skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, those locks are the CT (commercial, Integra) locks. I strongly suspect that they're vulnerable to roughly the same thing, but I haven't tested them to see for sure. There are two reasons I believe this to be the case: the only difference between the PP20 (portable programmer used in the Onity HT system for hotels) and the CT PP is a swapped out EPROM. Given the similarity of the systems from a high-level perspective and the PP differences, I'd be very surprised if they weren't similarly vulnerable.

At some point I'd love to test the CT side, but 1) the hardware is tough to get hold of, and 2) it's not a very popular system, so it's not that interesting. I think it'd be pretty straightforward, though.
Cool, I've seen people asking for things like this and now I have somewhere to send them. :-)
Jobs wasn't just a successful visionary, he was also a guy who bought a hundred identical black polo shirts to last him till he die, and someone who refused medical help for an entire year and tried to cure his cancer thru diet (which might have made a fatal difference, we'll never know), Do you really wish to idolize him, or just the benign and successful aspects of his personality? Can these even be differentiated?
How is typing python commands better than using Excel's built in functions to do the same thing? (References, Lookups, Sorting, Filtering)
On the other hand, it adds up to $13/year, which is more than many commercial services charge for a subscription or an application download. It's a matter of perspective. But I'm with you on disliking the $0.25 amount.
Abstracting away the cloud API's to provide a common service deployment tool.. woot!
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:-P

+1 added here:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/7
Once you've begged to the question of "they may not be like us at all" you can't make any predictions.

The best model we have for them is that they are like us. This may not be right, but we have more examples of "us" (1) than "not us" (0).
How to batch identify similar images in Linux
A Linux bash script to identify similar images, utilizing the imagemagick multi purpose image tool suite. The script scans for image files and compares all possible pairs within a set, calculating the Root Mean Square Error of image pixel values. Outputs a 3 column list: RMSE / source image / target image, sorted by RMSE. Similar images appear on the top of the list. You can redirect the output of the script to a text file for further processing, e.g. batch delete, import into libre office, etc.
Games with massive textures (retina?), streaming lossless music, 1080p / 4k &&|| 3D 'netflix'?

Bandwidth will always get used up. "64k is enough"...LOL.
Not supported atm, sorry. :-(

Ticketed: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/181
Other competitors: http://crowdfactory.com http://www.curebit.com http://socialtwist.com

How does this service differentiate from those already established in this space?
Colin, it's probably been flagged for the image in question. (I haven't seen it, nor did I flag it.)
I'm looking at my test lock (which doesn't have panels on it) and it looks to me that there's no way you could access the lock mechanism from the battery panel. With the HT locks I've played with, the locking mechanism sits inside the door, between the lock itself (with the circuit board, card reader, batteries, etc) and the back plate containing the deadbolt and such. Don't think it's vulnerable to what you're describing. However, it should be noted that if it's used in the university, it's almost definitely the Integra/CT line from Onity, which is different.
Sanctions Decimate the Nittany Lions Now and for Years to Come
Solution: create an account at GitHub, it would have taken less time than writing this comment ;)
They should wear monocles and time the movements of security with an antique silver pocket-watch.
This is cool, but I wonder when it will actually be done by reference rather than reference then copy.

When will I be able to keep a "this is in use here" record for a file that is stored else where. Whilst way better than download-upload on broadband / cell; it still seems dumb to copy in the first place, even if it is on internet backbone.
Indeed. I've brought up this point numerous times yet no one (besides you) responds. It just seems easy to swath all men as having advantages over women when in fact, divided into subcultures one could argue certain demographics of men do suffer from numerous disadvantages over certain demographics of men and women.
I would also like to see Organization support. i.e. 1 payment destination to fund the whole core team as they see fit.
This article is misleading in many ways. For example:

* They compare gun homicide instead of absolute homicide. Are we expected to believe that killers, in the absence of firearms, decide that maybe they'll be peaceful and productive members of society instead?

* They do not perform any normalization whatsoever. Not only do they fail to account for cultural differences that might affect all forms of homicide and/or crime in general, they don't adjust for population size at all

* They happily compare gun ownership rates in the US with conflict-dense areas like Yemen, but make no effort to correlate this with crime rates, which they only compare between "rich" countries.

* The title states that Japan has "virtually eliminated shooting deaths" but provides no evidence that shooting deaths were ever a serious problem in Japan

* The article implies that "a land without guns" having next to no shooting deaths, a logical truism, is a useful observation in the absence of any correlation with actual crime rates, let alone normalized ones.

Whatever your opinions about gun control may be, it should be clear that the author has some very strong ones, and isn't afraid of pushing them with misleading publications.
Where gas is more expensive, people will tend to have cars with higher MPGs.

MPG is even worse among the luxury cars that compete with Tesla

That's the key question. If someone is getting a Tesla because they care about mileage, they probably were not driving a 20 MPG car beforehand. If they were getting it to show off that they can afford a $100,000 car, then maybe they were.
The future of Yahoo Media in the Marissa Mayer era is in New York
Whoa, I just noticed a huge spike in access count from Google Analytics coming from here. So this is what happenned...

Hi everyone. I'm Tony, creator of FreedomSponsors.

You're absolutely right @ebswhat. Sorry about that. The layout and webdesign still have major room for improvement - we're working on that. Functionality is pretty stable though.
To sponsor an issue, just do like @reginaldo said.

Gimp is not registered yet so you'll need to fill in more details about it: "Where does the bugtracker live?" and "What's gimp Home page?"

Would you please let me know about you usability experience in the Feedback section?
For any residents of Iasi on this thread, I will be heading there in October to speak at our development center.
Well, you just have to say no. if your business works for clients, the clients will always kill you if you let them. insane demands, low ball bids, etc. this is as old as capitalism, and particularly found in advertising agencies... and printing companies. I am sure you can add examples. If you want to run your business like a third world country, you obviously can.
I'm not sure what this means. SES focuses on deliverability.
You can get pretty good results with just a little trigonometry. For example, in the diagram below, the ratio of angles A/(A+B) tells you how shaded the blue tile should be. You can apply this method recursively.

http://i.imgur.com/0rz69.png
It's not the built in functions they're trying to replace, it's using python instead of VBA to make macros.

While Excel functions are relatively robust, doing more complex operations that impact more than one cell typically require macros. I was attempting to process 50,000 cells and I tried making a function, but it was a pain in the ass given how complex it was. Since, I didn't know VBA, but did know Python, I used Ironspread to use write a script to do the job. I was impressed, it's pretty smooth to use.
Yahoo is very attractive right now.

"Especially given the currently depressed state of Yahoo stock, and the potentially enormous upside of the stock options that will undoubtedly be available." -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4282459

"Strictly on market cap alone, there is a lot more headway in YHOO. It's much easier to image their stock (and thus stock options) tripling in the next few years than GOOG. Microsoft ran into this problem when Google was still small." -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4283129
By whom are they interrupted?
Your solution is a bit cumbersome to scale beyond 1 person
I mean you can do that right now with URLs no? When you need the content, do a GET request on the link, when you want to save do a POST. This is especially nice for images as you can just throw the url we pass back in an img tag
Let’s Convince the Media to Stop Stereotyping Hackers as Criminals
Yeah, the current pricing jumps from $1 to $12 a month, $1 to $4 is $4-$24, quite a gap. Honestly, I'd also prefer monthly contributions, thinking in week increments is an american thing. Credit card statements and salaries come in monthly for most of the world, I think.
If its not that advanced, why aren't you selling your company to VMware today? Clearly this problem is extremely difficult and having met some of the Nicira team, I'd say this problem could not have been tackled by most software engineers. There are some wicked distributed systems problems among other things.
This is a pitfall I see startup founders getting into frequently[1]. Some people think that as soon as they start their own startup that gives them a position of authority, they can tell others what to do and that's it. Unfortunately, even the CEO (perhaps even especially the CEO) still has to have skills of persuasion to get others to do as they ask.

[1] Really, it's a pitfall that anyone (myself included) can get into when they obtain a position of authority.
Oddly, they didn't include a line in their posters describing their perks:

Men: Need another beer? Let one of our friendly (male) even staff get that for you.

Which would surely work right? --particularly if you add a giggle about "staff" as a metaphor....
Seamless iframes
The merchant is required to report chargebacks to use within 60 days
I called WePay and talked to a sales rep. The "API side" was busy so he said they'd get back to me, but I never heard from them:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/69

By contrast, Balanced stepped forward and contributed the bulk of the integration with their service:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/pull/137

To be honest their product isn't as tight as Stripe (had to work around a few library bugs and deployment hiccups), but they have been super open and supportive and respectful of Gittip as a community.
Interesting! Not only did they invest in them, they did so explicitly because of Scala. Still, I suspect they'd have had a much harder pitch without Java compatibility; a quick review of their materials seems to suggest that bringing existing technology to a Java environment, rather than developing new technology, is Typesafe's business.
Paying mail chimp $150 a month to manage sending to a list of 25k users or more is a cost many folk would prefer not to have. I doubt this is any sort of take over the world project for the author, but it's certainly a useful project that I think many folk would be happy to compensate him for.
Two benefits. One, I have very different types of contacts in the same database, and I can sort through them easily. Two, you'll get above 100 contacts at some point - I needed to scale once we got there.
Excuse me, "sexualizing"??

Just to clarify, what I meant was I would be happy to just literally be having any type of extended interaction with women while I was there. Not flirting with them, or hitting on them, or asking them out, or "sexualizing" them. Just working with them.

First of all, I generally refrain from seeing women as holding the potential for interaction of any sort in any sort of setting. Mostly because I generally don't interact with them, but also because I am bad at socializing in general and also because I have personal priorities to take care of before I am willing to attempt dating again. I'm short, not particularly attractive, I have a health issue that causes me to feel and look fatigued a lot of the time, and I'm not particularly well-off financially.

So I get that. No female in a working context ever wants to date _me_ or have any interaction with me outside of a professional one. I got that many years ago. Thanks for re-iterating that.

Anyway, I can understand that women are tired of being hit on at work. They are just really really sick of it. So I get the motivation for your comment. But to suggest that, based on my comment, I was "sexualizing" women was not fair or accurate, and the reality is that some of the women who attend a hackathon would not mind one single bit if a man who was there who they felt was attractive flirted with them a small amount.

So I think that the truth is that not every woman in every circumstance in regards to every man at every event like that would agree that there is no potential for interaction outside of a professional setting whatsover with every man there. Its worth emphasizing to keep things professional, but you definitely overstated things the way you worded your comment.

But anyway, don't worry. If I ever attend such a hacker event with women (which I probably never will, realistically, I hardly leave my home, and I am really bad at making friends, even among hackers), I will never consider having any kind of friendly or otherwise social engagement or interaction with any of the women there aside from one that is 100% professional. Thank you for setting me straight.

My mistake for being honest.
I agree that the use of else on for and while clauses is very not intuitive. It would be far better if the else would be executed if the list you're iterating over is empty and thus the for/while clause is never ran not even once.

So you could rewrite:

last_val = None
for item in myList:
last_val = item

to:

for item in myList:
last_val = item
else:
last_val = None
Yes, new cards are going into Balanced as of this morning. Hoping to implement payouts for people in the US in the next week or two:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/22
c. One year strikes me as too soon to assess anything and to pat on anyone's back.

One year after 9/11 (ok, 14 months but the work was being publicly done within a year) - we had Homeland security, PATRIOT Act, a war, and noise about another war. Sales of duct tape went through the roof (along with plastic tarps, some sort of voodoo chem weapon protection scheme), new warrantless wire taps everywhere, the NSA box to read all internet traffic, and so on.

So yes, a year is plenty of time to compare responses in the first year.
Also check out: http://www.querycell.com/
I have been a manager in both businesses. of course there are differences; but there are also many similarities. the big idea is that if there is a firm, inflexible deadline, you will meet it. You may not ship the product that you really wish to ship, but you will ship. and, to be honest, feature X that has to be in the product, probably can just as easily go in the next release. Don't let the best be the enemy of the good. Be realistic about your capabilities.
Thanks, I took a lot at that before posting. Most seemed to fit into the categories of: old, for teaching/proof of concept, ports of other languages.

None really stood out as in-use and actually different from english programming languages. Was wondering if someone knew more or could offer some insight.

I was thinking there are probably a few candidate countries/languages: Japan, China, Russia. Each would have enough technical people and an economy that might really be able to support something.
Can you name a source of unbiased news?
Patent holder NTP reaches settlement with "pretty much" everybody
One solution would be for Gittip to implement something like an account balance. Say I charge my Gittip Wallet with $25 seed money. My CC gets charged $25 + $.30 + 3.9% ($26.07). I set up $1.75/week of tips to various people. My Gittip Wallet gets dinged $1.75 per week for 14 weeks ($24.50). On week 15 when it comes time to give my $1.75, my Gittip Wallet is too low. So it gets another $25 bump (my CC gets hit with another $26.07) and we're good to go for a bit. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Make the auto-bump amount a user selection in case someone is gifting $30 a week, they could auto-bump at say $100 a pop.

Edit: Also, if I understand correctly, if I am getting tips, that would also go into the same wallet. So in theory the tips I receive would extend the amount of time between auto-bumps. Or not at all if I'm getting more than I am giving.
Even the Obama administration has said it is against calling for more gun regulation because of this.

Just saying: Despite the attack ad fueled mass hysteria about this, Obama hasn't done anything regarding US gun policy, in any direction.
You can check the DOJ for statistics, but I've found it incredibly hard to find any unbiased analysis.

I was interested in the topic after I saw a DOJ chart that listed crime by race. I had to research myself to find anything really useful, and by research I just mean taking data from DOJ statistics.

The thing is, it's like we live in 2 separate countries, if you're white or asian, America is almost as safe as other first world countries. If you're Black or Hispanic it's much, much more dangerous.
There's a ticket to raise the minimum charge from $0.50 to $10 or so:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/167

I've added some +1's there.
We will add more ways to signup: facebook, twitter, yahoo and github, at least.

I'm not a big fan of owning users' passwords, so unless people really really ask for it, we probably won't add a "create login/pass" functionality.
Also, there is the concept of reputation - Sponsors that pay their offers as promised will have good reputation.
For reputation to mean something, we need to know something about the user, and I believe linking with a social account is our best option for that.

Anyway, talking about FreedomSponsors on GitTip's thread is probably not good for MY reputation here on HackerNews (right? I don't really know, I just signed up). So I'm gonna create a new topic and answer questions there...

Thanks for your insterest!
I wonder if you could legally squad empty hotel rooms like this?
The Sparrow Problem
Try: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/07/23/157250870/sal...
You don't want to idolize ANYONE, but you can respect imperfect people for the good things they did.
While, yeah, I'm in the security industry, I agree that the "whitehat way" isn't always the "proper" way.

That said, there is an easy way to compromise on this one, and is the way I generally go about disclosure:

1.) Email security contact with vulnerability, announce that you will be releasing information in 30 days.

2.) 30 days later, release the information.

If a month isn't enough time to apply a fix (I do 60 days if it's a particularly complex issue), then the organization pretty much doesn't care.

I don't support responsible disclosure because it's "whitehat approved," nor do I do it because I particularly care about the vendors themselves.

I'm a proponent of giving the vendor a chance because of all the sysadmins that would suddenly have an 0day on their hands and be forced into the difficult position of either:

(1) shutting down the effected service

(2) hoping they just don't get targeted, which is unlikely

(3) trying to release a patch themselves.

That is a shitty position to put people, in my opinion.

Daeken, I've chatted with you in #startups once or twice (as 'dshaw'), and I think you're a genuinely cool guy. This research is awesome, but I still think you should give vendors a chance. Assuming that they already know about the vulnerability might actually be giving them too much credit... they did create the issue, after all.
Actually, I'm obsessive. But that's my problem, and I would not inflict it on an employee. :-)
Besides the constant need to evolve, what is the main advantage of this new connector?
Vinod Khosla talks about entrepreneurs having a deep understanding of an area instead of surface knowledge to make a difference. I guess, Nicira is one such example where deep technical know-how of founders helped them disrupt the networking industry with ground-breaking innovation.

Congrats on many levels! Nicara=1.3 times Instagram but several magnitudes greater than Instagram, when it came to solving hard-technical problems. I know, it is a dubious comparison but I am biased towards entrepenuers/founders who solve hard-technical problems. I am pretty sure, someone will argue that Instagram was pushing the boundaries of sharing, and in some fuzzy/meta way improving the human condition and experience in non-tangible ways, and in the process will end-up solving hard-technical problems (scale, data-science blah-blah). Let us just say, I disagree. Expecting to be voted down to oblivion.
So, it's not at all clear that there are, in fact, enough high-quality female programmers to have a 50/50 split in the field at large, which is clearly the important point.

But I really started this comment to pick a few minor nits. So feel free to ignore the entire comment.

1) They didn't achieve 50%, actually, even with all that work.

2) 127 * 0.22 = 28% . Assuming your industry estimates are correct, you're going to need better than 100% oversubscription to get 50% women, actually.

3) And even that only assumes random sampling. Which is actually clearly a crazy assumption. And I would take this hackathon as proof of that, actually.

4) I'm now on a team that's roughly 13% female. That's a new maximum for my career. So with that in mind, I'm curious where you got that 22% figure.
I'm very aware. I was just pointing out that if anyone was likely to think more tougher gun laws were a solution, it would be a liberal president during campaign season.

He's already lost the 2nd amendment voters, from perception alone. He really needs to motivate his base and I think calling for tougher gun laws might help him there.

I disagree with him on most issues, but the fact that he seems not to be interested in using this for political gain deserves recognition.
Thanks for that. I especially love the name :)
This would make an ideal demo app for Elastic Beanstalk.
Maybe this will help:

http://bhorowitz.com/2012/02/06/the-future-of-networking/
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4282565
Based upon my experiences working at Tesco, and the understanding I had of how their systems worked, I don't think any validation was done when I worked there (from 2004 until a few years ago). I can't see any reasons why they would have changed it as they still appear to use the same technology (Windows CE PDAs).

The main issue is they just didn't have the infrastructure to do this, remember this was before wifi was abundant. The PDAs which were used for printing discount labels and scanning out-of-stock products (and appear to still be used) synced over Bluetooth. So unless you could setup a Bluetooth network over the whole store it wouldn't have been feasible.
So artificially inflate "usage" on someone else's system? That doesn't sound very nice to do to GitHub.
Looking at the code, you have to check out the source and then run another script to check out the source from Google's private source control system/depot.

Why it isn't just in a public repo, I don't know. It looks like it is set up so they can pull it at a moment's notice.

I agree with your comments.
This is nothing new. It's just not implemented by many people. I've been doing this for the eight years I've been developing for the web but I learned it from others.