skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great point, and illustrates that blinder effect discussed in the article. The Blackberry executives and engineers also did not think that the iphone would sell well at a higher price point and a lower battery life.

My point in bring up all of this is that the key insight in this article is not about disruption, but about refactoring your base assumptions. When you see 3D printers as to what is really is, but has not yet been, then you start to see other technologies that are coming together to be able to fabricate things in your garage. Yes, that does include being able to print circuitry directly into the printer -- and yes, there are people working on that right now.

This is a lot closer to happening than you think it is :-)
Perhaps the ability to re-license for commercial use?

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/25376.html

> They can relicense Mir (and any other GPLv3 projects they own) under licenses
> that keep their hardware partners happy, and they can ship in the phone market
Perhaps. But you don't hear about those things with the green power alternatives, either. Like, for instance, the pollutants created when manufacturing solar panels, or the amount of energy consumed in making them and safely disposing of them every 15 years or so. I'm not going to cite any articles here, because at my knowledge level, it's near impossible to separate the biased articles on topics like this. But a simple search for "pollutants from making solar panels" will garner some things to read about it.

I suppose I should say at this point that I'm all for green, cleaner energy, and wouldn't go so far as to say I'm "pro coal". I do, however, think that living in Michigan (which is lucky to have a single sunny day a week) makes me a tad pessimistic about using solar to power my house. I'm well aware that it makes more sense in places that can practically guarantee sunny days 6/7 days a week, but the TCO will need to improve massively for it to make sense in my region.
Extremely non-scientific survey:

https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/noscript/ has 2MM users and https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/... has 17MM

IMHO, NoScript is too annoying to be practical for most users. It's not the sort of thing you can set it and forget it.
Server's down - anyone got a mirror, announcement or enough experience with the project to give a good rundown of what it is and what it does?
I like the article, but the author suggests (or at least creates the impression) that "nonlinearity" causes "path dependence". This is not necessarily true.

Path-independence or -dependence is more about history than the nature of linearity or nonlinearity in variables itself.

From Wikipedia: "A nonholonomic (a path-independent) system in physics and mathematics is a system whose state depends on the path taken to achieve it."

Here is counter-example where non-linearity does not cause path-dependence. Fields that obey an inverse-square law (such as electromagnetism) are called conservative (path-independent) because the work needed to move an object from one point to the other is not dependent on the path.

But, I could be missing something. Let me know!
Harpoon was an awesome game, I played the table (well, large floor area) game at Gen-Con in the 90's. I do believe Larry Bond was there that year.
100% of bands have a way of making significant money beyond records sales - In fact, for many of them, most their annual income comes from touring/T-Shirt Sales/Posters - not the selling of their actual CDs. I have some local bands in the Bay Area that I've spent a couple hundred dollars on in the last 5 years, that only have one or two CDs (which they probably got $3-$4 in income from). Take a cover band like Super Diamond - They have a single CD, and frequently pack the venues they tour. I don't even want to think about how much money I've spent on them in the last 10 years....

With Book Sales - the equation is the exact opposite. 95% of Authors revenue comes from Book Sales - not movie rights/public readings/etc... If they let the digital market get away from them, it's going to kill them in a way that the music industry was able to find alternate revenue streams from.
This theory doesn't stroke the egos of iPhone owners enough to be popular on Apple blogs. It also leaves them open to Android taking it further because cheap compromise devices are easier to make than magical high-end disruptors.
> Science should prove or disprove some phenomena to be sure that is either true or false,

No. Absolutely not. This is what I am talking about, a failure to understand what science is on the most basic of levels.

You don't prove a null hypothesis. Expecting proof of a null hypothesis is flat out retarded, you only disprove them. Without accepting null hypothesises until they are disproved, that is to say, without any functional sense of skepticism, you fall down the rabbit hole of believing all sorts of religious, supernatural, and pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

Have you disproved leprechauns? Xenu? Have you disproved the notion that I am in fact a god, descended from Mount Olympus on a mission to take out the Reptilian Queen?

Sane, rational, people do not expect these claims to be disproved. They expect them to be proved, and reject them until they are.
Had he not made some pretty amateur mistakes (like using his real email) he probably wouldn't have been caught. My guess is that email address is what lead to his downfall. Without a target the FBI wouldn't have much to investigate.
Does your training and experience inform you thusly?
> Google for the acronym "FATCA". Sooner or later your bank will ask you to certify that you have no U.S. connections.

Trust me. In Poland. It won't. Why? Because I'm a native here and nobody knows that I have US citizenship too. It's like saying that in your US bank branch you will be asked if you have no Polish connections. No, they won't. They want their business. And on top of that there is no way for them to know.
Any word on whether we can expect customers and sellers to be hunted down?

I had heard rumors for months that DPR he been compromised.

I know quite a few people who used Silk Road, many carelessly so.
Made $80mm in commissions running a drug trafficking network, paying hundreds of thousands to have people executed, mail fraud, money laundering, conspiracy.... He's looking at cartel level prison time.

He paid someone to kill an extortionist that had threatened to release incriminating info on a lot of users. As far as the law goes it's the same as him killing his child's first grade teacher over a bad grade but when you extort someone operating a drug dealing network, what do you expect?
How to raise money
AdBlock Plus already has a system for exempting "acceptable" ads. Though the implementation is pretty controversial.

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/02/the_internets_next_victim_ad...
Agreed, I shouldn't have to constantly move the mouse around just to read the page.
Technically, Sidekiq Pro isn't a copy. It's a set of plugins designed to integrate with the open source project.
Fair point. Any argument taken to extremes is probably a bad thing.

In general, I'd say replacing things with emulations of things is not a good way to get better reliability, performance, or security -- now you have bugs in the original thing and the emulation of the thing to consider.

In this case, the emulation lives within a restricted runtime environment and the real thing doesn't. But that's a performance / resource consumption / convenience / compatibility hit in exchange for "security", and those tend to fail simply because most people like their performance / resource consumption / convenience / compatibility.
Apple's 64-bit A7 chip a 'marketing gimmick', Qualcomm exec says
Wonder what's changed - the GFX drivers are still crap, without any hope of being ever fully secure. Perhaps Microsoft added some really comprehensive tests to Winqual to test security bugs in GFX drivers?
Anarchism does not necessarily mean that and is not incompatible with libertarianism. Anarchism simply means "no ruler" -- everyone has the same rights. A libertarian anarchist condemns coercion and the initiation of force for all. Small government libertarians condemn the use of force and coercion for private individuals (e.g. robbery), but see no problem when the state commits the same acts (e.g. taxation).

Sure, an anarchist society could determine everyone has the right to murder/rob/etc., but our problems are bad enough when it's only the government robbing and murdering people (legitimately). I can't imagine why a society would decide it's OK for everyone!
Interactive CoffeeScript Streamatorium
There's certainly enough there for a search and an arrest, which is what has happened so far. If he is actually guilty, unless he was very careful (which so far, it sounds like he was not) with him in jail and access to his property the evidence against him is only going to increase.
I don't have a PV system, but I know people who do, so take this with a grain of salt: The default assumptions in that calculator are probably a little wrong.

First I think most people are paying closer to $5 per Watt, and I know someone who just refinanced his house in Long Beach at 3.5%, fixed. For comparison, the calculator assumes $10 per watt, and 8%. If you use halve the installed cost, there is obviously a big effect on the payback period (down to 6.5 years with tax incentives).
I for one don't mind the style, don't mind the media experience nor do I mind having one. It's distinct and unique and not hard to read for me, and perhaps even a modicrum of useful- bringing sessions into focus.

It is, however, entirely mobile hostile.
Actually the discussion at the newsgroup is more about Java's GC vs malloc/free.

In GC enabled systems programming languages like the Oberon family, Modula-3, D, Sing#, one has finer control over the types of available memory.

- The usual GC allocated memory with the usual set of possible GC implementations

- Stack objects

- Global objects statically allocated

- Manual memory management inside unsafe blocks via untraced GC references

Not all GCs are made alike.
I'm sorry, you're right. I should not have assumed otherwise.
I'm curious if Destructoid paid a licensing fee to use Hopper's art. I'm skeptical that adding another figure (sad Keanu or not) qualifies this for "fair use" in this particular case.

And if they're skipping out on that payment then calling out people who block ads makes me think of a certain kettle and pot.

If they are paying for that content then props to them for practicing what they preach.
Wasn't that Google's big schtick 8 years ago? That their text ads were as effective but not annoying as hell?

Then they bought doubleclick and the animated display ads came right back...
You can do `cat /dev/sda` on a live server (as root) without any special stuff like LVM or a hypervisor, it just isn't guaranteed to take a clean image, as it isn't a snapshot. In most cases you'd probably just need to run fdisk to tidy it up and get 99% of the data back in one piece.
"By its very nature that question constrains the possibilities of Glass by attempting to label it. Falling into that trap leads to less insight, not more."

Haha, that's a nice piece of rhetorical sophistry.

It is good to keep an open mind on the different possibilities. However, the art of strategic thinking requires you to make decisions in the face of uncertainty. Until you can fill in that blank, you can't make decisions right now and place your bets.

That is the point of this exercise. There is a key insight in the article, and it can be applied to something like the Google Glasses. If you cannot discern it, you're more likely to be running off of unexamined emotions instead of a vision of what's to come.
This is the LinkedIn profile described in released report. I had to check because we got the same major at the same university within 5 years of each other.
Maybe this is one of the reasons the dependencies are being split up http://dot.kde.org/2013/09/25/frameworks-5 (for KDE generally; I imagine Krita would benefit though know no details).
Many sites do this, but the problem with Adblock that most people are not happy about is that it AUTOMATICALLY blocks everything. You have to whitelist, and most people just turn adblock on and leave it be... If it was required to blacklist instead of whitelist it'd be better. Many sites with non-intrusive ads are being blocked because of this and that's detrimental. It's already hurting many businesses to the point that soon content online is gonna be behind a paywall and you're gonna end up having to pay $5/mo for every site you want to view.
At least CA's site is up and running. WA's site (https://www.wahealthplanfinder.org) has been down since the first. My project for down moments today is to try and determine how much it cost to develop. (Oops, I guess it's up now, just slow, and has an invalid cert.)
Is there any reason to think that this will be better than wsdl style descriptions? To wit, WADL tried this, but it seems to have stalled heavily.

I should add I do not find WSDL/WADL as horrible as it could be. There is something nice about being able to generate a client in one of any given number of languages that can hit a service. Sorta sucks when you can't do that with a traditional workflow in REST.
Love the creative use of pinch zoom
>Can't Microsoft NOT copy something for a change?

I don't think this particular criticism is fair since the copying was done ~18 years ago.
Does straightalk work pretty well nationwide? How does it compare to major carriers?
Joblint (https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint) points out "sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails" in job descriptions. Pretty clever.
Sites don't run crappy ads because they hate you. Those bottom-of-the-barrel network ads don't even pay well.

They run those ads because they can't figure out how to more effectively monetize their traffic.
Shouldn't they be able to track the bitcoin payments?
http://www.azulsystems.com/technology/c4-garbage-collector
Are you going to make it easy to make longer ones, too? This kind of feels like Vine, but it's cool that you can use them in private with texting, too!
StrongLoop | How-to: Heap Snapshots and Handling Node.js Memory Leaks
This is the best thing MS has done in years. I was just trying to remember what this game was called, and now it's on the web, and plays great.

Now they just need to release web versions of Age of Empires, Age of Empires 2, and maybe do a new version of Combat Flight Simulator...
Hey no worries. Thanks for pointing it out, I just (wrongly) assumed that since the show was over everyone around the world had watched it. But definitely go ahead and get to it because it's incredible :D

The parallels between the show and what just happened with this Ross guy are pretty mind blowing.. ($80MM is a key point, then the fact about him turning from a 'nice justice oriented dude' to a total bad guy)
Now all we are missing is a code generator that generates a stubbed site based on the raml spec...
Thanks! I heart genetic algorithms.
Suicidegirls (nsfw) (this is 2004) had subscribers, and they could turn on ads if they wanted to. The ads were carefully selected, and had rules about not flashing or having noises. The ads appeared on on place on the page and were a fixed size.

This was great for everyone. People who hate ads turned them off. People who don't care left them on, and they were unobtrusive. Some people liked the ads. (Yes, they clicked relevant ads, and bought stuff from the vendors.)

I have no idea how that can be expanded.
Working fine for me on Chrome 29.0.1547.76 on 2013 13in MacAir
This image gives an idea of UI: http://www.openscg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pgstudio_s...
I see that you don't know what the Climate Corporation does, even though most people know you can visit the website and read.
Clearly there is a pain point with PostgreSQL and GUI front-ends. Wish I could see the site.
Dread Pirate Roberts' questions on StackOverflow
Care to elaborate what is the exact mechanism by which MT perpetuates poverty? Given two worlds, one with MT and one without, what exactly are the opportunities that poor people are deprived of in the former which are available in the latter?
The "non-aggression principle" is basically a propaganda con by libertarians, though.

The way this works is that they take their own favorite definition of personal property, and then re-define the word "aggression" as: "anything that violates my definition of personal property, and nothing else".

So, when a land owner shoots somebody who mis-stepped onto his land without warning, that is not aggression according to libertarians - if you really take them seriously.

Obviously, when you point that out to a libertarian, an endless game of shifting definition starts, much like how many discussions about the existence of god go with theists.

If you're interested in a well-argued and entertainingly written outsiders' perspective on this, I recommend Matt Bruenig. Here's a starting point: http://www.demos.org/blog/8/21/13/fun-times-libertarianism
Well, all my income comes from the US too. The only time I worked about 6 months for Polish branch of Intel in Poland, it was easy like piece of cake. I did it with Turbo Tax.

I just can't take seriously anyone claiming that somehow US taxation is worse than that of the EU and the same goes with dealing with burocracy in general. It is MUCH worse in the EU. Just had to pay 1,000 EUR of fine on a border for 'smuggling' a MacBook I bought on a trip to the US. And that's on top of the VAT and other taxes. So, not really sure what all that BS is all about. Because when you compare EU to the US, EU leaves its population just with enough money to pay for day-2-day living expenses and not much more. HORRIBLE!
LinkedIn and Google+ gave away the owner of the internet’s largest drug market
The problem is that just because a site uses non-annoying ads today doesn't mean it will not use annoying ads tomorrow.
If it's the same person, there's a Ross Ulbricht who has a BS in Physics from UT, and would be 29. Best friends with this guy[1], who lives in SF (from Austin), and declares himself as best friends.

https://twitter.com/RJPinnell

http://renepinnell.com/homepage.html
Sure, why shouldn't it (from their perspective). MS didn't enable WebGL out of OpenGL enthusiasm. They did as much as was needed to enable the API on the Web. As I wrote, they didn't drop their OpenGL hostility in other areas yet.
Good question. Would you like longer videos? My hope was to make it as easy to make as a photo, hence opting for a shorter video.
Somebody know the name of the song of the soundtrack?
it's on AT&T's network. So it should be about the same.
> Does anyone know if there any systems like mechanical turk that guarantee at least minimum wage is being paid to the workers?

I think that was the whole point behind Mobileworks, don't know how well they are doing though.
https://www.mobileworks.com/company/fair-trade-work
It does cost you if the ad revenue is supposed to cover your bandwidth costs. If you're hosting something heavy and users don't offset it by clicking the ads every once in a while, it's a problem. Also there are plugins out there which will load the ad content, but never display it - that means if you pay to advertise somewhere, you just paid for nothing (service was provided, but noone saw the ad).
U.S. Opposes Tech Companies’ Requests to Disclose Surveillance
3) Don't live in the US
well, the current short length is nice for a reaction, but I sometimes capture a little bit more on Vine. Maybe this is simpler/better how it currently works. Just wondering.
Thank you for that. Why do the US legal system still use typewriters in 2013 ?
The benefit of malloc/free (or new/delete) is that you have control over your own memory layout to handle optimizations like cache alignment, keeping relevant data contiguous, deferring pauses that would introduce latency and such.
Oops BlackBerry even worse off than it thought
based on my training and experience, wow crazy read.
Thoughts on FREEDOM (an essay by Ross Ulbricht aka? Dread Pirate Roberts)
I don't have much data yet, but on our B2B news sites it appears to be in the 4% to 9% range depending on the industry.

I don't think ad blocking specifically is behind the trend away from leaderboards and towards "native content" advertising, but it's only going to accelerate it.
So… don't talk about Fight Club?
Starting on page 24,

1) Located the first reference to "silk road" on the internet. You can find this yourself on Google:
"silk road" site:shroomery.org Date range: Jan 1,2011 - Jan 31,2011 *

2) The same username, "altoid", showed up on a bitcointalk days later.

3) Later in 2011 "altoid" made a post on bitcointalk with his email address, containing his real name, in it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47811.msg568744#msg5...
If you search the name on Google it doesn't show up, but if you look at the user's page you can see it in his posts.

That seems like more than enough for a warrant for this individual. Everything after that should be easy.

I've used Google before to locate when a particular word or phrase first appeared. Kind of surprising someone didn't figure this one out quicker.

* Obviously this is a common word, so either adding other keywords with it would be likely.
'tis the season to justify wire-snooping. Congress closes session in a month or so.
And now Google has released a new IDE for making annoying animated ads.
Blame the websites for that, when you create an ad unit you have the option of selecting text only or text and image ad units.
You want to confirm other people disable javascript?

https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/noscript/
If you're running a private criminal enterprise bringing in millions of dollars, why would you risk drawing attention to yourself by putting you manifesto on LinkedIn allowing them to xref your crazy with your lack of unemployment?
It continues: http://imgur.com/6XRxpkk
I have not read it yet, but from what others have quoted, it looks like a disk image was made and handed over in July. Nothing else.

The disk image would of course contain the heavily encrypted data of SR (wallets, transactions, messages).

So unless the private key was on the server right next to the public key (AKA the Linode Incident), or the site did not encrypt that data (which goes against what we have seen so far), the disk image would not compromise that much.
I'm not so sure. There are only a handful of popular ad-blockers, and on most people's browsers, they update automatically. If PageFair's techniques can be defeated, they'll be defeated systematically and simultaneously for every ad-blocking user as soon as the workaround is implemented. So it's basically binary. If PageFair just doesn't work at all (or can't be expected to for a meaningful amount of time), then it's not going to sell well.

Contrast that to McAfee. They're fighting a long, generally losing arms race with virus writers, but note that in practice they still protect your computer from a lot of viruses. So users need them. If all the viruses in the wild could all be simultaneously upgraded to circumvent the scanner, it would be a different story and everyone would just think of virus scanners as a thing that doesn't work.
Science isn't even about "proofs", christ you are a nut. Where do people like you get these ideas?
I guess you tried the Lachesis from Razr? that one is larger, not so as the Rats.
Absolutely. Great phone all around other than that!
"... Ubuntu is by now by far the smoothest desktop experience I've had"

Is that 13.10 with Mir active (ppa install at present)? I find 12.04 good but 13.10 has issues with the hardware I use.

"...and I suspect that's the experience most users have."

I trust it is most but there are hardware combinations where the experience is not as good. Slower computers with poor graphics lead to significant lag when Super key is pressed (there is a lot happening when you invoke the Dash).
How are you sure this has not already happened?
It'll be interesting to see how this effects the value BTC trades at...