skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple overtakes Coca-Cola to become ‘Most Valuable Brand’ of 2013
Just have to say, Sidekiq and Dalli are two gems that I view as essential in the Rails toolkit. Thanks for your work in those areas.
Yeah, but even if it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt what's the likelihood they would get anything more than a slap on the wrist when they state it was to "defend your freedom"?
I've always thought the justification for corporate limited liability was even flimsier than the justification for patent protection. At least with the latter you can point to economic theory and say that patents address free rider problems. What economic theory justifies corporate limited liability? Why should anyone be insulated from any liability incurred by their profit-making activities?
Furloughed Federal Programmer? Five Ways to Keep Busy During the Downtime.
Mark does a lot of that.

First, on being an 'entrepreneur',
the US is awash, by the millions,
in successful entrepreneurs, with
only a small fraction with an MBA
or knowing what BizDev is. E.g.,
once late on a Thursday I
needed an electrician, plugged in
my emergency electric generator,
very much
wanted to get the work done on Friday
and not have to wait until Monday, Tuesday,
etc., stayed
up nearly until dawn on Friday getting phone
numbers of local electricians and
leaving messages, got back only a
few calls, one, just after dawn
just leaving to play golf,
with a reference to
an electrician who lived a few
streets over but didn't have his
name in any place easy to find, called
him, got him, and got the work done.
That electrician was actually doing
okay as an entrepreneur -- staying
busy enough, nice house, wife at home,
truck, assistant, and essentially none
of the problems Suster described.
The situation is similar for millions
of Main Street entrepreneurs all
across the US.

If an information technology entrepreneur
can do better, okay, but mostly he shouldn't
have to do worse.

Second,
Suster, in his list of what it takes to
be a successful entrepreneur, leaves out
some things that, when left out, can
explain why the items on his list
are so ugly.

An example is from WWII: The Allies
won against Rommel in North Africa.
From the attributes in Suster's list?
Maybe in part, but Suster left out
a crucial point: Something especially
effective.

What was that against Rommel? Sure,
most of Rommel's supplies went to the
bottom of the Mediterranean. Why?
Because the English, maybe with Turing,
broke a German code so that the Allies
knew when the German supply ships were
headed for Rommel. The Allies were
so careful with the information that
they didn't just attack the ships and,
instead, before attacking the ship
made sure to fly a plane
over the ship to let the German's
think that reconnaissance had
detected the ship and not something
else. Eventually Rommel was convinced that
there was a security leak in the
Italians.

There were other WWII examples, especially
the atomic bomb.

Thankfully for US national security,
the US DoD has, now for 70+ years,
been the unique, world class, grand
champion of getting some things that
are "especially effective" --
GPS, stealth, reconnaissance
satellites, the SR-71, etc. What
Suster concentrates on has feet
locked into concrete making sure
not to do anything "especially effective"
as in those examples.

Suster is making a fundamental mistake:
He is looking for things that are
exceptionally good but trying to get
such things mostly just via ordinary
'true-grit' and without concentrating
on things that are "especially effective".
One approach is to get each hit done by two (or three) regular MTurkers and crosscheck the results. I've seen this done with "human OCR" type tasks.
It would proabably start with something like IRS and SEC audits.
Ross Ulbricht was sloppy and outted himself...
"That is very different from email."
[Citation needed]
If they are really different, you should easily be able to find a 10th circuit case where they've said so.

(Though any pair of cases where an appeals court has said they are different would be fine!)
Apple's Sprite Kit framework targets games on iOS 7, OS X Mavericks & Apple TV
Using this type of technique (Clef and SQRL) on every login sounds like a particularly evil version of hell.
It's a good thing gasoline doesn't catch fire otherwise we would all be in trouble.
I used to use TaskKiller for memory clearing purposes. Haven't used it since I upgraded to CM 10
Why the hell do I keep seeing this question asked? Do people really think that law enforcement will stop because of the shutdown?
Android Remote Application Framework Provides True Multi-Screen Experiences
Probably because it's unreasonable for me to lose my house to a patent troll like these guys. Taking risks is good for the economy in general. Without the LLC giving me some protection from patent trolls it'd be too risky for me to start my own business.
There is great danger in learning OOP with Smalltalk. Everything fits together so elegantly, the first time I opened a book about C++, I closed it in disgust (after seeing the bit-shift operator being used for console output, wtf?!), only to give the language a second chance 8 years later. I even learned Java before giving C++ a try.

When a young programmer asks me for advice about the next language to learn is, my advice is to go for the language that feels most alien. C++ won't enlighten a Java programmer significantly. Forth will.
Surface comment of the day - What an excellent, clean website. From the color scheme to the font choices. Excellent.
Technology Budget Busters: How The Internet Can Halve Your Monthly Budget
it's not that you don't receive them you just may not receive them in real time or if it switches to edge then you will
What I learned speaking at a large public event
HTML5 Offers 'Road to Awesome'
Presumably in a loser-pays system you would be required to post a bond to sue if there was some question of your ability/willingness to pay.

Besides, the ability to offload your legal exposure (as opposed to the risk for ordinary debts, where the creditors should have known what they were dealing with) onto shell companies is exaggerated.
Spend 10 hours in front of an industrial milling machine cranking out identical bars for cable trays, or my personal favourite, the epic 22 hour weekend roofing job in 95 degree heat. Just for laughs imagine your skillset isn't particularly in demand and the reality of your situation is you do this shit day in and day out or you're homeless in a matter of weeks.

Sure, there's stuff that crops up in our industry that royally sucks (game industry crunch time comes to mind), but it's relative, and given the amount of demand in the market for programmers, one could argue voluntary.
I highly doubt that, unless you have some truly shocking 3rd party extended battery. The screen has taken 20% of the battery life but it doesn't mean 20% of 4 days = the amount of time the screen was on. I suggest you press Screen in Settings > Battery and then reporting that. The screen is the single biggest juice sucker in modern smartphones.
I'm sure that he'd be willing to offer support if you wanted to pay for the support.
I agree with your core premise, but #2 is distributed extremely unevenly.
If I'm writing a system library in C, I'm supposed to somehow make it RESTFUL?
Because without limited liability there is a MUCH smaller incentive to start a company. There are plenty of good intros as to how the invention of limited liability really was the beginning of modern economic takeoff. I recommend
Ascent of Money" by Niall Ferguson for a good intro.
tl;dr if you hardly touch your phone, it lasts longer between charges.
The Relationship Between HTML5 and Responsive Web Design
> It is going to be an issue for people doing low-level/backend GUI stuff and pretty much nobody else.

or people who write so-called "suckless" software; most of the things i run on my desktop (notable exceptions including my browser, anki, and perhaps one or two other programs) directly include xlib / import xlib bindings rather than gtk, qt, etc.
Yes, you are correct, my bad :)
Clicking on screen in the Settings -> Battery says screen time on is 4h 32m. So I guess in a 4 day cycle I get to a little over 5h
I have the same opinion on ATI, but on windows.
I use radeon hd 6630M (switchable graphics), with drivers from 2011, because they never bothered to release an update.

Effect? I'm getting artifacts/BSOD when try to play games.
Fortunately I can switch to intel.
Ruby itself may not be magic but it encourages magic frameworks which end up extremely hard to maintain under turnover. I guess part of the problem is that when you have a couple of smart developers they try to outdo each other in the cleverness of their code, so it essentially ends up being write-only software.
Mitnick published an autobiography.
Global Marketing Director at BitNami (YC W13)
Global Marketing Director

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While we have made great progress as a company and a brand, the journey is just beginning. Our goal is to have every developer, systems administrator and business user demand BitNami each and every time they need to deploy their applications. To accomplish this, we must evolve and permeate our brand, generate even more awareness across our target audiences, expand our partnerships with software vendors and deliver the industry’s best user experience. If this sounds as exciting to you as it is to us, then please consider hopping on the BitNami wave.

We’re looking for a marketing visionary that brings new ideas to the table and the ability to lead and grow a marketing team as the company grows; yet somebody that isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves to get real work done. We need someone that is comfortable wearing many different hats. Marketing is extremely important to us and we need to find a leader that combines solid experience and passion with the work ethic and motor needed to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.

Primary Responsibilities include:

Maintain the BitNami web properties and identify opportunities for improving the conversion rate from web visitors to BitNami users. Closely monitor key metrics associated with the customer acquisition process to identify bottlenecks and areas of opportunity.Identify and manage awareness generation activities spanning SEO, social media, press & analyst relations and other activities. Define and execute outbound marketing campaigns as necessary to further drive adoption of BitNami solutions. Engage with software vendor and cloud provider partners to maximize value for each relationship. Identify and track key industry events and coordinate sponsorships and conference booths/activities. Generate thought-provoking and useful content as necessary to support above activities.

You should have at least 5-10 years of marketing experience in the software industry, with a good understanding of each of the areas of responsibility. We will give strong preference to candidates that can work from our corporate office on Mission Street in San Francisco.

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According to your link, "if a person is induced to commit a crime by a private citizen, he cannot use the entrapment defense".

Unsurprisingly, in the complaint there is no suggestion that a law enforcement officer was behind the threats to expose silk road accounts, such threats therefore appear to be from a private citizen, and not subject to the entrapment defense.

Further, simply agreeing to pay to have someone killed (whether they are eventually killed or not) is sufficient to be found guilty of conspiracy to murder, and significant jail time.

However, while we don't know who issued those threats, we do know that (apparently) no one was harmed as a result of the contracted "hit" being executed, despite the defendant receiving a picture of an apparent execution.

It is the discrepancy between the apparent killing and the lack of a body that raises my suspicion that there was no actual threat and no actual killing.

Edit: It occurred to me that investigators could set-up such a "sting" not specifically to entrap the defendant into a murder charge, but to provide a clear and traceable link between him and a higher-level involvement in the running of silk road, which was manifestly illegal.
I think a good defense lawyer should be able to get the server image thrown out. Fat lot that will do in light of everything else though.
Apple’s next killer product will not be portable
"Sir, please shut off your electronics device as it may interfere with the navigational systems."

"Um, no. Did you SEE that episode of myth busters?"

"Oh. Well.. um.. the real reason is so you pay attention".

You can't just change the reason because your original reason has been proven wrong. If this was the real reason, then they should have been upfront about it.

But like a sibling commenter states - reading a book (as opposed to a kindle), or being deaf (as opposed to wearing earphones - this one's probably a bad comparison..) carry the same 'risks' and neither are banned.
Not sure if this is the place for this but with my Galaxy Note 2, I generally get about a day and a half with moderate to heavy use, including not charging it overnight. I generally charge it overnight every other night and sometime plug it in for a few hours during the day.

I have not tweaked any of the settings and seldom use the battery saver option. I never use Bluetooth as I have no need for it. None of my apps are authorized for GPS except Google maps or FourSquare--I just have no need for most apps to know where I am. I do make sure to turn off wifi when I am outside of my home and using cellular data. If there is a weak cell signal and wifi available, I will turn it on. This isn't scientific but I feel going in and out of wifi signals does drain the battery.
At the moment:

"total_amount" : 11784364.79571183

Though some of that is lost forever, of course.
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Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?
> Block's theory of evictionism is basically that a mother's right to remove a fetus is stronger than the fetus' right to be in the womb, yet the mother is not permitted to kill the fetus straight off exactly

I adore libertarians, I really do, for all the energy and earnestness they bring to their theory of government. But I can't take them very seriously, and this sort of thing is exactly why.
"Hell, whole racks lose power at times. Doesn't happen all that often, but it happens often enough that if your provider says "We blew breaker X" well, more often than not, it's a honest problem, and not the FBI yanking power to image a drive."

Now you've got me wondering whether the apparent disparity between manufacturers claimed MTBF and what we see in failure rates in the real world, might plausibly be attributed to mysterious government agencies coercing data center owners into unexpected-but-plausible downtime. (four or five nines of power uptime might just mean the FBI/NSA need to batch server imaging and grab a whole bunch in a particular data center at once)
My guess is that "clean" includes disposal of the body and other evidence. Like in movies where people call up the "cleaner" after a murder to make the bodies disappear (e.g., "Victor the Cleaner" in Point of No Return).
Haha :)... There was also a reply from the company. On the same day too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq1FM84uAck

Looking forward to controlling my living room with gestures :)
23andMe Patents Designer Baby System, Denies Plans to Use It
PhysicsJS - Physics In Pure JavaScript
If you live in the US, there is a lot of important patent reform legislation being drafted in committee right now, and reform has a lot of support (including from traditional archenemies like the MPAA). Somebody motivated me earlier today to write my congressman about it, and so should you. Remember, constituents who don't complain, don't exist.

The letter I'm drafting is sort of Texas-specific, but you are welcome to adapt it to your state. If so please post a link so others on HN can benefit.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xkeb6qlnpnkjntn/patent_letter.pdf
If you can force authentication via both private key and a password, then you're authenticating via both "something you have" (the key), and "something you know" (the password). Having a passphrase on the key protects access to the key, but it doesn't provide any additional levels of authentication to the (remote) system that is requesting authentication — after all, the user could have removed the passphrase from the key file, there's no way for the remote system to know.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to require both a key and a passphrase to be entered. There may be a way to do it with some (custom?) pam configuration/modules, but as far as I know, nothing in sshd itself.
Google to ad makers: Code once, display everywhere
Sounds like a poor man's docker?

[1] http://docker.io
I was going to say something about idiotic, obvious patents not just being a software problem, but, on inspection of the claims, it seems that the fig leaf they're using to patent this is that the "system" is implemented on computer hardware. So it's a software issue after all. :/
Whales, Cars, Law, Technology and You
If Person A has known motive to kill Person B, in a "non-clean" hit Person A will immediately come under suspicion. If the hit is "clean", anything could have happened and it's a lot harder to establish it as a murder and therefore Person A has a much lower risk of being brought into the case.
The FBI Complaint, for one.

... I know that, on May 24, 2013, a Silk Road user sent
him a private message warning him that "some sort of
external IP address" was "leaking" from the site, and
listed the IP address of the VPN Server.

The Footnote labeled 4, bottom of page 28.

http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalCompl...

edit and off-topic rant: I really hate searching government PDFs.
New in iOS 7: What developers need to know
You are correct. I also mention the tradeoff between discharging very low to battery life, with a link to a nice article on the topic.
If you did so using your phone, they could have used endpoint tracking, DNS tracking, or DPI to detect your pending disloyalty.
Even after they rumbled his name, I wonder if he could have avoided direct culpability by keeping his net connection three hops away from the source systems, and using forged identity docs for anything official (mobile wifi connection and visa debit card)?
Oh come on, it's clearly a reference to a rather funny joke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJDu5D_IXbc

That said, I agree that throwaway users can have very valid opinions, and furthermore agree that warrants are frequently sealed.

I do have a concern of perpetually sealed warrants, and worry that in this case the government would have preferred to seal the case forever.

Also, the seal should never have prevented Lavabit from talking to Congressmen about general concerns regarding forced SSL key delivery. The documents make it clear the judge considered even mentioning the possibility of this occurrence would be a violation of the seal.

This is absurd, because being forced to give up an SSL key for a popular service is unprecedented, and he absolutely should have been able to discretely contact his representatives.
Google Said to Avoid U.S. Antitrust Challenge Over Waze
They're getting 4 days by basically not using the phone.
Thanks for taking the time to make this. I'm trying to integrate Clojure into our code base. Reading about other people's experiences really helps.
3D Piano Player (Three.js)
I can imagine, keep in mind that no other place than your own equipment is safe enough to keep your private life.
Even your own equipment isn't safe enough to go without proper backup.

2 important things you should consider in this day and age:
1. It does not matter if you pay for services or not, you are always considered product instead of customer and your stuff is only interesting for them when there is monetary gain.
2. Everybody in any company is only there for a finite time, this makes people not care about what happens when they move on.

Conclusion, no company or service offerer is ever fit to take care after your stuff, only you are, online or offline.
I use my macbook air which is usually in my bag when I travel to charge my phone. It will charge via usb even when the computer is in standby.
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Not talking about fraud? Hacking tools, identity theft tools, and false id kids were also sold on SR. This was definitely a marketplace for fraud.

But hey, no need for honesty to enter the debate. Not when it undermines betterunix's precious libertarian religion.

The libertarian religion is so strong that the Libertarians on this site are, predictably, not just defending SR. They're lying about what was on it, defending the hiring of hitmen, and generally making clear that Libertarianism is solely about self-interest and has ZERO underlying ethical frameworks.
The goverment is very, very good at bad PR. I don't think any institution in the world is as good at making people (who didn't previously care) hate them as the US govt is. Self-fulfilling prophecies, in a way. They think everbody hates them, so they react in a paranoid manner and violate the entire world's privacy and civil rights, and they're surprised (or feel vindicated, I suppose) when it is precisely that that makes people hate them.
Am I reading the graphs correctly that it states that in 3 days OP only used Chrome and Gmail for roughly 9 minutes each? Yeah... don't use your phone, and OH MY GOSH, the charge lasts forever!
How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?
I consider drug use eligitate demand, and I have no doubt the world would be better place without them. The stuff he was peddling will get you hooked fast.
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Can anyone comment on how this compares to LXC? Why should we prefer or use this when LXC already exists and is stable?
It doesn't matter that the FAA is an effective organization and most of the regulations it comes up with are perfectly justified. The general public doesn't know what the training requirements are for pilots, or how to file a flight plan, or how the ATC system is run. They see this one policy regarding personal electronics, which is obviously flawed, and make judgments about the agency on that basis. So, rightly or wrongly, it does undermine public confidence in the FAA at least a little bit.
Not sure what those numbers mean - perhaps it's CPU time. I use chrome and Gmail for about 30-40 minutes every day.