skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I have a lot of sympathy for aaronsw, and admired a lot of the work he did, I don't see a lot in common between the two.

The Feds. charged both, but the thing is that the charges brought against aaronsw were largely absurd. He appeared to have broken a few misdemeanor-class laws, but was charged with wire fraud and the CFAA in ways that didn't really fit what he did at all.

The Feds. are charging Ulricht with things that he mostly was personally responsible for. He very much appeared to be engaged in narcotics trafficking conspiracy, continuing criminal enterprise, computer hacking conspiracy, and money laundering conspiracy. He set up an environment where people can freely transact with one another, but tailored that environment to narcotics trafficking, credit card fraud, selling malware, and money laundering, and chose to engage in tailoring the site specifically for those things. He was fully aware of the illegal transactions occurring through his site and not only did nothing to stop it, but enabled it and profited from it. He was also hit with a Kingpin charge that probably will stick, since he was personally involved and managed an organized crime scheme.

The Silk Road designed a site for drug trafficking and other illicit activities, recruited drug and encouraged dealers, and took a commission from the sales. Since the Feds. have the server they have a sea of evidence to show how the site wasn't running with no knowledge of what transactions were happening, but tailored itself to be effective at drug, CC, and malware trafficking.

Whatever you think morally about profiting off drug deals, malware sales, CC fraud, and money laundering, the law is really clear about it.

aaronsw was engaged in a kind of hacktivism that expanded open access to public information and contributed to the open web in many ways. Ulricht was engaged in making a profit by opening a marketplace for illegal activities and tailoring it for drug deals. There's a world of difference.
having enforced commas except for the last in list is complex. if you're just looking for a random useless argument, go to the bar.
Yeah, "finding of fact" is a more apt phrasing than "ruling of fact". I thought of that after posting my comment, but felt it was a probably bit fine a distinction for the point I was making. Thanks for the clarification.
I am no lawyer, but if I understand it correctly, that is one of the reasons why they want to restructure.
Oh it definitely constrains his options. But remember you have a constitutional protection from self-incrimination, so as defendant you don't have to take the stand at all and the jury (well, the trier-of-fact which is usually a jury) is not allowed to infer anything from your unwillingness to testify. Not being able to to protest your ignorance is the price you pay for the court witholding inadmissible evidence from the scrutiny of the jury.
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> best approximated by the fastest known implementation

Best not to become so confused: " Measurement is highly specific -- the time taken for this benchmark task, by this toy program, with this programming language implementation, with these options, on this computer, with these workloads."

> `Usual`

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#measure

> `Cold`

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#java

"Here are some additional (Intel® Q6600® quad-core) elapsed time measurements, taken after the Java programs started and before they exited:

In the first case (Cold), we simply started and measured the program 66 times; and then discarded the first measurement leaving 65 data points."
“The facts contained in this program constitute a combination of the greatest number of highly sensitive facts related to NSA/CSS’s overall cryptologic mission,” the briefing document states. “Unauthorized disclosure…will cause exceptionally grave damage to U.S. national security. The loss of this information could critically compromise highly sensitive cryptologic U.S. and foreign relationships, multi-year past and future NSA investments, and the ability to exploit foreign adversary cyberspace while protecting U.S. cyberspace.”

Maybe they could have not published this one.

I'm very much interested in the Snowden Documents and am a strong advocate for civil liberties (look at some of my other posts, and the ones under the handle 'xnull').

I also repeatedly explain, on Hacker News, and other places, that there is a global cyber intelligence war and that the Snowden Leaks showed us key insights into what was going on, how it's not 'about terrorism' and a great number of other things.

But I'm bewildered by this article. It seems really damaging, and like it doesn't really add very much to the corpus they've already published.

Any ideas?

Edit: Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, etc all decide what material to publish and what material not to publish. Greenwald, by his own admission, works with US officials to redact information and to choose which stories make it out of the gate. He's also said that he isn't revealing (paraphrasing) 'the most horrendous material in the Snowden documents, for fear of the fallout'. My question should not be thought of a challenge to revealing Snowden documents as a whole. Contrary to this I think it is of the very highest service. My question is only 'why this document'?
"Brain science suggests we're not"? That isn't the title of the article, and the article doesn't even make that conclusion. It is just talking about a theory of consciousness, but nowhere does it mention any science that suggests we are not conscious.
Is it possible to deploy an MVP or at least gather signups before going too far?

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Investors dont give a shit about your idea. What they want to see is that other people are willing to buy into your idea OR if you are so amazing that your idea is ahead of its time then at least you are able to execute on it.

Until you can prove either of those, you dont have much so dont bet much.
See http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1688 for a very readable guide to why they would rule like this.

You might find it helpful to start at the very beginning of that section, which is back here: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1373

EDIT: Also this - http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2210
I aggressively use selective sync, and have since as long as I can remember yet I haven't got an email like this, so it may only affect specific users.
That's the case that Hedges said if they lost it meant the US was clearly a tyranny. And then they lost. Seems Judge Forrest got the memo.
That depends where you find it, doesn't it? If it's lying on the sidewalk, you're right. If it's sitting in the trunk of my car...
adorable, I've eaten at boloud in South Florida and it is quite a sensual celebration.
This was a great read until I reached the truncated bottom of the post.

God I hate Quora. There's the `share=1` flag but still, the end of the article is truncated and you're asked to login.

Quora wouldn't piss me off so much if they were not so annoying about me logging in and linking a social account, if they didn't post crap from my friend's facebook account who do have an account, send me spam about whatever people I know might have done (or not done) on their platform.

This is trying to gather users by pissing them off. Likely I'd have created an account since if it weren't for their aggressive behavior.
Holy telling it like it is!
I think he needs to try out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8439952 -> http://brutalhonesty.io/
It's taken me a while to understand all the hieroglyphics, but it really is a solid build system. Take a look at a complex example of cross compiling for scala.js, a single code base, with shared classes [1], for multiple versions of Scala.

My biggest complaint early on, was the Ivy resolver. Maven "pom" style packages didn't work too well. I also know there was talk of using gradle's resolution system, which was rewrote long ago. Not sure if that went anywhere.

I think the IDE story will simplify, and work better, when sbt supports sbt-server. The work is being done here [2]. However, it is much better in IDEA 14 and the newest Scala plugin.

[1] https://github.com/w3c/banana-rdf/blob/master/project/build....

[2] https://github.com/sbt/sbt-remote-control
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Let's all perform an experiment right now to show that we're conscious:

Look at an object and then turn around and face the other direction so that you can't sense it anymore. Are you still aware that the object is there? If yes, congratulations! You have consciousness.

That object you looked at still exists as a pattern of neuron potentials within your brain's inner state. If you have a corresponding inner state for an external object, you possess some degree of consciousness.
Your comment makes me think about this a bit differently. I live in NYC, and end up driving through it once every couple of months. While I'm normally sympathetic to people who hate anything that makes things easier for drivers and worse for pedestrians, if NYC is a model for "traffic calming", it's terrible, because I'm very angry and aggressive after 15 minutes of trying to drive in this place. I don't want to drive often, and I don't want to encourage more driving, but I want driving to be less difficult. Maybe make street parking 2-hour-max everywhere so there's room for cars and trucks to stop so they don't stop in the middle of the road, and they're forced to pay for off-road parking overnight, etc. Or something else, I don't know. That sounds severe, but the situation is already ridiculous.
What happened to the ideals of transparency? Was that given up along the way to an enterprise sized government?
Now you've doubled your RAM requirements, because all but the newest consumer routers use NOR flash and can directly execute code from the flash without having to copy it to RAM first. If you have to start using RAM to hold code and static data in addition to transient stuff, you're going to need to bump up a size and that's going to ruin the profit margins on all the dirt-cheap low-end routers out there.
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everyones gotta start somewhere
Business would be much more expensive if there were not social pressure (I don't know how that relates to morality) to pay back debts. I think large corporations doing strategic defaults badly damages this social contract and is effectively big business profiting by depleting our communal well of public trust.
"A toast! To justice... and to vampires!"

That made my day.
A while back I was with a friend, and in the course of a conversation she referred to another person we know by "what a fucking nerd." I said "don't you call yourself a nerd?" And she replied "Well yeah, but not a real nerd."

I don't play games much anymore, but I still have affection for them. I have watched the gamergate thing unfold and began to feel things I hadn't felt in a long time. It took me a little while but I finally remembered. It felt like back when being a "nerd" wasn't cool, and your peers treated you like human garbage for loving science fiction or typing code from a book into a Commodore 64.

I don't think a god damn thing has changed about people hating nerds, except nowadays you pretend you're tolerant and enlightened so you have to construct a moral failing that the nerd is guilty of even if they didn't personally do anything to you. Then they're fair game for name-calling and personal abuse. Basement-dweller neckbeard dateless permavirgin fedoralord.
It's nearly criminal that Douglas Hofstadter's 'I Am a Strange Loop' is mentioned nowhere in the article.
I have to say that's one of the worst rules I've ever heard. Anyone should be able to object to illegally-obtained evidence. And consent should not be retroactive, in the case of cutting a deal.

Is the a reason the rules are this way? It's certainly not because of what the 4th amendment actually says.

This seriously hurts my faith in the entire common law system.
Fascinating! Nice to see it in both an overlay and in a sense of time.
I agree. SBT has a steep learning curve, though fortunately the 0.13.x branch is much simpler than it was in the past.

Lots of great stuff has been done with SBT plugins as well. I have an SBT project that will spin up multiple JVMs for distributed integration testing, build and push Docker images tagged with the current git branch, spin up external services under test and more. Once you get the hang of it, these things fall in place easily.

Also, Typesafe has really improved SBT's documentation over the past year. Plus a lot of the odder syntax choices have been replaced in favor of := instead.
This is great, I think we get so caught up with the caricatures and stereo-types, such authentic collection that tells stories and sets context opens our mind to the distances people traveled even in those old days and how open minded people were even then.
The comment is terrible because you lack the qualifications to comment outside if your own personal expertise (whatever that may be). Second, assuming you get to comment, you will be working for free. Not much money. So yeah, two thumbs down. awful comment

See what I did there :P
Thank you! Living the dream. (if you only knew the torturous hours I worked ;) )
> making the lanes narrower does make it actually more dangerous.

I think you're being downvoted in part because the linked article refutes your viewpoint. There's even a pullquote saying "States and counties believe that wider lanes are safer. And in this belief, they are dead wrong." Followed up in the text by "Or, to be more accurate, they are wrong, and thousands of Americans are dead."

And "The lane widths in the analyses conducted were generally either not statistically significant or indicated that narrower lanes were associated with lower rather than higher crash frequencies."
There is nothing "responsible disclosure" about not reporting these to the people affected. Another example of why that term is terrible.
> There's a world of difference.

Agreed. Of course.

aaronsw is a personal hero of mine. I'm not trying to elevate Ross / DPR to that level.

I do think, though, that subverting controls that inhibit free consensual activity between adults is virtuous.

Furthermore, I'm not at all convinced that Ross did most of the things you mention. The indictment reads like a product of zeal and overreach, not a dispassionate document outlining a person's conduct and how it clearly violates plain language.

That he has been denied bail on this basis (especially when he hasn't been charged with the offenses that constituted the entirety of his bail hearing) is egregious and further suggests that he's being specifically targeted.
"And there is no way for the brain to determine through introspection that the story is wrong, because introspection always accesses the same incorrect information."

That statement is a contradiction, presuming the author has a brain. Consciousness is, if anything, the ability to be skeptical about the illusions our brains create. And no matter how deep the rabbit hole goes (our perception of ourselves is another dimension of illusion), we are all aware, at least some of the time, about these illusions. And that skepticism is what allows us to slowly, methodically wade through the swampy waters of our mind and to eventually build monuments (metaphorically and actually).

The author built a straw man (a muddled, confused straw man) and then deftly tore it down with the skill of a small child. It would be prudent to assume that his book chronicles a similarly sophisticated analysis of the mind, and so should be avoided at all costs.
Elevate the stores.
Tufte wrote a ton about this map for those interested: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard
Just ask a father in law
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Fair enough, I already have signups as well as potential investors (I declined them because I didn't feel they were a good fit).

As for an MVP, I need about $150,000 to get the business going. I already have a basic prototype, but would need to dedicate time to finish it.
I'd strongly consider spending two years at Big Daddy G, living like a monk, and revisiting this problem again when you have a bit of industry experience, a credential ("previously employed at Google"), and $50k in the bank, so that you're not immediately crushed by the combination of "no revenue" and "$2k monthly student loan payment."

It is highly unlikely that the market will materially change out-from-under your present idea in two years, and even more unlikely that this will be the last idea you ever have for a business.
Totally agree on first point, especially since 0.13.5.

Yeah I think native-packager is great [1].

I wish they didn't bork the template of the docs, it looks terrible. The content is better though for sure [2].

[1] https://github.com/sbt/sbt-native-packager

[2] http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13/docs/index.html
The footnote at the bottom of p3 {1} is hilarious and the referenced law contradicts what the prosecution claim it says.

Paraphrase: 'we said we requested the search using MLAT but then we realised we don't have that agreement with Sweden, so it was probably 2001 CoE Convention on Cybercrime {2} or if it wasn't that then it was comity; we don't really want to say' - presumably they made this up after the fact. I'd be asking for records of the communications.

At Art 15(1) [which is specifically mentioned in the articles on search and seizure] it says:

>"Each Party shall ensure that the establishment, implementation and application of the powers and procedures provided for in this Section are subject to conditions and safeguards provided for under its domestic law, which shall provide for the adequate protection of human rights and liberties, including rights arising pursuant to obligations it has undertaken under the 1950 Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the 1966 United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other applicable international human rights instruments, and which shall incorporate the principle of proportionality." //

That "each party" means that the state requesting the search and that being requested to do the search, in this case Sweden and USA, have to ensure that they abide by the "safeguards provided for under its domestic law". That means that contrary to what the FBI are claiming if they used this 2001 CoE Convention on Cybercrime to request the search then USA restrictions must be applied to the request, eg the Fourth Amendment.

This {3} recent Cybercrime Convention document reiterates that domestic laws must be applied in certain circumstances (see eg Section 3.2). It specifically relates to Art 32 (unilateral searches of publicly available data) but the language used is such as to reiterate the general principle running through the Convention of the requirement to apply all relevant domestic laws.

This 2001 Convention being used relies on other international laws, I wouldn't be surprised if the cited UN convention also means that a court must be involved in the issue of the request. The Art 15(2) ibid appears to say that an independent or judicial review of the request is required.

tl;dr if the footnote on p3 is correct and {2} was used then, just as for the Pennsylvannia server the USA authorities needed to satisfy USA domestic law before requesting the Swedish authorities search and imaged the server there. If they would have needed a court issued warrant if that server were in USA then they still needed one to make the request under the Cybercrime Convention.

{1} https://www.scribd.com/doc/238796613/Silk-Road-Prosecution-4...

{2} http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/html/185.htm

{3} http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/cooperation/economiccrime/Source/C...

I am not a lawyer; this is not legal advice.
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> if NYC is a model for "traffic calming", it's terrible, because I'm very angry and aggressive after 15 minutes of trying to drive in this place.

"Traffic calming" is a euphemism for telling drivers to go fuck themselves. If traffic increases to meet capacity, traffic calming is trying to reverse that. By punishing drivers, and making it incredibly shitty to drive, traffic is reduced.

It's a feature, not a bug.
Wow, this was like the nutshell cracked and the universe spilled out ...
Unfortunately, the Oculus has some issues with full flight sims. It's still extremely neat tech, but I don't think I'll be giving up head tracking for it any time soon.

First, there's the resolution issue. I've only used DK2, but its resolution was so low that I was unable to read the dials/HUD without getting my face super close to them, which presents major issues when trying to maintain situational awareness.

Second, no matter how many buttons and switches you have on your HOTAS, you're going to have to manipulate something with your keyboard/mouse at some point. This causes some obvious problems when you have an Oculus strapped to your head.
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get out of debt as soon as you can.
But the thing is the judge gave them exactly that option and Ulbricht's lawyer inexplicably declined to take it - see page 22 onwards.

So either a) Ulbright can't prove he owns the server (in which case he can't very well claim privacy rights in something that's not his property to start with), or b) he is not willing to, even though doing so might keep most of the evidence out of trial. Maybe that's because of some super-clever legal tactic they plan to unveil at appeal (although this seems very unlikely, as this is such a basic procedural issue) or maybe it's for some extrajudicial reason, like because it would reveal the identity of some partner in crime who would then seek terrible revenge. Or any other number of other possibilities.
How do you get suspended every year and get into Harvard? Mind you, that makes me respect Harvard a bit more. Not just mindless strivers, perhaps. But in my preppy liberal arts school, I don't think that could ever happen.
It appears the circumstance is more specific than simply using selective sync.

> This problem occurred when the Dropbox desktop application shut down or restarted while users were applying Selective Sync settings.

So, you must be in the midst of applying selective sync settings while the app shuts down or restarts. Although I'm not sure what they mean when they say, "while users were applying selective sync settings." I'm not sure if this means:

A) Changes made in the selection dialog box, but not committed (by clicking OK).

or

B) Changes committed, but still syncing.

The former is an edge case, the later, not so much.
Maybe it is now, but not when this got posted hours and hours ago.
Actually running marathon distance downhill is very hard on quads, so for Boston people specifically train running downhill. In fact, for any marathon event, training course usually closely resembles the event (e.g. hills, downhill, level sections).
You say that as though you think there isn't a significant economic benefit to having a more efficient transportation network. Having higher-capacity roads is beneficial even if they aren't toll roads.
No. While the car is legally in your possession and you leave it closed, you have an expectation of privacy even though you don't own the vehicle title outright.
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So, you're reaffirming what I said (i.e. Google didn't do a good job) as their preview works only on two devices - their own Nexus 5 and 7 (not even on Nexus 10 or Nexus 7 LTE; it's safe to assume that the first generation of Nexus 7 is not supported either).
I think what they mean is:

1. Don't do it for money because you will hate your life if there is no other meaning for you.

2. You are more likely to have blind spots if you are chasing the money, and thus fail.

3. Chances of failure are high regardless, but if you like what you do you at least build skills that will lead your career in a happier direction. If it was just for money you are back at square one.