skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have several criminal defense attorneys I speak with on a regular basis and they always have interesting takes on high profile cases.

They basically said his attorneys are doing the right thing by going after the warrant stuff. It's pretty standard in legal circles. Go at the base of their argument. If you can get the original warrant through out, it all goes. The only problem is they suspect this is the only real strategy his defense team has right now.

Once the judge rules on this - which my attorney friends believe will be on the FBI's side, his defense team won't have much to pivot on. All the evidence is now compounded and will stick. Which as the article pointed out, is pretty bad for him. It will also confirm his identity as 'Dread Pirate' which a lot of the case hinges on. Once the FBI get that point nailed down, the rest is pretty academic.

The only thing that would make this interesting is if the judge rules against the FBI and hence forth a majority of the FBI's case is destroyed. Both of my friends figured the FBI will drop that case and simply let the federal case on conspiracy to commit murder and hiring a hitman run its course.

Also, keep in mind there are still three other admins that have been indicted. If they get any of those guys to give them more information about Albrecht, it's all down hill from there. They might not even need most of the stuff they entered as evidence if they can get one of these three to roll over on Albrecht.

Pretty much any way you slice it - he's screwed.
A warrant entitles you to search a specific place for a specific thing. It isn't a letter of marque. Courts can't order the FBI to go Dirty Harry up the Internet if it brings down that damn drug website. That's illegal.

Of course, who watches the watchers? The US government already imprisons people for life without trial or charge, interrogates using the same torture techniques the Soviets used on captured Japanese scientists, and surveils the diplomats of its own allies. It might be, and you know, probably is committing industrial espionage.

At some point you have to raise your head up, see the forest amongst the trees, and just admit that the rule of law is dead in the world. The power asymmetries are too vast, and the people who rule your life know it.

Sure you can equate the two cases. Someone with power decided weev and Ross would be removed from the board and so they were. Let that be a lesson to anyone who could piss off the truly powerful.
Kudoes to biohacking labs like BioCurious that makes synethetic biology more accessible to public, similar to the way that hackerspaces have brought 3D printing to everyone
So why not just focus the sun on the surface of the water in a narrow necked container? (This is not a rhetorical question, I really would like to know.)
High tech materials are not likely to be available in the environment where such things are needed. Someone needs to re-read Viktor Papanek's book on the subject of appropriate technology.
>And obviously if someone gains arbitrary code execution, they can just Google "my IP" and see the externally facing IP.

This is what firewalls are for
You could well be correct, but in that case it's an opportunity to take a hard look at how adequately the "system" used by that agency is actually working, and possibly make revisions where indicated or necessary.

Trust me, I know there are Oregon state agencies that have suboptimal software systems. Even though Oregon is a low population state, it still runs a large number of systems, and among them are others that are bound to be marginal.

It's silly to be idealistic, nonetheless it's denying the obvious to miss the chance to "do it right", to develop and apply the rigorous process alluded to in several comments above.

A plan for the long haul, integrating and unifying systems, and reducing "reinvention of wheels" where appropriate, and organizing truly knowledgeable oversight of the state's data management would go a long way to prevent recurrence of recent mistakes, have systems that work better, and cost the public less.

No one has to tell me it isn't going to happen, Oregon is where I live, and logic doesn't stop me from wishing that it would.
The book "Outsiders" talks about this in historical perspective http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Outsiders.html?id=ps...

Essentially, there's a philosophy among some CEOs that at current tax rates profitability is something to be avoided, but a healthy EBITDA and reinvesting the capex is the way to increase the shareholder value. The voluntary nature of capital gains tax makes stock buybacks or busines reivestment a more efficient mechanism of delivering value to shareholders.
Car use is heavily subsidized in many ways, so no, you really don't.

Extra fees for congestion make sense, because the land that roads and parking use in the middle of cities is much more valuable than the land in suburban or rural areas. Gas taxes don't account for that difference. They treat every mile the same (or similarly), even when the cost of that infrastructure differs drastically.
At some point bandwidth should be cheap and plentiful enough that it would be practical, instead of gathering people into a physical office, to let them work where they want, and do impromptu videoconferencing when they want to talk to each other. I'm actually surprised we haven't gone farther in this direction already. But the videoconferencing needs to be really really good, and that is apparently still fairly expensive.

Obviously this can't really take off until gigabit fiber is much more widespread. So I can see that there might not be much benefit in being one of the first few locales to get it.

Is there even any affordable hi-def video camera, including hi-def stereo audio? I haven't actually looked in a long time.
The article does address it. Read the text around this quote:

"It creates steam at a low concentration of solar energy," Ghasemi says. "So you don't need such expensive optical systems to concentrate the solar energy."
To be fair, it is asking for access to only a folder that itself creates.
What would cause the captcha's image to leak the ip but a regular image on the tor website not?
> but the bottom line is they aren't making money and haven't pinned to a date they plan to do so

They have a healthy EBITDA, they're just choosing to reinvest their earnings, as they deem it's more efficient use of their capital than declaring a profit, paying a corporate profit tax off it, and then keeping the rest of the cash.
"We took graphite and put it into the microwave for seven seconds," Ghasemi says. The gases in the mineral cause the outer layer to expand and pop. "It's exactly like a popcorn!"

Is this a safe experiment to do at home? Is there a chance of sparking?
Digital Ocean doesn't load the kernel from the current system image, but instead uses a prestored external kernel associated with the image. This means that upgrade to the kernel from within the droplet (e.g. distribution security updates) are ignored (See http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...). There is a workaround using kexec (see https://www.alextomkins.com/2013/11/digitalocean-debian-kern...). Does any body know if a similar approach would work for CoreOS ,given their whole image update process, or whether the DigitalOcean/CoreOS team have already taken care of this some other way?
The ideas are related, but the codebase is now separate:
http://named-data.net/2014/08/25/first-public-release-ndn-fo...
Not really, he is still referring to the small holes in the graphite.
Big Data Innovations for the Modern Data Architecture
Ice shaving that looks like velvet [video]
General summary of color-coding for American highway signs:

- Black & White is an enforced regulation.

- Red is a vehicle collision hazard.

- Yellow is a single-vehicle hazard.

- Green is city and town locations/distances.

- Brown is national landmarks, parks, etc.

- Blue is all other information.

A few geographical signs, like city limits and bridge names, are also sometimes white but the text is much, much smaller. If it's important, you can read it from far away.
I saw this for the first time the other day - an office had a remote designer who was permanently hooked up to the video conferencing system. It worked extremely well, actually. They could even overhear conversations other people were having in the room at the same time and join in.
> We collectively need to get away from the idea that the only valid fiduciary duty for a for-profit organization is to make profit for their shareholders instead of creating value for humanity.

The idea is not new, and conglomerates have been around for quite a bit now, with most prominent example being Berkshire Hathaway. Take the profits of a textile company, reinvest them in a new line of business, take the profits from that line of business, reinvest it into a new one.
If you're wondering why the air isn't full of supersonic passenger aircraft, one of the main reasons is that high bypass turbofan engines are much more efficient than turbojet engines like the Olympus engines in the concord. (And way quieter)

Turns out a lower volume or air in a gas turbine engine moving at supersonic speed is much less efficient than a large volume of air moving at lower speed.
The current valuation would mean that Yahoo, as a company, is valued at around 14-18 billion. Note that even though Yahoo's ownership is about $35B, a tax-rate of about 35% is taken into account, even though the eventual tax-rate might be something quite different.
The participants are actually mostly universities. IP is discussed on the project site:

http://named-data.net/project/ndn-copyright-and-patents/
http://named-data.net/consortium/
It's still worth something. All of these warehouses and data centers are assets if nothing else. You can sell buildings and land. Obviously that value alone doesn't justify the share price, but it does justify > 0 value.

The bet that investors are making is that at some point the revenues and cash flow will be so huge that Amazon won't know what to do with them and at that point they will start showing a profit and perhaps even pay a dividend. It's not entirely unreasonable. Even Apple finally started paying a dividend once they got to 100 billion or so in the bank.

Noticing that Amazon only has 1% of the retail market is pretty crazy. the potential opportunity they have is staggering. It's not unreasonable to think at some point their will be profits to be had.
Show HN: Simple Uber fare calculator based off their new API
The word "disrupt" has become entirely meaningless, hasn't it?
I've stopped buying much at all off amazon because I get it all from Aliexpress.

They package up and address individual items in shenzhen/guanzhou, stick them all in big containers, then when they reach the US/europe they deliver them by the cheapest means possible in a totally commoditised fashion. What competitive advantage does amazon.com have now? Why do all those small sellers need to exist? everything they sell is made in china anyway.
You could also start by using something more secure than PHP.

I realize that a significant portion of the internet runs on PHP, but if you are going to do something as high-risk as SR, you should use more robust tools.
ExMpalayer 4.0 released (Download video from YouTube and more)
At least in the United States, the dividends are taxed twice - first at the corporate tax level, then at dividend recipient's individual tax level. The nature of the taxation to the recipient is involuntary.

Selling the stock and being taxed on capital gains is a voluntary act that can be planned for accordingly. A company with zero profit also owes zero taxes at the corporate tax level, which makes reinvestments and stock buybacks a more efficient value distribution strategy.
Do you know if torbrowserbundle or tails etc uses any kind of virtualization to isolate things?

Its an off hand observation I've made before e.g. https://github.com/paulczar/docker-torbrowser/issues/2

Tor should run in a VM or container, and the browser should run in a container that can only talk to the tor, and the only other way out is a dumb screen scraping display for the browser. Make sense?
> Because business taxes are a drag on the economy, and universally acknowledged to be a bad thing by economists.

Maybe universally by Austrian school economists; certainly not universally by economists more generally (e.g., its pretty clear that neither Brad DeLong nor Paul Krugman think that business taxes are an unqualified evil, and its pretty hard to argue that they aren't economists.)
While content distribution is a significant motivation, a fair amount of the current research is looking at benefits beyond caching: i.e., what do you get with web-style semantics at the lower layers, per-packet crypto, name--rather than host-based addressing, etc.
You're simplifying the term "talent". I know a company that does their tech in the Philippines (not cheap off-shoring, a real, well-funded part of the company). Yeah, plenty of CS majors but still quite hard to find actual talent (let alone talent that produces results), and the best are leaving the country.

Education does not equal talent. It doesn't in the West (hence, local shortage of good developers), and the same applies to the rest of the world.

The fact that the problem of the corrupt concentration of capital is real doesn't mean the lack of talent is artificial.
Re-investment with subsequent share growth is more efficient mechanism of value distribution than dividend payouts. First, there's no double taxation; second, the recipient can choose the timing and amount of participation as they decide on when to sell the stock.
ExMplayer 4.0-Play any media files,convert,extract and more
Yes - Van is involved in NDN:
http://named-data.net/project/participants/
After a substantial effort to suppress my knee-jerk reaction of a lmgtfy.com link, I bequeath to you: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-does-alibaba-do-2014-5
What Winning TechCrunch40 Did for Mint.com (2008)
Yeah, but it doesn't tell you that.
Ukraine Crisis war: Heavy shelling in hours before ceasefire
Landscape of open source data tools
> small visual warning

The post says that in Chrome 41 (Q1 2015) the https will display in red with a strikethrough, which is more than a small visual warning.
There is a system test which tests all components together, see demo.sh and demo-bankapi.sh.
Hi Stephen.
I am one of the creators of http://silverreader.com (RSS reader).
I wish you a luck with your new RSS reader launch.
Building a good RSS reader is not easy task.
The Paris Review: The Beauty of Code
Sure it is, but I think writing bootstrapable compilers is a better approach.
Each engine type has a range where it's superior. Turbojets are much more efficient at high speeds, while high-bypass turbofans are better at low speeds. The Concorde burned remarkably little fuel at Mach 2, but used up ludicrous amounts of fuel at idle, taxi and takeoff. Read the thread, it's all in there.
What a confused interview. If the audience is for people who are interested in knowing scala's timeline then saying "isnt Java 8 functional now because it has lambdas" is either dumb or trying to be dumb on behalf of a java audience who doesnt care about the scala timeline.
Recommended Security Reading
With respect: I know you're a professional at this, but I work with many startups who need named compliance officers for HIPAA or AML purposes, and it is the CEO virtually everywhere. This decision is generally made less out of hubris and more because a) the position has a very high ratio of requiredness to actual duties and b) legal advisors recommended that naming the CEO as opposed to a summer intern would suggest enthusiastic compliance.

Who gets tapped for this sort of thing in your world?
What is the future of Computer Architecture
With the diminishing returns of Moore's Law, the traditional approach to Computer Architecture seems to have stop giving any meaningful returns. Do the new branches like hardware accelerators, approximate computing and neuromorphic computing have any scope? Or do we live with the diminishing gains associated with the traditional approach to Computer Architecture.
The companies you mention have good international sales from their existing online stores. What are you offering that they cannot easily do?

Saying you want to be a distributor implies that you will have a network of resellers. For that to be attractive you would need to have substantial local inventory. As @noonespecial says, that requires making a substantial investment up front. You can't just say your are a distributor, take orders and then pass them on the the companies you mention. That is of no benefit to them.

As for Makerbot, do you have the resources to support what you plan to sell?

Take a look at Arrow, Farnell, etc and see how they operate. That's what it takes to be a distributor.
It's interesting to see people using NAT to solve the problem of restricted IPs. It is probably too late for a newcomer to claim an allocation of IPs from RIPE,etc.

Are you considering IPv6 support? Several people are out there offering IPv6-only hosting, (as well as the traditional folk who offer both), which is nice to see.

As a final question how are you planning to detect and deal with spammers, or copyright infringers? Both are drawn to cheap plans..
Author here.

Thanks for a well written description and background of SWIFT, I think it is accurate.

I have a question on this paragraph:

>While it's probably critical for the future of humanity for a project like this to succeed, frankly anything that leaves the trust and reputation aspects to manual negotiation as per conventional business is just lipstick on a pig. In this sense, Bitcoin is superior. For some more ambitious ideas forming in this area check out http://ifex-project.org/

Does "for a project like this" refer to SWIFT or BankAPI? If SWIFT, then I understand. But if BankAPI, then you have misunderstood, because it does not "leaves the trust and reputation aspects to manual negotiation", since it's decentralized and peer-to-peer (or in this context bank-to-bank), just like a lot of other successful peer-to-peer technologies of which you mentioned one.
Think mobile in the same sense that a vacuum is mobile.
Need for Computer Vision Hardware Accelerators
With so much emphasis on Computer Vision accelerators on Embedded Device, what are the Vision Algorithm Accelerators available in the market. I know of the Myriad Processor (by Movidius) and the EVE engine by TI. What are the other devices available. How are these in terms of performance and Power and is there a need for a better accelerator?
microwave and blender are the future of the nanotechnology. I wonder how such popcorn would work in a battery.
In beta, I am hosting it off of a single server. However in production I'll have a multi data center cluster, if the product is viable :)
> I'm sure they could do this project with OSS products and custom code integrating everything, but those don't come with support contracts.

I'm sure that if you pay enough money (and considerably less than what they threw at Oracle), you can get support contracts for all kinds of open source software and custom integration solutions.

That's the beauty of open source: you don't have to be the vendor to support it.
This will be slightly off-topic, but what the hell. There is an old saying about the level of criminal sophistication.

"Petty criminals break the law. Bigger criminals skirt the law. The big bosses ignore the law. And the biggest criminals of all - they write the law."
Oh k. Surely there can't be any sort of bubble or fraud there. What happens to the startups if the VCs fall?
Something as simple as using 3rd party code for the capcha with a config file that said "host name goes here." Would you be at all surprised to find this in a WordPress plugin or similar?
the area is finding out that Google Fiber is so fast, it’s hard to know what to do with it.

First world problem.
I thought it'd be 127°C to avoid 8 bit signed overflow...
what's the story behind "Moto 270"?
I want to work on this sort of thing! I've spent the last ~20 years listening to synthesizer and field recordings in a professional capacity. It'd be great if they opened this similar to projects like GalaxyZoo or the like - I'd love to leverage my audio skills for scientific ends.
Awesome project - please practice your soldering skills...
Apple People, This Is Why Others Hate You
Hosting yourself? Or somewhere like DigitalOcean?
Graphite is not exactly a high tech material. Maybe you're thinking of graphene? The process they use to create the small holes is also very cheap.
Have fun going faster. :D

just beware CA has am absolute limit of 65 (unless marked up to 70) above which any speed is considered a priori unsafe, which means you can be cited regardless of road conditions.

And beware you can always be cited for unsafe speed (as determined by the cop) regardless of the marked limit and whether you were under it or not.

In my experience that means you won't be cited unless you are doing something truly outrageous compared to the indicated limit or conditions (eg 60 in a rainstorm at night around a turn with an advised speed of 35, >78ish, etc., 65 on a freeway in a blizzard), or weaving out of your lane, or in a speed trap at the edge of a small town.
Tails answers this question on their site [0]

Their general opinion is that this makes Tails less secure as now you have to trust both the host and the visualization software.

Provided that you trust Tails itself. The expected way to run it is off of a live cd. This way the trusted OS is only ever in ram, and if you use a non-rewritable disk you can also be assured that the Tails disk itself cannot be modified after its creation.

Tails handles the 'only talking to Tor' via iptables. Unless I am mistaken Tails' firewall will not allow clearnet connections.

[0] https://tails.boum.org/doc/advanced_topics/virtualization/in...
rather what tools you tried and decided not now ...
My guess would be that your approach would go faster, assuming that the cold water around the focused area doesn't suck the heat out too quickly, but perhaps not fast enough to be of practical use. Also, the maximum temperature that you could get would be 100 deg C; after that the water evaporates.

I suspect they use the graphite because the graphite can get much hotter than 100 deg with a simple lens. Coupled with its ability to wick up water into it, you could evaporate a substantial amount of water quickly.
Kissing with Confidence – Tips for the 'Newbie' Presenter
The most well-known application is sending data over an unreliable channel, such as a radio link or fiber optic cable. It is written in English.
Jack halpern is quite an interesting character and I feel the article sells him short when introducing him as a Japanese resident who speaks Yiddish.

He has worked on one of the major Japanese character dictionaries as editor in chief and his company leases out databases of Chinese, Japanese and Korean character and this data is used by many of the major publishers of dictionaries. He has also published over 16 books. The guy is no stranger to the hard work required to build such a dictionary.

More over he founded the unicycle foundation, which is responsible for the World Cup of unicycling.
Because an attacker could get a copy of your certificate now, begin looking for a sha1 collision, and ride the Moore law until 2017; at any time they find a collision, they can begin MITM-ing your users. Have a look at the numbers linked in OP for an idea of the cost that is required to collide SHA1; news at 5pm: it's well within NSA wallet, and goes down and down very fast.

So, deprecating a certificate on the basis of the issue date is a decision that makes to force people to start caring of the whole problem at the certain date, but then you would have people getting a 5 year SHA1 the day before the cutoff. Deprecating on the expiration date is the decision that better models the security risks.