skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically the same idea as giving up on detailed long distance billing and going to flat rate. Where in this case the flat rate is about $5 on your property tax bill.

The good news is locally the bus service is approx 75% subsidized anyway, so they'd only "lose" 25% of revenue but the substantial gain of no more cash handling etc would help.

The other problem is you can tell the author lives in California. Where I live, the weather outdoors is at least somewhat foul about 10 months out of the year, so they would become rolling homeless shelters at least 10 months out of the year, maybe more by habit. That leads to even more expensive systems for what amounts to loitering ticketing, enforcement of no sleeping on the bus, etc.

The problem is this might even lead to politically sensitive ideas, like having enough homeless shelters to hold our homeless, or even having mental health treatment so our nuts are not just tossed out on the street as human debris until they die, instead we might try actually treating them. The criminal justice-industrial system would protest at the lack of revenue. It would be a little disruptive.
"Students willingly walk into the trap" is an interesting way to describe it, that I think only applies if in fact the student doesn't find success. I feel that I'm doing pretty well, so I wouldn't characterize it as a trap. I would characterize it as a challenge. For me it was the challenge of "launch."

But, for some students, it very well may be a trap. I've had more than a few friends spend $150k on education, to only make $30k a year as a middle school teacher. Friends who graduated with "independent study" degrees in "film and medicine." Some For some people, trap does adequately describe it.
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Looks like it was the only place European users data was stored. https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/347373843767238658
Last summer a friend of my wife's was visiting from Japan. She spent a few days in Vegas, staying at the Bellagio hotel. Then she came to spend a week with us in Los Angeles. We went to eat one night, and she noticed she didn't have her sweater. "Oh, no, I left it at the hotel in Vegas" she said (in Japanese). From the parking lot at the restaurant, I called the hotel, gave my friend's name, room number, and dates of stay, and asked about the sweater, not hoping much. They had it. I asked if they could ship it to LA. They said yes, that it would take 3 days. My wife's friend was leaving for Japan in 3 days. I asked if they could ship to Japan instead, and that I would pay for the cost. They replied: "We'll ship it to Japan. There's no charge."

We were all very, very impressed. That's service!
If you look at FAA 702, it's been clear since 2007-2008 that the court does NOT deliberate on and grant an order for each request.

See my article from 2007:
http://news.cnet.com/FAQ-How-far-does-the-new-wiretap-law-go...
"...expands the National Security Agency's power to eavesdrop on phone calls, e-mail messages and other Internet traffic with limited court oversight...warrants are not needed for Internet or telephone "surveillance directed at a person reasonably believed to be located outside of the United States..."

And 2009:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10143520-38.html
..."a secret federal appeals court has ruled that federal agencies can be authorized to conduct warrantless e-mail and telephone surveillance without violating the U.S. Constitution"...
I'm clearly referring to undergraduate education. People with solid state school options shouldn't choose NYU unless they are rich. You'd be a fool to give up in-state @ Univ of Texas undergrad for NYU, for example.
Trainers, memory editors, mods and everything else that is of not verifiable origin.
10 years @15% if you've graduated is biased towards people with shit degrees is all I'm saying
Not technically. You can do client-side encryption so that only the hash is sent, via Javascript.
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Ask HN: How to become a pentester
Thank you in advance for your suggestions. I am really interested in cyber security and ethical hacking. I know there are a ton of books on this subject but wanted to know if anyone has any suggestions on where to start first. I am an IT Professional with intermediate programming skills. I am guessing that there is a distinction between oridinary pentesting and web app pentesting. Should I learn one before the other? Are they the same? etc. Thanks for your time.
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That would increase the traffic on these buses by some multiples and will increase wait times, frustration and overall dissatisfaction among the public. Then some one will do some napkin math saying the amount of "money" wasted by all these people waiting is not worth the free rides. I guess my point is, free rides probably would have made sense in 1965 when the population was a fraction of what it is in NYC today. Add all the tourists to that and free rides are not sustainable.
Gigabit Wi-Fi is here, but device makers can go faster if they want to
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Juzt a small note:
It's free only for citizens of Tallinn, not for e.g. tourists.
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This is a beautifully crafted announcement. Very clear, matter-of-fact, and without that all too common feeling of spin. It certainly helps that they are doing right by their customers in fulfilling this recall, but as someone who has had to deliver bad news myself, I think they nailed the messaging and crafted a case study in how to communicate with customers.

Also, I love that it's attributed to Elon and signed with his first name.
ResearchGate now uses SPDY
For those who haven't heard of SPOCK (I hadn't), it's a BSD-licensed Scheme-to-JavaScript compiler based on Chicken Scheme:

http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/spock
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Impressive. Redstone Arsenal in Alabama only has 40K people or so. At least in the 90s when I was at the Ordnance school. Which has apparently moved to Ft Lee since then. The free buses were rather convenient.
He may have had dreams of resurrecting MegaUpload as a business, but any hope of that was gone within a few days of the domain seizure. That's why they seize domains - it doesn't matter whether they win or lose at trial or drop the charges. They get to give target sites the death penalty long before the owners ever set foot in a courtroom.

You don't seriously believe that do you? PirateBay domain has been blocked from the UK but it it still accessible if you know how or through a different domain names. KickAssTorrent (kat.ph) domain name was recently seized by Phillipine authorities but it was back up within hours. A simple Google search will point you to the new domain name, in this modern age the domain name really doesn't mean that much once you have the brand established.

http://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-domain-seized-after-...
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Thanks for the feedback!

4) changed that
5&6) The idea is that there is a free tire, but if you need more computing resources you will pay for it based on how many resources you consume. Because of this I let you choose how many times you want to crawl your feed, as you have 50 crawls for free/day and if you need more (you have a lot of feeds or want to check them more frequently) you will have to pay for that. If you want you can also update all your feeds manually whenever you want by clicking the update icon.
Funds could also be used to pay apps that are not free (the developer can choose to make a free or paid app).
Note to DNSCrypt users: Apparently the update feature of 0.10 doesn't work. I've been running that version since it came out and it always said it's up to date. I assumed they just weren't actively developing it. Apparently it just didn't update because the current version is 0.19.
But, encryption!
In Seattle, the inner-city busses have zero fare. The trouble is that some of our more fragrant hobos use the bus as a rolling shelter to the detriment of those that appreciate bathing.
Except that when the lobsters of the world finally get the recognition of their natural rights they surely deserve, they'll be coming for that domain.

But, generous nonetheless. Bravo.
Free buses would likely attract more riders, so the cost of providing the service would increase at the same time the 25% fare revenue disappeared.

This does not counter your point, it just strikes me as a confounding issue.
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> That's certainly not what I understood from the quote. How is the government the majority?

In the U.S. the law making branch of the government is comprised of representatives elected by the people. These representatives necessarily draft laws to suit the majority who elected them. Ergo, the legislative branch wields power at the behest of the majority, analogous to the wolves in the quote. Governance by mob rule, i.e. pure democracy, entails no inherent constraints on what the government (comprised of law makers elected by the majority) could do to or take from the rest of the populace. We are, instead, a constitutional republic, which constrains the majority-elected government to a narrow set of powers enumerated in the constitution.

The quote was written in 1992 in reference to two lawsuits in the state of California, itself a constitutional republic. One resulted in the quashing of a state law which was supported by the majority but nonetheless violated the state and federal constitutions. The other resulted in the removal of a cross from a popular public landmark. Much outcry was made at the time that the will of the majority was being thwarted.

I'll leave here the entirety of Simkin's posting that contained the quote:

The ACLU's cross lawsuit and the Libertarians' tax lawsuit share an interesting theme. We have been treated to the spectacle of politicians pleading for permission to continue breaking the law. In the case of the jail tax, it is particularly ironic that the lawbreakers say they need the illegal money so they can lock up the lawbreakers. Ask not for whom the lock clicks.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. Those rights are spelled out in the Bill of Rights and in our California Constitution. Voters and politicians alike would do well to take a look at the rights we each hold, which must never be chipped away by the whim of the majority.
Well I do make audits with other tools from time to time booted from another OS. Also blocking flash and having vmware instances for the real dangerous stuff helps.

And anything that is smart enough to subvert that is usually used by NSA and the likes and I doubt I have gotten their attention.
You are correct about people that don't correctly judge what the tuition and loans will cost them at the end of their four years, but saying it is a school "for rich kids" is very far off.

I happened to receive a very generous grant to attend to offset my tuition. So do many others.
Adblock plus with real filtering.
It honestly wouldn't surprise me if the gov't has issued a secret subpoena for every PRISM provider's SSL key (e.g. Google/Facebook/Yahoo/etc). That way they get to claim "hey, we're not giving them full access" and the government gets what they want anyway.
Wouldn't that demand logically result in an explosion in the amount of "free bus supply" resulting in an implosion in the amount of traffic congestion frustration and delay?

Heck I'd pay money for a bus I don't use just to drive home faster.
They discontinued the free ride zone: http://metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/ride-free-area/index.ht...
Yikes, I'm supposed to be the grammar and spelling nazi :P
I have to agree here. I like the strength meter, as something different, but it does take up more space, and the argument that either the "bars" are misleading to strength, or that this is any different (for those who haven't seen, iOS 7 has a series of four, or five, circles, that are hollow or filled, to indicate signal strength), or better, is a highly subjective, questionable judgment, and often boils down to "well, it must be better, because ... Apple."
Completely off-topic: Is that a custom WP theme? I love the look and feel of this article.

On-topic: Thank you for this. I am going to purchase a DO box this weekend and play around with nginx instead of apache. For some reason when I last tried to use nginx, I could not get location {} to work. Granted it was some time ago.

Does anyone have any resources on nginx as a load balancer?
Wait, are you saying you don't know anything about haskell at all? Then why are you making claims about what it can't express?
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Ask HN: Are any of you guys using Oracle databases? How and why?
Trying to kill some time here, so excuse the broad question. I was never truly exposed to Oracle database tech, but worked with databases. Same goes for Java, lots of C experience, but next to no Java. I was wondering why and when you decided you need Oracle solutions for your project(s) compared to a slew of more than excellent (and mostly free) alternatives?
Those institutions that can convince lenders that graduates will be in a position to pay back the loans quickly will be able to offer lower rates to students, and thus attract more and better students.

This assumes that a lender's primary interest is in having a loan repaid quickly. I don't think it's true - they are in it to make a profit, and exploiting the young adult with penalties and hidden fees or tricks helps expand that profit.
Funding through advertising is fallacious.

As a case study: Transport for London have a very thorough advertising suite on buses and underground trains (and others).

Advertising and rent contribute £179m revenue.
Ticket sales contribute £3533m revenue.
Government grants contribute £3438m revenue.

So, a full suite of advertising may save almost 5% on ticket prices, as it stands.

Figures taken from TfL annual report 2012, relevant figures start page 36:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/investorrelations/...
This needs a linux version... Great looking tool!
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I've used Vimperator before but I now use Vimium on chromium and very much prefer it.

When you navigate via keyboard (by pressing "f"), Vimperator marks links with numbers, Vimium marks them with letters, from ("a to "zz'). Letters are much nicer when you can touch type and your hands are already on the keys.

Vimperator used to do silly things like hide the address bar and force you into doing everything in a kind of "command mode". It never felt very smoothly integrated with the browser and it was always a pain to try and open a new site via command mode instead of just using <Ctrl>-L and typing it in the address bar. Invariably I would try to type something in a textbox or use some keyboard shortcut, only to find that Vimperator hijacked it and I'm now typing in command mode.

Vimium doesn't give me these problems because it doesn't have a command prompt/mode. Besides that, it's integrated very nicely with chrome, in such a way that I can use normal keyboard shortcuts as far as possible, but have vim-like shortcuts for the things that matter (e.g. "/" for searching, navigation via keyboard etc.)
I feel more at risk from malware than from surveillance.
How long ago did it reach v1.0?
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Actually it's a very simple custom non-wordpress theme I put together in about an hour, the entire thing built on top of http://roots.cx dynamic content : )

Another note, the share button at the bottom (just pushed a minute ago so hard refresh if it's cached) is from this plugin we put together and have been enjoying so far: https://github.com/carrot/share-button

Glad you enjoyed the article! Let us know if you run into any trouble, happy to help or add debugging techniques etc
Yes, I read the article. I am just very sick of the concept of "free" being used when it puts an additional burden on everyone. The problem with collecting money is not unique to buses. Many businesses are struggling with higher fees and collection costs.

The government is a paid service of the tax payer, no more holy than paying someone to mow your lawn. The sooner we realize the retroact of free is an illusion, the better. We need to pay for the infrastructure.
Ah, so an unofficial/casual exchange method, with higher risk. Awesome.
When you pay a fee, you don't have any rights to limit what's done with the money after you've handed it over.
> how does that explain breaking SSL? That's a really big jump.

How about this: the NSA has issued a secret subpoena for the private SSL key of every listed provider (Google/Facebook/Yahoo/etc). They are using those keys to transparently decrypt traffic and suck up what they want.
You would have to increase the number of buses and their frequency on the routes. The consequence of this is that there will be fewer cars (and maybe bikes) on the roads, which mean that buses can go faster, which means you don't need to add quite so many.

Probably the net result would be to increase the number of buses, decrease the overall traffic, and increase everyone's mobility. It may increase the number of tourists (could be good or bad), and will probably cost everyone a little more than expected.
Mozilla's Performance Team is doing a lot of work on eliminating I/O from the main thread which is the cause of many of these problems. We're also assisting other teams with this as well.

In fact, right now I am working on adding a new feature to the Gecko Profiler that identifies such I/O and makes it easy for platform devs to easily pinpoint the offending code.
I didn't say (or think) is was significant, but it seems to be something a lot of public buses use.
> Fuck competition. Become one with your inner troll

What a morbid way of looking at things... and it's not terribly accurate, either.

You can make a very good buck on volume, even with fierce competition and extremely tight margins.

So you can't charge a whole lot for the toll because there are a dozen other bridges? Boo hoo! Have you thought of selling coffee to your clients as they pass?

You can easily make up margin on the up-sell or cross-sell. Something that anybody who worked in consumer electronics retail already knows. And that type of retail is extremely low-margin and competitive. The guy across the street and on the internet has the same exact widget as you.

This is something that Netflix isn't doing. Yet. And there's quite a bit of margin there.

Oh and here's a little bit of insight, once you have a "bridge" you can point it at any "island". It's super easy, almost like copy and paste. How many countries have access to Netflix?

There's plenty of opportunity in volume and you serve the greater good. Not every company has to be a hipster love fest like APPL, where you pay through the nose for substandard hardware. That's just as crass as children refusing to wear anything but brand name clothing.

Volume capitalism is beautiful because it mercilessly lowers the price of goods, allowing access to all. And you can make quite a profit too!
Never updated the OS for me. Each OS update comes with a EULA, if the OS itself agreed to that it probably had been void.
> I keep thinking with Scala though, I'm going to run into some really awful looking code one day from someone overly abusing all of its feature

I also keep thinking that, but it never really seems to happen in my experience.
I want to hear Steve Wozniak on a podcast or tv show, he is such a smart dude.
This is so true. Compared to Chrome's, Firefox's tools are just so clunky and an eyesore. I love the fact that Google is putting so much work into their tools and constantly improving them. I will give Firefox credit for having 3D view, that's pretty cool.
One of my favorites was "Thinks Excel is a database" (or "1-2-3", back in the day).

However, some of these were a bit overstrict, I think:

* Source control: copying to a dated directory/archive deserves a bit more than "level 0". 0 would be more like "Sys admins do backups, right?" (or just "duh/what?")

* Books: forget "24 hours" and "dummies", 0 would be more like simply doesn't read.
What does the "A" in "ROAR" stand for?
I'm a Mac user, and my blood boils when I hear people say this. It's so incredibly smug and lacking in any sense of social sensitivity. I've been on the receiving end.

[At a moderately busy coffee shop]

I sit down with my MacBook to send a few quick emails. A man -- also using a Mac -- sits at the table in front of me, facing away from me. I pull my laptop out and open it up. It recovers from sleep, and I connect to the free WiFi. I've used it many times in the past without issue, but today, I cannot get any web pages to respond.

I say meekly to the man sitting in front of me: "Excuse me, are you able to connect to the WiFi?"

Him: "Yep."

Me: "That's strange, I'm able to connect, but I can't get any web pages to load."

Him: "Get a Mac."

Me: "I've already got one, thanks for nothing."

I understand the imposition I made on him, but hearing "get a Mac" just had me seething. I'd never had an opportunity to say those words to someone else, so I'm not trying to claim any moral high-ground here, but I knew at that moment that I'd never say them should the opportunity arise.
This is hilarious. And I want to see a King Dotcom verse John Mcafee video please. I think it could be fun.
Google does pin their keys in Chrome though, so they know if there is a MITM (and they have, Chrome's certificate pinning led to DigiNotar's downfall). It's a non-scalable hack, but definitely a good one for the largest search engine and a leading email provider to be able to provide.
I just wanted to verify how amazing the banner image is. Hilarious.
Can 25 year olds make millions on cracked iPhones
At the time (1999) the ML was pretty entry-level. You could get a C class with a four-cylinder for less. The E class started a few thousand above the six-cylinder M class. Also, at the time, Mercedes had poor product quality (a friend with a W210 E class went through 5 window regulators in 3 years) so service loaners were in high demand. Not surprising then that some differentiation was done between the customers.
The std deviation of utilization is pretty spectacular.
You could play games with pricing where its free at 2pm when the bus usually only has 2 people, but it costs money at 5pm rush hour, or if there's an open seat its free but if you have to stand it costs, or something like that.

Now that I think about it, I'm not a big drinker so I don't pay much attention, but a local brewer pays the fares on new years eve to keep the drunks off the roads, and despite claims that free fare = 20 times utilization, I'm just not seeing it.
And how would these people travel otherwise? If it's by car, then free buses would actually reduce congestion and decrease bus travel times.
When had Ron Paul publicly denied evolution? I don't really follow everything he says, but I can't ever remember him denying evolution.
The population of NYC wasn't appreciably less in 1965 than it is now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City#H...

8.1MM in 2010, compared with ~7.8MM between 1960-1970
YCombinator clearly believes paying for the servers and bandwidth is beneficial. Commenting is not free, its just paid for by someone else. The buses are already paid for (in part) by taxpayers. So, neither is free. Someone pays.
Sydney, Australia does have a fee bus service that runs a certain route for key points. It certainly isn't all buses though. There are other cities in Australia that also do this.

http://www.131500.com.au/plan-your-trip/cbd-shuttle