skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all nice and good, but can you point to any government/federal agency sources that are citing the Anti-Deficiency Act as rationale for the web shutdowns? Seriously, I'd like to know, since OP just tosses the idea out there at the end of the article without much discussion.

If the Anti-Deficiency Act is not used as justification, then your interpretation of the law, as applied to the web shutdowns, is moot.
Not necessarily disclosure. A court could probably demand that the owner enter his password and engage in a transaction with the FBI / with the court / some court-appointed escrow. One might argue that by transferring the money they would incriminate themselves e.g. by demonstrating that they control it, but I do not think that would matter in terms of seizing the money.
If you mean commenting system as in Disqus etc., then here's my answer:

I'm very excited about Discourse - it's still a bit "young" but reasonably mature, BoingBoing's "BBS" runs on it: http://bbs.boingboing.net/
Cue (YC W10) Acquired By Apple, Co-Founder Explains Product [video]
Well put. I think Science does have some conflict of interest here, but I also think they are one of the good guys in the publishing business, and that this is a worthwhile subject for an expose.

Like you, I get (about 1/week) blind offers to submit articles to this or that journal, and even (at a lesser frequency) offers to be an editor (unpaid!). It stinks to high heaven [1]

Getting back to Science, their individual subscription rates are reasonable (~$150/year = 52 issues), their public health articles are available immediately after publication, and their other articles are available after 1 year. They are run by a non-profit institution (AAAS), so they are less motivated to jack up their fees.

I was not able to find institutional fees for Science.

Incidentally, the situation with Nature is different -- they are for-profit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_Publishing_Group) and it seems to show in their rates: http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-libraries-faculty-protest...

[1] Here are the most recent 5: "International Transaction of Electrical and Computer Engineers System" (sounds like a joke), "Entropy", "The Open Software Engineering Journal", "Journal of Robotics", "The Open Electrical & Electronic Engineering Journal".
"Funny how you were able to engage in a transaction yesterday, right before we arrested you. Let's see if the court believes your story about forgetting your password."
That national welfare metric could be a legally required and binding part of the platforms they run on.
Who is Your Role Model at Work/Study?
Except with Pandora the effort goes to improving something you actually want.
There are 12 types of people in the world, those who don't understand "-ary" at all, but who can increment.
We have a combinator of off-shore and US based leadgeniuses. We divide the time based on what needs to be done and it comes to a net profit. It's more of finding out talented people everywhere in the world rather than divide them based on geographies.
Another lazy post voted to the top on HN that beats the same ole lack of profit drum in a rapidly growing company. Where's the comparison to Apple to really drive home the point?
How Twitter is Destroying the Web
Were you cold calling? You don't have contact details in your profile and I'd love to pick your brain for 20-30 minutes. Please email me at j@squid.nu .
> At this time, we do not believe the attackers removed decrypted credit or debit card numbers from our systems

That sentence also suggests that Adobe DOSE store decrypted credit or debit card numbers, but the hackers did not get to that database... yet.
“Most powerful” Arduino ever has ARM Cortex-A8 chip, runs “full Linux”
If you put it that way, obviously no,but if you think about it as adjusting how you work with the availability of an internet connection, It seems more reasonable :-P
You took what you wanted out of the OP's comment.

Their comment is putting everyone in two buckets, 1 that sits around and watches TV when they get home from work, and 1 that works on personal development in their free time.

What they want to use that personal development is up to them. They could use it to start a non-profit, or learn a new hobby or learn a new skill. But... sitting around watching TV until bed certainly isn't ambitious.
Excellent points:

>1) The start-up acquiring the lead list has the ability to progress the deals to closure.

We help start-ups figure out a process for doing sales. Most start-ups have some idea of how they want to do their sales and we fine tune the process with them.

>2) The start-up acquiring the lead list is able to appropriately break-down their revenue in an easily audit-able/non-modifiable manner to demonstrate which $ came from the acquired lead list(s).

We also provide monthly reporting on the response rates and so on and it helps the start-ups to understand what their ROI on the process is. In general, the money we are charging is small enough that its always ROI positive.
Because marrying well makes divorce unnecessary?
>I know I've improved when I notice in my journals that my language changes...

While what you're doing is admirable--I wish more developers did this--the central question is not whether you improved, but whether you improved more than if you'd done other work. For example, learning a new language, refactoring, etc.
A go kart, no matter how widely adopted it is not going to change the world.
There are 250+ journals that have cancer growth as part of their field? That shows you the problem right there.

There is absolutely no way that a researcher in that field can keep up with publications in all of those journals.
I would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for you meddling kids!
The movie/television industry wasn't crippled piracy, and most likely will never be. These guys print money and it seems they will print money for time to come, and Netflix/Prime/Hulu generates pennies compared to the TV/Movie industries billions.

Simply put, the movie/television is much more diverse than the music industry and won't see its lunch eaten.

The biggest hurdle in getting DRM content in the contract games that are being played with all the major providers right now (remember the TWC/CBS dispute). In these contracts are clauses for all content to be DRM'd. Even if everyone understood that DRM is bad UX, no one gives a shit about fighting those clauses when TWC is removing CBS over contract disputes. It just currently doesn't make sense to risk hundreds of millions of dollars for a moral issue that 99% of users simply don't care about.
I think it's pretty clear your beliefs are stupid ;-)
If nobody ever tests the review process, how can we know that it is working?
That is an idea! It would be fun to run SSH over packet radio while no one is around to enforce Part 97!
From the article above:

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or years, Fennell has been lobbying for a law requiring back-seat sensors in new cars, sensors that would sound an alarm if a child's weight remained in the seat after the ignition is turned off. Last year, she almost succeeded. The 2008 Cameron Gulbransen Kids' Transportation Safety Act -- which requires safety improvements in power windows and in rear visibility, and protections against a child accidentally setting a car in motion -- originally had a rear seat-sensor requirement, too. It never made the final bill; sponsors withdrew it, fearing they couldn't get it past a powerful auto manufacturers' lobby.

There are a few aftermarket products that alert a parent if a child remains in a car that has been turned off. These products are not huge sellers. They have likely run up against the same marketing problem that confronted three NASA engineers a few years ago.

In 2000, Chris Edwards, Terry Mack and Edward Modlin began to work on just such a product after one of their colleagues, Kevin Shelton, accidentally left his 9-month-old son to die in the parking lot of NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The inventors patented a device with weight sensors and a keychain alarm. Based on aerospace technology, it was easy to use; it was relatively cheap, and it worked.

That was five years ago. The device still isn't on the shelves. The inventors could not find a commercial partner willing to manufacture it. One big problem was liability. If you made it, you could face enormous lawsuits if it malfunctioned and a child died. But another big problem was psychological: Marketing studies suggested it wouldn't sell well.

The problem is this simple: People think this could never happen to them

---

And it's true. When you hear these stories, what's your first thought beyond "oh that poor kid". Usually: "how could her parent have done that to her? What kind of parent could possibly forget his/her child in the car?"

Maybe that's not your initial response, but it's very likely somewhere in the chain unless you've read up on it or know someone it's happened to. And that response demonstrates why this wouldn't sell: if you don't think yo could make such a mistake you also don't see a need to protect against it.

Might work if it were accompanied by a public awareness campaign, kind f like was done to get parents to put their kids on their backs. But the actual technology - hell, the products themselves - already exist. People just don't see it as a useful technology without that additional push.
They should really use a banner that blocks out the page, similar to what Wikipedia did during the SOPA/PIPA protests [1]. This would still make the point that government shutdowns are disruptive to the services that people depend on, without incurring the extra costs of an actual shutdown. Maybe the point is better made by letting people stew in actual frustration though...

[1] http://www.macworld.com/article/1164871/how_to_access_wikipe...
Graphene-based discs ensure safe storage
...very interesting...
If only! That's where I was hoping to go with this. Instead I just stole /r/4chan's stylesheet and posted to a subreddit.
Sounds like an entry-level liberal arts course at any major private institution in the US.
I don't mean to irritate you -- I find it interesting you're Swedish -- I assumed you were an American (very American of me, I know.)

I'm not a pie in the sky idealist. I consider myself fairly pragmatic, but I expect the President to abide by laws, and I expect my citizenship to afford me protections.

I haven't shed a tear over al-Awlaki, I assure you. But either he should have been adjudicated as an enemy combatant or judicially stripped of his citizenship or tried for treason in absentia.

It seems to me like your endorsing a rule of men rather than a rule of law. The problem with that is that it seems well and good when you've Julius and Augustus running the show, but when Nero and Caligula show up it's not so easy to go back.
MUREPL: clojure repl that runs against a namespace of MUD commands
What about http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ ?
Yes, through the Stream API.
From my understanding most if not all federal agencies had to weigh the Anti-Deficiency Act with there decision. There is also what qualifies as essential vs. non-essential and how contracts that support those services are structured with a dash of Solicitor and management interpretation of those things. And all that had to be done for all IT, not just web sites, in a given Department in about a week. So, my guess is everyone did a mad-dash-scramble do something they couldn't believe would happen.
If they shut down Silk Road, and they have a bunch of block chain info, a couple more cross references and a bunch of arrests could settle the bitcoin dispute pretty quickly.
In retrospect, I'm pretty convinced he was going to try to get me to undress myself at his escalating suggestion w/out him ever touching me. He was extremely careful about not touching, "accidentally" brushing, etc, and keeping out of my personal space. I realize now that this was a survival mechanism for him, as if the spell were broken by some wrong move, he really could have gotten hurt badly in this sort of situation.
Inspiring. Thank you.
One Time Pads Printed in a little book.
Well yes. I agree with you. That last question was supposed to come across as exasperated and irritated, not as an endorsement of preserving failing companies out of short sighted compassion. There are serious questions that need to be solved regarding the likelihood that double-digit percentages of the US workforce will be economically unviable, but those are separate from issues of even aggregate microeconomic competitive questions.
The Anti-Deficiency Act, and opinions interpreting it from Attorneys General dating back to the Carter administration, is the basis for OMB Memo M-13-22[1] which provides guidelines to heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on how to plan for a lapse in appropriations. Pages 13 and 14 deal with websites and other IT concerns and specifically reference the Anti-Deficiency Act.

Here's question 5 from page 14:

Q5: What if the cost of shutting down a website exceeds the cost of maintaining services?

A5: The determination of which services continue during an appropriations lapse is not affected by whether the costs of shutdown exceed the costs of maintaining services.

[1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/...
> Just because these events have happened regularly, on geological time scales, doesn't mean that it wouldn't be a one-off catastrophe from the point of view of homo sapiens.

I agree. Without the environment pressuring us back though, what would keep us from dumping CO2 in the atmosphere forever, or at increasing rates? We wouldn't even be discussing this.

That's the whole point of my comment: why don't we see humans as a force of nature themselves, as opposed to the more popular view that nature is static and humans are supposed to leave it untouched.
They don't have to use it as justification. It's the law! If they use something else as justification, but not this, then you can say that. But if they just say "This website unavailable due to shutdown" they can be talking about any law, including this one.
Instead of living life according to a rigid bible...

Certainly not. The metaphor I invoked was "let's stop digging". If that's too rigid for you, you must just really like digging.

...why don't we simply Do The Right Thing™...

If you think locking up people who like 'shrooms is "The Right Thing™", then we have a disagreement.

Even if you do find a set of guidelines that seem appropriate now, they may not be appropriate in the future.

I certainly hope so! It would be sad to live an entire life and never change one's mind. I don't think that's a reason not to have opinions in the first place though! Also I specifically raised the possibility of changing my position in response to improving conditions.

Even the Revolutionary Commune in Paris wasn't above simply executing the enemies of the revolution, after all.

Fuck those guys. Over here in USA we honor a Revolution worthy of the name. Our founding fathers didn't pull that shit.
> For example, a common idea is to introduce iron to the ocean. This would increase plankton populations, and the plankton would then use solar power to remove CO2.

I'm wary this leads to a "and now you have TWO problems" situation... presumably oceans full of plankton would do lots of other bad things too? Humans introducing plants/animals to control the populations of other plants/animals has worked spectacularly badly over the course of history (see: New Zealand).
I'm talking an NLP class this semester and its nice to finally be able to dig into material like this rather than giving it a light read through. Can't wait until the code drops!
What I don't understand is that if these companies want so desperately to enforce DRM, why are they using the web? A native application is better suited to what they want to do, and they are going to end up writing DRM modules in native code anyway. So why are they targeting the web at all, and why do they insist on getting something that is fundamentally closed (DRM) put into something that was meant to be open (HTML)?

IMO, this is a very dumb approach. This would not be OK anywhere else. Feel free to enforce your copyright, but don't expect me to bear your burden without kicking and screaming.
In China, the government removes non-government websites to punish the people. In the USA, the government just removes itself. Maybe they should just hide Healthcare.gov at Silk Road's onion address to really make an obfuscated political statement.
If it were seized by the Feds it'll be interesting to see where it goes. You'd think the first action would be to transfer all of it to new address controlled by the Fed. Otherwise nothing stops a "man on the outside" from doing the same on behalf of DPR. Anybody, anywhere could do it and the destination could be an offline address thats never been used before (eg cold storage address).
What is the threshold for a recall?
I saw that on QRZ. The radio spectrum still works fine while the FCC is on break though. I am not too worried about it.
TingoDB: An embedded MongoDB clone for Node.js and node-webkit apps
I guess there will be many who won't care about 300 years as well, since they won't be around.
That's because it's not funded by the budget bill that's not being passed. Kind of stupid isn't it.
Fair enough. Basically the attack is:

1) Compromise a web server on Tor
2) Buy a zero day browser exploit, create payload to expose
data about endpoints and exits.
3) Profit!

(Sorry the punchline is always Profit! but in this case it's probably "Seize!")
Well, you know Y-combinator, 500startups, etc. are part of that movement.

It s funny too, because people complain about the lack of innovation and/or people not working on hard/meaningful problems, etc. I happen to agree with that complaint, but it boggles my mind that many don't seem to connect it with the lean startup culture. Seems like a pretty natural consequence.
Ask any married person you know if they read the marriage contract before signing it.
A snapchat-like board could be fun. A board where each image can only be viewed by each user once and only for a short amount of time.
It is the concern of the middle men, though. If content providers aren't willing to provide content, then the middle men will have no reason to exist. You can't have Netflix without any movies or shows on it.
But it's not always that clear-cut a difference in time. And the manual way has more problems. Quite often you are asked to do the same task again a bit later. At which point you wish you had automated the first time.

The manual way also tends to be error-prone and unreproducible.
I wish I could create awesome things via copy and paste. They almost always seem to come out awfully wrong.

I think I'm more mentally wired to learn things incrementally, than to act as a a prism as Jennifer has done, so gloriously in 180 days.

Thank you for sharing this, I think HN has needed something like this.
Visualization of the Blockchain address for 37,365 BTC seized by FBI
Nobody's buying and everyone's selling. Kinda like MLM.
Wow....sounds like you're still partying like it's 1999.
Employees can't usually offer the moral support a cofounder can. Unless they become de facto cofounders, but that's pretty rare.
Once again, some admin has changed the title from better to worse---it was "How I met a serial killer when I was a marine", which is considerably more descriptive.
> You don't reply to the criticism. Why not? It would quickly put an end to these type of comments.

Well, that's a novel theory on Internet commenting.
Could that sometimes resort in scraping email addresses from public websites, such as.. say from a forum or Craigslist?
This would lead to non-expert masses (irrationally) giving a lot of credit to certain groups.

It's a delicate issue, because you need to provide a long term stake to force the decisions to be optimal (so future welfare is evaluated correctly and optimized), but at the same time paying off those stakes leads to an unstable plutocratic scenario.

Some kind clever compromise could probably be reached, I think, and this is one of those wonderful ideas that will never be implemented.
Damn, I completely forgot that the books are written in French...
In my mind, everyone's reading in English, plus Amazon.de probably doesn't store English and French books, either...
Two of my favorite things. Edge cases in code, and climbing. Who would have thought they could come together so beautifully.
That's only if your browser widget hadn't sync'd.
Worst. Example. Evar.
Off topic, but what's the reasoning behind the rule against encrypted traffic on amateur bands?
How do they pay the cost of shut down, if they "can't pay" the cost of operation? Just curious. Math, and all that.
AgileBits Support here.

Yes, this is basically it.

It was hard to pull our good friend 1Password 3 from sale, it still exists in the App Store, just not for sale. This allows purchasers to still download it, but it isn't for sale for new users.

One app is much easier than several. We had previously:

* 1Password for iPhone

* 1Password for iPad

* 1Password Pro (the two above as a universal app)

We did this because we released the iPhone app when they provided an SDK, and then the iPad was released but some users just wanted to pay for the iPad version, not the iPhone app again. So, we made it so users could do that, trying to provide a better price point for those users. For new users we stressed Pro for it's universal nature.

But, this was all very confusing. I can't tell you how many emails I answered that were from confused customers asking which one they would buy.

Having three apps was very hard.

This probably isn't the best place for this due to comment threading, but updating 1Password 3 for the newer Dropbox API would've taken a LOT of developer time. We did not use the Dropbox SDK because when we wrote 1Password 3's original code base an SDK did not exist, or if it did come out shortly after it wasn't acceptable for use for a variety of reasons, usually performance related. If I recall our developers correctly via various chats.

And if we did update for the newer Dropbox API then we'd be supporting two platforms (3 and 4) and it's just hard to do. Plus, the much bigger issue was we wanted to move the features of 1Password forward, for example, custom fields and sections. To get this support in 1Password 3 we would've had to have basically rewritten the entire data model and at that point all that's the same from the old app is the interface :)

The even bigger issue for a new app is supporting older platforms. Some devices can't run iOS 6, which 1Password 4 requires. Such as the iPad 1, which many users continue to use and love. If we had updated the app inline, those users would've lost the ability to download a working version if they needed to. This seems to have changed recently, as you can now download the last version to work for a particular iOS release. But this didn't exist last December, or leading up to release for months prior.

Now, hindsight being 20/20, many developers are doing new apps with regard to iOS 7 because it's a cleaner "break" and requiring more significant rewrites and provides a natural point at which to make a new app and charge for it. So, many developers are going through the same thing we did with iOS 6, but they're doing it with iOS 7.

Hope that provides some level of insight.

Kyle

AgileBits Support
> The term boy is actually very common in uniformed occupations (military, police, etc).

How about the tech industry? When's the last time you got called a boy? I'd be baffled to be called a boy by someone I didn't know.

> Depending on the context using "women" implies a level of formality and abstraction that some could find more offensive.

I suspect you'd have a hard time finding someone who'd have been offended by replacing "girl" with "woman" in the original post.
Using HTTP Verbs correctly in your REST Web API
Please Calm the Hell Down About the Tesla Model S Fire
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