skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Okay! I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit! I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail."

Michael Bolton. No not that Michael Bolton.
I can't believe they haven't pulled this update- people started reporting this issue over a week ago. And now there are comments from users who updated today and got hit.
I called coventry, and they said they have an ACA-compatible HSA, but they had no info yet - getting a call on monday.
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby%2C+python%2C+php%2C+n...

ruby, python, php, node, java, .NET, c

:)
Wow, this video and the game are bringing back memories. This is the first experience with a computer I can remember. I didn't really realize what I was doing at the time, I would have been 2 or 3. Thankfully my dad cared enough about computers to have one for the family, that early experience probably contributed to my passion for software today.
Is there a way to filter out high-value transactions?
Nobody in California was happy when their favorite dispensery got raided 8 years ago and there weren't many alternatives. But there is 3 per block in Los Angeles these days.
Congrats to David and the team! (I was an early investor, back when it was called Weatherbill)
In a sense I almost feel for the guy.. Then again, I don't. The tinfoil hat in me wants to believe that this is all one big FBI / CIA set up and they're looking to see who will try and step up.

But again, that's just crazy.
I am happy to rerun the benchmarks (single threaded and multi threaded) with a optimized C++ version. Sadly, been a while since I last worked on C++

The base C++ version, for reference: https://gist.github.com/kid0m4n/6680629

But its never going to be apples-to-apples comparison. Given the different feature sets of either platform

But this definitely shows that Go performance is in the same ballpark though.
Great support for me as I am learning RoR :)
"Go Getter" ?
When looking at the concept, it's interesting to me how much the pseudo code looks like a real REST API handler written in a state machine DSL.

Decision graph: http://clojure-liberator.github.io/liberator/tutorial/decisi...

Actual code: http://clojure-liberator.github.io/liberator/tutorial/all-to...

Progenitor = Erlang Webmachine: https://github.com/basho/webmachine/wiki/Overview

I'd rather write a working API than this separate spec language. By writing your 'spec' as a state machine, you get REST formality and consistency, plus, well, you now have something that works.

OTOH, running an existing API through something that would generate this RAML document could be very interesting as a way to make sure everyone's on the same page in a language neutral way.
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Wait - he posted something about php, curl and tor on StackOverflow, using - for less than one minute - his real name? And that is supposed to link to the operator of Silk Road?

I don't know about you, but that seems very far fetched to me. Also, it indicates that SO saves all changes made to a user profile, forever, which I think is a bit unusual.

However, if thy caught the right guy, hats off to the prosecutors for making the link.
I usually only flag spam. I also posted the guidelines, so people reading the thread could read them. We are getting a lot of political threads these days, and I'm not sure new people understand that political posts aren't good.
What do you find to be wrong with it? It's always done the job well for me, whereas Sequel Pro, while a prettier face, and useable enough, manages to crash at least once a day.
If you allow US users to log in to your site the US will claim jurisdiction; see online gambling.
Objective-C uses ref counting and does alright... Hardly a language that doesn't prioritize performance.
Congrats on the early success. Time to spin up more dynos ;-)
Actually, I'm right in the middle of season 3. I like to wait for a series to end before I watch it all at once (I can't stand waiting for serials) especially if other people say it's a great series (which it is). The hard part is avoiding spoilers -- there are heaps online! I'm looking forward to finishing it. Based on what I hear it's a really great closing.
Pro Tip: if you use a timed shot you will almost always get better pictures.

When you tap "take photo" on your screen you actually subtly nudge the phone and it slightly looses focus at the worst possible time.
Ooooh, I missed that part. Wikipedia (at time of writing) speaks of his identity as certain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_William_Ulbricht#Seizure_a...

Edit: updated the article to reflect that Ulbricht is only allegedly DPR
This is actually a solid article, but also definite proof that HN is now reddit. I can live with that.
What's morally tenuous about making food people enjoy? Gourmet chefs use the same science as Frito Lay. The only difference is that almost anyone can afford to have Doritos whenever they like.
The structure of pure capitalism means the majority of people do not have a great deal of control. It's in the hands of the bourgeoisie, and so the people with capital are the people with control. If you have capital, you are a proprietor, and if you ship software for a living it's likely to be proprietary. Hence my initial association of capitalism and proprietary software with VCs.

I'm not assuming I don't control my computer (it's mine to burn), I'm assuming I don't control the specific binaries on my computer unless I have the source code to them.
Clearly, we go back to the initial statement: for specific use cases, we need specific allocators.
I'll eventually try it out, but I have absolutely no idea how to go from this .war file to a running web server. (I see some .war files actually have a web server built in so you can just to java -jar, but not this one.)
Thanks Valve.
Reminding me of my favorite hunger hack: got into kitchen, chop onion or press garlic, toss into oil, fry. In ten seconds, I go from "dinner sounds like a hassle" to rooting through the cupboards, salivating madly.
That's only one of many pieces of evidence they found, if you read the original complaint. It helps corroborate other pieces, too.
Idiotic people exist. What does that have to do with the presenter? Just because she's a woman doing what has been genetically programmed into every mammal on this planet?
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius”. - Gibbon
That can't happen on the internet; it's against the law.
iOS uses Automatic Reference Counting (ARC, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Reference_Counting) by having the compiler add reference counting instructions, while refraining from having the developer add tedious reference counting instructions themselves. I'm not sure if there are significant performance advantages over proper GC.

It's worth noting that Apple has implemented GC in Objective-C on OS X before, but deprecated that in favour of its ARC implementation -- probably because its garbage collection implementation was no good at all (performance-wise).
Based on the title, I assumed this would be an article about how Smalltalk has been murdered:

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/swim+with+the+f...
The AGPL doesn't either. We have a product based on a third-party AGPL licensed codebase and we're fully compliant even if we don't contribute everything back.

You should really read up on the licenses and the intent behind them; contributing back was never the point.
> "You can't resist the FBI. We will find you."

At last the drug war has been won!

No similar site will ever be created and all the resources formerly spent fighting drugs will be returned to improving the lives of citizens.

This is as great a sign of success as when we victoriously proclaimed "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq, and as assuredly as we have had peace since then in Iraq, we can look forward to as peaceful and drug-free an existence as when we enjoyed the peaceful, law-abiding, alcohol-free times of Prohibition.

Resources well-spent. We can finally sleep well tonight under the FBI's benevolent watch.
The argument that they will know which services not to use is nonsense. It's obvious to anyone with half a brain to not use things like Skype if you're doing something that might attract the attention of the NSA, DHS, etc... even terrorists would know to use open source things like mumble that support encryption.
Apple’s Dilemma in China
I can only imagine Ulbricht reached the point... "in for a penny, in for a pound"
I've posted questions about Tor on stackoverflow using my real name, but I'm not a criminal nor do I have any desire to be a criminal.

It seems odd to me that questions like this on a technology site could somehow be used to incriminate people. Maybe the goal is to prevent people from asking questions.

What you ask can and will be used against you?
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but if the people you outsource to you are their allies, they may be able to justify it. Besides, it seems the NSA has a gift for rationalizing things away
Takeaway: "With the exception of Apple and Motorola, literally every single OEM we’ve worked with ships (or has shipped) at least one device that runs this silly CPU optimization" and "[t]he unfortunate reality is this is all going to get a lot worse before it gets better."
That sounds eerily like some of my other experiences with their software.
'Iceweasel' is the branding Debian applies to Firefox (and 'Icedove' for Thunderbird). That's nothing to do with the code license, it's specifically about trademark and copyright on the names and logos.
> morality is not the same as legality

Fine, but the site sells and even has categories for things like hitman services, ATM skimmers, fraud how-to pamphlets, and lists of stolen credit cards.

"Morality may not be legality" is a trendy thing to say but there's significant overlap, and that statement is meaningless anyway when much of the behaviour that we're on about is both immoral and illegal
He actually saud that? Wow. Do you have a limk to video? This would certainly reveal a mindset.
sharing information, i think is small potatoes. showing them how to get the information on their own is what i fear.
"Hey, check out this backdoor we found. Enjoy"
Qwest simply refused NSA surveillance requests, and were rewarded with the cancellation of a government contract and having their CEO charged with securities fraud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveillan...
"My job is not to be a martyr for my cause - it's to find some other sap to be a martyr for it."
Anyone with capital has SOME level of control, the point of capitalism is it allows the distribution of power to fluctuate. Compare to proprietary licensing where the developer has near complete control and the users have nothing and will likely never have anything. The software isn't the capital, the license is the capital. Of course you don't control the software when you deliberately pay for a license that literally says you don't control the software.
What in the world is going on in this thread?
I'm not languishing in prison (yet). I certainly don't find such prospects appealing in the least. But my values are not hobbies. If push came to shove, prison is where I'd go. Granted, having a publicly stated policy of whistleblowing will likely put me on the bottom of a very long list of candidates for employment at these companies. (Well, it seems not to be the case with Google yet. I get prodded by one of their recruiters every semester, asking if I'm graduating yet or not. I'm unsure of whether I have the kind of technical chops they're looking for, but I suspect that even if I do, my personal convictions would leave the deal dead in the water.)
This seems similar to Google's Discovery Service (https://developers.google.com/discovery/) which describes all new Google APIs in a JSON document.

This powers the online APIs Explorer (https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer) and code generators (e.g., https://code.google.com/p/google-api-go-client/source/browse...)

APIs created using Cloud Endpoints on App Engine also generate a Discovery document for their APIs (https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/endpoints/)
The Political Economy of Zombies
Bug Bounty Program Finds and Helps Resolve Security Vulnerability in Persona
They probably literally just scanned-in a printout of it. Likely they do this to avoid the issues of improper PDF redactions that got famous a few years ago. Do the redaction on real paper (or not) and just always scan it in, and it's nearly foolproof. And trust me, we get a lot of fools in the government. ;)
TOR IS secure , humans just made mistakes. they are indeed humans.
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> the executive can declare anything classified.

Scary because this simple tool can be used to justify and do just about anything.
Exactly, that's why we will include some graphs about the state of the market so people can figure out their prices
> If he were as smart as he thought he was, he would have gotten out of the business and the country shortly after he became a millionaire.

I believe this guy is the second owner. If I recall correctly, the first guy did pretty much exactly what you said.
A climate skeptic states his case
I'm saying from DPR's point, was it that bad of a move? Face total failure or $500K payment (with no guarantee of not getting hassled later), versus a $150K payment that lasted a while?

Edit: To to clear, DPR could have well assumed it was the same party and figured this was one way to negotiate, instead of saying "ok, how about $200K instead of $500K"?
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The article directly contradicts your claim.
Having trouble using curl in php? Because a environment variable wasn't defined? And then ran to SO before trying to print the variable values?..

/facepalm

Edit: Everyday it's the same old shit. One post goes up in votes, another goes down. Why? Who the hell knows. Must've pissed someone off that doesn't know curl.. I swear I have to walk on egg shells in this place. Either way I'm really starting to get tired of this shit. Pull those marshmallow pants up.
If you think he was arrested for posting a question about Tor to Stack Overflow, then you really have a lot of catching up to do on this story.
The criminal activity was primarily selling recreational drugs whose legality has nothing to do with morals and everything to do with the profitability of competing enterprises. The broader picture here is that the profitability of SR was the result of legitimate demand for certain products. We are not talking about racketeering here. We are not talking about robbery, kidnapping, or fraud. We are talking about victimless crimes involving the sale of goods that are highly demanded.

DPR himself may have been a mean guy, assuming there is anything to this alleged murder-for-hire plot. The reality of the situation, however, is that a much greater harm has been done to society by drug prohibition itself. Millions of people incarcerated, millions of people exposed to drugs of unknown quality, and a widespread trend of soldiers attacking civilian homes in the name of the drug war. The DEA has the power to simply declare drugs to be illegal, then arrest people who possess them. The DEA is not only a police force, but also a military force (even receiving help from NORAD and the NSA) and an intelligence agency. People in foreign lands and here in the United States are being killed by our government in the name of this prohibition.

Do not think for a moment that the law is some kind of moral compass. Drug laws have a sordid history of racism, corporate hand-outs, and widespread corruption.
Similar to the other comments, this seems virtually unrelated to the actual arrest. This article makes it seem as though the single mistake is what allowed DPR to get nabbed, and yet there is a lot more going on in the investigation.

It was a boneheaded mistake but it's not what got him arrested.
Asking the question is not incriminating, but it can be used to prove that he is the guy who was running SR.
Is there some evidence that this was produced using a typewriter?
Plus given the politics around it, we don't know what devious behavior might have been going on against it either.

Hopefully none, but you never know. Their stats may have been javascript based and not physical server hits.
Chrome on a Mac: works fine for me. It doesn't like Safari, however.
Not really. Libertarianism is typically based on the "Non-Aggression Principle," which is not exclusively applied to governments.
If I recall correctly, it's basically a case of last server to update the dir servers wins, so impersonating hidden services shouldn't be too hard unless the actual service goes down and is restarted.
Someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but I believe the native OpenGL backend is not recommended for security reasons. All of the security efforts have gone into the D3D backend. The native OpenGL option is included for testing trusted code against a simpler, more reliable, probably faster implementation in case the D3D wrapper is messing up for you somehow.
The limiting principles seem to be encoded in the law[1] that provides the basis for most of the government's arguments - FWIW, passed by both houses of Congress and explicitly granting this discretion to the executive branch.

Most of the recent furor seems to be around whether the NSA is actually complying with (d)(1)(A) and (B) or is just gathering up all of our information without the court order required for surveillance of any U.S. citizen inside the U.S.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1881a
Direct links from http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=58:

AMD R6xx/R7xx 3D Register Reference:
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/R6xx_3D_Registers.pdf

AMD R6xx/R7xx Acceleration:
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/R6xx_R7xx_3D.pdf

AMD Evergreen 3D Register Reference:
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/evergreen_3D_registers_v2.pdf

AMD Cayman/Trinity 3D Register Reference:
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/cayman_3D_registers_v2.pdf

AMD Evergreen/Northern Islands Acceleration:
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/evergreen_cayman_programming_guide...

AMD Southern Islands 3D Register Reference:
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/SI_3D_registers.pdf

AMD Sea Islands 3D Register Reference:
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/CIK_3D_registers_v2.pdf

AMD Southern Islands/Sea Islands Acceleration:
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/si_programming_guide_v2.pdf

AMD HDA audio verbs:
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/AMD_HDA_verbs_v2.pdf
Yep, a major argument for Safari's "reader" feature. Of course, on these crappy websites that often doesn't work either (because they purposely structured their markup to defeat it).
Try Stripe. They're easy to integrate and handle that with no problem.
I'd like to see more of these things!

I feel like a REST API is the interface, and a web app is just the implementation. Makes sense to separate the two.

Although somewhat unrelated, this reminds me of https://thrift.apache.org
I think he was paraphrasing.
Sounds like if you can "outspend" the DOJ and be assured of winning than A: the DOJ has very weak cases or B: the justice system is extremely non-functional.

Seizure is not a just way to hack the system back into a functional state.
Well, don't do crazily illegal shit, and the tinfoil can stay in the kitchen cabinet.
I wish I could get a copy of Fury3. If only for the soundtrack.
Standards like this enable new value, but make it harder for newcomers. Worse, they add a lot of burdensome work in situations where implementation or compliance is demanded of developers.

Complexity-enabling standards are often a sign that a funky, little nook of software is maturing. It is a sign of huge success, too, because new layers are beckoning to lay on top of an old layer.

We had a good run with REST and JSON, which managed to hold back corporate software engineering culture -- represented in standards like SOAP and WSDL -- for a very long time. No doubt there is a future even with "complexification", but I think that new alternatives will come soon into the fray.
You could also do http://amber-lang.net/ and ClojureScript, no?
I've got a bit of the blub paradox going on here so this story is lost on me. Can anyone give me a concrete example of what he's talking about instead of an abstract analogy?
I know he has been accused of doing very bad things. I just hate to see Tor and its users vilified like this. Bad people use Tor for bad things, but good people use it for good things too.

And making people feel that simply asking questions about Tor will put them in the same category as hardcore criminals is just wrong. We're not all heartless criminals. In fact, most just want a bit of privacy.
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Is there evidence that the securities fraud charges were actually caused by their refusal? Or were they caused by the fact that the guy said Qwest was doing well and sold ahead of a huge downturn in prices? As far as I can tell from Wikipedia, the charges would have stuck irrespective of the NSA stuff.
Yes. I've used (loose) UML in previous startup jobs to help communicate problem. I've never seen UML used in docs though. It's usually when we encounters a problem, we draw it out on the white board and talk about it from there.
This is just horrible journalism. Exactly what I'd expect from a motion picture movie for a dumbed down audience. Definitely not HN top worthy.
$500 for an entire corporation is very low - that's one day's worth of developer time. How much developer time would you need to replicated Sidekiq?
Bro, you got lucky. FBI's got a daily snapshot of SR server. So be glad your name and address is not in that database somewhere in FBI/DEA.
"The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda."
-- Edward Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995) was an Austrian-born American publicist, sometimes called "the father of public relations" Quoted in L. Tye The Father of Spin (1998) p. 102

Journalistic theory generally holds that news items should be objective, giving the reader an accurate background and analysis of the subject at hand. On the other hand, advertisements evolved from the traditional commercial advertisements to include also a new type in the form of paid articles or broadcasts disguised as news. These generally present an issue in a very subjective and often misleading light, primarily meant to persuade rather than inform. Normally they use only subtle propaganda techniques and not the more obvious ones used in traditional commercial advertisements. If the reader believes that a paid advertisement is in fact a news item, the message the advertiser is trying to communicate will be more easily "believed" or "internalized".
Loved following this on the mailing list.

I hope we get to see an expertly tuned C++ version to compare with too.
I smell a super success and acquisition
> According to the criminal complaint, Ulbricht posted the question using his own real name. Less than one minute later, he changed his username to “frosty.”

How was it know then? Did they record the traffic and see it there? Did SO tell them?
> StackOverflow doesn't even require an actual account to post questions

That hasn't been the case since mid-2011[1]: you must have an actual account to ask questions on Stack Overflow.

[1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/107152/encouraging-u...
My guess is that they will go after the few or few dozen people who profited most heavily from illegal activity on the site.
Your analogy is false, you are comparing a real psychological disorder with Xenu fairytales or myths.

I don't have the time anymore to explain in more detail why you are wrong, you simply want to argue without arguments and you are right because you say so and because et contact is silly and of course because you know what science is.
As Kevin said, I was paraphrasing. Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeYDhMmVLXI
The timeline is unclear... but it seems that they've had doubts about Ulbright for a very long time.