skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of years back I started breaking MiFi hotspots and found an alarming number of violators. I spoke to Bandluxe who make a lot of Mifi tools and managed to get them to comply on one platform. My favourite is Novatel who no longer respond to me calling them out on their MiFiOS kit based on Linux.

Edit: A talk I did about Bandluxe's PR39 at BlackHat Europe 2012 is here for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZAjtxmxTkg
Why is this on the front page? I guess you can take any insight from a first year business textbook, slap "start up" after it and get instant credibility.

- Adam Smith's division of labor for startups!
- Henry Fayol's 14 principles of management for startups!
- Elton Mayo's office lighting for startups!
- Doug McGregor's Theory X/Y for startups!
- Porter's 5 forces for startups!
- FW Taylor's scientific management for startups!

Feel free to use these original titles in your next posting

:)
Broken on Chrome/Win 7.

EDIT: Whoops, it's Adblock Plus on Chrome. For some reason it gets rid of most of the site.
Rush Holt's doing one today as well!

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j17ir/hi_im_rush_holt...
Treehouse launches iPad app
Seems to be blank apart from "Richard Oakley
Media guy and full-time geek..." at the top
Alinea and Next in Chicago both use a pre-purchase ticket approach. They also open up tickets on a monthly basis a couple weeks in advance, and all the reasonable times are gone basically immediately. And both are far from cheap places.
Could you expand on the idea of the company?

If it's just a freelance web dev company there's no reason he should be getting 50% of the profit. There's no way he's spending as much time as you searching for clients as you would be building the site. You could easy replace him with PeoplePerHour.
The Visual Intelligence of Pacific Rim
Rush Holt Reddit AMA
This kind of thing makes me think the Snowden disclosures actually emboldened the NSA in some ways. Their nightmare scenario occurred, and nothing happened. Nobody even got fired or "resigned". The public's tepid reaction has brought our nightmare scenario to life - we taught secretive government agencies that they can now do anything they want without fear of public backlash. These kinds of requests can now dramatically increase, with neither judges, politicians, or the NSA itself living in fear of anyone.
Court Upholds Ruling on Dish Network’s ‘Hopper’
Did you know it is illegal to broadcast encrypted signals on HAM radio? Wonder how long it will take for that to come to the internet.
A checklist can be as simple as an spread sheet, so you could use:

-A shared network- or Dropbox folder containing Excel sheets

-A google docs account with check list spreadsheets

-Smartsheet.com

-Any wiki software, self-hosted or managed, i.e. wikidot etc.

-Any of the myriad of todo-list apps, just be sure the todo-lists (actually checklists) can be re-used as templates.
I don't think that's quite how it works. I took a quick look at the code and it doesn't contain any DOM selectors at all. It uses closures and getters and setters.
As an Oakland resident, this doesn't match my observations.
Yeah, but thats an entirely different ballgame if you ask me. The thing that differentiates this and mind reading, is full public/mainstream understanding.

Consider:

"Oh hey ma, the damned government is demanding public SSL keys, that means they can grab the data between your computer screen, and [insert popular services] servers"

vs

"Err, ma. The government has just announced they're now going to be reading peoples minds wherever and whenever you are."

I'm sure one would illicit a much more active response, and as ever, its down to full understanding.
This is hyperbolic nonsense. A high murder rate across the city as a whole does not imply that you are in physical danger standing outside a conference center in the middle of the day. That's simply not how murder works.
>And there is little 'new ruler' can do to establish himself if people don't need a ruler.

Did you, as an uncoerced free man, ever swear an oath of fealty to the US government? (The pledge of allegiance doesn't count.) Did your parents? Did their parents? Did their parents? Has anyone?

Anybody who may have elected to be governed by the United States is now dead, and the chances are good that you're not even related to them by blood. The vast majority of people who have lived under some form of government in their lives almost certainly did not choose to.

EDIT: Unless they immigrated. Forgot about that option. If you immigrated to the United States, you are exempt from this thought experiment.

But not totally, because you probably weren't stateless when you did.
Apple Prohibits Android Lessons in New Treehouse App
6. Java!

Allowing core application code to be written in the languages we would chose to use for desktop applications (rarely java) would be a major advantage itself.
Why? That's perfectly feasible from a technical perspective.
domestic spying NO
Foreign spying and intel gathering YES
Can turnover be expressed as a percentage? Wouldn't the more appropriate measure be length of time at the company?
Agreed entirely; an upvote wasn't enough. Quantum Mechanics has been delivering the goods since their invention.

While the maser surely is an explicit application of quantum mechanics, placing theoretical chemistry onto a solid physical framework may have had the greatest aggregate impact on humanity. From a scientific perspective, much of what we know about the universe requires spectroscopy. Everything we know about subatomic processes requires quantum understanding as a prerequisite.

Quantum effects are so curious/clever that we should continue to expect interesting surprises into the foreseeable future.
Clashing Coding Styles: Learning to Work with a Growing Team of Programmers
Show HN: Keeping an eye on Twitter - Warbler
It's a small detail, but I appreciate that he even identifies the typefaces used in the deck at the bottom of his post.
Confessions of a Slideshow Writer
First Hardware Hackathon in Montreal, Canada
Census Bureau’s New Tool Offers Easy Access to Congressional District Statistics
Can We Trust Monsanto with Our Food?
Huh?

Well if i'm wrong, i'm wrong. I should probably study it some then.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/slippery-slope

The whole point of a republic is to elect informed representatives that can make decisions on important topics so that all X million people in the electorate don't have to. It's entirely reasonable to expect the people in charge to know what they're talking about.
Yes absolutely. Would it mail them out too?
Secure Coding, why Care?
You have to bring on dedicated high-touch sales people to "scale" the business.

So it's very much different than a traditional sales guy in the Oracle sense. Some companies brand them as Customer Success Advocates or "coaches" or something similar. You aren't asking for "the sale" per se -- the customer is generally pretty onboard that they want it and will often have given their credit card already. You're just making sure that they actually get to using it successfully. This involves handholding, counseling, motivating, and being organized and persistent rather than bashing down objections, consultative sales, and always-be-closing.

In addition to it not reading like "traditional sales" from either side of the telephone, the background/inclinations/etc of the employees who do this are quite different. One obvious example: at many companies, these folks tend to run towards ladies, much like e.g. marketing teams or customer support and in contrast to how engineering teams or sales teams in B2B companies rarely tend to have large concentrations of ladies. (Positive claim not a normative claim, guys: regardless of the optimal state of the world, it is an objectively true statement that the average number of Y chromosomes per team member varies widely across departments in B2B software companies.)

As to avoiding it corrupting the flavor of the company: I'm pretty sure 37signals has a corporate culture which isn't going to turn into Oracle anytime soon, and it's unlikely that this would radically change the character of my business either. (Money generally doesn't affect people nearly as much as people expect it to.)
> I've seen this happen to a few of my friends who hit it big [...] it's like the insatiable drive to achieve that made that possible just evaporates.

This hits many people after just talking about their goals. They get the same good feelings of achievement that lead to de-motivation to follow through with it.
Do you think it was planned by the NSA?
SciPy 2013 Tutorial Videos
I disagree with your usage of the past tense here. This is far from over, and I don't think the public's reaction was tepid.
I didn't read it all yet, but I imagine they made it transparent again and saw the beam come out. It likely couldn't ever hold it indefinitely as thermal entropy would likely scramble it to undetectable levels again. But this could be a really cool way to start building some digital optical delay lines depending on how it works.
Good job calling! And yes, call both again - with thanks (it shows you really care and are paying attention), and with disappointment, asking why they voted the way they did, letting them know this may influence your vote in the primary and general election, and recommendations about what they should read to get a different perspective when the next vote comes up.
Is there a precident of Apple taking this type of action?
Did you pre-plan the ideas for the websites?

When doing art, I used to set goals like "do 30 drawings in a month." However, I've found that I just draw the same stuff over and over again if I leave it at that. I have to actually make a theme (draw 30 plants) and even get a detailed list (draw a jade plant, a hydrangea, etc) in order to actually make any progress.

I am curious if you did any planning like this regarding the choice of sites you made?
Sadly, that's exactly how things work. We tend to think we can find technical solutions to create legal loopholes, but they usually end up as contempt of court.
They sent an image thru the crystal. Three stripes.

When they made the crystal transparent again, the same image came out.
Want to be Unstoppable? Work at an Intersection
In terms of hardware safeguards, is it really an improvement when we have to rely on proprietary hardware safeguards that may have government "special features" silently built in, vs open source software that can be inspected by the public?
Interesting...there was an article on HN recently that posited a major reason for the 'failure' of the Facebook Platform was an over-engineered attempt to mitigate spam and promote quality control through automation...instead of curating apps by hand, a la the iOS App Store.

(The article in question: http://pandodaily.com/2013/07/23/move-fast-break-things-the-...)
Nod. I use it and appreciate it, but I'm not entirely satisfied with it either for just this reason. It certainly isn't the last word in its space.
Generally, I think it can be calculated as a percentage, though length of time is also valid - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turnover_%28employ...
Any country with secret laws and secret courts cannot be trusted, so it's only the death of US encryption (chips, software, hosting and services).
I said this before, but the closeness of the vote has nothing to do with how close the vote actually was. Once the whips figure out if a bill is going to pass or not, they then let people vote however will get them more money.
Could you give an example of a real world application for stopping/delaying light?
I worked my way through the book a month ago. It's very practical and understandable. The ipython notebook format makes it extremely easy to play with the code without worrying about any setup at all. And having it on github made it extremely easy to fix and clarify things as I went.
Great quote from a parallel discussion on Metafilter:

"A hipster is someone who enjoys the things I do, but in ways I disapprove of"
I was lucky enough to read this when I first got started with angular. Huge help shifting your mindset to angular and seeing the advantages it provides.

I'd also recommend http://egghead.io for some in depth walk throughs.
I recently enrolled in a local Uni as a freshman. You are right about treating development more formally, you just have to switch 'development' brain off.
I was curious what kind of structured plan you have, is it just you daily schedule or something more long term?
This is exactly correct. I was a Slackware zealot for a long time but frequently tried Red Hat because my boss back then was a big fan. I didn't actually convert to appreciating Red Hat until I worked there and learned the advantages of using RPM and other tools included in Red Hat that were absent in Slackware. In either scenario, and this is still true today, if you plan to connect your system to the Internet, you need to know your configuration and care for the system after it is live.

Modern distros help with this a lot by offering rapid package updates, automatic updating and smarter firewall and security measures. A lot of this stuff was controlled by very esoteric text configuration files in the past, which made it hard even for a savvy person to get right every time.
www.topthat.com and www.playcayman.com are our fist MVP's
Why would they think that? They grew up in an era when the FBI was keeping close tabs on guys like MLK. They entered politics at a time when there was zero oversight of the NSA (not even by the "rubber stamp" FISA court), and at a time when the CIA was actively engaged in political assassinations abroad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11905).

And yet, things turned out fine. The Soviet Union was defeated, America survived, and our biggest problem today, from their point of view, is not civil liberties but an ailing economy.

I can totally see how someone like Pelosi might think along the following lines:

1) The world is scary and the CIA/NSA serve an important purpose in protecting national security;

2) By and large government officials are trustworthy, and won't abuse their power (remember, she's a Democrat);

3) The NSA has shown colorable attempts to stay within the bounds of the Constitution (only collecting metadata, or only targeting non-US persons).

You may not agree with any of these points, but I think it's ridiculous to say that only bribery could make you agree with these points.
>And meagre QT support.

So what? It targeted the Gnome desktop. Does it have to catter to every GUI toolkit there is?

>And very few KDE apps.

And no KDE app at all was written with GTK. So what? Mono developers targeted GNOME.

>Except that it simply didn't belong to half the desktops (i.e. ones running KDE, which might actually account for more than half the deployed Linux desktops, considering it's long been the most popular Enterprise choice).

Actually the most popular Enterprise choice has been Gnome for half a decade or more. The only major exception had been SuSE, a distro which languished. RedHat (and Centos), Ubuntu, etc all went for Gnome.
Fraternities Lobby for Tax Break Without Hazing Penalties
They always have been in the past.
Anyone wondering, it's performing faster than 4.2 on the gnexus imho. Battery life is the same though. Superuser is problematic unless you undo a change in one of the /davlik files[1]. That makes the system partition mount without nosuid as it did before Android 4.3. The other solution is uglier, using SuperSU (which is closed source) and runs as a hacky service that most apps are not compatible with yet.

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/dalvik/+/9907ca3cb...
> “There’s some really weird behavior going on,” says Carson, claiming that the iPad apps for Lynda.com and Udemy have Android content. “We don’t know if it’s just a random oversight by Apple or if there’s something worse going on.”
I am in the same boat. I supported US against my own (Indian) government on the ITU taking over internet governance issue because I genuinely believed US would be a better guardian of the Internet than India. I was proven wrong. Now, decentralization of internet control doesn't seem like all that bad a thing.
Tepid? The response has been cooler than that.
Google tv dongle
Right on,

Clearly its also ok for the police to search your apartment at any time as well. You don't own your apartment, an apartment corporation does, so its clearly not a 4th amendment violation
I teach Android and iOS at Treehouse, and I was shocked to find out about this! As disappointing as it is, we are still excited to offer students this app for everything else, and are hopeful that Apple will change their stance on this. As a side note, if we release an Android version of this app, we will take the high road and include the iOS content! :-p
Just a small request - it would be way cool to have a "site:" filter like in Google searches. A lot of the results found are irrelevant to me as it is.

Cool site - great work!
Services that are not employer-paid are always less ethically sound. $29 is not on the same scale as some rip-offs in the employment business, and is far lower than what headhunters and employers pay on LinkedIn, but it should be beneath LinkedIn to get on that potentially slippery slope.
> Does this mean that if you move an object away from Earth's gravitational influence it will increase in mass because it has more potential energy?

Gravitational potential energy is a little different. It's the energy that the object would have if it fell to earth, it doesn't actually exist until it starts falling. (correct this, i'm sure i'm wrong)

> What about if you heated something up, does it gain mass then?

Yes, but it's incredibly miniscule to the point that it's not worth looking at in most situations

> How about sound? Does the sound of my voice cause imperceptible ripples of increased mass as it vibrates everything that it touches?

This one I think does but it's going to be so small that you also won't notice it. What you would be able to notice though are the subtle changes in density at the peaks and troughs of the wave.

> Is a charged battery heavier than an empty one?

Maybe. This depends on the chemistry of the battery more than anything. Some of them will oxidize as it gives out energy and give off the oxygen when charging. While the energy will contribute slightly to the mass because of the chemcical bonds, the battery will change mass more because of the lost/gained atoms than any other cause.

> Is glass heavier with light travelling through it?

I really don't know how to answer this one. The photon never really becomes part of the glass as far as I'm aware, but some will be absorbed and raise the temperature so maybe?
EU leaders: Stop mass surveillance
>Assuming the right tech is developed and deployed, this is going to be far better for everyone in a few years.

A, the old "let's use technology to solve a political issue" idea.

Sadly, it does not work. For one, the government has all the technology available for it too, including dedicated, full-time paid researchers.

Second, they can outlaw any of those things at whim.
What is Ubuntu hehe
I'm confused, is the price actually stored in the DOM?
Towards the end of this post I realized that this was Patio11 responding to Jason Fried responding to Paul Graham...

Basically, porn.
> "Informing that what he is doing might be illegal"

His actions were not illegal.

> "harassment in the internet is not right way to take it forward"

His actions weren't harassment, but a very clear expression of his 1A rights.

> "but going to health officials instead"

If a customer suspected health codes were being violated, I would prefer the marketplace be informed as well as health officials. Similarly, if someone gets sick after eating at a restaurant, I would prefer them to tell me, not health code officials.

> "I frankly see no reason for all this butthurt."

I definitely see a reason for it, though I might agree that the reaction in this instance is much larger than it needs to be. Securing pro-bono counsel for the guy is definitely a reasonable response, though. And it might be hard to secure pro-bono counsel without raising the case further into the public eye.
Vala looks interesting.

It would appear that with GTK libraries available on Windows and OSX, a port of a Vala app should be trivial. Valac compiles to C and then GCC takes over for the rest of it.

It seems like the most well-known Vala apps are managed in San Francisco by Yorba, however they're only for Linux. http://www.yorba.org/projects/

Any examples of cross-platform apps written in Vala?
He obviously had a huge heart for these innocents. The average outlook for orphans in Russia who are not adopted is bleak, with many ending up in prison or dead within a few years after being released into society at age 16 or so.

Due to entirely unrelated political forces, the US is banned from adopting them for now, with no change in sight. There are many children throughout the world dreaming of having parents some day.

I suggest to all, when you make your hacker fortune, buy one fewer of your favorite cars and adopt an orphan if you have a heart for children.
I don't have enough background knowledge to ascertain if this is the correct understanding of the problem, but this explanation reads very well, and is the best 'mechanical' explanation I've seen in this thread so far.

Thank you.
I don't understand why they don't do authentication to remove the bots if this really matters.

If it doesn't matter, they should raise prices.

This is an issue in NYC. Some $300/night restaurants have you hyperclicking the moment the reservations open up.
The press release on Yandex's website says he's dead.

http://company.yandex.com/press_center/press_releases/2013/2...
Douches.
WikiLeaks Founder Assange to Run for Australian Senate
Enough to bother getting a dinner reservation?

I doubt it; I doubt many would do that at all. In some situations corporate fast-food joints do take reservations (White Castle on Valentine's Day evening is the only example I can think of at the moment) but in those situations they are cashing in on people considering it a novelty. The novelty drives demand to levels that it otherwise never achieves.

If there were only a single Chipotle in NYC, there would almost certainly not be enough demand to require a reservation system (and if they used one anyway, their business would surely suffer). Perhaps you would be willing to call in a reservation for Chipotle, but one person calling in reservations for fast-food isn't going to sustain a business.
I'm very glad to see that this answer hasn't been closed as not constructive! It seems like most popular questions like this are, even though they're incredibly useful and insightful.

I was leaning toward learning Ember, but this post makes me really curious about Angular. In particular, the ease of testing has my interest piqued. Is testing as simple/easy with Ember? I know that unlike Angular, Ember doesn't have DI as a core feature. Either way, I should probably just flip a coin and start learning!
Isn't the developer portal written in Java too, probably with a mix of frameworks for different components (it certainly had a heterogenous feel on the front end)? I seem to remember some of the signon urls had .woa in them, and one of the former Struts developers mentioned a vulnerability which sounds like a likely candidate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6081428

It'd be interesting to know after all this is over what the vulnerability was, though we'll probably never hear from Apple.
I'm a big fan of checklists too. I find juniors don't like using them until they've made the same mistake many times, and then eventually they swear by them.

It's not a manual, it's not a process, it's just a checklist.
Just wondering - will older, but still decent hardware, start to become increasingly valuable since the hardware controls don't exist there? Will the value of my circa 2000 Dell PowerEdge take on new life?