skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It organizes and simplifies a very chaotic market and presents it with a nice brand, and what sounds like great customer service.

Are laundry services really a chaotic market? Generally people use the laundry services available where they live (washer/drying in apt./house or in the building/development) or use a laundromat which is usually a local business. The vast majority of laundromats I have been to offer a wash and fold service, although pickup at home is less common.

> Also, you send them a picture of your key and they'll come in and get your laundry. That's both innovative and awesome.

Is this really that innovative? There have been personal cleaning services that will do this kind of thing since forever.
Over-reliance on anonymous sources is always a red flag for me.

His main sources are "...one internet industry source" and "...a person who has worked at a large Silicon Valley Company."

That's about as vague and unverifiable as you can get for the foundation of a story like this.
problem is sys admin day is always the last friday in July while your birthday is always July 26
But the world is full of neophytes, re-inventors, etc. It's good to remind people periodically and educate the next generation.
Daily collection of webdev links and posts
For me the headline, whilst technically true, was slightly misleading because "Chinese firm Huawei controls UK net filter" suggests a UK-wide net filter that Huawei controls. Whereas the BBC article headline of "Chinese firm Huawei controls net filter praised by PM" does not suggest that.
I use a french mac layout and it works well. But you have to type ~ then press space, then press shift+; (because shift+; is .)
It works, you'll just have to type

<tilde> <space> .
For the general public this type of article works well. The filler is useful because a lot of people are coming to the issue for the first time. Hopefully NBC &c. will also fill in pertinent background information as they bring their audiences up to speed.
Or just remove the SIM card...
Hard to imagine cheering something the Russian government does yet here we are. Would you trust your life to them?
They are also using Box2D but will only admit if you ask question face to face in public. And that phys lib is the crux of their gameplay.
The worst problem is trying to figure out just how many layers deep you are. I was being a little ridiculous though.
This is actually the bigger story because it's a smarter way for them to go IMHO.
Yet Another Process Library for Java (YAPLJ)
Iframes do suck. However, success of a whole crop of companies like Disqus depends on it sucking less. I am sure this is a known issue for these companies.
Why does the Myfaces trinidad 2.0 archetype create JSP pages?
You don't even need to sanitize them, actually.
Pattern unlock has 9 spots, and you need to select at least 4. So the possible number of patterns is:

9!/5! + 9!/4! + 9!/3! + 9!/2! + 9!/1! + 9!/0!

Which is just 985,824. And you could certainly search the more likely combinations first -- people almost always select adjacent spots consecutively.
Would you rather trust your life to the US government?
Or Something like Adzerk?
I also like the design. Did you style everything manually or use a styling engine?
Dev Center Notifier - Get a text when Apple brings a service back online
The bigger the network the more likely something like a simple vulnerability scan will take something down. For this reason many organizations don't allow blanket scans to take place which is a shame because if the scan itself is capable of taking down an important system on your network then clearly you have a huge vulnerability!

I remember when I was working as a security consultant doing a "safe" Nessus scan of a relatively small organization that happened to have a mainframe. The mere act of scanning the ports on the mainframe caused it to crash. The whole thing had to be rebooted and it took HOURS. Essentially, a whole day of work was lost.

When we met with the CSO to talk about it he was both happy and sad: Happy that we discovered such a huge vulnerability and sad that he was going to have to explain to his superiors that an action that he undertook (hiring security consultants to perform a scan) cost the business a lot of money.

I later found out that he was fired because of the incident.

That right there explains a lot about the state of IT security in business right now.
Ask HN: Smaller(ish) Project Idea's
What are some smaller project's that you could execute in a day to a week or so?

I'm think along the lines of setting up a personal email server, basic portfolio site, etc. Things that could broaden your knowledge of different services.

edit: Another example of what I was thinking about is setting up a basic dropbox clone for personal use running on your own server.
> I really, really don't understand where this comment is coming from.

Fear, really. Whenever a demographic is mentioned, comments quickly go on about the demographic (or about how it's not relevant). See also: topics about women.
Article is down, but if this is what I think it is... iPhones start increasing the time between allowed guesses geometrically after a few wrong ones, so this wouldn't actually work.
I don't think I had an email because it wasn't a requirement from what I remember.
Haha. Points aren't that important.
Software should come with guarantees if guarantees are needed. It should not come with an exhaustive list of non-guarantees.

Legally a lot of software (& things) comes with default guarantees. You have to opt out of some guarantees.
Withings API • Quick Start Guide
Jetpack Joyride is another clone of Temple Run. And Halfbrick are not that big and rich.
If you frequently hit Ctrl-S by accident, and don't consider this a feature, you can turn off XON/XOFF flow control using

$ stty -ixon -ixoff

then Ctrl-S/Ctrl-Q will be normal characters without side-effects in your terminal, you'll probably just see (depending on shell, terminal, ...) ^S on your screen when you hit it.

To turn it on again, use

$ stty ixon ixoff
Yes.

Let's not forget that it's Russia.

Still, Snowden can't afford to trust the US, so that leaves Russia as an alternative. But that's just a special case for this particular situation.
> ...and it hurts even more knowing that I (or anyone else for that matter) lack the resources to help everyone in need.

This isn't really true, most issues about resource distribution are political in nature and are not the result of a lack of resources.
Houses which also have BT's 330mbps FTTP (Fibre to the Premises) service have Openreach modems also made by Huawei (I have it installed myself)
Sociopathy isn't really a specific diagnosis (whereas psychopathy is, in most places) - and the term is used largely interchangeably with psychopathy when referring to an actual disorder. Any semantic difference in the terms hasn't come from the broad medical community as far as I'm aware.
I totally agree, there are a lot of ways to get a game to TV these days (and many more coming). The difference here is that we would be talking HTML5 games. And the controls could take advantage of your phone's touchscreen and sensors.

Also, if the Chromecast succeeds in gaining major market penetration, that would be another big reason to find more ways (like games) to repurpose it.
text files, paper statements and your file cabinet. There are various open source check register and book keeping packages. GnuCash is complete but possibly overkill for some people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_accounting_softwa...
How does Docker handle deploying to machines with wildly varying capabilities? Every machine you deploy on may have different configurations and performance tunings. Is there a Docker container that can run a DB well on a EC2 small instance and 16 core 128GB RAM dedicated server?
Thanks, it is good to hear a different sound with regards to self-hosting.
Build An Arduino Powered BBQ Thermometer With JavaScript
Managing nil in JSON and Hashes in Ruby
How hard would it be to have a script creating millions of email accounts sending billions of random emails including words like "bomb", "attack", "taliban" among others rendering PRISM useless?
I wish more people would get this through their heads. The secretary opening a zero-day PDF is usually all it takes for an entire organization to be owned! Especially organizations with Active Directory and Windows workstations. Here's why:

* Secretary's workstation gets owned via zero day.
* Attacker installs keylogger.
* Attacker "breaks" the workstation's join to the domain.
* Domain admin shows up to re-join the workstation to the domain (to "fix it").

Now the attacker has the credentials necessary to manage all of AD and give themselves rights to whatever they want. Also, since AD doesn't use a salt with password hashes the attacker can now trivially obtain the passwords of every employee in the company along with things like service accounts. It's game over at that point--rebuild everything time.
Doesn't sim card get blocked after 3 tries? Or is this different kind of pin?
> said Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Hm. Interesting switch. I wonder why.
Between this and both sides publicly announcing they're arming opposing sides of the Syrian conflict, I can't help but think the cold-war is making a comeback.

I am not saying that Russia should betray Snowden's trust and hand him over. Just that the two countries should have the appropriate communication channels to sort this out, and not air to the media in PR stunts. Public diplomacy often leads to oneupmanship, and makes concessions expensive.
Some people can't enjoy cooking meals because the food is simply not available, so surely you realize the value of a cheap and effective source of protein that is also highly transportable.

The logistics for moving large quantities of food is very difficult and in many impoverished countries there is no large-scale transportation infrastructure -- so while food rots, people starve, and little can be done about it.
That's the whole point. If someone gets physical access to my phone, I don't want them to get access to my data.
I actually don't think that's right. The benefits to the planet of removing 1000 small (household) washing machines and dryers and replacing them with say 10 commercial ones is very very substantial and more than offsets the "work" that's wrapped around providing this as third party service vs doing it yourself.
The Plague found in California Squirrel
Ask HN: Writing my first app
I've got a killer idea (!) and want to write my first app. What's the best way to do it. I'd like to optimise widest coverage for time spent initially.

Which platforms should I target. It's to be a paid app for parents (though generally info about targeting demographics vs platforms appreciated) but I'd consider free as they're are strong advertising opportunities. I'm assuming iOS is going to be best but I'd love to develop once and deploy to android as well if that's even possible. Primarily I see it being used on phones.

Primarily my closest domain experience is in webdev (PHP, HTML, JS) though I've done a tiny bit of python, C++, SmallTalk, Fortran in the past.

I don't have funds to purchase anything, I'm on Kubuntu but have Windows accessible.

Thanks for any info and advice.

[Sorry if this is a dupe of a dupe ... I did search but couldn't find "App Dev 101" - this is probably the closest https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4731469 (the link should be http://www.codelearn.org/rails-tutorials) but it has no info about implementation on a device, distribution, getting in to app-stores and such.]
I think the saying "The enemy of an enemy, is a friend" suits this situation very well.
Or use mosh[1] on top of SSH and stop worrying about that stuff.

It works much better over high-latency links (mobile). It is not bothered by saturated links, tolerates IP changes and losing the underlying connection like when you suspend your laptop and take it elsewhere.

I now have mosh connect to several servers in tabs when I run gnome-terminal the first time, and only disconnect on reboot. I also run a mosh-capable Irssi Connectbot fork on the phone[2].

It's a massive improvement, fixing many of the little annoyances of ssh.

[1] http://mosh.mit.edu/

[2] http://dan.drown.org/android/mosh/
As a bisexual man, no.
I feel that Apple was in a unique position to do that. As we all know, they make their money from hardware and don't have much interest in taking control of users' data (beyond what is necessery for some nice vendor lock-in of course; not unlike the Microsoft of the distant past).

Better yet, they already had popular consumer hardware in place on which they could have built a decentralized cloud service: Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme. They could have just iterated on those devices.

But no, they chose instead to build that stupid, useless iCloud thing with the faux linen website. And while they were at it, made their networking hardware worse than before.

Maybe there were sound technical reasons for not going the decentralized route (like crappy bandwidth and latency, or increased complexity), but it still feels like a missed opportunity.
Probably. They also scoop up all your credit card transactions, so for in-person purchases, they've got your location logged there as well.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/06/wsj-nsa-progra...
Office Space: "It would be nice to have that kind of job security!"
They could do it quicker by starting with the most common PINs [1]. This all assumes the build in locks to prevent brute force don't work.

[1] http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/
Marriott just charged me $200 to wash a single bag. I did not realize it would be so expensive. Each item had a safety PIN with a number I had to remove myself. This service sounds like something I would be interested in when I am traveling and I don't want to carry a heavy luggage with me.
Interestingly, the BT router we had installed today appears to be from ECI Technology, Inc, an Israeli company. I had a quick look and I can't find them described as a Huawei shell or anything, only competitor. New back label, the rest looks the same as the Huawei one: http://www.imgur.com/0hJtXXH
brothers in arms in what? Destroying the Bill of Rights?
I was expecting this to be about Adam & Eve. -- Sex toys being sold from a rural NC town, where they are the #1 employer.
Yes I agree with patio11 here. What they're essentially doing is "growing the market" for commercial laundry. In theory 80%+ of the laundry they're processing would otherwise be done inside the home. If they hurt anyone via disruption it's the kid at Sears selling washing machines and dryers.
I don't think you need to be particularly cynical to assume that Russia might eventually send him away without calling it an extradition. After all, it doesn't look like Russia is interested in actively protecting Snowden. And if he doesn't get asylum in Russia neither somewhere else, it's plausible that the "default" alternative is deportation.
The article is trying to make a good point but it seems to be getting lost in some inner-conflict on the part of the writer. In asian countries, it is not uncommon for well to do families to employ a bunch of people for jobs that aren't strictly necessary. A strong part of the motivation for this is to provide a type of welfare. This is but one side of the coin. I know of a few older (post-70) individuals who are in reasonably good health but work "odd" jobs with low wages just to get the company of other people or to have a purpose in life. One 80+ individual just hung out at a garage and helped around. The "traditional" idea of playing golf/gardening in retirement are not as global as one might think. The fact that this company is continuing to pay their 99-year old custodian comes off as a good thing in my books.
Swan song: The best games still on the way for current-gen
Oh, that's simple - you are 9-to-5 coder in a language which name begins with J or ends with #.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Network_Computing It may take a bit more configuration than iTeleport (or not, I dunno), but it's worked fine on every major OS for years.
I'm in a job a bit like that, not much room for advancement. Not much of a challenge, but the pay is about double what most other places in my town are paying because it's a small location of a much bigger company. my family is here and we have no intention of leaving so for now it's a very comfy dead end job with good benefits etc.
Yes, it's talking about the Android lockscreen pin.
Hacker: Technical innovator, or cyber terrorist?
I'm putting it out there. In the past 5-10 years hacker started to get used to describe people repurposing hardware, or crafting their own inventions from basic parts. Or, commonly in software, where one can 'hack' together something relatively quickly, usually using existing parts: recombination. This term, used in this way, is creeping into mainstream media, which is pretty cool.

Outside of the IT circle, to 95% of the population, a "hacker" is someone who breaks into things, stealing credit card information and wreaking untold havoc on civic infrastructure. Journalists seem to be in an awkward space where they have a term to describe two vastly different things, either: a) a buzzword in the case of hardware tinkerers and b) a scareword in the case of software breaching. This is potentially leading people to think electronics enthusiasts are taking down the power grid, and that people who breach large corporate databases are now building homemade UAV's to do their work.

As an example (of which there are not few):

Car hackers use laptop to control standard car

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23443215

"Two security experts in the US have demonstrated taking control of two popular models of car, while someone else was driving them, using a laptop."

In actual fact, they're using the diagnostic port on the car, it's not like some unscrupulous hacker can suddenly take over any car just because it was driving past.

This weekend I'll take my mother for a drive, I imagined my mother quizzing me in the idle chatter as I drive: "Scary world. Have you seen that they can hack into and take control of your car now?"

sigh

So I finally decided to raise the question I have around this:

Do we worry about the risk of homebrew technical innovation being inextricably linked to cyber theft and terrorism?

What can we do to prevent/help/avoid it?
You won't be able to build and deploy iOS apps without running OS X - so that's not an option from Linux/Windows unfortunately.

You can use something like Appcelerator Titanium[1] to use HTML/JS and build native apps from that. So you will be able to use what you build to deploy to iOS should you purchase a Mac in the future.

[1] http://www.appcelerator.com/platform/titanium-platform/
Well this still sounds better than the single-trip limit which created the pressure to overload (and later not being able to eat it all.)

And thanks for the update!
Well, I have both a Windows box ann a Mac, but I am in no way upgrading to Opera 15, at least not until they add back all the features that where the real added value of Opera (Bookmarks, shortcuts, mail, link, note, DragonFly, Grouped tabs,...)
Programmers Day is 256th day of the year (September 13 during common years and on September 12 in leap years).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer's_day
Well I think "both" is the first alternative described: get rich any way you can, then use the money for real good. I think Bill's Microsoft was definitely not very interested in "Don't be evil" -- monopolistic practices, stealing ideas and technology from Apple (who often stole themselves), trying to kill free software (see: home brew computer club), etc.

Don't get me wrong. I have tremendous respect for Bill -- I look up to him and give him a LOT of credit for his recent work and humility. But I don't think Bill did "both". He definitely fell squarely into the first limited category: being a ruthless capitalist to get rich, and then trying to figure out how to actually bring some tangible good into the world with that money. (See also Andrew Carnegie)
A more synthetic overview: http://caniuse.com/#compare=opera+12.1,opera+15
This has being going on for a few months with other sites:

http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/05/who-really-owns-your-website-...

thanks,
Get ready for the cease and desist from Reddit. I would chose a different name now if I were you.
Opera 12 vs. 15 comparison on caniuse. http://caniuse.com/#compare=opera+12.1,opera+15

I was surprised to see large parts where the 12/15 feature lists are disjoint, which is exciting, as hopefully the v12 features will be ported to 15, and they'd be really strong.

As much nostalgia as I have for the Opera of the olden days, of which I was a long time fan, I really like v15, using it now. Once they catch up from the shift I think they're on their way to being the innovation leaders in browser features once again.
Android phones, and possibly iPhones as well, have multiple options for screen locks, one of which is a pin. That said, it will block pin entry after a set amount of failures after which you have to wait a set amount of time or log in with your Google account. I imagine the wait time scales if you continue guessing, rendering this bot quite useless.
Has anyone audited mosh's security model/encryption? Just curious since ssh is pretty tried and tested.
Wacko in the Morning 07/26 by The Wacko Network
We' have literally fought wars together. Don't think you can take that lightly.
What is onmousewheel event of JavaScript?
From the article (which is back up now, it seems):

> Not all phones are as susceptible to the R2B2's cracking. Apple's iOS, for example, increases the time between PIN attempts after each incorrect guess. But there is only 30 seconds delay after every five wrong guesses in Android phone
My father is the facilities manager for a huge industrial laundry facility (tons a day). I was trying to figure out how you'd keep everybody's clothes separate as they went through those gigantic tunnel washers and other equipment.

I never even though to just outsource to existing laundromats / dry cleaners. Ha!
Having said that, though, I bet it would be a great way to (legitimately) upsell people as well.
Regular civics reminder: the Executive is supposed to be the weakest of the three branches of government when it comes to domestic issues. If you want a president who's decent at his/her job (foreign affairs, proposing policy), but don't want him/her meddling with domestic affairs, elect a better congress.

This means actually going out to vote in primaries and main elections at the city, county, state, and federal level. All of these determine how much influence and power the federal government has, and whether or not they're doing a good job.

It's true that finding useful information on most candidates is impossible at the moment, but that's solvable.
Does it work too with ctrl-\ ? This has been my process killer recently and it's powerful (and the only way I know to get out of xtail.)
You can do that too. But that is a very different setup. If you build "single application" containers, then the container will stop if the application stops, and you can run supervisord from the host, configured to bring up the container.

If you build full containers, with a single application, you probably still want supervisord inside each container. EDIT: This is because the container will remain up as long as whatever is specified as the "init" of the container stays up, so in this case your app can die without bringing down the container, and something needs to be able to detect it.
But what if someone picks up your phone at a party while you're just a few feet away, and they decide to be a dick? It would take them just a minute to erase all your data.
Not really sure what you mean by styling engine. I did it manually but found inspration using dribble and FlatUIKit for iOS.
I have re-read the comment you made. Ditch the client.