skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so. While the data collecting was one snafu that hit a smaller set of people with WIFI routers, the bigger story unveiled was that Google created a huge database of (SSID, Router MAC, location) regardless of wifi encryption.

That's why it's _nomap and not _nosniff.
> We can approximate the probability that any two of the n decks shuffled in human history were identical as p=1-n^2/52!

I think that this is way too low. Shouldn't it be the quite large number

1 - \prod_{i = 1}^n (1 - (i - 1)/52!)

(a la the birthday paradox)?
The issues got conflated. This whole thing came to a head when it was discovered that Google was inadvertently capturing stray packets as it drove by. Of course, Google doesn't want nor need bits of your stray data, but it became a story about reading your private messages.

The solution to not wanting to be mapped, is Google's Opt-Out procedure. The solution to not wanting other people to read your wireless data, is to properly use encryption.
it is indeed available as a library. with multiple ports, no less.
16GB isn't adequate for the work I've done on them. Genome assembly ( an O(n^2k^2) process ) generally has 100GB of data, each segment of which needs to be compared against each other segment ( O(n^2) ), and when comparing two segments each datum needs to be compared to each other datum ( O(k^2) ).

So while you can just transfer 4GB of data to the card at a time, it really doesn't cut it.
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I would recommend not buying the Apple USB SuperDrive and instead buy one of these http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/optical-drives/ (have no clue why firewire is in the url when most are usb). The works with one machine and not another turned me off to the Apple product. Plus, actual ejection mechanisms are kinda a necessity in this imperfect world.
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As just a lay commenter on ycombinator, I can point out that they're just changing the anode atomic structure. They're not changing the Lithium salt.

So your concerns about safety are fine - this should only be as safe as any other Lithium-ion or Lithium-polymer battery.
There's a few enquiries into the bill (Ofcom, parliamentary enquiry etc). I believe the current government is pretty opposed to it (Conservatives and Lib Dem both value the individuals freedom). Also since the majority of ISPs are completely opposed to it I doubt it'll ever get enforced.

Peter Mandleson is an evil evil person though.
Ask HN: remote job for a new Python programmer - feasible?
I am a programmer, started with Python a few months ago, did several small projects (including one for HN [1]), and now looking for a job (remote - I’m in Russia now).

Internship is quite close to what I’m looking for, but remote internships are rare. On the other hand, I’ve got 6 years of work experience in total (did embedded for 4 years, then worked with C# for the last two), so I don’t think I’d require much mentoring. I lack Python experience for a ‘full-size’ remote job, though.

A good way of getting experience with a new technology would be joining some opensource project - and I’ve been considering Trac or NumPy/SciPy. Opensource, however, is not a job, and I will need some source of income soon.

So, any advice on this situation, or hopefully there’s someone who has some Python job to do? To sum it up - quick learner, able to learn and work independently, broad experience (C#, embedded, some maths and physics, some Erlang, human languages - fluent English, native Russian, can speak some Dutch), but not too much experience with Python in particular.

Some links:

[1] my HN project - poll visualizer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2977909

[2] my GitHub page: https://github.com/egor83

[3] a page containing the description of the situation, CV and a couple more links: http://egor83.wikidot.com/py-dev-looking-for-a-job

Thanks in advance!
So many times I have complained about the horrors of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access and Turbo Pascal and Typing Mario (does anybody even know what that is anymore?). Education is a complete mess. There’s a particular sentence that I think needs more emphasis:

"I noticed a recurring theme. Hackers would bring up anecdotes of playing around with BBC Micros in their spare time, learning C in their spare time or building basic command-line games in their spare time."

How do they think they are helping us children by stuffing us with hours upon hours of mindless work, following instructions on textbooks almost verbatim, whether it’s Computer Science or Math or Chemistry or Literature? Students are only allowed to interpret a literary work as the teachers see fit, only allowed to play with chemicals on paper in their own imagination, only given dull Math problems and a few certain “tricks” to solve them, and, yes, of course, only allowed to complete computer projects that involve Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access. I don’t hate you, Bill Gates, but your office suite is killing me.
There has to be change. Only the best of the best will be able teach him/herself the basics of IT while survivng high school (and K12 and higher education in general); the rest will just lose interests even though they have tremendous capabilities.
Not to mention how it gets lonely once in a while.
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Lately, I've also been getting frustrated with Apple:

I was setting up someone's iPad for them last night. Installed a couple of apps, then did a jailbreak. Started testing the apps, and found that there was no sound. Battled for a few minutes and thought it had to do with the jailbreak. After some Googling I realised that the side switch was in mute-mode, rather than rotation lock mode.

Why did I have to set someone elses iPad up in the first place? Because in a bandwidth-constrained country, downloading iTunes is a difficult problem - the stupid iTunes switch-on requirement has sunk many people (I've had to set up 3 iPads for other people because of it).

As a South African, I'm forced to create a Kenya iTunes account to buy games, since Apple hasn't bothered, like most other manufacturers have, to get a simple clearance from our Home Affairs department to self-rate games. At least creating a Kenya account is easier than the other "workaround": creating a US account with a fake address, and then buying iTunes vouchers. Of course, there is the risk that Apple will deactivate my account and screw me out of the apps I paid for.

Talking about having a Kenya account, I made the mistake of creating a South Africa account first - ever tried updating apps when you have multiple iTunes accounts? It's a nightmare.
If the solution is not ideal it's only because the problem is imaginary.

Why are we pretending that logging locations of public WiFi hotspots is even an issue?
I'm more worried about the width. This nice-looking page doesn't fit my ~1000px in width while it should. All the content is within my view but I still do have a vertical scrollbar. That's quite a distraction. But what is even worse is that the text is snapped directly to the left edge of the page. Not even a single pixel of a space. Try resizing the tab to see for yourself.
There is no sliding downward trend of checkins.
As someone who never liked FPS much to begin with, let me say in comparison it's been a bad decade to be anything but an FPS fan.
Not all JVM languages are created equal (JRuby and to a lesser extent Clojure) are no way near Java in terms of performance on the JVM
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Actually, the meta data you're talking about is there. You can even test the page to see that it should work (though it never appears like that in Google search results for me): http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http....

Hmm, sorry. I looked at the source and missed it.
But the intriguing part of the story is that they banned x-ray scanners, not that they approved millimeter-wave scanners. The headline is accurate.

This has always been the sensible course of action; millimeter-wave machines are far safer than x-ray machines.
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according to the teardown the comm module is BT-capable, right? is this something that has been software-disabled?

edit: link
http://www.jorjin.com/Product_SiPmodule_WG7310.htm
I think this looks horrible on LiveDrive. LiveDrive should have initiated a plan to get the data from the users of Backifys back to them even if Backify was being discontinued.

Are you certain (and when I say "certain", I mean not just speculating about how things were set up between LiveDrive and Backify) that LiveDrive are able to tell, without a shadow of a doubt, which files belong to which Backify clients? This could be a potential legal nightmare for LiveDrive if they were to end up giving access to someone's backups to the wrong person.
Because the ideas behind freedom of speech and 'routing around damage' are the main reasons behind the Internet's success.
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Well one of the author of Flask was the author of that blog post Armin Ronacher, right?

The third option is, just pay the team to finish up for you, which is what EA did, I guess.
This is probably just an iteration on earlier methods of prioritizing a page's content.

Previously, Google would place a higher priority on content that came towards the beginning of a page. As users became aware of this, they then began organizing their code so that the most SEOable content was at the beginning of the HTML file, but used CSS to make sure that the what users saw as the beginning of the page was still optimized for people.

Presumably, now Google is checking to see which parts are actually styled to appear at the beginning, regardless of order in the source files.
If I'm using a mobile hotspot, it would be useless to log its location. Anyway, maybe I just don't want my home router on a Google map.
Good point, and I understand legal names aren't always conventional. By real I mean the name a teacher would call you in school. Not a nickname or pseudonym.
The part that annoys me is that the security clearance process at airports is invasive. It serves no purpose other than to provide the perception of security.

Policy dictates that passengers are not allowed to carry any weapons onto airplanes. The scanners and other mechanisms are used to detect firearms, knives with blades longer than 6cm, and so on and so forth.

The ridiculous part is that you clear security, go into duty free, and buy a bottle of whiskey which you're allowed to take onto the airplane.

If you're so inclined, once on the airplane break the bottle and threaten a passenger or the airhostess with it.

That makes the whole process (at huge cost to the tax payer) a complete farce.

There are other crazy things we're paying for, like finger printing, and forgoing the right not to have our laptops and phones searched. Anyone who wants to get around these measures can. It defies belief.
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Damnit! Great idea, but I HATE it when on-screen text is not user-selectable. I want to take your on-screen address and put it on my own envelope. GRRRRRRR!!

Great idea, though. Thank you.
It was an accident. Google doesn't want your data packets.

But if you're concerned about bad guys stealing your wireless data, then it doesn't matter what Google does or opts you out of -- you need to use encryption.
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It's based on PyCharm from the "Licenses" page.

ref:http://www.planetframework.com/documentation/1.10/Licenses/
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That wasn't the problem.

Yes, it is. You're talking about a completely different problem. Anyway even if my network is encrypted, it won't keep Google from logging my SSID and location.
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As far as usability is concerned, basic predictable interfaces are what you should be building unless the data & interaction you're modeling is unique enough to require non-standard UI.
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In my own experience, when I moved the buy button and price info to the very end of the page, my conversions went up a considerable amount. The reasoning behind it was that people needed to be engaged (and sold on features/benefits) before realizing that this is not a free product and bouncing automatically.

http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper

This is not the general rule, but an exception to it.

Always test, and don't assume that the general rules apply to your type of business, product/service/content, customers.
Good catch, though there were definitely apps on the first iPhone. AppTapp/Installer was introduced around Christmas time if memory serves, and there were apps, utilities, and even a few games available.
I think the HN crowd is more aware of SOPA than the visitors to those sites, but I think adding to the banner couldn't hurt (some people may have missed the SOPA stories from the last week).
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I don't see what exactly changing y18.gif would accomplish...

Happy feelings? Seems like you're preaching to the choir.
The web is not a platform in the sense that we're talking about here. It's a set of open, free, non-proprietary specifications that anyone can implement on top of. iOS is not that. Just like Windows is not that.
"Of course, you stop worrying about that and wonder how the cable has managed to fray on this barely used drive"

Because it makes the cable look nicer. Seriously.
Obviously, every Java project with hundreds of thousands lines of code can be written by 2 developers in Ruby in a weekend ;)
The outrage isn't about about public hotspots. It also logs your home SSID, even if the network is encrypted. That's what people are mad about - having their home routers on a Google map.
Kawa Scheme is near Java: http://per.bothner.com/blog/2010/Kawa-in-shootout/
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>amount of radiation exposure is really quite small compared to the amount you'd receive on the actual flight

Yes, I believe that's true however we should also consider the health of the TSA workers who are subject to constant exposure for 8 hours a day. For all that we can say, it's their choice to work there, that's not a fair assessment given today's job climate.
> And even they, if they got $1 for each of their 500MM downloads, have still not made as much as Modern Warfare 3 made last week ($738MM in revenue).

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess MW3 cost a little more to make.
I'm pretty sure they still do (last time I used one was on a white plastic MacBook). I think it's that white piece of plastic in the bottom of his picture of the opened drive http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZXGivS3ZQHk/TsPQFirsZBI/AAAAAAAAA-...
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I've done it a few times now, and they have always had me identify my bag, shoes, etc on the belt before the pat down. Then they set the bags aside. They also insist that you don't touch it until you are finished with the patdown.
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Reminds me of my first experience with an OS-X Macbook and how I began to hate Apple. I was creating a web site for the company I was employed by at the time, and being the gung-ho developer I am thought that we should test the site out on one of the new OS-X Macs. Fortunately, one of the techs there had just purchased one and offered to bring it in and leave it on my desk for the day.

So I was poking around the machine (website looked okay), and decided to try out the video playback. I slipped a DVD in, watched whatever the heck it was, and then spent the next thirty minutes trying to figure out how to eject the damned thing since there was no eject button.

If memory serves, there was a paperclip slot for emergency eject. Which is what I ended up doing. Later, the owner came by and showed me the drag to trash thing. I thought (and still do) that not having a physical eject button is a horrible design.
Samsung will not drop Android, at least not in the near future. Their goal of achieving hardware platform domination against the fellow Android rivals and Apple is far more pressing than having OS independance from Google. Samsung is flattering with other OS though. Windows, Bada, and now Tizen.
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Apparently yes. The manual says ejecting is only possible when connected to a Macbook Air.
Doesn't that just beg everyone to submit SOPA stories to the site? Have we learned anything at all new about SOPA in the past 24 hours?
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When have you experienced this? I've found it to be pretty rock solid. Especially compared to the game client...
No 1.9. Believe it or not, a large number of people have moved across. I've been on it 'full time' for almost 2 years.

Other than that, though, it adds a lot of new stuff to learn. I'm sure it'll be worth learning but for better or worse, it's easier to let other people play with the "1.0" and learn the lessons so that you can then rely more upon the "1.1" or whatever.
It will be patented - yes. Sat on at a very high price - I don't think so. Even if you only think about maximizing profits, with a technology like this you would make much more money by creating a new market (mass produced electric cars) with lower margins and very big numbers than with high margins and very little numbers.

On the other hand, if the technology required to mass produce this kind of batteries will be too new, it could take time to scale it and bring costs down. Let's hope it isn't too innovative.
... in the sense that...
I just wonder it turned out that all hackers, after all, are in hn (together with lame ones like me). Small world it is.
Great list, thanks. Please when listing books post their ISBNs.
The video runs into an edge/problem case inside of the first 60 seconds, the solution to which is apparently something you have to memorize or get used to.

"...to add a component I do this... you see the error here saying that... to fix it, just click on this word and hit alt+enter.."

I couldn't continue after that.
Is Instapaper the only one with the read later offline feature? (versus Safari Reader and Readability)
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Walmart serves as an existence proof for both your propositions.
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Do they work on MBA's single USB without external power? I guess they don't. Sadly they have cornered the market on this one. If I'm going to use a drive that isn't portable, then I can use my desktop computer instead 99% of the time.
> SSIDs are public, just like house fronts.

Yet, they allow you to pixelate your house front in Europe. That's the cultural standard of privacy there, so it shouldn't be surprising that SSIDs matter to them.
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Here's the press release from Northwestern University:

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2011/11/batte...

and the associated journal paper, published in Advanced Energy Materials:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.201100426/ab...
As someone once said: "if you can hijack and aircraft with a pair of nail clippers, you can also hijack an aircraft without a pair of nail clippers".
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I will pick two startups who email me at inlith@gmail.com. They will get a free custom redesign for their website or app. I prefer consumer-facing startups over B2B ones.
My take:

Vesting is meant to prevent you from walking away with options while not being a part of the company because nobody wants to deal with former short term employees.

In the end, either you trust the founders to make only honest mistakes and treat you ethically or you don't...and the VC who has a personal reason to screw you out of options is a much less likely scenario than all the options and stock being worthless.

That being said, funding events could trigger portion of the options vesting.

It's all negotiable - but it may not be worth the mistrust hardball negotiations often create.
Actually, most bigger publishers and quite a few bloggers are already signed up with Readability, because it's just set-and-forget.

Also: "Yes, Readability keeps track of the last twelve months of pages visited even before a publisher registers with us to view their statistics. If your site has garnered traffic to Readability, we're already earmarking money for you."
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There was a similar issue with older Macbook (and Powerbook) laptops, where certain drives would occasionally refuse to eject a disk. The solution at the time was to insert a piece of folded-up paper into the slot, jamming the disk in place. When you booted the machine, the drive would try to spin the disk up, fail, and then eject it. The timing was hard, since you had to get your makeshift paper jam out of the way as well.
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I don't understand why so many people are defending Google here. The reality is that the vast majority of these so called "public" access points are going to be unassuming users that have unwittingly been added to Google's public wifi grid that basically invites people to use their wifi as a public service.

Please correct me if my assumptions are wrong. This feels like an incredible invasion of privacy. It's one thing for a user to ignorantly leave their wifi unprotected and have a few people take advantage, but it's another to look at it as an untapped resource and build a business model around it.
The first aluminum iMac didn't, had to send it to the store[1] for almost one month to get my CD back. Will never buy an iMac again.

[1] Country without official Apple stores, that's what you get.
Because:

* A large portion of Ruby community uses - Ruby for scripting. Such as puppet, chef, command line tools etcetra. This is also why jRuby hasn't picked among many rubyists as much as it should.

* If maglev wants to succeed, the initial documentation has to be done by Maglev developers, since it brings very different paradigm of writing web/server side applications.

* Library alternatives has to be documented. C extensions?
When you begin dragging a mounted disk in OS X now, the trash can image on the dock turns into an eject image, although I'm pretty sure that it hasn't always done that.

That said, I agree. I think the Apple designers could come up with a cool way to include an eject button.

Side note, no Mac (as far as I know) has ever had an eject button. Even the original floppy drives were electronic eject (which was really awesome back in the 80's.)