skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a note, I have been several airports in the top 50 and I certainly do not agree with the rank. I don't know how they measured it, but I don't understand how Singapore can rank that high, I found it close to terrible while visiting. Furthermore, I would rank Copenhagen much higher than e.g. Zürich.

I don't use lounges, perhaps they represent a major part of the rank.
Most people simply don't know how to react in a situation like this. Is normal to do silly things when normal people is inmersed in an emergency. Some people take photos standing in the way to the exit, others flee away in the wrong direction creating a risk of stampede, most not trained people (and even some of the trained people) do exactly the type of things that you should not to do... is pretty habitual.
See Bloggy for Jekyll Rails integration: https://github.com/zbruhnke/bloggy
Will be interesting to compare how your approach varies.
I consider Medium a new way of writing articles with some insight, instead of tutorials and online findings. I'm thinking of using it for the sole purpose of getting my opinions out in the open.

Medium only comes with a simple editor with minimal formatting options and you can push your posts into "Collections", by either yourself or by other people. With that you can create lists of articles about things that are related to each other.

I only just got into it, so I can't really say what the main focus is, but that's what I think.
The fastest internet in the US is Google Fiber 1 gbs. Not 150mbs.
I think they still have scanners - they're just not operated by the TSA - as in it's not a "government agency" running the operation.
How about first link from Google when asked your question? ;) http://gizmodo.com/5935016/what-is-medium
I'd argue that actually it's better to assume the worst case here, not what it potentially could be.

That and the fact that an offline attack can be run on this key is not promising.
WireKit - An iPhone App Wireframing Kit
'Barbaric' stems from a group of people seeing foreigners at their state wall and hearing them as speaking like 'ba ba ba baba baa ba' so they called them barbarians. I can understand Amnesty wanting to avoid being linked with calling people barbarians.
Brown noser :)
BeepEvery: An open-source website that beeps
I am a former customer who was burned the last time they were hacked and were less than truthful. Now it has happened again and nothing has changed. Clearly non existent security audits (cleartext passwords ?) and still lots of unanswered questions.

It should be crystal clear by now that Linode is fundamentally untrustworthy.
If it was your company and you had decided to make a deal with the hackers, would you publicize or publicly address that fact? My thinking is that doing so would incentivize others to do similar acts because you are an easy mark.
I've been to both Changi and SFO - in SFO i walked more or less straight from the plane and out. Same experience when I departed. In Changi i was detained because of reasons they would not tell me. I was placed in a room with a lot of seats and was not allowed to make phone calls or ask any questions. At one point I stood up to walk to the desk and ask why I was detained and they immediately said I had to sit down and be quiet.
Obviously if linux doesn't come "batteries included" then you have to re-invent-from-scratch, or borrow, all the tools like compilers, web servers, package management, archive utilities, etc.

That doesn't mean the community is amazing and wants to contribute! ... it means, that those features didn't exist, and someone had to do them (and yes, it's really great that they're all coming out open source, but it's not revolutionary)

Any OS in that situation will have a strong initial growth as people port their favorite toys across.

I'd be much more interested to see the rate of change over-time, year by year.

...
A single private key passphrase is all that stands between a bad guy and everyone's credit card information... Well I know I feel better...

But jokes aside, there is a huge gap between the strongest and weakest algorithms used to passphrase protect a private key. I wish they gave us more information about the certificates.

Including: is it ONE private certificate for everyone? Or one per client/customer? How was the key pair generated? When was the key pair generated? Which algorithms does it utilise and at what key length?
I know most HN readers won't have too much experience with it, but the airport in Indianapolis is probably the best I've seen.

No traffic to the airport, in & out of security in 5 minutes (longest I've waited is 10 minutes), free wifi AND a TSA agent smiled at me. It's like another world.
Thanks, that's a good point. It's easy to forget how much of your "Common sense" is actually years worth of experience.

PS * or her
If you're going to use etymology as a reason to censor words, then I hope you never use the word 'bad'.
It's hard to find good Perl developers and even harder to run multi-language libraries for the same online portal (ie same site, domain, database, hosting environment: hardware, OSs....and so on).
I ran the prestigious marathon for the first time yesterday. I had a good race, set a new best time for recent years, and had a great experience. The only thing I would have been able to do yesterday was give blood, and that apparently wasn't needed. So there's nothing I can do, and fretting and worrying isn't going to change anything. Walking around scared isn't going to prevent anything. I sympathize with those affected, from those who lost friends and family to the thousands who were not allowed to finish the race. What I won't do is make the bombing the primary memory of the race. Sorry, bombers, you're not taking that away. I'll allow it to stand as a seperate, tragic event in my mind and deal with it from there.

Today my wife and I will go walk the Freedom Trail just as we planned. Maybe we won't get into some (or any) of the monuments, but we're doing it regardless. I mean, what else are we supposed to do, huddle in our hotel room until our flight tomorrow? The breakfast place a block south of the closed off crime scene is open, so we're off to go get some food now.
It's neither necessary nor sufficient for success. But I believe it will deter some competitors into choosing an easier alternative. Writing iOS apps for sharing pictures of your lunch with people nearby, for example. And some investors -- particularly investors in low-risk cultures like Australia -- would prefer to invest in something with IP.

I am not in a strong position to start a fence-swinging business.

I have no startup pedigree, no contacts in SV, no famous friends, no rich parents, didn't study at MIT/Stanford/UCB or work at Google/Facebook/whoever and I cannot move to SV for the foreseeable future.

I'll take every legal advantage I can.

And judging by the downvotes, applying for a patent is unpopular. I feel that it's more inventive than slide-to-unlock, but folk will have to take my word for now.
Or you could go to the official lesscss.org website and follow the very clear instructions to 'npm install -g less'.
Forget RSS. Nextly is the new way to consume online content
Has anyone ever listened to Paul Krugman? Well, yes, unfortunately.

'Krugman's Call for a Housing Bubble"
http://mises.org/daily/6372/
Correct. I wasn't clear, so let me clarify: I regard every PDF I read as a static document. That's how I see them and that's how I read them, with readers that treat them as static. I have no use for a PDF document that wants to acts as software and I wouldn't use a bug-nest of a piece of software to run it.
doesn't a patent imply that you must let other people use your idea in exchange of a fair price?
Hey Linode how about addressing the claims that the private and public keys were both stored in the same location on the compromised manager server. Is that true? And if so, why wasn't it revealed? Did they get access to any credit card information or was it truly just the last 4 digits used for lookup purposes?

In my opinion these are the real questions us Linode customers want to know the answers to, sooner rather than later.
Nonsense, I flew out of Changi last week and can't recall a single sign warning about the death penalty for drug trafficking.

The warning is on the customs form that you fill in when you fly into Singapore, as you'd expect. But comparing it to the TSA is facile as they're unavoidable if you're flying in the US.
Big companies find other ways to do it though. Don't believe for a second that nut job managers won't do everything they can to screw your career if they feel slighted.
A counter argument is that someone agrees to loan you some money in exchange for some collateral. If the value of the collateral isn't enough to cover the value of the loan in case of forfeit then surely that is the lenders problem since he was the one who set the level of collateral too low.
This was a weekend project and still needs some polishing. There are a couple of outstanding issues that I'll get to when I find the time.
He's making criticism of the media as a whole. It's not an indictment of the individuals as much as it is the system although the individuals are complicit in creating the atmosphere & programming.

They might "care" about their work, but the fact that they all-too-commonly deteriorate into fear-mongering & tragedy porn means nothing more than a startup with great employees and really nice guys with great intentions who fail to create revenue.

> There probably won't be any meaningful updates for a couple of days: but the TV channels and newpapers have to fill the dead air somehow, to keep the eyeballs they've attracted on the advertisements, so they cobble together anything they can grab—usually talking heads speculating without benefit of actual information.

Calling out people for doing a poor job of their job isn't being "mean" as much as it is stating facts - no matter how much said employee "cares" about their work.
I've worked solely on a MBA (plus external monitor) for 3+ years now. I started with a 13" and then moved down to an 11". Doing a variety of design work, etc. and I love the simplicity of a smaller machine that I can throw in my bag without worrying about weight. Hook it up to a monitor and you're good for serious stuff too. I'd go for the MBA!
Pulling numbers out of thin air is not advisable at a data driven and citation based forum like HN.
When is a character not a Character?
You should always have a mentor.
I like how almost every single comment is a variation on "Netflix for Linux, please".
> Credit card numbers in our database are stored in encrypted format, using public and private key encryption. The private key is itself encrypted with passphrase encryption and the complex passphrase is not stored electronically.
Not sure if all of those can be called "specs", really.

They're very much on the soft side of things, instead of giving voltage and capactity (in Ah) of the battery, all you get is a very approximate runtime.

The "spec" for the display, which arguably is the core piece of tech in a pair of electronic glasses doesn't even use the word "pixel".

It's interesting that the recommended format for photos is 640x360, on a device that is said to be 720p capable. Of course, 720 / 2 is 360, which is ... weird.
Singapore airport is great. Delicious Laksa, a butterfly enclosure, spacious with good shopping. Not sure which airport you went to.
It is the first step of forming an alliance and symbiotic relationship between adversarial systems.

When two humans want to acquire all the assets of the other and make the other one the slave, the first step in starting an alliance is doing a cost benefit analysis of how things would be easier for both if cooperation was done. Often times the one persuaded is reluctant until one human takes a leap of faith and gives, in expectation of receiving. It's all highly mathematical and I could create an algorithm to describe it. But you wouldn't recommend that either.
Stanford Computer Date Matching from 1959
> I haven't used Flattr in a few years so I'm not sure exactly how this feature works.

Flattr is the best of the microtipping services that has so far emerged. They removed one classic source of angst by capping the total monthly fee, so tippers don't get a little sting of worry every time they click the but button.

Compare fixed-rate mobile phone plans with pay-as-you-go. Even though PAYG plans are often cheaper, many people will pay a premium simply to avoid having to think about what they might or might not owe at the end of the month. Flattr get that part right.

> If there is anything that could be interpreted in any way to affect you get clarification.

I disagree, for two reasons. Firstly, it's easier to get forgiveness than permission. Second, even if they're kicked off Twitter, they got exposure during their time there and more since getting the boot.
Better to be honest, noble and unemployed.
There was a heck of a lot of Java out there used for web development around that time. But your point still stands - Java probably would've been a lot more difficult to setup and maintain than CF.
It'd be worth having a read of the logs, if true it appears that the attack was only to compromise a specific target.

The fraud won't occur till the database is released and the private key is cracked.
Buy bitcoins with credit cards
7.8 magnitude earthquake in Iran
It is fairly standard. Go look at your Amazon account, you'll see the last four digits.
> If you believe in the open web, support it.

The World Wide Web is dead. Welcome to the Internet, where you can inter-network between your favorite walled gardens.
It's even worse for them than that. If they are violating the TOS it is a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act 18 U.S.C. § 1030. Federal felonies for all involved. :-/
It's promising but still needs a lot of higher level tools before its usable by a none expert. Distributed systems done right are hard. Lets go shopping.
> read the rules first. If there is anything that could be interpreted in any way to affect you get clarification.

And how do you get clarification, if I may ask?

I've been asking for over 2 years about a clarification on the iOS terms of service, no answer yet.

Those rules are now longer than the US constitution ...
All that being said, how can anyone think suing a customer over a single review is going to be a net PR win?
The main function of DRM is not to prevent copying; it's to provide content rightsholders with a legal hook on which to hang people who make/distribute/use unauthorized copies.
I think it's different. As I understand it, with favstar you can't actually give someone money. You can give them a trophy (or other virtual rewards) which you yourself buy with money. The key difference is that the system is still fundamentally about nothing more than status. You make content and receive thanks and status VS you make content and get paid for it. Innovations to the former system are far less likely to cause a big cultural shift than a switch to the latter system is.
Generally (I can't speak for the concrete case), when a business accepts payment in different currencies, it's because they intend to hold that currency, typically because they can settle liabilities in that currency.

Pure speculation, but this could simply be a case of OKCupid wanting to support the Bitcoin ecosystem by providing a service that can be paid for directly in Bitcoin, thus raising the attractiveness of accepting Bitcoin as payment, further strengthening the system. To do this, they'll probably have to put the long-term net value of their Bitcoin holdings as zero, but they can probably afford that.
One thing that stood out to me is Lima airport being top 30. That airport unless it was completely overhauled in the last 2 years was a huge POS. I say that because half the flights are hours delayed every time I have flown there, the place was filthy each time I visited, and felt like a regional airport not a world class one.
Merge sort demo with d3.js
Well, lets think about it a bit. It turns out the numbers are ridiculously hard to find although I'm a pretty good searcher/infovore. Better info would be appreciated. Anyway the best I could find was two claims:

There were 11 million american victims of identity theft in 2011 (outta 400 million) for a ratio of about 1 in 40 of the general population gets p0wned per year. Obviously not all ID theft is CC theft but I'd guess a lot of it is. Based on friends and family experience getting a CC number stolen every four decades of use passes the smell test so I will go with that.

A quote from prweb.com found by google: "Started in 2003, Linode has grown to over 45,000 customers". I wonder what year that quote is from. Still "forty five thousand" is probably not totally ridiculous. It makes sense looking at their hostname scheme, ip space allocations as per whois, and some educated guesses. Lots of people including myself like linode.

So assuming the average linode customer is the same as the average joe6pack then 45000/40/365 = about 3 linode customers should get p0wned per day regardless of any linode problem. To make my inner EE happy I'll call the "noise level" about 3/day and evaluate the SNR based on that noise level to see if there's a signal of p0wnership.

Obviously the two reports over the course of a couple days is not 100% of all linode customers who got p0wned. But it does show that two reports doesn't really prove anything.

Now, as a made up example, 900 reports over 3 days would be a HUGE indicator "something" happened. But at a predicted noise level of about ten or so over three days, two reported is down there in or below the noise. So, as a long term linode customer I'm not freaking out (yet). My CC does email me every time a charge is made, and nothing weird has been seen. All quiet on the western front.
Every time I went through SFO my flight has been delayed.
I was going to post a TL;DR but the article is pretty short. Suffice it to say there are things in the database that should not be there. Encrypted credit card numbers along with the public and private keys? Plain text Lish passwords?

I am curious why the fix for this specific vulnerability[0] wasn't implemented even though it's been out for a week now (obviously slightly less by the time they were affected).

[0] http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-10.ht...
Heathrow is run by a private company, not uk govt. BAA is privatized I believe.
What do you see as the applications of this?
> If you fail at that, I will leave bad feedback, and if it causes you to go out of business, I couldn’t care less. Do your job better next time.

Wow. One small mistake and they should go out of business. Are you treated that way in your job?
How does this work with conservation of energy? It seems like free cooling?
I outlined some uses in the readme.md on the repo. Basically serves to immediately timebox something for you. I originally made it to time my workouts.
Yes, but there was general outrage at the terrible queues at Heathrow - e.g. see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18672286 it was raised in Parliament even, everyone said it was unacceptable and it was then fixed.
Is the poor service in the US seen as a problem that's being sorted? Or just accepted?
>Then perhaps that isn't the company you want to work for.

If you've been out of work for six months you no longer get to choose which companies you want to work for.
We love competition, especially US based, have you seen Copper.is and Centup :)
Stuttering: "Talk with continued involuntary repetition of sounds, esp. initial consonants"

The definition of stuttering involves having problems with physical speech. The definition of woman doesn't involve having problems with physical speech.

Stutterers are underrepresented in most conferences; even if you could get them up on stage, it would be a difficult presentation to listen give eloquently (and probably hard to listen to). Women are underrepresented at conferences, but it's not because they would have a problem presenting. Some people might have a problem listening to it, but that'd be largely because of their own issues.

Comparing stutterering - a physical (or perhaps mental) impediment - to females is insulting.
A key difference: the problems at LHR with the UK Border Agency stem from public employees effectively holding travelers hostage to extort higher pay whereas the the terrible way DHS treats foreigners is so by design.
Gotcha. Pretty neat :)
Beware: cash advances from credit cards typically do NOT have an interest free period (and may be charged at a different interest rate) unlike normal purchases.
Ideation for Startups by GetViable
$12.95 for 0.1BTC?? Seems to be too high right now.
I went and had a quick look and I think you are over-stating the situation. 1030 appears to deal with either going around authorisations for USG computers (a)(3), or going around authorisations for other computers (a)(4) in order to commit what would be in other settings ordinary crimes and misdemeanours: intentional damage (5)(A), reckless damage (5)(B), damage and loss (5)(C) and various species of fraud (6),(7).

I'm pretty sure Flattr's actions qualify for zero of these.

(IANAL, TINLA).
Flattr was also hurt by Apple too remember...
There's no litigation over taking too much power from the grid because the grid is clearly owned by the power company, and they get to tell you what you're allowed to do with it (within the limits imposed by regulations). If the grid were simply a free-for-all the way you're proposing radio spectrum should be, things would be quite different.
Who decides that my joyous hobby of spamming the radio spectrum is extortion and not legitimate use?
Yeah it's called kill Flattr and take their idea, oldest game in the book.
You're assuming that access to investment (VC funding or whatever) is a perfectly efficient system. It clearly isn't.
The vast vast majority of interesting technical work is done in large organizations, or at least organizations that have enough people that you're not "picking your clients". Small companies that have genuinely interesting work are sadly the exception rather than the rule. Many of those small organizations support themselves with DARPA R&D contracts or the like.

If you really care about interesting work and colleagues, there never a cut and dried answer about small vs large organizations. Ever.
It's endemic of a broken system based on completely asinine patents on things like (as you mentioned) slide-to-unlock, rounded rectangles, "[X that has been around for thirty-five years] but on a computer!" and as one of my clients wanted to patent, "chat inside a Facebook page."

Applying for a patent is unpopular because (software|technology) patents are unpopular, wrong-headed, and generally used by companies like Lodsys to extort money from independent iOS developers who don't have the resources for legal staff.

I don't know anything about you other than vaguely recognizing your handle from around HN. It's possible your idea is extremely novel, even groundbreaking, and it completely deserving of legal protection. It's very unlikely. Chances are you're just going to waste time and money.
Your precious family photos are going to die
Why can't Tegra find its mojo?
Hey, If you are planning an HN meetup in and around Delhi, please let me know too. nxd_in at [[ yahoo dot com ]]
I'm in the process of buying a house. My monthly payment will be ~$300 less than what I'm paying for rent now for a similar house, and I could probably break even (taking into account maintenance) if I had to pay a property management company to rent it out in the even that I needed to move.

And in 10 years, who knows what rent will be? I know what my house payment will be, modulo possible changes in tax and insurance rates.

Not all markets are like that, but in some cases it does make sense to buy a house.