skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can check out this article on Destructoid to see how they used the tool (fyi- we used to be called "Block Metrics")

http://www.destructoid.com/half-of-destructoid-s-readers-blo...
Copyleft seeks to ensure public ownership of the means of production.
naspter-like moment in internet history
I assume that you are just injecting some snippet of JS into pages. What does protects you from getting (ad-)blocked?

If you get more customers somebody will create ad-blocker-blocker-blocker (we are going deeper). And ad-blockers have much better position than you have, they can execute anytime and intercept code before it is evaluated.
Thats the general idea of police work, you start with everyone as a suspect and then use evidence to narrow it down.

It tends to work well from a prosecutorial POV as well because anyone who is accused by that process has little evidence to exclude them.
Fixing Memory Leaks in Android Applications
>We then carefully observe what happens when a page loads. onLoad and onError events tell us if they’re successfully retrieved or if requests have been blocked

Unfortunately for them many Adblock users also use Noscript or Javascript Blocker. Circumventing Adblock this way will just drive more people to prevent untrusted websites running code on their machines. A net win for web security but probably not the intended effect.
In here, you talk a lot about scale vs. binary (evil vs. good). Shouldn't you also examine the morals of different startups on this sliding scale? Would you say that Google's "Don't be evil" motto is worse than nothing? Better than nothing? Somewhere in between?

Isn't Google making a conscious effort to try and do something (even if it's a little misguided) better than all the companies who don't do anything?
What essential features is he withholding? The non-pro version is absolutely usable.
So this means the FBI now owns 600,000 bitcoins (5% of all bitcoins)? Probably more, since they also control the (presumably large number of) bitcoin stored in accounts on Silk road.

Seems like this could lead either to the legitimation or deligitimation of bitcoin as the FBI must assess their worth. It also gives the FBI the ability to mess with bitcoin markets if they choose, by flooding supply.
How to Design Great APIs [video]
Ah, I've not had to deal with sharing between multiple elements yet - I'm kind of hoping that when I do require.js would give quite a solid base for it. YepNope seems like a good choice for this kind of thing, especially that it can bring in css assets too. Would be awesome to bring in all related assets for a element
Is there anything stopping her from just lending her Kindle? If lending is important to your mother, and she would like the convenience of ebooks, why not buy two Kindles: one for reading and one for lending?

Kindle is "smart" enough not to let the same book be read on multiple devices, which mimics physical books (you can't read a book that is not in your physical possession). Kindles are cheap, too. After about a dozen books or so you might actually save money even with a loaner Kindle.

I'm not disagreeing with you regarding the absurdity of ebook DRM, though. If you don't feel Kindles are ethically defensible, don't recommend them. If it's a convenience thing however, the two Kindle scheme might work for your mother.
Same problem on my Chromebook Pixel, but http://get.webgl.org confirms that I have WebGL support.
Java's garbage collection is far from the state of the art in GC technology. While there are some non-standard JVMs that have advanced GC (such as IBM's real-time garbage collector), the standard JVM does not.

Current-generation garbage collectors have far better performance, and many research GCs support concurrent, pause-free collection.

(And that leaves aside the non-performance benefits of a GC, in terms of engineering simplicity and bug elimination.)
You can even write c-like structs over byte-buffers - https://github.com/ztellman/vertigo
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"Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick." - Bruce Lee

It's a little cool kung fu master cryptic, but what he means is that before you start boxing a punch is something you think you understand. It's hitting someone with your fist. Simple concept. Then, if you practice boxing you quickly build up an increasingly complex vocabulary: light-footed jab, leaping lead hook, low cross. You learn that a counter to a looping right hook is quick stiff jab and that it's very hard to get power into a straight punch if you are moving backwards. Then (when you get to Bruce Lee level) you leave those definitions behind. A punch is a punch. Even though there are infinite variations, you don't need all those words. The complexity is implied and understandable.

This is similar to a lot of other things. At first, designing web sites was just designing web sites. No one knew what they were doing really. Then when people had enough experience, learned new ways of doing things & technology advanced they realized "hey, these websites are really software not documents and they're mostly about users creating content and interacting with each other!" So we got Web 2.0 . I think we're back to web design is just web design. "Creating software that lets users interact with each other" is implied.

Same with number crunching. Number crunching-> big data -> number crunching.
Please don't start up Reddit style "Jokes about other stories on the site.", it's one of the aspects of Reddit that makes it suck.

(Or at least include a link or something.)
Yeah well us libertarians are as prone as anybody to start rationalizing. Wouldn't surprise me.
That is such a great title.
It's adopted by having a HTML 5 compliant browser, at which point you would just use HTML 5 tools.

Unless you really loved the flash IDE which I guess some people do...
Having worked with Accenture on a government project in the past, they will milk CA dry and staff up with an army of worthless college grads at inflated bill rates and send their profits to the Cayman Islands to avoid taxes.
Well, $161m is more than 23% of $327m to start with.

The other thing is that although the government is using private contractors, that does not mean the latter are solely to blame. If the government ends up paying millions of dollars for a wordpress site sporting a $40 theme, the contractors charging for it may be immoral, but the government who awarded them the job is at best massively incompetent.
Careful, you're falling into a trap there...

By the same token, your skepticism and rationality are also only neurological modules crafted evolutionary selection. It is not necessary (or even proveable) that those beliefs actually correspond to the true nature of the universe.
What if the government was behind 9/11?!!!11
Hey, random internet stranger here -- I like the idea -- maybe you could show some comparisons with the other products on the market (other postgres management programs). Also, I think you should put the screenshot of the dashboard on the front page, will make it instantly clearer what it does, and probably generate interest quicker?
That's crazy. Ulbricht would have to have been the dumbest person in the world to create an electronic record of having ordered and verified the consummation of a hired killing simply to send a message. "LOL JK", he planned to tell the jury?

The guy he tried to have killed could show up and testify on his behalf and a reasonable jury might still find him guilty.

Absurd.

I think we can all see at this point that Ulbricht got played. But that doesn't exculpate him. (Not that it matters yet; he hasn't been charged with the attempted murder).
If thousands of people were threatened to be violently seized from their homes to be locked up in cages, do they not have a right to self-defense?
You guys should take a look at piracy and how well that worked out for content creators. They still get paid, but it'll always be whack-a-mole.

I have a comfy six figure IT job, and I'd still spend a few hours for fun just to figure out how to work around your javascript. Now think about how much time someone determined will spend on it.

Pivot and go do something with a higher possible success rate.
Plenty of people were buying music from iTMS before they stopped using DRM. "Fighting the music industry for your right to DRM-free music" is just an example of the Jobs' Reality Distortion Field at work.

Apple has an effective monopoly on portable music players. They have lost some grip in the past few years with the popularity of Android phones that also play music. However, the iPod Classic owned over 90% of the market for hard-disk mp3 players and iPods collectively owned over 50% of the total market around the time iTMS dropped DRM. The remainder of the market was fragmented between Sony, Microsoft, and other players. That meant that FairPlay was your only option for selling DRM-encumbered music.

That gave Apple tremendous leverage over the music labels. Nobody was going to switch from an iPod to a Zune because it meant giving up a library of DRM-encumbered music. And nobody could sell iPod-compatible DRM-encumbered music without going through iTMS (which was already the only venue for selling to well over half the market).

So they did what any rational business would do: Start selling DRM-free music through Amazon (which people could play on their iPods) and push Apple to drop DRM from iTMS. It was actually quite funny to see everyone patting Apple on the back for "fighting for the little guy."

DRM-free ebooks aren't going to happen for a while because there are still too many vendors. Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Apple, Sony, and others all operate ebook stores. If one ebook store gets too uppity, publishers can just take their books elsewhere without having to resort to the music industry's tactics.
That's all true and the $327M price tag is misleading, but they still spent on the order of several million on the actual buildout of the website and fucked it up. It does not inspire confidence that the rest of the money was well spent.
It's this sort of person who will be calling to bring back flash, so all the annoying banners and CPU intensive code can be easily blocked.
Sony's image sensors have had the IMX naming scheme for a few years.
I assume it's because they want the SEO juice and Google frowns on showing different content to the Googlebot vs a human being, but they also want their users to make more connections. So, they sometimes show more content to logged-out visitors.
Incidentally, this is one of those programs which drags in an entire desktop's worth of dependencies (KDE) in order to function. (This much more than depending on Qt)

A downside of this decision is that such a project would not be able to survive the death of the desktop it is nailed to. To make a more lasting contribution, don't force people to install your favorite desktop.
Or friendlychemist creates a new account called jerkyboy and rethreatens him with extortion, this time claiming to have evidence that he took out a hit on friendlychemist from his friend redandwhite ... and just keeps the whole cycle going.

Sounds like the guy was a petty criminal who wasn't as smart as he should have been if he wanted to run an underground market for criminal activity.
I credit my realistic view of politics and military to my military background and life experience coupled along with a metric-shit-ton of non-fiction reading.

There were other books before his that used commandeered airplanes as weapons. Clancy was just a much more adept and educated thriller writer than most in the field.
Apple Has 10% of All Corporate Cash and More Profits Than 3 Biggest Combined
No, that would be anarchism. Part of what distinguishes libertarianism from anarchism is that it does acknowledge the utility of a government, and very few libertarians would deny one of its primary, legitimate duties is public safety.

Do not mistake believing that our current government (which is, might I add, the single largest entity in the history of man; sorry, it isn't that bizarre to think that it might just be a teensy bit too large, despite people's best efforts to somehow cast this as a crazy idea) is too large with thinking that the correct amount of government is zero.
He may have also lied about having paid for a ht previously for $80k to bolster his bluff.

EDIT: Or he was watching too much breaking bad and beginning to assume Heisenberg's characteristics after feeling invincible for earning $80MM
Linkedin Profile for alleged founder of Silk Road
> In other words, it looks like the software was mostly done by private contractors.

Wait a second. Government over-spending is beyond reproach when the money is channeled to what are likely politically-connected private firms? To my mind, that is equally egregious, perhaps even moreso because of the taint of cronyism (or still worse than that, regulatory capture by entrenched large firms).

But even if I give the firm-selection process the benefit of the doubt and assume it was done without kick-backs or regulatory capture effects of any sort (seems implausible, but we'll go with that), private firms simply know that when you are bidding on government work, the budget is enormous. You're probably likely to be kicked out of the running for being un-serious if your bid is significantly less than the average bid. And the average bid is high because ... government.

I can imagine feedback of the flavor: "You think you can do this type of complex web application for a mere fifty million? Don't waste my time."
What does PageFair do, exactly? I mean, they're very proud of themselves for detecting Adblock, but it's not clear what they do with that information.
It's kind of like adding .com in 1998. Just that suffix turns a boring "trades at 10 times trailing earnings" retailer into a "trades at 50 times next years sales" e-commerce firm. :-)

If the trend continues, we can expect Big Data aircraft designers and Big Data astrophysics software.
I'll argue that even in 15 years, you will not need to pay for labor to install and setup the system. Swapping out the old panels with newer, more efficient, and cheaper panels may be less than half compared to installing the entire system from scratch.
You can still download the original version from Microsoft's public FTP server:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/deskapps/games/public/AAS/Hover.EXE

Plays just fine on modern machines running Windows.
iOS Dev Weekly (http://iosdevweekly.com/)
http://chasingtruthcatchinghell.com/2013/04/10/because-youre...

> Today, those specific, articulable facts take the form of sweeping generalizations that officers assure us are based on their “training and experience.” This phrase comes from the Evidence Code section stating the sources an expert can use to form their “expert opinion” in court. Today, police are taught to repeat this phrase on the witness stand when they want the court to take their bullshit speculations and generalizations as actual evidence.
We won’t bore you with complaints here though; hopefully you’ve now got enough information to understand what’s going on in the background when you sign up to use our free adblock measurement service.

From the homepage: Measure:
How many of your visitors are blocking ads and how much does it cost you in advertising revenue?

etc etc. They are selling a service.
I built this over a weekend. Curious if you like it?
It's basically an easy way to turn a 1 sec video into a GIF and share it on email, text, and Tumblr. Generally curious what you folks think. (It's a pet 1-man project, not a startup)
No hiring a hitman is the only choice when gov't forces you and your business underground.
Not really the same. If you had bitcoins stored with SR, presumably they are long gone.
Running this kind of service becomes infinitely more difficult if you can't hide your hidden services.

Also I wonder how they got a server image without him noticing since it is typically something you'd need to shut down the machine for. Was the whole thing running off a hosting service?

It would be pretty impressive if he physically had servers in multiple countries. Just setting them up without involving other people seems difficult.

Edit: He did use hosting services which probably used virtualization so it is easy to clone drives for. The complaint has him buying fake ids (which were confiscated in transit!) in order to rent more servers.
You're basically doing what I said people do, which is to use color to describe how animals act. That does not mean that color, as a concept, has any meaning in the mind of an animal.

The electromagnetic spectrum is continuous; our concept of color is a completely arbitrary way of dividing it[1] up into sections. That was the point of the Radiolab episode (and a lot of academic research before it): different human cultures divide up the electromagnetic spectrum in different ways, each of which is as valid as another.

Animals might not have this concept at all; for example it would be just as physically valid to think of the electromagnetic spectrum the way we think about sound--as a continous spectrum from "quiet" to "loud". We know that divisions are arbitrary when it comes to sound--that's why the "this amp goes to 11" joke in Spinal Tap is funny.

[1] Edit to add: only a tiny portion of it
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NSA chief admits figures on terror plots foiled by snooping are misleading
My Lumia 920 needed to go in for warranty repairs so I picked up a Nexus 4 to use while it was being fixed (and because I wanted an Android phone to play around with as well). The photos I took on my Nexus 4 in comparison to the Lumia 920 were laughable.

My cousin and I have done some comparisons with the iPhone 4S camera and the Lumia 920 and we don't notice the difference, but the Nexus 4 is really awful in comparison to both of them.
The GPL licenses do not prevent the owner of the copyright to release other copies under another license.
2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors from Moz
Can anyone else confirm this? Personally, I've always used AdBlock, but never used a Javascript blocker because it is substantially more effort and I am lazy. I do use Disconnect, though, to block that certain flavor of JS.
Temporarily Re-Enabling Apple-Provided Java SE 6 Web Plug-In
This is actually super fun! Well done!
On page 30 it is stated that he contacted redandwhite about some fake ids a year later..
I am the one who port knocks!
I don't think that the actual amount was mentioned until the last run of episodes. Prior to that I only remember it being a huge pile of cash that they had "stopped counting."
If a website popups up a message "we detected you are running adblock, please whitelist us to continue" I will press that little x button and move on. My feeling is they are most likely trying to spam me with something or malware me.
Feds Raid Online Drug Market Silk Road
The question is not whether this will be 100% effective, the question is whether people will pay for it.

I'm not arguing that content distributors are killing their own biz with these techniques, however, the companies selling the tech are doing quite fine.

The more people hacking their products the better, if they have a client and the ad rate goes down, who do you think the client is going to call? And of course the client would love upgrade to the latest version that defeats that technique.

Do you think McAfee is upset or happy that people continue to write viruses?

They're selling arms and you're starting wars.
Not an expert, but I've heard a lot of people discussing how Tor can be compromised via timing analysis and owning enough exit nodes. Which is well within the capabilities of large nation-states' intelligence agencies.

It is a widely reported fact that the NSA will hand tips to the FBI/DEA/etc, which will then use "parallel construction" to reverse engineer legally admissible evidence once they have been tipped off to the guilty parties.

The silk road flew too close to the sun. As soon as they started getting in the news, and DPR started his libertarian manifesto-ing, it was just a matter of time. There are no old, bold crooks.
No, copyleft is fairly neutral and just seeks to mitigate some of the damage done by copyright. Copyright is what has the serious political agenda, not copyleft.
An exchange is not just a transfer, it is a transfer at a price. Sure, you can transfer 1 BTC to 100$, but how do you determine a price? If A wants to buy 1 BTC from B, what is the transaction? 1$,5$,1000$? You need to integrate with the fiat system and you need a limit order book. I would suggest Harris book on microstructure for an understanding of exchange markets (ISBN 0195144708).
It may have happened for the same reason, but one can not be a reaction to the other.

People are speculating if NVidia started oppening their specs by Valve's request. If so, AMD could have received the same request.
How Dread Pirate Roberts got caught
Isn't there a good, cheap solar tracking system available yet? Seems like you are leaving a lot of money on the table by not keeping a ~90 degree angle with the sun at most times during the day.
These underground market places are known for big talk, not calculated talk.
i was thinking the exact same thing ...
There are some things that can be done to fix that -

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Radeon#Slow_performance...
The whole the thing maintained state between views, so it was more like placing controls, on a view and then having events linked to controls. Rather than requesting, then responding with html.
"Filter lists also name particular files for which requests should be blocked regardless of domain; for example any javascript file called ads.js"

We have a file called that which has nothing to do with showing ads. If that's correct it will effectively break the service for anyone using AdBlock.
You know... spoilers mate. <BreakingBadSpoiler>...</BreakingBadSpoiler>. I thought you just wanted me to read it in the context of the program's universe. sigh
Let's also remember the fantastically silly geopolitical predictions that he made in that book. How's our big rivalry with a nuclear armed Japan looking?
My Google Moment
They attempted to sabotage WebGL (refusal to implement) by pointing to shaders as a potential vulnerability (while exposing the very same vulnerabilities in Silverlight, I might add).
Man, that page is hard to read.
So has anybody ever tried to address the root cause of adblocker use, i.e. ads are really fucking annoying? I don't like ads in general, nobody does, but that alone wouldn't be enough to make me bother to install and maintain AdBlock. What does it is strobing "YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY WON" and animated "one weird trick" scams and softcore porn. This shit is everywhere, even on allegedly respectable news sites.

If you want me to turn off AdBlock, you need to insist on reasonable, non-offensive, non-animated ads. If your ad provider doesn't do that, get a better one, or lean on yours until they do. If this industry spent one-tenth as much energy pushing ad services for better quality standards as they do wringing their hands about ad blocking, shit would happen.
Depending on hardware, you can get a PicoPSU or similar ATX power supply at ~$50, but they are usually limited to 160-200W - so no fancy quad core desktop CPU or powerful graphics, but 200W is plenty for a normal PC.

Some LED displays also have an external power brick - if that's 12V then you can wire them to your grid. Unfortunately most of them will have higher voltage to reduce wire costs and losses.

If you can replace at least part of the AC power with 12V DC power, you can then buy a lower power (cheaper) inverter for the AC power.