skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a disadvantage for the user, and an advantage for the business. The user is the one that matters here.
Agreed. The official story sounds made up.
I'd imaging they began with the 'frosty' name, which led to SO, which lead to a subpoena, which got them logs and the name.
It's not just a matter of getting used to ads. Print ads don't jump across the page and hide the text of an article after I start reading it.
Hubris has a place. Studies have found that swiftness/certainty of capture and punishment are far more effective at deterring crime than harshness of punishment.

A message like, "We will catch you" isn't just about going on some power trip. It's a preemptive PR play.
What, exactly, do you think feminism is?
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People who want to work in tech, being helped and being able to work in tech, regardless of gender, religion, social demographic, accent, body size, colour, shoe size? Fantastic. I am all for that.

From experience, the last thing most women in tech actually need or want is feminist dogma.
I think Swagger [1,2] is similar, which I am currently using, via node/restify. Awesome little project that generates docs and an interface for API consumers to experiment with.

1 - https://developers.helloreverb.com/swagger/
2 - http://swagger.wordnik.com/
As I understand it, however, there would have been a lot of overheads. DPR talked to middle-men mostly, so all the way down there would be cuts taken. Then translating from BTC to a regular currency would have caused further cuts, and to properly cash that out would have needed more work again. Of course, hitmen could just feel safe cashing out BTC directly, but consistent process is the best way to avoid fuck-ups
Is there some background to this?
Ok, cool. But how am I supposed to use this for entertainment?
What about it sounds like parallel construction?
I don't know, this title makes it sound like it's telling women what to do, so it should get a few HN upvotes on that basis alone.
This is reminiscent of the way that gravatar can cause people to unintentionally leave traces of their identity around the web. http://www.developer.it/post/gravatars-why-publishing-your-e...
They may have subpoena'd SE for all records on all users asking for questions relating to managing Tor hidden services.
Yes but giving vast tax breaks to upper middle class people isn't the way to do it and i say that as some one who could easily have done that (we have a v nice roof facing in just the right direction)

Did you not see the original 8% tax free return for 20 years I mentioned - the uk 10 year yield is currently 2.7%
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upvoted,look who's talking...
Yeah, and I see that approach mostly failing. The notion of resource-orientation and HTTP verbs is really useful, but being true to Fielding's dream is not a priority for most organizations. Stronger typing and explicit descriptors are really useful in an enterprise environment.
A social contract? I have never acknowledge such a system, or heard of such a system. Are you referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Contract

seems unrelated.

Advertisements have a measurable cost on me. I have limited focus, losing it is expensive to me. I've seen advertisements change the thinking and perception of my peers, and it scares the crap out of me. I am all for uplifting the community through my actions, but this cost is too great. I have an extreme distrust of advertisments anyway, I never click on them (except by accident, which was frequently btw, until I started blocking them), so even If I acknowledge them, I'm still not making you money.

and finally, this is just a side note which I think only applies to me, most content I consume only has advertisements introduced by the gatekeepers (or I pay for it). Youtube, blip, et al. I'd rather the producers just use distributed systems, but we can't always get what we want.
> I accept (I think) your point that ML and simulation can be used to "discover" those laws in some inductive sense.

Yes, we use these methods to confirm that reality matches some candidate law.

I personally don't think it's very meaningful to talk about physical laws existing in some independent platonic sense, but the debate over the principle of induction and the epistemology of science is a side story here IMHO.

Ultimately what we care about is that a model successfully predicts reality in the future. I think a useful conceptual division is: with some models, the internal structure of the model gives us understanding of the physical behavior. Most of what we call "laws of physics" are in this category. We can look at the algebraic expression and understand symmetries, constants, conserved quantities, etc. A second type of model is purely algorithmic and utilitarian: it gets the right answer, but the internal structure of the model doesn't provide any comprehensible information or understanding. Most ML algorithms fall in the latter camp.

What muddies the issue is that experimental physics tries to validate models of the first kind, but now generally requires methods of the second kind. We're forced into these methods because of the complexity of what we're studying (particle physics can involve thousands of Feynman diagrams), the noisiness of our measuring equipment, and the rareness of the events we're searching for.

When I say physics methods are very relevant to wall street, I'm talking about the latter methods more than any attempt to find fundamental theorems.
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Secretly and unconstitutionally feeding evidence to local law enforcement for petty crimes. Blackmailing judges and politicians. Giving (selling?) information about US citizens to foreign countries. Spying on significant others. Industrial espionage.

That's just what we've heard about.
Well how about that. Thanks for the link.

I remember reading an article in 2600 where someone figured out that quite a few websites took a PHP filename as a query arg to be eval'd... and some subset of those had no mechanism in place to restrict it to local files. Needless to say, they could point that arg to example.com/malicious.php and have it run on the vulnerable box.

The best part was that they constructed a Google query to find sites that would eval remote PHP code. It was something else!
One slight nit-pick: when he says he uses the term "writing" instead of "content" he is talking about two different things. The photo at the top of the article is very much part of the content, and is very much visible. He may not care for the photo, but others do.
Well, I read the PDF and every statement of something based on "training and experience" seemed completely reasonable. What it means is "this is so obvious I shouldn't need to prove it". Maybe this is abused at times, but not here.
If it wasn't a post on stackexchange then it would have been something else. SR going down was inevitable.
My prediction; Websites/Services will eventually start providing an Advertising Policy similar to today's Privacy Policy or Terms of Use. This Advertising Policy will help the content consumer understand the Websites/Services Stance on Advertising, what types of Ad's they allow, etc. This will help consumers choose what Sites they want to allow (aka support Ad revenue), and what Sites they want to Block.
Probably the same thing as you(equality). But what it is or is supposed to be isn't my issue. My issue is the outcome.
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By the time I reached the third paragraph, I had to stop reading because of the font colors.
>Those aren't cryptozoologists

they arn't Scotsmen either.
OK, to me this reads, "No, I'd not disclose anything that jeopardizes my chances to be that whistleblower. I'd just disclose the main thing that jeopardizes my chances to be that whistleblower." I'm not trying to be (overly) confrontational, but I can't spot the difference between what I asked and what you said you'd do. It just seems like you've constructed a scenario where you will never be called upon to do what you seem to think is such an obviously good choice, and therefore I have trouble seeing how you came to the conclusion that the choice is easy or obvious.

No comment re: anything after "It's the sort of thing . . ." I don't know the company's employment policies in this area and wouldn't talk about them even if I did.
Class has nothing to do with how much money you have especially in the UK.
Nah. Cops and prosecutors want the big fish, not the little fishes. The little fishes will always exist, but the harder and more expensive it is to build a place for them to get together, the less likely it is that they'll find places to make their illegal transactions. (Not to mention that big fish make for splashier prosecutions and faster promotions. DAs build a platform from which they can spring into a political career from by nailing big names, not nobodies.)

It's the same reason why they offer plea bargains to low-level drug dealers if they'll give up the people above them in the supply chain: it does more damage to the overall network to take out the one person it all hinges on than to take out lots of people out at the fringes. The network has to reconstitute itself, which is slow and expensive.
> Why not freeze the assets of everybody charged with a felony and appoint public defenders?

Agreed, but that would either bankrupt the government or make defense attorney a much less lucrative career and, therefore, greatly decrease the number of available defense attorneys.

> It's almost as though you're saying we don't even need a trial here because the facts are so obviously established. I don't believe it's yet been established in a court of law that any crime was committed, much less that this person committed it.

Not at all what I meant. On the contrary, I meant that cases when we the outside viewers realistically know that the defendant isn't clean are probably not the best cases for highlighting the need for a competent defense.
I am really dubious that this is really what brought him down.

Do you think they really investigated everyone they could find that ever asked a public question about Tor hidden services?

If not, what role do you think this evidence played in the investigation? They suspected a few people, but then when they found that one of them had asked this question, and then investigated him more deeply? That seems kinda unlikely to me too.

And of course, the lone fact of asking such a question on StackOverflow is not (yet) enough to indict or arrest someone in America.

They included this piece in their list of evidence, sure; they included it in their press release, for sure, it makes good press (because it's more understandable than most of their stuff, and because it makes them look good).

But I suspect it's really a case of "parallel construction"[1] -- they found this piece of evidence long after they had identified him, in part due to NSA information, but are just pretending it's what tipped them off.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...
You can keep saying stuff like that, but I hope you're not using it as a pretext for ignoring the latest scientific developments.

Have you heard of GWAS? They've had some major breakthroughs over the past few years, and have recently had some interesting results with regard to educational attainment. From Science:

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6139/1467.abstract

If you want some more information, here's a good article from early 2012 summarizing the previous five years of findings:

http://www.cell.com/AJHG/retrieve/pii/S0002929711005337
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It's pretty rare that you'd actually make ad-hoc changes and then rely solely upon persistence to preserve those changes. Ultimately, you'd want to write code to produce the outcome programatically. It's more the case that you play around and do little "what ifs", which helps you crystalize your ideas about what you're trying to implement.

The trouble is that just explaining the mechanics of it doesn't really capture the experience, and if you talk about the experience on its own, you end up talking about, er, fishes. Which is to say that it's an almost useless analogy, but one that I don't know how to better.

Still, using Python to pay the bills isn't so bad...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doritos

The original product was made at the Casa de Fritos at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Using surplus tortillas, the company-owned restaurant cut them up and fried them (as in traditional Mexican chips called totopos) and added basic seasoning, resembling the Mexican chilaquiles, but in this case being dry. Arch West was the Vice President of Marketing of Frito-Lay at the time, and noticed the popularity. He made a deal with Alex Foods in 1964, the provider of many items for Casa de Fritos at Disneyland, and produced the chips for a short time regionally, before it was overwhelmed by the volume, and Frito-Lay moved the production in-house to its Tulsa plant.

Sounds like the chips came first. It wouldn't surprise me if the additional flavors of doritos were experiments studying the phenomenon, and plunged back into reformulations of the original.
Exactly my thought.

I am sure the author is an intelligent guy who knows his stuff - but I just can't be bothered to read for more than a few paragraphs something that looks so G-d-damn awful. It really is a pain to look at.
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They're getting no value from popovers on mobile devices, so it is either incompetence or insufficient bandwidth to design well for mobile.
Agreed on the camera. It's pretty much crap and comparable to images taken with an ancient Nexus One.

Look forward to this MEMS camera, but stay skeptical. Fast focus is awesome, but how good is the matrix? Low light performance? Dynamic range?
Yeah, it's more of an absolute split with proprietary software, except where vendors respond directly to customer needs and thus grant them indirect control.

But, the amount of capital required to produce a binary of OS X or Windows is beyond anything you or I or the vast majority of users will obtain in the forseeable future, compared to a Debian binary which we could do today.
You are wrongfully downplaying the (probably) years of hard work by multiple people that goes into an investigation like this.

Also, the suspect only needs to slip up once to be caught. A perfect 100% success rate in staying hidden is almost impossible.
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I'd say it _almost_ has SSH tunneling built in. They're 95.418% there. It's still hardcoded to only use port 22. You can't specify another port. In my case, I have to hop through other machines and if I have SSHd running on my local box, I can't use their SSH tunneling.
Beautifully said binarymax:

Its an executive decision designed to hinder use. They dont want you doing something obvious like reading content. They want you looking at all the other pages they have to offer where you also cannot read content.

They also think: "Wouldn't the world be nicer without these people who want to read our content over the internet."

And they also think "OK the guy who followed the link has an iPad so he isn't among the cheapest bastards of all those who follow links to our glorious magazine, so let's try to make them subscribe."

Anybody has any statistics that supports or disproves the above ideas?
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If anything, the woosh would be for you. I'm sure conductor understood the irony of the statement.
Great way to get around the work of setting up the environment to get straight into the API.
Ahem, "schlep blindness" :)
From what I've gathered while researching this blog post, the term feminism has as many facets and internal conflicts as any other system of thought. It seems unfair to dismiss "feminism" as a whole.
IIRC, it wasn't Clancy that had anything to do with the creation of Harpoon.

It was Larry Bond, who was an uncredited (I think) co-author on the early Clancy books. Bond and Clancy used Harpoon to help visualize the naval battles in the first few books.

A side note... I was chosen as the developer to port Harpoon to OS/2 in the early '90s but the company I worked for backed out. It pissed me off enough that I changed jobs. Anyway, I still have a few unopened boxes of the Harpoon software floating around here, which were handed to me by Gordon Walton himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpoon_(series)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Bond
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The thing is that most garbage generated is thread local. In fact, depending on the program, it's likely that most of it follows a stack discipline, albeit one that's not delimited by function boundaries.

A simple GC (or resettable arena allocator) can make use of this knowledge, and be quite a bit faster in those specific cases.

It's hard to beat the man years of work in generic GC that works in all cases, but it's not that hard to beat it in specific situations when the application author knows the details of how the application will do the allocations.

99% of the time, writing your own custom allocation strategies is a waste of time. Sometimes, though, it can be a win, allowing you to allocate and free in a matter of tens of CPU cycles with no GC pauses at all.
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Green on black is ugly. It is not unreadable. Compare this to the "professionals" at YouTube, for example, who actually think medium gray is readable over light gray.

In any case, "I don't like these colors" is not a complaint comparable to "I literally can't read your article without being sent to an app store."

As to why the design is that way, it's a visual reference to how old CRT terminals once looked.
Haha, done! :)

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That title paraphrasing is... unfortunate.
Think this would fall under "fruit of the poisonous tree". If the source of the evidence is tainted, anything that came from that source is also tainted. This doctrine is well enough established that undermining it would have far greater implications than letting a single lawbreaker go free.
For sure! We've had quite a bit of success there already.

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Ask HN: Imagine a world where your conscience is the core of the legal system
Basically in that world,

- If your conscience think what you are doing is right then you are allowed to do it.
- If you knowingly know something is bad and you still do it, then your conscience will of course know you're doing a bad thing, then somehow automatically you will get punished.

In that world, your own conscience is your own judge.

Think about what this would do to the politicians, the legal system, the patent system, thieves, rapers...

I think that would solve most of the world problems ?

What do you guys think ? What are the flaws of that world ?

Thanks for the feedback :)
So you're saying that the entire staff of Esquire is both competent at their jobs and also has implemented a design which is effectively completely broken on the ipad, one of the most popular computing devices of the last half decade?
I think the different definitions for REST have really muddied the water. To the REST purist, RAML is falling well short of being truly RESTful for reasons which you've mentioned. In other words, RAML isn't REST at all. To most others, REST is simply another RPC, like SOAP (hence all of the comments saying this is not much better than SOAP). Those of the latter thinking need someway to describe how their API should be consumed other than hypermedia types, so specs like RAML are born.

On their site, they say, "RAML isn't strict: in the end it is only describing HTTP with a few higher-level (optional) constructs." Looks like it's aiming to describe HTTP and URLs rather than hypermedia types.
The downturn in the stock came after the government dismissed the contract. "Induced" insider trading by the government manipulating the stock to tank, then prosecuting in some people's opinions.
This is awesome - ranking schools by the successes of their extra-curricular hacking is a really interesting way to look at things.
and here I have a dog site named silkroad.net that I gave to my mother years ago, needless to say her friends have been bombarding her with this story.
Sounds like a nice PR walk-in-the-park.

If these companies were serious about protecting their customers, they'd band together and block government mandated mass surveillance entirely, from A to Z. Given their size of the market, the government can't and wouldn't shut them down.
I was thinking the exact same thing. +1 to you sir.
There's a walkthrough of some of those sysadmin-y things here:

http://ponytech.net/blog/2013/09/10/django-deployement-ubuntu-upstart-nginx-gunicorn-and-virtualenvwrapper/