skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My ISP makes me use a "gateway"[1][2] with a wireless router built into it. In the name of reducing electricity usage, I forego running my own router and surrender to using theirs. I would be willing to bet many others do the same. I wonder how secure it is?

[1]http://www.att.com/u-verse/explore/residential-gateway.jsp
[2]http://verrytechnical.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ATTUver...
Yep, the death was unfortunate (photographer goes back for his gear and doesn't come back). Still, a lot of us Kiwis are still angry at what happened afterwards (France plays hard ball and gets the agents on a French Atoll and then back to France, where they wrote books and moved up the ranks).
The Minecraft Creator Markus Persson Faces Life After Fame
That rate sounds like what many kids do who become successful adults. Kids are born learners, at a far more intense rate than that. But adults? Become a manager and wise advisor.
Software is another medium for my art. I used to think that the best way of getting my creativity and projects seen was to put software in people's hands. Now I know that the best way is to put easy-to-use, beautiful components in the hands of devs to exponentially influence more end users.
um, sure, nice comment. I dont run windows, I dont use AOL, Prodigy or Compuserve either. I also dont call it the inter-web.
Great Scientist Does Not Equal Good at Math
I agree. The key takeaway here is that there are many different dimensions to politics, even on a single topic. That was hopefully clear already to most reasoning people, and something that they try to keep in mind as they discuss and reason about laws and events...

However, it's certainly not a sparse 3 dimensions. It's an N-dimensional space for some high value of N, if not infinite. There are as many ways to frame a political topic as there are ways that we live and interact in society and the economy.
You'd have to wait 5 hours for that. He didn't just open the hatch and took a stroll :).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11#Landing
Weird Twitter: The Oral History
Thanks we have books, videos, and Internet. A lot of what people know is redundantly distributed.
If they're genuinely doing $100M revenue a year, it's not far off: you'd assume that they could grow a bit more, and maybe raise subs a little bit, and suddenly they're a $0.5B/yr company, without having done much work.

I would be amazed if they're doing $100M/yr but who knows.
Thank you for the info - do you know if there's an ADSL modem that's good for DD-WRT these days? Last I looked (yeeeaaaars ago) there were only two models, long since out of production, and they didn't seem to be going in that direction anymore.
It makes sense, but would be horrible for consumers. Google reading every instant message i send? Brr, please not.
Don't be silly. Java is extensively used for speed. It is an extremely fast language with a few caveats (such as startup/warmup time).
Definitely a creative hypothesis!

In that whole analysis though, there's no mention of fun. In today's world of indie games, we're being constantly reminded fun != more power. It's orthogonal.
If only... The article states it's one of four military radio relays along the North-South axis in France, and that launch orders for nuclear weapons could pass through it if used. As such it'd probably be one of the primary targets for anyone who'd like to attack France.

That kind of position probably makes some intelligence officials feel incredibly important if they can find an excuse to demand even relatively trivial information about it deleted.
You think your messages aren't already being read? That seems a bit naive.
Where I'm from, theft requires intent. Fraud requires intent. If money is lost through unintentional error, there may be legal repercussions, but it will almost assuredly be a civil suit. I don't see how it would be untenable to charge anyone at Facebook with an actual crime for this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft
Relentless.
The Valiant-Vazirani theorem says that both Unique and Unambiguous SAT are NP-hard under randomized reductions.

While this is not NP-hard under the usual definition, modern complexity theorists believe derandomization to be possible to a degree similar to their belief that P is not NP.
I use it to regularly connect with my good friend who's in Hong Kong; He was the one who first used it and got me to download it.
Why it's the right time to create my startup now
Ask HN: How can I make my resume better?
Here is a link to my resume: http://imgur.com/0fsrJzI

For every 10 jobs I post this to, I get one response. For ever 5 responses, one phone interview comes out of it. For every 10 phone interviews, I get one invitation to interview in person. In the past year, I've had maybe 6 or 7 in person interviews. Not a single job offer. I have completely no idea why I have such a hard time getting s job. I am at a point in my ife where I think it is time for a big change. I am considering hanging up my programmer hat. As much as I love programming, there is something I'm missing that is preventing me from doing this as a job. People always repeat on here and other software communities that if you are a programmer who has even a very very very basic grasp of engineering that people will literally throw job offers at you. I have to beg companies to hire me, and I get nowhere. I'm starting to put two and two together. I much not be a programmer with a modicum of skill.

What I want to know: When you look at my resume, what do you see? Do you see someone who appears to know how to program? Do you see anything that I need to badly change about my resume? Most pf my experience is writing code by myself. The majority of my experience is on personal projects. My job history is very patchy (I havent been really employed since April 2012), so I have left that out.
Latam local services marketplace startup GetNinjas raises $3M round
The precedent seems to be more along the lines of, "If you are an administrator of a website hosting (what we claim to be) illegal content, you are obliged to delete it upon being informed".
This is whats wrong with everything. You can't make a shitty rap video (and yes its shitty) without being accused of racism.
Definitely. Its a really powerful force in 3rd world countries. Here is ZA they cornered the market completely.

Unless they screw it up themselves they aren't going to lose that head start. Not with the kind of network effects at play here.
I can definitely confirm this, at least in The Netherlands literally everybody uses Whatsapp and it has slowly become a verb - "I'll whatsapp you the details!".

It's far from the best messaging app, but definitely the most popular (in Europe).
Richard Feynman - The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out
The line between being helping and selling is ambiguous. My hunch is that you're being downvoted because recuter didn't state a specific need, just that "most clones are pretty terrible".
Isn't contacting your potential customers a better idea to validate and get feedback on your idea? It may take more effort to reach them, but even that process is helpful in validating your idea as you'll have to find your customers sooner or later anyway.

Also, validating your idea by asking people whether they'd pay for it is a common mistake in customer development. People are bad at predicting their own behavior. Instead ask if they have paid (whether in time, money or another valuable resource) for getting feedback in the past, where X is something that provides similar value to the product you're offering. Actually giving them an option to pay right now might be the best way to validate it, but you shouldn't have had to build a whole prototype to do that.

I've seen quite a few 'get feedback for your idea' platforms fail over the last couple months/years so definitely look into those as well and try to figure out _why_ they failed, as you want to avoid making those same mistakes.

Here's one post-mortem of such a platform: http://blog.davejafari.com/sparkmuse-post-mortem

Anyway, just my two cents. Figured I'd share of my own feedback :)
here is the erlang factory talk by one of the lead developers of whatsapp : http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2012/speakers/...
While they own the market - not sure they can get people to actually pay for the product. Not sure they can afford to give it away free.
One of the amazing videos I have seen in my life. Learned a lot from it. Its amazing how a scientist such as Richard Feynman talks about his father for being the reason were he stands now!
No one mentioned Processing? http://processing.org
" It receives hundreds of requests for deletions of articles every year, and cooperates with requests when those are clearly motivated."

It only receives hundreds? Something is wrong with sentence.
While they are terrible in so many ways - it just works. Google Talk just plain doesn't work with the latency and read notifciations.

I manage an large piece of software with a GUI that runs on a locked down Linux workstation. WhatsApp is how I get "screenshots" of problems.
My Linksys router has had Tomato on it from the first day, it's the only sane thing to do (OpenWRT or DD-WRT would work too) when closed-source software is regularly exploited and not patched in a timely manner - and when noone knows what kind of government-friendly backdoors exist in such products (made by companies that earn significant revenue from government contracts).

Also, there's plenty of very cheap router hardware coming from China nowdays, from TP-Link you can get OpenWRT-capable routers for less than $15, so there's not much point in paying a lot more for Linksys products.
Haven't read through it all yet, but presumably he's just been "recruited" to make it work. They've probably go some dirt on him. That's probably not even the material they care about, at least in the long term.
Well if they can't buy whatsapp because they are asking for too much, they should buy LINE or whoever is next in line (no pun intended) with the biggest network of users, and is still growing fast. The strategy of buying one of these companies out to catch-up to iMessage in user base (not counting Gtalk users) is a sound one.

But whoever it's going to be and whatever Google is going to use, can we get OTR encryption enabled by default in there? Google doesn't need to have access to people's private conversations after all - right?
Samsung is insane for not acquiring WhatsApp.
Original paper introducing bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto
I've read this comment again. I didn't mean oxymoron, I meant hyperbole (just in case my children read this in 2034, I don't want them to think I'm an idiot).
What are the browser checks for?
You seem confused. Private companies don't have any liquid stock to give. Options aren't the issue, just subtract salary minus share price and taxes to get net.
ZA = South Africa?
The addictions of "Elites" are treated in a much more functional manner. Not that they're anything but middle-to upper-middle class, but I note that none of the tech or software related gigs I apply for would dare drug test for fear of losing their productive employees. Executive and finance-related positions, similarly.
I don't think this should be on the front page. It's a rumor, citing "sources". It's not credible, even less when they cite Google Babble as a rumor. For those who don't know, Babble was a fake made by a spanish forum called Forocoches [1] [2]

[1] http://www.adslzone.net/article11194-google-babble-rumor-ori... (spanish)
[2] http://www.androidauthority.com/leaked-google-babble-screens...
Looks like they already did give the source that they used :)
At least here in Bolivia, literally every single person I've talked to that owns a smartphone uses WhatsApp to communicate.

Not even Facebook messenger, but WhatsApp specifically. It _completely_ obliterated BBPin when Blackberry was more in use, but since Android picked up a lot of marketshare here with Samsung's Galaxy line it's dropped out of the radar.
I'd rather it remained a cross Android/iOS app (the right strategy, too, here) than a "Samsung-only" app like ChatON, which "nobody" uses.
I'm a front dev who does design though I often wonder if my designs are any good.

I was going to do a Ask HN about a recent design as Im wondering if my design provides a solid explanation of what of the app does.

Anyone interested in critiquing & providing feedback?
Teenager builds his own PCR machine
Brain scans decode dream content
Superfund is an interesting term which I only came across recently in the context it is being used here. In Australia it means something very different - a shorthand for Superannuation Fund.
Alicebot: Chatbots 3.3 Conference Report
Why? Control, keeping the advanced software features out of the low tier products and planned obsolescence.
I can't really speak for anyone else, but I run Ubuntu on a MacPro as my desktop machine at work. I prefer Linux to OS X primarily because of the user interface. I know it's heresy, but I hate OS X's (and Windows, to be fair) UI. I've run XMonad for years and Ion for years before that and now any time I have to use a machine that doesn't have a tiling WM and sloppy focus, I kind of want to throw it out the window. (I'm running on Apple hardware because for various bureaucratic reasons, we have a very limited selection of vendors that we're allowed to purchase from)
Why exactly is WhatsApp terrible? I've been using it for about 6months and it works perfectly. Low memory usage, low disk space usage, low cpu usage, messages go through instantly and reliably. What more do you want in a messaging app?
"being the "iPhone of home networking""

Howso? All I remember from their heyday was that they were good enough, cheap enough, and flashable. I don't remember them commanding a premium for any particular reason.
I find it amazing that somebody actually knew OP's code well enough to recognize it in the trailer. Or maybe someone searched github for the strings they saw instead? Either way, pretty cool - I'd love to have some code in a movie too!
> HTML5 sandbox cannot compensate for non-security-minded developers

framebreaker worked well until it sandbox was invented. If we should blame someone - it is rather W3C, not VK.
A couple of points:

- The laws on official secrets typically (and uncontroversially IMO) forbid any unauthorized handling or distribution of classified material. This is not a US-pandering post-9-11 knee-jerk thing, it goes back at least to WWII, and probably much longer.

- Many facts are classified, even though they don't appear significant. Sometimes they indeed aren't, sometimes the motivation is that a multitude of such facts collectively suggest something which is significant.

- Telling an uncleared person what is classified amounts to giving that person even more classified material that they're not allowed to have. Obviously, so is saying that there's classified material on the page at all, but arguably less so.

- There are some items on the Wikipedia page in question that have "citation needed", ie. they are not immediately obviously sourced from publicly accessible material. Chances are that the problematic material is among those facts.
It's pointless either way. If the intention was to keep the relay station secret, there's no use trying to put worms in back in the can once the information is public. They should relocate it and try better at not spilling the beans next time.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm absolutely fed up with my D-Link DIR-655 always needing to be restarted when the wireless decides to stop working, and was looking for something exactly like this. I was beginning to dread having to build something like a Smoothwall/pfSense box; I did that around 2005 with an old desktop computer and it didn't work that well.

I've actually heard of Mikrotik before; about 10 years ago I was doing some work planning a 2.4GHz wireless ISP (WISP) and I think Mikrotik equipment was highly regarded then (especially in the 900MHz spectrum IIRC) so looking forward to this.

Here's a link to a distributor where it can be purchased: http://www.roc-noc.com/mikrotik/routerboard/RB2011UAS-2HnD-I...
And that would get no one's attention. I think he did the right thing, otherwise he would still be ignored and still be receiving charges.
I've recently had the recurring idea that it would be awesome if I could do this with music, I found this after a quick search: http://overtone.github.io/ (+ it's an excuse to learn clojure) Anyone have experience doing this with music, & might have some opinion on the best tools?
Well, that was 12 years ago so it wouldn't have appeared quite as ridiculous at the time, at least to non-tech culture.
Android up 13%, iOS down 7%, BlackBerry down 81% and Windows Phone up  52%
Client: I want to get from this side of the river to the other side.

Provider: I think this bridge design will fit your needs.
In my experience, few people cares about your open source work unless its something they have heard of. _I_ may care. _You_ may care. But most people don't. I have a "large body of code on display" in my github, but I know for a fact that no one ever looks at it.
3D printer produces synthetic tissue that transmits signals like nerves
WhatsApp just like Instagram is too valuable as a brand. I expect that WhatsApp will be managed very much like YouTube in that it will remain independent and will be slowly integrated in the Google ecosystem over time so that people recognize it as a Google service.
Applesoft BASIC in Javascript
Let me just get this in before the cries of JUST INSTALL OPENWRT come raining down.

Your mother / father / grandmother / etc are not installing openWRT on their routers. Installing one of these CISCO home routers is pretty much hacking yourself. And, just update the firmware is not gonna work.

Try it one day, go up like 10 people and ask them what's a firmware. If the user isn't technical, you're going to get a 0/10 correct responses.
Illustrating the Ubuntu clown car, AccountsService edition (2012)
Once upon a time, when java applets were exciting, fresh, and new, I wrote an applet which calculated digits of PI and used CGI to post them to my server.

Visitors would watch animations, whilst I "stole" their CPU time.

That must have been 96/97 or so.
A desktop version as well, so I can use a single platform for all my messaging.
>>I have friends from college who had to move back in with their parents because they literally could not find a job. They applied everywhere, even McDonalds. No work.

I have another anecdote to counter your anecdote. I have a friend just arrived a couple of weeks ago. In the first week she was able to find two jobs. One in a hotel in the buffet area and another in a clothing factory.
Since their latest big update, the app on Android is quite good. They do, however, have a horrible security track record and I'm not sure what the current state of their authentication system is.
Congrats Google: you're trying to buy an app as its going down. Practically everyone in Asia has switched to Line, and WhatsApp is definitely not what it was last year.
You can see in the link where they ripped their story right from engadget's RSS feed.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/05/alienware-x51-ubuntu/?utm...

Not that Engadget didn't rip it off too.

http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct...
I think they meant it not in terms of a premium price, but rather as the default product to buy. They were never that much more expensive (if at all), but back in the day it was the one most people bought.
I used to pause Person of Interest http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/ to look at the code which made no sense at all and stopped following the stupid series.I am sure I am not the only one .It's not a bad thing to pay attention to detail.
From the article: Since the game’s release, in 2009, Minecraft has sold in excess of twenty million copies, earned armfuls of prestigious awards, and secured merchandising deals with LEGO and other toymakers. Last year, Persson earned over a hundred million dollars from the game and its merchandise. Persson—better known to his global army of teen-age followers by his Internet handle, Notch—has a raggedy, un-marketed charm. He is, by his own admission, only a workmanlike coder, not a ruthless businessman. “I’ve never run a company before and I don’t want to feel like a boss,” he said. “I just want to turn up and do my work.”

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He sounds like a modern day Woz, except he was successful despite not wanting to get involved in business. (by that I mean, Woz was successful, but we don't know how he might have turned out if Steve Jobs didn't push him to cofound Apple)
People did GPGPU before the likes of OpenCL and CUDA.
Betting exchange Betfair suffers capacity issues during Grand National
its fun :)
As I read the sentence, it means hundreds of requests... from public authorities.

I think that's an overestimate. As a volunteer on the Wikimedia email ticket system (where most such requests, and indeed I believe this example as well, go to) I've only seen a few such requests from public bodies.

EDIT: actually, it seems this did go through the (employed) WMF legal team, rather than the volunteer support service. Sorry :)
It's "artistic license" in the original sense.
"low cpu usage" This is not true on all the platforms. For instance, in my experience I found it that blackberry's and android's versions are quite good. But iOS version (on a 3G) and Windows Phone 8 version are very cpu demanding which result in draining the battery pretty quickly.

WPH8 is the worse, although it is probably because a limitation of the OS (they had to had the audio sdk in order to make notifications work).
Wikipedia deletes only hide the article from non-admins (well there is a real delete too but the agency did not appear to know that). There is one click restore if you are an admin.
In Brazil here, my girlfriend literally bought a new phone, a low-budget android, just to talk with her best friends through Whatsapp.
If you're only getting one invitation to interview per phone interview and no offers after 6 or 7 interviews then the issue isn't with your resume. It sounds like there's something more fundamental at play.

First (focusing on your resume): Break the achievements out to a bulleted list. If that'd make your resume too long then start cutting out bulleted items and condense them.

Second: I see no mention of what kind of teams you're used to working with. No agile experience or anything that really tells me you've done more than just pet projects. That's ok but it greatly reduces the types of roles I'd look for you to fill.

Third: I can't comment on how you interview since I've never experienced it with you before... and I just realized! We could do a faux interview and I can give you my feedback about why I would/wouldn't hire you. My contact details are in my profile if you're interested.
Well, perhaps. Although I'd suggest that dragging him into their offices and threatening to not let him leave till he obliges is a step beyond that :)
gotta love down votes for a post like this - shows the intolerant politics of some folks
They don't do that, they migrate the question. You just need to flag and ask for migration.
Not sure what to think about an Arduino SE. I think that needlessly narrows the scope. It's like a Windows Server SE when the original intent was to do a server administration SE.

Here the intent was probably around microcontrollers and embedded development.
This scary me a little bit. Most of my friends have Whatsapp across different platforms and it would be a shame to find out that Google would shutdown the project in favor of GTalk
Look well-made. I've never seen that brand in any US stores unfortunately. There were a few US distributors listed but most were tiny shops.
"Lost" Steve Jobs presentation: "The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be"
I can best translate that as waxing?

Could you explain - I must have missed the presumably French idiom
Show HN: Presenting news according to the "buzz" around them in social networks