skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I inferred too much from gp's comment and replied very tongue-in-cheek. Obviously I could have also said "accessible from Saxony (for the neo-nazis there), Cologne (for remnants of the red army faction) or Uganda (in case Josef Kony ever decides to turn up in Berlin)". Hope I now covered all major political and religious extremes.

Back to the topic: Munich had something for the S-Bahn, the commuter train system, in their app for several years already. I really doubt that it's a security risk and find it sad that this is the first reaction something as nice as this gets.
I have the impression it is being positioned as a unique and alternative travel experience. Most freighter can only take a max. of 10-12 people.
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There may also be an interpretation in which you're not even modifying the work by using an adblocker.

If you define the work as the source code you're not actually modifying it. You're just declining to download subsequent works (iframes, flash, whatever).

(not a lawyer)
As someone who works in neuro lab who occasionally reads about "Neurohacking" I could easily dismiss it as 100% hype, but I won't (although I do call out when someone talks to me about any of the devices on the market having seen manufactures come through our lab and try to peddle their… stuff).

"A lot of biohackers (even PhD level biohackers ensconced in academia) are basically script kiddies – cut and paste these bits of DNA and cross your fingers and hope the result you expect pops out."

Same is true of Neuro phds: "scan brains in fmri/eeg that i have no idea how it works from a physics perspective", run this matlab script here, use this proprietary software there, calculate "connectivity|power|correlation" - "does this look good for my paper? yes, shiny grant coming right up! Will it move the field forward? Not anymore than the thousand other papers out there but the university pr office is on it!" (in no particular order).

I say this because if all this was more out in the open (methods, software, caveats on every level on a git repo) and more available to people in other fields/expertise to look at and source materials and parts, a lot could be moved forward in general from what I'm observing going on in academia now along the lines of:

"As I worked on insulin in grad school, I risked my job as a lowly postdoc, chiming in and pointedly telling him (in front of the program manager) why it wouldn’t work. Some of my coworkers speculated that I might not show up the next day, but I survived to tell the tale."

I see some well intentioned people fumbling around, being derided in private by academics (who play the same human status games in different ways) who are still willing to talk with such people (because $$$, and maybe because some other academic they "collaborate" with is talking with them), who are pretty smart in their field (who are finding alternative funding sources!) who I secretly hope burn a fire under the ass of what goes now, so I won't write it all off.
What makes you think it's a joke? Is any of it untrue?
Here's one for Brno (Czech Republic) and surrounding areas (South Moravia region): http://iris.bmhd.cz/

You can enable/disable different types of vehicles: trams, trolleybuses, city buses, regional buses, regional trains, ships (in that order).

No ships today, as the season ended last month).
Rethinking the Enterprise Software User Experience
Randomise the destinations as well. Will play havoc with the terrorists.
I'm glad they use OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps. Well done.
In the pre-internet-for-everybody days (and even quite a while afterwards) zmodem and other file transfer protocols were pretty much the only way short of mailing floppy discs to get a file from one place to another, and there wasn't a terminal package or a BBS system that did not support it. Even today plenty of terminal programs will happily respond to the download initiation sequence.
ZModem and a ZyXEL was all you needed to BBS like a boss even on the crappiest phone lines. Golden times :)
That NewYorker comic is priceless: “I’m starting a startup that helps other startups start up.”
At least in the United States (and the UK), the copyright owner of the original work has the exclusive right to prepare derivative works, regardless of whether the derivative work is published, distributed or used in any other way.
Close knit old hand devteam or bunch of random Rambos? How to deal with devteam?
It's the other way round: the extra stuff is there as "market differentiation" in order to justify the high prices and prevent commoditisation. The problem is that if you're selling a commodity the price ends up close to the marginal cost of production. Whereas every company wants to have some unique IP they can charge monopoly rent prices for, like Apple.

Same with vendor crapware on phones and PCs. I call this stuff "value subtracted software".
Haha, are you sure you covered all extremism there?

I didn't mean it to come off so paranoid actually, I was just interested in starting a discussion about it, hence the "Isn't this" vs "THIS IS DEFINITELY"! I agree it's awesome tech, especially as it loads instantly on coffee shop internet, but all the comments here already reflect that.
It's not a hardware fault: it happens on both my MacBook Air's built-in keyboard and my external Apple keyboard.

I'm using a Mac keyboard layout. I know that Alt is in a different place on Windows layouts, but that's a different problem.
Tech Blogs in Kenya Suck Here's the Data Analysis to Prove It
Yup. Intermittent at the moment. Both Tweetdeck, mobile, website and app.
Who doesn't try to find places to hide from the endless stream of calls, meetings, and emails?

In fact, once I check off the next four hours of meetings and client calls, I think I will go hide in the awesome Stadtbibliothek (the library).
How to Specify Alignment for PreserveAspectRatio in SVG – InfoTech Site
Ebay has .dll in its urls, or at least it used to.

It's just code.
Well, what else would you return? A `400 Bad Request` error might be more appropriate, but a `500 Internal Server Error` is "A generic error message, given when an unexpected condition was encountered and no more specific message is suitable." - you don't want to leak internal state, obviously, so just log the problem and respond with a 500.

TL;DR: Might be a segfault, but it's 2015 - it probably isn't.
Topology looks for the patterns inside big data
> ...this author is deluded if he thinks he's getting anything close to an adblocker experience.

The quote from the author is:

> ...and I could browse the web with fewer distractions—all without the sense of guilt that comes with using an ad blocker

Notice the gulf between your statement and the author's statement.
...Or it might be completely prohibitive, depending on what sort of radiation is present. High fluxes of low energy radiation are much easier to shield against than low fluxes of high energy radiation. This is incidentally why there is at present no realistic plan to deal with GCR's in interplanetary travel.

Getting beneath Europa is a perfectly workable plan only if you assume that you can get to the Europan surface safely. It may be that just approaching it for landing gives too much dose for short-term survival.

Absent good reason, though, Europa makes little sense for a manned mission relative to Ganymede or Callisto, which likely also have oceans, or Titan, which has an atmosphere to boot.
If script detected, serve not-strictly-accurate but damaging to Comcast warning about "insecure Comcast connection"...
I got "Sorry, MailChimp couldn't validate your email. Try again?"
While a web developer locks him/herself in a dark room with a bottle of whiskey and a revolver.
I was watching 2 S-Bahn approaching each other towards the centre of where the map loads. Creeping ever closer, then BAM! only one visible and stationary for the past minute. Should I call the emergency services? ;)

Looks awesome by the way, I wish this were more common. In the UK, many similar projects were shut down over IP issues.
Yeah, these Soylent fadsters are really missing out on the Human Eating Experience of devouring a ham and cheese sandwich right from its tupperware.
Metro roulette! =D
This appears to use the theoretical schedule, rather than real-time information. I live next to a busy tram line, and what I see through the window does not match what the site shows.
Man, I miss the good old days when I knew everything.
Yeah, I only learned about it after I discovered what "~" is being resolved to in my Emacs installation on Windows...
A keynote worth watching regarding transport visualisation: http://www.architecture.io/talks/till-nagel-unfolding-the-ci...
So, the answer to bojo's question is "Yes.".

> After that it's loaded from the browser cache!

Unless the resource changes, the UA's cache is cleared, the file is served with incorrect caching headers, the cache expiry time specified in the resource header is reached, the resource is loaded by a UA that doesn't cache...
Giving people equal rights?? The horror!

All people living in the same region should obviously have the same rights. They pay taxes like everybody else so of course they should get equal representation as well.
Hi, one of the authors here. Correct, we added that to the protocol FAQ too: https://github.com/tus/tus-resumable-upload-protocol/blob/ma...

The only exception is X-HTTP-Method-Override, as people have been standardizing on this, and the header is specifically meant to let people deploy tus in environments that don't support all of HTTP and are apparently hard to change.
The problem is not that Comcast does it, the problem is that the US government allows them to do it
RewriteRule /bin/help.exe /node/whatever.js [L,QSA] # where's your CGI now?

I have seen such rewrites in place to keep old CGI URLs from breaking, as their consumers were scattered all over time and space, and it was easier to internally remap the old URLs (which have over the years essentially become a public API) than have them stop working.
Can Paid Ads be ‘Inbound-y’ or are HubSpot just cashing in?
https://github.com/jlund/streisand

" Streisand sets up a new server running L2TP/IPsec, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, and a Tor bridge. It also generates custom configuration instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists. "

It's effortless.
The CDC keeps pretty good stats, as of 2011, there were about 6 million diabetics taking insulin;

http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/meduse/fig1.htm
Why not one class of small NEP orbiter-surveyor for every outer system moon, and fly ten or twenty missions of this class, before we bother thinking about landers?

There's only so much data you can gather in flybys.
Using MixPanel with Java? All traffic is plain-text.
That first link is absolutely horrific.
Why would I want to?

EDIT
Honest question. Since I've been disabling javascript I've not read many comments sections and I've wasted a lot less time.
Dark City comes to mind...

John Murdoch: Excuse me. How do I get to the end of the line?
Train Passenger: You want the Express.
John Murdoch: [after train blows by him] Hey, how come that
train didn't stop?
Station Master: That's the Express.
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I read something about it being a function of how much longer you are aboard a freighter vs. a cruise. If you are at sea 3X as long, it costs 3X to feed you, etc.
Live status here: http://downrightnow.com/twitter#refresh
It is possible to run VPN on a host using a socks proxy. It is easy with something called "ssh tunneling".
Smart fitness apparel Athos raises $35.5M
this reminds me of a couple of war stories by rachelbythebay: Opening umbrellas indoors on purpose [1], and Project Darkness [2]

[1] - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/06/18/umbrellagate/

[2] - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/08/24/projectdarkness/
Auto extract and compare CSS breakpoints
Paris Terrorists Used Double ROT-13 Encryption
It's interesting that you don't make assumptions about future "evil" behaviour of their competition.
Not that anyone would actually want to have a company in Albania, unless they had to. Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Gibraltar, Malta etc. are good options in Europe.
Platform for social anxiety treatment Joyable raises funds
Try check all checkboxes and zoom out 2 steps. It's a huge number of buses.
I wouldn't mind some JS on this page to hide the conversations that don't interest me. Also, why make a request for 5x more data, reflow, and redraw everything whenever I click something?
Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Culprits
Are you claiming that despite observable reality, they can't possibly be having the success they have? There's clearly a market for it, even if you're not part of it.
Obligatory "my city has one too!"-post for Helsinki:
http://live.mattersoft.fi/hsl/
I think Chuck would be quite pleased with your story!

It's always sad to lose someone so talented - or anyone for that matter. One of the few consolations is that it gives us a chance to tell great stories about them.

BTW for anyone like me who often just reads the comments here, take a few minutes to read Chuck's obituary. It's a wonderful celebration of his life and work.

"Having his own company allowed Chuck to be Chuck. He got up when he felt like it (usually in the afternoon), he worked when he felt like it, and wrote the software he wanted to write. He was a guru in the fullest sense of the word."
To be fair, there is sonic does offer vdsl2 in many parts of the city, over 100Mbit down, albeit a bit less up. There's also webpass for larger buildings which offers almost a gigabit during non-peak times. So SF isn't as dire as you make it sound, though I agree it's behind many other cities.
http://www.map.gortransperm.ru/ - Perm, Russia. You need to select a route and click "show vehicles" button to see it. ( annotated screenshot http://i.imgur.com/g0OGJsG.png )
Does anybody want to aquire https://statvoo.com?
Went live in Feb 2013.
Realtime Analytics for websites.

Does anybody want to aquire https://statvoo.com?
Just use companies that delete stuff when you ask them to. There's no need for encryption to solve the lifelong-record problem.
How to Handle Uncaught Exceptions in Java
With gnome-terminal, I get a notification when a command finishes in a terminal that isn't on the foreground. It's very useful.
Not only Zmodem was cool, it was also open source back then, and very easy to integrate into your program.

In fact, little known fact, it's still very useful today; if you ssh into a box that has it installed, and you have it installed locally, you can quickly send yourself back a file with it, across the current connection...

Just to 'sz <file>' on the remote side, and do <return><tilde>|rz<return>
to tell you ssh client to start 'rz' locally and zoom, zmodem the file over.

Works the other way too...
They are on the way out. Yes, they'll take a shit on the carpet before leaving, but they are on the way out.
HN review my SaaS startup
That sounds like the switchman by Juan Jose Arreola.

Full text: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25293822
I think this could be abused horribly, the campaign and payment information appearing inline with facebook content may make a fraudulent page appear far more legitimate than they are.
Even cmd is much improved in win 10. Text reflow, free zize windows, sane selection, etc. But nothing can make up for the lack of built-in, out-of-the-box UNIX utilities like cat, grep and the works.
Funny their status page hasn't been updated: http://status.twitter.com
Tallinn, Estonia: http://soiduplaan.tallinn.ee/#tallinna-linn/map/en

I made simpler map for my personal usage.

http://siim.planet.ee/yhistransport-live/
Show HN: Sqlata, the SQL builder I wanted
This might not be relevant to the topic(I don't use Comcast), but Im curious how web elements are forced to be overlay consistently across all websites, doesn't the existing css properties on the page affect the behaviour of the injected scripts?
https://dev.twitter.com/overview/status
fables parables and other tales are simplifications and analogies that make boring or hard logic easier to grasp.

The boy who cried wolf isn't about any particular real boy, but you don't need a real example to figure out that its not just possible but plausible.

Must we always have a previous real example to govern the future? Some futures aren't necessarily repeats of history.
I am in two minds about this. It is great to build a culture where nobody is fired, but at the same time if the weight of carrying dead wood gets too high - well you go the way of DEC.

On top of this a lot of dead wood is not dead wood in a different environment - it might be better all round to let people move on to new opportunities.
I think one thing we as a tech community overlook is the expectations on the intelligence community. The broader community expects the intelligence agencies to stop ALL terrorists attacks, and thats just not feasible. This drives the intelligence agencies to do more, which is why I think there is a big push for broad dragnet activity.
I'd stop before British cuisine. :)
Totally, buses never seem to stop at traffic lights.
Danger of Chemical Attack in France – Manuel Valls (French PM)
Only blank page from europe...
How did you confirm? Speak to dang?
Unfortunately, as the article states, China has these ethical issues too. When I hear all the fear mongering around these new technologies it just reminds me of puritans and witch burnings. There is so much potential here to make the world a better place, and we still let "fear of god" hold us back.
Yesterday on Hacker News we were discussing a photo from Zenefits. A photo of the Zenefits workplace, which seemed to generate disgust and horror in many commenters.

It seemed like a "you couldn't possibly be productive here" environment of too many people in too small a space.

That could explain the hotel rental.
Agree, though I think this particular map style isn't meant for end-user applications. It shows absolutely everything, and is quite cluttered for this reason. They would be better off choosing one of the more minimal styles.
Hah, we have a payment processor here in Germany called "Sofortüberweisung".

It works like this: When you want to pay for something you give them your login credentials to your bank account and a TAN and they send the money to the merchant for you.

The selling point of this service is that SEPA wire transfers usually take one day. But with their service the merchant gets an instant notification of money received and you can get your stuff one day earlier.

It's crazy but people use this and have no problem handling over the keys to their bank account.
Not really.

As far as I understand the technologies (and I assume that Berlin does the same thing as every other city-user), a precise ("physical") GPS position is usually not reported (although newer systems do that as well), but a position at a "logical" map is. In case of buses, this usually means "left the previous stop at $xx:$yy, with $zz seconds of delay; reported average speed is normal for this area, so expected arrival is at $aa:$bb." In case of trains, the usual reported data is "has left section of track $AA, is now at $BB, delay $x seconds, expected at $CC in $yy:$zz".

Not millisecond-perfect, but fairly precise to about a minute or two; the biggest guesstimate is the exact position (you'll see that all the trains seem to be using a single track, where in reality they would be on different ones).

So, while delays are reported near-realtime (and thus the scenario you describe doesn't happen), the map might be inaccurate if the route needs to be changed (e.g. there's an accident blocking the road and a bus needs to take the next street instead). Again, with the rollout of GPS-equipment across fleets, this becomes less of an issue.
Btw, most delays are unplanned ;)
While I do not mind the obfuscation, I do not like that browsers do not give you easy way to access/inspect variables. Or seeing what function names (and parameters) are called.
I'm not entirely sure with the outcome of this possible evolution in crowdfunding, should it be succesfull. The crowdfunding business would get more saturated with 1000's of copycat / flavor of the month crowdfund setups or any random flavor of the month "i need money for XYZ, please fund me" crowdfund page. In addition, as the article states, the possibility of scams would rise as well on such a massive platform.
I do get that facebook is a great platform on which to introduce your product on, but in the long run shifting the crowdfunding platform to facebook would harm the quality of innovation.
France has something like 11,500 on the extremist watchlist. I'm not sure its practical to watch and monitor that many people with the staffing levels of French Intelligence without acting like the stasi
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Biohacking is 100% gonna happen, probably sooner than later.

Trying to pretend otherwise is ignoring all the technologies becoming available on a ramen budget.
Shit. I'm using Mendeley and did not know this. I'll stop using it at once. Any suggestions for alternatives?
I'm surprised you left out language learning and video games, given the research that's been accumulating over the past decade.
or just use scp, which is part of openssh
well this is fun.

1) wrote that blog post

and

2) gave the open insulin guys the design they're using. I am a little bit dismayed that credit for the design is somewhat buried in the public facing materials, but whatever.

and

3) agree that it's mostly hype - both this project and 'biohacking' in general. I run a nonprofit that is working on an patent-free cancer drug. Raised 60k and I'm doing ok, about to launch into production phase pre- animal model study. I would hesitate to call myself a biohacker - I have a PhD in chemistry and two postdocs in biochemistry and molecular biology, so I'm not coming from the CS/IT side - although I do currently code for a living.

but

4) think that whatever, the project could be interesting.

As it is, the way insulin is manufactured is pretty terrible, it could be way cheaper, and it's with that in mind that I designed the scheme the way that I designed it.
Show HN: Curated apps and websites
I worked in diabetes for a decade so thought I'd chime in. This is an admirable project with very low prospects of making a difference in the lives of people with diabetes. I don't doubt this group will be able to show "success" in the form of simple clinical results.

I have the highest doubts that they'd have the resources to do the broad-based clinical trials required to go to market.

Look up "Eroom's Law" which is "Moore's Law" spelled backwards: http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v11/n3/fig_tab/nrd3681_F1....

Basically, the increases in pharma regulation means it takes longer and gets more expensive to create a new drug each year.

This is a cool science project, but the reporting around it is sensational and not helpful to the millions of people with diabetes who have their cranks yanked regularly about miracle cures, cost-saving fantasies, etc.

To address some raised in sub-threads:

+ You can get extraordinarily cheap drugs in India, the rest of the developing world, and in parts of Europe. The "greedy" drug companies adjust pricing to what local markets can bear. So instead of letting poor people die en masse they mark the drugs down and pass the cost onto the developed world. Fair trade IMO.

+ The reason there are so few generic insulins is that they are hard to make consistently enough to please the FDA and European regulators. Companies like Teva and Perrigo are multi-billion dollar manufacturers of generic drugs who would love to get get into this game, but as noted, biosimilar drugs, especially ones as powerful as insulins, are a lot harder to copy than aspirin.