skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew about it before coming to HN today, so i'd say it's at least minimally notable.
A swirl of other high-level staffing switch-ups also occurred, including a handful of layoffs. Two of the people let go were the remaining co-founders: Vadnais, who essentially invented ThinkGeek, and Frazier, who coined the ThinkGeek slogan: “Stuff for smart masses.”

The idea of being a founder doesn't seem to mean much to them, so I think the scales tip towards the "not entirely surprising" side.
That sounds illegal.

Face, meet palm
You would think that if they are smart enough to figure out you are in the UK and they cannot "profit from you", they would just not show you the Ads.
Amusingly, I went to a meetup with some feds the other day.

Their statutory minimum to investigate is 5k, but they suggested it's worth getting in touch with them either way. If nothing else, it'll give them an excuse to say "cyber" a few more times.
"Moreover, if what he says is true that we are facing real dangers then the government has the obligation, in a free society, to reveal these threats and explain what they are doing about it. "

Could not agree more. To make good decisions as a nation, we need good information. When everything's classified TS/SCI or above, most Americans are denied an accurate description of reality on which to base their decisions and their votes.

Bad guys may do bad things to us regardless of whether their conduct and methods are revealed to all or classified into invisibility. If the NSA revealed everything it knows and does, it would in the near term, wreak embarrassment and economic damage on some parties, but in the longer term would help us craft a better country.

By analogy, nobody would keep money at a bank that couldn't be audited. Why would you entrust your society's core values of privacy to a completely opaque government entity having no independent oversight?
Like most things, it depends on the trade-offs. Who wouldn't want to be a better version of themselves if it can be done safely?

I already take several: creatine monohydrate (5g/day), Vitamin D (4,000 IU/day), fish oil (~1000mg EPA/600mg DHA), caffeine, and probably more that I'm forgetting.
But you can't make any money with encrypted data.
My guess would be ignorance. I don't think the criminal behind this knows what he is doing.

A smarter criminal would have opted for g2.2xlarge instances as well as mining for a currently more profitable coin. Granted he'd need to be careful not to leave a trail, he could essentially trade these coins for LTC and still obtain more litecoins.
Who Rises To The Top? Early Indicators
Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Bob
"These findings could have implications for formula, which could be tweaked to optimize development for both boys and girls."

As the father of a little girl, I find this sentence more ominous than was probably intended. The formula aisle is already overly complex with Regular, Iron Enriched, Omega Enriched, Soy, Low-Lactose, and No Lactose, among the many yogurt sounding ones (pre/macro/post/whatever-biotic).

However, I am worried (perhaps due to cynicism) that instead of rationally simplifying this system, it might be dumbed down to Boy and Girl formula. Though I guess there may be benefits as well. sigh - glad I'll probably be done having kids by then :D
Yes it still does. It's stupid and and I don't know why they didn't fix it. :(
>I know they feel compelled to show some graphic on the page, but they should at least caption the drawing to indicate it's nothing but a guess. I say this because if the Model E looks like that, it wouldn't be a proper Tesla.

What do you mean by "it wouldn't be a proper Tesla."?
I may be wrong, but I believe that's a picture of Tesla's Model X...

At any rate, I'm really excited to see this happen. I wouldn't expect it to be actually available for purchase until 2016-17, but that should still be more than early enough to make my next car a Tesla. Fingers and toes crossed :)
BS, that isn't "placebo" effect. Tried that experiment. Amphetamines are addictive as hell. Sure you can stop taking them but it leaves your neurochemical state in the crapper for a while, so you're down & out (Maybe a withdrawal symptom). IMHO, best not to screw with the brain. It's a fairly complex bit of machinery & you may be wishing you left it at good enough. I know someone who did the electromagnetic stimulation thing, it sounded crazy to me at the time but then actively flooding you bloodstream with crap that will "hack" you brain isn't that far off either
How did Amazon detect your key in the wild? Or did they notice based on usage patterns/activity in your instances?
Nice hyperbolic and knee-jerk slippery slope response, but the complaint seems to be about the mentality of the people attracted to concept of having their employer enable them to quite literally be able to live in their own bubble, with minimal exposure to the outside and 'natives'.
Is SFGate a tabloid?

Step 1: Cherry-pick most extreme comments possible and imply that they represent the average opinion.

Step 2: Make numerous anecdotal assertions without any effort to back them in statistics.

Step 3: Instigate mudslinging by displaying cherry-pickings to other side.

Step 4: Feedback into Step 1.

"Since we don't understand the macroeconomic system that is causing these issues, let's just blame a random group of people who are doing well in said system."
It's heartbreaking to take time and really consider the full cost of addiction in a lifetime
Look at (online, NOT in person) Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia. It's a tragic real-life Hamsterdam. Police only get involved for violent crimes there.
Firefox can store passwords using a master key to unlock it, yet that master key is stored securely (via hashing).

libpurple/Pidgin could absolutely provide a more secure alternative by either using an OS keyring, or following Firefox's approach and requiring the user to type in a master password every time they start the client.
You won't see it in top, it doesn't use enough resources. :p
Yes, then we will end up with a singularity sooner.
Yes there is a pidgin web-client, I can't recall the URL though. Sorry.
Thanks for the kind words, I'm really excited to get this shipped. We've been iterating on a version of this program for a while and we can't wait to see what kind of force multiplier effect there will be when you help developers learn how to teach and support other developers.
The effects of exercise is HUGE! Right foods, in the longer term do have significant effect, but there's nothing quite like getting your heartrate up for a while to work wonders for your brain
An even smarter criminal would have "mined" the Ripple give away using EC2, there are still people paying for those instances as we speak so surely they would be more profitable than litecoin mining (assuming you sell them right away).

https://www.computingforgood.org/

https://ripple.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4382
A "currency" with no adoption.
not so sure about that. when taken in the prescribed doses, amphetamines have no side effects that persist after cessation of treatment. They're among the safest prescribed substances on the planet.

Amphetamines aren't used for creativity. They more accurately could be characterized as "reducing the activation energy for entering (and resuming) the focused state needed for a task".

quitting caffeine by contrast, will cause terrible headaches and a shitty mood for a at least half a week.
If they were truly effective and there were no side effects, I would take them, and not just for work.

There is a slippery slope here: If taking moderately effective drugs with no side effects becomes commonplace, there will be pressure to take more effective drugs with slight side effects, then possibly very effective drugs with considerable side effects. Just like in sports.

In my opinion, this is not something to be afraid of, but something to be aware of, and debated.
A judge that is being presented cherry-picked information from the NSA, and who has no one presenting an opposing argument.
The link I posted notes that 3 of the 7 crashes where Gladwell blames "pilot error" were actually caused by being shot down by the Soviets (x2) and being bombed by the North Koreans (x1). Which pretty much removes the statistical anomaly of Korean airlines having more accidents.
Whatever happened to Steve Ballmer screaming about developers?

Unfortunately it seems like over the years, companies have been providing fewer and fewer hooks into their products and services for developers to take advantage of.
At my company we call them technology high priests for this reason. Almost every religion has priests of one kind of another. This way, we don't offend anyone.
I'd take it if it would increase the success of my startup by a non-trivial percentage.

Performing well at work is no guarantee of earning more money, hence I wouldn't.
I'm not sure a starbucks employee could have afforded to live in SF for the past several years.
Not necessarily. Good chunk of the "enhancers" might not bode well with strenuous exercise. I don't know of anyone who's mentioned an amplification in their abilities by mixing both diet+exercise with neuro enhancers.
Since realistically this conversation never gets off the ground due to the nuclear threat, are there any other countries in the world which have a similarly redundant and "unbeatable" nuclear arsenal?
If you need an office because you can't live together or if there are few team members and it would be more productive to work in the same room you can get an inexpensive office for less than 4 people for a few hundred dollars a month.
Again he is spinning/lying about the word "collecting". Their interpretation of collection is still collecting + looking at it, while the rest of world still interprets collection as collection.
Computing for Good
I recently gave Debian a try and one thing that surprised me, coming from Arch, is that the tool to install software, apt-get, can't list what software has already been installed. You have to use dkpg to get that information.

Even funnier, I found the answer for that on the Arch Wiki page on Pacmac Rosetta:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Rosetta
Isn't that already considered a smart drug by many societies? Experiences with psychedelics are elementary in perspective.
How the “internet of things” will replace the web
> This is the sort of sad comment that continually amazes me.

Frankly, I'm stumped.

There's nothing sad about pointing out that you clearly:

1) Understand the privacy costs associated with Facebook

2) Choose, Yes, Choose to continue using it

What's sad is that you feel it's impossible to continue your social life without it.
I wonder what kind of relationship the answer to this question has with non-stimulated intelligence.

Do smarter people want more to be even smarter? Or do dumb people want more to be smart?
Basic Income Means Basic Freedom
What about Primecoin?
I think it's still merely a meme. There are literally hundreds of "altcoins". This one is only marginally more notable than any of those, and those aren't notable except in aggregate, mostly as an attempt by the founders of the coins to cash in. (There are a few exceptions. Litecoin maybe, Namecoin probably, Peercoin possibly.)

Making a new Bitcoin derivative takes a few minutes. The Dogecoin developers didn't even bother to do a search/replace on the word Bitcoin in the source and documentation in the source. It is a very, very, half-assed fork of the Bitcoin code base (I looked, for a laugh).
That's the typical response. Except that reality doesn't concur. People who stop using Facebook end up excluded from social circles. Not through malice, but because it's harder to be in contact with that one offhand person who Doesn't Even Own A TV--er, sorry, Doesn't Use Facebook. They're sand in the social gears.

(The self-centered prick's response of "then they're not real friends"--which I am addressing because it frequently comes next--willfully ignores that said self-centered prick is making it harder on everyone else to include them. They get excluded because they're being annoying. You have to give to get, and part of your giving is not making everyone else's life difficult because you're frothy about a web company.)

In the U.S. at least, if you have a basic appreciation of people you have formed friendships with over the years, if you value interacting with them over that self-centered Facebook froth, it's not feasible to ditch it. But you can still express a desire for it to improve.
FYI all AWS keys start with AKIA - makes it easy to search for 'em.
This article isn't political, the part he is referencing is satire at best, or irrelevant at worst.

Read the article.
Oh, they certainly do, if powerful enough people complain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

The question is whether the poster is such a person.
FYI the freedom box project had a list of hardware you can buy for this type of thing. It sounds like raspberrypi 's raspbian project isn't really considered a Debian in their eyes, and instead the ones on list run a purer Debian than the pi.

https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware
Sorry to disappoint you, but the rest of America has basically abandoned email and Twitter isn't a serious medium for connections (at least, among non-technical people I know; I have a number of friends who use Twitter on the regular, but only a small few use it meaningfully). If you have friends--especially non-technical ones--who aren't in your local area (or, a lot of the time, aren't in your workplace) Facebook is very frequently the only way to keep in regular touch with most of them.

Network effects matter. That's not sad, that's simply reality. The lock-in effect is real and puts you in a position where, yes, you have to use it unless you wish to move out of contact with people. That doesn't mean you have to like it and it doesn't mean you can't, as the person you sneered at did, express a desire for its improvement.
>> Browsers also use keychains

Google will disagree with you: chrome://settings/passwords
FYI, guy who tried the electromagnetic stimulation had a baby, when I saw him afterwards he always seemed tired. I'm assuming any benefit from the electromagnetic stimulation was negated by lack of sleep... Did not seem to get significantly smarter or anything.
I lump political satire in with politics.
How would you know when?
I have had a long freelance relationship developing for a company that works 9-5.

I usually start the day around when they do, and engage in back and forth communication throughout the day.

I often find it helpful to disengage around 1-2pm and either go outside, go the gym, or work on some other project, and I don't come back until after they have all gone home for the day. Then I get a few more hours of work in before dinner.

Those uninterrupted hours after 5 are usually the most productive.
The exact verbiage on Amazon's website is "Buy movie in HD
1-Click® $$$.$$". Its easy to lecture to the hackernews crowd on the evils of DRM, but do you really think the average consumer understands what they are getting into? Even on the "learn more" pages there is no indication that your content can be stripped from you if a license expires. Using your analogy, I just brought home a pack of bologna and wanted to make a sandwich, but my box was empty on Saturday because the pork farmers said their product can only be consumed on weekdays. If that happens I am 100% going to blame Oscar Meyer AND the pork farmers!
The FBI wasn't involved in Swartz's prosecution, which was considerably easier for the US Attorney by dint of them actually knowing who was behind the incursions.
Maybe. However, caffeine is a moderately effective smart drug with no side effects, and is fairly commonplace. I don't think this causes pressure to take Adderall (more effective, slight side effects).
Pretty sure you're wrong about that.
I am not trying to hide my real name. If you need my ID just ask.
I just checked my EC2 page and have found $45 worth of charges from instances that I shut down weeks ago. Would it have automatically re ordered some if the bidding price dropped below a threshold? When I looked at my management console there were no EC2 instances running. This has turned out to be a very expensive experiment in LTC mining.
The fact that Clapper is still in office months after it was revealed that he had in point of fact lied to congress during sworn testimony should tell you everything you need to know.

The surveillance machinery formerly known as Total Information Awareness is being built and fielded with or without the consent of the governed and most definitely without the consent of those of us who don't happen to be "US Persons".

The only solution is for you to demand your correspondents use strong encryption and for all of us to help the less technically adept to reach the point where that is not an obstacle.
A link with no explanation pretty much guarantees that no one will either.
Well that settles it. Killah911 doesn't know anyone who would do both, ergo there isn't anyone.
"I'd say the terrorists have won."

There is no such thing as 'terrorists'. It is wrong to imagine that there is a group of evil doers [I am an ESL and this expression always cracks me open:)] that is (1) organized and (2) focused on an agenda to harm United States. If you think so then you fell victim of the greatest fallacy pulled by the government.

The deterioration of your way of life is not due to some struggle with imaginary bad people, but due to the evolution of your government, which is becoming more fat, arrogant, detached from reality and self-centric. NSA is a natural spin in such evolution, where you transform from Huxley's Brave New World to an outright 1984.
Shoot, as someone who made the same mistake of leaving my AWS keys in an open source project, I think I narrowly dodged a bullet. I didn't realize this risk was so high. Thanks for this post!
I think it depends on the modules/exam boards.
I was surprised how incredibly difficult that is to set up. Eventually I dead-ended following the instructions when CloudWatch told me there were 0 metrics to choose from for monitoring...
Sure, but for most people even in case 1 you still have to have food, clothing, shelter, etc. Those needs don't disappear just because you want to speculate.

Now you might be able to speculate quite effectively buying when prices are low and living off of your stores when prices are high. But everyone can't do that by definition, so we're saved from case 1 totally throwing a monkey-wrench into the works.
From https://github.com/primecoin/primecoin/wiki/FAQ

"Primecoin network searches for special prime number chains known as Cunningham chains and bi-twin chains. The distribution of these prime chains are not well-understood currently as even for its simplest case twin primes their infinite existence is not proven. The distribution of primes has been one of the most important discoveries in arithmetic, and the study of prime chains traces its lineage to the work of Riemann and prime number theorem, with connections to the deeper nature of the seemingly random pattern of prime distribution. Prime distribution is not just an abstract interest of mathematicians. Riemann's study revealed connections between Riemann zeta function and prime distribution, whereas later on Riemann zeta function has been shown to be highly relevant in other scientific disciplines such as physics, thus the study of prime distribution is an important part of the foundation of modern sciences."
Interesting concept...which got me thinking, are there any Adult sites that use this method of obscuring the image/video until you pay?
Ask HN: Is there any reason to display "Copyright © 20xx" on websites?
A lot of websites, including some of my own, put that notice in the footer.

I do it just because everyone else does — but is there any actual advantage at all to doing so, or is it just "decorative"?
AFAIK caffeine is a diuretic, interferes with sleep, and gives me the shakes at a high enough dosage. I'd consider those things to be side effects. Pushing up against an unacceptable level of side effects is what probably forces most of us to moderate our dosage.
I'm aware of that but that's what people call a hack, don't act like it's not. Python doesn't support abstract classes, period.
Some of these have gigabit ethernet and are pretty cheap

https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware
Edit - replying to deleted comment saying to use a commercial VPN

Alternative for the particularly nerdy brit, who happens to have a cloud instance in the US, and likes to roll their own. Instructions are from a Linux machine, but you can do this with putty too.

1. In Firefox, go Preferences->Advanced->Network->Connection:Settings

2. Manual proxy configuration, set SOCKS host to localhost, socks port to 10000 (ten thousand)

3. Connect to your proxy with ssh and an extra parameter -D localhost:10000

i.e. ssh -D localhost:10000 user@mycloudinstance.com

Your firefox traffic is now tunneled via your cloud instance.
Thanks! That's very nice of you to say. :) It helps a lot when you stumble upon an interesting subject and character.
It says something about San Francisco's housing density and public transportation system that Google needs to create their transportation alternative. It's not that Google employees have "fragile sensibilities" and cannot mix with the rest of the general populace. Rather, it's that everything is spread out and it's difficult to get around using the public transportation system. There are no Google shuttles in NYC because it's more attractive to live closer to the workplace and sufficiently fast to take the existing transportation. The local residents need to accept that high tech workers are there to stay and start solving these problems.
What I want to understand is why this is such a compelling concept that I'd want to blog using it (or read a blog on it) vs all the other options out there. I'm just not seeing the allure.
Hayek is tendentious, but he made substantive contributions to the science. Rothbard didn't even do that: he was a libertarian political activist masquerading as an economist.
Sort of makes sense if you consider the history behind it: dpkg installs software, not apt-get. apt-get, aptitude, etc. are higher-level dependency resolution tools that simply loop in dpkg to actually install packages. dselect is an older tool that did dependencies before apt-get came around.

RPM distros are similar, as they use higher-level tools to do dependencies (yum, zypper, etc.; there was even apt for RPM) and then RPM to actually install the packages and track them.

Admittedly though Debian's command line tools are stuck in the past in this regard, as the user shouldn't need to care about all this. Arch gets this right by putting it all into pacman.
These drugs do exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetam You can get them from India, and I know a number of coders who've taken them to very great effect.

However, there is a very real downside: lack of sleep. I know one guy who went off the fucking deep end with paranoia and deceit after taking this stuff for around a year, non stop. He slept, but not much. From what I can tell of my friends who take these drugs, they're great for the occasional week of crunch, or 48-hour coding binge, but as a daily thing, be very careful to stop and rest your body from the stuff after a week or month.
NSA defused Chinese "BIOS Plot" which could have taken down U.S. economy
To me it seems more like a feature rather than a platform. Can't see why this couldn't be a plugin/service for Wordpress.
Up next: mass production electric flying car rumored to be revealed at the 2049 Detroit auto show... I'm holding my breath...! WTF is going on with announcement about products that are little more than speculation. First the amazon drone thing and now this piece of top notch reporting...

Love Teslas, love macs, but salivating about a product two years out that the company hasn't revealed yet is BS. Model E for economy...