skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a strawman, the term "SSID" appearing or not appearing is irrelevant. The distinction is about legal and illegal usage of rogue AP containment. To quote Cisco[0]:

> Rogue AP-connected clients, or rogue ad hoc connected clients, may be contained by sending 802.11 de-authentication packets from local APs. This should be done only after steps have been taken to ensure that the AP is truly a rogue AP, because it is illegal to do this to a legitimate AP in a neighboring WLAN. This is the reason why Cisco removed the automatic rogue AP containment feature from this solution.

You're arguing that it is illegal in all circumstances, Cisco disagrees. The FCC also has not brought a single enforcement action against anyone utilising rogue AP containment the way it was designed, they have only brought it against businesses using it to shut down third party WiFi (that wasn't pretending to belong to the same network).

[0] https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/143301/rogue-access...
I'm surprised to see this landing page was built with Squarespace. I would have figured a tech company as large as Uber would have an easy way to throw together an email collection page without using a 3rd party.

It shows how good these kinds of tools are getting that even for an Uber the best way to build an MVP website is to use a tool like Squarespace vs. spin it up using their existing expertise (and, excitingly, the same tool is equally available to everyone).
Yup, that's the one. It's an interesting lightweight microkernally operating system, which will operate either with an MMU and memory protection or without an MMU with all processes sharing an address space. It supports Posix and, if you've got an MMU, fork(), so you should be able to run fairly standard Unix software on it. (Without an MMU --- although this is all from memory so I could well be wrong --- you only get vfork().)

It was last updated in about 2009 when the author vanished off the internets. A few people were using it and tried to keep it going but the community never gelled around it.
updates are meaningful only if you are affected by a bug, as you described.
(security updates are mandatory because each security bugs are affecting your code)
Awesome... I had avoided roles to keep things easier to understand but will check out the PR.
Google is taking over the worrrrld
The publishing modal seems to have a couple of bugs:

1 - When trying to add release notes it closes the modal every time you press a letter, though the letter is still there when you reopen the modal.

2 - After publishing a second time the modal can no longer be closed and remains open until a full page refresh.
I would be more worried if I was Postmates, Munchery or Doordash. Instacart provides a substantial different service: raw grocery delivery instead of pre-made food.
Instacart delivers groceries that you buy through the app/web.

This is a service where couriers equipped with the dishes of the day ride around and deliver the pre-packed meals you order.
"different enough and it will grow more different over time"

Can you elaborate more? Don't mean any disrespect, but this seems like a complete copy-paste of their interface.
I had one of these. Unfortunately, I grew up in a small town in the Midwest, and so no one else had one. Meaning most of the wireless functionality was useless to me.
Has it ever occurred to you that you could work somewhere else on a $100million project and get to keep a larger proportion of your contribution?
I'd read their report and about their work before, but hadn't seen the CCC talk, thanks for that! The way they presented the OpSec violations at CCC made things funnier :)
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Exactly right! Smalltalk never recovered because of its PR problem. Smalltalk has been free (or inexpensive) for over 15 years now.
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Thanks for the report, I'll take a look. Can I ask what browser you're using? The hide on keypress thing doesn't seem to happen for me.
>Fedora... I just cant bring myself to use something called yum.

They use dnf now.
yes, it's more or less how you described it, we just added some tweaks here and there to make it work in practice :-)

ad 1.) no, we first grab the video from the user and then segment it in the cloud

Yes, we just run CPU instances.

Typically the user transfers the file back, e.g. via our FTP-transfer, S3, GCS, or simple download as zip.
A bad day for Postmates, Munchery or Doordash. Uber really has a huge infrastructure and they could easily undercut them, push them out of the market, and then raise prices a-la Amazon Books.
> that's pretty canonical

Only for somebody living there. As I point out in the parallel post (which is possibly too gray to be seen) Google is almost certainly really giving Stevenson in UK as the answer for people who search from there.
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Jodi Kantor is answering questions on her Amazon Article
(this is something I have experience with)

Unfortunately, there's really no market-based solution to convention-center practices. Competing for desirable locations -- say, by building your own convention center and charging less/having better practices -- is close enough to impossible that we can just call it impossible.

And given how often convention centers are funded by the taxpayers, it's only fair for the taxpayers to impose conditions on how their money will be used.
http://nextmarket.co/blogs/smarthomeweekly/29309313-google-i...

Going by how closely this matches the leaks, I think the onHub actually is running Brillo. They've just chosen not to mention it just yet.
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http://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml
Yes, that surprised me too; I expected a cluster of several Pg servers instead.
I'm not sure what the advantage of this is over any other router, other than vague 'built for all the ways you wifi'. Simplicity is nice, maybe this is trying to duplicate Nest-like success in the router realm, but people don't actively fiddle with routers like they do thermostats.
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Sure you could -- just drop off a file someplace visible.
Gotcha, I thought it was being presented as some sort of technical constraint.

An interesting variant on all of this is FiOS, which is often brought into the house on coax which plugs into their router. It's possible to buy something that will bridge the coax to ethernet, but they're pretty hard to find.

I think this might be going away as they increase speeds. I originally had the coax, but then they replaced it with ethernet coming in to the house. I kept their router anyway because it actually seems to be pretty good.
This is well known to professional convention planners and service companies such as GES and Freeman. It's not going to change any time soon. Each venue has its own rules, depending upon the strength of the local unions. I've worked at trade shows around the country. In many cases, I've been able to assemble my own booth, plug in my own electricals once they've run the drops for us, etc. For infamous venues like Chicago and Las Vegas, you're going to pay for everything beyond sticking up some posters, including even plugging in a light.

Conference organizers who book these venues are making a conscious choice that the inconvenience and cost to their exhibitors pays off in increased attendance.
It's a total bikeshed issue, in any event. No one seems to mind the issue of Unix routinely forcing you to commit filicide and general killing of children, for instance.
Sorry for being the only Top level commenter but one more question:

One of the big benefits of Slack right now for me is that there are NYCTech and Philly Tech slacks that I'm active in. Will there be any way to integrate this with other communities that on Slack, maybe with something like Slackline?
So, I'm not the only one who was thinking that. Nice! :-)
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Why would you put your router in the basement? That's horrible for whole-house reception unless you have repeaters on each floor.
The other major tool I'd put up there with Smalltalk and Hypercard is Excel, at least when it comes to automation of real-world business problems. To an extent, it made a large enough set of problems easy enough to solve that tools have stagnated as a result.
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Exactly. The platform will matter, but in this case the content is going to be king. Users are going to wherever the best content is. I saw the OP as being in a position to be able to complete with Google to provide quality content. That's not a bad position to be in. And that long tail can be really long with a lot of content that Google and others won't deal with.

I have heard several times how actually having some competition helps companies quite often. It's not automatically the end if someone else has a similar offering.
It has a 3rd radio that monitors the channels you aren't currently using to see if any of them are better. The first two radios in the device can't switch without dropping connections, so they can't go hunting for new channels once the AP is turned on.

My Airport Extreme chooses channels automatically at boot time, then never again. This is fine for my house though, because my neighbors are reasonably far away.

At work, our Meraki AP has this kind of 3rd radio, and we get very good performance in a terrible RF environment, where lots of other equipment (from Apple and Ubiquiti) has failed.
Many convention centers are, nonetheless, obviously built to ensure you won't get a signal inside the building and will have to pay for whatever overpriced service the convention center offers.
I also think it's worth mentioning that Intel® Clear Containers now supports Docker as well.
I practically learned OOP making an application in Turbo Pascal using the Turbo Vision library.
I even bought the Pascal source code for Turbo Vision ($200 IIRC) Primarily to find a bug where when you pressed a pull down menu item, and there was a button on the window below the menu item, the mouse event for the menu item also triggered the button below.
It turned out there was a patch downloadable from a Borland BBS, but boy it was learning digging through the source and finding and fixing that one inlined assembler opcode which was wrong. Dissecting the patch one could see that it contained a workaround, not a direct fix of the bug. Today there's a lot of open source to learn from. Not at all common at that time.
How relevant is funding level to an organization's ability to secure its data? Some very large and well-funded companies have been hacked, and it seems to me that many of the properties of our technology that allow security breaches are independent of funding---security is hard, whether rich or poor.
First of all and mostly, we could never exactly figure it out what was going wrong.

This was a few years ago and I don't remember all the details. We just had occasional issues with stopping/starting and especially restarting processes when pushing a new version out or when a process crashed. I do remember it could occasionally report a successful restart and still leave the old process(es) running.

All my developers became very familiar with supervisord, and it was number 2 on the troubleshooting list (1. Did we introduce a bug in a recent commit? 2. Did supervisord do something weird again).

After we switched to runit, only devs that touched ops knew about it at all. And we all forgot it was there. That's what you want in an ops tool.
> "Optimal human population of zero" seems like a contradiction-in-terms.

Well, I also noted that it wouldn't occur, so... ok?

> For whom is it optimal to have a human population of zero?

While this is moot given the above, the sad reality is "probably most species other than humans". But that really wasn't the point here at all. Even if an ecosystem is a zero-sum game and the success (or anything less than total extinction) of humans means the failure of something else, that's not a reason to voluntarily go extinct. Nor did I say otherwise. The point isn't there should be zero humans but rather that there's probably a need for far fewer than 8 billion, and that not only would every individual human be better off if there were fewer, humanity as a whole would likely be better off, too. The fact that most other species would have a much better chance of survival in a world with a few million humans than with tens of billions is a great bonus, and one that also adds value to those humans' lives, but was not really the main point.
My wife and I are equally busy, and I operate better on less sleep than my wife. So with our daughter I did a lot of the "mom" things the first two years. She woke up like clockwork for a feeding every three hours for more than a year. Now, at two and a half, if she wakes up in the middle of the night she'll cry for "daddy" not "mommy."
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i think it has mainly to do with cross department allocation of resources

in many larger companies (not saying it's like this) cross department work just increases overhead unnecessary - compared to a project team that just throughs something together quickly
I suppose that's a fair enough assumption, in theory. However having been around gyms with toddlers/young children around, everything is mostly ignored while the kids use the ring ropes as a personal jungle gym.

I don't know what they think or absorb from it, but I'm guessing they just see it as some sort of goofy adult playtime because they acclimate and grow bored of it quickly.

You're also forgetting that they also see us laughing, sweating, doing pushups and situps, and shaking hands at the end while we thank each other.
Perhaps I'm naive, but I would've expected the folks at Y Combinator to go a little above and beyond so a parent with a young child wouldn't have to stay in a 'flophouse'.
He works in SF, as do we. It makes sense, given the context.

I like face to face discussions. It would have been nice to talk to him about what he's building, and what he's trying to accomplish. Google hangouts would have worked, too.
1.5 million is revenue and they decided to just end it?? :(
SSDs I do, because for whatever reason SSDs often contain buggy firmware or the updates provide performance improvements.

HDDs I do if I have a specific issue. But often HDD firmware updates wouldn't be available which I put down to how mature that technology was, at some point they just run out of stuff to add or break.

I do have a laptop HGST drive right now with a bug in it and no firmware update. I'd happily apply it if I could.
Impressive that Julia hustled so hard just to be there at YC, but disappointing that she had to. Why doesn't YC provide some basic support for its founders to attend the program? At a minimum, room, board and transport for founders and their families for the duration.

Not doing so will strongly select for people who already have the means to support themselves in Silicon Valley for 3 months, which is like saying "rich kids only".
He's doing everything in a VM anyway, so it should be trivial to reset the system.
I highly doubt they added a Google account requirement
to improve ad targeting.

You might be right but it's really hard for me to agree with you. It could be optional, but it appears not to be.
Obvious UI clone is obvious.
[citation needed]

The kid will definitely realize mom and dad are gone at two, they're not vegetables, but whether that has any impact on them later is not something that's been established by evidence. The idea that kids are the "sum of their experiences up to that point in time" is an old wives' tale.
Chrome 43 on OSX Yosemite. It seemed to work fine on the initial 1.0.0 publish, but it bugged out on the subsequent 1.0.1 etc publish attempts.
The steering wheel could be improved upon in some theoretical sense, but the chances are that any new car steered by, say, an iPad is much worse and definitely isn't going to be used in races any time soon.
Hmm...no, it's not like that. I have a lot of meetings with a lot of people, it's part of my day job. He's just one of our many users, with whom I like to engage directly.
Wait, so the Dash button isn't an April Fool's Joke? I have been having conversations with people about those things every couple months and we still kept coming to the conclusion "it must have been a joke, but we aren't sure, and we actually can see a couple interesting use cases"....
Ah, my mistake then, I looked at the specs but didn't notice it for some reason.
ICD-0+Conventions+and+Guidelines
It is a low bar, but it's still one that is not consistently hurdled by most education programs. So many students just want to get their A grades and then purge the entire semester from their memories. (Or maybe they don't explicitly want this, but it's what they get by cramming instead of learning.)
Automatic security patches.
Cool app - intersection of tech, consumers, and charity.

Fantastic interface - sure it's a survey app, but it's a survey app where the interface stays out of the way of getting to the end of it.
I wonder if it's cheaper to do it with everything moving. a weight with a long cable spinning like Thor's hammer at a given altitude. A payload catches the cable, steals some angular momentum to get kicked up to the next altitude, with the next hammer.

If it's close enough to earth, i think the cable will get some induced current, which could spin a gyroscope in the hammerhead, getting some angular momentum back.

Actually, i just wonder if this approach has a name, seems like every harebrained idea i've ever had was thought of fifty times before by much smarter people.

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Skyhook! cool.
I had one of these, and learned some programming on it. It was super fun!
Is Visual Studio going to be in use 500 years from now? Light Table? No.

The people who made Visual Studio have not made something that is smarter for everyone's work. Maybe your work just doesn't require any customization. That doesn't mean nobody should ever want customization.
Worth watching the CCC talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oCOdGpXvZY Personally, finding 'holes' in GSM/3G is a fruitless task, because they are SIGINT enabled as the default. Finding holes in deliberately weakened systems makes you look clever, but you're only part of the wider problem of legacy systems that are deliberately kept online because of arcane lawful interception 'laws' (they're not really laws, they're just one law for the police, and none for you).
I bought some 802.11AC router from Asus a few months ago for around that much, and I was absolutely floored at how much better it was than my old WRT54GS that I had been using with DD-WRT for years. Now I'm easily able to download consistently at 16MB/s from the internet, and do large file transfers at even higher rates between devices at home. I've mostly stopped using gigabit ethernet at home even because it's so fast.
Attatchment parenting[1] which has some mild evidence base would suggest that separation from a parent should be handled carefully. A sudden three month break probably isn't compatible with attachment parenting.

[1] attachment parenting should not be confused with helicopter parenting, which has some superficial similarities but which is different and which has mild evidence of long lasting harm.
How old is this? I've already seen job posting with Uber for people to work with UberEATS, so I figured it was around or privately around maybe?
Yes, but as noted in the article some of that may be because of other factors that have changed in the meantime. I.e. if hospital treatment for heart disease has advanced and noticeably affects outcomes at that level, it could change the overall outcome of a study about heart disease.

I myself don't anticipate that accounting for much though.
This is actually cheaper than what my current router - a Linksys WRT1900AC - is going for. On the other hand, said WRT1900AC was designed explicitly for OpenWRT support (and is even advertised as being OpenWRT-compatible - which it indeed is as of Chaos Calmer RC3), whereas OnHub's page makes zero mention of installing custom firmware.
I'm just curious why so many wireless routers are flakey, need frequently reset, have connection issues, etc. That, and what Google is actually doing differently than other high quality routers.
British farmer tired of slow Internet built his own 4G telephone mast
"Why should I put in 6-10% of my salary when I don't know what 25 years from now look like?"

To me that's even more of a reason to put money aside. in 25 years social security may be bankrupt.

I personally put 10% aside in addition to the employer's match (so in effect 13%) and I'm 28. Note that there is a yearly limit (somewhere around $15,000 I think, not really sure).
Beautiful doodles as always :)
It's two private parties acting in a public space. It may still be illegal to interfere, but the first amendment protects you from the government, not from other individuals.

You can't just use air raid sirens to disrupt a public protest

I'm not 100% up on my civil rights/protest law, but if you are a private party, I suspect you could. It is, for example, 100% legal to surround a protest with other people holding sheets to block them & their signs from view.
That's a different port (From the original article at the head of the thread, Sergio Sigala's port [0]-- which you link to the screenshots of -- is a different port targeting fewer platforms and with a 100% compatibility target, while the one in the article targeted more platforms, and compromised compatibility for security/usability improvements.)

Both ports seem to be inactive (the current version of Sigala's per its page is the same 0.8 that was the latest version at the time of the 2009 post of the original article), but there seems to be at least one more-recently-active fork of Sigala's port on Github. [1]

[0] http://www.sigala.it/sergio/tvision/index.html

[1] https://github.com/benwbooth/tvision
Thanks, but shouldn't these features be optional? I still don't get why I need a Google Account.
Well, if that's the case then that's good. I had a line originally that had a parenthetical like "(or if they are using it, they should be announcing so with much fanfare, at least in the technical sections of the page)", but it got cut due to how cumbersome it made the sentence.

Thanks for the heads up. I genuinely hope that are using Brillo and using the experience to improve the OS. I think that Google is biting off a LOT with Brillo, and I don't think that they can afford to fragment their IoT efforts.
I've got the same router and I'm getting close to 900Mbps. Maybe your client device doesn't support 5Ghz?

I'm very happy considering the price and openwrt support.
The latest version of Chronos added support for constraints, at least for simple EQUALS constraints.

The annoying problem that I also encountered with Chronos was the lack of error reporting from the REST API. Invalid jobs would just return "400 Bad Request" with no error message. The error sometimes wouldn't even be reported in the logs.