skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You forgot the obvious: 'A scientist in a white lab coat asked me to withstand as much as I could - for science.'
How is this different from let's say Swissbit ( http://www.swissbit.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar... ) or DeviceFidelity (http://www.credense.com/) or GoTrust ( http://www.go-trust.com/ ) or any generic ASSD card ( https://www.sdcard.org/developers/overview/ASSD/ )? Those are all programmable using JavaCard and contain secure tamper-resistant chips.
In a tragic miscarriage of justice, a man who made bucketloads of money from exploiting drug addiction and who hired hitmen, is sentenced. This innocent liar, drug dealer and moblord has been incorrectly sentenced for life. Free Ross Ulbricht, he never did anything wrong, except for all that stuff he did do.

Ross Ulbricht, who is tragically falsely accused of running Silk Road, is a hero for challenging the War on Drugs by definitely not selling drugs, and a nice guy.
Can you link to a source, or is this just your conjecture?
This only turns your clothes into an input device
Fwiw using a computer to gain an advantage over a casino is illegal in Nevada, New Jersey, and most other gambling jurisdictions worldwide. Also if you're reading this, chances are you are smart enough to be able to successfully employ any of the popular counting systems sans computer. However, because counting is both readily identifiable by casinos (who will bar you from playing blackjack) and delivers a relatively small edge, most professional gamblers have moved along to things like hole carding (finding weak dealers that expose their down card(s) as they deal, which is effective in a variety of games), ace tracking, exploiting the poorly designed side-bets that are popping up in all table games, and utilizing loss discounts that casinos give to most large players that can turn the odds in the player's favor when used with the right games and bets.

If you'd like to read about some of the more modern advantage plays available in casinos, check out http://apheat.net
It's life, not life without parole. He'll get paroled, eventually.

People should read some of the background, including haggling over the cost of a murder for hire. - http://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-2/

Truth is, it's hard to run this sort of thing without getting ripped off, and then violence is the only way to discourage people from ripping you off. Watch Godfather movies, esp. part 2... Mafias arise out of human nature and the nature of the game.

One of the many ironies of libertarian extremists is that actions which are considered illegitimate when taken by a democratic government become OK when taken by concentrated private power to protect private property.
How I Side-Hacked an Obama 2012 Campaign Microsite
The Federal judges who apply the Sentencing Guidelines all "hold their Offices during good Behavior", so I kind of wonder what you mean by "career suicide" -- a reduced likelihood of elevation to a higher court?
The Israeli 'watergate' scandal: The facts about Palestinian water
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.574554

Not enough water in the West Bank? (Press the + in the top-right corner)
http://visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/west-bank-water?v=la...

Water supply and sanitation in the Palestinian territories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_...
I immediately stopped buying CD's forever when I encountered the first "copyright protected" CD I couldn't play in my computer.

That was years before the first music downloads were legally available (at least where I live), so you can guess what happened to my music consumption from that point on.
Thank you. I was not aware of that, and to be honest, had never read the full opinion.
Why would you want to have a web interface? The web stack is crufty as hell, and the web has the one major problem that it forces everyone to use the same UI for accessing a service. With email, for example, clueless users can get by with some simple webmail interface, but that does not prevent me from managing my mails efficiently with mutt. The standardization of UIs instead of protocls and data formats is one of the worst regressions in IT in recent years, IMO.
> http://atlassociety.org/commentary/commentary-blog/3448-myth...

[Original response to the above quote removed]

EDIT: Looks like I missed the original context (in a different comment) for the above quote. Thanks for providing evidence that supports my point that libertarians are not conservatives.

> Objectivists, have taken part in conservative or right-wing political coalitions aimed at economic policy.

That's a political strategy in a two-party system. You're equivocating. Communists, socialists, anarchists, etc... must also choose a side in a two-party system. It, however, does not make them equivalent. More ignorance on your part.

Regarding fiscal policy, yes, you're right, I unintentionally was discussing foreign policy. Thank you for the correction, but it in no one affects my point. It seems fairly trivial to recognize I was talking about foreign policy, not monetary policy. Either way, my point stands. You would've been better off addressing that instead. Again,

> social conservatives [bias] is really the only bias you've presented.

I presented a general anti-conservative bias, not a specific one. I'm sorry you misunderstood.

> If you feel libertarians are not "conservatives" it is because you are a social conservative.

Nope. Your views are reductionist and yet again extremely ignorant. From a reductionist point of view, libertarians and conservatives differ in regards to Social, Foreign, Monetary[1] (as opposed Fiscal) and Federalist policies. Getting further into the specific details undermines your myopic view of non-liberals altogether. It's really quite a wonder how much of a disservice your ignorance is to making your own points.

[1] Libertarians are unrelentingly anti-Federal Reserve, while conservatives have historically mostly ignored it and Republicans actually helped create it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Federal_Reserv....
> a song must have percussive elements in order to have a "beat" as described by the article.

"You can think to the beat of a song as the rythm you tap your foot at while listening to it."

By the stated definition, almost all music has a beat, whether or not it has percussive elements.
The thing is, in this country in the last decade or two, we've seen the rise of dual-language immersion schools that are actually effective at teaching bilingualism. These are mostly English-Spanish, but there are French immersion schools in Louisiana, and indigenous language schools for Cherokee, Hawaiian, &c. This method of language education actually seems to produce children who are bilingual in both languages; they are a major advance in language education in the United States, and they should be wholeheartedly supported.

The "mandatory one year of foreign language in high school" is a relic of decades past when Latin and Greek were widely taught, and that is what they are mostly what they are suited for. It is just as much a relic as Latin is.
For those of us outside the Bay and not looking to relocate, the ability to explicitly filter by location would be nice.
Not at all. The fabric can be woven to specifically avoid this problem.
It's funny to see everybody overreacting and coming up with a bunch of theories. As a reminder, it happened much much worse last year (-2.9% http://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2014/06/25/u-s-gdp...) and was immediately corrected the quarter after (+4.5%). It's called harsh winters...
Let us dream bold, think far and wander widely
This kind of rationalizations may ruin your entire life one day. You cannot and do not know where will any experimentation with drugs bring you to.

Remember that the first step of the twelve steps is "admitting that one cannot control one's alcoholism, addiction or compulsion". Finding reasons why you are more privileged than others makes this step even harder.
Also very unlikely to work unless you happen to be extremely talented at this and spend your life doing it. And even then, it could take decades.
>Hey everybody, icelander hired someone to kill multiple people.

Better find that icelander guy. What a jerk. (Probably should read my username a bit closer next time.)
well yes, this is the real world and you have to make tradeoffs; privacy apparently isn't important enough to you

the differences are more than window dressing; one company is an advertising company and the other isn't. One company's messaging platform is only encrypted in transit to the company; the other's is architected so they can't read your messages.

Again, I'm not claiming apple is perfect on privacy, but they are better than google.
Those studies included tutelage in the structure of language as part of their Esperanto instruction, so the same benefit might exist simply by modifying students' language curricula.
Is it not known as entrapment to present a false situation in order to get a conviction or indictment, even if it's to confirm on behalf of the target a tendency or willingness to participate in the activity were to be real - and illegal because of its implications for abuse and its lack of real damage?
Of course I was exaggerating a little bit, don't take everything so literally :) Sometimes people use word "genius" just to emphasize how much they are impressed.
The copy protected discs were not compliant CDs. Which doesn't mean a whole lot, except that a disc carrying the CD-DA logo won't have any copy protection.
M is often used to mean 1,000 from the Roman Numeral, so using it to mean "one million" is confusing.

It's not just finance, but in other contexts too, such as online marketing CPM = Cost Per Thousand.

MM then is used to denote a thousand thousands, or one million. In online marketing sometimes you'll see CPMM = Cost Per Million.
Show HN: Prosterize.py: takes an image and text and makes images of code
I'm actually really upset about this. This was one of my favorite apps. Now I have to find a good alternative.
It's also a case where I don't think the fact the hitmen were part of a sting would vindicate him. I can understand the argument you were pressured into buying drugs. But actually paying money to have someone murdered? That would pass a moral barrier most people have. You can't use the fact it's a sting as an opt-out there.
On a day to day basis, the average American is simply actually a lot likelier to encounter Latin biological nomenclature or legal or religious terminology than, say, a fluent conversation in German.

The United States is largely monolingual in English for a thousand miles, and the language ideology here causes immigrants to want their children to shift to English monolingualism as quickly as possible. And thus bad Latin is more useful than bad German.
Can't be bothered to look it up, but pretty sure I've seen a counting assistance that was done with pressure sensor pads, a buzzer and a uC in the sole of one of your shoes.

Casinos have a simple solution, they just throw out anyone who does suspiciously good for a long enough period of time (probably politely if they don't have evidence of counting).
How do you know LSD is mostly harmless?
Context of who I was responding and what they were saying is extremely important when reading. You should give it a try! Or do you enjoy making silly strawman attacks against things that were never said?

Try reading the parent I responded to once more - then my response. If it isn't clear how they correlate, focus especially on the closing sentences of the parent before reading my response to them. If still confused - press the "Panic!" button and I'll do my best to assist you.

E:

I see the "Panic!" button was pressed. Do you require assistance?
> The strategy you're advocating sounds like a very long runway before takeoff.

It's on-the-job training. Whether it happens quickly depends on the industry.

And the current employment problem doesn't revolve about well spoken people who regularly read tech blogs. The unemployed are disproportionately young, make, and under-educated. I'm saying a feasible way to get the retrained is to make it easier for them to find an occupation in booming industries.

We need to get the point where employers can think, "Why not? Let's give him a shot and ramp up his salary if he's any good." when an unproven young guy applies for a job. Right now, that doesn't make any sense because hiring him is too expensive. So you get situations where they give fewer hours to avoid providing expensive benefits, etc.
The real lesson should be don't serious commit crimes.

The whole of morality is not contained by the law. How about those folks who broke apartheid law by going to the University of Alabama? I stipulate that operational security is not exactly part of breaking apartheid laws, but still...

Copyright laws are going way way overboard. How about breaking those laws in order to expose corruption? That could happen, easily. "Don't commit serious crimes" is advice for the conformist.
Also let's not forget:

5. Apples are red

6. Oranges are orange

You're comparing facts: "Ulbricht ran The Silk Road," with your own conjecture: "Banks encouraged 'questionable' risk taking." You're making a lot of extraordinary claims that are very very difficult to prove with no evidence to back them up.

And you're using this conjecture as evidence of... something? You don't really make a point. You just repeat popular internet tropes.
It's just amazing to me how just alleging something by press release then withdrawing the allegation from the trial is enough to sentence somebody in the mind of the public. Just look at how people here are voting.
> your app uses public APIs in a manner not prescribed by Apple

What an enraging way to phrase this. I understand Apple's desire to shut this down, but they make their contempt for app developers obvious at every possible turn.
> ...something that had any cultural relevance at all.

My high school was heavily focused on Latin and ancient Greek. We spent the first two years grokking grammar and semantics. Then, in liceo (the last 3 years) we would study history by translating and studying poems, speeches, plays...

Teacher and students used to discuss for hours about the meaning and context of this or that sentence. It was a wonderful way to understand our ancestors' mindset. Dead languages are the best tools for a deeper appreciation of history.
While unlikely, it could be used for worse. Let's say a local or niche publication has an app and can detect if any of its subscribers are also using Grindr, Tinder, or some sort of app that signifies, to them, some cardinal sin on the part of the subscriber. That could be used to blackmail/shame/harass people.
A cursory Google search does not reveal much about this Jyoti Saran other than the details of his indictment [1] and the auction of his Arlington mansion[2].

Is little else known about this figure, even as he is nearing completion of his prison term?

[1]
http://www.justice.gov/usao/txn/PressRel09/saran_sen_pr.html

[2]
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487038592045755264...
No, because they took reasonable precautions and tried to stop drug parcels etc.

They're not liable because a few snook through their defences. They'd be liable if they had no defences.
You just need to be a little more focused, and less concerned about what others are doing (so-called FOMO, "fear of missing out"). So what if someone beats you to the punch? You're striving will not be in vain, and you'll be right at the very forefront when either of you finish your projects - maybe even a bit beyond.

Remember, 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration, etc.
> nicely presented

I couldn't disagree more.
I was just thinking what it may have been like from his perspective. To him, it was the same set of actions as was required to start something like AirBnb or some such. You write software. You get your initial users, etc. You get feedback & you loop.

With the same set of actions & work, pointing in a different direction, he could have done quite well for himself working on another idea.

I'm guessing his biggest downfall really was in having an aversion to working with others. He could work with others at a startup and make some great stuff & quite possibly do well. Instead, he chose a more sure fire approach to making money on his own -- with the morality and legality of what he was doing as the cost.
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Not everyone is convinced this happened.
Did you say decades of experience? Oh. Ok. Nevermind.

I'm just asking myself why not write about accounting, and let the reader decide what group he or she belongs to. The answer is clearly something like, we need a good title.
No no no. You (or the one you replied to) said he was sentenced for murder. And I think we agree now that he wasn't, right?
Could you please provide a citation for the claims that food and housing prices are going up? I looked, but could only find information to the contrary on food (especially as a proportion of household spending), and very short term, noisy, and confusing information on housing (not house prices, but housing).[1]

[1] https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/food.jpg
Maybe a better example is the tobacco companies. They were convicted of a 50 year conspiracy to mislead the public about the health dangers of smoking, an activity that has led to trillions of dollars in health care costs and the deaths of literally millions of people in that span (in the US alone). No one went to jail for this...the companies "just" had to pay a $200 billion dollar fine (global annual tobacco sales revenue is estimated at $500 billion).
'Game over': I think this is exactly the problem. In all the organizations I've been in, firewalls have been an excuse for negligence. 'We don't need to think about security because we are behind the firewall.'

Right now the compliance world is addicted to firewalls, to the detriment to reasonable appsec. In my fantasy world, I'd like the auditors to be telling companies 'in 5 years, you won't be allowed to firewall your business network, and if you aren't secure without the crutches, then no certification for you.' That would light a fire under management to care about software quality all over the place.
Came here to share the good news about Esperanto on Duolingo, too!

Duolingo is fantastic and I am addicted to keeping my streak alive. However, I find the lack of variety and relative rigidity of the sentences to be offputting over time. I've nearly completed two trees, and have been a pretty consistent user over the past 3 years, so sometimes the monotony of the sentences drags me down. I have to imagine that we (collectively) are very close to having a sentence generator that can throw together a pertinent and sensical verb phrase and noun phrase that differs just slightly from the curated/created sentences, at least for the Indo-European languages.
An aside (not necessarily aimed at you): why is taken for granted that the poor must be motivated via the stick (reducing benefits), while in contrast the rich are motivated by carrots (by reducing the top level of income tax, wealth taxes, etc.)?

Surely if we tax the rich more, they'll have an incentive to work harder to make up the shortfall?

Similarly, if we reduce taxes on the poor, they'll be motivated to work more as they'll be keeping more of what they earn (especially when we consider the much greater marginal value that extra dollars have to them).
Rand Paul declares surveillance 'war' and hints at filibuster for NSA reform
I don't think that qualifies as entrapment.

In general, entrapment is when the police convince you to commit a crime that you wouldn't have committed otherwise. So, if you want to kill your wife, and your friend (FBI agent) happens to say one day, "Hey, I do a little killing on the side, just for gits and shiggles," and you hire him, that's not entrapment.

In contrast, if the agent is manipulating you and saying, "Hey, your wife is going to divorce you and take your stuff. Killing her is the only way to prevent ruin" and slowly convincing you to do it, then that's entrapment.

Bottom line: Already predisposed to doing the crime and probably would have gone through with it if it hadn't been the police? You're screwed. In contrast, if you're normally completely innocent and the person has to convince you to commit the crime, it's entrapment.
Another popular bilingual immersion option is English-Mandarin. I know people here in San Francisco who have kids doing bilingual Mandarin immersion, apparently with good results. I love Latin and Latin teaching, support its availability, and think it's benefited me and other students who were given the opportunity to learn Latin, but I think you're right that the recent modern-language immersion trend is incredibly valuable and deserving of support. We should want language teaching to be effective and beneficial for students.

There's nothing on the scale of full-time immersion, nor is there likely to be, but there's now a small minority of Latin teachers who are presenting Latin as a spoken language, including using Latin as the language of instruction and attempting to apply modern language pedagogical techniques like Total Physical Response. So even some Latin teachers might agree with your criticism of the less-holistic teaching styles and the distance they put between students and the language.

Edit: I didn't notice that you were also advocating teaching Latin further up in the thread.
Imagine if the US used the $3 billion/year it sends Israel to instead build desalinization plants in the south west.
Total circus.

Torture people for the government and you dont even get a warning.

How do people continue believe they live in a society governed by law? It governed by naked, corrupt power.
It's clearly less efficient for all involved, so it's obviously not "preferable". The problem is that all the usual avenues of justice are unavailable.
Eh. I mean yeah there are companies designed from the ground up to be bought out in just a couple years, yes, but there isn't anything wrong with doing great work and getting bought out by people improving the world too, right? It seems like in that case you're both trying to "improve the world" and you're teaming up.

In a recent episode of Silicon Valley, the billionaire president of a company said to his employees "I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place, better than we do."
Exactly. If anything, Silk Road seems to have made both acquiring and taking drugs safer. Prohibition doesn't work, so why not take steps to make the things people are going to do anyway safer, especially when they can only injure themselves?
Speaking as someone who's on your side in this debate...

Rights are what you get if a bunch of rational, self-interested people get together and say, "What ought we be allowed to do without interference?"

There is a single, correct, rational answer to that: you ought to be allowed to do anything that doesn't initiate force against someone else. All rights are a function of that single fundamental observation.

Every rational, fully self-interested person (who has studied the topic a lot) will agree on this.

So that's where rights come from... they are a human construct, but there's also a single, objectively correct answer.

So they don't come from "Laws of Nature" or the Founding Fathers.
That's just a rumor until he's convicted of it.