skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should try coming into Bangor for the Maine Hacker Club meetings; we host them weekly and it's a great way to network in the middle of nowhere. ;-)

http://www.hackmaine.org/
I would hope that cultures aren't the norm and instead the exception. Unfortunately I am probably mistaken.
Impossible. Genders are exactly the same.

You may need to undergo corrective therapy at the Truth Ministry.
Looks like it could be correct. I've just emailed Jim Sanborn (the creator) to ask if he can confirm or deny it. I'll report back once he gets back to me.
I've been before! Unfortunately my schedule doesn't jive well as I have class on meeting nights.
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> This happen to be a very Chinese and Indian thing.

My father is li gang!*

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Gang_incident
I reason the style of thinking you describe comes from the 70s/80s when mergers and acquisitions started to take place more and more. It became worse in the 80s (the decade that gave birth to the predator's ball (look it up)). Corporate types don't see products. Neither do they see people. They see quarterly results. Product development takes a back seat, because that costs money. So, they just milk it while it lasts and then blame the next CEO.

But you don't need to run a business like that. Sure, you can be a blood-thirsty profits vampire. Yet still make investments into product development that will allow you to have more blood to suck in the future. I'd say its a balance between profit/innovation, which Jobs became good at.
The problem is cost per delivered kWh over the life of the battery, sans charging inefficiencies.

No Lead-Acid I know of actually beats out grid power in this application yet (you can about break-even, but what's the point?).

Some of the new, cheap Lithium-Ion batteries may do it, but a game-changer would be a low-cost fuel cell of some kind (rechargeable Iron-Air for example would be incredibly cheap).
Depending on just how silly the method is, any method can count as legitimate cryptanalysis. And, given the huge combinatoric space of natural language, the odds of just hitting upon the correct cryptanalysis are unfathomable.
I would buy the Economist this week to read this report, but I'm sure the pages have been ripped out by the authorities. Thankfully, we get full access to the Economist at work.

> As someone who has spent a decade or so in China, I believe that practically speaking the most obvious measure of control ... is bandwidth limitation.

This was true before 2009, but the situation became much worse after the Olympics when they actually blocked many of the sites we care about. VPNs are being attacked these days by the GFW as well, or anything that runs over https (reading hackernews is becoming harder).
I don't think so. Hotmail used to have a similar "feature": when the email address hadn't been logged in for 270 days, the account would be available again [1]. This was troubling because if I had signed up for some other service using my Hotmail address (say, a Gmail account) and didn't log in to my Hotmail account for nine months, whoever wanted to compromise my other account (Gmail, in this case) could sign up for Hotmail using my old username, and initiate a password reset. The password reset would go to my Hotmail, which no longer belongs to me.

Like it or not, email addresses are used to identify users on the web. This is based on the assumption that an email's ownership doesn't change. Recycling email addresses is dangerous given our reliance on emails as identification.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmail#Hotmail_Plus
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agreed. It is pretty silly. When one has no experience, one should be willing to do a little more research first and talk to a few more experienced folks. There are many sales & marketing driven software companies. Sometimes it works, sometimes it is a disaster. Personally, I think that the trick is usually about finding the right balance between business, design and engineering, not putting one on a pedestal above the rest.
Last time Fleur Pellerin decided to put her nose into an American company's policies, France almost ended up forced to use Bing.fr. Guess some politics just won't learn.
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This...

The service seems to imply a business model where there are lots of little operators would open an exchange if they weren't so capital constrained such that they can't roll their own.

But how many with 500k to play around with are going to then want to pay 1 percent? Even if there are a bunch of people just waiting to sign up - then the competition is going to see their margins evaporate - with no air to breathe over and above that 1%. What else are they going to compete on besides price?

Either that or I just don't understand this business model at all. Best of luck to them though.
That was a hit-and-run. If you kill someone with a car, stay at the scene, and aren't obviously intoxicated, police officers will publicly exonerate you in front of local television reporters. This is not true for any other class of crime in America.
If you're doing web development and try to go to localhost:8080 while your server isn't up, Chrome offers to take you to the blog of a very clever person who is apparently a Chinese-speaking woman: http://localhost-8080.com/

Hitting the "Translate" button in Chrome yields a tantalizing hint of blog entries that might be very interesting, but then again might just be mundane stuff spiced up by Google's quirky attempt at translation. Unfortunately, the translation is too garbled to follow in more than an impressionistic way.
The majority of American debt is held by Americans. So buck up. Maybe some other schmuck will just be paying out to your daughter.
Life on Earth… but not as we know it
OCR with Perl is pretty old. People who frequent perlmonks get a kick out of trying to implement their own home-brew reader. For instance: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=124732
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It would be nice to get an actual technical rebuttal describing why his stuff doesn't work rather than the sleight-of-hand English and PR responses in that article (The whole "industry standard robustness yada" bit makes my cringe).

Based on their responses it sounds like "Yes, these systems are vulnerable but a good pilot will ignore the bad data so the plane is not vulnerable." which does not exactly give me the warm fuzzies.

(Good point here at the bottom: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/hacking-commercial-a... )

All his hack needs to be able to do is cause problems for the pilot (bad information etc.) for this to be a problem.

I mean, if there is no issue then surely he is now justified in publishing his work and them publishing in detail why it is not a risk.
There is a view of the future where we query Google (or Siri) by voice and it just gives us exactly what we want.

I think a better "vision" is an open voice input engine that then connects, or even bridges, other systems via APIs.

I particularly like the idea of a service such as Zapier bridging a infinite universe of APIs to connect things together -- "computer request Uber black car when I receive a Skype call from Jim."

An input engine could create a marketplace of APIs. Commercial services, such as Uber, could profitably offer their APIs for free. Other services without a specific product may run their APIs on a cost per use basis. A mass market cost-per-use API could charge a few pennies per inquiry but still be very profitable.

Perhaps what I am describing could represent the demise of the search engine as we know it.
I enjoy how it's really clean. Have you thought about using bullet points instead of full sentences? It may be easier to get all of the information in one glance.
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OK, I'll take it. Post your public BTC or LTC address.
Moreover, due to algorithmic simplicity, the results are simply wrong.

Almost assuredly, the preceding sentence could be comprehended by individuals with less education than a year of college education, yet most eighth graders would not be able to comprehend statements like "The impetus for men to exalt banal works of prose is arcane."
Art forgery, brand, and bad incentives
Seriously, this article made front page from someone who openly admits he is not from the software industry yet questions how it operates?

Simply put:
Software companies aren't all the same. Some sell to consumers (B2C), others to businesses (B2B), and others sell to both.

You won't find many B2C companies with sales people, due to the cost of sale outweighing the return from one customer. Oppositely you won't find many B2B companies without them, as cost of sale is built into the price (read up on high vs low involvement products if you need to know more). B2C's typically rely on marketers instead, as they can help spread a message across a broader prospect base, keeping the cost of sale down.

Sales is a set of activities a person does to compel someone else to sign a contract. So all those B2B startups probably do have sales people (eg people selling), just that they may be the founders or developers helping prospects with the hope of them converting to customers.

Finally, the reason salespeople aren't running software companies? Depends what you mean - no they may not be founders. But once a company is growing, and trying to grow faster - show me which company doesn't seek advice from their sales and/or marketers on how this should be achieved.
Banks don't really want to be more efficient and charge less fees. Banks are essential to any system (capitalism) that requires a currency. Nobody would want to be a bank if they could not charge fees. No bank would offer loans or any kind of securities without some backing and protections. Since Bitcoin is finite, semi-anonymous and not backed by a central bank or government banks will never have those protections. So instruments that are essential to our economy like car loans, mortgages, etc. will not be possible.

Does anybody really want that?
"Because the best reporting in the world is useless if it’s not presented correctly."

The medium is not the message.
Right, but just give them that option, just as part of being nice. That way if they ever bitch about it, you can always say: "if it wasn't worth $x for you, it sure as hell ain't worth $x for me!" :p
"The described technique cannot engage or control the aircraft's autopilot system using the FMS or prevent a pilot from overriding the autopilot," the FAA's statement explained. "Therefore, a hacker cannot obtain 'full control of an aircraft' as the technology consultant has claimed."

That may be true, but this does not not seem to address the other claim that an attacker could inject false information into the FMS or cause it in some way to give misleading information to the flight deck, which could be nearly as bad.
Airbnb gets around this by rendering their backbone.js views server-side, then pushing them out upon page load. They call it 'Rendr', which they have released [1].

[1]: https://github.com/airbnb/rendr
I've had exactly the same thoughts myself. I was thinking about using TP-Link WR703n's instead of Pi's but if they get the model A out in quantity soon enough, it would be a better choice.

Powerful computers that are so cheap you can permanently purpose them to tuning on and off a single light-bulb are a bit of a game changer if you think about it.

I'm guessing the next raft of patent trolling will follow the form "household item but with a computer/wifi in it".
Where did this lovely map come from and how can I generate my own?
Halvm doesn't (yet!) support recent ghc versions. For high concurrency workloads the ghc rts recently got some nice improvements merged in that will make the mega scale concurrency performance story even more awesome once ghc 7.8 gets released sometime this fall
True, but I expect all three spend a fair portion of their time selling nowadays. Sales is a collection of activities, not necessarily a full time role.
I'm afraid this kind of scenario is doomed to failure too. The issue with individual exchanges has been a lack of standardized security and hardware configuration. Many exchanges get broken into and bitcoins get stolen.

The issue with something like bex.io is that now we have many different exchanges, but all running on the same provider. Suppose that bex.io is able to put the best security around their systems. It still will possibly only take one vulnerability to get inside hundreds or thousands of exchanges.

Further, instead of DDoSing one or two exchanges like mtgox and btc-e but leaving the rest of the ecosystem free for trading, it only takes one massive DDoS against bex.io in order to take down hundreds or thousands of exchanges in one go.

Bad, bad, bad.

What's needed is both security and distribution. Someone else mentioned a node.js exchange product that's popped up in the last day or so, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5545271. Its called Buttercoin, https://github.com/buttercoin/buttercoin.

The language its written in isn't as important as the fact that its open source. If we get an environment of several open-source exchange engines that can be hardened by their respective communities, we get security. (Yes, individual instances are susceptible to bad server configs...).

By having relatively easy to setup OSS exchange systems, we get distribution.

People have complained that mtgox is a problem because its the largest extant exchange. At least its a single point of failure that only affects btc and money on its systems. Something like bex.io is going to lead to catastrophic losses across any number of customers as soon as they start becoming a target for nefarious people.
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Likely you can get a B1/B2 visa. You should be able to establish a US company with B1/2 visa, however you can't work for it.

* personal opinion only, not a legal advise.
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And agree with your comment about Mr B, probably could have found a better example :)
We moved it to http://rove.io
Brilliance isn't the only thing I'd look for in a doctor... most of the time, you have a very common issue and don't need brilliance. Having several family members who are doctors, I would say the most important thing to me would be compassion.
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Yes. Oscar winner "Once" was shot with DV and a budget of ~€150,000. Its box office was ~$20,710,513. It won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Original Song

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_(film)
Whatever data finds its way into the FMS, and regardless of where it's coming from, it still needs to make sense to the crew. If it doesn't, we're not going to allow the plane, or ourselves, to follow it.

The dude solved the halting problem? I really don't trust in people that think they control complex computers running turbofan engines through sticks and displays.
This is cool, but really creepy at the same time. I guess some people don't really consider the ramifications of putting a webcam online.

Side note, a horse and her baby! http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7392
You should totally hook Pi-Voice up to NinjaBlocks.com and all your connected devices!
I've read over it twice and I'm convinced it's a joke, like MailAppApp. http://visualidiot.com/articles/mailappapp
No, this app does not. This app does communicate with the actual Facebook app which _does_ require quite a few permissions.
Automatic Identification System (AIS)[1] is used for tracking ships and is also unprotected/unencrypted. This is not particularly an issue because ships inform government port and coastguard authorities of their source and destination ports long before entering sovereign waters. Those authorities can then use a system not too dissimilar to [2] to verify that a ship detected with radar:

a) is transmitting an AIS identifier that matches the paperwork already received

b) has been transmitting AIS track data that aligns with the paperwork already received since leaving the source port

Furthermore, ships have to allow a pilot on their vessel for pilotage into a port berth. Once they have pulled aside, the area surrounding the berth is, at least for most developed countries, a maritime security zone with barbed wire fences, security patrols and surveillance cameras.

The aviation sector has all of the above controls in place with even greater rigour. Encryption of track data, when factoring in the complexity of key exchange mechanisms and the expense of swapping out old hardware, would therefore have limited effect on either maritime or aviation security.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Identification_Syste...

[2] http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/
It links to an Amazon case study:

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/obama/

(which then links back to the map)
At the bottom, in the footer, they give credit...

"Background image is a fantastic work by cubrbeat, licensed under CC-BY-SA"
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It was made by Miles Ward on the AWS team but you can made a similar one at http://www.madeiracloud.com/ (and provision directly from the diagram / overlay monitoring info)
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Ask HN: What are the knowledge lost when babyboomers retire?
Over 7000 babyboomers retire each day since 2011. This is a staggering number. There have been a lot of places on the web saying we're losing a huge amount of knowledge from these retirees.

I'm having trouble understanding the importance of this - what are some specific examples of the knowledge lost?
I will now quote you as if I had though of it myself in future conversations.

..and that is why I come to HN.
> There is not one party line that everyone follows

That's because governments, both China and the US, is made up of people with opinions. The sort of people that get themselves into government are the same types of people who use the internet to keep power.

And not just in governments like the US and China, but also startups, VC funds, IT consulting companies, etc. These same types of people create lots of pseudonym logins on Hacker News to influence opinion about their products and services, another form of internet control.
What the hell kind of idiot would give money to some guy begging door-to-door? You might consider that the rich didn't get that way by being idiots.
It is a fairly recent development that the tech industry has acquired ways to make building a v1.0 easier. And the salespeople are looking around now, clearly able to tell the extent to which you can execute v1.0 with C-Level talent, and wondering why so many companies are still run by software people.

The answer I believe is: because this all used to be much harder, and you had to rely on your engineers to pull you through some tough moments. I'm afraid this is becoming less true over time. The pendulum is swinging back from technical implementation, back through design, and the power is returning to sales and marketing, IMO.

HOWEVER, people who can engineer marketing outcomes... those guys will keep the power.

TLDR;
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On the east coast, huh? What about New York?
What companies do salespeople actually run? Amway maybe? Salespeople sell. Executives run the company. Sometimes executives used to be salespeople, but there are many who came by another path.
Med school is 4 years at around $65,000 per year (post tax obviously). $180,000 per year post tax is $105,000. So that's 60% of his after-tax income for four years.
Haven't seen anything yet in Pennsylvania.
Is this an established theory? Out of curiosity, I'm interested in sources.
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That wasn't there when I made the comment.
The love of mathematics, technology, and tinkering is universal?

I've read a few books written by women about women in tech that claim the opposite, that women predominantly like tech because of the fascinating applications, not the intrinsic love of tinkering with the terminal.
I feel that the most important knowledge that (some) baby boomers have is political organizing knowledge (i.e. how to build a movement, solidarity-building, union organizing). Luckily, this transfer of knowledge can only be accelerated by retirement (if the boomers choose to remain politically active).

Other than that, when I look at all that generation has accomplished/fucked-up, and I say meh. Better to loose the knowledge and build new structures.
"nobody is going to believe him until he demonstrates it on a functional plane."

And there are some _really_ obvious reasons why you wouldn't just go and do that so you can present the results at a conference. If the claims _are_ true, you'll need to get someone with the authority to grant you the privilege to demonstrate your attack against their aircraft - and so far as I can see, the most likely way to get to do that is probably to present a plausible and perhaps overblown paper at a well publicised conference.
That was the idea. If you really want the start up experience a great team on folding tables is better than a place with weekly massages, and a snack room with a yogourt machine that is living on hype.
NYC, Boston, both great start up communities, but Miami also has some interesting startups.
DOSS attacks can be overcome with a solid infrastructure like Cloudflare (expensive but possible) and also with the help of modern browser capabilities such as webRTC and offline cache.
I've already been working on something very similar for my car as I was sick of taking my eyes off the road to change the music etc. I already have a working prototype, but there's still some work to be done before its good enough to publish.
Check us out. We don't use CoreNLP or NLTK. we have our own because everything else sucked.

And yes I do better than wolfram alpha.
There are many people that do the same thing using APRS. Once you start digging it's pretty easy to get real-time location information for a ton of entities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_Sys...
What on Earth are you talking about? There's nothing vicious or dangerous about that statement.
If it's possible to trick the FMS as it seems they are not denying. Then in bad weather the pilot could easily be given false information to say that he's flying straight and level when he's actually in a dive or inverted. If you depend on your instruments and they are giving you bad data then in the right conditions it could certainly cause a crash. There have been planes that have gone down over the ocean because they could not tell the difference between the water and the sky and they did not trust their instruments and are in an inverted dive when they think they are climbing. Imagine if their instruments said they we're climbing and they thought they we climbing but were really in an inverted dive!
Does not look like it to me http://helios.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/

:(
The lack of security in ADS-B is bad, but how much of a problem could you really cause with it? The best I can come up with is tripping some collision alarms. Even then, you won't be able to do too much before pilots and controllers in the area decide that ADS-B is messed up and ignore it in preference to radar.
Enterprise ODM + logging etc. Any of that being open-sourceD?
Where does it say that bitcoins are money?