skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see a single one of these applications actually being possible with this. The thread enables touch sensitivity on clothing; nothing more. There are no temperature sensors, RFID chips, electromagnetic sensors etc.

It's interesting that even Google didn't post a single use case for it...I can't think of one off the top of my head either.
“I strongly believe that my son would be here today if Ross Ulbricht had not created Silk Road,” said the man, who was identified in court only as Richard.

Such an ignorant comment it doesn't even deserve to be commented.
He ordered the killings of 6 people.

Even by the bloodiest of bleeding heart standards, contract killing isn't some victimless crime.
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The quote( not your comment ) is a logical fallacy. Even if was not accepted as hard evidence in the court, it was spoken, and has influenced the jury.
This has not been proven
Yes you can write the file by hand, but what you write is going to get overwritten on the next system update to grub2.
I knew Ross for a few years in college. I find it almost inconceivable to believe that he tried to have people killed. I also find the sentence completely disproportionate to the 7 charges he was tried and convicted of. This is a sad day.

edit: I also understand the point that his hiring the hitman was an overt act under one of the other charges, but, speaking as someone who is not a lawyer, it seems to me that such a weighty punishment should have to be based on a much more explicit charge than this. I sincerely doubt that they would have been able to make the case for life in prison if not for the murder-for-hire angle, and as such i think it should have been charged. This seems like a dishonest and sneaky way to prosecute someone. Of course, i have my biases.
This could be an affordable way to scale to TVs. I've been using mac minis running scripts to broadcast my dashboards. But this solution seems a bit better.
Ok, he wasn't sentenced for murder but it was "factored in" in another sentence. Wow.. I'm not sure there is a more serious crime than murder though. Wouldn't it be that the other crime was factored in under murder?
I'm honestly surprised to learn that anyone defends learning Latin outside of academic scholarship. I guess I feel the same about Greek but no one learns that in the US so it's less argued about.

I took Latin in high school and felt that I wasted four years I could have spent learning (rudimentary) Spanish, or at least something that had any cultural relevance at all. You have to find a way to make kids care about it as well as justifying its utility.

I see Latin and Greek education as historical relics, akin to how we used to emphasizing testing students' ability to construct shapes with compasses and straightedges, or their ability to memorize bible verses.
Thanks very much for sharing. Do you know more about its source?
Presumably parent is offended by the privacy violation. It allows developer of app A to know I have app B installed, which can be used to target adds etc.
Wouldn't use of the Payment Protocol address the blockchain scalability concern? Maybe the "Tip" button could really be a payment protocol URL or something along those lines.
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Please read the parent I responded to. Especially the closing statement.

>If drugs were legal and treatment of abuse the focus instead of punishment Silk Road wouldn't have existed in the first place.

I cited Portgual, a country where drugs are legal and the focus is on treatment of users. Giving an example of where such a system exists and works. The "war on drugs" is the wrong approach. I implied, rather indirectly, that prison quotas have a lot to do with keeping drug use illegal. It makes it easier to fill quotas.

Now then - the parent and my focus were both more on the users and the wrong approach for the "war on drugs". A response to me focused more on distribution and extrapolating the legal stance of Portugal. So I cited a Wikipedia page that was more specific and re-iterated that my focus (and the parent I responded to, by extention) were more focused on drug users and treatment doing more good than going on witch hunts for distributors.

Congratulations, you caught Ulbricht. Now what about all the other dealers that people will turn to? Especially local dealers who might lace their drugs or have improperly manufactured drugs (ie. containing arsenic) that may lead to more deaths of users?

I have no idea how the Silk Road worked, but I imagine dealers had accounts and received feedback. This meant there was some level of Social Quality Control over the drugs. Anyone selling faulty/laced drugs would be quickly rooted from the market. Providing a 'safer' place to buy, even if still illegal, does more good for the users than having to trust shady dealers.

This is very, very related to the war on drugs. It's a criticism of the policy of it all.

I'll quote myself from another post I made:

"Mistaking some delusional world of zero crime doesn't do any good for people living in reality."
I'd be curious to know if there is really an "Agorism 101" type website that says it's preferable for a business owner to use murder as part of their business dealings, as opposed to relying on a central authority to enforce laws.
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Please stop. I do not want you or your technology in my life.

Thanks!
Peers don't have to seed packfiles the way we're used to for "traditional" seeding of movies or music; these packfiles actually represent transition from one commit to another (instead of "all content from beginning to now"), so they are inherently ephemeral. They don't even need to be kept on the disk, because they will be generated on the fly every time a client is interested.

The DAG-osity of git really helps here (because you only have to transfer what's really needed), and the "immutability" of git helps because if your project is popular and you update your branch, everyone will want to go from the old commit to the new commit, so everyone can share the diff between them directly.
Hi Thomas, I recall you saying at one point that you are not a fan of static code analyzers for improving application security. Could you elaborate? "None of them found Heartbleed" might be one reason, I suppose, but it seems to me they do find a lot of more ordinary XSS, SQL injections, etc. Do you really think it's not worth using them at all?
The impact of this can not be overstated. Wars over water in the Middle East are more common there than anywhere else.

By removing this casus belli peace with Israel is much more likely.

Look at Jordan for example: Once they had a good treaty for water everything else fell into place.
There's research showing that one year of Esperanto followed by three of French leads to greater French fluency than four years of French: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto
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His convictions were for hacking (and I'd love to know the details on that... who exactly did Ross hack?) criminal enterprise conspiracy, and narcotics trafficking. The closing is in a pdf somewhere up the thread.

No attempted murder charges though.

This man is literally going to jail forever on the charge of proividing people a place to buy opium. Maybe he tried to hire hits, but that didn't make the final conviction list, though some in this thread are trying to say that "narcotics conspiracy" is a broader charge that somehow? includes murder for hire charges.
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So if someone opened a website in Portugal and sold illegal drugs, weapons and stolen financial data, that person would be looking at a few months of talk therapy?

Don't think so.
> Ok, he wasn't sentenced for murder but it was "factored in" in another sentence

Its not "murder", its "soliciting murder in the furtherance of a conspiracy". Which is not a separate crime, but manner in which the crime of conspiracy is achieved.

(Soliciting murder itself can be charged as a crime, and Ulbricht is charged with that, too, though those charges were not tried with these charges.)
If you don't have sympathy for people who have a "lack of opsec," you don't know much about sympathy...
How will these fabrics be disposed of? Can they be recycled?
about the security issue, you're wrong: if you want to host it for your company, put it behind a VPN or defend the site with a password on the HTTP level. This prevents all attacks from outside.
Wow, this is a blast from the past.

From about 2000-2005 there were maybe a dozen people doing interesting theoretical work in this area worldwide, much of which was never published. Unfortunately, it received a lot of criticism from AI academics that, frankly, didn't understand the problem space which still gets repeated today.

Most of the criticisms of using approximated Solomonoff induction for AI has the caveat that they presume a naive and "obvious" approximation that had little connection to the theoretical computer science constructs actually being used to solve the problem of efficient, general approximation. In other words, the criticisms are a bit of a strawman fallacy.

Sophisticated approximations with excellent theoretical properties for general purpose computation had another critical defect instead: they had terrible scalability on real silicon due to the strong non-locality of operations when implemented in any obvious way at the time. Basically, you could prove that a different computing substrate would scale up to incredible capability but vanilla silicon was pathological which limited it to toy problems in practice. In principle, these Solomonoff induction approximations should easily outperform any of the "deep learning" technologies currently being used.

However, I would make the observation now that these computing models should be practically scalable using recent topological parallelization techniques, computer science that did not exist in 2005. I suspect few people have noticed that this is a solvable problem now.
Hopefully they'll put a saddle on it! What a way to commute...
> Should be guillotine every founder whose company fails?

Guillotine, probably not, but I'm okay with punishing every "founder" of a "company" that errantly spends billions of tax dollars on weaponry and uses it to kill tens of thousands of innocent people.
Healthy economies will always displace workers through creative destruction. For example, the internal combustion engine decreased demand for horse whip makers but increased demand for oil workers. While few horse whip makers could make the transition to oil workers a healthy economy can usually adjust.

Structural problems in economies can also create sub-optimal use of labor. For example, in a debt based economy debt and savings are just call options on future labor (production). In a healthy economy the concept of debt and savings is used as a way for people to buy and sell call options on their labor. For example a student may choose to sell a call option on his labor by taking on debt for an education with the expectation that his labor will be more valuable in the future. Somebody in middle age may chose to buy a call option on the students labor with the expectation that the value of his labor will decline in his old age.

However in a pathological economy structural problems can create sub-optimal use of labor. For example, if deflation becomes entrenched then all rational actors may chose to defer consumption into the future where labor will be cheaper. This can create structural unemployment like it did in the 1930's. Other examples where the available call option on future labor is smaller than the demand. For example the demand from Baby Boomers looking at retirement, demand from the 1% to maintain their relative wealth, corporate coffers that can't be repatriated due to tax minimization strategies and sovereign wealth funds may exceed the productive capacity of the future labor pool.

In that case the economic system may be 'signaling' to the rising generation to defer their labor but in a way that exceeds their actual capacity to defer the labor creating sub-optimal use of labor.
> quite the competition.

Understatement of the century. However, I see it as great news for you. If you're far along enough, and this proves to be something people want, you're a shoo-in for a buyout. Good luck and keep up updated.
The definition of watt, if I recall correctly, is "work".
Related, there is Irmin, which is a git like (ie maps to git) datastore[1] for distributed data structures. Being able to see changes to data structures by typing got log is pretty cool, and I am going to try it in a serious program.

[1] http://openmirage.org/blog/introducing-irmin
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lenovo is still bundling crap with their laptops. nothing has changed, they got rid of the specific thing that caused the outrage, that's all.
The mandatory minumum year of foreign language is already outside the "critical period hypothesis" anyway.

If you buy the critical period hypothesis anyway, which I do not.
So the core question is, if unemployment is high and wages are low, why not invest?

You promote investment by the government later in your post. Yet is it the case that all possible private investments will have low rates of return, and only government investment can possibly have a high rate of return? If so, why?

(Note that I have no particular objection whatsoever to having the government end welfare/unemployment/etc, and simply provide low wage employment for anyone who wants it building public works of various sorts. But my reasons for supporting this are simply because I favor creating disincentives for idleness, not because I think only the government can engage in productive investment.)
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OK, that looks like the right way. But there is still a thing: the article reads ARM and this code is for openRISC 1200. Also this uses an OS called: mselOS

Something is wrong.

https://github.com/ProjectVault/orp/blob/master/mainpage.dox
> Perhaps if ability of torrents to update is a concern then it warrants a new peer to peer protocol?

There is a new peer to peer protocol, it's even an IETF draft, it's called PPSP and is full of nice stuff:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protocol-12

https://github.com/libswift/libswift
It really is.

If the law is hurting people, and breaking the law helps people, it's completely reasonable to use that argument to morally justify your illegal behavior. I'd be interested to hear your argument why it is not.

Edit: Though to be clear that wouldn't work to justify all your illegal behavior, if that included like hypothetically trying to have someone killed.
Hard drugs are one of those things that have different consequences for different types of people.

An intelligent, wealthy, employable person can dabble with them, have a good time, and usually get away with it. Should they get addicted and screw up their lives, they can usually get help and bounce back without permanent consequences.

People who're a little less well-off intellectually and economically aren't so resilient. Should they get addicted to hard drugs and screw up their lives, they usually don't bounce back from it - their lives are ruined forever.

Since HN is full of intelligent, wealthy, employable people, the comments on this thread don't surprise me a bit. And yes, I agree that drug policy in the United States could stand to be reformed a little. But when evaluating the harm a person's actions can cause to society, I wish people would think a little more about not just themselves, but that vast chunk of society that's not lucky enough to not be as privileged as we are.
No surprise here. @cryoshon has it right in that the debt load is freezing the system. The banks failed in 2008 because we reached the limit of how much debt the world can support (not counting all the fake debt those crooks sold in the form of derivatives). The US gave the banks a ton of money to stay afloat, but it didn't solve the debt problem ie. the debt didn't get forgiven. What's interesting about this year is that criminal proceeding are finally moving against the leaders of the banks that survived the 2008 crash. These things take awhile to work their way along. This will not do anything to help the economy, in fact it will only get worse as the banks circle their wagons and stop lending.
I got my first Python job by going to a user group meeting where there was an interesting presentation, and afterwards introducing myself to the speaker and handing him a resume.

As far as portfolio, I'm sure you can find someone in your friends or networks that would love for you to build a small website for them, or move their current site to Flask. If you don't know anyone looking for a site, approach local non-profits, your local library, or if you have kids or know anyone with kids, I can guarantee that the PTA at their school will have a bunch of projects that they'd love to build.

A quicker exercise that is good for portfolio is to look for web designers who have posted interesting mockups (e.g. on dribbble) and ask them for permission to build a working prototype of their mockup. This is good for both of you, and you might end up with someone you can call on to help with design work.
I'd also bet you a coffee that you could pretty reliably uniquely fingerprint devices this way. I don't bear OP any ill will for writing iHazApp, but I can certainly see why many would be uncomfortable with it.
Not sure what you mean? I use Youtube all the time from my Xbox.
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Do the same thing you did for the Gittorrent. A GUI client that runs a torrent of a php file that connects to a torrent of a database file. You just need to always be connecting to the latest and greatest.
You don't really have to just believe. It isn't even the fifty years of historical evidence on the contrary in the US, it is how almost every nation south of the US boarder in our hemisphere has been systemically destroyed trying to supply all of the black market US drug needs.
You have it exactly backwards. Google's Ads business throws off massive amounts of cash to spend on R&D diversifying away from Ads.

The Ads business is maxing out, you cant generate 20% revenue growth per year by continuing to have a 97% ads business model.

This "oh, but they're going to use it for ads" meme is pure lazy and sloppy thinking.
Not only that, but the officer making that allegation has subsequently been charged with embezzling bitcoins from The Silk Road.
Oops, not at all. I must have given the wrong impression. I am 100% in favor of democracy with universal sufferage and representation, both as a matter of principle and one of practicality.

Those technical geniuses are still only human: They hardly can design software interfaces that work for everyone; I don't want them dictating public policy.

My point in the grandparent post was that I'm much more interested in candidate interviews conducted by professionals than those by Redditers.
I agree it is really stellar. The billion dollar concept for me though is encrypted repo torrents. Imagine a group of servers that are hosting encrypted chunks which form the basis of a homomorphic encryption protocol for distribution using forward error correction to allow recovery of the deltas if n of m components of that delta can be recovered. Basically if you have the key you can pull out of this amorphous cloud your source code, and if you don't have the key you won't even know it is out there.

I started building a toy version of this about 5 years ago but got distracted by work. Essentially the repo key encrypted the packfile, the storage reliability layer used its another key to encrypt the chunks. The latter key would find the chunks, with enough reliability to re-create the encrypted packfile, which the latter key could decrypt and apply to your repo.

A very fun problem in distributed systems and data structures.
Twitter and Facebook have extensive OS level integrations put together by Apple.
iTunes never sold MP3s. It was originally encrypted AAC, then later plain AAC.

The "FairPlay" DRM system (classic marketing name to make it sound good) always supported codecs other than AAC, leading to much speculation at the time that Apple would sell lossless tracks for a higher price, but it never happened.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/how-the-feds-stag...

They staged torture and murder to satiate Ulbricht's need to clean up loose ends.
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I am an employee, but I down voted it because it's dumb.
You can still be charged with soliticing a minor if you happen to be a star on To Catch a Predator. Just because the minor in question never existed doesn't mean it's not a crime.
With stagnant incomes? Very easy - non-wage compensation.

Instead of giving people money, you give them non-wage compensation (e.g., health care benefits rather than wages, and similar things). That's exactly what happened, in fact - wages are "stagnant", but compensation per hour is not.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/COMPRNFB

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LES1252881600Q
> Distribution/Aiding and Abetting the Distribution of Narcotics

> Distribution/Aiding and Abetting the Distribution of Narcotics by Means of the Internet

Good ol' US justice system: Where you get charged with the same crime twice so they can double the sentence.
I've always thought Esperanto to be an incredibly bad idea. http://xkcd.com/927/?cmpid=pscau
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I must say first and foremast a BIG thank you to you, for taking the time to respond to my post, most appreciated. To answer your question, i will like to think i do have a good resume :) and sending out about a dozen a week maybe. No I presently do not have projects.
Why do people continue to use MM for "million", especially outside of the context of money?
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Jurors probably aren't experts in rhetoric so such statements have a huge influence on them.
But – as shocking as this might be for some people here – a buyout might be not what people strive for. Some people just want to have their own small company, thinking more long term. Others want to actually improve the world.
How would that be entrapment? The police have to remove your ability to make a choice for it to be entrapment.

http://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com/post/19810672629/12-i-wa...
Ok, so he wasn't sentenced to murder, thanks. Neither to "solicinting murder in the furtherance of conspirancy either" actually. Or, which charge was it exactly if you look here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9627263 ... Seems as if there was no such charge.
>Nonetheless, the researchers note that productivity rates have risen, which theoretically lets many people be just as comfortable as previous generations while working less. Yet they choose not to.

Oh, ffs.
is there any ranking? which library to choose?
He didn't just "enable the exchange of drugs". He knowingly hid that he did so, and made bucketloads of money off it.
Health care benefits don't help with rising food and housing costs...
If a version of this with friendly name support is released, I will mirror all my active GitHub repositories there.

If someone builds on this, as discussed elsewhere in the thread, to make a decentralized service that mimics 'social' functionality such as issues and pull requests, I will strongly consider using it instead of GitHub (depending on the UI, stability, etc.).

I don't even have any particularly popular repos, so there is no real reason for anyone to care about the above, but, y'know, HN comments approving of the idea don't necessarily translate into actual interest in the product, so now you know there's at least one person in the latter category. :)
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