skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government shutdowns are done in a way that retains a certain subset of services that are either paid for through unaffected funding mechanisms, or have been designated essential. That includes soldiers' salaries, payments to military contractors, operations of the FBI and DEA, and small to medium-sized portions of other agencies (e.g. the EPA is mostly shut down, but the Superfund and Mine Safety divisions will stay open).
I'd imagine the hard evidence connecting him comes from the raids. They clearly managed to locate the hardware the site was running on, and it's going to be a bit harder to hide connections to that.
Well, we keep dragging HTML and JS for compatibility. Will one extra legacy approach do too much harm?
Some Dribbble Design Trend Data
> You'll need a browser that supports WebGL to play Hover.

I'm pretty sure Chrome supports WebGL.
That statement is much less absurd in context.

He posted a question about connecting to a Tor hidden service with PHP on Stack Overflow. He didn't realize it puts your full name next to the question (and he had signed up with his real name), so literally 1 minute after posting the question, he changed his full name to a "pseudonymous username". He then changed his SO registration information from firstname.lastname@gmail to a fake name at a fake server.
I think it's reasonable to believe that he started out a pure (ish) freedom fighter and got corrupted by the fact that he had made 10's of millions of dollars off his little experiment.
I went to an annual end-of-year book sale where paperbacks are 10 cents, so $50 would get you 500 books.

The inability to re-sell ebooks destroys this secondary market.
Because there's a lot of difference in development even from month to month, so the extra resolution is needed.
I wrote this post - feels like quite a simple approach. Would love to hear if anyone has done anything similar.
The most interesting part was trying to decipher what was got cleanly and what was got with PRISM.

Stackoverflow is one not specifically mentioned as "obtained records from" just that those actions happened on stackoverflow. Non-public actions. Also why would stackoverflow keep a record about each username and email change, but not IP and access times? They never mentioned how he connected to SO or if he masked it. BUT they mentioned that in every other case.
I suspect doing a "clean" hit requires more skill and experience.
Legally, in the US, the First Sale Doctrine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
Dangers of giving dishonest feedback to startups.
Did I miss something in the article? Where did you get that information? Here's the complete text of the linked article:

Oct 2 (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement authorities raided
an Internet site that served as a marketplace for illegal
drugs, including heroin and cocaine, and arrested its
owner, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday.

The FBI arrested Ross William Ulbricht, known as "Dread
Pirate Roberts," in San Francisco on Tuesday, according to
court filings. Federal prosecutors charged Ulbricht with
one count each of narcotics trafficking conspiracy,
computer hacking conspiracy and money laundering
conspiracy, according to a court filing.
That was my first question. It'd be pretty funny if we were to find out during the trial that the guy caught wasn't the real DPR.
I wonder what the FBI will do with the seized bitcoins!
But the reason you can't share ebooks isn't that you don't own the medium the data is inscribed on (you do), it's the fact that the only practical ways of sharing them involve copying the text, which is not allowed on traditional books or ebooks.

You are perfectly welcome to share the medium itself (e.g. the ebook reader), it just so happens that with physical books, the medium lends itself (pun intended) to sharing.
True, also, it seems like my first hypothetical twist might not have been that far off as I thought. Other comments[0] readily theorize it to be a likely scenario.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6483382
Here's a question: How did the FBI manage to shut down a hidden Tor site?

Did they merely sieze the server hosting the site and ask apache to serve something else?
To be fair to them, California's population is 38 million. Divide the budgets by that number to get a per-capita cost and it doesn't seem crazy to me.

As an aside the way we citizens run our government, budget bloat is guaranteed. We complain a little about bloat, but we complain a lot when things don't go perfectly, and we also go looking for individuals to blame. The strong incentive is to be very risk-averse. That's especially true in organizations, like government, where stability is prized and careers are long.

I really appreciate a lot of the work that government people do, but I would never put up with half the bullshit they do.
I wonder if the timing on this is deliberate. The office that handles FOIA requests is part of the government shutdown, but the three-letter agencies aren't. So the only information that's going to come out on this for the time being is whatever the people running the investigation want to come out...

Maybe it's not deliberate, but keep that in mind. There's going to only one source on this story for a long time.
Or that they would simply split the money and his target would shut up (pretend to die, by disappearing off that monicker). Or if it's the same user, the money doesn't even have to be split for that. Or it's a way to send a message that he's serious.... (in a way the recipient gets).
For all members x of set publicity, x.good=true
Blocks is a good one, although it's not a formal unit, I generally tend to associate it with about a 1/10 of a mile.
All the rest of the info here has come from the criminal complaint that was posted in another comment.

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

There's some interesting stuff in there, page 21 is the murder for hire scenario and 24 is where the agent explains how they identified DPR.
Rugby Go Pro training footage with most expensive player in the world
Rugby Go Pro training
Gandalf, the document wizard builder
Just like the music industry before it, publishing is slowly going DRM-free. Looks of books on Amazon have a note that says something to the effect of "Per the publisher's request, this book is DRM free."

Tor (one of the largest sci-fi publishers) is now DRM-free: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/07/torforge-e-books-are-now-dr...
When there will be an Android smartphone which is not ugly?
Books can be shared, traded, or resold.
Cancer and tango - die with your tango shoes on
Yeah, I was specifically addressing "The contents of the phone usually aren't encrypted". If you have a passcode (which is required for TouchID) then your iPhone is encrypted.

You can definitely brute force it. I saw an article somewhere (probably here on HN) addressing the fact. I can't find it, but if I remember correctly, it said something about Apple or an associated company quietly offering forensic help to police on bypassing the password. I think it implied they were using a ramdisk to brute force the encryption.

edit: Found an Ars article about Apple doing it, but it doesn't mention anything about a ramdisk. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/05/apple-will-reportedly-u...
Red Hat leads way to certify OpenStack pros
He was apparently really careful about connecting to the server. The docs state that he logged in through a VPN provider and he logged into the VPN provider at an internet cafe (which was apparently close to his house).

However, the document doesn't seem to state who the VPN provider was or if he was the customer tied to the VPN account (probably avoids this info because the VPN is account is in someone else's name). So again, can't prove via this route that it was him.

I'm curious to know how they managed to find the Silk Road server though..
Good question. Overall quality was high (you're able to see the results as they come in and if they look funky, you can reject them and you won't have to pay).

Stats on our campaign are here: http://screencast.com/t/5XizDvsvjP
no question. this is why the Star never succeeded -- much like tablets from microsoft. the macro point is that jobs, like gates, often found tech inspiration from elsewhere. jobs' superpower was infusing geeky products (potentially pioneered elsewhere) with mass market appeal.
This looks great. I do layout design for an old-school technology magazine, http://2600.com/. We've been using PageMaker/inDesign for decades. As a fan of LucidCharts, I'm looking forward to checking this new product of yours out.

Being able to import so we can retain some of the style our readers have become acustomed to would be AWESOME but I'm betting you all looked into inDesign's format and decided to pass that up?
"People underestimate just how regulated the banking system is, despite all the talk about more regulation."

I agree with you about underestimation, but I think that the surplus of the regulations that we're talking about here is more to keep the member circle small, therefore it is in the benefit of the incumbent banks. So there is: 1. strong regulation if you want to get in and 2. weak regulation (at least for some banking activities) for keeping you in check afterwards.
> What makes a difference is gc pauses. Imho if you can live without managed memory. You can do this in java as well and eliminate gc pauses.

Wait, how can you turn off GC'd managed memory in Java, and do it yourself? I didn't know you could do that in Java?
There have been other posts and discussions about DPR here, I don't have a link for it but I recall a discussion about the alleged "hit".
For a start, amazon reserve the right to revoke your account take away all your ebooks!

And then the lending provisions. You could lend your kindle to someone (giving them all your books rather than just one). With a paper book you can give the book away or lend it to people in a serial fashion for however long you want. The tech is clearly there (single, two week lends) but the terms under which it operates are far more restrictive than a paper book.

--edit-- I realise that I first said ebooks and now am referring almost exclusively to amazon. It's entirely possible that other schemes could allow transfer of ownership relatively easily. I'm not aware of any that do right now, but there you are.
Would you have commented the same if she was a man, coming up with clever ways on how to find his dream wife - and - spoiler alert being successful at it?
I think you should flag this as breaking bad spoilers - not everyone has finished watching the show
> If they provide 'first-class' documentation for their partners to consume which has already been sanitized of NDA-restricted disclosures, maybe all they need to do is remove the 'CONFIDENTIAL' header.

What partners? The only ones writing AMD GPU drivers is AMD, and internal documentation tends to universally be crap.
I'd be shocked if they don't have photos/video of him at the internet cafe showing his screen. I'd imagine he's been under surveillance a while.
In nature, GNUs are born rapidly and have to run with the hurd within hours.
The fallout is going to be worse here than it was for the music industry.

At least the music industry had the convenient escape hatch of huge concert revenues to make up for the loss of CDs. The publishing industry has no such equivalent. Authors go on book tours, sure, but those tours are not exactly raking in the dough for themselves or their publishers; they're just marketing expenditures designed to sell more books.
Summary of how he got caught: https://medium.com/p/d48995e8eb5a
Being Kind: The Music Video That Circled The World
My company has two good types of yearly contracts for "advanced support" oriented to large companies. In both we can charge a good price because they support complex technologies.

One is our own product that is very costly to maintain (reverse engineering third party applications) and some customers agree that they need to have this additional service.

Another one is for complex application virtualization. For example, we give the technology for virtualizing IE6 on Windows 7 and 8 but some Microsoft updates break the solution and the company needs to have an "insurance" against that.

Simple support gives a lot of headache.
We don't need no climate change to ruin a crop with hail storm, too little rain fall or other circumstances.
Pulse works just fine on openSUSE, Fedora, Arch, etc.... I've had plenty of issues with Ubuntu, never with Pulse though....
If you're an emacs user, prefix the line with the desired number of spaces then type M-q, copy back into your browser. That's my solution to formatting block quotes at least. Your long line prexixed with 3 spaces in emacs:

So a paragraph that would run off the page and break mobile
devices in normal circumstances should be broken in several
places by a hard 'return' plus more spaces.

And your split-by-hand block quote:

Is really just a collection of sentence fragments that all
fit the same formatting. There might be a better way, but I
don't know it!
You don't turn it off, but you can use off-heap memory (with direct ByteBuffers) and manage it yourself. Some Java applications manage some part of their memory off-heap, but this is a bad idea unless the allocated objects have a well-defined lifecycle.
Silk Road's DPR caught in ridiculous way
Very awesome hack.
A good suggestion from the article was to have 2 versions of a job description - a longer one for performance evaluation and a shorter one for job postings. It appears that most companies only have one version - the longer, tedious version with the laundry list of Superman "requirements".
Thanks for the compliments, and great question! For launch, we have not delved deeply into the bowels of InDesign's format so it's not definitively off the table -- just a prioritization of resources for now.

With Lucidchart, we are the only diagramming app that imports Microsoft Visio's native file format...so it's not unprecedented for us to tackle these types of things.
Chrome KillNewsFeed: gets rid of Facebook news feed and saves you so much time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Is_Father_to_the_Man
John McCarthy (1927-2011): Artificial Intelligence - Thinking Allowed
Startup Ideas I Don’t Wanna Do …
A Tip For Navigating Clojure Files in Emacs - Kris Jenkins' Blog
We're doing something similar with YepNope that is included in Modernizr but it's not as simple as yours. We ran into problems where if there were multiple elements on the page with that dependency (usually a jquery plugin), only one would end up getting initialized. We ended up coming up with a complicated queuing system that queues up all of the initialization requests when it detects that it is in the process of being loaded, and fires for each in the queue after the dependency is loaded. I'm definitely curious to look into your method in terms of multiple items that need to each be initialized and how this is handled with your context require method or require in general.
Works fine on Chrome 29.0.1547.76 on Mac.
As someone in the same position that has debated this endlessly in their own head -- its not going to be really 'worth' it. VZW has the best network around, being grandfathered in on unlimited data is a serious boon.

When my internet service goes out in my home -- WiFi hotspot and no worries about whether I'm going to be throttled or hit an overage.

I hate my GNex but VZW+Unlimited Data is worth more to me. Whatever new phone you get will be just as obsolete in two years as the GNex is now.
OP: regarding this comment in your README: "I'm not sure if there's a better way to organize the gh-pages branch so it's convenient to manage and use via Github Pages at the same time."

You can, in the repo settings, change the default branch to gh-pages: http://screencast.com/t/VTHVE6oXRT Then you can delete the master branch if you want.
I like the Logitech G400s, which is essentially a rebuild of the well-known MX 518, with the same form factor. Might be a little small for you if you have larger than average hands though. It fits my hands perfectly.
Dr. Donald E. Knuth to be honored with third Dr. Peter Karow Award
Thanks for the spoiler!
LinkedIn: Ross Ulbricht ("Dread Pirate Roberts")
Competition does wonders. MS didn't manage to sabotage WebGL and had to implement it in their browser. I wish they'd start enabling OpenGL across all their platforms as well.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9323416/using-memory-allo...
The tech to lend or entirely transfer ebooks is clearly there (some books can be lent once for two weeks), you are operating in an environment where the vendor does not allow it.

Either way, you actually don't own the text in the same way, as amazon has demonstrated that they think they have the right to revoke your account and therefore access to the data.
Um, what about the HTC One?
Flying an airplane straight & level in good weather that's already up in the air is fairly easy - and from what I've read about it, they still did a poor job of that. Airliners are designed to be easy to fly, with minimal input. I.e. they are stable, and if you just take your hands off the controls they'll fly straight & level.

What's hard are takeoffs, landings (especially landings), flying in bad weather, emergency conditions, etc.

There are many cases of people with no flight training whatsoever being able to successfully take off and fly, but are unable to land.
Yeah really interesting.

My takeaways:

When operating an underground network
1) don't post to SO questions regarding Tor
2) keep distinct login names for everything
Unsurprisingly, bitcoin is currently experiencing a loss of value.
A reddit user[1] suggests http://sheepmarketplace.com/ as an alternative. Is anyone familiar with it?

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1nl8hz/lets_talk_a...
Depends how they did it. Shoot someone with an unregistered or stolen rifle from long distance, capture your brass, destroy the rifle and brass. Obviously a murder, if it were done that way. Very little effort involved, and what've the cops really got then?

You'd probably create more evidence trying to make it look like an accident than you'd clear up just by doing it some easier way.
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Please include posting frequency and general topic :)
This runs much smoother than I ever got it to run on my 166mhz Pentium!
"Based on my training and experience" seems like boilerplate for whenever a supposition is introduced.
A license is a contract one side drafted and the other side did not read.
Game Developers: Don’t Compete, Disrupt.
I'm not sure this proposed hit was unjustified. Threatening to do something which would end up with 1000's of people caged for years seems like a valid reason to respond with force.
Here's his LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rossulbricht

(browse logged-out to see the full thing. If you're logged in and not connected to him, you won't see anything.)
You can lend Kindle books.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
Since I first discovered Hover on my old win 95 disc, I've dreamed of a multiplayer mode. At last.
Anybody who thinks they own physical books is more than welcome to join me on my bi-annual trips to Goodwill and help me unload.
I'm going to put the equivalent effort into answering this question that you did into researching it: maybe, maybe not.

That you didn't mention Singularity or Cosmos tells me that you haven't cared enough about this to even do a cursory Google search on the subject.

Anyway, Google those above OSes, browse through their white papers and you'll have your answer (as given above). You might also check out JavaOS, Inferno, JNode, etc which have similar goals.

To get you started with less effort:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_(operating_system)
You can get a 6.5kW system from wholesalesolar (with inverter and gridtie kit) for almost exactly the same price.
I don't know what the ikea system is rated for, but I'm guessing less than that. 6.5kW should do for pretty much any domestic residence, clouds or no, assuming you have the room for 24 panels. I'll be picking one of these up once prices dip down to $1/W all costs included (it's about $1.50 right now, with racking still extra)
Software Rendering Engine GPU-Accelerated by WebCL
No Mir by default in Ubuntu 13.10
I'm not sure what your problem with contributor agreements are; basically every sizable open source project has one. You know, like... Node: http://nodejs.org/cla.html
From the perspective of a working class person, a middle class person could be considered rich.

I was going to make a point that the middle class, being in the middle of the income-population pyramid, are more wealthy than the average. Interestingly, in the UK at least, 71% are middle class, which spoils that [0].

[0] - http://britainthinks.com/sites/default/files/reports/Speakin...
I don't know of any public libraries that handle their own general ebook lending. They use services like Overdrive, and in the case of Overdrive how the actual ebook file is served depends on which type of ebook it is. For ePubs, the file is downloaded directly and managed with Adobe Digital Editions (Overdrive's ePubs are generally all protected with Adobe DRM). For Kindle books, the Overdrive site directs the user to the Amazon site (with some kind of authentication token) where the user can have the book sent to his/her Kindle device.
This demo (nor none of the others linked to on the main Shumway page) appear to be working on my iPad, mobile Safari running iOS7.

Not sure if it's me or if it's the code. Can anyone else confirm?
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Most airplanes will take off pretty much by themselves if you just point them down the runway and open the throttles.
That's a problem, but it doesn't have anything to do with citizenship. Rather with residency vs. place of work. It's a problem every European country faces (work in France, live in Germany for example) and still none of them motivate their citizens to abandon their citizenship when they live abroad.
I am a German living in the US and I have no downside of being a German citizen. As a green card holder the only thing that I cannot do is vote. It would be nice to become a US citizen one day, but given the huge downside of the tax burden if I ever decide to ant to live somewhere else for a while is a big deterrent for me.
Is anyone else surprised that it took this long to shut it down? With all the surveillance that has been in the news, I assumed Silk Road was entirely operated in a foreign country which didn't have good information exchange relations with the US.

No matter what the precautions someone takes, my bet is that they will eventually get caught if they engage in illegal activity online.
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