skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's the problem. If that's all you are doing 90% of the time after ten years it's time to move on to a different company.

Trouble is, 90% of the time, it's very difficult to find an opening at a company that does more interesting things. :(
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AFAIK it'd take some doing but it's not outside of the realm of possibility. If you can monitor enough of the Tor network's traffic, you can begin to make correlations.

This may not even require large-scale traffic analysis; I wonder if you configure your client to use a chain of 2 or 3 "known good" nodes, teach the nodes to block other potential users, and capture the traffic, if an effective timing attack could be done that way (request SilkRoad at 0:00, get back a page with the relevant contents at 0:01, and trace those lines through the nodes). It sounds like it'd be feasible to me, but I'm another amateur.
Agreed. I was the original complainer in this thread, and I've whitelisted several sites that asked nicely and promised non-intrusive ads.

I believe they all used https://www.projectwonderful.com/ as their ad provider, by the way. I haven't really inspected them, but if you want inoffensive ads on your page, that might be a good place to start looking.
It also helps to have an engaged and decedt dad around. As a generalization, moms tend to be more protective and dads tend to be more "come on and grow up already".

Children need to be treated like they are real people and encouraged to make good, responsible decisions of their own accord, not just be ordered around like they are troublesome objects. That means parents need to be responsible stewards of their children.
Never heard of this game. Probably because I was playing Spectre VR on a Mac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(video_game)) around that time, which this is a total unabashed knockoff of. Can't Microsoft NOT copy something for a change?
There will be breaking changes as Meteor moves from 0.6.5.1 to 0.7 to 0.8 up until it reaches 1.0. This is part of the bargain of working with pre 1.0 software (APIs etc. will be stabilized once 1.0 is reached).

I have found these "breaks" are minor and usually require a few minutes to fix. That said, I also tend to lag behind by a few weeks as other in the community work through the details of the breaking changes.

Meteor Hacks (http://meteorhacks.com) and EventedMind (https://www.eventedmind.com) are two great resources.
As a non owner of the copyright, but beneficiary of a GPL license, you would be allowed to make a derived work (your own "pro" version), and to distribute it (to sell it), but it would have to be under the GPL.

In this case, since it is a library under the LGPL, you could make a client product using this library, instead of a derived work, and you could distribute this product under your own terms, but if you provide the library along, you must of course keep this library under the LGPL (and provide the sources of the library).

So with the LGPL, you are free to make competiting proprietary products.
Maybe so, but HFRO was optioned for feature film production within two months of its publication, and planning began near immediately, so film adaptation would have been pretty heavy on Clancy’s mind at the time.
We need to be careful that we are not linking to someone who merely has the same name. Are you sure this is him?
Same device/issue here.
Does anyone else know of a small game called Hover by Eric Undersander? I spent so many hours playing it. Too bad it's closed source and not maintained; it'd be awesome on smartphones.
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Well, I'm a shitty parent, but my kid turned out brilliant.

- No one, ever

I'm a great parent, but my kid's been pretty middling in his academics.

- No one, ever

Just the standard self-selection bias in response to an article with strong ego triggers (being a good parent/person, having high-achieving kids).
Incognito/Private browsing also works.
"Red Storm Rising" was Clancy's best, probably because of the co-authorship by Larry Bond. The book is engrossing due to its depth of detail and realistic timeline.

Clancy also credited Bond's warfare sim, "Harpoon", for helping in the writing of "The Hunt for Red October". I still have the original Harpoon for DOS and Harpoon II for Windows. Both are amazing games.
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An hba file is one of the configuration files. The converse question would be: What is a my.cnf file? How am I supposed to know what it does? The answer is the same for both: RTFM

The CREATE USER issue is just bad faith on your part. It is a de-facto standard, used by Oracle, Transact-SQL and ironically MySQL.

In the end, your complain boils down to:

1. Having to edit pg_hba replacing "ident" with "password"

2. Unfamiliarity with pgsql opposed to familiarity with mysql

A developer that chooses tools primarily based on familiarity is on the slippery slope to dinosaur land. Not that it's bad -- Cobol development still pays well to this day.
I imagine most web devs don't mind about AdBlock if they run that kind of advert -- I mean, it's a self-selecting filter.

The people who are savvy enough to use AdBlock (and I'm sorry for my condescension here, I really am) are generally not going to be the people who convert from a YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY WON WEIRD TRICKS advert. Generally.

So the point of stuff like this for most web devs should not be ultimately to circumvent AdBlock, or to try to encourage/guilty AdBlocker users into quitting, but to make sure that you don't count AdBlock views as ad views.

I'm not saying that's what the article is arguing, but it's the useful information web devs should take from the article in my opinion.

And of course running ads which are well-made and unintrusive should absolutely be the goal of any site owner who relies on ads for income.
Hidden services are routed through ordinary Tor nodes. You're correct that they wouldn't have to control exit nodes explicitly, they'd just have to control the routing nodes along a specific chain that formed the connection to SR.
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Yep. Value of Bitcoin has tanked since this announcement.
US denies entry to German writer and NSA critic Trojanow
If it doesn't work first time with sunglasses then you use the "Improve Matching" to take a pic of you wearing sunglasses. They don't want identical pics of you - they want pics of how you vary. (Same story with facial hair etc)
It's a bit disingenuous, perhaps even hyperbole re: the title.

- I can't upload and place tiff/eps/pdf files, so I can't use this for print. I could convert to PNG, but there ain't no CMYK PNG afaik.

- Export isn't PDFX/2000

- No printer marks/registration, all the things you want when printing.

It's a neat web app, but to call it InDesign is pretty off the mark. Maybe more like Home Desktop Publisher 2000 meets Google Docs.

EDIT:

I publish a magazine in Vietnam. Even though it's primarily iPad, we do a print run of each issue. http://facebook.com/emoimagazine (Bikinis, so NSFW sort of).
What potential break are you referring to? They're not recommending disabling functionality for users with ad block on.

It's nice that they're discussing these techniques, hopefully other sites will do it better. I browse with click-to-play for plugins and it's often mistaken for ad block.
I would presume that, given that it's a persistent service, it'd be relatively straightforward to do a timing analysis, given that an FBI computer could ping the server at will, and then the server would reply from outside the network, via an exit node, which you could analyze if you had enough exit nodes.

Honestly, there might be even more exploits that I'm unaware of (still not an expert), given that the silk road server is probably doing a lot of tor traffic, which makes them an outlier, and it's tough for an outlier to blend into the background. Maybe tor can mitigate that though, don't know.
>it’s clear this guy was an amateur for someone running the largest drug dealing website in the world.

That's a bit obnoxious to say about someone who seems to have only slipped up once, during development, by linking his real name to that "altoids" handle. In what way is that amateur?
Hi Justin, that is a good point. According to this study in 2010 on page 4 http://sites.uci.edu/andrewzaldivar/files/2012/05/SocialCode... about 82% of the survey responders answered that the income was not essential, but the other 18% responded that the income was either important or essential to make ends meet.

Doing some turking to buy extra things while someone else pays your bills isn't exploitive in my opinion. But, for the 18% who are using is to make ends meet I do think it has a very real possibility to be exploitive. That's where regulation could help, in ensuring for those people who really need it have the safeguards in place to prevent the exploitation. I am far from an expert on Mechanical turk, and if it could guarantee that minimum wage was being met then I would not be against it.
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Even poor kids saw the inspiring Apple ads from the 90s...

;)
The first two things I install on any fresh browser is NoScript and AdBlock. I then make a point of permanently blocking JS from any domain looking like it might be used only for ads. I'll selectively turn on JS for one (very constrained!) domain at a time if I need to do something (like login to purchase or comment), but if I'm just browsing and a site no-worky-without-js? Tab closed, no second thoughts. There's a certain blogging platform site (can't remember what it's called) that gets linked here a lot that doesn't work with JS off; I've never read anything posted there.
Hover from Windows 95 recreated in WebGL
Official press release with amusing promo video: http://blogs.windows.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2013/10/02/hover-br...
I have the same version on Mac and it doesn't work. Weird
Haven't finished the complaint yet, but it looks to me like the FBI found a security vulnerability in the Silk Road website itself. More specifically, it looks like they found a way to have the PHP source code sent as an HTTP response rather than have that PHP code executed and send its output. From page 27 of the complaint:

Further, based on forensic analysis of the Silk Road
Web Server, I know that the server includes computer
code that was once used to restrict administrative
access to the server, so that only a user logging
into the server from a particular IP address,
specified in the code, could access it.

The report later goes on to say that they mapped that IP address to a VPN provider whose account was set up from an internet cafe near the house of a friend of DPR.

It looks like they first started suspecting Ulbricht when one of the forum account usernames he used to market Silk Road, "altoid", posted the GMail address "rossulbricht@gmail.com" when looking for technical help. From page 26 of the complaint:

From further reviewing the Bitcoin Talk forum,
Agent-1 located another posting on the forum by
"altoid," made on October 11, 2011, approximately
eight months after his posting about Silk Road.
In this later posting, made in a separate and
unrelated discussion thread, "altoid" stated that
he was looking for an "IT pro in the Bitcoin
community" to hire in connection with "a venture
backed Bitcoin startup company." The posting
directed interested users to send their responses
to "rossulbricht at gmail dot com" - indicating
that "altoid" uses the e-mail address
"rossulbricht@gmail.com" (the "Ulbricht Gmail
Account").

After DPR's mistake of using the same account to market Silk Road and solicit help with an email address, the FBI seems to have used good old-fashioned legwork to subpoena records and build a case against DPR.

Super interesting read!
I read it as a clumsy bargaining strategy, especially since he wasn't at all successful in reducing the quoted price.
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> If it's a bad trade for people to exchange their time for the low wage, they shouldn't take it.

They may have little choice. You don't seem to understand what it means to be broke and unskilled.
For an HN Job trends view, I created a simple trends chart and leaderboard[1]

The shift to front-end dev with Backbone and Angular is an important insight, as server-side frameworks may dumb down over time and/or be replace by pure data access like Parse.

http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/
Or just pop in your Windows 95 CD. I don't know why they didn't just install it along with Windows 95 -- it was pretty reasonably sized if I recall correctly.
Oracle doesn't have transactional DDL.
I'm a brilliant kid, but who cares, I had shitty parents.

- A lot of people I know.
"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper

The numbers make the problem clear. In 2007, the year before CERN first powered up the LHC, the lab produced 142 master's and Ph.D. theses, according to the lab's document server. Last year it produced 327. (Fermilab chipped in 54.) That abundance seems unlikely to vanish anytime soon, as last year ATLAS had 1000 grad students and CMS had 900.

In contrast, the INSPIRE Web site, a database for particle physics, currently lists 124 postdocs worldwide in experimental high-energy physics, the sort of work LHC grads have trained for.

The situation is equally difficult for postdocs trying to make the jump to a junior faculty position or a permanent job at a national lab. The Snowmass Young Physicists survey received responses from 956 early-career researchers, including 343 postdocs. But INSPIRE currently lists just 152 "junior" positions, including 61 in North America. And the supply of jobs isn't likely to increase, says John Finley, an astrophysicist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who is leading a search to replace two senior particle physicists. "For the most part, I don't think departments are looking to grow their particle physics programs," he says.

http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previou...

Despite earlier assurances that it had been deleted, Google still had in its possesion payload data collected by its Street View cars' Wi-Fi systems

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Google-must-delet...
Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc
If by "server image" they mean image(s) of the hard disk partition(s) (that's what I suspect they mean) -- easy. If the server is using LVM or some similar technology -- you can take a snapshot while the server is still running, no problem.
the script works great!
its very hard to find the email address though. I can't believe people actually dig this for just 3 cents.
All that is so obvious in restrospect that my mind keeps trying to convince me that I always knew it. (Despite evidence to the contrary).

In a competitive environment there can not be a widely known path for success, because the competitors will adapt untill the path changes to something unknown. Thus, if you know about a model, it's probably not valid anymore, and you simply can't study it for long enough to discover the non-linearities.
FYI I am also a programmer and lack of empathy in my own life and relationships has caused me serious problems.
Did you guys solve the bin packing algorithm? ;)

Looks awesome, nice update!
Comments welcome here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6483636
It doesn't even sound good on paper. You don't have to work if somebody puts a gun to your head, either. You have the freedom of choice to take the bullet if that's your preference.
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Fun fact: Microsoft's WebGL implementation calls down to Direct3D.
for me that is what made it difficult, I wanted to see the example in its entirety without having to hover back and forth. The hover "highlight" should be a "oh thats nice" interaction - not a required step for reading.
Any pointers on the state of the art?
That analogy doesn't make any sense because computer software is not produced in factories. Plus, the idea of copyleft is that software shouldn't have owners, period.
What is Oracle's aim in killing MySQL only to have it replaced by MariaDB?
In the document they released they made it clear that the server had been located and compromised. An image of the server from July 2013 was part of the evidence in the indictment.

While I hope a dead man switched was flipped it doesn't look good for the integrity of the site. Hopefully everyone involved was smart enough to encrypt.
The audience on the Mac App Store is not yet large enough to sustain low prices (like the iPhone can, sometimes) – it’s just not feasible.

This is also true for niches iOS apps in the app store.
agree. Its easy to label "amateur" when he is caught. The guy ran the largest internet drug ring in history grossing 80mn in sales. Everyone slips up.
I think the benefits of this approach are outweighed by the number of HTTP requests you have to send for individual JS files. In the majority of cases you'll find that all of your JS, bundled up and minified, loads faster than getting each file as it is required.
I see what you did there, Mr NSA.

No seriously, the whole parallel construction dialogue for NSA feeding DEA tips is exactly the situation suggested here. Why do you equate published journalism with hoaxes and factually devoid crazies. It is insulting to a fairly civil discussion.
Fark does that. If they detect an ad blocker you get a little message at the top of the page asking you to allow ads to support the site. Their ads don't get in the way so I did it.
Honestly, that was kind of a rookie mistake.
Thanks for all the memories, TC. My first shipped game title was Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent, and throughout high school, I read all his Jack Ryan novels.

Even though his later novels devolved into ghost-written, right-wing political soapboxes, still sad to see him go.
I assume the first one, the slip-up with the Altoids username, was what tipped them off and allowed them to gather all the other evidence. Without that they'd have known he used a coffee shop in San Francisco and maybe they could have caught him there, but that's it.

The internet never forgets.
I have no idea, having not done the experiment. Maybe it's shorter and crooked. I don't understand the metaphor.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/COLI_a_00057

"Amazon Mechanical Turk: Gold Mine or Coal Mine?" from Computational Linguistics.
A friend's dad loaned me The Sum of All Fears when I was 11, and that was the first Clancy novel I read (Having seen the movie of The Hunt for Red October, I figured I'd enjoy it). Those 914 pages took me a couple weeks to read while relaxing in a recliner, especially since I was kind of OCD at that age about looking up every word I didn't understand in a massive dictionary that sat on my lap. After hearing about nukes throughout the 80s, the story felt to my young mind like it could happen any moment in real life.
It's dumbfounding this is the top comment. If we can't be critical of government waste in this case, when can we be? It seems you don't even understand your policy opponents' position; overpaying contractors is one of the chief complaints!
Thanks for updating your post's tags mate. I really appreciate it.
> …so literally 1 minute after posting the question, he changed his full name to a "pseudonymous username".

If this is true then how did they catch it? Does SO keep records of all name changes? Did they give that info to the FBI? Do the FBI scrape SO and save all versions of the data? Was this data collected from PRISM?
..and the site has gone down. Sounds fantastic, though- pgSQL has always been lacking in admin tools compared to MySQL.
No, I agree with the analysis. He also came across as very confident in interviews, and these are very basic mistakes that he made. Sad to see, I was rooting for him.
I'm not OP, but trust me when I say this: people hate fat men too.
Unless you happen to have a compacting GC. :)
I'm seeing a blank site.
There was a great TED Talk by Elon Musk. He says every new product needs to go through at least 3 iterations before becoming mass market, and Tesla is currently at iteration 2.

http://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_mind_behind_tesla_spa...
Also, the PDF export does some horrendous image crunching. I uploaded an 8.5x11 image @ 300 dpi, placed it in a document, downloaded the PDF and the compression artifacts are really noticeable.
> It's a problem every European country faces (work in France, live in Germany for example) and still none of them motivate their citizens to abandon their citizenship when they live abroad.

What I'm saying is that it is practical and pragmatic for the US to have this law. It's not for Germany. Why? Because the number of immigrants in the US is extremely high.

Was US to implement the same law Germany has then 60% of New Yorkers would be able to avoid paying income tax in the US. Not that all of them would do that, but just saying. US has this special circumstance of having a big chunk of their population with 2 passports. Not 10% like in Germany, but 60% like in New York. Then you have to enact a law to discourage people from taking advantage of their 2nd citizenship in terms of taxes, or nobody would pay, they would just stay over 6 months in their mother countries whenever that's convienenient (i.e. reaching retirement age).
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The Silk Road has been notoriously unreliable. Constantly "Down for maintenance" and often just unresponsive for hours at a time. Besides the government it has also come under a number of malicious attacks from disgruntled users.

I imagine the DPR was logging in via VPN just to get some kind of consistent access to the site, even with I'm sure there were many times where the servers were unresponsive even to him.
> Unless that memory area holds just a simple data BLOB (like a video file) you're always going to be much more productive implementing the entire thing in C++.

Or use a GC enabled systems programming language, that provides control over what is allocated via GC or via other means.
According to the same 2010 study I mentioned in another comment, about 7% use it 30 hours per week plus. That's not a huge number but I imagine that those of the 7% would consider it full time work. http://sites.uci.edu/andrewzaldivar/files/2012/05/SocialCode...
We initially burnt hands doing custom development so stay away these days. 90% of our revenue comes from cloud hosting, which is opposite of OpenERP (which gets 90% of revenue via Partners). If we do custom development, product will suffer, so we are staying out. But we are happy to consider it if it really makes sense.

Will be happy to hear your views though (will send you a separate mail on this).
a) You said DOM manipulation
b) http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/jre/api/plugin/dom/org/...

Look. I don't have time to teach you how to code. Let's just assume I know what I'm talking about more than you do.
Show me a business who serves ads as unobtrusively as Google while providing the same immense amount of value (Search, Gmail, Chrome, etc).
The upthread comparison was to PostgreSQL (which fully supports transactional DDL), not Oracle (which does not.)

(Oracle 11g R2 provides something like Transactional DDL via Edition Based Redefinition. MS SQL has partial support for transactional DDL; PostgreSQL, DB2, Firebird, Informix, and Sybase Adaptive Server all support Transactional DDL [1].)

[1] http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Transactional_DDL_in_Postgre...