skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooh, I really like this idea. Instead of me finding parking at the airport, I send my car to park in my own driveway, then have it pick me up a few days later. That's brilliant. I haven't even thought of the possibility of having the car drive empty.
> People have a right to buy drugs.

Actually they don't, which is kind of the point.
If a worker is generating $50/hour worth of value for a company and the worker asked for a raise from $15/hour, the company would be stupid to let the worker walk away. It would not be long before they are unable to hire the required labor and they would be forced to raise wages simply due to supply and demand. For this same reason, at least one Walmart in South Dakota had to offer workers > $17/hour (https://twitter.com/Mark_J_Perry/status/476015079712776192/p...).
Hope it comes to the Kindle kindle soon. Wonder if it helps with dsylexia.
I'm not sure how to feel about this. On the one hand, the kid rolled the dice in a high stakes game and was fully penalized. On the other hand, the logical basis behind the prohibition of illicit substances seems flawed.

I wonder how things would have turned out without the murder for hire angle.
> and choose a simple secure IMAP server from the ports.
Please look up the definition of "application". I don't mean to be pedantic; it was enlightening to me as well.
Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
No one's forcing you to use GitHub's wikis, issue tracking, or pull request facilities. One would only use these features if they were useful. Hence my question.
You have to understand that the "murder for hire" evidence was introduced as part of the trial (at which point Ross' lawyer could have disputed it, but didn't) so it could be used as part of the sentencing decision... and that kind of takes the luster off of the "non-violent crime" argument.
Reddit should implement some kind of "AMA score" for every AMA. Those that evade questions, give vague answers etc will get a lower score and their future AMAs won't generate that much interest.
On the surface the sentence seems a bit steep doesn't it?
I expect it's because he attempted to have at least two people killed. I don't think either case succeeded but there was clearly intent to murder.
He allegedly hired someone to kill multiple people, by the way.

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-boss...

I agree with you that drug trafficking is way overprosecuted, but...
> should give up on teaching modern foreign languages badly and just mostly teach Latin, Greek, and Esperanto

Why teach Latin, Greek, or Esperanto badly? How does that help?

And if you can solve the "badly" problem, why not teach something that can be used day-to-day?
Or arena allocation - which, by the way, is something I wish was more supported in mainstream languages
For what charges exactly - did they sentence him for murder or planned murder now? Or just for distributing narcotics? It seems rather weird.
No, but that's a common criticism of the GNU project, that we think anything useful should not be done.

The overall issue with SaSS is this. Bit tl;dr, but worth reading it when you have the time:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

In the private discussions I saw, there was some disagreement over whether Github is SaSS or not, but many felt like it was.

(Btw, the official stance is that there is one GNU project with many packages, and all of these packages form part of the GNU operating system. So R, GIMP, Gnome, and Octave are GNU packages and part of the GNU project and operating system.)
> Judge Forrest told Mr. Urlbricht that “what you did in connection with Silk Road was terribly destructive to our social fabric.”

That's one of the most ridiculous claims I have seen in a while.
I think the sentence is obscene. I doubt my teachers growing up, who would shriek "just say no!" at school assemblies, feel the same way. I imagine they find the idea of little Johnny being able to buy meth over the Internet terrifying. Guess who votes. It's like stoning people for adultery in the Middle East. You have to really figure out why people consider drug use such an existential threat to the community to figure out why they suoport such harsh enforcement of these laws.
Incidentally, for anyone who like's GitHub's features and workflow but not GitHub the organization itself, GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com/) has an open-source and self-hostable CE version that's very much "well-executed GitHub clone", with a paid (but still self-hostable) EE version with stuff like extended LDAP/Active Directory and JIRA integration.
I don't know enough about this story to have an overall opinion, but this particular exchange made me angry:

> His lawyer, Joshua L. Dratel, in submissions to the judge, argued that the website’s “harm reduction” ethos made it safer than traditional drug dealing on the street.

> But prosecutors, in their memo, argued that praising Silk Road for “harm reduction measures” was “akin to applauding a heroin dealer for handing out a clean needle with every dime bag: The point is that he has no business dealing drugs in the first place.”

When one side of the argument is based in real-world impacts, and the other side has nothing but an appeal to existing rules, it's a pretty good indication that the rules need changing.

It's an infuriating power play to say "you had no business doing that" if you can't come up with a good reason why not.
You're attacking a straw man.

If you pay attention to the world around you, you see that time after time, better products win out over worse ones. It's practically common sense.

But you have your head in the clouds and your fingers in your ears.

I'm not interested in arguing about this with you---take it or leave it, but this is all I have to say.
Many of the artists are priced out.

Moving to NYC in the 70's and getting a brownstone for cheap seems like it would have been an incredibly interesting time.
It saddens me that acknowledging the war on drugs as being corrosive and detrimental is seen as extreme by mainstream modern society. Few seem to question extreme punishments for crimes related to the manufacture or distribution of drugs.
See: Portugal

Instead of imprisoning for drug usage - provide treatment and rehab. It's cheaper and has better results. One could argue culture differences in drug usage, but that looks like an attempt to "knock it before you try it".

That's without going into how broken the US prison system is! See: privately owned prisons that require a quota to be filled [0].

[0] http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/article/criminal-how-lock...
That sounds more like a philosophy than a culture.
Perhaps if he had made even a token effort to not permit illegal sales on SilkRoad he'd be hailed as the new Jeff Bezos. Instead, he'll be denounced as a drug peddling fraudster. A shame; I thought his ideas had merit.
LT is the follow on to AutoSketch and marketed to those who don't find value from working in 3d. AutoDesk upbranded the product and raised the price point when they renamed it, and a lot of people who say they use AutoCad are using LT "instead". In fairness, there are a lot of people using AutoCad with color based plotting (style based was introduced with Acad2000 in 1999) and who don't use those "new features" like Paper Space and Xrefs (introduced in r11 in 1990). Making things is very much bound by traditions.
I suspect that law enforcement's embarrassment over how long it took them to find him also had something to do with it. The equivalent of running from the police in a foot chase, they're going to punish you for it.
I don't believe the death penalty was ever a possibility, following Kennedy v. Louisiana ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_v._Louisiana , "the power of the state to impose the death penalty against an individual for committing a crime that did not result in the death of the victim is now limited to crimes against the state (e.g. espionage, treason).")
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Yes, they do, you just don't understand rights.

Rights are the things that we would all agree should be legally protected if we were all rational about it.

So they're a human construct, but they're still objective.
This sentence seems pretty disproportionate to the crime. Pretty fucked up at a human level too.
No surprises there. The libertarian defense is hard to hold once fat stashes of cash and murder come in to play: the US certainly did a good and legally questionable job on public character assassination prior to the sentencing!

That said, one can't help but wonder if perhaps the movement in which characters as diverse as Assange, Dotcom, Snowden, ThePirateBay and Ulbricht can be placed is too powerful to snub out with mere regulatory reactionism... particularly given the economic state of much of the educated world and the imminent environmental challenges we face as a planet.

If there's one thing that the study of complex systems teach us, it's that there is strength in heterogeneity. Perhaps it's time for America to change its tune and stop pressuring countries worldwide to overpolice their populations in myriad ways (drugs, internet piracy, IP laws). May we live to see more enlightened times, progressive approaches to state-sponsored social remediation, and less of this nationalism "my way or the highway" / "with us or against us" claptrap that Einstein so eloquently summarized: Nationalism is an infantile disease: the measles of mankind.
I expect them to be able to afford /an/ apartment, which they cannot. Do a search on craigslist for apartments under $833, which is a third of their monthly income, and tell me how many apartments you see. Facebook's wage means their contractors are still essentially in poverty.
It's his fault for getting into the wrong business. If he only laundered drug cartel money like HSBC, he would have just paid a fine.
Implementation of the 0th law requires the implementation of a utilitarian calculus. Also, shouldn't we put a moratorium on having children until humans can learn how to not kill each other?

edit: if you're going to downvote please respond
You know the dealer, the dealer is a man

With a lot of grass in his hand

Ah but the pusher is a monster

Good god he's not a natural man

The dealer, for a nickel lord

He'll sell you lots of sweet dreams

Ah but the pusher'll ruin your body

Lord he'll leave, he'll leave your mind to scream
So if it is not (only) the amount of work that makes up the value of goods or services, what (else) is it? And I am neither interested in the supply and demand situation which may cause the price to deviate from the value, nor in the use value.
They wouldn't have to, if they were on Github's maxed-out plan already. There is no higher tier. They're already paying the most. (hypothetically)
It seems it was discussed at the I/O session here:

https://youtu.be/26Bma3d0wko?t=10m39s

Vault actually starts at 17:50.

EDIT: Hmm. There seems to be some problem with Google's videos. When another "live session" that's supposed to be added at the same video link begins, you can't watch the previously recorded video anymore.
The Bloomberg story[1] had some excellent excerpts from sentencing:

U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan rejected Ulbricht’s claim that he was naive and impulsive when he started Silk Road as an economic experiment.

“It was a carefully planned life’s work,” Forrest told him Friday. “It was your opus.”

and:

Ulbricht, who plans an appeal, asked for mercy in a May 26 letter to the judge. He called Silk Road a “naive and costly idea” that had ruined his life.

“I’ve had my youth, and I know you must take away my middle years, but please leave me my old age,” Ulbricht wrote. “Please, leave a small light at the end of the tunnel.”

So much for mercy.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-29/silk-road-...
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Yes. http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/02/mercurial-vs-git-why-merc...

(For fairness, if you want the arguments in favor of git, try this: http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/03/git-vs-mercurial-why-git/ . But honestly, I prefer Mercurial. It doesn't matter, because the vast majority of the people I collaborate with are using Git, but if I could make the choice, I would use Mercurial.)
Here's a list I found:

Narcotics trafficking, distribution of narcotics by means of the Internet, and conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identification documents, participation in narcotics trafficking conspiracy, continuing criminal enterprise, computer hacking conspiracy, and money laundering conspiracy.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2014/08/25/alleged-si...
"tie you up" might have been better written as "lock you in". Those tools can certainly be made available through other means via free (as in freedom) software. It takes work in doing so and that's what Github is selling - ease and convenience.

Github has obviously done a great job of making these tools useful and approachable. The point about having ultimate control over that data though is valid. Github might be able to mitigate some of these concerns with something like Google's "Data Liberation Front", providing a contractual agreement with users to make their data easily exportable if they choose to do so. Of course, even that may not be enough for some projects and for them it's a totally valid option to avoid github (and similar closed SaaS options).
Amazing. Write software, make billions. Write some other software, get life in prison.
He hired a hitman. He's a sociopath, and a suitable candidate for life in prison.
Though I agree with you about the "safer drugs" argument, Ross' site was the worst possible thing that could happen to the supporters of safe, anonymous marketplaces- The evidence that he was willing to use brutal mob-style violence to support his business has yet to be disputed by anyone in a credible way.
Follow-up question: does BitTorrent work this way currently? If I take your 50-file torrent, add one file and re-seed, will you be seeding the original 50 files in the same swarm as my 51 file torrent?
"What you did in connection with Silk Road was terribly destructive to our social fabric".

That sounds like something from the 19th century.
John Walker's The Autodesk File has his original strategy paper on this topic:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_35.html

"Lisp?!?! Why the Hell did you pick the most arcane, obscure, and hopelessly-rooted-in-the-computer-science-department language in the world for an AutoCAD programming language? Over the next six months, all of us will have the opportunity to answer this question."

That was in 1985. Not so much has changed in 30 years :P
Plus, it happened multiple times. Even if no one was actually killed the guy still tried to have multiple people killed.
We're discussing rights given to us by the Laws of Nature, as understood by our founding fathers, not the meager rights dolled out by the federal government.
Do we really need trigger warnings for proprietary software? HN has never been a dogmatic bastion of free software.
I saw this linked from the ASK HN: Python Enthusiast thread, and it seemed like a really great resource, so I decided to submit it.
There was no such thing introduced for the trial. It was in the original press release, then it was withdrawn. Maybe it was because of Mark Force's transgressions, or maybe it was just for effect. Regardless, he never got the chance to defend himself against those particular allegations.
I don't use it because I am a one man show. I don't have a need for it.
Yeah, I've been seeing the other comments about that. As I said I'm not 100% up to speed on the details. I'd like to see more evidence that he actually was being convicted of that though and not just that it was a factor in determining sentencing. I don't doubt it's possible he was trying to contract a hit but the stories about the FBI stinging him, etc. make me a bit suspicious.
The 24/7 access 365 days a year wasn't mentioned in the article you linked that you said you got 'all this' from. So would you please provide that source. I see them saying it needed to be open during the winter, and in previous reports I read in one of the other links in this thread that he had tried to close it all winter but has more recently had it open some days during the winter.

Also I fail to see how the decline of the areas use would have anything to do with its availability, this isn't a use it or lose it situation. Can you explain how reduced usage of the beach should effect its availability at all?

There are a lot of unsupported statements going on for both sides if I take the ones that they seem to agree on I get something of a narrative like this.

He bought the property.

He kept the beach open similar to the previous owners.

Tried to charge $X amount for parking.

People complained, and the court told him he could only charge $2.

He said well fuck you guys I'll just close the beach.

He won a case to close the beach.

He lost a 2nd case forcing him to open the beach.

He lost a 3rd beach forcing him to open the beach.

He started opening the beach sometimes. Is it more or less than the previous owners? Well this seems to be where the core disagreement is with no real support or evidence provided to the public for either side.

I think he comes off sounding like a dick, especially at the end of that article that quotes him repeatedly which you linked, where he tries to re-frame the issue as one of conservation. You apparently see him as an entitled land owner, we clearly disagree. However if you would like to continue this, which there is no need to as I believe we have reached an impasse I would ask that any numbers you use are ones I can verify. Thank you.
We chose Men's jeans and the higher price point as a way to constrain the problem, and test our algorithms and technology. It turns out they work very well, but usability is not close to what it needs to be. We also have plans to use this for simple basics too. For example, am I a Medium or Large for that T-Shirt? Or, I liked that shirt at the Gap, but the one I just bought from J Crew fits totally differently. We also can use the phone to get measurements from, say, a foot so that we can then get the right shoes. These are all easily solvable with data and we can use image technology to capture a lot of it. But, we need more data. If anyone on the thread would help and go through the Find Your Fit process (again, we know it is not the best experience), we can add a coupon HACKERNEWS and take 40% off to get the price into the zone your talking about.
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Pricing is a lot less and we only use our own IPs.
RPGs (no "real time" control, just navigating menus) are the only genre I can see being able to translate well to touch screen devices. So I could see an iOS Pokemon game doing well, and not a whole lot less.

Thing is, while an iOS Pokemon game would do gangbusters, would it be able to top the 10+ million copies at $40 a pop that Pokemon games (released almost every year these days, it seems) regularly clear, given that they'd have to cut the price considerably (or even make it "freemium") in order to sell to the typical iOS user? And even if it did sell better, would it be worth killing off what is arguably the main driver of 3DS sales and taking an additional corresponding hit on other, unrelated 3DS games?

Unless Nintendo goes totally bonkers, I think their iOS experiments are going to be limited to smaller puzzle titles and the like that fit into the existing "freemium" mold well, making a quick buck and advertising their bread-and-butter properties simultaneously.
Why? I have basic french and german and it was usefull many times.
The iPhone 6 CPU is significantly faster than 1.3 gigaflops. The 5s is capable of 10.4 gigaflops on LINPACK, and the 6 is faster still. Would have made Top500 in the late 90s.
Its locking the barn door after the cow is gone. 100,000,000 killer robots are already deployed, killing an average of 4000 innocents each year. Land mines, which kill indiscriminately. We've made negligible progress controlling their deployment.
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DJIA is at all times, Nasdaq is like it is 2000 again, a Republican is to be elected (giving how we like franchises it will be Bush 3 winning, unfortunately, over Clinton 2),... lets call it a "correction" that we're just due in for.
I noticed Firebase stores things in localStorage. That wasn't being used for handling being offline in webapps/mobile hybrid apps?
This is simply not true. Not only was the evidence introduced at trial, but it was tied to a specific charge, and considered at length by the court.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1391...
What makes him a sociopath?
I really liked your article. It seems like a really great resource for people getting started. I've got some friends who are beginners or interested in learning that I'm thinking about showing it to.
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I suppose the challenge is to read through the site and successfully extract it's meaning?
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I think that this is completely disproportionate. He is being treated as if he was a serial killer or a mob-boss. Hell, even Al Capone was only sentenced to 11 years in Prison.
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What laws of nature? The laws of nature that say if I'm bigger and stronger than you I can beat you up and take all of your stuff?
I wish the title was more useful. For those wondering what Soli is:

> Project Soli is developing a new interaction sensor using radar technology. The sensor can track sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy. It fits onto a chip, can be produced at scale and built into small devices and everyday objects.
Best application of this tissue : a head cover with electrodes to do electro encephalograms and read your thoughts. What a powerful source of info to target ads...
And then you have to do a copy just to pass it around to any other external libraries. And you lose the advantages of generics.

You end up with 9 copies of everything, that are 99% the same except for a couple find-replaces. If not more. (For instance, if you have a method that takes two generic arrays, you need 81 copies! Even if they are the same type you still need 36 (!) copies.)

Not a good solution.