skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google could use this to bootstrap a FON like worldwide network. Have an additional option in the settings for "Make this network part of Google Free Wifi" and then any android phone anywhere can connect seamlessly to the network. If you change the security settings they are immediately updated because you also update them on your own phone.

At least for networks that are already designed to be public (e.g., coffeeshop wifi) this would be awesome. For my home network I'd have to first setup a second SSID myself that I firewall from the rest so that I don't expose all my wifi devices to any passer by. That bit isn't very user friendly.
The first device was supposed to be $100 each, so you paid $200 for yours and someone else also got one. But it was never actually that cheap.
No, they just go into the zone.

You run a server for example.net. Your server will respond to any requests sent to it for records in that zone.

Someone attempting to reach your site will query the parent zone (.com) for NS records for your zone. So they will query for NS records for example.com against a server which is authoratitive for .com.

(How do they find .com server? They ask the root servers. How do they find the root servers? That's the bootstrap info.)
The honor system, mostly. The same could be said for price tags, bar codes, license plates, etc...
s/Tim Ferris/Al Sharpton/g
s/Tim Ferris/Donald Trump/g
s/Tim Ferris/Robert Kiyosaki/g
and on and on...

Personally I'd rather hitch my wagon to Ron Popeil.
Some talk here [1] of a recorded message from their support number that they are currently experiencing a DOS attack.

1. http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1285835
I wouldn't worry.

It's not as if the government could compel our friends at goooogle to give up said passwords.

Besides, you don't have anything to hide. Do you?
No, this is for domains where .worldnic.com is the authorative server. If you registered your name through NetSol but hosted the DNS servers elsewhere then you would just be relying on the respective TLD servers (e.g. .gtld-servers.net for .com domains) to refer resolvers to the correct authorative servers.
Both Mexican Coke and kosher-for-passover Coke are made with sugar instead of HFCS. If you're in America, one of the two is probably available near you.
I love how it was more acceptable for your general to be drinking vodka by the glass full than it would have been to drink the "American Imperialist" drink.
We're a self-funded, boot-strapping startup, so conserving cash is pretty important to us. I could pay to use a co-working space, but the value just doesn't seem to be there for me. When I want to be around other people, I go work at the cafe at Barnes & Noble near my apartment, or at SplatSpace (hackerspace in Durham), or Beyu Cafe (a popular restaurant in Durham, which is popular with the startup set here), or something of that nature.

When co-working space would be valuable to me, would be when we start needing a private space for meetings (ie, a conference room) on a relatively frequent basis. And even then, I'm not sure we couldn't come up with a better arrangement. Depends on how much the local co-working place is charging and what kinds of models/plans they have in place.
Seconded, I'm really interested in the hardware you use to collect all that data.
But isn't his whole project highly contradicting a criticizes people who just maximize income/growth mindset? Shouldn't he at least go for social entrepreneurship, or even some 3rd world self-employement/small entrepreneurship strategies? The project definition he outlined looks definitely not like he would be searching for lifestyle businesses to invest in.
Offer HN : MVP for 200$
I started playing with rails 2 weeks ago.I think I can get an MVP working in rails.The MVP will cost you 200$.It should not have a lot of features just the most important ones.I will not do any graphic design just frontend work with a css framework.You will not have to pay anything upfront.
Personally I love the "cycle through the options" of the Windows Command Line. It's the one thing that I wish bash could emulate, instead of the "Show me all the options". For me, it's a lot more functional, because it doesn't require me to figure out what the differences are between file names. For example, trying to find the difference between R0BCRWPY_1373654012 vs R0BCRWPY_1373647568 is very tedious, especially if you have a bunch of similarly named files.
For me, the most liberating thing was "not wasting film", I didn't have to worry about taking a bad shot and could take more risks or take pictures of just about anything without worrying about using up a finite amount of rather expensive film. If a picture was bad or shot from the hip and came out as something other then intended, I simply could now delete it and the space could be used by another photo. With film once that negative is exposed, that's it, you now wonder what picture you won't be taking now because you're going to run out of film sooner, so you wouldn't take as many pictures unless you spent a lot of time setting up the shot or posing, you lose a lot of in the moment opportunities.

When I got my first digital camera, I went nuts with it on my trip that I bought it for, looking back at the photos I took years after, it was kind of obnoxious now that I think about it how often I pulled it out. Many times to the point of missing just experiencing the place/situation I was in rather then wanting to get a picture of the experience. Thankfully, the novelty wore off, but now I have to remind myself, "Hey, you have a camera, you should get a picture of this." or find myself realizing it a little too late.
Well.

Firstly, the fact that you continue to use and insist on an overladen (with decades' worth of baggage) term that obscures what you're talking about, rather than just say what you claim to mean, is not an encouraging sign to me.

Secondly, if SRS is really a place where "serious conversations", as you put it, take place, then they certainly were adept at hiding it from me back when I frequented. After a while, one gets rather tired of the LOL DILDZ and LOL MRAS and wants to actually accomplish some good. Perhaps it's now a better place, but given how toxic the culture was I very much doubt it.
1. The Paris Commune
2. Revolutionary Catalonia
3. kibbutz-es
4. The Free Territory

Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_countries

Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anarchist_communities (anarchism is a form of socialism)

(Also, actual Marxists do consider the USSR as Real Socialism (tm))
عجائب العراق ومسؤولي العراقي
"Because of Glass's limited user interface, Google set up the device's camera to automatically process any QR code in a photograph."

...set up the device's [$foo] to automatically process any [$bar] code...

What could go wrong?
> I'm under no doubt whatsoever that if the NSA show up and grab all my hardware, and wave their $5 wrench menacingly, I'll give them all the keys/passphrases they ask for.

True enough, but we could also implement a duress code which would wipe data of your choosing and unlock the rest. There has also been some research into learned passwords (passwords which you dont consciously know, but rather exist in a mannerism of yours. e.g. the path your eyes take when trying to read some lines of code). That aside, no solution today protects against this including your truecrypt partition.

> I'm "sure enough" though, that they can't read my EncFS/GPG/TrueCrypt protected data without me knowing about it.

If they plant malware on your computer (without you knowing about it) would you still be so sure?
Answers on the threat model:

- Yes the computer is turned on
- C is the main worry, with regards to A, if somebody has managed to get into the house and is about to take the laptop, there is absolutely nothing I can do about it so I don't really worry about it.

And as for B, I have absolutely no weird fetishes at all and have done absolutely nothing wrong EVER :-)
Or "How to Gain 30 Pounds of Muscle in a Month by Liberally Defining the Words 'Gain', 'Pounds', 'Muscle', and 'Month.'"
You might enjoy mutualism.
I've recently dumped my Windows environment. Switched from a massive powerful tower with multiple monitors to a single Macbook Pro Retina 15". My workflow is much faster now due to gestures and learning hotkeys, much more portable, works better, faster than my desktop. I can work remotely anywhere I want too which is amazing.

OS X is great for development. Besides gaming, I really don't see a point to using Windows ever again really. The UI is so much nicer, gestures save me a lot of time (quickly launch an application, view desktop, switch between spaces), combined without having to do any workarounds (working remotely on a Linux server) to get things running. Love having a native terminal as well.
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You give large corporations way too much credit. There's no evidence beyond your conspiracy theories that this is a feature designed for anything other than convenience (one which I and many others in the thread have found to be quite convenient).

Not every feature in Android is designed to be monetised. Google develop Android with the intent that users will use their app store/click on Google provided ads. They can only do that if they are seen to be offering a competitive, feature full product. The cloud-based syncing of your phone configuration is one of those features.

Having worked in various large organisations (including ones which are definitely part of the military-industrial complex) I can say wholeheartedly that there is no grand conspiracy. Most people, wherever they work, want to produce the best product they can.
Sure, but you can write your runtime test code in C - or any other language with an LLVM compiler.
Hi Pud, I actually worked with Gary Burke on an early-early version of TuneCore. I just... could never imagine how it would make money back then. Maybe I simply underestimated the number of artists willing to pay for this (probably). I guess my #1 question has always been: How on earth did you get access rights to the API to do this... and how on earth did Gary do that way back when (if you have any idea)? Thanks!
You lose a lot of things the C compiler does for you by targeting LLVM directly. A big one is debug info. The C compiler will emit debug information for you, and with some line directives, as shown in the article, or maybe scripts, you can get minimally usable source-level debugging without having to generate your own debug info.
In a sense we're already there. I use my Android to stream music, run GPS and display car diagnostics while driving (via bluetooth in OBDII port). I put in a fairly good stereo headunit not too long ago only to be disappointed that the majority of its software is tuned for Apple devices.

I've already seen DIY articles on mounting tablet's in-dash and hooking them to the existing car sound system so having a plug and play interface for cars and tablets wouldn't be a difficult task for someone experienced in such fabrications. Hell, having 3D printers so prevalent now will speed this up even more.

After all, a lot of the challenges car manufacturers need to overcome in the car computing world have already been solved by the likes of Apple and Google. Voice command, music, navigation, camera support, bluetooth, phone calls/SMS... its all already solved. Having a device that can then interface to an existing ecosystem just makes it even more appealing to the buyers who are able to be swayed simply for the gadgets.
Thanks. It sounds interesting, I may pick up a copy sometime, just to help round out my knowledge of areas that I'm less than strong in. As a developer, I'm admittedly kinda weak on the financials / accounting / valuation stuff. I feel like I need to go take an accounting class or two. Guess I should look and see if there's anything good on Coursera...
Their facebook page has been updated:

Network Solutions is experiencing a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack that is impacting our customers as well as the Network Solutions site. Our technology team is working to mitigate the situation. Please check back for updates.

https://www.facebook.com/networksolutions/posts/101514681058...
> I think you're taking this as much more ideological than it is.

I think for a lot of people, it's a fairly reflexive dislike of referral links, rather than something they think through deeply. But at heart lies this idea that "OMG, he made some money off it! Impure! Impure!", when it's pretty easy to judge, on a case by case basis, whether a person is contributing or spamming that on a site like this.

Also: any links I put probably would have been to Amazon anyway, out of convenience, although sometimes when Wikipedia has a good summary, I just link to that. So my behavior does not really change other than attaching the referral code.
I have a slight problem with the ‘facts’ in the HN title, as it’s more of a conglomeration of speculation and make-believe, giving a decently-understood part of physics a near-mystic appearance.

Apart from that, the first few lines are likely telling:

> Quantum computers aren't for browsing the Internet, checking email, or running standard software.

Or, similarly:

‘Computers aren’t for buying groceries or checking timetables.’ (imaginary me in 1930, having a hard time to think of tasks that computers do nowadays that existed in 1930)
After using several frameworks in various projects, I must agree with that. The main problem with frameworks is that they work well until you try to do something they weren't designed for - and then you end up with a pile of hacky and messy code. With smaller libraries it's much easier to replace one for another or just write your own small piece of code that will do exactly what you want.
Excellent advice for the water plants! Plants always die when I am away for more than a week and I was seriously thinking about an Arduino hack to automate water dispensing but that trick would be great if it worked !!
Hi, hit me up on Twitter and I'd be happy to help. @escapologybb
Using iPad with 11 Fingers… Extending Android's limit in Code
Also you as always have to be careful and make sure that all DNS servers have the same content or else you will get weird bugs.
Wouldn't a delay be better than full downtime?
It's possible in bash too. In your .bashrc:

# tab key: cycle through the list of partial matches
bind "\C-I":menu-complete

# ^p: traditional completion
bind "\C-p":complete
Putin can't afford to play hardball. Despite his macho exterior in the media, he knows that the US has leverage economically and elsewhere.
I'd pay a monthly fee for a service that let me create one of these and integrate it with the various workout/personal stats apps/gadgets/services. An app like Moves + a sleep monitor + a workout tracking app + a diet tracker all on one dashboard would be really neat.
Thanks, I enjoyed that ;-)
By going in this order, the sand does not go into the output.
Hacking to rig election earns college student one-year prison sentence
The Nexus 7 is already a great, durable, child-friendly tablet, and it has been available to anyone for years. It's exactly the right size for small hands and arms. Install anything you like on it.

For a more learning-oriented kidputer, the Leappad is available. Kind of expensive with every app/game costing $20 extra, but oh well.

OLPC's products have never been available for consumer sale - this is the first one. They've been around for eight years. And they've finally launched their first product, which is going to be sold exclusively through Walmart, a company people should have philosophical objections to buying from, and which is known for squeezing their suppliers to death. I don't see any mention of the specs which means to me that "underpowered" is the right word to use.

If you want to buy an underpowered, crappy, no-updates Android tablet, you can get one nearly for free from DealExtreme. They'll sell you one for $60 with free shipping. I'm not even making that up.

I had such high hopes for OLPC when it was first started. But they've lost the track, gone off the rails, whatever metaphor you want to use.
I would assume that sites affected by a Network Solutions downtime would qualify as small(ish) sites because the big ones have other solutions anyways. Also, it's much easier to deal with a DOS on DNS than with a DOS on your app servers. If you can handle it for your app servers, you'll be able to handle if for DNS.

If not, well, then you're down anyways.
I really wish police would use #5 to deal with dogs instead of shooting them. I've seen too many videos of this recently.
For QR codes generated on the fly on another screen, that is obviously impossible. For QR codes on posters, I think the effort required to actually go about making stickers far outweighs any potential gain from hijacking a QR code.
Activated carbon, also known as activated charcoal, was the useful ingredient in "universal antidotes". Although the mixture (see link) is no longer used, activated charcoal still is.

http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=4805
These might work better: http://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Globes-AG011706-Watering-2-Pack/d...
Looking Into the Future of Sass
I didn't followed that approach, matchers (like in RSpec) returns a boolean (or a promise of a boolean value). Errors raised in a matcher will be catched and, as in RSpec, will flag the test as errored (and not as failed).
I've always found it more useful to detect when something went wrong in your test setup than failures.
Could you please go more in depth about "functional-style hooks ... before the framework madness"? I'd be interested in reading your thoughts as a newbie JS dev currently studying backbone/angular/jquery and other libraries.
No mention of goroutines or concurrency in the post. Is it addressed by the project at all? I can't imagine that the GTK main loop will deal well with being cooperatively scheduled -- the UI would block any time another goroutine ran on the same OS thread.

Ideally the GTK main loop would run in its own OS thread, and there would need to be a way to ensure that no GTK calls happen in other goroutines. Other (threaded) environments tend to handle this by deferring via a one-off "idle" function that is scheduled and run by the GTK main loop for things like that.
Does agile dwarf allow cross project boards though? doesn't look like it?
No. I mean a command line tool mimicking the Heroku Toolbelt API but for static sites.
Thanks, that path you posted applies to my phone too. It looks like the Backup setting was already off for me. It might be one of those settings that you are prompted about while setting up the phone.
I don't know why people insist on things they know they're not going to get, it makes them look weak.

Perhaps this is related to bad publicity being a good thing if your product is otherwise unknown?
> It's too bad nobody has made a 'cheap-hacker-tablet' something that might be 2" thick and weigh 4-6lbs but have a touch-screen, metal body, usb ports, screw placements for mounting, and easy to access replacable hardware.

Contact me off-list to discuss some options.
What happens when someone doesn't like you and decides to DDoS your DNS servers?

Though if it's only your site on the DNS Servers, they might as well just DDoS your website.
From https://github.com/chocolit/dashboard it looks like he uses Jawbone UP and Withings.
I used to claim that I want all these companies to give me functioning end-to-end encryption. At this point, I can't even be sure that end-to-end would be sufficient with a Microsoft product, since it seems they hand over data gathered at my end.

I find it hard to see how they could recover from this PR nightmare. Well, they at least have to try, I suppose.
I have been using a 12v GPK charger for my MacAir for over a year. No problems at all. In fact it powers two MacAirs most of the time. (Switching the plug back and forth)
HN Tip: Displaying the build date in your C# application
> now you have the possibility to have to merge two different sources of query string

Not really:

if hashMode and queryStringInHash
parseQueryStringFromHash
else
parseRealQueryString

You don't have to merge. Just if you modify the query string and are in "hashMode" then just push the "real querystring" elements you parsed first into the "hashquery string".
I worked at a company that did a very large amount of data processing on a relatively small number of machines using a well-optimized c++ library. The library did everything, including the calculations and the data storage. This made it hard to write one-off queries that the executive team would request from time to time, since we would write a custom c++ program every time.

One day we came up with an idea: what if we could query the data store with SQL? The first iteration actually attempted to embed sqlite3 into the data access layer, which was functional but extremely slow because of all the type marshaling going on. A coworker and I came up with the second iteration which worked like this: a custom SQL-like language would be parsed by a Perl program using Parse::RecDescent, a recursive parser generator. The parse tree would then be translated into C++ that used the data access layers and processing layers directly. The compiled program was distributed to the cluster in the same way as the daily processes.

As far as I know this monstrosity still gets daily use, four years later.
I bought what looked like a legit iPhone charger in Turkey a few weeks ago. However, if you touched the tip of the cord while it was plugged in, it would shock the hell out of you. I guess they skimped on a ground wire? I am not an electrical engineer. Would appreciate an explanation if anyone can speculate.

EDIT: I don't use this charger anymore, just to be clear.
Why do you even have to backup a password? It's idiotic from every way you look at it
Well, what happens if someone doesn't like your registrar and DDoS' them?

Do both.
Sadly there has been a large uproar over this commercial by people with certain view points which has caused a controversy.

I still cannot fathom why this is or has to be. It is very sad.
brilliant! thanks for that link
I hate on people who promote subjective viewpoints / experiences as universal truth. The underlining idea ('don't define yourself by the hours you work') is certainly valuable but it is cooked up by a mixture of recycled self-help 'for the working professional' recommendations that are mixed with the promotion of unrealistic expectations.
Bad rollout (invite only) and marketing. They generated a lot of hype and then kept people from using it until interest died off again.
Beverage companies make clear liquor by filtering their worst and cheapest beer through charcoal (a special carbon filter) to remove the color (the science of this is explained in sibling comments). Strong citrus flavors are then added to mask the original flavoring. Zima was a popular drink made in this fashion in the 1990s. A competitor to Zima, Smirnoff Ice, (which isn't vodka in the U.S) is still around.
That explains my friend's site yesterday. Requests to his site sometimes resulted in the display of a banner page by "Islamic Ghosts Team," but not all the time. I noticed that Network Solutions was apparently running Apache 2.2.22, which has a few security flaws (I'm pretty sure he doesn't use a VPS).
Reminding Starbucks that Beautiful Code Should Make Beautiful Language
The Netflix of Prescription Glasses: A Warby Parker Review
Why only during a Conservative government, and not a Labour government?
I've used CIL (if only for school projects), and I can vouch for it being a joy to use, at least if you like OCaml. Also, their page on wacky C edge cases ("Who says C is simple?", link to frame contents: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~necula/cil/cil016.html") is great.
These must be US numbers. I'd recommend Tomi Ahonen's blog for global numbers http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/

There are some OEMs in the global top 10 that don't show up in US numbers.
Do the New Ferraris Seem Ugly to You?