skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of management's jobs is to enable and empower the workers. One of the principals that enables Kanban development is that management should not dictate worker process. If management doesn't know that they may be tempted to fix the development problems with more process, which actually disempowers the workers. Adding more dictated process may work in the short term, but it's a tactical fix, not a strategic one. A well run business keeps tactics and strategy in balance, and hopefully delegates the tactics as low as possible, to retain empowerment. Good management acts as a multiplier to worker productivity. Bad management cripples what it's trying to manage.

So yes, you need good management, but good management alone does not guarantee success. Management cannot be the source of the solution to every problem.

The other bit to take into account is that management can benefit just as much from its own cycle of metrics, feedback and retrospective action. All levels of an organization need to be able to improve, not just the developer teams. However, that's usually a completely different set of tools and skill sets.
How will you read your files in a hundred years?
third tough, what if we take something people would do for something they desire a lot... money, what if we replicate the bitcoin schema and make use of all the hashes as required to decrypt the file?
you do already have times for some real world calculations for that.
There are several key words such as 'stress' or 'overwhelming' or wanting to quit but being unable to, but what is often common to persons suffering of delusions of a manic extent (btw, I think they seized some cocaine from him as well if I remember correctly) is believing they are on a special mission to accomplish something world-changing and even expressing intent to sacrifice their lives if it were needed, zealousness, being over-invested emotionally in the 'idea' and perhaps most importantly, the unlikeness of their belief or idea actually manifesting as envisioned.

His message is very self-centered and does not mention other people (joining him or helping him reach his goal). It is not unreasonable to think/realize that his belief is/was failing to fit with his socio-cultural background, especially considering he was mostly running the op alone.

There were mentions of admins that were paid lowly sums compared to what he was making, I assume they had very limited attributions and he was the only one in true controlling capacity.

Throw in the necessity for secretiveness due to the nature of the op, the ensuing distrust and suspicion and it is a safe recipe for psychosis as a result of stress.
Turns out the Kinesis contoured models ( http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm ) feature Cherry keys.
you're quite the payment wizard, dobbsbob.

can you comment on the kind of fees you ended up generating when you were experimenting in Argentina? i expect that fees would be different depending on the direction you went from ARS.

a bank account in an hour? opening a bitcoin business account in the US takes easily 1.5 hours, if not twice that.
NT originally targeted the Intel i860 (just an emulator, at the time). Intel's codename for the i860 was "N10". Microsoft's "NT" name was an abbreviation of "N Ten".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Naming
Well, for one thing I assume they didn't build it in Manhattan.
> Conflating law with ethics is probably more likely in younger people given the dynamics of authority, or so it seems to me.

Assuming that somebody progresses through Lawrence Kohlberg's 'stages of moral development' in order as they develop, that seems reasonable.

However, the development of this system seems to be evidence that the author does not conflate ethics and the law. Trading drugs is presumably illegal in the authors jurisdiction, yet the author presumably believes themself to be acting ethically in the development of a system that facilitates the trade of drugs. If the author were conflating the law and morality, then he likely would not develop this system because it would facilitate illegal(therefore immoral) behavior. This does not seem to be the case; the author seems to be capable of separating morality and legality.
In a different age, when public opinion on nuclear energy was substantially different.
If the US defaults in 10 days, there may be only few of these bills in circulation. It may be a good investment :)
still playing the "hiding" card.
put random players on online games with the answer and make them release on certain time.
My understanding is that the cartels care a lot more about distribution than retail, though my information is removed enough it could easily be flat out wrong...
I said farm and Factory. We also drive more and walk less, we are a much less active people than we were.

I didn't say illegals, but people of Indo and Asian descent have shorter lives for the most part compared to Caucasians.

I'm not saying my presentation of facts was perfect, but I can dig around there are plenty of studies (and I hate studies as opposed to experiments) that these observations were pulled from.

My point was really that there are lots of reasons, and likely it isn't "just one", but they aren't "unknown".
Heroku.com now uses Extended Validation SSL Certificates
Yeah every body has $4 million in hard drives just sitting around. At 1TB each that is a 40 peta-byte array, that is still huge in this day an age.
Only naively. If there is a clear reason why there is no evidence of absence (e.g. no one has ever looked for evidence), I don't see how this "basic result" is true in any meaningful way.
The greatly increased CoL in Denmark also somewhat necessitates the prevalence of larger denominations.
Because god forbid people write code in language he doesn't like.
I had no idea. Thanks for the very cool animation/explanation. A+
Forgot to prep for that investor pitch? Positioning Statement Generator
> The real reason for pasteurization is the benefit to large scale commercial dairy farming.

And here we go with the conspiracy theories. What's your biological training?
Democracy is "rule by the people." You are not "the people," so you should fear democracy.
I ran it through an html checker (http://validator.w3.org/check) and got 3 Errors and 4 Warnings.
Agreed. The point I am trying to make is the following: I think you need to do both and that's why building great products/software is hard. You need to see the big picture yet deliver against it in bite-sized chunks. Good PMs and Engs are capable of doing both at the same time. That's the key. Give folks responsibility for owning big ideas and allow them to get their work done in an agile, incremental way. Kanban really is about the incremental "getting there" part.
> That alone eliminates your entire argument.

Sure. I believe you. What, if any, training in biology have you had?
i've run a few other businesses in the past that had some serious credit card and paypal fraud problems. to give you an idea of how bad it can get, i have been charged back USD 30K in credit card charges by a single customer who was running an extremely creative fraud system. the secret service ending up getting him, which was vindicating, but you can't get blood from a stone...

i'll have another think about it, but i expect that accepting credit cards is not going to happen. additionally, the fees would have to be pretty hefty for running such a payment gateway since it would (our fee) + (credit card processing fees).
I'm not sure I get the motivation. Isn't Perl a Unix-y language? You can get "interop" by using pipes or other IPC.

This seems like a heavy, Java-esque solution. 50 lines of Perl does a lot, let alone 1000. Not sure I want to see 20,000 lines of mixed Perl 5 and Perl 6.
Makes me think how adding link shorteners really compounds the problem. Do these services check if there is a bit.ly version of the URL on all of the social sites? What about multiply-shortened URLs? (presumably that would be a waste, but in the "ideal" solution we could somehow find them all...)
As discussed by Clifford Stoll about 20 years ago, and he probably wasn't the first to popularize this. http://darkenchanter.net/deaddata.htm (with Web 1.0 layout)
If, in my nonfiction book, I write, "Under normal circumstances, water boils at 80 degrees celsius," then I am a liar, and there is nothing I can say after the fact that will excuse my behavior.

Malcolm Gladwell often writes lies in his nonfiction books. I have found myself personally deceived by some of his lies. For instance, on page 39 of Outliers, he writes:

The striking thing about Ericsson’s study is that he and his colleagues couldn’t find any “naturals”, musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time their peers did. Nor could they find any “grinds”, people who worked harder than everyone else, yet just didn’t have what it takes to break the top ranks.

The first time I read this passage, I thought it was one of the most extraordinary pieces of information I'd ever encountered. It meant that practice almost completely determines ability! I mostly believed that for more than 4 years. (And so did the rest of the world -- that's the core of the 10000 hours meme.)

It turns out that the passage is completely false. Ericsson's study did not actually say anything about individual violinists at all -- it only ever reported average statistics of groups of violinists.

Other studies of the relationship between total practice time and ability have found that different people may reach a given level of ability with enormously different practice totals. For instance a study of chess players found that the average amount of practice time needed to reach the Master level is ~11000 hours -- but the standard deviation of the distribution is more than 5000 hours. One person only took 3000 hours to reach Master level. Another took 23000 hours. [1]

Calling this kind of deception "being playful with ideas" is absurd.

[1] Note: I have not read the study in question. My info comes secondhand, from http://www.sportsscientists.com/2011/08/talent-training-and-... and http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/media/books/H....
Does anyone remember the CNN hologram?

I don't quite understand the newsroom gimmicks...
> There are much worse guys with guns that lack legal and political processes.

Where? This seems clearly false to me.

> Handle grievances with regulations or criminal code by organizing popular support for policy changes, not by building systems to break the law.

Making laws easy to break seems to be one of the best ways to accomplish policy change.
This sounds like the ideal opportunity to have a map tattooed to our scalps like old fashioned pirates. Or to the back of some kid (like on Waterworld).
> Failing to recognize how much you benefit from your government is, yes, I'm sorry to say it, childish - as is publicly condoning breaking the law in reaction.

African Americans during the civil rights movement benefited from government (roads, etc.) and also used very public law-breaking as a fundamental tactic.
Not everyone who's criticizing the code is necessarily hating on PHP. There is a difference between good PHP and bad PHP and perfectly valid reasons to suggest things need to be changed.

And I believe people have been contributing, at least, issues have been opened up and at least one commenter has mentioned rewriting (possibly forking) it.
So are we to "Free Ross" because he was a great guy who had people killed? Ran a site dedicating to breaking laws? What thing are we supposed to be sad he got busted for?

My expectation is if he hadn't tried to have someone killed that it would have been deemed that SilkRoad was a better way to track dealers down than it was at promoting sales.

Normally the feds would have taken over the site, tracked its users then made 100 busts at once. I think Murder sped that up a lot.

I don't feel sorry for Ulbircht at all.
Always amazes me how some posts like this one have zero comments in the blog itself but a dozen in HN.
Hey dobbsbob, thanks for your comment! Great info! I did try getting a Latvian bank account but even their banks seem to have clamped down on opening accounts for non-EU residents due to money laundering laws - at least in my experience.

As for payment gateways, I wanted to stick to well-known gateways like PayPal and Skrill that consumers would already have accounts with.

I'm sure that walking into a bank in Europe probably would have quickly resulted in the opening of an account, but getting to Europe posed a problem for me as I'm based in the US and didn't have the funds to make the trip. Thus, Bitcoin!
just to elaborate here: the OP will likely need to file subpart F income for his UK-based controlled foreign corporation (CFC). this means that any income he generates from the UK entity passes through to his US taxes.

additionally, he will need to file a TD 90-22.1 with the department of treasury by june 30th of the year after the account has more than USD 50K in it.

tax avoidance is a complex beast and simply incorporating a business in another jurisdiction does not in any way exempt you from US tax liability.
Many libertarians wouldn't bring up the idea of "evil" in arguments. Many focus on economic arguments, for example.
G.K. Chesterton: The fallacy of success (1909)
One of the best posts I've ever read on designing a good rest interface (from a django core developer):

http://jacobian.org/writing/rest-worst-practices/
It looks like MTU isn't mentioned because the author is looking for the minimum possible packet for port scanning
Have you ever been to a midway at a carnival?

Think of each booth as a different station trying anything to catch your attention and you'll understand. It's just a hook. Doesn't matter if it's clever, or stupid, or if they think it's clever and it looks stupid - if it gets you to watch the commercials than it works.
Sweet. Thanks for making this.
It'd be awesome if you could extend the animation and show examples of complex shapes you could make with triangles.
It continues:

The bottom line is... Silk Road is here to stay so long as there is breath in my lungs, a spark in my mind, and fire in my heart. I know many of you in this community feel the same way and is an honor to stand beside you here.
So what is the other static language? I see go programs on your github account also Objective C.
I certainly hope you don't give me an Object. That would mean I still haven't escaped the JVM! Just give me HM and I can write type safe code without typing types.
MIT cube robots can self-assemble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOqjFa4RskA#t=165
And even if they did, barring FTL, they couldn't really get it down here faster than the probe itself.
it's ridiculous that banks can just close your account without giving any explanation. i have had this happen a couple times and it's very irritating.

while i can appreciate that any business can choose to not do business with any 3rd party for whatever reason, the inability to bank can be crippling, especially if you get blacklisted by chexsystems et al.
I think ninjac0der was insinuating that pallandt is a shill (and that the United States Department of Shilling is a non-essential service.)

Ninjac0der can correct me if I interpreted his comment wrong...
> that is effective at protecting people (unlike the current system), and isn't prohibitively expensive or onerous, or doesn't limit competition from non-traditional entities.

Christ, go fuck yourself you dishonest cunt. Commercial fire codes reduce death by fire in hotels. Higher security doors reduce invasions. Rotated keys reduce theft. Marketing regs reduce bait and switch. Food safety regs reduce food poisoning, and undisclosed contamination with allergens from room service.

The list of effective laws is enormous. It's just ignored by ignorant, naive, and/or intellectually dishonest sacks like yourself.

Please don't pretend that you're arguing honestly or that you care, even slightly, about finding a middle ground when you're spewing such obviously false bullshit claiming that the regs have zero efficacy at protecting people.

I hope you get tricked into staying where I've stayed at AirBNB, because they were object lessons in just how awful and dishonest people are when there's zero regulation. Broken toilets, rooms advertised as having private bathrooms that didn't.

AirBNB is a case study in the importance of regulation. Anybody who can't see that is willfully blind.
Apparently I can reply now.

> would it bother you?

To a degree, yes. I'm in favor of virtual markets and currencies, but because they can increase the opportunities for lawful commerce and reduce the role of rent-seekers-- not mask illegal activity. His messaging is certainly what I find most bothersome, but I still wouldn't throw my weight behind a system that offered no means of regulation. Likewise, I wouldn't agree with a system that includes total passive surveillability either. There needs to be a considered balance.

I certainly would not play out my policy disagreements through system design, which is how this strikes me. It's far too risky, and certain to get your software (and life) shut down in the long run.
You'd have a hard time setting a monthly price that is acceptable to both consumers and publishers. The New York Times runs anywhere from $16 to $30 per month, depending on which level access you're willing to pay for. The Washington Post is $9.99 per month. You'd likely need to bundle in at least one top publication to sell people on the subscription, and every site you add will jack the price up based on the price they can demand for access to just their site.

I think a better solution be an E-ZPass equivalent for the web. Subscribers add credits to their accounts ($1.00 = 100 or 1,000 credits), and publishers can set the tolls for their content however they want, i.e., 1 credit per article, 5 credits after your 10th article, 1,000 credits for a week on the site, etc.

I'm not convinced that micropayments can't work in combination with other revenue models.
"The bills took more than a decade to develop.." I wonder if they had a dedicated team to work on this for 10+ years.

Meanwhile Mars rovers can be built in less than 5 years. Hilarity.

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-57606401/new-$100-bil...
I would look at CFC laws:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Foreign_Corporation
Follow The White Rabbit
Where is the rabbit hiding?
> However, in my experience they seem to try to vastly simplify many issues by waving their hands and talking about the non-aggression principle as if that automatically solves everything. The truth is, while there may be laws which are unjust, unfair, or plain silly, most of them were created to meet a need or solve a problem.

This is very true, but it doesn't represent the views of all libertarians or even all anarcho-capitalists. For a much better approach to anarcho-capitalism—one that focuses primarily on economics and not on morality—check out David Friedman's writings and talks. Here's a basic introduction to his proposal of a polycentric legal system where the market produces all goods and services including law, law enforcement, arbitration (courts), and even national defense: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYkdEU_B4o. Along with Murray Rothbard's primarily moral/ethical/legal arguments (which seem slightly more prominent, and seem to be the ones you've encountered), Friedman's economic arguments make up the main "branches of anarcho-capitalism."
Thanks philiphodgen, I did not know about form 5471 and I've formed a few startup companies in the UK already - yikes! I should probably talk to a good, low-cost international tax lawyer...if you know of any... admin[at]halfpricedigital.co.uk
I agree. I used to almost always consider giving at least something to a cause I deemed worthy when I was approached by someone soliciting for donations, but now that I can't walk down market street without being harassed. Now I just tend to just shut everyone out as a result.
My point is that Java isn't the new hotness and it's ridiculous to sell it that way.
Piercing Through WhatsApp’s Encryption
There are good use-cases for DRM, for example: http://pastebin.com/VSjCpYxt
Would you mind describing his method of swindling you out of $30K? Surely it wasn't a single transaction... Was it a single credit card? Did he use multiple cards with different names? Or we're they all same name + same address?
This semantic argument has been beaten to death. What's relevant is the actual beliefs of a given group, not their name. If you insisted, you could simply replace "anarcho-capitalism" with "belief-system-x" and carry on with meaningful discussion.
You can see additional video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOqjFa4RskA#t=165
I have to disagree. The potential downside for a flaw in the new bill could be rather catastrophic damage to the economy. The downside of a failure with the Mars rover is that the rover just doesn't work. Thus, it makes sense to be dramatically more conservative in designing a new currency.
Guilloché
I'm not sure the timelines, but is the implication that Mr. Ulbricht is the original DPR (i.e. the libertarian evangelist) and not the one paying for assassinations? If so, then he can probably assist the FBI in finding the "thug" DPR, because he presumably handed control to that person, and may have some amount of corroborating evidence. That would remove the worst charges, and may mitigate sentencing for the other charges. However if Mr. Ulbricht is the one who ordered the assassinations, that is about as far from libertarian as you can get.
Mil-spec handheld runs Android on TI OMAP SoC
Payment gateways all take Skrill or Paypal. Just find one that doesn't charge a minimum fee per month (there's a few left that don't). You sign contracts directly with Paypal and the gateway accepts the payment, then drop it in your Okpay or Latvian account.

I also live around a few Chinese banks that opened in my country. Got an Alipay account through them in a couple of minutes by walking inside and depositing $1000 and showing corporate papers. Alipay is Chinese paypal equivalent but no chargebacks (well.. hard to do chargebacks).

There's also companies like The Currency Cloud. Although I'm not sure if this is against their rules but I used them to receive gateway payments as well.

Also I'm not an American, maybe that's why you had problems. Guess things have changed with the new very strict laws
that's pretty common, HN threads usually get more comments then on the actual site, comments on actual sites usually don't do that good at all
We use SimpleSafe (https://www.simplesafe.net/) which is self-hosted and pretty simple to set up.
Why is it that most HN politicos have nothing useful to say besides, "Be afraid"?
For whatever language(s) you choose to base your course curricula around, you have to have a progression from "hello world" type exercises, to moderately complicated, and on to "go and make a thing"
Ask HN: How to network at Startup School?
For context, this would be my first startupschool. I would like to use this as an opportunity to have meaningful interactions with other attendants.

I read somewhere about people coming up with business cards, networking during breaks and while pre/post parties. If you have attended startupschool before, what did you do? Do you have suggestions?

I came across this group in a related question - https://www.facebook.com/groups/705664592796188/. Are there other groups, twitter lists, meetups being planned?
NIF is explicitly and publicly a weapons research facility; it's right there on their website[0]. If they happen to do some useful scientific or commercial work then yay but it's a nice byproduct.

[0] https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/missions/
Do you mean for internal use only? Wouldn't that be a moot point once it hits the next hop?
How much will they retail at? Any idea?