skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
School District Sued Over 'Toxic' Wi-Fi
There’s virtually no scientific basis for the belief that Wi-Fi is a health threat. But the federal civil suit against PPS is the latest expression of anxiety by a growing community of Wi-Fi-phobic and self-diagnosed “electrosensitive” individuals who believe a laundry list of physical ailments can be traced to the proliferation of consumer electronics.
Fair warning: this comment is apparently all kinds of wrong, but I leave it here for posterity.

Put:

if(getenv("SSL_CIPHER_SUITES"))
SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(ctx, getenv("SSL_CIPHER_SUITES"));

anywhere after SSL_CTX_new().

But don't bother doing it with stud, because (as I sort of predicted) stud already does this: stud -c <ciphersuites>.

I don't understand what Matt is saying by "stud doesn't enable DH at all". Does stud build its own OpenSSL? The system OpenSSL will already support DHE.
Patent suit takes aim at Apple over iPhone, iPad 3G data transfer
Any serious article ripping on the performance of something should at least link to the config file used.
You wouldn't ask that if you checked the PDF File Format documentation. It's scary. Really really scary.
Why don't you just tell them to sign-up for only the sub-reddits they are interested in, since that will determine their front page?

*Side note: Kiva would still love to know if you are interested or not (e-mailed you when you posted about looking for new opportunities).
I'm not one to do this, but really, how does this belong on Hacker News? Is there something I'm missing?
The Ubuntu Font Family‬‏ [video]
http://startgoogleplus.com/

(I managed to grab the URL before some script on your blog ran my Chrome tab into the ground.)

Great idea, I'm sure it will be helpful to the new user "What am I supposed to do with this?" problem.
The worst thing about this is not the cutting off of the service, but the fact that this guy has no reasonable alternative to Comcast in his area.

Tyranny of the last mile still exists, and isn't going away any time soon.
Unlike the above post, this fellow actually did some broad cipher testing (http://zombe.es/post/4078724716/openssl-cipher-selection), particularly around AESNI instructions in recent Intel chips.

With AESNI, use AES-128, AES-256, RC4-SHA, CAMELLIA-128.
Without AESNI, use RC4-SHA, AES-128, AES-256, CAMELLIA-128.

In nginx, this looks like:

# (wo/AESNI): ssl_ciphers RC4:AES128-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA128-SHA:!MD5:!ADH:!DH:!ECDH:!PSK:!SSLv2
# (w/AESNI): ssl_ciphers AES128-SHA:AES:RC4:CAMELLIA128-SHA:!MD5:!ADH:!DH:!ECDH:!PSK:!SSLv2

You eliminate weak ciphers. You retain RC4 for compatibility and speed. You order by performance. (Note that AES-128 is still ranked as secure through 2030 [at least]. You don't need to prefer AES-256.)
The exit section is a little silly. When you take $50m you don't just get to not exit later. You're just saying you're going to do it via an IPO or an IPO-sized acquisition.

If you really don't want to exit, don't take money at all. The minute you take a VC's funds you're agreeing to exit.
Yeah, it sucks :( If there's anything we can do to help transfer your data back, please let us know.
Yeah, well, arrogantly complaining about people calling you out on unfounded speculation doesn't really work when you were originally quite arrogant in that speculation.
Security CEO on Mobile Insecurity
My Weekend Project: Instacolor App - find Instagramers around you
I created an iPhone App to visualize and discover Instagram users and photos posted. You can find Instagramers around you and anywhere in realtime.

You can use the app to go to any city and explore people and real time photos posted around

HN Instagram users I have limited number of promo codes to give away to download iphone app for free email instacolor@gramfeed.com

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Wow. Evernote is the kind of software that I wish I used, but for me it has a lot more friction than just using a text file in each project (which I can view on my phone and other computers via dropbox).

Any die-hard users want to share some info about the way you've benefitted from it compared to the sort of system I described above?
What a wonderful lesson given by Scott and Guy. Mapping Scott and his young kid as Team leader and a developer respectively,we could figure out how a Team lead/Someone from Management, could encourage his developers to try out new things anda set their minds free by giving them freedom to do something which they love. It's kind of Google's 20% time rule.

Every Org which trust his non-managerial staff and allow them to try out things often progress and prosper much faster than companies where politics and bureaucracy often create obstacles.
Instacolor iPhone App : http://instacolorapp.com
But that's the point is it not? TFA's building patterns to try to implement in Go some of the most basic facilities of Erlang, and try to work around Go's misfeatures (such as default shared memory).

So the concepts described in TFA do indeed already exist in Erlang.
US and Russia "reset" their cybersecurity relationship
I have a feeling that Lodsys will continue to iterate on this theme until they get shut down. Given they have signed a licensing agreement, I'm not sure what Apple can do, but they should take as active as a role as they can from here on out. It certainly raises doubts in my mind as to what kind of "buy this app" link I can put, if anything, in any apps for myself or my clients.
$20/mo is a trivial amount of money to spend to not have to manage it yourself.
Inline styles. For shame.
So what's a controller, in this context?

I've seen the meme before, I think the first one was http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
> Your choices at that point are either disable flash, live with having your batter life cut in half, or install GfxCardStatus to enforce a saner policy.

Or respond to Chrome's WONTFIX with your own WONTUSE.
Congrats Lenny & Team!
the distinction should be made of mobile web apps vs web apps.. cause there are tons of flash games that outshine Angry Birds in many ways. Just pointing out for clarification.
My First Encounter With Steve Jobs
Quite disappointed that Google has blocked release of Paul's book, even post G+ release.

I guess "don't be evil" does not apply to this case in the house of Google. Sad.
Getting this article in text/plain.
It depends what you're building. If what you're building is something which should never fall over and die, and you can afford to (because the interesting applicative state is stored elsewhere) kill-and-restart is a perfectly valid strategy.

It is in fact one of the standard strategies in erlang supervision trees: a subtree crashed, log the signal somehow and spawn a new subtree. No point in interrupting the service if you don't absolutely have to.

If you have memory leaks in a subtree, you can just kill it and let things recover in a standard manner, while you're investigating the cause of the leak (or not, you may have more important stuff to do)

> Go is still a young language, who knows what tools for debugging will come along in the future.

While that's true, Go has not exactly been at the forefront of language innovation so far and I've yet to see truly good tools for memleak investigation and debugging in more innovative languages...
What Not to Do in Blog Commenting
And he's even near/in a city!

Imagine this scenario playing out somewhere where even less options exist, like a rural town in the midwest... you get cut off, you can switch to what? Dial-up?
The Google defenders are out in full force today.
> My opinion on all this is simple. The ability to access broadband internet is a right, and should be defined as an essential utility.

Yawn... first world problems.

Broadband is assuredly not your "right", it's a privilege. If the terms of the contract are broken (and they were, twice) you have very little recourse.

More to the point, get a Comcast business line. You will get hassled less, and I hear it may actually be unlimited.
Games have always been better native, but lets be honest besides game, probably 95% of apps really can be done as web pages.
Who cares? This is actually considered tech news?
I'll tell you, it's not so much the slide itself that that was upsetting -- although he was essentially begging for someone to say "orgasm" and that was a sad sight to see; the audience was way ahead of him and didn't want to partake -- but that he carried himself like a jerk, wanted people like him because he was a jerk, and ultimately had no message in his presentation. It was hard to watch, and not because I'm a woman, but because an hour is a long time to listen to someone talk excitedly about nothing.
May be this was Google's algorithm during the auction:

while(bid < lobbying_cost)
{
bid = getMathematicalConstant(current_bid);
}
Even this highly simplified view changes once you have the app installed. With a native app, you have an icon right there on the user's home screen. The web app would require more typing and clicking.
That's the trick -- you can enable your DHE cipher all day long, but if the code doesn't set up DHparams, it will never work.

Here's a quick (no error checking) way to set up DHparams if they are appended to a cert:

BIO *bio = BIO_new_file(path_to_a_file_with_dhparams, "r");
DH *dh = PEM_read_bio_DHparams(bio, NULL, NULL, NULL);
BIO_free(bio);
SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh(ctx, dh);
DH_free(dh);

Where do the DH parameters come from? You can generate it yourself (1024 bits here):

openssl dhparam -rand - 1024

For a completely isolated implementation (requiring no user certificate changes), see function ngx_ssl_dhparam in nginx-1.0.4/src/event/ngx_event_openssl.c
Eventbrite Could File To Go Public As Early As 2012 | TechCrunch
Computer Learns Game by Reading Manual
Tangentially: check out Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg%27s_stages_of_moral_de...) -- people start to make more sense once you get your head around the theory (if you decide that it seems valid).

So, comments like the grandparent's are just examples of the law-and-order stage of moral development, whereas yours are an example of either the fifth or six stages.
Hm, haven't seen this script problem on the blog before. If anybody else runs in to it or can provide insight please let me know.
[Ask HN] Chances that a UK-based startup receive funding from SV?
Wouldnt that be cool, if IBM started going after patent trolls?
But the context isn't so clear. All of us who "work the web" have confronted tables.

Most of us are using "action-view-controller" frameworks for building web apps (in which some cases, a model gets used, and in some cases, actions are degenerate with controllers.) What exactly a controller is depends on your framework, and often controllers are stacked inside one another (in one system I work in, subcontrollers are stacked three deep.)

In that particular system, there's an "object model" built on top of objects in the implementation language that allows an extreme level of reuse -- if you create a new type in the model, default controllers and views get inherited automatically so you get a lot of cool stuff for free.
I would agree with your argument if the broadband market were actually competitive. The author has no legitimate options for broadband besides Comcast, meaning Comcast can do essentially anything it wants to him. That is not the way a capitalist economy should work.
I listened to him read his canned warning that if I exceeded their cap again I'd be cut off again.

Ok. Sure, the data cap sucks, but this guy broke a Comcast policy, got a warning, and then broke the policy again. I'm not surprised he got cut off.

I do not recall details on how long the cut off would be, likely because I spent the next few minutes working with the service agent to add notes to my record about my detailed displeasure with Comcast's policy here. I specifically noted (and asked that it be recorded) that if this happened again I would contact the FCC, various news organizations, and otherwise make a stink. The CS agent was polite and reactivated my broadband.

Wha? Why would the FCC or news orgs care that you exceeded your broadband cap? And why are you threatening the service rep?

This whole thing stinks of irresponsibility and entitlement. This guy ignored or didn't care about the whole data caps thing (which was announced a long time ago), didn't pay attention to his warning from Comcast, and now he got burned by it and suddenly decides unlimited broadband is his right. Too late.
From the context it seems they're specifically talking about acquisitions. IPO seems in line with their goals, including "making a hundred year company".
Yawn... first world problems.

I wish I could slap you...
If he is using the circuit for work, then pay the additional cash and get a commercial class circuit which is, effectively, uncapped.

He already had one disconnect and chose to ignore it rather than take appropriate steps to modify usage. He agreed to their cap.

The idea that internet service is a right is bizarre bourgeoisie bollocks.
It's as much of a right as telephone access is. In this sort of utility situation they shouldn't be able to cut off a paying customer.
Upvoted because finally someone used the possessive its properly.
Agreed, isn't this what capitalism is supposed to get us? Competition for lower prices and better products? Saying "Sorry, your products are too good and you're offering them for too low of a price" kind of kills innovation, doesn't it?
You're defining a pyramid scheme too narrowly. This is one piece of a pyramid/ponzi scheme, but in those schemes, the underlying asset has no net worth. Here, Evernote clearly has worth, and plenty of it (regardless of whether the exact figure is debatable).

This happens quite often in Series B+ rounds, where previous investors take some or all money off the table. The reason is that early stage investors don't always have the tolerance/portfolio to sustain a long-term investment. Let's use DoCoMo Capital in this example since they were an investor in Evernote's Series A/B rounds. It appears that they didn't invest during this round, so it very well may be the case that they took some of all of their money off the table. It could very well be the case that DoCoMo Capital (who is the venture arm of NTT DoCoMo) made their initial investment in Evernote as a strategic one. Perhaps they no longer see strategic value in the company and need to cash out so they can make different investments that are a better strategic fit for their company. I don't know this to be the case at all - just showing the point.

Alternatively, let's say an angel investor with a very small portfolio had invested in Evernote in their very early stages. It could very well be the case today that 95%+ of that angel's net worth is tied up in the company, and so he/she might want to take some money off the table today to reduce his/her risk.

On the other hand, perhaps Sequoia has the tolerance to wait this out until IPO or a mega-acquisition. So they get in now at a higher price, cash some of the older investors out to reduce some dilution to current shareholders, and then the rest of the cash gets pumped back into the company.

Hopefully this is helpful.
It's clearly not a right, as far as I know getting electricity isn't a right either. One could argue that Broadband should be a public utility, but even then there would likely be caps and streaming video would probably be a "less important" use of said utility.
Actually, that is the way capitalist economies work in reality.

This is a lot of crying for attention. If he wants to have a commercial use case, he should get a commercial circuit.
Knowing the US, yes, you'd have to let it explode. And then get sued for letting it explode.

Of course, the alternative is to intervene, and get sued.
This avoids the one major reason that I think most developers choose to develop native apps - how much easier it is to charge for it.
There's satellite, but bandwidth and limits are worse there.

He was exceeding his limits, and received a couple of warnings. I'm not a fan of Comcast by any means, but it seems to me that in this case he should have upgraded to a plan that would accommodate his needs. Uploading terabytes of AV data to Carbonite isn't going to work very well over standard residential uplink speeds anyway.
The problem isn't comcast's policies themselves, it's the monopoly situation. And that seems like an FCC situation to me.
On iOS you can hit the plus button on any web page to add it to the home screen, making an icon right there on the user's home screen.
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Best Feature: Google+ Invite!!!
Why?

I was turned off by the American view point of this post.

I can't even stream Netflix in my country, and this guy is complaining that he can't watch 250GB of it?!
How come such absurd article is third item on HN? (edit: grammar)

It is becoming increasingly clear that Google+ is ushering something fundamentally different. Lot of people, hackers especially are very keen on understanding the implications and predicting where Google+ will go from here. And it is human nature to try and relate new things with analogies to stuff we have understood and internalized well. Hence the slew of articles comparing it to Facebook, Twitter, now IE and god knows what else. People here, my guess is, would be interested in anything that articulates a new perspective on Google+.
Doh! 'seiji wins. I was way too glib about DHE. Sorry.
I'm not calling you wrong (I readily admit my knowledge on this topic doesn't even compare to yours), but are you really saying that these banks hire security experts to set requirements for SSL configurations on their load balancers and then don't use these security experts to set requirements for password security? That seems borderline malicious on their part.
Background story: Something we're personally facing and I wanted to post on HN to see if HNers could help answer.
I'm sure 90% of G+ers will do it and enjoy it.

My point was only that figuring out how to organize your graph into circles shouldn't have to be the first thing you've to do before discovering G+. This question (how to organize one's social graph, even roughly) is not trivial at all; if the very first thing G+ demands from you is to figure out a very personal and non-trivial question, it will negatively affect people's perception of the product.

Think of how annoying it is to enter a serial number when installing a new software: it's not a big deal, it's not difficult, and you'll hopefully only do it once. However, that's your software bugging you before your first real contact, and before it earned your respect. Highly irritating for many people. We want our first contact with stuff to start by some instant gratification.
I use Evernote, mostly for the automatic OCRing of scanned documents, but I'd rather just be storing the documents locally and/or in Dropbox.

Is there a good way to do this?

Ideally I'd also have a completely standalone document scanner that could sync my documents to Dropbox or something. Has anyone tried this one? http://www.ionaudio.com/products/details/docuscan-worldwide Any other suggestions?
If she's in college, ask them to license it as an accommodation.
I just found one of those bright yellow Elephant Memory Systems t-shirts on eBay and ordered it, to replace the one I had years ago. At least I never forgot!
Fighting fire with fire hmmmm....
It maxes has been maxing out my laptop CPU for an inordinate amount of time for years as well. These "financial secrets" are emailed in the clear after every transaction, so your point is moot.

Burgerbrain: PayPal.com, CitiCards.com, 2checkout.com, and many payment processors all use RC4-SHA or AES256-SHA. You are wrong.
Haha thanks ;)
I totally disagree about broadband being a right. And neither is electricity, insurance, or clean water.

However, I do agree that it's a necessity for modern living, just like the rest of the above. As such, I think it should be protected in the same ways.
I have never once gotten the browser version to work on my Chromebook.
This is interesting to me. Maybe it's because twitter places much more emphasis on identity than HN comments? Twitter users are also more likely to be using that service to market their personal brand, rather than just to share whatever they're thinking, so are probably much more careful about what they say.
What, exactly, does Comcast have a monopoly on? Basic internet access might be considered a necessary utility, but an unlimited 15MB line is certainly not.

Also,
http://www.google.com/search?q=high+speed+internet+seattle+w...
So what should ssl_ciphers be? Can't you just move that one to the end somehow?
Actually if you read his post from a day ago, you will see him state he stopped the open access point. He took steps to stop what he thought was the issue. It was not until the cap was broken a second time that he realized it was his backup system uploading to a 3rd party service.

That is not entitlement at all. If anything it was ignorance of the fact that your upload data is also measured against the cap.

I agree with him about going to the FCC. The fact that he has no where to turn to purchase a competing service means that Comcast can dictate peoples internet usage behavior. My question would be is does the 250g data cap apply when they are watching TV/Movies online via Comcast (XFinity) provided services?
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Assuming Comcast is the only ISP in his area, can he sign up for a Comcast business account? It appears he doesn't just want his account reinstated but he expects unlimited data use.
I didn't say anything about superfluous features.

Done in the software world doesn't really mean "done", just that its not being working on. Putty wasn't done, there was a list of bugs sitting there waiting to be addressed. But thats not my point, even at its peak of development, putty never had more than 4 releases within a year.
Yep. It's a fantastic chair.
But is there a plan that would meet his needs? 15/3 is top tier in a lot of places, and they often won't sell commercial lines to residences. He may have had no choice but to just use less bandwidth.

Or pay for a second line. It sounds like he and all his friends and random guests were all using a single line. That's not how Comcast envisioned its usage, and their usage caps reflect that.

Don't get me wrong. I think they handled this really poorly. But I don't think he paid enough attention to the situation, either.
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No! "internet is a right" is not bollocks, but "unlimited internet is a right" is.
Play Button: a despicable, unusable website
Twitter is better than HN? That's like comparing apples to a fish market.
the "serious people" remark is a joke. I use the xml resume library and generate several formats from my xml source, not that I am a particularly serious person. Now, I do use txt if I need to actually attach a resume. As far as I can tell, the document management systems recruiters use that want .doc format are, uh, not very good at all.

But, from looking through resumes from a recruiter, I do stand by my 'mangled crap' comment. I don't know what they do with the things, but half of them come up formatted horribly. My guess is that the system recruiters use to strip off contact info and do keyword searches combines with some subtle version incompatibility in Microsoft products.
"I wrote the book in collaboration with Google"

Chances are that he's not the sole author/owner of the copyright of the book. It's possible that other features of G+ that haven't been released yet are in the book, and that Google is waiting for a full launch..? That's my best guess.
Turns out, you still have to wait for google to approve. Bummer.
I love that copy / paste method in putty. It drives me mad it doesn't work like that in the OS X terminal. Is there any way to get the OS X terminal to behave like Putty with copy and paste?
Wrong...

1. Satellite Broadband
2. Wireless Broadband(most wireless co's slow bandwidth by 15% after bandwidth cap is exceeded and do not cut off) In building use buy a $200 Wilson Wireless amplifier