skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but because he opposes a lot of things Americans have bipartisan consensus on. He rejects resl politik, the idea that America needs to intervene aggressively abroad to maintain its interests. Democrats will oppose particular interventions, like Iraq, but as Kosovo and Syria demonstrate, they don't really reject the basic idea of America as the world's police.

He had very different ideas about the division between federal and state power than the mainstream. Americans are more or less over the idea of federalism, as demonstrated by the popularity of Social Security, Medicare, highways, etc. On both sides, they mostly just want the federal government to tell states what to do. So when Ron Paul comes along opposing things like the Department of Education, he gets viewed as wildly out of the mainstream.
You can also use something like blockchain.info for slightly better security than coinbase. They do client-side encryption and decryption of wallets. Of course, if you forget your password, your coins are gone. And blockchain.info could always modify their code to steal your coins later. At least they couldn't steal them without you logging in.

But a thin wallet like Electrum is probably your best bet.
I don't know the answer to that. I do know that conversations which make people feel blamed for something terrible that has happened and which cannot be reversed are disastrous.

I am very familiar with the social factors in suicide. The way I have been treated socially is a big part of why I am often suicidal. I have cystic fibrosis, as does my oldest son. We have figured out how to get well when everyone claims it cannot be done. The world would like us to politely die so doctors and others can feel like they know what they are talking about. I am currently deeply in debt and homeless. I can get almost no one to take me seriously. I feel a bit like Galileo, a prisoner and shunned for speaking the truth about an important discovery. It is the kind of thing other people get Nobel prizes for. But I am an outcast and the world is very content with condemning me to death and putting up obstacles at every turn. So, that is a big part of why I often feel like "what is the point?"

I perhaps made a mistake in returning to HN. I really do not feel welcome here. Plenty of wealthy, influential people here have attacked me or otherwise behaved in a malicious fashion towards me. In the past, it has been okay for people to pillory me here. The community did not care if I got the crap kicked out of me. The rules about "respecting" others and not engaging in personal attacks apparently do not apply so as to protect me. This is hardly unique to HN. It is pretty normal in most online settings.

I am clear that part of the reason for that is that people who are very ill or who have loved ones who are very ill are deeply hurt by the idea that I am getting well when they are not. Trying to share information with them is routinely interpreted as making them look stupid and shaming them, even in cases where the ill person still lives and could yet be helped.

So I have spent a lot of years wrestling with how to diplomatically talk about hard subjects, my health being just one of them. And long experience informs me that speaking of this issue in a manner which could make the OP feel somehow at fault for his brother's death cannot bring his brother back but can do all kinds of harm to him and others involved in the situation.

I am unwilling to suggest that the OP could or should have done x, y, or z differently and then his brother "would" still be alive. We do not know the particulars of this case and that is the worst kind of Monday night quarterbacking imaginable.

I hope the OP's intent to have his brother's death not be in vain serves to get people talking and helps others. It is too late to help his brother. It is not too late to do serious damage to him and others by how we talk about this.

Anyway, I have a headache. I logged in to find my last submission to HN dead. I am not in the best place emotionally myself today.

I hope that helps/sorry if it is TMI (something I am often accused of).
http://www.browserstack.com, while still fairly specialized, gets you part of the way there.
>I wonder if there's an opportunity in creating "Windows as a Service?"

I think Amazon Workspaces is trying to do something similar to that. http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/
A (maybe) small but passionate segment of the population.

I doubt it's as small as you think. He won Iowa (although that wasn't made clear until after the elections). He did well in several of the caucuses.

Watching Ron run for president opened my eyes to the vote corruption that takes place in our country. Especially in the caucasus.

One example I recall is how Ron was clearly going to win a caucus and so the majority of the other republicans decided to group together so that votes could vote for a coalition instead of letting Ron win. That was strange. (This was in 2008, I forget the state).

Then, in Nevada, where Paul won the majority of the delegates, Romney supporters formed their own state party, called “Team Nevada”. The RNC then bypassed the official state party in order to organize for Romney and send all funds to Team Nevada.

In Maine, they cancelled the vote due to a snowstorm, when only 84% of the votes were counted and Romney was leading by 200 votes. Of course, they never counted Washington county, which was Paul's strongest in 2008.

The point is, the corruption is never ending. For that reason, you really have no idea how many people support Ron Paul (and the ideas of the constitution) if you are guessing from votes and media reports.

In fact, perhaps spending a lot of time around Paul, Romney conceeds several times that Ron Paul is actually popular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx1JWMr5cVk
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Why "no extradition"? Would he risk anything penal? If bitcoins are not money he may risk just a fine.
that's just incredibly asinine.

Vanderbilt
Duke
UNC
Rice
Georgia Tech
Virginia Tech
University of Virginia
That's a partial list.

PLACES TO BE FEARED! It's legitimately damaging to the American South to perpetuate stereotypes like this. It makes smart people want to leave, or never go in the first place. I've lived in Memphis Tennessee for my entire life and I can guarantee you that it would be a better place if people didn't spew closed minded horse-shit like this.
The NT Kernel is quite good.
Very good. This excessive and paralysing worry used to affect me and I still got some. Very real mistake.
That's fair. 'Shame' is a bit harsh, really. 'Would write differently today' would be better, but doesn't roll off the tongue as easily :)
Just a thought, isn't putting your criminals through your jail system at least partly to blame for your high level of homicide? I mean, I'm no expert but it would seem that if you brutalise people for infractions, then release them into a society that will not now employ them but has lots of guns, that perhaps it might make life a bit more dangerous for everyone?
You need to look into Bill Gates. He's a known eugenicist. If you look at what he's doing using his foundation from a eugenicist viewpoint...would you still think he's wonderful? He's pushing technology to limit human overpopulation.
Downloaded it and I am really enjoying the app. Keep up the good work.

Just a comment on one thing of interest which I ran into upon first messing around with the app... While moving my fingers about, the four and five finger gestures kept taking me out of the app and into the next in my multitasking queue. I did not know until now that these gestures even existed. But, I know now that I can turn such gestures off in the general settings.

I wonder if an app is allowed to automatically disable/enable these gestures for a user upon entering and exiting the app. Could be useful for music apps such as this.
From my understanding of the malleability issue, couldn't you have vendor withdrawals that get sent, but then not verified by the Silk Road system? Where the original transaction gets rejected due to the modified one getting accepted by the network? So then the Silk Road internals would assume it just didn't go through and not deduct it from the vendor's internal balance, allowing the vendor to repeatedly withdraw as long as they just withdrew their whole balance and modified the transaction each time?
i'm assuming if dealers know who he is then dea, atf, or whoever would get to him first.
as an in-app purchase, or free update, lol
SR1 was a criminal enterprise as well, and there's no indication DPR was stealing from his users. Trust is at least as valuable in the criminal world as it is in legitimate enterprise, if not more so. A criminal who runs a trustworthy criminal enterprise is likelier to do well in the long run than one who rips off his customers.
While I agree with you, this does not actually mean Bitcoin can handle needless spam.
I knew I heard it before!

From the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsXjI6BhMV8
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I have always hated social media buttons. What surprised me about them was how everyone thought you needed them. There is also poor metrics for them, on your own site (or a client's site) there is really poor visibility on who has clicked those links. You would think that if they were that valuable people would at least know who clicked them but they don't.

Also the craft of redesigning the buttons annoys me. How many designer-years have been spent redesigning the Twitter bird? This activity completely goes against basic UX principles but you cannot tell designers the truth about that.

Remember page counters? I think a 'Predator vs Aliens' style sequel to social network buttons is needed where you can see x million people have viewed this page but 0 people have shared it on StumbleUpon...
until you have proof its all just speculation. there are many possibilities.
I did this for compliance reasons (needed disk encryption and my CPU is too slow for full-disk), but it turned out to be really handy regardless. You can't turn off fast user switching using X on Linux systems, but it hasn't been a problem for me; I just close my personal mail client.
> Of course Snowden has assisted al Qaeda. It's ridiculous to argue otherwise.

That's definitely the official party line but there's no reason to believe it's true. For a decade before his death there was a constant stream of news stories talking about how he and other top al Qaeda leaders used disposable phones, had trusted family members hand-courier messages, used code/slang to make messages harder to understand, changed locations frequently, etc. because they knew that the US had the ability to intercept their messages, as did anyone who had read a newspaper or watched a movie made in the last few decades.

The only news in the Snowden leaks was that these capabilities were being used on such a wide scale and that the NSA was willing to weaken everyone's security to make such large-scale wiretapping earlier. That came as a surprise to many in the tech industry because it was both risky and unnecessary for traditional targeted intercepts but it shouldn't have been for anyone who'd been paying attention in the 90s when things like the Clipper chip or other mandated government key access schemes.
There is a huge moral difference between the sort of victimless-crime-contraband that is on SR (especially since SR1 at least, not sure about SR2, actively filtered out child porn, weapons, assassinations and all of the other truly scary things that you can potentially sell on an anonymous market), and stealing millions of dollars from people at least a few of whom are dependent on substances and desperately need the money to get them in time.

Also, it hasn't really happened yet, but vigilantes.
Natural gas vehicles worse for climate than diesel ones
If execution is everything Editorially had a pretty stellar group of folks with proven track records executing, and are still shutting the doors because of a lack of paying customers. Execution is important, but so is the market for a product.

A one-person shop obviously has fewer bills to pay, but also a much shallower pool of talent (no matter how talented the one person is) to pull from for executing.

Keep HN updated on your progress. It’s an interesting case study of two approaches.
You're contradicting yourself. If the FBI files aren't unsealed, how do you know what's in them?
Scientists know how smart they are, and assume that programming is mainly about being smart. But it's not -- it's much more of a learned skill to become a really good programmer. It's something you have to focus on and respect as a goal in and of itself, not just something any smart person can muddle through on logic and intuition.
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I wouldn't call this "wild west". Regular banks experience much worse thefts, and pretty regularly.
So this DaaS is supposed to be accessed through an HTML5 client. I wonder if this will nudge Amazon into developing a web client (maybe coinciding with the end of the limited preview) as well so their similar DaaS product (WorkSpaces)[1] can compete with VMWare for the Chromebook market. At the moment, WorkSpaces supports Mac, Windows, iPad, Android, and Kindle Fire [2].

[1]: http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/
[2]: http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/details/#desktop-and-mobile...
It's quite fascinating, in lights of the idelogical bunfights over kdbus, systemd, and Wayland which are plaguing the Linux world, to look at what the designers of Linux did as a followup: binary IPC is baked in. Everything is a file. And so on.
I've gone back to making my own Bread. It started off as a hobby and I really got into artisan slow bread making.

And there is is Subway and it's chemical lased bread. http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/06/health/subway-bread-chemical/
The financial industry is just as insecure if you hold actual cash.

The solution the industry has is not to hold cash.

Since no one has money, and all the banks have insurance, they just reverse the transactions in 90% of cases, and in the other 10, like ATM fraud, use insurance. But seriously, go to a bank and try to withdraw $90K in cash.

Also, if you make off with 90K in cash the finance industry has people with guns to go and get the cash back.
Silk Road 2.0: Lost Escrow Funds returned
It's quite accurate as an approximation though, is it not? Genetic abnormalities are just that, abnormalities.

I fully support equality, but... if I said "Humans have five fingers on each hand", would you disagree and declare "clearly humans have no defined number of fingers on each hand, as every now and again a human is born with four or six fingers on a hand"? I don't personally care how many fingers you have, but it seems pretty clear to me that is a biological accident, and does not refute the notion that "Humans have five fingers".
Satoshi did anticipate that DDoS would be a major problem for BitCoin, which is essentially what this is.
There are two potential issues with the malleability. One is the MtGox problem where you might not realize a transaction was successful and you are duped into sending the money twice.

The second issue is a bug that was discovered in the reference client where if you try to spend coins you sent to yourself before they are confirmed a bug in the wallet causes your balance to be off.

Neither problem inherently allows theft but if you aren't careful the first can open your to social engineering. The reason they are calling this a dos as far as I can tell is because they are preventing you from spending your money until the bug is fixed with the accounting in the reference wallet.

SR2 is probably full of crap but there is a small possibility that they some how automated re-sending of failed transactions w/o properly accounting for malleability in which case you might be able to steal a multiple of the actual amount of money in your account over a few days. The sheer size of this though would make me skeptical of that scenario.
100%, although I wish we talked more about the challenge of determining that someone is suicidal.

I will add that most people who are suicidal will "tell" you. They often talk about suicide, though they may then claim it is a joke. It usually is not. If someone frequently says things like "I wish I were dead", you should take that seriously, basically.
The "hack" would involve withdrawing money, changing the hash of the transaction and then complaining that the transaction didn't go through. This was done through the support channels on Mt. Gox etc but technically could have been an automated system on silk road 2. Not likely though.
That is why they never used Dylan, Lisp, SELF or any other dynamic language with native compilers.
> especially since SR1 at least, not sure about SR2, actively filtered out child porn, weapons, assassinations

Except for when they needed those things.
Some underpaid employees do like to take matters in their own hands.
I was done with them at least 2 years ago. There 're two kind of visitors on a website, one who would share it, and other who won't. Former would still share it if there are no buttons. Hence there is no point.
Looks like 88,000 BTC were stolen, much more than originally reported.

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/02/13/silk-road-2-0-has-...
This isn't a great answer, but I think I owe you an honest one. Our marketing department wants to be able to throw the "please put your email here if you want" form up before a download. We are trying to find a way to reconcile our sales/marketing goals with what we know are our fellow engineers' needs and we hope to make downloads easier in the future. Providing packages at all, over just a single binary tarball, is a step in the right direction, I think.

For now the best I can do for you is tell you that if you email me I can hook you up. Short of that, if you search twitter for "severalnines wget" you can find a wget hack that achieves the result you want.
I always wondered why hand-optimized Assembly wasn't in the list of competing languages. That would be good as a baseline.

Otherwise people might get the impression that C is the "speed of light" as far as program speed is concerned.
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Well, there's liquor store robberies every day. Same idea, just a smaller scale. :-)
At least in the US, the fact that a contract states it is governed by the laws of a particular state doesn't mean that you have to actually go to court in that state. For instance, the lawsuits between SCO and IBM, and SCO and Novell were heard in Utah, although in some cases New York or Delaware law applied (because some of the contracts involved had choice of laws provisions).

For what it's worth, the chance that a random US judge will apply another state's laws correctly, or even coherently, is pretty slim.
A criminal who runs a trustworthy criminal enterprise is likelier to do well
in the long run than one who rips off his customers.

Sure, yet it happens all of the time. Not everyone is logical and forward thinking, and sometimes they just want a big score.
> Desktop as a Service (DaaS)

Someone had to be laughing when they typed that. At this point *aaS is just overused that I don't know how anyone typing another instance of it could be serious.
I don't think that everyone should learn to code. That's pretty idealistic and far fetching idea. I can get behind "Everyone Should Understand Basics of Computer Behavior" or something like that (there's probably a proper phrase/name for that).

I'll explain it with following example:

You know how sometimes if you're "good with computers" your relatives or friends might ask you to help with some application? That's where "Understanding of Computer Behavior" helps. You don't have to know every single application - and you can't, but by knowing fundamentals of computer behavior you can deduce what you need to do to accomplish required task.

Maybe that's not even a separate ability, but good old logic?
Last I checked, jilted drug dealers don't follow extradition
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We don't know that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud
I suspect bandits.
4,474 BTC ~= $2.7 million
The first time South Park was submitted to the ratings board 5 times, it got an NC-17 (to wit: patently adult material, a rating assured to destroy revenue). Then, with nothing more than a name change (the arguably far more vulgar South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut) the rating was changed to a much more market-pleasing R. Sometimes getting approval just takes a well-placed phone call amounting to "c'mon, people, don't be stupid about this."
New Client API Model in Google Play Services
what if one of his buddies had hijacked his account as a joke?
A couple of the things he considers to be the federal government trampling states rights are actually the federal government stopping the states from trampling individual rights.

For instance, according to the Supreme Court, the states are bound by the part of the First Amendment that prohibits the establishment of religion or restricting the free exercise of religion.

Paul thinks that establishment of religion or restricting the free exercise of religion should be a state issue. He tried two or three times to introduce federal legislation that would have stripped the federal courts (including the Supreme Court) from hearing cases in this area, which would de facto make that part of the First Amendment no longer apply to state and local government.

He has a similar belief in regard to the privacy rights that the Supreme Court has found implicit in the Constitution. His bills that tried to gut the First also strip federal jurisdiction over any case involving a right of privacy.

If his bill had passed, it would have actually made it legal for states to establish or restrict religions, and it would have brought back into force sodomy laws, bans on birth control, and other such laws that were found Unconstitutional due to violating privacy rights.

Most states, I believe, have prohibitions against establishment of religions, or restrictions on the free exercise of religion, so the damage would be limited in that regard. The first state everyone thinks of is Utah, thinking it would establish Mormanism as the state religion, but Utah is one of the states whose Constitution has a clause similar to the First Amendment. Texas could be a problem. It has a provision in its Constitution that holders of political office must acknowledge the existence of a God, and so in theory an atheist would not be able to legally hold office in Texas if Paul had his way.

Edit: here was one of his bills on this: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.958.IH:

Note that HN's URL recognition misses the last character, so you'll need to add it manual, or copy/paste, rather than just clicking.
IMHO, that looks a little bit confusing, javascript or coffeescript are not lisp. But still i will give it a shot.
The mythology of obesity, or mythology of Gary Taubes?
In the about page there's a list of JS libs - are you using PhoneGap or similar to package it as an iOS app? What was your experience with the audio API?

Truly original, well implemented concept. Neat.
firewire / thunderbolt DMA access was fixed many years ago: if you enabled a firmware password, those buses have DMA disabled.
9 years ago I went to Russia, and for the first time I had Russian white bread. Wow! What a delicious bread! They follow the same basic recipe as the French, flour, water and yeast, but they bake them in the traditional blocky loaf shape with the curved top. In North America I won't touch white bread unless it is genuine French or Italian baking. But even then it is not as delicious as Russian bread. I remember thinking that if this is what they feed people in the Gulag on bread and water, it isn't as bad as I imagined.

Kudos to these scientists and lets hope that they can grow a movement for better wheat, grown for the people who eat it, not for agribusiness interests.
Pretty much the same.