skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a private invitation-only health blog. I also started a food blog back in June. I also carefully participate in discussions on a couple of public forums, hn being one of them. I currently have no monetization plan in place for that stuff. Trying to cone up with a business model for it has also been challenging.

If you want to discuss it more in depth than that, you can email me.
For me it was visiting a friend who was using RH4 and seeing the stuff he was doing, I was already a computer geek and programming quite a lot so the idea of an open source operating system I could have the source code to was incredible.

I broke the family PC a whole bunch of times (software not hardware) before I managed to get linux onto and then onto the internet, after that nothing came close as a platform to work on and so it's nearly 20 years and I still run it to this day.
that was literally my first thought.
> interference with their signal on their property

The local physical property owner has no more right (and no less right) to use the unlicensed bands than anyone else does.
Interesting - but I'm not sure what this gives me over something in a similar price range, for example:

http://www.amazon.com/RT-AC68U-Wireless-AC1900-Dual-Band-Gig...

Presumably either you know something about routers and want to enable QoS, install your own firmware, or use some other advanced feature - and you spend money on a decent router. Or you don't, and use whatever your ISP provides (which if it's bad, you blame the ISP for without thinking twice).

So perhaps this is the new router bundled with Google Fibre?
Perhaps it was a cleverly calculated marketing move? After all, https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/632577089539997697
I miss webvan! Still have some of their branded delivery boxes..
Is there a name for this sort of attack? We were just protecting against some similar attacks earlier this week, and it would have been nice to have a short name to refer to them as instead of "that attack vector where we make unrestricted HTTP requests based on user input".
> 47 U.S. Code § 333 - Willful or malicious interference
>
> No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with
> or cause interference to any radio communications of any
> station licensed or authorized by or under this chapter
> or operated by the United States Government.

The method of interference (‘jamming’ or sending deauth packets) is irrelevant.
Only the devops positions.
Hacker News feels like a strange place to talk about video game appreciation, but here is goes.

I've played an insane amount of Diablo 1, an unreasonable amount of Diablo 2, but when it came to Diablo 3, I barely finished the game one time and I that was it. I had an okay time playing it. The overall experience was just "meh".

And it's not because I was sick of playing video games in general. I still played an unreasonable amount of Torchlight 1-2.

To me, Torchlight offered a better "Diablo" experience than Diablo 3.

I know that a lot of thought went into making Diablo 3 playable beyond the end of the game. Online auction and all that. But it's hard to want to play more of a game when the game is barely enjoyable in the first playthrough.
Correct maybe. Useful, certainly not.
Spain > Belgium
Came to work for a Belgium co, now working for a USA co working on remote still form Belgium. 3 years of this already.
That's a good point, but then it is an odd thing for them to care about the fuel savings vs. their claim of not needing the first stage and allowing for single stage to orbit with a plane type launcher, which is a far bigger deal in terms of cost savings.

E.g. consider that Musk a few years ago estimated the fuel and oxidizer costs for a Falcon 9 v1 at ca $200k per launch, with a list price for the launches at $54m to $59.5m. Cutting the cost of the rockets themselves on the other hand, whether by reuse or making them smaller/cheaper will matter much more.

I guess whether eliminating the first stage entirely vs. reuse will matter much will depend on how many times recovered stages can be reused and how much it will cost to prepare them for reuse, as the potential fuel savings are basically rounding errors.
CivilGeo Uses Mushroom Networks VOIP Armor to Improve Remote Collaboration
I imagine it's like Echo, and the various sticks out now; if not on Android, you connect to it from your phone as a wifi access point, and set it up from there. When done it reboots and becomes part of your regular network.
Even accepting your premise (which I'm not sure that I do), that still doesn't disprove my point. When farm workers went into factories, we got a bunch of stuff like cars, dishwashers, and refrigerators. That means that I can go to the store less often, and I don't have to walk there when I go, and I don't have to wash the dishes myself each night. We gained a bunch of idleness from that - but we couldn't have done so without moving people from farms to factories.
It's an exciting time to be working in programming languages: industry is finally taking formal work in verification seriously, mainstream languages have nice type-theoretic features (e.g. Scala) and older languages retrofit them, finally a realistic C/C++ successor is on the horizon (Rust), mature tools like LLVM make it easy to build optimising compilers with relative ease, and fancy tools like meta-tracing make interpreters fast, so inventing new languages stops being a pain.
I see no mention of being able to use 2 or 3 of these things in an Wi-Fi extender type of scenario that I can do with my current Airport Extreme routers.
Uber Teams Up with Code Fellows in Seattle
No. The purpose of work is to combine labor with capital, in order to make more capital for owners. The goal of diminishing work is to push down labor costs for owners. Any and all extra value created by the combination of labor and capital must go back to the owners as more capital.
What is interesting is that it's possible to throw a disk (69m) further than a CD (68m). Perhaps the hole in the CD makes a difference, or the disks are smaller overall?
Star Office, Corel Office, Lotus Smart Suite, Appleworks....

Corel Office included Borland's Quattro Pro, and WordPect, which Borland bought then sold Novell, which sold it to Corel. It seems Corel Wordperfect Office X3 - Home & Student Edition (PC) was launched in 2007. (1)

Lotus Smartsuite Millennium 9.0 was launched in 2008, including 1-2-3 and a bunch of bought-in programs. IBM dumped lots of copies on the market by bundling them with PCs, as part of its attempt to kill Microsoft. (2)

They probably got killed off by OpenOffice....

(1) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corel-Wordperfect-Office-X3-Student/...

(2) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lotus-Smartsuite-Millennium-9-0-x/dp...
> For initial setup, the Google On app on a device with Android 4.0 or higher or iOS 7 or higher is required.

Bah! What's wrong with my Thinkpad?
This should be re-branded as a nuclear waste ejector, maybe it (and nuclear power option) would get some [more] traction.
Why is redistribution unfair? There have been hundreds of years of theft, violence and political misgivings against labor to get to the point where, as a class, labor is neutered against having a chance to have a piece of the pie they built for industrialists and owners.

So why is it suddenly unfair to suggest redistribution?

Why are the deaths of billions of people somehow more just than a redistribution of wealth accumulated through centuries of ruthlessness?

> The vast majority of humans, if not literally every last one, will be much wealthier.

What makes you think that there would be any wealth made available for those who are not owners of wealth producing businesses? This is a serious question, because it is the same problem your solution is trying to fix.

> We need to accept that and adjust to it, not fight it with gimmickry and theft

Or we can recognize that the current state of affairs was brought upon by years of gimmickry and theft by a slim margin of people against the whole. If you rely on trading your time for money, you are not part of that slim margin.

Honest question: where do you think you'd be in this situation? On the side of vast wealth holders who will welcome you with open arms into their enclaves where a multibillion dollar net worth is required? Or rotting with the rest of us who rely on programming a computer to pay the bills?

This reads like an earnest Modest Proposal and efficiency porn mashup.
Ask HN: Have you ever upgraded your hard drive's firmware?
I've just been bitten by a firmware bug in an old hard drive. (I had backups, and it's an old drive, but still it's annoying).

That made me wonder: do you upgrade the firmware in your HDs? Do you do it for all of them, or only if the changenotes are scary?

Do companies with very many HDs upgrade the firmware? (EG Backblaze, Google, Amazon, etc etc).

(I was able to fix the bug by using the Seagate diagnostic port; a USB to serial adapter, and instructions linked in this years old SE answer http://superuser.com/questions/365999/how-do-i-recover-data-from-my-presumably-dead-hard-disk )
Poland -> USA

Came on a six-month tourist visa, got locked out of return trip due to an ill-timed declaration of martial law back home. Silver lining was automatically receiving US resident status.
I feel like this gets posted every other month or so. I appreciate the awareness, but it doesn't seem like there's much new discussion or debate to have on the matter: folks continue to be a bit more careless with credentials than they ought to be / don't think about what pushing something to a public site means / etc, it would rock if GitHub was more proactive about messaging affected users, it sucks that it's hard to safeguard against this via technical means.

If anything, I'd love to see somebody do a blog post instead about how they started scraping these results and/or the commit data firehose and messaging users who posted credentials
Software Engineer  Course Hero
Bingo. You are totally and 100% legitimately allowed to hijack, block, and/or de-auth rogue WiFi access points broadcasting the same SSID as you so long as the blocking is targeted at your own property (some leakage is inevitable).

If attendees were naming their personal hotspots "SmartCity" then SmartCity would have a point. They weren't.
Android+M+is+officially+named+Marshmallow+|+AnsMachine.Net
"Legitimate" here may mean that you agree with the use in those cases, but don't mistake it for "legal", which it is not, at least in the last two instances. Corporate LAN is an interesting one.
> Transient resource or network failures can completely disable Chronos. Most systems tested with Jepsen return to some sort of normal operation within a few seconds to minutes after a failure is resolved. In no Jepsen test has Chronos ever recovered completely from a network failure. As an operator, this fragility does not inspire confidence.

Honestly, that is the money shot. Its not worth running an off the shelf cluster system that isn't self-healing from a network partition and/or a node loss->node restored cycle.
Managing State Across an Ant Swarm of AWS Lambda Tasks
Don't worry. If common sense and precedent indicate something then there's usually little need for a law.
This is a case where the article author is either a moron, or a liar.

Either genuinely believe that he is correct (in which case he is a moron) or he doesn't genuinely believe it, but is saying it for some reason (in which case he is a liar).

Those are the only two possibilities here, and neither is flattering.
I would say they're most likely not rewritten - in the sense that each new one gets to look at and improve upon the predecessors. So they're not starting from scratch and that is leading to better quality I think.
I don't see how anti-rogue AP tech can be legal either unless it is within the confounds of your own property. Where WiFi jamming is technically also legal if it does not affect any external party.

What gives you, company xyz, the right to essentially DoS an AP just because they share the SSID? Just because you call something CorpWiFi, doesn't really make it legal to DoS someone else's SSID that is also called CorpWiFi. There does not seem to be any kind of legal framework that would allow you do so, but inversely, you are essentially then not only committing multiple types of crimes, but you are also violating free speech.

I get the reason, but the solution really needs to be something else, even if that something else is some sort of change to the WIFI spec and inclusion of some kind of authentication or security layer.
you should have seen the dirty looks we got from the union guys at one convention when we came late and decided to setup our booth ourselves.
Ha, I didn't get that message at all. So the emphasis was on 'not blinking', the colored rim is the ~LED. My apologies.
Smalltalk was the pinnacle of programatic pedagogy. Hypercard was the easiest way for regular humans to use computers for computer-like automations.

But, then you run into the "No Real Programmer" problem. The nerds take over, hyper-complicate everything, then we're back to nobody understanding anything. (Also see: "No Real Unix User" when people say "Well, I don't consider OS X users to be unix users.")
The author is right that community is everything, but it's not something that you can import. I strongly disagree that you should build your co-working space around an outside team of entrepreneurs.

You have to build your co-working space around the people in the space. Don't nickel and dime your members with add-ons of limited value. Have generous event and friend policies that encourage organic community. Foster connections between members not between members and outside "advisors". People come and stay because their friends are there.

In that vein, you should also probably have a mission that's bigger than the space. A way for people to identify that it's the right place for them, instead of being another generic space in a sea of generic spaces (at least in SF).

Offices are real-estate. Co-working is people.

EDIT: I founded a 3000 sq. co-working space in SF.
I suspect the only chemistries that will support that kind of improvement are air-breathing cells (vanadium boride-air has a specific energy that narrowly beats gasoline).

Unfortunately they can't be recharged in-situ, so they probably will be limited to applications where that kind of energy density is really necessary (e.g. airliners).
MRI Study Proving Meditation Rebuilds the Brain’s Gray Matter in 8 Weeks
A friend of mine was attending Xavier, and one of his professors was also an old-school Jesuit priest. My friend told me that he this professor started to tell outrageous lies, just so he could stop the class and ask why no one was questioning him. Really, the purpose of that lecture was to set the stage so he could talk about critical thinking and telling truth to power.

There's a Doonesbury about a college-prof character that's something like this. (Except the moral of the story never gets across to the students.)
Tesla isn't trying to get rid of dealerships. They're just trying to remove the legal requirement of dealerships for small auto manufacturers.
You can search out private GPG keys as well, which is crazy-bananas. https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Aasc+BE...
Sounds like it was very tight financially, it might have made more financial sense for her to integrate childcare into her daily life at YC than for him to pay for daycare/babysitting while he's at work. Seems it worked out fine for the most part, but it's also possible that if she had to do it over again, different choices would have been made.
Have you heard of beta family? I'm using that for testing for my app. I think you can find people on there, but I'm just using it to get signup because TestFlight doesn't even have a method to get emails into it without developer adding users manually.
How to get a /64 ipv6 subnet when the ISP won't supply one? My ISP just hands out 1 ipv4, thankfully without DSLite or CGN. Any link to a howto out there which incorporates your suggestion?
That's the Computer Fraud and Abuse act -- not the FCC's domain of wireless spectrum.
True, although the audio engineering on the Echo appears to have been quite purposeful. Not sure what kind of performance they'll get out of the speaker on this Google device. But the functionality may well be there, I agree.
I quite like this generated one: cq1cxxq~!4+p~/~37d^8y/3-c
France Plans to Create Uber-Like “Electronic Availability Register' for Taxis
Practical Advice for New Software Engineers
We've had geeks uncover vulnerabilities of GSM and SS7 in Slovenia since 2012: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

Last year a student discovered that Slovenian military and police communications system TETRA isn't configured to encrypt: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

The official response was to terrorize and prosecute, even in cases of responsible disclosure. Of course, it's impossible for them to fix issues that arise from insecure design, but they also seem to be ignorant of the Streisand effect.

As somebody else commented, we have yet to reach the tipping point, when general public becomes concerned with the privacy of mobile networks. Mainstream TV shows like this one might bring that moment closer. I just hope they do enough fear-mongering before deadly crime happens, or people gradually accept lack of privacy as the norm. The former is tragic, and the latter paves the way for oppression.
What?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

It's definitely a terminal thing. The "bug" in git is that it doesn't strip out the control characters or reject the commit if the commit message contains non-text data.
You raise an interesting point. As far as I know, the law doesn't recognize concern about exfiltration as a factor distinguishing "legitimate" vs. "illegitimate" use of these features. It just makes a public vs. private distinction, and the convention spaces in question were considered private. In Smart City's response, they point out that they also provide service in public spaces, and took pains to ensure that users there weren't affected. Is that "illegitimate" in your book? How would you even craft a law that would prohibit them from doing this, without also preventing the "legitimate" corporate use you mention?

Where I think Smart City's argument falls down is not that managing the network within their private space is generally wrong or illegal. Their failure seems to have been that the users whose hotspots they were killing had entered into no agreement not to bring or use those devices. Had that been a part of the event registration, I for one might have declined to attend, but I also think the FCC might then have been right - per the law - to have decided differently.
From the comments in this thread its pretty clear that most consumers probably don't understand QOS/prioritization. While most routers allow manual configuration if Google's router can automate this task this is a huge benefit. Imagine if you're using your network for wifi calls and others are just browsing the net. Your calls should clearly take priority over other traffic. The same goes for gaming etc. The hardware specs are incredible for a home router at this price point.

I'm really looking forward to the intelligence aspect and how much it can actually improve the overall network performance. The nice integrated app to share passwords and see who's on the network is just a nice to have feature.

edit: appears to be sold out on google store, and amazon is only selling the blue model
I'll burn some karma on this: every time I see the word "tentacles" I'm reminded of this scene - http://i.imgur.com/JRzIkWY.jpg
Here in Germany those offers are similar. And nearly everybody somewhat tech-savvy doesn't get or use them, because most of the time they are pretty crappy. 150€+ routers are a limited market though, I've mostly seen top fritzbox models that come with DECT phone support etc.
A Beginner’s Guide to Eigenvectors, Covariance, PCA and Entropy
The most basic level of exit survey (page is closing, pop up an alert) can be obnoxious, so tech to couple exit intent with lead scoring could be really cool (and less obnoxious).
In the second example how does a live programming
system synthesize a "Person" object?

Most data types should have `example` methods. They're too useful not to have, for documentation generation as well as live programming. `Person` in this case should definitely have one.

What if there are multiple constructors?
What if it depends on ten other objects
when being created?

Each of those other objects should also have `example` methods. Person's example method should use those, possibly modifying them after they're called so that they make more sense in the context of a `Person`.

What if this object only originates from
a database? Should the user constantly create
these objects by hand when they want to edit
any function in their program?

Zomg no. Make `example` methods. The idea of having beginners program without static types and immutability seems misguided to me, because it makes them keep the whole program in their head instead of just the function they're working on. The idea of making them keep the whole program in their head _while also not having an example of what they're operating on_ is just silly.

PS As to the "generating unit tests" point, the place to start looking for inspiration is QuickCheck: http://www.stuartgunter.org/intro-to-quickcheck/

EDIT: PPS: If any lispers are reading this, I'd be curious to hear how you generate example objects at the REPL. Since the lisp community places such a high priority on REPL programming maybe it's already explored this area in depth.
> home automation' core/aggregation box

Deeper than that, even. It seems like this is intended as a local-network cloudlet[1] substrate.

Launch an app on your phone that needs a companion frontend server instance to talk to? One gets launched "in the cloud"—specifically, in a virtual cloud owned by the app author. But where is that instance, physically? Usually a provider like AWS... but with a cloudlet peering arrangement, that instance could instead end up running on your router. (Not as crazy as it sounds if your app has an N:M frontend-backend server topology.)

[1] https://github.com/cmusatyalab/elijah-cloudlet
Podcast: MemSQL with CTO Nikita Shamgunov
Thanks for the tip! I'll be attacking this again tonight, I think I have an idea now that you mention auth. By the way, some subdomains are public (not sure if part of the game), like source.0x0539.com, oxidized etc.

Awesome work, thanks for the fun!

Edit: Just got past login, what an awesome puzzle. That being said, I hate that it looks like I have a run an executable from your site. Seems dangerous, so now I have to spend the time getting a VM setup.
YC Demo Day Doodles (Summer 2015)
"Ordinarily in Jepsen we’d refer to these as “primary” and “secondary” or “leader” and “follower” to avoid connotations of, well, slavery, but the master nodes themselves form a cluster with leaders and followers, and terms like “executor” have other meanings in Mesos, so I’m going to use the Mesos terms here."

hahaha, well naming things is one of the hardest problems in computer science after all.
According to their response, it was within the bounds of their (leased) property. Not saying that makes it right, but FYI.
Very good points.

I wasn't necessarily advocating for another upwork copycat. All I was trying to say by this post is that if there's a new or existing platform that works (unlike Upwork) and is superior in some way (i.e. it solves the problems you pointed out), now is the time to ride the wave.

I was aware of TopTal, but according to your website your platform only solves those problems for 'the top 3%'. Even if we assume that two thirds of the freelancers on Upwork are completely incompetent, then there's still 30% of perfectly competent and capable people who also need work.