skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We sold all of our stuff, moved out of our 5000 sq ft "McMansion" near DC and spent a year wandering the country exploring "the spaces in-between". We lived in a trailer that I could pull behind my pickup and all of our possessions fit in the back of said pickup.

It was intensely liberating. Sadly as soon as we settled down again, the stuff started acreting like barnacles. Our plan is to repeat the process on a semi-regular basis.
Yeah, good point. And I am (slowly) starting to transition more and more to e-books. I by dead-tree tech books much less often than I did back in, say, 2001.

> http://my.safaribooksonline.com

I'm definitely thinking about signing up for a Safari subscription soon.
We did that a couple of times with a mains-powered angle grinder and a mini generator. In the middle of the afternoon, in a shopping street. Got some funny looks, I can tell you. Nobody said anything though. Certainly didn't get shot.
Do you have any opinions on the "student's desire to learn" factor of online vs offline classes you've taught? I suspect that many online colleges might attract students looking for something "easy" and potentially more likely not to try as hard. I wonder how your experience would compare with one of coursersas math classes, eg stats or probabilistic graphical models, particularly counting only students who attempted to actually finish the class.
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I don't hold books in any special regard anymore. Now, they're just large objects that hold data less efficiently than other solutions. I can keep the text on a HDD or flash drive somewhere instead.

They're large, heavy, cumbersome objects. They're just more objects to be packed, carried, and worried about.
Yep, in public compromises of large sets of WPA passphrases, more than 50% of them are phone numbers. This is why we offer a CloudCracker dictionary which includes every valid NANP number in it: https://www.cloudcracker.com/dictionaries.html
I always thought the worst argument ever was "nuh-uh".
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That's not true. I bought a brand new Schwinn at Walmart for $140 after taxes. Its not a very good bike but its good for what I bought it for, i.e. trips to coffee shop without worrying for it to be stolen. My other bike is a $2.5k Specialized Tarmac which I don't use casually
Further, I think most HN readers when giving the opportunity to make $10,000 cash by stealing a bike would not risk it if their total possible punishment was a misdemeanor and 5 days in jail.

I personally want to avoid ever having to step foot in that place for any length of time.
I don't think this is the case. Losing either loses the server in the sense that you won't be able to access it. The fix is that the "something you have" is both your phone and emergency codes.
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You just had to make the rest of us jealous, didn't you.
I found this article to be a bit sensational. It should be titled, "how I paid some experts to crack my neighbor’s Wifi." I’m not trying to dismiss the threat, just put it in perspective. The use of these tools is either expensive ($2500 a year?) or requires a non-trivial amount of expertise (Aircrack-ng).

I did find the article linked within to be more interesting and informative.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/passwords-under-assa...
No, when you add a new user you don't need to restart. Only restart the server when you install the plugin.
I like how Joe points out that rebasing raises the same issues as time travel, namely paradoxes. If you have rebased commits that others have pulled, then you've created a situation where a commit both does and does not exist.

Also interesting is how rebasing can reorder the dates as seen in the log. All that git really cares about is the parentage of some commit.

Good and insightful post.
It's probably the most famous Indian newspaper. Specializes in bringing page 3 to page 1. Suppose one of our sports star (read cricket star) does good and there's some serious political or militnacy related event, it knows how to skip the other news. But you know what the shameful part is? People still prefer it over other newspapers.

PS. Not commenting on article but the quality of newspaper :-)
I like having stuff, stuff can be important, and enabling. The trick is having a good filter. If you just collect crap, or status items, or knick knacks, you're just going to be stressed trying to keep track of it all. If you build up a collection of stuff that lets you do things, then that's very different.

I have stuff that enables me to cook delicious meals. And I have stuff that enables me to travel. And stuff that I can use to climb mountains or hike in the wilderness. And stuff that I can use to fix things like bicycles and cars and computers.

"Stuff" can be either good or bad. Don't collect crap, but there's nothing wrong with collecting tools that you use regularly or art that you appreciate.
The major deterrent in long public illegal operations is not the fear of a bystander taking action, but in the soon-to-be injured party (or a compatriot of such) taking notice.

Someone trying to get into a car could have just accidentally locked his keys in. Someone trying to get into my car has nefarious intent.
Has anyone added this to other than a server? Seems like this could be added to a notebook or desktop running OS X. (And for that, I would actually prefer Google Authenticator.)

Also, it occurs to me: With TFA, it finally makes sense to periodically change passwords.
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You are right. Best for your infrastructure is to fork it and modify it. We for example have a different version we use for chef and that already include everyone's keys.
Yes, but design patents are a different animal, and AFAIK much easier to work around. So if they changed just one aspect of the design (making it less likely to be confused), Apple would have a harder time enforcing it.
shameful of them not to include cube2/sauerbraten in their titles.
So you actually tricked the server into setting a password it usually wouldn't accept? Uh oh, hope they don't "fix the problem" by adding similar validation on the server side later :P
Booby traps are usually illegal.
^ This is your brain on mass media. Any questions?
I'm getting "This video is currently unavailable"?
It's true that my living in Detroit will help provide the police with more money, which may in turn make more people in the city, which may bolster the police even more... etc. However, I think it's quite a gamble. What if I buy property and the area does not improve? Who will buy it off me if things maintain or go south further?

All of the "nicer" areas that I mentioned in my previous post have very low crime rates and no municipal tax. To add to the previous issues I had, Detroit is poorly run. There have been quite a few cases of corruption of city officials.

It's just another thing that needs to be wrangled in.
NASA web developers obviously not rocket scientists, how silly.
This is silly. If you try accessing http://nasa.gov/ it does not open up, unless you add www.
If I'm understanding the application correctly, this would also work with Tillich-Zemor-style hashing based on matrix groups. The idea is to map the 0 and 1 message bits onto a pair of generators of a subgroup of the invertible 2x2 matrices with entries in some GF(2^n). The message hash is just the product of the generators corresponding to the message bits.

What's really cool is that matrix multiplication is associative, i.e. x(yz) = (xy)z, so you can perform the hashing in parallel: Hash the left half, hash the right half, and combine the results by multiplication. It also allows distributed multi-party hashing, as in this article's application.

Unfortunately, classical TZ hashing has fallen completely to practical collision attacks as well as first and second preimage attacks. However, those attacks all rely on very special properties of power-of-two Galois fields, so there's no reason generalized TZ-style matrix group hashing wouldn't be feasible.
This is silly. If you try accessing http://nasa.gov/ it does not open up, unless you add www.
I put up virtually all of my Flickr photos under the No Commercial clause. This is mostly because I'm afraid of other people using the images for purposes that they do not have the rights to...i.e. using a person's likeness to sell a product. If that person sues, I want to be as far away from the litigation as possible:

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7680

http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teen...

The no-commercial clause obviously encompasses more than that, so to answer the OP, yes, the Non-commercial clause is a symptom of poor education on rights.
I think a useful tactic to curb loss of expensive bikes would be to legally target the people who buy them, these are the people that cause the market to exist and perpetuate the situation. My guess is that most of these people are not crooks, i.e. they are just young people who want to but can't afford a nice bike and they know exactly what they are buying. I don't understand anything about bikes so can't give an example there, but if a person would approach me to sell, say, a 2010 Prius for $5K, I just know that is a stolen car. If knowingly buying a stolen car carries even a small legal charge, most people wouldn't do it.

Tangentially, and pardon my ignorance, I'm not a biker: I can't understand people who shell out thousands of dollars for a bike, are these so much better than a $500 one?
These responses are yet worse because they just continue a cycle of non information and angst forever.

For those NRIs who complain I can present to you the NRIs who try and recreate India abroad and think everything was better in the motherland.

They force their children to learn to be "Indian" act Indian, and then get married to an Indian.

It's called the perfect minority syndrome if I am not mistaken.

Some moan, others wax eloquent. Neither should get to you. Only valid criticism matter, and lessons we can apply here.
I'm absolutely sure people would pay - if you look at the hosting industry people have been explicitly paying for 1/2 of this service for years in the form of 'managed' servers.

I think there's three parts of this service and they're all easy to bill for:

- per server for server setup and configuration with a higher charge for reusable images

- per server per month for monitoring and maintenance

- per hour for everything else
> Its a pity that blog posts these get a lot of attention because of their extreme nature.

Pointing out that you need to show your id to use a cyber cafe or other things in the article are neither false nor extreme.
Maybe that is because face-to-face classes offer a richer experience for the students. Also, it doesn't feel so boring when someone is talking to you (e.g. watching a video on the computer screen is not the same as a person talking to you). Although you can record live lectures and replay it afterwards for online classes, I feel it requires a higher level of motivation for the students to watch it and actually pay attention to it.

Of course highly motivated students can fill the gaps alone and don't need this extra motivation from a dedicated instructor in the room. For the rest, I guess face-to-face classes will be the best for a long time.
And yet they probably have power and running water. I can foresee a day when internet access (of some speed) is seen as a basic utility and society would no more tolerate entire neighborhoods of homes without internet access than we would an entire neighborhood of homes without electricity.

That will be a good day.
And of course: the stolen goods are also your means of escape; an added advantage.
I have paid many times for sys-admin as a service. It was called platinum server management the company i hired. there are several companies in this field that will remotely manage your colocated boxes or vps etc.
If you are looking for a clean reliable two-factor auth system, I highly recommend Duo: http://www.duosecurity.com/

I've been using them across a half dozen personal machines for quite a while now, looking to roll it out at work as well.
I've spent 24 hours in a holding cell right after high school. It was cold, my seatmates weren't particularly polite, sleeping was an awkward proposition at best.

But if I was paid $2k to do it? Sure.

Aside from the toilet situation, it's not significantly worse than being on a intercontinental flight. (In fact, I'd rather spend 24 hours in that cell than three hours on a turbulent flight.)
Neat solution, thanks for sharing.
Personally I find it weird looking at my phone each time to mark off a task done and starting a new one. Its like a stopwatch on my phone.
> [2] Here's a bonus: Why is google's monetezation strategy significantly better than twitter an facebooks?

Is that a question or a quiz? If a quiz, can I have the answer?
I disagree. There is a difference between not knowing what to do, or how to do it, versus simply not doing it out of laziness or negligence or an unwillingness to take on the responsibilities implicit in owning your own device.

The learning curve for keeping software up-to-date is not particularly steep.
Thank you for that comment. I find it weird that the patent was not only not invalidated, but Samsung was found infringing, even with the Surface prior art clearly existing.
Free if you have a computer or a smartphone.
Would that really be a booby trap though? Both sound more like (funny) anti-theft devices, since neither are intended to maim.
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That's assuming that they are selling the bikes at a far lower price than the market rate. Wise crooks probably know to offer a realistic price.

The prices for second hand bicycles are all over the place anyway. There's a significant number of people who will buy a reasonably expensive bike and keep it in the shed for years and then by the time they decide to get rid of it they have no idea what it's worth so will just sell it for below it's value.
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What's the quickest, easiest way to jailbreak a 4S today? I've never done it and now I'm curious. And, how hard is it go restore back to pre-jailbreak status?
The sound insulation inside US houses is also terrible. Maybe people wouldn't need so much space if they had some decent sound insulation between rooms. Otherwise it is the simple case of having a better house than your acquaintances and thinking of the extra space as an "investment".
tried it in chrome windows 7, got error pointer lock/mouse is missing, any ideas?
I run CloudCracker, so I can add some color. 'English' dictionary jobs use dynamic models built by password compromises from english speaking users, augmented by the results of our own jobs (as well as occasional brute force jobs we run against a sample of handshakes which didn't crack).

The smaller 'English' dictionaries focus tightly on that. The larger 'English' dictionaries include the longer curve of those passwords, but also start to mix in the hot spots from other models, such as valid NANP numbers (which is what got this example).
How can you tell if a bike you are buying is stolen? It would be pretty easy for a bike thief to post an ad on Craigslist saying they are selling their used bike.

>>Tangentially, and pardon my ignorance, I'm not a biker: I can't understand people who shell out thousands of dollars for a bike, are these so much better than a $500 one?

It makes a huge difference. More expensive bikes are built from lighter and stronger materials (such as carbon fiber), are more aerodynamic and have better balance. Just to name a few of the benefits.
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I'd like to, but I can't. Everything I found was some variation of "why ebooks cost more than physical books".

On the other hand, apparently increases in the cost of books have roughly matched the rate of inflation, so any other explanation may be bogus.
For most of my life, I've been able to fit all of my possessions within my car, and move in one trip. Recently I've upgraded from a 20" monitor to a 46" tv. This means I'm up to 2 car trips.

It's frustrating to move entirely into a new place, and find that the place looks empty and plain because you simply don't have enough objects to fill the place. In a way, it reminds me of dieting: I hate having to eat like an anorexic American just to look like a healthy Human, and I hate feeling like I need to fill my residence with objects just to feel at home there.

I want to live in a nice ~400 sqft apartment in a city. But those don't seem to exist. I want to pay less than $600 a month for rent, but apparently I earn two times too much to pay so little. So I'm stuck paying too much for a too-big place which feels awkwardly too empty.
But in my defense, my two posts were not "rara self help guru" posts. Just me reporting on an experiment I did. I don't know the ideal answer here. But I like to see people trying things.
The difference between a nice "adult" bike and a cheap department store bike is night and day.

The expensive bike won't rust.
The expensive bike can be repaired when things break.
The expensive bike is half the weight.

If you are using your bike frequently, it's better in the long run to have decent hardware.
That's sort of the idea. The main selling point is to find out where your time is actually going. If that's not interesting to you then yeah, the app doesn't make much sense.

For myself, that's something I wanted to know so I built this. When I first started working on my company I was spending a lot of time doing random research and reading, and not enough development. Of course, I didn't find that out until I actually quantified where my time was going.

I then added the goals feature to wean myself off of the time sinks and towards the more valuable stuff. I found it helped me achieve a more balanced time allocation for productive vs. unproductive tasks.

Also, the simple procedure of setting up the goals made me way more conscious of where my time was going, which I thought was valuable.
Yes, I read this sort of thing, then look back at the desk I am chained to, and want to weep.
If you are talking about not being able to log into the server anymore, you can make backups of the seed. On android, you just need to pull the file "/data/data/com.google.android.apps.authenticator2/databases/databases" off the phone.
I'm curious why DC isn't in the open angel forum. Is DC worse for startups than Philli or Boulder?

Just curious, is there a lot of startup activity in Philli? I hadn't really thought of it before.
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I was curious about the difference between Han's technology, and the iPhone's. In Han's words, his device is pressure based: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZv1nBM8zsI (he also believes that the scale of the devices puts them into completely different categories.) I read up a little on the differences between pressure and capacitive devices, and one that stands out is that capacitive surfaces can emit more light, because less layers are required beneath the glass.

(Edit: I meant to post this as a reply to the grandparent comment, not the parent post about FingerWorks. Whoops.)
The truly interesting challenge will be how effectively they transition these policies as they scale. For example, the flood-of-email with filters works incredibly well for transparency at 40 people, but becomes an unmanageable deluge much past 100. The Capture the Flag runs, though, look like an idea that's both awesome and sustainable.
I dont know if its common in the anywhere else but in my town here in germany the stealing of bike-PARTS has become very popular. I guess the owners of high-value bikes use better locks, that are actually hard to break ( like those: http://ebay.muskelkater-sport.de/fahrrad/schloesser/bordo-gr... ). But for Parts the risk is even lower and a good break or light system can yield a few bucks.

I personally use a cheap ( 50€ ) used bike as a daily driver, in combination with a 30€ lock, there will mostly be an easier/better target for the thief and if it ever gets stolen, its just 50 (80) bucks and not 1000€.
No, both authentication factors are required, so either losing your phone or forgetting your password would be sufficient to lock you out. However, the Google authenticator PAM plugin provides emergency access codes to use in the case that the one-time password generator is not available.
How do you charge someone with knowingly buying a stolen product in a legal system where someone can plead the 5th? How do you prove they knew?

Typically legal systems don't go after end consumers of stolen or counterfeit products, they go after suppliers, because they can prove that suppliers are actively breaking the law.
A sleeping bag and a foam roll. Seriously. I did this for years and was fine. Probably just an IME, but I've found that back problems are an issue of being out of shape (low muscle mass) or over usage (bad job, poor ergonomics, etc) and never caused from not sleeping on a bed. If I lift weights or otherwise in shape I can sleep on anything. When I'm out of shape I tend to get back pains from just about anything that isn't perfect.
It's a pretty big keyspace, but not quite big enough these days. I haven't noticed any lack of uniformity across it, but I don't really have enough samples yet to be sure. We have a dictionary specifically for those devices, just because they're so common: https://www.cloudcracker.com/dictionaries.html
Yeah, and from what I've read/heard about the incident, he just casually went along with the rest of his day, like nothing even happened.

Here's a great photo of it: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/08/neil-armstrong-19...
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I hate stuff too, but fell in love with a woman that, while she isn't a materialist, tends to want the typical amount of stuff. And now that we own a home, presents tend to be tools, and they are sometimes used, sometimes not.

Frankly, I'd love to cast it off and throw it away, but I'm afraid she'd not let me, lol. I love her more than I hate stuff though.
I'm wondering: Was the technique of compiling from C++ to JS primarily for code reuse? I always perceived the ability to code in something else besides C++ as one of the main advantages of the whole "Games on the Web" thing.
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