skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was actually a little bit sobering for me. I thought the AI techniques they use were much more general, autonomous and independent of map data. I didn’t know that location information of traffic signs, pavement etc. are taken from map data. But it makes sense to prefer data from most reliable sources.
I'm only against violence and attacking police, not peaceful protests or civil disobedience. At this point, going home is the only way to get out of a situation that turned violent.
From the BBC article: ''The authorities said the pair were engaged in a scheme to sell more than $1m (£603,000) in bitcoins to users of online drug marketplace the Silk Road.''

This is ridiculous! Please tell me how selling Bitcoin to someone is illegal? What that person does with the Bitcoin they acquire not the responsibility of the exchange. This smells like another case of gvt scare tactics to protect the bankers and their out-dated & thieving business models. Anyone remember liberty exchange ?
From reading the complaint; it seems that the BTCKing guy was advertising his services on Silk Road and was active on the forums. Which means that he was knowingly violating the laws on money transmission and specifically the know your customer aspects.

It's pretty clear that in the not too distant future it will be illegal to not make a good faith effort to identify anyone you are selling bitcoins to.
Denmark has separate paved bike streets out in the middle of the countryside! I sure wish the road systems in the United States were more bike friendly.

http://randomstreetview.com/#xqgi5_5um0z_64_d_-7
Yes, that was precisely my point.

We are at version 9.1 of version 10.
Well, since they were arrested for "money laundering" it can easily be generasiled to any Bitcoin exchange...
The rules in this case are "don't enter into a drug based money laundering business", which is allegedly what went on here. It's certainly not new or obscure.
I agree with you, especially because I rarely LOOK at the light-switch I'm flipping. Even at a friend's apartment, which of the switches I need to flip when entering the bathroom is a muscle memory task now.

More importantly, the floorplan lightswitch (at least from my reading of this short piece on it) doesn't have a nice way to handle multiple sets of lights interlaced with each-other on the same physical area. Experimentation with which switch on a boundary of two rooms that you need to flip is cheap.

Where experimentation takes longer is where the floorplan switch fails too. I immediately think to a gymnasium that had a huge bank of light-switches, for things like overhead fans, exhaust fans, lights that would take 15 minutes to warm up (don't want to accidentally shut those off!), secondary low lighting for when the main lighting is warming up and each of those would have up to 4 switches for different sections of the gym. The answer was text labels. Super easy, super simple. That's a pathological case, but business space has this problem, and multiple switches for single rooms is common enough in homes too.

It seems like the floorplan idea could be incorporated as a set of graphical map-based labeling on physical switches themselves. Anybody who knows the room relies on muscle memory, everyone else can use labels. And because the labels themselves aren't the active surface, they can be more specific that a touch sized button allows. Touching a kitchen on the map might be a lot of light at night, a switch underneath a picture of the kitchen that has the recessed lighting higligted wouldn't.
This is certainly good for games and similar multimedia heavy type apps.

However, if you're using C++ for portability for any sort of non-realtime needs you've lost your marbles, and would be better off with JavaScript (no, really) and/or platform specific code to leverage the class libraries of the respective platforms. C++ heavy apps on Android are larger, use more memory, and load less quickly. This isn't obvious if you're used to other worlds, but it is a side effect of how pervasive Dalvik is on the system. Even if most of your app code is in C++ it's still easy to get screwed by a GC pause caused by where you have to interface with the framework.

Much of the underlying problem here is that speed-wise Dalvik just isn't very good. It wasn't even competitive with J2ME VM performance when it first appeared, and took a long time to get close.

With all that said, native debugging has been a sore point forever, and any improvement in that area is welcome.
Here are a couple of links that support your opinion. Unfortunately most people here might not be aware that western media is quite biased.

http://orientalreview.org/2014/01/24/coup-in-western-ukraine...

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2014/01/libya-syria-and-now-ukr...

Dear fellow hackers, media is "The Matrix" regardless it's from democratic western countries , or Russia, China, North Korea. Ironically most western people believe they have know more truth because their journalists are independent. It's quite deceptive.
Matter is made of more than protons. That's why some people say atoms and electrons.
Where does it say that they used it for personal wealth laundering? As far as I can tell it was only for providing a service for purchasing BTC anonymously with cash.

It seems to be that BitInstant CEO sold BTC to a known Silk Road BTC dealer, who was aware of what the BTC was being used for.
The USG chose the option that killed the fewest innocent civilians.

That is an enormously presumptive statement that you're not qualified to assert. It's so big I'm fairly sure it's wrong; the probability is very much against it. Tens of thousands of innocent civilians have been killed in "preemptive" wars the US started post 9/11.

Even taking US air strikes alone, the kind of operations that the US has been engaged in radicalizes people, and they'll be motivated for decades to come.

The only way your statement approaches truth could be if you assume that only US civilians matter, but even then I don't think it'll be true in the long term.
This is really solid advice. Here's the Archimedes reference in case you didn't remember it immediately like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(word)
> Scratches? Seriously? It's in a data center. Who cares?

Seriously.

You're talking about people who are specifically buying Mac Pros. You're talking about a product heavily marketed based on aesthetic. If you don't care about the Mac Pro and are buying purely based on performance, why limit yourself to the Mac Pro when you can purchase a rack mountable unit customized to your preferences without paying a huge premium for the hardware?

Just because the unit is in a data centre doesn't mean that the owner doesn't want it treated with care, nor does it mean that they won't want it back in their personal possession -- scratch free.
Not that this will particularly help you, but if anyone else has the same question about Rails:

* http://www.johnhenryrails.com [1]

* http://www.railsbricks.net

* http://railsapps.github.io/rails-composer/

Full disclosure: I'm the author of the [1]
Speculating, but I imagine it has to do with US requirements on financial transaction reporting. Financial institutions and securities traders have certain requirements on which transactions and activity they report.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering#The_role_of_fi...

A bank must verify a customer's identity and, if necessary, monitor transactions for suspicious activity. This is often termed as "know your customer". This means knowing the identity of the customer and understanding the kinds of transactions in which the customer is likely to engage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering#Preventive

These laws, contained in sections 5311 through 5332 of Title 31 of the United States Code, require financial institutions, which under the current definition include a broad array of entities, including banks, credit card companies, life insurers, money service businesses and broker-dealers in securities, to report certain transactions to the United States Treasury. Cash transactions in excess of US$10,000 must be reported on a currency transaction report (CTR), identifying the individual making the transaction as well as the source of the cash.
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http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus79-selling-work-home-or...

FTC makes rules, not laws. That is a important distinction, and the Courts determine where the rules are consistent with the pre-existing laws.
"Each defendant is charged with conspiring to commit money laundering, and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business."

Does that answer your question? It's far from ridiculous.
Silk Road isn't too big to fail.
No he was not, it was an spontaneous explosion
> So if you're creating software programs in your spare time and your job description includes writing software programs, then the potential is that you wouldn't have a claim on them (although it depends on how closely the outside work is aligned to the work duties by the looks of things).

"Creating software programs" seem infinitely broad though, almost to the point of abstracting physical labor down to the "builds things with tools" level.

At the same time, I doubt that a carpenter, under UK law, would have to give up the house that he built in his spare time to the company that he works for, right? How does this not extend to software?

I've seen agreements before that attempted to lay claim to all work that you have done in the past and all work that you will do in the future. At the very least, I think that those are not enforceable.
I suggest you read the e-mail exchanges in the indictment, for example starting on page 15: http://www.scribd.com/doc/202555785/United-States-vs-Charles.... There is a huge difference between having controls that were too weak to catch money laundering activity in Mexico, and the CEO deliberately bypassing money laundering controls in order to sell BTC to Silk Road users.

The indictment in HSBC is full of stuff like "HSBC ignored government recommendations that Mexico be treated as a high-risk area instead of a medium-risk area..." This indictment has deliberate, knowing activity on the part of Shrem that, as the e-mails indicate, even he thinks is illegal.
Two Charged in Alleged Bitcoin-Laundering Scheme
Yes. Check Ukraine.
If you are storing individual views in a DB, it will not be random, as there are far too many to store.
If you're trying to avoid taxes and do shady stuff with your money, eyeah. You're going to have a bad time.
I do feel like my company deserves my best hours. That is why I take into consideration what's going on at work when doing this. If I feel like I can put in an hour and still be fresh for work, then I'm ok. If work is really draining and I need all the energy I can get, I back off on my personal stuff.
I struggle with this, but have gotten somewhat better at it. The biggest thing is to just keep iterating and trying different things. You'll start to get a sense of what looks 'good'.

This is an alternative to finding a creative designer.
Just a heads up for those not accustomed to Russian propaganda - in Russia and neighbor countries Russia wages a massive propaganda war against EU and currently it's largest target is EuroMaidan. Their purpose is to put as much dirt on the protesters as possible. The propaganda is especially active in internet comments and forums. They often make long and semi written in advance post with link to Russian government controlled sources to sound more legitimate.

Source: I am from a country neighbor to Russia.
It is the literal definition of money laundering dude. If you purchased something illegally with some currency or good or service with the intention of converting that currency, good or service into a different currency, that's called money laundering and it's illegal.
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Add to that that the starting bit depth was 1 vs 24 bits today (you miss the factor of 24). The memory was expensive then.
I did 5 years for money laundering under 18 USC 1956(a), and I don't even know how to launder money. Sometimes they choose to charge you with money laundering because they can't actually catch you for another crime. Other times they choose money laundering because it carries a higher sentence than the underlying crime.
Scientists watch glowing molecules form memories in real time
I am convinced regarding Bits, but the case against Bytes wasn't persuasive.
Would you dare to go to Lvov these days and speak Russian there, your native language?
Blocked by WebSense at my work. "Potentially Damaging Content." :(
>drug based money laundering business

No ambiguity there!
>This is ridiculous! Please tell me how selling Bitcoins to someone is illegal? What that person does with the Bitcoins they acquire not the responsibility of the exchange.

You know that it's illegal for actual banks to assist in money laundering right?

Money has to pass through specific channels and be exposed to specific checks to be wired from country to country (in some countries even from person to person after a certain amount).

Else you're liable to be caught for assisting in money laundering.

So, yes, if you help people to move money, you can be held liable for what they're doing with it.
Its very beautiful, but that's in Wales.
A trial in absentia would have been preferable to a fiat killing, but the end result would have been the same. The US had no means of apprehending al-Awlaki because he had situated himself in a war zone controlled by AQAP. The trial would have concluded, and the US would have faced the same 3 choices.

You make a good point, but not one that fundamentally changed the options on the ground.
I think in the micro-donations theme, I much rather have a steady source instead of bounties for features, like with Gittip[1].

The pledge idea seems cool tho. Might make some necessary features come out faster.

[1] https://www.gittip.com/
Your sources don't support your narrative. What they are claiming is that you have a presence of violent right-wing elements among the protesters, in some non-determinate numbers, and that they are organized. Point taken. G8 demonstrations features Black Block elements with depressing regularity. Are G8 demonstrations also an attempt at a coup by Black Block supporters?
"and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business"
http://bnowire.com/inbox/?id=2158

And they reveal the hand they'll use to shut it all down.
It is however not needed as the wattage is also available.
This seems a bit ridiculous considering the half a TRILLION dollars that were laundered for drug cartels by the American bank Wells Fargo.

Am I missing something?
It’s quite banal, but it always baffles me that everywhere something is happening at the same time. A wast complexity which we can only make sense of because it all works according the same principles. People build roads, houses, raise families and eventually die. Isn’t there a word for this feeling?
The article is extremely poorly edited, but I wouldn't worry because at the moment the only primary source is the press release at the bottom.

Interestingly, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara refers to Bitcoin as being "a new form of currency" and "like any traditional currency" in the context of money laundering. I think we can take this as a clue that this is the stance the prosecution intends to take.
Read the complaint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/202555785/United-States-vs-Charles...

The e-mails are bad.
Love it. Could be the source for some interesting social activities.
Selling Bitcoin isn't illegal, and the indictment actually says something to that effect. What got Shrem in trouble was conspiring with BTCKing to deliver him Bitcoins that bypassed BitInstant's anti money laundering controls, for the specific purpose of facilitating illegal activity on Silk Road.
What does the big 64 KiB ROM chip ?
Obligatory XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/538/
Coinmkt Using E-Trade to Move Funds to Digital Currency Exchange
So basically, Amazon is making new businesses so efficient, they're putting old businesses out of business. So if you're an old business, you should avoid using Amazon's tech to be more like a new business, because...Amazon might someday compete with you and put you out of business? Somehow this does not seem like sound business decision making.
The people know that, and the reason they fight for Ukraine to at least in future join EU is because, as they say themselves, in EU at least the laws are valid. And that is true. It has been already stated that in order for Ukraine to join EU it will have to undergo a reform that will rise the transparency and bring it closer to EU standards.
Interesting that they charged them with the money transmitting and laundering charges. I suspect it is hard to get someone indicted for just trading in coin since to the average lay person that probably seems like baseball collector cards or something.
Right. But in Norman's original description there was a significant emphasis on the horizontal orientation:

the switches should be placed on a horizontal plane
I'm not outraged at the NSA. Not really sure how you read it in my original comment.
Implying that Amazon have missed the whole neutron market. An opportunity perchance?
Interesting though HG Wells arguably produced the first "wargame" with little wars published in 1913. And even in the USA Fletcher Pratt and Jack Scruby predate Tactics

Will defiantly have to see if I can get a copy as i am sure my war-gaming club woudl enjoy it.
I see no reason to implement any of that in Javascript
Ask HN: Stop Using My Pics Without My Permission
Are there any services that scan the web to see if people are using pics of you without your consent?
We had a similar situation in Republic of Moldova in 2009, an ex-USSR country near Ukraine, a so called twitter-revolution, one of the first of them. [1]

We are much smaller and less population but the tactics used in Ukraine reminds me of the events Moldova but on a bigger scale.
So called "titushki" are the instigators that are infiltrating among peaceful protesting population with the intention to compromise the entire movement and to discredit the protest.

Students were tortured by the police for months after the protests begun. Students that participated in the protests were kidnapend from the dormitory. [2] Those slides of Ukraine are not at all surpising.

Protesters killed to death, at least 4. Valeriu Boboc, 23 year old who was also a father was killed after the protests ended http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Moldova_civil_unrest#Death...

I must say, the tactics of the instigators were very effective in our country. The result was burning of the house of parliament [3]. All the blame was on protesters, it basically discredited the protesters calling them vandals and thefts (as some of them have stolen some furniture). We believe that instigators and the police who gave up surprisingly easy were cooperating, and that they burned up and destroyed documents from parliament themselves.

I'm very glad that in Ukraine they are better prepared. I have very much sympathy with the protesters in Ukraine as the Russian influence in the region is still very much present. Russian is still defending it's interests and it makes us angry.
You must understand that a country very rich in petrol and all kind of minerals have a great deal of influence when massively sponsoring parties of their interest and putting pressure with their own army in Transnistria that they left after collapse of USSR. [4]

* * *

There is also a big problem with russian population that stayed on our territory and continue to have the USSR values. And more of all, they continue to believe that they don't need to learn the local language. It's a mess. That's why it's so much fight between populations and shady people profiting of this situation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Moldova_civil_unrest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Revolution

[2] http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR59/003/2009/en/cf...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/04/07/world/0407-MOLDO...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria
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I have a gigantic difference in execution time between the two.
Also, you can have the same behavior importing contextlib.closing;

from multiprocessing import Pool
from contextlib import closing
with closing(Pool(15)) as p
p.map(f, myiterable)

takes <30 sec vs

from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor as Pool
with Pool(15) as p
p.map(f, myiterable)

that takes > 1min.

whereas ProcessPoolExecutor hangs, and I've no clue why.
Can we go by city? PLEASE. I think you could charge something for this. Maybe a one-time fee.
Freshbooks is not bootstrapped.
Thanks for the comment Kyle. We really struggled with this, so hopefully people can learn from our mistakes
Would you mind sharing some more details? What did you do? And how did they turn that into money laundering?
It's called being an accessory to a crime. It's not a new concept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term)

If you ask me to front up some money for you to buy some drugs, I'm an accessory to your drug transaction. Similarly, if I sell you some Bitcoins and I know that you're going to go and buy drugs with them...well, you get the idea.
http://randomstreetview.com/#slideshow
This seems to me like the US government is just getting started regarding Bitcoin exchanges. Government authorities always move slowly, and usually go after the most egregious cases first. This reminds me of the US arrests that occurred regarding overseas poker sites when their executives got pulled off a plane that was making a stopover in the US en route to Central America. This sort of thing does make you wonder if any Bitcoin exchanges and their employees can ultimately avoid US charges of money laundering?
I'm guessing they only wanted one Linux distro.

As a CentOS fan I hate to say it, but for a "normal" user, I'd go for Ubuntu too.
I'm ashamed I didn't know about Timothy Hart, given the foundational work he's done. Glad Fogus wrote this.
If my understanding is true, then bitcoin isn't really relevant here. They could have been selling hand written money tokens to people that they then used to pay their drug dealer with. The allegations are about intent and money laundering.

If this is all as presented, this is good for bitcoin. The fact that a criminal has been caught is good. The fact that they were using bitcoin to commit their crime makes it doubly good they were arrested as it reflects badly on the community.
Yup, that is an awesome tale.
I also wake up at 5am on busy days before deadline, so I have two hours more to work without interrupting. Of course, I have to get to bed earlier, but my evenings are absolutely free. It really works.
imgur is a great service, but theirs is not really the kind of example an aspiring bootstrapper can follow.

"become the defacto image platform for reddit" makes you an outlier in the bootstrapping world I think. I think it's just much more useful to look at examples where the model is reusable - make B2B software for a specific market, and charge money for it.
I'm guessing we'll find out that the government thinks they were somehow specifically and knowingly facilitating money laundering for the silk road to hide drug trade profits. Again, thats just a guess.

If they specifically sought out the users or owners of the Silk Road and told them they could convert their bitcoin to dollars anonymously, than thats a little different than if they were just operating a regular exchange that regular investors use.
Ah yes, the Open Web, brought to you by MS, Google, Apple, Mozilla, and Op^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H. Remember, if there's anything you don't like about their decisions, you can change things just by starting your own web brower and getting your first hundred million users.
Tracking via 3rd party cookies and E-Tags, plus HTTP Referers as codeonfire said. There's also just the obvious risk of compromise, resulting in millions of sites running malicious code.