skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Care to elaborate it? Sorry, a n00b econ person here
The FBI is claiming that the CAPTCHA on the login page was misconfigured and was leaking the IP. Here's the relevant testimony[1]:

In or about early June 2013, another member of CY-2 and I closely examined the traffic data being sent from the Silk Road website when we entered responses to the prompts contained in the Silk Road login interface. This did not involve accessing any administrative
area or “back door” of the site. We simply were
interacting with
the website’s user login
interface, which was fully accessible to the public, by typing in miscellaneous entries into the username, password, and CAPTCHA fields contained in the interface. When we did so, the website sent back data to the computer we were using
– specifically, the Silk Road homepage, when we used valid login credentials for undercover accounts we had on the site, or an error message, when we used any username, password, or CAPTCHA entry that was invalid.

Upon examining the individual packets of data being sent back from the website, we noticed that the headers of some of the packets reflected a certain IP address not associated with any known Tor node as the source of the packets. This
IP address (the “Subject IP Address”) was the only non-Tor source IP address reflected in the traffic we examined. The Subject IP Address caught our attention because, if a hidden service is properly configured to work on Tor, the source IP address of traffic sent from the hidden service should appear as the IP address of a Tor node, as opposed to the true IP address of the hidden service, which Tor is designed to conceal. When I typed the Subject IP Address into an ordinary (non-Tor) web browser, a part of the Silk Road login screen (the CAPTCHA prompt) appeared. Based on my training and experience, this indicated that the Subject IP Address was the IP address of the SR
Server, and that it was “leaking” from the SR Server because the computer code underlying the login interface was not properly configured at the time to work on Tor.

[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/238844570/FBI-Explanation-of-Silk-... (pages 3-4)
Agreed. Tampa, Orlando, and the other big cities are like any others. In the middle of the state or the Everglades, though, you can go miles without even a turnoff.
> I imagine myself paying $10 and asking "hey, what do you think of my outfit tonight?" And he would kindly inform me that my chances of scoring (or whatever they call it these days) wearing these sandals, hiking pants (pull these zippers and they become shorts!) and grey kinda stretched-out long-sleeve t-shirt are next to zero. But my Friday night activity was going out with my wife, toddler & 5-year-old to have dinner with a bunch of retired English expats in the middle of nowhere in central France.

I imagine you meant to include at least a modicum of detail to establish the context of your question to get any value out of your $10; or maybe you just wanted [to imagine] the exchange to be frustrating.
Unsecured debt backed by my full faith and credit are as secure as my ability to generate money.

If some personal or professional tragedy affected my ability to pay, there is a pecking order of things I will pay for, at that point, too bad, I'm insolvent.

There's no moral hazard if you borrowed money in good faith. It's not immoral to fail to repay a credit card if the alternative is to leave my family without some necessity.
You can use these:

* Upgrading notes: https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.0/whats-new/upgrading.h...

* A script by Fed that will do 70-90% of the job for you: https://github.com/fgsch/varnish3to4

Let us know how it went :-)
Read "Running with the Kenyans"[1]. Euro/Asian/American runners might have nice tracks to train on, but they don't have things like training groups that include multiple Boston, NY and Berlin winners.

That book is pretty eye opening read. The running culture is like nothing else - guys who come 3rd in the world 10,000m championship are hardly worth mentioning, high school races have better fields than US or European championships etc etc.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Running-Kenyans-Discovering-Secrets-Fa...
It doesn't do any of those things. Behind the scenes facebook has an extremely rich representation of your identity. In fact it is so good that they could probably even predict your favorite color and make that the background of your profile. Would that kind of approach be considered not limiting one's identity and personal representation?

At the end of the day facebook wants to collect certain kinds of information to sell to advertisers and the site is set up to do just that. If for some reason advertisers wanted to know tomorrow if you also self-identify with two different genders then you'd be damn sure that tomorrow there would be two gender drop-down lists when you sign up. That is unless they couldn't predict it from the massive trove of data they already have. So really the argument in the article comes down to I don't like facebook's UI because it doesn't let me input the kind of information I want to input all the while forgetting who the real customer of that data is and that there is this thing called HTML/CSS/JavaScript that lets you express yourself as freely as you want for less than $5/month.
FTA: "Freedman was 30 when he solved a version of one of the longest-standing problems in mathematics, the Poincaré conjecture."

Not true, he apparently made contributions to the poincare conjecture in dimension 4. Also, the article has a link from "poincare conjecture" to a clay institute webpage which is broken.

Meh
3TB SATA would indicate spinning rust too, so slower storage. It's far from an apples to apples comparison.
I came here to say that fluorine is even scarier in some ways. Sure enough he's covered it: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_sa.... I really wish he was my chem professor back in school.

Speaking of Oxygen though, I once attended a lecture/Q&A by the Myth Busters. It was pretty cool, and during the Q&A portion someone asked "Is there a myth you started, and then backed out?". They said that they won't do anything with liquid oxygen. They had a few myths about it, did some research, and realized that it can set pavement on fire. They then decided not to proceed.
> I'm not a fan of the defendant here

I want to suggest that this phrase is potentially toxic. Ross's name has been horribly tarnished, not unlike aaronsw before him.

I, for one, think that the evidence suggests he's a pretty good dude. I have seen nothing that makes me believe there is any truth to the arranged murder allegations.

Also, having met and spent half a day in his mother's company, I can tell you that she is a warm, concerned soul and I got the distinct sense that she was telling the truth about this whole thing.
jesus christ- how bout you dont tie up your identity in facebook to begin with
Anecdotally, in Vancouver we have narrow lanes in the city, with many streets having all kinds of bike lanes along their sides – both shared and separated. It works quite well, especially the separated ones.

Narrow lanes surely do decrease average driving speed, it's damn uncomfortable to drive fast in traffic, and staying in the lane requires more concentration. I do miss wide Russian lanes sometimes, but the narrow ones are undeniably safer.
That is true. Those first two recommendations are good bang for your buck (for the newbies), I guess I forgot I have a technical audience here :-)

Now that I'm thinking about it transparent bridge mode might do the trick as well.
Well, this whole thing IS about being honest...
People are talking about visual customization, but the article is mostly talking about how Facebook forces you to conform to social definitions of yourself by giving you checkboxes for gender, language, forced spellings of particular concepts, etc.

Foucault talked about (I don't remember where) how technology isn't neutral, its expressive power is limited by the nature of systematization. and as technology takes more of a role in daily life, people are forced to conform to whatever limited system was thrown up that you have to interact with to get government services or buy groceries. Your life is complicated but the form gives you four options because a computer can't process your freeform answer. The article explores how Facebook does this, admits more or less to the technical and business reasons that underlie this, but then goes ahead and blames white males anyway. Three years later Facebook has far more options for languages and genders and naming, which is still limiting, but blows apart the hegemonic white cis male attitude argument and all you're left with is what Foucault observed. I don't think you can lump together technical reasons, business reasons and racial/gender hegemony reasons anyway, but these claims have currency with some people whether or not the argument for it is defensible.
> VO2 max (a measure of aerobic fitness)

Note that even though we used to be told that we could all increase our VO2 max through trainning, it turns out that only people with a specific set of genes can do so.
"GT Advanced would be liable for $50 million for each violation of the confidentiality agreement".

Would these legal 'liabilities' be one of the first things shelved in the restructuring? Or would these contracts last beyond?
My favorite is Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane...

"There's a recent report of a method to make a more stable form of it, by mixing it with TNT. Yes, this is an example of something that becomes less explosive as a one-to-one cocrystal with TNT."

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/11/11/things_i_won...
The big problem with skywalks is that they result in the streets underneath them being empty (of pedestrians). This has downsides:

- Empty streets feel less safe
- Stores get less foot traffic
- Cars are more likely to speed when there's no one walking about

So they really can suck the life out of the street.
I'm usually willing to offer bad advice and uninformed opinions for free, so what is his competitive advantage?
You're right: I'm biased on this one [1], it affects the words I use, and (most interestingly to me, because I didn't notice it until later), my comment contained some of the quality it was criticizing. If you or anyone wants to write a fairer description, I'd read it with interest. On sunny days I imagine a community in which people would figure these things out together and communication would level up as a result.

1. Originally I wrote that I was a "card-carrying member of the second group", but edited that out after imagining someone taking the joke literally.
My life is about science and data.

vs

I don't think I need a research paper to know that AT WORST it made no difference at all.

Then your life is not about science and data. If it was, you'd know that counterintutive findings happen all the time in science. For example, the Big Bang theory was famously named for the 'ridiculous example' presented by people trying to discredit that theory. Finding counterintuitive results are a major part of why we do scientific studies in the first place.

Had the transition been horrific the media would still be counting the dead every day

Shall I start counting the logical fallacies you're throwing out (as a 'lives science' guy, no less)? Why does something have to be carnage, sorry, 'blood running down the streets', to be 'worse'? This is how sensantionalist tabloid journalists talk, not reasoned scientists.

(or at least you think you are)

Ironically, I've had a partial scientific test done which indicates that yes, I am smart, regardless of whether or not I personally think so. Being smart is nice, but it's not everything. I was on track for 140ish - not a genius, but above average. But, given that you 'value science and data', you should probably be made aware of me having done a partial WAIS-R by a properly trained professional. It's not perfect, but it was independently run and it's better than self-reported anecdotal hypothetical 'data'.

I don't need to waste my time on something I already know to be true.

I'm wasn't trying to convince you one way or the other; I was just trying to remind you that danger isn't just from people being intentionally suicidal in the traffic control world.

I'm also calling you on your amazing lack of good scientific process, given you call yourself a 'science and data' person, and that you're trying to convince others. Throwing out a strong, opposing opinion ridiculing the initial point, then countering criticism with "I have nothing to prove!" is just poor form in general, let alone in science.
Hey.

Well, I actually did that when I went back east to college.

But in today's world, you don't need to be anywhere. It wasn't that long ago that one of the top .net consultants lived in Billings, Montana. He, like many consultants, would fly out Sunday evening, and back on Thursday. And he also wrote a book or two.

So today it is even easier to be remote and be a major contributor. As in 37 signals.

I can't believe this has been up for 4 hours and I'm the first person to suggest this. Perhaps as the comment is a little harsh.
I don't know where this is so can't really comment on this particular situation.
But the general idea of skyways, while making walking from building to building easier, would also isolate these pedestrians completely from the surrounding environment -- in particular, from other people who live and work in the city but don't have access to universities' buildings. How do you feel it works in your university?
Only 100 cybercrime brains worldwide says Europol boss
London’s Tube is on its way to going driverless
I spent some time at the remaining facility in the country making the really interesting rocket fuel. The most fascinating thing to me (aside from the multiple armed security checkpoints required to visit the food lab we were visiting) was the setup of the buildings. Nearly all of them were ~500yds apart, set in between massive ~50ft tall, ~100ft wide earthen berms. The really interesting buildings had escape slides coming from the second floor. Each building at the roadside had the familiar NFPA diamond for response crews. I've never seen so many "4"s on that diamond in my life.
Hahahaha only in California!
Dropbox confirms that a bug within Selective Sync may have caused data loss
It's a bit different for me as I used to play LoL (stopped 1-2 years ago, ~4-5k games played), but now I only watch the championship and some league games (usually those my favorite team, Fnatic, are involved) without playing the game at all.
I read a story just recently that suggested that suggested that since areas with wider lanes have lower density any speedups of emergency vehicles is lost because they one average have to travel a greater distance.

I can't find the original story but here are some papers:

"The findings show that the density and age of a residential area or jurisdiction explain some of the variation in average EMS response times between urban and suburban or exurban locations. Holding other things constant, those who live in more sparsely settled and newer developments tend to have longer wait times for EMS."

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/25469783?uid=3738776&u...

http://www.cues.fau.edu/cnu/docs/Ex-Urban_Sprawl_as_a_Factor...
How John Oliver Won the Internet
Rare images document the centuries-long history of Africans in India
Huh? How is that a different option. What he says shouldn't matter at all to what evidence is admissable.
Ask HN: Starting a startup but not for money??
I have had pleasure to watch videos "How to start a startup" from Sam and others.

One thing that quite struck me though is that it was repeatedly mentioned that don't start a startup for money. PG repeated it couple of times and also one early employee of facebook ( employee #100 ? ) also said it in lecture 2 ?

I find it though hard to believe from mindset prospective that people don' t start a startup for money.
Entire concept of capatalism in US and with almost every act from birth to death is tied with money.

How can someone then think of start-up and not think of money ? One example often repeated is of Mr. Zuckerberg. But Zuck was already rich even before facebook. He attended Phillips Academy in NH ( I read it , I dont know for sure ) which has fees of $47k / year. Both Mr. Page and Brin were already wealthy well before google.
How many people here can send their kids to school paying $50k just in fees ?
I saw many interviews of Zuck. In one notably, he specifically mentions that he does not need money when someone offered him $1MM check. He says look at my apartment in Palo Alto.

So my question is ---

1. Do you believe in making money by starting a start-up and think of your idea from that prospective ?

2. Everyone has lot of ideas. Heck, some are leaving school/ college to make quick bucks. So do you write off ideas because there is no chance of making money by implementing that idea ?

3. A lot is talked about market fit in these start-up videos. If you are not thinking of making money why consider market fit in that case ?

I am sort of confused on making money from start-up, its relation to product market fit and what is being said ( or written or spoken ) in general by prominent people ( not just PG ).
Help me correct my confusion if I am getting wrong something ? or give me some pep talk.
Seeing a sibling comment: Yes. I meant Austrian School economists. I'm sure economists who happen to live in or work in or be from Austria are just as competent, on average, as economists from anywhere else. I never really anticipated that anyone would misinterpret that.
I will attempt at conveying my simplistic understanding of it (physics major here): electrons are negative, protons are positive. Electrons want to be matched with protons. Two atoms can form a strong bond if they have just enough electrons to bond them but not enough to repel each other. Oxygen can bond to oxygen via a double covalent bond (http://www.chemguide.co.uk/atoms/bonding/doublebonds.html) but it has too many electrons, so it is essentially on the brink of breaking up (much more so, than say H2O or CO2). Basically, if you have an unstable oxygen bond, many things introduced nearby can disturb it, starting a reaction.

The rest is easy: a single atom of Oxygen is extremely reactive. If you take an O=O molecule (= means double covalent bond) and add some fuel, you get fire. At high concentrations, drop in just a bit of fuel and you can get a violent reaction.
wow when did hard drugs become okay here? have fun while it lasts cuz it never does.
Putting aside the accusation that he tried to put a hit on someone, do you think he's innocent person and wasn't running the Silk Road, or that he was a nice guy who just happened to be flagrantly flouting the law in running an illicit marketplace for drugs, kiddie porn, stolen credit cards, and other illicit goods and services, while engaged in a money laundering scheme? I am genuinely wondering here.
Your understanding of the rules is in error, though.

And in this case, the court has never got to the question of whether the search was illegal, because the defendant's motion to suppress is not well-formed (despite the court providing the defense with an opportunity to correct that). Courts don't have much initiative in our common-law system, constitutionally speaking their function is to resolve disputes between parties, meaning the onus is on the defense to make the argument about the illegality of the search warrant and to do so in correct legal form.
Your analogy doesn't make sense to me. A box like that doesn't violate anyone's privacy rights to open. That completely ruins any applicability to this case.
That is the article they are discussing in the interview
What an absolutely awful idea.
Almost there. The affidavit could only be used if he took the stand and gave testimony inconsistent with the contents of the statement.
I'm not misunderstanding it, no. I like to make wordplay; I'm sorry it was confusing. If you reread hopefully you will see we are in agreement.
Imagine I get a grant from the local government to open a stall in the middle of town giving away free high-quality coffees. But it has long lines.

So I open another stall next to it but the lines don't seem to get much shorter even though I'm making twice as much coffee.
The Downs-Thomson Paradox makes reasonable sense, but it doesn't prove the claim from the article. It explains how adding road capacity could make traffic congestion worse (if it causes the preexisting level of mass transit availability to become unsustainable), but not why it inevitably must. For example, if mass transit in a particular city is already useless and disused then that can't happen. It also points to a way out of the paradox: Expand road capacity and subsidize mass transit availability at the same time.
Ubuntu can now stream Netflix videos via Chrome
Wouldn't you just be able to fork it and continue as a hobby project of your own? Who knows, maybe you find other enthusiasts and it becomes a real project again. Mozilla licenses are (I believe and could be wrong), quite lenient about these things.
Half right. Trial court judges make rulings of law, juried make findings of fact. An appellate court can then correct the trial court's legal errors, if necessary. But you're right that trial courts' legal rulings aren't precedential.
I wonder if anyone ever did order 1 kg of the stuff.
It's already started (csgolounge) to get big to mixed results- very popular but also very controversial.
I read into your post the idea that it's training culture and not genetics that gets so many east africans into distance running success. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Seems unlikely to me. 100m and 200m is thoroughly dominated by New World West Africans.

Mid distance 400m to 1600m is pretty well split up between Africans, Whites, and East Asians. Whites actually seem to do well at 800m.

I don't really know, but it seems there's a ton of racial genetics at play in sport.

You see in olympic/power lifting it's dominated by nordics/baltics and persians. Considering global popularity it defies ideas about training culture.
Everyone is (rightly) taking issue with your mailbox example, but the substance of your point is correct. The Fourth Amendment doesn't require that investigators get a warrant to look at information that you've already handed over to a third party. That's because the Fourth Amendment suppression-of-evidence rule protects citizens' privacy interest. If he has already made the information non-private, then investigators can't be said to have violated his expectation of privacy by accessing it.

Note that the rule doesn't require suppression of just any evidence obtained illegally -- only evidence obtained in violation of the defendant's constitutional rights (and, in particular, his right to privacy). Relatedly, note that the suppression rule is not actually written into the Fourth Amendment. It is a judicial creation to deter particularly egregious violations of the Fourth Amendment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_rule#Limitations_o...
Visiting the cemetery where Steve Jobs was laid to rest
I used to work at a pilot plant that did large scale synthesis of pharmaceuticals. The plant was a concrete structure with each reactor surrounded on three sides by two foot thick concrete walls.

The interesting thing was that there was no outside wall to the building, just a woven steel curtain. If something did explode you wanted a path for the debris. On the outside of the building was a curved ramp, like a skateboard half-pipe. That way any explosion would be directed upward rather than outward.
Yes but right after school expansion, it was not only WOM.
Netflix's data engine worth $500M a year
A classic TED talk and some classic J. H. Kunstler. Most interesting is how, despite his spot-on takedown of postwar urban planning, his dire predictions of having to adapt the suburbs to a post-oil world have been completely upended by the shale oil economy of the past decade. The suburbs got a stay of execution thanks to fracking, and the economic pressure to reform our living spaces has been relieved for now.