skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From looking at this[0], in paragraphs, "actual" and "open and notorious", it seems like one can pay taxes on it without buying it in an auction, while still claiming adverse possession.

And to address the how to pay for it aspect, it would raise income like other hacker spaces through "members" (among other ideas the community who works/habitates there decides to do through whatever entity that is the claimant of adverse possession).

[0] http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Adverse+posses...
Didn't we already discuss this here? And everyone was whining about how horrible and unprofessional and maybe illegal it was? It was annoying.

At least this discussion is shaping up quite differently so far.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6271345
You can disable it via the dip switches, as well as a bunch of other tweaks available via same.
No it's not. The dropbox installer and Nautilus hooks are released under the GPL. But it actually downloads a proprietary binary which does most everything.
Interesting. They made it more full of links and images. I was expecting it to feel light (sparse). The dark background makes the whole page look muddled and uninviting.
Thanks for the link. The desks look gorgeous, but I'll be honest: the absence of even ballpark pricing and the presence of prominent financing offers make me a bit leery of looking further.
SparkCore uses TI's CC3000 unit (http://www.ti.com/product/cc3000) which is a 2.4GHz wi-fi module.

Flutter is using CC1001/CC1200, which are 900MHz radios. 900MHz (as a longer wave) will travel much farther to begin with, plus the module is designed for longer-range use :)

(Also if you put a 900MHz antenna on a 2.4GHz radio you're gonna have a bad time)
While they may have fixed twimg.com on the DNS level, changes are still taking forver to propogate back out. Right now I'm still getting no data from it.

To add to the matter, SEA is certainly aware of this:

"So, do we host http://twimg.com with Javascript code so all Twitter users will be redirect to our website? #SEA"

https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/status/372496956020379648
Makes you wonder whom has access to Palantir.
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/139/

What are the safety concerns of something like this? A top speed of 20mph will definitely be unstable for general usage, and even 15 seems more like bicycle territory, where you're seated and have an aerodynamic shape.

We might see many people falling off of these in the future...
Leave a whitespace after the asterisk: 1 * 2 * 3 = 6

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Oops, didn't realize.

I thought HN has a filter for that. I did a search and I didn't see it come up.

Sorry.
RSI is a complex thing. Some people have pain that is fixed by uniquely shaped keyboards, others need to just switch ctrl and capslock, get rid of the numpad or whatever. I don't think there is such a thing as a keyboard that cures any kind of RSI. But I do think something super flexible like the Kinesis Freestyle comes close.
Well if I can swap the keys then that's awesome!

I can appreciate that you are trying to appeal to the masses, maybe I was just expecting something more from a $149.99 keyboard. Or better yet, expected more from a keyboard primarily aimed at programmers (that was built by a programmer).

Anyway: I wish you the best of luck and a lot of sales so I can see what you can come up with in the ergonomics department (I'll stick with my TypeMatrix for now :).
That's not the same thing, now is it?
Dropbox does have an API, https://www.dropbox.com/developers but this is about reverse engineering the client which seems to use things not here -- in particular, some authentication stuff. I haven't read in depth about why that allowed them to bypass 2-factor auth though.
He's wrong.
My understanding seems to be at conflict with how I'm reading your description here. Please help me out?

DNA is comprised of four specific nucleic acids which are always the same molecular combination. These acids form into base-pairs which must always be some combination of those four acids.

The DNA itself cannot be 'written to' as if it stores information no less than the following string x = "ACGTACT" can contain additional information beyond those bytes already stored in the string. We could alter the DNA, just as we can alter the string x, but this isn't writing additional data to the binary values, but changing what's stored in those memory locations.

When we're talking about reading/wrting to the DNA, are we actually speaking about modifying the sequence of any given strand, thus "reading/writing to DNA" is a misnomer ? I know there are presently ways to produce DNA synthetically, but what you've said seems to indicate there's room here for any pre-defined sequence I print to end up doing different things in a cloned cell than their synthetic duplicates might.
In ACLU lawsuit, scientist demolishes NSA’s “It’s just metadata” excuse
Literally any restaurant in the US? You know the handwritten, daily changing menu of the family run place in my small home town? And you will soon be able to work out how many calories are in the dish they just made up from what was in the days fish catch. Not sure I believe you.
Wow that is very much radiated power!

I remember range testing a 434MHz product and being hundreds of meters away (line-of-site). The product passed FCC testing.

So a watt going into a 6dBi antenna... Flutter's measurements make sense now!
Thanks! He's a serious silicon valley radio expert. He actually was a member of the homebrew computer club and brushed shoulders with Woz and Jobs before spending the rest of his career advancing radio in silicon valley. He helped lab test my designs, and he's really been an asset in verifying that what I think I did right, I actually did (Texas Instruments has some really great reference material). We experimentally verified on his equipment that my design basically exactly matches the performance characteristics of TI's reference design, and one of our RF component suppliers offers a $600 service where they put your device in their RF chamber to test emissions, which the engineer told me is a much better deal than you'd normally get at that price, but they only do it to help customers get off the ground. Before launch we spent a lot of time speaking to a lot of other professionals and kickstarter folk who have gone through the certification process, and it sounds like it's going to be manageable, especially with Earl McCune's help! I've done all the work on my own, but having a reliable expert is extremely critical in making sure the hardware will not be a problem!
Feels good to be validated.
> Who freaked out, and how could they freak out if they could not behold these numbers in the first place (i.e. no symbolic representations)?

The story goes that Hippasos of Metapontum discovered the existence of irrational numbers like √2 while at sea, and his fellow Pythagoreans threw him overboard, because it proved that there were aspects of the world that could not be represented with rational numbers. That said, the notion of a square root had been established for at least a thousand years by that point (by the Egyptians and Sumerians), so the freaking out was less about their representation and more about their properties.

> For "0" I would have made an empty box...

Your representations are parasitic on the fact that you already have a deeply ingrained representation for those concepts and are comfortable manipulating those concepts. It's like suggesting that you'd reinvent the wheel if you lived in a civilization with no wheels merely because it seems obvious to you looking at it today. Really it's not at all obvious, as no New World civilization ever developed the wheel, and most Old World civilizations borrowed it rather than inventing it independently.

Think of it this way: if you understood fractions, but nobody else did, how would you represent them symbolically such that everyone else would? I'm of the opinion that our typical notation for calculus is spectacular (especially compared to Newton's original notation—the d/dx notation used today comes via Leibniz) but if you don't understand calculus, how does that help you? You understand negative numbers, but to a person with no concept of debt, a person for whom numbers represent 'how many sheep you have', what does that mean, and how do you symbolize it so that they do understand?
Can you provide a link? Thanks
Topre switches on an ergo layout, no numkeys plz!!!
According to story, Pythagoras freaked out about it. You don't need a symbolic representation of √2 to ask the question "what is the distance between opposite corners of a square with side length 1"?
$1500+, looks like:

http://www.nextdesks.com/buy#!/~/product/category=1944379&id...
To me, when listening to that, it sounds like "Nyen" or "Nian", which isn't a sound that any English word I can think of correlates with an H. Perhaps sharing one of these spellings with people will help them. You might experiment with different people and see where you get your best results.
"We are protecting you from the hacker-terrorists"

Is this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me? People, think about what is happening here and the timing of it all.

This is a false flag operation to turn the public opinion against "hackers" so these crazy internet regulations bills can start passing and so that they can get away with spying scandal.

If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT times were actually the Syrian government, they'd be going after US government targets in an effort to undermine the bombing that's about to begin.

Their regime is about to get bombed. Taking down twitter is low on their priority list. But it's quite good timing for a propaganda campaign against "hackers" and now allows the US government to label hackers as terrorists. Scary stuff.
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WASD Keyboards (well, Weyman) has given me some of the best customer support over the past few years. They even recently fixed my busted Caps Lock key (my own fault) outside of warranty for just $10. I broke my space bar in-warranty, and it was fixed for free. I wanted some custom settings/layouts the keyboard designer couldn't handle, and they obliged. My WASD has lasted for several years now (including a few minor repairs) and I've had nothing but good experiences with them. I've been waiting for their v2 keyboards (they've been "coming soon" for months) and I'm excited to see they finally launched!
I just read the actual whitepaper (https://github.com/kholia/dedrop/blob/master/paper/accepted/...) and one of the interesting takeaways is that this particular reverse engineering resulted in the discovery of actual vulnerabilities that were responsibly reported to Dropbox and patched.

Simply asking Dropbox how this stuff worked would've (probably) never uncovered these security issues.

Edit:

Just wanted to add one more benefit of this attempt at reverse engineering, from the whitepaper's introduction:

> Our work reveals the internal API used by Dropbox client and makes it straightforward to write a portable open-source Dropbox client
"not my problem" might seem like a reasonable position to take, but you can extend this argument and eventually conclude it's no-one's problem. or worse, some magical "other party's" (welfare state?) problem. this "not my problem" attitude is a big contribution to income inequality. it's "not my problem" to try to develop basic living conditions in those slums, all I give a shit is about this flashy shopping centre full of non-essentials!

not a very good long-term solution for a real problem. as the article says, a more productive approach is to ask, "how do you hack San Francisco's homelessness problem?"
>I'm sure the translation would be a very difficult problem, but the idea of transferring an image from one person to another telepathically is ground shattering in terms of impact. Take every day tasks when working with a team right now. I spend days writing documents solely for the purpose of communicating ideas from my own head to others.

Yes, forget about those uses. Judging from history, such a technology will more likely be used by our overlords to send us commands to obey...
> This is a false flag operation to turn the public opinion against "hackers" so these crazy internet regulations bills can start passing and so that they can get away with spying scandal.

You can't know for sure it is a false flag operation, but you can't easily rule it out either.
I am slightly confused as to why reverse-engineering a client allows you to sidestep two-factor auth. That should be entirely a server-side thing.
I'm not talking about renting at all. I'm talking about
"anyone, including corporations, the federal government, states, and municipal corporations, can be an adverse possessor"[0], but in this case some entity (e.g. hackerspace group ltd|org|corp|llc) that raises funds like traditional hackerspace groups in order to pay property taxes on residential homes that are being claimed in adverse possession.

This is just an idea I had in the moment though, but in my eyes, banks will give the most push back, though I'm sure some kinda of deal could be made if mutual ground can be found.

[0] http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Adverse+posses...
Think of it taken to extreme measures.

Imagine a company where Team Database releases a binary-only library to the rest of the company. They won't tell you how it works and you can't talk to them, but it seems to work well enough. Then one day, Team Website wants to do something else with the database (a new type of query, new type of storage model, something non-trivial). In this backwards company, Team Website spends months reverse engineering the library and protocol to hack their own functionality into it. That's mad, right?

A large view presents two views of knowledge: things humans know —and— things humans don't know. We're circling around rediscovering what other people have done while they sit there quite able to give us what we want to know.

Now, adversarial conditions prevent such blanket sharing: capitalism, sovereign nations, war, etc.

Think of Intel. In some ways, they control the pinnacle of CPU design that humanity can surface at this point in time. We don't have anybody to ask "well, what comes next?" in the 10 year CPU roadmap—we have to discover the future along the way.

We should spend more time asking "well, what comes next?" and less time rediscovering what people already know how to do (modulo it making you better at actually discovering new things, or just for fun, or for cyberwar, etc).
The paper was only published in conference proceedings yesterday.
The previous URL included www.
From the whitepaper (https://github.com/kholia/dedrop/blob/master/paper/accepted/...):

> We found that two-factor authentication (as used by Dropbox) only protects against unauthorized access to the Dropbox’s website. The Dropbox internal client API does not support or use two-factor authentication!
We cover about 81% of all restaurants restaurants which equates to low 90% of the top 500 restaurants in the major metros. So literally we dont cover ALL restaurants, but we cover enough where it kind of seems like magic. (Edit: Changed text to almost)
I hate to be the guy that just critizes, but I can't find anything that I like about the redesigns. Take Yahoo Sports for example: the dark background makes it hard to read anything, it's crazy cluttered and even after filtering for NFL I get this stream of useless news. I'm guessing that they did some research and discovered that their core audience likes cluttered designs and the whole image-first, clean design paradigm is not a good idea for content sites.

Also, why doesn't the blog announcement link to the actual sites???
Was it during a Tuesday night weekly meeting? That's when the tribal drama peaks.
I have several of these as well (wired and wireless with the boob mouse). I can't fathom not being able to get one.
Non-Valley, non-NYC ecosystems: No one you want cares about the cost of living
Just a nit: a high false positive rate makes the test operationally expensive, but not useless.
I'm a bit baffled that you think this is an esoteric thing worthy of debate in America.

That's because it is. In most offices, you have 1, maybe 2 people who use a standing desk. They're easy to spot because they stick out like a sore thumb. Those desks are almost always hand made too, because employers won't spend money on non-standard desks. Depending on how big the company is, you also may piss off the "workplace ergonomics expert" if you don't consult them before building your own desk.
How to sell performance computing in 2013
Not sure what you're trying to say with your post. Solving homelessness is definitely not part of Noisebridge's mission.
This is true, but I would actually recommend both, still. Once you know you're on insecure WiFi, it's still better to protect some, even if you can't protect all - sometimes you have no choice.
Who is that account registered to?
I had RSI. Got over it, but still found mechanical keyboards uncomfortable.

For some reason, I find the MacBook air 13 inch keyboard to be the most comfortable I've ever used.

I don't know why. Part of it may be the low height from the ground, and part is the great trackpad. (I tried the magic mouse and hurt my arm)

I expect other people have different opinions of the air's keyboard. The point is that I don't think there is any one keyboard that works best for everyone.
And it's shown up on their yelp page... http://www.yelp.com/biz/nyc-fresh-market-new-york

Don't do this kind of thing, please.
Administrative data, such as name and contact information may not necessarily be available at the same security level as DNS (nameserver) data. Also note that domain contact details are not the same as DNS. Read more about DNS at a more reliable source, i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System. You'll soon get what's happening.
My favorite tribal thing will always be MSX vs Apple II...

Yes. I'm that old.
I don't know, but I hasten to point out that the Kinesis isn't one of those generic "ergonomic" keyboards. It's a very different shape. One of its best features is that the keys are vertically aligned in straight columns, so that you're not constantly exercising the muscles to move your fingers slightly to the left or right. It makes a huge difference.

If someone invented a magic laptop that had a built-in Kinesis keyboard but could still close up, I would spend ridiculous sums of money to own one.
Do you ever find it amazing we still run closed sourced software?

Is it not bad enough the Microsoft and Adobe hegemony force the entire world to have an attack surface wider than Jupiter to exploit at the whims of eastern european teenagers?
whois twitter.com => whois(".*twitter\.com.*")
Here's a follow up to this completely misunderstood post:

http://blog.trevnorris.com/2013/08/callbacks-what-i-said-was...
This is the code to go with their book on Algorithms, which does cover performance considerations.
So did I.

For example, I'd think about reclaiming the top row, where the numbers live. On keyboards with a numpad, they're passengers. At the very least, invert the meaning of shift, so the default is to produce sigils.
Why are we continuing to use staggered layouts on keyboards? It is clearly inefficient, and not difficult to switch to a matrix (ie. grid based) layout, since all of the keys are close to where they were before.

Second question - in this day and age of easy connectors, why are numpads attached to the side of keyboards? What do left handed people do? Or people who don't use the numpad? Why not have the numpad detachable? Same goes for the arrow keys.
http://neopythonic.blogspot.co.il/2011/06/depth-and-breadth-...

"The contrast with my visitor the next day couldn't be greater. Through a former colleague I got an introduction to Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of the vastly successful start-up company Dropbox.

Python plays an important role in Dropbox's success: the Dropbox client, which runs on Windows, Mac and Linux (!), is written in Python. This is key to the portability: everything except the UI is cross-platform. (The UI uses a Python-ObjC bridge on Mac, and wxPython on the other platforms.) Performance has never been a problem -- understanding that a small number of critical pieces were written in C, including a custom memory allocator used for a certain type of objects whose pattern of allocation involves allocating 100,000s of them and then releasing all but a few. Before you jump in to open up the Dropbox distro and learn all about how it works, beware that the source code is not included and the bytecode is obfuscated. Drew's no fool. And he laughs at the poor competitors who are using Java."

Sometime after that, Drew poached Guido from Google. I remember this post. :)
I read through that page and it doesn't seem to explain how it actually works. With only one roller how do you move the mouse up and down, left and right?
This is how they do it at the Ministry of Silly Agile
Clears are heavier browns with a more pronounced bump. IIRC they have springs from the Blacks and the stem protrudes a bit more to make the actuation bump more noticeable. I got a Leopold FC660M from Qtan's ebay store yesterday, liking it more than my Ducky 9008 G2 Pro with Browns that I got in June.
I agree, but are you letting homeless people sleep in your house or in your office? Letting them sleep at noisebridge doesn't do much to help the problem in the large, and impairs it as a space to hang out and work on projects with like minded people, which as far as I know is the idea behind noisebridge.
Syria's secret war against the cyber dissidents(2011)
Jared Leto is a Rockstar & Vulture is a bullshit website
I would counter that if any such properties existed in SF, and there was an opportunity for this sort of arbitrage, it already happened. There are just too many agents scouring this market for bargains at all times for me to believe otherwise. Consider it a weak form of the efficient market hypothesis. In my own experience, any amazing(tm) bargain I encountered over the past 5 years since the crash was quickly bid up to efficient rates.

Here's my personal favorite example that I descended upon only to balk at all the offers already in place: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2011/01/11_offers_and_27_...

That said, you never know until you know...
Yeah, exactly this. Used to be, you buy an Arduino Fio and an xbee module[1], and for $50 you get max 100m range? Two nodes then cost $100, which is enough for one project and one device to route traffic to mobile, lets say.

With Flutter, for $100 you can have 5 nodes, so you can have the beer brew monitoring, control some lights, measure the humidity of your greenhouse, and build a robotic car you can drive with your phone.

We're trying to hit commodity pricing for consumer mesh hardware so people can just toss it in whatever they want to make and easily handle the communications they need.

And not relying on another radio module manufacturer means we can design the product to be everything we need and nothing we don't, and only pay for board manufacture once, instead of paying for a module (which is a manufactured board) that you then put on your own manufactured board.

The radio and cpu should be on the same board and should be very useful (hence open and arduino). Then we can really build a network of things.