skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be nice, but it would only directly be of use to very dedicated hobbyists with a lot (millions/USD) of money to burn on their hobby and lots of time to deal with regulations (and I don't say that in the typically dismissive libertarian way, as I believe FAA and other regulations as they relate to launching rockets of significant size are a good thing to have even if they probably go overboard).
IANAL, but that wouldn't be just a breach of contract and not something for the FBI to investigate?
I think what he means is that he tracks metrics that he wants to track (such as steps walked, miles run, water consumed, calories consumed, blood pressure, lines of code, dollars spent, etc.) in Excel.

You could track things related to your programming such as lines of code, optimizations made, errors encountered, bugs fixed, refactoring done.

Primer on quantified self: http://quantifiedself.com/about/
That must explain my bank's insistence on not having passwords greater than 9 characters, without spaces or most "special characters." They take security seriously!
heckling at a speech with hilariously irrelevant quips isn't really conducive to anything, no matter if you agree with how the NSA does things or not.
Could this attack compromisse dedicated/rent servers? If so, the attacker could rent, install the exploit on the hardware and terminate the contract.
What about cloud servers? Sure there are virtualization layers, but can't those be breached? If so that would pose imense danger given the distributed nature the hardware exploit could render the entire farm vulnerable
I rarely read the articles at all.
Sounds sensational, but it's not that different from the spam drug affiliates scheme.

SMS malware is a topic old as coal on the darknet, there is even a tutorial on the hidden wiki; what I'm curious about is where those apps are distributed, AFAIK google play deals with it (at least the obvious sms ones) pretty well. From what I hear people complaining often on HN, in the US carriers are tied with Google. Meanwhile here in Poland I rarely see a phone that has google apps out of the box (usually there is some crapware from the carrier, a shitty nav app instead of gmaps, and maybe a youtube app and that's it) and external appstores are unlocked by default - I can assume it's a similar situation in Russia and those malicious apps are distributed through some local app stores. Can somebody from Russia comment on that?
Wouldn't the VCs have had preferred stock and gotten liquidation preference before the earliest founders?
Yes. However, if you do that, perhaps you're less motivated to find solutions to other, equally important problems with HTTPS.

Enabling perfect forward secrecy is only useful if we also
eliminate the threat of traffic analysis of HTTPS, which
can be used to detect a user’s browsing activity, even
when using HTTPS.
There is something called ARFF which is basically a CSV with a header that defines how to interpret data, a bit of documentation and a reference implementation.
Note that if your parser is the ES-standard JSON.parse, then the behavior here is in fact defined by ES5 section 15.12.2, even with duplicate names.
I usually like instrumental music, words take my attention away from the code. Mozart, and other classical music is a great background for coding. Other than classical, God Is An Astronaut (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34C41eEpM48).
Please explain how it's at all useful to heckle?

Heckling is probably the lowest form of displaying your disagreements with the person doing the talk.
I already know how to purify water. I go to Walmart and buy a replacement filter for my Britta pitcher. As for fixing famine, that I have no clue where to start.

However, I do know how to write code, and if I can take some of the money I've earned to buy one of theses "useless" devices which can also make me some money, maybe one of the engineers at that company can spend his paycheck to send his daughter to college, where she can study ways to fix these other problems you mentioned.

In other words, read up on the economic theory called "guns and butter".
He's great! Hadn't heard of him before.

Thanks for the share.
Not at all. Humans are incredibly good at adapting. People in war zones get used to violence, people in high-corruption societies get used to giving bribes, etc. Clearly those are still real problems.
Well, someone had to tell them.
Outside of California they might be ... hindered by non-competes. I was once in this position: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148918 and one of the many reasons I didn't accept the offer was that non-competes were enforceable in my state, the contact had a nasty one, and the acquiring company did business with so many of the area's organizations that I would have been seriously disadvantaged when it came time to separate.
Isn't just about every improvement ever made to our way of life improving upon some situation that we were previously "used to" in some way?
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I don't know if they have been dealing with stuff that would be covered by it, but ITAR might be a problem for open sourcing it all.

" (a) Rockets (including but not limited to meteorological and other sounding rockets), bombs, grenades, torpedoes, depth charges, land and naval mines, as well as launchers for such defense articles, and demolition blocks and blasting caps. (See § 121.11.)

http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/offdocs/itar/p121.htm

They were apparently working on sounding rockets? Not sure.
Google's been offering this service for years, but only for paid Google Apps accounts:

https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/1235372?hl=en
I have for years found that if I really needed to concentrate deeply on a programming project, I tend to be immensely helped listening to Electric Light Orchestra's "Mr. Blue Sky". Yes it is (was?) mainstream, and yes it has been cliche'd into the ground in countless movies that used it for overtly happy scenes. But regardless, it helps me. (If the ELO original is too mainstream for your tastes, you might like the version by The Delgados.)

More generally, I find that light classical music, especially Bach, is pleasant to have playing while I work.

Anything else may or may not help, and it's pretty random. A song that helps a lot one day may be a distraction on another day. For just "listening" to music, I mostly enjoy jazz, but that often doesn't really help me much to focus on programming.
Dude, I have met (in France, yay stereotypes!) some people whose smell would make you retch. One guy in particular was in the next office, and I kid you not, you could tell how long ago he had arrived by the stench in the hallway. I can't even imagine how the guy he shared his office with managed to do any work...
This would not actually be possible if the operators weren't profiting from SMS shortcodes.

Those are used for fradulent services in like 95% cases. But, operators get as much as 50% share, so why bother getting rid of scammers?

I seriously want to see top managers of Russian cell operators in jail.
Personally I dislike body odor less than someone wearing an overpowering amount of cologne. Not that I am a huge fan of body odor.
"If people are only hearing of you because you're closing up shop, there was something wrong with your marketing plan."

I mostly agree with this, but as someone in tech but outside of the direct SV bubble there are also lots of companies being acquired (eg. approximately half of the Yahoo acquisitions) that I only hear of as they are being acquired. So it is possible that if the goal of these companies is a quick acquisition or bust, maybe their strategy was sound but they just didn't happen to be one of the chosen ones.

However, I still think that such a situation is long-term toxic for the overall market of startups. I never use small non-established startup SaaS products anymore due to being burned too many times due to quick shutdowns due to both lack of traction and/or talent acquisitions that involve quick shutdowns of the previous service.
What's new about it? Is it just for mobile? I generally need a little more information before I'm gonna sign up for spam.
No, I wouldn't pay for it. A domain is important, but I think, in this case, your product is much more. A different domain name wouldn't make too much difference.
> I hate to say it, but if history repeats itself, the people responsible will either never face persecution or get a slap on the wrist.

People not facing persecution for this is a good thing.

People not facing prosecution, OTOH...
It's not watching a place, it's watching a platform/utility with fine-grained categorization and structure of information.

I'd compare it to holding the ebola plague in a research facility without publicly providing the safety measures that we put in place to protect the virus from getting out. Do you know how many scientists would be up in arms?

The only difference here is that we are dealing with computers which are usually publicly connected no matter what..and if the government has this information, who says hackers aren't going to be able to steal parts of the DB or query it? The very act of having this info, categorized, is just ghastly..and Orwellian.
Well, sort of. I think a lot of the distinction between yours' and the articles' title comes from confusion over objective vs. subjective experiences.

Here's the objective fact: when you sweat a lot, molecules corresponding to pheromones in your skin and bacteria that live on it (particularly in enclosed areas like armpits) waft into the air around you and enter the noses of nearby people. This triggers nerve impulses that travel to the brain and give the sensation of "smell".

Here's the subjective fact: you smell bad.

People often lift their subjective impressions to the level of objective facts, because they have no other experience to compare it to. But the brain is remarkably plastic, and people continually underestimate how much their subjective experience of something can change through exposure and perspective shifts.

Here's another objective fact: when researchers have exposed subjects to smell for a long period of time (usually hours is enough) and then MRI'd their brain, the neural pathways related to smell cease to fire. Prolonged exposure deadens the experience; the brain is no longer interested in smells that are no longer novel. Subjectively, the subject ceases to smell the offensive odor at all.

And from an evolutionary perspective, this makes perfect sense: smell is our early warning system for situations that might present danger or opportunity (eg. bacterial contamination, an aggressive rival, a desirable mate), but if we don't act immediately on that information, there's no purpose in continuing to smell the odor. Presumably we are unable to act otherwise, and continuing to fire those nerves just overloads the brain when it could better use that processing power elsewhere.

So both you and the article are right. You do smell natives who don't use deodorant - when you first encounter them. But if you lived shoulder to shoulder with them for years, as people did before deodorant was invented, you would cease to smell them, and it would cease to become a problem.

The way marketers work is to highlight the instances where it is a problem, so they enter your consciousness, and then reoccur in your consciousness whenever the stimulus occurs. Instead of "I stink, but I can't do anything about it, so why worry about it?" you think "I stink. I should put on some deodorant."

I've got lots more to say about how this affects adoption of products and cultural values (basically: you cannot get people to adopt a radically different innovation without relying on or creating some insecurity. If you can't create insecurity, you have to wait for everyone who was secure with the lack of your product to die off), but this comment is already pretty long...
I for one would be fascinated to see a jury of pears.
Americans didn't think they needed soda, laptop computers, brightly colored clothing, air conditioning, cars, ...until marketers convinced them otherwise.
it's interesting. I was under the impression that essentially you had no rights at the Border and the US was under no obligation to let you back into the country. If you can film this someday and edit it down into something watchable, I would be interested to see the stages of confusion, befuddlement, anger, acceptance, release, but I don't know if you can film border guards either.
Article he's talking about and previous HN discussion from a year ago:

How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4355706
something I hadn't really considered about hard disk encryption, before reading this, is how it could protect against compromised disk controllers. if the OS encrypts the data stored on the disk, it would be a lot harder (perhaps, with the right composition, impossible) for a malicious disk controller to insert/change/modify important data (like code, or password files) stored on the computer.

we think of the system as a holistic entity, but turned on its head, you can see how the inside of a computer is just a network...
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In which case the last day would be the end. The day before the last day would simply be the day before the weekend.

And yes, it's all meant lightheartedly, as I assume the original sentence was.
What makes you think the smell of sweating bodies can't be hardwired to smell unpleasant? It's the result of bacterial activity. Can your nose tell the difference between the bacterial activity in this case, and in more harmful cases?
> a sufficiently-advanced intelligence might be able to just do nanoscale assembly of whatever it likes using coalesced heat radiating off your RAM chips.

I guess if you believe in magic there is nothing left to talk about.

It doesn't require superhuman intelligence to try any of that, yet hackers have not managed it. People have played songs on a drive, and made a computer make noise on a radio, but going from there to anything else has never happened.
I usually listen the related broadcast in Grooveshark
http://grooveshark.com/#!/writhem/broadcast
Even if IE11 has only “almost caught up”, that means, as you point out, that inertia to change will mean existing users will be less likely to switch away from IE, as alternative browsers will no longer be significantly better. Just that will help to halt any downward spiral.

Note that on Akamai[0] (who have many of the world‘s largest sites as their customers) IE’s share is relatively static. On NetMarketShare[1], IE’s share is increasing. It seems any such downward spirals has already halted. At least on two of the major analytics sites that release public data.

[0] http://www.akamai.com/html/io/io_dataset.html#stat=browser&t...
[1] http://www.netmarketshare.com
How does investing engineering effort in designing mining ASICs and spending dollars to purchase what is essentially a currency generating machine help us as a community?

It's supposed to help said currency become more solidly established, and therefore more useful to more people.

I wish we were just as enthusiastic and race to solve other problems too -- like spreading education, finding out ways to purify water, or maximizing agriculture throughput in famine, or predicting when the next hurricane, tsunami, or earthquake is coming our way.

I'm pretty sure people are enthusiastic about those things, and probably quite a lot more people than are into bitcoin. They're just less visible, since those aren't the cool new shiny thing (and aside from the weather/earthquake predictions, they're probably not heavy enough on software to be considered of interest here).
what is that cortex-M3 chip doing? Did the NSA put it there?
At the scale of Wikimedia nothing is straightforward. Not even relatively.
That's interesting. Do you approach these financial companies and consulting firms through a connection, or are you just sending a resume? I'd expect HR at big companies to filter for degrees.
> I seriously want to see top managers of Russian cell operators in jail.

=> I seriously want to see top managers of every cell operator out there in jail.

FTFY

It's not a Russian problem, google for premium sms and you'll find international tables for countries all around the world. I've heard some providers give clients the option to disable premium sms, too bad it's not a sane default. Also, don't know how it is in the US, but around here premium sms are very popular among live tv shows - vote for your favorite dancer, etc. So it's a hard case to beat when mass media is tied with them.
I already said: The only IO is video camera and screen. But no ability to talk to anything outside of the room - there are no wires going into the room, and the machine has no IO ports for anything else.
Half a screenshot and half a description? Why would I give you my email address for that again?
That's a fair point about the public library, but it is still a public place.

The standard of expectation of privacy is set by society[0], not you specifically. Even if you don't write down the books other people are carrying around, it's not illegal or even morally wrong to do so, nor would it be an invasion of privacy to ask a person what book he/she was reading. Not sure about literally reading over their shoulder, but that's not what we're talking about.

There is zero legal precedence for this idea of "anonymous in a crowd" that I do see every now and then when talking about privacy. I am legally allowed to take as many pictures of public places and people in public places as I want, so while a person might not be able to directly recall your face, I could easily and legally take your photograph in a public space and thus track your movements this way.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy#Overview
>No one is hurt by bad smells

Sure we are. Productivity is reduced if we're distracted by stench. Why argue for making life less pleasant? Bathing and mitigating foul odor should be encouraged.
If you set up an automatic data source (as opposed to replying to the email bot with datapoints, which for many things is not so bad either -- you're already in the habit of checking your email) then I don't think you have to develop new habits to use Beeminder. For what it's worth, we've been praised on ADHD fora and know of users with ADHD who swear by Beeminder.

Note that we're not targeting people with ADHD specifically but akrasia in general.
My playlist today is full of Tchaikovsky and a few Bear McCreary interleaved.
Humans also grow hair a certain way. Do you similarly agree that shaving razors are illogical?

As a species, one of the these we enjoy is the ability to use our intellect to improve naturally occurring things about ourselves. Just because something is natural does not mean it is perfect.
What you left out:

"We’ve kept all your valuables safe. In each of our products, you’ll find a tile to click on that initiates the export service. Your kept items will be exported as bookmarks and the feeds you follow as an OPML file."
You can write native “metro” apps in Windows 8 with web technology and the Win.JS framework.
The Diplomats are ideal for maintaining an optimal level of concentration. Their album, "Diplomatic Immunity Vol. 1" will put you in a zone. The song "Dipset Anthem" is the undisputed gem. Thank me later...
I've heard quite a bit about this case over the past month or so, but don't understand it.

Can someone explain what Apple 'fixing' e-book prices means and how that is illegal?
what common open source licenses would require them to send changes upstream? Or really, what licenses would require them to release the modified code to the public?

GPL requires you to make source code available to anyone who you distribute the program to. If you're just putting code on servers, there's no obligation. Even if you distribute internally, you usually are technically distributing to the company for installation on their computers.

Even the AGPL, designed to be viral for web applications, requires the operator of the server to make the code available to users of the server. Assuming all users were Goldman Sachs employees, I don't see any legal obligation for them to contribute back to the community.

Pretty much all other licenses are less copyleft than GPL and AGPL and would be even less likely to trigger source code distribution requirements.
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OP may have his tongue stuck in cheek.
Yeah, I dont play any Flash and I have an extension for Chrome that doesn't auto-play YouTube. (new, I had to find something as after a crash all the movies start to play after a relaunch.)
>I can assume it's a similar situation in Russia and those malicious apps are distributed through some local app stores. Can somebody from Russia comment on that?

It's usually harmless, 'cheaper-feeling' versions of popular applications. The malware that's being downloaded here is closer to getting a user to download a game that's similar to something popular -- think 'Minecraft Tips and Tricks App'
I like T-Mobile as a company, and their prices are great. But their network is ridiculous.

Here in NYC I don't have any service inside many buildings. Many areas are EDGE only. In Williamsburg, where I live, there are lots of holes in their coverage where I have no service; and that is outside on the street. They also have serious service outages occurring surprisingly often. I shudder to think what the coverage is outside metropolitan areas like NYC.

While complaining about data rates is one thing, a side effect of the bad coverage is that my phone spends a huge amount of power just adjusting itself to the signal. In Europe I am used to charging my iPhone a couple of times a week; here, my phone is dead by the end of the day.
Cases like this are why I stand against capital punishment.
It's very much like how you don't realize how bad a submarine smells (due to atmosphere control chemicals) when you're submerged and underway, unless you're doing things like running the diesel engine or venting waste tanks inboard.

But once you get back home it becomes obvious how smelly everything from the boat really is.
Do you think the main reason it's not worth it is because its B2B instead of a social sharing video concept?
oh an idea. I am on OS X, I bet I could copy my Chrome data over to a Windows 7 partition and have it restore all of my tabs and see if Windows handles this easily as well!!
Soda, laptops, clothes, air condition, and cars all solve problems that existed before they did (maybe less so the colored clothing).

The article is about how the problem of smell was invented by the people who held the solution.
Cite? Endowments are good, if your place can get them. I wouldn't say the UK system is great as it isn't stable.
In Secure Boot environments, this is all untrue - all option ROMs are signed, and the firmware should only accept signed updates. That pushes the problem out to ancillary devices that we've traditionally thought of as safe, but this demonstrates that they really need to reconsider.
If you call them and persuade, they will:

- Refund your money

- Disable everything "premium" (fradulent) forever for your account.

- Legit mobile payments still pass, you will wonder! Just not those evil invisible recurrent account-draining ones.

In short, they understand that their multi-billion-dollar business is a bitch for low scammers and they live with it.

They are in business of defrauding children, elderly and vulnerable people who have better things to do than be careful and track their balance.

People got hang at Nuremberg for less I would say.
Don't forget diseased. Big pharma wants to lend a hand too.