skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, it's BSSID.

I took my router with me when i moved back home from university (and i changed the SSID first thing). For about a year my iPad would think it was still at university, and sometimes when i used it to chat with friends on Facebook they would reply "Oh, you're back in town?? Come visit!".
Avast: Sandbox/Autosandbox Message Filtering Vulnerable to MS13-005
>remained perpetually surprised that architects could be so concerned with every aspect of the building they were designing ‘but not really with what it sounded like’.

Me too.

Especially in multidwelling units/apartment buildings and their lack of sound dampening between residences, on water pipes, to the outside, etc.

Interior space acoustics are practically never considered, and noise minimisation is usually only considered to the minimum legal requirements.

This is something that I really hope more architects think about and improve in the future.
BTW if you request a ACM cert for <domain>, make sure you set up one of the admin@, administrator@, hostmaster@, postmaster@, webmaster@ email addresses for <domain>, as the ACM verification email is sent to these addresses, in addition to the WHOIS registered for <domain>.

The ACM certs cannot be used with an EC2 hosted site.
I'm not saying taxes don't play, I'm saying startups don't pay taxes because they make losses...so the tax rate doesn't affect startups. 50% tax ? Corporate tax rate in USA = 36% in France = 33.33%
VC question = lower valuations in France; when investment markets become inflated (US) the key to making a return is buying low (France). Return is also about opportunity cost.
Firing someone : I fired 7 people, some paper work, no court cases. Yes there are/can be court cases, but they mostly end in some small (1 month salary) arbitrage. If you're not a jerk about it, things usually work out. Also, remember French legal system is MUCH less costly than the US's.
"You would think they would have changed something by now." -- This I can only agree with but I think it also applies to the US.
Ignoring everything else - if it the phone that went missing, should the location at least be accurate to nearest base station. In case of missing child operator would provide triangulation results, right?
Yeah, this feels more like an (unintentional) irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, despite how fun it was reading.
So it is. Rather like how the English word order rules are particularly difficult, e.g. look at the weird table in http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm, or German plurals.

Most children learn their native language(s) properly at about the same age, which suggests that the languages are comparably difficult to learn, and perhaps that if a language takes too long, it'll be simplified. But there's nothing that pushes languages to have the same difficulties.
I have been learning Chinese for about 18 months. Before I started my studies, I had similar opinions to the author of this article -- that Chinese characters are antiquated, hard or impossible to learn, and a hindrance to anyone who wants to learn or use Chinese.

Since starting my Chinese studies, I've changed my mind entirely.

First and foremost, the characters are far from random; the system is very different than an alphabetic one, but it works -- providing the reader (or even the learner) with hints as to the meaning and pronunciation. It's not perfect, but it's not nearly as bad as you might think. But yes, it means that if I see a character I haven't learned before, I can be a bit stuck. And yes, Chinese children spend lots of time learning characters in school.

Secondly, Chinese has a ridiculous number of homophones. Even if you take the tones into account, there are lots and lots and lots of characters that sound precisely the same when spoken. However, they look completely different. For example, the character 店 (for a shop) and 电 (electricity) look totally different, but sound precisely the same, diàn. This makes understanding the language difficult (as I'm learning), but a switch to Pinyin (the Latin-character transliteration) would make the written language as ambiguous and hard to read as the spoken language is to hear.

Thirdly, there's a huge amount of national pride associated with characters. I can't imagine telling the Chinese people, or even a subset of them, that they'll be abandoning characters in favor of Pinyin.

Now, does this mean that Chinese is unlikely to overtake English as the international language of business and academia? Yes; I think that English has firmly cemented itself in that position for a long time to come. (I say this one day after returning from teaching a course in Brussels, where my students were from Belgium, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Germany, and Serbia... and spoke English among themselves.) But there's a difference between saying that English will continue to dominate in business, and saying that Chinese characters have to be tossed out. The latter just isn't going to happen.
Why do parents track their children? Kids are tougher than parents credit them for. It's unfortunate that new technology will let parents hover forever.

That's me. I "stalk" my children. Here's the long story of why.

I live in a relatively safe area, the suburbs of Portland Oregon. There's a fair amount of petty property crime, which tends to be tolerated if not quite condoned.

Fortunately the region has generally investigated violent crimes quite aggressively, and the violent crime rate is relatively low compared to many parts of the country.

But that doesn't mean there aren't bad guys, violent sociopaths who live in the area. People like that live everywhere. E.g. here's something horrible that happened just a few miles away to two girls, one age 12 the other age 13: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Weaver_III#Murders_of_Ash...

My girls were just about that age when they got iPhones. So, I try to keep an eye on them. There's a slight chance they'll run into some serious danger and I might be able to help.

But, more realistically, it helps kids stay out of trouble, because they know there's an increased probability that they will get caught. It's not perfect. E.g. my older daughter was only supposed to drive my car from home to high school and back. But she chose to drive off campus at lunch. And, since she was a very inexperienced driver, she got into a car accident. So, even when she knew that dad might be stalking her, she chose to be a free spirit. That's just how some kids are.

Certainly some kids will be resourceful enough to hack their phones. More power to them! But there are simpler ways. My older one simply turns off location services and then blames it on "Low Power Mode".
> The leader of the LDR said he wants to take back Alaska by force.

Zhirinovsky told a lot of nonsense. He's frequently compared to a clown for a very good reason. That's media stuff, saying all sorts of bullshit to grab attention. Deputies almost never get accounted for anything they say.

LDPR's absolutely loyal to current powers. Believe it or not, if Zhirinovsky's a part of a fringe extremist group, that's an extremist group blessed by Putin.

> That's just one example of the kind of crackpot ideas they come out with

They all do play clowns and tell all sort of crackpot ideas. It's not like Zhirinovsky's has secured a position of court jester. Just consider Fedorov from United Russia as a nice example.

> it's not an idea Putin would entertain

Why? Putin's perfectly fine with all this bullshit, as long as it's not against his own agenda. Sure thing, he doesn't want to be associated with this, and won't explicitly approve of anything, but had he ever reacted harshly? Nah, imperial wet dreams of Great Russia, with Soviet war bears retaking Alaska and "Fascington" doesn't seem bother him any tiniest bit.

> I certainly don't think Putin is implicated with cast iron evidence here, which seems to be your position.

I guess we agree on this, not iron-clad for sure. An iron-clad one would be a recordings or multiple testaments. And those are unlikely to be ever obtained, even if they exist.

Yet, I think, it's well-probable, with high degree of possibility - to the extent we can say "too many factors point to this, so it's well likely Patrushev and Putin knew of this".
http://blog.outlier-linguistics.com/learning/getting-radical...
Certificate Trust List [1].

> A CTL is a predefined list of items signed by a trusted entity. ... The primary use of CTLs is to verify signed Messages, using the CTL as a source of trusted root certificates.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
It's a public health thing, no? If they tell 10,000 people to decrease their salt intake, they've saved (made up figure) 10 lives. So they say everyone decrease salt, rather than the more nuanced message which is "Salt might be dangerous for some people."
Arnold Schwarzenegger is Austrian. He played the Terminator.
Interestingly, Kemal Atatürk made similar reforms in Turkey after the end of the Ottoman Empire.

He abolished the use of the Arabic script and introduced a new Turkish script based on the Latin alphabet.

His reasoning was the same one used in this article. But there were other goals too, like promoting Turkish nationalism against a wider Muslim identity.
Storage Made Easy Signs Partnership Agreement with AXEZ
NFL Coaches Are Getting Away with Crimes Against Middle-School Math
That doesn't really make a lot of sense. Demand is pretty predictable for stuff like that, and the producers have no reason to waste resources producing more than is necessary.

And even when they do overestimate demand, like you said, it gets marked down. So it all gets consumed in the end, and the producers might not even take that big of a loss depending on how much it was marked down. And the poor people benefit from that too of course.

Unless people start throwing away new cars then they aren't over producing.
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California Joins New York in Effort to Weaken Smartphone Encryption
Do any of the publicly available CAs provide a guarantee that you can pin them? I remember there was at least one case of someone pinning a CA and making the news because the page could not load anymore.
Ping-API – Automated API Testing and Monitoring
no, it doesn't. i'm not saying we should do away with the essence of regulation...i'm saying we have too much regulation.
Think NASA vs Space X.
If Switzerland Labor laws hold in a 100 page book, why do France's take volumes ? Surely we can trim them and still maintain their principles.
If you keep all the same principles (essential protection of people, equality, freedom of expression, redistribution...) and start from scratch...how many pages of law could you save and achieve the same result?
>Well, because homelessness has been around for ages, and appears to be intractable

It's not at all intractable. Giving jobs to the jobless and homes to the homeless is exactly as straightforward as it looks.

The homeless and jobless serve a function, though - to keep wages and agitation down for the precariously employed and the precariously housed. They're like this mainly for the benefit of corporations like Amazon which farm cheap labor.

Effectively the homeless serve as a form of 'public good' for the owners of capital.

That's why proposals to house or give homeless jobs with government money are met with sheer disgust by the same media that happily endorses spending billions of dollars dropping bombs on brown children.
http://finda.photo/image/14847 - Tags are weird. This is not a dog, mouse, canine or feline. It's not sitting. It has 'eyes' but I think that might be irrelevant. Although I would agree that ferrets (not an included tag) are cute, I'm not sure I'd describe them as domestic. Otherwise, great!
Yep, here in the UK it's one of those 'facts' that everybody 'knows'.

It's so ingrained in many people that reviews such as this one will not change their attitude.
There will always be a discrepancy. No doubt about it.

However, the magnitude of the discrepancy has never been so much in any of the networks I have advertised on.

As someone who has overseen spends to the tune of over 1 Million USD on various networks, I can attest to the fact that this does not happen often.
I was expecting spreadsheets.
News worthy! Jokes aside I just can't get over the writing style of The Register:

"The post, made by a chap named Ross..."

"The drive's a Seagate, for those of you..."
So you didn't had to transfer the DNS control to Kloudsec to get CDN + SSL like with Cloudflare ?

I'm hosting my site on Github Pages as well, but Gandi as my DNS. I considered Cloudflare at the time, but would had to move the DNS from Gandi to Cloudflare and pay 20$ to Gandi for that.
French Market Leader Planet Cards Acquires Rocket Internet Daughter Bonnyprints
I see a possible problem with this theory: in few words, according to the authors the French and Scots did not adopt the longbow for fear of rebellion. Still the nobles participated to the very battles that saw them being defeated by the English and their longbow. If the longbow was cheap and relatively easy to adopt, a noble aspiring to the crown would have been able to develop the technology independently from the (unstable) central government and have an even easier road to glory against their own technologically inferior king.

I admittedly did not read carefully the whole paper, but this possibility does not seem to be addressed.
If that's true, those potato chips should be made with a lot more sodium. (Or, you know, some more sodium and less potassium. I don't think people would eat the "now with 62% more table salt" version of the chips.)

Wikipedia says: an ion pump exchanges 3 sodium ions for 2 potassium ions. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium )

3 sodium ions is 69 atomic mass units. 2 potassiums is 78.2 atomic mass units.
I stand corrected: "The ferret (Mustela putorius furo) is the domesticated form of the European polecat" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret
Some Chinese characters are pronounced differently depending on the surrounding characters. Example: sometimes in Mandarin a 4th-tone character is changed to 2nd-tone because saying two 4's in a row is hard.
What percent of the time is the location totally wrong?

As I discussed in my other post, I'd say that:

10% of the time, no location at all

60% of the time, highly accurate location

30% of the time, accurate to a general area, a few hundred feet up to a few miles

2% of the time, totally haywire. Location jumps around randomly, or stays wrong for an extended period of time.

(Statistics are my SWAG, and don't total to 100%).
Tesla Autopilot tried to kill me
From the article:

" ... surgeons removed some of the cells surrounding
the nerves that run from Fidyka’s nose into his brain
and injected them into the gap that the knife wound
had left in his spine. ... doctors ... believed that
if ensheathing cells were injected into his spinal
cord they would help injured neurons to cross the
wound, healing his spine. The surgeons had to open
his skull and take out the ensheathing cells, a
five-hour-long operation, and then open up his spine
and put them back in—another five hours. "
Yup, twice. When I first started making Photoshop plugins and selling them, I did nothing but make a website & mentioned it on a Photoshop developer email list. I was extremely fortunate that one of the readers mentioned my plugin in their own newsletter of 30,000 subscribers. Google then picked up the site, gave me good rankings for the phrase Photoshop Plugins, and that carried me along for a while. Though I wish I'd been more proactive with my marketing & product development in later years.

Before that, I made a website called the South Park Kenny Translator [1] and I don't recall doing any promotion at all, besides it being on the same domain as my Photoshop plugins. It's been around for almost 20 years now and even landed me an interview on BBC Radio. The Kenny Translator is inherently viral though: the whole point is sending Kenny-encoded messages to friends.

Nowadays I'd be much more proactive about marketing. My current Indie Conference [2] side project went nowhere for a couple of years, but suddenly got a spike of subscribers when I mentioned it in a reply here on HN last month. It wasn't intended as deliberate marketing, but it had more impact than 2+ years of nothing but hoping the Google gods would look favorably upon me.

[1] http://www.namesuppressed.com/kenny/

[2] http://www.indieconference.com/
having access to a market of 355 million (US+Canada) who speak the same language helps immensely.
you need legal council in each country if you really want to expand (even without setting up there)
I know most of us start a diet just to lose weight (I know I did), but paleo has really become a lifestyle,
and a life changing decision for me.
Losing weight was just an added bonus, but the true benefits were great for my health in general.
I'm using the paleo grub cookbook, you can check it out at http://lookingupstuff.com/weightloss/2015/04/23/paleo-grubs/
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If you want to track only link clicks, then use a URL shortener like bitly. They give you analytics for free.

If you want to track the actual users on your website, use any of the analytics products available- Google Analytics, Open Web Analytics, Piwik, etc.

Adding UTM parameters to your URLs is the ideal way to attribute website traffic. Just make sure you are consistent in your UTM values.
Another point I would add: the Chinese language - to my knowledge - has the most functional and discrete method of forming complex concepts by smashing characters together. Many times in classes I have made up words or phrases simply by stringing characters together, and lo and behold, my teachers never blinked. It is astounding how easy it is to build your understanding of the language exponentially the more you learn. Add in the total lack of grammatical tidbits like articles and verb tenses, and you come to a language - tens of thousands of characters no withstanding - that is quite intuitive and fun to learn. Just sucks to speak.
It strikes me that this is really at the root of at least some of the 'front-end' problems we've been discussing in recent submissions.

It feels a bit like going to an all-you-can-eat restaurant and eating both too much, and insisting on trying everything they have on the menu. As a result, you might get sick from overeating and from mixing food that you shouldn't mix. And while such behavior is human nature, and while it can be argued that this alone is a good reason to avoid such a restaurant in the first place, it can also be argued that much of the problem could be avoided by applying a little more restraint.

Gulp might be great in some cases, but why not use the 'npm script' approach until you need it? Installing packages for everything is seductive and just one command away, but it's not all that different from the cut-and-paste-from-stack-overflow programming that most of us learned to avoid.

Now I'm not saying that the problems in the 'front-end ecosystem' aren't real. I'm sure they are as I still run into them even though I try to be very conservative these days, and I'm sure many of the complaints are from people who are better coders than I am.

But at least for myself, my Node.js work has become significantly more fun, and has involved significantly less 'grunt work' (heh) by simply avoiding the urge to add yet another dependency, API or tool "just because it's there".
But that doesn't create demand, it just shifts it to the next year. That's not what the parent comments are talking about.

And there is no need for the government to be involved in that either. If there was really predictable price fluctuations between years, investors could make money buying up commodities on good years and selling during bad years (and they do.)
I'm not using rust for heavy/intense db/API stuffs currently w/Go. but in the future, i'm looking on using it as Main language for our API's. I like how safe it is and its explicitly.
There is an obvious and simple solution to this problem; although it's not up to this couple to implement it, but to all the developers building or using geo-location.

This is a problem caused by incorrect data representation. Everything the companies know about the location of the phones is an imprecise area, yet they are representing it with this: [1]

This absurdly precise representation doesn't convey the error margins of the information available, and it's what's convincing people that this couple's home is the point that they're looking for. The mapping companies are misleading their users by hiding the level of confidence about the information provided.

Please all front-end developers, don't use a map pin to represent a place in the map if you don't know their coordinates or exact address. A circle with a radius proportional to the uncertainty area is the best representation in that case.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=icon+map+pin&biw=790&bih=750...
Never have I had so many friends in France starting their ventures.
The 10000 Uber drivers also often left jobs (were not unemployed) to become auto-entrepreneurs
https://medium.com/@GerryB/uber-fighting-youth-unemployment-...
Oh good grief. Another article mangling science into sound bites?

I particularly enjoy the seemingly wilful conflation with hyponatraemia (too low sodium).

> European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine —an excellent measure of prior consumption— the greater their risk was of dying from heart disease

Nobody has ever argued that NO SALT is the right idea. So of course people with the lowest output, people with hyponatraemia and knackered kidneys, are going to have other issues. Sodium is essential for neural function and osmotic control.

And the outcome of main meta-analysis in this wasn't "DO THIS INSTEAD" it was to recommend conducting an actual long-term controlled study to see what the actual effects of sodium control are.

Either which way, repeatedly highlight articles that say "EVERYTHING YOU KNEW BEFORE WAS WRONG: DO THIS INSTEAD" just makes people give up completely. Especially when the meta-meta-analysis is as weak as this is.
Lived in Taiwan 3 years - picked up Advanced spoken proficiency and intermediate reading / writing in Traditional Mandarin. Studied Simplified Mandarin @ Brigham Young University. While studying we became conversant in modern Mandarin and also Ancient text including The Dao De Jing, Mencius, Confucius etc.

There is a beauty and depth to the language not available in the romance languages or German: may I recommend www.zhongwen.com as an introduction.

With modern keyboard input methods producing Chinese text is not a difficult task although learning the writing system is not for the faint of heart. Not just due to the characters but also the syntax of the language. English generally is a head-first language where as Chinese is a head-last language. Combine this with careful character placement within the syntax and you have a minefield awaiting the non-native writer.

What English lacks in concentrated depth and beauty it makes up for in flexibility and diversity.
I think intro to machine learning https://www.udacity.com/courses/ud120 is the prerequisite to this course
But then the money would be going to engineers and other educated people, who already have decent incomes and job prospects. There is no benefit to the poorer classes with that system.
Why the scare quotes? Some EU countries have a better record than the US on bulk surveillance of their own citizens. It is perfectly natural that if the US won't respect their citizens basic human rights then those countries will have to place restrictions on the US.

EDIT
Not to say that all EU countries have a better record. The UK performs bulk surveillance on a huge scale.
Facebook's New Plan: Help Banks Figure Out How Poor You Are to Deny You Loans
Just curiosity, where the owner possibly find all these photos to fill up the database?
Yes it does. I wonder if it's overkill but Google has to push tensorflow to the market some how