skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is already possible to introspect a little on the grid: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_analysis.
I want to run my own daemons on the server. But I want them to be written in Objective-C and use the Foundation libraries. This is all part of Apple's Darwin released code, it just doesn't run on anything.

I want to have access to the instant scalability of the various VPS and dedicated box providers, but with Apple ecosystem code.

Apple abandoned the datacenter hardware market long ago, unfortunately, they took the datacenter deployment options with them.
On the topic of the on-going war, I also added once more into the void.

Repost:

Fair bit of warning edward, these articles get banned from HN rather quick. Even thought I have attempted to keep talk on things such as the "Syrian Electronic Army" and their hacks discussion has been forcefully muted.

In a now deaded article on the probable chemical attack on Zamalka Syria, I made some comments about my covering the area before[1]. I detailed the location of some of the aggressors on the suburb as well[2].

In the second comment I linked to some footage from Zamalka years ago when open protest was still allowed, much like other Syrian cities people were out in mass after Friday prayer.

In the first comment I posted a panoramic stitch[3] I made from video of an attack on Zamalka from al-Assad neighborhood above it, there is military and officer housing along with artillery and howitzer army space behind it[4].

I also spoke of sectarian cleansing that has been documented in Homs and other areas,[5] where general bombardment and artillery siege displaces Sunnis while Alawite families are moved in to shore up military supply lines.

This latest attack on the fringes of Damascus represent something significant, obvious now due to the reactions it has obtained from other nations. Neighborhoods like al-Assad and Moadamiyet al-Shams have loyalist housing where civilians where brought back to be lynched,[6] and they are now nearing the direct lines of fire. So all attempts are being made to halt the advance to where Assad's war criminals roost, such as mass gassing of residential neighborhoods around it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6248545

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6248433

[3] http://i.imgur.com/XM85Q1q.jpg

[4] http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.551696&lon=36.378479&z=...

[5] http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/syrian-army-ren...

[6] http://storyful.com/stories/41049
I like that "I am just hacking this sandwich."
I know quite a few foreigners here in NL that have worked very hard at getting rid of their accents and in spite of all that hard work they've reached a plateau.

We're not talking 'English' or 'Australian' wants to get rid of their accent when living in the US. PG specifically states that the accent of the person speaking is so thick you'd have to interrupt them several times for clarification just because of that. Such a thing does not fade away in a short time. That takes many years, if you work hard at it.

Take into account here that those that apply to YC will often do so from abroad, without significant practice in speaking English.
This was how it was for me for the first month or two, but now I go nuts unless I can stand and pace while thinking. It's a more alert position for me.

Initially it seemed like my brain was so concerned with the change in routine that I was constantly reminding myself that something was amiss. Fortunately, what is new and novel eventually becomes the norm with enough time.
That's why I have a bar 15 inches high that runs beneath my desk. I can put a foot up on in it and change position every 5-10 minutes.
Amazon 'wish list' is gateway to epic social engineering hack
I have an almost identical laptop table[1]. Is it a popular design? One Chinese factory, 20 distributors all over the world kind of thing?

Anyway, when I use it in a standing desk configuration, I keep it much lower, so my arms just drop onto the computer. It's rather nice but I prefer to regularly (every hour or two) switch positions -- standing desk, lie down, sit on the floor...

[1] http://www.silentiumpc.com/en/atlas-nt-l10-notebook-table/?l...
I would imagine this has something to do with having an existing package dependency management system company-wide and it causing friction trying to get the two to coexist.

I have similar issues where I work with trying to integrate an internal build system and rubygems. Our answer is to essentially mirror the gem version internally into our own repo. It's not the best answer I could hope for.
I noticed you say that the radio band is US only but does it exclude Canadians from using Flutter as well? I only ask because you seem to mention Europe and Asia as 'international'.
someone was able to edit the admin info. I checked with other whois tools and the SEA e-mail address is all over the place.... However I'm not sure they were able to do more than that...
Shady sales tactics some Ecommerce sites are using
For those of you in Austin, TX, there is a local store that sells adjustible height desks[0]. I haven't actually bought one yet, but it was nice to play with them to see what they are like.

[0] http://www.thehumansolution.com/
I wanted to be an inventor like Nicola Tesla and make enough money by selling shareware (like Notch did with Minecraft) that I could have a lab like Tony Stark and change the world.

Now I sit at home all day scouring stackoverflow.com hoping to get one hour of real work done per day on my contracting gigs to pay the mortgage. My to-do queue is so full that I can't see the day when I'll be able to work on my own projects. I'll be out of money in a few months and probably have to get a "real" office job again.
Not sure if you can get them everywhere (and the brand name is terrible) Hush Puppies. I am very hard on shoes. I bought a new pair every three months until I found Hush Puppies and I'm now on my second pair that have each lasted over a year. Good brands or bad cheap ones, all lasted weeks or a a few months. I have never had shoes last as long as Hush Puppies before. I've always related it to my weight. I weigh quite a lot and manufacturers seem to make shoes bigger, but not stronger. I go for the shoes they describe as being made for airports, which somehow means they are good for standing (wasn't aware the DHS, border control etc let you keep your shoes on!) www.hushpuppies.com
What is a reasonable guess here..hmmm. I have no idea about how much these motors would cost but I am assuming given the number of office chairs (which move up and down with a lever) we produce, they shouldn't be costing a lot. We get good office chairs which support up to 300 lbs for under $100. I am assuming the technology for moving tables should be similarly priced. A sturdy steel frame + planks (wood/composite) + up/down motor/hydraulic lift shouldn't cost more than $300 in my subjective opinion. I am not willing to pay more than that. Wonder how much would IKEA charge for these, if they made one (edited for typos).
For those interested in what the internals of government monitoring of communications is like, do check out the BlueCoat logs leaked by Telecomix which I linked below.

A vast multitude of hits relate to families, sexual habits, religious affiliations.

What SEA does with news orgs is derail them as much as possible. There is very much an internal campaign to 'cleanse' the terrorists, repopulate parts of Homs with Alawites.

This is real. Please don't hell ban me for it again.
How does this library do anything better than Bootstrap, Foundation or any of the hundreds or so frameworks/libraries already out there??

I'm at a point where if I see a responsive library, it really has to be a big leap over what's currently out there. Not sure this is a huge leap from existing options.
But... how will agile teams get anything more out of standup meetings if everyone is used to standing up anyway? :/ :)
We are definitely designing these to support mesh networks, and though I haven't written it down anywhere yet, we're not going to default the radios to full on, that will either be automatically configured (probably too difficult, but I'll look into it) or just manually specified. I would really love to make it automatic though, and for anything under constant comms they could easily communicate their signal strength in the ack if needed to coordinate that. The mesh protocols are still under development (that's what we need Kickstarter for!).

Our wifi + ethernet shield makes it easy to have an always on device that routes traffic for home Flutter networks, but you can also just plug the board into your PC over USB and feed it traffic that way, you can run arbitrary data of any size over the link and all communications are guaranteed (or explicitly timeout), so I think piping TCP/IP over it will be easy.

You can also use a raspberry pi and one of our boards to accomplish what the network shield does (for roughly the same price) but the network shield is designed for exactly this purpose, and many people will find value in that.

It's tough to pitch an Arduino with lots of highly technical capabilities - Arduino users just want to know "but can i make a wireless beer brew setup?" That's the kind of information we try to speak to on the KS page. We're also still learning what questions people have!
Hi folks. I'm one of the three guys who runs Cloak (https://www.getcloak.com/).

Cloak is a super simple VPN where both the back-end service and front-end apps are tightly integrated. (We think of it as the "Dropbox of VPNs" in the sense that, like Dropbox, it's so easy to use.)

Basically, it's the VPN service+applications I wanted for myself when I started looking around and couldn't find anything (1) easy enough and (2) non-sketchy. Right now Cloak supports OS X (10.7+) and iOS (6+). We've been around for a while and I know there are a number of happy customers here on HN.

In any case, please let me know if you have any questions, and please do give it a spin. Cheers!

(EDIT for clarity, and because X of Y descriptions are not always loved.)
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The whois is correct. Whether they can make DNS changes is whole other question. I doubt they have taken over ownership of the domain.
Stanford's step towards addressing this:

http://startup.stanford.edu/
saferwhois.com shows the change (fetching the data from the domain's apparent current registrar, via whois.melbourneit.com).
This may be the referenced thread:

https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/20...
Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility
Nothing at all. It is much cheaper and frees up money to spend on other things. I went this route and invested a little more in my keyboard/mouse/monitors with the savings.
Syrian Electronic Army Claims to Have Taken Over Twitter's Domain
I view it as defense against hotel or coffee shop wifi hackers.

If you have a threat matrix that includes governments or maybe even large corporations, it's definitely not for you. But c'mon, for $4 a month or whatever, what do you expect?
I read earlier this week that JustFab merged with Shoedazzle thought they where doing really well sad to see the majority of there revenue are coming from this type of tactic.
you guys have typical case of Dunning-Kruger.

Do you have immediate friends or family treated by chiropractor (i have), have you seen chiropractor yourself (i have). Can you point any specific respectable publication which dismiss chiropractors as a whole or shows significant presence of "unscrupoluousness"? Until that your groundless dismissal of the whole class of professional people and their practice is just it, groundless childish dismissal.
Of course, running Tails inside a VM is likely slightly safer than running TBB (Tor Browser Bundle) on your normal OS, depending on your threat model. For example, a Firefox exploit that breaks out of its sandbox could access your personal files when you use TBB, but only files within the VM when you use virtualized Tails (without an extra VM or network (fileshare) exploit).

If you're going to use a VM for your Tor browsing, consider Whonix [1] instead, which was developed specifically for that usecase. (Note that this is not developed by the Tor project people!)

But indeed, to get the full benefits from Tails, always use the live boot option whenever you can.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/whonix/
I used one for about 6 months every day for about 6 hours a day before I couldn't take the pain in my lower back anymore.
CTL-C: Re-imagined IaaS with Docker Containers
The shitty desk I use was $20. If $150 is still shitty, this shits too expensive.
Easy to say for a multi-millionaire. So, the advice is: get a great job as a cartoonist, make $450 million and then quit.
Also - your arms and wrists should really be horizontal to your elbows or near horizontal. Looking at the picture...your wrists are way too high above your elbows...this is bad and will cause the blood to flow away from your fingers.
Oops, didn't realize others have already posted this. Looks like NYTimes as well:

https://twitter.com/jaesonschultz/status/372456943312330753/...

FIRST DISCUSSION:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6286251

RELATED:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6286308
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6286302
I would suggest that the best performers are internally motivated and not externally motivated.

So ultimately if you could motivate them to be better, then by definition they would be mediocre performers.

Based on my personal experience, I would not be surprised if you were to show me a study that found a strong correlation between being internally motivated and being considered a star performer.
The course is awesome! Highly recommended.
Hacker group, Syrian Electronic Army, has control of Twitter & NY Times domains
Great way to make your point there, by down voting.
Wireless, magnetic motion tracking by Sixense soon on Kickstarter
> When I tried it, this feature made me feel very unsafe

I use it to switch between windows without having to fiddle with something like alt-shift, or clicking on the target window each time I want to move. It's about speed, not safety. Once you get used to it though, I don't think you end up in the wrong window very often.
Twitter's image service, twimg.com, is showing SEA in whois as well.
Animals can talk --- to each other.
I set a default "full screen" but that didn't take in replies.

That is one of my biggest grievances with the new Gmail UI as well. But there are so many other annoyances and so many little things that just don't work, I'm surprised that they pushed it out at all, let alone imposed it on everybody. It's a usability train wreck.

Even though it would be a major pain to switch, I'm seriously thinking about it.
What's your citation for that? If it's the Cornell study that circulated two years ago, most of the coverage was misleading.

Details: http://www.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/kfjet/cornells_standi...
> [money] (which is a much larger number) is the result of any lending (be it by the Fed or a private bank), and

"Lending" money at 0% interest is monetary inflation. The banks in the federal reserve system are not private except in the sense that their profits are private. No one else gets handed money at virtually 0% interest.

> "inflation" is a virtually inescapable side effect

Are you talking about monetary inflation or price inflation? The lack of this distinction is why these discussions are always pointless.
It appears they've also changed the name servers on twitter.co.uk as well - http://whois.domaintools.com/twitter.co.uk
The first app that comes to my mind is using those for a secured messaging protocol.
One problem I see with the chair-piston approach is that if you don't get each leg moving up or down at the same rate then you might get a jam. This could probably be overcome if it is indeed an issue at all, but probably worth considering.
If someone who'd designed a radio board wanted to understand more about getting FCC certified, where would you point them?
The Functional Programming class I took last year was pretty much as good as the expensive CS courses I took at Big Name U. Oh, and it happened to be taught by the guy that invented Scala. I'll admit it, I'm turning into a Coursera fanboy.
Sorry, new to posting on HN. How do I get asterisk literals?
Yes, this exactly, and observed in practice. Layoffs in non-union shops are not done by seniority (Talking manufacturing here) they are done by relatively objective measures of employee "goodness" things like attendance, piece productivity, safety procedure compliance, etc. We (in manufacturing) know this before the layoffs occur and account for it in financial and strategic planning. We also account for it when hiring starts again. Not only will skill levels go down, but far from the new folks arriving with universally great attitudes and work ethics after having been unemployed for a while, the incoming workers on average will be significantly less productive attitude wise than the existing workforce. This will only gradually improve until the next downturn. The newly hired who are truly terrible will probably get fired in the interim, the newly hired who are mediocre will bump along and be the first out the door during the next layoff. (And yes, the sad truth is that cyclical layoffs are a fact of life for many manufacturing workers)

I assume that this would apply in other industries as well.
You're doing it wrong.

Working on a laptop only all day long is insane. You need to separate screen an keyboard, otherwise one of them will be at the wrong height! If you use a laptop, it means you need to add an external keyboard.

Everything else makes absolutely no ergonomic sense!

Example: http://www.ergotron.com/ProductsDetails/tabid/65/PRDID/320/l... You can sit and then stand up by just pulling the table up easily with one hand.
Xero Personal Winding Down
This made me want to revisit this -> http://imgur.com/tUzAL
There are actually more options for height adjustable desks than you might imagine. I wrote up a post a while back that listed 7, but commenters have since added quite a few more.

http://officesnapshots.com/2012/08/24/7-adjustable-height-de...
I went through that too for the first couple of weeks, but it did eventually go away.
I also commented on a neighborhood off of Damascus called Zamalka, above it is 'al-Assad,' military housing for a base in the mountains behind it. Zamalka was scene of one of the gas attacks that killed multitudes.

Before this attack I covered Zamalka, and an attack on it from al-Assad perched above the neighborhood. Forgive me for yet another re-post but this is very important as far as what the SEA is, what the end result of their campaigns are, the reality of the technological side of surveillance.

Repost:

I wondered why Zamalka was so familiar as I was writing my previous comment up, turns out I covered it before.

There has been persistent shelling from Assad loyalist neighborhoods down onto Zamalka below it. One video of such volleys of indiscriminate fire captured the essence of the situation, so I took frames of the video and stitched them into a panorama with a wider field of view than what the video provided[1].

The neighborhood with what most likely is howitzers is al-Assad,[2] and I say howitzers due to the neighborhood being military housing for the military artillery base north of it. This is very striking to what was documented to happen on the other side of Damascus to the west, where another set of military housing was scene wanton violence.

In Jdaidat Artouz civilians were taken by Assad's military officers and lynched to death in a heap at the military family housing block either in or near the town (Jdaidat Artouz or Moadamiyet al-Shams). Video taken by some of the offenders shows the victims unloaded from a military truck being struck while shouted at by military and civilian persons. Later video shows the the pile of victims mostly motionless. Even later video shows them being further crushed with a tractor, throats slit.

Both cases have the military feeding off victim populations as if they were supermarket meat, there for picking and abuse. With offenders deployed from military housing. The latter case documented by the offenders themselves.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/XM85Q1q.jpg

[2] http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.551696&lon=36.378479&z=...

[3] http://storyful.com/stories/41049

I am at a loss, I've helped disseminate live video of protestors being shot up. No more than a 40 second delay. I feel no sympathy from most, only the will to look away. Specially if looking away is as easy as a 'report' button.

Help?
Hah, thanks for the edit. Yeah we've already gotten the range. I've even checked the output of our boards with a radio expert (google Earl McCune, he's an advisor), and using his many expensive Agilent scopes we've experimentally verified that performance of my design is pretty much exactly on par with the reference designs, taking into account that we are using a custom designed RF balun [1] instead of the discretes they use on the reference design. Our RF Expert confirmed I had made a good choice with that, as the losses are tiny compared to ease of manufacturing it provides.

[1] (I think it's this one, I'd have to check the part number, they have a couple similar ones). http://www.johansontechnology.com/datasheets/chipset-specifi...
Bitcoin removes the physical costs. Instant competitive advantage. So the proponent argument saying atms are outdated and obsolete, thus meaning they are a drain on the economy to maintain rather than productive, still holds.
A barstool is much cheaper than a motorized desk.
Original source (and higher quality than the imgur gallery):

http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists...

and what the heck, I submitted it: xxx (argh, the dupe detector didn't see the original one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6281864, please use that.)
The "Dropbox of VPNs"? What does that even mean?
They do make one. They charge 600 €.
Why Cash Is Still King – And When Will It's Reign End?
Possibly, but straightening of the cervical spine is a real condition and it can be treated. I know because I have it, and I was diagnosed by an orthopedic surgeon.
I enjoyed the article, but I was sort-of hoping that this was an article giving practical design advice to non-designers, because that' what I gandered from the title and that's the position I'm in right now.

I'm handling the (re)(re)design of our site[1]. This is a bit tough because my main job is JS library developer. There are no designers at my very small company, and my own time is constrained as one might imagine. So instead of a real design, I try to re-look at it and pass it around for advice and update it shortly after version releases.

Since I can't give it my full attention, I'd really love to read an article on what do do when you're the only designer they've got, and you're not a designer by trade.

(On the plus side, its nice switching contexts to something more artistically focused from time to time.)

[1] The library has been out for a year and I think just now my designs are finally starting to look "not completely shameful". Old: http://gojs.net/latest/ New: http://gojs.net/beta/

At least I can take #3 to heart. Good for now, and it will get better. (and maybe I will, too)
Microsoft Fires Back After Box Steps On Its Turf
I didn't care, I just wanted to be happy.

I've pierced body parts, been a DJ, been a developer, and now I'm a sysadmin. I'll keep doing that until it the balance of "mostly fun" switches to "mostly unpleasant". (Which I can't see happening, but who knows?)
Math doesn't have vars, only vals