skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my immediate reaction as well.

But upon further contemplation, maybe there was more wisdom behind donning the name Dread Pirate Roberts than Ulbricht realized. Power is a corrupting influence, and theres the old saying about what happens to those who fight monsters.

But ultimately, such corruption was his downfall, and delivered him into FBI custody. Now theres not only a new DPR, but a slew of new Silk Roads to replace him.
Ask HN: What would you want in a new VPS company?
What sort of things would you want or expect from a new VPS provider, like Digital Ocean or Linode?
Im considering heading to SF in the near future as well...might even be heading there with a couple other bootstrapping startups if we can all get the money together....would love to hear about your experience if you're willing to share it once you get back.

Thanks
As a 29, unemployed, native french man, this shows perfectly how france has many examples of over-regulations. I'm currently doing driving lessons, the unemployment institution, pole emploi paid for 90% of the cost. It cost something like 30 or 50 euros per hour. It's crazy when you think how important transportation is in a developed country.

I'm usually for socialism in general, but not if it completely hinders the economy and reduce opportunity, and sets in monopolies.

The government recently did a study, and it showed that small but important local businesses like pharmacists, bakeries, notaires (civil law notaries), tobacco sellers, alcohol resellers, kiosks, doctors, and many more, are heavily regulated, and tend to be monopolies because the government don't deliver that many licenses.

It's weird because I tend to have leftish beliefs when it comes to politics, but you can't deny that you need to relax the rules if you don't want to have those kinds of situations.

I never worked more than 2 months in total in my life, I just wish I could just pick a shovel and do any kind of demeaning work for a change, just for the sanity of waking up in the morning to do something. It's just not possible because of labor laws and a high minimum wage. France is anti-liberal in many aspects, and it's not just sad, it's just depressing. I just can't like my country. I like many things, but in terms of economic opportunities, it's soviet-like. People just receive welfare, stay unemployed, get unmotivated, and this settles in, and there's nothing concrete you can really do for a change if you don't have a network.

At least in the US, there are shitty jobs by default. In france, the only one negociating are the unions. Companies can't even fire people unless they did real damage to the company. Nobody gets hired because of that.

Sometimes I honestly believe I could try to just become an illegal immigrant and go to places where they give work to strangers, but it's hard to give up comfort.

It's a life of being rewarded for being lazy. It's weird.
The research is related to artificial intelligence, not pure automation.
Email works on a single server, it's pretty easy to get an email system working that doesn't involve the Internet.
Economists Don't Understand the Information Age, So Their Claims Are a Joke
Likely a decrease, 3G is cheap, mesh networks would merely highlight the bad deal most telcos provide.
I still fail to get your point. It's exactly because of thermodynamics.

People who trip, fall, because gravity.

People who eat less than they burn loose weight, because thermodynamics.

Both processes are more complex but laws of physics draw the boundaries of how that complexity might influence outcome.
different strain != different species
Have you talked to these guys, perhaps they can give you the kind of funding/advice you need:

http://www.highline.vc/

Personally, if I had traction, I'd try to build-up myself, but perhaps you're fearing "others eating your lunch"?
It's useful to quote the part that comes after that:

> Even Laude was surprised by how effectively TIP worked. “When I started giving them the tests, they got the same grades as the larger section,” he said. “And when the course was over, this group of students who were 200 points lower on the SAT had exactly the same grades as the students in the larger section.” The impact went beyond Chemistry 301. This cohort of students who, statistically, were on track to fail returned for their sophomore year at rates above average for the university as a whole, and three years later they had graduation rates that were also above the U.T. average.

Individualized help took these students who were scoring 200 points below the rest of the students, and got them to the point where they were scoring comparably to everyone else on exams and graduating at above the average graduation rate. That's a huge success from the state's perspective.

So what if these students came in under-prepared? These kids are often first-generation college students, whose parents have no experience with the whole process and don't inculcate the right values in their kids. The kids from more privileged backgrounds, even ones who aren't any smarter (going by SAT scores), have a leg-up going in due to factors that are mostly in their favor as a result of the parental lottery. Why should that entitle them to a perpetual leg-up?
That could easily be hyperbole on the author's part but you don't need internet if Red Hook residents are running their own mail servers. Since they could also possibly be running their own VOIP servers it isn't terribly far fetched.

Multiple non-internet based servers can easily talk to each other as long as they have a map of how to do so. RHI could be running their own DNS in which case each set of sendmail / qmail / whatever servers could still see each other. And if they really want to go old-school they could use UUCP or NNTP to shift around e-mail and news respectively between sometimes connected nodes. Many of the "intermittent internet connection" problems have been solved for a while.
If this isn't the answer, and I'm not asserting it is or isn't. What is, and how do implement it. Or do you suggest if we scrap it all and go back to 1950's like airport security that the few incidents that are inevitable are an acceptable risk? I don't know the answer, but I'd like to have the conversation.
If you want fast access to the general internet, mesh networks are never going to be particularly competitive with telcos. This is what most people want, as well.

Community networking over community networks could be a thing, but bootstrapping is hard, and it can be hard to see the point. "Buy this thing and set it up and you can talk to people within shouting distance with your pc/phone" isn't super exciting.
O-hacks: The worst hackathon ever
code: https://github.com/AshleyF/Color

blog series: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashleyf/archive/tags/color/
There have been a number of attempts to get one going in Canberra. If anyone knows anyone who wants to try again (in Canberra or elsewhere), please get in touch. I may not be able to help directly but I can probably put you in touch with people who can.

Contact details are in my profile.
I'd be rather surprised. My main uses for Alfred are:

1. Launching apps.

2. Searching developer documentation with Dash. I can pop up Alfred and type "dash nsstring" and it'll show me the docs for that class.

3. Clipboard history. If I type "clip" it shows me everything I've copied to the clipboard in the past day. I can filter that by typing. Pressing return pastes the selected entry.

4. Hotkey actions. The main one I use binds cmd-shift-5 to a custom script that starts the GUI action for taking a screenshot of a selected area of the screen, then uploads the resulting image to my web server and places the URL on my clipboard.

5. Searching Google by just typing stuff into the Alfred bar.

6. Invoking Wolfram Alpha by typing "w stufftocalculate".

7. Searching Wikipedia by typing "wiki stufftosearch".

Of those, I don't think 2, 3, 4, 6, or 7 have any hope of being replaced by Apple. 1 could, but on the other hand this has in theory been supported by Spotlight since 10.4, and it's just been too unreliable and slow. I doubt they'll finally get their act together on it now. 5 is the only one that seems likely to be obsoleted by Yosemite, and that's a minor one.
It's a slippery slope
VidFall.com – Pay with your time, not your wallet
Just to put the 6.0 in context, from the NYT today: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/us/strong-earthquake-shake...

"The temblor struck about six miles south of Napa around 3:20 a.m., according to the United States Geological Survey. It was the most powerful earthquake to hit the Bay Area since the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, which collapsed a section of the Bay Bridge. The shaking was felt over an area that encompassed hundreds of miles.

The earthquake threw much of the Napa Valley — normally an edenic retreat famed for its wine and fine dining — into chaos of falling glass and collapsing bricks. Dozens of water and gas mains were ruptured, and at least six fires broke out, including one in a mobile home park that destroyed four homes and damaged two others. Thousands remained without power."

Now, can you imagine what a 10x more powerful earthquake at 7.0 would do? (Roads, Bridges, and Buildings collapsed).

An 8.0 would be so catastrophic that deaths would be in the hundreds, and damage would be horrific.
That really depends on how the robot has been programmed. It's quite likely that robots in office-type settings will have political aspects to their decision making, at least to the extent that bits of corporate policy have been embedded.
It actually works across multiple servers as well and e-mail exchange predates the "always on" internet everyone's used to. It is feasible RHI is running their own DNS and if they really want to go old school could always support UUCP.
What are the best resources to learn more about mesh networking? I've been fascinated with it and trying to soak up as much information as possible.

I'm trying to understand what advances there have been in reduction of speed over multi hop networks. That's the biggest issue I see, is that people want high speeds, but mesh networks at a large scale might make that difficult. Multi-frequency radios can only go so far.
You still can! You just can't ask them to interpret the results for you. 23andMe will still give you access to your raw genetic variant data, they just won't tell you what it "means", simply because what they say might be incorrect. Genetic data interpretation is still quite hard to reproduce, and is very expensive to do well... which is why the FDA has been slow to regulate it.

The datasets used by 23andMe to interpret your genetic variants are the same datasets that you can get access to for free! If you know how to program, then you can use public datasets from the NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) or SolveBio (my startup, http://solve.bio) to compare your raw data to the clinical reference information you're interested in.
Can you link to the site?
XREPL sounds nice. It makes me wish that I liked Racket as well as I feel like I should — it's a nice language, it has a lot of good libraries, and I appreciate the reasons it's not RnRS Scheme, but I still don't feel comfortable not being able to make my Scheme[1] at least potentially portable to other implementations.

[1] I know, I know, it's not Scheme. But it's still Scheme.
I spent most of 2001-2008 involved with community and then commercial mesh projects. The ideas are attractive but there are some technical realities that make deployment unlikely unless there is no alternative. In most places most people want to connect to the regular web and wires (or fiber maybe with point-to-point wireless for the last hop) are faster and more reliable.

Existing 802.11 ad-hoc is half duplex & CSMA, if you build a multihop mesh with that on omnidirectional nodes you get greatly diminished performance across the network. TDMA is not really better, the whole thing degenerates into a distributed graph coloring problem. You can have a lot of success building a network of point-to-point links but again you only really see people getting excited because they need non-wired infrastructure or because they like the technology. The Ubiquiti gear is really good for this.

Meanwhile you might wonder about doing this on small battery powered devices. It's very difficult to build a mostly-asleep power management scheme if a device needs to be awake to relay packets.

I still think there's promise in the area though and do follow what other people are doing.
I don't see why you'd normalize for that. I don't doubt that age is a factor, but surely the effect due to age should actually be counted. For example, different safety standards in cars will result in different fatality rates. That doesn't mean you try to eliminate that from the picture by normalizing for it, that means that the country with better safety standards is actually safer. If a country's roads are safer because they discourage or prevent younger drivers from driving, should not that additional safety count? Taken to an extreme: if a country allows 8-year-olds to drive cars and has a massive road fatality rate because of it, that shouldn't be normalized away when comparing with a country where you can't get a license until 18, right?
You're young, clearly you don't like the status quo, what's keeping you there? I find it hard to feel sympathy, but I don't know whatever situation you may be in. Don't let the structural problems of your country hinder you, be part of the change.
Sorry about the late reply, enjoying the bank holiday.

I don't have a fear of dentists, I think spending money on solving pain issues is the best money one can spend. And I use a private dentist rather than NHS (since every NHS dentist near my home does not seem to be taking new patients.) – It's not an abscess that I have, I seem to sprout new teeth frequently, I'm on my third and fourth set of adult teeth (different teeth in their own different generations), and they keep coming, and as they're pushing through it causes a lot of pain, which is manageable apart from a pain perspective, but I don't get much sleep whilst waiting for an appointment. Zopiclone helps with that, but it's not easily obtainable despite the condition being on medical record.
I vote to drop nearly all of it.

The cockpit door is reinforced and locked, without the ability to take over the aircraft there is literally less risk than if someone just drove a bomb into an airport.
KPIs might be a parameter here
I never focus on a detailed physical description of book characters unless a body part is brought to my attention by the author. In fact, it annoys me when some authors insist on irrelevant details such as clothing (I used to joke with friends about some American writers, especially for courtroom dramas, making extremely detailed inventories of the main character's suits. We called it the "navy blue syndrome"; for some reason, the suit was always navy blue, and it was important for the author to call our attention to this).

I do have a very general idea of what main characters looks like, in particular about whether they are young, middle-aged or old, and about their hair color. When I see a movie adaptation, this always clashes with my preconceived idea. "No, no, the character was older and had black hair!"
Not really, The difficulty of getting a license is similar in France and the UK (source : I did both)
There's a risk that an aircraft will be bombed in-flight, which doesn't require access to the cockpit. Before 9/11, such bombings were the primary security concern as hijackings usually resulted in a hostage situation. It'd probably be wise to keep explosives screening.
"Python users" is a vast generalization (this is literally one of the most popular programming languages in the world - there are a lot of users), and "hate" is a strong word. So if you want to convey meaning in your comment, you should try to be less hyperbolic.

FWIW: I'd argue that most "users" of Python don't know the difference between static and dynamic typing. Or care about fanatic language wars in which the word "hate" is used to describe preferences between purely technical details.
> if someone just drove a bomb into an airport.

Which is exactly what the 2007 attack on Glasgow airport was.[1]

All major airports in the UK now have limited access to the front of the terminal building (typically, buses and taxis only). Most now have a drop-off zone in the car park.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Glasgow_International_Air...
That was exactly the first thing that came to my mind as well. :)
Exposing Tinder's Private API
There seems to be a lot of limitations here. It is odd, sandboxing just the graphics stack. It isn't true sandboxing so all the benefits of sandboxing are not gained, but a lot of the disadvantages still come with it.

It sounds like something as simple as a keyboard macro manager would not be doable, nor would the Windows utility AutoHotKey.

I'd also hate to try and write UI test automation for Wayland apps. It seems like they've pretty much ruled that out all together.

Heck what about services that do browser test renders? Would those be possible?

And not allowing plug ins is just foolish. "I'm sorry, we dictate that you must divide your application up this way." Flash, for years, drove innovation on the web, billions of dollars of value were created by Flash, trying to say "That won't be allowed to happen again because I say so" is hubris of the worst sorts.
We've known for decades that there are enormous quantities of methane clathrates at the bottom of the northern oceans. That some of it vents should not surprise anyone.
So what exactly was the point of the colossal developments in human productivity in the last ten decades?

So we can continue to function as desperately as our ancestors whilst a few people have more money and power than we can possibly imagine? Fucking great.
Interacting with robots is often easier and simpler than interacting with people. Now that AI is on the cusp of being able to replace not just manual workers, but knowledge workers of all types, even those service jobs that have always seemed safe in the face of automation are in danger of dying out. Especially in light of evidence like this that people actually prefer robots to humans in many of those situations.
Isn't it wonderful how people love to inconvenience other people, but not themself in order to make their own personal utopia.

Artificially making things hard for people is never positive. Even if it meets what you think are positive goals.
Debugging Core Data
How Short Can You Write Fizz Buzz?
I vote to go back to the way it was pre-9/11. The 9/11 hijackings were a one time play, that is, they changed the rules by which the terrorists play by, and therefore the passengers have changed the way that they will react to a terroristic threat aboard a plane. We have seen passengers are more than willing to stand up to those that pose a threat on plane in post-9/11 air travel.
Or the web server could be configured to return text/plain for *.lsp files
Another app in this vein was Kaptain (for KDE):

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaptain/
If it was extendable then yes, but I don't think Apple is going to allow this without some modifications.
Why companies don't invest in customer service solutions?
Recently I called comcast and AT&T for some issue with account related stuff, in both cases they transferred my call from one person to another and every time end up repeating my name, account, address, etc. If its part of the same call, why can't they have a system which pass that information after the first interaction and save time and customer frustration. Is there something I am missing? (may be some privacy angle?)
Definitely agreed. Another interesting problem for the near? future is multi-device window management - can you use the collection of devices and screens (whether phone/tablet/desktop/whatever) on hand at a given moment as a kind of ad hoc multimonitor workstation? What about when multiple users are involved? (of course all of this is a systems/OS and privacy/security challenge, as well as an interaction design challenge)

I sometimes get the impression most people now think of window management as either a solved problem and/or one rendered irrelevant by the rise of "mobile", but it's quite the opposite IMO.
I'm not sure quite what you're looking for, but you may be interested in my (not yet announced) docopt parser in C++: https://github.com/ridiculousfish/docopt_fish . It's got a richer feature set than the "reference" docopt.
The problem with putting everything in the now-unified compositor-windowmanager-desktop thing is that it creates a huge barrier to implementing desktop customizations. Instead of being able to swap out just the window manager, or just the dock, or just the keybindings, you have to either fork the standard implementation (and be constrained by its architecture) or implement all the interfaces expected of applications.
Ada also allows this. Has for quite some time, and it comes with a built in real world units system.
I did not know about Highline, but I will look into them right now. Thanks so much for the link.

Its been a balancing act between keeping the momentum going and heading out looking for funding. Sort of the chicken before the egg situation...keep finding and attaining traction or spend more time looking for funding.

With a small team, Im finding I have had to pick one or the other...and my thought has been...keep the momentum going and funding will come...but if you cant keep up with the momentum...then sadly (and quickly) you have to start looking for funding...Feels like an impossible scenario...lol.

For the most part, Im not fearing "others eating our lunch" as our major competitors are in fact established...but that also makes their model established and in some sense, they are stuck with it. Further sort of makes our model standout.

Thanks so much for the tip and feedback throwaway000002. Appreciate it.
Seems like the SFO Kronos has been taken offline since this disclosure.
An in-flight bomb, though tragic, is much less of a threat, economic, social or otherwise, than an 'airplane-as-missile' into a populated area. So long as there is no access to the cockpit, the maximum effect of a terrorist's explosion is the downing of a plane, not the downing of a $1B 110 story building.
Sure, but without taking over the craft and turning into a significantly more dangerous missile (a la 9/11) there is only as much risk as bombing a parking garage, mall, school or any other place with hundreds of people and virtually no security.

Not sure how much that logic actually applies to anyone trying to bomb stuff, though.
This is an interesting variation on the penny auction sites that were en vogue about 2-3 years ago, but you're "bidding" with your time rather than your money.

Nevertheless, people quickly realized that penny auctions are a sucker's game -- see
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/201... -- and I don't see why it's any different with VidFall.

But points for originality.
The fact that another user can take advantage of the low price before you really kinda sucks. I don't think I'd ever use this.

EDIT 1 - Additionally, you can open multiple tabs with multiple videos muted and to make the price drop faster.

EDIT 2 - These items can run out, which can really stink if you're waiting around for the price to drop to the one you're looking for.