skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would almost certainly be guilty of engaging in a transaction derived from unlawful activity (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1957)

I've pinged an old friend who is an AUSA for some legal clarification if the transaction was strictly legal in the jurisdiction, but I'm pretty sure that's the case.
What your senses tell you isn't ever the "truth".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_projection_fallacy
Artificial Awkwardness. It was bound to happen.
You are addressing the 'seen' issues, but not the 'unseen', and to paraphrase Bastiat, "[the] bad [analyst] confines himself to the visible effect; the good [analyst] takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen".

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". ISPs and cell service providers have many faults, but they have been constantly improving the service level (bandwidth); I would like to know what comparable improvements have been made with respect to electricity, sewage, potable water supplies, police protection, fire services, or other utilities. These utilities have been constantly increasing in price (at least nominally, and in most cases after correcting for inflation), while providing no improvement in the basic service.

Most utilities providers have not even been improving their back-end technologies, which would serve to reduce costs, or improve the service's availability. As I mentioned in the previous post, this is likely because of how governments use utilities' capital improvement funds as 'piggy banks', preventing infrastructure and technology upgrades.

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.
And a lot of people/companies/governments are okay with it and do use it.
"We the people" have the right to amend the United States Constitution. Are we out of ideas for ways to protect the liberty of individuals? :)
That is an interesting point! But in failed states (where de facto nothing is "illegal" as there is no rule of law), life is hardly peaceful. The source of the strife may be drugs in this case, but it's just because that's what pays well enough to approximate a lack of a strong state enforcing rule of law, even in a Western country like Mexico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Fragile_St...
> There were always designer headphones.

And they all looked like shit. In fact, the "designer" headphones pre-beats competed on how ugly they could look. It was a badge of honor.

>Their headphones also do not bring anything on the technicalities

They have a built-in amp. That is technical innovation in headphones.
I dont think it is synonymous at all. It just happens. I am not sure if it is an imbalance of where it occurs, if it is as high in Mexico, as say it is in Russia or Africa.

But just a quick search shows that even in 2010 the sex trafficking and crimes were on the rise in California-

http://www.fbi.gov/sandiego/press-releases/2014/cases-involv...

I am the last person to be convinced by anything conservative or Christian for that matter. The trafficking situation just seems to have become more apparent to me over the last 5 years or so, whether or not the situation itself is actually worse.
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The NSA is reading what you typed
Thanks for the feedback, will do! Currently, you have to add them to a stack or contribute/vote on content on their page. We'll definitely look into making that easier.
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Opportunities like this provoke an incredibly intense response in me. I would drop almost everything to go work and live in Antarctica for 6-12 months, and searched fruitlessly for available jobs when I finished my undergraduate degree a few years ago. I'm not qualified for the position they talk about in this article, and I have a pretty good career path and professional responsibilities I can't just abandon now, but the pull remains strong.

Something about unique circumstance and desolation in particular just hits me in a particular part of my brain.

One of the most surreal and powerful moments in my life was pulling over in the middle of complete desolation in northwestern Namibia to wander the desert in the middle of the night. It was lit by a full moon, and the entire world was this shade of soft, ethereal purple I hadn't seen before and probably never will again. It was illuminating this tremendous expanse of landscape sparsely populated by utterly alien flora. In some ways it just felt right to be as utterly alone as I could be, in an alien situation I couldn't have imagined even 6 months prior.
An open API would be great. I'd love to implement "Alexa, my floor is dirty" -roomba purrs and does its thing-
Typically gpg is used in asychronous communication. Ie, I encrypt or sign something and send the file to someone else who decrypts or verifies it at their leisure. So how can timing attacks be used?
> Our brains behave like monkeys and it can be proven that most of our lives are about "what am I going to have for lunch?

Keyword being most, however this primitive impulse, like many primitive impulses such as wanting to strangle your boss when they make you upset, can be overcome with cognitive reappraisal. "I am not really that hungry, and I could even make it an entire day without eating and still survive" or "I don't really want to kill her, I would lose my job and go to prison"
What would stop the cartels from investing in legal storefronts and capturing profits regardless? (This certainly shouldn't be construed as an argument for the morass we have now, just an interesting aside.)
The never-ending nature of these "Wars On" is actually the main appeal of them for the lobbyists and their minions. What is better than cash this year? Cash every year until the Republic falls.
They have advanced speech recognition but have never heard of compression? I would be surprised if the bandwidth consumed in plan #2 was even 1/3 of what you suggest especially in a non 24/7 sound environment like the typical home.
I certainly am not using OK Google, as shouting at my dashboard whilst driving makes for a frustrating driving experience. It just never hears what I say correctly.
This gave me a pretty good chuckle. Thank you.
Ask HN: For help: Gmail is filtering our URLs
The gmail.com client normally renders the hyperlinks in our outgoing email just fine. Yesterday morning, this suddenly stopped happening and users were sent links that could not be clicked in their transactional emails from us. I was able to reproduce it by simply including our domain name in an e-mail, which leads me to believe e-mails are being filtered for our domain name specifically. I've reproduced this across multiple Gmail accounts of ours, and all hyperlinking is always fine right until I include our domain name anywhere in an e-mail. Viewing page source shows that gmail.com is employing some HTML to break our URL up so it doesn't turn into a valid hyperlink.

I suspect this is some sort of anti-spam measure. Has anybody else experienced this? I am asking Hacker News for help because there doesn't appear to be any way to get in contact with Google regarding gmail problems. We've already employed everything in their FAQs about avoiding their spam filters. We use DKIM and have a healthy standing with all email blacklists. I'm really not sure what other options we have left.
Amazon Echo Brings AI into Your Home
People I find underestimate how much thinking and engineering went into the Java Virtual Machine. The language isn't the most expressive, but VM knowledge and technology in general grew massively from IBM and Sun's investment, and if you look at the papers in this list. The JVM also stood on the shoulders of giants (Guy Steele & LISP , David Ungar & Self, etc.)
Shit like this happens already and slightly less probable stuff is regularly dramatized on TV in mystery/suspense shows. Not only do many people not care as long as it happens to someone else, a sizable percentage of them derive entertainment from it (eg see news stories on people who commit suicide in response to internet bullying or similar).

It's very unlikely that there would be a single turning point case a la Pearl Harbor or 9-11. More likely it's an aggregation of small cases followed by slow adjustments in a different direction. As an example of the latter, consider how incarceration seems to have peaked in the US and we're seeing the beginnings of a fall as well as a shift away from incarceration as the default response. I would predict the fraction of the population that is incarcerated to fall by 10% in 10 years and by 50% in 25 years. Likewise we're seeing pushback against the militarization of police, but how that particular pendulum swings is going to be measured out over budgetary cycles rather than in real time. I think that if you were to plot utility vs security on a graph you'd see a random walk of incremental fluctuating changes rather than massive discontinuities.
Yah to be honest it seems a bit of creepy. I doubt they need factory floor managers, I'm sure their is a backdoor so they can fulfil their legally required handing over of data to requests by the american govenment. But as a non-american, thats not really a good thing that the american govenment can do that. I dont see Angela Merkel picking one up.
At this point, isn't it more accurate to call them a terrorist organization? They have their own military, communications network and a healthy (seemingly never ending) supply of soldiers to do their bidding and the citizens are sufficiently terrorized.

Forget fighting ghosts in far off lands; right next door is where the terrorists are.
I haven't been as excited about a space since the mid-2000s and the web framework revolution. Can't wait to see how this all evolves.
And if you forget to turn Javascript back on things will break too.
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The electronics for something carrying passengers would hopefully be a bit more rugged than an arduino or a raspi. I suspect that you're optimizing for the wrong variables here. Aduino and raspi are not groundbreaking for capabilities or format and inventions are rarely stopped by the price point of the development platform, if anything they are stopped by a lack of market, timing or physics.
Well nvDIMMs are available right now (from companies like Netlist, Agigatech, Viking, Smart, Micron). This is DRAM with an analog switch, a controller and flash memory. When you lose power, the DRAM is disconnected from the processor and the contents are copied to the flash. The newer technology might be cheaper, but I thought so far the write performance is not as good as DRAM.

The issue is the cache: the data is not non-volatile until it has been written back to DRAM. Even then, you need some advanced warning of a power outage for it all to work.

Unibus (bus for PDP-11 core memory systems) had an early warning signal, to give the memory controller a chance to write back the previous (destructive) read.
This is cool - I didn't see any detail of the mic array on the site, where did you find it?

Also, do you think it's feasible for Amazon to keep a voice profile on the speakers? I'm thinking if they are going to tout perfect voice recognition they'll have to make it person-specific at some point.
Russia has its own war on drugs and if you think the USA is a police state, just LOL at Russia. Their version of the speaker of the house said that drug dealers should be thrown into forced labor camps.

I'd go to Abu Dabi or Dubai and just be prepared to bribe the fuck out of local police.
There are a few important concepts here which can help UI designers create better UX. It's always good to be able to back good design up with proven science. Eg I always tell people that animations are more than just eye candy, they attract the brains attention and elevate the element's importance in the UI. Now I can append "prevents change blindness" to that argument.

Facial recognition is also an interesting one that we tend to amuse ourselves with: https://twitter.com/faceinthings
The postal service being used within a state should not make a non-federal crime a federal crime. "Not crossing state lines" versus "using a service that could be used to cross state lines".
Yes, if you require a user-specific random token in the request, the exploit doesn't work. But that's independent of GET/POST and not what you said in your earlier post.
Do Disruptive Mobile Apps Spell the End for Banks?
Why do you think browsers report user agents? I think it's perfectly reasonable to serve the browser that you say you are.

If a lot of the pages you view end up broken, you would just change the way you lie about your user agent so that it's more prominent to you so you don't forget.

Your complaint is like complaining that if you set your browser's "language preference"* to only contain Dutch, you will end up getting served pages in Dutch.

Why is that different? You ask for Dutch only because supposedly you can understand it, and you ask for a presentation against a particular browser/version because supposedly you're rendering in it. Seems fine to me!

Otherwise, we might as well only serve pages in Esperanto - you know, the universal language standard.

* "(or, more appropriately, that of its user) along with every HTTP request being made in the form of the Accept-Language header that is part of the HTTP/1.1 RFC"
This is a lot of major crimes investigations: if you want to participate in an organized criminal effort (which is what SR2.0 is), you're only as secure as the weakest link in that effort. Worth remembering when SR3.0 comes out. Is it being run by someone else who will put out a hit on a rival, or plow $70k of revenue into a Model S.
I'm not sure you understand big-endian casting—it's still value based, so you'll still get the least significant bits in the casted value.
> so what's the problem?

I think that's a fairly naive point of view. Consider the simple fact that these devices are not to be used in isolation - e.g. you come to someone's home, etc. If you think this is too alarmist a mindset, maybe you'll remember how quite a few folk were outraged about facebook's new app which was to actively listen via your mobile's mic (so it can e.g. recognize music and add "while listening/watching" etc. info to status updates and so on.)

The problem in that case was not (just) the actively-listening part ("don't use it if you don't like it"), but rather that people (in)voluntarily become the dreaded dragnet surveillance infrastructure.

"Such future hope for decentralization." Ha! :)
In which case you can pick a different wake word, which they mention in the video. I don't know what those specific alternatives are, but I'm betting just about everybody will be able to find one that doesn't match a housemate.
It's enough to make you wonder if someone set him up. Did they have something conclusively linking him to the site in the real world?
The idea of this sitting on my dining room table while eating with my family is horrifying.
You can buy a Tesla with Bitcoins?
To anyone thinking about 3.0, just move to another country.

Preferably one that likes to stick the finger to U.S. and extradition requests. Bring along some extra bitcoins for the local police though.
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well that or Interstellar's TARS - sarcastic robots might be what mankind needs so as not to go bat shit crazy or running scared from them
It is established by now that various government agencies all over the world routinely monitor web traffic, tap phones and install trojans on computers. There is no doubt in my mind that an internet connected listening device would be exploited.
> I hear the human trafficking business is quite lucrative and booming these days down their way.

You may be on to something there. How about removing restrictions on immigration at the same time? That should definitely knock the wind out of them.
Don't most seed rounds use convertible notes? We use Y Combinator's SAFE Docs (https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/) so the issue of valuation can be delayed until the company has better metrics and can be value properly, while still giving upside to the note holder.
You make it sound like nobody has a "leg up" semantic voice commands. But we do and it is perfectly usable, at least on Android devices where you can ask these questions to Google Now:

Q: How tall is the Empire State Building?

Q: When was it built?

Q: Show me Italian restaurants nearby.

...

(I am not familiar with how Siri or Cortana handle similar queries.)
Audacious is the new XMMS.
What is the best flight booking experience?
What is the best flight booking experience?
Currently, most flight search engine will provide you a full list of searching result, with banners and ads on the side as well. http://gopackup.com
However, people do not want that many deals, they just want the "One", the best one which suite able for their needs the best. I always believe that too many choices is a very bad experience, and make people feel so bothered. The best people experience is that, the vendor really knowing them, understand them, be very considerable and provide the only One, which is also the best one. When we say the best one, I believe normally means the one that fit for people's needs in different aspects, while still remain the lowest.

Gopackup is such a flight searching site that helps travel lovers to find the lowest One flight fare based on their preference. Instead of providing a full list of flights, Gopackup only provides people with One quotation, which is the lowest price within people’s preference, which can be: stops of flights, departure and/or landing time, airlines, pet friendly, with wifi, more luggage, no extra charge for change/cancel ticket, better service, or better food, more leg space, and so on. Through intelligent machine learning, Gopackup want to be a friend of travel lovers, want to really know people, want to understand people! Want to be people's soul mate!
So, for you this is an all or nothing thing. If I made some things public through Facebook then I'm automatically OK with Echo possibly sending data to Amazon about the things I didn't want to make public?

Perhaps I want to be in charge of what can and can't be known about my personal life. I know, a radical thought... Maybe I want other people to know some things and not others. Why so many people seem OK with notion of corporations doing whatever they want with the data they collect without accountability?

They even blame the victims: "You bought a device with the things that 99% of devices in that category bring and can be used to collect information about you. So it's your fault, you could have bought that very difficult to get (or obsolete) device that doesn't have them, or none at all. Of course, neither corporations nor security agencies can be blamed for their sociopathic behaviour. It surely has something to do with business or security that's entirely reasonable even though they kept it in secret."
Whatever utility they find in it. Economic benefit doesn't necessarily mean you find cash in your mailbox, it could be something that saves you a few minutes every day or improves your productivity by simply making you feel good.
This and the then leanstack.io is actually close / already fulfills #54 idea in https://github.com/samsquire/ideas, great and very interesting stuff.
The default name is "Alexa".
What OS/power-management are you running ?
or just drop out of social media without notice, far better than letting know your plans. Its so very easy to vanish in this country if you are smart. Most of those who do only get caught by chance or some stupid act.

One recent in Georgia was only caught as part of a traffic stop.
Not out of ideas. http://www.wolf-pac.com/28th
How do you possibly live?

I joke! In all seriousness, did you find your concentration improved as you didn't feel the desire to constantly check for text messages or emails?
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TurboPFOR: Direct Access “Integer Compression” w/o Decompression
+1 on Fort Collins - relocated here five years ago. It's a fantastic town - many big city amenities for a small city. (For example: it has a ton of restaurants. I used to live in NYC, and many places in Fort Collins are comparable in quality.) Cost of living in town and in the surrounding area is very reasonable, and quality of life is great.
Just this morning, comcast had a massive outage across philadelphia and southern new jersey. Comcast is BASED in philadelphia. There was no explanation or warning, just as the work day started. If that were electric, it'd be national news; instead, it's just another day in the shitty world of comcast: accountability is way down on the list compared to fees, bugging me to upgrade my service.

So still anecdotal, but hundreds of thousands of people were affected.
Good point about the likely reason.

Hydra could have been another good choice :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra

See first entry at above Wikipedia page, about the many-header serpent.
based on recent stories where they had to track down and arrest a mayor and his wife how are you going to tell friend from foe? With the recent legalization of marijuana in a few more states we might be getting to a tipping point where we reexamine the whole drug war and reduce the influence of these people by drying up their money supply
When did it not? I've been interviewing people for the past few weeks asking them about their stack and they all invariably say at one point "running on (aws|heroku|azure)". The [PaaS wiki entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service) itself says it's providing a "solution stack" as a service.
Another Android universal XSS bug
Support for non-voltile memory needs to be added to Linux. For example, one should be able to map the non-volatile memory into user space and directly access it. There needs to be some BIOS-OS interaction so that the OS doesn't treat the non-volatile memory as general memory (for the likely case where only some of the memory is non-volatile).
Alternatively, the non-volatile memory should be usable as a block device.

The non-volatile memory needs a layer of RAID-like volume management. For example, when you transfer the memory from one system to another, there should be a way to determine that the memory is inserted in the correct slots (remember there is RAID like interleaving/striping across memory modules).
I never disable javascript. Also no Ghostery.
> I have reviewed a post on that Twitter profile, dated on or about November 6, 2013, the date when Silk Road 2.0 was publicly launched, stating: “All this talk about the #SilkRoad being back up makes me want to watch ThePrincessBride.”"

It's interesting because this is a retweet yet it's still mentioned as a "post on [his] Twitter profile". I guess that's true, but shouldn't it be mentioned as a retweet in official court documents?
Magnus Carlsen Is More Than an Odds-On Favorite to Win World Chess Championship
I use github, I've put hundreds of hours of work into projects on github. But you can't see that because those repos aren't public. Could I, in theory, work on some open source projects on github? Sure. But to be honest the main reason to do so would be job related, to use github as a CV. Personally I think my time is better spent working on the projects that I already have going on (one of which is software dev for a charity that helps sick children) or starting on projects for my own business. There are plenty of good reasons for people to not have tons of contributions to open source projects on github, and ignoring that fact does nothing but artificially restrict your talent pool.
Uber-like Services Leapfrog Car Ownership in India
As a resident of Colorado, I'm slightly wary of amendments with language involving the definition of personhood.