skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you actually use the collaboration feature of Google Docs it would make more sense to just use LibreOffice instead of Google Docs + encryption.
Most conferences that have encrypted WiFi will use PSK. Given the pre-shared key and observation of the handshake, you can calculate the session key and decrypt all traffic between a user and the access point. Compiling aircrack is no longer "grandmother" territory, but it is certainly "average linux geek" territory. Aircrack creates a virtual network interface, so you can even use it with Firesheep with no extra modification.

So turning off encryption is really not that bad when you consider that all it did was hog CPU and give people a false sense of security.
Hm, interesting. I only saw the movie about a month ago (and didn't even like it much) but it never occurred to me that the movie predicted anything correctly. I suppose because I took it out of context (in 2011, I took the things mentioned the article mostly for granted).

Actually, the future predicted by the movie is pretty scary, in particular:

- Automated cars that can be remotely controlled by the government

- Eye-based identification everywhere

I wouldn't wanna live in such a place :/
Most people that use vim also don't use graphical debuggers. I use the "print" statement.
Ask HN: At what point does being a loyal early hire become a poor choice?
I need advice weighing the benefits of being loyal through the struggles of an early-stage startup vs the importance of looking out for my career. In other words, at what point does loyalty become stupid?

I am the first official (non-contract, non-founder) employee of an early-stage startup. I was originally hired as a contractor to do some small jobs for the company, when one of the two technical co-founders left, I was bumped up to programmer lead, at which point, was offered a full-time position as an employee. At this point I floated my resume to a few big name silicon valley companies to see what my prospects were in the hiring world. I got a few interviews that didn't go anywhere so I accepted the job. The job has been a huge opportunity for professional growth as I have had to become an expert on our full stack technologies from deployment and databases to client-side web technologies and my original plan was to stick with this company for a few years to build up my skills and experience.

However, there have been a number of warning signs which make me somewhat worried about staying here long term:

- As I've talked to other developers outside the company, I think I was taken advantage of in my compensation package (significantly lower salary than median entry level for most tech companies, no equity, and no benefits, though these have been promised to me 'as soon as we are profitable').

- Despite my position as lead programmer, I feel quite cut-off from the business side of the company and this divide between the business and technical sides of the company seems to go all the way up to the technical CTO and CEO. I have no idea who our clients are, what our funding is like, what our income is like or what our business goals are (aside from vague descriptions). Basically I get feature request and bug reports and commit them.

- This is partly because we are distributed across North America and do all our work remotely. This wasn't an issue when I was contracting but has increasingly become an issue. Furthermore, I am finding working alone to be extremely stifling. It's lonely and I have no mentors to go to when I run into issues and I repeatedly find myself re-discovering best practices the hard way (doing it wrong before discovering the right way).

- Also, our development roadmap continues to be pushed back. We were originally supposed to be live this time last year and a year later we are just barely beginning to meet those development goals. This makes me wonder if we'll ever reach that magical 'profitable' status that will get me finally able to have some benefits.

I realize that working for a startup is a wild roller coaster and that success means sticking it through. However, I also do not want to find myself loyally sticking with a sinking ship, to the detriment of my career and bank account.

(Edit: formatting)
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Another solution is to use your own hardware, a la Pirate Box: http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox
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What allows you to achieve "subject matter background in science and mathematics"?

Ask a question, get an answer. What allows you to achieve subject matter background in science and mathematics is good teaching of those subjects. That's the point of the international educational achievement comparisons. They show, as do studies of high-ability United States students,

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/pepg/PDF/Papers/PEPG10-19_Hanushe...

http://www.jkcf.org/news-knowledge/media-coverage/no-child-l...

that what limits educational achievement (and thus preparation for college studies) of many United States students is not limits in their capacity to learn, but limits in the curriculum they were taught. The United States school system doesn't step up to INCREASE the ability of the national populace the way many other school systems do better.

After edit: If you actually want to learn something serious about ethnicity in its many manifestations around the world, start here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Anthropol...

and keep reading until you've read a dozen or so of those books, to get past the many errors found in most blog posts on the subject.
Pinker quoted an expert. Or not?

If the research consensus in the field really was different, Ryan would have pointed that out gleefully -- with many more references. Since Ryan didn't do that, he is either dishonest or ignorant. Either way, he can be ignored.
Casey Reas and Ben Fry, the two guys behind Processing.org
To paraphrase reddit: "Nice try: one of the 'c) I have two full-time analysts'..."
clickable: http://acompa.net/highfive
He also helpfully points out that his patients likely come from a much higher income level than the patients studied by Russell Barkley.
Just tried this and got an error
https://skitch.com/spotonpek/r9xxt/500-internal-server-error
I guess not. :( The site cut off my full title.
I never understood how people can code without debugging, profiling, code exploring.

I'm sure many vim users wonder the same thing. They may also wonder how people can develop using tools that are coupled to each other rather than choosing the various development tools as they see fit.

In any event it's not either/or. The times I've needed Netbeans, for example, I use vim for actual code editing and the IDE for assorted handy click-here-to-run things.
Some inventions can't be improved?
When you can't see the door out.
But watching the lackluster launch of the service, and reading some reviews of its performance, it almost felt like Google had rushed into it, with lackluster results. Now it seems sure that's what happened.

Nooooooo...! Building a half-assed implementation of something cool? Not Google! Say it isn't so, Sergey!
Thanks--I'm getting a bunch of "401: Unauthorized" notices right now. Hmm...
Is just visiting a webpage with Facebook connect or social plugins enough to count as being "active"? Or do you need to visit facebook.com itself?
Exactly. Emacs doesn't need an elaborate case for its defense; non-modal is more natural/easier-to-learn/BETTER (control-this, control-that) than modal. Not merely my 2 cents -- it's the TRUTH!
What about a link to this list of urls you're not allowed to link to.
WSJ: data caps keep Netflix from "swamping the network"
Internet Data Caps Cometh
The Cake Artist
http://www.nubrella.com/
I approach advocates of the central banking system the same way I approach psychotic prison inmates.
What happens if you lose your Bitcoin wallet?

Are your Bitcoins gone forever, with no recourse? Do those Bitcoins effectively leave the limited Bitcoin money supply forever?
Maybe, but compare that to how the world looked one hundred or even twenty-five years ago and the progress has been remarkable.
To be more precise, MS-DOS (and 86-DOS before that) tried to copy CP/M on that area (the original platform for SCP 86-DOS which MS bought and renamed MS-DOS was SCP's S-100 8086 cards which existed before the IBM PC), but MS bought SCP in the first place because they needed an OS to sell to IBM for their 8088-based PC, and so of course it first shipped on the IBM PC, and what happened was that the DOS calls was too limited and slow, so apps used the BIOS and even direct hardware access. So in the US full IBM PC hardware and BIOS compatiblity ended up being needed. (In Japan it was a different story)
Anyone knows what is happening with the Diaspora guys?
I was reading an article about why a particular website was moving away from the Facebook Platform (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2549468) which got me thinking about the Diaspora guys (https://joindiaspora.com/).

The two biggest issues for me about Facebook and what keeps me from using them as ubiquitously as Google is:-

(a) I have no control over what happens when I upload stuff (pictures, status updates, notes, etc) to Facebook.

(b) The lack of ability to separate my family, friends and work social circles.

These 2 issues of mine with Facebook is apparently addressed by Diaspora which i signed up for an invite as soon as they announced themselves in April 2010. Fast forward a year later, i've yet to hear any updates from them.

So, has anyone heard anything?
Fair enough. Though it's easy to say "Startups without the vowels". Surprised no one had any actual feedback other than the name (or maybe not).
Good stuff. Agree as well.
That site seems to be cluttered with "help me" requests, which is not what I'm after. I'm after building value around an idea that has not started execution yet.
Not exactly, but these two are slightly related:

Hacking Exposed: Web Applications, 3rd Edition - approaches the subject from a wider angle, not just about appsec.

http://www.amazon.com/HACKING-EXPOSED-WEB-APPLICATIONS-3rd/d...

Hacking: The Next Generation - more about what you can do with lots of web app flaws.

http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Next-Generation-Animal-Guide/d...
They are lost forever if you do not back up your bitcoin wallet.

Also, it's impossible to distinguish between a hoarded bitcoin or a lost bitcoin. But if it is lost, it effectively leave the money supply forever.
The Art of Social Media
Except that some users don't need Windows. There are a lot of people that just don't need a general purpose PC and the associated cost. That's the Windows killer. It isn't that a Chrome OS box is a Windows killer. It's the acknowledgement that not everyone needs Windows. Once that has been established, that is the Windows killer.
Ask HN: Should we kill our site?
Back in April, we asked the HN community for feedback. We received great advice and have since enhanced/modified our site per the feedback. However, we're now at the cross roads of Continue or Kill it.

So here's our situation:

Initially, we wanted a way to quickly and anonymously voice our (infamous bank) frustrations. There's alway the fake twitter account, but we enjoy coding so we spent a few hours one night, and the next morning we launched MyBankSux.com.
It received a few complaints, so we added banks in other countries to see whether anyone else would use it.

We received 80 + complaints in the past month, so no traction, and now that the 1 month mark has passed - we need to choose whether to invest additional time or simply leave it as is.

If we choose to invest additional time, we want to create the easiest way to submit a bank complaint. We want the user to simply pull up the application (mobile), click submit, and have the banks' customer service contact them; no more hold, nor need to find the customer service number. In addition, we want to keep track of resolution so consumers can quickly identify banks that provide stellar customer service.

Much like Gri.pe pulls up a list of local entities, we want MyBankSux to pull up a list of local banks or allow you to enter by name. Unlike Gri.pe, we don't want everyone to see our names when we have a complaint; like showing your friends who bitches the most. Although Twitter is great for bitching, not all banks are on twitter, and identifying the handle of those that are on twitter is difficult; for most banks.

So, I ask... what are your thoughts? Should we kill it, or should we continue. If continue, what should we tackle first?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Clickable: https://www.MyBankSux.com
But 15 years from now people will need to virtualize Windows 2020.
The benefits of e-TeX for LaTeX users
I'd like to see an example of it in action.

Also I'd need reassurance that you're not about to spam all my followers.
I don't live in Pittsburgh, but completely disagree with your sentiments. I went to CMU '02, then lived in Shadyside for a few years, miss the place dearly and own a few properties there (they have appreciated significantly over the past 5 years... Pittsburgh has been an amazing real estate market during that time). Part of the reason it has appreciated is that it's doing exceptionally well during this downturn. Unemployment is 7.4%, almost 2 points lower than the nations average. San Francisco's is 10%.

Smart young successful people actually do live there, more so than it's comparison cities... It also has some of the most educated folks in that bunch-
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbriem/SelectedTables2.htm
You'll see it's in very good company among the top educated cities. Personally, a lot of my friends stayed in Pittsburgh and/or moved back after a few years. I personally was itching to leave many years ago, have lived in many places along the way and now miss the place dearly/will at some point move back.

There are a number of startups in Pittsburgh now, but not as many as there were during the .com bubble... there are many more than any other cities of its size, primarily because there is great talent coming out of CMU and Pitt. Your argument suggests that there is no reason for anyone to not locate to SV (which is totally fine, but I think many would disagree)

Here are some of the recent startups: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-hot-software-or-recent-sta...

and some others: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-startups-out-of-Pitt...

Re: food, you must be joking... Murray Ave right by CMU has more fantastic ethnic restaurants than anywhere I can think of (http://www.urbanspoon.com/n/23/2226/Pittsburgh/Squirrel-Hill...), and Nine on Nine, Eleven, Paris 66, Salt of the Earth, and Bona Terra would be worthy of Michelin stars in another city, yet they are reasonably priced in Pittsburgh.

Re: weather you're spot-on... there are less sunny days in Pittsburgh than nearly anywhere... but it seems to work out OK for Seattle.

If this fund is indeed run by a bunch of bureaucrats it might end up being crap, as you suggest. Project Olympus at CMU has done some good stuff though, so I have hope.
http://www.olympus.cs.cmu.edu/probes/
At that point isn't it already the case that you should have already left? I mean, having no other options is exactly the sort of situation I want to avoid.
Theres also Eclim for Eclipse which will let you have one of a running modes: Headless eclipse, VIM embedded in the editor, or you can just open it externally.
I like the concept. Are you using social engagement (bitly shares, retweets, etc.) to rank the links?
As far as the name goes, I really don't think it's a deal breaker. Flickr?
most IDEs these days (intellij, eclipse, visual studio) have pretty kickass vim plugins so you can have your cake and eat it too.
The only downside to print statements is forgetting to remove them and having some obnoxious message committed.
Additional (Business) Details on Flippa: http://bit.ly/mSx5WT

BTW -- We don't expect anyone to bid. We use Flippa to market our business concepts, and get feedback.
Agreed, I'd be worried too. I actually address the spam thing in the Terms section (http://acompa.net/highfive/terms/), and I have a little example in the How It Works section (http://acompa.net/highfive/help/).

Guess I should make those more obvious?
Looks like they're still going at it:

https://github.com/diaspora
Something that seems similar is hackNY (http://hackny.org) in New York.
senz http://www.senzumbrellas.com/shop/home.php
Well, democracy is not everything. If the majority of the electorate wants to fight wars, or repress a certain minority, then you've still got a problem there.
I think the problem with this argument is that our observations are pre-selected before see them. This biases our predictions towards spectacular success/failure stories and exaggerated anecdotes. What would have happened if you were Facebook and thought, "we know social networking startups end in failure, and so we should try something else".
To answer your question: yes.
I have no idea who our clients are, what our funding is like, what our income is like or what our business goals are (aside from vague descriptions).

have you asked or tried to talk about the business with the CTO and CEO? Perhaps make it known that you're interested in that stuff so you can make better judgments on your tasks.
Senator's campaign contributions from entertainment lobby

* Diane Feinsten: $1,278,337

* Patrick Leahy: $897,666

* Al Franken: $802,573

* Charles E. Schumer $490,400

* Lindsey Graham: $224,161

* Sheldon Whitehouse $201,100

* Orrin Hatch: $143,826

* Chuck Grassley $116,650

* Amy Klobuchar: $171,514

* Chris Coons: $86,900

EDIT: numbers from OpenSecrets.org
You've missed the fact that this e-mail is from 2009 and tweet is from yesterday. Surely a lot changed in the meantime.

Anyway, Igor Sysoev was just added to the LICENSE file, so EOT.
I think the author of the post was talking about middle and high school students, who don't really see proofs. (I don't think triangle proofs in Geometry class count) My high school math felt mostly mechanical, and involved nothing like the kind of activity the author wrote about.
A Not Very Short Introduction To Node.js
This is easy to do - a payment proxy company will spring up that will accept buyer's bitcoin payment and remit a different bitcoin to the seller, minus their commission. That payment company will pool the risks, develop profiles for users they trust more, develop technical and other expertise to predict and prevent fraud etc. The seller will then work only with reputable payment proxies to instant payments, or directly with buyers who don't mind waiting.
I'm getting an error trying to OAuth
I kind of assumed it meant he got a woodsheding, but was too ignorant to realise it.
Fraud is fraud, no matter the medium.
Stick with it until you find another job, especially now that you can leverage the experience and everything you've learned. A paycheck is better than none at all so I'd wait to find a replacement before you quit, also it's usually easier to find a job when you're already employed.
> My perception is that “democracy” is most often used to refer to democracy (following your definition), rule of law and human rights.

I would refer to that as a "liberal democracy". Democracy means majority rule, by definition ("people power" or "mob rule" from the Greek). Liberal democracy is democracy plus human rights.

> Those three things contradict each other sometimes, all “democracies” have compromises to deal with those contradictions.

Indeed; if the majority of the population are illiberal, then a country must choose between being liberal or beinbg democratic; it can't be both.
> Except copyright infringement is a civil matter.

Copyright infringement is a felony if:

1. it is for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain by the reproduction or distribution during any 180-day period of 1 or more copies of 1 or more copyrighted works which have a total retail value of more than $1000; or

2. it is the distribution of a work being prepared for commercial distribution, by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public, if the person making it available knew or should have known the work was intended for commercial distribution.
Was anyone else seriously pissed that the Spielberg version missed the entire point of the Dick story?
From experience and observation, I'd say that in most developer communities (include Rubyists) aesthetics and clarity are one and the same..
The Faux-Vintage Photo & Society
This looks good, but the tutorial seems to stop before actually doing anything? I'm new to puppet and thus confused.

Edit oh what the fuck, it seems to have overwritten my nginx config :(
Most of the time, IDEs get these features by calling CLI programs. It's very easy to call CLI programs from VIM/EMACS, and set up bindings to make it very quick.
As for code navigation, plugins let you navigate to functions, explore projects / directories, and intelisense.

On the one hand, when developing for a new platform or language, you spend some extra time tweaking on VIM, rather than being able to use the platform developers Eclipse GUI immediately. On the other hand, I've found that being exposed to the command line tools with all their arguments, you are more able to fix problems and automate tasks.
Here you go: https://github.com/ry/http-parser/commit/8dabce6ec7142319bc5...
What Google offers is very different from LimeWire. It doesn’t even allow users to make their music public or share it

Is that so, though? What if people start uploading music to accounts and then publishing the login details? Bingo bango, free google-hosted public radio station!
All around, Ubiquiti makes some pretty decent stuff for the prices they charge.
Spewing print statements all over a piece of code is as bad as any other shotgun debugging technique. The reason breakpoints and watches were invented were to reduce reliance on bad ways of doing things.
Yes, my concern is that a lot of influential people just aren't on Twitter. I would almost argue that the really influential people have better things to do than tweet. And I agree they are not on LetsLunch either, that wasn't my point :-)

I gave a fairly specific example. I think it's pretty self-explanatory.
As a Senz owner, was the grandparent a comment on company innovation or user adoption?

As great as the Senz is, it lacks one of a regular umbrella's most compelling features; its handle is inconvenient to use, and, combined with the lack of a pointy end, you can't use it as a walking stick of sorts. This also makes umbrellas feel less cumbersome, because they still serve a purpose, when it is not raining.

(And it also makes it more difficult to hum Singing in the Rain to yourself and pretend you're Gene Kelly.)
when you go to authorize, it only asks for read permissions (as verified by the twitter page.)
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The Chilling Story of Genius in a Land of Chronic Unemployment
Honeycomb Has A Fighting Chance Against The iPad
Busting Super-Injunctions On Twitter: Another Symptom Of An Over-Entitled Age
Looking for a job though already feels like being disloyal. Given how early we are and how much domain knowledge I have of our system and operations, I worry that my leaving the company could be catastrophic for them. On the other hand, do I even want to be with a company (as a non-founder) who's entire existence is dependent on a single employee? If so, then, I feel I should be compensated accordingly.
Ditto on the 'ask'. If you don't ask them for benefits, equity, etc., you won't receive. Sit down with them and have a talk, or, better yet, simply sit down with them. Sounds like it's ripe time to hold a big ol' weekend of collaboration & BBQ somewhere warm that everyone can meet, greet and socialize a bit.

Getting to know the folks better face to face might make this an easier longterm decision. Once you know them better you may also get more solid ideas on how to approach them re: benefits / equity & such. "Waiting until we're profitable" is merely bullshit, just note :)
Point out exactly where 18 USC 1030 does that.
Bitcoin on scaling to very high transaction rates (from 7tps to 4000tps)...