skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But simultaneously, the subcities are not repeatable in that the relationship between the intercity roads and the local infrastructure will be kinked; you need to adapt the circular intercity infrastructure (both the subway and local roads) to the rectilinear grid in three different ways over six satellite cities. That kind of variance may be desirable, but it will make it more difficult to memorize the layout and could introduce awkward kinks. Sometimes the circular perimeter roads will contact the principal city axis; in other cities they won't.
"Fake Names Are Grounds For Warrant-less Wiretapping"
Why not? A WPA handshake can be considered public information. Connecting to that particular ESSID yields all that's needed to brute force WPA and would be considered external. There's no limitations this presents to pen testers. However, for $17 this is a relatively small dictionary set. Based on what we use for real world pen testing we have just shy of 1 billion unique words / phrases.
Why is everyone so fixated on just Apple? I am sure these type of conditions and issues exist for the majority of companies manufacturing in China.

I believe that we should be just as outraged with everyone who is, in essence, supporting these practices. I am aware that outsourcing involves giving up some control but it doesn't absolve one of moral and inhumane abuses caused in the process.
sent!

-Dave
WakeMate done right!
A lot of people have tried to excuse Apple using a variety of methods (citing Krugman, pointing to Samsung's use of Foxconn etc), but they all ignore the fact that Apple is breaking a fairly important social convention.

When a person pays premium for a product, they don't just expect quality, but they want to feel good about their purchase as well. When you buy Direct Trade coffee/chocolate, you know more of your dollars are going in the hands of locals, when you purchase food at a Farmer's market, you know you're supporting small-scale local farmers, when you buy Canada Goose, you know you're supporting decently-paid and treated workers in Ontario. OTOH, when you buy an Apple product, you're supporting the same kind of supply chain used by low-cost manufacturers. With them, you pay premium dollar, but don't get premium experience. The fact that this extra profit simply goes to Apple's coffers (not even dividends, or R&D or charity) is particularly galling.

A few years ago they got pilloried by Greenpeace and that forced them to clean up their act, so I'm glad they're once again getting pilloried.
I wasn't sure whether to submit the tool or the explanation, though they link to each other.

The tool is here:
http://xomnom.com/preference.html
Could Steve Jobs have been even more effective if he wasn't, in Spolsky's words, "a dictatorial, autocratic asshole who ruled by fiat and fear"?

It's possible. I know quite a few very talented ex-Apple engineers that left because they felt the environment was oppressive and stifling. Was Apple a better place without them?

I don't know. Jobs was crazy successful at what he did, but there's nothing in that to suggest that it was for the most visible reasons.
Is it possible/likely that many of these bad pairs are from this debian/openssl bug?

http://taint.org/2008/05/13/153959a.html
This article touches on asking questions. There's a distinct separation between people that won't learn for themselves and those that have the focus to learn for themselves. You need the knowledge on how to seek things out for yourself if you want to be successful at a computer related occupation in general. Asking questions is fine, as long as you ask the right questions. And finding out the right questions to ask is solely on the person.
A good example is in the article itself, with the person asking how to use Google. This is an example of a bad question. Using a search engine on the internet is trivial, but it does require the person to have the drive to read and think for themselves. Learning how to identify the right questions will help you immensely in understanding the concepts(for rails or otherwise).
Java-alternative Kotlin now available as open source
I agree with ig1, a past work record is the best predictor (and I imagine evidence of past success is far more important for any hackernews reader than any paper degree).

Be upfront with what roles you've played. Having to ask for further clarification just makes it seem like you've got something to hide. Good luck!
This could apply to other services, like www.tangomeet.com, or others where they offer online video lessons.
The article deals with the infinity symbol as it is used in calculus courses. With such a usage in mind the infinity symbol is not a number and does not represent a number. The usage of the infinity symbol in calculus is merely a shorthand notation for a more complicated statement.

Suppose that we have

Lim x->5 f(x) = infinity

What is meant by the use of the infinity symbol is that the limit is not bounded in the real number system. More specifically that given any large real number I can find a number d such that whenever |x - 5| < d then f(x) > M.

Here the use of infinity is not meant to be as a number though making such an association is helpful to beginners in terms of visualizing what is going on. Students have trouble with the precise definition of being unbounded and so it's convenient to say "it's infinity" and treat the symbol as a number.
The quick distraction to the unrelated "We also believe that education is the great equalizer." what has nothing to do with the average Foxconn worker. Sounds totally like a PR move and shows no personal relation to the subject.

This is something Jobs never did and was for me part of the magic of the brand. Cook has no public personality. Apple makes now without Jobs a cold and frightening impression to me. Even Ballmer with his weird personality makes Microsoft human somehow.

Apple has to do something really revolutionary again (not just milking their cash cows and an iOS TV device), to win the magic back. Imagine what is theoretically possible with 100B, but who in the company has the vision and enough leverage?
This is a best-of-the-best collection, so I only anticipate adding 5-7 books per year. Maybe not that many. I shoot for books that I know will be classics 20 years from now.

Great idea about the name and the online resources. Thanks! I tried adding tools for a while. There are a lot of possibilities with a site like this. My plan is just to take it slowly. Since it's a classics thing, there's no hurry.
India is just an extremely high-variance country. It has produced people like Google's Amit Singhal (Search Quality), Sanjay Ghemawat (MapReduce), Vic Gundotra (Google+), Sundar Pichai (Chrome), and Krishna Bharat (Google News). And it has also produced many people who aren't worthy of the title coder, let alone engineer.

Rather than wringing one's hands, just ask programming questions in interviews and let the code do the talking rather than the nationality.
Tim Cook: Apple Does More than Any Company To Improve Labor Conditions
Seems interesting, but overpriced. I wouldn't pay $25 for a video conference with a chef - I'd probably just find a video on youtube of how to do it for free. That said, I think it's a cool idea, and I'd love to host my own cooking sessions if I could list it for free (not sure if you can or not, didn't see any classes that were free). It'd be a fun social interaction site, but I wouldn't pay for it directly.
Interesting. Trend.
Chinese Firm looks to block iPad across the globe
This sounds like a vicious circle to me.
Part of the point made by some of the ex-players that are contemplating suing the league is that the risks have been concealed from them, systematically.
Unfortunately, they need to license his level; and if it is sold with the official game, they arguably should pay him.

This issue wouldn't occur if they coded his map for him as an independent modder's map - but a big part of the coolness of this gift is that it's part of the official game. (I mean, when I was 7, such a gift would be like becoming a god - legal issues, even money, would only diminish that).

/sick of negotiating licenses for my code
But he's significantly closer to the landing party on the moon.
Walt Disney had a vision for the city/habitat of the future. Is there any website or archive that shows all of those visions and plans? It would be an interesting read since he was such a visionary.
50 Remarkable Examples Of Typography Design #7
Seconding zacgarrett. Try using nslookup or dig to get a more accurate measurement on how the change in DNS has affected response times.
Rejex - the JavaScript regular expression editor
Isn't this sad? This should be no matter at all, bad working conditions is something of the past century. Enabling the next revolution should be the biggest challenge for them.
No it certainly does not. This source linked paper in fact says the opposite. Taking time to read the paper results in a fun experiment without any cryptographic breaks. Low entropy randoms = bad keys, for all Asymmetric and Symmetric keys.
TODOMVC: Quickly compare popular JavaScript MVC frameworks
Is this a book or video series? I'd be interested if you could provide a link to the series you mention specifically.
It's this part:

int i;
{
int i;
}

Java does not allow you to shadow one local variable with another.

This is ok:

{
int i;
}
int i;

because the scopes do not overlap.

This is ok too:

int i;
{
class LocalClass {
public void method() {
int i;
}
}
}
No, the owners of the vulnerable keys are by all appearances unrelated.
At least someone found a use for all those old bitcoin mining rigs...
I just joined. They have access to a lot of my personal information on Facebook now. I hope they have some fancy algorithms to match me with a compatible group. Anyone from Grouper want to elaborate on the algorithms?
I guess it the price depends on every service, some experimentation would apply.
What do you mean by 'how long the calories last'? A Calorie is a Calorie. Doesn't matter where you get it from, it's the exact same amount of energy. Fats do have a higher energy density than other macronutrients (9kcal/g vs 4kcal/g for carbs and protein), meaning that you get more calories from 1g of fat than 1g of carbohydrates. So 10g of fats will, obviously, give you more energy than 10g of carbohydrates.

If you're talking about satiety, then there is ample evidence that protein is much more effective than fats or carbohydrates in that regard: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18469287.
They do, but does it matter? Ten core-years is not a forbidding threshold.
If you look closely you can see his coloring algorithm is broken. The "spheres" of close restaurants appear to "squash" each other rather than just intersecting. The result is grooves between restaurant spheres that should be more brightly coloured. If anyone even notices this comment and replies to it, I expect them to be disagreeing with me.

TL;DR: I can tell by the pixels.
Let's hope game theory will never be applicable to your line of work.
6: Not everyone can stand for significant amounts of time.

8: If you lock the door when I'm in the room, I'm leaving the room.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>My feelings</title>
I love HTML

it is a valid html5
Ah. I'll never again whine about how much my MIT education cost me! (Even though I never got to take a linguistics class with Chomsky.)
Weekend Project: Convert Wikipedia articles to Kindle
If you are a student like me, you will probably need to use Wikipedia on daily basis. However sometimes the article is very long or you need to read it on the go when you don't have access to the internet. That's where you can use wiki2kindle , simply enter the url of the article and your kindle address and it will get delivered straight to your device, or leave the email field blank to download the pdf version. Tell me what you think.
Five Reasons I Love Linsanity
I'm getting an error when creating a card.

"Application Error - An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.

If you are the application owner, check your logs for details."
My wife didn't care for it :( but my girlfriend loved it!
I think he was suggesting the coincidence of two independent investigations finishing at almost exactly the same time.
Are there good command-line tools that accomplish this? It looks like Booktype expects you to edit in a browser. I know there are work-arounds for this but really I just want to edit in Vim then send files to some processor.
Make this better. Check out http://text.ecomware.com.
I associate Apple products a lot more closely to luxury goods than the sort of socially-conscious products you mention. Apple did that (RED) promotion a while back with their products, but that is as close as they have come to putting forward a socially responsible face.

I don't think consumers expect luxury brands to compensate their workers more, though it would be nice if they did.
your two line signature could be reduced to one line by linking your name to www.kswizz.com.

What if the recipient is using a non-HTML mail client?
Lego sets may be geared towards boys for the most part but plain lego bricks are about the most gender neutral toy you could possibly find. And it seems that kids of either gender (and any age!) appreciate them equally.
I've observed similar behavior for myself, except its Thunderbolt for day, Kindle Fire for night.
This was the top comment when I connected, and I agree with your analysis.
Yeah, regarding going ahead with the "naive" search, I'm coming up with a price of 5k to 15k on Amazon EC2 using the cluster compute 8XL instances, and under a month using 10 machines.
Might not be the best name for a JS lib/app since ACE is already a popular in-browser editor: http://ace.ajax.org/.

Also encouraging the use of node for synchronous processing (even when using coroutines) is unlikely to be high performing when scaled up. If you have work to do, it'd be best to defer to another service and let node work as a router.
Falling Out of Love (w/ My Company)
The Materialist Fallacy (nytimes op-ed)
I just Kindled the book and worked my way through chapter 1. Seriously - I can't think of a better way to introduce someone to "classes" and explain what a "class" does within a program. This book is great thus far! If you have any other recommendations, I'm all ears!

In particular, these 2 topics come to mind:
- Algorithm design
- Data structures
Will (have?) BrowserServer and BrowserAdapter be released?
I suggest reading the article when you can, as that post wasn't actually very similar to it.
Understanding what mathematical objects are can lead to insanity. Much better to focus on what you can do with them.

Or to quote John von Neumann, "In mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them."
Drupal Tools and Resources for eCommerce Website Development
Will Power
It also seems that this one in particular it particularly designed to test the online system itself. Others are of course also trying to find a suitable format, but this one is explicitly an experiment in the viability of the software they developed.
Have a look at the theassayer link I posted. It appears to fulfill much of your requirements.
The argument "Addition breaks" proves just as well that zero "isn't a number", since it breaks division rather badly. (Yes, division is a badly-behaved version of the more upstanding multiplication. The article uses subtraction in what is nominally a complaint about addition). It doesn't address ordinal numbers at all, since addition works just fine with infinite ordinals, exactly the way the article claims you'd expect (what have I missed?).

The immediately obvious uses of infinity in calculus (the topic of the wikibooks article) are, according to wikipedia, termed the "affinely extended real number system" (I learned to just refer to the "extended reals"), which heavily implies that the points within are considered extended real _numbers_.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_reals

The terms "cardinal number" and "ordinal number" both definitively include infinite quantities -- infinitely many, even.

The IEEE standard for floating point defines two infinite numbers.

Essentially, I'm in full agreement with tokenadult; the only relevant question is "what do you mean by number?". But we can easily observe that varying infinities, including the calculus uses of infinity, are referred to as numbers all up and down the chain, including in the most unimpeachably correct sources, and that it walks and quacks like a duck, even if it may not quack in the precise manner of Anas Platyrhynchos.
Actually, outside of software startups, several software houses I can think of and the established tech giants, what has been described here is pretty much the rest of the world.

I guess to use something that I saw on HN the other day, it's the dichotomy of the creative film crew versus the sterile manufacturing line.

Note that business people can't help themselves. After all, this is what business school has taught them in how to become managers.

The keyword is "manager". Note that it does not mean leadership. We are sorely lacking in leaders. At every level.
I appreciate the suggestion. I'll give that post a try.
I do the same, because (perhaps you share this) there's a certain, hard-to-define, yet ceaseless wonder to wandering into a 7-Eleven or a Walgreens late at night and foraging for just the right snack. I don't know why, but it's an experience I enjoy.
Rails is not for beginning web developers.

As an educated CS professional with a reasonable amount of experience in non-web development fields (database design and embedded systems), the roadblocks I hit always had to do with understanding web development concepts.

I also got frustrated finding meaningful help on some of these subjects. I found it next to impossible to find straightforward explanations of things like routing. The help always seemed to consist of either advanced material that assumed the viewer knew about routing or "Suck it, noob." type responses like the OP talks about.
I keep my alarm about 10 meters from my bed, and I got up and put it for 20 minutes later... about 4 or 5 times this morning. Can't remember for sure :)
You can't see "Whit" and immediately know "it's Whit Diffie", or given Whit Diffie expect that "Ron" means "Ron Rivest"? I got it instantly and have way less crypto than you.

Or are you saying, "Ron Rivest was wrong, Whitfield Diffie was right" is still a horrible title?

The whole paper had the feel of a rump session pub, didn't it?
For-pay books are pretty well covered already. As a student, I can't always afford the books I want, so this sort of resource is useful for people like me. Free books authors also don't get as much marketing buzz as mainstream authors, so I hope this helps to gain them more recognition and support from the community that would most benefit from their work.
He stand to make almost $2 from this post ...?
I would like to see a similar analysis based on venture funded, active startups. Obviously in the valley they are concentrated, but outside the valley it would be an interesting analysis.
And to people who don't think empty carbs should be the staple of every meal, your diet looks insane. c'est la vie.
Funny that this article makes it onto the front page this week , because I just so happen to be in Bangalore India right at this moment on a business trip training malware researchers we have here.

I can't speak to India's education system, but what I can say is the team I'm working with here - even though while earning a fraction of what their US companions earn - are doing a great job and have a lot of excitement and enthusiasm for their work.

Bangalore India really isn't that bad. I have had a great trip here, and I've been very impressed with the professionalism and level of intelligence of everyone I've met. If anyone else gets a chance to visit - I highly recommend you do so! You will not regret! Just get your shots before coming over, and make sure to bring Cipro/Azithromyacin just in case!
Who are the StartUpHustlers?
Which mysterious YC alum is this?
He really needs a positive control, i.e. something he knows for sure improves his sleep in order to quantify the effect. Say his data shows a small effect, and it is even statistically significant. He still won't have learned anything without having some reference for the magnitude of the change.
"Yes, because his algorithm requires you to get two secure ones, and other public key algorithms don't."

Would be the authors' response to that.
For those thinking about changing their DNS servers, you might want to take a look at http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

It benchmarks global (like Google Public DNS and OpenDNS) and regional DNS providers to show which DNS servers would be fastest for you.
I think this visualization would be far more interesting at the city level. At the country level, it's basically a map of population density. At the city level, I think it might reveal much more about demographic differences between neighborhoods and also do a much better job at highlighting key transit routes/hubs.
You have to know whether your definition of "numbers" makes them into a field or not, before you can go applying field operations to them and expecting usual results.

Including infinite ordinals in the set of numbers is legitimate, as parent points out that "number" is not strictly defined, but if you include infinity, numbers are no longer a field, and you have to cut someone off when they try to use field axioms in theorems, the uniqueness of multiplicative and additive inverses, which must be how people end up with nonsense like 1=0.
It’s Time For Google To Take Advantage Of Motorola Mobility
Who is funding AGPLv3-based projects?
And more specifically: who is funding projects that modify existing and freely available code under AGPLv3 to create a product in a new market? Any recent examples?
I think it's a great subject for their experiment though: they want to design a system to teach deep problem-solving skills, and introductory physics (of the variety aimed at physicists and mathematicians, not engineers and liberal arts students) is generally the first place students are really challenged in that regard. The other place would be a formal mathematics course, but that would make an even gnarlier subject for an online course and would have even narrower appeal.
And if you lose your important WPA key and can't recover it via dictionary attack, there's always reaver-wps: http://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/
Did you read the link as I did? The server hosting the packages was compromised. This could have happened to any software, not just open source, and I'm sure it has.

>The same goes for "verified" binaries, packages, etc... apparently that is not always the case.

If proper package signing was in place, like most modern distros support, then this couldn't have happened. The backdoor was not in the main code in SVN or in Git, which specifically protects against this exact problem, but added to unprotected releases dumped on a server.

>What are the possibilities that such code could make its way into some piece of extremely popular public facing software, say Apache?

No bad code was added to the code base.
I'm not sure if you need to be logged in to Instapaper to see this, but here is a text summary that has all the content: http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmartinkool.com...
if you had to be invited, how is it public?
Sounds great =D I've never used fibers in Node, but I'm quite experienced with Fibers and EventMachine aka EM-Synchrony. How do Fibers affect 1.debugging & stack trace and 2. performance & garbage collection ?
Thx