skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they want to get you, they will. Reading how they got him, but I wouldn't be surprised if NSA handed them the info informally and then the FBI had to find another way to justify it. When you know the end results, "connecting the dots" is much easier. Parallel construction http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUKBRE9... and all.
In practical terms, my guess is that focusing will:

- occur noticeably faster (for potentially faster shots)

- use less power (for longer battery life)

-- The fast/re-engineered focusing might then enable you to take photos in new modes, e.g: in an "idiot proof" spray, quickly snapping shots at different focus depths very quickly - which you can select from afterwords.

I don't personally see much appeal of the 'idiot proof' application yet, (though I could be convinced) but the first two seem like decent improvements.
It sounds like you have enough skills. Maybe the only skill you need to develop is how to sell yourself to the type of companies you want to work for.

If you don't mind some completely unsolicited advice:

I just checked out your HN profile and found a link to your blog. I checked the blog and it is fairly empty with only two posts, and I see no Github link. That's the first thing a good startup company is going to look at if they think you might be a candidate for a position: your blog and your github.

I managed to track you down on Github via a Google Search and while two repos seemed empty for some reason, Harlan looks pretty cool and non trivial, showing a good level of technical skill.

The primary things I'd do if I were you is simplify and expand the message on your blog to explain who you are and what skills you have and link to Github prominently. Maybe on Github put up some more projects from a variety of different domains, and write a few more blog posts about those projects.

Additionally blog theme says a lot about you. Right now the ideal blog design if you want to come across as a "startup engineer" is something that looks like Medium or Svtble. Your blog theme looks like a Tumblr.

(No offense intended but another slight thing to adjust might be the photo on your blog. Obviously appearance isn't everything but in that photo it looks to me like you have a smirk instead of a smile for some reason. If you choose to include a photo it has to be one that makes you look like someone goodnatured and a great employee, because people hiring in behalf of a company are going to get one of their first impressions of you based on the photo, before they even look at the Github.)

Anyway, once again I hope you aren't offended by my well intentioned by completely unsolicited advice. For what it is worth I'm sure that you can get an interesting coding job at an interesting company.
So the best way to change things is to leave no choice? Dictator-style?
Ask HN: Who is using RichRelevance onsite recommendations?
Anybody here using RichRelevance for onsite product recommendations and/or personalization? What's your experience?
Fair enough. You have to be careful taking this argument too far, though, or you end up saying something like no other browser besides IE should be developed, because it increases the attack surface.

Ultimately, individual users have to take charge of their own individual attack surface. If switching from one Flash player to another increases their personal security, it's a good thing.
And sold out.
Any reason you don't root? Just rooted and installed CM10.1 on my Verizon Galaxy S3 the other day and it's night and day difference. So much better than the crap they'd be pushing anyway.
Thanks for the comment. Just out of curiosity, what does "iterate & push quickly" mean in your context? Some people use that to mean releasing every few hours; some every few months. What release frequency are you aiming for?
Flask suffers from the same basic problem, though slightly less so because it has fewer core principles that would break if the response/request cycle were removed or augmented by a consistent connection assumption.
Well, (this is a phrase that has never popped out of my mouth) in fairness to the hijackers, they planned for over a year. They flew enough to be top-tier elite frequent flyers, planned out which flights would have the fewest people and the most fuel, arranged their seats such that they could properly control the most real estate, and so on.

So, while I agree that security theater is everywhere, in the case of the hijackers, they actually planned and developed their process very carefully.
That is currently $243.43 and I don't know what is involved in ordering from England and shipping to America. It's out of stock in the United States.
> If anyone doesn't meet the transaction contract (send the money or send the bitcoins), both lose the deposit.

Am I understanding this correctly that if a buyer tries to scam the seller in whatever way (i.e. will initially sign the transactions but ultimately doesn't pay) then the seller will lose his deposit? If that's the case then it won't work. I ran a P2P Bitcoin exchange and it's a pretty common thing to have "fake buyers" who place offers but ultimately don't fulfill them. With a third party you can resolve these kind of situations easily, it's much harder without them.
Wow, that's pretty cool, we'll find a way to integrate it :)
Ask HN: How do I architect secure web apps?
Let's say you are building an app with sensitive data - think a bank or healthcare. We have been brainstorming ideas and it seems like either my co-workers are over engineering or am I just not seeing it? These guys are all very sharp and more experienced than myself, so I need some help from you guys to point me in the right direction.

My architecture:
---------------------
---FIREWALL---
DMZ: Web servers (talking to internal APIs & web services)

---FIREWALL---
Internal Layer 1: Web servers Running APIs talking to master databases directly

DB Layer: Master database server with sensitive data restricted through SQL server built-in authentication and roles, etc...

Their architecture:
------------------------
---FIREWALL---
DMZ: Web server with a de-normalized read-only copy of the data we need

---FIREWALL---
Internal Layer 1: API servers and "platform databases" profiles, permission, etc...

Internal Layer 2: Integration layer pushing and syncing data between layer 3 and above - probably pub/sub through SSIS (sql server integration services)

Internal Layer 3: Master database server with sensitive data

What do you all think? Is all the necessary work of pub/sub, multiple read-only databases and so on necessary? Does it really provide any extra security?
iMX is also a Freescale application processor series, though unless they've introduced a new line under that product family I don't think it fits their part number scheme.
If I had an office, with floor to ceiling walls, and a door that closed and even locked, I would like it very much.
I'd love to see a collection of how much these sites cost to build per state.
A VPN is also a fine answer. I'm marginally more worried about the code quality of something like openvpn than I am about openssh at this point, but six of one.

I think the "clandestine entry point" stuff is mostly a psychological benefit.
It was a downgrade in over all picture taking from my galaxy s2. In a large part about the focusing ability.
Now the question is who will step in to fill his shoes. How much of Silk Road's infrastructure is open and reusable? The market has been created, the users exist - they'll be looking for a replacement.

Of course, after this I think most would-be entrepreneurs might be having second thoughts.
The IRS has already thought about this scheme. If you are a US citizen, you need to report all foreign bank accounts if the sum of foreign money is over $10k. Failure to do so is a $100k fine. I expect there are other problems here.

I had heard that you could license your software to your company, which is advantageous since apparently license fees are taxed at capital gains rates (15%). I have not verified this, however.
His linkedin page is pretty transparent if you know anything about him

"Now, my goals have shifted. I want to use economic theory as a means to abolish the use of coercion and agression amongst mankind. Just as slavery has been abolished most everywhere, I believe violence, coercion and all forms of force by one person over another can come to an end. The most widespread and systemic use of force is amongst institutions and governments, so this is my current point of effort. The best way to change a government is to change the minds of the governed, however. To that end, I am creating an economic simulation to give people a first-hand experience of what it would be like to live in a world without the systemic use of force."
While my ASP.NET knowledge isn't deep (I've only ever modified existing code), it seemed like the request/response cycle wasn't abstracted away so much as HTTP was.
In other words, redhat doesnt make money from open source. But nobody ever complains when they're held up as the poster child for how to make money from open source.
If you do decide to try it. Build up a bit of buffer so you don't feel the need to get a god client on day one. The market right now is really good so it's a good time to check out how it works for you.

Good luck in any case.
Somewhat amusing list of YouTube videos recently liked by this guy: "How to Get Away with Stealing" and "Privacy: A PostMortem" are right on top. http://www.youtube.com/user/ohyeaross
If one of the parts doesn't fulfill its order, both the buyer and the seller lose the same amount of Bitcoins. That's the way we prevent scam!
Watch those bitcoin tickers!
Lots of offshore development going in the Gulf of Guinea!

This map is extremely helpful. Thanks gsa!
Are email addresses for the reporters on every article? I'd be interested to know what the stats are.
N.S.A. Experiment Traced U.S. Cellphone Locations
Yeah, I guess I should have qualified the above by saying that I've only used it with PHP/xdebug (so far).

Still, if you're trapped in the DBGP world for whatever reason, vdebug is miles better than any competition that I've found.
I actually got great results from the Galaxy Nexus -- check out http://www.instagram.com/nathankoren; all the shots prior to Dec 2012 were with the GN, and many of them are quite good. The main trick was to be extremely diligent about wiping down the lens prior to use, as a bit of grease or dirt on the lens will severely degrade the image.

When that phone died, I got a Nexus 4 -- and the camera was enough of a downgrade that I returned it two days later. Have been reasonably satisfied with my Galaxy 3 every since.

This MEMS stuff is interesting, but I really do wish that manufacturers would focus on providing larger sensors rather than more megapixels. Almost nobody actually needs 8MP from their phone, however every photograph benefits from a larger sensor.
When you know the end results, "connecting the dots" is much easier.

True, but "connecting the dots" is much easier when it's your job, and something you've spent decades practicing.

Not to say that you're wrong, but there's no evidence to back you up. We might as well assume that the NSA is behind everything, ever.
I don't see the problem here. The way I understand open source is that the source is available and can be distributed forward.

I think it's bit troubling to define Open Source as "Free" software as defined by GPL. That's very misleading as it is very far from free since you are not free to distribute any parts of your software with any other license.

GPL is like legal virus.

Thumbs up for the OP. Good, altruistic effort.
Great hack! Very impressed.
In other news: http://imgur.com/6XRxpkk
It's less that requests don't return a response than that a request and response is not assumed to be a clean transaction.
Obamacare, A Facebook Tale Of Poor Me, Hey Look I Got Screwed
A Facebook subscriber’s cancelation letter from BlueCross BlueShield gets over 93,000 shares. It’s no wonder people are confused when they depend on scare tactics, misinformation, and misrepresentation from Facebook posts, Hannity, Limbaugh, and Beck
Health Care Exchanges overwhelmed by demand
Yes, backup your data.
Did the Nexus 5 receive FCC approval before the US government shutdown kicked in?
I don't see that mentioned.
"All told, the site has generated sales revenue totaling over 9.5 million Bitcoins and collected commissions from these sales totaling over 600,000 Bitcoins. Although the value of Bitcoins has varied significantly during the site's lifetime, these figures are roughly equivalent today to approximately $1.2 billion in sales and approximately $80 million in commissions."

Incidentally exactly how much Walter White made... That's a strange coincidence, or perhaps one of the clerks that gets paid to make up statistics for drug related criminal complaints is a breaking bad fan...
Economic stimulus results: Science, medicine, green energy
Also posted to Stack Overflow using his personal name and email address about Tor questions generally
The weirdest part of the criminal complaint is that he tried to hire a hitman on Silk Road. Will be interesting to see how this pans out.
I really don't understand, why stay in the US doing that stuff when it's the most controlled place ever? even if he was pretty well hidden just leaving the US would have made his life a lot easier...
Hopefully someone who knows for sure will comment, as I didn't know that. Even if they did, though, I'm not sure I trust the government to stick to a long-term promise because I'm not even convinced the state pension will still exist when I reach my 70s ;-)
Not doing something unpleasant is valuable to most normal people
Sysomos (a MarketWired company) - http://www.sysomos.com/ - Toronto, Canada

Sysomos is redefining social media analytics with a powerful product suite that provides customers with the tools to measure, monitor, understand and engage with the social media landscape. Sysomos analyzes huge amounts of social data from Twitter (full firehose), YouTube, Facebook, forums, blogs and many more.

We are looking for extremely bright individuals to join us as Data Scientists in the Toronto Labs team. We are a newly created team tasked to bring new applied research to the Sysomos social analytic platform. We use a whole bunch of techniques (stats modeling, ML, text mining, graph analysis etc.) to analyze the massive amounts of social data we ingest.

Requirements:

* Advanced knowledge of data mining, machine learning, text mining, NLP or information retrieval.

* Hands-on experience in statistical computing software (R, MatLab, SPSS), big data analytics tools (e.g. Hadoop, Mahout, Map-Reduce, Impala), or NLP packages (e.g. OpenNLP, LingPipe).

* Experience with database, search, or indexing technologies (e.g. MySQL, Lucene/Solr).

* Strong programming background with advanced knowledge of algorithms and data structures in a popular language (Java, C/C++, Python, etc.) in a Linux environment.

* Bonus points for implementation of big data/streaming data analytics or visualization, or working with large-scale social media data (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+).

* Exceptional analytical, problem solving and communication skills are a must for close collaboration with colleagues and customers.

To apply contact me at bkeng@marketwired.com
This is unrealistic. Most sites I visit by following links without knowing in advance what their ads are like.

Of course it's realistic. I've been doing it for years.
I think what you're missing is that, for whatever reason, we are genetically programmed to seek balance. Whatever is missing in your childhood environment, you will search for as an adult.

The metaphor that comes to mind is this: imagine yourself as a spring, standing upright. In childhood, this spring was held down by a heavy boot. Now that the boot has lifted, what has happened to the spring? Is it back to the original height, or has it stretched even higher?
One week is great turnaround time! And for one or two developers, this would buy a nice chunk of time to continue developing the product. If only there were more things like that in America...
Not a big fan.
Wow, what a complete shitbag (DPR = Dread Pirate Roberts):

DPR sent a message to "redandwhite" stating that "FriendlyChemist"
is "Causing me problems" and adding: "I would like to put a bounty on
his head if it's not too much trouble for you. What would be an
adequate amount to motivate you to find him?"

And then

Later that same day, redandwhite sent DPR a message quoting him a
price of $150,000 or $300,000 "depending on how you want it done" -
"clean" or "non-clean"

DPR responded: "Don't want to be a pain here, but the price seems high.
Not long ago, I had a clean hit done for $80k. Are the prices you
quoted the best you can do? I would like this done ASAP as he is
talking about releasing the info on Monday.

DPR and redandwhite agreed upon a price of 1,670 Bitcoins - approximately
$150k - for the job. In DPR's message confirming the deal, DPR included
a transacation record reflecting the transfer of 1,670 Bitcoins to a
certain Bitcoin address.

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.
Global Warming & Climate Change Myths
This gets very scary on around page 21.

EDIT: But interestingly looks like canadian police can't confirm.
I wonder how the cost of ownership breaks down over time.

A library pays $15 for a physical book that requires re-shelving, index cards to be made and kept up, time spent searching when someone misplaced the book, floor space, shelving, off site storage, etc.

There's cost for storing ebooks too but a couple of Dell servers and a backup provider could handle even a fairly large library with less labor (probably the highest cost).

I don't know much about the library world so maybe $78 for an ebook is terrible but owning a thing isn't a fixed cost like the article pretends it to be.
I think the lead-time issue depends on how they document internally. If they provide 'first-class' documentation for their partners to consume which has already been sanitized of NDA-restricted disclosures, maybe all they need to do is remove the 'CONFIDENTIAL' header.

Though to be fair, I'd be shocked if this was the case. Most companies don't do the IP sanitization bit, which is why NDAs in those types of industries are viral in the same way as the GPL.
The government in the UK is by far the biggest player in the energy market. For example in any offshore energy development they are the land owner, planning authority, biggest planning consultee, regulator, and may tax and subsidize.

Market competition in energy is arguably more about access to capital than consumer choice. Currently individuals provide most of the money through tax and bills but only large energy companies can easily access the resulting capital. It is wrong to criticize individuals for wanting access to this money.
General rule of thumb if you're doing something illegal: shut up.
Well my Bitcoin investment is about to vanish...
It's interesting that the worlds most popular operating systems, Windows, iOS, and Android, use almost zero FSF software (the "system"), although much of Android is GPL licensed.
Comcast CEO: Aereo Illegal, A La Carte Never Happening
Mine as well. Seems pretty lucrative.
People say competition is a good thing, which I agree with. Competition is arguably the lynchpin of capitalism that keeps us from a slew of monopolies in each market.

It appears however that personal vendettas trump that sentiment based on the posts here.
Show HN: Lucidpress -- Adobe InDesign meets Google Docs
For anyone else who was similarly confused as to what this was even about without watching the video: Pandas is a Python data analysis toolkit, and Vincent is a Python library that makes it easy to build D3-based visualizations from Python.
I'm not sure one way or the other, and while it's clear that Ulbright was fairly sloppy, there are a few instances of serendipity:

1. The agent randomly (?) stumbling on a LinkedIn profile which matched the timeline/description of the Silkroad project, which prompted to seek another unidentified agent which had all kinds of juicy deets on the suspect.

2. CBP intercepted a package addressed to Ulbright containing a bunch of counterfeit official documents during a "routine border search".

3. Found Tor/PHP/curl-related posts on Stackoverflow from his real name account, but also says he changed his name/email to a fake one. Did they happen to stumble on it before he changed his name? Or had some kind of access to an earlier archive? Or cooperation from Stackoverflow? Unclear.

I'll update more as I run into them. Super interesting read.

Still, it's clear that they've done a ton of research on Silkroad and DPR. The notes are thorough and accurate. A job well done.
There are rarely email addresses on a particular article, it's usually a matter of tracking down the author and finding his/her email address.

We ended up getting addresses for about half of the article authors.
You can read ebooks on even a quite low-end smartphone; all you really need is a display large enough to present readable text. There are lots of cheap Android phones out there; you can get them subsidized on a cell contract and not pay anything out of pocket, or go prepaid instead and spend around $50 for a device capable of running Kindle for Android.

Sure, there's a small initial barrier to entry, in the sense that you have to have some device, where a paperback novel has no such constraint. On the other hand, how many paperbacks does $50 get you these days?
> The ATI 5870 exists to drive up to six monitors over displayport under EyeFinity

Are you saying the open source driver cannot drive size monitors?
>Flash, when used badly, becomes a self-contained sandbox for the entire experience of a website.

This same argument is true for Canvas, SVG, WebGL etc.
My small province wasted 1 million Euros in a bad looking, useless, magento site that will be close after next elections. This is how I imagine it works here in my local administration:

-EU just sent 1 million euros for helping us out!
-What's destined for?
-Technological development
-Ok, i'll call (my cousin) Jon, and ask him to make a website for 750.000,
you go and call (your brother) Mike and task him to make an iPhone app for 250.000.
-Good, what will be the site for?
-Mmmm, whatever Jon wants, does it matter?
-Guess not... Lets go have a drink a celebrate our good job?
-Deal.
There's also the bootstrappers, who would also be aligned with this aspect of RMS' world view, though not likely other aspects.
And yet, he appears to have paid to put a hit out on somebody...
I wouldn't know how to remotely determine if you're broken.
Microsoft brings 18-year-old game 'Hover' to browser
Isn't the federal government supposed to be shut down right now?
I bet it had something to do with U.S. gov "helping" TOR network couple of months ago.
The lending thing really gets to me. Why the hell can't I lend my ebooks to a friend? I'd lend them the paper book and there's nothing wrong with that, so why the hell shouldn't I be allowed to do the same with the bits I just 'bought'.

This is the major reason I can't recommend a kindle to my mother. She and her friends exchange books all the time, it's part of reading for her.
Not sure why this appears to have been downvoted. Seems like a pretty reasonable point, even if you happen not to agree with it.
It does a pretty poor job with multiple monitors + OpenGL. Lots of pixels to push. I didn't try to get EyeFinity working, but that's probably out of the question as well.