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I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road

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Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road

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Post by phpnode »

emodendroket wrote: post #73
dmix wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Defcon was always much more hateable than DPR. There's probably a reason no-one came to his defense the way they did with Ross. And buying a Tesla with Bitcoin? He was begging to get caught. And he complains about greed. He should have watched Breaking Bad and learned the basic lesson of not buying a flashy car when you're trying to keep a low profile.

I admit I haven't kept up with the whole Silk Road 2.0 story, but I don't see DPR as sympathetic considering the only reason he didn't have a hitman kill people was that he was too bumbling to hire a real one.

This DPR is not the original DPR and as far as anyone knows never invoked hitmen, but he didn't last long.

Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road

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Post by rockdoe »

giarc wrote: post #64
csomar wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? I actually like it this way. Journalist tries to make it intriguing and longer . But that doesn't change the events or make them more interesting. I guess I just like simple and straightforward.

Except for the fact that he was working on data sets of oil pressure and speed sensors, but somehow that was for silk road.... maybe I didn't follow it, but I don't understand what he was doing.

From the comments he didn't know either.

Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road

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Post by weaksauce »

minus7 wrote: post #77

If you take a look at the code on Github you quickly realize it's complete bullshit, a bit of hardcoded data [1] and one file of backend code that looks like it was copied from somewhere [2]. [1] https://github.com/tdrach/Sciview/blob/master/public/javascr... [2] https://github.com/tdrach/Sciview/blob/master/routes/api/v1/...

I mean there is not much there... odd that the author thinks this would be used by spacex like it's close to being done.

Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road

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Post by TrevorJ »

minus7 wrote: post #77

If you take a look at the code on Github you quickly realize it's complete bullshit, a bit of hardcoded data [1] and one file of backend code that looks like it was copied from somewhere [2]. [1] https://github.com/tdrach/Sciview/blob/master/public/javascr... [2] https://github.com/tdrach/Sciview/blob/master/routes/api/v1/...

He doesn't claim it was a finished product

Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road

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Post by the_hangman »

stiva wrote: post #34

This really is an interesting story, but I wish he'd taken it to a journalist instead of writing it himself. The narrative is choppy and has a lot of holes in it. I would have loved to see this done as a feature from someone with a lot of experience writing about technology. That might also have given some extra credibility and context to things.

I thought you were just being petty until I tried to read it. There is so just much context switching without any clues at all to the reader, it is really jarring.

Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road

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Post by gthtjtkt »

stephenhuey wrote: post #65
gthtjtkt wrote: post #41

Edit: Turns out the headline is completely made up. This was in the comment section: > So was “Sciview” actually some sort of analytics app for Silk Road, with the “sensors” representing some other Silk Road metrics? Or was BB truly freelancing for SpaceX while administering Silk Road? > AUTHOR: Excellent question, I don’t know. So he has no idea if he was just a subcontractor or if he was doing work for Silk Road. I…

Don't recall if I ever met the author of this blog post personally, but his boss/roommate mentioned this particular application to me several times over several months. I was thousands of miles away from SF but it came up repeatedly in casual conversations and after leaving SpaceX he seemed to genuinely believe he had a shot of selling this product to SpaceX as an internal tool. He always juggled lots of projects and…

> his boss/roommate mentioned this particular application to me several times over several months. . . it came up repeatedly in casual conversations and after leaving SpaceX he seemed to genuinely believe he had a shot of selling this product to SpaceX

> I do find the author's story very plausible.

Aren't these statements completely contradictory?

On the one hand, you say it was a SpaceX project. But later, you say that the author is correct (meaning it was a Silk Road project).

So... which is it?

Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road

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Post by sandworm101 »

downandout wrote: post #32
sandworm101 wrote: post #3

The lawyer was correct. If you have reason to suspect the FBI is watching you, they already have what they need. The men-in-black routine is meant to alter your behavior, to cause you to do something rare like empty an account or contact a distant friend. This was federal investigation 101. Walk past the car and photograph the driver. They really love that.

Walk past the car and photograph the driver. They really love that. I assume you're being sarcastic, but they might actually "love that" if their objective at that point of the investigation is to alarm you and see what you do. It's an acknowledgment that they have indeed alarmed you.

I can actually do them a favour. That agent doesnt like sitting there all day. He was assinged to intimidate. Mission acomplished. By photographing him you acknowledge the message and he can be assigned to sonething else. Moving the nonverbal conversation along might actually trigger them to make a formal, polite, approach.

A lone FBI agent wont be happy, but he wont break cover be reacting. He will just drive away.

Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road

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Post by stephenhuey »

gthtjtkt wrote: post #87
stephenhuey wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't recall if I ever met the author of this blog post personally, but his boss/roommate mentioned this particular application to me several times over several months. I was thousands of miles away from SF but it came up repeatedly in casual conversations and after leaving SpaceX he seemed to genuinely believe he had a shot of selling this product to SpaceX as an internal tool. He always juggled lots of projects and…

> his boss/roommate mentioned this particular application to me several times over several months. . . it came up repeatedly in casual conversations and after leaving SpaceX he seemed to genuinely believe he had a shot of selling this product to SpaceX > I do find the author's story very plausible. Aren't these statements completely contradictory? On the one hand, you say it was a SpaceX project. But later, you say t…

A little confusing, I know, and it doesn't help that the HN title is currently different from the blog post title. I find it plausible that the author was wondering what the project was really for, because it wasn't an official SpaceX project. It wasn't even contracted by SpaceX, but rather intended to be completed and then pitched to SpaceX and hopefully sold to SpaceX. But the author wouldn't have had any interaction with SpaceX and therefore is wondering to this day whether there was a real chance that SpaceX would have ever used this code.

Edit: That being said, I'm a little surprised the author thinks this code would've been used for anything related to Silk Road.

Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road

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Post by nommm-nommm »

csomar wrote: post #42
stiva wrote: post #34

This really is an interesting story, but I wish he'd taken it to a journalist instead of writing it himself. The narrative is choppy and has a lot of holes in it. I would have loved to see this done as a feature from someone with a lot of experience writing about technology. That might also have given some extra credibility and context to things.

Really? I actually like it this way. Journalist tries to make it intriguing and longer . But that doesn't change the events or make them more interesting. I guess I just like simple and straightforward.

It was exactly the opposite of simple and straightforward. I had to read it several times to ever understand what was happening and there is still giant pieces missing. One thing doesn't follow from the next and the whole thing is just confusing and disjointed.

Normally I wouldn't waste my time on such nonsense but it was an interesting story so I really wanted to understand it. It's a great story.

He also didn't mention that it wasn't the original Silk Road, which is pretty significant information.

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