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My understanding is that Silk Road did not have a hitman business. I remember the site laying out explicit rules such that "nothing may be sold that could be used to hurt another human being." I believe that was the phrasing anyway.

I that made sense to me, as it was inline with DPR's philosophies. However, my peers have said he had another site for stuff like that. Maybe they're mistaken? Anyway, I know that stuff wasn't on SR.
Clicking through Paul Irish's post to the original from mrdoob, and reading the comments, it seems to me that David Barnes from Packt responded in a pretty open and forthright way.
I am not talking about car factory "robots" (i.e. machines with articulated, arm-like, parts).
This looks like it would be useful for a simple AngularJS app of mine where we use LESS, CoffeeScript, and Haml. We had written a simple Rack server to compile assets on demand. It'd be nice to get rid of the config.ru file and just use Harp as a drop-in replacement.

Does Harp handle Haml?
>"you can think what you like about morality, but don't you dare measure other people up to that standard"

This is an interesting thought because where I think it works well in our thought experiments and our online forums, it's the very business of government to do just as you say: measure people by a social standard. And it's not like government just popped up out of nowhere one night, the standards and institutions that it uses are ones that have evolved over time to deal with specific problems. It's an organic development and as such it has all the weird inconsistencies of an organic creature.

So where I think lots of us (myself included) probably think what you say in our heads, I doubt many of us (if we were totally honest with ourselves) go about our daily business not actually measuring people by our standards and expecting the state to do the same.
It's an article on melatonin. Vitamin D and magnesium are discussed elsewhere ( http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#vitamin-d , http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#magnesium ), but gwern's focus isn't on old people because he's not an old person, so it's harder to self-experiment on them.
Babbage did invent the Turing machine - the design was Turing complete.

>Robotics is not like mathematics

Ever heard of Bayes' theorem?
This should provide clear warning to anyone who might consider themselves a cypherpunk: Even if you don't think that you are at war with the US government, the US government (and likely most other governments) believes it is at war with you.

It sounds dramatic because it is.
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I've heard many of TJs supplements are white labelled Nature's way products
Reasonable compromise, although they'd have to use that version of the 404 page for any URL that could possibly a repository.
Scotty, now with TLS
https://github.com/xich/scotty
Police have to use the same roads. The presentation leads me to believe that they do not want to scare people away from Tor, so they can track at least some users, but probably/obviously have their own network/servers for anonymous connection that will not be impacted.

Otherwise yes, it seems stupid to make Tor unusable as a whole.
Ask HN: This is our YC W2014 application. Can you give me feedback?
Hello. My name is Sandeep, and I'm the cofounder of FeatureKicker. As a developer, I have built many features. Many of them were a waste of everyone's time. I built FeatureKicker so we can "make something people want" instead of software that sucks.

We're applying to YC W2014, and we'd love your feedback on our application: docs.google.com/document/d/1kv_Rgr4-y9wvrOxwZdTevhW-r-i5pktUBcw6t0ufazY

Give it to us straight. We've got thick skins.

-- UPDATE --
CRAP! Looks like we exceeded Google Docs' max number of concurrent viewers. Here's our application on Tumblr: startupsthehardway.tumblr.com/post/63091956854/featurekickers-yc-w2014-application
This is probably part of the Snowden files, so it was unlikely to be an intentional leak.
Automatic timezone conversion and the ability to add and subtract dates without first dropping to your 64-bit into. Think DATE_SUB(date time, INTERVAL 1 HOUR) from MySQL for instance.
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> But not all of it. Melatonin is one of the 2 or 3 supplements I use that I believe really make a huge and immediately perceivable difference.

What would the other 2 or 3 be? I've found Vitamin D (taken as a liquid) to be one.
ZeroHedge has better graphs: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-04/idiocy-markets-one-...

They run a nice line in lulzy financial charting generally:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-12/gold-iphone

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-16/wtf-chart-day

EDIT: this is also pretty hilarious/terrifying: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-01/bart-chilton-commod...
Why shouldn't I call Harp a static site generator? I understand it's more than that, but a SSG is one use case.
The vast majority want to live in cities. It is proven quantitatively through rents rising much faster in all the dense areas of the US while suburban rents and prices have lagged.

Sure "Lots of people don't want to live or work in a large city." is technically correct, but pretty much every other person wants to be able to walk to work, walk to resturants and never have to touch a car except for trips outside where they live. That lifestyle doesn't exist when you work in office parks.

The only argument for living in the burbs is price. People say "I want a yard"... if you had the money you would have it in the city.

Sure, some people make tradeoffs and would rather have the yard, but most people I know move to the burbs because of price and justify it with the yard. Most of the top talent lives in cities.

Are there exceptions? Of course.
Nginx is 11 years old and faced similar skepticism from many people in 2002 who made statements about how feature-packed, stable and popular Apache was.

I've been using Harp for about 3 months and really like the sweet spot they have found between a bucket of static files and a full-blown web app stack. It's a very new paradigm and you probably need to try it to fully appreciate it.
What stuff? Realistically illustrating terrorists in Powerpoint? Nobody is paying for MS Office prowess, and frankly at this point laughing at the NSA strikes me as hubristic at best.
The pharmacokinetics of pill-form melatonin may be responsible for the uneven-, or late-onset and morning grogginess. Others here have reported that and I experienced it as well.

I have yet to see others mentioning the following answer so ...

My doctor advised using sprayed liquid melatonin (purchased at Whole Foods). 1-2 sprays under the tongue and held there for 30 seconds, then washed throughout the mouth (a highly vascularized area) and swallowed, transports the hormone consistently so that sleep is compelled in 1 to 1.5 hours with no morning grogginess.
I will speak mostly to Q, since I am a co-maintainer.

Q has historically stemmed from the work of Mark Miller, one of the authors of the E programming language, from which JavaScript promises are largely inspired. As such, it aligns with his larger goals for a promise ecosystem, which include object-capability security and using promises as proxies for remote objects. For an example of promises applied in these contexts, see his paper at [1].

In practice, all of this is somewhat theoretical, as Q also serves a large constituency of "normal" promise users in Node and the browser. There, it differentiates itself via a focus on features and integrity over speed (mainly as a matter of prioritization; we like speed too!); excellent Node.js integration [2]; and an internal system which allows promises for remote objects via Q-Connection [3] (but also gives some nice methods for promises for objects etc. for the same-machine case [4]).

I would say that Q is my favorite library to work with, as it has thought out its design choices in a depth I don't see in the other libraries---or perhaps more accurately, the choices they have made don't align with my sense of craftsmanship as well :). That said, you should probably not use it if your concern is speed. We have always taken the position that, while speed is nice, most of the time you are doing an asynchronous operation anyway, so any overhead from the promise library will matter very little.

[1]: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub40673.html
[2]: https://github.com/kriskowal/q/wiki/API-Reference#interfacin...
[3]: https://github.com/kriskowal/q-connection
[4]: https://github.com/kriskowal/q/wiki/API-Reference#promise-fo...
Or for the Navy, since they invented Tor. This whole thing is wacko.
Best MongoDB training I had was to be at a company where they throw it into production, it crashed almost every day and then we got 10Gen to train us on what was going on. I got experience and wisdom all in a very short time.
While I'm a libertarian, it doesn't require a big political discussion to debate whether the government generally has a monopoly on the legal use of violence. That also doesn't require that "legal" somehow implies "noble" or "appropriate". I guess my point is that the author almost certainly has a libertarian leaning, so I'm not sure that the phrase's meaning was all that hidden.
Just found out. Probably Windows only though. Not sure...
I take 1.5 mg every night before going to bed. It has solved pretty much all my sleep problems, and allows me to control my sleeping schedule much more easily (ie. on weekdays I go to bed at 12:15 AM, but on weekends I usually go to bed at 3 AM. I have no problem re-transitioning back to weekday schedule now, but I used to).
> somehow that is more appropriate or noble

Not "somehow". There's actually a theory behind it: when the government does it, it is (nominally) done according to the rule of law. In a democracy, that means that the people have condoned it, at least indirectly, and so it is less subject to the whims of a single individual.

You may not agree with this theory, and the theory may not actually apply in practice. But the distinction between individual violence and government violence is not completely arbitrary.
It's the new red scare, the new Soviet.

We American's require a boogeyman.

In all fairness, most countries do. Watching South American leaders lately shows the exact same behavior. Find a foreign devil for everyone to rally against to hide domestic issues.
I had an idea while listening to NPR the other day, but I don't know about its viability.

The NPR discussion was about the CDC having reduced capabilities to identify outbreaks of foodborne illness (since doctors have to send it sample data for analysis by experts). Then it occurred to me that maybe a sort of social mobile application might be able to help identify outbreaks.

The app would prompt the user for their symptoms, what they have eaten over the past several days (vegetables, meats, condiments, etc), and their relative location (locations services, postal code, or something) and the data is submitted anonymously.

The the database would have a public API for the data so developers could try to identify correlations and useful information (IIRC much like a game some developers made for identifying DNA mutations).

I don't really have the ambition to put in the research to see whether something like this is viable or not. There are obvious issues with this design since there's no way to identify molecular information until the iBloodTester is invented.
This is ridiculous, partly because you're asserting that robotics doesn't work at the moment and partly because it's not clear what your objective is (realistic human emulation?)

Moreover, even if some game-changing development happens after your death, it's still useful to get something done today. The Boston Dynamics rough terrain animal-like cargo bots are probably the most interesting application, although there's lots of industrial robots out there doing incredibly valuable work like pick-and-place.

And you're posting this to Hacker News, where people discuss startups almost all of which will be dead, unrecognisable or absorbed in 20 years time let alone a lifetime.
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The quote meant violence tied to the dealings of groups operating in extra-legal markets.
But then the last slide has this:

> Critical mass of targets use Tor. Scaring them away from Tor might be counterproductive.
You can just point real world hardware camera on the screen. Sure quality won't be perfect, but it will be decent, better than if same thing is done in a cinema.
I experienced a strange side effect when experimenting with melatonin: My vision degraded as if I was having a migraine. I experienced tunnel vision and colorful artifacts without the headache. I can't say with 100% certainty that melatonin was the cause, but there was a correlation... and I have not experienced the problem since I stopped taking it.
Sweet! Will check it out on my iPad
I do also have a problem understanding what the Arctic Circle has to do with this. North of arctic circle in America and Scandinavia is two totally different things
Can quantum cryptography be the only secure communication?
I think managers need to know what motivates each employee on his/her team. Pay raise may be incentive enough for one person, but (for example) working from home may motivate another person. I've been in the field 20+ years and make a comfortable salary: I can buy what I care to buy. Now I want to work in my shorts at my dining room table with 4 windows streaming sunlight in, my own freshly brewed coffee just footsteps away. Another person on my team I know would prefer salary or frequent compliments. It's personal.
If the goal were to do as you say, the FBI could have easily kept operating it as a honeypot. They did not, however, leading me to believe that the users of the Silk Road were not their concern and of little consequence to a law enforcement agency of that size.

I think most drug busts are incidental: discovered when dealing with another crime (someone questioned for robbery, domestic violence or erratic driving). Large operations like this, or even medium ones on the local level, are generally about busting large gangs and even then it’s usually the violence that brings those gangs into law enforcements crosshairs. The sheer size of SR -- and the political pressure -- made it an exception.
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The traffic was amazing. It killed the server. Moving it to a more bulkier aws instance. Will post back when it's up.
It already says they want people to keep using Tor. Read the last slide:

> Critical mass of targets use Tor. Scaring them away from Tor might be counterproductive.

In other words, they'd rather only have to break one anonymization service instead of five.
Configuring Grunt to do this every time you want to ship a web app seems like a path to insanity to me. Also, NGINX doesn't by default give you clean urls and 404 fallbacks. Web frameworks do this for you and IMHO It's time static servers do as well.

Regenerating all the assets every time there is a change just feels sloppy to me. Also, I think it is asking a lot from novice developers to setup these configuration files and the knowledge one needs to have to do it effectively is a needless burden on someone who specializes on front-end development.

No disrespect to NGINX. Its too busy powering the internet to be concerned with these problems :)
Street sellers get their supply from people up the food chain who are savvy enough to use SR. I've not sure who you think the sellers on SR are, but they weren't mom and pops. As for the buyers, yes most likely white collar addicts.
As a co-maintainer of Q, and author of the ES6 promise spec, this is extremely impressive work. I have had the privilege of watching it develop over the last few weeks, and am nothing short of amazed with what the author has done. The speed of this library opens up many doors for putting promises in places where previously some might have considered them not-low-level enough.
This is not only unsupported assertion but moving the goalposts so far that one of them is in orbit.
Ask HN: Aren't botnets clicking on ads & algorithmic stock market trading same?
Botnet fraud is illegal as it mimics humans. Isn't this analogous to algorithmic trading? Fifty years ago, humans did price discovery and not machines.
>You didn't have to buy direct to get cross platform support.

My only suggestion is that you might want to document this somewhere, because I had no idea this was an option at the time I purchased in July 2012, and still don't see it on the store web pages.
Hope you enjoy it!
A lot of these articles use abstruse acronyms. Is there perhaps a place where they're all compiled with their explanations?

For instance, what is (U)? Or (S), (SI), and (REL)?
I'm really interested in a GitHub person's take on this (holman?). Is my notion of the balance reasonable? (You've got the data, I'm just guessing with it.) Do you think you're likely to assess improving GitHub's 404 page at least?
Thats a ringing endorsement for Tor. Its really works! They struggle to get info out of it.
Were you able to do any consulting around continuos deployment - integration etc. i'm curious to know if any of your existing client would buy a short workshop that covers topics such as automated provisioning, TDD ... etc. it could be a lean way to start building your frameworks , tailor specific things that create value for your client
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Well yes, I figured that out. But my question is, what are you talking about that doesn't include those?
Lol. Still a lot of people who think that Red Hat derivatives are the only "enterprise-grade" server distros. Ubuntu and Debian work great.
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Especially... I can't imagine this is clip art. Someone must have sat down and drawn that to order.

That must be a really wierd job, doing tacky but still sophisticated illustrations for top secret internal presentations.
I don't think UKIP have much support here in Scotland - I suspect most people see them as the "Little Englander" party:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/columnists/why-ukip-ha...
Zopiclone can be habit forming and has an associated increase risk of road traffic accidents like most hypnotics - wikipedia is a good start for the risks.

I think melatonin is a better drug for correcting problems with sleep cycles which can include jet lag, changes in season and the like but there's plenty you can do help your sleep quality without drugs.

Here's a great article (about Huntington's disease but applies to everyone - it really helped me) based on a published paper in Experimental Neurology:

http://en.hdbuzz.net/120
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A few thoughts on this, firstly you are right to an extent - Docker doesn't give you portability completely due to binary dependencies, but if for example I wanted to move my app from the same major version of CentOS or RHEL on a virtual machine to something running with the same major version in the cloud it should be relatively straightforward. You are right though that this won't work going from something like Ubuntu to Suse for example.

LXC currently has a gaping hole around security because it doesn't use SELinux - you might want to read this article: http://mattoncloud.org/2012/07/16/are-lxc-containers-enough/

The key bit is that we are starting to converge on a standard container for the Linux OS and with Red Hat working to get things working with SELinux we should have a pretty awesome container for our apps.

Finally, Docker adds a lot more on top of LXC, which is why people love it so much - you can see a comprehensive answer by Solomon Hykes here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17989306/what-does-docker...

Given the above I'd rather standardise on an Open project that adds a lot more value to LXC and hides that complexity away and given the largest linux vendor is putting it's weight behind this I'd say this is rather awesome!
Does anyone know what the QUANTUM attack they refer to is? It doesn't seem like quantum computing on the face of it; It looks like it may be a system used to disrupt traffic on the internet, possibly man in the middle attacks.

Edit: I found a reference to something called a "Quantum Insert" in an article related to GCHQ. They state the following:

According to the slides in the GCHQ presentation, the attack was directed at several Belgacom employees and involved the planting of a highly developed attack technology referred to as a "Quantum Insert" ("QI"). It appears to be a method with which the person being targeted, without their knowledge, is redirected to websites that then plant malware on their computers that can then manipulate them

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/british-spy-agenc...

This might be what they are referring to, or a system that was built for targeting specific individuals.
>I don't need to be told that I'm good, if I'm doing well I'll know it.

This might sound strange to you, but some subset of the population won't know it. Ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger_effect[1]? Actual competence may weaken self-confidence and the unskilled might have illusory superiority.

There are also many cultural and social environments where an individual person comes from which gives them a negative self image no matter how well they are performing. It might not even occur to them they are doing a good job. Victims of abuse, for example.

Taking a second or two to say "good job" gives the person actual feedback. I'm not saying you should make a show, but job feedback is important.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Oh, come on, they're humans too, and thus subject to deliberately unfunny jokes in (technical or not) slide presentations like the rest of us.

From a quick look this one seems more plausible than the absurd PRISM presentation.
There is a problem with the suggestion in #6 and it applies to management. Some companies believe they need to do this for management, and since the managers know they will be moving, they optimize for short term gain at the expense of long term sustainability.

A favorite tactic of managers is to fire Q&A and support staff. This is a short term win on the bottom line, but will kill things later. It makes them look good as they get to say they "optimized the workflow". Another excellent one is to put a freeze on equipment buying and let it rot.

If you become a big wig and are in a company inclined to move people around for experience, please, please, please add something to your evaluations that look at the position they left 1 year ago and judge them on the sustainability. If they don't help enforce a sustainable process, then they will be fired as they are just a selfish, game-player.
And how do you claim to calculate expected value here? You are making the same error he is by ignoring the possible "black swan", which, with every drug, can have dramatic consequences.

A positive but cautious conclusion like http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/m... would have been much more appropriate.
Ask HN: How did delivery of drugs on Silk Road work?
Were the people selling/buying drugs on Silk Road top-level drug merchants? Or were they suburban kids?

I understand that the service kept everyone anonymous, but there's still the problem of delivery. How did the actual delivery of drugs work? And doesn't the government have ways to detect drugs in the mail?