skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry but your first sentence is just bad logic. Just to play devil's advocate, while you are on the ground/taxi-ing in the plane, let's say that you play a disconnected game (one that is a single player game and requires no connection of any kind). No interference is detected. An hour into the flight, you launch an app that proceeds to send your contact list to their home servers. You surely don't expect the pilots to stop what they are doing and come show you, "Look - here's what the problem you are causing is. Turn off your phone!"

The second paragraph - sure, fine. I think that's what we all want to know.
Destruction of personal property?
The Times is the world's largest financial newspaper. I regularly deliver the FT to individuals here in Denmark when delivering mail on Saturdays. It's an international newspaper.
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Thank you very much for your feedback. Point taken. The reason (not saying it is the right one) we started with only LinkedIN was that it is seen as one way to keep the quality of the participation.

Trust us (you can ask - what is that?), there is not going to be any connection between your LinkedIN account and your ShareCred activity. It is just a way to login.

Having said that, we will seriously consider opening up registration.

Thanks again,
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Curious - why are people so damn resistant to turning off their devices for takeoff and landing, given the chance it _might_ be safer?

The argument is similar to subjecting yourself to radiation in the off chance that it (scanner) might detect yourself as a terrorist.
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Tor was developed by the US Navy so that people in oppressive regimes could have secure communications, though I guess that could qualify as 'illegal activities' under the laws of said regimes...
So, if the couple had shot down the drone (by a gun with a legal permit, or some other means, e.g. slingshot or a counter drone) would the creepy man be able to press charges?
Or one that was half-asleep. I can't remember the last time I saw anyone spell iPhone with an upper-case I
Whew. I was asking myself, "It was changed to 'Turning Off IPhone Critical to Pilots Citing Interference'? That can't be an improvement!"
Yes, personally, I have a much more difficult time figuring out which bro handshake is about to go down in an informal setting...which has resulted in some terrible awkwardness. It is much easier to read a female coworker's body language in the workplace to tell if she likes hugs or not.
fascinating flows: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,3,1,2,2,1,2,3,0,1,0...
Seriously, how hard would it be to set up a rigorous test in an average airliner, noting what interference was detected, how much, and its objective effect on avionics?

That's why people are so resistant; the whole thing has the stench of unsubstantiated BS about it. Kinda like the TSA.
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If there's one social norm I'd love for HN, it would be "If you build things, we're on your side." (I hope that the normative intent of this is clear enough to not require 2 paragraphs of inoculations against nitpickery. On second thought, if there were two social norms I'd like for HN, that plus "Default to not nitpicking.")
I run the code multiple times on different GPUs of the same generation (not necessarily the same model) in different physical machines and get the same bit-accurate output. You're right, technically, there could be a race condition somewhere somehow that just doesn't fire very often. It isn't proven to be free of race conditions, but in practice I suspect it is so (right up until it isn't, a situation often detected by end users using a code path in a unique way, at which point it's a bug, and I fix it).

But in practice, since it works like gangbusters to find broken GPUs if one checks for that deterministic output on known working examples, even finding broken GPUs that otherwise pass existing memory tests, I'm reasonably sure it works.
Are you an electrical engineer, or similarly educated in RF communications, and thus able to determine what is arbitrary?

I have been in tech for 29 years, and I am a licensed commercial pilot in both fixed wing and rotorcraft (but I don't work as a professional pilot.) I don't know what effect my iPhone would have on aircraft instruments, so I turn it off.

Pre-flight and in-flight procedures are based on what is known, and what helps to prevent problems from the unknown. The safety of flight is in part about not taking unnecessary risks. For example, if I have to visibility into a cloud (radar, instruments) I do not fly through a cloud.

I apply this logic to during the critical periods of takeoff and landing, if I am unsure a device that emits RF will affect my instruments, I shut it off. Inconvenience does not outweigh safety, even / especially if the effect on safety is unknown. The worst case scenario, although likely minor, is simple not worth the risk.
Isn't Mt. Gox a japanese entity?

I'm not a financial expert by any means but it's pretty clear when you're moving cash to Mt. Gox, you're moving it out of the country. And I think the paperwork is a joint responsibility.
Feds seize money from top Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox
/Begin Tangent

On the subject of LightSquared, I know quite a few people who belonged to that project and I think there's a lot more going on there than meets the eye.

In the days following the DoD test for GPS there were a lot of outcries of fraudulent testing parameters that got thrown around and were never really resolved to anyones satisfaction. I still contend that low-orbit satellites can provide a potent and real alternative to the wireless systems we have today (or at least as a distribution path for backhaul).

I'm still quite hopeful that the LightSquared kids will get a spectrum swap now that Obama has been settled in the office for a while. Here's hoping; it would be a net-boon for the whole wireless industry.

/End Tangent
>You surely don't expect the pilots to stop what they are doing and come show you, "Look - here's what the problem you are causing is. Turn off your phone!"

No, but I would expect one of the pilots to notice something that looks, smells, or feels like electronic interference, and ask the FA's to make an announcement asking everyone to make sure their devices are off because actual interference has been found and is causing a problem.
Considering he had $0 taken out for taxes each pay check, and it was over several years, it's really not much.

My rough estimate is he could have earned $60k a year for 3 years and owe approximately that much.
1. Divshot does this and it's buggy. I actually really like that it's native. In theory it's less error prone.

Downloading now...I'm a customer.
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Quora does indeed have very good content, but driven by questions. It is not oriented towards expression (like a blog) for example.

Thank you,
Banks report net transactions aka BoA and United have customers writhing checks back and forth all the time, but on a given day the net transaction is the sum of all those little transactions. Thus BoA would say the revived 1 million dollars net from United and united would say the lost 1 million to BoA. As long as those numbers match there is no reason not to trust them.

Cash is is handled separately and banks can slightly fudge those numbers. But, there digital cash on hand better match yesterday's balance plus today's net transactions.

PS: Banks can convert cash back and fort from digital to hard currency, but that's handeled by a third party which also reports those transactions.
Does this mean they recognize bitcoins as currency?

This means you can be taxed, commit a crime if you fail to declare are amount over the limit irs gives for non-us currency?
The only health-related records that the IRS will have under the ACA are information about what kind of a health insurance plan the taxpayer has. Under the law, people will be required to have a qualifying health insurance policy or pay a penalty to the government.
Google Launches Android Studio And New Features For Developer Console
This is huge. I've held out on Android development for many reasons, but my visceral hate for Eclipse is one of them. I know I've been able to use IntelliJ before now, but Eclipse was Google's example in tutorials, etc.

Now I'm very excited to make an Android app.
Right - I used to work at Microsoft and, despite numerous memes on Slashdot, and even here, there was no "rule" about competitor products. In my department, we had people working on MacBooks, whose company phone was an iPhone, whose default browser was Firefox, or Chrome.

There -was- a heavy dog food culture, and I think that was definitely a good thing.
Reminds me of how, as soon as a plane touches ground, people jump out of their seats and take their luggage… and then they stand around uncomfortably for ten minutes until they get to leave.
RF is somewhat like magic. Crappy 802.11 devices can cause interference with radios and antennas. I have one computer system that I can't use in the same room with a HAM radio. It causes too much interference. When I shut it off, everything works fine.
A tragic story, but my money is on the IRS in this one. They do not have to have an ongoing criminal or civil case. The Congress back in 2008 saw fit to that.

Remember the law where you had to start creating 1099s for every vendor you ran across? People yelled at that got taken care of, but there's a lot more in that law yet to come. [inset long discussion about the exact nature of that requirement]

I'd be interested in knowing if it is still possible to keep your health records private. I used to self-pay and this was not a problem. But now? Where I have to be part of some aggregate that then assesses health risks? I'm not sure how it works. (And note the use of the word "private", not "anonymous")
Google I/O 2013: Day 1 Keynote and Android Sessions
I'm sorry but your first sentence is just bad logic.

I don't see a problem with the logic. If personal electronic devices could truly cause interference, then just reminding people to turn off devices seems like pretty weak protection.

How many people intentionally or unintentionally leave an electronic device powered on during any given flight? I know I've forgotten to turn off my phone a couple of times in the past.

Only going as far as reminding people to turn off devices is the equivalent of airport security checkpoints that just have a person standing there reminding people to remove dangerous items from their bags before boarding.
Who says he would be shooting at the drone? :P
Of course, central banks control the money supply (both M1 directly and M3 indirectly by imposing reserve ratios on banks). Because absent competition, bad money drives out good, the reserve ratio basically imposes leverage on the banking system. That's why it blows up every decade or so but both the government and the banks prefer it this way: Governments can run deficits and monetize their debts (very useful for funding wars) while banks enjoy the rent seeking a regulated banking system allows.
And you are given an option to skip the scanner, in trade for a fondling.

Also this is not a security issue (one of persons with malicious intent). It is a safety issue, one of incompletely studied electronic effects.
I'm a bit of a techie noob but it looks like you're just hosting the file on a web host somewhere:

curl -I http://www.pingendo.com/Pingendo.dmg
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Tue, 14 May 2013 15:24:34 GMT
Content-Length: 38477827
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

I would host your file on something like Amazon S3. I'm getting 93kb/s on your host.
(replying to my own comment instead of diminoten's reply as HN seems to have a nesting limit)

> Either their moral code is something you agree with, or it's something you don't. Who they apply it to is completely irrelevant.

I didn't say they had to apply their own code to themselves to not be completely hypercrits - the other option (as I have already explicitly stated) is to modify their practises to account for their new found enlightenment.
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Better yet, hack the drone's controls and send it after its owner :P
That is a very good observation. We do feel that Glipho is close to our use cases, but not where we want to take it ultimately. I think some fundamentals are different between us.
When I ride my bike I get the same advantage.

Another advantage is that it's a lot easier to bend and break traffic laws on a bike.
If they wanted to make a memorable address, they would have to run something like Shallot [1]. This is essentially brute forcing private keys until you find the public key you want. Depending on the name, that could take a very long time.

[1] https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot
I'll admit to being in the 30%. I put my phone and Kindle in airplane mode to save battery power, but otherwise I leave my devices in their normal state. Is it 100% certain that none of my devices could possibly interfere with critical systems on the plane? Well, no, but 99.99% is good enough for me. And for what it's worth, I made my decision based on the available research plus what I learned based on my EE courses in school (my degree is in Computer Engineering, but I still took quite a few electrical engineering courses, including one on traveling waves).
If wonder if the degree will note that it was online vs on-campus.
This sounds great. Google should've built their own IDE for Android a long time ago. It even has live code updates, and it can show how the app looks on different form factors.

TC has a summary on it:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/15/google-launches-android-stu...
You underestimate quadcopter AI's ability to correct for experienced forces!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyGJBV1xnJI
Wow - that's a valuable article all on its own.
Using "gay" as an insult is very problematic and homophobic.

Calling someone who is gay "gay" is generally not a problem. (Depending on context it obviously can be, but that's then more dependent on the context, not the word.)

The implication of calling someone who isn't "gay" is that being gay is somehow bad or something to be offended about. That is as clear a homophobic statement as there can be.

It is homophobic, by the way, even if the intent of the speaker isn't there.
Windows Blue is Windows 8.1, and it's a free upgrade
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I think "privacy as a right" is a difficult issue.

I am down with "not getting tortured" as a right. But privacy is ... a privative. I think a more useful and fruitful direction will be requiring publication of holding of private data, and then we can enforce any number of outcomes.
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"It is almost like you didn't read my post."

Seconded.

"They provide forkIO as a basic tool to do both."

Computers provide bits to do both and then some. You can call the ensuing distinctions "matters of convenience" and not "requiring different things", of course.
Here's a better way of explaining this:

Let's say I frequently lend cash to a wide circle of friends, and they lend cash to me too. Because my memory is bad, I have to keep track of things by writing down the debts on a piece of paper, e.g. "Bob owes me $5, I owe Kathy $10" and so on.

In effect, what these hackers have done is to steal my piece of paper while I'm not looking and scribble "I owe Mr hax0r $10" on the bottom of it.

Now, who have they stolen from? Me, of course! I will blindly pay them out $10 should they ask for it. Has Bob lost money? No. Has Kathy lost money? No. Has money magically been created and cost everyone in the world fractions of a cent? No. I am the person who has lost out.

If they stole huge amounts of money from me such that I couldn't make good on my debts to other people, then others will be indirectly affected too. But I am the person who was robbed.
If “air is a public highway” then yes, destruction of property.
Sounds sort of like the Creepy Cameraman[1], also from Seattle. I wonder if they are related. Both instances seem like they could have the aim of making a point/raising an issue.

[1] http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2012/10/31/who-is-seatt...
In well run governments (like the US) this is not true. They make massively more money from taxation than seigniorage.

Poorly run governments sometimes try to do this. It generally doesn't work because it results in hyperinflation which wrecks the whole economy.
Right but then they are probably mis-classifying themselves as startups, rather than small businesses. That's one of the points of "Startup = Growth", if they aren't going for major growth, they aren't a "startup".

It's not a matter of saying "startup" is better than "small business" (despite the underlying tone you may feel on HN), it's just a way to classify how the businesses are being operated, and how each can define their own success. All startups are also small businesses, but not all small businesses are startups. If your small business isn't chasing that kind of rapid growth, calling yourself a startup is a misnomer.
I doubt this was fully legal. It's been repeatedly upheld that a private home has a reasonable expectation of privacy (this is a legal, not lay distinction) - which is to say that recording inside a private home, even without trespass, can be illegal.

Something being in plain sight is not a sufficient condition for legally photographing it. You cannot, for example, point a camera into your neighbor's bedroom, photograph the results, and distribute it on the internet, even if, say, the camera was on public sidewalks.
If this was a credible threat for the blogger, I suppose the case would have been brought to a domestic court. Though he probably should exclude India from his bucket list.
Is the London underground worse than other subway systems? From the video it looked fairly clean and orderly, as compared to, say, NYC. But we New Yorkers love our subway... Aside from the constant rate hikes, of course. And when the L train randomly stops running for a few hours. Or anytime the A is running local, which is pretty much all the time, it seems like.

I take back what I said.

Edit: but seriously, the subway is a lot of what makes living in a city bearable, or even what makes it better than living outside a city. I would take a 40 min commute on a train over a 40 min commute in a car any day.
Money laundering is not a risk banks face, it's a profitable venture they willingly engage in whenever they think they can get away with it.
Show HN: I made an app to make it easier to use Google image search
I think Google image search is great. It helps you find out where a particular image comes from and sometimes images related to it. Some forums use attachments and you can't necessarily see if you aren't logged in, and that Google can't access. You have save this image and then upload it to Google. Sometimes you also have images in power point or word documents that you wonder where they came from. Most every OS has some sort of print screen functionality to easily capture pictures from any application or even from a movie. In Windows its print screen or alt+print screen if you want to capture a single window.

I wrote a small web app that allow you to paste an image and crop it so you can search for that part of an image. It stores the image in memcache so you don't need to worry about the image being stored well except by Google.

It only works on chrome and Firefox since AFAIK the other browsers seem to have issues with copy and pasting of images.

http://gimagesearch.com
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It requires actually implementing SSL, which is a lot more work than using port 443 and faking a couple headers.

Am I misreading the word 'camouflage'? I read it as 'pretends to be' not 'actually uses'.

Even if the trojan is using HTTPS, that is still not a reason to scan HTTPS URLs. The command and control network is completely orthogonal to the links given to users to try to infect them.
The US government printed hundreds of millions of dollars in physical currency and shipped it to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Let's say Very Small Bank only has $100 million according to the database. If you create $14 million out of thin air and then move it somewhere else, they decrement their value in the database to $86 million.
A fine so small it did not impact their quarterly profits much. In other words, it was an acceptable expense.
clickable link: http://gimagesearch.com
The second one really looks like Rule 30 (which someone else linked to here).
Sometimes, there appears to be a loop that presents a limited-duration period/window of responsiveness but does not process prior input. I'll make repeated input in an attempt to catch that window.

This is another type of behavior that one tends to "develop a feel" for.
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It's a solution looking for a problem. I see this all the time in big corporations. Facebook probably thought, "We need to make something mobile, so what should that be? How about a home screen? Yeah that sounds OK". Organizations like Facebook don't start with the problem and come up with a solution, but instead think "how could we leverage X?", "what could we do with Y?", "can we exploit this synergy here?". Once they find something that sounds like a plausible thing to build, they keep telling themselves that it's solving a real problem until they themselves believe it.
Devices emit radiation whether they are using the radio or not. If its burning power, there is an emission, albeit small in comparison and probably hard to detect without specialized instruments.

If the radios are simply on, link layer protocols will be transmitting control signals that can easily be detected with something as simple as a smart phone.
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Sissy jokes are also sexist, by the way. It's a great example of how sexism can affect both men and women equally. Sissy jokes are gender policing. The implication is that being a man and being feminine is incompatible. They exclude feminine men.

All the jokes and insults you listed are extremely problematic and most certainly also deserve our attention (though that is most certainly not a valid criticism of this article, no single article has the obligation to mention every problem).
Did you even try reading the article?
The deaddrop installation documents (https://github.com/deaddrop/deaddropdocs/) refer to a repo at https://github.com/deaddrop/deaddrop_puppet which doesn't seem to have been made public yet. Would be interesting to see the rest of the installation procedure.
That depends on the state of the bridge. Previous language bridges by Apple have generally bridged the gaps pretty well, with the main "Objective-C" relic being really, really long method names.

That said, all of the bridges I've seen were to classical-OO languages. It is possible that Cocoa won't translate as well to prototypal-OO languages like JavaScript. It will be interesting to see how Apple navigates that paradigm shift.
Hugs are sexual harassment. Any unrequested contact with the opposite sex is cause for immediate termination (or expulsion if you're still in school) and may lead to criminal charges.

Different cultures are different, but this is the standard drill repeated from elementary school onward through workplace policies in my part of the US. People routinely ignore it without punishment, but it's there hanging over the head of everyone.