skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have one microphone near me, connected to the internet. The technology in the Dark Knight was novel to me. I was already aware of law enforcement remotely arming a mic on a normal cellphone at that time[1]. I am pretty sure fixed lines can be bugged in a similar fashion. As anyone who watched it with an interest in technology, I was fascinated by the pooling of microphones to generate a sonar like map of Gotham.

What struck me recently, as that was a piece of art, there are two possibilities (non-mutually exclusive). That the technology already existed and art was imitating life, or that people were inspired thereafter to create the technology and life was imitating art. Certainly both could be true and
I'm willing to entertain a third possibility that noone bothered, but that seems unlikely to me.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html
Figs summarised, if you want the details can't you read up on it (eg via the article posted)?
My reason is that I just don't like sloppy reasoning to spread dangerous tribalist memes.

What's your reason for continuing to insist on using the word "culture" after you had already agreed on the non-factor of deference and importance of training ?
I've been checking on that post since it first came up looking for anything new, but old HN posts get to be hard to read for new stuff pretty quick, especially with no way to collapse a thread. If there was anything new, I'd be hard pressed to actually find it.

That thread is quickly sliding down the list and is already off the front page. I don't think a new one is out of the question.
If he were actually interested in a change in employer for great financial gain, something more like a $250-500k base with "uncapped bonus" might result in real inquiries. Particularly if his experience included a decent amount of machine learning and big data, as I've noticed that quite a few Chicago and NY area finance firms -- especially those who have bowed out of the HFT arms race -- are currently willing to pay well for folks with those skills.
They're article titles, Google finds them easily.
If the company is on the downward spiral or is not a tech company, then I think everyone expects control tactics such as dress code to be attempted to drive out the techies. If the company is a new up and coming tech company on the upward climb to greatness then who cares what employees wear. On the technical side, success occurs usually in spite of people that care about dress code, so taking time and expense to impress people is the opposite of what should be done.
There is a saying I really like: "I may not have hope, but I do have determination". I'm not sure who said it, but it's true (for some things).

People have faced many hopeless tasks and triumphed. They only seem inevitable after the fact. I'm sure it was difficult to expect the end of racism in South Africa, but it happened. It's not hard to think of many other examples.

It's worth it to start working on a cause you believe in, and other people will join.
HybridKit for iOS and JavaScript
Yep.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=localtunnel
Some of my grand-grand-...-parents moved from Venice to England around that time, together with many other families.
Cal Henderson, the guy who made Flickr, doesn't seem to own a pair of long pants. Also when I met Paul Graham, he was in shorts. So, yeah, I'd trust a software developer in shorts.
The original doesn't appear to be dated, but archive.org[1]
has the same thing going back to at least 2003.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20030805143958/http://cr.yp.to/tc...

Edit: HTTP Last-Modified header looks like it might be right:

Last-Modified: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:44:11 GMT
Ask HN: Business implications of open sourcing our framework?
I've spent the last two years building a framework called Q, in order to enable a consistent, easy creation of social apps and everything that goes with it (realtime collaboration, mobile, addressbook integration, facebook integration, and more). I'd like to make it available to the wider internet because I believe the greatest good comes when platforms are eventually open sourced. (The web, computer languages and frameworks, etc are mostly open source.)

But I would like to ask about the business implications of this. My company has obtained friends+family funding of over $100k, which - together with our own bootstrapping - helped pay for this framework. We plan to make our money with the apps that we build on top of it, as well as consulting and growing the ecosystem. What are the implications of open sourcing it, and under what license?
Maybe pink occurs less in its most intense form, in my mind it's a 'pale' shade. It's presence in nature is also rarely attached to hard emotions (unlike red : blood, fire; black : rot, death, obscurity, etc etc) and reminds me of smooth skin, cat paws, flower petals. Things that are soft and smooth, which are qualities I attach naturally to girls.

Just my two subjective cents.
Two.
One logitech G35 attached to a PC running Windows and one laptop internal microphone.

Turning on more devices would get me another laptop internal mic and the mics in a phone and a tablet.

Both laptops, the tablet, and the phone have 5 or 6 cameras in total. The desktop also has a camera, but it is pointed at a ceiling fan when not in use.
Roger. My TDI Golf regularly gets more than 50 MPG on highway trips and averages 36 in our driving which is almost exclusively urban, easily more than the sluggish Honda Fit it replaced.

Unfortunately the VW and Audi still suffer from reliability problems. Two friends both with TDI VW cars suffered (Bosch) fuel pump failure that destroyed their engines to a large degree and cost about $6000 to repair.
If we do it, it will cost less to connect with new developers, sysadmins etc. and we can also identify bugs, security flaws etc. much faster. I would rather socialize the further costs and benefits of these things to everyone.

At the same time I am worried that a company with a large userbase like Google or Facebook is just going to take it and kill our company much like what happens in an acqui-hire. Meaning, they have the user base and ultimately critical mass matters when it comes to user adoption. Look for example at Diaspora*.

You can read more about our framework and its goals here: http://qbix.com/blog as well as here: http://qbixstaging.com/QF (the framework portalin development by me.)

Currently I am thinking of testing the waters by releasing Q under an AGPL license as it's the most toxic to large, for-profit companies. My company however wouldnt be bound by it ourselves since we wrote the code. Is that right? It would enable other open source projects to spring up, and then later, when we have enough of a community behind it, we might also release under other licenses such as BSD or Apache. Maybe even work with the Apache foundation.

The other question is who should control the copyright of the framework legally (and issue the license). Should it be the for-profit company Qbix, or should a non profit foundation be set up just for managing this framework and its community?

Any advice would be appreciated - from experienced entrepreneurs, investors, businessmen and lawyers.
I believe they were RoR early adopters and one of their guys is a leading contributor to ClojureScript.
2 mics, 2 cams.

Say if you are running osx, and run the command:

osascript -e 'set volume input volume 0'

the microphone still seems to be accepting inputs, can anyone else elaborate on why this is?
Perhaps he should stick to graphic design then, and stay away from industrial design.
Which country are you talking about? I know it's not Slovenia, that's why I'm curious :)
Do you have xcode installed?
It worked well on my 5 year old netbook.
FreeBSD.
Xombrero.
To add to what maaku said, puns, memes, and "funny" jokes tend not to go over very well here (thankfully).
Because the site is a private property and not obliged in any way to offer reading without interruptions.
This is not clumsy. It is completely broken, it cannot even be used as a library.
They have MP4 as well.
This is pretty much how the future of photojournalism was imagined. The only difference is that it's not on magical video paper, which isn't that far away anyway.
The idea that the level of discourse on HN is high? Compared to say, Reddit? Or YouTube comments? No, not a joke. It's my perception that many of the folks participating on HN are, well, both gifted and engaged in the world. Do you disagree?
Not sure why this was downvoted... I've wondered often what it would take to develop a programming language that one could create in while being physically mobile. I do some of my best programming/thinking while walking around since it's conducive to inspiration, but then I have to wait until I get home behind my keyboard to try and implement something.
If there is one thing that I have considered a flaw in computing, it's that there have been few ways for inexperienced developers and users to use one simple system which allowed them to circumvent their host based firewall, their network IDS, their edge based UTM and the OS security assumptions around localhost being a protected, private interface. The value of a point and click system to expose these directly to the internet and a domain that serves as a collection point for them can not be understated.

If a service is bonding only to ::1, and not 0.0.0.0 or your current routable ip it's explicitly deciding that it shouldn't be accessible from beyond the local computer. And in a lot of cases, it's right even if it doesn't explain why exactly. When exactly did we decide local port forwarding was too hard even for technical people? Or, I dunno, servers?
Somewhat off topic, but does anyone know how Adobe does their cross platform interface? It doesn't feel like native Mac OS UI, though I think it works pretty well.
Localtunnel is great, but pretty old. This alternative was posted a few weeks (months?) back and I'm liking it more: https://ngrok.com/
I honestly couldn't see a difference from the ones used in iOS 7...
Jotting a name and phone number on paper (assuming you have pen and paper handy) is way faster than trying to type it on a 2" x 3" keyboard.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but is this something that Plan9 was solving? Everything (including sockets) being treated as a file?
That just can't work. Imagine every Ferrari worker being able to afford a Ferrari. What would that mean for a price of a Ferrari, eh? The price would have to go up, and then the wages, and then the prices and so on.
But neither is there a reason to believe they will be.

Yes, I agree with that, I just didn't know how to put it.

But still, the idea of complete autocratic slavery for a million years is such a bad scenario for me, that even just a small likelihood would be enough for me to welcome the fact that nothing lasts forever. Having that idea in a world where chickens are stuffed into dark rooms and have their beaks singed off so they don't peck each other to death doesn't help.

Maybe the universe doesn't tend towards evil, but power sure does. And newborns don't change; that is, humans get born as blank slates, but are faced with and molded by structures that can be arbitrarily old, complex and twisted. We no longer know what our parents know by the time we're 10; most of us wouldn't find out half of what is going on if we lived to be 1000. And it really only takes one sufficiently isolated generation to rewrite history into anything you want. And those who would want to do that, will make sure it's nasty and sticky. That doesn't mean it will come to that, but it really only takes one singularity event, doesn't it. So if it came to that, chances might be good it will not come to anything else ever again.

The Roman Empire didn't collapse because they thought "let's do something else instead, this is really petty and dumb", but because there was an outside, and because communication got slow as it grew in size. That communication changed a lot is obvious, and I would argue if you consider it from a class perspective, not from a nation perspective, there is no outside either, it's one huge blob. There may be an "outer lower class", but plenty of it identifies with and loves big brother dearly, and when push comes to shove, you don't really need that many faithful, you don't even need the smartest, they just need to be really dedicated and obedient and have the best weapons money can buy. And then there is robotics. I really fear that in a few hundred years tops it'll be _over_, if we keep on sleepwalking like we do.

Maybe I'm just pessimistic, and surely I read and watched too much dystopian science fiction; but I kinda think the reason we don't live on conveyor belts in a world made out of cast iron is because we're still building that world; but not because that's not exactly the world power wants, must want. Of course, such a blind lust for power is also by definition lacking in awareness, if not to say stupid. So there's that hope always, too, that it might trip over itself.
A high percentage of security jobs in the U.S. are government positions. If you can't get a clearance, you can't get a job. It is far more difficult for a foreign national (especially from a place like India) to get a security clearance of any sort, let alone the Top Secret clearance that most security roles would demand.

That's not to say that it's impossible though.

Also, unless I'm mistaken, securitytube.net is owned by Indians. It's a great site and the instructors for their courses are indeed experts.
Sure, right after iAndroid, Winux and Java#.
I was under the impression I could use OpenID to log onto Ubuntu Forums - if I'm not remembering this wrong, I thought I did so the last time I visited Ubuntuforums - with my Launchpad.net membership.

Does anyone remember if that was an option? Or was it only "username/email, password" to log onto the site?
I really enjoyed this phrase: ""brilliant at diagnosis and helpless at cure""
Do you program your PC BIOS or firmware?
That seems to be the general theme with a lot of network and systems programming. :(
I don't think "curry" is quite the right name for that function. For a function

int f(int, int, int);

the curried version of f,

auto f_curried = curry(f);

must be able to take multiple arguments one-at-a-time, so

f_curried(x)(y)(z) == f(x, y, z)

The code at https://dpaste.de/a8g9D/ just partially applies the function to one set of arguments, which isn't enough -- you have to keep partially applying until you get them all.
Our Smiles: Wherever there is a smile
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He's the social media editor for qz.com.

https://twitter.com/hermanywong
>If you decide to ignore those in your study because you want to study something specific then you should make it very, very clear.

There are a lot of things researchers want. They write grant proposals to study things which they can, at the beginning of the study demonstrate the possibility of obtaining a useful unambiguous conclusion. I don't get the impression that the researchers misrepresented their study. Is that what you're alleging?

>>Did you know that the NY Times and others recently recanted much of their sensationalist reporting of the "Crack Epidemic" >I don't know how that is relevant. I am basing my position on personal experience working with these kids.

Does your personal experience involve having read news articles like the one we're discussing, or watching television news covering the subject?

>>efforts to reduce infant mortality and morbidity, and developmental defects in early childhood by combating drug-use were misguided; >No, they weren't. Cocaine use does lead to disabled children,

If you have finite resources n to spend fixing problem p and you have been using solution x which after some time appears to have negligible effect, would you continue x, or consider looking for another solution?

>No, they weren't. Cocaine use does lead to disabled children, statistically speaking.

Where are the statistics? The news article is reporting a study that does not, or only barely supports that conclusion, suggesting that the Cocaine use may be merely incidental, and not causal.

>Many of whom are premature.

From the article:

>Babies born prematurely, no matter the cause, are at risk for a host of medical and developmental problems.

>This was a study has no information on the amount of cocaine used throughout pregnancy,

Is it even possible to conduct such a study? It would likely require clinicians to closely supervise pregnant women while the women were using illegal drugs.

>All we can conclude from this study is that poverty is worse for kids than cocaine exposure near the time of full-term birth. It has no information for the 1/4 to 1/5 of the kids that are born to people that test positive for cocaine that are born prematurely and tend to have much more severe health and developmental problems. Not to mention the ones that don't make it to birth at all.

What is your hypothesis for how the effects of poverty would be negated for the cohort/time period you're interested in?
Ran almost smooth and without rendering glitches on a 2007 CoreDuo with intel IGP. Try to pop a live linux distro (e.g: Mint 15) on usb it might be pleasant.
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You do not own the SIM card, it remains full property of your network operator. As such, they have a right to keep you off-limits.

FYI: the main Javacard applet on a SIM card is the GSM applet, the one you use to authenticate against your network. Other applets are useful for network operators: IMEI tracking sends them your phone ID to help them configure it correctly -- it is also used to track stolen phones. Another useful one updates your preferred foreign network list when you change countries, connecting you automatically to a cheaper network when available.

Uploading your own software will not do you much good. As mentioned above, CPU and memory are very limited on SIM cards, and Javacard is basically a glorified assembler you do not want to touch. SIM cards are mostly there to perform some simple crypto operations for network authentication and that's it.
I have tried a variety of different services that provide this but I have decided that I like the newer https://ngrok.com/ service more. I have had some major difficulties with localtunnel on my mac in the past.
Kazakh steppes are not your wild west and laptops are not gold bars.

First, local populace isn't used to enterpreneural crime with complex schemes. They can surely steal a few devices out of unsealed container, but huge planned robberies involving material goods is not something I've heard of.

Imagine you disconnected a few cars, they stand on one-track rails in the middle of steppe with no roads or buildings to be seen anywhere. What do you do with them? And even if you figure out how to make them disappear, what's your recipe for getting laptops (that are swiftly losing resale value) out of the country? By rail? :)

If course you can try leveraging corrupt Kazakh government, but this time it won't work because you just kicked their puppy, the country's future.

Time will come for wild train robberies if the traffic is indeed to reach millions of containers annually, but right now it's like trying to steal Mona Lisa during the open hours.

And guards, I bet they protect the train from stupid random incidents (camels, drunk tractor drivers, etc).
I don't think so - just because you don't worry about gender boxes doesn't mean you want to live all kinds of gender roles.
I actually went ahead and read it, and it's extremely obscure.

I'm asking just in case someone has a better source.

This is basically all the detail about the actual flaw in the article:

"In his study, Nohl says just under a quarter of all the SIM cards he tested could be hacked, but given that encryption standards vary widely between countries, he estimates an eighth of the world’s SIM cards could be vulnerable, or about half a billion mobile devices."

"his team tested close to 1,000 SIM cards for vulnerabilities, exploited by simply sending a hidden SMS. The two-part flaw, based on an old security standard and badly configured code, could allow hackers to remotely infect a SIM with a virus that sends premium text messages (draining a mobile phone bill), surreptitiously re-direct and record calls, and — with the right combination of bugs — carry out payment system fraud."

Seems like it would only affect a very specific subset of mobile phones.
In my case, it's to provide IP connectivity where it is otherwise not available.

I'm using the devices shown in the bottom of the picture at http://www.digi.com/products/wireless-routers-gateways/routi...

These electrical substations are in the "middle of nowhere". We can't exactly call up the cable or telephone companies and get an Internet connection installed. Fortunately, cellular service is available, even though it is extremely slow in some of these locations.

The devices are, at their most basic, cellular routers -- a LAN port on one side connects to the industrial equipment equipment and the device connects to the cellular network to give them Internet access. An IPSec VPN from the device back to the utility's office provides a connection to their management software so that they can communicate with the industrial equipment.

The industrial gear is "smart". Need to disconnect a customer because they didn't pay their bill? Send out a digital message and their electricity gets shut off. Huge storm roll through the area? They can quickly see how many customers -- and where -- are without power.

IP connectivity to the industrial equipment means they can control everything from their main office and not have to do a "truck roll" for every service change and such, saving them tons of time and money.
Hm, didn't know that the sintering patents were about to wear off--that's just plum interesting.
More-expensive providers go down too. I would never put all my hosting eggs in 1 provider basket. That is asking for trouble. Even big-names like AWS can go down.
Another possible way of doing this: set up a Tor hidden service, and give people the URL through a gateway service like http://onion.to
They are not actually gifs, they are html video tags.
Exactly what you'd expect:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/07/21/silk-ro...
I see strong parallels between this and the Linus Torvalds discussion on being polite as an engineer.

I get a fair amount of email (maybe one every week or two) from people with technical co-founder offers or engineering interview offers. I have no interest for various reasons, some of which line up with yours I'm sure. Here's my standard response:

"Hey John,

Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, I'm still a full-time student, and I won't have time to take on another part-time obligation next semester. Best of luck filling the position."

Sure, I might laugh with my friends about how positively stupid that businessman's email was. However, I'll be nothing but cordial to the person's face. I try to be cordial to everyone. You never know when your paths might cross next in life.

Moreover, an email like yours perpetuates the stereotype that engineers are socially awkward and hard to work with. As someone doubling in engineering and finance, I hear this all of the time in my business classes. It's something that annoys me to no end.
This is at the SIM card level.

Most SIM cards are actually micro computers that communicate with the host system for certificates, encryption and some provider specific information, besides the common address stuff.

Usually the software is done in Assembly, C or JavaCard, with JavaCard use getting increased in the last years.

The JavaCard exploits are related to the VMs running the system, which are usually coded in a mix of Assembly and C. JavaCard VMs don't have a JIT due to memory constraints.
That makes sense but it's just not how I read.
I just kind of skim through while scrolling the whole time.
I find this page really difficult to read which is kind of annoying.
Still if it's good for 99% of people then fair enough. I do like the little lines linking to locations on the right.