skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he read the situation correctly, given response when the information was actually released. If they'd gone to Onity before, it's pretty clear that they'd try to sweep it under the rug, also since it's highly probable they already knew about such an obvious security hole. I don't know how the law works, but it would seem to me that if they went to Onity, they might have sued to keep it quiet. It's happened before.
I would like to see this for Nintendo Wii-U's HTML5-compliant browser.
Also accept payments from any where in the world, lower fees, financial privacy, open protocol allowing open competition. Many, many positives, not just illicit reasons.
If you make hotel locks, it's your job to not mess up and if you do, to find it and fix it before anyone else. Other people's safety is relying on you.
No one said you need to test every browser. I mean, pragmatically speaking, basically you need to test the major versions of IE on Windows if you're already on a Mac.
I'm excited that T-Mobile is looking to boost its network and committing to a bit of a different direction than many US carriers have taken. AT&T and Verizon are going toward on-contract, subsidized devices paired with expensive plans. Sprint seems to be trying to price discriminate with customers who want the latest devices paying AT&T and Verizon style rates on-contract with Boost and Virgin trying to pick up cheaper customers who are willing to live without the latest devices and keeping them off the latest network that Sprint customers get access to (4G LTE). T-Mobile seems to be trying a somewhat European strategy. It's clearly being altered to live up to American appetites (for example, they're going to finance what would have been the device's subsidy). This may not turn out to be something amazing, but it's exciting to see one of the 4 wireless companies pushing for a new direction.

It's also good to see T-Mobile pushing fast for 4G LTE. While HSPA+ 42 does offer good speeds, the marketing perception won't change and the fact that ping times are worse on HSPA+ does mean that important real-world use cases can lag. I'm a little dubious of their schedule. Sprint started working on LTE a long while ago and thought they would have 120M POPs covered by the end of 2012. Considering that they've been launching more rural areas and haven't been able to launch in several cities they announced a while ago, it seems like it's going to take Sprint a good while longer than they had anticipated. T-Mobile is saying that they will have 100M POPs covered half a year from now and 200M POPs covered a year from now. That's ambitious. Judging from Sprint's slipping release schedule, it might be prudent to think that T-Mobile's projections might also slip.

However, if T-Mobile's dates slip on LTE a bit, it shouldn't hurt them too badly. Their customers can fall back to HSPA+ 42 and that provides a good network experience (if not as good). This is in contrast to Verizon and Sprint customers who fall back to EV-DO when out of LTE coverage range. That probably doesn't matter for a lot of Verizon customers, but Sprint is still working to cover top markets.

T-Mobile does have some good assets. The fact that they're going to be able to launch with 10MHz LTE will be good since it should match what Verizon and AT&T are deploying and out-do Sprint's 5MHz deployment. If they merge with MetroPCS, they will have a good spectrum position to continue growing LTE on including 20MHz LTE channels. Lower/different pricing combined with unlimited 4G might start attracting customers. Part of this is just undue excitement over the prospect of a re-invigorated competitor in an industry dominated by two carriers. Still, maybe T-Mobile will pull it off.
The page itself is loaded via HTTP, but all credit card information is transferred to Stripe & Helium via HTTPS. Again, with Helium, no payment information actually needs to hit your servers (Sam's blog, in this case).
How's the data speeds with Virgin?
He's blackhat. Occam's razor in hand, the personal benefit is clear -- he did it the way he did because that's what blackhatters do for prestige and profit.
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As does Facebook and Google+. If you put a URL into your post it'll download the page and put in the title, a thumbnail picture, and the first sentence or two.
With a T-Mobile value plan you can get 1000 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited data for $100. That's cheaper, more minutes, and you can actually use text messaging. If you can get by with 2 gigs of data, it drops down to $80.

http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Packages/ValuePackages.aspx
As a bystander to your and tptacek's debate, I'd like to point out that it seems you didn't really address tptacek's main point: this bill was badly written and dealt with minor issues which matter less, and wasn't worth spending political capital on.

It's very nice that you dragged this into HN's millionth debate on whether copyright is property or not (seriously, don't people ever get tired of the same rehashed arguments?). But this has nothing to do with tpacek's point. At least, that's how it looks to me.
I agree with you that RSpec is confusing as hell - thus the blog post.

A lot of my frustration with Ruby tutorials is that a large pack of them are geared for someone who has never, ever coded before. Syntactically, Ruby isn't that bad. I tried a few courses in Ruby and eventually just switched them off for being too slow.

Part of my issue with Ruby (currently) is that the language can be so flagrantly violated with a gem. I am sure that Python could receive similar treatment... but it would be difficult to pull off, and the community would rip it apart for not being "Pythonic." There's not as strong of a "Ruby-ic" approach to doing things as there is with Python, from my first interactions with the language.
It's not a contract, just not post-pay. You can cancel the service whenever you like. And it really is only cheaper for multiple lines.
As Mike Tyson said: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face."
Thanks for the feedback. It looks like there were plenty of approaches to doing easy unit tests... which is part of why I kept scratching my head with "why the hell did they do that..."
Ask HN: How would/do you find your niche...
I've been having issues for the past year or so determining where I'm headed (career wise).

I'm not really sure how to approach finding my Niche, and building on it. Let me give some background:
Degree: BS engineering management (basic courses in most engineering disciplines + a little bit of business)

Career: (latest first)
-6 Months as technical project manager at web design/dev agency (18 people).
--I think this one's fairly straight forward.
-1 yr "Big 4" management consulting (150K people)
--6 months w/Military Electronic Health Record, as a "Enterprise Architect" basically had to go back and figure out how 64+ systems worked together. blah
--6 months as requirements manager/unofficial project manager a Financial oversight agency working with a giant data application think 10+ years of transactions.
-3 yrs Systems Engineer in a Aerospace and Defense company working in the communications space. (1500 people)
--It doesn't really translate to a non-defense role. Think kind of like a Business Analyst but purely technical, Quality Assurance, quasi project manager

I'm very happy with my job, at the moment, but I do feel that there will come a time when I'm not happy. I'd really like to end up working for myself. I can't "build" anything really myself. I'm working through a Django app right but it's slow going. I also don't see myself coming up with an idea disruptive company. It's not that I'm not creative, I'm more of a "executor" than I am a idea person. Maybe I will come up with something, but who knows.

To jump to the chase...as people in the startup community, where should I focus, or where would you focus, or how would you find your focus. I don't see myself as a developer, but I still see myself as technical.
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Great service! Looking forward .... This can be used in various fields.
Top stories on HN kill servers. http://www.raptitude.com/ is inaccessible. I think its HN's moral duty to implement some-kind of caching mechanism for top rated stories.
I know that for some, bitcoin seems to be a solution looking for a problem. But there are those for whom the idea of a currency that is disconnected from a national bank is very attractive. The idea of a "free money" (free as in freedom) has long been a dream of many anarchists/libertarians. This is not to suggest that Bitcoin is a final answer to that issue, but it has proven that the concept has a chance to succeed in the real world, and not just in the writings of idealists.
I believe that T-Mobile offers WiFi calling to help combat the issue. According to the presentation, T-Mobile is hoping to improve in-building coverage by 15-20% through this network modernization (including distributed antenna systems). I'm not saying that should cause you to reconsider, but it's possible that T-Mobile will be improving in that area as well.
The problem is that the incentive here is for Onity to NOT disclose anything and keep on going like nothing happened. They'll get around to replacing them one day, and it hasn't caused any huge scandal yet, so what the hell right? It can wait! The alternative: a lot of bad press and millions of dollars in hardware fixes. Contrast that with a software fix delivered through the internet, instantly fixing the hole.

Then there's the matter whether Onity seems like a trustworthy company, that would do the right thing. A company whose ONE job is to make electronic locks, but still has an obvious security hole in their system is either 1. really stupid or 2. knows about it and has done nothing. A security whole in a beast like Windows (which main purpose is not security btw) I could understand and sympathize with. A lock is not nearly as complex. Either way I wouldn't trust them to do the right thing.
I..what? Nobody can demand you take anything in exchange for products and services. The meaning of legal tender is that you have to take it for debt, but nothing forces you to be a debtor, or to do business with anyone at all. The only way the government can hurt you with money is to devalue it by printing too much.
> What did you find at the end?

The journey is the reward.
Anyone Looking for Non-Technical Co-Founder in NYC?
I am located in NYC and am looking to join a technical person or a team to work on a start-up. I am willing to work my ass off including weeknights, weekends, or whatever it takes. I am willing to work 24/7 on this and give up everything else in my life to work on this. I have my own ideas, but I am completely open to joining others on their idea.

Here is a little about me:

-I graduated from one of the top undergraduate business schools in America (currently ranked in the top 5 on Business Week’s top undergraduate business school ranking list)

-I have worked at Google and Salesforce.

-I am really good at people's skills, presenting, networking, and business development. I am also an extrovert and pretty easy to get along with.

-I consider my specialty to be in business development, business strategy, marketing, and project management.

-I am a go-getter, and does not need to be told things. I literally can do everything that does not involve coding so that coders can concentrate on coding and building the product.

-I have researched heavily into how other start-ups have made it big in terms of their execution and marketing.

-I am constantly reading and consider myself well read. I have obviously read classics such as the lean startup and all of Paul Graham’s essays. I also have read many books in different fields such as: management, psychology, philosophy, and biographies of successful entrepreneurs.

-Right now, I am getting more technical myself as I am currently learning Ruby on Rails very intensively. Getting more technical never hurts but only makes me understand a technical person’s point of view.

I am looking to join people who are extremely dedicated and are willing work their asses off to make a successful startup. If you are action-oriented, hacker-type, live in NYC, and are looking for a non-technical co-founder that fits the description above then please contact me at matt.gerboth@gmail.com.

Thanks
We looked at MongoDB for our back end at http://moj.io and preferred CouchDB. It's currently a toss up between Iriscouch and Cloudant. Both seem like great offerings. We are particularly interested in the ability to sync to CouchDB on iOS/Android/Windows Phone in the future.

Does anyone prefer one service over the other?
Manufacturing leaving the US in mass was always a myth.

Uh, figures?

It is one thing to say the US remained a manufacturer but to say the US didn't offshore a significant portion of its manufacturing capacity would seem to be an extraordinary claim which requires evidence, right?

The proportion of consumer goods I see which are marked "made in China" today approaches something like a hundred percent. Sure, there are other significant USA industries that produce a lot (and naturally have increased their output via automation) but it seems badly-spoken to say claim manufacturing leaving the US is myth. Some industries have left, "in mass", even.
you miss the part where people can read the newspaper online in Google's cache and on Google+ which will exclusively give them money and not the newspaper ..
Or, rewritten without the tone:

"> While not intentionally misleading, this chart is pretty sloppy

I agree, I don't think this chart is intentionally misleading. From my experience, minor errors do happen, even to the best of reporters/editors/graphics people. Sometimes a chart with known problems will be pushed out for the sake of a deadline, just as it would in software."
I also learnt the hard way that answering a message differs from returning from a closure. And I was using Smalltalk, whose designers chose distinct syntax for those actions, a good idea that was apparently broken when Smalltalk became Ruby. "Return" should mean the same thing in different places; scepticism about how tools behave has to stop somewhere.
Do you use any open source software that you could work on if only you knew one or two new languages?
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Today's busy world is full of stressful factors that can make you prone to illnesses.
Not saying he is faking it or not, not even touching that.
You should really consider that oxygen and a portable monitor are first world things (even if that is a monitor at his feet). Also, this could be a firefighter vehicle. Just a thought, at least we already know it was Vice in Guatemala with the iPhone. Let's not cluedo it until the end. :) Thought it is tempting with so much "novela" drama going on.

I hope it is a stunt and helps to bring light to all of this.
That's not clear from the website. The "value plans" page says in the footer:

> Credit approval, $35 per line activation fee, and two-year agreement with up to $200/line early cancellation fee required; deposit may apply. If you switch plans, you may be bound by existing or extended contract term (including early cancellation provisions) and/or charged a fee of up to $200.
Not sure if TCP/IP has been done, but packet radio [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio] is a thing.

That said, you don't need digital transmission for a video signal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television] or for remotely controlling things. A more sophisticated network like that provided by TCP/IP is always a nice thing to have, but you pay the price in terms of lost range when you start trying to use WiFi for everything. My little handheld radio can reach up to 5 miles; my WiFi station might go 500 feet. Which link would you rather have in a disaster?

It's true, robots can enhance the capabilities of rescue operations, but the comment I replied to was specifically talking about using drones to establish lines of communication. My point is that we already have that, and it doesn't require a hundred drones in the air.

You might also be interested in APRS [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_Syst...]
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This needs to be clarified on sauceio.com/mac. It's very confusing right now to go to pricing and not understand what it's for.
This sounds really cool. I love Amoeba and there are many out-of-print recordings I'd pay good money for, either in vinyl or digitally. Sadly, I bet they get squashed.
If you look through my past comments I've been very critical of his "disclosure plan" myself. I agree with you completely. This blog post did nothing but reinforce my belief that he made a mistake. He wrote a lot of words that weakly defended his almost indefensible position.

I can only conclude he really does believe he did the right thing. I hope the people who's rooms were broken into see it that way too.
Why do I have the feeling that he won't get an opportunity to hold that press conference?
None of these plans have a contract, they're month-to-month:

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans
It's funny that we feel obliged to disclose that we own apple devices in order to criticize them.

My iPhone feels better in the hand than my s3. But it lives in my bag, not in my pocket because I find the s3 much more efficient and pleasant to use.
Wait, iOS can't be set to update selected applications automatically?
Has anyone sold a site on Flippa? Looking to learn more.
Do I use open source, yes. I run debian, wheezy at home as my only OS. I only operate Android phones/tablets.

If you're referring to writing code, I've worked through Python the hardway, and I'm working on writing a small djanogo app that extends on mezzanine. I also took Fortran in college, but shhhh

For work, I mostly work with Drupal developers, and a single .NET developer. I could probably start picking up python. I can write basic scripts. I can also read most code. Although Front End drives me nuts. Lan
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> he never attempted to do the right thing.

Why do you presuppose that its the right thing?

edit:
In particular, I'd rather know that when I stay at a hotel with an Onity lock, I should take security precautions instead of remaining in ignorance. I would rather know that there's a general public pressure via the media to change from insecure locks to secure locks. I would rather that hotel managers know about this via the 6-o'clock news rather than in some mailing with a PR spin.

Consider the Therac-25 case and the problems the vendor exhibited in fixing it. That behavior is endemic, and I'd rather be a consumer in the know than trust to the chancy kindness of a corporation whose interest is not per se aligned with my personal interests.
The best way to plan your career? Stop planning
Well, a felony implies a serious crime. For a theft to be felony-level, it either needs to be theft of extremely valuable goods, or the act of stealing needs to be be aggravated. The pizza was presumably not value, so process of elimination leaves us with the second.

So again, maybe he didn't actually do what he was convicted of, but that's a separate question altogether.
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And with bitcoins, nobody can print money. That is the advantage.
He wouldn't break even after 4 years, though. Nowhere near close to it, actually.

Keep in mind that it's for 2 lines. So, with the T-mobile prices, that's $1300 up-front for two iPhone 5's(the iPhone's $650 MSRP is about average for carrier-subsidized phones), versus $400 for the two phones through ATT. So that means, over 48 months, for the T-mobile plan to be better, he needs to save $900 over that period. That comes out to $18.75 per month.

The $5 he saves per month, after 48 months, would be $240. That's half of the subsidized cost difference for one phone, but his plan has 2 phones. In that case, the ATT plan would have saved him $600 ($6400 for ATT for 2 $200 iPhones and $125/month for 48 months vs $7060 for 2 $650 phones and $120/month for 48 months).

In fact, at that per month price difference, it would take 15 years to make up the difference between the ATT subsidized and non-subsidized T-mobile.
What is this the anti-fun brigade?
Wow, it's so easy. I can't really sympathize with Onity in any way.
There's a really cool experimental history behind understanding the cochlea, especially concerning George Zweig, once a particle physicist. A lot of this work was done in the 70s and is, IMHO, some of the best examples of biophysics you can find.

One of the relevant papers you can find on google is:
http://symposium.cshlp.org/content/40/619.full.pdf
iOS is pretty much an app launcher. And that seems fine until you use an os that allows apps to extend the base functionality of the system and you realize how much more an os can be.

The variety of new keyboards available on Android is a great example. While iOS users are still pecking away like it's 2007 I have swype or swiftkey if I want them and the innovation in those apps is now making its way into core Android.
Even if the risk for independent discovery was high, announcing it to the public without contacting the vendor and giving them the opportunity to at least prepare a response plan (even if you think the plan is inadequate) ensured a thoroughly dramatic media response that made certain that anyone with the slightest desire to break into hotel rooms now knew how.

EDIT: Yep, you're right. I don't know how I missed that given that I skimmed the article twice. Sorry.
Creating Terms and Conditions of Use
Hello, I have a question regarding launching a website, specifically geared towards web start-ups.

The terms and conditions of use found on most sites, usually near the bottom of the page, how essential is that? Is there anything a lawyer would need to draft up, or can I simply write what I feel are the terms? If the website dealt with money transfers over Paypal or the such, is there anything in particular that has to be said?

Thanks lots!
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> The fact that 'contact Onity, then disclose publicly after a reasonable period of time' is nowhere on his list just blows my mind.

That's the very first thing on the list. Quote: "The standard 'Responsible Disclosure' approach would be to notify Onity and give them X months to deal with the issue before taking it public."
I like the concept but the product doesn't seem to work well (at least the free version), perhaps due to HN traffic. I can't connect to most websites and the ones I can connect to take a long time.

As for your website, I agree with some of the other comments. Its not really obvious that you have a free plan or what that offers unless you read closely. I'd suggest you move that up into your pricing grid.

I'd also move the Sauce with Mouse row up to the top. I see your main value for users (or at least starting point) being manual testing. Focus less on automating and scaling up to huge numbers of tests. Get me in the door and familiar with the product, then upsell me once I'm convinced your product is awesome.

Best of luck to you. I'll check back in a few days to see if things are working better.
USD has been the currency of choice for decades for this..
What's the difference?

Cash is anon as cryptocoins are.
Well no, anybody can print money, but only at predetermined rate.
Something like this? Credit card sized computer like a raspbery pi but with the later Samsung handset processors, quad core ARMs.

http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.ph...
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I'm similarly old fashioned, only now I'm moving house again, and regretting the half a tonne of books I'll have to lug around.
Sounds like a reasonable question, actually: is it a good commit message? I'm really not sure, but am inclined towards yes.