daturkel

The home page of http://www.drcraigwright.net/ currently just displays this image. Linked straight to it so that it wouldn't get flagged as a duplicate submission.

edit: Here's a mirror of the image, in case it comes down: http://i.imgur.com/7lhU0mr.jpg

And here's the OCR'd text: I'm Sorry.

I believed that I could do this. I believed that I could put the years of anonymity and hiding behind me. But, as the events of this week unfolded and I prepared to publish the proof of access to the earliest keys, I broke. I do not have the courage. I cannot.

When the rumors began, my qualifications and character were attacked. When those allegations were proven false, new allegations have already begun. I know now that I am not strong enough for this.

I know that this weakness will cause great damage to those that have supported me, and particularly to Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen. I can only hope that their honour and credibility is not irreparably tainted by my actions. They were not deceived, but I know that the world will never believe that now. I can only say I'm sorry.

And goodbye.

I'm confused about the payment model. Isn't all Bloomberg Businessweek content, for example, available for free on their website? Or, even if some fraction of their content is behind a paywall or not available, shouldn't only that content be paid in Blendle?

Complex and seemingly pretentious design pitches are actually a good way to explain to a company the way a design or design metaphor might subconsciously impact or impress its users. There are two problems here though: 1) the pitch is inane, for the reasons pointed out in the linked post, and 2) even if the idea weren't dumb, spelling it out explicitly for the customer is a great way to ruin the magic. (Fedex doesn't tell everyone to look for the arrow in their logo, and Gmail's slogan isn't "The envelope is also an M for mail!") Good design is often subtle of even invisible, and not just logos.

On the one hand, I'm sorry to hear that the service isn't available outside AU—but also very relieved because I entered very broad parameters and got no locations in New York, New York. I was worried that there were really no resources.

Check out tinderizer:

http://tinderizer.com

"Specifically, this project was born out of a yet-unpublished image deduplication framework, while attempting to identify whether duplicates were scaled versions of one another."

A humble but fun origin story for a very cool project.

I've played with Scrapy before to make a proof of concept and I was pleased with how easy it was (haven't yet had to use it for anything else yet).

That being said, had no idea how sophisticated it could get. This is super impressive, especially the JavaScript rendering.

Looks like it's too late for me to edit parent comment, but see tetromino_'s comment for cool details behind why this may have happened.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10858904

Fantastic—this should've been in the article!

Thanks for sharing. There are some good arguments here,* particularly re: servers holding your registration info and some of the downsides of requiring servers for xmpp (though it also has some advantages—it's nice to be able to message someone not online).

*though I'm always a little anti-"pgp can't be used by normal users." If the situation requires the security that PGP provides, users can frequently be made to learn. (That being said, Glenn Greenwald couldn't be bothered to set up PGP to talk to Snowden until someone got him up to speed. [0])

[0]: https://theintercept.com/2014/10/28/smuggling-snowden-secret...

An implementation that hides key management from the user (or abstracts it in someway—I guess you still do want longterm, but revokable, key use) could be nice, but then you get closer and closer to mimicking what OTR does. That being said, hard to complain that such a thing exists as an option for those that want it (especially when those seeking it might come across the pre-existing, problematic standard).

The way Google Translate works, which is actually explained pretty nicely by Google statement quoted in this article, makes this a non-story in my opinion. Whether by an intentional attack (somehow flooding the Google corpus [the whole indexed web in a given language?] with biased texts) or a statistical mishap, this is ultimately fairly uninteresting when you realize that: no, no one at Google "snuck" this in there.

In the attack scenario, if there were details as to how someone pulled off a Google-bomb style attack, that would be kind of fun and interesting. Otherwise, there's not much to say.

Yeah I've never seen an implementation of OTR that blocked archival—in the journalistic sense, it's still on the record so to speak. (That being said, OTR's deniable authentication means I can use my plaintext archive to recall the conversation but I can't prove to a third party that it's from who I say it was—nor would I be able to if I was storing the encrypted conversation.)

With the above considered, I'm curious to hear another argument for OpenPGP over XMPP rather than OTR.

(Edit: Should say that there likely are OTR implementations that archive the ciphertext, or don't automatically archive at all. However, having used OTR in Jitsi and Adium, both I believe keep regular old plaintext logs.)

This is really beautiful and impressive. I only wish the text was a little more highlightable.

I hope you submitted a pull request!

This is awesome. Can't wait to see more plugins.

These are always a delight to read. Check out the whole series here:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thing...

Just seeing this for the first time. Got a proof-of-concept demo working in no time (after fussing with install requirements...). Looks like a great tool for non-devs like me who still need to scrape things occasionally for data collection and analysis.

This looks like a lot of fun—thanks for sharing! edit: meant for my comment to be in reply to schoen's, but it's also true for the OP.

Was curious about this so I googled, but the results are less interesting than I'd hoped.

"CIA’s fine arts program—administered by its Fine Arts Commission since the 1960s—has benefited over the years from donations of sculptures and paintings that celebrate historical accomplishments in intelligence. The commission reviews donation proposals and, when it finds them appropriate, officially recommends works for acceptance."

via: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

The Boston Globe Magazine had a story about patented inventions from Massachusetts [0] which is where I first heard about this project and its non-profit Leveraged Freedom chair. [1]

I'm glad to see it getting more exposure. It seems like a great solution for many.

[0]: https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/08/08/when-comes-p... [1]: http://www.gogrit.us/lfc/

Of course, that's pronunciation rather than spelling.

Just a heads up, this is a CNN wire story. The original, properly attributed to Wayne Drash, is here: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/us/jamaica-lottery-scam-suicid...

I followed HN policy of submitting with original title, though the claim that employees have explicitly used inside info to bet at other sites remains speculation at this point. What is clear is that the same employee who accidentally leaked player ownership percentages early also won $350,000 on rival site FanDuel the same week.

Versioning with diffs would be nice—maybe autosaves for recovery as well as user-indicated "draft" points to point out major revisions.

Readers here may appreciate: I spoke with the dev for a piece on OptiKey: http://www.businessinsider.com/an-eye-tracking-interface-hel...

It's funny, I used to be a heavy Google Reader, and then Feedly user. But eventually I switched over to newsletters for "push" news discovery. I think in some ways, an inbox is an appropriate way to consume news (and seems to almost always come with a degree of curation and digging out the signal from the noise).

Not to poach—I'm a big fan of Read This Thing!—but I've been semi-frequently updating great reads to a side-project site of my own. Reads, etc.: http://readsetc.com/

I recently started working full time so I'm still trying to figure out how best to schedule it (and I can see now that I'm definitely due for a few new posts!), but I intend to keep it going for the time being.

I'm open to any and all feedback.

I think a successful kickstarter to trigger funding is better than a fully funded product which has a kickstarter as a launch. The latter isn't really "fundraising" at all and so seems to stray from the KS mission.

Is that allowed on Kickstarter? Kind of defeats the purpose...