Do you own a registered gun? How'd you like me to commit a murder with your fingerprint on it?

This kind of attack is the missing piece of my argument. When someone figures out how to do this, these issues are going to become very important very quickly.

Let's suppose that Apple introduces a feature that syncs your fingerprint across many devices. How convenient, right? Let's say that means keeping all of your fingerprints on Apple servers. Let's now suppose that, like a credit card database, an attacker is able to obtain a leaked copy of the fingerprint database of every iPhone user. The recent touchid hack shows that fingerprints can be spoofed for high-end scanners. What then?

Sure, this scenario is very unlikely. I'm totally in slippery-slope land here.

But when we choose to turn up the dial on convenience to sacrifice more security, we must be prudent, carefully considering the consequences of our intentional ignorance.
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