skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author seems to believe in the techno-libertarian (I like that phrasing) idea of rights as absolute technical guarantees against government action instead of legal ones. There is a significant difference between saying "No government should shut down..." and saying "No government should BE ABLE to shut down..."

If you believe the former, then the shutdown of the Silk Road doesn't threaten the right to anonymous exchanges or communication any more than the police getting a warrant and searching the house of a murder suspect threatens my right to be secure in my house. But if you believe the latter, the shutdown of Silk Road IS a problem because it demonstrates that being able to technically and absolutely guarantee your ability to engage in anonymous exchanges might not be possible. In the same way that the police searching a suspect's house might trouble you if you believe that the right to be secure in your home means you should be able to physically prevent the police from getting in.

It's an interesting concept, but one that becomes a little hard to justify when you look at what some people do with those absolute rights. The author's defense, that he doesn't support what they did but supports their right do it comes across, at least to me, like a cheap cop out (not to mention a bit nonsensical). I'm not so sure you can easily shrug off your Utopia leading to the Wild West by saying, "Well, I don't support the Wild West".
I'm sure Melatonin is great, but it won't ever solve the "kids are waking up" problem.
Isn't EPICFAIL an operation nickname? (Like "GREAT EXPECTATIONS" and the others)
josh_fyi-

We partnered with @1776dc who started a Google spreadsheet to pull together the information. They had about 30 or so gigs and freelancers and we imported it to our site.
Anecdote: Literally no one in my office uses Firefox except when we need to copy paste a numbered list from a wikipage, and for some reason Firefox copy paste retains the numbering where nothing else does.

Everyone uses Chrome here, and we're not a fancy new tech company or anything, we're a pretty conservative shop that's been around twice as long as many HNers have been alive.
Okay, I'm asking because I know that other languages have nuances that english doesn't. I didn't realize that the algorithm could perform at such a high accuracy while still being language agnostic.
I don't know. I haven't seen these financials. But it's a frigging database, and not a particularly good one. A billion dollars!?

Look, I'm not claiming to be omniscient. I'm sure they're smart people. But would you buy stock in MongoDB at a 1.2b valuation? Would you?

As for me - Absolutely not.
> We told people what a hackathon was. - We didn't tell people about the type of person that we expected at a hackathon.

That's a good way to be inclusive in general, not just for hackathons.
If I had a few million dollars to run compromized Tor nodes, and the ability to subpoena (and gag order) any Tor node operator in USA, UK and a couple of other major countries to give me their keys, I would be able to easily de-anonymize a large portion of the network.
Which is why the slide also talks about reporting as if being a high throughput node. i.e. Report back that you're handling a lot of traffic quickly while handling traffic very badly. Does Tor have protection against a node doing that?
Some nice recommendations tho for usage.

ORBOT / Tor Router Project / Hide-my-ip-address / Tor Project and the bootable OS Tails.

Some of the more advanced Obfuscation for the tor project

Skype Morph - Hides Tor traffic in Skype packets mmm fun and worth a look

Someone better be working on tor Obfuscation with flash packets, no one is going to block those things.

/tinhat
Why are these latest NSA stories getting flagged so much?

I don't like that PG has relaxed the flagging so much. You can probably flag even tens of stories a day now without having your flagging removed.
"What is next, you are not allowed to run a certain program on your devices?"

That's what software licensing decides. I can have perfectly valid executable binaries on my computer but if I don't have a license to use them, then it's technically illegal to ./execute
I take 3mg and it works to help me sleep after an hour. I try to get to bed by 10:30.

My biggest problem still is that my alarm at 6AM wakes me during my active dream cycle and most restful sleep. I'm not sure how to time shift that to meet my needs.

Any advice?
I thought it was more of a Zorro mask. It's very suspicious that the entire presentation seems to undermine the supposed severity of the issue with very silly names and pictures...

Tor Stinks, ONIONBREATH, EPICFAIL
Yeah where is the value for my tax dollars? I want top shelf Powerpoint presentations.
As I commented in another subthread, the root problem is not that we need a better mechanism for determining what policy will best improve national welfare as voters have defined it; the root problem is the very concept of "national welfare as voters have defined it".

We do not have a single concept of "national welfare". We have a multitude of things that various people think are part of national welfare, but different people pick different sets of things, and they often conflict with each other. Many of these conflicts are fundamentally irreconcilable.

In our current system, we force people who do not agree with a certain policy goal to abide by laws aimed at achieving that goal, if there is a sufficient majority to pass such laws. That is bad. Futarchy would not change that. Imposing private law anarchy on everybody because the betting market says it would best achieve national welfare is just as bad as imposing, say, the Federal Defense of Marriage Act on everybody because a particular Congress passed it into law.

But futarchy adds another bad thing to this already bad system: now not just individual policies, but the measure of success for any policy, the definition of "national welfare", gets decided by majority vote, and that measure of national welfare gets imposed on everybody, whether they agree with it or not. So futarchy imposes more things on everybody against their will than the current system does. That makes it worse than the current system, not better.
> Babbage did invent the Turing machine - the design was Turing complete.

No he didn't because he failed to abstract it and publish it in a way that would benefit the builders of the first modern computers in the 30-40s - they knew nothing about his Analytical Machine. So, if you were building a technology tree for a CIV-like game, sorry, "Analytical Machine" doesn't appear as a pre-requisite for "Modern Computer". Similarly, today's "robots" will not be ancestors in the technology tree of the first "real" robots, if and when the latter eventuate.
For something like Github, the more international it is, the better
“He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you’re awake…”
I highly doubt that. When I first started programming it took me upwards of a day to have a simple Windows Form that had two textboxes and displayed a Message Box saying "Hello" + textBox1.Text + " and " + textBox2.Text. Even copy and pasting didn't work.
Why the NSA's attacks on the Internet must be made public
I don't quite follow, in that all dual-licensed business models seem to be based on this exploitation? What's different about AGPL?
After reading many of these articles about the NSA I keep wondering if they have an office specifically tasked with thinking up code names for these projects. I personally would find it difficult to keep them all straight—this article, for example, contained a new one to me: ONIONBREATH.

Just an odd image in my mind of a group of top-security clearance, extremely well trained, able-minded people who think up silly code names like these.
The place is "In the middle of a forest at the edge of town", so if you're using the exhaust for heating other buildings, you're going to need long insulated conduits to carry it all, and that's probably not worthwhile AND will lose a lot of the heat to the outside anyway.
Dignity Health and Box Patient Education App Challenge
I left the cluster management group over three years ago, so I've not had much chance to work on / think about containers since then.

This code grew symbiotically with Google's kernel patches (big chunks of which were open-sourced into cgroups) and the user-space stack (which was tightly coupled with Google's cluster requirements). So open-sourcing it wouldn't necessarily have been useful for anyone. It looks like someone's done a lot of work to make this more generically-applicable before releasing it.
California, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and Florida courts have precedent of allowing the polygraph in court.

There is likely more than that too...
I know a large established company that did this and turned out to make more from the commercial property letting than their core business, which presents them with an interesting dilemma...
I'm curious about what's so wrong about time keeping.

I've seen startups that did some time keeping (though not in a very tight way, more in just keeping track of who did what on a half-day basis), some that didn't keep any, and I can't see much of a difference in the culture or how it's a bad thing. I don't see how it's useful, but it's never been a red flag to me by itself.

Is it because of the formal process that comes with it, because of the way it's usually done at bigco, or do some people feel annoyed about having to always count their time ?
Google Webmaster Tools will tell you of some broken links, but not all; it's not proactive about informing you, whereas Relink will be scanning regularly for this specific purpose and telling you. I'm also interested in making sure that all links that ever worked continue to work, something GWT doesn't do. Those are a few of the things; I've got much more in line for it where GWT is not competition at all. You may find more useful info in my post from yesterday, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6489084 (the actual submission of which became [dead] for some reason entirely unknown and unclear to me).
I think you've possibly misinterpreted the argument the author is making. My interpretation wasn't that he was being critical of the FBI for shutting it down; of course they had to shut it down. Rather, the criticism is of the laws and policies that are in place which dictate that the FBI had to shut it down in the first place.

As the article notes, law enforcement has been given a "hopeless task", where if you subscribe to the view that Silk Road actually made buying and selling drugs safer (as I do), shutting it down has made the whole business less safe at direct risks to citizens of many countries. As you note, the FBI had to do this, but it's a huge indictment of our drug policy that this is the action they are compelled to take given the result.

Which brings us back to the war on drugs...
I would think up the food chain deals would not have taken place on the street in the first place. More replacing the house level deal with SR.
If you accept the idea that currently 70% of the population is useless, then it's obvious that right now 30% or less of the population can easily provide sustenance and basic income for everyone; and the expectation is that increasing automation will drive that number much lower.

The optimistic scenario is that 'soon' (a) 10-20% population working at 20hours per week can produce enough "stuff" to sustain everyone; and (b) there is enough population who would actually do that even if they don't have to - because the work gives them fun, meaning and motivation.

If right today everybody was given really good basic income, most would take a long vacation from their jobs - but quite a few would go back to productive work afterwards; not at 80 hour weeks but at a reasonable amount, and it might just be productive enough to sustain the world.

And if everybody was given a 'sustenance' basic income, then almost everyone would still be motivated to work for a slightly better lifestyle and luxuries. Again, it wouldn't motivate people to juggle two jobs with raising kids; but we don't actually need anyone to do that, we have more workers than we need anyway.
Pretty sure the last place I worked did all ten of those. And it did lose anyone who was any good. The joke was that the only way to get respect was to leave and get re-hired.
> People in SF will get 10 - 60 replies per day on an apartment listing

This always surprises me. If you get dozens of replies the instant you put a listing on CL, isn't that a sign your price is way too low? Why not add a few hundred $ per month and maybe have to wait three days to rent it out?
That Rails vs. Angular graph would sure be useful in arguing for a move away from Rails, except that it's unsourced and unitless on the Y axis. I'd love to know how it was generated and from what data, so I can make one that represents the same information in a way that's suitable for my purposes.
A couple people mentioned wanting to read more on Tsieh's Downtown Project.

This colorful piece was posted on HN over the summer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5895699

When reading I'd recommend considering that some time has passed, so maybe things have improved on the Zappos/Hsieh side.
I'm very excited at HN's discovery of gwern.
and a beard... like terrorists can be stereotyped like that. This is more than just propaganda, this is the mentality of the type of people who put these presentations together. That fact that whoever wrote this presentation has profiled people like this. I would wager that 99% of online "terrorists" are sitting around in jeans and t-shirts, on safe soil, have probably never handled a gun, let alone an AK-47 (or whatever that is on his back), probably don't have a beard. The ones financing them probably spend their life wearing a suit and tie and are either driving a top of the line vehicle or are driven everywhere in a top of the line vehicle.

If you look at the world around us and review the history of terrorism, most of it's been funded behind the scenes by one of the major superpowers, and you can't overlook the fact that a large portion of this has been by backed by the US. It's funny how when the US wants a government toppled, the terrorists are "friendly" and funded and armed by the US government, but when they're counter to US interests, they're suddenly part of the axis of evil and must be destroyed...

Perhaps if they stopped funding this ignorant behaviour and stopped supplying munitions to these terrorist interests, the problem would eventually go away... spend more on education and tolerance towards all points of view, enlightenment, the world would become a more peaceful place.

When will "democratic" governments eventually realize that money and greed is not the best approach to the furthering the human experience on this planet.

Sorry, didn't mean to get off on a rant there, but that one picture triggered a bit of annoyance.
Around the world, see: leap.cc (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition). However, this voice is still soundly in the minority. I remember when the pot decriminalization ballot question came up in Massachusetts. Law enforcement came out loudly against.
I use this (sleep support one):

http://vibrantme.isagenix.com/ca/en/brainsleepsystem.html

1 week was enough for me.

It allows to relax and fall asleep quickly. Small doses will do and they will not diminish your ability to wake up and take care of kids.

Again - start with 1/3 of recommended dose and you should be fine.
I've never done drugs in my life, but most drug users using SR were not addicts. They were just drug users.
For anyone who's tried to setup and run Gitorious, an "easily installable" version of anything like it (eg a Github clone) is particularly attractive.

As mentioned, when I see "written in Scala", the implication is you ./sbt package it into a WAR, then stick it in a standard servlet container, and voila, up and running. In Gitbucket's case you don't even have to package it, just download the war.

So for a bunch of coders who may want to run a repo service on their internal network, employer or client's network, this is an interesting option.

Also it's FOSS, which I upvote by default here, be it from Mozilla or a random hobbyist.

PS - Not to bag on Gitorious, great FOSS project and much improved install as of late.
That's what I was hinting at. MongoDB, the company, is trading on the Goldman name, but Goldman isn't using it for scaling at all.
Lockitron Installation Video
edit: removing meta discussion about flagging. the story should get the attention. apologies for the distraction.
> Is it because of the formal process that comes with it, because of the way it's usually done at bigco, or do some people feel annoyed about having to always count their time ?

Some people must account for all of their time in 15 minute blocks. It's frustrating because either you do it properly, and have people complaining about the amount of time you spend doing the paperwork; or you fudge it, in which case whyTF do they specify it to 15 minutes why don't they just let you give a broad outline of what you've done?

BigCo can be really weird.
Vitamin D-3 is one.

Resveratrol is on my "maybe" list. I'm seeing some really interesting research, but the good stuff may end up being patented and sold as a drug, which sucks.

I'm still a Vitamin C fan, even though it's fallen out of favor. Seems to help when I've stressed out my system through alcohol or other chemical irritants.

Also on my "to-watch" list is delta tocotrienols, one of the components of vitamin E. Saw some interesting evidence that it might be good at actually helping to remove coronary artery blockage, but it's still WAY preliminary. And no, that's not a recommendation for vitamin E itself, which in larger doses can cause all sorts of problems. Just the delta series.

The B series of vitamins are interesting, as there seems to be a good-sized gap between the amount most people have in their bloodstream and the amount that they can carry easily. A little dose of B-12 seems to help me enormously with concentration. At least for a short period. YMMV.

Note this is all subjective, and based on half-assed research and gossip. That's one of the rules in this arena: there are no rules. :)
Great! Just what we need to accelerate the melting of the ice caps.
At the Claremont Colleges (outside of LA, includes Pomona, Harvey Mudd, CMC, Scripps, and Pitzer), we've had success with almost the exact same strategy. At our last hackathon, we had a similar turnout (150+) and ratio (>1/3 women). Just to emphasize again the key things that worked for us:

* a commitment to beginners from the start

* a week of 2-hour classes (Hack Week) on building web applications from scratch targeted at non-developers

* a focus on learning rather than winning (although, we did advertise prizes)

* helpful mentors on call through out the tutorials and hackathon

* providing healthy food for those who wanted it

* having a diverse set of organizers, mentors and company reps who participants feel comfortable approaching during and before the hackathon to allay concerns about their participation

In my opinion, every single one of these things makes hackathons a better experience for everyone, so there's no reason not to do them. To say the least, we've had no problem with scaring away the typical "hackathon types" and this year, we're hoping to get close to a 50% ratio.
Bank error (404) makes restaurant manager the world's first ever trillionaire
Fall Fun in Cincinnati, Ohio
Nothing is justifiable for DRM. Even if you don't watch movies over and over again, you can watch them once in a while. Good movies have good replay value. And bad movies won't get any more sales, just because they'll use DRM for some reason.
I have terrible sleep habits and often find it difficult to fall asleep before 5am. I have been considering trying melatonin but my major concern is that I will become dependent on it. I don't want my body to stop producing whatever small amount it already does through its use as a supplement.

How dependent on it would you say you are? How well would you function if you were unable to get hold of it?
I was going to recommend sleepytime[1] to try and find a good time to go to bed at if you want to get up at 6AM. It looks like 10:30 is a good time though. Maybe try to find your sleep cycles and set your alarm for a time when you are not in deep sleep? There are some smartphone apps that are meant to help do this.

[1] http://sleepyti.me/
Here's a question for the techno-libertarians stepping up to say the government has no right to shut down sites like Silk Road. Where do you derive this supposed natural right for anonymity on the internet? Life, liberty, freedom from discrimination, due process--these things I understand, and there are well supported philosophical frameworks (rule utilitarian, Kantian, libertarian etc.) for deriving them from first principles. I can also understand a society guaranteeing a right to privacy in limited circumstances: crimes affecting children are one obvious example, records of education and medical treatment are another. In each such situation, the benefits, harms and impact on the rights of the public and the individual have been weighed.

But an anonymous free-for-all exchange being a natural right? We aren't born anonymous. In the "state of nature," without government, we are in no way anonymous. The fact that the internet sometimes allows us to be is in fact a very artificial circumstance that society has allowed to happen. Whether we like it or not, governments are ultimately the overseers that permit networking infrastructure comprising the internet to be built. That isn't some natural right any more than building a nuclear weapon in my backyard is a natural right. Society has weighed the pros and cons and decided that this particular set of technologies is on the whole good. That it might in fact want to limit the level of anonymity on the network seems reasonable, in the same way that making people put license plates on their cars is reasonable.

I'm not supporting the idea of a government ID to access the internet (although some first-world countries already require some level of this), or nationwide surveillance a la China or the NSA. Anonymity no doubt has societal benefit, in that it has fostered great works of creativity (from Mark Twain down through Anonymous). Unfortunately, society depends on accountability, and accountability and anonymity are competing principles in the construction of a just society. Neither of them are natural rights on their own.
I never understood this advice. Not to sound arrogant, but I know I'm good.

And everyone is exactly like you so this piece of advice is worth absolutely nothing :)

That said I agree with the rest: telling someone they're great but not worth paying a decent salary sounds insulting.
Pretty sure it is. If you need serious anonymity, like if your life depends on it, get a botnet and use the trojaned PCs as proxies. Use public WiFi, and use cheap laptops that you replace regularly and/or VMs, and don't forget to fake your MAC address. Create multiple fake personas to confuse attackers. Have stuff you write rephrased by someone else, so they can't do a corpus analysis on your writings. Do as much offline as possible. If you have to transfer information, avoid the internet. Use dedicated lines, dialup, dead drops, etc. etc.

I'm so glad I have nothing to hide.
I think the suggestion is that the buyers are algorithmic trading systems.

An alternative explanation: could Twitter buy Tweeter and use it to list a lot more easily than the formal IPO process?

If the government shutdown goes on for so long that Twitter runs out of cash, or if the SEC goes 10 rounds with Twitter's S-1, it might be easier/cheaper for Twitter just to buy TWTRQ. For a stock with a market-cap of <$1 million, that might be worth a punt.

Or, more darkly, if someone held stock of TWTRQ, they'd probably be promoting that view. (I don't, for the record!)