skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your last point, and was making it in a roundabout way. "How do we convict this guy if he can afford a good lawyer?" and "We'll definitely convict this guy because he can't afford a good lawyer." are both troubling thoughts. Why not freeze the assets of everybody charged with a felony and appoint public defenders?

The rest of your post I have some difficulty with. It's almost as though you're saying we don't even need a trial here because the facts are so obviously established. I don't believe it's yet been established in a court of law that any crime was committed, much less that this person committed it.
weren't they supposed to be "not working" during shutdown ? ;)
I agree with a lot he said there. But I would like to comment on this:

.. it launches the App Store application, presumably trying to get me to go download their custom app. Which is undoubtedly just a wrapper around a WebKit view of this exact same web site, except with more surveillance built in.

Actually the app store version of that magazine uses a custom display view that parses a JSON structure that itself is created by a parsing tool for InDesign files. It's the same structure used by a few other well-known published apps and I inherited that project while I worked at a company called ScrollMotion in NYC. The content package for each magazine ends up being around 500MB to 1GB! Mainly insanely large image files. It does usually include some things like games and embedded videos. But the main reason it wasn't web-based was a requirement for offline viewing. Content is pre-cached.

Just wanted to add that. It was a very early platform and we went on to create a much better one with an HTML5 content creator that could create much smaller packages, but that one is AFAIK, still a legacy app. It's now under the control of Hearst.
Really. Price is the only difference between gourmet chefs and Doritos.

That wasn't my claim. My claim was that they're using much of the same chemical and culinary science. For example: salt = good, more salt = usually better! Similarly, people can and do gorge themselves on gourmet food. God knows I've done so myself a few times.

You don't get sick of them, or full from them...

I invite you to test this claim with a 17oz bag!

Plenty of people find themselves completely satisfied with a reasonable quantity of Doritos. It's also an enjoyable experience for them. This food engineering is designed to make that experience more enjoyable. They're not physically addictive in any meaningful sense. If your threshold for "moral tenuousness" is the potential to cause harm because you've produced something tasty enough that people have more than is healthy for them, then you'd have to string up a whole bunch of brewers and winemakers, too. Which would be too bad.
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Uh oh, will a new Dread Pirate Roberts return?
Well he certainly won't go down for murder, seeing as how there's no evidence that the "victim" ever existed in the first place.
It seems to me that the conversation out there is looking more and more like the nerds (tech folks) vs. the jocks (FBI) all over again.

When will you learn that the nerds win in the end, jocks? :)
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On a PC/Mac, this is easy enough to avoid by adding crappy websites to your hosts file, pointing them to 127.0.0.1. I do this for Wired and a few others. Or, install Ghostery.

Can you do either on an iPad? I'm assuming no, but I'd love to proven wrong.
What? Sure, green-on-black may not be your colours of choice, but that's a matter of taste, not of usability. It's not like a grey-on-grey low contrast choice.
I'm sure if you extorted a multi-millionaire Republican or Democrat or whatever with something they couldn't go to the police for, nothing at all bad would happen to you.
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Everything on Youtube is publicly indexed. It's therefore accessible to copyright holders and authorities. Megaupload (and all file lockers) were set-up as if your uploads are personal and private, but to still allow files to be shared by passing around direct URLs. This is why Rapidshare (who were once one of the biggest of them all) ditched their sharing capability and are now left alone. It's the cliques that are the problem to vested interests, not the frivolous sharing.
Github is down
It seems that Github is Down.
He's obviously not a curl or php expert. Where else should one go for help?
Github is down: 19:59 UTCWe are working to mitigate a large scale DDoS attack
I don't understand the arrest.

The FBI isn't dumb. They know that 10 SilkRoads will popup in the vacuum they just created. And those new marketplaces won't make the same mistakes SilkRoad just made.

Once they found the server, they had an all-access pass to the most popular black market in modern history. They could just sit back and make bust after bust after bust...

But instead, they exchanged their Palantir for a single arrest of a 20 something San Francisco nerd.
This, and if you're using shared_ptr heavily in C++, you're probably doing it wrong, since unique_ptr is usually sufficient. (You could say that shared_ptr has the advantage that you don't have to think about who owns what, but with C++ there's no way around doing some amount of thinking about that, lest you get cycles.)
Whatever.

Esquire has a great print experience, but their web one, mobile especially, is awful.

I'm sure their lead print designer gets final say for what goes to press. If their web designer is caving in to every ridiculous demand of management, that's the fault of the designer, not management.

So either the lead "webmaster" has no idea what they're doing, in which case they should get a new job, or they know exactly what they're doing but are hamstrung by management, in which case they should get a new job.
This article says murders for hire usually cost way less than US$150k, especially for someone unimportant, making an actual "hit" seem unlikely.

> The FBI works undercover on an average of 70 to 90 murder-for-hire cases a year. According to bureau press releases, recent quoted fees have ranged from $25,000 to kill a spouse to $600 to kill a girlfriend ... A few years ago, the Australian Institute of Criminology and South Australia's major crime-investigation branch studied 163 attempted and actual contract killings between 1989 and 2002. The average rate received was 12,700 Australian dollars, or about $8,254. The lowest was 380 AUD (about $250), and the highest was 76,000 AUD (about $49,400).

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
I like the brevity of your last sentence. May I suggest saying "tu quoque" instead? It's even shorter.
>>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.

I know I'm in the minority, but I love having my own library. I would continue to buy new books regardless of the library's lending model because I enjoy having my own copy that I can re-read whenever I want to.
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Unless you take measures to make sure American customers can't use your site, the U.S. would have jurisdiction.
Or not - or just intermittently down.
I look at it from another perspective.

Many people in the bay area have expensive homes and cars. People do not think twice about over bidding 50-150K when buying a house. In fact, that's the only way to get one here, and that's what we did. Its also common to spend crazy amounts on home renovation.

Then people also get an expensive Tesla or some other car that costs 50K or more.

But far fewer people would rather spend the 25K on solar and see a guaranteed return of investment of 150-200$ a month for the next 20 years. And the energy cost is guaranteed to be the same per watt throughout that period.

Regardless of whether you buy or rent, you _have_ to pay a power bill. Mine regularly crossed 150$ a month while renting. And I will continue to have a power bill till I die (40-60 years?). Why not lock in the price for the next 20 years at least?
Once you understand iron-router, which takes an hour or two of going through the documentation and trying examples, it really does everything you could ask a router to do. I think its worth a shot of trying it.
That's more the anarcho-capitalist wing of libertarianism. Overall libertarian is a pretty broad term. It can range from states-rights folks, to people that just want a smaller federal government, to people that want virtually no government at all. The NAP is not at all a common thread in that group. The primary thing that seems to bind them is a generally strict interpretation of the US Constitution, and where they differ is on how they interpret various sections. Some are almost like Christian fundamentalists, they just want the strict text of the Constitution. Others are more like conservative Roman Catholics, the strict text along with the other writings contemporary to its development (to frame the interpretation).
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Hence Wayland, but Canonical, for some reason, want to be the only people not to use it.
Are you implying that Software Engineers are smart?

I ask as a Software Engineer who came from a family of techno-phobic Pipefitters. Don't we just have a particular kind of intelligence, and they may have theirs?
Same for plain Java instead of Clojure: http://javolution.org/target/site/apidocs/javolution/io/Stru...
I'm not so sure. I consider the colours used on a site to be a factor in how usable it is. I found his site difficult to read, how is that not a usability factor?
Having ads that nobody likes and ads that nobody sees pays the same.

The case where you need to know if ads are being blocked or not is when you're trying to determine if you should change the ads or find another way to monetize the site.
Think about the implications if the court that prosecuted this case threw it out due to unconstitutional intelligence gathering. He doesn't deserve to get off, but wouldn't a decision like that have implications across the US?

I claim no knowledge of legalese other than having watched Law and Order, so if this is ridiculous please edify me.
Threat Level: Silk Road Raided, owner allegedly tried to hire hitman
Yeah, the Nexus 4 takes really horrible pictures. High resolution, but if you actually view the picture full size, it looks like a digital camera from 1999 or something.
That's not ominous at all.
not here.
This is rather important from a moral standpoint! I'm surprised no one is talking about this!
The reason why many media websites are terrible is because the ad/biz dev department sets the parameters. It's a mistake to blame the web designer for being told they have to work in those parameters.
I imagine they had access to his gmail account and StackOverflow emailed him when he changed his account information. I would bet that the StackOverflow information came after they identified his gmail account (which had his full name in it!).
You neatly skipped past the whole "making money" part of the OPs post. Esquire has a great print experience. It is packed with ads. You're just used to it, so you don't care. I very much doubt the lead designer of the print edition can dictate how many ads are in the magazine, or where they are.
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Fish vs. fishes... and I think "sleeping" is the more common form (at least in media), but yeah, I was wondering, too.
Good idea. Site needs definite polishing. Usability is an issue and it just looks mediocre, no attention to detail.
Dread Pirate Roberts' last interview (August 2013)
Seriously what could be in the headers and footers that need redacting?! it's like 4 words.
Hardly. I'd disclose that I will not carry out immoral or unethical behaviour on behalf of my employer, and will follow all protocol in pursuit of stamping it out, up to and including whistleblowing. That sort of attitude used to be a plus, dare I say something that was implicitly understood between the two parties. It's the sort of thing that you'd think people would want to ensure wound up in the contract all new hires signed when brought on board. I find it remarkable that such a policy would make anyone unfit for employment with anyone else. I'd like to think a company like Google would agree with such a policy. Their executive chairman seems to think as much:

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
Chance.

Not saying that's it, but when you have someone self-reporting on a forum like this, claiming to be an outlier, there's probably a good bit of luck involved.
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It seems it only works with Java 6 (at least according to the Mac installer), which is too bad, because I don't want yet another version of Java on my machines.

Is the source code publicly available?
well that sucks. I'm curious, is that a driver limitation? how do they restrict it from working in linux?
$0.03 per email seems awfully low, and if you do 1 article per minute, you're making $2 an hour, which is definitely not cool.

But how long does it actually take to find one email from an article? Maybe 10-15 seconds? Then you're talking about $7-$10 per hour, which for unskilled work doesn't feel especially exploitative.

The real draw of systems like mechanical turk is not that labor is cheaper (it usually isn't), but that's it's more flexible, i.e. you don't have to hire and train people for any particular task.
Every single high-level FBI bust is always about the operator doing something really simple and dumb, then the FBI puffs its chest and acts all powerful.

Like that article about the guy trying to extort poker players. The FBI agent admits she always wanted to be like they were on the TV show "CHiPS" and how they've got the hardest cybersquad available and will break you so better just 'fess up. In reality? Guy logged into his Gmail account from his house, and proceeded to blackmail via email. I mean, come on. Asking Google for an IP is now badass? Yet from the reading, hoo boy do they like busting down doors with guns out as if it was some criminal overload's lair.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/how-the-fbi-crack...
There WAS such an issue generally with PHP installed as CGI: a query arg like ?-s would be passed as a command line -s switch to the PHP interpreter spawned. http://www.php-security.net/archives/9-New-PHP-CGI-exploit-C...
Those pop up ads also appear inside the esquire ipad magazine app. You subscribe to the magazine, read it on your ipad, click a link to bonus content, and get a giant bonus content blocking ad telling you to subscribe to the very app whose webview you are currently in.
Even if you don't use a snapshot, and get an inconsistent image, it's not like fsck isn't going to get you most if not all the data anyway. (Yay journaling)
Another post that will get cut down within the hour. Hopefully a post of this quality from from fogus disappearing will help convince some that this really is an issue.

I'm not holding my breath though. On the topic of women, Hacker News is a depressingly conventional community.

[EDIT: true to expectations, this comment got downvoted. Better find another community that actually values a frank discussion about real problems in our society.]
What purpose would it serve the government to describe its limits?
In Mobile Move, Pivotal Buys Xtreme Labs for $65 Million
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I don't know where you're getting at (this PDF isn't search-friendly) but computer-savvy labor in Moscow is as expensive as you can find in all the other world (NY and SF excluded).
Chrome should really speed up the browser back button. I almost lost my eyes.
He's not just complaining about there being ads. He's complaining about the site being unusable for reading. If you haven't run into the unclosable popovers on a mobile web site, you're luckier than I am on any given day. If I can't see the article when I first load the page, and if the page then self-destructs behind the popover of doom, I will stop going to that site. There was revenue to be had from me, but not if I know the site is broken.
I wonder if some port knocking schemes can be attacked using a De Bruijn sequence. If the firewall only examines the last N potential knocks amongst K ports, sent from a given IP address, then every possible combination of knocks can be bruteforced in just K^N knocks (by taking into account the existence of every permutation as a subsequence within the De Bruijn sequence) instead of the more obvious (K^N)*N knock solution (naively trying each permutation in sequence.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence
Already have an MTurk batch running with 2,250 articles. This is amazing... Thanks!

I set my price at $.05 but only using masters.

Did you use masters?

Did you set multiple assignments per hit or 1 was enough per article?
Probably naive, but what would happen if Google, Facebook, MS just started disclosing everything? What are they going to do shut them down? Seems silly to me that these huge companies can't just give them the middle finger and show them that they're not going to be bullied any longer.
"The FBI isn't dumb"

The FBI is just a collection of people. Some dumb, some smart and most fall somewhere in-between.

My guess is the person(s) responsible wanted this on their performance eval ASAP so they can try to make a promotion.

That's just a wild guess of course. Without knowing the team responsible for the bust it's hard to know what the long term goal was but my experience with government work is that most employees are more concerned with their career and paycheck than long term safety and security of the public.
It's worth noting that these are the same guys behind the Play! Framework
Messages between buyers and sellers are generally encrypted end to end using PGP by the users so that information, which includes shipping addresses, is likely safe.
Give HN: Interested in Free a Google Analytics crash course?
I'm wondering if anyone here would be interested in a free Google Analytics crash course aimed towards startup founders.

The goal would be to create an hour or two of videos explaining the features and reports I use on a daily basis. I could also host office hours to answer questions and cover more advanced topics.

Let me know if you'd be interested and if there's anything in particular you'd like me to cover.

If there's enough interest I'll go ahead and create the content in the next few weekends.

Thanks!
A job being boring is just one of the reasons you might get paid to do it. Another reason could be that it's hard and that you are one of the few available for hire with the necessary skills. Then it can still be all fun (for you). I think the problem and negative spiral occurs when people have to take boring work just to pay the bills. Boring work leaves you mentally drained at the end of the day which keeps you from learning more or working on spare time projects in order to get more interesting work.

The challenge is getting into a positive spiral instead.
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The print ads rarely jump in front of the text, permanently obscuring it. It's baffling, but this is a real phenomenon on the mobile web.
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The equivalent of an agriculture patent troll.
The way the terminal VM works is quite impressive, actually.
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We just scaled from 1-10 dynos. Hopefully fully up now cheers.

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It's newbie shit and he got in over his head. What other mistakes did this fool commit?

Think about it. You're setting up a marketplace for dangerous people. People that will kill you if anything goes awry. On the other side are people that want to send you to prison. It behooves you to know WTF you are doing.
I didn't understand this for a long time, but the best way to approach the texts is not as a debate where you have to critically analyze the positions and pick a side. You literally don't have to agree with a single assertion they make. Just let them sit in your head as: this person had this experience, and this is how they interpreted it. Eventually you will build a very complex and self-contradictory map. You will find people who call themselves "feminists" on every side of each argument.

Such a confusing mess seems counter-productive if you're trying to objectively solve a puzzle. But it will benefit you immensely in terms of experience and empathy. You can still disagree with people, just don't dismiss them.
I respect you, and the tone you're using with me makes me think that perhaps I am missing something here. But I'm not getting what you're attempting to hint at.

Yes, if you believe you're going to end up in court, and having lots of money is useful for defeating charges, then yes, you should try to get money. That seems pretty simple and not worthy of enacting seizure laws.

If the justice system is so broken that people guilty of massive crimes can pay $50M and get out of charges, then THAT needs to be fixed. You're not seriously suggesting that seizure is a just way to hack around a broken system?
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My argument is that its not outside the realm of possibility that the decision was made -- either via intuition or data -- that the additional value captured by popovers is larger than the value lost by people who bounce as a result of the popovers.
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In fact, I put more support in women learning than men.

Absolutely. Damn those privileged Black and Hispanic men in tech!
Yep. Another approach is the dreaded list-type articles that are almost 100% of the content for some sites. You know, articles with names like "Top 10 Cities for Techies" or whatever.

Instead of putting it all one page or even using an AJAX call to retrieve each list entry, the entries each load a new page, complete with ads, etc. A lot of these are butt slow in loading just one page, but hey, they just want those clicks.

So they manage to stretch one lame article into 10 page views, complete with 10x the ad revenue and 10x the latency for the reader. On mobile, this can be even more painful.
What's the policy harm in allowing them to submit a request to unfreeze assets to pay for legal counsel, expert witnesses, etc?

Do you honestly believe that proposed harm is worse for society than sham trials, where we're getting convictions simply because people can't defend themselves properly?
Walking around buying houses in cash might raise some red flags, however, maybe he just liked where he was living?
How would one even launder that kind of money? What does he do come tax season?
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Even someone with the name anonymous can make a mistake, right BH?
My apologies, I guess I needed to be more specific here: I meant desktop linux users. People who use Ubuntu, Arch, Debian etc.

Clearly it's not going to matter for servers either, or raspberry pi, or routers, or... lots of things.
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Not if its illegal.
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Currently the site is trying to request this URL
http://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/alexandria/skin...

(I have a local Django server running on 0.0.0.0:80 and the terminal keeps flashing when I browser the site and this image is obviously missing and gives a 404)
Yes! More specifically, all photographs benefit from bigger pixels. Smaller pixels get less light. As a result, they have more noise. In turn this means that the manufacturer has to aggressively squash the photo into the tiniest dynamic range possible to get less noise. Finally this results with lots of overexposed and underexposed areas typical on modern cameras and phones.

Its horrible. Lets go back to 3MP and use huge pixels instead.