skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bank of America - They're big and old school BUT

- They answer right away, (rarely on hold) and on several occasions they've
- Every six months when we ask to have our credit limit increased they do it
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Ah, I thought it was reasonably common knowledge, so I didn't elaborate on it.

Essentially, Sveasoft (which is/was, iirc, a single guy) took the original Linksys firmware releases, and built some fairly impressive new features on top. His business plan involved selling subscriptions to receive updates on a regular basis, with the sources being made public (beyond the subscribers) after some embargo period.

What actually happened was that very few people subscribed, and immediately began posting the latest sources publicly (as permitted under the GPL), which resulted in Sveasoft threatening them with legal action, issuing C&Ds to anyone involved, and inserting more and more complicated tracking tokens and other booby-traps in the code.

I'm not sure if (how?) it's ended, but there is still activity on at least one of the anti-sveasoft sites: http://sveasoft.blogspot.com/

http://wrt54g.thermoman.de/#readingpleasure has a lot of the original stuff, I think.

I suspect it's mostly died down because there are now much more viable alternatives (DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Tomato, etc) than there were at the time, and nobody wants the hassle of dealing with it.

It does raise the issue (as mentioned in the licence article this thread is about) of dealing with the GPL on embedded devices, where most of the work is in kernel modules or statically linked binaries. The usual techniques which allow proprietary software to be segregated and interface with GPL code aren't really appropriate, and it's quite difficult to build such a thing.

Whether this is a good thing or not depends on your perspective, of course.
The Myth Of The Sophisticated User
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I'd call and say 'Fuck you Reliance'!! And I'd just switch my ISP , there are people waiting to give you a internet connection. Just because they have power doesnt mean they can misuse it. And I'm sure this blockade won't last long.

PS:Is Reliance trying to recreate Godaddy scene in India ? :P
Usage of "between" in this particular headline causes confusion because between implies there are only two men.

If the line read "3.3 million e-mails between many of the most powerful men are about to be released." I would have grimaced and kept my piece.
Top Most Viewed Distimo Data Publications - 2011
Zephyr will add Multitasking gesture to jailbroken iOS devices
For me an open platform is one that can be used, maintained and extended in ways the original platform owner actively disapproves of. Android fits that description, because you can in fact fork it and do what you want, even if its anti-google (like the kindle fire).

I consider android similar to x.org when it was called xfree86, and oo.o before it became libreoffice. It's definitely open source, but it remains to be seen whether the project will develop an open culture. If not, a hostile fork will happen at some point.
Watch The Devil Inside Online
Watch The Devil Inside Online Free cinematography is by Gonzalo Amat which is edited by William, Brent Bell, and Tim Mirkovich. The movie is distributed by Paramount Pictures under Insurge Pictures studio which is planned to be release in theaters on January 6, 2012.
Unfortunately, that's not true. Not only you have to pay a fee for many basic services (called "Taxas moderadoras"), as they'll double in 2012.

As a grandson of a retired couple who had to pay 60 Euro for a public hospital bill just a couple months ago, I can tell you that not only are is it not free, as it can be too expensive already considering the low salaries and pensions.
What's the difference between a third party provider that stores your data, and a provider that hosts your entire application?
What I'm suggesting is that any article which appears to have been written for the primary purpose of driving affiliate traffic, as this one appears to have been done, is shady.
Electric circuits and transistors made from cotton, t-shirt computers incoming
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Мини камера малка елегантна джаджа, която може да я вземеш на всякаде с теб без да ти пречи и може да я използваш без никой да забележи.
What's interesting about this? And why is it interesting 2 years after it happened?
Vim as a python IDE screencast.
I actually asked them this just last night. Here's the response I got:

So right now, you're restricted to using the master key for the REST API (and thus, javascript applications). We have plans to make this more secure in the future in the same way as we do with our SDKs.

For our SDKs, we have a few ways to secure your app, via class level permissions and object level permissions (ACL): http://www.parse.com/docs/data

You're able to lock down permissions on the client key, and this should be able to secure the majority of apps that you want to make. But, this won't work with the REST API.
Don't be stupid, or how to run a small business.
The fear of rejection isn't something to be studied or perplexed over as much as challenged head on.

I've done the Rejection Therapy 30 day challenge http://rejectiontherapy.com and it revealed some of the games my mind uses to disguise the truth about my fears and motives.

Some of my fears weren't really the fear of rejection as I thought but deeper issues. I had no idea until I started turning over some rocks and seeing what was underneath. I feel like now I understand what the real issues are. I know myself better.
What I'm wondering is why 12 people voted up this spam on HN in the first place.
Misleading headline. WPA isn't cracked - WPS is, due to its flawed design. Simply disable WPS and your AP is fine.
Quote:

Asked for comment, Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said: "We are very aggressive in fostering and enforcing our real name culture and sometimes we make mistakes. But it's rare, and it's been fixed."

Anecdotes are no evidence. But this person's friends (a lowly ~40ish) are probably split in two between real name and fake. Extending to 'friends of friends' I'd estimate my network on that level consists of 65-70% fake names. This includes

- The fancy one: Let's write down the real name in 'cool' symbols/different alphabets that kind of look similar

- The gamers/nerds/pseudonym fans, using a handle. Maybe combined with parts of their name (totally bogus example: 'Spidey Pete' for 'Peter Somethingboring').

- Weird ideas of pseudo-privacy by writing your name in a way that is totally false and fake but _can_ be recognized when read out loud

- Totally idiotic joke names. Think Bart calls Moe's Tavern [1]

- Random, plausible looking names where I _know_ that the person behind made it up and just uses this account to stalk people

Yeah. Seems not working, Facebook. And I predict that it cannot work, ever.

1: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_Simpsons_Prank_Calls#....
Chase - one of the investors did an intro. So far no problems
I can see myself keeping a copy of this post to show to clients for years to come. Well done for crystallising something I've been floundering to put into words.
The title is not correct. A movie studio, Reliance Entertainment, won a case in the court where the judge ordered ban of a few sites such as Megaupload. Given that it is a court order, ISPs (all of them) had to block it.

In this case, it is the court which is responsible for such sweeping judgement and not a single ISP. I guess the fact that Reliance also owns an ISP resulted in a confused title.
Ask HN: Why do the rich get even more richer?
In your opinion, why do the rich -- I mean born rich -- get a good change to get even more wealthier than most? While the poor struggle most of his life?
Because you have to spend money to make money, and the rich have more money.
Watch the video, he's killing the elephant at night far from any village or crops. The crops thing is an excuse.
Samoa, Tokelau to skip December 30 in 2011
Samoa, Tokelau to skip December 30 in 2011
With google i feel like a data funnel, that's true. But with apple i feel like a money funnel. Apple always manages to make me spend more than expected. Their products are deliberately engineered to make it painful to seek affordable alternatives when you need new parts.
Olber's Paradox [pdf]
>I wonder how many Americans see the TSA, the Patriot Act, etc. as evidence of the greatness of America.

The TSA is evidence of the arrogant stupidity of America. Plenty of other great nations out there have problems with terrorism; however none are so atrociously arrogant about ignoring the roots of terrorism as Americans are. If you don't want people to randomly blow up your shit, stop blowing up other peoples shit with free will and reckless abandon.

The money spent on TSA could have quenched many grand fires of hatred in foreign lands for the acts of America; the price of a single CIA drone spent, instead, on hospitals and schools and water and food in places like Afghanistan, would guarantee a greater peace between American people and "Foreign" people .. yet the American people, themselves, continue to allow their military, and their government, to be impervious to any scrutiny of their criminal, dire, repulsive, inhumane acts upon foreign populations.

Until Americans actually confront the true nature of their "Great Nation's" atrocities abroad, they will be subject to to the whims of despicable forces who factually care no more about the American people, than they do 'Foreign entities'. The TSA is evidence that those militant masters who would willingly bomb ANYONE for their purposes, are quite happy turning the source of their great power (the American People) into willing slaves, cohorts and co-criminals in their endeavours.
Your hope is not the human experience of 3,000 years. Freedom is the goal, democracy is just the mechanism, and the passions of democratic mob rule need to be tempered to protect freedom.
It improves the user experience by allowing amazing free services to exist.

You're being entirely too cynical about this. Yes the profit motive exists for corporations. So what? It exists for individuals too. Do you only do volunteer work because anything else would be selling out?

Seeking a profit does not imply moral bankruptcy. This sort of thinking is a knee-jerk reaction to the de-humanization of commerce and interaction via the internet and call centers. But don't forget that companies are still made up of people, and it's still possible to have a great relationship with a company, even a very large one. Granted, Google is one of the worst in this regard, but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Programmer Archeologists
1440 SAT, national merit scholar
Classic case of MAD. "The only winning move is not to play".
I'm deleting my facebook account tomorrow. I dumped all my data already and gave notice to my friends.

I'd rather be cut-off than have to pay their price; they've proven time and time again how little regard they have for your privacy. Every slight change facebook makes means re-evaluating all of the privacy settings and other configurations to re-assess what extra information is being leaked without warning or approval.
To be fair, not all of the references to Linode are links. And he does end the article with:

"If you want to sign up, use my referral link and I’ll get a couple weeks of free hosting. If you prefer not to, here’s the plain link: Linode.com"

It's not like he's hiding it.

On the other hand, it does read like an advert. Had it contained some useful original information, it would be a different matter I think.
Apple said to be launching two new iPad models in 2012
Possibly add option for Yes but not today due to Holidays?

I plan on moving mine but won't until I settle back in at home after Holiday travels.
Needs more information about the court order and which court issued it..
I tried to move a week ago but GoDaddy doesn't allow transfer when Whois-Privacy is enabled. Guess that means I'm locked in because I don't want my name attached to those domains.
Badwater Basin: Death Valley microbe may spark novel biotech and nanotech uses
Wow. Pointy hairy Dilbert boss. Now that stings. Fair enough, the argument of PHP not being cool really is silly. I get that. You are right, I was wrong.

I think I was a bit too lazy when writing this. Let me elaborate a bit:
I am not telling anybody to do anything because I am not their boss. I am a partner. My goal is to spark a discussions, make people look outside their comfort zone and point out that the most convenient way might not be the most rewarding in the end.
The Matrix: The Philosophical Side Unnoticed by The Masses
I'll be moving them as they expire, because it would be a little expensive to move everything right away (plus some things I've already paid for years of registration).

I already moved a few that were close to expiry, but this whole thing started to feel like a witch hunt and a little hypocritical since I don't think I've heard anyone boycotting the Super Bowl because of NFL support or using AmEx because of Visa (two things that would be very easy to boycott).
Steve Jobs' 100-year legacy: Humanizing technology
Are you seriously saying that Linux is popular because it's GPL licenced?
A Brief History of Computer Operating Systems
I've never met a person that didn't have some level of bullshit going on. We all do it, so by extensions all our group efforts end up doing it. The book "why we make mistakes" has a good explanation based on how our mind works why it's part of the human experience to peddle a load of crock.
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Menyimpan Bahan Hidangan dengan Baik,ada beberapa cara pemecahannya,
I'm in the same boat same as you for one of my domains. I'd love to find a way around!
He's a Senator, not a congressman. Although both chambers are "Congress", the title Congressman refers to a member of the U.S. House only.
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More specifically CouchApps [1] which can handle not only the DB part but also side things like serving ressources, authentication, validation, replication,... No silver bullet but interesting nevertheless.

1: http://couchapp.org/page/index
Avengers, Controllers and Games PR in the Wild West of the Superfan
what if your birthday is on that leap week that occurs every 5-6 yrs?
Lock-in?
Why I Came to Evernote from Catch
Trebuchet Launcher for Android
Hong Kong’s Quality HealthCare adopt IBM Cloud and Analytics
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is building a virtualized infrastructure for one of the leading healthcare providers in Hong Kong, Quality HealthCare Medical Services (QHMS).
Sounds like you did not understand what I wrote

* I code on a daily basis

* I am not anyone's boss
7moments Is A Beautiful New Way To Share Private Photos In A Group
Stop Being comfortable.
For people who are apparently enlightened enough to realize that no calendar, however rational and perfect, will be accepted if it violates a certain religious rule (the sabbath), they are apparently quite ignorant in their advocacy of UTC for all purposes.

It's all well and good to eliminate time zones as such and have each region operate on a fixed clock, but to suggest that people will simply stop paying attention to the sun is insane. If you want wide adoption you can't expect people to make radical change in their lives. Most people prefer to wake with the sun and sleep when it's dark; some studies suggest that we are biologically predisposed to want or need this. Whether it's 05:00 when I wake or 16:00 when I wake is immaterial to me (that's just a number, just what you call it) but whether it's daylight when I'm out and about just plain matters.

In effect you'll probably always need a way to divide the world by when the sun is up, even if the clock doesn't change.
Mobile Social Network Startup Just.me Raises $2.7 Million
Similarly with health-related queries. When you have a serious problem, you're after any kind of information that might help. In my personal case, several of the ads returned more interesting info than the first few pages of algorithm-ranked results.
I'm one among those unlucky Reliance subscribers who were thrown this 'website blocked' page a couple of days back. The only reason I'm still with Reliance is that they don't have any data cap on the usage and has decent customer service.

Though they 'thought' they blocked these sites, I was able to access them by just removing 'www' from the url (Lucky me :)). FYI, they are using Netsweeper for filtering and the admin login page for the same is open to the public ;)
FCC searches couch cushions to stave off spectrum crisis
I wonder how many marriages will be in tatters...
David Cameron gets custom prime-ministering iPad app
Compliance with biblical mandates is a popularity hack. You need popularity if you want a new calendar to be adopted (or you need massive power on the level of an emperor^Wdictator.
What Steve Meant Back Then
Google product manager Nate Smith on text vs image
Ask HN: Do you read in the toilet? :)
Why 2012 will be year of the artist-entrepreneur
You bet. We're even hosting a Leave GoDaddy Day workshop at Droplabs, our coworking space in Los Angeles:

> http://droplabs.net/events/2011/12/29/leave-godaddy-day

The plan is to help anyone who drops by to move their GoDaddy-registered domains and GoDaddy-hosted sites.
How To Convert A Web Page to PDF: PageSnap
I think the key thing to realize here is that when PHP says "array", they apparently mean "ordered map": if you are allowed to have 'foo' as a key, it is somewhat bothersome to call it an "array". Then, once you realize that it is actually a hashtable, it is fairly obvious that there will be a worst-case input set.
Distributed Hash Tables, Part I
I'm working on it. Did you know there's a thing called Emscripten? My dream usecase is I'm out and about, and I need to look up a restaurant's website and OH SHIT IT'S IN FLASH. no worries. [swfextract bookmarklet]. Weee there's all the content. YAY
Not the only factor, but compound interest favors bigger over smaller amounts of money.
Stratfor Hackers Claim Another Attack
Wait, people are JUST NOW realizing that "unbeatable service!" is marketing talk?
I could be wrong, but I had the impression that when a domain is transferred the date that domain is valid until stays the same, however you need to purchase another year on top of the existing expiry date.
Alex Russell - Life Of A Button Element
Unreal Script? UE covers all the platforms he is trying to hit except Wii. Though the web stuff requires flash.
Can you transfer to another internal GoDaddy account in a different name (that you create) and then transfer them out?
Seems like a web2py project - more about it here:
https://bitbucket.org/id804097/minnaedu/src
http://www.jjude.com/2011/12/here-is-a-blog-engine-for-googl...

seems to be running here (on webfaction) - http://www.jjude.biz
What PC-lint is Really For: Enforcing Language Dialects
Compound interest favors time more than the amount. People who are wealthy enough to pass money from one generation to the next benefit from having that interest compound over several generations instead of one lifetime.
Yes that is just one way in which PHP is annoying. I think they actually refer to it as an "associative array", which as far as I can tell is exactly a hash, but they never refer to it as one.

On a side note, Ruby does not appear to have that same problem as similar code executes in .02 seconds. I think it is probably because Ruby's hash function is superior.
Unity 3.5 now has flash export, so I think even Linux is now supported?
Yeah... But even with Mono you have to use the proper classes for display, so it's not completely code once play anywhere.
There are many reasons for Linux's popularity. A cooperative environment with little risk of competition is one of them.
Some of the best Linux distributions of 2011
Honest Signaling Theory
Emergency out-of-cycle Patch being issued today by Microsoft:

http://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-issue-emergency-fix-ad...
He dismissed Javascript rather quickly without really explaining why. Oh well, I guess it is javascript's lot in life to be hated and ignored. On the other hand, lua was a very good choice indeed. Lua and Javascript are very similar languages indeed- though I would say Lua is probably a lot less hairy and weird.

A couple options he missed though- There was already a lua to javascript translator. (I think). There is also Pyjamas, which is a python to javascript compiler. It comes with a whole pile of gwt along with it, but you can honestly ditch most of it and just use the compiler if you really want to. (though some would argue that python without all the libraries isn't python).
New to realities of capitalism? Good morning America.
I personally think GoDaddy has brought this on themselves. They have made it extremely easy for people to hate them, and I would bet that in most cases, those that are now publicly hating them have privately hated them all along -- long before SOPA.

And then they only made things worse by flip flopping on their stance with a thinly veiled, half-hearted attempt to win customer support back.

I think that's the difference between GoDaddy and most of the other SOPA supporters -- this hate was there all along, this is just bringing it out of everyone.
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That is in theory.... In practice If you have a game that look pretty well on consoles you would have big challanges for mobile devices, and just reducing quality on art assets might not be enough.
Xenophile for sure! ;-) . Anyway I am thankful that you and others are shouting aloud your thoughts. Perhaps the program improves and people adjust their perspectives as a result.
Actually this is not specific to PHP at all. Ruby just uses a different hashing algorithm so you need to set different keys to get these results.

This is a problem that hashtables have in general (unless they are randomized).
The real innovation in this calendar, which I don't rememebr seeing in previous perpetual calendar proposals, is the system for 7-day-week seasonal drift adjustment. Adding an "extra" 5 days to every year is much more common, but not popular.

What I can't figure out is what algorithm they use to calculate when to add an extra week. It seems slightly irregular, but I asssume there must be a simple formula I could use in a date library to account for it.
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>Haha, I just about wrote the same thing but scrolled down.
HN response: "Oh, good, another redditor. This is a place for discussion, not conversation. Downvote."

>Having line numbers will be a nice addition when I'm not using Firebug as a simpler way to quickly find something.
HN response: "No shit?"
Brilliant. Now for an interesting theory of why there is so much bullshit see Harry Frankfurt's essay "On Bullshit" (Google it) :)
Ruby's not immune to this... http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html
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Did marco make his blog much more link-baity, or has it always been like this? It seems like he is playing to the crowd now.
Usefulness of the "not in" operator