skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another interesting internet of things module:
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The RS9113 M2MCombo supports dual-band 802.11n and dual-mode BT 4.0 in addition to Zigbee. Redpine (San Jose, Calif.) will ship the device before June in a variety of module form factors at a cost of $6 in 100,000-unit quantities."[1]

Hopefully it will also get into a shield form factor, at a reasonable price, since it seems ideal to trying all kinds of things out.

[1]http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4406270/Redpine-devi...
Difficult, maybe, but seeing as you're commenting on an article about someone who lives almost 12000 km away and is going, it's clearly not impossible :)

Unless you already live in NYC, your current location shouldn't be very relevant.
Ask HN: What set up do you use to scrape web pages
I am writing code to get URL data and realized because of JS using a regular requests module in python doesn't cut it. I need to actually render the page in a browser engine and get the page from there. Googling did not bring up a fixed/common way to do it. I was wondering this must be something a good number of start ups should be doing, so wanted to pick some brains. Thanks for any suggestions.
* HN is sub-optimal. Most things are. HN's still interesting and useful.

* I'd argue that this is a problem, but I'm not certain how to solve it. I submitted a story a few days ago (search xylose) that continued to pull upvotes even at positions 100-150, but missed the key early votes needed for viability.

One way to give stories greater life might be to enable viewing HN with multiple time-constants
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5495264

or to make upvotes from deep in the pile count more/change the effective submission time slightly.

* Yes, it's worth fixing/addressing, but HN's pretty cool as it is. The merciless and democratic power of the exponential suppression of stories guarantees that, if a story makes it, it's immediately interesting to the group. It does not guarantee that all interesting stories will live.
A famous scene in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey showed this. (The actor, Keir Dullea, almost was badly injured in the shot showing him entering the spaceship airlock without his helmet on, by the way.) But as the article points out, such survival is only

"for at least a couple of minutes. Not that you would remain conscious long enough to rescue yourself, but if your predicament was accidental, there could be time for fellow crew members to rescue and repressurize you with few ill effects."

So be sure to practice a buddy system if you are going into outer space without full protective gear on at all times. There's a reason that the full title of the article submitted here is "Survival in Space Unprotected Is Possible--Briefly."
10 years ago, while at university, me and 2 other guys implemented a new network protocol (dccp) in the FreeBSD kernel. Later, someone ported it to Linux and gave us some credits.
It's still a serious issue for those who aren't engineers or programmers. There is a net benefit of automation, but realistically in our current economy, unemployment isn't that great.

And of course in the long run even those jobs can be replaced once we have intelligent machines. Though that would create a completely different world than this one.
100% agree about the uselessness of the article.

If I were to take a stab in the dark about how the tool is doing it, though - based on their "statistical" analysis comment, my guess is they're measuring sustained traffic levels / TCP connection duration. Your average encrypted web session won't look anything similar to a command-and-control bot calling home over Tor to some irc server (which is their example usage for the tool). Possibly including "known" Tor node IP addresses, as well.

In addition, there was that Ethopian DPI filtering project against Tor that happened last summer (https://blog.torproject.org/blog/update-censorship-ethiopia), with the Tor Project thinking they'd somehow fingerprinted some aspect of their TLS handshake. Maybe this knowledge is spreading.
OP here. SPF13 itself is really nice. But the main difference here is first I try to emulate ST2, second I'm really picky which plugins are integrated. I also don't use vundle (because It should always have the same feature regardless of the state of plugin), instead of I'm using pathogen (which I like more). With time I will update the plugins myself, but only if they have bugfixes or features that are necessary to be added.

Some of plugins (like ctrlp) is modified in order to use the ctags binary I'm bundling and installing. There is also pre-compiled version of YCM in subvim. Together it means autocompletion and goto features are really working. You really don't install anything.

The plugins settings are modified in order to emulate ST2 like behavior, like accepting autocomplete entry via enter, creating a newline after braces,quotes,etc.., opening a new tabs whenever you call cmd+p (but not if you call cmd+r for using goto), closing the application and starting again brings all you tabs/files again and so on..

They are many things I'm trying to improve, like adding snippet system, more improved installation procedure, multiplatform support (linux and windows). SPF13 is much better on these terms.

I hope with time it will get better :)
I go to the little gym my apartment has, they have dumbbells. I will work out with dumbbells, even if people claim they are not as great. I can get a good work-out in with them.

I can still do compound movements with them, I can still train particular parts of my body, and I can train my body as a whole. I also add body weight training, I can't yet do squats with weight, push-ups, crunches, sit-ups, all those fun exercises. Dumbbells are just one of the many tools to help me get a good work-out in.
That's a very good point and we want to add that feature. Is the fact that it redraws the map based on the current state of the lines visually useful? I would like to redraw the official tfl underground map
Ui - frontpage, if I see that correctly. Thanks for the upvotes.

Some comments to the project: I built it, because i found myself using/implementing pubsubhubbub in another project of mine and realized I would like to subscribe to all possible feeds. Also, I remembered a comment about a free rss reader written on hn, that it is so hard to self-host that reader because of the needed polling infrastructure...

I don't know how you judge the code-quality. But one lection for me was that I once again liked it very much to write something with Ruby and Sinatra. I was quite suprised to find myself using Yahoo Pipes. And the first time I used rest-client, seems good to me.

I would listen to comments made here. Is the explanation enough for the start? The code should be easy enough, or isn't it?
AngularJS, Socketstream, Brunch Skeleton / Seed
The Open Code: A Digital Copy of DC Laws
Yes, the Tor developers are working on it. See e.g. https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en
Repeat to yourself: "it's just a show, I should really just relax."
Here's the same thing for Munich: http://s-bahn-muenchen.hafas.de
I used to hate working out, specifically because I absolutely hate cardio (looking at you treadmill, running, walking, biking, elliptical) but I found great joy in lifting. I started off slow, but even now I can really get into it.

I look forward to going to the gym and getting a work-out in when I get home from work. I used to absolutely hate it, because people told me that I should do cardio to lose weight ... now most of what I do is lifting. A little cardio and the inches keep coming off, and I keep getting stronger.

Find something you enjoy doing (I love swimming) and find pleasure in doing that, even if it is for a short period of time per day. Running clearly isn't for you, and it isn't for me...
This was my main introduction as well. (I'm 21.) I remember looking through the TI-84 manual and reading through the commands to see what I could do.
Maybe give this a read if you haven't already:
http://blog.databigbang.com/web-scraping-ajax-and-javascript...

Good luck.
Except for the drought we are still in and the 74 days above 100 degrees in 2011.
You might considering trying PC-BSD (or FreeBSD) under VirtualBox. I'm using FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE (32-bit) with VirtualBox on Windows 7 x64 and found it to be a very good combination, and much "snappier" than Ubuntu.

There is also a significant number of Haskell users who develop on FreeBSD -- enough that they maintain their own special ports tree for Cabal packages:

https://github.com/freebsd-haskell/freebsd-haskell

I also recently added F# 3.0 to the FreeBSD ports tree, and have found the F# 3.0 + Mono 3.0.x + FreeBSD to be a very nice development/hosting environment:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/fsharp-o...
> you must always have both hands on the wheel

There aren't any folks driving manual in your area?
David means as a legal entity. It's basically the standard refrain for any Wikimedia chapter :)

If the chapter, as an entity, tried to "interfere" in one of the Wikis it would go down very badly within the community. There is a certain amount of push and shove that means chapters are extremely careful to be seen only ever as facilitating.

But that's a whole rabbit hole of politics beyond the scope of this discussion :D
The absurdity of that "research" can't be explained better.

In fact the study ommits the most dangerous drugs, that is those which are used to fight cancer. They are very, very dangerous... and so what.
Skype malware turns your computer into a Bitcoin mining zombie
Japan nuclear plant 'detects' signs of leak
OP here. There are some plugins but I didn't research it. But here is one that I think do it (and if it's good I'll integrate it): https://github.com/paradigm/vim-multicursor
Thanks. Shall switch to using that.
It's not that simple and they did a prototype and published a paper before they left Stanford (three years in). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank. It was conceived as a "citation graph of the web" based on theoretical work in that area: http://web.archive.org/web/20020506051802/www-diglib.stanfor....

You say that today they could've come up through YC. I'm not sure that's true. Would they have the necessary grounding in those "standard graph algorithms" if they had just come straight to YC (or bearing in mind Stanford undergraduates benefit tremendously from the graduate program--skipped college entirely?) I think you're downplaying the interaction of study and invention here.
For those wondering, the cafe in the youtube video is now Azucar Lounge, at the corner of 9th and Folsom. It's becoming a somewhat popular place for the people who work at the startups that are crammed in down here:

http://www.netline.be/presse/cybertaire/news/ccafe.htm#icon

http://goo.gl/maps/LEKrD

The more things things change...
A few years ago, I wrote a client (tortunnel) that connects directly to Tor exit nodes and pretends to be a full circuit, allowing you to use Tor exit nodes as one hop proxies. I'm sure that things have changed since then, but I got to know the protocol while writing that, and my recollection was that Tor traffic would be easy to detect:

1) Most people aren't using bridge nodes, and are instead connecting to Tor nodes publicly listed in the consensus. No DPI necessary.

2) Tor clients/servers used to signal their intent by including "special" cipher suite combinations in the TLS handshake. IIRC, they later switched to doing a "normal" looking TLS handshake with an immediate TLS renegotiation once the outer handshake was complete. That's a very distinctive traffic pattern.

3) All writes were translated into cells that were padded to 512 bytes. So by design, all Tor traffic looks the same.

4) The circuits were much longer lived than a standard TLS connection.

My sense was that Tor was originally designed to use TLS for innocuous egress filtering compatibility, rather than for explicit censorship resistance.
ST3 will be released soon and is supposedly going go fully support all vim commands in vintage mode with better performance.
"I always wondered why alcohol didn't get the same restrictions that cigarettes got"

It did, and worse. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition
Have you already contacted them at all?

the first thing I would do is just contact them and let them know you love their work. What designer doesn't love to hear that. See if you can get them interested in your project at all. That has to be number two on your list. It's better to have a good designer who is in love with your product than a great designer who is only half engaged.

See how the conversations go, and if they are interested at all. You should get a feel for it. If you can't engage them directly, maybe they have other contacts they would recommend for you.
I'm assuming you're in an area where designers are in high demand, so realize you'll likely have a difficult time getting anybody, let alone your top picks.
OK. That website made it feel like I live in The Future. I grew up in The Space Age (Project Mercury onward) and I still get chills whenever I see TV programs or movies about it. Now this site too.
Did that too

Love this project. Sublime Text's awesomeness makes it hard to completely switch back to VIM, but this looks like a good approach to bring features we have grown to love back to VIM, without all the hazzle.
Yep - this I can certainly agree would make host country angry.

For a story that somewhat parallels what the French did (but a WHOLE different level) check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramil_Safarov
People online, in my experience.
It's a 6.5lb per week gain, which is within the range of a linear progression program.
Show HN: Fliple - iOS Contacts with Metro UI
This is my try at a iOS Contacts app replacement.
I was frustrated by the fact that the default application wasn't showing contact pictures in lists, so I tried to design an app that makes full use of the images.

Another issue I had with the default app was the number of taps until finding a contact, so I tried to minimize that too using various approaches:

- put most contacted people on the main screen (app also proposes new tiles based on number of interactions)
- group contacts (work, family, friends, etc.) then put a group tile on the main screen
- search the contact list using T9 (3-4 taps to locate contact)
- use action tiles to instantly communicate with a contact (phone, SMS, mail) for often contacted people

At the moment the app is free, I haven't yet come up with ideas for monetization - if you have any, please share.
Improvement suggestion: Interpolate between the transmitted positions for a smoother animation. It's really difficult for me to detect movement directions at something like 3Hz.
Could you explain how this differs from the route planner provided by TFL which also takes into account closures and line status?
Real innovation is happening everywhere. Unfortunately, only the consumer-facing (and hobbyist) stuff gets covered here. Arduino, Raspi, etc. are interesting, but not technologically innovative. Their innovation is in addressing poorly-served markets: just as important, but not quite the same thing.

The "internet of things" is interesting from a consumer perspective. I've been involved in it for a few years in terms of being able to remotely monitor and diagnose complex equipment. There's a long list of companies with lots of dollars behind them that want to get started in this arena and don't know how. I suspect that this is soon going to be a hot area of consulting.

Just look at what businesses like Axeda have been doing for the last 10 years if you want to see where industry is heading.
Tor's TLS handshake exhibits a number of peculiarities which distinguishes it from HTTPS. The cipher list inside the TLS client hello used to be a (almost?) unique (see http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/static/gfc/ ) and the SNI contains a random bogus domain.
I am glad it was repeated. I missed it the first time around.
That depends on why you're interested in Tor. While my sense is that it was originally designed as an anonymity tool, it seems to have really exploded for use as a censorship circumvention tool.

Most of the latter types of users are probably much less interested in whether the destination website can identify them, and potentially much more interested in Tor traffic going undetected by censors.
That is exactly what is happening. The positions of the trains are only available only every minute or so. I expect the animation speed is limited to 3fps due to performance issues.
Google Cache of the site since it's having issues. [0]

I enjoy my Asus RT-AC66U. [1] Best commercial router I've seen, and Asus Merlin [2] firmware makes it better.

[0] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JNu4Z9X...

[1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320...

[2] https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin
I would be curious who invited the person, or how the person found out about the party.
> You go to (a good) "Game School" to learn to build video games, not because you already build video games.

The law school thing may be valid, but I doubt that anyone goes to a "Game School" (whatever that may be) without having written a game before.

Similarly, a lot of people who attend a CS university already know how to program (to a degree anyway).
michaell2, I respect your opinion, but to remove the doubts from your mind, I will give you a few links to show you a bit of what I have done. You can Google "Martha Chumo", or "Njeri Chelimo" (This is the name I use for github, twitter, etc) and check out the results. I have been featured on various sites cause of my learning. Checkout http://www.codecademy.com/stories/code-from-kenya . You can contact codecademy, and will tell you I'm a moderator there and I helped out creating the Ruby lessons. You can also contact teamtreeshouse.com, and ask about their student @NjeriChelimo. I have been very active in the community, and I am soon to be featured in the Treehouse Dean's list. Here's the link to my profile there -> http://teamtreehouse.com/njerichelimo. I have been contributing to the Apache deltacloud project -> http://deltacloud.apache.org/. You can contact the deltacloud devs and confirm that I exist, and that I can actually program. I was accepted as a speaker at DevCon Tel Aviv -> http://devcon-june2013.events.co.il/people/847-martha-chumo . You can contact the conf organizer and confirm this. I am the Nairobi MongoDB user group organizer. This you can confirm from the 10gen community manager. I try to blog - http://nchelimo.blogspot.com/ , http://njeri-chelimo.blogspot.com/ , http://njerichelimo.blogspot.com/.
You can also checkout my github account -> https://github.com/NjeriChelimo

I know there are a lot of cons out there, but I am definitely not one of them. I hope this clears your mind a little.
Is awesome but it needs some work, it would be _really_ nice if it were syntax aware, so if you start Ctrl+D in a variable it should only select where is being used as a variable and not other things (regex, strings, etc) or at least a boolean option to enable this behavior.
Eh. Is everything in my house (i.e. my subnet 192.168..) going to run out of IPV4 addresses? Right now cost is a far more important factor.
And none of the emails in his inbox were spam. Which was in itself notable.
The key concept which we considered interesting was that the image of the underground map also updates to reflect the current status of the lines. Giving instant visual feedback.
Big ups to the folks who created stolencamerafinder.com (looks like one person associated with it is named "Matt"), who gave the author a critical tool.
Python 2.7.4 Released
I've had 3 computers stolen from me in my life. Twice out of my car, and once when my house was broken into.

Just once I wish a thief had been this dumb.
Sorry, but this sounds fake.
This doesn't surprise me. I don't get on a plane unless I have to. Between the crappy airlines, long lines at the airport and the TSA I avoid air travel. I'd rather drive most places even if it takes significantly longer. Most of the people I know that have traveled for pleasure in the last year have driven instead of flying and simply taken longer trips.
Is this the same Adioso post that has been on HN a few times before, but each time hosted on a different blog service? I feel like I've started reading this twice before.
This is just like the story of the guy whose stolen bike from Portland showed up in Seattle's Craigslist. IIRC this guy didn't have support from the police and set his own sting operation, the a-ha thing here was that he used Burner to make it look like he had a Seattle area code:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKTdeXH0Iz0&noredirect=1
This is the kind of information which should be freely available for all public transport. Tfl are a shining example of the right way to support developer communities and help them bring better information in a multitude of formats to the traveling public.

Tragically other data holders in the UK lag far behind.
How so? The only thing I'm skeptical about is I would imagine his local PD would be way busy to go on a petty theft bust but other than that it sounds legit.
Given the French propensity to strike it would have been interesting to see the public's reaction had he been held on anti-terrorism laws when it's clear to all he's an innocent person and there seems little evidence of any imminent threat to justify excessive means.
Meh, there's a reasonably large amount of research on disguising Tor traffic nowadays. Two recent interesting papers were StegoTorus [1], which conceals Tor traffic via steganography in a way robust to the above statistical analysis, and -- more exotically -- SkypeMorph [2], which obfuscates Tor traffic to mimic Skype traffic.

[1] http://www.owlfolio.org/media/2010/05/stegotorus.pdf

[2] http://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/skypemorph-ccs.pdf
Look - I get the security implications.

But I (personally) consider the probability of it happening x potential damage to be insignificant when compared with convenience offered.
I think a better analogy would be "art school", you essentially go there to learn techniques and explore your interests and capabilities, but you should already be a sensible and perceptive person to benefit from it.

Art and what we refer to as "hacking" are analogous in several dimensions in my opinion, and I believe that is because they are expressions of raw passion and resourcefulness.
One doesn't need any barbell squats to do pistol squats. They are more about balance, flexibility and body shape. Short, flexible, fit women usually have no problems with them. Most little kids can do them with a bit of practice. Long legged inflexible men won't be able to do one without a lot of specific practice, even if they have a decent barbell squat.
That tool is super convenient. The serial number, as well as the model number, lens info, etc are all stored in the image metadata. Any metadata reader can get the info for you, you can even view it in Lightroom and sort photos by the camera or lens used.
There are satellite images of the landers: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020628.html
This is quite probably the only time you've missed them. Seriously just not a feature that caught on (because of poor browser integration, and limited use cases)
I'm a Vim user and this is the only Sublime feature that I think I'd like to see in a future version of core Vim. Another comment called it "syntactic sugar for macros"[1] and that's true. Multicursor functionality allows you to avoid repetition in so many cases that it's worthy of inclusion as a feature in its own right.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5504507
Martha, I think I speak for a lot of us on HN that we weren't concerned this was a con, as evidenced by the fact that you're currently number #4 on the home page.

From one self-taught programmer to another, congratulations on reaching your goal, godspeed to New York, and keep us in the loop on how things play out. We're cheering for you.