skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The designer isn't to blame here. Its an executive decision designed to hinder use. They dont want you doing something obvious like reading content. They want you looking at all the other pages they have to offer where you also cannot read content. I've found that maybe about 10% of the time trying to scroll an article into view or pinch-zoom I accidentally trigger a click on a link or ad. More clicks! More revenue! Lets keep them struggling to find content and mine all the clicks we can!
The study shows that analytical thinking prevents/reduces empathy in the moments right after engaging in it (few seconds break). It doesn't, as far as I can see, prove anything about long term effects, and in fact, it specifically says that at rest, people naturally switch between the states.
The total absence of any information on the site about what it is you're downloading, what it's requirements are, or how to install it, is rather unhelpful. I downloaded the zip file just to find out what was inside it.

I haven't tried installing it yet, but in principle installing .war files can be very simple. You need an application server (such as Apache Tomcat), you log into the admin section of that in your browser, and somewhere in there there's a form where you just upload the .war file, and it gets automatically unpacked, installed, services started up, and so on.

Edit: I take it all back. Well, most of it. They have an install guide, which you can find via Support, Documentation.
I'm not against startups in general, it's just that I don't want to join a startup working on another "disruptive cloud image sharing service".
This is as close as it gets http://blockchain.info/largest-recent-transactions I don't think the blockchain format is designed for that in the same way it is for recency or random access
It really cannot. It can be used to make him a person of interest.
One of the reasons I love Pocket (Read-It Later) for pretty much every article with substance.
It's circumstantial evidence, so it could not stand on its own but can add weight to other pieces of evidence.
The FBI's paymasters are ultimately elected by the public, who mostly prefer the FBI to pursue one high profile kingpin reportedly linked with violent crime rather than all of their neighbours who made the mistake of experimenting with online drug orders.
That's not what is going on here.
Really. Price is the only difference between gourmet chefs and Doritos. Oh, come on. Frito Lay doesn't make food people enjoy, they make food people crave. You don't feel satiated after eating a lot of Doritos, and as this article points out, Doritos are engineered that way on purpose. You don't get sick of them, or full from them, or long-lasting enjoyment out of them. You just get an overloaded reward center in your brain, a lot of empty calories, and a blood sugar spike. Gourmet food typically strives for the opposite: intense and complex flavors, long-lasting enjoyment, and a pleasant full feeling. To keep with OP's analogy, saying Doritos and real food are the same is like saying porn is the same as being in a great relationship, except anyone can afford porn.
> At last the drug war has been won!

They don't want to win, they want to continuously fight with it.
Kind of shocking though if NSA didn't use a PHP vulnerability. PHP has more leaks than Chelsea Manning.
Is such a thing possible?
I must have misread then. I thought in Rust there were various pointer types denoting ownership, and one of them was callstack-scoped (borrowed pointer?), meaning it could be backed by stack allocated memory.
Many Feds made their bones on the war on drugs and the jobs and reputations of many more still depend on the war on drugs. Then you have some guy that makes tens of millions selling heroin, cocaine and everything illegal under the sun--online.

Safe to say that unofficially he was FBI's top ten person to catch, he was making a fool of them. And if they want they can tighten lots of screws and even have satellites monitor over an area. As I said on another thread, I suspect that NSA or DEA got his name illegally and then whispered it to certain FBI agents.

Of course for the evidence to be admissible FBI has to make believe that they got him by his mistakes (parallel construction.) Not to suggest that you can hide forever, he should have retired after pocketing $10 million
Tell bad drivers how you feel with this app
i think I broke it...
In Smalltalk, you can manipulate objects directly rather than just indirectly via code that operates on them. The state of your manipulation is made persistent in smalltalk's image facility. Also, the whole object graph is supposedly better exposed accordingly then what you could get sigh just a plain old debugger.

At least I think that is what the author is trying to convey.
It is cool, but redline doesn't have the environment of smalltalk, just the language. Which, arguably, misses a LOT of the point of using smalltalk.
Breaking bad, the Bitcoin addition
I'd comment on this article on web design if I wasn't straining my eyes on that terrible website.

Glass houses = unreliable source.
Different cat photos!
Prss: a new way to create professional-quality iPad magazines in your browser
It appears to fit with his persona of being a ruthless pirate, and the language also fits the big talk idea. He was paying for the problem to disappear, and he knew that, but he talked it up for fun.

However, he went too far into his fantasy, and not too smartly, and he'll pay for it.
It's a much worse camera than what's in the 4S even.
Let me make sure I understand. You'd disclose your views to a potential employer, thereby letting yourself off the hook for implementing them?
Prss: publish iPad magazines from your browser
Let me get my old CD-ROM and have it sound like a jet engine too.

Don't forget Gorillas http://www.kongregate.com/games/moly/gorillas-bas
So the Supreme Court somehow carved a First Amendment exception to the President just because of his role as the Commander-in-Chief?

What should have more weight: a very specific prohibition on Congress (and therefore government) on abridging freedom of speech, or some vague thing called "National Security", a concept which by the way is not mentioned nor can be inferred at all anywhere on the constitution?
"You can't resist the FBI. We will find you."

Unless you are a Wall Street insider and then we will gladly help the SEC harass your detractors.

"Constitution? What constitution?"
Personally, I believe there is a way to enable new value while fighting back the complexity and corporate engineering culture.

REST needs to mature and get tooling. But we need to avoid the WSDL complexity.
The debugger situation with Smalltalk is part of what he's talking about. You're running your application, and some part of your code throws an exception. A window pops up with the stack trace in it. You can inspect all the objects in each frame. "Inspect" in Smalltalk means, see and change the properties, call methods, change the code, clone, see the class hierarchy, etc. You can modify the method that threw the exception right there from the debug window, save it, and resume the method from where it broke. Application proceeds with new code in place and problem solved.

Look, a cosmetic bug in this window. Right click on it, click Inspect. Looks like one of the properties has the wrong value. Edit the property from the inspector, fix the problem. The application was running the whole time and now is fixed.

An impressive thing you can do with Fuel is serialize and deserialize the exception with all state. Somebody blows up your web application. You wrote a bit of code to catch unhandled exceptions and export them with Fuel. You download the binary to your local computer and deserialize it in your live Smalltalk image. You see the debugger window pop up and can examine all the state when the error happened as if it popped up locally. See, examine, change the code, all of it live the whole time. (I don't know if this is done in practice much, but it's pretty normal to run a headless Smalltalk image and connect to it over VNC when you need to debug something).

To sum up, everything is live all the time in Smalltalk, and you can interactively change all the actual running instances, both code and data, at any time without interrupting anything.
My guess is they caught DPR and beat him with a wrench XKCD style until he gave up the information about the server.
I had to use safari reader to get through it. This guy needs to take some of his own advice.
OK, this turned out to be not that hard, just completely unfamiliar for me (having last used Tomcat in 2002).

apt-get install tomcat7 tomcat7-admin; sudo $EDITOR /etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml # add user with role manager-gui

Then I just went to http://localhost:8080/manager/ and uploaded the .war file. Et voilà.
Unless one believes the enterprise on SR is criminal but not immoral.
I know this may have been tongue-in-cheek, but on the CLR, inlining functions makes a massive difference. That is, using F#'s forced inlining capabilities to generate massive functions (many KB of IL) resulted in much better runtimes than having even a couple of small functions called (which "should" be inlined by the CLR; MS tells us we should just rely on the JIT for these cases).
NSA chief admits agency tracked US cellphone locations in secret tests
Same thing happened to me!
I read it as the author of that quote explicitly _choosing_ to say that to make the message simpler to his target audience. I think the author fully understands that in reality it's a mix of both nurture and nature but there's plenty of unfulfilled potential in those kids so telling a little fib will help to push them to maximize their potential...and right now no one can definitively predict what that max is just by looking at their genetics
Given your apparent hate for the JVM, I guess you only run C web servers?
Jwz jumped the shark long time ago. (His site only looks marginally better than Esquire's BTW and all you can read there are rants and creepy things.)
That isn't true.

http://www.redline.st/discover/is-it-smalltalk.html
What bad stuff has the government done with the current batch of domestic spying?
Isn't $80MM the total amount Walter White made during the course of his meth career on Breaking Bad? Fun coincidence.
What exactly does all of that money buy you for a defense?

What I mean is, are we talking about somebody using their fortune to bribe and buy witnesses? Use their wealth to construct alibis?

Or are we talking about somebody using their fortune to hire a better lawyer than the DOJ can hire? Hire better expert witnesses than the DOJ can hire?

If all of the transactions are legitimate and all that money bought him was a world-class defense.. then I say "tough noogies" to the DOJ. Being able to afford the next Johnnie Cochran doesn't seem problematic to me; the only thing that concerns me is that poor people cannot receive a similarly competent defense.
For the record, the reason why his slip up was significant is because:

1) They were able to find code identical to the SO question within the SilkRoad source code

2) They already had circumstantial evidence linking him to the site, this just strengthened it

3) "frosty" is the user/computer name used to generate the private ssh key on SilkRoad's server, further linking him to the site
The ads and fonts aren't so bad as you can pinch them away by zooming in.

Interstitial and popups are hell on mobile
I think he was paraphrasing and sensationalizing.
Yeah I think these are some pretty good points. I think giving a talk is just naturally a bit more shallow than research papers can be. I was hoping to spur some peoples' interest and get some conversations going and if that ends up in more people getting deeply interested and reading things like the papers you link to in more depth, that would be great. Thanks for watching ;-)
Not sure about that, I'm not using Windows anyway, and on Linux it's native OpenGL obviously.

Why shouldn't they properly work on security for OpenGL backend though?
This is true, unfortunately. I know quite a few designers who're absolutely appalled at some of the things they're asked to implement. Completely counter-productive and short-sighted. They really do browse their work on mobile so they know exactly what the end result will be.
I really can't stand feminism. I'm all for women learning to program, though. In fact, I put more support in women learning than men. We do need more women programming. Feminism though, no.
> In my experience the biggest difference is stack allocation

This is the only voice of reason in this thread full of bullshit by monkeys who have obviously never used C to any extent.
But isn't that real problem? Not that MTurtk is available, but that people have no better choice?

Attacking low paying jobs satisfies our moral outrage, but it doesn't actually help those wrote are left with nothing. We should concentrate in making sure people don't have to choose MTurk out of desperation, and banning it doesn't achieve that.

This doesn't mean Amazon and companies like it are innocent in this situation, of course, but it bothers me that people concentrate on the cosmetics instead of the systemic problems.
s/Libertarian ideals/Stereotypical Libertarian ideals in the general sense, as characterized by an emphasis on individual rights, and a decrease in power or control of the state or societal systems over individual financial or personal actions or rights./
FMRI reveals reciprocal inhibition between social and physical cognitive domains
https://github.com/mishkinf/apiknow is another project to help build out an api documentation and Test Drive it
Are there any experts beyond: http://www.airpair.com/experts ?

I'm working on a C# extension to Visual Studio and some of the interfaces I've come across have little (or no) documentation on MSDN. I'd love to get in touch with an expert who works on Visual Studio extensions or works directly on Visual Studio at Microsoft.

Do you often find new experts? I'd love to pay for someone to help me with this particular problem.
Objective-C, a language which uses dynamic dispatch for all method calls and does not do any kind of type-specialized code generation, certainly does not prioritize performance.
. . .or read and assumed, rightly or wrongly, that they could live with the limitations of the license.
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How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justification for NSA Domestic Spying
Pivotal buys Xtreme Labs for $65m
Introducing prismic.io, the much-needed disruption of the cluttered CMS world
The curl part is also pretty shoddy btw. Would you really use curl to setup a server running behind TOR? I don't have adequate 'training and experience', but it seems natural that website working through TOR should use normal web server software behind some sort of reverse proxy, not curl. He, whoever, wrote that document, seems to imply that questions about curl and TOR network are necessarily connected with running a website through it. He also doesn't mention dates of the questions.
Ohh sweet! Super psyched to see us on the front page of HN.

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All signs point to no. Square wants to be a prominent brand in the eyes of SMBs and consumers (e.g. Square Register, Square Wallet.) They don't seem interested in offering APIs or other white-label tools that help app developers feature their own brands and experiences. Seems like Cardflight clients can integrate payments into their own app experience, rather than having to push CardFlight's, Square's or anyone else's brand.
Funnily enough, I think it may have been Stack Exchange's (SE) somewhat unintuitive registration procedure that did him in.

Stack Overflow requires an OpenID identity in order to ask questions: you cannot sign up without one (though SE now provides their own you can sign up for). You could easily set up your own (and it's surprising that Ulbricht did not), but you could also use any number of providers (e.g., Facebook and Google) that ostensibly know your real name.

When you link your OpenID to SE, SE automatically fills in your name with whatever your OpenID provider has on file. I believe this is where Stack Overflow got his real name from initially. He probably didn't realize this would happen and when he saw that it did, he quickly changed his Stack Overflow profile to the "frosty" moniker.

Though it was absolutely boneheaded (possibly with a fair amount of hubris that he'd never get caught) to have an OpenID identity somewhere with his real name and then use it on an untrusted (to him) third-party site, had the SE login page indicated that it would pull information from his OpenID identity to create his SE profile or emphasized creating an account with SE over logging in with OpenID, he might not have had his name leak in this manner.
he has (had) a sweet truck too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D16fm5NgsA
until then feel free to take this for a spin:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/178736
That isn't correct. The US placed a virus on the sourcecode of freedom hosting, either by seizing control of the servers, or by hacking, which exploited a vulnerability specific to version of firefox found in a popular all in one TOR access kit.

They did not compromise the network, they compromised an out of date version of firefox.

They might well be able to de-annonimize TOR, by monitoring traffic between a large enough proportion of TOR nodes. Given recent NSA/GCHQ long distance cable intercept stories, this is no longer unrealistic. But there is no direct evidence yet. It is also worth mentioning that the US has spent a lot of effort developing an attack capability, and probably hit enemies like Silk Road with attacks as sophisticated as Aurora or Stuxnet. Maybe we just don't hear about that, because of the beauty of parallel construction.
This. Complaining about how hard it is to read someone else's website when you use an awful green text on black background is reason enough for me to not take you seriously. It's a Wordpress site, for god's sake, and that is the template you came up with (or chose)? Glass houses, indeed.
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Here's a notion: what if we assume that the entire staff of Esquire is, at varying levels, competent at their job?

So jwz's use case is that he's an inbound link from a social media site, right? So Esquire is optimizing two things here: conversion rate to the downloaded app and amount of time spent on site. The first one is obvious -- people who have the app downloaded are going to spend much more time overall and are going to be more valuable; the second one is a bit trickier, since you play a balancing act between getting users to dive deeper into the publication while making sure they don't leave altogether. In this sort of case, it's pretty reasonable to assume that someone has either the data or intuition to say "Hey, if they're visiting our site from Facebook, they have a pretty big investment in trying to read the article than someone who Googled something vaguely related to the article."

(The same goes true from mobile, where audiences tend to be slower and more captive.)

So, if we understand the series of decisions that led us to such an experience, we then have to ask why were those decisions made? Clearly there's a backlash against this kind of thing -- nobody says "wow, what a great banner ad!" -- but its hard to argue against the financial straits of such a publication. Esquire doesn't have the circulation they used to, and its not a non-profit; they need to make money somehow.

Either way, its hardly fair to pin this on Esquire's web designer. Esquire's management, maybe -- or maybe the legions of people addicted to AdBlock, the legions of people who put a low -- and getting even lower -- value on content.

Now, everything is hinging on that assumption that people are vaguely competent over at Esquire. While it's entirely possible that such an assumption is invalid, I find its a more comforting one than the opposite assumption.
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we have backdoors/trojans in chips. While not in seeds? :)
3D Printer, CNC, Scanner FABtotum Soars in Crowdfunding Campaign
So, if you're going to start a drug cartel, you should make it as big as possible to fiercely defend a war chest that you can use in the event that you're prosecuted.
Furlongs still are in common usage in certain applications. Horse racing, particularly.
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The issue here is that only a tiny percentage of the information transmitted is of interest to someone doing surveilance.

Yes, exactly! And the document in question even states what that percentage is.
No trap or problem here (except in the minds of confused religious philosophers). "True nature" is impossible to know, agreed, but rationality is aimed at a much more practical goal: accurately communicating the entirety of shared sensory human experience and abstractions built thereon. Rationality at root entails nothing more grand or mysterious than standing in a forest with another person and agreeing that "this is a tree". Language is born of the need to communicate with another being and logic is born of the need for precision and efficiency in communication.

Natural selection can shape neurological modules for language in order to propagate genes, but after that there is nothing that stops language-using primates from improving and enhancing language, making it work better, building higher and more strictly defined classes of abstractions that eventually form math, logic and science.

As this relates to the original subject, the primary point was that people, cryptozoologists or the religiously devout, were judging correctness by what "seems" correct rather than by rigorous science. What seems correct is the strong influence of certain default neurological modules, absent training. Only with training do people appreciate how misguided one's instincts can be and how much better science is in communicating accurate observations.
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I'm sympathetic to the idea that "ill-gained funds" shouldn't be accessible to a defendant for their defense; but it does pose some moral problems.

When my dad was indicted by the FBI, part of the process (because he was a fugitive) was for them to seize all his funds. This was personally problematic because his funds were also my mom's funds (due to having a joint account); which left my mom very suddenly with no money, and two children (one of which, me, being a newborn).

I got the distinct impression (which I admit was based on only hearing one side of the story) that the FBI intentionally made life difficult for my mom in an effort to entice her cooperation in locating my dad (ignoring the fact that a husband who flees on the day of his son's birth to avoid prosecution from the FBI isn't necessarily in said wife's good graces).

I don't have a good answer to this problem.
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Most likely Zuldi probably wants to keep their own user experience, inventory, CRM etc. Using Square doesn't allow them to keep control of their brand.
You are missing the point completely.

He tried selling support and failed miserably, he made no money. So, he issued a better version of the same software under a commercial license, and that sold well.

RedHat does not do that. Everything they do is available in CentOS, or is available freely. They make money selling support.

It's pretty obviously not a valid analogy.
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I wouldn't bet on how many guys there are. Big incentive to spread misinformation. Wait for the court case, and then the jail book.