skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the legal implications of selling a small unit that acts as an airport express, then? And what if you didn't ship the key, but it was obvious to users where to get it?
There's a bit more to it. We do a lot of talking to investors about the startups. We offer some amount of protection against being maltreated. We have a lawyer in house who does the startups' basic legal work for free, and now a designer too. We mediate founder conflicts. There are many companies that give the startups free services and/or access to otherwise unavailable APIs. We do a lot of press intros. We help the startups recruit people. And probably a few things I'm forgetting; I just got home after traveling all day.
I think that's cause Google dropped Wave.
I had trouble with DNS not resolving mafipulation.org (without the www).
Try http://www.mafipulation.org/static/shairport-0.01.tar.gz
I think I read somewhere that it uses vxWorks.
can you describe more about why it is off the mark? you might also try asking which would be a good program on one of the stack exchanges - possibly stack overflow.
The advice I always see online about handling zoanthids is "always wear gloves". I've always done so, but seen plenty of people who don't.

On the other hand, there are plenty of other (often hidden) things in your average reef aquarium that can potentially injure you and leave your local emergency department at a loss. People don't normally get stung by fireworms (or whatever) 5000 miles away from the tropical ocean.
Think digital photoframes and/or home automation control panels.
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If 23andMe is acquired by any company (insurance or otherwise) that wants to change the Terms Of Service and / or Privacy Policy, they will have to notify customers, and those customers who don't agree with the changes would have the right (under the current policy) to download their raw data and delete their 23andMe accounts.

Also, the chances of 23andMe getting hacked are much lower than the chances of your friendly neighborhood email marketing company. I know since I built the site.
I've been using HMAC-SHA1 as a basis for my passwords for awhile. I call my algorithm "Passy". It works like this (pseudocode'ish).

# generate our HMAC
hash = generate HMAC-SHA1 (facebook.com, passphrase) (String)
hash += SHA1(hash) # just need the extra length

# transform hash into a Passy
passy_chars = "ABCDEFGHabcdefgh23456789#$%*+=@?"
passy = ""
foreach octet in hash (starting with MSB)
passy += passy_chars[octet % 32]

# figure out the length of this passy
for i in 16 to passy.length
if passy.substr(0,i) is "good", return passy.substr(0,i)
where good means includes at least one from each of [A-H], [a-h], [2-9], and [#$%*+=@?]

I've implemented this in CoffeeScript, and have a minified version up here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11596/passy-tiny.html

I have evolved this algorithm over the past decade. My requirements:

1. minimum of 80 bits of entropy (16*32=80)
2. must include at least one symbol, one uppercase, one lowercase, and one digit
3. base it on cryptographically secure hash algorithms
4. avoids confusing similar symbols O and 0, l and 1 and !, etc.

I realize that requirement #2 does nothing to increase entropy. It's simply there to satisfy (idiotic!) password requirements.

With any of these systems, your generates passwords are still only as good as a) the strength of your passphrase, and b) the secrecy of your passphrase. As well as the obvious (physical security, keyboard sniffers, etc.)
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The following is my boiler plate for anything that requires anonymous subscription - 23andme, domain registration, hosting, etc:

1) Mailbox in SF's China Town (a number don't ask for ID even though they're supposed to legally request it). Many also don't speak much English so if anyone comes to investigate good luck to them.

2) Visa/Amex gift card purchased at Walgreens/Safeway in cash - ideally in a different city you happen to be visiting with no connection in. Las Vegas and New York are great choices.

3) Email address created and accessed via TOR within the incognito mode of the browser. Buy the 23andMe subscription/domain/hosting in the same way but making sure you are using a different TOR session.
Google Messages for Japan, Twitter inspired 'Quakebook' bolster Japan relief
Hah, awesome. Many years ago, I patched iTunes to use my own public key, so I could stream to an AirTunes server I ran on another machine. I had intended to pull the firmware off the Airport Express, but didn't have the hardware skills at the time. It's awesome to see this happen.
There's more to life than creating a successful start-up.
It seems like a cool toy, something you don't have to worry about breaking. (But then again, $150 is a bit much for a toy.) Trying to use this instead of an iPad or Xoom is probably a path to misery, you shouldn't buy it with that expectation.
Totally agree with you for the most part, but there is one counterpoint: BeatThatQuote was bought by Google for $61million and had all sorts of blackhat stuff

http://www.theadmen.com/seo-info/beat-that-quote-google-hypo...
great piece - the man has a point
Over 100 books listed here suggested for a similar question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Book-Recommendations/What-books-should-...?

The next question you might ask is: how much time should I spend between reading/learning vs. actually doing stuff which this question might help: http://www.quora.com/How-much-time-should-entrepreneurs-spen...
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"Now that the AirTunes private key is known, it could allow for 3rd party software to act like AirTunes devices.
If this for example would be implemented in XBMC, Plex, Boxee etc you could send audio from your IOS device straight to XBMC using IOS built-in Airplay support."
Is that your aspiration or something you know for a fact?

I couldn't see anything that indicates this in their Privacy Policy. In fact https://www.23andme.com/about/privacy/#Full says:

Account Closure and Correction of Personal Information

As stated in the applicable Consent Document, however, Genetic Information and/or Self-Reported Information that you have previously provided and for which you have given consent to use in 23andWe Research will not be removed from ongoing or completed studies that use the information. Our contracted genotyping laboratory may also retain your Genetic Information as required by local law and we may retain backup copies for a limited period of time pursuant to our data protection policies. In addition, we retain limited Registration Information related to your order history (e.g., name, contact, and transaction data) for accounting and compliance purposes.

Doesn't look like they're interested in totally zero'ing you out of all of their records even if you explicitly request it (acquisition or not).
Obvious question: How are they going to market these to women (if at all)? Women's watches have to be much smaller than men's watches, and that will mean less pixels.
> People who operate against society always get screwed. That's the cost they take on by operating against society.

That's what Wikileaks is trying to make happen: they're making those people who "operate against society" accountable to that society, secondarily so that those people can get screwed, but primarily to protect society from them. Here's a partial list of people "operating against society" who have gotten screwed so far by Wikileaks: Ben Ali, Hosni Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak, Omar Suleiman, US troops that murdered civilians in Iraq, Magnus Gudmundsson, Ágúst and Lýður Guðmundsson, Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson, the US diplomats promoting ACTA, and most recently Robert Tchenguiz.

People "operating against society" who still may get screwed by Wikileaks include Björgólfur Guðmundsson, various tax evaders protected by Julius Baer, and some Bank of America executives.

This is not "infowar against America". War involves killing people and creating confusion. This is the opposite of war: exposing corruption and conspiracy, creating accountability, protecting the public.
I uploaded it to Github here in case anyone wants to hack on it: https://github.com/bbhoss/shairport
How does this have anything to do with Apple?
Exactly. I see closure as an ambitious effort to make JavaScript a better language for real complicate applications.
see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431482
What Thiel doesn't get is that the reason why it's a bubble is also what keeps it afloat. It's exclusionary, and something inherent in humans is a desire to categorize and compartmentalize -- credentials.

Sure, if you're starting a web startup or a basketball team, no one cares where you went to school (although an offensive lineman in football benefits from going to a top tier school -- despite football being a meritocracy its surprisingly difficult to measure how effective linemen are). But the top lawyers, doctors, professors, and even business managers will be recruited from where people think the best people are.

The ironic thing is that the only reason people listen to Peter Thiel is because of his credentials as PayPal co-founder and VC investor. There are a million people have an opinion on education and tecnology. There's too much noise -- the ideas that are listened to are those that come from people who have done soemthing in the past -- a credential. At a massive scale college is still THE credential.

And surprisingly the internet has actually made elite schools more important, not less. Pre-internet regional schools were often held in near equal esteem as Harvard/Yale. As information became more fluid (USNWR and the internet) the ranking of credentials became easier to obtain. This won't change.
There have been a number of manufacturers implementing 'airplay' devices that support being airtunes speakers but it's great to see this making it possible to do with open source. It would be nice to see airtunes added to some of the cheap linux wall warts on the market.
Oh, oops! I was pressing "save" after I did anything!
Judging from my home state of Michigan it's not a very comprehensive list.

They missed Momentum in Grand Rapids http://momentum-mi.com/blog/entry/momentum-targets-regions-i...

Also there are two incubators (one for MSU students only) at the East Lansing Technology Innovation Center (known locally as the TIC)

http://www.cityofeastlansing.com/tic

Pretty sure there's an incubator at Michigan Technological University in the states upper peninsula but I couldn't find a link. I think the University of Michigan also has a student incubator.

The only one of them that functions like a typical YCombinator style incubator is Momentum.
I'm not a customer.

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Don't put your iPhone next to your head
For anyone interested in learning more about the education bubble, there is a good article in this month's Fortune magazine about the creation of a new for-profit K-12 school in NYC:

http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/06/chris-whitt...

The article highlights some really interesting and shocking facts about private K-12 education (i.e. Harvard's 2010 acceptance rate was 6.9%, while acceptance to NYC's top private schools combined was 5.0%; Harvard's 2010-11 tuition was $34,976 and Horace Mann's tuition was $35,670).

http://fortunefeatures.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/avenues_s...
Oh munn, always chiming in at unfortunate times!
Man, the day these get a sunlight-readable always-on display and capacitive touch I'm buying one immediately.
A lot of this higher education bubble has to do with unnecessary costs of higher education, like, say textbooks: http://hubpages.com/hub/College-Text-Books-Rent-or-Buy

What will disrupt higher education in entirety is a properly done asynchronous class-schedule structure that allows students to take the time they need to finish the course. Coupled with some or full location independence and mandatory collaboration, it could be drastically more economical.
The Acknowledgements.pdf file on the software CDROM says NetBSD.
IIRC it took like six months to kill her though.
You might as well splash out on a device you're going to use

I have two of that device's immediate predecessor, the $100 WM8505, and I support this assertion.

I've used them mostly for messing around, reverse engineering, and playing with and actually hacking on (most of mine spend most of their time in pieces with a serial header soldered on them.)

They're fun for that, although even that can be a little tiring due to (a) crappy hardware quality, (b) crappy vendorware closed software.
Punctuation adds to the entropy of course. Although if there are only 5 of so symbols it doesn't add a lot, and if the punctuation is placed grammatically correctly it hardly adds anything.

It's not a problem to include non-english words in your dictionary. But made up words are basically passwords, and are no longer phrases.

If you choose a sequence of words that are more likely to go together that reduces the entropy.

Basically you are trying to see how random your phrase is, and the "stranger" it is, the more random.
That's an interesting point of view. What led you to that perspective?

As for our kids, we found that the TV is amazingly effective at teaching them, notably for reading skills. That catchy "The B says 'Buh'" song (and its 25 friends) was something that totally helped them remember how to sound out words. Our eight year old reads like a demon now, and the five year old is a beginning reader (he started slower than his older brother, but he's doing fine). The current three year old is recognizing letters and clearly interested in reading on her own.

It's not like we don't read to them or teach them, too--but it's quite obvious to us that the TV is scarily effective at getting messages across. If you think about it, that's what it's designed to do. We just choose to use it primarily for good and limit the undesirable effects.

Oh, and you should totally see my daughter figure out tangram puzzles on the iphone/ipod. She rocks at it. Yeah, they like to do stuff that's not challenging, too (come to think of it, I do too sometimes!). But I'm the parent: I get a say into how this stuff is used, and I'm going to use every tool that I can.
Gimme a break. Non-ionizing radiation is non-ionizing. You might as well run in fear from incandescent light-bulbs.
Ask HN: Summer internships in the Southwest? (AZ, NM, CO, TX)
since it seems to be a hot topic at the moment, does anyone have a tech start-up that is hiring this summer in the SW?
Money quote from this piece feels relevant: "Once you enable students to borrow $36,000 a year, then magically the costs of a year in college (or for-profit school offering worthless "skills" that do no more for the hapless student than a high school diploma) rise to $36,000"

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogapril11/consumer-devolution-tw...
We usually ask for 7%. If a startup is unusually far along, sometimes less. We might ask for more if the group seems super risky (e.g. undergrads, and we suggest the idea).
You are assuming they don't alter the bios and/or hardware [1]. There is some suspicion that they can and/or do [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_keylogger
[2] http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/unscrewing-security/2011/03...
I think you're missing the point. Flickr has a grand total of somewhere over 5 billion photos. [1] Facebook adds four billion photos to its collection every month. [2]

I agree that many of the best photos will be reshared elsewhere, for now, but think ahead a little:

- Facebook could just improve their photo hosting just a bit -- or add a for-pay option to do so -- and then eliminate any other photo hosting site's reason for existing.

- If you think about all the photos ever taken, artistic photography has always been a tiny, tiny niche market. Photos have always been about remembering and sharing, not art. And this is true of Flickr just as much as Facebook. Nowadays this extends to recording our lives practically minute by minute. The metadata associated with this is invaluable -- yes, ad targeting is part of it, but the sheer documentary volume is also important for a search company like Google, even if we limit ourselves to what EXIF can tell us.

[1] http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/09/19/5000000000/

[2] http://www.quora.com/How-many-photos-are-uploaded-to-Faceboo...
RIM hires a whole bunch of interns and co-ops.
Makes sense. Same symptoms as the housing bubble.

Housing bubble - people have a right to own a home, regardless of financial merit.
Education bubble - people have a right to a college education, regardless of academic or financial merit.

Housing bubble - massive federal infusion of cash that drove short-term costs artificially low, spiking sales prices while putting people in large, long-term debt for something they don't necessarily need (ownership - people do need housing).
Education bubble - massive federal infusion of cash that drives short-term costs of education artificially low (student loans), while putting people in large, long-term debt for something they don't necessarily need.

Common theme - long term infusion of federal cash into markets leads to profiteering at the expense of the average American citizen. (What should we expect for health care?) In particular, the artificial reduction of interest rates allows sellers to charge higher prices for the same services. The services provider collects more money. The purchaser pays the same (or potentially more if their interest rate is not fixed).

Also, and economics, duh, artificially low costs lead to artificially high demand, which without any sort of quality control, looks an awful lot like a bubble.
If you liked it, you may also be interested in the companion reader http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743273982/ -- a collection of the primary source material used for the book.
I noticed something fishy. The /proc/cpuinfo BogoMIPS value reads off as 569.5 in the video. A PandaBoard 1Ghz Cortex-A9 reads around 2000 per processor[1]. I realise the Bogo means _bogus_ but AFAIK within a CPU model it should still scale linearly against clock speed.

Probably a sensible explanation for this, but at the same time this is the class of device where there really is no guarantee between spec claims and reality. For instance the advertised "600 & 800Mhz" WM8505s turned out to be 350Mhz CPUs in reality.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=4...
Scientists Settle centuries-old debate on perception
I feel the same way, but there are benefits too. If you know you are high risk for Parkinson's you can get screened earlier and potentially start treatment earlier.

And you can do things known to lower your risk, like start drinking caffeine every day.
This is likely to be unpopular. Here goes.

Is it possible that Jacob is calling others "cowardly" because he wants to prove how brave he is?

Taking a leadership role in a movement of moral prescience is at once commendable, laudable but also dangerous, onerous. I really appreciate what Jacob is doing by putting his face to the Wikileaks organization. It is something that I personally would not want to do.

Wikileaks' stated goal is to "...be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behaviour in their governments and corporations." In this, Jacob is succeeding. He is assuredly revealing this behavior through personal sacrifice. Part one is complete. Rejoice. Step two will be about knowledge. Now it is up to supporters of this cause to spread that information as far and as wide as possible. We've already seen the power of knowledge in this first quarter of 2011. A reality that wikileaks, twitter, the internet and the freedom of information has wrought.

Instead of spreading this message, Jacob seems to sprinkle a bit of guilt and self aggrandizing. Maybe I am speaking out of turn because the only interaction with Jacob I have is seen in here in this thread. However, let's take a step back from our Jacob- and self-imposed guilt and execute the next stage.

Edit: By all means we should empathize with Jacob and try to understand his sacrifice. We do not, however, all have to be martyrs in order to be Good(tm).
I agree with Thiel's essential point. We need to take a step back and ask ourselves what benefit is being derived from sending all these kids to college. The kids also need to look carefully at the risk vs cost vs benefit of taking on debt in return for potentially higher future earnings.

Having said that, his statement "If Harvard were really the best education, if it makes that much of a difference, why not franchise it so more people can attend" misses the point entirely. Sure, Harvard probably has above average education. However, the reason it's sought after is because of the perception that all your peers at Harvard will be extremely smart talented individuals. As a society, we're hoping that that by putting all these really smart kids together in the "Harvard environment", they'll go on create things that they wouldn't have been able to on their own.

The point I'm trying to make is that the exclusivity of Harvard isn't "an excuse to do something mean", but rather an effort to create conditions where our smartest youngsters can get together and really change the world. I do, of course, agree that there are many other ways of achieving this goal than just college education.
My reply can be read by the general public, but is addressed to you.

Quit being such a fucktard.
Mobile phone users 'overpaying by £200' per year
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332343/
People always forget about battery life. It's nice to have a device with good numbers, but if it can't hold a charge for longer than two hours it's pretty useless.
You're in a tight spot, but don't count on YC. To feel better let me tell you this, in 2012 or 13 if you look at the entire startup landscape most successful startups will have not gone through YC, just like the year before, and the year before, and the year before... I hope you are one of the companies we talk and read about in 2013 :)
"...new capabilities that kick-start the integration of tablets into creative workflows..."

My hunch is that's not gonna be a XOOM.
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I've tried a technique like this, it works wonders if you are near a computer and can copy/paste. As soon as you have some flash login box where you can't paste or you try to log in from your iPhone it becomes extremely painful.

Better to use the age old technique found in "Unix System Administration" by Evi Nemeth: Choose a well known phrase or poem or song lyrics. Then pick a letter from each word, and interpolate some weird chars. E.g.

Yellow Submarine
In the town where I was born,
Lived a man who sailed to sea...

First letter of each word: IttwIwbLamwsts
then interpolate stuff, e.g.
"IttwIwb$beatles1968$Lamwsts"

Still a pain in the ass to type, but not nearly as painful as a SHA1 or base64 string.
Probably a sensible explanation

It could be as simple as "runs at 250Mhz during early boot" but it also might not be. :)
I asked the OP and they responded to me offline and confirmed vxWorks.
From TFA:

"The results for R/Linux C were almost identical and a quick check of the R source tree showed that R calls the C library function to evaluate log"

thus making the whole article an exercise in redundancy.
I doubt it is 'someone' as much as it is 'some bot' searching for sql vulnerabilities. We occasionally notice a similar thing with a a bunch of visits to a page with attempted sql injection in the query string. As long as your inputs are sanitized (and you arent returning details on errors) you shouldn't have a problem.
I guess your bitter because Wolfram didn't do your research for you?

Chucking in your terms and it clearly seems to work out what your question means, and they say it doesn't have enough data on world incomes 2009. Kind of hard to bitch about that.
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Oh! I didn't realize that! What was your friend's masterful technique?