skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure.

On iPhones, try 3001#12345# .

On Android it often depends on the specific model you have. Here are some for the Samsung S3:

#06# Show IMEI number

#0# LCD Test Menu

##4636##* user statistics and Phone Info

#0011# Displays status information for the GSM

#1234# View SW Version PDA, CSC, MODEM

#12580369# SW & HW Info

#197328640# Service Mode

#32489# (Ciphering Info)

#232337# Bluetooth Address

#232331# Bluetooth Test Mode

#232338# WLAN MAC Address

#232339# WLAN Test Mode

#0842# Vibra Motor Test Mode

#0782# Real Time Clock Test

#0673# Audio Test Mode

#0# General Test Mode

#2263# RF Band Selection

#872564# USB Logging Control

#4238378# GCF Configuration

#0283# Audio Loopback Control

#1575# GPS Control Menu

#3214789650# LBS Test Mode

#44336# Sofware Version Info

#7780# Factory Reset

27673855# Full Factory Reset

#0289# Melody Test Mode

#2663# TSP / TSK firmware update

#03# NAND Flash S/N

#0589# Light Sensor Test Mode

#0588# Proximity Sensor Test

#3282727336# Data Usage Status

#7594# Remap Shutdown to End Call TSK

#34971539# Camera Firmware

#528# WLAN Engineering Mode

#7412365# Camera Firmware Menu

#07# Test History

#3214789# GCF Mode Status

#272886# Auto Answer Selection

#8736364# OTA Update Menu

#301279# HSDPA/HSUPA Control Menu

#7353# Quick Test Menu

27674387264636# Sellout SMS / PCODE view

#7465625# View Phone Lock Status

7465625638# Configure Network Lock MCC/MNC

#7465625638# Insert Network Lock Keycode

##7780##* Factory data reset - Clears Google-account data, system and program settings and installed programs. system will not be deleted, and OEM programs, as well as My Documents (pictures, music, videos)
I feel bad for you. Where are you located? If it is in the continental US I'll send you mine. I installed debian on it and did nothing else due to other commitments. I really don't know when I'll have chance to start playing with it.
It was not rack bug. I'm having trouble finding it. I think the company that released it was bought or closed shortly after.
This is quite clever; it seems it is possible that all three groups could possibly pay.

Would they be able to remove that amount of money from the bitcoin system without affecting the conversion rate substantially, or is this loss near negligible?
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Rack::Bug?
Aging is a defense against cancer. There is a 'cancer probability hump' that tops up around your 60s. After that age, your probability of having cancer actually decreases significantly.
Nothing wrong with the right plastic in my opinion.

My problem is Windows Phone 7/8. It looks OK at a glance but I think it's actually less well thought out than either iOS or Android 4.0 in practice.
>I would say the only substantial change from one iPod to the next was the amount of storage and the quality of the screen.

That's quite the selective memory you've got there.

- First gen. "1000 songs in your pocket." First music player to use Firewire (no USB 2.0 yet!). First HDD player to use 1.8" drives.

- Second gen. Touch replaces mechanical scroll wheel. Windows compatibility (MusicMatch).

- Third gen. Mechanical buttons entirely replaced with touch. USB syncing. iTunes Music Store. iTunes for Windows. First iPod to feature the dock connector. Full case redesign.

- Fourth gen. Return to mechanical controls with the click wheel. iPod Photo introduced, the first iPod that can output to an external display.

- Fifth gen. Photo merged into regular iPod. Video playback. Music videos and TV shows appear on the increasingly poorly named iTunes Music Store for the first time. Gapless playback. Games.

- Sixth generation. Aluminum case. Dramatically better battery life (36 hours vs. 8-12). Genius. Audio recording.

Maybe you could argue that the fourth and sixth generation iPods were just capacity bumps and screen overhauls, but many of these features are no less significant than the "processor upgrades" and "radio antenna type" that you cite for the iPhone.

Apple didn't dominate the portable music player space for a decade (>70% marketshare the entire time) by standing still. They also didn't have monotonically increasing revision numbers tacked onto the end.

Saying there were no substantial changes to the iPod because "it just plays music" is only slightly less absurd than saying there are no substantial changes to the iPhone because "it just makes calls."

And of course, I'm not including the best example of revisionless names, the iPod Touch! We all know it's a stripped-down iPhone, but it's always been called simply "the iPod Touch."
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In this space, I wouldn't be too worried about publicity/marketing just yet. Also, if the cubbie has less demand/quicker manufacture lead time, it will sell VERY well. Especially because of the huge backorder on the pi. At that price point, if I can order and get the cubbie now, or get a pi in 6 months, I'd get both. Also, in the hacker/hobbiest world, having one (or more) of each isn't infeasible.
Courts have been relatively wary of dismissing frivolous suits (at least according to some reports) in recent decades (perhaps in response to an overinclination to do so in the past, further disadvantaging disenfranchised groups). A bit of strengthening of frivolous suit protections, and a waiver of the shared fees in this case, might help.

I'll give you another: there are situations in which pro-bono services may be provided to one party in a suit. Often to increase the equity of a situation, but not in all cases. Should the pro-bono provider be on the hook for the opposing parties reciprocal costs, and how should the PB provider's services be valued?

The SCO v. IBM suit is another in which I could see IBM's legal costs (very high, I'm sure, though I've seen no figures or estimates given) but in which SCO being granted pooled fees would be a miscarriage of justice.

Why is being good so difficult?
Paul, your ability to refrain from micromanaging is probably the #1 thing towards trust and building a great culture. You need to hire the right people so you don't have to micromanage, but that's a given.
Not to mention the excellent build quality. I've dropped my N900 from my car once and onto the ground many times. It's got a single small scratch in the bezel to show for it, and it's the same story for my friend's N810. Nokia really knows how to build solid hardware.
Not just that, but I'm really sick of these stacked graphs where data floats on top of other data. It makes the image "prettier" at the expense of being harder to read. It makes it extremely difficult to compare the trends for the graph lines floating on the top of all the others, because they're moving all over the fucking place.

Why not just start all the graph lines from the bottom? If you really need the total, just have it be its own line?
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Would be cool if it had two SATA ports on it so that you could build a NAS with mirrored storage.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly or anywhere close to it.
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"When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."

-Steve Jobs
I really think the reason why grumpy old men are grumpy is because they don't have the energy and capable bodies of youth. I think a 70 year old with the body and hormones of a healthy 20 year old will still party like it's the 60s.

Mental scar tissue is another issue too.
I'm calling their bluff, sounds very much like a scam to get money off people who fall for it.
Motorola offering $100 credit to people who don't get the Jelly Bean upgrade
If you guys ever figure that out please share it with the rest of us :)
Why divide at all? The yen has no fractions.
Though the post is deleted now I suppose this is true. I have a dual-mode GSM/CDMA phone and WhatsApp fails when it switches between modes. The app stays the same so it's clearly polling the ESN (CDMA side) and IMEI (GSM side) to validate. When I switch between active sides of the device, WhatsApp consistently requires a re-validation.
Wow - I hope your mom is doing better. Thanks for sharing what you went through and I'm glad you found something better to focus your energy on.
I'd rather work for a product company like GitHub than, say, a consultancy building apps for many many clients, for reasons just like this. When you have a team working on one product that ships to millions of users, you've constructed a giant lever. As Spolsky put it, "Essentially, design adds value faster than it adds cost." [1]

Your developers' efforts create enough value (once spread across millions of customers) that you have plenty of resources left over to take care of every little detail. And some of those details may include tools that make your developers' lives easier. There is great value in well-designed abstractions like GitHub's dashboard: the human brain can only hold so many details at once. When 2 dozen little details are organized onto an internal dashboard, your developers' brains can visualize them and load them into working memory in an instant, freeing them to work on harder problems more quickly and with less detail juggling. This is very freeing and relaxing, and can even help developers see possibilities they couldn't see before.

You can't justify tools like this for every $50K Rails-App-in-a-Box, but companies like GitHub and Google certainly can.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
this is why you hire all your friends
It also instills a "just because only a few people will see this doesn't mean you can half-ass it" attitude.
I wonder which would actually net more jail time?
But there is a big benefit: you know what the price of the item is. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Think about Apple gear: your gear-head computer friends scoff and say "I'd never pay the Apple tax, they're not worth the extra price".

More transparent pricing is always better for the consumer. It forces the market to price their items more competitively.

Now imagine if everyone got their Apple at a different price based on the mood that the Genius Bar guy was in that morning.
I think the concept is a very interesting proposition. Agree that if other services (GetAround, TaskRabbit, others) can by through those issues, such an idea could have basis. I do think participating consumers/couriers must be have some vested interest or have to be members or something similar. Beginning with a localized launch with select retailers, it would be a very interesting experiment. The biggest hurdles will likely be getting buy-in from retailers, yet if the bond structure is organized properly, this obstacle can be overcome.
I'm getting slightly different information. The best "how do Microwaves interfere with pacemakers" info I could find was from The Straight Dope, which indicated that it was actually microwave leakage, not the coils themselves, which induced the current. And I'm aware that among the reasons you don't nuke metallic objects is because of the charges induced. Another source showing effects of various EMR frequencies indicated that induced currents were among the effects of microwave and other longer-wave radiation.

That said, other risks for pacemakers include store anti-theft devices, most of which are also inductive coils so far as I understand.
Fixed, sorry!!
Now that Peer has refuted the gossip[1], perhaps this topic can be considered settled.

It's an interesting idea though. Some subjects are interesting enough that it actually might work.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4480830
I don't see any mention of the power requirements for the board? Is it powered by 5V DC? (i.e. USB)
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I'm sure that they would love to see that in action, but I'm pretty sure efficiently scanning the 100 years of video that is uploaded every single day isn't quite as easy as you think. Also if the group of engineers at YouTube are having a hard time getting it 100% correct you can believe it is a hard problem to solve.

I'm sure the large majority of people are playing by the rules, just these small exceptions always keep getting posted to HN like they are the end of the world, but in reality they are the extremely small exception.
No, I made 2 noobish mistakes.

1) I edited the default wordpress post, dated from May
2) I set the time for the future without noticing (wrong timezone!!)
Your definition of retina is based on 2 assumptions:

1) Everyone has the same eyes.

2) Everyone holds their phone at the same distance.

Both of these assumptions are incorrect. Therefore, a display that is retina to you, may not be retina to me. It is therefore meaningless to talk about whether a display is retina or not (unless a specific human and a specific distance is specified).
##7780##* Factory reset

This seems a bit dangerous. Does it require any kind of password?
I love playing humans but same as you sometimes I want to take things my pace and it's a very different game from the kind of AI I want to be playing. And some of my friends hate playing humans, the games are too fast paced and they hate the shit-talk you sometimes get.

I remember reading THQ lamenting the decline in RTSes, as I watched RTSes from the two remaining greats move from base building to quick mini-troop production games. The trouble that people like THQ and Blizzard don't seem to realise is that though the sales of this game do great and people are playing lots of online matches, it's the next one that'll suffer the decline in sales as casuals abandon the increasingly online optimized experience.

I want hordes that aren't totally retarded so that each game is different. They need to start making horde modes that are actually varied and interesting, unlike the predictable drivel that DoW2 and SC2 were. The AI in those games was stupid, predictable and broken. It started fun as you raced to build your base in time, but after a few games it wasn't fun at all. You could set a stopwatch by when the computer would try and rush you.
If you claim to be Anonymous, you get to be Anonymous.

If you act anonymously, you're just being anonymous.
You're neglecting that data costs money and time to collect and process. More data is more cost.

I am in agreement with the spirit of this post (I'm not interested in arguing whether intelligent data is a good term or not.) Heck I even blogged along similar lines just a few days ago: http://noelwelsh.com/streaming-algorithms/2012/08/29/lean-da... Here are a few problems with collecting everything:

- Big Data infrastructure like Hadoop is expensive and slow. It's very much not in the turn-on-a-dime spirit of startups.

- If you collect everything, the value per data item is low. This impacts the analyses you profitably do. Compare the value that Klaviyo can deliver per data point vs, say, Mixpanel. (And then ask yourself why Mixpanel is moving into "People" analytics. My suggestion: because it's much more valuable.)

Disclaimer 1: My startup, Myna [http://mynaweb.com/], had a shout-out in the blog post.

Disclaimer 2: I'm a Klaviyo user, as of a few days ago.
I don't think this is accurate, because it means states get to regulate to interstate commerce based on their size which would mean a trucking company that crosses some magical threshold could also be regulated even if no sale took place in that state.
Maybe your thinking of the old FiveRuns Tune-Up app. I used that all the time when I was doing early rails projects. They got bought and shut down awhile ago but I found an old TechCrunch article on it.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/29/dont-debug-alone-with-fiver...
Critics Say California Law Hurts Effort to Add Jobs
Apple is going to do what they're going to do. Either accept it or buy Android.

That's not the only option. We don't allow property owners to randomly abuse other people as long as they're on their property. We don't tell those people, "well if you don't like it, just go somewhere else." We have laws that apply no matter who the owner is, to prevent abuse.
I wonder what would happen if Apple allowed consumers to pay for the ability to sideload apps. It seems like this might address the concerns of the vocal minority of techies that truly care about this sort of thing, while still maintaining the sanctity of the walled garden for the masses. If you know what you're doing, signing up for the $99 dev program already effectively allows you to load whatever apps you want on your device. If Apple made this process a bit simpler and more accessible they might get a PR win & a (small?) incremental revenue stream. I don't expect that they'll do it, but it would at least be a new approach..maybe something for MSFT to consider to differentiate themselves.
Totally disagree, its a major part of why I brought an iPhone over anything else (as a consumer). Anything hooked to me financially I want locked down, and with the near field stuff creeping in day by day I'd prefer things to be getting tighter and tighter, not looser and looser.
It seems to be a small chinese company.

I've no reason to believe they are scammer.

After a google search this "http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?first=Tom&last=Cubie profile belongs to the cofounder.
As always and forever, I am around to field questions - and I am sure other Python/PyCon people are as well.
AngelList Launches Free Seed Funding Closings
IMO, too much money is being spent attacking the proximate causes of death (cancer, heart disease, etc.) but not enough is being spent attacking the root cause: aging. Yeah, if we cure cancer then life expectancy will go up some. But those who would have died of cancer are still going to grow older, become weak, and die of something. It seems like a more efficient use of resources to fight aging than to fight all the problems it causes individually.

http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
That is indeed it. I had just found it too.
Google: 1.3M Android activations a day vs. Nokia：7m Lumia sold to date
Links：
http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/09/05/schmidt-1-3m-android-activations-day-70k-tablets-480m-devices-total/
vs.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/05/nokia-7m-lumia-devices-sold-to-date-in-54-markets/
Looks like there's a cylindrical DC power jack on the board.
Hackers in TN say they're holding Romney's withheld tax returns for ransom
> a little fog-tornado machine
Ah, That the one in the SFO united terminal? I love that thing! I make a fool of myself every time I'm there, being the only adult childish enough to play with it. Can't wait to show it to my kids some day.
Yes, but before that maybe we should throw the ball back in Torrentfreak's court. They tried to mislead us?
Fucked. Confirmed with an instance of Chrome with no extensions enabled.
Kind of a coincidence this comes out right after the FBI Apple hack. Looks like someone wants everyone to look the other way.
This is normal for RS. Back in 95 when I was doing EE, we ordered 2000 low dropout regulators for a production run from RS.
I left the company in 1998.

In 1999 I got a call from one of my colleagues and they'd received them...

Needless to say their invoice and stock was returned.
I will make sure he sees it.

raemond@nreduce.com
yeah but the critical figures people want, including the sum total of tax paid is on the 1040.
I applaud this effort. Jitsi is nothing new and predates all the Skype hype. My guess is it may even be true "end to end," i.e. it relies on no third party "service" that Joe User would find a little too much hassle to run himself, such as XMPP (or even SIP, for that matter).

But the first problem I have with Jitsi is that the source is still not open. Looking at current website you have to be a "project member".

It's Java-based, right? I want to see that code. If the solution I'm using is less than a few hundred lines of C (quite manageable for any security analysis), why should I blindly (i.e. without seeing the code) switch to Jitsi?

These p2p threads are continually entertaining because they prove time and again how many people still think NAT traversal is some sort of "magic" requiring special expertise (e.g., that only Skype or some other private company has).

That might just be a myth.

Example: Proving a negative. If I can't find a piece of code to do some task does that mean it does not exist? Maybe I just can't find it?

agranig himself mentions a couple of things that are in wide use but "little known". Not every solution is going to be widely known. That does not mean such solutions do not exist.

re: p2p stuff

Read the code before you read the marketing copy.
Sites help make renting with roommates 'too damn fair'
I'm not saying they did, but it's possible that they threatened to withhold this aid if they didn't get him.

We currently don't know, and saying either way at this point doesn't mean much. We need some actual proof.
Ugh, there is startup founder fanfiction now?
Wouldn't you still have to pay sales tax on it in California? When I moved here I had to pay retroactive sales tax on a vehicle leased 2 years earlier in a different state.
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Oh, and by the way: If Torrentfreak would like to be considered a venue of serious journalism, they ought to learn how to find sources like the one Peer linked to. It's not even written in Swedish, for the love of ${DEITY}, so I do think it can be considered low-hanging fruit.
Way back, maybe around 1999?, I was in London and there was an internet cafe called easyInternet [1]. They had this weird gimmick where the price per hour to use a computer with Internet access would fluctuate according to market conditions. It didn't seem to change that much, but it was way lower than its competitors, so that's the one I went to. I found it to be just an irritant, and would happily have paid slightly more to not have to think about the price changes.

[1] I think this is the group of companies that owns/owned that: http://www.easy.com
If you installed WhatsApp on an Android device for example, your password is likely to be an inverse of your phones IMEI number with an MD5 encryption thrown on top of it (without salt).

How does OP know this? Was there a leak of "passwords" or did he find this through trial & error?

Edit: Just found out that's what it says even on the Wikipedia entry about WhatsApp[1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp
Also, the Lotus based Roadster is/was very cool. I have no opinion on the new model, I havn't seen it. But vibe of the whole setup is [was] more 'Gagosian' than Apple store. The McClaren F1 was sold the same way, in London. The cool part, and the reason I walked in, was they had a work-bay w/Snap-On tools integrated into the space. You don't see that every day. That made it kind of cool. =D

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_F1
Blocking flagrant copying by a commercial competitor is not censorship.
Hacker Group Claims to Have Romney’s Tax Returns
I thought there was supposed to be an effort to ensure accuracy in posting titles--Anonymous didn't have a damn thing to do with this.
Soren Johnson gave a similar talk on AI Playing to Lose: AI and "Civilization"[0]. Here he split AI into two groups, Good AI(Chess) and Fun AI(Tower Defense), While the good AI plays the same game as you with the same rules and tries to beat you,Fun AI is asymmetrical, playing a different game whose objective is not to beat you, but you might still be defeated.

[0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcuQQ1eWWI
I was referring to the Windows Phone app ecosystem. There is no app ecosystem for WP8 yet, and I assume that it will allow you to run WP7 apps.

And I did use WP7 for a week. My impressions of the Metro-style are that it is love-or-hate and I fall into the latter. WP8 is a continuation the Metro design language.