skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the more blameless you are the less leverage you will have to push back against the inevitable intrusion"

That's really well put. People seem to miss the fact that in a surveillance society it's not necessarily your privacy that you will most regret losing, it's the privacy of those groups you agree with who are opposed to some powerful faction.
yea, but, there is this tid-bit:

"During the Government’s investigation, which was conducted jointly by the FBI and HSI, an HSI agent acting in an undercover capacity (the “HSI-UC”) successfully infiltrated the support staff involved in the administration of the Silk Road 2.0 website, and was given access to private, restricted areas of the site reserved for BENTHALL and his administrative staff. By doing so, the HSI-UC was able to interact directly with BENTHALL throughout his operation of the website."

I realize it's vague but seems conceivable this level of access would allow you to connect the dots. No?
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You do realise that it doesn't need to be streaming 48kHz 24 bit audio back up don't you? It could be something really low, like GSM which is 13.2 kbit/s. AMR is even lower! So to stream audio at the threshold where it is still legible, it doesn't need masses and masses of data as you presume.
Yes, shame on him for not standing on a street corner like any respectable drugs dealer.
Amazon Echo seems like a step in the right direction towards ubiquitous comupting (+ AI). It reminds me of "Jarvis" from the Iron Man series.

I'd also be surprised if Google isn't concerned by this. Likes of Siri, Cortana have long been touted as Google-search killer, and I think something more advanced/powerful than Amazon Echo will have the potential to do just that.
Just tried this out, great docs and library!
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This may be true but it doesn't seem necessary if you believe this:

During the Government’s investigation, which was conducted jointly by the FBI and HSI, an HSI agent acting in an undercover capacity (the “HSI-UC”) successfully infiltrated the support staff involved in the administration of the Silk Road 2.0 website, and was given access to private, restricted areas of the site reserved for BENTHALL and his administrative staff. By doing so, the HSI-UC was able to interact directly with BENTHALL throughout his operation of the website.
I'd tend to agree with you, I don't think its the same. I'm in university for SEng right now and my father has been in IT since before I was born (in 93). I've been surrounded by technology my whole life, but instead of Amigas and Apple IIs it was Windows 95 on some nameless, beige machine.

I have fond memories of learning how to interact with the family PC but nothing close to what I read about the original days when home computing and hacker culture was growing. It makes me envious to a degree, like I love programming and all that comes with it but when I read pieces like this that evoke so much fond emotion attached to the skill...I don't know...its a little foreign. To me programming and computing in general is this thing that I am good at, that brings me happiness because I like to solve problems but to people like the author it seems like something more. A dear loved one that will always warm their heart.

I'm not sure it will ever be the same as it was back then, to be a pioneer...
Want to be really impressed and horrified? See if you can dig out the 90s Wired article on the Colombians using an AS/400 to do analysis of copies of telco records. Whenever they found the logs showing cartel members calling numbers registered to police officers, they'd kill the cartel member.

Big data before it was cool.
Excellent. Seriously, that was fun to read. Thanks.
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I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on John Hasnas' "Myth of the Rule of Law".

http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
I'm surprised by the privacy backlash in this thread! I understand why this product is so scary for someone who is concerned about privacy, but how is this that much worse than all the other devices you use?

You carry a smart-phone that presumably has GPS, a microphone, and a camera everywhere you go. There's a camera and microphone on your laptop too. Both are cloud connected. If the NSA (or any other super-power) wants to spy on you, they can and will. I believe we've learned that if nothing else w/ all of Snowden's revelations.

IMO if you detest this device's privacy it can only because either:
A) You take your privacy VERY seriously, to the point you avoid most mainstream technology and exclusively use burner feature-phones and Tor
B) You trust Amazon less than you trust Google, Apple, or others.

I am going to assume it's more the latter than the former. (If not, you really do not represent the mainstream and this audience isn't what I expected).

So assuming B, question for you: why don't you trust Amazon? I actually trust Amazon more than I trust Google or Apple. They have always delivered for me as a customer, and I believe they've always put me first.

*Edited to correct former/latter reversal.
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Thanks for linking the paper! I'll definitely read over that. I've heard it mentioned before ...

I'm definitely not an R guru or "in" on the latest news, but it seems that Hadley Wickham (who probably single handedly is the reason R is still relevant) now works for the RStudio guys and he's reworking his tools. plyr is now dplyr and gpplot2 is now ggvis. And there also another tool called tinyr. My understanding is that they're still in development, but they'll ultimately provide an "integrated" ecosystem for processing data.frames (with hooks into the RStudio IDE)

He talks about it at the beginning of this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wki0BqlztCo
Actually, Berne Convention and thus copyright covers this under the description Moral rights (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights).

In the US, slander and libel is mostly used to cover this. For example, the publishers are liable if they cause harm to the reputation of the photographer or anyone in the pictures.
Don't burn CurrentC at the Apple Pay heresy stake just yet
Also he took a cut of every transaction
Barely hatched and condemned as the Anti-Apple Pay, CurrentC could improve shopping experiences in the microcosm of a retailer’s brand in ways that Apple Pay’s brand macrocosm can’t. It’s premature to burn CurrentC at the Apple heresy stake.
This article was written for web developers, and your comment makes it clear that you are not one. You are not in the target audience and you shouldn't be upset about this.
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Siri literally said "You're a baby!" to my 1.5 year old daughter the other day when she tried to talk to it.
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Thanks marbemac! Thats mostly true but there are a couple things to note:

* That math is based last month's earnings. If next month the earnings go up or expenses go down, the payouts would increase. Here is the break down of September: https://assembly.com/coderwall/posts/september-finances

* The proceeds are paid out every month for the life of Coderwall. Several contributors earned over $500-1,000+ for previous contributions even though they didn't contribute much this last month.

* Everyone can participate in determining the value of bounty, if you feel its too low, you can bump it up and additionally discuss it the thread.

* There are a lot of products that don't earn as much stable revenue and therefore bounty values are more aligned with risks and opportunities.
... And yet, any geek gets irritated if interrupted while deep in code, or even a game.
A few years ago I saw this position opening and immediately applied for the same reason, it sounded like an incredible adventure. I was rejected as I should have been... unfortunately I'm a developer not an IT professional. Maybe someday they'll have an opening for an embedded developer and I'll get to spend a winter in Antarctica...

Edit:
I looked through my old emails and I applied for the UNIX Systems Administrator position on April 25, 2012. I must have done it after reading this exact article!

Edit2:
This is the original job description:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120609030319/http://icecube.wi...
Silk Road 2 Isn’t Alone: Two Other Drug Markets Seized and Counting
I'd consider 11 tasks for at least $50/mo. for the foreseeable future an interesting investment, at the least.
As someone who recently shifted from an academic, paper writing position to a bigCo job,

"Don't."

That's really all I can say. No matter how good you think it is, it will break your spirit, and if doing meaningful work at a reasonable pace is what's important for you, you (probably, there are always exceptions) won't get it in the corporate world.

EDIT: (I realize this is a very delayed response, but I've been mulling over this very issue for a few days now and it's something rather painfully close to home for me.)
Humans suck at estimating risk. From the Wikipedia article on motorcycle safety[1]:

Per vehicle mile traveled, motorcyclists' risk of a fatal crash is 35 times greater than a passenger car.

In 2012, the US had 23 fatalities per 100 million miles ridden. If you do the math, riding 4,000 miles a year for 40 years gives you a 4.2% chance of dying in an accident. That's just death. It doesn't include getting crippled or having permanent brain damage.

You would be crazy to ride in a car that gave such a high risk of death. In fact, any car that dangerous would not be allowed on the road, and any excuses about mitigating risk would be laughed at. It is an accident of history that society allows motorcycles. If they were invented today, there would be zero chance of them being allowed on streets.

Paradoxically, the only sane place to ride a motorcycle is a race track. With no obstacles, large run-off areas, trained riders, and plenty of armor, injuries are minor.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_safety
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We clearly need the Enterprise's central computer in our homes. With microcomputers getting more and more and more powerful, this should be possible (unless Moriarty turns up and takes control from the holodeck....)

In all seriousness, with Wikipedia being 22GB in textual state, it should be possible to build an offline system (that perhaps syncs online for news).
Or a laptop, or an iPad, or anything with a microphone on, really.
I am used to seeing HN crap on Beats headphones. Even though they're great for playing the target demographics favorite music hip hop and bass heavy pop, fine if you don't like the product then you don't like the product. But to see people in tech complain about something being successful because of marketing is pretty hilarious.

With the "Don't be evil", " we're going to make the world better", and hundreds of other grand pronouncements that we hear in tech it seems silly to knock Beats because of marketing. Yeah the tech product may be useful but it didn't end world hunger.

Jimmy Iovine is right when it comes to Silicon Valley and speaking to culture. Wearables are a good example. They have been god awful ugly so far. But to silicon valley the tech is more important so they were pushed to the public. These are smart fashion accessories but aren't fashionable at all. They are cool as hell as far as the tech. But look horrible.
Hey, Vivek.
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Have you tried dictation on Mac OSX? Do you find it any good, particularly offline dictation?
Last msg sounded a bit harsh, sry about that. Anyway, some things to consider:

1. You don't need bash, but rather use /bin/sh to be more compatible with other shells (I don't have bash, neither does a lot of other systems after latest Shellshock incident). There's really no need to limit it to bash (bash is one of many shells but very commonly mistaken for "shell script").

2. The script is executed in a subshell, so the directory your script is in when exiting is irrelevant, it doesn't affect the caller at all. Try by creating a new script that just does 'cd a_dir_that_exists' and run it from a terminal. :)

3. set -e makes the program stop in case of _unhandled_ errors yes, so you're right, the example I gave is indeed wrong and it would stop on the failed cd attempt.

Instead of using '|| true' (to deliberatly ignore errors), the std way to do it is '|| :' (which doesn't fork the true binary). However I would really recommend taking care and handling possible errors.
You can't pull this card after one person rebuts a single anecdote with another.
or increasing competitiveness for jobs

This is code for: depressing wages and decreasing job security.
It's not log bugging your bootloader can magically send your password for the key off the server. They would have to be watching and be very quick, but I'm sure they'd want to see the server start to boot to ensure they have it.

I'd compare the bootloader to a known good image as an early boot step and if it isn't what you expect immediately start destroying data. :-)
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I'm of the opinion indifference is a temporary state of mind that, when encountered, forces one to decide one way or another. If it wasn't, the binary question "would you like to buy this" is unanswerable, as if in some perpetual superposition of yes/no.

This, evidently, doesn't ever happen in the real world: in reality, you'd take into account whether you have time to buy it, whether you have the will to carry it around, etc., before arriving at a definite answer that implies (value - price) has collapsed to some non-zero value.
Edit: I missed this: "Plus, Echo is Bluetooth-enabled so you can stream your favorite music services like Spotify, iTunes, and Pandora from your phone or tablet," which obsoletes some of the below. The point on monophonic audio still stands.

Out of curiosity, are you already embedded in the amazon cloud music ecosystem? I'm one of those luddites who still has a library of mp3s—I don't want to have to figure out what I can or can't get on some compatible streaming service here. That would be a lovely feature—if it had an aux-in port or bluetooth compatibility so I could still use it as a dumb speaker. Smart TV's still have inputs, e.g.

Additionally, if I'm not mistaken, it's monophone? Dual-driver, but only one "360-degree" channel of some sort?
Mine always sends text messages incorrectly as it doesn't add + at the beginning of a number; I have a number beginning with 07 or 447 for mobile here in the UK, yet it doesn't correctly set this.

The SMS app works fine on the same phone.
I think we can mostly blame (or thank, depending on your view of the average contributor) mobile devices for that. They make it much easier to consume reddit, but much harder to contribute.

Personally, it makes me sad.
>I also have trouble envisaging a world where cocaine is legally available.

But it was once legal and prominent, and I'm almost sure you've tasted the soft drink whose name was derived from it.
Unlike at SpaceX, at Silk Road 2.0 the sky is the limit
> Please address this part of my post: "none of those areas has [seen] any significant improvement in service level, cost, efficiency, or technology for many years".

What improvements are you expecting? Some things don't need to change. It serves its purpose the same way it did a hundred years ago and there is nothing wrong with that.

> ISPs and cell service providers have many faults, but they have been constantly improving the service level (bandwidth)

That's the terminating equipment. The expensive part, which is the wire or fiber in the ground, hasn't changed materially in decades or more. You could easily have a municipal last mile and competing providers who supply their own terminating equipment at the endpoints.

> In addition, you are not addressing any of the drought/road quality & cost/police abuse/fire department cost which I raised, and which are real problems.

Would you like to explain how a monopoly for-profit entity can be expected to do any better? Why would they care about droughts or abuse if it isn't costing them money?
It would be a threat to Google Glass had the Google not bought them. I liked the projecting-in-the-retina part. Sounds very promising. Bad post title by the way.
They're probably not Muslims, so they're not "terrorists". Only Muslims are terrorists nowadays.
I send you an email. Your mail client pipes it through gpg upon receipt. Meanwhile, I have a microphone pointed at your computer from across the room listening to your capacitors humming. Now I have the key you used to decrypt the message.
"Alexa, open pod bay doors"
I wasn't aware that this is discouraged.
Is that part of the guidelines? I couldn't find the relevant section at brief skimming/ctrl-f.
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Because basement nerd isn't violently murdering anyone. Basement nerd is making a violent drug market civil and non violent.
So smartphone, tablets, laptops are also exploited? They all have a microphone and they're never off.

I fail to see how this is any more a possible privacy breach than my iPhone that's laying right next to me right now.
I wonder if the Amazon Echo will constantly namedrop "Oracle" into everything as it's doing things like it did in Iron Man?

I am wondering what the backend is for this. If it's just going to recommend buying books or stuff from Amazon (like the main selling point on the Fire Phone is - "Look! You can SHOP from it") then it'll be a flop.
That's impossible to prove because it has no concrete meaning -- there is no provable understanding of "what life is about", much less a provable way to actually answer that implicit question, "What is life about?"
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W. T. F. Why am I reading pulp romance novel on Hacker News.
Let's see if they take down any more markets, and if all of them have "undercover agents". If not, then it should be clear that wasn't the main method of catching them, but just one to flaunt in front of the press for doing things "old school", and not NSA-style (or with NSA's help).
By anyone, not just by a woman? The misogyny was being pointed out I believe.
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The cartels power is centered in Mexico. They can't monopolize USA storefronts.
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Presumably nothing if the money they use to invest is considered legitimate.

Nevertheless, it really seems logical that as a society we should prefer that market competition occurs legally in a open and free market rather than violently in an illegal and black market. The difference between the two types of economic activity is tremendous.
Very interesting, thanks. A pity supermarkets here in the UK don't offer useful apps to do the same thing from a phone + barcode scanner.
Except when basement nerd tries to take a hit out on someone.

Allegedly.
That language is only proposed and carries no legal weight or significance. The call for a constitutional convention has to have a singular focus it's just based around money in politics. E.g., http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2014/Resolutions/JRS027/ACTR...

The wording of the amendment would be decided and voted upon at the convention (75% of states required).
> This is what I mean when I say most people don't feel culpable enough; there isn't anything sufficiently illegal going on in their lives that they perceive a significant government interest in intruding upon them in the first place.

I hear this refutation quite often. I find it typically comes from people in a place of privilege that the system largely ignores. I've read far too many accounts from people who are not Caucasian or are Muslim to believe that innocent people are not the targets of mass surveillance and do not notice its effects.
> Prohibition is an unambiguous social evil.

So, drugs should be legal, but "pushing and doing so with addictive substances" should be... also legal?
Do you still get mountain views there? Is there a lot of outdoors stuff to do?
Legalize all drugs. Full stop.
Municipalities aren't "the people." The State has total police power in US federal system. Local governments only exist by the charter of the State government. Colorado eliminate all local governments if it wanted to.

If a group of citizens wanted to start a cooperative, they could do that.

It's more complicated than this, but it's the gist.
Last I checked, the original Silkroad strongly enshrined PGP encrypted communication between seller & buyer into the way these marketplaces are run.

So theres no gain for them, as they can't get to whoever is selling/buying. They would just be facilitating the sales.
So what you're saying is that you don't have proof of your claims. Ok, got it.
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Perhaps we could put this video, the Samsung S3 launch party video and the Microsoft Windows 7 party video (where they discuss how much they love Windows whilst wearing party hats) together for the most cringeworthy video EVER?
My advice is that before you propose solutions, you ought to really figure out what the problem is. Is it ignorance, laziness, or something else?
I've looked over the various responses and haven't seen one angle -- have you asked your team about why they are not doing what you'd like? There's a lot of advice about read this, do that, etc. but you don't yet know why they are not following what you think is common sense. You might find something surprising by putting it on the table, or at least you'll find the reasons they give. Then you can address those.
My advice is to put this out as a question to your team and see how they react. You might even find out that some of the patterns you think are best are not, i.e., your team has a reason you didn't think of.
For example, I created a 10-element array to speed the search of a big table in which all keys began with a digit from 0-9. The more experienced guy told me that in the .NET world, the convention was to use key-value pairs instead of an array. To satisfy him, I changed it to a hash table, where I hashed the first digit. It seemed pretty silly to me, making a hash table for what to me was clearly a better approach using a simple indexed array. He had in his mind the "right" way to do it, eventhough I still think the hashtable in this case was silly.
Well, a pair of Beats also look and feel like plastic toys (I know because I owned 3 different pairs - I'm obsessed with headphones and won't talk about any pair of headphones until I test them personally). Sennheiser HD650 and HD600 are much better choices in terms of... well, everything. This is a very subjective thing though. Maybe you are impressed by the packaging? (Sennheiser puts their "audiophile-grade" headphones in what's basically a cardboard box so I'd understand)

The built-in amp has been available in all the headphones with noise-cancellation and the muddy, exaggerated bass isn't something these ears haven't heard before. I'm not exactly an audiophile so maybe there's something I'm missing.
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Cocaine consumers aren't the sort of folks who make self-sacrifice for ethical causes.
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