skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, look: Secure Ideas managed to advertise themselves through a blog post and save money by not presenting, all in one move!

What a stellar synergy of marketing and management!
Coffee Match: Changing the way we interact with products we consume everyday
It's not sufficient that the market still exists, but it is no longer growing much and is beginning to show signs of shrinkage. Ya, you can still make money there, but less and less overtime. Good to get on top of these things and find other cash pandas.
It would be interesting if they could get a version with six blades where (3) are required to provide lift and it oscillates between spooling/unspooling three of the six at a time such that you fly with 3 whilst spooling the other three - then "shift" between spools.
Isn't that like most credit cards, bank accounts with online banks and creating a 'link' between bank accounts you own already at this point?
You lose weight in the external structure, but you'd gain some back in stiffening the blades to prevent excessive blade deflection (you'd have one big rotor instead of four small ones). You could also stiffen with external tension cables, but these rotate with the blades and would incur drag (streamlined wires were invented for this reason, also bicycle wheel disk covers) and disturb the axial flow. It's all about tradeoffs.

- former HPH member
Great points! I agree with the concerns, and I don't leave the microwave turned on at the moment.

I agree that the microwave webpage should be password-protected or disabled, because really, it's not the most important feature. If I was living in an apartment with a shared network, everything would be running behind a firewall.

The cooking database website is the only part accessible from the internet, and is running on a separate server. I've added a temporary lock for my products, so no-one can edit or delete them at the moment. In the future I might implement some better ways to prevent abuse. I haven't set up SSL yet, but will do it if the site starts getting some use. I've added the following notice for now:

> This website is not currently secure. If you submit your password on this form, a hacker will be able to read it, especially if you are using an unsecured wifi connection. However, it is safe to sign in with Facebook, Google, or GitHub.

Linux (Raspbian) is in charge of setting the time via NTP, so any vulnerability is not specific to my project. The tweeting is dumb, but just a fun thing to put in a blog post. And voice commands must be prefixed with the 'microwave' keyword, unless the microwave door has been closed less than 10 seconds ago.
Ha. I totally missed that. Makes sense.
I've always found it funny that most microwaves allow you to enter cooking times like 1 minute and 90 seconds.
You've learned anything about the history of race relations and think "race" is a better word to describe that phenomenon than "lactose intolerant"? I'll be right back, going to inform my friends that because they aren't Chinese we can go get ice cream.
Thanks, very informative answer. I think they must be from a certain shared folder I have access to, which would explain it. Quite a relief, actually.
This is just a Linux server running something like Samba [1] to share files across your local network or the internet.
Quite basic stuff. I've had this setup at home for ages, using some old cheap laptops/computers.

You can actually replicate this on Windows or Mac natively. Just share a folder.

Am I missing the exciting part?

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Edit: for crying out loud, my media-center has a sharing functionality. Which means my media-center does exactly what this Plug thing supposed to do, without all the non-sense proprietary marketing shenanigans.

Wake up people. This tech has been around for ages!

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(software)
> Concerns of RussiaToday are warranted but in this case they are just parroting NPR ....

The RT article claims they did at least some some original investigation. FTA:

] Owner Pete Ashdown told RT that every data collection request stops at his desk, ....
Wow. I don't see that at all. You must not use any of the platforms you mentioned.

If you look under the hood on OSX, iOS, or Android, they are all composed of smaller single purpose components. If you are arguing that they do not use interprocess communication to join these component together, then you are correct. However, that is not the Unix philosophy. A great example is Outlook vs OSX/iOS Mail/Calendar/Contacts/Notes. On OSX and iOS, those applications try to do one thing well. On Windows, Outlook tries to do everything.

Beyond that, just about every embedded device and the vast majority of servers now run linux (or a unix variant). Just look at a list packages on those linux devices and you will understand that it clearly is built around combining small single purpose components.

Given that, it is hard to argue that the Windows philosophy has won. In fact, Windows seems to be struggling (as evidenced by slowing interest and reorg/rearch/rebrand thrashing in Redmond. Looking at the market, I'd argue that the Unix approach won quite some time ago.

Am I missing something?
> I have no respect for the NSA and its apologists, period.

Do you lack respect for those people, or their arguments?
There was certainly mention of "up or out", and a bad review or two would bring about the PIP stick (which seems to be only legal CYA before the firing, not for any hopes of real improvement). And, frankly, it was a long time ago and I haven't gone to any effort to remember details. I will say that in general it was as screwy and demotivating then as it is described to be now.

It was based on a model proposed by Ballmer's hero Jack Welch. What Ballmer forgot is that Welch himself said the "trim the bottom 10%" model didn't work once a company got larger than a certain size.
Maybe your rates are lower than expected. Also, once you have a team, it's always better to start a project while doing client work and turn it in an own product, then switch to that to make it bigger.
Also, if you happen to live in the land of the free you can expect to pay a few hundred grand procuring the proper money transmitter licences.
Well, the key selling point for the carriers is that they can do whatever they want with the software without the Ubuntu branding. There is no one breathing down their neck telling them what to do. Naturally, the carriers will screw up thinking more crapware is better. What they really should do is understand less is also better.

If Canonical were smart, they should also work with handset manufacturers on a clean version of their software without all the crap - the Nexus phone approach. When given the option, most people opt for the crap-free phone. I have a feeling that if Canonical does not push this option it could really tarnish their name - like how Microsoft is always associated with viruses and malware.
You can render signals using EXPORT-WAVE and EXPORT-GRAPH. The first produces a RIFF/WAVE file, the latter Gnuplot compatible data.

I should add example renderings to the website! If I added calls to EXPORT-WAVE to examples.lisp, loading it could take pretty long depending on what is rendered on what kind of processor.

E.g. in you're case to render the final signal of the example:

(in-package :soundlab-user)

(export-wave (stage-4) length-in-seconds #p"/path/to/foo.wav")

where length-in-seconds could be (* 2 note) to be the duration of two notes for instance. Rendering this may take a while! :)
In case anyone's looking for a phone with a camera that saves RAW, the Nokia N900 does.

http://fcam.garage.maemo.org/fcamera.html
It's a standard service aggregated from public records, credit reports, etc. Sign up for any sort of ... anything, and you'll be asked these. UPS accounts, brokerages, Google Wallet, etc.

In many cases (I haven't tried this one in particular), the site you're visiting does not see the questions and answers, so only organizations that already know every detail of your life get to see them.

They seem creepy, but you have to ask yourself: why wouldn't some company know my address and who else lived there at the same time? The companies that send me catalogs and pre-approved credit offerings certainly know. (I forget the entire list of questions, but all the ones I've seen lately are address-based.)
Don't suppose you could share a few links where I could find out about digging up this kind of information on myself, could you? I'm kind of curious to see what kind of data-trails I'm dropping :-)

(he asks as he starts dropping search terms into Google...)
Maybe he meant Go Forth in disguise?
This is absolutely a correct response to @YokoZar's assertion, and I would add that the families of the farmers who grow quinoa can also be in danger of malnutrition, since there is now an unreasonably huge economic incentive for the farmers to avoid eating their own quinoa, compounded with a dearth of other ways for nutritious food to be obtained on the open market. YokoZar's "diamonds" analogy only holds true in a market unrestricted by physical transportation difficulties and education gaps about nutrition (why not just spend our larger income to get more of the cheaper [less-nutritious] grain?). True, these might be solvable problems, but that doesn't mean we can ignore the fact that they exist today.

An interesting parallel in urban environments in more developed countries is the phenomenon of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert - malnutrition can occur even when families have enough money to avoid it.
As enjoyable as the sarcasm is, you've only eliminated direct contribution to corporations that you know that you disapprove.

But you have already stated that you oppose even indirect contributions to government. Why the contradiction? Do you oppose indirect support to things that take actions you disapprove of, or not?
If the revelations continue at this pace, we'll soon hear there are DMA rootkits directly in our network cards.
That's very wishful-thinking of you. Got any references / citations?

Nuclear-powered aircraft aren't particularly viable.

As I've noted above, _solar_ powered airships are:

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/aMioevA7...
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/aMioevA7...

For the Graf Zeppelin, at 776' x 100' (7209 meter^2), and with 20% efficient solar PV (higher efficiencies are possible), 1.4 mW (1.8 million HP) of power are available. The original Graf sported 5 V12 diesel engines of 550 HP max (450 HP cruise) power. Solar would be able to deliver over 1 _million_ horsepower (unless I'm goofing my math badly here). Enough that reducing the cell coverage and including batteries or combustible fuel for backup would be viable.

http://www.airships.net/lz127-graf-zeppelin/size-speed
If they don't use profits as part of their expansion plans, then how do they expand year-over-year without spending more money than the year before? If they spend more money than the year before then where did the extra money come from if not from the previous year's profits?
That was what I was thinking too, but it all depends on everyone having high-speed internet.

Which will happen in the future, but at the moment there are lots of people with <5Mbit connections, and preferably to be able to access your files like they claim you with images and other medias you will need something like a 100Mbit or better connection anywhere you go.

How widespread is 4G connectivity in the world?
Ordinary citizens talking to the NSA isn't going to stop them, it's more likely to get those same concerned citizens put on any number of watchlists. At the moment, I have some serious doubt that even Congress can stop the NSA and am quite sure they're not going to bother, aside from making a little noise so it looks like they're defending The Constitution.

What will put a stop to this is a Presidential Order, but that's not going to be forthcoming under any administration.
That's still extremely vague. Much more than Google's.
Yeah, it does suck to be CTR, I'll admit. Especially if you need separate CAC credentials for things like base access.
Pretty close yeah, except that serverB is only listening on a private IP, and I want to connect to it in by web browser (http). My primary use case is with hadoop clusters, where I access the jobtracker ui on the public hostname, but when I drill down into task logs it points to private/internal IPs. FoxyProxy allows me to access the private IPs directly/transparently, but I do most of my browsing with Chrome these days, so it'd be nice to just be able to do it all in one browser.

ProxyCommand looks pretty cool though, wasn't aware of it - thanks!
The problem is that most people who find themselves in need of Bitcoins for the first time need them immediately. Having to wait several days is a deal killer for many people in this position. That puts a huge damper on new adoption.
Everlapse - Life, frame by frame
> It has a higher overhead now, but how many people would actually use it, versus BI?

It has a higher overhead even with a much smaller number of people using it, because the overhead is involved in enforcing the conditions which don't exist for unconditional basic income. (That is, the overhead in existing social welfare programs is largely costs expended to prevent people from using them, either at all or in the incorrect amounts for their particular qualifications. A fixed universal unconditional entitlement doesn't have that overhead because it doesn't have that function.)

> Also you can always increase BI (and if everybody gets it, that is going to be a fairly popular campaing promise), but people can only eat so much food.

People can recieve and derive utility from virtually unlimited amounts of food (just like money), even if they can only eat a limited amount, as food is a commodity.

And as much as the point you make about the politics of raising BI is frequently made about any social benefit, I don't think there's much reason to believe its true of BI. There are quite a lot of people who are already aware that benefits have costs (both personal and social), and the people who have the most interest in focussing on the personal cost also have the most resources to bring the social costs to the public eye.

That being said, there's no reason BI levels couldn't be managed by a politically insulated group (something like the Federal Reserve), and plenty of reasons why a legislature might prefer to leave those kinds of decisions to such a body.
The Web Needs An Instapaper-Style "Listen Later" Button For Audio
I cannot say I disagree with your explanation. I believe I may reconsider my viewpoint.
If Wikipedia is to be believed: "Dynamic typing typically allows duck typing, which enables easier code reuse."

I would expect to see more code reuse in Python than in any statically typed language.
"Captain Dave Ryter earned so little..."

Source for that quote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/11/pilot-exhausting...
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> I can't give you a particular example in form of "job A replaced by robots, workers can't move anywhere else", because so far we've been very efficient at reallocating labor.

Surely it makes sense to be able to cite examples of how we are failing to reallocate labor before complaining that we're not able to reallocate labor.
Not only the number of bits in the seed, but also their unpredictability.

There are many things that can go wrong. Some examples:

- the seed is timer-based and has far less entropy (information) than its bit size

- the seed is OK, but the generator is somehow weak (e.g., only made with linear components, or throws away parts of the seed, or outputs too much of its internal state)

- Bugs, bugs everywhere (cute example: an RC4-based generator that uses the XOR trick to swap elements)

No standard statistical test would catch those (it would catch the latter, actually), even though the security of the generator would be gravely diminished.
> farmers consume more quinoa than they sell, and suffer when prices go up.

Unless there are other foods they can buy which are cheaper. Then they benefit from the higher prices and don't pay them.
Most would argue that "effect on their economy" is a means to an end, and that "effect on the well-being of people" is the end itself. In that case, economic analysis can fall short. Friends of mine have personally spoken to rural Andean farmers who can verify that the price rises in quinoa can cause more problems than they solve.
They are the same book; Cryptography Engineering is simply the 2nd edition, although they decided to change the title for some reason.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the first head transplants which are now possible. If memories are stored not only in the brain but also throughout the nervous system in the body, head transplant patients will have some of the memories of their new host body.
Drama.exe

There's this thing called sequestration going on that's disrupting the budgets of all the federal agencies.

The feds are cutting budget for ridiculous things like the blue angels.

But they're totally going to be maintaining the budget for hacker cons in Las Vegas.

This is all about street cred for defcon & nothing to do with "taking a break." Jeff Moss is too sophisticated to be throwing away all those relationships. This is a stunt circle jerk.
If that was the case our codebase would be a serious pain to work on and I'd be much worse off than the OP.

Also I should clarify, 60KLS is not all 1 app: it's spread across 8 discrete apps, an API, and data layer (models).
Normally, sure. But we're talking about opening a remote keyboard-interactive ssh session in this specific case.

Your hands are going to the keyboard.

We're discussing whether or not it's worth screwing around with the mouse beforehand.
I have no respect for the NSA and those who work there who perpetrate this surveillance state. So those people who have built this.
First one. I would assume UBI is only available to adults.

The third one isn't really much of an option since it assumes that politics is more black and white than what it actually is. 50 shades of grey and counting. And of course people realize that UBI has it's drawbacks too.
Certified newbie-programmer here: without HN, r/programming on reddit, and a few other places, there's no way I'd know about half the things I know now. When it comes to choose tools for a project, that's really helpful.

That all said, I think it's reasonable to say "Hey, we should think about motivating people to contribute code too!", but both elements can be complimentary.
Agreed.

But we should be careful to distinguish technologies aimed at home users versus those aimed at the enterprise. Unlike the consumers they serve, US corporations are allowed and encouraged to secure their communications and the storage of their information. What technologies might be useful to them in this regard?

I also believe that when any software or system reaches a sufficiently large userbase, large companies will be soon to follow - whether their interest is in adopting the software/system for their own internal use or for some other reason, e.g. developing and marketing it themselves, under their own brand perhaps, to consumers. Software user mindshare has inherent economic value[1], even if the software users are attracted to is developed and distributed "for free" and even if it begins life with a cryptic command line interface.

1. Just as Microsoft. They will always react to whatever becomes popular among software users. Always. Even when it costs them milions with little hope of ROI.
I do not know what you mean and what "always have" means in your context.

The article asks to get more money from corporations which I do not think is feasible. I am in the UK now and this country decided to go for universal income we would have to either close the borders or convince at least the whole of EU to do the same at the same time.

Please expand your comment if you can.
Snowden's flight to Cuba?
I completely disagree. Quinoa as a food stock is not a saving grace for the farmers that grow it. It does grow where little else grows, but it does not yield a lot of nutrition compared for the labor invested as a lot of other crops.

With the price rising they can actually afford a better living. For them, getting a little richer than they are means consuming less quinoa, and more meat, more fruit and vegetables. And they can afford stuff other than food, which seems to be a novel idea.
I quite like the Wemo recipes but I wish we could use IFTTT with Arduino or a Pi
The only reason I've personally bought an SSL certificate was to make the payments page of my website PCI compliant. Pretty sure this doesn't get me around that.

More people do need to know this kind of stuff though; I'm using it at work to great effect.
or just `s.split()`
LINQ is my favorite API of all times. It rocks.
> I don't think having the vote and having the basic income is compatible with each other. Why aren't people going to vote themselves larger basic incomes every year?

The same reasons that people vote themselves lower taxes every year, though they do vote themselves lower taxes sometimes:
1. We don't have a direct democracy, so people don't vote for policies directly;
2. Quite a lot of people, even if they can't analyze all the implications, can see that voting yourself a lower net contribution to government (either via lower taxes or greater benefits) has consequences that may be undesirable.

> How can you both have the (modern conception of the) vote, and a basic income at the same time?

The same way you can have the modern conception of the vote and have taxes at the same time. Mostly, this involves relying on an electorate that is largely composed of at least modestly responsible adults, rather than infants that gorge themselves on candy without limit given the opportunity without thought of the consequences.
"maybe stick around for a while before making pseudo-hypotheses about story dynamics?"

Ok I've been around for awhile and can vouch that what he's claiming happens regularly. Some links from the last time I bothered to comment on it can be found in the following:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5731329
Definitely, hence "hypothesis" and "possibility".
"Quinoa is a low-calorie, gluten-free, high-protein grain that tastes great." (emphasis mine)

I'm a vegetarian, high-mileage distance runner who has every reason to enjoy quinoa. "Tastes great" is not one of the reasons I eat it. I choke it down as best I can because it's good for me.
My first thought after LINQ was a JS or CoffeeScript Map/Reduce/Sort/Splice.
Muscle memory..
Very good point! I still think there's got to be a solution to selling bitcoins without so much overhead.
Part of the problem of an "open" system is that the very flexibility/openness means your position is weak - there's very little you "can't" do.

Especially if you do it for one carrier - you can't easily say no to the next one.

Whereas with Apple, the carrier has no idea if the product is capable of their needs, and besides with the Apple brand it will sell millions regardless.

"open/flexible" is a double-edged sword.
The battery life metric I care about is: how long will the battery last after I've been using all kinds of weird apps for a year.

That's where iPhone seems to excel. On a fresh install of Android, using just one built in app, it seems fine. But eventually the phone fills up with stuff that seems to drain it. Not sure how Windows Phone fares on that front.