skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The libre office team should really start a campaign to make everyone know that OpenOffice is dead and Libre Office is the future.

WTF? No they shouldn't. How about both projects just keep moving forward in their own way, and deliver the best results they can, and let people decide what they want to us? There's no need for this kind of public smear campaign conducted between OSS projects.

Better yet, would be more cooperation between the two projects, and a dropping of whatever enmity / bad-blood exists between the two "camps".
Agree. They should be fined just for charging people $80 a day to connect to their network.
NeXTSTEP was using the ".app" extension for it's application bundles even back in those years, so it's not surprising to hear Jobs through around "apps" as a term.
No no no. Like the Steve Jobs fanboy said - you hate him because he made Apple and changed the world.

You don't hate him because he treated his employees like shit. Screwed many of them out of stock options. Turned his back on his own child. Created one of the largest walled gardens in the IT world. yada yada yada.

Get over your PC Master Race ideals, bro.
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Well you had "application servers" for the web very shortly after the first web and mail servers. It was a super hot early category; Netscape bought Kiva I think and Sun bought NetDynamics (whose founder ended up running Sun at the end believe it or not) So it really was a common term back then. Initially it was "web apps" then it was just shortened.
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@MCRed.. get our basic version. it's the most affordable standing desk on the market with programmable positions and powerful sit-to-stand linear motors.

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Thanks - that's interesting. It does look like Calc 5.0 has enhanced FLOOR( ) and CEILING( ) worksheet funcs for better MS Excel compatibility.
Most likely they were using a "rogue AP containment" feature found on most enterprise wireless equipment:

- http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/mse/3350/5-2/w...

- http://www.arubanetworks.com/techdocs/InstantMobile/Advanced...
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Here is Smart City's response.

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60001011936

Among other interesting points is that they seem to have been using the same "de-authentication" trick that Marriott had used in a similar case a while ago. Also, they make an argument about density and interference that IMO shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. I still think they were wrong and deserved the fine, but it's worth keeping in mind that mobile hotspots can fall afoul of the very same principle and law behind that fine.
If you think what you plan to do is "kind of a grey zone" I wouldn't recommend discussing it in a public forum.

Contact a trademark attorney to have an initial consultation that will be covered by attorney-client privilege. Trademark attorneys are (relatively) cheap and will probably give you a 30 min phone consultation for free anyway.
Well, what we need to spark a revolution on many fronts is simple:

Half the volume
Twice the energy

We had something like that happen when going from NiCd to LiPo chemistry. On one of my high performance gliders I went from a massive, heavy 27 cell NiCd pack to a 6 cell LiPo pack that's easily half the volume and probably half the weight, if not less. And the LiPo pack can easily deliver 200 "anytime/anywhere" Amps. Yes, the thing goes up vertically like a rocket. Motor only runs for 10 seconds, if that.

I'm not a chemist but I think the only way to achieve this half/double evolutionary step is with chemistry, not structure (as in, making layers smaller). Lithium is nasty stuff. Part of me hopes we can bring something like carbon nanotube-based supercapacitors to this level of performance and radically change electrical energy storage without going to nasty chemistry. It would almost feel "zen" to use carbon for efficient energy storage.

Yes, there's a bit of sarcasm there in calling it "simple", because it isn't at all.
Oh Mozilla, why couldn't you resist the money. Your recent so called "services" are not welcome. You know it. But well, money makes the world go around.

How much did Telefonica pay you for the Hello integration?

But sure, our surfing history will be secure ...

https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/05/21/providi...

Did you guys acutally read your PR-bullshit here?

But soon a new small, fast, free, secure open-source browser will arrive and Mozilla will be history. But your pocket full. Well done.
Are there any places online to play with things like this? I used to admin Solaris machines back in the day and always wanted to learn more about mainframes. I'm not sure if there are any spots where you can get a free sandbox account on these types of things or not...
RiscOS used the term apps circa 1991: http://www.houseofmabel.com/puters/RISCOS3/plain.gif
Copyright, and its close relative the patent, are all about extracting rent.

The trick here is not the tractor itself, but the IP behind it. The tractor, or something like it, may well be produced over and over, but the IP contained within is rented out after being created once.
3 steps to better security in the API economy
The difficulty I see in trying to get involved with mainframes is that I can't physically tinker with one to get those "aha" moments.
This is different than my experience. I distinctly remember many magazines offering their reviews of "killer apps."
Are these the same people who ignored all the warnings?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TjBNjc9Bo

Bought cheap stuff from Walmart so middle class manufacturing jobs were sent overseas? Refused to get a STEM education so we're required to import 100,000 engineers ever year? Didn't develop a better immigration plan so now we have 11 million undocumented people, many who will work for far less because life is better here. That'll keep wages down.
That's a very odd question to ask.
I mentioned a distaste for him, not any sort of active upset. Kim Jong Un (deliberately avoiding reductio ad hitlerum) has done nothing to me personally, and I have to say I'm not a fan.

Edit: I don't like the way he treat his friends, family, staff or even applicants, details you can get by reading the biographies or watching the documentaries as I've said before.
Oooops! I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (just done apt-get update/upgrade) and my git version is 1.9.1 ...
According to their response (cited in another comment) they were spoofing de-auth packets, and were only doing so for hotspots determined to be physically within their proprietary space. It's not hard to do that via triangulation.
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Why the hell would you assume a system developed 40 years ago by phone companies would be secure? That's just insane. We knew this system had holes. Hell, there's even articles from last year which I found out using Wikipedia of all places (see below).

The way I see it is this: If it can have security holes, it will have them and they will be exploited. And what software cannot have security holes? By that line of reasoning, we reasonably should have known that such a system would have security holes that would be exploited when it was created in 1975. So this is hardly news.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/for-sale-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/12/18...
Yes, it does. I like to think of it as the the Kyanka Money Printing Algorithm.
Appreciate your answer and what the course is trying to do.

All I'll add is, it's good to be aware of the contradiction all that data presents. The contradiction shows up in your post and I have a feeling you are aware of it.

"Quickly exploring a domain" and "efficiently examining the data" are inherently contradictory. To resolve that contradiction (going back to my previous post) is to (a)get an expert involved as quickly as possible or (b)become the expert.

And its healthy for someone starting out (be it a journo dabbling in compsci or a programmer dabbling in journalism) to keep asking themselves (based on their aptitude\motivational levels) which road they are taking.
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> a new small, fast, free, secure open-source browser will arrive

Really? How exactly? Who will fund its development?
They had to be actively transmitting in some manner for the FCC to get involved. Sending disconnect packets would be considered jamming by the FCC.
There's a lot of FUD in this article. There's no question that AOO development took a hit by the IBM decision, but it takes time to overcome setbacks like that. But I, and a lot of others, believe the world need a nice, full-featured office suite, licensed under a permissive license. People will keep working on AOO, even if not so many as when IBM was contributing.
The original search link still works for me.
how is it Apache's responsibility? how about an open letter to the LibreOffice team to do what every single commercial company does, go out there and sell itself. OSS work is often noted and praised for having evolutionary and organic growth characteristics, as opposed to the coordinated and centralized growth exhibited by MS Office. without exhausting that vein of thought, this open letter seems to want to have it both ways.
That assumes it's possible to automate everything that creates wealth (I'm using "wealth" in the author's extremely broad sense; it does not mean "money"). It sounds like you're saying it isn't, and I agree. That is, the optimal human population will never be zero.
As someone who needs sensor data for their product, this looks pretty cool. I'd love to see the API docs.
How would mobile hotspots fall afoul of the same thing? If you get enough of them active in the same area you might get degraded or even nonexistent service, but that's not at all the same thing as sending fake deauthentication packets in a deliberate act to prevent other devices from working.
I have a 2014 MBP and it seems all I ever do is reboot the damn thing for updates. It would be nice if the "re-open my windows" actually respected workspaces...
New Zealand -> London

So much better here. Unlimited Internet 1GB Fiber to the house!
keyword: LTS

in contrast, Ubuntu 15.04 has 2.1.4
> A friend of mine likes to point out that while Trump has a lot of polls with him as their top pick (among the Republican field, I presume), there are far fewer with him as their second or even third pick.

Polls rarely (if ever -- I can't remember ever seeing one that did) actually ask for and track second and later picks, and even if they did, I don't think there is much basis to expect that they are stable and predictive.

> As other candidates start to drop out, those that remain will start to gain the "second" and "third" pick supporters while Trump will remain with relatively the same amount of supporters.

That's not an implausible guess, though the motion since there has been any attention on the race has mostly been from other candidates to Trump.

> I think in the end, it will be hard for Trump to keep up the support he has in crowded field against a more narrow field with saner candidates.

Lots of people -- many of them non-Republicans or Republican establishment figures -- have said things like that, and it may be true, or it may be people projecting their own preferences and perception of what constitutes political "sanity" onto the Republican primary electorate.
I am interested in this too. I would be very interested in a more detailed write up of the issues you encountered or things you learned.
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There was also pretty well designed scriptogr.am in this space. But they are also shutting down in September.

So, good luck! it seems that you'll need some of it :)

EDIT: See also:
https://www.boxfolio.com/
https://pancake.io/
http://droppages.com/
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There probably aren't many, howto and examples come to mind.
France -> USA

Took part in a coding competition on HackerRank, did well, applied for a job, did a few more interviews, flew to California :)
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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.

Mozilla almost certainly isn't getting any money out of the Pocket integration deal. Mozilla has far more money than Pocket does.
"Apps" has always been common personal computer industry jargon.
This exactly.

I'd love to find some way to deal with the politics of the case where you end up with the shambling semi functional monstrosity.

Watching someone who is clearly out of their depth trying like hell to save face while time slips past and the software doesn't improve is very frustrating.
OnHub
More so with Firefox OS, since it is a descendant of Netscape.
On Ubuntu, you can get the latest version via:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
git --version

Note that this is at "git version 2.5.0"

This updated Git for Windows project brings that same version to Windows.
They're not modern technology. The material is (somewhat) but the method isn't. Condoms are at least 400 years old, and there's plenty of evidence of other forms of contraception even by the Egyptians, Greeks, etc. The first rubber condom was produced in 1855, with them primarily being made of sheeps' guts and other natural materials before. Latex condoms came into play in the 1920s.
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This article could use a few more ads in between paragraphs....
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Yup, you're correct. In the attached pdf [1] it says

the complainant alleged that Smart City transmitted deauthentication frames to prevent the complainant’s customers’ use of their Wi-Fi equipment

[1] http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015...

edit: formatting
What's keeping this from being a campaign issue? The DMCA is a badly thought-out pernicious law. It interferes with academic and research work. It interferes with the independent DIY spirit of people like this farmer. It means we effectively do not fully own our own stuff that we've paid for. Why isn't this a campaign issue? Can someone paint me a picture concerning demographics, campaign finance, backed up with data?
Well you explicitly said you had a problem with him, not his company Apple. Then referenced him next to the North Korean leader.

You clearly have an issue with him? It's just interesting to see what that may be and whether it might able to be substantiated.
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It would be really cool if Github let users know when they are about to do something that is almost certainly a horrible mistake. However, is it their responsibility to stop them? I hope not. They provide a service that does exactly what it says on the box. Github shouldn't be obligated to prevent people from committing files that are otherwise valid and legal.

A better question would be: Could Github be successfully found liable for other users leaving their own keys in a public repository?
But it's not like the farmer is trying to retune the internal tables of his engine controller or override some kind of operation mode. He just wants to get the fault code out of the system.

It seems like there's plenty of room for a middle ground here. Deere certainly could have opened up some kind of way for owners to get fault codes out of the system, at least for things that are user-replaceable. Hell, the UI should at least put up that message ("CHECK ENGINE OIL", "BELT BROKEN", etc). But then the owner might not buy the replacement part from Deere, right? Perhaps that's the real motivation here.
Phone bars typically just measure signal strength. You can show full service but have a poor connection because there's a lot of noise or because the tower is overloaded.
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Thanks for the resources - great TED video
I was taking a Unix programming course in college and had a large enough programming project that it was a burden to try and program on the terminal through SSH or Telnet. Since I wasn't going to get Unix on my PC, I needed to find an alternative and remember hearing about Linux in the past. This was probably right around 2000.

I don't remember the reasons why, but I didn't download a distro and instead went to Staples and bought the cheapest flavor they had for sale. I can't remember what it was, but it had a GUI and text editor and all the backend programming stuff I needed to do the project much more efficiently.

I ended up keeping that Linux partition around and used it to teach myself Apache, MySQL, and PHP, which is what got me my first job our of college. That company was an Apple shop, so that's when I was first introduced to OSX and the need for a Linux desktop was eliminated for me.
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Here's a thought... instead of criticizing AOO, consider jumping in and helping out a bit.

git clone https://github.com/apache/openoffice

For my own part, I haven't been as involved as I should have been. I aim to remedy that, and have the code downloading as we speak. Time to dig in...
CLion 1.1 is here: updated C++ parser, LLDB on OS X, code styles and more
It looks very polished, not sure of its distinct value preposition over other routers currently on the market
A couple of years back I hacked together something similar and put it on github http://nkrode.com/article/autopilot
Most people seemed to want a lot more features than just easy publishing.
Yeah the location of the CX lounge could be a problem but Alaska flies out of the international terminal now and I only fly Alaska so it works out for me. The made to order dandan noodles are legit.
>> devices will frequently connect to the first, strongest signal they see

That is worrisome, someone could build a portable station to hijack people's phones, do some phishing then move on to another location.
Very interesting. From looking at the specs, it looks like they're packaging a server and marketing it as a router. The configuration app is a very nice touch, routers have always a pain to configure. I'd love to stick this in my apartment (even though I can only receive a maximum of 10mb/s).

As a side note, I'm surprised this isn't marketed alongside the Nest branch. It really has the look and feel of Nest products with the LEDs and the speaker aesthetic. Also surprised this isn't an "Alphabet" product.
I don't know what to say after reading this. Did the act come into force after BP spill?
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He can have my 555 timer when he pries it out of my cold, dead...well...you know the rest...
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It's not my estimate. I'm going by the claim in the article.

EDIT: Which has now been replaced by the patent application, for the general confusion of everyone...
That is incorrect. Microsoft has always been allowed to bundle things, except for the brief period between the original verdict and the appeal.

Bundling was the surface issue, but the antitrust violation was their undue exercise of monopoly power by refusing to let vendors bundle non-Microsoft software and using their Windows-compatible certification program as the stick to that particular carrot.

From Wikipedia on the settlement:
"The proposed settlement required Microsoft to share its application programming interfaces with third-party companies and appoint a panel of three people who will have full access to Microsoft's systems, records, and source code for five years in order to ensure compliance.[24] However, the DOJ did not require Microsoft to change any of its code nor prevent Microsoft from tying other software with Windows in the future."
> but it's worth keeping in mind that mobile hotspots can fall afoul of the very same principle and law behind that fine.

Absolutely wrong. Mobile hotspots do not actively transmit deauth packets into their surrounding environment.
on.google.com/hub for a product named OnHub? Does that mean more OnXXX products are on the way?
Security researchers out there: on what side of "the line" do you view this kind of exploitation to be? It was not done for nefarious purposes, but it did involve intentionally accessing resources that were clearly not intended to be accessed, like /etc/passwd. Would you worry if you did this that the company might call the police instead of thanking you?
I love the design but I wish it had an ethernet port (or two).

Edit: I spoke too soon.
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No, it's not the same as sending de-auth packets, but it's still interference with their signal on their property and that's an issue quite worthy of concern. That's why we have laws about jamming devices or radiated-power limits. I think their reaction was inappropriate, but the basic principle of not interfering with others' communications still cuts both ways. We need a better way to deal with such conflicts, which are only going to become more and more frequent and severe.
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$200 for the unit -- so it's competing on the higher end of consumer routers against offerings such as Apple's Airport. They seemed to have paid a lot of attention to human-friendly UI/UX though.

Would probably wait for reviews to see what's up.
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I write control software for low-volume off-highway machinery, and I have never seen sensor serial numbers used in this manner. Calibration yes, serial numbers no. And lack of calibration just puts things off a bit, but doesn't prevent operation. I suppose if they use CAN communications for their sensors instead of analog then a sensor might need the address set up and possibly the calibration values loaded, but off-the-shelf replacement parts are usually factory-set to the correct address & internal calibration. And I can see how the manufacturer could disable the machine until certain latched fault codes are cleared by a factory tech.

I would love to see an analysis of modern machine downtime versus equivalent machines from 10 and 20 years ago.

Just imagine if the likes of JD puts all tractor operating parameters in a cloud system, and requires not just Internet access but a login to operate the machine. Not unlike a certain startup from a couple years ago that sold hardware (was it home security?) that required constant cloud access to operate.

I have friends with skid-steers who beg me to replace the keyless electronic start & monitoring console with a simple electro-mechanical key and analog gauges.
We don't actually "own" these things anymore, we are just renting them

This seems to be a trend across even more of society than just products with DMCA-laden micro-controllers.

Perhaps the focus of open source and hacktivism should be in an alternative ecosystem for micro-controllers?
From a quick read, it seems to be an easy to use QOS and security setup.
We can't blame people for failing to understand how generic programs and OS can be.

About your last point, biases takes a huge amount of energy to overcome. I really wonder when such a shift will happen.
Depends how many duplicates there are. If there are eight of each manual, then you are talking about eight times as many boxes. One truckload is now eight truckload, one storage unit is now eight storage units. And now you have to pay for discarding 7/8 of the manuals, which is not free.
Try being a bit less myopic, and less rude while you're at it. Yes, the mechanism is different, but the basic problem of interfering with others' communication is the same.
Not to forget the data they are getting:

1. What people are reading

2. What they will read

3. What they have read

4. What they are just bookmarking/RILing and not reading

5. Etc etc.

That's valuable data imho.