skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just spend the last hour or so digging through the code and playing with CLI. It's pretty neat. The "specification" for creating new containers (how to describe limits, namespacing etc) is not very well documented so it takes some trial and error... But this feels like a nice, clean low-level component.

It can be used as a C++ library, too - I'm going to evaluate it as a possible low-level execution backend for docker :)
This Is What Fiery Tesla Model S Death Looks Like
Hassan Rouhani suggests online freedom for Iran in Jack Dorsey tweet
Quite interesting how, with something that looks so simple as a concept potentiates when technology is involved in the right amount.
"ii) if Ann is offered £X out of court, but declines it, and the case goes to court and she's awarded £Y then she has to pay costs if £Y is less than £X.
"

This does actually occurs in some parts of the US legal system.
See, for example, California's section 998.

It varies from state to state, and in some cases, claim type to claim type.
Tesla shares fall on report of a car fire
Build-a-Baby gets patented by 23andMe. Cue outrage.
Original pictures linked from article, can't submit original as it auto-deaded.
I assume the name is a reference to http://lmgtfy.com ?
FBI threatened Lavabit with $5000/day fines
If the media reports that -- despite DPR's unsavoury activities -- BTC has its uses then I will quickly and happily eat crow. I'm expecting the worst tomorrow, especially considering all elements in the situation have very poor reputations (Silk Road, BTC, Tor, Tor hidden services).
You need to do Zendesk, Desk, etc.. That's where this type of integration is really useful. Very few customer service orgs use gmail directly to assist customers.
Yahoo Australia takes off with SEM balances.
Just got this email from Yahoo Australia.

> We are in the process of making changes to the Yahoo! Search Marketing business in Australia and New Zealand.

Yahoo!7 and Yahoo! New Zealand Search inventory has joined the Google Partner Network.

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$100 AUD fee for closing an account, sounds like robbery to me.
Sounds interesting. Love to see it when you release it, better yet do a talk somewhere that gets on confreaks, then I'll see it!

It seems like a conf worthy talk.
It would be interesting to hear some reasoning from the RAML people about what it brings compared to existing solutions like Swagger. From a quick look it seems like they solve the same thing except that RAML use yaml and is much more immature.
I didn't say they did or did not know who it was. I don't know if they knew or not. I responded to someone who claimed they didn't know as if that was an excuse. Whether they knew or not isn't even relevant for me. At a minimum, they at least knew what the person was under investigation for... which should have been enough.
haha that's true! let me contain that for ya!
French court: ID checks on minorities deemed legal
Sure, downvote me. This article says nothing. You have to be a Smalltalk lifer to get it. It's all metaphors that have no meaning to anyone outside the author's bubble.

Crap article.
In response to the other comments mentioning docker - this definitely does not compete with docker. A better comparison would be with the lxc tools or maybe something like libvirt-lxc or systemd's nspawn.
Obama meets bank chiefs as economists warn of 'deep and dark recession'
Yeah, I am sure there are a number of "suspected" people of whom this can be said. Some of them were guilty. Some not.

In any event, when I wrote that it seemed unreasonable for a bright guy, I didn't mean that smart people don't do bad things. I meant that it seems to have been an incredibly stupid way of going about it in this case.
He also said, "I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race."

And this, "I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum. It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected."

And just in case you couldn't tell, he confirms his inner monster: "I think a curse should rest on me — because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment — and yet — I can't help it — I enjoy every second of it."

So what, am I supposed to look up to this man and accept that Mob Rule is the best way to govern just because he says so?

But whatever man, people will just keep believing what they're believing. But at the end of the day, those who would use violence to enact their own ends will continue doing so.
What's wrong with telling the guy you bought something from what you paid and when?
On Knickers
The Silk Road To Federal Prosecution: The Charges Against Ross Ulbricht
You are right. I was thinking of a payment that would be untraceable by a hitman, but traceable by the FBI. The payment method he used was not traceable by either.
With all the recent events concerning the government in the past couple years, that doesn't seem TOO far fetched.

Sad, really.
Formerly Greplin. For those that don't know what it/they did:

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cue

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/technology/apps-that-know-... (July 2013)
There was a well publicized audio problem with Pepper. It broke nearly all audio playback for weeks. Happened on every platform.
This isn't true. For example, IQ as a 20 year old is a better predictor of IQ in high school than receptive vocabulary in grade school is. It happens that it's hard to observe the IQ at age 20 of a child who isn't 20 yet, but that doesn't change the strength of the predictor.

A predictor is something that you can measure and make predictions from in advance. Therefore by definition the eventual IQ at age 20 is not a predictor of future IQ for grade school children.

Now can we dispense with the semantic games?

> But having been exposed to a lot of vocabulary when you're young seems to be a good thing.

You provide no support for this other than the fact that a large vocabulary at a young age is indicative of a high IQ later. However, a large vocabulary later is also indicative of a high IQ later. Applying the same logic, you should conclude that being exposed to a lot of vocabulary when you're old is just as good (if not better!).

Not indicative, predictive.

Receptive vocabulary is part of IQ. So of course having a large receptive vocabulary helps your IQ. But children with a large receptive vocabulary when young tend to have future increases in other mental abilities. By contrast children who show high abilities in other areas when young do not show the same improvement.

The theory that I was told is that children who can understand complex verbal things find it easier to learn from our education system. And children can't learn to use complex language without first understanding it.

If you don't think studying vocabulary as an adult will get you very far, why do you think studying it as a child is different?

The research on development that I've encountered indicate that there are specific developmental periods where we are particularly receptive, and where our abilities tend to increase suddenly. Starting with a large receptive vocabulary seems to position you well to make the most of these.

When you're older, studying vocabulary is unlikely to be bad for you. But you don't have the same developmental spurts ahead to try to maximize. Furthermore vocabulary is less likely to be a barrier for adults than children.

For example my son right now loves ants. He is learning things about ants that other children his age would have trouble with because he understands words they don't. But he doesn't have a better vocabulary than most adults. Any literate adult who wants to learn what he is learning about ants can simply pick up material on ants and read it.
People try to get human support at Google. They wave their hands in frustration and... Boom. Magic! :)
> If by controversial they meant "is considered outright fraud" ... then yes, it is controversial

Hold on there... controversial, yes, but fraud - no. If the original data was reported, and after the fact you discovered a class of patients responded differently than the rest and you could find a good classifier, then it's certainly not fraud. In this case, they weren't just taking all the "good" patients and putting them in one adhoc group and all the "bad" patients and putting them in another. They found they were able to sub-classify the patients using existing clinical traits.

I thought the article did a pretty good job trying to explain the statistical issues at play. As described, the study isn't very clear, but it's hardly fraud to spin the results in that way. Is it reaching? Perhaps, but I so is calling this criminal. Remember using 0.05 as a p-value cutoff for significance is just a convention the number itself is arbitrary. In my work, I have to use something much more stringent such as 0.001 due to multiple testing issues.

In my reading, the issue wasn't the analysis. The issue was the hype of the analysis. In this case, he definitely went overboard, but I'm not sure it rose to the level of fraud.
>Really, they're going to give him immunity for all the people he murdered in exchange for information and cooperation?

No, but they might take the death penalty off the table.
We've got a world-famous scientist speaking at a global conference over here. A few hours before he was due to speak he was told he could not, due to the furlough. It's crazy, because he's already here!
I have the dual core evita. Using 26/9 nightly.
Wow, I really thought their initial value proposition (originally as Greplin) was of great utility.
For not wanting to give Gibson any publicity, you sure are talking about him a lot.

note that i am not affiliated with grc, my name is simply permuted :)
Well, if everyone decided that "happens later" he'd most likely be dead or in Guantanamo Bay right now, so... Someone has to make a decision based on their own values at some point.

Not everyone completely lacks conviction and ideals, you know.
If you have ever typed your password into your phone, your password is vulnerable to the exact same attacks (keyloggers, caching, ...) you mention.

note that i am not affiliated with grc; my name is permuted :)
This is a real bummer - our company's first office was right next to Greplin and they were amazingly smart and quite nice. Good luck to the team.
For those of you that will miss Cue and Greplin, there is hope. We are about to release our cloud search feature at StartHQ.

Here's a screencast - search is towards the end: https://www.dropbox.com/s/04rrwxuuvkzpyrp/starthq.mp4

You can sign up here: https://starthq.com

Please use the Feedback form to let us know which services you'd like us to support and we will prioritize them for launch.

PS. For a bit of background on us, here's a blog post that was on the front page of HN on Monday http://www.arcticstartup.com/2013/09/30/starthq-capitalizes-...

PPS. Sad to see Greplin go, loved the service but was too afraid to give access to my data at all times, so ended up building our federated search which doesn't require that. Would be very interested to know more about what happened.
It's not competition for docker, more a complement to it.

edit: see shykes reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6487080
Did they really crack down on Tor or did they just compromise the hell out of it?
There is a huge cultural difference between almost every single payer nation and the US. For example, I haven't seen a regular doctor in 3 years for any kind of check up, because I'm uninsured. Meanwhile, I have friends in Canada that get quarterly or even monthly checkups. It isn't even a cost thing, they say it is cultural - their parents and peers expect them to regularly see a doctor to make sure nothing is wrong with them, and if they sneeze wrong they see the doctor.

I dislocated my knee this spring and reset it and just stayed in bed for 2 weeks. Never saw a medical professional, because they would want to x-ray (it might have broke, it was much more painful than a normal dislocation to me, and swelled huge for a while) and I'd be stuck with a $3 - 5k bill minimum just for that, combined with any treatment, and I'd laugh if they'd want me in physical therapy for it.

So it isn't just about not haivng a doctor to say 3 bic macs a day is bad for you, it is that in most other places people do see their doctors, regularly, and for most issues, beucase it doesn't bankrupt them. That adds up over a lifetime.
World's First Quantum Metamaterial Unveiled
Yes there was an accusation, and I don't understand your point in asking.

Edit: getting pedantic with this but oh well. I guess the language "doesn't mean the first is true" was ambiguous. I did not mean to say that #2 being a claim that hasn't been proven meant that #1 may or may not have happened in the first place, I meant to say that #2 being a claim that hasn't been proved does not mean that the accusation itself, which truly was made, was true.
I don't think they are. I think I may have cut my quote in a bad place from that perspective. They continue:

"That was the death knell for the drug. Most insurers stopped paying for it."

I don't think they're implying that the drug killed people. I think they're saying that the study made it obvious it wasn't helping, so insurers stopped covering it and other consequences followed.
I know that people who cling to government and democracy mean well, but when they eschew logic and waste my time with non-arguments like this it is terribly annoying.
s/Windows/Linux/g

thanks :) I, Gabe Newell and many others would like to see this happen.
Here's the thing. Whistleblowers do get protection... but mostly protection from retaliation for their whistleblowing. But if a proper investigation is obstructed, how are we to be certain they are a legitimate whistleblower (there are rules that need to be followed) and not just some guy spilling classified info? I would maintain that it was not Lavabit's place to render a verdict of not guilty and defy the court order. If the cops show up at my house with a search warrant for my wife's closet, I don't get to just tell them I don't think she did it and close the door on them.
I think you can MITM this by presenting legitimate (proxied) ycombinator.com QR codes on e.g. ycombigator.com.

The app would still authenticate to the legitimate site and then 'activate' the session, and ycombigator.com could have at it. HTTPS won't help either. The problem is there's no way for the phone app to transfer additional secure session cookies back to your desktop browser, so this has to be the case.

Sure, the app will display the legitimate domain or URL but the user probably thinks that's what they're viewing on their desktop anyway, so will likely accept.

Requires mutual authentication.
You think the most moral outcome is one person who threatens a thousand with years of caging getting $300K? Are there any situations where you don't think one should be rewarded for making massive threats?...
I'm not as convinced as you are.

Just because the original study wasn't found to be significant, that doesn't mean that an already-existing sub group wasn't significant. They used an existing clinical trait as a separate classifier to look at the patients in a different way. That isn't too controversial (if you have a high enough patient count, which was probably the biggest fault of this post-hoc analysis).

Then again, I'm a biologist. We're trained to not trust statisticians. (Or course, we're also trained to not speak in absolutes and cover every statement in doubt, so he failed in that regard too).
How is the quote about his history? It provides none of the following:

- Examples of Gibson's previous ideas that have been proven fake

- Examples of Gibson's previous projects that have security flaws

- Examples of projects that Gibson is purported to "peddle" through his "snake oil salesmanship"

- A quotable, referrable, expert opinion of Gibson's standing, or lack thereof, in the broader security community

The post includes none of those things. It is no better than saying "$NAME is a bad person!"; it merely uses more words to say so.

note that i am not affiliated with grc; my name is permuted :)
It is absolutely too far fetched.
If you enjoy this, check out www.fatbitsapp.com

It's an iOS app I made that lets you make pixel art and see artwork other people are making at the same time. There's also a little websockets powered view on the website of what people are making.
If this story is to be believed, DPR actually did pay someone $80k to kidnap, torture and kill a victim... but apparently the hitman was an FBI agent.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-s...
I thought jobs was a father of one, but a quick look on wiki shows I was mistaken. But I'm pretty sure pg is, and probably always will be at his age and the age of h his wife. One child is better than none but still fails from a reproductive fitness point of view. You only pass on half of your genome to each kid, so it takes two just to break even, let alone succeed. If that's your definition of success.
> Then you brought Nazis into the picture.

I think you need to spend less time writing accusational posts and more time reading the posts that other people have written here.

Seriously; take a deep breath, relax, and read.
I'm glad DRM isn't globally accepted by the W3C Consortium, but I'm sure beneficiaries like Google, Adobe and Microsoft heavily try to subvert that state.
Yeah, I was kicking myself for not have thought of it when I first heard of them. Sad to see the company go out like this.
I'd like to see a settlement negotiation swing the other way. Someone like Kaspersky Lab with solid footing insists that Lodsys pay them to avoid trial. How much is Lodsys willing to pay to prevent the public exposure and invalidation of their patents?
This article is way more interesting than how Twitter acquired the first 1000 users. Twitter was launched by a company of 16, most with big networks. The biggest network was Evan Williams because he'd founded Blogger. I was there. All we did was invite our friends.
One thing that would be fun is a way to toggle between a few shades of gray.
Watch videos in sync with others. Yay. (synchtube clone)
The next business model will be LinkedIn for criminals, complete with recruiter spam.
Speaking of references, in a previous life working in neuro, I encountered the drug Lamictal a lot. As a result, I can only 'hear' the name as "lamictify" instead of their version "lem-kut-fee".
Thiel Fellowship Applications open for 2014
Yes, the lisp machnes used CRTs, but they did not look like the classic terminals from that era. IIRC they had much higher resolution and were black and white.
I have zero problem with Canonical taking risks with their non-LTS desktop releases. That's what they've always been for.

If you can't abide the issues you'll run into and don't want to contribute to the bug hunting, stick with the LTS desktop or LTS server, that's what they're for.

This is a free OS, hence "customers" are also beta testers. Getting new features into their customers/testers hands early and in imperfect condition is the best way to push things forward to the next stable LTS. Learn it, live it, love it.
Ronin Acquired by GoDaddy
I wonder if at some point it makes sense for someone like Kaspersky to ask the judge to deny the motion to dismiss by Lodsys and force a trial on them. IANAL but I don't think a judge has to dismiss even if the prosecution asks for a motion to dismiss.
This attack can be stopped by referer checking. A site that hosts a QR code should display a warning instead of the QR code if the referer doesn't match.
He can be as wrong as he wants to be on all other topics of security, but that has zero relevance to whether or not he's right about this.

So yes, regardless of what your link says, the argument is an ad hominem.
You can try Zoho's suite of products (https://www.zoho.com/business-apps.html)
Thanks I didn't know about www-plugins/lightspark =)
Gonna compile/install it, because adobe-flash is crashing for me all the time.
The are less-probable sounding things in the news these days.
He asked the other account a few months later to make him a fake ID. Why would you be contacting and want to be involved with somebody who extorted you to the tune of $150k just a few months back? Not to mention he would then have to give up his physical address to have the docs sent, to someone who just a few months previous threatened to release the physical addresses of users on the site?
What if this style of case assessment was limited to patent cases?
You might check out recurly.com. Very solid reporting on the backend.
Tom Clancy, Legendary Author dies at 66
Honest question about i) loser pays cost --

What happens when Little Citizen Joe legitimately sues a huge company with lots of legal resources resulting in Citizen Joe getting out-lawyered? Is he burdened with the massive cost of that? Surely the company could drop XXXk in legal bills on him
Many probably donated directly via Paypal weeks ago when the news first hit. I upvoted the linked article but didn't feel the need to donate again.
Unless you visit some very shady sites, having a auto-blacklist isn't needed, and a whitelist is best to keep both parties happy. And if Adblock continues to grow the way it does, the second route is gonna be what happens, nobody is gonna be able to make any money off advertising therefore they'll have to take other routes to pay for their servers to provide you with your content free of charge.
Google Is Being Accused Of Illegal Wiretapping
There were Cue job postings here on HN close to a month ago. :/
How to Clean Up Memory SQL Server
That's a shame, very cool concept. I wish them all the best. What was their actual business model though? Anyone know?
Ironically it looks like the UI is a straight design rip from Microsoft's expression suite.
And there's also one paint-chat program here: http://mrspaint.com
Is this the company that had that cool terminal adventure programming challenge?
This case, like so many others, appears to be the product of an overzealous prosecutor looking to add to his resume before he begins applying to work at much higher paying private law firms. The concept of moral hazard does not exist for prosecutors - they can take all the shots they want at other people with no consequences. Until there are consequences, we will continue seeing blatant abuses of our justice system for the personal gain of those that work within it. Though it will never happen, private law firms should simply refuse to hire former prosecutors - many of these nonsensical prosecutions would vanish overnight.