skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bravo!

A key under-discussed factor therein: making it work necessitates a deep change of lifestyle. 110v always-on >50 amp service normalizes comforts and conveniences ("OMG I have nothing to wear tomorrow" laundry, smooth-top electric stoves 'cuz they look nice, no concern about peak usage, weather awareness, gratuitous A/C usage, vast non-12v product availability, etc.), and most people really don't want to give that up. I grew up on wood heat & other off-grid norms in a cold climate; much later in life I realized that what I considered normal and pleasant, most [sub]urbanites recoil from in horror.
how many paperbacks does $50 get you these days?

In a used bookshop? At least fifty.
I can replicate/confirm that.

It's on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j0lHe_BZgA
So the the Mturk worker would check the article for the email, if it's listed great, if not they might Google it?
this might be a fruit of the fact that feds infected the tor network last month.
Why Are Canadian Investors Skeptical?
Just in case the PDF is down for anyone else, here's a link to CoralCDN:

http://krebsonsecurity.com.nyud.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/...
Not cautious enough to not be in the US
There's a third audience, those people who think capitalism and socialism each have their pros and cons. It's larger than you think: since we find the for/against VC/RMS debates rather tiresome and fruitless, except for the purpose of clarifying our own world views, we don't end up saying much.
The work of the FSF and GNU is one of the most important in the history of computing. We benefit daily from the values of freedom, respect, and choice it presents. We also benefit from the abundance of knowledge and technologies that is openly available to all.

However, these rights and privileges must not be taken for granted and must continue to be protected. It is also in our interest to choose solutions and businesses that respect their users and their liberties.
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As someone who's never participated in a bounty what is the difference between a "clean" vs. "non-clean" hit?
Heres the complaint- Notable that, on page 30, it seems the fBI was able to partially deduce his identity based in part by his stack overflow questions. http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ulbric...
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I'd be interested to know how library ebook lending actually works. Are the original files hosted by the library, or does the library instead pass some sort of time-limited token to the reader which the publisher redeems for a copy of the text? I don't know anyone who works for a library, and I've never borrowed an ebook from a library; I'd be obliged to anyone with domain knowledge who'd care to describe the process here.
In this current age, its more likely that the NSA is behind it. We are at a point where we need evidence that the NSA didn't help.
The problem is, that in a P2P system you don't have only scammers that will not fulfill the trade. You also have careless people, who will mess something up, forget about the transaction, delete their clients/wallets, etc. With this schema, you are forcing the one party to take responsibility of stupidity of other.
I don't agree with you. Therefore you lack the mental wherewithal to understand my point of view. I mean just look at all these connections I make between unrelated things. I also have all these cool statistics I made up to prove (not really) my point, so obviously you're wrong.

In all seriousness, though, maybe the programming you've done has been a slog. I'm sure I speak for quite a few programmers here on HN in kindly asking you to not call us all stupid for liking something you don't.
To say little of getting the training necessary to fly an airliner. It may not be the hardest thing in the world, but it's hardly easy.
For over a year, we've experimented pricing our app from Free to $0.99, $1.99 and even tested $19.99. The app also has IAPs, so the free version could be monetized.

Here's our findings:

1) People who download the app for free tend to buy much less IAPs than people who paid for it. It seems they want the free app to stay free as long as possible.

2) We make much more money pricing the app at $1.99 than we do at $0.99. We do sell more units at a dollar, but only lose about 30% - 40% unit sales when we price it at $1.99.

3) People who pay for the app are more active users than people who got it for free.

4) We still made a nice profit pricing the app at $19.99, yet made substantially less than $1.99.

5) We removed the free "trial" version and saw sales increase. Our app got a lot of coverage (WIRED, TC, Mashable) so most people knew what they were getting into without the need for a trial version.

6) I think $1.99 and above is a fair price for devs who regularly update their apps. The good thing about pricing it above a dollar is, you can make 50% discounts every other month to drive sales on "on-the-fence" potential buyers.
I have to agree with the comment from johnjlocke. Also, many job descriptions focus too much on providing a laundry list of requirements and don't touch on what the role can mean for the candidate (how they can help the company achieve its larger goals and how it can help the right candidate do challenging things they love). Plug: We have a guide on our site gleaned from experience helping to recruit and hire tech roles for our portfolio companies: http://labs.openviewpartners.com/boring-job-descriptions/

Also, here's a list of three examples of great job descriptions from TLNT you can check out: http://www.tlnt.com/2012/08/02/three-awesome-examples-of-gre...
Atlantis Market was spun up not to long ago, including a full length animated commercial for the site. Many believe it was just an elaborate honey pot ran by law enforcement to entrap users, and it failed to gain any adoption.

Black Market Reloaded is where most of the SR users will go.
I was thinking of rolling the natgas and german problem together, such that red storm rising 2015 (as opposed to 1985) would look a lot like they threaten to cut off natgas exports to europe (knowing the upcoming war is going to temporarily cut off exports anyway) then things escalate until it appears some (fill in the blank nationality) blows up a .ru pipeline outta spite therefore its time to retaliate against Germany.

Probably the biggest plot hole would be since the book was written both sides learned from Afghanistan (and the US from Iraq) that simply rolling tanks in works WRT militarily controlling the territory the tanks sit on, but not at controlling the rest of the territory or the economy or pretty much anything else. In the very long run, a tank is pretty good at controlling the sand shaded underneath it, not much beyond.

You'd need a new strategy for controlling the oil. Probably indirect WRT govt coup / support in the M.E. Maybe use conventional WWIII in europe to lure as many US forces as possible out of the middle east then coup time and install puppets in charge of Saudi Arabia and Iraq and maybe some others.

If I were playing a cardboard or silicon wargame as the USSR in a RSR scenario, that's pretty much how I'd play it. I think I'd have reasonably good chance as long as it stays conventional. In the long run I'd worry about natgas exports in the future, the west is not going to be amused at buying gas from their recent enemies, so how are you going to fix your massive trade imbalance? Maybe sell the excess natgas to China for A.N. fertilizer production, they always want more food... Yeah, I could win it, I think. The USA/NATO player would be fighting a logistics war to keep the M.E. and .eu under control at the same time. Leading to unrestrained submarine warfare by .ru? Crazier things have happened.
"If you don't write it down, it never happened."

Thanks, Tom.
I remember when discussions like this happened all the time over Apples DRM music.

Enough people bitched and complained, and now when you buy music on iTunes it comes with twice the bitrate and has no DRM. Why? Because it helped their sales. I made my first iTunes purchase the week they went DRM free, as their service was more convenient than digging up a torrent for an obscure album.

I think (and really hope) it's only a matter of time before the same happens with EBooks. If I could buy non-DRM epubs, I would do it all the time just for the convenience. It saves me having to dig it up on the internet, or fiddling around in Calibre to get the thing readable.
Ask HN: UX Books / Wait for revised/updated or buy now?
As a developer/designer, I'm trying to get a better understanding of UX design. To get started I wanted to dive into some books like "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug and "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman.

When I checked on Amazon, I noticed that both of these books have a revised/updated versions coming out within the next two months. Does it make sense to wait and look towards other authorities on the subject? or are the the "current" editions worth jumping on right away?

Thanks for any help on the matter. I know there are a ton of books on the subject, but my searches keep leading me back to these two authors. If anyone has other authors/books/blogs that they can recommend that would be amazingly helpful too.
It's almost chilling how casual DPR is in asking for a hit. A departure from a "clean" tech-whiz and marketplace-operator into a true criminal boss.

Almost an analog for "Walter White," who also made $80mm on his calamitous journey from "honest" meth-cooker to kingpin.
Yeah, this is absolutely stunning stuff. No doubt plenty will immediately cry foul and say that he's been set up, but let's wait and see what the investigation shows.
If DPR actually paid to have someone killed, it would surprise everyone who knew anything about him. He's thought to be a libertarian and totally against the use of force.
The Hunt for Red October is THE book that comes to my mind when I think of Tom Clancy. It was the only book I was thinking when I saw this link and came here. Glad to see it mentioned in the top comment.

On the games front, I am a huge fan of Splinter Cell series. Both the gamer, and the voracious reader in me would miss him.
Very interesting. Start on page 24 for the technical details.
Co-Founder Drama
Excuse my imprecision; I should've said "how many new mass-market paperbacks does $50 get you these days?" Most of what you find in a used book store isn't available in ebook format at any price, at least in my experience of used book stores.
I would infer clean means no trace, where non-clean means just do it, don't worry about cleaning up.
That's a real page-turner. I found this particular item funny on page 30:

"Based on my training and experience, I know that criminals
seeking to hide their identity online will often use
pseudonymous usernames to conceal their identity."
So he's a hypocrite and/or got corrupted by money and fear...not saying he is a good person, just that in retrospect his linkedin page is pretty transparent to confirm who he is and what he's doing based on his market anarchist writings posted under the DPR name, etc
"fingerprint or pin" means that when the fingerprint scanner doesn't work, you can use the pin to unlock your phone. "fingerprint and pin" means that when the scanner stops working, you are locked out. Apple has obviously decided this is more of a risk/inconvenience than the extra security justifies.
Anyone who has to manage a cluster of any size must.
I would imagine a 'clean hit' is one made to look like an accident and a 'non-clean' one doesn't take the same precautions?

The police couldn't find a record of the alleged murder victim, so I'm guessing that "redandwhite" and "friendlychemist" were the same person, just playing a con on DPR to get some cash.
Maybe the comment was more about the agricultural economy. Most farmers have been and continue to be small-scale farmers (a few acres?), and since there are a lot more people in Asia, I'd expect a lot more farmers. I'm guessing that climate changes would hit 1000 people each with 2-acre farms in Asia differently than it would the pocketbook of 1 person with a 2000 acre farm in America that grows crops that get partially subsidized by the US govt. The role the govt plays (or doesn't, for example, b/c of excessive corruption), is also a factor.
Hypothetical Twist: The hitman is actually the same guy he's trying to have killed, just under a separate, anonymous account.

Hypothetical Meta Twist: DPR actually suffers from multiple personality disorder and is also the guy he's trying to kill and thus also the hitman.

A truly anonymous system really poses some hard problems, man.
Well it'll definitely have to be self-hosted and open source. It's a nonstarter to have to work in a particular ecosystem off the bat for me. I don't know what setup I'll want to be running in 10 years.
> rich middle class people

That is an oxymoron. By definition, middle class is in the middle, not rich.
> The difference in user experience between the two is none.

Then why use Mir? ducks
Good find. He (or this account) even lists a personal phone number on a video uploaded two years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D16fm5NgsA
Those reasons aren't good enough reasons to split the community. They're reasons to negotiate and to help improve Wayland.
You do realize that Android uses the GNU/Linux kernel, right?
Does MTurk work outside the US?
It's a subsidy if they're paying residential solar power generators more than they would pay other power sources. I don't know if that is true in the UK, but again to use Ontario as an example, here you get paid almost $0.40 per kWh, while on the open market the power authority pays just $0.03. The difference is a substantial subsidy.
Not totally surprising since SR was mentioned before Congress over a year ago, and some leaked documents mentioned ongoing investigation. I've been telling people it's just a matter of time before it's shut down and that you should stockpile now before it's too late.

Let's hope SR hasn't been keeping any real identifying transaction records, or I bet we'll see a spate of high-profile arrests from tech companies.
"The Google News Search API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011."
Atlantis was a scam, read the posts of all the people that could not withdraw their Litecoins and Bitcoins in that week they said they were going to stay open for withdrawals.

Then the site went dark and took everything.
Twitter IPO Watchers Seek User Revenue That Tops Facebook
First and foremost, I didn't state as a definite fact. The rest of your argument ...oh well.
Though, IIRC, in the book the pilot of the plane was an actual airline pilot: hard to defend against an "inside job".
>> This implies that books aren't licensed but they are. The paper and glue isn't but the text is.

You own the paper book. The words are protected by copyright, sure, but that's not the same as the restrictive lease that ebooks are subject to. Very different beast.
I went through the evidence portion of this (page 24 onwards) and found that inspite of a pretty deep look into everything there isn't much to tie this guy to the Silk Road operation. There are a few things that could tie them together:

- The fact that the SSH KEY on the server was for frosty@frosty.com which was the same thing he changed his Stackoverflow profile to..

- The fact that he asked on stackoverflow how to curl over tor

- The fact that he apparently tried to promote Silk Road on two forums

This stuff certainly points towards him being the guy, but is this evidence enough ?

<BreakingBadSPOILER>And I'm asking this 'cause Jessie's video confession to Hank wasn't enough to get Walt... </BreakingBadSPOILER>

What the document tantalizingly avoids is how they managed to find out where the Silk Road servers are. It mysteriously states that there are several Silk Road servers around the world and the FBI gained access and got an image of the server through cooperation with one of the hosts. How did they get to the servers behind the Tor network ? This is a very interesting technical question and honestly, I'm impressed.

Following the whole Kim Dotcom debacle I'd like to see how this seriously loaded ($90MM) guy progresses through the justice system.
Came here to say the same. Thanks for sharing.
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And this is also an issue. The crime of downloading books you do not own and the $150,000 fine you've listed are so completely and ridiculously disproportionate that it is hard to take seriously.
All the other books clearly are written with (movie/video game) in the back of his mind, but that one was just straight prose.

His next four books were written before The Hunt for Red October came out in film form.
Since Apache can be relicensed as I understand, doesn't that mean GNU people could just slap GPL on there if that's what stops them using it? Isn't this how they usually integrate FF anyways, by renaming it something to something like Icyfox and changing its license?
Exactly. Full instructions for the worker are available here: http://screencast.com/t/HBl34oh58p
What's even more interesting is

Although I believe the foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit
a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Canadian law enforcement authorities, who
have no record of there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to
redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire. Nor do they have any
record of a homicide occurring in White Rock, British Columbia on or about
March 31, 2013.
That hypocrisy grabbed me too. The complaint, when talking about his background makes special note of this;

After going to Penn St for a grad degree in materials science,

"Ulbrecht states that his 'goals' subsequently 'shifted'. Ulbricht
elaborates, obliquely, that he has since focused on "creating an
"economic simulation" designed to "give people a first-hand experience
of what it would be like to live in a world without the systemic use of
force" by "institutions and governments."
There's no doubt whatsoever in my mind that WP's popularity is joined at the hip with the availability of cheapo LAMP hosting.
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ObamaCare (Affordable Care Act) Is Not An Insurance Or Healthcare Problem
considering non-clean is twice the price of clean, I would guess non-clean includes "sending a message"/torture before the death.
It is called a subsidy because the feed-in-tariff you get is generally more than the market rate for the electricity produced. Also in many countries, you lock in a certain tariff for many years (20-25 years) so the amount you get paid vs market rate diverges even more over time.
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Simple tool checks Apple stores for iPhone 5S stock
For $200 they've got to make some compromises somewhere.
fwknop ( http://www.cipherdyne.com/fwknop/ ) uses a single connection try (with certificates and that cannot be replayed even if captured) to open a port. It adds another potential point of failure in your chain to access, but if is simple and well tested enough could work as a protection.

And the main reason to have port knocking (over, i.e. fail2ban) is not stopping brute force attacks, but future vulnerabilties and exploits in services that should not be used by the whole internet. If there are very few persons, or machines that should connect to a service (and the origin IPs are not fully known to enable just them in the firewall) putting a fwknop or similar layer over that services should avoid external people to even try to connect to those services.

And there actually had been vulnerabilities in ssh, vpns, puppet (a remote code execution vulnerability for it has been patched this very week) and more that could had been exploited before you knew about them.

Also, "plain" port knocking could be protected against brute force scanning by having trap ports, if you hit them, then your IP is blocked. That won't protect from MITM that see how you connect (NSA at the very least), but will prevent scanning.
In case you are wondering why he was out for FriendlyChemist, this claims that user was extorting him for $500k by threatening to release the information of thousands of Silk Road users.

Here's the part I don't understand:

* A user friendlychemist threatens DPR.

* DPR asks friendlychemist to refer his "supplier" to DPR.

* redandwhite says he was "asked to contatct" DPR by friendlychemist and friendlychemist owes redandwhite money

* DPR asks for a hit from redandwhite on friendlychemist

That makes zero sense to me. Why would you assume those two users are not the same person or aren't at least allies?
> we are experiencing higher than expected users.

Dammit, Californians, stop smoking all that pot so we can get to the obamacare website!
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Latest GMail for Android update puts device in infite reboot loop
Ebooks kill things like book crossing (http://www.bookcrossing.com/)

I'm going to spend thousands on books over the rest of my life, and it's very frustrating that I won't be able to leave those to my family when I die. Unless I break the law to remove DRM.
I formatted your post a bit better so it's readable on mobile devices, but I agree.

32. Although I believe foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's
intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with
Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of
there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to
redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire.
Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White
Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013"

Since the police couldn't find a record of the alleged murder victim, I'm guessing that "redandwhite" and "friendlychemist" were the same person playing a con on DPR to get some cash.
I could do the same myself and certainly will next year. The only appliance I have that consumes mega power is the washing machine. I've got a gas Aga that can be converted to solid fuel if need be and provides most of the heating as well and the only other things already work on 12v.

I don't own a toaster, dryer, kettle, microwave or massive television. I have LED lighting everywhere as well and have programmed my family to turn the lights off.

3 children, 2 adults, 2 guinea pigs = £230 a year in electricity!

Not bad for a tech family.

only problem is losses associated with 12v wiring.

I probably don't have to fish out €6000 either for my needs.
Now I get it. Alternative title: Let me introduce you to Miklos.
Reminds of how criminals wear religious symbols like golden crosses. I think the biggest and perhaps only believer in his anarchost theories was himself.
Perhaps he really likes In and Out burgers.