skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no drivers for 802.11n cards in pfsense 2.0 (current stable version), which is based on FreeBSD 8.1. Some b/g/n cards will work, but only in b/g modes:

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Is_802.11n_wireless_support...

Drivers for 802.11n are in FreeBSD 9.0 and later, but that won't be the base for pfsense until 2.2:

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PfSense_and_FreeBSD_Version...
Your point is well taken but there have also been a number of things that did not feel incremental to me when introduced to them. Google, DSL/Cable providers, Napster, iPhone, YouTube, and Bitcoin all felt like big jumps.
Ads are also the thing that enables really amazing things to exist. Regardless of your feelings about facebook, the community it has created has had drastic impacts on the world at large. Almost the entire knowledge of humanity is now in anyone's grasp with a simple click of a button (Google). That was only possible because Google was able to make money off of it through ads. How do you propose that the internet pay for its self without ads? The whole freedom of the internet is because they can make money off of ads.

Not everyone needs to cure cancer to do something great.
The timezone doesn't determine which day of the week April 6th, 2013, falls on.
Event Horizon from 1997 also had a scene where someone survived a short trip through space.
"current users of Python 2.x" is too broad to be accurate; anyways, it will be interesting to watch how motivated the holdouts will be when the 2015 deadline[1] approaches.

[1]: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-April/12516...
The statement "space is cold" doesn't make much sense, since space, being a vacuum, is lacking any _thing_ to have a temperature at all. What little matter does exist in the vacuum of space is not going to conduct any significant heat from your warm body. An ordinary "space blanket" would keep you quite warm. Until you suffocated, of course.
I don't understand the problem, they removed a feature from free accounts? I'm sure they do it that way instead of giving a cutoff so that free accounts don't spend that entire time encoding their entire dvd collection or whatever.
This is a classic story of really good negotiation.

Getting the very serious offer from Twitter was the best thing to happen to Neal.

I can only imagine the negotiation with Google that he must of had. It probably went on the lines of something like this -

"Hey, I really love it here at Google. I am really excited with what we are working on and want to deliver it but this Twitter offer is just something that I can't ignore. I am looking at the financial future of my family and I would be doing them a disservice if I don't consider this offer seriously. Is there anything we can do to just make this offer go away."

Neal had the upper hand. Worst-case scenario for him would be that there would be no change. He would continue to work at Google. Next best case scenario would be that he would be working at another mega-tech company, and getting better compensated with potentially even greater upside.

Google was in a position of weakness in either case. If they did nothing and he left, it would amount to even more collateral damage as others would get the message that Google can't compete and Twitter would make even more offers to others.

By paying him out, they basically paid him the opportunity cost in real dollars that he may have had if he moved to Twitter.

In all of this, Neal's professionalism would have tipped the favor on his side.
I see Ms. Streisand works for French Intelligence now. I hope this gets a South Park episode, too.
Oakland PD is the worst PD I've had the displeasure of interacting with. I was in downtown Oakland at night in a party of 5, and we were accosted and robbed by three scary-looking thugs with guns. I was lucky enough to not lose my iPhone (they didn't notice I had not given them my phone) and was able to call 911 right after. The cops showed up immediately (within 3 min) with 4 cars.

We indicated that the perpetrators must've been just down the street, barely a block away. Of course, a description of "three black guys wearing hoodies" does not get you very far, in Oakland. The cops refused to send a car after them, instead asking us to give statements for 30 minutes, before moving on.

The worst part was that we asked if they could give us a ride to the station or to a BART station, and they refused. They had more things to do… like finding other people whose statements they can send a group of 4 cars to write down, I imagine.
This probably won't be of much help, but I would just be yourself. If you want to contribute to your friend's project, do it. If you want to write a hundred tiny tools, do it. If you want to write one huge project, do it.

Not only will you be more motivated to do work that you already wanted to do anyway, you're also less likely to unpleasantly surprise an employer who was expecting someone different.
No one has said that html5 == chrome. Does it not work on other browsers for you?
Nice classy article, HN.

- Links to over $500 dollars worth of equipment on Amazon, and over $1000 overall (I guess the Marcy device isn't sold on Amazon?) but no links to any sites with good information about lifting weights.

- Recommendation of specific supplements and lifting program (including suggested numbers of reps and sets) but only a haphazard list of random exercises and no information about how to perform them.

- No discussion of how his suggested total time and set count imply very short rest periods, which isn't necessarily wrong but deserves some comment, especially for beginners who might wonder "WTF is going on?" when they try to do five sets to failure in ten minutes (that's 15-20 sets split into three sessions totaling thirty minutes per day.)

- Come to think of it, very little discussion of how beginners should work their way up to such an effort, especially since they should be much more slow and careful until they're comfortable with good form. Beginners working to failure? You'd better be very specific about what exercises you're talking about before you suggest that.

- Recommendation to use creatine with no discussion of what it does. Creatine does not in itself make you stronger, but it makes it possible for you to sustain a harder pace for a longer time in your workouts. Even if you're experienced in the gym, you have to be careful about overuse injuries when you start using creatine, because the sudden ability to work harder, longer, allows you to put more strain on your connective tissue than you're used to.

- The section on safety includes nothing about safety, except, in the last sentence, a weak suggestion that a single session with a personal trainer might be helpful. No warning that many personal trainers know little about weights. No tips on how to find one who does. NO OTHER SAFETY INFORMATION. And, again, no links to better sources of information.

- Bizarre recommendation of a belt for safety, despite suggesting dumbbell exercises only and suggesting that no instruction is needed beyond a single "fix-up" session with a trainer. What the heck is a person with no instruction and a bunch of dumbbells going to do that makes a belt a good idea?

- Recommendation of working out in the morning with no mention of the possible danger of working your back within one hour of getting out of bed.

- Many links to his own articles but no links to external sources of information about weightlifting (of which there are many) except for a calorie calculator.

- Come to think of it, no acknowledgment of the people or information sources who helped him get started and influenced his choices.

- Finally, seriously, given the choice between creating all those links to equipment and supplements on Amazon and creating a decent list of suggested exercises with links to instruction on how to do them, we got the Amazon links. Odd priorities, there. Very odd.
> impressive memory usage improvements (Firefox is now by far the least memory hungry browser among the modern ones)

What evidence do you base this on -- your own experience, or that of others, or measurements such as those done by Tom's Hardware, or something else?

I'm not disputing your claim, I'd just like to know :)
They just released an update a week ago that was supposed to have fixed the problem. It does seem better, but I haven't used it for long enough to properly verify that.
You don't have to not leave it in the car, you should just cover it up or hide it.

If you have a blanket in the trunk then hide your computer under it if you have to leave the car, or put it under the passenger's seat.
Indeed. A living human probably generates more heat from the normal bodily processes than can be radiated away in space. For this reason spacesuits are equipped with coolers, not (AFAIK) heaters.
Find a way to cure cancer while serving ads and you'll be both rich and famous.

EDIT: This sounds snarkier than I meant it to, sorry. I agree that there are many things that I look at and I think "This is nuts!" - like how cheap products are that get mass produced in China. Someone gets oil from a deep sea well; refines it, turns it into plastic, ships it to a factory, who do stuff with it, put it in a box, put all those into other boxes, ship it, distribute it locally, someone takes all the little boxes out of the big boxes and puts them on display, and I can buy this for a couple of dollars.

Yes, it's weird that we spend millions on Barbie dolls, and not so much on cancer or malaria or HIV or hunger.
Ah yes, Bill's essay on the dangers of the future. The first time I read it I was struck not by the message but by the tone. Similar to the tone someone uses when they buy their first (and perhaps only) gun in the USA and, realizing how straight forward it was, they realize that anyone could just walk up to them and shoot them because well they could easily get their own gun.

The world is a big and generally ambivalent place. It has been in our (by which I mean humans) power to render it uninhabitable for over 50 years now, and yet still we haven't. We may at some point, but so far so good.

But as adults, you have to choose. You can choose not to drive on the freeways, knowing that at any time you could be mowed down by a drunk driver or someone texting, or you can go into it with your eyes open and your precautions in place. It is important to know that you can be killed while driving in order to respect what needs to be done (and not done) when you are behind the wheel of a car. If you don't respect that, you die.

So it is with the world at large. And the great "information hiding"[1] campaign not withstanding, its important to know how technology can kill you so as to know when it is likely to.

I do believe at some point we'll be able to talk to machines directly with your brain. We do that today with sound and visual images, eliminating the ears and eyes in the path is a matter of understanding the API. A friend of mine, points out that the first person to become part of a computer will be able to out perform everyone else, if they are not a nice person they will prevent others from getting the same advantage.

But what is their advantage? They can make more money than you and me? Lots of people already have that. They can write code faster? better? Sure there are meglomaniacs, we need to watch out for those folks and shut them down, but there are bad drivers too.

We can run away, but it doesn't change what is. The older you get it seems the more you recognize the futility of that.

[1] Somewhere in the mid-90's it occurred to people you could just learn all this stuff that was dangerous and they have been on a mission ever since to carefully remove information from the system. The trick is to do it slowly and carefully to avoid the Striesand effect, but it continues to this day. Chemistry sets are a good exemplar.
Okay, I admit I haven't tried very hard to setup OSX for OSS development lately.

But at the same time you're making my point. I don't have to worry about it on Linux - I use my distro's built in package manager and it just works. On OSX you have to figure it out yourself.
Does Google have plans to expand it much more and in different states / cities? I lost hope for Verizon FiOS to grow in urban areas, and I'm not going to use any coax. cable companies for sure.
Fascinating, but probably shouldn't be surprising. By 1860, Boston was already 1/3 of it present size--too developed for wholesale re-layouts to happen without something major (like the Great Chicago fire did in Chicago).

Look at this map of lower Manhattan from the 1600's to today: http://www.racontrs.com/stories/nyc-land-reclamation. Look how, aside from land reclamation, the basic street architecture has changed little since the mid 1700's.
Do you at least hide the valuables in the car so you can't see them through the window?
Based on a virtual napkin math based on what's in the story and GOOG's current stock price, I'm speculating the entire deal was simply "200,000 options." I'm sure he got a promotion/raise out of it as well.
Surely, even with maintenance releases, there are exceptions where developers decide to break the rules a bit? Check the justification for this specific one: http://bugs.python.org/issue10211.
Well that's a strange way of putting it. I understand what you're getting at, but every city has its own character. What if you're bored or exhausted with the Bay Area's character? Yes, that's an internal conflict but also yes, moving elsewhere can solve it.

It may be a great town, but it isn't the only one and it certainly isn't the most exciting or engaging. There's too much else going on in the world to put one place on a pedestal.
Find me a business founder
So I am kind of in a rut. In the past few years, I have cofounded a 500 startups company (which does about 2MM a year), I launched another platform for events. Helping a company which just raised 10MM. Been CTO of 3 companies.

That being said, I am hungry to launch another startup, but I am struggling to a find and a business/ design cofounder.

My email is: kevin@launchunit.com

Kev
ITYM "large subsonic sea-skimming missiles". Moskit was specifically designed to punch through US Aegis defenses faster than they could intercept. While things have moved on, there's still some question over whether western naval defense missiles such as Standard or Aster can intercept a Moskit -- especially whatever version the Russians are using, as opposed to selling to Iran and China.

The MD-160 was intended (in the 1980s) to be a can-opener for US carrier battle groups -- able to close at 300 knots in nap of earth, evading detection, then launch six Moskits at once. (By way of comparison a Tu-22M or Tu-95 could only carry one or two Moskits.) Luckily the USSR ran out of money before they could build more than one of the things, which now sits in mothballs (despite various proposals to build more as, e.g., passenger ferries or high speed mobile disaster-relief hospitals).
When my car was recovered, the responding officer showed no interest in fingerprinting the car, or really investigating at all.

We should expect, and be willing to pay for, better from our public services.

The cycle of moving mountaineering gear to and from my car solely to prevent theft uses up ~1/2 hr a week of my life, and provides utility to nobody.

I won't steal your stuff, even if you leave it in plain view in your car; it's yours. Please don't steal mine.

Looks like there's room for improvement in the US...

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_bur-crime-burglaries
I've had most success getting into contact online with CoFoundersLab.com.
You are confusing the iMessage device activation UI with the underlying crypto operations.

Nobody iMessaging me gets any indication when I get a new iPad and add it to my account, despite all their messages to me now encrypting (on their device) to n+1 of my devices now.
A few years ago, my wife made a mistake and left her purse in her class room as she went out for a smoke break - while it was a pretty poor decision to leave her purse unattended, this was a class of about 10 students that she thought she could trust. As she was driving back home, she realized she didn't have any money for the toll to cross over the bridge - which should not have been the case. Luckily the toll booth clerk let her through and my wife really didn't think much about it other than that she may have just not had money on her after all.

Later that evening we get a call from Chase asking about a string of purchases on her credit card - panic mode sets in and she realizes that one of her credit cards is missing. Luckily, my wife puts the phone on speaker mode so I can hear the full details of the conversation - and the Chase rep goes through the list of locations the card was used that day. I take note of all the locations, times and dollar amounts.

With this information in hand, we both headed to the first store on the list, a GameStop located about 10 minutes from the school, and the first purchase attempt happened 15 minutes after school ended - the culprit wasted no time. We speak to the manager of the GameStop who understands the situation and is eager to help, but only with the presence of the police. We call up the police and are able to explain everything that has happened, that we want to file a report, and that we are on location of one of the stores who has the camera footage already loaded if someone could come out. We waited about 45 minutes and finally a patrol car shows up.

We start the process of explaining what has happened so far, that we have the full list of locations and times - and just need their help to be able to positively identify the thief on camera. They agree and we are able to access the back video room to attempt to identify the person. Sadly, GameStop (at least this location) had really poor recordings and it was hard to have a 100% confirmation - it could've been one of two classmates and we weren't certain. The next location was a Target, literally around the corner. We went over there, with the two police officers, who went to speak to their security office. Unlike GameStop, we had to wait outside until they had loaded the exact time - I guess to prevent us from seeing any other information/transactions. It turns out that Target had a security system that can take the credit card number used, automatically go to not only the right time, but right checkout aisle and show close ups of the person AND the card being used. One press of a button and the video was burnt to a DVD for the police officers to take back as evidence.

In the end the class mate was trying to buy Playstation 3s to be able to sell, so she could pay off the fines that she received for committing identity theft when she was a minor.... She received 6 months in one county for the theft of the card, then another 8 months for using the card in a different county. Additionally her mom was arrested since they noticed that she had a warrant out for her arrest so they just took care of that one as well.
Thanks guys! I didn't even think about there being nothing around to transfer heat away the body. I would have figured that the fact that water boils and then freezes in space would mean (humans being mostly water) that a person would expire rather quickly unprotected.
DC district court, 4-3 split 30 years ago.

Only weakly relevant to California today.

But yeah, that case was about police's right to lying to victims about providing emergency service, not declining non-emergency service, which is very much not an obligation.
Putting your email in your profile or here might help.
vesting over... 7-10 years?

$10m a year for a guy running a $7b business.
I do now. It's hard to make it look like there's really nothing interesting in a wagon, especially if you'd like to stop in at a store/restaurant after a day in the mountains.

At best, there's a blanket over a pile of stuff that looks a lot like a pack and skis...
Many annotations in Spring are merely markers used during startup to wire things up or generate bytecode on the fly. There is no way to jump to the actual code.
Kind of like the story about Van Halen and brown M&M's?
This is a job for life and then some.

If you compare this with full professorship (academic tenure), that will cost the university about $4 million (assuming $60k/yr - probably $6-7 million if the university is upper echelon). So conservatively this is 10-15x what tenure is.

Neal Mohan sounds like the business equivalent of Jeff Dean [1]

[1] http://research.google.com/people/jeff/
Did they have LoJack or equivalent?

My friend's work computer had LoJack, got stolen, and helped the police bust a stolen computer dealer and recover a bunch of laptops.
> Well, no shit, Sherlock, that means you're going to have to discharge the weapon if you're in danger.

Some of us are sufficiently averse to being forced to kill people that we will go to great lengths to avoid potential danger.
Does the gear fit in your trunk? Or are you an unfortunate soul with a hatchback?
I found a book about mid 90's business cards. They are all, every single one of them, unusable today.

I also found another book called "Creating Killer Websites" by David Siegel. (http://www.killersites.com/killerSites/core.html) It's amazing just how different everything was.

I love the modern Internet, but I do wish the web had started with HTML & CSS, and everything else was kludged onto somewhere else.
This is a fair point. However, if you do what we do, Austin is arguably the second best place to live outside of SF/Bay Area. The concentration of very smart people, technology and startups in this city can be very surprising for people who haven't spent a lot of time here.
A maintenance release still used by 99% of production python shops and the default install on most linux distros. Not that surprising really.
That's the tragedy of pursuing justice.
I've played around with a WiFly module sold by sparkfun that seems pretty functional and reasonably cheap at 35$.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10822

Any idea how much cheaper this could be?

By the way your site doesn't seem to have a valid RSS or Atom feed. Your html has an incorrect feed link back to the homepage itself:

<link href="./" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Eric Evenchick ATOM Feed" />
Three20 was in vogue (if it ever was) about three to four years ago. It was an ugly abstraction because it was very web-development centric. Most good developers I know have long abandoned Three20.

Really, you're not a real iOS programmer until you write your data abstraction yourself... and rewrite it two or three times based on lessons learned.
'cure cancer' was just a placeholder for anything of greater importance to the human condition. However, maybe you are onto something. Maybe ads are indeed the lifeblood of the new interconnected, networked world of century 21 and beyond. I guess nobody figured out a better way to sustain life on the 'internets'. Yet...
Diamons:

"For flare, I'd make the body text such as username/password small like an 11px font."

I am curious why you would say that?
Hopefully they work their way down to San Antonio before I work my way up to Austin.
The demo works fine for me on Nightly 23.0a1, which browser are you using?
Thanks, I'll read that. "Flight" by Gene Kranz, is also an amazing book.
FriendCode add-ons : Extend your development environment
> I'm not going to use any coax. cable companies for sure.

Why not? I'm all for fiber but really what I want is a fast symmetric connection. If someone can provide that over coax, that's fine with me.
The word was "incredible", and I was actually not referring to 2.7 specifically, but to maintenance releases in general (3.3.1 also got hundreds of bugfixes).