skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally think that I should be skeptical of information released by entities that have a vested interest in influencing public opinion.

I think it highly likely that the prosecution is going over the evidence that it intends to use with a fine-toothed comb to avoid potential embarrassments during discovery. As this is a somewhat newsworthy case, they are going to be particularly cautious about making sure all the keystone facts are supported by admissible evidence. On top of that, they have to conceal some of their tactics so that they can continue to use them successfully in the future.

If Ulbricht did solicit murder for hire, I'm not entirely certain that he would have even thought of trying that if government agents were not already investigating him, due to his involvement in the drug trade. It might have been entrapment, just as a means of putting him into police custody, making him unable to interfere with further investigations by erasing trails that had not yet been followed, and also providing a means to seize his Bitcoins.

By that hypothesis, the state suspects he is Dread Pirate Roberts, but lacks the evidence to prove it. People in custody are less able to shield themselves from investigations. So they set him up with an illegal entrapment that would not necessarily support a conviction, but is plenty good enough for an indictment and arrest. Then they grab him and execute warrants based on the "I gotcha, sucka" charges that will end up supporting the drug kingpin case. With that access, they make seizures and file civil forfeiture cases against the assets, because the legal standards for those are woefully skewed in the state's favor. The prosecutor declines to pursue the murder for hire charges because he always knew they were bogus, and instead dumps all the gathered evidence into the drug trafficking and racketeering charges, as it is now sanitized by warrants under the previous indictment.

If that is indeed what has happened here, and it results in a conviction, I don't care how guilty Ulbricht is, because the state should not be able to corrupt our legal system in that fashion. He should go free, and the prosecutors and police that were involved should fill that cell in his place.
Apple’s Surge in iPhone Sales Matched by Mac
Thanks all. Good responses. Though I have to say I'm a bit nostalgic for formality at times (and slightly disappointed). Hope that doesn't make me a snob. On the Godel, Escher, Bach, note - I just heard a great interview with Douglas Hofstadter on Radiolab - worth a listen.
The average man's body in different countries
Just a small note i'd like to contribute, always save dates in UTC format and transform it on the client side (js for example)

It helps a lot when you're building a globalized application.
$12/year. $12. Twelve. Dollars.
AltoMail
I think what he is saying is that the willingness to have multiple failed experiments is what makes Google.

He mentioned a ton of other experiments including self driving cars, Google is so large that they continually create two or more internally competitive products because no other company can compete with them.
Linux and Pentesting
Hm. Glasses are a poor example (they are having a style-comeback right now) but I understand the point. Leg braces are not considered attractive.

How do we explain the impulse to protect and nurture the weak and vulnerable? Many people marry someone they see as needing them. This is a human impulse too.
Just for you! https://github.com/Shervanator/feeling_lucky
Ukraine War 2014  Donetsk airport battle destruction
Pixelmator for iPad
Indeed - although the Microsoft vs US gov nonsense regarding Ireland is really the US gov taking their own cloud businesses out and shooting them, because it makes no difference where the data is if the operating company is HQed in the US.

That said, I wouldn't be so naive as to trust any government not to be attacking cloud providers, but it's important for companies making decisions to understand the jurisdictions their data will end up being regulated by.
I think the author means a person should feel as though they are capable of having privacy, if they desire it, and those outlets should be accessible.

That is just my opinion on how I read this statement, though. True autonomy allows you to select your own inference, but once again, paradoxically, this is my opinion!
I always get the sense of cognitive dissonance when I read security researches and advocates write about passwords and fingerprints. If you have access to my device, you have access to my physical person, and my physical person will freely give up any password because no secret I have is worth my life. This isn't Hollywood, I'll give up my password with even the hint of physical violence that could maim or otherwise affect my quality of life.

Fingerprint readers, as Apple uses them per device backed by a strong high entropy password, are good enough for securing the average persons access to a device.

My physical security, something much more dear to me than my secrets, is protected not by keys and tumblers, but by a 1/4 inch of glass that can be cut through in seconds with $5 from the hardware store. Even the key and lock can be circumvented with a rubber mallet and a bump key, or a set of picks. So why use them? Because locks keep honest people honest, and those looking to cause you harm will cause you harm, regardless of what digital security you use.
This has a lot to do with heroku, I believe.
Yeah, I can't help but think we've reinvented the wheel. Modern dynamic languages like Ruby, Python, JS, Clojure, are just now catching up to the state-of-the-art that Smalltalk achieved in the 1980s.
You know it's just a sticker, right? :) I always take all stickers off my laptops.

But, yes, I wish the XPS 13 had a 16GB option.
That's a crazy amount of money. But I'll be honest... if I had a ton of money I would buy it too. IMO, this is a part of computing history that is very important. I think having a collection of the history of computers would be awesome.
This is a great argument for a high minimum wage.
Hey, it's great if you manage to get your kids into several hours of group activities with a mixture of kids on the majority of days.

But in my experience, many parents who home school mostly fail on this "not hard" task. So maybe it is harder than you're making out? Or maybe my sample set isn't very good, it's not like I've done a broad study, I'm just taking this from families and adults (who were home schooled) that I know personally.

This may be a bit of unfair stereotype, but in my experience there are plenty of real world examples backing it up.
Happy 10th Bday Selenium
I guess a counter-argument against this idea would be all of the restrictions on commercial drivers. I think truck drivers are only allowed to drive so many hours per day.

Imagine self driving trucks could drive through the night, 24 hours per day. That alone could make quite a difference.
How Tinder Co-founder Whitney Wolfe Hacked Metcalfe’s Law
First thing I thought of was `24601!`
Nothing to do with priors. Has to do with weights and priorities. Or is that what you mean by 'priors'?
At $5, this is a steal. (I was honestly expecting $10, as is the case with Photoshop). It's extremely fast, especially on an iPad Air 2.
Buckminster Fuller Prize 2014 Awarded to Living Breakwaters Project
Ask HN: What are your working tunes?
I really get things done with the Album Leaf's Enchanted Hill album. Unfortunately, the album eventually ends. Looking to add to the arsenal, so I want to know: what are some artists or albums that seem to put you in the zone?
Ask HN: Is the 'yesterday's weather' story true?
Hey all, many of you are likely familiar with the 'yesterday's weather' anecdote from Extreme Programming, that goes something like this:

'Some country decides to build a sophisticated computer system to predict the weather. After spending more money than I can imagine, they come up with wonderful result - and proudly claim that the system is 70% accurate. Somebody then figures out that in this country if you predict today's weather will be the same as yesterday's weather you will be 69.5% accurate.' (Taken from Martin Fowler's blog)

It's often used in Agile as parable for estimating that you will do the same amount of work this iteration as you did in the last one.

I am curious: Is this story apocryphal? Real? Some mix of both? I am very curious about its origin and I'm having a hard time finding anything. Academic interest, not trying to undermine anyone's process ;)
Other data points...

StackOverflow questions

- MySQL: 279,125

- PostgreSQL: 32,040

Github repository results

- MySQL: 16,476

- PostgreSQL: 4,332
7 Spectacular Social Media Blunders
Basically Germany has their own set of consumer protection laws (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz) that are more stringent than the EU laws. There is an ongoing struggle if these laws should be regulated at EU level or at national level since some countries vastly differ in their attitudes in this space and common ground is difficult to establish.

In my personal experience the 'requirement' of some companies that data must be hosted in Germany is their own internal policy rather than something that is prescribed by their reading of the law. However there have been some court rulings where servers hosted in Germany are applied additional restrictions over servers hosted in Ireland.

A lot of this may also have to do with own interests. In the 80s and 90s every EU country wanted US silicon fabs in their underdeveloped regions. Now every country wants hosting farms.
I hope that was a charity auction otherwise that outcome is quite ridiculous and quite sad. $900k could be better spent.
If the article is right and the cost of human labor really does fall, isn't it conceivable that you'd see teams of drivers driving day and night in shifts? (This would be much like pilots on long-haul flights).
Getting started with Go and test-driven development
JScrambler: Obfuscate Your JavaScript, HTML5, Node.js or Mobile Code
Om nom, this is highly tasty. I hope one day all libraries will be accessible like that.
I was a bit confused until I realized what account I was logged in as...

"Certified at 123.123.123.123"
Ubuntu 14.10 released
The Top 20 Most Popular Verticals to Start Companies In
You can fairly easily build your own.
The vast majority of gamers don't spend anything.

The thing about free to play games with in app purchase is that there are a few "whales" who spend so much money they dominated all revenue statistics. Here's a video from Kongregate talking about this phenomenon on their platform (which has since broadened to include android games):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekz466sDprg&feature=youtu.be...
Browsenpm.org – an interactive guide for exploring package.json
>they were specially inclined to follow crazy orders.

This sounds more like post-hoc justification for war. It isn't exactly novel to paint the enemy as "not like us" or as having that one trait that happens to make them a dangerous people.
> The 1976 Copyright Act did not address how copyright were to protect software.

This is inaccurate. The 1976 Act did address how copyright protected software -- in that software was already recognized as within the scope of protection of copyright prior to the 1976 Act (as noted upthread, for, at a minimum, more than a decade prior) and 17 USC Sec. 117 under the 1976 Act stated explicitly that protections regarding covered works used in conjunction with computers were exactly identical to the general protections regarding such works [1] -- however Congress also recognized that that was likely not the best final answer, and so Congress also created the commission you refer to address how copyright protections should most appropriately be specialized to deal with new technology, especially computers.

> Public domain software, that is software that did not get copyright licenses added to them, was the norm before proprietary software.

Software without an explicit license was not public domain, it was and is software with an unspecified and implicit license determined by the context of the sale; public domain software is software delivered with an explicit dedication to the public domain [2].

[1] 17 USC Sec. 117 under the 1976 act, "Scope of exclusive rights: use in conjunction with computers and similar information systems. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 through 116 and 118, this title does not afford the owner of copyright in a work any greater or lesser rights with respect to the use of the work in conjunction with automatic systems capable of storing, processing, retrieving, or transferring information, or in conjunction with any similar device, machine, or process, than those afforded to works under the law, whether title 17 or the common law or statutes of a State, in effect on December 31, 1977, as held applicable and construed by a court in an action brought under this title."

[2] Given the automatic effect of copyright and the lack of any explicit recognition of such declarations, its quite possible that this isn't really public domain but merely a very expansive gratuitous license that is still, e.g., revocable at will (a revocation whose effect against someone who had acted in reliance prior to the revocation may be subject to limitation by way of promissory estoppel) as are all gratuitous licenses, but this is as close to public domain as it gets.
A Philosopher's Approach to Philanthropy
Since that is the 'current consensus' as you say, it seems like the ocaml community converged on the opinion I formed 10 years ago. But it wasn't necessarily the consensus then.
Chris Kemp mentioned that Google runs one VM per machine and all of the containers in that VM for security reasons. Any googlers out there that can expand on this?
Their pop-over android app is fantastic. Though yes, focus on UI/UX for the next year, way more benefits that way.
This Is Color: A Weird Little Lesson, in Rainbow Order
iCloud has been hacked again
I could say that about most things that people spend money on, but it's not my money to spend.
You don't have to be like the average. That's actually the point in the whole home-schooling thing. You can do it right. Its clearly not hard to join social groups; look at all the people already in those groups! They did it.

I'd not take the failings of some, as a condemnation of the whole practice. The only one who matters to you is you - can you do it? Start with a small step - join a group with your student, see if the quality of social interaction is different from their public school experience. How do you tell? You ask your student.
Well a driver less car is certainly more expensive than the uber provided driver if your ignore the costs of the drivers car, the costs of getting them to the age the can drive, teaching them to drive, and on and on and on.

The issue I see is that driver less cars have to be better than the better than average driver. Equal to an average driver is not sufficient. Even an average driver can tell the difference between a cardboard box and a block of concrete in the road, can follow detour signs, and more.

Driver less cars and public transportation may end up either competing or playing off each other. Who knows. Though I would expect driver less buses and semi trucks far sooner than individual cars - there is at least a market fo those. Heck I see still drives on trains, I guess until we can end that position how do we expect cars to go it alone? (and train drivers are responsible for some major accidents both with people and cargo)
Amazon's list isn't long enough (yet)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com#Acquisitions_and_in...
It's strange. I have a hard time remembering why I liked Ubuntu right away. ... works out of the box mindset

Ubuntu was literally the first Linux distro I have ever used where everything on my PC worked out of the box.

Installing Windows (of that age, XP) on the same PC would result in spending a day or weekend hunting and installing drivers for obscure things here and there, but in Ubuntu everything just worked.

I had never seen anything like that before (on PCs at least), and that made a solid impression which still makes it my default, despite a interest and curiosity trying in other distros like Elementary or NixOS.
When you don't see a future ..make a future
Yes, Cutters Lounge (yes, a weird name for native english speakers :) is an appointment booking software.
In the beginning we focused on hair dressers, but as we've learned from them in the past years we are about to expand to other industries as well.
What I'd really like to see in AngularJS is some sort of asynchronous module system a la AMD. Doesn't have to be AMD, but some way to not have to load a whole app in memory at once. I thought I saw a design document that mentioned they were considering this for AngularJS 2.0, does anyone know more about it?

I do know that you can use requirejs, does anyone have any experience to share using requirejs and angularjs?
I'm on Ubuntu, I haven't customized anything except the background color of the terminal :) And this from someone who was a developer on Windows for 14+ years.
The Fed is telling Wall Street banks to clean up their ethics or get broken up
School as babysitter is probably the place they fail the most. They fail to keep your kid safe from other sociopathic kids. They fail to occupy them sufficiently. They fail to feed them well.

If your public school were a babysitter, you'd fire them.
Depends. If you use Touch ID on an app, you could use your own iphone and fool its scanner.
Heck, I still find that difficult if installing Debian on a laptop today. Ubuntu did so much things right, it's easy to forget all the pains it fixed.
I legitimately don't understand how Oracle remains so popular.

I mean, I use it at work, but that is because this project dates back to the late 1980s(!) and decisions were made 20+ years ago.

It doesn't even support a Boolean type(!), costs a ton (over 2x MS SQL, 4x Postgres), passwords are limited to 30 characters, up until 2007 passwords were case insensitive, error feedback is "basic," and the syntax is horrific.

Oh and don't get me started on how poorly Oracle maps to programming languages. number(9,0) and number(18,0) is not an intuitive way to map into int32 and int64!

Microsoft's bigint, int, smallint for 64, 32, 16 respectively is far more intuitive.
Ello converts to a PBC with a charter forbidding advertising as a revenue source
Coping in a Drier World: California's Drought Survival Strategy
Upload files to Slack chat from the command-line
Why I no longer contribute to StackOverflow
I too thought this was an actual experiment. I can't believe you're not logging stuff… I bet a "game" like this would totally be a gold mine for psychologists/sociologists and behavioral scientists alike… :D
There is the Dell XPS 13 developer edition which comes from Dell with Ubuntu... ThinkPads work great with Ubuntu (at least the T, X, and W series), I've been using a T530 for a few years now and every single function key, the fingerprint reader, absolutely every feature it has works. And of course there are a few boutique manufacturers that ship Linux systems.

I'm sure other laptops work great with Ubuntu but these are the ones I'm familiar with...
It's the least they could do.

Now let's open up the rest of the archives of all the manuscripts and artwork they've stolen and confiscated in the name of "moral purity."
Launching ServiceWorker Without Breaking the Web
I don't think this is necessary.

"You invested a lot of time in developing your JS code.
Why give it away for free?"

-- Because its the right thing to do.
You could also just disable spotlight:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

and use [Alfred](http://www.alfredapp.com/).
Usage and popularity is not the same thing though, even if they are all to often conflated.

I use MySQL and absolutely hate it.
like cnbuff410 said : You don't have to change your OS for Ubuntu if your only problem is spam. But a switch to linux is mostly always a good option :)

If you want, Just open a google account (if you don't have one) and redirect everything via pop3 or by any other way to your gmail address to centralize everything. You will have all their anti-spam solution working for you ;) You can then sync all your device with the new address and use gmail for iOS on your IPhone.
If Ulbricht is guilty for providing a safe place to buy illegal drugs then aren't San Francisco and other cities complicit since they hand out clean needles freely for addicts to use? Sure the idea behind it is noble but aren't both still technically illegal whether you supply the paraphernalia and you absolutely know what will be done with it or whether you provide a safe environment where people can trade $ for drugs?
If I had a completely unreasonable amount of money I would buy this, quite a bit out of my price range.
Here are some ideas I'd like to see a union fix for our industry:

Agesism in tech

Non payment for employees or contractors

Protect programmers refusing tasks on ethical grounds

Establish ethical standards

Better working conditions - quiet offices, not open floor plans

Working from home when practical

minimum vacation time (not pooled with sick days)

No 2 day exploding offers

Dignity in job interviews

(Can you guys think of any more?)
On Wasting Time
Alfred uses Spotlight's index though, so disabling Spotlight will probably break Alfred.
I'd say "cynical" rather than "conservative." Most people here aren't against change, it's that we've all been burned by these things, time and time again.
Nigeria Ranks Third Amongst Countries Rapidly Importing Talent
"Finally, someone who has the guts to admit that their [game] wasn't built in a weekend!"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8492636

Still, it always deeply impresses me when I see how quickly tiny development teams could crank out AAA titles in the 90s, working with tools that could be considered parchment and quill by today's standards.
The Congo Airport Playground
So what are the choices for people in oppressed countries?
Use an altcoin or just hope that nobody implements this attack?
Mystery of the Email “J” Finally Solved
Did anyone notice this link on that site?

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21652/lot/188/

How cool, I wish they had put it into production.
Metrics Are Not the Only Thing That Matters in a Startup
No, they're based upon a detailed explanation of the evidence of the state, given to a Grand Jury, who determines whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed to trial. That document is available publicly as an indictment.

Some indictments are bogus, some are solid. This one is solid. Also, since we're not lynching anybody that makes us at least slightly better than a lynch mob.

(P.S. we need a law like Godwin's for lynch mob references.)
I prefer attempted murder to drug laws. One psychopath does less damage than a government of micromanaging geriatrics.
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Was using DA. The shortcut would be Alt Gr + 2 (so the right side alt key).
> "Allopathic" is a term used by some medical cranks to refer to real medicine

It's just a synonym for mainstream medicine, but one that specifically highlights the assumptions underlying mainstream medicine. It's not a great term, but it's probably the least worst alternative that exists... Other terms like evidence-based medicine, western medicine, modern medicine, etc., are inherently misleading or biased. E.g. the term 'evidence-based medicine' presupposes the idea that mainstream medicine is mostly or entirely based on evidence, 'modern medicine' presupposed the idea that everything outside of mainstream medicine is inherently inferior, the phrase 'western medicine' is hegemonic, etc.