skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How on earth is Cuba a failure in any metric except GDP and nice cars? Seriously. People are well educated, they have more doctors per capita than any country on earth. It's certainly doing a lot better than the Capitalist haven of Haiti. Venezuela, okay, not communist, socialist, still the bogeyman in the US.
Avança Construção do Edifício Ondulante Fake Hills na China
I'm surprised to see the contention that somehow contract devs for non-consumer (presumably corporate specific apps) are the largest money makers in the mobile app economy.
But their OpenVPN support is awful and limited, unless you enable developer mode and set it up manually. Prevents Chromebooks from using VPN in our office.
Easy Authentication Using AngularJS, Node.js and CouchDB
Oh I'm not referring to which one is easier to use but merely on the features.

Maven = Bundler + RubyGems + Rake

Maven = Ant + Ivy

Maven = not-sure-what-the-equiv-in-python (pip is more along rubygems?)

I don't think Maven is easy to use if you have to write from scratch (you need an IDE or something to generate the initial POM first ).

I'm also questioning if it's necessary to have RubyGems separated from Bundler when in real-life, you'd almost always use both anyway (along with Rake) to have a more productive workflow.
look at project byzantium - depends on a regular computer to use or a raspberry pi but the whole goal of the project is "plug and play" software that will allow you to at the push of a few buttons get an ad-hoc wifi mesh set up.

http://project-byzantium.org/
New York Times Says Outage Likely from Malicious Attack
I receive the Quora Weekly Digest emails and will tend to open them up and have a skim when I'm looking for something to read. I'd say that roughly 50% of the time they include a topic / response which grabs my attention enough to click through.

I don't engage with the site beyond this, so personally it fills a similar role as scoopinion and other "content recommendation" sites I occasionally hit up to find something to kill a few minutes reading.
You're right, there's a gearbox on the brushed motor and not on the brushless one. The gearbox is the part with the shaft sticking out, and the motor is the part with the heatsink fins.

And you can buy the motors already! We are using a slightly modified version of a RC airplane motor. Our first prototypes used motors we bought at a local hobby shop.
Agreed. We had a summer intern who is a CS major. There were a multitude of things that he had little to no experience in that are fundamental pieces of software engineering (things like version control, deployment environments, bug tracking, testing, DRY, etc). He was a smart guy so he picked things up, but would be great to have an academic grounding for this. I saw something similar at the grad level: http://ecee.colorado.edu/~swengctf/ but haven't heard of any undergrad programs.
I too use (open)vpn for 99% of my traffic because terrorism etc.

I can't recommend it enough, the damn thing is super stable and secure, works via NAT via NAT via NAT etc and super flexible (push routes, push dns, proxy and other settings), works in routed mode, bridged mode and so on.

I recommend you get a server or a VPS somewhere "nearby" and install openvpn software on that.

I can't trust VPN providers that they do not monitor or log my traffic and neither should you.
Perhaps, but a cheap and sturdy plain old IKEA desk with a wooden desktop costs about that much.
Yes, of course. I meant in the U.S.
That's the price of a shitty little desk from Staples. You pay shit, you get shit.
This is my friendly reminder to finish my coffee before commenting on the internet.
I think Xamarin are quite clear that their focus is entirely on their mobile offering. A side effect to Xamarin's success and investment is the tooling. The whole ecosystem is benefiting from the cross platform focus driven almost entirely by Xamarin's drive to own cross platform mobile development. Many OSS developers are releasing PCL and mono compatible versions of their software for this very reason.

My comments are to highlight comments made by others too; that language and platform familiarity weigh very heavily in the decision process and that discounting the entire Microsoft ecosystem based on licencing is not a cut-and-try process as it perhaps once was.

The ecosystem is diversifying and growing. It may not be as mature, advance, diverse as other platforms but for those already familiar with the technology it is a viable option.
I received the same email, but I deleted it instead of responding. I guess Tom's response is more likely to get the point across to them that they suck. Nothing makes me click away from a page faster than seeing the word "Quora".

On second thought, they probably don't care what anyone thinks of them given the way they so obviously try to suck you in to exploit you.
So standing is a rick factor for the development of varicose veins.
However.
If you are standing at a desk you are most likely going to be making micro changes to your stance throughout which will act as a muscular pump, returning blood to your heart and reducing the venous pressure in your legs.

Surgeons for example are not at significantly higher risk than the average person for development of varicose veins because they are generally making small movements fairly consistently.
A guard in a pillbox outside Windsor castle, on the other hand, would be at a higher risk because he is not supposed to be making the micromovements that will return the blood and reduce venous pressure, potentially causing valvular incompetence and dilated superficial leg veins specially if predisposed genetically.

Source: med student, asked lecturers about this specifically and have talked to numerous surgeons.

And as someone in the article mentioned, using compression stockings would obviate any concerns that a person may have
Solid overview, makes a lot of sense.

Some parts of the problem sound like they could be described as a tragedy of the commons. Things would be more efficient all around if we just allowed intelligent bandwidth sharing through P2P, but network administrators concerned about the impact on their particular networks prevent such moves, actually making everything less efficient.

Not to understate the other technical hurdles.

Good points, thanks.
It benefits the person owning the driverless car, who can now do something other than drive while still moving from A to B. You seem to be insisting on thinking collectively, but that's not how people decide or act. It only has to benefit the owner for it to sell.

The rich will be the last to let their human driven cars go, but they'll also obviously be the first to adopt them, once they're safe. In this case, the rich other than the ultra rich, who can already afford cars-they-don't-drive... giving further evidence that, yeah, people want this.

Your argument would, for instance, seem to explain why cars never took off... why, one car hardly benefits anyone. There aren't even any car suitable roads, after all, and think of all the horses the smelly, loud thing will spook! But... that's not how people buy things.

The collective benefits come later. The individual benefits come first.
Google’s Moto X Costs $221 to Build
Your enthusiasm is encouraging, just keep in mind the standard warning that crypto is very easy to do wrong (and wrong in a way that's hard to detect until your platform is blown wide open, see e.g. the PS3 root key disaster). In particular, a ton of academics argue that encryption (e.g. vanilla AES) by itself isn't very useful, and authenticated encryption [1] should be the default offered to standard users. There are multiple ways to achieve this, your hardware may support AE modes like GCM or others.

Keep in mind that crypto's only half the battle, and even "perfectly valid" crypto can still leave your platform vulnerable to things like replay attacks [2]. e.g. lets say someone uses your board as a doorbell: a crafty attacker can sniff the doorbell packet and replay it constantly if you don't use something like a request counter.

Point is: you shouldn't make your users cobble those steps together, they'll get them wrong. You're in fact very likely to get them wrong yourself, if (as you say) you're still learning the ins and outs of crypto. I wish you the best of luck, but keep in mind that you have a long journey ahead of you. I'd particularly recommend you complete the Matasono crypto challenge [3] before you even think of trying your hands on raw crypto primitives.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_encryption
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_attack
3. http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/
I see it is still registered to Twitter Inc. in San Francisco? Anyone have a screenshot?
From the datasheet of the TI radio they're using[0], the maximum programmable output power is +12 dBm, which is about 16 milliwatts.

There's no way you're going to see the advertised range with the antenna pictured. For comparison, the wifi hardware in your laptop typically outputs around 100-200 milliwatts.

Edit: TI appears to have a "range extender" part (i.e. a power amp) that can kick the output power up to +27 dBm (500 mW) at the band that they're using. I don't see any mention of this part on the kickstarter page, but this is the only plausible way I can see for them to get anywhere near the range advertised.

Half a watt seems pretty high to me too, but apparently it's comfortably within FCC limits [1][2], and since ISM devices are designed for consumer use (as opposed to licensed use by a competent radio operator), I don't think the same rules about being clever with output power would still apply here.

[0]: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/cc1101.pdf

[1]: http://www.afar.net/tutorials/fcc-rules/

[2]: http://www.beagle-ears.com/lars/engineer/wireless/fccrules.h...
Syrian Electronic Army taken control of Twitter.com domain registration
It's usually free to get money out of an ATM where I live (using a debit card, in this bank's or affiliated ATM).

That is, you get every bit of what's charged to your account.
Strangely, this might kill autonomous cars entirely. Any failure to properly respond to something bizarre can be the subject of a lawsuit that could kill the autopilot manufacturer.

Engineering solutions are a tiny part of getting this stuff to market.
nameservers changed at registrar, gltd reports accordingly.

nytimes.com.	172800	IN	NS	ns27.boxsecured.com.
nytimes.com.	172800	IN	NS	ns28.boxsecured.com.
;; Received 114 bytes from 192.41.162.30#53(192.41.162.30) in 17 ms
What's wrong with a fixed standing desk with a drafting stool?
Of course, you have a problem when the owner of the wifi explicitly prevents anonymisation services.

For example, when I was at Birmingham airport, I couldn't connect to my VPN because they blocked domains of well-known VPN providers and even hijacked all my DNS requests so I couldn't circumvent so easily it.

I guess running your own local DNS server which has your typical requests cached would solve this problem though.
Syrian Electronic Army now hosting NYT & Twitter domains on their IP (tweet)
There should be an intense, almost religious push internally to make Scott Guthrie the new CEO. Not likely I know, but platforms that developers depend on such as Windows, Windows Phone, .NET, Azure etc - should be something he runs. The Microsoft dev community has deep respect for and a strong relationship with very few people and he is far and above the most central of those figures.

The communal touch points that DE folks used to be so good at are gone now, I have about 5 or 6 close friends in my region all of whom are all like myself, independent consultants using MS stack, none of us have heard from our DE in years. User group support has vanished, local meetups where the DE will come show us and teach us stuff used to happen at least every quarter and even more often - have not seen one in years. What I do see are sales people who are only interested in talking to me if I can push Sharepoint Enterprise into a large company. Nevermind that it does not make sense, nevermind that developers by and large despise Sharepoint, that is what matters right now to them. It should be the other way around.

Also, if they are going to dangle money out there as an incentive to developers to build Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps, it should be incentive, not token. You want me to stop working and build something great - give me a way to propose it and a budget and if Redmond thinks the idea is good, fund it. Not some 5K in advanced revenue shit. There are tens of thousands of highly talented developers who love the Microsoft stack who would build amazing new experiences for Windows and Windows Phone if someone could help them do so and the current incentives are just laughable. iOS and Android are lotteries that could let me win big, if I am going to gamble my future I am going to do it there. But if Microsoft created an incubator system that let me propose an idea, get it funded and guide me through the process and ultimately help to promote the app - they would have developers fighting to get in.
Did the Syrian Electronic Army Just Hack the New York Times?
The admin and tech names are "SEA SEA" with emails of 'sea@sea.sy'
I'm a polymath here's my answer...

Seriously? Somehow this only happens on Quora.
Will the NSA use smart power grid to spy?
If you saw a day in my life, "hyper-sloth" would more likely be your term for me. "hyper-optimizer" isn't even on the list of possible descriptions. And I use an adjustable standing desk.

And no, ergonomic suicide is not an alternative to a proper desk with external monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
I actually wear compression calf sleeves (same as I do for basketball) sometimes when working at my standing desk, and I do notice a positive difference.

I do often wear a pair of padded sandals instead of just standing on the carpet, though. I have an anti-fatigue mat too, but the sandals work better.
I would say it's more secure to roll your own rather than using a "provider". You can never know what the provider is monitoring/logging.
More Hats into ISC2 BoD Election Ring
What's the target market, aside from hackers trying to get familiar with the board, or maybe some really basic debugging?

Is exposing pin-level hardware details over an HTTP API really helpful for building larger applications? And why not run that larger application directly on the ARM?
Appears to be partially edited and updated recently. "SEA@SEA.SY"
NYT Potential Hacking, WSJ Drops Its Paywall To Capitalize
Crunchbase is down, this guy is fixing it
The biggest draw for me had nothing to do with the supposed health benefits. For me, I found that I didn't get my 2:00 crash.

Before I started standing, I'd go out for lunch and come back around 1:00 or so. About 30 minutes to an hour later, I'd be fighting off hibernation. My post-eating-sleep-reflex thing was just absolutely overpowering. Even now, having to sit down for a meeting around that time of day has me close to nodding off.

When I stood, this was completely eliminated. I'm not a doctor, so I couldn't tell you why, but I am a lot more consistently alert/energetic while standing. This has been the big win for me over everything else.
Hacked by the SEA
Hey HN! I'm the creator and co-founder of this project. I've been designing robots since I was 15 and hacking on electronics since I could hold a screwdriver. What I think you'll like most about this project is the open source long range encrypted wireless link our mesh provides. I discovered Hacker News about a year ago and have been a regular reader since, so I remember Cryptocat, the NSA, and all the other things that reminded us why cryptography is important, and why implementing it is critical.

So, a few answers:

Yes, you can do encrypted mesh networks over long range. I'm a hardcore robotics guy at heart - the name "Flutter" was chosen exactly because this protocol is designed to be as lightweight as possible, and though the mesh protocol itself is still being developed (basically, that's why we need kickstarter, aside from the fact that I'm tired of ramen), I really intend for the protocol to stay out of the way. You'll also have full control over what happens, so you can always turn meshing off and use hard addressing. It's still really simple to use that way and cheaper than everything else I've seen that compares.

I absolutely will not sell a product as "cryptographically secure" unless I believe it is, and I understand that the "smallest" flaw in a cryptographic system can render the entire system worthless. I am learning everything I can about cryptography, starting with some amazing e-books I have found on the subject, and just like wireless

Our data rate is proportional to our range (this is generally true for any radio system), so we get 1km range at low data rates (1200baud tested, but we physically ran out of test room and had a strong signal). Theoretically this radio can do 3km at 1200 baud and it looks like we should be able to do 1km at 30kbps at least. Also I think the new radio chip doubles all the data rates in these cases (I would have to confirm), and I do know the new chip has higher transmit power and higher sensitivity, so range should be even better.

There is a cheap radio amplifier (PA and LNA) called the CC1190, and texas instruments has all kinds of datasheets on using either of the two radios we are working with to give us 10km range, or much better data rates at 1km, etc. We're going to design the protocol with expansion in that direction in mind, if people really dig the range thing (it's a bit much for a beer brew setup, but if you want dark meshnets, lets do it!)

I'm a hacker at heart. I first learned lockpicking at the old Noisebridge location (the original one). I love 3D printers and open source, did a rant/thread about open hardware on the Ultimaker mailing list a year back (I was one of the first in the bay area to get an Ultimaker too, and designed a new mount for it that I have on thingiverse). I got on hackaday for some 3d printed helicopter blades, and have been building robots since I was 15. There's a longer bio about me on our site, at flutterwireless.com

See also me ten years ago talking about robots (and I feel silly for the "few people do" comment, but I was 15 and trying to keep it simple).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJu1eL_dYs

Please ask me anything!
NIST Tidbits for August – Patch Management, Supply Chain Risk, Crypto Key...
Introduction to grunt.js and npm scripts, and choosing between the two.
I don't think anything could be further from the truth. If anything, I think HTML is very much embracing this direction with web components and their underlying technology, ShadowDOM[1].

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/shadow-dom/
Facebook is blocked in China.
By the time I had posted that, buddy was done working :)
Rogers Calls on Feds to Change 'Flawed' Wireless Policy With Three Suggestions
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=twi... doesn't show the update
Germany here. It's a kind of a safety regulation. Think of it as a right that the employee has. The employee has to provide the equipment and supplies that you need to do your work, and equipment that prevents "injuries" (wrong term for the long term effect of bad ergonomics) is amongst the equipment you need. So if you work at a desk with a computer, you are entitled to a separate monitor and keyboard and mouse.

If you don't want to use the keyboard, you can set it aside, of course. But it's there for you to use it if you like.
Syrian Electronic Army Takes Over Twitter's Domain (NYTimes too)
I am also completely flat footed (wet footprint has no arch) and I was using a standing desk for 6 months with no issues.

I wore running shoes, stood on a thin pad (the floor is hard tile), and took sitting breaks in a bar stool about 3 times a day for 20 minutes. I also had a bar about 15 inches off the ground for me to put a foot up on (this is a must as far I'm concerned).

Basically if you are wearing shoes you can walk/run in, they should be good enough for standing.
I alternately get the message "Hacked by the SEA" (to my dismay I've been informed this is the Syrian Electronic Army, not the Symbionese Electronic Army...), or a redirect to http://www.boxsecured.com/high_cpu.html - a 404 error saying hi_cpu.html is not found.
I have written about the SEA a multitude of times, including their use of western hardware like Bluecoat ISP proxy to track dissidents. Every account hell banned, quite annoyed.

Repost:

The prolific SEA[1] has been responsible for many hacks when their aim went wider than tracking domestic dissidents via internet monitoring with hardware from BlueCoat[2]. Logs[3] leaked by dissident supporting Telecomix[4] from this BlueCoat hardware for example show filters set to monitor the religious and sexual habits of all traffic routed through the datacenter they were installed in.

After Assad deployed his military forces SEA started to become a more public facing entity, taking on media firms due to perceived slights in reporting and others to cull more user information to further track targets. A short time-line from Wikipedia:

April 2013: The SEA hijacked the Associated Press Twitter account and falsely claimed the White House had been bombed and President Barack Obama injured.

May 2013: The ITV news London Twitter account was hacked on the 24th May 2013 by the SEA. The Android applications of British Broadcaster Sky News were also hacked on 26 May 2013 on Google Play Store.

July 2013, Truecaller servers were allegedly hacked into by the Syrian Electronic Army.

August 2013: Advertising service Outbrain was hacked by the SEA via a spearphishing attack. This allowed them to place redirects into the websites of The Washington Post, Time, and CNN.

Their history has been starkly pro-Assad, even going as far to defend indiscriminate bombing runs on the more rural cities in Syria of which the hackers are not likely to live in. While villages far away from the loyalist strongholds of Mezzeh 86 or al-Assad housing are more easily cast off of 'nests of terrorists' to be 'cleansed' it has to be harder to rationalize the same when the bombing runs are striking neighborhoods within visible range of these loyalist strongholds.

A SEA affiliated twitter account became highly critical after a chemical weapons attack on the outside suburbs of Damascus, the user posted a video of the event along with the message:

"We are calling for all members of SEA to focus their attentions on the political elite that is the scourge of our country."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Electronic_Army

[2] http://www.bluecoat.com/

[3] http://bluesmote.com/

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomix
What is the significance of this? Not being critical, just wondering what the key impact is. Twitter.com still works fine, but sea@sea.sy is most definitely not owned by Twitter.
How do you propose to defeat a band of 20 knights on warhorses, in plate armor from head to foot, bearing pole-arms and swords, using an army of bewildered lackeys armed with stone age technology?
Is it just me beeing blind, or does it not support https?
I have. I was a customer of theirs for (first SME and then enterprise) for over 10 years. And then I worked for Microsoft for 5 years.
Perhaps more critically, twimg.com (and now Twitter, it seems) has also been compromised. Both share the MelbourneIT registrar.

$ whois -h whois.melbourneit.com twitter.com -> now owned by sea@sea.sy (Syrian Electronic Army)

The name servers for the Times have been switching back-and-forth for a while. I've chronicled most of it at https://twitter.com/semenko
This threw me off as well. Hopefully they'll fix it quickly, I think it's a great project otherwise.
Ok sorry I re-read that and I sounded quite loaded, I was actually a bit miffed that someone from passenger posted on this puma thread but I suppose they have the right to.

We didn't have a great experience with passenger, it does seem bloated and we decided to move away from apache to nginx for similar reasons.

Tldr; We've been very happy with our move from passenger to puma.