skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unclear what is happening and this may be a prank. The initial reports that the FBI had seized the domain appear to be a sarcastic "down for maintenance" page on the part of Silk Road. I've yet to find a real source on the alleged arrest of

http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1nl5ne/shutdown_is...

However, there also appears to be a criminal complaint out for the founder.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ulbric...

EDIT: Seems like this is real. Reuters reports that Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, was arrested in San Francisco. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/02/us-crime-silkroad-...
8Gb Nexus 4 is £150.
Much of the East Bay would probably be classified as hot and dry.
I'd say "Lytro functionality" (focus after capture) is perhaps most pointless feature ever in a small sensor camera. The only time one might come across some slightly shallow depth of field to play around with post-capture is when the subject matter is really close (and the background far away).

Faster focusing is welcome though.
Storytime! Who wants to hear another story of going all-in on poor State IT management?

http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/case/virginia-statewide-i...
...and if you don't have something good, you'll figure it out a lot faster with marketing than without. With a short runway, like when you're living out of your car or something crazy, figuring that out is pretty important.
Russian Mood-Sensing Retail Device Readies for U.S. Invasion
This seems to be going really good. Do we have any site or something that lists sort of failed startups in one place?
> one of those semi-autistic types

This is vile. You aren't semi-autistic. You are or you aren't. And what qualities are you referring to when talking about semi-autistic? Are you referring lack of communication? Stimming?

How the fuck does stimming have anything to do with slogging down coffee while programming?

Seriously, "semi-autistic"? People like you are vile.
>I have no idea why I can't borrow an e-book from a shady .ru site on the internet if I want. Or a perfectly legit site in the .uk

It's illegal, and if you're caught you can be sued for millions of dollars. I'm no lawyer, but I think the maximum penalty for copyright violation is $150,000 per violation in the US. Even "borrowing" 10 books with your plan could land you with enough fines to wipe out your home (if you own one) and all your savings. It's one of those things where the chances of getting caught are small, but the consequences of getting caught are commensurately massive.
There are working conditions within software development we can complain about. Starting of with people thinking just because it is not physical labour we can work much longer hours. Yes up to a point we can work a little longer. But if people get sleep deprived then you might as well have free beer instead of sodas in the fridge. Just google "sleep deprivation drunk equivalent" and you will find a bunch research.
> but the issue is that I find webapps a really uninspiring trend in web development; my vision for the web is much more data-oriented than the code silos we're all making.

Can you tell me more about your vision?
This is interesting about DIY. I'll research this a bit more, thanks for the info.
spiped and tarsnap are two different things -- spiped is a daemon for creating encrypted pipes, and tarsnap is an online backup service.

Which do you want to know about?
Sounds like you have found a potential product.
Found this in one of the recent HN submissions:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ulbric... / Mirror: http://www.scribd.com/doc/172773407/Ulbricht-Criminal-Compla...

According to the filing, they found him through a combination of posting his personal @gmail.com address on the bitcointalk forum from the same account used to market Silkroad. Further, they found that his LinkedIn account somewhat corroborated the timeline/interest in what Silkroad is. Page 24 for the juicy details of how they identified him.

Also there is a section about murder-for-hire in Canada. Pretty wild stuff.

Update: Also he posted on Stackoverflow asking questions about Tor with his real name, then later changed his name. Supremely conspicuous.
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There is also this Reuters blurb: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/02/us-crime-silkroad-...
I'm not sure how, in his formulation, words are anything other than "hollow icons", all stroke and no fill.

The author also seems not to have thought out his argument completely; in one breath, he speaks of parsing words as shapes rather than reading individual letters, and in the next he argues that there being only 26 letters in the English alphabet makes English easier to parse than the theoretically infinite set of hollow icons. If letters don't matter to English parsing, why does it matter how many there are? If they do matter, then how is an English word significantly different from a hollow icon?
That was my conclusion too ;-) Why do we try so hard right?
Ad supported email existed before gmail started scanning people's email, so it is clearly not absolutely instrumental in providing the service.

The allegation is that Google is attempting to make illegal additional profits by monetizing the users messages rather than just the service itself.
Hmmm, that seems broken. I installed 5.2KW of panels on the roof of my Bay Area home in 2002, at the time panels were a lot more expensive but the subsidies were better too, I ended up paying just about $20,000 for the complete system (after rebates and with all parts, labor etc). The system is grid tied (meaning it feeds back into the grid) and we switched our billing to a watt for watt basis (not time of use as my kids were being home schooled and we were in the house 24/7). My electricity bill is now annual (the net power usage is computed from the Anniversary date, and any power I've used in excess of my generation is charged at a flat fee). My typical annual power cost is < $200 and occasionally less than $100. There is zero maintenance other than rinsing the panels off twice a year, and trimming the trees to avoid shade.

By calculating my what my electricity bill would have been vs what it was, they have saved me more than their cost (at some point I should go back again and get exact numbers).

Its entirely unclear how much "additional" value they give the resale value of my house. It is clearly some, but I don't have a good way of knowing if it is $20,000 or more.

At the time we financed the purchase as part of a refinancing of the house, so we did know the interest cost for the money, we also went through the great Recession so in traditional financial analysis (the 'do nothing' option) we would have predicted our money would have had a better return than it actually did, although that didn't really change the math all that much.

So I can't see how you don't get it paid off in < 10 years these days. At this point I'm thinking of adding another string to offset the addition of an electric car.
Show HN: Who's using Rails?
wow, that stinks. I've never ran into it on my Windows 7 partition. I think I'd be even more irate if I did, though. Hate to pay top dollar for a high end card, only to see stuff like that on the platform is was more or less specifically targeted at.
"basically takes place in the Cold War."

What has fundamentally changed WRT the situation on the ground and the plot in the book?

Doesn't Russia and former USSR still burn oil? Doesn't the middle east still have oil? Wouldn't you need to distract the western powers somehow if they planned to sieze a country in the middle east, Imperial American style?

The main plot hole I see is invading the west is not going to help much with natgas exports which is a good source of incoming money. So they'd have some interesting economic issues. Then again eventually you'll be exporting natgas to "someone" in the long run and you need oil now, so no problemo.

Another plot issue would be it would be harder to frame the Germans precisely as described in the book. Well, adapt and overcome, something could be thought up pretty similar with the same outcome.

It is true, politicans now make smiley faces at each other, but when the rubber meets the road, and they need oil, and someone else has oil, and they've got the power to take it and believe theres no alternative, you do the math...

The other problem is the "newer generations" not appreciating something from the past, unless its a sequel of a sequel of a FPS WWII game, in which case they love it.

I don't think its a problem.
Reuters reporting seems to confirm the news http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/02/us-crime-silkroad-...
Didn't even have to think about this one: Eloquent Javascript, by Marijn Haverbeke. He's an amazing writer and a brilliant all-around guy. Technically it's geared toward new programmers, but it's worth a read at pretty much any level.

You can find it free online here: https://eloquentjavascript.net/ or buy a print version here: http://nostarch.com/ejs.

(Full disclosure: I'm listed as the editor on the print version, though in this case my job basically consisted of nodding as chapters came in and saying, "Yup, that's a damn good book.")
Have you ever tried to get something released as OSS in a large company? Sun was a prime example - inspite of complete buy in from their CEO it took them eons to open source parts of Solaris. And I dont think till the very end they were able to get a completely bootstrapping release of solaris out.
The red lines indicate areas where cognitive load is occurring. Your brain traces the shapes on the first row an average of twice as much. Your eye scans the outside shape and then scans the inner line to determine if there is value in the “hollow” section.

Icons without this empty core are processed as definite and only the outer lines are processed. Depending on the outline of the shape, this happens pretty fast. No matter the shape, though, the hollow icons take more time to process.

I'd like to see an actual study to back this assertion up. The article makes an off-hand reference to something about how the brain processes the reading of words, but 1) I don't see how that maps to how the brain processes icons and 2) there's no reference cited for that either.
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Cuba makes another job legal: real estate agents
I love 4G/LTE and my Galaxy Nexus, but I'm seriously considering getting a nexus 5 and straight talk. I have semi decent coverage in my area.
Do you make API calls, or just grab web pages? I've noticed the Google APIs seem to occasionally return errors for no apparent reason. You could try double-trying in your Nagios check.

It's also complicated by Google's infrastructure — services are scattered across many, many servers, and Google's outages tend to be on some subset of services and/or servers. Your Nagios checks are probably not always checking the same endpoint as users connecting.
"Amazon’s ebooks can only be read on Kindle devices, lent only once, and only for 14 days (and then only by someone in the Amazon Prime program, which of course costs extra)."
That's totally wrong. I'm not a Prime member, and I've lent a book. I also read Kindle books on my iPad using my Kindle app, and you could just as well use the Kindle app on any other Android/iOS/Windows 8 or RT device.
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It seems to be real, here are the court docs:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ulbric...
> Some were caught commercializing students' work and/or forcing students to delay publication of the their thesis work

I would just like to point out that comparably unethical behavior is, unfortunately, still commonplace at some schools (and again, not limited to computer science).
I've found that my panels keep my attic probably 3 - 5 degrees cooler than before the panels were installed. So it's definitely a benefit. I don't have air conditioning and on warm days this keeps the house from heating up.
The Dartmouth Project: A Quest for Artificial Intelligence
Context Require - Load JS assets based on page content
There was also a (fantastic) computer game, designed by Sid Meier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm_Rising_%28video_game%...
FBI Seize Deep Web Marketplace Silk Road, Arrest Owner
"First of a kind camera called MEMS" is very disingenuous. MEMS is a series of technologies -- ie. MicroElectroMechanical Systems, and includes a lot of different sensors (eg. accelerometers and gyros). Also, piezoelectric MEMS focusing elements have been available for micro cameras for some time -- definitely not new (though perhaps first mass-market?). Bad reporting.
Illegal activity doesn't magically become legal just because the proceeds are used to give something away for free.
Yeah, but they have some unique characteristics related to inserting/deleting from the middle or beginning of the list. They're actually used in a few places in the linux kernel, for performance reasons, in spite of cache locality issues.
Garbage Collection vs. malloc/free
It was the day after, I do think it was CNN and the anchor was a jerk, but I pretty sure it wasn't this one.
Someone from Ross' close circle didn't get his proper share!
One of the things we did was spent a year prior to panel installation reading our meter every day to figure out what our daily power usage was. We then replaced some really energy expensive appliances (and old refrigerator, some incandecent lighting, and ended up with an average of about 24kwH per day)
Different issue. It is definitely best practice to use a long passphrase to protect every secret key, this is off topic.

What I meant was, you connect to the SSH server and authenticate cryptographically (use passphrase locally when prompted) - then you also need a logon + password for the SSH server to complete the authentication. This would reject the internet noise banging on the port, but impose a 2 factor test.
<<I mean, it's strange that you display script outside the output. E.g. on page 7 you have 2 outputs and only one script.>>
Consideer that this transaction is not been broadcasted to P2P Network. You can storage a valid transaction as this if you add the flags SIGHASH_ALL and SIGHASH_ANYONECANPAY to the transaction.

<<what does mean "description message is ciphered"? You mean signed? Because ECDSA does not do encryption (like RSA), only signatures.>>
I'm not sure about your question. ECDSA is a PKI key type, so i believe that it's possible.
First of all, no, saying something is my biggest concern does not imply that barring it this would all be "much less of a concern" because all other things are "so much smaller" concerns. Those conclusions simply don't follow from what I said.

The rest of your points are pretty good and they are well taken. It is possible that U.S. citizens generally view ourselves less as "World citizens" than we should. For me, personally, I feel like this is because we have (largely through our own past mistakes!) made many enemies throughout the world, and I struggle to feel like there is any useful world citizenship that includes both me and those enemies. So yes, it royally pisses me off that you in the Netherlands are being spied on, and that German writers are being mistreated, and that European embassies are being bugged, all in my name, but no, it really doesn't bother me that we are spying on the North Koreans. I'm mad that we don't seem to know our friends from our enemies and are embarrassing ourselves by just drag-netting everything, but from a legal standpoint, within my own government, I think there is a useful line between U.S. citizens, and non-citizens.

For what it's worth, I absolutely think that I belong on the other side of that line for you in the Netherlands, and if I found out your government was spying on me, I would be more upset with my own government for failing to protect me than with your government for the spying.

I'm sure none of that made you like me or other Americans any more, which bums me out, and I wish there were a big happy World family for me to feel a part of, but as far as I can tell, there isn't.
Ahh, this is different. I'll admit to thinking it's strange, but not insane. Sorry for the quick judgment.
That's fine for you, because you understand the trade offs.

The allegation is that many users have been duped.
Just a piece of advice for a fellow coder/architect: Try out some meditation of some sort after you get off work, and before you crack open the beer. I have noticed a huge improvement in my ability to relax at night after starting this about 6 months ago. All I really do is 20 minutes of yoga right when I get home, and it has made all the difference. I always love beer, but it just tastes better when my mind is not stuck on whether or not the hotfix I shimmed into the API earlier to have things ready for the big meeting will explode in the middle of the night and trigger a bunch of angry emails.
I also read Kindle books on my iPad using my Kindle app, and you could just as well use the Kindle app on any other Android/iOS/Windows 8 or RT device

True, but that doesn't tackle the issue of price entirely. If we lived in an e-book only world you would have to spend nearly a hundred dollars before you could read a single book. That's not great. If the books were considerably cheaper it might be justifiable, but they aren't.
I like the story the way @fat tells it.
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> even plots that seemed fantastic (a plane crushing into the Capitol) almost happened later

I'm surprised actual terrorist plots similar to Rainbow Six have not happened yet. I was drawn to the book by the game, and while the latter is a landmark in tactical shooters, it's a mess in terms of delivering the actual story.
why not include China?
I am in a very similar situation. Except I do not have the energy to sit down at home and do more programming, I am happy to get away from it until the next day.
Google has hired the developer of SynthCam, which is IMO the most interesting computational bokeh app. Combine that with the ability of the mems system and a fast image sensor to capture images at every focus point and estimate depth based on what is in focus in each image. You can then pick what you want blurry and what you want in focus and even how blurry you want the blurry parts to be. I hope they can make this all seamless in the nexus 5.
This is why it's not practical.
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The information they used to find him came from before he set those safe guards up. Long story short, he was sloppy in the early days.
Well, growing up with the NATO vs Warsaw Pact is a pretty big change along with Germany which you noted. Stealth was still black when it came out.

I'm not sure how the plot would work given the ultimate goal of the USSR in the book was to capture a chunk of the Persian Gulf oil.
I see Alberto has already replied you!
BTW if you wanna collaborate the whole development process is totally open and you can drop me an email at me AT luisivan DOT net ;)
This may be a false alarm. The string they found - IMX179 - seems to be actually a Sony sensor part, which is in use on other phones also. (I.E. the Meizu MX3). It appears in the MEMS documentation which is ranked first in Google because their sensor package is based on the IMX179.

However, going by the sample shots from the MX3, it looks to be a good sensor - so hopefully it still has a good camera (my nexus 4 camera produces really bad results sometimes).
Can't speak about the camera or if this is just a marketing gimmick or not, but I can say that MEMS technology is really cool.

Since the article does a pretty poor job of explaining what MEMS technology can do, it's probably best shown by example, e.g. see this MEMS gear!

http://www.sfu.ca/immr/projects/ensc494-01/acoppin/images/Pa...

And an article here with some more images: http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/machines.cfm

What's really fun is when you need to start accounting for, say, the electrostatic interactions between atoms in your gear design! Of course, MEMS devices are probably already in your phone. They're commonly used for accelerometers, e.g. see here http://www.geekmomprojects.com/gyroscopes-and-accelerometers... Cool stuff!
Some people may not want to re-elect a government which creates such lucrative tax avoidance incentives ... including by confiscating so much of income as to necessitate aggressive leveraging of such deductions.

Sure, Ikea isn't doing it out of sheer altruism. They're doing it because, under the laws they're subject to, it's a sensible business strategy.
Truth in consulting
No it doesn't. Free email existed long before Google started reading people's email.

The email scanning just makes extra profits for google and their advertisers at the expense of people's privacy.
The link to the resulting press (in the article) is broken. It's http://bitly.com/bundles/justinwi/1
> There seems to be a certain aspect of the night owl that is present in many programmers

This seems likely and could be attributed to the fact that we receive above average artificial light from staring at screens too late into the evening.
FBI arrests Silk Road founder "Dread Pirate Roberts"
On a similar line, you may also find this interesting:
http://sx.dyne.org/anontx/
I have long said: "MySQL is the PHP of databases."

In my experience, the database is capable, but the database itself has some quirks (whether these are due to the database itself or the developers I do not know). Some things I do know for sure:

- I worked on a product which supported MsSQL, Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL. Only MySQL compared character columns in a case insensitive way which caused us some extra work, but we did fix this using the proper collation.

- I worked on a Django project. When using MySQL, a Django ORM query would pull the entire result set and hold it in memory while you iterated over it, sometimes consuming gigs of ram if we weren't careful. Iterating over a result set from Postgres would pull (presumably) only one result at a time. Whatever the case, it didn't cause memory problems like MySQL. This is not MySQL's fault, but again, it was the exceptionally problematic database.

- I'm currently working with a MySQL database which is quite troublesome because foreign-keys are not enforced. See a non-null foreign-key? You might expect it to refer to an existing record, but you'd be wrong. Again, failure of the developers, not the database.

- I also am currently working with a MsSQL database. We had to add a column to a MsSQL table; no locking, no problem. Then I had to add a column to a MySQL table, which locked the entire table for the length of the operation. MySQL was, again, problematic where another database was not.

There are other problems I have only heard of, but I will not mention those. All the above are personal experiences where MySQL was causing trouble where other databases were not. It parallels my experience with PHP, both are great tools if used right, but they seem to be misused more often then other technologies.
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The book of bad arguments
Given the frequency with which he attracts world-changing trouble... no, thank you!
Yes although you only played the (attack) submarine thread of the story your success or failure was reflected in the balance of the war shown on a world map if I remember correctly.
Security monitoring - Penetration testing meets monitoring
Is that true for these particular subsidies? Or has the UK government committed to them over the coming 15-20 years? I thought the latter.
Good that Nexus is stepping up its game. After Nokia hit it out of the park with its Lumia 1020 camera, using any other smartphone camera was sub par. Glad that we will have some competition. Of course its not just about focusing speed. Hope the sensor can produce some good images
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FBI seizes underground drug market Silk Road, owner indicted in New York
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